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VoL IS, No. SO. A. W. Honeycutt Elected School Superintendent Was in Hendersonville 13, in Lexington 5, Years; Chief of State Text-Book Commission A WAKE FOREST GRADUATE Allison W. Honeycutt has been elected superintendent of schools in Chapel Hill to succeed J. Minor Gwynn. From 1932 un til he resigned last week to come here, he was superintendent in Lexington, and for 13 years be fore that he held the same post in Hendersonville. A native of Yancey county, he was 55 years old this month. Despite gray hair, he looks younger. v H<s was graduated from Wake forest in 1902. He has done graduate work in the University here, in the Univer sity of Chicago, and in Columbia University. He was an instruc tor in the first term of the Sum mer School here this year. Since 1933 Mr. Honeycutt has been chairman of the State High School Text-Book Committee, and among his advfkers have been members of the Chapel Hill high school faculty. Thus he comes here already well ac quainted with some of the men who are to be his associates. His wife is to join him here next week, and they will take the apartment to be left by Dr. and Mrs. G. L. Donnelly, in the former Hendon house at the cor ner of Franklin and Boundary streets. They have two sons. One, a Duke graduate, is junior editor of the Associated Press in Raleigh; the other, a graduate of the engineering school here, is with the general Electric Com pany in Pittsfield, Mass. Dr. Spurgeon’s Pin Made of Gold with Which He Crowned Friend'* Teeth Many Year* Aro When 1 met Dr. Spurgeon on the street in Hillsboro the other day, I admired the stick-pin in his tie. It was a piece of plain beaten gold, gracefully shaped and of modest size. He told me that .it was made from the crowns that he had put on two teeth of his friend Thomas H. Webb about fifty years ago and that his friend had now sent it to him as a gift. In the accompanying letter Mr. Webb, a native of Hillsboro, now a cotton manufacturer in Concord, wrote: "Forty-five or fifty years ago you treated and crowned two teeth for me, and so far as I know they have never given me any trouble, t have had a severe attack of inflamatory rheuma tism. This younger generation of doctors and dentists condemn ed, about four of my teeth. They may be right, so I have allowed them to take out my faithful old friends. I asked my dentist . to give me the gold from the crowns and have had a stick-pin made from it. Thought you might like to have a souvenir from an old and appreciative friend, and I hope that you will be able to wear it for at least forty-five or fifty years and give an occasional thought to our very pleasant past associations." Crowds Watch Steam Shovel Crowds Os people stand around all day long and watch dirt and stones being put in trucks and hauled away from the site of the new poet office. Like the flames of a fire on an open hearth, the flight of a gull, or the breaking of aurf on rocks, the steam shovel at work is a sight of which spectators never * seem to tire. h ; % The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIB GRAVES * EIKot Knoll in Woods Opposite High School Chosen as Site for Medical Building If the United States Govern ment fulfills the hopes of the University and chips in, through the P. W. A., $163,000 to sup plement the $200,000 voted by the legislature, the new medical building will go up on the knoll near the junction of the Pitta boro and Raleigh roads. This knoll is across from the high school —not directly across, but a little to the north—and be tween the school and the Kenan stadium. It is now concealed from view by thick woods. The site was selected by the faculty committee on buildings and grounds after a study of all suggested sites, and the selec tion has been approved by a special committee of the board of trustees. If Government aid is not ob Bob Perkins, Young: and Slender and Modish, Well Kissed by Opera Star and Her Entourage When Elda Vettori, Metropoli-I tan Opera soprano, had finished her concert in the Hill Music hall Tuesday evening, she had a date with Bob Perkins, young, slen der, and modish newspaper man who works for R. W. Madry in the University News Bureau. They strolled down to the Caro lina Coffee shop for a schooner or so of beer, and with them went Mrs. Spencer, the accom panist, and her husband; Miss Loftin, the singer’s manager; and an 18-year-old girl who studies voice and travels