Thanksgiving
Holidays
Nov. 24 and 25
The Full Moon
See . . .
MEN’S BEAUTY
CONTEST
November 22
ALBEMARLE, N. C., NOVEMBER 18, 1938
VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM
THGR&
Four Students Represent
High School at Annual
Conference.
—WITH ENGLISH 12
C. Lowder, Mabry
ShankI
Albright, F
tty, Fo
HAVE YOU NOTICED the cab
in used in “Lawd, Does You Un-
dahstand?” This was built by
members of the cast under the
supervision of Miss Nye and Mr.
Brown. Quite a few gray hairs
made their appearance on Mr.
Brown’s head when he saw Bon
nie Hayes McCubbins chugging
along with a saw and Lyna Mae
Easley using a plane because she
thought it made such pretty shav
ings. It was then that Mr. Brown
remembered his responsibility for
the equipment in the Manual
Training department.
However, his worry was nothing
compared to Miss Bell’s when
Bruce Saunders and LeRoy Plyler
were sent up to the Home Eco
nomics department to sew two
pieces of sheeting together. Be
lieve it or not, they sewed on a
real machine.
APPARENTLY, A. H. S. STU
DENTS do not believe in wasting
time, although they do not alway.'^
use it to the very best advantage.
Miss Nye discovered two different
games in her 11:05 study hall one
day. One was that ever-amusing
game, tit-tat-toe, and the other
was a checker game played with
red corn grains.
Sometimes, if games require
much thinking, the students resort
to other methods of entertain
ment. Quite a few students ha'
created a real appreciation of n
ture while enjoying the scenery
through an open window. Ed Den
nis says that he just relaxes and
goes to sleep.
Here is a new suggestion:
the study hall or one of the n
rooms try counting the blocks
the ceilings. According to a
cent count, room 101 has 149 large
blocks, 34 half blocks, and one
small square in each of the four
comers.
When you get bored in chapel,
- look at Olyn Lowder, Josephine
. Beaver, or O. D. Shoe. Study
their facial expressions, and you
are sure to get at least one good
laugh because they are typical of
the whole student body.
THE H0UST:KEEPING COM
MITTEES of the various home-
[ rooms have been building a good
name for themselves since the first
of the school. With cooperation
of teachers and other students,
these committees are keeping the
rooms clean and attractive.
Manners class in room 10
been studying poetry for several
weeks. Their classroom has poems
and illustrations on their bulletin
board. Miss Ellerbe’s home room
' is decorated with many different
kinds of flowers and plants. The
bulletin board has on it postcards,
|| which have pictures of interesting
points of travel.
HOW MANY BOOKS did you
take home on Monday, October 31"
None? From the looks of towi
that night, not many were home
plugging hard on their lessons.
Even the teachers turned
' for this special occasion.
Cockerham tried to do a good deed
by ^giving Mickey and Minnie
Mouse some popcorn. But no,
•* cute little beasts didn’t want ;
- popcorn, so they very politely
•• fused. Mr. Hatley was the center
of attraction while doing a good
job of announcing for the Hal
lowe’en contest.
CLOTHES BEING WORN
AROUND THE CAMPUS now are
so loud you can almost hear them
coming around the comer long be
fore you see them. From the
ground up appear large bright
checks, stripes and what-not.
James Senter takes the prize for
flashy socks, while Bob Oscar Lipe
runs a close second. Green trous
ers are in the vogue, and Gerald
(Continued on page 6)
Griffin, Mann,
50c A Minute,
$150 A Day Is
Cost Of School
‘Have you ever thought, as you
counted the slowly passing minutes
until the bell rings, just how much
it costs to run Albemarle high
school for one minute?” asked Mr.
Gibson in a recent chapel talk. “It
costs fifty cents a minute, $150 a
day, and approximately $27,000
each year!”
This does not include the perma-
:nt equipment. The value of the
property is $250,000. Other equip
ment costs are as follows: the
cafeteria equipment $1,000, chem
istry equipment $750, physics
$500, biology $700, commercial
$1,500, home economics $1,800,
and manual arts and mechanical i
drawing $2,000.
The building was constructed in
1925. In 1932 two rooms, which
are Mr. Gehring’s and Mr. Fry’s
home rooms, were added. The mod
ern new addition was added to the
school in 1936 at a cost of $74,-
500.
Each day 98 classes are taught.
Eight months of the school year
are paid by the state, and the
ninth by the town. A fifteen cent
tax for each $1,000 worth of prop-
furnishes the ninth month.
Creative Writing
Class Sponsors
Beauty Contest
A “she-man’s” beauty contest,
featuring the town’s leading bus
iness men, will be held in the
auditorium Tuesday night, Novem
ber 22„ at eight o’clock. As an
added attraction, a ballet dance
will be presented by members of
the football team.
(Continued on page 6)
Speaking of the
Weather—
the
rather
sed by
■ «rill
tudy the method of
Th^e ttude^nts have been study
ing about the atmosphere for
the past month. In this work
they have generated oxygen,
nitrogen, and the other minor
gases which compose the air.
The uses of air and air pressure
have also been demonstrated in
experiments with the siphon
Dramatic Groups
Begin Active Work
Three One-Act Plays Are
Now in Rehearsal; Recog
nition Will Be Given to
Outstanding Students.
With both a sizable dramatic
t class and three sections of the
Black Mask Dramatic club organ
ized at school this year, the activ
ity of the Dramatic department is
well under way.
