The Full Moon
ALBEMARLE, N. C., MARCH 5, 1943
Here and There
LAURA ROSE MOOSE is
gal who evidently believes that
there will not be any more “Leap
Years.”
She was overheard saying
kiously:
■ “It’s my last chance—my very
last chance!”
“What’s your last chance?” she
■ Kitty Doby was heard to say,
have to wash my feet every night
j—and, boy! do I dread it!”
WHEN STUDENTS reported
to homerooms after the Intermual
iasketball games on Friday, Ezra
iOglesby was absent, but the little
dog that he had been carrying
■round all day was there and some
one knowingly remarked, “Ezra is
Nevertheless it was only the
black one.
MRS. FRY was telling her sen
ior English class as an assignment
to write friendly letters to some
one in the service every month for
the rest of the year.
Robert Medlin, a little puzzled
ss to someone to write, asked,
fWon’t the WAAC’s be all right?”
MR. McFADYEN called to the
auditorium all boys who would be
■eventeen or older by the end of
Verne Moose and Sam Lamar,
tapposing they were the right age,
went, but were sent back.
Mrs. Fry, seeing Verne, asked,
fComing back?”
' “Yep, too old,” was his reply.
IT SEEMS that Mrs. Jennings’s
(iusband is an inventor.
Miss Barefoot asked Betty Coop- j
!r who invented the cotton gin.
She absent mindedly replied,
•Edward Jennings.”
CRAIG EURY was running
diehard Stoker around the gym
;he other day and they both seem-
■id very much fagged out.
, Coach, who had been observing
-hem, remarked, “There goes
hnoker vs. Smoker.”
“Well, I DON’T guess Miss
iSws is Miss Laws any more,” re-
terked a student when he heard
bout her marriage.
“No,” replied his companion, “I
.•ness we’ll have to say Mrs. Laws
Leading Roles
Taken By Stone,
Eury In Play
Ford and Hurlocker Have
Supporting Parts.
“My Late Espoused Saint,” by
Frank Durham, this year’s contest
play, starring Craig Eury and
Carolyn Stone with Marie Hurlock
er and Everett Ford, vdll be pre
sented in the State Dramatic Con
test at Chapel Hill in March, Miss
Fitzgerald announced today.
Craig Eury plays the part of
Ambrose Dargan, a violent tem
pered “bull in a china shop” type
of person who comes back to life
one year after his death.
Carolyn Stone plays Phelie Dar
gan, Ambrose’s mild-tempered,
mild-mannered, order-loving wife,
who is scared to death of her hus
band.
Marie Hurlocker plays Essie
Carraway, Phelie’s friend, who,
like Phelie, married a college pro
fessor, and who, herself, is as
absent-minded as the proverbial
absent-minded professor.
Everett Ford plays Ebie, the
Dargan’s coJored gardener, who
almost incessantly signs his own
version of “Blessed Assurance”
ore or less off key.
The concensus of the cast’s
opinion of the play is that while
it has its comical side, it is chief
ly drama. “My Late Espoused
Saint” was first presented at Dock
Street Theatre, Charleston, S. C.,
and kept the audience in suspense
en after the play was over.
Work on the play has been un
der way for two weeks now, and
reports indicate that someone in
Chapel Hill is going to have a
hard time overcoming the actors
and actresses from A. H. S.
MRS. FRY: “Donald, why
aven’t you copied these sentences
rom your English' book as I asked
I THERE WAS A disturbance ir
,»e back of the room, and Mr. Hat-
,y asked, “What in the world is
|ie matter with you, Lowder?”
Yawning and stretching, Harry
iplied, “Somebody woke me u
News Briefs
jjThe kitchen to the school cafe-
ria has recently been repainted,
le color selected this time was
Mr. Hatley Teaches
Pre-Flight Course
GIRLS DRILL
of Mi
( Holt and Ml
The pre-flight course, being
taught by Mr. Hatley, is preparing
the boys for future training in
der to enter the broad field of
ation — fighter-pilot, bombardier,
navigator, or ground-crewman.
The class, consisting of twenty-
five boys, is now studying different
facts about meteorology — clouds,
atmospheric, conditions, precipita
tion, and reading of weather maps.
