VoL2O, No. 25
Draftees Are to
Be Examined by
Physicians Here
New Arrangement to Save Men
Here from Having to Make
Journey* to Hillsboro
HEDGPETH TO BE HEAD
OF EXAMINING BOARD
A medical examining board j
for prospective draftees has been
set up here, and Chapel Hill men j
with draft numbers coming nip I
will no longer have to journey to j
Hillsboro for their physical ex
amination. The new board was 1
authorized by the State Selective
Service Headquarters, at the re
quest of Clarenbe Pickard of the
Orange county draft board.
The affairs of the examining
board are under the general
supervision of Dr. Ed Hedgpeth. j
Its other members are Dr. W. R.
Berryhill, Dr. William Morgan,
Dr. Robert E. Stone, Dr. Leonard
E. Fields, Dr.- William Fleming,
and Dr. Russell L.. Holman. All
the physicians serve without pay.
The examinations will be held
at. the University infirmary on
two designated days each month.
One day will be for whites and
the other for negroes. The. board
here is for men in the southern
part of the county. The board in
Hillsboro, which formerly ex
amined men from all over the
county, will continue to function
for the northern part:
Transportation difficulties re
sulting from the tire and gaso
line shortage made it imperative
that an examining board be set
up.here, and Mr. Pickard went
to Raleigh the other day and ask
ed the members of the state
board for permission to organ
ize it. They agreed promptly af
ter he told them how hard it was
for men in this part of the county
to get to Hillsboro for their ex
amination appointments.
Mr. Pickard also asked the
board in Raleigh if arrangements
could be made for Chapel Hill
uranees io r>c picked up Here in
stead of their having to go re
port to Hillsboro when they were
to lx- transported to an induct ion
center. But the board said this
was not practicable. <
Arthur Woods in Action
Over the radio this week
came the news that Arthur
Woods of Chapel Hill, son of
Mrs. Jean Woods, was one of the
Americans in the Royal Air
Force who took part in. the re
cent sea-and-air battle in the
Mediterranean. Arthur was
trained in Canada and about a
year ago went to England to
join the R.A.F.
Registration Card Needed
Be sure you have your state
registration card, with license
number of your car, w hen you go
to get your gasoline ration book
week after next. Without it, you
can’t get a ration book. You’d
better make certain now, whether
or not you have your registration
card, so that if you've lost it vou
can send to Raleigh for a dupli
cate.
First Aid Instructor!) to Meet
A special meeting of the Red Cross
First Aid Instructors’ Club will be
held at 7:30 Tuesday evening in the
auditorium of Howell hall. Gases will
be discussed. Any first aid instructors
here who are not members of the club
are invited to attend.
A Sunday Afternoon Concert
The All-State High School Orches
tra, composed of students studying
here in the University Summer
School’s high school music course, will
give a concert at 5 o’clock Sunday
afternoon in *the Hill Music hall.
Eve’rybody is invited.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Billy Woollen Shot Down 4 Jap Planes
Chapel Hill was brought into
the news, over the radio last
Saturday night and in the news
papers the next morning,
through the heroic performance
of its native son. Lieutenant
William T. Woollen, of the U. S.
Navy Air Force, known to all his
friends here as Billy Woollen.
Lieutenant E. Scott McCuskey,
commander of a squadron of
fighter planes, told an Associ
ated Press correspondent at
Honolulu how Billy had shot
down four Jap planes in battles
over the Pacitic.
The radio broadcast in which
New Registration under Draft Law Is Announced
The registration of men be*
tween the ages of 18 and 20, as
provided /for by the Selective
Service Act, will take place from
7 A.M.' to 9 P.M. next Tuesday,
June 30, in the tire truck room
at the Town Hall. Both whites
and negroes will register there.
George Lawrence will be in com
mand.
The registration of University
students will take place at the
same time in Memorial hall un
der the direction of William 1).
Perry of the University faculty.
Model Market’s Closing Startles Community
rin- Model Market startled the
village Tuesday morning by fail
ing to open. Nobody except the
employees had l>een told alxmt it.
Scores of customers called by
telephone to place their orders,
and got no answer. Persons who
came to make purchases found
this notice posted on the door:
The management of this store
is closing for a little rest —maybe
for the duration of thtfwar.
The reason for closing is the
shortage of help and shortage of
tires. __________________
t e the past patron
age of all oar customers.
Jaines S. Fowler
J , F. ilgrd. .
