Vol. 20, No. 7
Episcopalians’
Steeple Is to
Be Taken Down
Foundation, Made of Timbers
on Top of Tower, Has
Been Rotted by Exposure
SOME BELIEVE CHANGE
WILL NOT MAR CHURCH
The Episcopal church is going
to lose itwS steeple.
The reasomfhe steeple is going
to be taken down is that its foun
dation has rotted. The founda
tion consists of several 8-by-12-
inch "timbers laid in t'ne'ToTTii of
an octagon on top of the square
tower, t hey were not adequately
protected from the weather, and
seventeen years of exposure has
done for them. The structure of
the steeple itself is wood; the only
metal about it is the copper
sheathing.
The demolition, which is ex
pected to begin within a week or
so, has to begin at the top and
proceed downward. It calls for
expert work by men who are used
to doing jobs at dizzy heights,
and it is-going to post the parish
a good bit of money.
As far as the appearance of
the church is concerned, many
members of the congregation
and many other people who see
the edifice day after day, are not
sorry to see the steeple go. The
original plan of the architect,
Hobart Upjohn, did not include
a steeple. Then somebody made
the point that a steeple would im
part to the whole layout—the big
new church, the little old church,
and the central colonnaded court
—an atmosphere of unity.
The new church was the gift, of
the late William A. Erwin, the
cotton textile manufacturer of
Durham. When it became know n
that he would like the church to
have a steeple, the steeple was
added. This did not require any
change in the plans for the
church; the steeple was simply
superimposed upon the tower.
Raid Signals Tomorrow
Between I and 2 O’clock; Bla*tH on
Siren, and Power Moose Whittle
Air raid signals will be tested
tomorrow (Saturday) between 1
arid 2 o’clock. The test has been
arranged by the Local Civilian
Defense Air Raid Section, of
which R. If. Wettach is chief.
The siren will sound .‘ls times;
then there will lx; an interval of
half a minute; then the siren
will sound 35 times more. The
jjower house whistle will blow
while the siren is sounding.
After a long interval there
will lx; the all-clear signal—one
long blast.
The test calls for the aid of
citizens. The important question
is: Will the signals lx; heard?
If you do NOT hear them, please
inform the Control Center, tele
phone F-3111.
I)r. McCoy lectures Here
Dr. George W. McCoy, for
merly medical director of the
National Institute of Health, and
now professor of preventive
medicine at Louisiana Stub* Uni
versity, has been here this week
giving a series of lectures on
tularemia and leprosy for stu
dents in the University’s school
of public health.
Freshman Basketball Tonight
The University’s freshman
basketball team will play Lees-
Mcßae College here at 8 o’clock
this (Friday) evening in the
Woollpn gymnasium.
The Conference Swimming Meet
The annual Southern Confer
ence swimming meet will he held
here March 6 and 7.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
The Town’s Aldermen Are Responsible
For the Enforcement of Traffic Laws
When I was coming up Hen
derson street toward the post of
fice one day this week, I saw an
automobile flash by on Franklin
street. It was bound west, which
means that it was entering the
town’s crowded business block
where the legal limit is 20 miles
an hour. That car could not have
been going less than 40 miles an
hour, and I believe it was going
faster than that. On a recent
night I saw two students get into
a car in front of the post office,
ihvi- ;t blast of the horn, and roar
up the block at what anybody
■would—have called—ldgh speed
even out in the open country.
This is a familiar sight—cars
going at illegal and dangerous
speeds along the town’s most con
gested stretch of pavement.
Everybody is talking about it
and wondering why it is per
mitted.
Who is responsible for thiscon
temptuous and constant violation
of the law? Primarily the Respon
sibility is with the police, but the
ultimate responsibility is with
these men who constitute the
board of aldermen:
F. 0. Bowman R. B. Fitch
Salvage Trucks to Make Circuit Tomorrow;
All Householders Are Asked to Cooperate
Tomorrow Saturday, the
21st will be the day for the
second February house-to-house
collection of waste material by
the salvage section of the local
Civilian Defense.
“We expect to make this collec
tion more systematic and
thorough than any one in the
past,” said Ove F. Jensen, chief
of the salvage section, yesterday.
