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HAPEL Hill News Leader
County Board To Meet
On School Vote Date
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Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
north CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1958
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
ruder Picks Wrong Room
irdused Jurist Gives Chase
Airy laborer
cd the wrong
ig an unau-
onial Inn at
ht.
lis partieular
to be Judge
Tabor City,
term of Bu
lge County,
o’clock when
the judge, having retired to his
room, heard a key rattling in
the door. There was a halt tem
porarily, then it started again, ap
parently after the selection of an
other key. About this time Judge
Mallard provided a slight assist
and the startled intruder took off
in speedy flight with the Judge
in hot pursuit.
With others aroused, a call to
Weekly Square Dances
Are Set At Homestead
The first of a series of week
ly Saturday night square dances
will be staged at the Homestead
Road Community Center this Sat
urday evening from 8:30 until
midnight, under sponsorship of
the Center.
Profits from these affairs will
go toward paying off the indebt
edness of the new building, Arth
ur Ward will bo caller for the
dances and a four-piece band
led by John Mann will play.
The general public is invited
to attend. Admissic-.i will be
$1.25- per couple. The new'ly-
constructed Center is located at
the entrance road to Hogan’s
Lake on Homestead Road (near
Calvander) four miles north of
Carrboro on old N. C .Highway
86.
the Town Hall sent Sheriff’s De
puties Buck Knight and Burch
Compton into action on Margaret
Lane w'here Johnny Rex Hiatt was
cornered and apprehended. Since
that time his quarters have been
at the County Jail instead of
Colonial Inn.
The charges: trespassing and
larceny of a key.
I
Band Concert
Is To Be Given
Tuesday Night
The 60-piece University Concert
Band, under the batons of Hebert
W. Fred, director, and Calviin Hu
ber, assistant director, will present
a concert in Hill Music Hall on
Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Sponsored by the University De
partment of Music, the program is
open to the public at no charge.
Under the direction of Hebert
Fred, the Tuesday evening pro
gram will open with George Ken
ny’s Concert Ma^ch, Jubilee. The
Overture in C Major by Mendels
sohn w'ill be followed by Clifton
Williams’ Symphonic Suite, and
Cesar Franck’s F,vocation in a
A special meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners has been
called by Chairman R. J. M. Hob
bs for Monday morning at 10:30
a.m, in the Commissioners’ Room
of the courthouse.
In his letter of notification to
other commissioners and school
officials, the Chairman said, “Con
sideration of a revision of the
boundaries of the proposed dis
trict for the merger of the Carr
boro and Wliite Cross Schools with
the Chapel Hill administrative unit
calls for an early meeting ....
Setting a time for tire requested
election on the proposed merger
will come up at tliis meeting.”
A surveyor’s description of the
northern boundary lines of the Carr
boro and White Cross attendance
areas has been completed by Sur
veyor Robert Jones after a more
definite description had been recom
mended by County Attorney A. H.
Graham. The other three sides of the
proposed district to be merged w'ith
Chapel Hill are bounded by the
Alamance and Chatham county lines
and the old Chapel Hill school dis
trict line.
The new description of the bounds
v'ere approved by the Chapel Hill
Board of Trustees at its meeting
Monday night and w'as to have re
ceived the formal approval of the
Orange County Board last night.
The School Council, follow'ing a
meeting with the Carrboro Citizens
Committee for Schools, which is
backing the merger, sent a letter
to County Board Chairman R. J. M.
Hobbs urging the election be set
“as soon as possible.”
Auto-Cattle
Ipv, COUNSE-
Embassy in
on the Caro-
e last week,
ous memento
the University
inglish on Rus-
EN, CHAPEL
Jphomore, won
Table Tennis
^t Fayetteville
he teamed up’
to w'in the dou-
J2 they’ll parti-
iials, sponsored
i ation Commis-
m.
P FORTHCOM-
iirday Evening
words for the
Religion in an
igious Revolti-
The story
current revival Containing' 62 pictures in full
.many Ameri- color, the 1958 North Carolina
and cites UNC “Variety Vacationland” vacation
Trent of religion book is off the press and available
offering a ma- free on request to the State Trav- Dance cf the Comedians from
enables a stu- el Bureau, Department Conserva- g[„etana’s The Bartered Bride, the
irse is p.sycho- tion and Development in Raleigh. pQ^^ert wall conclude wdth Oscar
ciences, etc., to Color cameramen ranged from strauss’ My Hero,
relate it to his the Atlantic coast at Cape Hatteras
to the crest of the Great Smoky
Mountains to illustrate the 1958
“Variety Vacationland.”
