VoL 19, No. 21
School Getting
Ready for Its
Final Exercises
Baccalaureate Sermon by Mr.
Culbreth; Address by R. B.
House on Graduation Day
INSTRUCTION PROGRAM
PLANNED FOR SUMMER
The Chapel Hill high school
announced yesterday its com
mencement schedule.
The school year, prolonged
because the influenza epidemic
compelled a recess last winter,
will extend almost to the middle
of June. The pupils don't like
this, but there’s nothing they can
do about it. The state educa
tional authorities are hard-boil
ed about the requirement of a
certain number of school days
in the year.
The senior class will assemble
in the Methodist church, Sunday
morning, June 1, to hear the bac
calaureate sermon by Rev. J. M.
Culbreth.
The graduating exercises will
be held in the Hill Music hall on
the evening of Thursday, June
11. The address will be deliver
ed by Robert B. House, the Uni
versity’s dean of administration.
The senior class has 83 mem
bers. The president is Douglas
Eubanks.
A party is to be given for. the
seniors next Thursday, the 29th,
by Superintendent and Mrs.
Honeycutt and Taylor Hogan.
Mr. Honeycutt has announced
that the high school will give
courses in the summer for the
benefit of boys and girls who
need special instruction. Class
room work will begin the week
after commencement, probably
on Monday the 16th. The teach
ers will be VV. E. Conrad (Eng
lish and history) ; Miss Virginia
Simkins (Latin and French) ;
and Miss Anderson (mathe
matics).
Vaccination Clinics
Health Office to Give Diphtheria,
Smallpox and Typhoid Vaecinea
The health department’s an
nual vaccination clinics will be
gin Monday. They are designed
primarily for the prevention of
typhoid, but diphtheria toxoid
and smallpox vaccine will also be
given.
This year the department is
offering the one-dose vaccination
against typhoid fever to those
who have been vaccinated with
in the last five years. This one
dose should be repeated annual
ly.
Vaccination time at the health
office here will be from 9 to 12
o’clock every Saturday morning.
The following rural clinics will
begin next week, with others to
be opened later:
On Mondays, May 26, June 2,
9, and 16: Orange Grove church,
9 A. M.; Cooper’s store, 10:16
A. M.; Chestnut Ridge church,
II :30 A. M.; Gravely Hill school,
1:16 P. M.; Crossroad church,
2:80 P. M.; Lloyd’s service sta
tion on highway 54, at 8:46 P.
M.
On Thursdays, May 29, June 6,
12, and 19: Wilson’s fliHing sta
tion on highway 54, at 9 A. M.;
Carrboro school, 10 A. M. ; Mt.
Carmel church, 11 A. M.; J. U,
Pearson's store, 12 noon.
Baseball Team Wins Title *
The University’s baseball team
captured the Southern Confer
ence crown last Saturday after
noon when they beat V.M.1., 8 to
2, in their last game of the sea
son. Their final Conference
standing was 11 wins and 8
losses. Duke was second with 10
wins and three loesefc.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Majority Leader in Congress Will
Be Speaker Here Tomorrow Evening
The public is invited to hear
Congressman John W. McCor
mack of Massachusetts, major
ity leader in the House of Repre
sentatives, when he speaks here
tomorrow (Saturday) evening
in the Hill Music hall at the Anal
program of the Institute of.Gov
ernment’s training school for
law-enforcement officers being
held here this week.
The program will, begin at 8
o’clock, after Governor Brough
ton’s presentation of certificates
to those who have completed the
Town Manager Caldwell ID, in Watts Hospital
Town Manager Caldwell faint
ed at his desk last Friday after
he had been inspecting some
town work in the hot sun. His
assistant, W. S. Swaim, called Dr.
Hooker. When the physician ar
High School Seniors to Appear in Play, “June Mad,’’ Next Week
“June Mad,” a comedy, will be
presented by the' high school
seniors at 8 o’clock next Wednes
day and Thursday evenings in
the school auditorium. Admis
sion prices: 50 cents for adults,
25 cents for children. The cast:
The Tale of a Garden Corner -J
Said Dudley J. Cowden, asso
ciate professor of economics, to
his wife, in a tone of Christian
Resignation:
“I see you're hot going to have
time for anything else in the
next four days, and I’ll have to
be eating around in cafeterias.”
