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i;; S/. D. Mentioned Mills' Occupant fher name has popped into speculation as new tenant of 's mills. ade publication in Philadelphia today said that the B. V. D. ion had been "sold or leased" the 35-acre, two-unit mills ;ific Mills. ever, the Daily News and Record said that the Fred Bins- Co. firm of Philadelphia, handling the sale fof Pacific >uld not confirm the story. so said that officials of the BVD firm in New York would irm the story. week, Hanes Knitting Co. was mentioned as entering into ons for the property. The report was flatly denied by fowever, the Binswanger company did say that it was ' losing the purchase deal. fic Mills is reportedly asking $750,000 for the property, ice housed their Burlington Mills enterprise. There has isiderable speculation here about a new occupant, and a icial said recently to a local group that several national d investigated the site and expressed interest. 0- i jvionni'Outni Citiapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas FIFTH YEAR, NO. 98 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958 SIX PAGES THIS ISSUE Personal Injuries Kept At Minimum Records Show Nine Inches, But Inconvenience Of Snow Hard To Measure Personal injuries have been kept Police officials in Orange Coun- fy that there have been many cars to a minimum during the current ty and Chapel Hill report they in ditches and stuck along the bad weather, but the amount of in- have heard of no serious accidents roads. convenience caused to local resi- as a result of the snow and ice. In all, the local area got nine dents is hard to measure. However, drivers can readily testi- inches of the white stuff. versify Finds Space Storing Of Supplies Tar Heel Letters Delivered Day After Mailing--Usually How Fast Mail Went One accident which has been re- fered bruises when he was hit by ported locally involved a Univers- a car on Raleigh St. Officer Free ity policeman early Sunday morn- was directing traffic when the ac- ing. cident occurred. Campus officer Fred Free suf-' Arrested and charged with reck- A Chapel Hillian In The Snow ersity has obtained space jplies replacing those re- royed in a fire on the nd officials are investi- )ossibility of building new cilities, preferably off- lies were destroyed the [AE WILLIAMS OF , Route Two, needs your the weekend, Mrs. Wil- her five children were t a home or possessions a quick fire which de- ir residence. They need OPE, PRESIDENT OF otors, Inc., local Buick elected yice president of 1 Area Auto Dealer’s As- ir monthly meeting last |Tller of Dprham is pres- IGAN OF 10714 PLANT 1 Hill, has been given a ’or outstanding salesman- by Lederle Laboratories lean Cynamid Co. Mr. srsents Lederle in the region. He received the 1 national sales meeting He has been associated rm since 1957. 5ITY STUDENT TOM nted an interesting pro- is own compositions re- went almost unnoticed raucous second half of n which featured the eter Ford. Mr. Ford, if ber, is the man who be- ic comes from tearing way, it should be men- think, that Mr. Rice’s with favorable comment. NE WHITEFIELD, SEC- he Chapel Hill-Carrboro Assn., reports that San- letters are picking up As you possibly know, tion answers the letters service. WARD PENDERGRAPH I)el Hill Police Dept. Te nded an FBI training reensboro. ERCHANTS OK FRANK- e arranged for a down- Claus to be on the street ■res during night open- lany afternoons between iristmas. Incidentally, at [lerchants have reported I this year are “very ay, Dec. 15 lapel Hill Public Li- ise. School Board meet- lomics room, Chapel 3l. ay, Dec. 16 acuity Club lunceon, Faculty Newcomers ty lounge, Morehead jpel Hill Choral Club s “Christmas Ora- sic Hall. ;udent Wives Club ty, Victory Village day, Dec. 17 Istmas party. Chapel for Aging and Com- nships, Institute of lay, Dec. 18 - Christmas party, ; and Arts and Crafts the Community Club, loly Familj^. morning of Dec. 5 when a fire swept tlirough a middle section of the University’s storeroom. Other sec tions were not damaged, but the interior of the section—holding va ried household items ranging from iron piping to toilet tissue—was gut ted. The fire was believed to have started frorti a malfunctioning elec tric motor. Webb Evans, director of the UNC Office of Purcliase and Store?, said that for the present com bustible items are being stored in a quonset hut near the filter plant in Carrboro. Non-combustibles, he said, are be ing stored in the basement of Ay- cock Men’s Dormitory on the cam pus. Aycock