with the Vettori entourage. An hour later the party went to the Carolina Inn where the five visitors were staying. As Bob I»e<M4liom farewell and was about to turn away, he said in that engaging way of his: “You know, I’ve never been kissed by a Metropolitan Opera soprano.” “Oh, you dear boy!” Vettori exclaimed, and, rushing to Bob with open arms, she clasped him to her breast and kissed him long and passionately, to the fas cinated horror of the night clerk Davises on Nantucket They Har* Their Own Company of Aetora with Them Thia Summer Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis have gone to bjjantucket, Mass., where Mr. Davis will direct a series of plays for the Island Theatre during August. The Davises were with the same group last year as technical di rectors ; they will take their own company of actors this year. The company, to be known as the Summer Repertory Company of the Carolina Playmakers, will present several of the Carolina Folk-Plays, a modern comedy, and Lulu Vollmer’s “Sun-Up.” Most of the members of the group were prominent as Play maker actors during their stu dent days at Carolina, with one addition from the Players of Duke University. Marion Tatum of Raleigh will be the leading lady opposite Joseph Mackie of the Duke Players; Mr. and Mrs. Davis will play character roles; Mary Haynsworth of Green ville, S. C., and James Decker of Frederick, Maryland, will play the juvenile roles; Richard Wal ler, of Lexington, JL C-, and Sanford Reece of Lenoir, N. C„ will play character parts, and Sue Woodal, of Roanoke Rapids will play comedy parts. Miss Tatum, Mrs. Woodal, and Mr. Decker were seen recently in the summer performance of “Per sonal Appearance" at Memorial CHAPEL HILL, N. G. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1937. tained, the money voted by the legislature will probably be used to extend and improve the pre sent medical building. What is sought from the Gov ernment is a grant of 45 per cent of the total estimated cost, ac cording to the established 46-65 per cent basis of division for P. W. A. projects. It is understood that the medi cal building here is on the ap proved list at P. W. A. head quarters in Washington. The question is: will there be money available for this particular pro ject? Besides the $200,000 for a new medical building (or an ad dition to the present one), the last legislature appropriated $26,000 for an annex to the In firmary. mmmmmrnmmm % (who said afterward that it re minded him of a moving picture fadeout kiss). No sooner had Bob been re leased than the young girl of the party seized him and eclipsed the soprano’s performance. When he was free once more the accompanist said: “Well, I can’t be left out of this,” and took her turn at the now tiring young man. Next in line was Miss Loftin, and, as soon as she had finished kissing Bob, Vettori started the performance all over again, and again she was followed by the other three women. When Bob reached the end of the line this time he had had enough. Weak and wilted, he cannily guide& them to the elevator, with ges tures of farewell to indicate that the evening was over. Liquor Car, Pursued by Durham Policemen, Roars through Campus at 80 Miles an Hour As Officer John Blake sat on a bench near Old West about 9:15 last Friday night he heard a car coming from the direction of the Carolina Inn at terrific speed. He hurried toward the street to wave it down, but be fore he had taken seven steps the car had roared past at what seemed to Mr. Blake about a hundred miles an hour. Right behind it another car flashed by at equal speed, and in it Mr. Blake glimpsed two policemen. As the cars neared east cam pus gate at the southeast corner of the Arboretum Mr. Blake heard the screeching of brakes and the scraping *of tires, and the next instant he could hear the two machines roaring up the hill past the Forest Theatre. The fugutive, a Durham boot legger, evidently wasn’t ac quainted with the roads about Chapel Hill, for when he reach ed the Raleigh highway he sped straight across it toward the Country Club and took the tor turous road around the golf course, on past the Rosenau home, still furiously pursued, and down into the woods where C. B. Robsori’s new house is go ing up. Here is'a tight little circle, a perfect cul de sac for a speeder. Trying to swing the circle, he wrecked his carload of liquor against a tree, leaped out, and ran away through the woods. He has not