V«L 14. No. 5
Bennett Obtains
More Boats for
Fishing on Lake
Season to Open the 10th of
May; Will Be Much Longer
than It Was Last Year
CLUB WILL MAKE RULES
J. S. Bennett, superintendent
of the Consolidated Service
Plants, went down to Morehead
at the week-end and placed an
order for three rowboats for the
University lake. When they are
delivered a few days hence there
will be seven in the fleet. Each
boat accommodates three per
sons.
£
This is in preparation for the
fishing season which is to begin
May 10.
A boat with an outboard
motor will be kept ready for ser
vice to Tow fishing parties up the
creeks that flow into the reser
voir.
It is expected that the fees es
tablished last year will remain
in effect: 50 cents for a boat for
a half-day, and 50 cents for each
person.
"We had a short season, of
only three weeks, last year be
cause we did not want to run
the risk of depleting the supply
of fish," said Mr. Bennett yes
terday, "but enough time has
now passed for the fish with
which the lake was stocked to
grow to maturity, and so the
season will be much longer this
year.
"The people interested in fish
ing have formed a club, and thiß
club will formulate a set of regu
lations that will provide abun
dant opportunities far sport and
at the same time protect the
supply of fish. It will make out
a schedule, showing the days
when fish may be caught, and
will decide upon the size of the
catch that will be permitted to
a fisherman on any one day.”
Many thousands of young fish,
from both federal and state
hatcheries, have been put into
the lake since the stocking be
gan two years ago. There are
bass, bream, robins, crappie, and
goggle-eyes.
A stout wire screen has been
placed along the top of the dam
to prevent the fish from being
carried over.
Ham Division Irks Harland
A friend of J. P. Harland’s
met him on the street Wednes
day and said: "You look sad.
What’s the matter?" The ar
chaeologist replied: “I’ve just
been thinking about the way
Mrs. Maryon Saunders divided
out the country ham at the Pres
byterian supper last night. She
gave her husband a great big
slab, and then she gave me a
piece about the size of a silver
dollar."
Mrs. Boone Captures Man Who Stole Car
J. S. Boone, the fireman, had
a "painful choice to make at 8
o'clock oriThursday night of last
week: should he go put out the
fire in the Sparrow Dry Clean
ers’ shop or should he go after
the stranger who was getting
away with his automobile?
*He did not hesitate —he
obeyed the call of duty and went
to the fire. But, as it turned out,
his virtue didn't cost him any
thing. His wife, who had
brought in his supper and was
still nearby* was taken aboard
the car of a neighbor, Hr. Proc
tor; chased the thief out to the
iron Bridge on the old Hillsboro
road; and brought him back to
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
No matter how strong the de
termination that the noble spirit
of self-sacrifice shall prevail,
there are bound to come times
when the arrangement of things
around the home generates rifts
in the matrimonial structure.
The trellis by the porch delights
the one mate and annoys the
other. The one likes Aunt Cath
erine’s portrait over the mantel
in the living room, while the
other thinks it ought to be up
stairs in the east bedchamber.
The preference for clumps of
shrubbery is opposed by the
preference for an unbroken
sweep of lawn. And why are
you making that drain of brick
when anybody ought to see that
it would look much better if
made of stones? Everybody
knows how these rifts usually
end; one partner-for-life holds
the field in triumph while the
other strides off, muttering, to
office or shop.
But sometimes the Beast de
velops a guile that defeats his
beloved consort, as I have
learned from observing the
achievements of my neighbor,
John M. Booker.
Not long ago Mrs. Booker
went off on a week’s pleasure
trip. For several days after her
return she was dimly aware that
a certain section of the yard did
not have its familiar look. At
last she awoke to the fact that
an old tree-stump, which she
had always held in affection, had
vanished. The hole had been
filled and the space neatly cov
ered with turf—there was no
sign that a stump had ever been
there.
“That’s the way it is," Mrs.
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Miss Nina Jones Here
Native of Village Come* Bark after
A burner of Nearly Fifty Years
Miss Nina Jones, a native of
Chapel Hill, came in yesterday
from Roanoke, Va., for a visit
to her cousin, Mrs. Julia C.
