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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
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By Billy Arthur

Every time out-of-town friends drop by after the
ball games, Annis Lillian and Billy Jr. help
the peanuts and 'tater chips, and they reason
whatsoever that bountiful share Of the snacks is
not due them. Last week Billy Jr. getting more
than enough peanuts when put stop to it ard
told him to place the bowl on the dropeaf coffee table
in front of the settee.
We must have chatted five or ten minutes with
our visitors when suddenly there bang-then
another bang-and simultaneously the table leaf
dropped and the bowl of peanuts hit the floor the
goobers rolled all over the living At the same
time people lifted their feet and Billy Jr. crying
and scramblng from under the table All this in a
matter a couple of seconds
He had crawled under the coffee table and tried
reach from under it to topside and then inside the
bowl to sneak a few peanuts In his maneuyering,
however he had inadvertently tripped the dropleaf
catch
You can imagine the confusion and the Missus tell
ing him 70 pick up every single and individual one.
It looked if there thousand peanuts the
floor. As he picked up the bowl to start his Job he
iubilantly yelled Hey look there's one peanut left
in the bowl"
I'm one Of those characters who's always talking
when he should be listening. For instance just be-
fore Sunday School we discussing the Carolina
Notre Dame football game. And offered the hope
Notre Dame would defeat Iowa.
How come" asked Claude George, assistant dean
Of the School Of Business Administration "Iowa's
the No team in the nation and already going to the
Rose Bowl
explained that Carolina's defeat by Notre Dame
would look better if the Fighting Irish also knocked
off the top team.
Then we went on inside and Claude began teach
ing the lesson drawing upon his own experiences to
appropriately illustrate if.
First thing off he told about his boyhood in Iowa
then Iowa University. Maybe he didn't mention Iowa
again but | got the feeling that every other word
Iowa and he giving me a good gong-over for
shooting off my mouth
Frank Umstead arrived at the Coffee Clutch the
other morning wearing his Marine Corps fatigues.
"On maneuvers?' someone asked.
Nav" Frank replied "The wife had job for
="
A voice interrupted him: And you maneuvered
out Of it,"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
A New Yorker on Christmas
BY John Fisher in Harper's

With the dread Yuletide already
tapping around our ankles, every SEN
sible man is now groping for whatever
comfort he can find to sustain him
through the most grinding month Of
the year.
Our Wall Street correspondent re-
ports that group Of brokers is or
ganizing Society Of Rebelious
Scrooges, which plans to charter plane
to some quiet Moslem probably
Marrakech-where it will 20 under
ground until January e. Those Of US
who cant afford to seek safety in
flight, however, must dig in as best We
can to endure the horrors Of the sea
son-the eggnogs and Tom & ferries,
two varieties Of alcoholic custard which
offer the soundest argument yet dis
covered for prohibition the blizzard
of affectionate greetings from the
plumbers, auto dealers, pants pressers,
real-estate agents, and TV repairmen
who have been robbings us with un-
Christian zeal for the last eleven
months :. the commercials urging US
in the name Of Saint Nicholas and the
Holy Child to stock up NOW with de
pilatories, laxatives, deodorants, and
hangover cures . malevolent sales
ladies, Trappist monks touting bargains
in Christmas cheeseS the annual shake
down by elevator men and apartment
superintendents Silent Night
blaring over the drunken babble in
every cocktail lounge 49,.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
Ways Of Dressing
christian Science Monitor)

Reading in British weekly wifes
statement that her husband always
sleeps with his tie on, knotted and ready
to slip under a clean shirt collar" we
(more or less naturally undertook
research project. We set out to deter
mine what if any significance this
piece Of information held for the human
race.
Thirty seconds of investigation
turned up the fact that we know a man
who knew a man who always began
dressing in the morning by combing
his hair and putting his hat on. Then
he worked his way down from the top
until he was ready, as it were, to fill
his own shoes.
Each man in his way. had doubtless
solved a problem important to him, and
both were as sane as you or the edi-
torial We. Without going into any ques-
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
Baby Talk In All Lands
Gan Editorial in the N. Y. Herald Tribune)

