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Voi. 16, No. 12 P.O.Here Leads In Saving Bond Sales per Capita That Is, in the First Class Post Office Category; One Year’s Intake $52,106 EUBANKS CITES EXPANSION A bulletin from Washington reveals that the Chapel Hill post office sold more United States saving bonds in proportion to population in the year ended August 31, 1937, than any other first class post office in North Carolina. Total sales here for that pe riod amounted to $52,106, which was a per capita sale of $19.30. The per capita sale for the entire state was $1.62. In discussing the expansion of the Chapel Hill post office busi ness in recent years, Postmaster R. A. Eubanks said yesterday that the total receipts from the sale of postage stamps, box rent, second class mail, and minor sources had increased almost 55 per cent during the last five years. Here are the figures: 1933: $40,237. 1934: $43,484. 1935: $50,598. 1936: $56,946. 1937: $62,346. "These figures,” Mr. Eubanks said, “show how badly we needed a new building. What other business in Chapel Hill has in creased its receipts 55 per cent in the last five years without any addition to its plant?” In the per capita sale of the saving bonds Raleigh was sec ond to Chapel Hill, and the next ten towns were Fayetteville, Wilson, Charlotte, Henderson ville, Greensboro, Goldsboro, Henderson, Gastonia, Asheville, and Kinston. Pinehurst, with a per capita sale of $23.30, was the highest among the second class post offices. Sunbury was high est among third class offices and Letitia among the fourth clasß. Total cash purchases of the bonds in North Carolina during the year amounted to $5,123,637. The Charlotte post office led with a sale of $508,062. Garden Club Meeting Edmister Will Be Chief Speaker at Gathering Monday Afternoon A meeting of the Garden Club will be held at 3:30 Monday af ternoon in the Sunday school room of the Presbyterian church. “It's very important,” says a club bulletin, “and all members are urged to come.” There will be announcements about the State Fortnight Garden Tour and discussion of plans for a flower show. F. H. Edmister will talk on ‘The Rare Vegetable and Fruit Garden.” He will discuss the de sign and planting and care of the table garden and the con struction'of the orchard; and he will give a list of suitable vege tables and trees. Members are requested to bring with them extra plants, seeds, and cuttings and an ex change will be conducted at the end of the meeting. In addition, bring arrangements of spring flowers for display. To Stag Sunday Afternoon Countess Margaret Seherr- Thosa of Vienna, a mezzo soprano, will give a song recital at 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Graham Memorial. On her Pforram afe songs ter Handel, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Si belius, and Faure. Mrs. Benja min SwaHh will be the accom panist, Th© Countess Is visiting Mrs. Athol Bsn^m. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIB GRAVES Editor New Gymnasium Open to Visitors This Afternoon <« ■y _ aa.J gggg j BHL Gswiw ~ 'ifSwT^’ 7 ' - MBBhBW SDK jjpfo' ‘ VL-t, The upper picture here shows the University’s new Gymnasium as seen from the northeast. To your left, sketching out behind the “head house” which fronts on the highway,, is the big main room, large enough for basket ball and other games to be seen by 6,000 people seated on tem porary stands. The lower picture shows the annex that encloses the largest indoor'swimming pool south of Washington. With a length of 165 feet and a width of 65 feet, and eight racing lanes, the pool meets the Olympic standards. In the last few days the Gym has undergone a thorough scrub bing and polishing, and the peo ple who go through it this af ternoon will see it all spick-and span. Year’s Bth Exhibit Portraits, Wstereolors, Costumes to Be Shown in Person HaU Gallery The Person Hall Art Gallery will present day after tomorrow (Sunday) its eighth exhibit of the year: paintings by Mr. and Mrs. August Cook of Spartan burg, S. C., and theatrical cos tume designs by William Henry Mathews of New York. A gal lery lecture on these exhibits will be given at 4 o’clock Sunday by Russell T. Smith, head of the University art department. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have long been in the faculty of Converse College. Both studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Artrf, and both won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship from that school. Mr. Cook’s work consists of portraits and landscapes. Among the portraits is one of his mother. There are also two self portraits, one done in 1926 and the second in 1931. Here may be seen the gradual change in his style through the years. The soft charm of the earlier work gives way to the stronger draw ing and color of the later. Three pencil sketches that Mr. Cook did here last summer are in the exhibit: “Old South,” “Old West,” and “Playmakers' Theatre.” And there are four watereolors of the upper New York state countryside. Mrs. Inna Howard Cook is represented by her portrait, “Helen and Her Babies,” por traits of her two children, and watereolors of European and up per New York scenes. Mr. Mathews' theatrical cos- ii id inational costumes such as Spanish, Mex ican, and Oriental; period cos tumes, including the “bustle” period and the Mid-Victorian; and costumes of pure fantasy* CHAPEL HILL, N. G* FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938 Day before yesterday a'group of eagle-eyed and serious-looking men gave the building a final in spection to determine whether or not it was fit to be “turned over” by the contractor to the Univer sity. They decided it was fit. Os course there are a few minor corrections and touchings-up to be attended to, as there always are when such an enterprise ap As we sat on the porph one evening this week and eagaged in idle chatter, somebody men tioned setting-up exercises. This started an exchange of testi mony about efforts at keeping fit. Most of those present said they had taken exercises at one time or another but had not kept at them. Some agreed with the opinion I had expressed several years ago and now repeated about doing exercises to the ac companiment of music, to wit, that the effect of this perform ance was not so much to make the exercises agreeable as to make the music hateful. A woman in the company, who is getting plumper year by year and doesn’t like it, said: “I took exercises for a white. I believe the reason I gave them up was because for part of them I had to stretch out on a hard Legion Wants a Wall And It Is Having a Bingo Party to Raise the Necessary Money The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion will have a bingo party at 8 o’clock Wednes day evening, in its Hut on Rosemary lane, to raise money for a stone wall along the front of the lot and for other im provements. Various articles will be given as prizes. The grounds are now being graded, shrubbery and grass planted, and interior walls built. If enough money is raised at the party, work on the front wall will start at once. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Totten are in charge of the bradfeapinf and planting now in progress. Dillon Sing* His Own Song BUI Dillon of Ithaca, N. Y, led the Rotarians at their meeting this week in the sinking of the song he wrote and set to music, “I Want a Girt Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad* Ellen Mosley Abernathy A daughter, Ellen Mosley, was born to Mr, and Mrs. Milton Ab ernathy Monday in Duke ho*- ji i proaches the end. In the'Mnspecting company the University was represented by Charles Tr Woollen, J. A. Page, and the architects, Messrs. Atwood and Weeks, and the P. W. A., by Thomas D. Rose, se nior engineer from Atlanta, and L, T. Hansen, resident engineer. J. A. Jones, the contractor, was there, and Mr. Wiggins for the Chapel Hill Chaff floor. It was still hard even if I used a rug or a beach mattress. And the surroundings weren’t cheerful. I am going to try it out Tn the yard where there’s a lot of foliage all around. When I Maetch out I can put my beach mattress on the grass. There’ll be flowers and shrubs and trees to look at. I’m sure I won’t mind the exercises so much if I take them that way.” This woman is fooling her self. Nobody who doesn’t like to take exercises—and few do ex cept the young—is going to make them agreeable by tunes from a victrola or lilacs athwart the view, or any sound or scen ery. If setting-up exercises are odious to you they are going to keep on being odious. Every morning I go out on the porch and go through eight or ten (Continued on last page) Early English Opera To Be Cambridge Professor's Topic at Lecture Monday Evening Edward Dent of the faculty of Cambridge University, England, will deliver a lecture at 8:80 Monday evening in the Hill Music hall. His subject will be “Early English Opera.” Profes sor Dent’s treatment of this sub ject will be suitable for general audience. Mr. Dent was the lecturer on music at the Harvard Tercen tenary and recently gave a se ries of general lectures on music at Cornell. He is well known to musicians for his work on Scar latti, Mozart operas, and his contributions to the Encyclo paedia Britan nice and the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musi cians. Everybody is Invited. 