yet been caught. The pursuing Durham police men raid later that the bootleg ger had led them from Durham to Chapel Hill at an average speed of more than 80 miles an hour and that the tiro machines were making 80 when they went past Mr. Blake in the center of Chapel Hill Chaff The R. J. Mebanes’ grand daughter has been here with them this summer. For hours every week I sit at my study window, where I can hear any fairly loud sound that comes from the Mebane estate, and I am able to report that the baby causes me very little trouble. When she does cry I do not blame her, for I think I know the reason: her grandfather has come home from his travels and frightened her by appearing be fore her in that suit with the large checks. When he makes a change, or keeps out of sight, she quits crying. ***** A despatch from Glasgow points the way to improving the acoustics of Memorial hail. “Rows of jam jars on the walls of All Saints Episcopal Church, Inverary, have made the ser mons audible.- The jars ended the church’s acoustic troubles, which long had made the preach er’s address almost impossible to hear. “The Duke of Argyll, a wor shiper at Inverary, remembered that an old Roman architect had ended similar troubles by plac ing the hollow horns of animals around the walls of a building. So he rounded up scores of jam jars, and placed them in rows around the church. The confus ing echoes have disappeared.” Here is an excellent use for empty fruit jars, of which there are untold thousands in North Carolina. Not only citizens of Chapel Hill, bqt University alumni all over the state, would be glad to contribute. Maryon Saunders might well broadcast Mn appeal in his Alumni Review, like this: “We know, Mr. Alum nus, that you would like to help (Continued on last page) the campus, after having darted and twisted about through the streets of the village. It is considered almost a mir acle that'the machines made such a tour at such speed with out having run down a pedes trian or caused a wreck, espec ially within the campus where students, some in cars and some afoot, were driving along or crossing the street on their way to the dance which had just be gun in the gymnasium. Some people here think the driver of the police car should be arrested for forcing the race at such a pace through the vil lage and the campus. Harlow’s Last Play Movie Drama In Which She Appear* with Gable to Be Been Here Jean Harlow, who died recent ly, will be seen at the Carolina theatre Monday and Tuesday in her last moving picture, “Sara toga." Clark Gable is the leading male actor, and others in the cast are Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, and Una Merkel. Sunday's offering is ‘Top per," with Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, and Billie Burke. Other plays next week: Wednesday, “Dreaming Lips," with Elizabeth Bergner; Thurs day, Joan Blondell in “ThaJCing and the Chorus Girl Priday, "The Devil Is Driving,' 1 with Richard Dlx and Joan Perry; Saturday, “Gtina of Pecos,” with Dick Foran and Anne Nagel. A Gift to a Friend The Chapel Hill Weekly for lone year, 91M. Streets to Be Hard-Surfaced; Contractor Hopes to Complete Work by Oct. 1; Cost, $9,348 Louise and Betty Win First Prize of 15 With bangs, smiles, and red ribboned pigtails, two little Chapel Hill girls, Louise Jones and Betty Vashaw, performed a faultless tap dance at the ama teur show in the Graham Mem orial Wednesday evening to win the hearts and applause of the audience as well as the first prize of $5. Edward Toon got both the gong and the second prize of $3. He did a bovine ballet. Miss Lily Yount sat on a bench and won third prize with her imitation of a Negro girl trying to induce her beau to pop the question. The high spot of the evening was the performance of two guest artists, ineligible for the prizes, Gordon Anderson, bari tone, and his accompanist, Miss Mary Frances Odum. Mr. An derson’s two numbers drew tre mendous ovations. Miss Odum, former champion pianist among North Carolina high school girls, played excellently. Book Truck in County Circulating Library on Tour, from which Anybody May Borrow The State Library Commission has lent a book truck to the Orange County Library Associa tion, of which James W. Che shire is president, for the month of August, and it will begin making its rounds Monday with visits to Cedar Grove and Cheeks townships. "-aamwi— It will be in this end of the county Wednesday. This truck