“I’m just whipped down,” said
Mr. Fowler when he was asked
for further explanation. “I have
been working seventeen hours a
day, and the doctor has been tell
ing me that if 1 don’t quit I'll
crack up. Many of my best men
have left me, either drafted into
the Army or gone to other jobs,
Miss Newsome to Wed Tomorrow
Miss' Jennie Wells Newsome
of Chapel Hill and Lieut. John
J. Pitts, Jr., of Fort Bragg and
Bloomington, 111., will be married
here at 4 o’clock tomorrow (Sat
urday) afternoon in the Epis
copal church. All friends of the
couple are invited. No formal in
vitations are being issued. The
groom’s parents will arrive here
today. Other guests from out of
town will be Mrs. R. M. Vaughan,
Miss Carrie Belle Vaughan, and
Mr. and Mrs. 11. C. Newsome,
all of Winston-Salem.
Nursing School Is Accredited
The Riepartment of public health
nursing of the University’s school of
public health has been accredited by
the Association of Collegiate Schools
of Nursing. It is now one of 27 such
accredited schools of public health
nursing for graduate nursing in uni
versities and colleges in the nation.
Twenty nurses were graduated this
year. The teachers are Miss Ruth Hay
and Miss Margaret Blee.
Anita KattsofTs Picture
A photograph of Anita Kattaoff, 2-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.
O. Kattsoff of Chapel Hill, appears on
page 7 of the July issue of Woman’*
Day, the magazine on sale at all A. &
P. stores. It shows her among her
father’s flock of chickens. She is
fetchingly dressed in baby cap, sweater,
and trousers and is holding in her arms
a hen almost as big as she is.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 26, -*942
Billy was mentioned came at 11
o’clock Saturday night. His
mother, Mrs. Charles T. Wool
len, was then at the Soldiers’
Center, where she had been serv
ing as a hostess to the nayal
aviation cadets. When she. got
home a few minutes later she
heard the telephone bell ring. It
was Mrs. Sam Emory calling to
tell her about the broadcast.
Other people had heard the
news over the radio, and it was
passed on jubilantly by tele
phone from house to house.
Lieutenant McCuskey has vis
ited Billy here in Chapel Hill.
.Students who are residents of
Chapel Hill may register at
either place.
The. registration place at the
Town Hall is for Chapel Hill and
Carrboro and ' the surrounding
countryside. Mr. Lawrence esti
mated yesterday that about 250
men would register there. He
said that it was hard to estimate
how many would register on the
cam pus.
Citizen volunteers who helped
with the Other three draft regis
trations will help with this one.
and I couldn’t get 'anybody to
take their place.
“I’d come down iti the morning
and find I didn’t have anybody
to drive the delivery truck. I’d
have to go out with it myself, and
while 1 was gone I’d be worrying
about not being in the store to
look out for things there.
“1 got/some girls in to help.
They di/d the best they could, but
they Were not trained for the job.
Our customers would wait
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Scrap Rubber Riled Hitfh at Strowd’s
Proof of Chapel Hill’s good re
sponse to President Roosevelt’s
request for rubber for the war in
dustries is the bi& pile of old t ires
and other rubber articles on the
floor of the display room at the
Strowd Motor Company.
Bruce Strowd, who is chairman
of the rubber campaign in this
county, says that the pile con
tains about 5,000 pounds of rub
ber, of which 3,600 pounds was
bought at one cent a pound and
about 1,400 pounds was given.
“There is probably a lot more
old rubber in town,” Mr. Strowd
said yesterday. "And we will lx
glad to pick it up. If anybody who
has rubber to give or sell will
telephone us at 5161 we will come
Community Meeting on Rationing
Two representatives of the
consumers’ section of the Office
of Price Administration in Wash
ington will be present at a com
munity meeting on rationing to
be held at 8 P.M. Monday after
next, July 6, in Gerrard hall.
Consumers’ problems in connec
tion with rationing will he dis
cussed.
Annual Red Cross Meeting
The annual meeting of the Chapel
Hill chapter of the American Red Cross
will be held at 8 o’clock Monday even
ing at the parish house. The program
will include the election of officers,
short reports J»y committee chairmen,
and the showing of a movie entitled
“We Were There,” which depicts the
work done by American Red Cross
nurses in England.