The new book is divided into
three sections, with attractions of
the Piedmont central part of the
State and the Mountains and
Is'ews Leader Photo
A True Fish Story
They Laughed Wreck Action
When He Went Tried In Court
Out, But Later- A 1956 accident in the Chapel
Hill area in which a' Cadillac and
They laughed—figuratively, that two cows were the chief casualties
is—when he shoved his boat from held the stage in Orange County
the landing at University Lake. Superior Court yesterday.
Who’d think of- going fishing on In the two civil actions involved,
such a cold, rainy Monday after- one ended in non-suit and the
noon? How could he expect to catch other a mistrial. But in the latter
anything witlf the elements so the defendant entered an appeal
seemingly hostile? . 1° Supreme Court anyway.
But in the hearts of the most ' The accident on April 13, 1956,
ardent members of the Izaak Wal- involved Kenneth Clark, in one
ton League the angler’s hope vehicle, a 19o5 Cadillac, Preston
springs eternal, and perennially. McKnight, and a herd of cows of
A' Chanel Hill Hioh School Chapel Hill Fireman Eric Crab- Dr. W. R. Berryhill’s.
elected President of the Carrboro President; and Mrs. Carley Looney, ^ oc oui ^ himself on the lake McKnight sued Clark, with Dr.
Parent-Teacher Association for the Secretary - Treasurer. Miss Agnes freshman. Miss Kitty Calhoon, has ^e s ^ y ^
coming year. ■ Andrews was Chairman of the ® frip to the United Nations
Officers for the coming year Nominating Committee and mem- New York City in the World
were elected at the group’s meet- hers were Mrs. Herbert Watson Speaking Contest at ei
ing night before lak. They will be and Mrs. Mac Poole.
WINS PEACE SPEAKING CONTEST—Miss Kitty Calhoon (third from left). Chapel Hill High School
freshman, was today named winner of the World Peace Speaking Contest at the School after she and
other finalists delivered their talks on 'The UN In The Search For World Peace' at a school assembly
program. Judges for the contest, sponsored by the County Chapter of the Amertcan Association For
The United Nations, presented a gold key to her. Left to right. Judges Dr. Warner Wells, Mrs. A. C. How
ell, and (right)' Mrs. William Henderson.
PTA In Carrboro Elects
Mrs. Kaylor President
Mrs. Cornelius Kaylor has been ed, were Mrs. Bradley Wells, Vice-
Peace Speaking
Contest Winner
Kitty Calhoon
school.
. The competition is being spon
sored in all high schools of the
N. C. Vacation Booklet
Now Available Free
transcription by Guenther.
Spiritual for Band by H. Owen installed at the Association’s meet- j(- announced at the meet-
Reid will end the first half of the j,jgy jyfj.g Kaylor, who wiH, sue- jng that the recent benefit min-
program. Following intermission, Ashwell Harward, has been gtrel and variety show would be it ■* j m r
arangements of two Russian works president of the Orange County given again next month for the the United Nations,
will be heard: Cortege by Rimsky- Council this past year, and school safety patrol’s benefit.
Korsakov from the opera-ballet been active in the work of
Mlada, and Melancolique by iScria- ^j^e local group for several years,
bin. The
The Finale from Robert J. Dvor- proposed by
ak’s West Point Symphony will be committee and unanimously elect- Needs of the Child.’
followed by R. S, Stoughton’s By
the Pool of Pirene. After the March
as he guided his boat around the Berryhill an additional defend-
recesses and favorite fishing spots ant, and Clark sued Berryhill, al-
he had come to know so well leging that the cows crossing the
through years of rod and reel and highway caused the accident. Two
fly casting. cows wlere killed leading to a
From noon until well after 2 o’- counter-claim by Dr. Berryhill
County by the . American Associa- clock he tested the quiet waters, against Clark for $200 ®Uer Clark
Miss never getting a single bite. claimed damages of $1,800.