4k Cherry trees Planted About 40 young flowering cherry trees were planted on the University campus last week, most of them replacing shrubs and small trees that had died or passed their prime. While dig ging up one of the old tree* a workman cut an underground electric cable, and an electrician i*Mgf 4a La noUa/i mumly {4 plumbing contractors and Mr. Crockford for the heating con tractors. The inspectors began with the top floor of the head house (the front section of the building, on the highway); proceeded down ward and southward to the big main room; and in the afternoon went through the equipment rooms, the locker rooms, and the swimming pool annex. Between 4 and 6 o’clock this afternoon visitors will be escort ed through the building by mem bers of the University’s athletic coaching staffs and the depart ment of physical education. This arrangement was made for the special benefit of delegates to the alumni assembly, but anybody who wants tv it welcome to go along. Baseball Begins Players Are Practicing; Sternweiss, Football Star, a Candidate George Stirnweiss, sensation al sophomore quarterback on last fall’s football team, is now out for baseball practice as a second baseman. Tom Burnette, halfback, and Foy Grubb, bas ketball guard, are also on the squad. Coach Bunn Hearn said yesterday that the general out look for this year’s team was only fair. Here is the schedule of games: March 29, Richmond at Chap el Hill. April 1, Davidson at David son. April 4, Dartmouth at Chapel Hill. April 5, N. C. State at Rae ford. April 8, Cornell at Chapel Hill. April 12, Wake Forest at Chapel Hill. April 14, Virginia at Char lottesville, Va. April 15, V. M. I. at Lexing ton, Va. April 16, Washington and Lee at Lexington, Va. April 20, N. C. State at Chapel Hill. April 28, Wake Forest at Wake Forest. April 26, Davidson at Chapel Hitt. April 80, Virginia at Chapel HilL May 6, Navy at Chapel Hi|L May 7, N. C. State at Raleigh, May 10, V. M, L at Chapel Hitt. May 12, Richmond at Rich mond, Va. May 18, Maryland at College Park, Md. May 14, Mavy at Annapolis, Md. May 18, Duke at Durham May 21, Duka at Grttisn shore, i May 28, DukibAt Chapel Hill, * 11*50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Capy Governor Coming Tonight io Speak At Alumni Feast For Trustees and State He Is to Accept Gym from Wright, Spokesman foe the P.W.A. GRAHAM TO NAME DONORS Governor Hoey will be one of the guests at the alumni dinner at 7 o’clock this (Friday) eve ning at the Carolina Inn. The gathering will be the pHwmt of the annual alumni which began yesterday. ft is called the “Presendfl| Dinner” because on this occSß the new Gymnasium will befor mally presented by the Public Works Administration to the University. Stanley H. Wright, who moved his headquarters from Chapel Hill to Atlanta last fall, will represent the P. W. A. in the ceremony, and the build ing will be accepted by the Gov ernor on behalf of the trustees and thestate. Members of the faculty and their wives, whether or not they are alumni, will be welcome. The fee is $1.25 a plate. Tickets may be obtained at the dining room door, but it will be better to make reservations in advance; this can be done at any time in the Inn lobby. Men are not to be in eve ning dress. Informal is the word, and the women may inter pret that in any way they please. Although a swimming pool is part of the Gym and will figure prominently in the presentation ceremony, this does not mean that swimming pool costumes are to be worn. f Because %f.W. A. grant and the proceeds of a self-sus taining bond Issue were not suf ficient to cover the cost of the Gym, gifts of money were made , by several alumni. The identity of donors has not yet been di vulged. President Graham will give their names tonight. Ex-Governor Ehringhaus will be the toastmaster. Among oth , ers at the guest table will be Judge Francis D. Winston, old est in service of the University i trustees; Robert B. House, dean (Continmd mi pago two) , Driver’s License Exams They Will Be Conducted Here Every Monday by B. H. Hutchinson By order of Sergeant Harris, chief of Division 1 of the State Highway Patrol, B. W. Hutchin son will be at the Chapel Hill town hall from 1 to 5 o’clock every Monday afternoon to ex amine anybody who wants to apply for an automobile driver’s license. He will be in Hillsboro, from 9 to 12 Monday morninggi for the same purpose. Under the law no citizen of North Carolina is permitted to drive a car anywhere within the state unless he has a driver’s license. A citizen of another state who drives in North Caro lina must have a driver's license if one is required by the state from which he combs. / To obtain a license a person must be 16 or more years old, must be of normal physique witk good eyesight and hearing, steiwffsjxs character. Besides passing a question - and - answer examina tion about the rules of the road and the operation of an auto mobile, he must prove his driv*. ing ability by an actual test. Bttver Spoon for I" J* B. Johns, who recentlywHJ came a father, got a silver spoon as a gift from his febew Rbia-
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