“We request the cooperation of
all householders.”
There will certainly be two
town trucks in service, and prob
ably a third one from tin; Univer
sity. They will start at 8 o’clock
and will complete the circuit by
early afternoon.
It is very important that the
waste materials for collection lx;
placed either out on the sidewalk
or on a porch where they will he
easily visible. Paper should be
tied in bundles, or boxed, or in
case of newspapers and maga
zines, laid flat. I t will help a great
deal for everybody to be as care
ful a.s possible about that.
If for any reason the material
you put out is not taken away,
telephone the Civilian Defense
Cont rol Center, F-3 111, and it
will he called for. Along with
Gardeners to Hear lainford
J. C. Lanford of Greensboro,
field representative of Swift &.
Co., will give a lecture, illus
trated with color pictures, on
"Vegetable and Ornamental Gar
dens, and the Proper Use of Fer
tilizer in the Garden,” at 7:30
next Thursday evening in room
206, Phillips hall. All members
of the Horticultural Garden
Club and of the Chapel Hill Gar
den Club, and other persons in
terested in gardening, are in
vited.
Billy Markie on the Radio
Billy Mackie of Chapel Hill
will play the role of Ted Malloy
as a boy in the play, “One Ted
Malloy,” to l>e broadcast by the
Carolina Playmakers of the Air
at 3:32 tomorrow (Saturday)
afternoon over t h e'~ Mutual
Broadcasting System’s national
network. Billy made his first
radio appearance last week when
he played the part of an English
Boy Scout in “Scouts for De
fense,” which was broadcast by
the members of the Chapel Hill
Boy Scout Troop 9.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942
P. L. Burch R. J M. Hobbs
Ooie Davis R. W. Madry
Add the mayor, John M.
Foushee. He does not have a vote
on questions that come before
the board, except in case of a tie,
but he presides at the meetings
and exerts influence in the con
duct of the town government.
; The town manager is not, con
cerned with enforcing the traffic
laws. It is a police function. In
other communities the town man
ager has jurisdiction over the
police, but in Chapel Hill that is
not the case. Here the police de
-parl incut is dlr.e.uUx under the
aldermen. The aldermen have
I appointed P. L. Burch a commit
tee of one to re])resent them in
supervising the police, so that he
is, in effect, a police commis
sioner.
Here I have mentioned high
speed as a frequent violation of
■the law. It is the worst violation,
because it is the most dangerous,
! but there, are many others. The
whole traffic problem in Chapel
Hill calls for serious attention. It
is a situation in which the aider
men should recognize, and ful
fill, their responsibility.—L.G.
paper, put in the pile any metals
or rubber that you are ready to
discard.
The Boy Scouts who are to go
around with the trucks are Carl
Durham, Jr., F. O. Bowman, Jr.,
Collier Cobb, 3rd, William Cobb,
Lee Wiley, Sam Summerlin, Lin
don Hobbs, and Ward Peacock.
John Young, University student,
will be in general command as
Scout I/eader.
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Proposed, for Sake of Country Children,
That School He Opened 45 Minutes Later
At its meeting night before last
the Rotary,Club adopted a reso
lution asking that the opening
hour at the high school be 45
minutes later—that is, that it be
changed from 8:30 A. M. to 9:15
A. M.
The reason for this proposal is
that, since the introduction of
War Time, many of the children
who come in from the country
have to start before light. Some
of them- have to walk long dis
tances to catch the school bus.
“The early opening hour here
is a real hardship on children liv
ing out in the country,” said an
officer of the Rotary Club yester
day. “This will not Ik* the case
later on, when sunrise is earlier,
Washington's Birthday at I’.O.
Washington’s Birthday, which
falls on Sunday this year, will
he observed Monday, the 23rd,
at the Chapel Hill post office.
The general delivery, stamp, and
parcel post windows will lie open
from 10 A.M. to 12 noon. The
money order, registered mail,
and postal savings windows will
not be open at all. There will be
only the morning delivery by
carrier. There will be no rural
delivery.