Later, as Mr. Hatley states, they
intend to concentrate their studies
on the parts of an airplane and
“what keeps it up there.” Only
eleventh and twelfth grade stu
dents are eligible, because they
are the ones who will most likely
serve in the present war.
Rembert Rogers
Will Attend
West Point
1 high school Rernb.
ve in all sports^ in dra
Martha Ivey Is
New Treasurer
Martha Ivey, a senior this year,
has been recently chosen as treas
urer of the student body, replacing
Sherrill Cranford, who 'left school
to attend the University of North
Carolina.
During her four years in high
school Martha has received many
honors. She is a National Honor
society member, vice president of
the Booster’s club, and was lieuten-
governor of Girls’ State last
year, an organization sponsored by
the American Legion Auxiliary.
Defense Classes
Prepared For Japs
All Nazis and Japs better “look
out” for Albemarle High School’s
pre-flight and sheet-metal students,
who are being trained in special
classes recently organized for boys
who are planning to enter the field
of aviators or civilian defense work
in a factory.
In the sheet-metal classes, there
are eight students in the morning
class and seven in the afternoon.
The boys are being trained by Mr.
Ed Burleson for future work in a
defense factory.
To be qualified for a defense job
is necessary to have had at least
250 training hours.
Most of the boys are not certain
where they will cast their lots con
cerning war-plants, but “Lige”
Hatley and Earl Hagans are defi
nitely planning to enter the Glen
L. Martin aircraft factory at Bal
timore, Maryland.
All of the boys like the course
id are doing their best to present
a satisfying record of themselves
during the class. Even “Puny”
Lowder is working. In fact “Puny”
always has his certain project per
fect — at least perfect except for
little detail. Every time “Puny’’
comes running up to Mr. Burle-
(Continued on Page Three)
Quartet Gives
Gay 90^s Revue
Choral Groups Plan Chapel
Concert For Friday.
If you should happen to see a
group of boys walking down the
hall decked out in Gay Nineties
costumes, complete with hair part
ed in the mid^e, elegantly waxed
handle-bar mustaches, and spats—
in fact, everything that goes with
that era, don’t take a B. C. or
pinch yourself, or look at the cal
endar. You’re awake and not see
ing things, and this is 1943.
The spectacle is a contingent of
the boys’ quartet, who sang last
Friday at the Rotary Club ban
quet and will sing tonight at the
Lions Club banquet.
Mr. Fry’s boys’ quartet is at it
again. These boys, to the best of
their ability, are trying to awaken
the atmosphere of the Gay Nine
ties.
Incidentally, this same skit is to
be given along with the Concert
which is scheduled to appear here
in the auditorium next Friday.
The concert, directed by Mr.
Fry, will be divided into three,
parts, the first of which vpill be a
group of Church Music. This, of
course, wUl show the more serious
feeling of the concert. This will
consist of from eight to ten songs.
Part two, in a much brighter
vein, will feature the Gay Nineties
Revue, which will be put on by
the Boys’ Quartet and will fea
ture girl singers.
The purpose of part two is to
show the song and dance atmos
phere of that period known as the
“Gay Nineties.”
The third and final part of this
concert will be a blackface min
strel, consisting of several Negro
spirituals.
The concert as a whole will be
presented by the Mixed Chorus.
The Girls’ Ensemble has been
quite active lately, appearing at
the First Presbyterian Church Sun
day, February 20.
These girls are very much in de
mand, many people and organiza
tions calling on them and on the
boys’ quartet for programs.
Grigg has spent several days
Raleigh this week in the inter-
Mf the school education bill now
tore the le^slature.
Jeronimo,” a Paramount pic-
re, was shown to the student
iy on February 24. The next'
me commg to A. H. S. will be
he Chumps at Oxford,” to be
3wn March 25. These movies
| sponsored by the Student Coun-
fKp . .* * *
TBunice Smith, school reporter to
btanly News and Press, has
ttten 715 inches of news for that
^r this year.