is a relatively new structure. Some other items are be ing stored in sections of the storage facility not destroyed by the fire. Mr. Evans said that no de cision has been reached on whether to build back the present structure, located on the campus near Bhillips Hall, or to build an entirely new building on a new site. “We hope to build a new one off the campus some place,” he said. He noted that the present stores are in a “congested” area. He said that accountants are still working on the records to deter mine actual loss in the fire. A re port is due this Week, he said. Early estimates placed the loss at around $80,000. Local Native Is Promoted To Atom Post Dr. Lauchlin M. Currie, a native of Chapel Hill, has been elected a vice-president of The Babcock & Wiloox Co. and placed in charge of the Atomic Energy division, it was announced in New York this week by M. Nielsen, president. To accept the new B&W post. Dr. Currie retired as a vice president of Union Carbide Nuclear Com pany, a division of Union Carbide Corporation. Born in Chapel Hill in 1898, |ie was graduated from Davidson Col lege with a B. A. degree in 1918. Dr. Currie later attended Cornell University, where he received a graduate scholarship in 1923, a Sage Fellowship in 1924, and a Fh.D. in 1925. He was awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Science from Clarkson College of Technology in 1950 and from Davi(ison College in 1951. Dr. Currie lives in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He is married to the former Ethel Snyder Jopp of Niagra Falls, N. Y. They have two daughters, Helen Catherine and Christian Mac- Laurin Currie. Dr. Currie is ex- president of the Larchmont-Mama- roneck Community Concert Assoc iation and is on the official board of Mamaroneck Methodist Church. Two Visiting Lecturers Schedule Talks Here Tw'o visitors are scheduled to lec ture at the Department of Psychia try of the University School of Medi cine. Dr. E. James Anthony will speak today on “Sleep Disturbances.” He is acting director of the Child Guid ance Clinic of the Washington Uni versity School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Fred P. Robbins of Chicago will speak before the department’s Monthly Scientific Meeting Thurs day at 4 p.m. His subject will be “The Problems of Consensus.” By DAN ANDERSON If you send a letter from one place in North Carolina to an other, it’s likely—but not cer tain—to arrive the day after you mail it. That’s the main point prov ed by a test of Tar Heel postal efficiency made by The Chap el Hill News Leader with the help of 25 other newspapers across the State. In all, 41 letters were mail ed, and it took them an aver age of just above 26 hours to get to a residential address in Chapel Hill. The longest delivery time was 49 hours 15 minutes for a letter mail ed at 10:30 a.m. December 11 in Winston-Salem and received at 11:45 a.m. December 13 in Chapel Hill. A letter each from Kannapolis and Henderson tied lor the short est delivery time—17 hours 30 min utes. The Winston-Salem laggard led a list of six — 14 per cent — that took two days instead of one to arrive. In addition, two mailed in Lum- berton, and one each from Eliza beth City, Lenoir and Raleigh, failed to arrive until the second day after they were posted. The late one from Lenoir, though, was mailed on a Saturday^ and its lateness very like ly was due to the Sunday mail holi day before its arrival. Christmas Question It’s a question whether the Post Office can keep up to this mark when the Christmas rush gets heavy, and eatly mailing certainly would be wise. But the results, based on deliveries early in the month, may be taken as typical of the regular run of the mail. The News Leader sent envelopes to the cooperating papers, asking that they be mailed, with slips inside to tell when this was done. All were stamped and clearly addressed to the home of a News Leader staff member in Chapel Hill. A residence address was used so that the re sults would be like those of most people’s ordinary mail. One© A Day One effect of this, Of course, was to cause seeming delay in some de liveries. Mail comes once a day, late in the morning, to the house, and a letter that reached the Chapel Hill Post Office at, say, 11 a.m., when the carrier was already on his rounds,' had to wait untU the day after. But the point of the sur vey was to find out how common mail gets delivered, and the same thing would happen to any letter. Dec. Time Dec. Time Hours: Mins. Asheville 1 2:15 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 21:15 Asheville 2 8:30 a. m. 3 11:30 a. m. 27:00 Charlotte 1 1:40 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 21:50 Concord 1 9:55 a. m 2 11:30 a. m. 25:35 Concord 3 11:00 a. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 24:30 Durham 1 10:30 a. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 25:00 Durham 1 1:30 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 22:00 Elizabeth City 1 4:00 p. m. 3 11:30 a. m. 43:30 Elizabeth City 2 10:00 a.m. 3 11:30 a. m. 25:30 Gastonia 1 3:00 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 20:30 Greensboro 3 9:00 a. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 26:30 Henderson 8 1:00 p. m. 9 11:00 a. m. 22:00 Henderson 8 5.30 p. m. 9 11:00 a. m. 17:30 Hendersonville 9 3:30 p. m. 10 11:00 a. m. 19:30 Hickory 1 4:15 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 19:15 Hickory 2 9:30 a. m. 3 11:30 a. m. 26:00 High Point 4 3:30 p. m. 5 11:00 a. m. 19:30 High Point 5 11:30 a. m. 6 11:30 a. m. 24:00 Kannapolis 1 6:00 p.m. 2 11:30 a. m. 17:30 Kinston 1 2:15 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 21:15 Lenoir 3 9:50 a. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 25:40 Lenoir 6 5:00 p. m. 8 11:30 a. m. 42:30 Lexington 3 2:21 p. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 21:09 \ Lumberton 1 4:30 p. m. 3 11:30 a. m. 43:00 Lumberton 1 11:30 a. m. 3 11:30 a. m. 48:00 New Bern 3 9:00 a. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 26:30 New Bern 3 2:00 p. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 21:30 Raleigh 2 12:45 p. m. 4 11:30 a; m. 46:45 Raleigh 3 9:15 a. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 26:45 Reidsville 1 9:45 a. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 25:45 Reidsville 3 2:30 p. m. 4 11:30 a. m. 21:00 Rocky Mount 2 2:55 p. m. 3 11:30 a. m. 20:35 Salisbury 1 4:30 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 19:00 Salisbury 1 12:00 noon 2 11:30 a. m. 24:30 Shelby 4 4:15 p. m. 5 11:00 a. m. 19:45 Shelby 4 9:35 a. m. 5 11:00 a. m. £5:25 Statesville 1 10:00 a. m. 2 11:30 a. m. ' 25:30 Statesville 1 2:00 p. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 21:30 Wilson 1 8:32 a. m. 2 11:30 a. m. 26:58 Winston-Salem 10 9:00 a. m. 11 11-30 p. m. 26:30 Winston-Salem 11 10:30 a. m. 13 11:45 p. m. 49:15 The second longest a letter took other later. For instance, one sent "There is a wanderjul, secret. tiurUl of swm impending ecstasy on a frozen winter’s nighU The whole city nd matter how ugly its parts may be, becomes a proud, passionate Northern place. Every thing about it seems to soar up with aspirant, vertical, glittering magificence to reach the stars.”—^Thomas Wolfe to arrive was 48 hours; one mailed at 11:30 a.m. in Lumberton Decem ber 1 came in to the Chapel Hill mail box at 11:30 a.m. December 3. The ether Lumberton letter took 43 hours, and latecomers from Eliza beth City, 43 hours 30 minutes; from Lenoir 42 hours 30 minutes; from Raleigh 46’ hours 45 minutes. Those from Hickory at 9:30 a.m. arrived at 11:30 a.m. the next day, but so did another mailed from Hickory at 4:15 p.m. Who’s To Blame? Pi’oof that mail delay isn’t always the fault of the postal service was found in one enclosed slip; it had been marked with a certain date, less driving in the case was Ma rine Lt. Girard Edgar Boudreau of North Augusta, S. C. Meetings and other events plan ned for the Community have been cancelled or postpoped. School Tomorrow Orange County and Chapel Hill schools, dosed today, are sched uled to reopen tomorrow, unless further additional snow prevents it. The School Board meeting plan ned for tonight will be held in the Home Economics department at the Chapel Hill High School. The Interracial Christmas party and carol sing, originally planned for last Friday, will be held this Thursday at 8 o’clock in the Epis copal Parish House. Prof. Giduz Hurt Involved in an accident caused by bad weather was Prof. Hugo Giduz, who suffered a broken leg in a fall Sunday morning. Prof. Giduz was taken to Memorial Hos pital. iBus service continued without interruption over the weekend, al though there were reported delays in the local schedule. A flood of local and long dis tance telephone calls required the Telephone Company to make a re quest Sunday that phone calls not be made except in case of emer gency and that calls be limited to a minimum amount of time. Chains have been at a premium since the first snowfall on Thurs day. ' Local service stations were sold out Thursday