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;)ffice: Main St., grrboro >g Address: ?, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas New Chai ic! The lull text of the neav char ter of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro iRecreation Center, Inc., to pre sented for the information of our readers today. See page two. AR, NO. SIX WLE kief iJlN THE BANK OF re given quite a ter noon Saturday alarm was set off Bank employee re happens about so when one of n buttons in each inadvertently trip- domer happens to entrance under the len it goes off it the top of their '.r\ April 1. though, i'l’nt cf the Bank till the lobby goe- s and then set off arml s TE A PARADOX, im noted at Satur- ograni awards ban- then while honors sed out to players g-tirno sport, the nistration was stag- fiquet in honor of bins, President of idation’s Fund for id the man who as University of Cb.i- w'ith intercollegiate im allowed that this e it difficult for kinship to the di.s- dation executive. CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1958 EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE Ellen Winston To Talk To Aging Group Here Ellen 'Vvinston, commissioner of the Board of Public Welfare of the State of North Carolina, will be the guest speaker at a public meeting of the Chapel -jniil Association f^r c,.ging and and Community Relationships, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of t‘i2 Louis R. Wil son Library. 'Her general subject wall be the prog'am of the State in pro moting the interests of aging and elderly persons. William Gibbs Passes At 83; Funeral Today TATUM GETS PORTRAIT—Carolina football C ach Jim Tatum received a pastel portrait of himseU- bv CS.sool Hiii artirt Tom Gore (right) at the football monogram awards banquet Saturday night in a .ntatien by Chapel Hill Athletic Club President Vic Huggins (left). News Leader Photo preset ALSO GOT OFF A e expense of Buddy presented the Tar r an award. As he forward for his ntroduced his date n. Carolina coed I Yillingham. “Looks MonogtTrn Awards Go To Footballers UNCMonogramWinnersAreHonored At Annual Football Banquet Here Abcut 200. Chapel Hillians join ed Carolina foortball players and invited guests for Saturday even ing’s mcnogram awards night pro- out of town,” noted gi-am, co-sponsored by the Athletic an offhand social Association and the local Athletic present heard. In- cuib. lar Tar Heel eager. Highlight of the program, follow- with the gals, was [jjg presentation of monograms to (lie afternoon’s j-jjg players, was the announce- |! in Clemson at that n^ent of the winner of the William F. Prouty and E. Carrington Smith trophies and the handing out for Payne also became the second win- given to a player named by a sec- ner of the Prouty memorial trophy, ret committee on the basis of the first time of personally-engrav- scholarship, extra-curricular par ed plaques, to be given by the ticipation, and athletic accompli.'lh- Athletic Club to all monogram ment. Funeral services were held th.s afternoon at 1 p-m. for William Henry B. Gibbs, 83, of Carrboro, who died yesterday in '3,lem,rial Hospital after an extended illness. The services, hold at Carrboro Methodist Church, of which Mr. Gibbs was a member, were con ducted by the Rev. Paul Edwards. Burial followed in the Fairview Cemetery in Franklinion. Pallbearers were Walter Clark, R. n. Marks, CLyde Squires, Ralph Cheek, Clarence Moore and Rup ert Squires. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice O’Neal Gibbs; two daugh ters, Mrs. Carl Bradshaw and Mrs. Emma Boone of Carrboro; five sons, Andrew Gibbs of Carr boro, Jeff and Leonard Gibbs of Durham, Rufus Gibbs of Frank- lintoii and Joe Gibbs of Colum bus, Ga.; one -sister, Mrs. D. T. Strowd of Louisburg; one half sister, Mrs. Charlie Height Sr. of Franklinton; 19 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren and gre at-great-grandchildren. WHERE T'WO DIED—Orange County's first traffic deaths of ♦ the new year occurred Saturday at the dangerous intersection of the old Durham Road and the Durham boulevard two miles east of town when an automobile crossing the boulevard (from spot where car in right background is stopped) drove into the path of a Chapel HilU bound Long Meadow Farms dairy truck. Two passengers in the car, Mr. and Mrs. William Edward Parrish of Route One, Durham, were killed, and bath vehicles seriously damaged. Above, a wrecker pulls the overturned milk truck upright. News Leader Photo by Gupton T wo Residents Of County Die