Calhoon and other finalists gave Then he felt an extraordinary The suit with McKnight as
their talks at a school assembly strike on his line. He knew it was plaintiff ended in the non-suit
Pref. Jack Rippey spoke at the (_his morning. Their topic a big one. Through a three^minute When, after submission of evi-
attorneys for Clark moved
reply to Berryhill’s
cross-actio'ri, Judge Raymond Mal-
prize whooper of a bass — nine withdrew a juror and declar-
23 inches a mistrial, from which judg-
other newly-elected officers/“The United Nations In The battle Mr. Crabtree gradually reel- f
iposed by the .nominating subject “Meeting the Emotional Search Fdr World Peace. ’ ,,,,g , u.,
^Our Town' To Be Given Friday
DONALD ROSE DIES
(aSE OF THE
son still had a
iflavor today. A
1 S. T. Latta of
s Board today
Ing as the only
the Democratic
is May: Edwin
tate Senate, J.
I House, E. M.
Court, Odell H.
nd Betty June
of Deeds—all with page numbers indica- the UNC business administration
umbent status, iug location of places illustrated, faculty.
Funeral services were held yester
day for Donald Craig Rose, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Rose,
who died Monday. Services were
conducted at Walker’s Funeral
Coast grouped for convenience in Wade F. Hook,
reading. A new feature is intro- jj^jy Trinity Lutheran
duced In the form of a picture in- Church. Surviving .are the parents;
dex. Instead of the usual textaal brothers, Douglas and Bruce
table of contents, 1958 Variety p^^gg. ^ sister, Carolyn Sue
Vacationland” shows a map of the poge. Mr. Rose is an instructor on
The Junior Class of Chapel
Hill 'High School will present
“Our Town" tomorrow evening at
8 o’clock in the high school au
ditorium. Admissioin will be $ .75
for adults and $ .50 for students.
Members of the cast include
Peter Wilson, Dennis King, Sal
ly Lee, Charlie Hubbard, Betsy
Fitch, Pefle Range, Gloria Di-
Constanzo, Ann Himelick, Doug
las Johnston, Gene Lloyd, Sam
my Habel, Victor Dean, Billy
Burch, Brenda Harward, Margar
et West, Toby Andrews, Hal
oid Dodson, Kathy Livas, Tifta
Demerritt, Cara Ellen Neville,
Check Since Nov. 1 Shows . . .
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ship for School
al Parish House
Rain has fallen on better than one- Nov. 14 and Dec. 19 to a high of
tdabe's junior rc- third of the davs in Chanel Hill since 1 74 inches on Nov. 23. this winter period seem to refute Public Healt i
days Chapel Hill precipita- the belief that “this has been one a Second Lieutenant in the North tary School, has two other children’s many books have been written about
of one inch-two of of the rainiest winters in years.” Carolina National Guard. Mr. Wil- books to her credit: “I Play at the the usual animals, such as horses.
The large number of cold and lett, of Route One, Pittsboro, resides Beach,” published in 1955, and dogs, and cats.” she said.
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nity Club,
No, It Hasn't Been Unusually Rainy Lately;
That Is, If You Believe Official Records!
Paul Houston and Ann Ridout.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reagan is di
recting the play, assisted by Bar
ry Vause and Mrs. Charlotte
Winecoff.
TAX IS $.15 PER $i00
The supplementary tax which
residents of the Chapel Hill Spe
cial School District pay is cal
culated at the rate of $.15 for
each $100 of property valuation
listed. The tax is not 15 per cent
of the property valuation. A clari
fication of this situation has been
asked in light of the current pro
posal to annex the Carrboro and
White Cross School Attendance
Areas tq the Chapel Hill District,
subject to a special referendum on
the matter this spring.
All of the County winners and
their teacher coaches wall be given
the w'eekend UN trip next month. ® quartei poun s
Mrs. Charlotte Winecoff was coach long and 19 inches around. ' ment Benyhills attorney gave
for the Chapel Hill High School For a while longer he fished on notice of appeal,
winner. but there w'as nary another nibble. A suit'Sroiwhi b\- Roy S. Lloyd
He guided his boat back to the of Carrboro against Edward N.
dock, and quietly showed off his Mann and others, involving claims
catch with a smile. for wiring a house, was In prog-
This time they didn’t laugh. ress today.
Contest judges w'ere Dr. W^arn-
er Wells, Mrs. William Hender
son, and Mrs. A, C. Howell. The
other finalists were Bill Roe and
Norma Walker.
