VoL 16, No. 33
P.T. A. Visitors
Make Merry in
Their Dormitory
Sound of Revelry by Night Is
Heard When Delegates Start
Up Swing Songs and Dances
LIGHTS OUT, THEN QUIET
By Arthur Clark
The telephone awakened Rus
sell Grumman about one o’clock
on Thursday night of last week.
Mr. Grumman answered the call
in a somewhat irritated tone,
and an even more irritated voice
answered him back.
“What do you want me to do
with your P. T. A. people up
here,” asked the campus police
man, Frank Maddry.
“Why, what's the matter?”
asked Mr. Grumman.
“Well, we can’t make ’em go
to sleep and they are keeping
the other dormitories awake
with their noise,” said Mr.
Maddry.
“I’ll call up the matron,” said
Mr. Grumman, “and do what
ever else I can to help you.”
He called up the matron of the
dormitory allotted to people who
come to conventions and insti
tutes.' She reported that, a little
while before, persons on the
second floor had started merry
making. Others had joined in,
and now the visitors to the P.
T. A. Institute were turning the
building into a sort of night
club.
The sound of singing and
dancing had reached ever to a
nearby dormitory and stirred the
interest of the men students
domiciled the»e. Thev enjoyed
the party from across the court.
A young man said the next
day: “The singers and dancers
seemed to me to range from 35
to 60 years old. The old girls
sure were having a great time.”
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Fire in Theater
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Damage to Playmaker Building Inte
rior Estimated at $30,000
A fire broke out Saturday af
ternoon on the stage of the
Playmakers Theater—the ole
building that was a ballroom in
the days before the Civil War,
later the library, later-the law
building. The structure itself
was not damaged, but the de
struction of the interior wall
surfaces and woodwork, and of
the stage, stage equipment, and
seats, caused a loss thought to
be around $30,000.
The Chapel Hill firemen did
what all onlookers agreed was
splendid work. The flames had
gained great headway when they
arrived, but the flames were
kept confined to the stage and
the offices at the front (east
end) of the building were saved.
Paul Quinn, student Play
maker, the only person in the
theater when the fire started,
told Bob duFour, reporter for
this paper, what happened:
“From where I was standing,
it seemed the flames started
from the small house panel be
side the main switchboard. The
main curtain covers that board,
and the fire shot right up the
curtain to the grid.
“I grabbed the extinguisher
as soon as I saw trouble, and
started playing a stream on the
curtain, but the more I put bn
the worse the fire became, so I
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Mtas Kathleen Wright D1
Kies Kathleen Wright, head
of the bureau of class instruct
ion of the University’s extension
division, has been in John Hop
kins hospital for treatment dur
ing the last two weeks.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUM GRAVES
Editor
Playground Activities to Close with
Carnival at School Next Wednesday
A carnival, side shows, a ring
performance, and Jumbo the ele
phant will appear on the ele
mentary school grounds at 4:30
next Wednesday afternoon, Au
gust 24, as the closing event of
the recreation program which
has been in progress eleven
weeks under the sponsorship of
the P. T. A. and other civic or
ganizations and under the im
mediate direction of W. P. A.
The day will close with a picnic
at 6 o’clock. Children who have
been participating in the play
ground program are invited to
bring their parents and a basket
supper.
For a week the children have
been taking part in tournaments.
A parade on wheels, escorted by
the police from the school to the
post office and back again, open
ed the series of events which be
gan Thursday. More than 75
children on bicycles, velocipedes,
scooters, rolling baby carriages
and doll buggies, and pulling big
red wagons, took part in the
parade. John Evans, dressed
as a homesteader, pulling a cov
Livas and Gust Close Their Coffee Shop;
They Will Have It Open Again Next Week
Many people in Chapel Hill
have turned away in sorrow
from the Carolina Coffee Shop
this week. They have come td
regard the place as their club,
in which they have a sort of pro
prietary interest, and they feel
aggrieved at not being able to
get in. But let them cheer up.
The Coffee Shop, now being
thoroughly r«*v,*ated and re
equipped, will be open again
early next week with food and
drink for all comers.
Often in the last two or three
months, when I went in there,
I saw two or three strangers
seated at a corner table with the
proprietors, George Livas and
James Gust. They had their
heads close together and talked
in low and confidential tones.
Sometimes there was one set of
strangers, sometimes another.
“What’s all this about?” I
asked myself. “It looks to me
like some sort of plot. I wonder
if it’s a revolutionary, junta?
Maybe Mr. Livas and Mr. Gust
are getting ready to go over to
Greece and overthrow the dic
tatorship—maybe set up a dic
tatorship of their own.”
I didn’t like the prospect of
having these friends of mine
leave Chapel Hill, but it was
their affair and I said nothing
about my suspicions. If they
were bent on seizing the reins of
government in the fatherland I
wished them well.
Now the mystery is solved.