Soles On Feet Were Made Before Soles
On Shoes; Why Worry About Rationing
A. H. S. students as well as
er people seem to think that shoe
rationing will have a serious ef
fect on them; however, they are
ready, willing, and eager to help
the boys on the front by buying
only three pairs of shoes a year un
der the new shoe rationing plan,
which has recently come into ef
fect.
Many will have to agree with
Calvin, the janitor, who says it’s
gonna affect him pretty bad, but
the boys in service are making a
much greater sacrifice than that.
Max Cranford couldn’t be joking
when he says, “I guess it’s all
right, since it’s done for the good
of the ‘hole’.” Verne Moose and
Martin D., as well as many of the
other boys, don’t"- seem to worry,
because they’ll soon be getting
theirs free, anyway.
Miss Click admits that she will
be wearing her last year’s sandals
again this summer,but she and Miss
Berrier aren’t fussing, because
they prefer their shoes in the
Navy. However, Mrs. Wilson says
that if we see her coming to school
barefooted, we’ll know why.
“Romeo” Watson, looking kind of
serious, says, “Shucks, it isn’t half
as bad as the food rationing.” Jean
Griffith and Margaret S. don’t
mind, because at least, they’ll have
an excuse to go barefooted.
Dwight M. left last Saturday, so
Jeanne L. doesn’t hesitate a min
ute in saying, “I think it’s a small
thing compared with what the boys
in the service are doing for us.”
Many of the students used their
favorite expression and said, “Oh,
man! That’s dead straight!”
Mrs. Helms, “I’m in favor of the
rationing as a whole. It’s a good
thing for us housewives who buy
haphazardly, anyway.”
Do you agree with Jimmy B.
when he says the older people will
take their children’s shoe stamps
and make them go barefooted?
Faye Johnson, the new eighth
grader from Badin, expresses her
opinion mildly in saying, “I (
say anything except I won’t get
but two pairs of shoes this year,
because I had to use one of my
stamps to buy a pair of tennis
shoes, which I deeded badly.”
Merle H., “Now, listen, I don’t
wanna be quoted on what I think
about the—rationing!” Frances
B., quite concerned about the whole
thing, exclaims, “I guess this is
what you call a ‘ban on pleasure
walking’!”
Maybe you boys will agree with
HaroJd P., “My brogans will last
a bit longer.” After thinking
awhile, Eunice S. said, “My opin-
-■-n is censored.”
Paul W., “It might be healthier
think my thoughts to myself.”
We can all be patriotic by mak-
this small sacrifice, and as Mrs.
Fry says, “I think we can all get
along all right with three pairs a
ye^r if we buy sensibly and keep
mind the fact that three pairs
the limit.”
31 New Books Are
Added to Library
Thirty-one new books have been
recently added to the high school
library.
Two of the books which may be
of help to students in their future
careers are Radio From Start to
Finish by Reek and Do You Want
Be a Nurse by Sutherland.
Some of the new novels are Hill
Lawyer by Skidmore; Varsity Let
ter, Reck; Mystery of the Empty
Room, Seaman; Jungle River,
Pease; Dynamo Farm, Allen; In
side Out, Mallette; Quite Contrary,
Urmston; Bread and Butter, Hall;
Sky Freighter, Brier; Last Semes
ter, Crawford; They Loved to
Laugh, Worth; Traitor Trio, Ja
cobs; Jerry Foster, Salesman, by
Ferris.
Two of the books, I Saw the Fall
of the Philippines by Romolo and
The Courage atui the Glory by
Flaherty, deal with the war.
By Their Words
“As long as the temperature
stays what it is, it’s going to be
cold.”—Mr. Hatley.
“Now is the time for all Pee
Dee suckers to come to the aid of
the ‘Varner Society’.”—Ted F.
“I wasn’t over nineteen when I
finished high school, and I’m still
nineteen.”—Mr. Hatley.
“Success is not given away. You
must strive to achieve it.”^—Mr.
Fry.
“Driving a car with one hand is
all right, but just try driving a
bicycle with one hand.”—“Glamor
Boy.”
“Every time I open my mouth I
stick my foot in it.”—Doris Dulin.
“I’m gonna tie my scalp on.”—
Leola P.