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26 No. 7
GR^G-McFADYEN INSTITUTE OF BOOK LEARNING
^ents Throng School
Ices To Demand
Juick Return.
vnarle High’s entire teach-
af staged a general walk-
jjay when repeated de-
sfor class changes were re-
jty principal, Harry S. Mc-
a
* John L. Fry, called a
jlstrile when the bargain-
*ences in the Study Hall
itely failed to produce the
^results for the oppressed
ffiJohn L. Fry’s action has
iffidally backed by the Fed-
I of Albemarle Musicians,
sibyMr. Petrillo Hatley. Mr.
1 stated that if drastic ac-
^ad to be used, he would
1 all musical programs and
ss in Stanly County until
actiers’ demands are met.
! teachers have withdrawn
idI their previous, minor de-
2, but picket signs clearly
that they really have in
; A personal interview with
.'ibe pickets, Miss Maxwell
Jiss Morton, revealed the
itsires of the majority of
ackers. They are asking
me students like Gene Har-
3, Jacl ■ Palmer, Sonny
> Joe Morton, Farrell Riden-
Chailes Bowers, and Roger
il
le school had been closed
tours, A. H. S. students
;«lthe offices of McFadyen,
ad Hatley begging them to
ttsome agreement so that
^tould get started again,
jit no agreement has been
9l, and the situation looks
* indeed for the frantic
31S. McFadyen, Fry, and
! kave sworn to stick by
wi convictions. What will
tom the rumblings of this
a, Ume can only tell, for
Mtion is a grave one, and
w is yet in sight.
Intents Urged
lo Stop At Bar
snack bar, being spon-
the four study hall
the chemistry depart-
Q the home ec. depart-
s recently been erected
study hall.
Morton, who is head of
Jtnittee of sponsors, ex-
reason for the
,tne fact that since there
tremendous amount of
™een the early hours,
®?st students eat break-
and then from
the termination of the
ttl’ almost impos-
Ij, P!}® to study properly
the lack of nourish-
,®^ys Miss Morton,
ha! 1 thing the
Mho f years. Just
;i|.„ of the students
drink Four Roses Cola
■nonJh Cakes is pay-
%the
^ variety of re-
' Cairo T ^oses Cola and
Sts 9r3er to keep
“ mmimum, the
aepartrnent is formu-
fc 3nd the home
^^^epartment is makirjg
raised are being
* Cigarettes
^tnhoi . organization
Unot JP poor students
“Sarettes off
durmg the school
alike are
^ four f ^ at ten,
i(s for the pause thai
■ly I
os,
'i«n^ ^ike an old
' grow up.
Seniors Given
Key to New York
(Special to Fool Moon)
New York, April 1.—Mayor O’-
Dwyer turned the key to New
York over to the president of Al
bemarle senior class after the
students’ arrival here Saturday
night.
Three buses brought the mem
bers of the senor class to New
York for a two-weeks stay in the
world’s largest city, where they
will be carried on tours to the
points of interest.
After the students had register
ed at the Waldorf Astoria, they
went to the Stork Club, where a
banquet was held in ther honor.
Mayor O’Dwyer made a short
welcome speech and presented
President Lowder with free pass
es to all the city’s main attrac
tions, including rides on the sub
ways, the elevated, and taxis.
Sunday the students were taken
on a boat trip around Manhattan
Island. The boat stopped at Bed-
loe’s Island and the Statute of
Liberty was inspected. Later they
visited Ellis Island, and that
night attended a stage show at
Rockefeller Center.
After a dinner at the Automat,
where Lou Merle found that slugs
Would not do for nickles, they
went to Coney Island, where the
evening was spent on the Roller
Coaster. No one got sick, much
to the disappointment of the
owner, who was making no profit,
since passes had been issued to
the group.
After the group returned to th'e
hotel it was found that the Wine-
coffs, Buddy Lowder, Jim Ivey,
Horace Lowder, and Alex Moore-
head were missing. The police
were notified and after a long
search the boys were found in a
side show at Coney Island.
George Winecoff’s explanation
was; “We were enjoying the
show and didn’t know the group
had gone back to the hotel.”
Trouble came when the group
went to the Zoo. The manager
didn’t see the students arrive,
and when they started to leave
an alarm was sounded. The men
that worked at the Zoo came run
ning with ropes and nets. They
soon had rounded up Gerald
Rummage, Tootsie Little, Joe
Harwood, Douglas Mabry, and
William Haire and put them m a
cage. After an investigation was
made they were found to be hu
man and set free. The manager
apologized and said he hoped it
wouldn’t happen again.
