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VoL IS, No. SO Town Rejoices At Passing of Odious Weather Mercury at 68 as These Lines Are Written; People Hoping There’U Be a Mild Spell DREARY COLD SPELL ENDS It looks as if the spell of odious weather that cast a blight on Chapel Hill during the first half of December is at an end. At least, it looks that way as these lines are written in the 'early afternoon of Thursday. The sun shines brightly; and the mercury in the thermometer on the west porch stands at 68 and seems to be still on the climb. - « The village is accustomed to having a good deal of cold and sleet and snow in January and February, but it feels aggrieved at a long succession of chill and dreary days before Christmas, Old inhabitants are saying that they never knew before such an unbroken stretch of cold weather in Chapel Hill in December. The records of the United States Weather Bureau station here show that on 10 of the first 15 days in the month the tem perature went below the freez ing point, and only on 5 days did it get as high as 50. And this is not afi of the melancholy tale; through almost all this half month the sun was hidden be hind dull gray clouds. Rains fell intermittently, and sometimes they turned to sleet; and even when the temperature was not freezing there was a raw and hateful chill in the air. What the weather win be like by the time this paper comes out, God knows. But it seems that by the law of compensa tion, if there is such a thing, Chapel Hill oftght to have sun shine and warmth for a while now. Speakers Coming Notables Have Accepted Invitation* from Carolina Political Union Here is a tentative schedule Os the Carolina Political Union for the winter quarter. Jan. 12: Norman Th<Jmhs, chief of the Socialist party. Jan. 24: William Hard, radio commentator and journalist, as sistant to the chairman of the Republican party. Jan. 31 i Tom M. Girdler, chairman of the board of direc tors of the Republic Steel Cor poration. v Feb. 8: Alexander A. Troyan ovsky, Soviet ambassador to the United States. Feb. 11: Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Federal Com munications Commission. Feb. 10: Hans Dieeknoff, Ger man ambassador to the United States. March 8: Earl Browder, chief of the Communist party. Alex Heard, president of the Union, says ail of these men have agreed to apeak here on the dates listed above but that cir cumstances may cause some changes in the dates. Christmas Party for Children 4+ The Rotary Club will give its annual Christmas party for the underprivileged children of Chapel Hill and Carr boro next Wednesday evening at the Caro lina Inn. Gifts will be distribut ed among the children. The Schools to Cloee Tuesday Hie Chapel Hifl schools will close at 12:50 P, M. next Tues day and wiH reopen Monday, January 8. *H 7 J The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff When Rev. A. S. Lawrence, coining out of his illness, was well enough to take medical in struction and advice, he was told to go light pa smoking. Having known him a long time as a de votee of the pipe, I have a no tion that this was a more cruel edict than if he had been com manded to give up bread and meat. Convalescence soon reach ed the stage where he yearned for his pipe. The doctor said he might smoke a little, but he de cided it would be easier to cut out smoking altogether than to have just a few % puffs now and then. As he gained and gained in strength, the smoking privi lege was extended by the doctor until six pipefuls a day were al lowed. Still Mr. Lawrence re mained a total abstainer. But now he has yielded slightly. When I met him the other day he told me he was smoking one pipeful after the evening meal. “Are you going to stick to that?" I asked him, and he replied: “Well, maybe; but I’d better not make any rash promises.” * * • The foreign cane 'that Dy. MacNider sought to obtain for himself, by saying to Rev. Char (Continued, on loot page) Kiwanis Committees Twelve Appointed by George Helien. President-Elect of Club The Kiwanis Club committees for 1838 were appointed by George Helien, president-elect, after a meeting of the new board of directors last week. It is announced by J. Maryon Saunders, president, that these ccanmiit«fii together with the new directors will assume their duties upon the installation of the officers-elect January 4. Besides George Helien the new officers are P. A. Reavis, vice president, and J. Temple Gobbel, secretary-treasurer. New direc tors will be Roy Armstrong, A. H. Poe, A. R. Hollett, and Rob ert Crew. The 1938 committees are as follows: Club meetings, attendance, and reception: W. M. Pugh, T. A. Rosemond, and Ben R. Strowd. Interclub relations: Dr. W. P. Richardson, W. M. Pugh, Pete Ivey, and Harvey Bennett. Kiwanis education: Allison W. Honeycutt, W. O. Sparrow, and Obie Davis. Program: Roy Armstrong, G. Maurice Hill, A. R. Hollett, Dr. W. G. Morgan, and R. L. Fowler. Music: Pete Ivey and R. M. Grumman. Public affairs: E. J. Wood house, Albert Tufts, and Her bert Pendergraft. Publicity: J. M. Saunders and Frank Graham. Underprivileged child and charity: Dr, J. P. Jones and Dr. W. G. Morgan. Agriculture and 4-H Club: J. C. Lane, Eugene Andrews, and Robert Crew. y Boy Scouta: Eugene Strowd, A H. Poe, and Albert Tuft*. Support of churches and pub lic schools: W. 0. Sparrow and E. J. Woodhouae. Finance: W. E, Thompson and A H. Shepard. Saturday Service at P. O. The post office will operate tomorrow (Saturday) on the re gular weekday schedule; there will be two deliveries of mail, and the windows will be open till 6 P. M. Christmas Day there will be no service except on, special delivery letters: no deli veries, no window' service, and | no mall put in lock boxes. CHAPEL HILL, N. O, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1937 Carter Finds Building Construction Reached $1,072,000 Here This Year As he has done for 14 years, H. D. Carter has again complied with the editor’s request for a review of building operations in Chapel Hill. Here Chapel Hill means not only the area within the corporate limits but also the adjoining residential dis tricts such as Westwood, Forest Hills, Dogwood Drive, Davie Woods, Tenney Circle, Laurel Hill, and Button’s. In volume of construction 1937 is thought to be the great est year in the history of the village. Mr. Carter’s figures for the last nine years are: 1929 : 0 750,000 1930 484,0<!K) 1931 297,000 1932 ... 