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t. EBSiji. ""^Newspaper Service Dial 8-444 ^ Office: v,j31 1 E. Main St., Garrboro NO. 12 l e In Brief flJCD EDWARDS HAS BEEN ‘d 'chairman of a special committee with the ob- I of having the run-do\vn Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Don't Miss Out You won’t be doing justice to that pretty baby if you don’t en ter the tot in the News Leader’s Photo Contest. See Page Four ad. this issue. TELEPHONE 8-444 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1957 SIX PAGES THIS ISSUE 1 je.^ide the Monza Cafe Must' School Construction ""Funds Believed Available Money Available For Buildings /n demolished. The eyesore ; .;:e corner property owned , Z. Murray of Durham, ad- Ihe newly-purchased land I [he Brptisl Church bought | ihn Scott Trotter. D(A CANNADY ESTIMATES i 1,000 lettei'.s—give or take : ed—in the n;orning’s mail George Hamilton IV Va Kan Club, of. which sIkKs at. It'.s the most mail she’s itej* in a .sing/e fiav .■ r itie [shrooining nationwide or- ion o; admirers of the forjn- C - indent and well-kno'vn Shc',4 got all the variou.s :ul members indexed in file.s .^■(nmie. fflONEY OF THE iVLAAIANCE as written a siory that it’d |t not to pass on. Seems that label iV'ontgomery. Clerk of finance Ccunfy Board of Com- !■ ers. made two vividly de- e sips of the tongue in •. the Board’s minutes last . She first referred to nevvs- as ''new peepers.” The sec- IX "as came in referring to nmissioners themselves. Her tnoryh unintenti-onal de- n was .... “Cominotion- ALDERMEN’S TOUR Matt^ers of business concern* ing points around town visited on a committee*of‘the-whole tour by the Chapel Hill aldermen last Tuesday will be discussed at the Board’s meeting this evening. On the itinerary were: Inspection at UNC Medical School where Pitt9boro Rd. parking restrictions are proposed; maintenance of Vance St. extension; widening of Rosemary and Henderson St.; curb and gutter for Pickard Lane'; street at Glenwood School; Aldorsgate Church sewer line; and extension of McDade St. mx MAYOR’S MULE??—Chapel Hil! Mayor 0. K. Cornweii didn’t invite him around but the old mule took ever his front yard for grazing last Saturday a'terncon when he was spotted by the candid camera man. The runaway work steed has gotten loose se/eral times in t.he last week and roamed around the Stiowd Hill sector. He’s owned by R. L. Lloyd who b been using him in saw mill work on Plant Rd. Newj Leader Photo Bonds . - ... - - State . . -.... . .. Projects: Completed Ready for Contract Lincoln Gymtorium Elementary School, Fire towers and toilets . . High School Gymnasium less seats Amount left' Projects Under Consideration; Elementary School sife . Norihsidc Classrooms Lincoln Shop New Elementary School Addition to shop .. , . Home Ec. and Adm. Building Amount left . L ■ Imalcd Current Capital Outlay 1956 ... 1C57 1958 $.828,000.00 68,000.00 $ 30,000.00 48,181.00 194.414.59 $ 25,200.00 135,000.00 50,000.00 300,000.00 20,000.00 90,000.00 Answer On New Hope Dam Project Not Expected For Several Months 5 Tlie answer to whether or not .lio controversial New Hope-Haw River, flood control dam will be nuilt likely won’t be known for at [cast five monllis yet. The Army Corps of Engineers is to finish it5 new survey of the pro posed project by June 30. According jfs paper favored the United pi-evious reports the decision on for Education pro^sal ior based on a matter of pure dollars and cents—whether u. not the potential ..aving in Hood damage will outweigh the cost of y before gave the students project, of fuel for their lobbying Chatham Pushing Fight TH GRADE CLASS MEM- Berry Vause’s room at Chap- Bilementary School descended newspaper office in a busi- ? horde Thur.?day afternoon, business; To make certain salary increases. The Gen-., sembly’s raismg its ,own and te Council .members’ salaries Local