Graves.
Her coming has a special in
terest for Mrs. Lucy Phillips
Russell, who is now in the vil
lage, because they were born on
the same day, a year or so be
fore the Civil War; in fact,
within the same hour. It was a
jbusy day for Dr. Johnson B.
Jones, father of one of the
babies, for he was the attending
physician for both.* He lived in
the house which a later genera
tion knew as the Dave McCauley
house, at the top of the hill on
Cameron avenue about three
hundred yards from the campus.
It was burned a few years ago,
and now the Chi Psi fraternity
house stands on the site.
Miss Nina Jones left Chapel
Hill nearly fifty years ago and
has not been here since. She
lived in Charlotte several years
berfore she went to Roanoke.
the fire house.
A young man had ridden up
to the fire house on a bicycle a
moment before the alarm came
in. He wore a cap with a stiff
brim, and at first Mr. Boone
thought he was a Western Union
messenger. He leaned the bi
cycle (which, it was learned
later, he had stolen) against the
wall of the fire house, got into
the Boone car, and was rolling
down the hill northward when
the fireman departed to answer
the alarm.
A yell from Mr. Boone ac
quainted his wife with what was
happening. It was,then that
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C* FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1936
Building and Loan Aas'n Offers New
Insurance Service; Member May Take
Policy to Cover Unpaid Installments
At their meeting last Friday
evening the directors of the Or
ange County Building and Loan
Association approved a plan,
submitted by the Security Life
and Trust Company of Winston-
Salem, whereby every stock
holder in the Association may
insure his life for the unpaid
portion of his stock.
Under this plan, if a stock
holder dies before his stock ma
tures the full amount of his hold
ing is paid immediately to his
estate.
The insurance is optional with
the stockholder—he can take it
or not, as he chooses. The pre
mium is paid in with the install
ment every month. Most of the
building and loan associations
in North Carolina, including
those in Charlotte, Winston-
Salem, Greensboro, Durham, and
Raleigh, are offering this ser
vice, and around 40,000 stock-
Drama Festival Opens
Awards in Play Contests to Be An
nounced Tomorrow Night
The thirteenth annual Festi
val of the North Carolina Dra
matic Association is now in
progress in Chapel Hill.
It began Wednesday evening
with a performance, of "Swas
tika” by the Charlotte Little
Theatre Work Shop, and it will
close tomorrow (Saturday) eve
ning with the final play-produc
tion contests of senior colleges
and the announcement of
awards.
Walter Spearman, president
of the Association, will welcome
members and guests at this
(Friday) morning’s session. An
open forum discussion will be
followed by a puppet show,
"Snow White,” and Frederick
H. Koch will speak on "The
Theatre Renascent.”
A breakfast and business ses
sion will be held at the Carolina
Inn tomorrow morning. There
will be a tea and an exhibit in
the Graham Memorial in the
afternoon.
Among the speakers invited
to participate in the discussions
are Mrs. J. M. Crawford, direc
tor of the Dumas Players of
Akron, Ohio; Samuel Selden,
technical director of the Caro
lina Haymakers; Loretto Car
roll Bailey, director of Negro
dramatic tournaments; Miss
Edith Russell, director of the
Rhododendron Festival in Ashe
ville; and W. K. Morgan, direc
tor of the Federal Theatre Proj
ect in Asheville.
MacNider on Research Council
At the meeting of the Federa
tion of Societies for Experi
mental Biology, which he attend
ed last week, Dr. William deß.
MacNider was elected to repre
sent the American Pharmaco
logical Society on the National
Research Council for a period of
three years. The Federation is
composed of the following soci
eties : American Physiological,
American Biochemical, Ameri
can Pharmacological, and Ameri
can Pathological.
Miss Lawson on the Links
Miss Estelle Lawson is play
ing in the Mid-South Women’s
Golf Championship at Southern
Pines. In Wednesday’s play,
with an 84, she tied with Mrs,
Edward Stevens of Greenwich,
Conn , for second {dace. Miss
Deborah Verry of Worcester,
Mass., was first with 81.
holders have availed themselves
of it.