/Mrs. Dorothy Koch's Latest Children's Book
Selected By Junior Literary Guild For Fall
By MARGARET PADGETTE was a series of little poems with a ably be of interest to a child to-
'rhe new'est chldren’s book by central story theme. The second, day.
Chapel Hillian Mrs. Dorothy Koch, 'Gone Is My Goose,’ was also rhy- Adult’s Book Some Day
“When the Cows Got Out,” w'hich thmic and poetic, but it w'as in story Mrs. Koch has no plans for a book
will be published next fall by Holi- form. My new book is in pure story for adults right now', but she says
day House, has been selected by form and is based on an event I she hopes to w'ldte one some day.
the Junior Literary Guild for their remembered from my cliildhood “Since my books so far have been
fall list. when I w'as visiting on my grand- based on past experiences,” she
The selection is an honor to Mrs. father’s farm in the mountains.” laughed, “I guess I just haven’t
Mrs. Koch said her books have lived long enough yet to write for
been written primarily to be read adults 1"
aloud to children, but a limited
vocabulary was used so a child in _
the early grades could read the
stories by himself.
She has tried to steer aw'ay from
has been appointed teacher in the Glenw'ood Elemen- ordinary children’s siories, top. “So
Koch and her publishers, because it
recognizes the effort, they have made
to give children in the primary
grades the kind of book they can
read with interest by themselves.
Mrs. Koch, the w'ife of William
Mr. Saunders said the figu^TS for graduate student in, the School of j, Koch and a fourth and fifth grade
PROMOTE THOMAS WILLETT
Thomas Sherman Willett, UNC
mi
ball, UNC vs.
Figures completely through
March of the preceding period
showed a total of 62 days of rain.
Three of the days had rainfall in
excess of one inch.
last Nov. 1, according to the records
of Max Saunders, local observer tion in excess
Insti- foi’ the U. S. Weather Bureau. He these days being in January
show'ed that measurable amounts of
rain have fallen on 50 of the 146
days from Nov, 1 through March
munity Church 26, These figures, however, do not
icussion include precipitation too little to
English Club, measure w'hich occurred on several
-mbly Roam additional days. (Precipitation less
vie ’’Christ the fl of inch)
V. Carrboro November Rainiest
The total amount of rainfall for
Jlass play. ”Onr this period w'as 20.28 inches as corn
'll High School pared to 17.87 inches for the same
period last year. More rain tell in
lina Playniaker.s November than any other month pi-om The Richmond County Journal
of the South,” w'hen a total of 6.17 inches w'as rec- parking meters the saviors
overcast days has led to this be- here with his family and is a foi-
liel,” he said, “Actually, w'e have mer Montana National Guardsman,
had just about an average amount His present assignment w'ill be w'ith
of rain—possibly a little less than kledical Detachment. 30th Division,
pormal.” ’ Artillery in' Greensboro. ■
and cats.” she said, “that
■Gone Is My Goose,” published in I've tried to be a little different.”
1956, “I usually take some childhood
Used Poetry, Rhythm event as a base for my story,” Mrs,
“The first,” Mrs. Koch said, “was Koch w'ent on. “for I think what I
w'l'itten in a free poetic style and can remember easily w'ould prob-
Occasional rain ending today:
partly cloudy and cool tonight.
Cloudy and w'armer tomorrow.
Low tonight 35-40.
High Low' Rainfall
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
59
37
.00
54
39
.82
51
40
,511
After n Years - The Rockingham Story....
Do Parking Meters Help Or Hinder Business And Traffic?
vs.
,larch 29
jail, UNC
eld
3 Dance, Home-
enter
ilina Playmakers
of the South,”
arch 30
el Hill Bird Club,
type were installed made from the multiple-coin type ference in revenue is tremendous. the number of fines paid. Allen, many people have been ignor-
Mr or Mrs. Average Motorist, several years ago. That might have So, the Rockingham shopper w'ill Mrs. Farris w'ent to w'ork in July ing the notices and a new policy is
orded. This was .43 of an inch less of"downtowirbusiness in Rocking- who doesn’t tliink about traffic con- happened except for the fact that probably continue to pay five cents ol last year and the record Undi- being established.
trol or town revenue when he pulls the meters have become an impor- for parking. cates w'hat happened to traffic viola- From now' on. he states, a w'ar-
Or have they become municipal up to a metered parking space, tant source of revenue. In 1956 the But that’s only half the gripe, tion. In the first six months of 1957 rant for the violator will folUw
than the 6.60 high recorded in Febru- pam?
nightmares?