What he was talking about was
Mrs. Cowden's activity in pre
paring a Garden Corner for the
Flower Show. This layout, on the
stage of the ballroom of the
Carolina Inn, was to he an impor
tant, perhaps the most imjior
tant, feature of the whole show.
It couldn’t be flung together—it
had to be worked on.
Mrs. Cowden enlisted Mrs.
Sonntag as associate, and to
gether, theyjtoiled over the de
tailsybf the scene. Upon the stage
they spread a covering of made
up grass which you could hardly
tell from the real thing, and they
fashioned an equally realistic
brick wall. They hud a table
shaded by a big umbrella, and
drinks on the table, and chairs,
and a tree overhanging the brick
wall. The scene was adorned
here and there with roses and
other flowers.
The enlistment <sf Mrs. ftonn
tag had brought a fourth person
Casual Operation
Miss Evelyn Mclver, teacher
in the White Cross school, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Mc
lver, who live out near Bethle
hem church, said to her mother
one day last week:
“I believe I’ll go out for a while
—l’ll be coming back before
long.”
Several hours later her kina
man, Dr. Raney Stanford of Dur
ham, called the family on the
telephone to say that she bad un
dergone an operation in Watts
hospital—not a serious one—and
was getting along all right.
Sandburg to Address Graduates
Cart Sandburg, the famous
author and poet, will deliver the
graduation address Tuesday eve
ning, June 10, at the Univer
sity's 147th Commencement. The
three-day exercises will begin
June 8 with the baccalaureate
sermon by Canon Chancellor
Theodore Otto Wedel of'Wash
ington Cathedral, Washington,
D. C. Class Day and Parents’
Day will be Monday, June 9.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C-, FRIDAY MAY 23, 1941
7-day training course, Congress
man McCormack will talk about
laws of Congress affecting North
Carolina cities, towns, and coun
ties and the state as a whole.
There will be discussion from the
floor.
Other events on tomorrow’s
program to which the public ig
invited are a luncheon at 12:3(1
and a dinner at 6:30, both in the
University’s dining hall, and a
reception in the Graham Memo
rial following Congressman
McCormack’s^talk.
rived Mr. Caldwell had recov
ered consciousness. He went
home; stayed there two days;
and Sunday afternoon was taken
to Watts hospital. Yesterday he
was reported better.
Shirley Graves, Smith Weaver,
Billy Koch, Charles Campbell,
Allen Claywell, Ann Holmes, Al
len Garrett, Alexzina Johnson,
Howard Turnage, Howard Ray,
Gladys Wager, Kitty Rogerson,
and Decatur Jones.
into the affair; namely, Mr. Sonn
tag. He joined Mr. Cowden as
onlooker and commentator. The
husbands made derisive remarks
about wives who stayed away
from their household duties.
The scene was finished in good
time, and Mrs. Cowden and Mrs.
Sonntag looked upon their crea
tion with pardonable pride. Their
friends who were let in for a pre
view complimented them. They
went home from the Inn before
the Flower Show opened; rest
ed; put on pretty frocks; and
later in the day came back to join
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Thrift Shop to Help Shell-Shocked Children
The British War Relief So
ciety of Chapel Hill, of which
Mrs. William Meade Prince is
chairman, will contribute the pro
ceeds of sales at the Thrift Shop
to the $300,000 fund set aside
for hostels for bomb-shocked and
evacuated children of Britain.
In an effort to provide ade
quate facilities for the care of
these children the society is pro
viding equipment for 100 hostels
in areas safe from bombard
ment. Cost of equipment, which
includes toys of all types, pie-
Allcott to Talk about French Pictures
John V. Allcott will give a gal
lery talk, about the French
paintings now on display, at 5
o'clock Sunday afternoon in Per-
In “Love Crazy," the screen
comedy which will complete a
two-day run here today (Friday)
at the Carolina theatre, William
Powell plays the part of a hus
band who pretends to be a cheer
ful lunatic in order to prevent hia
wife (Myrna Loy) from divorcing
him. A psychiatrist, believing
the malady authentic, says that
the patient muat be humored If
a cure is to be effected. The wife,
suspecting that her husband la
putting on an act, but at the
same time fearful that the psy
chiatrist may be right, Is on the
horns of a dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich and Bruce
Cabot are the leading players in
“Flame of New Orleans,” a ro
mantic comedy to be at the Caro
lina as a late show this evening
Chapel Hill Chaff
t 11 ' lin
There is a report that there
may be a contest between the
Pure Oil Company and the
Methodist church over which of
them is to receive the refund
that the town has agreed to make
on the assessment laid, some
thirteen years ago, on the par
sonage property on West Frank
lin street. The church paid the
assessment and then sold the pro
perty to the oil company. Now,
the aldermen say, the refund be
longs to the oil company.