is a circulating library with a stock, at present, of 500 books. Whoever wants to may borrow a book, until the stock runs out. Miss Lucy McDade, super visor of W. P. A. library work in the county, has arranged stops at service, stations, churches, and other places contiguous to the country people. Each side of the exterior truck is like a bookcase, with books lined up on shelves be hind glass doors. The Crape Myrtle It Blooim for • Long Time; Spread* Cloud* of Glory through Village The crape myrtle, last to bloom of all our trees,'spreads about the village its rosy clouds of glory. Its blossoms * retain their freshness five or six weeks,* which is even' longer than the flowering period of the earlier blooming magnolia and mimosa. The huge waxen petals;of the magnolia turn brown at the edges before the myrtle has well started, and before it has reach ed its peak the mimosas have lost their feathery mauve globes, and the trumpet vines have dropped their trumpets to the ground. But out in the woods there is a wild and wayward little tree that blossoms much later than the myrtle. In fact, It waits un til the myrtle and itself and other deciduous trees have shed their leaves. This Is the witch hazel. It’s not plentiful around here, and if you happen to run across It in the woods next No vember'you may be startled by the s’ght of Its pale, ghostly petals among the bare brunches. —J. J. Mrs. Hugh Greenwood has bought a plot opposite the John Couch house in the Country Club neighborhood and wifi build there. t ~- ■ SIAO a Year in Advance. lea Copy Mixture of Tar and Stone WIB Be Laid on Thoroughfares in All Sections of the Town TO COVER 30,000 YARDS Most of the remaining dirt streets in Chapel Hill are to be hard-surfaced within the next two months. They are to be of the same tar-and-crushed-stone type as Rosemary lane, Pittaboro street, Boundary street, and the other thoroughfares that wore surfaced three years ago. The contract for about 30,000 square yards of surfacing has been let to J. M. Gregory and Company of Raleigh for $9,348. They expect to begin the work this next Monday, August 2, and, if the weather is normal, to’ finish it by October 1. Here are the streets that are to be surfaced: Church street, from Rosemary lane to the northern town limits. This is the street that runs through the Negro section. Val ley gutters of concrete, about 300 lineal feet in all, will bo built along the steeply sloping stretches, to take care of the drainage. West Rosemary lane, from Church street to the western town limits at the edge of Carr boro. There will be 700 or more feet of valley gutters here. Pritchard avenue, West North street, Carr street, arid Short street. These are all in the north central part of town, near fir© headquarters. In the eastern part of town: Eaat Rosemar# knefnom Boun dary street to GleAtyraie street; Glenburnie street yrom East Rosemary lane to NWII street* Hillsboro street, one blocSfnorth (Continued on last page) ■W— '*■ — 1 Golfer Now a Graduate Hamilton Moke* an A in Summer, and Also Capture* a lob Horace Hamilton played a lot of golf, and fine golf, in the spring, making 18 holes time and again in around 70; and one time, at Hope Valley, in 66. Na turally, a young man so impor tantly engaged couldn’t permit his attention to be deflected by poring over thick dull books about economics and listening to the droning of professors. Oscar Hamilton, the father, put on a sad look and professed to be much disturbed at not hav ing the family represented in the diploma-snatching parade past Governor Hoey in the Ke nan stadium. But smiles would break through. There are neigh bors who suspect that the grief of paterfamilias, an ardent sports fan, was more than as suaged by the brilliant record on the links. » It was a matter of only one course. Horace buckled down to work under Mr. von Beekerath in the Summer School, made an A, and became a graduate ot the University. The people over at Duke were laying for him even while he was stUl among his school books. They offered him a job in the managerial branch of the Duke hospital, and he went to work this week. A Tragedy in Durham E. M. Preston, superintendent of the Christian Printing Com pany, injured his 2-year-old daughter fatally when he back ed his automobile out of his gar age yesterday morning. Hr. Preston comm to Chapel Hill frequently and has many friends hare. - .
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