AS the Bible has it, men speak diff
ferent languages because Of the mis-
guided attempt to build the Tower of
Babel. But now researchers have found
that another kind of babble, j. e., baby
talk, is actually a universal tongue
similar in all nations.
Dr. Harold Yeager, of Louisville,
who has studied all this in many lands,
finds that all babies, everywhere, cry
Ma! MAJ" and that it is distress
cry. It's signal for Mama to come run
ming. But on the contrary, "Da da"-
which is what the old man fatuously
thinks is directed at him-is a happy
sound, along with "ba ba, da da, ga ga,
did did, and Club Club"
Doubtless proud papas will be even
more proud that they are named only
when baby is happy. But let them be
disabused. Baby is smart enough to
know whom to call when he wants to
get something done.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
Exploring the American Press

A national hookup Of educational
TV stations beginning December l8
will explore the IT, S. Press" and exam
Inc how newspapers, magazines, radio
and teleyision are effectively informing
the American people on topics Of vital
Importance.
Louis M. Lyons, Of the Harvard
University Nieman Foundation, will be
in charge Of the project which will be
telecast once week for 13 weeks and
will deal with the general character Of
the American press, secrecy and censor
ship, economic news, and the influence
Of editors on public opinion.
The Fund for the Republic is fl
nancing the series.
In listing the educational TV sta
tions which will carry the series, Ed
tor and Publisher" does not include
WUNC-TV. This is a glaring omission.
1t appears highly desirable that such
an examination would be enlightening
in North Carolina in state Of ~ mil
lion people, with over 200 newspapers,
Is commercial television stations and
upwards of hundred radio stations.
If it is practicable for the Fund for
the Republic to include WUNC-TV it
would seem that the attempt TO bring
this about would be exerted by Uni
versity authorities as a public service
for the people who live within 100
miles radius of Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
Now and Then
BY Bill Prouty

become used to associating the Demo
cratic Party with the South and the Re
publican Party with the North.
f+sere was no middle ground-you
were either Southerner and Demo
crat, which was good, or you were
Northerner and a Republican, which
was not 50 good. And though the word
Republican was not exactly fighting
word, I've seen more than one scrap
among school youngsters which began
with a too free bandying around of the
word-es specially when hung on some
sensitive Democratic" kid
! remember that | had never asso-
ciated the words Yankee" and Demo
cratic until they nominated Al Smith
as standard bearer for the 1928 cam
paign, and the tune Sidewalks Of New
York began to fill up the radio ear
phones and cracking loud speakers Of
that day. ! could never get used to
yankee" leading the Democratic Party
into battle. And apparently lot Of
other Southerners, the voting kind,
couldn't get used to it either, and
Hoover swept the country and much Of
the South.
But since that time, things have
been happening in politics and today
you're just as likely to be talking to a
Yankee Democrat as a Southern Demo
crat. OF course, you can't say the same
about Southern Republicans, even
though Eisenhower and his infectious
smile cut a big swath in the Solid
South" (since 1929 in 1852 The South
ern Republican is still very much iso-
lated, sort of like his Northern brother
in, say, Alaska, or even Vermont.
In fact, being a Republican any
where today is like being Democrat,
B. r., before Roosevelt, that is. A
Republican today is in very much the
same predicament as the Democrats
Will Rogers described in the early
1930's. When asked what his politics
were, the great humorist replied: Il
don't belong to any organized political
party. I'm Democrat"
Well, it remains to be seen if this
reverse trend will keep up. If, for in
stance, the Hawaiians, should vote a
solid Republican ticket when they get
their statehood, then it would seem
that my association Of cold, severe
weather and Republicansm will be
knocked into cooked hat.
But then, we might have to wait a
while for this, for with that big ma
jority of Democrats in Congress, any
apparent Republican trend in Hawaii
might just keep them from having an
election any time soon. After all, poll
tics haven't changed much since Will
Rogers day-they've just taken on a
little reverse English.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04
Wolfe Homecoming"