afternoon, and many operators made trios to Ra leigh and Durham in futile at tempts to buy more. Christmas shoppers bundled up and made the best of it as evi denced by the large crowds in the downtown area Saturday. Side walks along the business district were shoveled clear of snow, but the sound of spinning tires gaye proof to the fact that mapy shop pers had trouble getting away from parking, places. Weather forecasts for the next few days call for mostly sunny skies but cold temneratures, so it may be a while before the ice and snow begins to melt. As marv folks have been heard to say recently, “It’s fun for the kids, but heck on the grownups.” Snow Cancels Superior Court were elapsed times from when en-, but that had been crossed out and closed slips said the letters were mailed to when they were delivered in Chapel HUl. Though the Post Office, which en courages mailing early in the day as well as early in the season, may not like this, it didn’t seem that a letter mailed in the morning was likely to do much better than one mailed in the afternoon. Several pairs were mailed and did as well though one was posted early, the another, three days later, was sub stituted. Without embarrassingly naming the place where this hap pened, it stiU may be said that peo ple who mail letters may err as much as the service that carries them. Details of the mailing test appear in an accompanying table. In gen eral, they should reassure Tar Heels that their mail does go through, satisfactorily fast. Two More Calls Threaten Bombings Two more crank telephone calls warning of bombings at the Univer sity were reported Friday, following two others only by a matter of hours. Dr. Fletcher Green, head of the UNC History Dept., received a call about 8:20 a.m. Friday from a per son who said, “There is a bomb in your building.” Dr. Green said the person, who sounded like an adult male, hung the receiver immediate ly. The call prompted a search of Saunders Hall, home of the History Dept., and classes were suspended until the search was completed. At least six examinations had been scheduled for the day. At 12:45 p.m.. Chapel Hill Police Chief W. D. Blake received the sec ond bomb threat of the day and the fourth-in two days. Chief Blake said the caller hur riedly and excitedly told him that a bomb was set to go off in Bing ham Hall. Chief Blake said he could' not understand whether the caller said “in room 228 or at 2:28 p.m.” Chancellor W. B. Aycock and others searched the building and found no bombs. All classes but one in the building were called off for the day. Wednesday night, one caller said Carrboro Negro Man Released After Probe Of Wife^s Death his brother was going to bomb Chap el Hill High School the next morn ing. And another call, two hours later, said a time bomb was due to go off in Bingham the next after noon. The hoaxes were part of a series wriich has boiled over in North Carolina recently. One of the first breaks in the dastardly practice came over the weekend, when four teenage boys were arrested in Ashe ville and charged with making a bomb threat to a high school. FIREMEN MAKE CALL Chapel Hill Firemen were called to 103 Stinson St. today about 1 p.m. They said that a floor furnace had become hot and was smoking. There was no damage, the firemen said. Orange Scout Unit Sets Ambitious '59 Program The board of directors of the Phipps received numerous expres- Orange Boy Scout District has set sions of gratitude from the gather- The December session of Orange an ambitious 1959 program. ing. Also taking office were Ralph County Superior Court has been post- The board of directors of the Howard, Carrboro Clarence Jones, Poned because of inclement weather. Orange Boy Scout Council this week Hillsboro, and John Efiand Jr., R was reported today, set their sights on increases in 12 Efiand, vice-chairmen. 'The court, which began sessions phases of Scout endeavor in Orange The group set the following goals: Monday, came to a halt Thurs- County. Two-deep Scout leaders, in clay morning when the heavy snow- Meeting at Lenoir Hall, the group which a leader is backed Py another, blocked area transportation, established goals in the 12 phases 37. This is an increase from the 24 source said the court will not which reflect, according to one of- leaders of the past year. meet again until February. Several ficial, “ambition and optimism.” Number of unit leaders trained— minor matters were considered in The increases are sought in every- 20. . the three days of session, but many thing from the number of Cub Number of advancements in rank criminal matters were left untried. ■ Scout packs in the county to the —450. number of adult leaders. Number of subscriptions to the Sandy MeClamroch of Chapel Hill magazines, Boy’s Life—416. assumed chairmanship of the dis- Number of Cub Scouts—^325. Number of Boy Scouts—375 . Number of Explorer Scouts in units—100. 