In Boulevard Crash Tax District Study Is Set By Citizens A smash-up on the .Durham Boulevard early Saturday after- tvpo noon brought death to an elderly couple from the Mt. Moriah com munity. a crushed chest and skull, and died about 11 p.m. Saturday. [ER, SENIOR AT h, School from Carr- ■ange. Courty’s no-m- f the SL250 More- ips to the Universi- only applicant for 'ove.ted grants who y the Orange Coun- oard and will next - cUsfr'ict and state scholarship. winners in varsity sports. Vote For Payne Members of the squad gave the past season’s co-captain. Buddy Payne, their overwhelming vote in naming him the most valuable play er, and winning for him the 26th annual trophy given by Mr. Smith. Coach Jim Tatum, master of ceremonies for the occasion, had the players decked out in new Navy blue cashmere monogram- med blazer coats, which he said would be the team's traveling uniform beginning next season. (See MONOGRAM, Page Sir) To Be Readv Next Fall Exams Nov/ Under Way For Students At UNC University students began their final examinations for the semes ter today, winding up fall .courses which began September 19. Exams will be given tihroughout the week and on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 27-28: While those students whose schedules permit take a brief vacation, the orienta tion process for spring semester or a will be getting underway. Entering freshmen and transfer students will arrive on campus on Tuesday, Jan. 27-28. While those next two days will take various tests and will attend assemblies as nart of their orientation to the University. Mr. and Mrs. William Edward Parrish were returning to their home .just a short distance from The boulveard about 1 p.m. when the car in which they were riding was struck broadside by a Long Meadow Farms dairy truck as the auto crossed the southbound lane of the highway. Mrs. Parrish, 63, died several hours later in Watts Hospital, apaprently from shocK, possible heart attack. Highway Patrolman E. S. Rob inson said there would be no charges against the dairy truck driver, August Powell Reinhardt, 26, of Chapel Hill. His vehicle traveled about 35 feet after the collision at the intersection of the'old and new Durham high ways. It came to rest on its top, seriously damaging the truck. Mr. Reinhardt was uninjured. Husband Hit Full Force Mr. Parrish, 67, received the full force of the collision, since he was seated on the right side of the 1557-model Packard, owned and driven by Claude Orton Prime, 46, of Carrboro. Mr. Parrish suffered FHE HIGH SCHOOL More Private Lines To Be Available Through 'Phone Exchange Expansion Earnings Reach An All-Time Record In Past Year At Bank Of Chapel Hill The highway patrolman said Mr. Prime told him he stopped for a stop sign before crossing the first lane of the boulevard, but did not stop as he entered the southbound lane, and that he did not see the Chapel Hill-bound milk truck. First Of New Year Further' plans for the Chapel ed, by the-Department of Admin- Hill Telephone Company’s doub- istration of the North Carolina lial pains to see to it ling the of the size of its telephone Budget Office in Raleigh after' a !ir new gym is kept building to provide 1,(X)0 new lines survey by University officials, the liaturday night they and interceptor apparatus were State Utilities Commission, the school dance in the announced today. Southern Bell Telephone Company, k Hop,” all dancers The estimated cost of the addi- the General Telephone Company to check their shoes tions will be $300,000. and the Automatic Electric Sales ring the lunch hour Construction of the addition to Company, manufacturers of ex- en shoeless dancing the present telephone company change equipment. The fatalities. Orange County’s first of the year, brought the new year’s toll for the Chapel Hill area up to equal that of 1957 for this end of the County. Collier LLER HAS QUITE ion apropos of Sat- s Maxton massacre Klan by the Lum- [n recognition of [ormance, she sug- ita really give the 0 the Indians! oor. The session is building and the new installations ays by a hectic will be completed next fall, accord- gh the big pile of ing to Grey Culbreth, superinten- class bell rings. dent of the Telephone Company for the University. Approved In Raleigh The expansion has been approv- One result of the new lines will be elimination of a number of multi-party lines and availa bility of additional private lines. Many Chapel Hill telephones are on four-party lines and a few on eight-party lines. Earnings again set