No medical examination is
required for insurance of 33,000
or less.
Here is an illustration of how
the “plan works:
A stockholder is 35 years old;
he has ten shares of stock
(31,000) which has been running
one year; the maturity period is
61/2 years; his monthly install
ment payment on his stock is
310. He decides to insure the
unpaid portion, with his wife as
beneficiary. This man pays 8
cents a share a month as an in
surance premium, or 80 cents a
month on his ten shares. Thus,
instead of paying in his install
ment of 310 a month, he pays in
310.80, the extra 80 cents being
transmitted to the insurance
company.
Since the unpaid portion of his
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A Course in Watercolors
Instruction for 3 Weeks, April 27 to
Msy 16, by Stanley Woodward
A three-weeks course in wa
tercolor painting by Stanley
Woodward of Boston, from
April 27 to May 16, under the
sponsorship of the University
extension division, is announced
by Mrs. Corinne McNeir, exten
sion instructor in art. It will be
open to students and teachers
(for whom the fee is 35) and to
amateur artists (for whom the
fee is 310).
Mr. Woodward, painter, illus
trator, and etcher, was born 36
years ago in Malden, Mass." He
studied in Boston under Frank
Benson, Hale, and Blashfleld,
and at the Pennsylvania Acad
emy of Fine Arts in Philadel
phia. He has exhibited with the
Grand Central Art Galleries of
New York and with the Guild of
Boston Artists. A resident of
Boston, he spends his summers
on the New England coast. He
has been wintering at Sarasota,
Florida, where the John and
Mabel Ringling Art Museum is
situated.
Talks about Search for Coach
Robert W. Madry, director of
the University news bureau,
gave a review of developments
in the University’s search for
a new football coach, in a talk
before the Rotary Club Wednes
day evening. He said that, in
his opinion, of the three men
that had visited Chapel Hill so
far, at the request of the ath
letic council, Ernest Godfrey,
chief assistant coach at Ohio
State University, had made the
best impression. Two others
who haye come here for confer
ences are John H. Rowland of
Syracuse and Earle Martineau
of Princeton.
County Board of Elections
The state board of elections
has constituted the Orange coun
ty board of elections as follows:
O. L. Thomas of Hillsboro (Dem
ocrat), Marvin B. Utley of Chap
el Hill (Democrat) and J. L.
Brown of Hillsboro (Repub
lican).
Organ Recital Sunday Afternoon
T.—
Philip Schinhan will give the
first in the series of vesper or
gan recitals for the spring quar
ter at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon
in the Hill Music hall. The re
citals are scheduled for alter
nate Sundays until the end of
May,
An Eyesight Survey
• ' Rn
The electric and water divi
sion of the University Consoli
dated Service Plants is conduct
ing a survey for the State Com
mission for the Blind in order
to locate every onewrho has seri
ously defective sight or is blind.
The Commission’s survey cards
have been enclosed with all light
and water bills sent out April 1.
Recipients of bills should write
on the survey cards the names
and addresses of persons they
know who have seriously defec
tive sight or are blind and
should return the cards to the
U. C. S. P. office when they pay
their bills.
•a*
The Commission classifies as
“blind” any one who is unable
to read ordinary newsprint even
with the aid of glasses. Persons
with “seriously defective sight”
are those badly in need of eye
treatment or operations, or are
rapidly progressing toward
blindness. This group is impor
tant because early attention to
the eyes sometimes saves sight.
Included in the survey are
both children and adults, white
and Negro. Since the Commis
sion has services to offer all eco
nomic groups, one’s ability or
inability to provide for himself
financially should not be a con
sideration in reporting his eye
condition.
The same type of survey has
recently been conducted through
the schools of Orange County by
Superintendent Claytor*
As soon as possible, the re
turns from both surveys will be
followed up, and the informa
tion thus obtained will become
the basis for the Commission's
(Contmned on tort pa**)*
Flowers Abound
Outdoor Aesthetes Say Thin la Moat
Beautiful Week of the Year
The wistaria is blooming all
over the village, on pergolas and
arbors and porch lattices. And
it clambers up the trees.