The proprietors were conferring
with those mysterious strangers
about a kitchen range, a refri
gerator, a dish-washing ma
chine, chairs and tables, and
Citizens who have not already
registered for a general election
or in a primary for a general
election, and who want to vote
in the liquor control election
September 7, must register this
week or next week. Sunset on
Saturday the 27th is the dead
line.
Paul Robertson, the registrar,
will be at the elementary school
with his books on the two Sat
urdays, tomorrow end the 27th,
from 9 o’clock till sunset, and
on other days he win he at his
office, on the second floor of the
Carolina theatre building, to re-„
CHAPEL HILL, N. C* FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938
ered wagon which carried a sign,
“Community Playground or
Bust,” won the grand prize. Ruth
Young won the prize for a one
wheel vehicle, Shirley Adams
for the bicycles, and Alice Leg
get for the velocipedes.
After the parade there were
bicycle sprints, wagon dashes,
sack races, and wheel barrow
races. Ann Pepper Neal, Win
nie Cheek, and Dallas Durham
won prizes in the 50-yard bi
cycle sprints. David Sharp won
the 50-yard wagon dash. Dallas
Durham won the handicap sack
race and the sloto race for bi
cycles. Lawrence, Fore won the
backward race and tied with
Harold Cheek for the wheel
barrow pushing contest.
Softball tournaments began
Monday. The Carrboro team
played the Chapel Hill play
ground team in Chapel Hill and
lost 7 to 0. The return game was
played in Carrboro yesterday. A
father-and-son game was played
Wednesday afternoon, abd the
badminton and horse shoe tour
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various other equipment and
furnishings. No doubt, when I
suspected that the talk was of
machine guns and a sudden at
.tack on the prime minister’s
palqce, Mr; Livas or Mr. Gust
was saying, “Your figure is too
high,” and a stranger was reply
ing, “Why, it’s a gift at that
price.”
All of which, however, W
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Directions for Registering for the Liquor Control Election September 7
gister all comers who are pro
perly qualified.
“I will make it a point to be
in my office from 8:30 to 10
o’clock in the morning and from
1:30 to 3 in the afternoon every
day from now on through next
week except Sunday and the two
Saturdays,” said Mr. Robertson
yesterday. “During other hours
I may not be in my office every
moment, but I will be somewhere
nearby and will be easy to And.
“Laws applying to general
elections applf to, the special li
quor control election, which
means that persons already re
gistered for a general election
do not have to register again.
The Summer Session Bulletin
. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19
Annual coaching school
7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20
Annual coaching school
9:3o—Dance, Bynum gymnasium
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21
B:3o—Music under the stars, Kenan stadium
MONDAY, AUGUST 22
7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall
Annual coaching school
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall
Annual coaching school
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24
7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall
B:oo—“Bazaar in India,” Hill hall
Annual coaching school
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
7:00 —Organ vespers, Memorial hall
B:3o—“Trial by Jury,” Hill hall
Annual coaching school
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26
7:oo—Organ vespers, Memorial hall
9:3o—Dance, Bynum gymnasium
Annual reaching school
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27
9:3o—Dance, Bynum gymnasium
Annual reaching school
Chapel Hill Chaff
Louis R. Wilson and I got into
an argument one day this week.
I declared that nowhere else in
Chapel Hill were the mosquitoes
so large and fierce as on the
lawn of the John M. Booker
home. He declared that the
Booker mosquitoes were sur
passed both in size and fierce
ness by those that frequented
the Wagstaff lawn. He had test
ed both armies, he said, and
was well qualified to say which
deserved the palm.
On a recent evening I went to
the Bookers’ for the special pur
pose of calling on their guest,
William J. Battle. Through a
window I saw that the family
were still at the dinner table. So
as not to disturb them I tiptoed
off the porch, walked to the
cluster of chairs in the yard, and
sat down to wait. The next
moment I felt a sharp stab
on the front of my right
ankle. I cried out in pain, and
my first thought was that I
must have been attacked by a
copperhead. Then I felt similar
thrusts on the neck, and again
on the ankle. An angry buzzing
sound filled the air as reserves
came up in force. I became pan
icky. Beating the air with my
hands I ran to my automobile,
got in, and sped away.
I returned the next morning,
and enjoyed a talk with Mr.
Battle and Kemp Lewis and the
Bookers on the porch. In the
daylight the mosquitoes were
nowhere to be felt or seen.
It was when we met at the
Bookers’ a night or so later that
Mr. Wilson spoke of the champ
ionship calibre ol tWfe Wagstaff
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But anybody who has registered
only for a municipal election
must register again in order to
vote September 7.”
Under the law the registrar is
empowered to issue absentee bal
lots. A voter who is now here
but who is to be away from home
on the 7th should go to Mr.
Robertson for the certificate of
absence ami for the ballot. The
signature of the voter tm the cer
tificate has to be attested by ft
notary. The ballot, after being
marked “for” or “against” has
to be signed by the voter on the
margin or the back. It is then
put into mi envelope provided
Contract for Town Hall Let to
Burlington Man for $31,960;
Job to Be Done in Six Months
Organ Recital; Dances
The final organ recital of the
summer will be given by Robert
Brawley, the Summer Session
organist, from 7 to 7:30 on Fri
day evening of next week, the
26th in Memorial hall. This fea
tured performance will be twice
as long as the usual organ ves
pers, and request numbers will
be played. People should send
their requests to the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Brawley, whose home is in
Raleigh, is a talented music stu
dent in the University.