persons present at the meeting were VVhid Powell, Mer chants Association representative to the Cape Fear Development Association; Chapel Hill Town Manager Thomas D. Rose; Orange County Farm Agent Don Mathe- son; Mrs, John M. Foushee—who spoke against the proposal; Mer- tdianls Association President San dy McClamroch; and Roland Mc- • Tamroch Sr., and Bob Cox. The East Chatham residents form ed about two-thirds of those present ai the hearing, and spoke most of Mr. -Powell and Mr. Rose merely guard to be posted in this area dur- lurned in factual reports on how ig the morning and afternoon peri- the project might affect Chapel ods just before and after the school Hill and Orange County, and Mr. bells. The erecting of a hand-con- Powell spoke at the meeting only Trolled traffic signal light was also issue Orange County Rep Building Need Survey Is Based On Prices Remaining At Level 'The Cha'pcl llil) Sclioo! District will ))c able to meet its primary biiildinj> con- stniction needs the next two veavs — if enrrent costs esti mates jji'ove acTiiraic. This appears possible on a $272,595.59 break-down (shown alon"- $623,404.41 side) of money available tor the local School Board. However, the Board was cautioned that all cost estimates were based on the prices of today, while building expense.^- may very well oonlinue to rise. Auditoriums Excepted But if the present survey runs true to form, Chapel Hill will be able to have the school facilities it hoped to attain through passage OL the County-wide school bond issue last spring, with the excep- $161,55300 tion of auditoriums needed in sev- 74,500.00 eral school buildings. In the.5’e cas es the cafeterias or gymnasium.^ $ 87,053.00 will continue to double for audi toriums. While no formal action has been taken on the building pro posals, it is expected that v^ithin the next 18 months construction can be started on five new build ing projects at an estirhate cost of $620,200. These are the new elementary school off .Airport Rd., bids for which arc to be called for in a few weeks; additional classrooms at Ed. Note: Beghiniog with this were introduced by Mr. Uzzell of 5,^00!, on which eon- $ 53,851.00 53,851.00 53,851.00 FTA Planning Safety Drive On Rosemary ' Estimated equipment cost in new buildings A campaign to reduce the traffic Addition to Lincoln and/or changing first hazard to school children going to floor Elementary Building and making a cafeteria — and from classes in the W. Rose mary St. vicinity has been initiated by the Chapel Hill Parent-Teacher Association. The group's executive committee has named Frank Umstead head of a committee to work, toward the pc jiblity of the Association’s hir ing ah off-duty policeman or school $620,200.00 $ 3,204.41 John Umstead Reports . . . State Workers Pay Hike Support Is Explained John Rowan. Tliese were Bills increas- lo say that Orange County——at this suggested as a possibility. W. Umstead Jr., will give a week- ing the salary of some elective state tane—was not -taking any stand This Thursday evening at 7:30 ly report on affair.s of the General officials. The reason for pa.ssing on the issue. struction is also imminent; new shop building at Lincoln High — also an immediate prospect; an ad- in the Elementary School auditori- Assembly in each Monday issue of these bills on Wednesday in both Chapel Hill Hi«h the face of such unsurmount- Meanwhile east Chatham residents the day. all in opposition to the li'essiire the spokesman for pushing their fight against the dam, which would cau.se flooding ^ewsp-per proclaimed in vi-- more vigorously, while Orange of a ninth of their County at the p Presbyterian Women Si’ 1 terms the paper’s unquali- I icking of the teachers’ pay j5 ea.sure. .representatives are remaining neu- top proposed level. The Rev. Ted pj-esbyterian Church. um the Association will have p«-ogram on the testing program of the