The Thomas Wolfe Homecoming"
on Friday night, December 5, promises
to be an event of signal cultural impor-
tance in the University and mile
stone in Chapel Hill tradition.
Prior to the first performance OF
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04

When read about the results Of the
Alaskan elections in the Thanksgiving
morning papers, they came as distinct
shock Not so much because the cleo
tions were being held, though imagine
it will take some time for US folks in
the down under" United States to get
used to elections at the ~frozen polls"
But rather, it was the Democratic
sweep Of two senator's, the one con-
gressman, the governor and big
Legislature majority which bowled me
over. The Democratic sweep in itself,
Of course, was not unexpected, since
their landslide victories throughout
most Of the other 48 states on Novem-
ber pointed the finger squarely in
that direction.
But it was the idea Of Democrats
dominating the far North, the juxtapo-
sition Of the Democratic party and snow
and sub-zero weather that got me all
shook up. Nor had the Democratic win
in Vermont (reputed to be the locale Of
some rather nippy weather itself pre-
pared me for the Alaskan results.
You see, being a Southerner by birth
and preference, and having lived in the
South all Of my childhood life, | had
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-12-04

tions that this comparison may raise,
it is encouraging in an age Of confrom-
ity to discover people who have not only
the genius to think up ingenious solu
tions and the persistence to apply them,
but who also are quite original in de-
vising problems which demand their
attention.
Even as you, our valued reader p
and yes, even as We.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27
federal district court.

federal district court.
In January 1858, Hawkins at
torneys filed suit in the federal
district court in Tallahassee on be
half of Hawkins and all other Ne
gro citizens of Florida who are
eligible to attend the University
of Florida. The attorneys moved
for a preliminary injunction in
order that Hawkins might be adj
mitted to the February 1858 term.
Federal Judge Devane at that
time denied hearing on the
motion on the ground that he
would not enter any order un-
til he could have a full hearing.
He was reversed by the U. S.
court of appeals for the fifth cir
cult. The case finally came to
trial on June Is, and Judge De-
vane entered his order on June
Is which ordered the Universe
ty of Florida to open its doors
to Negro students.
There has been no indignation
in the universities in the states
of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana, Alabama and Virginia.
A suit is presently pending in the
federal district court in Miami
which seeks to end segregation
in the public schools of Dade
county, Fla.
Thurgood Marshall, one of
Hawkins attorneys, this week
called upon qualified Negro citi-
zens of Florida to take advantage
of the new educational oppor-
tunities opened to them at the
University of Florida and Flo
rida State university as a result
of Judge Devane'S order. Mr..
Marshall said that it should not
be necessary to bring a new law
suit to open the graduate and
professional schools of Florida
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27
Local Man Admits
Sunday Morning
Fatal Shooting

Early Sunday morning. as the
Negro populaee was recuperating
from a decision rendered Satur-
day by federal pudging impari-
ing the confidence of black peo-
pie throughout the world in the
integrity of America, the city
came face to face with a fatal
shooting.
Willie Bob Brown, 81, lit
Ringo street, admitted to police
officers, that he fired the shots
that ended the life of Elmer Is
aae 60, of 2211 West 10Th street
The shooting occurred in front
of the Elks Rest, Old IL Gaines
street about 7 a. m. Sunday. Ac-
cording to Browns statement, he
had been in the club at the rest
since early Saturday mite, and he
was told by a friend. George
King, and another person. whom
he did not know by name, that
Isaac, who was custodian at the
rest, was going to kill him.
Brown said that when he left
the rest early Sunday MORN
ing. he entered his car which
was parked in front of the
entrance to the bullying. Short
y he say Isaac coming down
the steps, he told Kind, who
had also come out of the rest
with Brown, to get out the
way. Brown said he got out of
his car and as Isaac approached
him, he asked Isaac, What have
done to make you want to
kill me-" He said Isaac then
reached for his gun, and he shot
him.
According to reports. Isaac was
shot three times, bullets entering
his stomach, chest and right side.
When Isaac was removed from
where he fell, it is said that
loaded pistol was found beneath
his body.
Brown said after the shooting,
he asked his friend to call an
ambulace, he then got into his
car and drove away. heading for
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27
$500 CASH AWARD FOR
OUTSTANDING SERVICE
PRESENTED TO AGRICULTURE
COLORED EMPLOYEE

