The Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Page 7

Thursday, July 21, 1960 UNC NEWS Page 7 Mary Gilson Is Leaving Her battle with the good earth around her home on Cobb Terrace has reached such proportion, in fact, that she had to call on the Board of Aldermen this week for help. With characteristic vim she fired off an appeal for the town to remove at least three "redundant" oak trees bordering her property. The appeal, with frequent underscorings in red: "Since I moved here 11 years ago I have had constant annoyance from some (too many) oak trees which are on a strip of land belonging to the town between the Cobb Terrace stone i i 1 Miss Mary Gilson, at the ripe age of 82 one of Chapel Hill's leading and most outspoken-voices of liberalism, has decided to leave this University community in favor of a less verdant climate. Among other things the fiery little lady prefers the convenient apartments of the nation's capital to what she describes as the mildew' and vegetation this once pleasant village. In the 11 years since she came here Miss Gilson has fought a constant battle" fer the causes of education, integration, literalism in general and the Democratic Party in particular.

But, two months short of 83, she apparently figures it's a losing battle against the Chapel Hill soil. "I don't want to spend the rest of my days playing around with weeds, onions and poison ivy that grow so profusely in the Chapel Hill pebbles they call the good earth," Miss Gilson explained at length this week. "I do not like taking care of house and garden any more. I do not." She also does not like local real estate mn mainly because "they don't build good apartments here" but also because of a concurrent dislike for suburban developments. But, characteristically, she didn't put it quite that mildly.

She has been up to Washington, where there are reports that some changes will be forthcoming in November I hope to God there and therefore a good possibility that a good apartment can be found. If so she plans to move there. two figures. Your guess as to what "The Thinker" is thinking is as good as ours. (UNC Photo Lab) SXOW JOKE Yep, it really is snow, aid the picture really was taken in Chapel Hill.

Some enterprising young da Vinci got real ambitious back when snow was upon us and created these Request (Continued from page 1) tion and rewiring $260,000. Mr. Aycock explained that the rewiring job is considered an emergency need. wall and my property. "I would like to have at least three of the six redundant trees which do no one any good and which make it impossible for me to raise anything but ivy on a large part of my property removed (in red).

"Among the nuisances they cause are (1) trouble with roots around water and sewer pipes (2) hundreds of acorns which produce small oaks, which I have to spend too many hours digging up (3) messy brown stuff which clogs my gutters (4) leaves which I have to clear out of my azaleas and other shrubs and flowers and also out of the damned ivy (5) so much shade even dogwood and red-bud trees I have planted won't grow. "Please (in red) gentlemen, have a heart for my heart and my back and my disposition." Miss Gilson confesses the probability that some folks in Chapel Hill won't be at all sorry to see her leave. Gilson Administration Of College Entrance Exams May Change Administration of college entrance exams to high school seniors will be taken over by the State Board of Higher Education if the board accepts a recommendation submitted to it by a committee of five college presidents. The presidents, headed by Consolidated University President William C. Friday, have submitted a report to the board recommending that a standard entrance exam be adopted on a statewide basis which would qualify a student for entrance at any of the state's colleges or universities, and that this standard exam be administered by the board.

Currently the exams are administered separtely by the institutions, although a fairly standard exam is used. Mr. Friday disclosed details of his group's report during budget talks yesterday with the Advisory Budget Commission. He said the presidents have recommended further that the exams be offered on an optional basis to high school juniors as well as seniors. This move, he said, would give a student an extra year to prepare himself for college entrance if he is found weak in a particular area of preparation or aptitude.

He pointed out that the intent of the committee is not to exclude college entrance, but to help high school students make the wisest career choice. Entrance exams, he reminded, are not the sole criteria for admitting college freshmen. But that contributed matching funds will be useful if not necessary. The Legislature, he said, would look more favorably upon an appropriation for the indoor stadium if the University could raise some private funds first as "bait." Besides its requests for the three new facilities, the University also seeks funds for eight major renovations or additions to improve existing facilities on the main campus. Top priority among these eight projects is given to a $50,000 project to remodel Cobb Dormitory for use by women students.

In many cases three women students are now living in rooms designed for two students, and While 1,400 additional rooming spaces will be available for men students by the fall of 1962, no additional new dormitories for women are planned except an 80-bed addition to the nurses' dormitory. Other major renovations and additions sought for the coming biennium, in the order of their priority: Additions to heating" plant, steam mains and sanitary and sterm sewer lines $1,426,200. Addition to Wilson Hall (29,375 square feet) $460,000. Murphey Hall renovation Bynum Hall renovation $45,000. When the School of Journalism moves out of Bynum this month, Chancellor Aycock said, current plans are to give the University News Bureau additional space and turn all other surplus space into a general classroom available to various departments as needed.

The University Press would continue in its present quarters. Phillips Hall (old part) renova Venable Hall floor repairs $25,000. Paving driveways and parking areas, particularly in the area of the health affairs campus $54,000. Except for this paving item, the Division of Health Affairs budget request totalling was submitted as a separate budget. Students Invited To Join Choir Students, visitors and townspeople are invited to join the second session summer choir at the University Methodist Church.

Everyone who likes to sing is invited. No professional experience is required. Rehearsals are held each Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of the church, which is located on E. Franklin St.

During the second summer session the choir will perform some of the works cf Bach, Gounod, Mozart. Elgar, Wagner, Tschenokoff, Handel, Rossini, Saint-Saens, William Billings and Vaughan Williams. One program will be devoted to music of some early Maravian composers of Pennsylvania and Ncrth Carolina. The choir will perform this Sunday with the newly-formed Renaissance Music Ensemble. William Bennett is director of the choir and Mrs.

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