Dances
The next to the last series of
summer dances will be given this
(Friday) evening and tomorrow
evening in the Bynum gymnas
ium. Ted Ross and his orchestra
will play.
M. E. Valentine, dancing
teacher, and his partner will do
a feature dance in the intermis
sion at the Saturday dance. This
evening John McC. Mimms will
sing a solo.
Coaching School Gets
Start from Ray Wolf
It was almost as good as a
football game—in fact, quite as
good as some games I’ve seen—
to see Coach Ray Wolf giving
instructions to about 80 men as
sembled for the first session of
the University Coaching School
Monday afternoon. He was inau
gurating Football Week; the
second and final week, which be
gins this cowing Monday, will
be devoted to basketball, base
ball, and track.
While he stood up before the
company Wolf had in his hands
a football which he fondled lov
ingly. He showed how to grip
the t>all to make a forward pass,
and how to receive a pass. He
had the full details on both
these performances, but when it
came to a defense against pass
ing—
“l wish I could tell you some
thing about it,” he said. “I wish
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Jack Beard here on Furlough
Jack Beard, on furlough as he
is about to begin’his final year at
the Naval Academy, is here on a
visit to his father, Grover
Beard. He has been cruising
since June. He must be back at
the Academy September 8—
earlier than most of the other
cadets in his class because he is
on the football squad and must
begin practicing.
1. M
Going to Pharmacy Convention
H. M. Burlage and M. L.
Jacobs will attend the conven
tion of the American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy next
week in Minneapolis.
registrar to be counted with
other ballote on election day.
A voter who is not here now,
and will not be here on the 7th
may send to Mr. Robertson by
mall a request for the certificate
of absence and the ballot Then
the certificate, with the signa
ture attested by a notary wher
ever the voter may be, and the
ballot, property signed, should
be mailed back to Mr. Robert
son.
Anybody who is in doubt as
to whether or net he is already
registered may flirt! out by tele
phoning Mr. Robertson, 6876,
between 8:80 and 10 A. M. or
between 1:30 and 8 P. M.
$1.59 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Structure Designed by Atwood
and Weeks to Contain Jail,
Court, Fire Headquarters
GOVT. PAYS 45% OF COST
The contract for the construc
tion of Chapel Hill’s town hall
was let yesterday to H. F. Mit
chell, Jr., of Burlington foe $31,-
960. The bids were opened at a
special meeting of the board of
aldermen attended by Mayor
Foushee and Aldermen, Helten,
Bowman, Robertson, Burch, and
Madry.
The plumbing and heating
contracts were let to the Bag
well Plumbing and Heating Com
pany of Durham. The figure
for the plumbing is $1,767, for
the heating $2,270.
This is a joint federal-munici
pal enterprise. The federal gov
ernment contributes 45 per cent
of the cost through the P. W.
A., the town contributes the re
maining 55 per cent. Yesterday
was the deadline date fixed by
the government for the starting
of the job, and enough was done
to meet the technical require
ment. This wasn’t much—just a
few stabs into the ground with
a pick and the preparation of a
sign to tell passersby that it is
a P. W. A. project.
The contractor will proceed at
once to bring to the scene *the
necessary equipment ami to as
semble his personnel. The con
tract stipulates that he must
finish the job in six months,
which means that the building
will be ready fat occupancy to
ward the end of February.
It will contain a courtroom,
quarters for the fire depart
ment, a jail, administrative offi
ces, and lavatories.
Atwood and Weeks are .the
architects.
See India Here
Bazaar, with Opium Pi pm, Weapoaa,
and Triaketa. in Hill Hall
The summer entertainment
committee will present “A Ba
zaar in India” at 8 o’clock Wed
nesday evening in the Hill music
hall.
W. S. Willett, owner of the
bazaar, collected his various ex
hibits while stationed in India
over a period of six years.
Among them are opium pipes,
native crafts, some tiger rugs,
trinkets, weapons of the hunt
and war, and skins.
According to a handbill an
nouncing the show, “You will be
transported to India on a magic
carpet and spend a delightful
time traveling over Its highways
and byways and through its
bazaars and jangles.”
“Trial by Jury” Next Week
The concert version of Gilbert
and Sullivan’s “Trial by Jury”
will be given at 8:30 Thursday
evening in the Hill Music hall.
Hie production will be under the
direction of John E. Toms.
Robert B. House to Preach
Robert B. House will be the
preacher at the Union services
in the Baptist church Sunday
morning. The Presbyterians will
have charge of the services.
Mrs. A. S. Wheeler will be at the
organ.
Measles Subsiding
I
Measles is subsiding in this
county. There were 77 cases re
| ported in July; there have been
only 14 reported since August l