an all-time year 1958 holds promise of being as follows: D. D. Carroll, record for the Bank of Chapel Hill another good year. We realize Cobb Jr., E. B. Crawford, Clyde during the year just completed as there is a lot of uncertainty in Eubanks, R. B. Fitch, J. T. Gobbel, deposits for 1957 climbed to $9,- the minds of many people and we Dr. E. M. Hedgpeth, Roland Mc- 731,575. try to be realistic, but we do be- Clamroch, C. W. Stanford, F. E. The comparative statement of lieve that business here in Chapel Strowd, and W. E. Thompson, condition distributed to sharehold- Hill will hold fairly steady, so we Elect Officers Tonight ers of the 58-year-old institution at are not pessimistic. On the con- The directors will meet tonight One of the two local deaths last year occurred at the same crossing when a boy on a bicycle ,was struck down. The other oc curred at the town limits on the Pittsboro highway hill. Problems ol Cihapel llill’; S[>e('i;il School fax Distvici will be studied by the ('.iti/ein School (iouiKiil diiriiio tin next lew mouths. A' special committee ol ih( Gouncil has been asked If develop and make available to the whole Council facts regarding tin problem of the special tax distric locally. The decision to study this mat ter was reached at Thursday even ing’s meeting of the 27-member ad visory body after Chairman Orvilli Campbell reported on three prev ions meetings held by the Counci Executive Committee for the pur pose of discussing study objectives Anderson Reports Dr. Carl Anderson, reporting fo the Executive Ccinmittee, sail that it felt the study of many prob lems involved in the set-up of thi local tax district, wherein man; pupils from outside this area at tend Chanel Hill schools, was 1 matter for most pressing study a this time. Appointed as Chairman of this special committee was Alex Mc Mahon. Members of the commit tee are Kenneth Cheek, Bernice Ward, Mrs. Paul Shearin, Morris Mason, and William L. Sloan. The Council also agreed to star later in the spring a program (• di.scussions. to be held in the forn of informal neiehborhood meeting on school problems in the home 0 each Council member among pa Funeral services for Mr. and ents and interested ciizens. Mrs. Parrish were conducted at 3 Northside Report p.m. at the Ephesus Baptist Churen Chairman Camnbell renorted 01 by the Rev. Kenneth Wilson. Bur- (he Council’s inquiry into th- ial was in Old Maplewood Ceme- Northside school lunch situation tery in Durham. Y PATROLMAN ED 68 days without eck report until the Saturday when two the Durham Boule- s twist of this mis- wasn’t required by it crossed into the Durham Boulevard, heeded a stop sign ; the first lane of There being less Iween the two lanc.-i, ; erected at the en cond lane. The driv- did not stop before i^w enforcement ef- t the erection of a ■te center portion of orner would be a caution. their annual meeting Friday night trary, we are reasonably optimistic, The interceptor equipment will showed undivided profits of $213,- but whatever comes, your Bank permit the Telephone Company to 955 in 1957, an increase of $38,041 has never been in better position assist callers who are dialing num- over the previous year. The total to meet it.” bers which have been changed, deposits represented an increase of Mr. Thompson commented that and to heln the callers in dialing $437,530 during 1957. deposits increased by about five the correct numbers. Monday, January 20 7 p.m. — Jaycee Distinguished study of needs of the telephone See Good Year In 10-Year Plan Looking to the coming year, the The action came after a thorough ^^n^’s Executive Vice-President W. E. Thompson made this state- per cent during the year to a record high for Dec. 31 of $9,- 731,575. All of the Banks’s 11 Directors Service Award banquet, Carolina system Inn 8 p.m. — Astronomy Club, Fa culty Lounge, Moreaead Build ing 8 p.m. — Oakview Garden Club, Episcopal Church of the Holy Family and represents the first nient ten-year improvement to the stockholders: “The were re-elected by the stockholders to elect officers, the incumbents being Clyde Eubanks, President; Collier Cobb Jr., Chairman of the Board; W. E. Thompson, Executive Vice-President; J. T. Gobbel, Cash ier; and W. R. Cherry, Assistant Cashier. Other highlights of the Bank's past year showed that there was a gross income of $345,784 and a (See BANK, Page Six) Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. W. B. Medlin Jr., of Route One, Durham, and Mrs. Bonnie Blackwood of Carrboro; one son, James E, Parrish