205,000 1933 104,000 1934 50,000 1935 264,500 Group of Serious Thinkers from Chanel Hill Have Thrilling: Adventure with Skidding: Cars Five Chapel Hillians who go to work in Raleigh every mom h.g—Dillard Gardner, Harry McMullan, Buck Grice, Henry Brandis and C. E. Mclntosh— were coming back Monday night, and on this trip Mrs. Brandis was with them. Mr. Gardner was driving. This was the nifcht of the big sleet, when automo biles went through weird move ments on roads all over the state. The men, all of whom arg If the dass given to Lsiwe Thoughts, were discussing tie gold standard or some othfr weighty subject when they i ped the hill just this side of the railroad crossing at Lowe’s Grove. So far they had encoun tered no ice, but now they saw that about two hundred yards ahead a car had gone down the bank into the swamp. The next instant the car just ahead of them cut a double S, turned its lights back toward Raleigh, and stood on its head in a ditch. While the screaming from the nine passengers in this car was splitting the night air, their own car turned tail and started back toward Raleigh also. Fortunately it came to a pause in a shallow side ditch without doing any harm. Two of our fellow-townsmen, Messrs. Mclntosh and Grice, i The Community Tree Celebration Next Thu.nday Evening in Front of Methodist Church The Community Christmas Tree celebration will take place next Thursday afternoon, De cember 28. The tree, illuminated with electric bulbs of many colors, will stand before the Methodist church. v The children who are to march in the procession along the street will assemble at 6 o'clock at the Graham Memor ial As they march westward to the church, carrying tapers, they will sing carols. , Sants Claus will preside on the church lawn and will accept the gifts brought by the children to be distributed among families in need by the King's Daughters. The children are asked to bring non-perishable food, preferably canned goods. There will be community sing ing around the tree. P. S. to Review of Building H. D. Carter adds this post script to his review of building construction in Chape! Hill: the Spruills have a 2-family dog make • 1 1936 443,000 I 1937 .... 1,072,000 “Sixty-one per cent of the ' value of new construction in the village,” is accounted for by the | erection of the new gymnasium, * 8650,000, included in this year’s list since it is so nearly fin ished,” says Mr. Carter. “The new dormitory for women is second with a value of 8109,000, or rather more than 10 per cent Next in order is the north half ’ of the new post office, about J 870,000. The gay but not gaudy shelter's for Strowd’s used car garden are about the only nota ble additions to the business dis trict” r. Here are the dwellings listed by Mr. Carter: J. C. Lyons, Gimghoul road. H. D. Strowd, Ransom street. J (Continued on loot page) rushed to the aid of the newly wrecked car, Henry Brandis went back to flag on-coming cars, Dillard Gardner sought to get his car out of the ditch, and Harry McMullan lifted up his voice in prayer. Mrs. Brandis found shelter in a nearby house while the work of rescue went forward. In a short time the nine people, including a grand father and grandmother and a wee baby, had been cared for. No one hp.d been seriously hurt. Just at this moment two cars sped over the hill, refusing to pause at Brandis’s command, i They swooped by and imme diately went into gyrations of a horrible character. One, in which were a man and wife from High Point, managed to stop without turning over, while Hhe other, said to belong to a Chapel Hill resident, turned over once or twice, cut a somersault, and fi nally landed in the swamp in an upright position. No one was hurt in either of these last two wrecks, though how anybody could come out whole is mir aculous. The Group of Serious Think ers from Chapel Hill crept into town two. hours late, very slow ly and cautiously, every one of them resolved to think more carefully on his sins and to drive accordingly henceforth. The Garners Are Cold Michigan Given ’Em New Experience; There Have Been 6 Hnowa Already “Your mention of the weather, and the recent snow flurry,” L. L. Garner writes to the editor from Ann Arbor, Michigan, “moves me to say that we are now ’enjoying* our sixth snow of the season. They have been light until now, to be sure, but they count as snows. The pre sent one will probably be with us. for quite a while, for winter has reached the stage where the temperature seldom rises above freezing. Such continuous cold weather la a new experience for us, for we have spent all our lives in the delightful climate you say Dr. Man gum told of when he persuaded Dr. Rosenau to come to Chape! Hill.** The Orange County Women's Market at Carrboro will be open on Thursday of next week in stead of on Saturday. ,—- Mr. Mclntosh 111 A. C. Mclntosh has been iU in Watts hospital about a week. Christmas Eve Mias Isabel Winalette called me *on the telephone and said: “Some of us are arguing about what Christmas Eve means. Does it mean the whole day be fore Christmas, or just the even ing before? 