Red CrogH Quota Unfilled
About $2,330 of Chapel Hill’s
Red Cross war fund quota of
$3,000 has now been raised. This
amount includes al>out S3OO
which has been collected in a
student campaign on the cam
pus. More contributions are
needed. They may be turned in
to Mr. Fambrough at the hank.
Basketball in Maryland
The l Ini vers ity’s - basket ball
team will play Maryland there
tonight.
| Chapel Hill Chaff
The rationing of tires and the
ban on the sales of automobiles
put such a big dent in Bruce
Strowd’s revenue that he decided
recently to go out of business.
He says the reason he reversed
the decision was that he got to
thinking about a certain question
Mrs. Clyde Eubanks had asked
her husband.
Mr. Eubanks had had a good
offer for his drug business, and
he told his wife he was going to
accept it. He was getting along
in years, he had worked hard, and
it was about time to quit and take
things easy. ~
Mrs, .Eubanks’s comment was
in the form of a question :
“When you haven’t got the
drugstore any more, what will
you do after breakfast?”
Mr. Eubanks didn’t answer at
once, because ho wanted time to
think it over. He thought and
thought, and still he couldn’t
think of any answer except!
“Nothing.” The more he pon
dered upon the matter, the morel
bleak and dreary seemed a future
with nothing to do after one meal
but wait for the next. So he kept
his drugstore, and is still on the
job there several hours a day, and
is continuing to enjoy life.
“Mr. Eubanks told me about j
Mrs. Eubanks’s question at the
time,” said Mr. Strowd when he
was in my office day before yes
terday. "I forgot all about it till
the other day when I had about
made up my mind to liquidate.
The outlook for the business look
ed mighty blue. Then that ques
tion popped into my head, and l
asked myself the same thing:
‘What will you do after break
fast?’ That made going out of
business look bluer than staying
in. So I’m staying in.”
and we arc suggesting that the
later schedule be kept in effect
only a few weeks.”
“This same suggestion came
from some people out in the coun
try when we went on War Time,”
said Superintendent of Schools
Honeycutt yesterday. “On in
vestigation we found that it was
impossible to make such a change
unless it was also made by the
University. Our schedule is tied
up closely with that of the Uni
versity. There are University
professors, and practice teachers
and other graduate students, who
have regular working hours ut
| the school, and these working
hours have to fit in with the Uni
versity schedule.”
Garden I’lotH Staked Out
A. C. Mathews, assistant to
Lloyd R. Roof, nursery manager
at the Mason farm, has staked
out garden plots, on land lent for
the purpose by W. C. Coker, for
these men who live in the Oak
wood suburb on the Raleigh
road: Max Saunders, Gray Cul
breth, I). M. Horner, George
Dickinson, Henry Allred, Frank
Morrow, G. L. Kilpatrick, W. W.
Jarvis, Sam Paulsen, and Ed
Vashaw.
Patricia May Armstrong
A daughter was horn to Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Armstrong on
Monday, February 16, at Wuttß
hospital in Durham. Her name
is Patricia May Armstrong. She
and her mother are still at the
hospital.
A Special Vesper Service
A special vesper devotional
service will he held from 5:30
to 6 :45 Sunday afternoon, Feb
ruary 22, at the United church.
Everybody is invited.
Registration for Draft Here,
Including Students, Is 1,168;
Total for the County, 2,075
Shepperd Strudwick in
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llill*l>oro and former member of the
Carolina Haymakers here in the l ni
| versify—will be seen in “Remember
the Pay" on Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week at the Carolina theatre.
But he is not booked under his real
name. The llollyood moguls made him
change his name—for no jjood reason
that anybody here can see— to John
Shepperd. and it is as John Shepperd
that he appears on the billboards and
in the advertisements.
Professors May Use
Horses, as of Yore
It has been said that history
moves in cycles. Another way of
putting it is that "history repeats
itself.” 1 do not know whether or
not this is a truth of cosmic pro
portions, but it seems about to
liecome true in a small way in
Chattel Hill.
When 1 was a boy here, many
members of tho faculty used
horses to get about the village and
the campus. Automobiles came
in, and horses went out. Now the
war may keep people from hav
ing cars, and this may bring
horses back again.