Engagement of Miss Lawrence
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred S. Lawrence
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Elsie Scott, to Rev. Robert
Emmet Gribbin, Jr. The wedding will
take place early in the fall,
Chapel Hill Chaff
The tulip seasefn is now sev
eral weeks in the past, but here
is a tulip story that will prob
ably be new to most of my read
ers. The J. S. Bennetts had an
exceptional display at their home
on Gimghoul road. In the garden
there were plenty of the beauti
ful flaming springtime blossoms
to give to friends, while those in
a long row along the front wall
were left untouched for the de
light of people passing by. Late
one afternoon \li> Bennett had
the whim to count the blossoms
of them. The next morning, as
he emerged from the house, he
jsaw that the tulips had been
raided. When he had recovered
from his dismay, he made a re
count. The thief who had come
In the night had neatly clipped
and taken away 85 of the tulips.
* * *
The fronds of the mimosa fold
up tight at nightfall and reopen
the next morning. I had.known
i this only .'as an interesting fact
(which W. (’. Coker or Ivey
Lewis or some other naturalist
had told me), until Miss-Jose
.phine Sharkey informed me, just
before she left for Vermont this
month, that it had great practical
lvalue. “I've rented my house
here for the summer,” she said.
“You know, it is surrounded by
mimosas. The tenants every
summer tell me the place is cool,
and one reason, they think, is
that the mimosa leaves stay open
all day and give a thick shade,
and shut up at night and make it
easy for every breeze to blow
through.”
* * *
When I met Mrs. Frank Miller
jim the street the other dav she
I told me that her friends down in
| Alabama were saying that, o.f her
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for it in a truck next Tuesday or
Wednesday. We will pay a cent
T7t~p(Tm'u> ioi IT, oi it cnii In* giVcii
to the cause.”
The rubber drive here is part
of a nation-wide campaign called
tor by the President. It is to con
tinue till June 80.
The rubber collected in the
drive will he sold to the war in
dustries and the proceeds w ill go
to the Army and Navy Relief
Fund. Filling station operators,
who are acting as collectors of
the salvaged rubber, have been
instructed to pay one cent a
pound to people who don’t care
to give it free. This money will,
of course, be returned to the
operators when they turn in the
rubber they have collected.
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Knight Speaks in Virginia
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Edgar W. Knight went to the
State Teachers College at Rad
ford, Va., this week to give three
talks on educational problems.
1,966 in Summer School
The enrollment in the Univer
sity Summer School is 1,966.
This is 188 alxive last year’s.
Father Morrissey’s Assistant
Rev. D. E. Sullivan of York, Pi., has
been appointed assistant pastor to Rev.
F. J. Morrissey of the Catholic parish
here. He arrived in the village last
week and is living at the Catholic rec
tory at 719 Gimghoul road. Mr. Sul
livan, a tall young stalwart, received
his theological training at the St.
Francis Seminary at Loretto, Pa. He
comes here at a time when the activi
ties of the parish are being broadened
because of the many Catholics among
the cadets and officers of the Naval Pre-
Flight school here. Three Sunday
morning Masses are now being held:
at 6:15, 10, and 10:45 in Gerr&rd hall.
Weekday Masses are held at 7 and 7:30
every morning at the rectory.
Gasoline Rationing Schedule,
Under Government’s New Plan,
Announced by Chief of Board
7c Cut in Tax Kate
In Indicated
A cut of 7 cents in the town
of Chapel Hill tax rate from
$1.60 to $1.53 for town and
school combined—is indicated.
The word indicated is used be
cause ihe budget calling for a tax
ra,te of $1.53 on the SIOO of tax
valuation is tentative. The law
requires that the tentative bud
get be on file at the town office for
20 days for inspection by any
body who wants to inspect it. Be
fore adopting the final budget the
aldermen may make changes,
either on their own initiative or
at the suggestion of any citizen.
Evidence that property own
ers should not be too hastily jubi
lant over a tax rate cut is con
tained in the record of what hap
pened last year. A cut of 4 cents,'
from $1.61 to $1.57, was indi
cated by the tentative budget;
but the aldermen made increases
in the budget sufficient to move
the rate up to $1.60.
The tentative budget now on
file is only a little more than
SI,OOO less than last year's bud
get. What makes a cut in the
tax rate likely is the increase in
tax valuations.
A New Poultry Law
An ordinance regulating the
keeping of poultry was passed
at the last meeting of the board
of aldermen. It prohibits the
commercial raising of y hie kens
or other poultry in the village
and limits to 20 the number a
person may keep. It also says
that poultry houses or lots must
be kept in a sanitary condition
and that, they nmsiJte at least 56
feet from any residence other
than that of their owners.
The passage of this ordinance
is a result of the many complaints
about chicken nuisances received
by the board in the last few
years. Its purpose is to prevent
the maintenance of poultry un
der conditions that are offensive
to the neighbors, and at the same
time to permit the keeping of a
reasonable number of chickens
for family use.