1^'
aper Drive
ary of the period the preceding year.
December had rain on 11 of the
31 days wdth the maximum amount
recorded on Dec. 9 when .74 of an
inch fell. Nine of the 31 days in
January had rain. The total pre
cipitation was 4.37 inches, witli the
maximum being 1.58 inches on
Jan. 14.
February had eight days of pre
cipitation totalling 3.32 inches. The years ago—in August
seems to object to forking over his tow'n collected $14,843.01 and $15,- Since the tow'n hired a full-time tiiere were 845 one dollar tickets closely behind the final plea for
You don’t have to go far to get up nickels. That’s w'here the nightmare 294.90 in 1957. That’s a lot of money parking meter attendant it’s a sure paid. During the second six months payment. This will mean a trip to
an argument on the subject and nine of lost business enters the picture, that can be applied to “traffic con- bet that a ticket will be .on any over a thousand dollars more in mayor’s court and payment of costs
out of ten people you talk to have Common Complaint trol” in the police department. For car’s w'indshield shortly after the traffic fines w'ere paid, the total in addition to the parking fines,
some pretty strong convictions that It’s a common complaint of driv- that reason penny meters w'ere prob- meter’s time expires, being $1868. On Strictness:
they’re right ers ftat they don’t ’like to put a ably not favored. Parking tickets hei-e cost one dol- In Tw'o Months $684 Strictness of enforcement, there-
n Years Ago nickel in the meter w'hen they’re HamleCs Revenue lar apiece. During the first tw'o months of fore, also seems to have something
The first parking meters w'ere in- going to be parked for only five or What happens w'hen you have pen- Source of Irritation tiiis year the record show's $684 in to do w'ith the grow'ing public
stalled in Rockingham almost 11 10 minutes. But, oh the other hand, ny meters is illustrated by Hamlet’s That to many drivers is another overparking fines already taken in. aw-areness of the meters. But that’s
after town government officials say it is revenue. Last year the Town of source of irritation. “I just w'ent in Hamlet’s overparking fine is 25 not ’the w'hole story, just as tire
1947,
music program, maximum w'as
1.28 inches W'hich months of hot debates. One might illegal according to State law to use Hamlet got roughly $3,500 from the store to get some change and cents.
fell on Feb. 27. Through March 25. expect that time and constant use- any other type of meter.
Driver speaks, a total of 2.75 inches has been rec- age would push their presence into
orded. The maximum amount w'as the back of motorists’ minds,
dusicale presents .82 of an inch recorded on March But that’s not the case.
‘no, Graham Me- 25. A total of seven days had rain
ie up to March 26.
ilarch 31 Up To 1.74 In. Daily
rapel Hill Garden The range of daily rainfall ran
IPharmacy from a low of .02 of an inch on
If anything, the average person
who drives a car in Rockingham
has experienced a growing sense
of awareness of the meters, parti
cularly since the single-coin nickel
The State Supreme Court has
ruled every type of meter except
the single-coin single-time one il
legal, says Police Chief Louis
Allen. *
Why not use penny meters then? eluding fines,
Rockingham could have put in pen- Rockingham has about 230 me-
ny meters w hen the changeover was ters and Hamlet 225, but the Uif-
parking meters and from the fines when I came out I had a ticket,”
is a common complaint.
The addition of Mrs. Mary Far
ris to the police force as parking
meter attendant hasn’t seemed to
increase revenue from the meters
themselves. But it has brought a
tremendous jump in number of
tickets written and consequently
for violations.
With a number of multiple coin
meters i pennies and nickels) now
in use in Hamlet, the take has in
creased to about $400 per month in-
Currently in process here is a
crackdown on parking violators.
Police Chief Louis Allen says
there are several hundred dollars
worth of uncollected fines on the
town’s books.
Usual process is to send a final
notice after an individual has ac
cumulated several tickets. But, say^
nickel price is only part of the
story.
Many merchants feel these days
that people w'ith parking meters
and dollar fines on their minds buy
less than one who doesn’t have
to worry about parking. There are
numbers of Rockingham business
men who are ready for some
(See PARKING, Page S)