The other day Urban T.
Holmes, who lives out in Forest
Hills, a mile or more from his
teaching quarters, told me that
he was thinking of getting a
horse.
“I am running a car now,” he
said, ‘‘but before long 1 may not
be. I have plenty of ground and
could have a barn and enough
space for the horse to run around
in.”
1 asked Mr. Holmes how about
the cost. He said he was making
some researches into that and
would tell me more about it the
next time he saw me.—L.G.
Colonel Pratt Getting Around
The latest letter about Colonel
Joseph Hyde I’ratt, who is at
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota, says that he has
gained strength enough to be
walking about his room, and by
this time he has probably ad
vanced to the porch-visiting
stage. On his 72nd birthday, a
few days ago, some of the nurses
gave him a party with a cake
and candles and felicitations.
Mrs. Pratt and Dr. Joseph
Hyde Pratt, Jr., are with him.
Recently James Peters, Mrs.
Pratt’s son, came from an Army
Air Corps training field in Mis
souri for a five-day furlough in
Rochester.
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Choral Club Rehearsals
The ChajK-I Hill Choral Club
will meet at 7:30 Monday even
ing at the Hill Music hall to be
gin rehearsals of ‘‘Elijah,’' the
oratorio they will give in June
at the University Commence
ment.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Robert W. Madry and Bad-Eye
Atwater Barely in Time to
Beat 9 O’clock Deadline
TWO FATHER-AND-SON
COUPLES ARE ON LIST
A total of 1.168 men were
registered here last Monday in
i the third draft registration pro
vided for by Congress. The total
; for the county was 2,075.
The biggest surprise was that
7‘>l) u-i>n> pnrnlloil ,-it the student.
registration place (Memorial
hall) on the University campus.
S. W. J. Welch, who was in com
mand there, had expected that
about half that many students
would be eligible to register and
had prepared accordingly.
As a consequence, he and his
25 assistants were swamped.
They didn’t have time to catch
i their breath between 9 A. M. and
4:30 P. M. During part of this
time about 150 students were
standing in line awaiting their
turn. The supply of registration
cards was exhausted, and more
had to be hurried over from Ral
eigh by bus. Pending their ar
rival. cards were borrowed from
one of the town registration
places.
The students are included in
the Chapel Hill and Orange
county totals given above.
The number registered in the
village was 448. Os these, 254
were white and 194 wore negroes.
They were divided as follows: 93
at the elementary school, where
jL. J. Phipps was in command;
and 196 at the Town Hall and
160 at the negro registration
place at O’Kelly’s dry-cleaning
place on West Franklin street.
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Dutch Knvoy Here
A l.arice Crowd Hear* and Applauds
Loudon in Memorial Hall
A large crowd turned out to
hear Alexander Loudon, minis
ter of the Netherlands to the
United States, when he spoke
Wednesday afternoon in Memo
rial Hall and gave him thunders
of applause when he declared
that the Dutch in the Far East
would fight Japan to the limit of
their strength.
Part of his sj)eech was de
voted to a review of the history
of German aggression. It was a
mistake, he said, to think of this
war as a war against Adolf
Schiekelgruber. It was a war
against Germany. The Germans’
doctrine had always been to take
what they wanted of other peo
ple’s possessions.
In talking of the war in the
Pacific, Mr. Loudon laid empha
sis upon the time element.
“The problem is to get equip
ment-planes and ships,” he
said. “We can only hope and
pray that we will get them in
time to stop the Japanese.”
Mr. Loudon came here on the
invitation of the University’s
International Relations Club.
Services for Children in Lent
Day before yesterday was Ash
Wednesday, the first day of Ix»nt.
A children’s service, with sing
ing by a junior choir, will he held
in the Episcopal church at 5:16
every Wednesday between now
and Easter.
Boxing Here Tomorrow
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The University’s boxing team
will meet Maryland here at 8:30
tomorrow (Saturday) evening in
the Woollen gymnasium. The
meet will be preceded at 7
o’clock by a meet between the
University's freshman team and
the Augusta Military Academy.