Three one-act plays, “Will o’ the
Wisp”, “Grandma Pulls the
String”, and “Fireman, Save My
Child!” are now being rehearsed.
They will be presented either in
chapel or at night in order to raise
money for better lighting equip-
Eat to Music!
Ned Betts and his orchestra be
gan an engagement playing popu
lar tunes in the high school cafe-
teris Monday, November 14, dur
ing the noon hour on school days.
This attraction is expected to draw
to the cafeteria many of the stu
dents who buy and eat their lunch-
The orchestra is made up of the
following members: Oron Rogers,
saxaphone; Ned Betts, saxaphone;
Wade Underwood, saxaphone; C.
B. Efird, violin; Jane Morrow, pi
ano; Charles Beatty, trombone;
Ellsworth Russell, drums.
Blaze Does Little
Damage To School
ly a slight amount of dara-
ras done when fire threatened
the high school building on Thurs
day night, November 2. A small
flame broke out in the dark room
of the basement, burning only a
few old desks, books and boxes,
before it was extinguished by the
fire department.
Ellsworth Russell was first to
discover the fire. He stated that
he had gone down to the laboratory
adjoining the “dark room” to se
cure a book and that upon reach
ing this room he smelled smoke.
Guided by the old adage that
"Where there’s smoke, there’s
__re,” he investigated, found where
the smoke was coming from, rush
ed back up stairs to tell Miss Holt,
who was the only other occupant
of the building at that time. She
saw that the report was true and
immediately called the fire depart-
Soon after both trucks were
called out, everything was well un
der control, although there was
still plenty of smoke.
The origin of the fire at the
present time is not knovsm. Mr.
Gibson stated his conclusion in
chapel as to how he thought the
fire originated, saying that prob
ably someone had gone in to look
for something and had struck
match to find the light and had
carelessly thrown the match down,
or that someone had smoked and
had thrown down a cigarette.
Mr. Gibson stated that no
was being held under suspicion
but that it should be a warning to
pupils to stay away from the school
building at times when they
not supposed to be there.
An interesting new feature of
the advanced Dramatic club will
be the initiation next spring of
students outstanding in various
fields of dramatic work into an
honorary society of the Black Mask
club. This recognition will con
sist of slipping black masks over
the faces of the students tapped.
The work of the Dramatic de
partment will be varied and com
plete, with special training for
students in technical lines such as
make-up, costuming, stage-craft,
lighting, publicity, play direction,
and business management, as well
acting.
(Continued on page 6)
r Soci
sty.
Delegates Attend
Student Congress
In Kannapolis
For the first time this school
as represented at the State Stu
dent Council congress when it held
■ twelfth annual meeting at Can-
n high school in Kannapolis No
vember 3 and 4.
^ tes were Bill Mann, presi
dent of the advisory council; Pau
line Beaver, vice president; Lafay
ette Blackwell, secretary; Virginia
Gilliam, treasurer; and Miss Laws,
the faculty advisor.
The congress opened at 1:30 P.
., being called to order by the
president, Roger Taylor, of High
Point. The main feature of the
?as a talk by Mrs. Ernes-
Milner of Guilford col
lege, who introduced the topics
for discussion.
At 4:30, tea was served by
members of the Home Economics
department, after which further
discussion took place.
A banquet was held that night
at the Yadkin hotel in Salisbury,
with Dr. Carl R. Douglas of the
University of North Carolina de
livering the main address. A dance
followed, with music by Claude
Little and his orchestra.
The outstanding features of the
Friday session were the election of
officers and the selection of a
meeting place for next year.
Bonson Gray of R. J. Reynolds
high school in Winston-Salem was
elected president for next year; J.
D. Dorsett of Needham Broughton
high school, Raleigh, vice presi
dent ; and Paul Kerns, Cannon high
school, Kannapolis, secretary.
Durham Next Host.
After a great deal of campaign
ing, the Durham delegates came
out triumphant in the election of
a meeting place for next year.
After the meeting was adjourn
ed, the delegates were entertained
at a luncheon by the P. T. A. Af
terwards they were taken by spe
cial guides through the Cannon
Mills plant.
Play Given Before
High School P.-T.A.
Mrs. J. B. Copple Elected Presi
dent; Other Officers Chosen;
Committees Are Appointed.
The High School P. T. A. held
its second meeting of the year in
the auditorium Thursday night,
November 10.
The following officers were
(Continued on page 6)
Business Survey
To Be Conducted
The Vocational department, un
der the direction of Mr. T. Carl
Brown, and Mr. F. I. Busbee, di
rector of the Albemarle branch
of the North Carolina State Em
ployment Service, are planning to
conduct a survey of the business
of Albemarle.
Through questionaires and per
sonal contacts they plan to com
pile a complete picture of the em
ployment possibilities of Albe
marle. This will help both the em
ployer and the employee. Since
almost 80% of the graduates of
the high school never got to col
lege, employment must be found
for them here in the community.
The sponsors hope to determine
the following things from the sur
vey: the approximate number of
employees needed by each firm,
educational qualifications of the
employee, and the personal future
and salary of the position. The
employer should be aided by ob
taining better qualified and r
competent employees.
Questions For
The Month
1. Which of Owen Wis
books has a character far
arking, “When you
e that.
mile!
“Gold Bug” i
of—buried treasure, HI
a lunatic asylum, a bo
3. Who created the
mous detective in fictic
4. The real hero o
Call of the Wild” is
named Buck, horse nar
/ed in Greensbor
o is the only Am
*-in the Nobel pr
9. What North Carolina
•list died recently?
10. What American