This property, it will be re
membered, is the one in front
of which stood two beautiful
shade trees. They stood there
until the church that
the oil company might not buy
the property unless they were
cut down. Clyde Eubanks was a
member of both the board of
church stewards and the board
of aldermen. Somehow he ar
ranged some sort of meeting
over the telephone. It was rnuthe
summertime, and some of the
citizens interested in preserving
trees, among them W. C. Coker,
were out of town. Before the
community knew what was hap
pening, the trees had been cut
down. That led me, at the time,
to set d6wn in this paper the
opinion that the Chapel Hill
board of aldermen was function
ing efficiently as the secular
branch of the Chapel Hill Meth
odist church. The depression had
come along, and the Methodists’
splendid new church building
had put them into a financial
hole. The stewards needed money
bad, to pay for that fancy spire,
and so maybe you could hardly
expect them to he emotional
about trees when they had the
offer of a fat price for the par
sonage. Later a Winston-Salem
millionaire came to the rescue
and paid off their debt. Still, even
though they are rid in’ easy now,
I’d hate to see any more of the
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hires, garden tools and anything
to occupy the mind of a bomb
shocked child, is S2OO per hos
tel.
The Thrift Shop, next to the
Presbyterian church, will be
open daily from 10 A. M. to 5
P. M. Used household articles
and’ clothing of all kinds are
offered for sale.
Gifts of any salable articles
will be gratefully received. Ar
rangements for collecting con
tributions will be made by Mrs.
Prince.
son hall. There are 39 paintings
in the collection. They were
brought here through the good
offices of George Levy.
Movies Here Today
and as the regular show tomor
row. Among this movie’s attrac
tions is the gorgeous wardrobe
displayed by Miss Dietrich. It
includes a satin wedding gown
with a train so heavily em
broidered with seed pearls that
the flower girls couldn’t lift it
off the floor. It weighed 60
pounds. Two brawny laborers,
out of the camera’s range, held
the train when the wedding se
quences were filmed.
’The Invisible Woman,” star
ring Virginia Bruce, will be at
the Pick today, and “The Big
Boes,” starring Otto Kruger, will
be there tomorrow.
Lmihm Tmm Rests Indiana
The University’* laeroaae team tost
the Cherokee Indian* here last Sat-
Rival Claimants for Refunds on
West Franklin St. Assessments
May Reach Peaceful Settlement
Poppy Day Tomorrow
“Poppy Day,” when little pa
pdr flowers are sold all over the
nation for the benefit of disabled
veterans of the World War,
will be tomorrow (Saturday).
Throughout the day young .girls
will be on the streets of the vil
lage and canipus selling poppies.
Mrs. Paul Robertson and Miss
Mary Cobb are co-chairmen for
the campaign. Mrs. R. H. Marks
and Mrs. E. W. Ellington will be
in command in Carrboro, and
Mrs, A. H. Graham and Mrs. H.
0. Bivins in Hillsboro.
The funds collected here will
be used to help disabled veterans
in this community and at the
sanitorium at Oteen.
“We hope people will be gen
erous,” Mrs. Robertson said yes
terday. “The price of a poppy
will be whatever the buyer wants
to give.”
Outdoor Drama Tonight
“Romeo and Juliet” will be
presented by the Carolina Play
makers in the University’s new
Forest Theatre at 8:30 this (Fri
day) evening, tomorrow evening,
and Sunday evening. Frederick
H. Koch is the director.
Season ticket holders get in
free. For other people the ad
mission price is sl.
Lynn Gault, the Playmakers’
scene designer, has created for
the play a romantic setting in
the early Italian style. The most
elalk>rate set ever built for the
Forint Theatre, it provides five
acting levels and areas. It has a
color scheme of white, gold, and
pink.