of the home and two grandchildren. Mr. Parrish is survived by one brother, J. F. Par rish of Richmond, Va. Tuesday, January 21 10:30 a.m. — Coinnumity Club Needlicralt Workshop, Mrs. M. S. Bieckenridge's 12:30 p.m. — Faculty Club lunrheon, Carolina Inn 8 p.m. — .Recent Graduates Group, AAUW, Mrs. Robert Bovce.'s CHARLIE JONES ence as a bulldozer lid all right at tho I afternoon. In place nal groundbreaking ' Community Church ing party as a part riles for starting their new building, ed the congregation e were several brief I Mr. Jones climbed 'rth moving machine first cut of earth Iding site. The ma- rfectly straight, cut ( and the congrega- ustily. Wednesday, January 22 3 p.m. — DAR, Mrs. I. G. Greer’s 8 p.m.—Basketball, Chapel Hill High Sciio l vs. tlondtrson, CH- HS gymnasium 8 p.m. — NAACP, Masonic Hall 8 p.m. — Lecture on the Story step in plan. The construction and additions will be done at no cost to the tax payers. The Chapel Hill Tele phone Co. will amortize the cost from receipts. The University bought the telephone company from local private owners 30 years ago. The growth of the telephone comnnny in the past 20 years has paralleled the growth of the com munity and the University. There were about 1600 telepH'nes in Chapel Hill in 1936. At present there are 8,735 phones in use, or eight times the number of two decades ago. The largest increase has come in the past, five years w'len the number of telephones here has doubled. First Automatic Phones Chapel Hill was the first med- of the Negro, Wilson Library As- ium-sized town in tt^e state to have sembly Room an automatic telephone exchange Thursday, January 23 svstem. and was one of the first 10 a.m. — Chapel Hill Garden towns of this s'zo in the nation to Club Workshop, Mrs. Carl Pegg’s have .such installation. Pallbearers were Howard Spar row, Tommy Sparrow, Paul Byrd, Marvin Blackwood, Ollie D. Black wood, Graham Blackwood, Theda Pendergrass, Edgar McFarland, Lonnie Hunter Jr., Johnny Ferrell, Raymond Parker and George Far rell, stating that Superintendent 0 Schools C. W, Davis had assure' him that the problem of lunche for indigent children was solve for the current year. Next year, the Superintendent told him, it was hoped that a com mon book-keeping system for all school cafeterias could be set UP and that the sinale administra tion .would meet the need. Two outside sneakers are to invited to sneak at the Council' next meeting Feb, 20 on sohor problems ,as fhev see them. Sneal prs to he invited are Associat PnnerintenOent .Tec-pnh .Tohnstq and State Sen. Edwin S. Lanier. Stocking Fund Report Shows 414 Families Helped At Yule 3 p.m.—Community Club Amer ican Home Department, Mrs. H. S. McGinty’s 7:30 p.m. — Ellen Winston speaks, Wilson Library Assembly Room All of the telephone operations are in Chapel Hill, except for the long distance arrangement which is obtained directlv through the Sentbern Bell Telephone System at Durham. CHURCH CONSTRUCTION STARTED—Members of the Chapel Hill Community Church turned out for a 'bulldozer party' followed by a hot dog roast at the site of their new $90,000 church building off Purefoy Road on Thursday afternoon. Principals in the informal ceremonies for the occasion were Prof. Richard Calhoun (left) former Chairman of the Church Board; his successor, Ted Danziger; and Church Minister the Rev. Charles Jones (right), who took the first cut of earth in driving the big tractor across the building site. News Leader Photo Chapel Hillians gave enough to the Empty Stocking Fund last Christmas to take care of 414 families who would otherwise have been without a Christmas, it was reported today by Mrs. Mark Hanna, chairman cf the Fund. Each year at the Yuletide sea son the Chapel Hill Junior Service League sponsors the Empty Stock ing Fund to provide Christmas for indigent families whose names are submitted by the Welfare De partment. “This past year,” Mrs. Hanna said, “some 157 families were ‘ad opted’ and cash contributions were given to another 120 families.” These cash contributions came from the $1,676.32 collected by the Fund at the downtown col lection booth and through mail. The Junior Service League pad ed 137 boxes for distribution 1 the families. Mrs. Hanna said tli total number of people cared Ec was approximately 1,400. increasing cloudiness and some what warmer today with occasion ional rain beginning tonight Lo-w tonight in upper 30's. Rair and coot tomorrow. High Low Rainfa Thursday 51 34 .00 FYiday 49 22 .00 Saturday 44 26 .00 Sunday 43 23 .00