11 I Number of Explorer units—five. I\@p, Ur!ist6acl Number of Cub Packs-12, an in- * (See SCOUTS, Page 6) trict, replacing L. J. Phipps, .who had served for two years. Mr. Carrboro police officers ■ today had released a Carrboro Negro after holding him briefly for investigation of his wife’s death last night. Officer Albert Pendergraft said that investigation has shown that 36-year-old Cora Foushee died of natural causes. She was dead on ar rival shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday at N. C. Memorial Hospital. Aceprding to the qffjcersj Mrs. Foushee died of a heart attack after a family fight with her hus band, Prevet Henry Foushee, at their home on Broad St. Officer Pendergraft said the wom an ran from the home after the fight and to her father’s home near by. She died there of the heart ail ment, he said. Foushee was jailed during the in vestigation and then released, he Weather REPORTS Some cloudiness and cold to day and tonight. Tomorrow, mostly sunny and continued cold. High today and tomorrow, 35-40. Low tonight, 15-20. High Low Snowfall Thursday 41 21 .00 'Friday 23 6 7 in. Saturday 34 7 .00 Sunday 3g ' 15 1% in. U instead Will Address Faculty Club State Representative John W. Urastead Jr. will discuss legislative problems confronting the General Assembly in 1959 at the Universi ty Faculty Club luncheon on Tues day. Rep. Umstead, chairman of the North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control and a member of the state Legislature for the past 18 years, will speak at 1 p.m. in the Carolina Inn. A leader in North Carolina’s fight against mental illness, Rep. Umstead in July, 1958, was named to the board of the American Fund for Psychiatry. He has helped de velop the psychiatric research and training center at the University and has worked toward improving patient care in the state’s mental hospitals. Rep. Umstead has been a mem ber of the UNC Board of Trustees since 1939 and a member of the executive committee since 1946. He •is also on the executive commit tee of the General Alumni Associa- tiqn.' Local Citizen Reports His Tire Chains Stolen It was bound to happen. Mike Roniman, 107 Stephens St., reported to Chapel Hill Police Sat- nrday that someone jacked up his automobile parked in front of big residence during Friday night and stole his tire chains. ■ Several Families 'Unadopted' As Stocking Fund End Nears Oiange County’s Empty Stocking Fund is entering its final week, with several needy families remaining unadopted. The Chapel Hill Junior Service League must provide for all the families, ancj has asked for help in successfully completing the county-wide Christmas assistance program. Boxes containing food and toys for families already adopted mu.st be taken to the Sinclair Service Station garage in the Glen Lennox shopping center no later than tomorrow at 5 p.m. There is still time, officials noted, to call 9-9112 for a family to help, and then pack a box before; the deadline. If you can not adopt a family, any cash donation will be uti lized by the League to provide for the unadopted persons. These contributions should be mailed to Empty Stocking Fund, Box 374, Chapel Hill, or left at the Empty Stocking Booth on East Franklin Street, which will be open through December 20. This booth is be ing staffed by ladies from ten of our local churches. Recent adoptions have been made by: Mrs. Kay Kyser, Order Eastern Star No. 185, Smith Dorm, Mrs. W. B. Aycock, Mrs. Ray mond Dawson, Mrs. Walter Holt, Mrs. George Penick, Dental Hy gienists, Nurses Dorm, Mrs. J. L. 'Von Glahn, 1st year Law Class, Mrs. Kenneth McIntyre, Young Peoples Service League of the Episcopal Church, University Town Girls Assn., Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Spencer Dorm, 3rd grade at Glenwood School, Mrs. Paul Hubbard, Rotary Club, Delta Delta Delta, Mrs. C. N. Cheek, Senior Y-Teens, Pi Beta Phi Sorority, 2nd year Law Class, Alderment Dorm, Mrs. J. C. Sitterson, Mrs. M. J. Hakan, Mrs. Thomas A. Lynch, Mrs. Mary McCutcheon, Board of St. Paul’s A.M.E. Church, Mrs. Eugene Loeser, Mars Hill Baptist Church.
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