A 5000 cash award went to Ed
ward Cornick recently for SER
vices over and beyond the call
of duty as a clerk in the publi-
cation section of Foreign Argi-
cultural Service of the US De-
partment of Agriculture.
The cash award and a cita-
ton were presented to MIR. Cor
nick by Administrator Gwynn
Garrett of FAS during ceremon-
les In the Departments auditor
ium. Thirty-two others received
citations and cash awards rang
ing from 500 to $500
MIR. Cornick's citation reads:
''For consistently maintaining a
high standard of promptness and
pleasant relations in servicing re-
quests for publications and in
formation, and promoting FAS
goodwill by volunteering extra
efforts in providing effective
service to the public"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27
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his home where he was going to
call the police. But before he
could reach his home, he was in
tercepted by Officer E. j. Nc
Daniels, who was near the scene
of the shooting and heard the
shots.
Brown was taken into custody
and murder charge was placed
against him Monday morning.
His bond was set at $4,000.
Isaac was a retired railroad
employee. He retired from the
Rock Island lines in 1858, where
he had worked since 1917.
Funeral services have been
scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.
m. from Mt. Pleasant Baptist
church, where he was a member.
Dubisson company will be in
charge.
Survivors are, wife, Mrs. Zed-
die Isaac; son, Elmer Isaac, jr;;
sister, Mrs. Savannah Cadet
Houston, Texas; brother, James
Isaac, St. Louis. stepson, Harvey
Anderson, Augusta, and host of
other relatives.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27
Federal Court
Orders Florida U.
To Admit Negroes

Thurgood Marshall, director
counsel of the NAACP Legal De-
Tense and Educational Fund, this
week hailed the order of u. S
District Judge Dozier Devane,
which opened the University OF
Florida graduate and professional.
schools to Negroes, as a majol
victory in the drive to desegre-
gate public educational facilities
in the south. The Federal Judges
order ended a 9-year court fight
in the case of Virgil Hawkins, a
Daytona Beach Negro, who haJ
sought admission to the Univer.
sity School of Law.
Hawkins originally filed hi
case in the Supreme Court o.
Florida in 1919. The Florida su
preme court first refused to or
der the admission of Negroes to
the university on the grounc
that a separate law school hao
been provided for Hawkins al
Florida AIM. When the u. S.
Supreme Court was petitioned b.
Hawkins attorneys to review
this decision, the High Court re-
turned the case to the Florida
court for reconsideration in the
light of its May II, 1854 decision
in the School Segregation Cases.
The Florida supreme court then
appointed a commissioner to de-
termine when Hawkins could be
admitted without public mis-
chief"
Hawkins again sought review
by the u. S. Supreme Court. This
Time the court vacated its pre-
vious order and ruled that since
Hawkins sought admission on the
graduate and professional school
level he was entitled to imme-
date admission. However, the
supreme court of Florida again
refused to admit Hawkins on the
ground that to do SO would
cause public mischief A third
attempt by Hawkins attorneys to
have the U. S. Supreme Court
review the case was denied with
out prejudice" to the right of
Hawkins to bring his case in the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27

State university at Tallahassee.
He said that good faith on the
part of the Board of Control OF
Florida should obviously make
such a suit unnecessary.
Attorneys in the case, in addi-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27

ton to Thurgood Marshall, were
Constance Baker Motley and
Robert L. Carter of New York.
Francisco Rodriguez of Tampa,
Fla.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-06-27

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-27

Industrial construction in
Prince Georges County for the
first five months of 1858 ex-
ceeded that authorized in any
other county in Maryland, &C
cording to the State Planning
Commission.
Seven industrial building
permits valued at $52O,4OO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-27
nits valued at s4s7. 700.