local school system. Mrs. Rog er! WadCi Su^rvisor of Educalicn in the schools;- and Jay Ostwalt of the University education faculty, will be in charge of the program. In March a program on reading, h™-. ^ ’ to ■ be under direction ol Carl Brown, will be given, and in April a program on grading and report ing is planned. The executive com- file News Leade By JOHN W. UMSTEAD JR. The spirit of harmony prevailed in the organization of the 1957 Gen- .al Assembly on Wednesday. In ludies was that salaries cannot lie raised during the term of office and as these officials were to be sworn in on Thursday prompt action wa.'" necessary if the increased salaries Shop, and a home economics and administration building at Chapel Hill High. Careteria Expansion Weighed In addition to these projects, the the election of officers on Wednes- dining their com- jg weighing an ad- Monday, February 11 day morning there were no con- Hill Hall. icU. This was the picture at Fri. G. Stone, Bells,Baptist Church pas- g p.m. Baptist WMU, Chapel Hill n^rttee'/TAts' ThurV/a'/"A/nhv day’s formal hearing on the matter -or, was chief spokesman for the papj-js^ church. ^ Thursday eveniiij TE OUR NUMBER—Thanks •rboro’s nev/ street number- 'oject, the News Leader Of- low has a definite address, n East Main Street, Carr- —Not our mail address, is still Box 749, Chapel ut a special numbered slot arrboro’s main stem. No r need we direct callers by “right around the big by the furniture store, ^4efore you cross the rail- tracks." jjcfore the Corps of Engineers in g'-oup, organized as the New Hope Fayetteville. \'alley A.ssociation. County Bor Elects W. S. Stewart William S. Stewart, attorney and Judge of the Chapel' Hill Recorder’s Court, has been elect ed President of the Orange Coun- ;y Bar .Asso(!iation for the com- .ng year. Ke succeeds County Recorder’s Court Judge L. J. Phipps. New officers of the Association were named at a dinner meeting on Friday evening at the Pines Res taurant. Other officers for the coming vear, e’ected at the meeting, are John T. Manning, Vice-President; and-John M. Tapley, Secretary- Treasurer. Outgoing Vi,ce-Presi- dent is Henry Whitfield and the outgoing Secretary-Treasurer is Emery B. Denny Jr. 8 p.m. Carolina Collegiate Swim ming .Meet, Bowman Gray Pool. Tuesday, February 12 10 a.m. Women Voters, Mrs. Rob ert Lester’s.. 10:30 a.m. Needlecraft Work shop, Mrs. J. Bright fjlelly’s. 3:30 p.m. Faculty Newcomers Club, Morehead Building. 4 p.m. John Bugas speaks on meeting also passed a formal reso lution of thanks to its Thrift Shop through which PTA projects- are financed. Recicendorf Is Named To Cancer Office Here Mrs. K. M. Brinkous, President teim of office. dition to Lincoln High School or Sees Blanket Pay Hike the changing of the firc-t floor of The passage of these Bills in- the Chapel Hill Elementary School treasing the salary of the elective j^to a larger cafeteria. The sum of state officials means that there will $87,000 is tentatively earmai’ked be increased salaries for all state for one of these jobs, and $74,500 ''mplo\ees v\hen the appropriation jg estimated for equipment in the are finally pas.sed by this r.ew buildings, f* “Ford’j Labor Problem,” 301 Qar- of the Orange County Unit of the rol Hall. American Cancer Society, today 7:30 Mitchell Scientific Society, announced the appointment of Phillips Hall. Rex Reckendorf of Chapel Hill 8 p.m. NoiThside PTA, Nothside as Executive Secretary of the School. organization. 8 p.m. Don Cossack chorus, Me meorial Hall. tests. There were no contests in the WILLIAM S. STEWART Photo by Lavergne Lillian Freundlich To Present Piano Recital Here On Tuesday SllilF-rtS ^enty Of Duke Ducats I lybody need a ticket to ame?” The smiling patrol- )uiied a handful of the yel- iucats from his pocket as oke. A look outside the lobby of Woollen G^nn d that by half-time there none waiting to get in. >u wouldn't believe how I lose.” the patrolman start- y way of explanation. ”1 valked outside for a smoke 3 the game started and this fellow holding some s in his hand. Everybody jlenty of tickets, it seem- ‘•He, looked worried, said he was a Duke rooter. I told him to go right ahead and sell ’em if he could. ’Bout that time a Carolina student hollered ’To hell with all Duke students.’ Well, this Duke man looked over at him and before I knew it they were about to fight.” “I stepped in between ’em, and then all of a sudden another guy came up and rushed off with this Duke guy. Then I look ed on the ground and there was this mess of tickets ... I can’t even give ’em to any kids. — You see anybody wants to get in, let me know,” Lillian Freundlich will open the Tuesday Evening Series concerts for the spring semester with a piano recital, Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in Hill Music Hall. The concert, which is open to the public without charge, will in clude work.s by Beethoven, Leon Kirchner, Schumann and Debussy. Formerly known as Lillian Let'- kofsky. Miss Freundlich was born 8 p.m. Lillian Freundlich piaaio recital, Hill Hall. 8 p.m. Dental Dames, Wilson Li brary Assembly Room. 8 p.m. Catholic Women’s Guild, Catholic Rectory. 8 p.m. Basketball, Chapel Hill vs. Oxford Orphanage, Tin Can. Wednesday, February 13 11 a.m. Bypass highway hearing, Chapel Hill Town Hall. 2:30 p.m. Blockprinting Work shop, Mrs. R. C. Bose’v. 6 p.m. Basketball, UNC frosh vs. Wake Forest, Woollen Gym. 7:30. p.m. Camp Yonahlossee mo vies, Parker Lounge, Graham Me morial.. . Mr. Reckendorf, who held this Senate Democratic Caucus and on- sam-a post last year, is a fourlh- ,,, Caucus. Thi; year student at the University nomination for Sergeant- and will receive the B.A. Degree fj in elementary education this bills General Assembly. I supported the bills passed last week since I-am gf)ing to supix>rt increased salaries for teachers in both the public .schools and the institutions of high er education as well as all other slate employees. Allliougli these increases will be made there will be some con troversy about the amount of the increase and how it shall be al located. There are those who wish funds for the increase to be giv en in a lump sum to the institu tions to grant the increases as tiiey see fit. There are others who M ish to see any increase grant- (d by legislative enactment straight across the board. ' The latter two expenditures, totalling $161,553, are based on Chapel Hill’s receiving at least its current appropriation of $53,- 851 in capital outlay funds from the County school budget for two more years. The estimated equipment needs schedule for 1956-57 and 53, total ling $74,500 — is broken down on thi- tentative plan: Chapel Hill Elementary School, S8,0()0; GJeu- wood School, $3,000, Chapel Hill High, $20,000; new eiomenlary school, .$15,000; Lincoln High, $8,- OCO; Lincoln Shop, .$2,000; Chapel Hill Shop, $2,000; Norlh.side clas.s- rooms, $4,500; and Chapel Hill High home economics and office spring. 'aswell County won over Mr. Tripp r Pitt County. HOSPITALIZED Today’s register of patients at Memorial Hospital include: Robert Ayers, Jr., Verta Gail Cole, Miss Mildred Farrington, Mrs. P:‘ul Gow, Mrs. John R. Greene, i.onnie A Hackney, Mrs. Lester B. H.'gley, Mrs. Roy Hunt, Thos L. Hunter, Bernice W. Hutchins, and 23 house-to-house canvass. William R. PuUen. Y. Z. Cannon. Chapel Hill Chair Heart Fund Workers Named Three Unbeaten Teams In town . . . Wildcats Per-^Game Average Tops 62 Chapsl .Hill High’s wonderful third undefeated scholastic ball mediately available, it The inaugural ceremonies were buildin'^ .$12 000. ■shorter than usual due to the fact Two Jobs Under Way [hat Governor Hodges did not make Two projects now under con- immediately after the election of h-s reconimendation.s to the a.sseln- structitn ihe Ch-inol Tlill Flomon vineers in the House three Bills (See UMSTEAD. Page Sfal fa" Seho.H five tower 1^711 Chapel Hill High Gymnasium, total .