And the dogwood. Its white
blossoms are decking yards and
streets and the campus, and the
woods roundabout. You see
them wherever you go, in the
most reckless profusion.
Then there are the white
lilacs, nowhere more beautiful
than by the Old West building
and the Methodist church. And
spiraea, and the Judas trees, and
God-knows-how-many millions
of irises.
White flowering shrubs (which
are nameless as far as this
chronicler is concerned) impart
a rare charm to the court in
front of the law building.
In short, the village is a para
dise of flowers.
Bambi, the Staabs* Pet, Has Teeth Taken Out
Bambi, a three-year-old Chi
huahua, is the pride and delight
of the Herman Staabs.
In the last snow of the winter
he slipped and broke out an
upper front tooth. A little while
later the two adjoining teeth be
came loose. Bambi wa* dis
tressed—and when Bambi is dis
tressed so is Mrs. Staab. What
to do about it was a puzzle. She
decided the two loose teeth had
better come out; so she got some
pliers and sought to pull them.
But Bambi revolted. It is no
easy matter to pull a dog’s tooth,
even a tiny Chihuahua’s, when
you are not trained to the job.
Last Saturday Mrs. Staab en
tered the office of Dr. R. R.
Clark with Bambi in wr arms.
Dr. Clark greeted her with his
usual cordiality and said*
lI.M a Year la Aim*. tea Cap j
R. F. Stainback
Is Running for
The Legislature
Announcing Candk , Cites
His Experience in » _ «-
inf and Engineering ,
IN FACULTY SINCE 1928
Raymond F. Stainback, mem
ber of the University faculty in
the school of engineering, has
announced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination as rep
resentative of Orange county in
the legislature. .
“If elected, of course I shall
resign from the faculty," said
Mr. Stainback yesterday, “sim e
I should not be allowed to hold
two state jobs con^arrently.”
He was born and raised on a
farm, studied agriculture in
high school, and with the help
of a younger brother continued
to operate a farm while prac
ticing his profession of teach
ing.
"My candidacy,” he says, “is
based entirely on my belief that
my knowledge es farming and
engineering wifi be valuable in
the consideration of many mat
ters that must be acted upon by
the next legislature. I invite the
voters of Orange to study my
capabilities, along with those of
the other candidates, and then
to give me support if they be
lieve I am fitted by training and
association to represent them.
"I am in constant touch with,
and understand very well, the
problems confronting both ten
ant and land-owning farmer*.
My training as an engiijajr gnd
my work in the and
manufacturing industnMortoire
becoming a teacher of electrical
engineering have given me an
informed interest in industrial
workers and working condi
tions, as well as in rural electri
fication and other matters re
quiring legislative attention at
this time.”
Mr. Stainback was born 35
years ago in Vance county near
the Franklin county line. He
attended the Red Oak farm life
high school, was graduated
from the University in 1926,
and entered the University fac
ulty in 1928.
A New Apartment House, Maybe
It is reported that Mrs. Roland
P. McClamroch is going to put
up an apartment house on Frank
lin street across from the Gra
ham Memorial on the lot next
to the Presbyterian church.
When Mrs. McCl&mroch was
asked about it yesterday she
said she was not prepared to say
anything about the project.
“What can I do for you, Mrs.
Staab f ’ “Nothing W me—l am
very well," she answered, “but
my dog needs your help."
Mrs. Staab mounted into the
chair and held Bambi firmly be
tween her knees. The young
woman attendant stood by,
amazed by a new experience.
Bambi’s squirming# were spir
ited, but they could not thwart
the dentist. He bent forward,
executed an expert jerk, and
straightened up with a tooth in
the forceps., Bambi whimpered
in protest; but hia mistress was
firm with him, and in a minute
the other loose tooth was out.
Released, Bambi expressed
his opinion of dentists and all
their works by dashing to the
door and demanding* in a loud
voice that he be put on his way
'home.