mits valued at $4S7, 700.
The State agency reported
that Maryland's % counties
issued 40 industrial permits
in the flve-month period
valued at $2,319.735. During
the same period in 1857, the
agency said SO permits were
issued at a value Of $2,363, 134.
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Plant Output Up

we're issued by the county
during the January-May PEE
Rod. the State agency re-
ported in figures obtained
from the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics.
Runner-up in Industrial
building was Baltimore Coun-
ty. listed as issuing i've per-
Evening star., 1958-07-03
SkyPiIot Rides Throttle
For Air Force Jets

ABILENE, Tex, July 3 (P.-
A minister and those who use
the heavens reached an agree
ment. The United States All
Force gave the Rev. Bob Jack
son - under certain circum-
Stances-the right to tell il
when its planes could fly and
when they couldn't.
1t happened this way:
The little Community Bap-
tist Church didn't mind at first
when Dyess Air Base aimed its
runway at the small. long
established church building.
Then came the Jets. The
base added more and more
craft, most of which roared
only 400 feet above the church.
After a few Sundays there.
more shaken by sound than
sermon. the congregations
leduSrS IolQ air oaSe authOri-
ties their problems.
The Air Force sent a cou-
pie Of officers to listen to a
sermon. They agreed it was
g deafening experience.
The Air Force agreed to
te sphone Mr.. jackson and
ak permission for mass flights
to take of except in emergen-
eieS.
One night the pastor received
Evening star., 1958-07-03
Body Of Girl, ",
Missed on Boot,
Found in River

Acting on a hunch yesterday,
the Harbor Police recovered the
body of a 17-year-old girl after
two hours Of dragging in
the Anacostia River near the
Buzzards Point Boat Yard at
the foot of First street S.W.
Detective Sergt. Lionel Cou-
ture of the homicide squad said
Harold G. Ives Of 4813 Ravens
wood road, Riverdale, Md, re-
ported that Mrs. Patricia A.
Spencer of 745 Tenth street
Sc, one of several guests
aboard his cabin cruiser Mae, I"
was missing.
Mr.. Ives told police that Mrs.
Spencer, who is believed to have
a history Of epilepsy, had left
her open purse on deck.
Believing she might have fall
len overheard, Harbor Police
dragged around the boat and
found her body in eight feet
Of water.
Sergt. Couture said an au-
topsy would be performed to-
day.
Evening star., 1958-07-03

a call from a major in charge
of a fight of Is planes from
another base.
Say" the major shouted in
disbelief, "the tower tells me
! I've got to clear with you be-
fore I can take off,"
Mr.. jackson, a peaceful man,
patiently explained the agree
ment.
Well" said the major, malt
ingly! lis it all right if we
leave?" He got permission.
Mr.. Jackson says it sounds
incredible. but that particular
cowed and bewildered fight
somehow created less noise
than any in months.
But the agreement didn't
pan out. During a recent re-
yival, 81 jets were forced to
take of in a 30-minute period
in the middle of services. and
the pastor said the visiting
evangelist was a nervous wreck.
When the first huge KC-35
jet tanker came over recently
the congregation decided the
treaty had 10 be torn up.
The deaconS ran up a white
flag and broke ground ior q
new church three miles from
the runway.
Evening star., 1958-07-03
Thor Succeeds
In Ground Test

CAPE CANAvERAL, Fla.
July 3 tP.-The Air Force ha.
conducted another successful
static, or ground test. Of it.
mighty Thor intermediate range
ballistic missile.
The engine Of the potent
Douglas rocket roared at full
thrust for a few seconds yes
terday in the midst of huge bill
lows of smoke and flame.
The static indicated that an
other Thor launching is planned
soon.
Fifteen Thors have been fired,
about 10 Of them successfully,
since the test series began in
January, 1857. In one test the
Thor Travelled $500 miles, about
1000 miles beyond the inter-
mediate range for which it was
designed.
The Thor is scheduled to be-
come operational in the field
next December.