Ora Mae Davis, the Playmak
ers’ costumer, has designed for
the actors a collection of richly
colored costumes in styles of the
Middle Ages.
Lighting is under the com
mand of Harry Davis, the Play
makers’ technical director. An
appropriate musical background
for the play has been arranged
by Earl* Wynn, and special
dances for the ball scene at the
home of the Capulets have been
arranged by Elsie Lawson.
Chapel Hillians in the cast are
Miss Josephine Sharkey, Mr.
Davis, Mr. Wynn, Robert Finch,
and Mrs. William Meade Prince.
Planting at the High School
The biology students of the
Chapel Hill high school, who are
improving the .ground between
the school and the fraternity
next door, have been pruning
the trees and getting rid of the
undergrowth. There will be a
rock garden and a hedge of
japonica, spiraea; and forsythia
along the sidewalk. Bulbs will be
planted along the path going up
to the school and in the yard. The
students have transplanted some
of the dogwoods. More plants
and bulbs are needed. If you have
any to spare, the boys will call
for them. Telephone Mrs. Fuller,
8391.
J. E. Wadsworth
An Outdoor Band Concert
An outdoor band concert win
be given at 4 o’clock Sunday af
ternoon under the Davie Poplar
by the University band and the
Chapel Hill high school band.
The first half of„the program will
be ‘played by the University
band, directed by Earl Slocum;
the second half wifi be played by
the combined bands, directed by
Kimball Harrtman. Hubert Hen
derson, a member of the Univer
sity bend, will give a comet solo.
I Rvervbodv in invited
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Question Is; Who Gets Money,
Payer of Levy or Man to
Whom He Sold Later?
TOWN TO BE DEAD SURE
BEFORE IT DISBURSES
If Citizen A paid the street
assessment, laid back in 1928,
upon his west Franklin street
property, and if he later sold the
property to Citizen B, and if
after that the town decided to
make a refund because the as
sessment had been proved exces
sive, who should receive the re
fund, A or B? *.
For a while after last week’s
meeting of the board of aider
men, when a list of the refunds
was made public, it seemed that
differences of opinion on this
question might lead to lawsuits.
But the latest word is that the
rival claimants will come to some
peaceful agreement.
- On legal advice, which is but
tressed by many'court decisions,
the aldermen hold that the buyer,
Citizen B, —provided he still
owned the property when the
aldermen <adopted the refund
ordinance in January, *1939
should get the refund. But the
aldermen are not taking any
chance of paying the money to
B and then being faced with a
court decree saying it ought to
have been paid to A. They are
keeping a tight hold on the
money until they know, definitely
and finally, who is entitled to it.
According to the aldermen’s
list, the largest refund, $923, is
due Dr. W. Reece Berryhill. He
lives in the former Delta Tau
Delta fraternity house. The Delta
Tau Delta chapter here went
busted; the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company, mort
gage holder, took over the prop
erty; and Dr. Berryhill bought
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A Scholarship Winner
John Himms of Raleigh Given Award
Worth $2,000 at the Univereity
John Meredith Simms, 18-
year-old senior at the Hugh
Morson high school in Raleigh,
was announced this week as the
winner of the University’s sec
ond Herbert Worth Jackson
Scholarship, which is valued at
$2,000 and covers a 4-year
tenure at the University.
Simms was selected from 24
candidates from all over the state
who came here last Monday to
be interviewed by the committee
on scholarship selections. He will
enter the freshman class next
September.
The scholarship was made
available through the gift of en
dowment funds by Herbert W.
Jackson, Jr., of Richmond, Va.,
in the memory of whose father
the first Jackson Scholarship
wad established in 1938. Ferebee
Taylor of Oxford, N. C„ was the
winner of the scholarship that
year.
The committee which
Simms was composed of D. D.
Carroll, chairman of the Uni
versity’s scholarship committee;
Clyde Erwin, state superinten
dent of public instruction; and
Samuel 8. Jackson and Herbert
W. Jackson, Jr., of Richmond,
Va., sons of Mrs. Annie Philips
Jackson of Richmond, who en
dowed the first Jackson Scholar
ship as a memorial to her hus
band, who was a graduate heto
in 1886.
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Min Jane Knight EkttW
Mil Jane Knight of Che pel Hill wea
recently elected vict-praldcnt at the
J University’! chapter at Chi Delta Phi,