That night, on a tour through
the Empire State Building, Joe
Morton and Cecil Hatley got up a
bet as to whether you would
bounce twice if you jumped from
the top. Joe was going to prove
that you would until a guard
pulled him off the rail by the seat
of his pants. .
The group will be m the City
for 10 more days, but the city
officials wonder if t^e city will
outlast the group. It i?
stood that 40 members of the po^
lice force have resiped, the ftre
department has taken on
men, and selling of fire insurance
is booming.
BULLETIN!
Word has just l>een f®ceived
from the seniors spending this
week in New York of an unusual
experience along the way.
Approaching 'Washington,
ny Boone was leading th P
Sion of cars, with speed caret
held to his usual 25 mph-
Suddenly the entire pa ty was
surrounded by and
demanding even go-
all possible credentials Z stu-
ing so far as to search the siu
dents and their ' py Glo-
Miss Matheson and Nancy
ver protested, expecting to over
awe the cops by superw
When this failed, Betty Lee
— April 1, 1948
leachers Stage Walk ■ Out bought
irl C* i S, )• ' rf-
Officials Puzzled
Over Odd Arrival
Of Amnesia Victim
A motorcycle with the Cali
fornia license plate No. 17787
drew up to the front of AHS a
ew days ago and a strange young
man dressed in an unusual uni
form fell off the vehicle and en
tered the lobby of the high school,
where he announced that he had
just completed a non-stop jour
ney from sunny California.
When Mr. Mac noticed the tired
look on the face of the youth he
invited him into the office for a
drink. Here he tried to compel
the boy to reveal some of the
facts about the trip. The only
thing he succeeded in discover
ing was that this boy knows
nothing—absolutely, except that
he loves to ride a motorcycle and
has just completed a long, tire
some trip. Every time Mr. Mac
inquired his name, the boy seem
ed to go into a daze and mumble
about the atomic theory.
These queer actions'frightened
Mr. Mac, so Mr. Hatley was call
ed in to make a thorough inves
tigation of the subject. A very
elaborate procedure was followed
and Mr. Hatley concludes that
this boy is an amnesia victim
who evidently was so brilliant in
his youth that when scientists
heard of his great interest in
chemistry they hired him to work
on the atomic bomb. Because the
FBI is searching for a distin
guished atomic scientist, who is
supposedly being held by the
Communists, Mr. Hatley is basing
his theory on these facts.
After one look at the boy. Coach
Webb stated, “It’s plain to see
that this boy is a sissy and a
bookworm and has never partici
pated in sports of any type.
In a speech to the senior class
on Friday morning the victim re
ported that he had a wonderful
trip across the nation and has
enjoyed the companionship of all
the beautiful girls in Albemarle
for the past week.
After the speech some FBI au
thorities arrived and immedi
ately took the boy with them to
their state headquarters at New
London where he will exam
ined and the facts of his identity
Oueen, Jane Redwine, and Anne
finally ^TTiey recognized
dent with proposal that
°i’j,’Idde^id\on^this^g^f-
?empfto wirthe Southern vote.
Beauties Accept
Movie Contracts
Maveleen Scarboro, Anita Led
better, and Jean Bowers, Albe
marle High’s beauty queens, have
signed long term contracts with
studios in Hollywood and will
leave for the movie metropolis
the day after graduation.
Although Maveleen did not win
the title of Miss North Carolina,
her being at Wilmington brought
favorable results. Bill Mason, the
well known comedian, was tour
ing the South searching for a
leading lady for his new comedy
“This Crazy World,” and stopped
at Wilmington for the contest.
The mcftient he saw Maveleen he
knew that his search was over.
Acting for M-G-M (Morton-Gas-
kin-Milton) Studios, he persuad
ed her to sign an eleven-year
contract with the studios.
Anita will not have to go
through the usual procedure of
taking a screen test because of
the short’ movie made of the
Charlotte Christmas Festival in
which she took part. Douglas
Phillips, talent scout for Winecoff
Brothers Studios, saw the movie,
and finding her after some de
lay, he persuaded her to sign a
ten-year contract with the provis
ion that she be allowed to make
at least three pictures a year for
other studios. Anita’s first pic
ture will be "I Love You”; and
Harry Cook, the great lover, is
to be her leading man.
Perhaps everyone noticed the
helicopter hovering over the
Christmas parade which was held
at Albemarle. Jean led the pro
cession; and as she passed under
the helicopter, her lilting voice
floated up to the man, a talent
scout, in it. After the parade he
revealed that he was Bill Fesper-
man, well-known talent scout for
19th Hundred-Wolf Studios and
talked her into signing a contract
with his studios to make at least
three musicals a year for eight
years. In her first musical, “Song
of the Night” she will be co-
starred with L. C. London, the
widely-known singer and dancer.