$242,595, which, with $30,000 "bor rowed” last year for completion of the Lincoln Gymtorium. will just about round out the anticipated Plans for the Heart Fund drive man for the drive^ today announced $896,000 that’s expected to be avail- in Chapel Hill will be made at a the appointment of the following able for these capital needs, luncheon meeting Wednesday for as district captains: Mrs. W. E. Of course, these figures do not 28 district captains for the Feb. Merritt, Mrs. Max Yarbrough, Mrs. contain any appropriation for ad- Giles Homey, Mrs. John Manning, ditional school srites. The Board Mrs. H. S. McGinty, Miss. Sallie feels at least one of these needs Foard MacNider, Mrs*. Paul Lytle, to be bought in the near future. Mrs. C. P. Erickson, Mrs. Tom Bost, Mrs. W. H. Branch, Mrs. Arnold Perry, Mrs. J. B. Linker, CATHOLIC WOMEN Mrs. J. L. Conners, Mrs. W. L. The Catholic Women’s Guild Sloan, Mrs. J. N. Callahan, Mrs. J. w’ill meet at 8 o’clock tomorrow C. Fox, Mrs. Sandy McClamroch. night at the Rectory on Gim- Mi’s. John Keller, Mrs. M. H. ghoul Rd. Hostesses will |je Mrs. as be- Jennings Jr., Mrs. E. B. Crawford Charles Young, Mrs. Whid Powell, and Mrs. Charles Oberleitner. Wildcats can boast a per-game team in the current season. Coach Reved that Chapel Hill's Neville Ernest Craige, Mijs Sandy Al Wells’ dauntless charges will play Hillsboro here in their se venth game this evening. Las1t ^ Monday they defeated Hillsboro clcsely followed by Frank Weaver ber shops of Chapel HilT will give In Friday night’s runaway Hillsboro the Wildcats led in Cleveland. Ohio where she studied average of better than 62 points nith Franklin Carnahan. A graduate their 15-game undefeated sea- of the Oberlin Conservatory under son to date. Dr. Frank H. Whaw, she was later Summaries before Friday night’s there, a Irllowsh'p holder at the Juiliiard 71.38 shellacking that the league Graduate School. The distinguished leading locals handed Hillsboro musicians. Alexander Siloti, Josef jiiffh there showed a total of 871 home team 34-18 at the half. Co and Rosina Llievinne and Edward points scored for the first 14 Captain Gordon Neville led the Player Steuermann have been her teachers, games at an average of 62 points basket wil 26 points, being fol- Neville She has served on the faculties of a game. Of course the average lowed by Frank Weaver with 15 Tyague the Oberlin Conservatory and the and total will be better than this and Randy Blackwell with 12. The Lee Juilliard Summer School. Recently going into tomorrow night’s game girls team lost to Hillsboro 47- Weaver .she has been active in New York with Oxford Orphanage here. City teaching privately and eon- The Chapel Hill Junior High the District HI Confer- =‘"'1 Whs. in this department. He’s , Next Tuesday, Feb. 19, the bar- and Co-Captain Eddie Clark. th?ir entire receipts of that day, at Here are individlial scoring sta- exclusive of salaries, to the Heart the tistics for the Wildcat players Fund drive of Chapel Hill. through the first 14 games: The simps that will participate e the Village, Tar Heel, Univer- 16.5 sity. Carolina Barber Shops. There has been a practice for 40. cortizing. While statistics on E. Clark rebounds Blackwell team also continues as the town's from the backboard were not im- Cheek Games Pts. Aver. 14 231 16.5 14 144 10.3 11 no 10.0 14 125 8.9 14 119 8.5 14 84 6.0 10 19 1.9 Partly cloudy and cooler late today. Cooler still tonight. Gen erally fair and mild tomorrow. Expected low tonight, 34-40. the last few years of making High Low Rainfall similar contributions to some Thursday 49 36 .05 charity. Last year they made thier Friday 51 41 .10 contributions to the Cripple Chil- Saturday 50 41 .75 dren’s Society. Sunday 64 41 .09