Cynthia Brown
A daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. H. N. Brown, 3rd, of
Lake Charles, La., Thursday,
June 18. Her name is Cynthia.
Mr. Brown, a native of Chapel
Hill and an alumnus of the Uni
versity, is a son of Mrs. Henry
N. Brown of Chapel Hill, who is
now at Lake Charles. The
younger Mrs. Brown is the for
mer Miss Edna Cole of Roxboro.
At the Cleveland Convention
* «a
Mr. and Mra. J. Maryon Saunders,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Honeycutt, and
Dr. W. I*. Richardson represented the
Chapel Hill Kiwards Club at the con
vention of Kiwania International in
Cleveland, Ohio, last week. The Honey
cutts were the guests of their son and
daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Mur
ray Honeycutt, who live in Cleveland.
The quota of attendance for the Caro
linas district, of which Mr. Saunders
is president, was set at 85. The goal
was 100 -and the actual attendance
was 114- Os the 48 clubs in the dis
trict, 47 were represented at the con
vention.
Grave Doubt about A.H.’s Age
* Among the congratulatory messages
that Archibald Henderson got on' his
65th birthday last week was this one
from Governor Broughton: ‘‘With
grave doubt as to the correctness of
the information concerning ydfir age,
I nevertheless Balute you on your 66th
birthday and join with your host of
friends in North Carolina and else
where in acclaiming your remarkable
record of service to the state and na
tion."
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Moody Durham Tells at What
Places, and When, Ration
Books Are to Be Issued
ONLY “A” BOOKS TO BE
ISSUED AT REGISTRATION
Moody Durham, chief of the
rationing board for the southern
half of Orange county, announced
yesterday the schedule for regis
tration under the new plan for
gasoline rationing.
The days for registration will
be Thursday, Friday, and Satur
day of week after next—July 9,
10, and 11.
-The hours will be 9:30 A.M. to
l P M., 3 to 6 P.M., and 7 to 9
P.M.
There will be only two places
for registration, for the people
of Chapel Hill and Bingham
townships, white and negro: the
Chapel Hill elementary school
and the Carrboro school.
Two meetings of registrars—
one from 12 to 1 Sunday, July 5,
the other at 8 P.M., Tuesday,
July 7—will be held at the Chapel
Hill elementary school. At these
meetings the registrars will re
ceive instructions and explana
tions about the rationing proce
dure.
Under the new plan coupon
books, not cards, will be issued to
car owners. At registration, only
“A” books will be issued. .The
holder of an “A” book will get
only enough gasoline for about
1150 .miles, but this may be
j changed at any time on orders
jfrom Washington.
Anybody who considers him
self entitled to mor,e mileage
must apply to the rationing board
for a supplement. After be has
stated his case, the board will de
cide how much gasoline to allow
him, up to a certain maximum
limit fixed by the government.
(iirl Scouts Wanted .......
Motor Corps . Needs Bicycle Riders %
to Deliver Sewing Materials
Girl Scouts who would like to
become auxiliary members of the
Red Cross Motor Corps being or
ganized here are inviteckto meet
with officers of the Corps at 5
o’clock this (Friday) afternoon
at the Recreation Center in the
old Methodist -church.
“We want girls with bicycles.”
one of the officers said yester
day. “Their chief job will lie to
pick up sewing materials at the
Red Cross sewing room at the
parish house and to deliver them
to people who want to sew at
home for the Red Cross. Later
they will collect the finished
products and deliver them to the
sewing room.’’
The girls will get credit toward
a Scout merit badge for the work
they do, and they will wear a ,
sleeve insignia indicating that
they are helping their country
in its war effort.
The work will be fully explain
ed to the girls at the meeting this
afternoon.
Movies Today and Tomorrow
“4 Happened in Flatbush,” with
Lloyd Nolan and Carole will
be shown here :x>day at the Carolina
theatre. “Meet the Holdens,’’ with
William Holden and France* Dee, will
be here as a late show at 11:15 to
night and as the regular show to
morrow.
Newcomers in Graham Apartments
Newcomers among the people living
in the Graham Court Apartments on
McCauley street are Mrs. Dorothy P.
Nelson, Mrs. M. M. Montgomery, W.
G. Eberle, Dr. J. G. Wright, Lieuten
ant John Dickson, Lieutenant Robert
Brawley, Lieutenant G. C. Gllday, and
IC. C,.Foard.