Teague Will Erect
Lounge and Bar
Plans to convert the home ec
onomics room into a modern, con
venient lounge, with smoking
lodge and bar have been com
pleted by Little and Rummage,
Albemarle’s outstanding archi
tects, and submitted to Miss
Teague for her approval.
Money for this project was rais
ed by the Monogram Club in two
performances of the classic play,
“April Fools,” starring Shotgun
Talbert and Chunk Barringer. The
club netted $5,000 in two nights.
The remaining $5,000 was given
to the school by E. C. Haley. Miss
Teague feels that $10,000 should
be enough to complete the lounge.
All students will be required
to spend the minimum of one
hour daily in the lounge m leis
ure Any student caught not
smoking will be sent immediately
to the principal and subject to a
fine of $5.00 or writing a l.OTO
word theme on “Why I Should
Smoke.” Mrs. Fay Stovall and
Miss Dorothy Spears will have
charge of keeping the ashes and
cigarette butts on the floor. Miss
Spears will give instructions on
proper beauty treatments and the
new look, while Mrs. Stovall ex
plains the art of blowing both
square and round smoke rings.
Drinks will be mixed by Mi^ss
Harrison, expert mixer from Ct^-
cago and served from 8:30 A. M.
to 3:10 P. M.
Students may be excused from
class any time they feel like
dancing. A juke box, in which
slugs are substituted for nickels,
has been provided by the super-
Austin, Lowder. Hinson
Have Special Offers
From Radio.
Unofficial reports from the Dis
trict Contest which was held in
Charlotte at 3:00 Friday morning
state that the A. H. S. Mixed
Chorus was offered a ninety-nine-
year contract by the Metropolitan
Opera Company; however, Mr.
Fry blushes in shame to admit
that this is the only thing they
accomplished with such excel
lent singing.
The group arrived about 4:00
in the morning and naturally at
that time of day they were in a
singing mood, so they floated on
the stage and gave a perfect ren
dition of the opera, “Lucia di
Lammermoor” by Donizetti. The
judges’ stern, hard faces were pic
tures of ecstacy, then melan
choly; that is, before they passed
out. When Mary Louise Elder be
gan the solo part, every person
in the audience fainted. Mary
Louise says she is glad they did
because the music was so high
that she was able to sing only
half of it.
The group had not left the stage
.when Mr, Pete Metropolitan, man
ager of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, rushed forward and
begged them to sign; and when
Mr. Met. heard the romantic bass
voice of Ted Austin, he declared,
"Lawrence Melchoir will never
be seen in my operas as long as
Ted exists.”
Then when Frances Hinson
sang her alto solo, he utterly
swooned and said that if she
would dye her hair blonde she
could have Helen Jepson’s place
in all the operas. Of course,
Frances would never consent to
that.
Not only in opera has the Mix
ed Chorus become famous, but on
radio and screen as well. Larry
Lowder received a letter request-
ingf him to come to Hollywood
and replace Jo Stafford. “Well,
after all,” he explains, “they’ve
only heard me sing once.”
Since Eugene Burris speaks
French so fluently, he received a
wire asking him to replace Jean
Sablanch on his radio program.
Eugene refused because, as he
says, “It might result in some
international difficulty between
France and America.”
Bing Crosby personally wrote
a letter to Max Aldridge and ex
plained how much better voice
he (Max) has and says that he
is turning over his share of every
thing in Hollywood to Max. If
it had jiot been that Bintr’s five
boys were included. Max would
have accepted.
If Mr. anci Mrs. Fry can find
someone to buy their house on
East Main they are going to Hol
lywood too. Mr. Fry has been
convinced that he has a better
voice than Frank Sinatra. (Girls
all over the nation will be swoon
ing over a new crooner soon.)
Bill Ridenhour applied for a
job with the Briarhoppers a cou
ple of years ago with no success,
but when the chorus made such a
fine showing, he was offered $10,-
000 to sign a contract with them.
However, Bill contends that hill
billy music is so beautiful that
his voice couldn’t do it justice, so
he will continue his voice les
sons in order to tour Europe some
day and show the world what
wonderful voices come from AHS.
intendent of city schools, who be
lieves that dancing is far more
important than any lesson.
Remodeling will begin as soon
as February has 30 days.
NEW CLUB FORMED
A Knitters Club has been re
cently organized in AHS by mem
bers of Men Musicians Union, who
claim that if the Monogram club
won’t award them sweaters for
representing the school, they’ll
knit their own.