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PLE ief HAPEL Hill News Leader County Board To Meet On School Vote Date 25 Now 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 . . . arch 27 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. ^irch 28 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)