5 * My notion was that the term could properly be used to mean the whole day before, but I told her," when I went home for din ner I would consult the diction aries to make sure. And so I did. For the word Eve the Century dictionary gives the definition: ‘The night or evening (often, and specifically in the Roman Catholic church, Jhe day* and night) before certain holy days.” There is a citation from Bishop Duppa’s book of church rules: “Let the immediate preceding day be kept as the eve to this great feast.” And this- citation from Notes and Queries: “I member one Christmas Eve in the afternoon passing one of those places and seeing the por ter put up the shutters.” The Standard dictionary’s de finition is: “The evening, and sometimes the day, before a church festival or saint’s day; as, Christmas Eve.” Pete Ivey Inspects He’d Rather See Unions than Hear Delegates Talk about ’Em Pete Ivey, director of the Graham Memorial returned recently from a visit to the campuses of several Northern universities. Last year Mr. Ivey was sent to Texas by the Graham Memo rial’s board of trustees to attend the national convention of the direetora of student unions. He returned with the report that he had had a long, tiresome trip and that he didn’t believe the good he got out of the convention was worth the time and money exjjended. Several weeks ago the Memo rial trustees met and asked Mr. Ivey if he would like to attend this year’s convention, to be held in the Middle West. Mr. Ivey replied that he felt he could learn more about student unions and their management by visiting some of the unions themselves than by attending the convention. The trustees considered his suggestion and found it good. Mr. Ivey’s recent tour included visits to the student unions on the campuses of a number of universities in New York and New England. He was gone 8 days. Stores Open till 9 P. M. The stores in Chapel Hill will stay open till 9 P. M. from now until Christmas. GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS AT II A YEAR Christmas Gift Subscrip tions to the Weekly, for persons not already on the list, are offered at 81 for the year. The |1 offer does not apply to renewals. Christ mas Gift Subscriptions taken out in a previous year will be renewed at the regular price, 81.50. A Christmas card, with the name of the giver, will be sent to every recipient of a Gift Subscription. If you do not know whether a person is now On the subscription list you can find out by mail or by telephoning 9271, 81-50 a Year in Advance. Sc a Copy Cooking Classes Being Organized At High School Electric Rente and Fritfdmir. Lent hr Coneoßdated; Chairs Are a Gift from University GIRLS* 4-H CLUBS ACTIVE The loan of an electric range and a frigjdaire from the Con solidated Service plants has enabled the Chapel Hill high school to make a start on the organization of cooking classes. (It’s a loan now, but who knows that J. S. Bennett won’t give way to emotional fervor and make it a gift?). The school hopes to'come into possession of some kitchen uten sils and crockery soon; and, if it does, it will begin to prepare meals for the 50-odd children who cannot go home to eat at the midday recess. The school board and the su perintendent, A. W. Honeycutt, have been looking forward to adding courses in home econom ics to tKe regular curriculum. There was no money for this branch of education in the pres ent year’s budget, but provision for it is expected to be made next year. “We have three rooms for economics, not now in use,” said Mr. Honeycutt yesterday. “It is in the largest of these that we have installed the range and the frigidaire, generously Jent to us‘ by the Consolidated. The Uni versity has given us some tables formerly in Swain hall, and we are going to get other needed equipment. “We <k. ’not have any regular cooking classes yet—thus far the project is tentative and in formal. The quarters and equip ment are being used by the girls’ 4-H clubs. We are laying the foundation for the home eco nomics program which we hope to launch next fall.” Mr. Honeycutt said that the school authorities had not yet had definite word from Raleigh about the W.P.A.’s action on the recent application for a grant for the improvement of the school grounds. Car Skids, Scott Hurt t ' ———— Driver Is Tossed about Violently aa Hla Automobile Goes Wild W. deR. Scott, vice president and general manager of the Ser vice Insurance and Realty Com pany, better known to his ac quaintances as Bill Scott, had a collar bone broken and was severely cut and bruised in a car-skidding accident at about 6 o’clock Tuesday evening. He will be in Watts hospital several days longer. Mr. Scott was driving from Chapel Hill to Durham. He had paseed the Crotts house, about 4V4 miles from here, and had set hie automobile going at a good dip along the straightway leading to the midway bridge. Thus far the road surface had given him no trouble, but the temperature was dropping ra pidly as the rain fell. He reach ed a sheet of ice on the pave ment. The car went wild. It turned about, it slued this way and that, it leapt a ditch, It did a half somersault, hesitated, and then completed the somersault to get bade on its wheels. AS the while Mr. Scott was being tossed about violently. The cuts and bruises were ex tremely painful, but wham the examination waa finished at the hospital he was pleased to find that he was hot seriously Rslf Ijured,..
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