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Volume 23, No. 12 Thus Far There Are Only Three New Candidates No Opponent for Mayor Madry; Henry Thinks of Running for Judge, but Has Not Filed The Chapel Hill town election will take place May 8. Thus far there are only three new candidates; that is, three candidates besides the incum bents standing for reflection. Brack Creel and Max Weaver are running for the board of aldermen. The present members of the board who will stand for re .‘election are F. 0. Bowman, Bernice Fitch, and Bruce Strowd. ' ,H Paul Robertson is a candidate for judge of the recorder’s court in. opposition to the present judge, H. A. Whitfield. Tom Henry has told some of his friends that he is thinking of entering the judgeship race, but he is not yet formally a candi date. Mayor K. W. Madry will stand for reflection. No rival candi date for mayor has yet appeared. The process of becoming a candidate is called “filing”; meaning that, if you want to run for an office, you file your name, or somebody else files your name, with the town clerk. This must be done at least 15 days l>efore the election. That is all there is to the nomination pro cedure. The registration books will be open April 21-28 (except Sun day) at the fire department in the Town Hall, from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. except on Saturday and from 9 A.M. to 5 P.ftf. op .Satur day. This is for new electors; l>ersons who have registered for a town election before do not have to register again. Saturday the 28th will be Challenge Day. Rev. R. L. Bolton is registrar, and A. A. Pickard and Mrs. E. R. Hinton are judges of election. William P. Hudson Is To Be a Vice-Consul After having been discharged from the Army, as the result of a severe foot injury suffered in the course of his training, Wil liam P. Hudson (known to his friends as Billy Hudson) has re ceived an appointment to the Foreign Service Auxiliary of the State Department. He is to be a vice-consul after he completes a course of training that he is now taking in Washington. After he was discharged from the Army hospital in Spring field, Mo., in July, he did educa tional work among the patients there. He was engaged in that when the State Department of fered him an appointment. The discharge from the Army fol lowed. He would like to be sent to Central or South America, lie cause he has been most interest ed in those parts of the world and has been studying Spanish eagerly for two years. legion Fair in September The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion will hold its First Annual Legion Fair in the week of September 3-8 in the Little Tin Can at the school. Library Meeting Today There will be a meeting of the Mary Bayley Pratt Library As sociation at 3:45 this (Friday) afternoon at the elementary school. The Weekly can follow you all over the world—keeping you in touch with home. The Chapel Ml Weekly LOUIS MATES Editor Vance to Leave Post In Pre-Flight School Captain DeaS~H. Vance, se nior officer of the Navy Pre- Flight School, who has been commanding officer of the Navy Hospital ever since it was built, has received orders transferring him to Navy Medical Corps head quarters in Washington. He will leave about April 1. Mrs. Vance will stay on here for a while. A native of Colorado, Captain Vance entered the Navy at the beginning of the first World War. He was one of the Navy’s first flight surgeons, and while he perfected himself in flight surgery he learned to be a pilot. He flew many a time from his station at Norfolk to Hatteras to serve members of the Coast Guard. And civilians, too, for the people on that remote island were often in sore need of help. Once he brought a woman from Hatteras to Norfolk just in time for her twins to be bom in a 1 hospital. He has served in the Philip- i pines and at other overseas sta tions. He was senior flight sur geon of the airplane carrier Lex- j ington when it roamed over the I Pacific in the vain search for Amelia Earhart. He is a member of the Amer ican Society of Chest Physicians j and the American Psychiatric; Association. Boone and Clark Make Record Catch at Lake; They Bring Home 15 Bass Weighing 85 Pounds J. S. Boone, the fireman, and Brodie Clark, the iceman, made the biggest catch of fish last Saturday tbt has ever been made in lake. When back across the light of the set ting sun and tied their boat to the little pier by the dam, they had 15 bass weighing about 85 pounds. The largest, 9Vi pounds, was caught by Mr. Boone. A score or so of the friends of the two fishermen were guests at a fish fry Tuesday evening on the lawn of Mr. Boone’s home on Carr street. The sight of the bass sizzling in a pan over the outdoor fire was a powerful ap petizer. It made the onlookers fairly foam at the mouth, and the hopes aroused by the spec tacle were gloriously fulfilled. The company admired a pho tograph which T. C. Moore of Wootten-Moulton had taken. In the middle of it were shown the 15 fish nailed in two horizontal rows to a long board. At the ends, holding up the board, were Mr. Boone and Mr. Clark. Natur ally they looked proud. Who wouldn’t, in the presence of such an array of captives? Other fishermen who have made good catches at the lake are Robert Womble and Kenneth Putnam. F. 8.1. Seek* Clerical Help Are there persons in Chapel Hill who would like to do clerical work in the identification divi sion of the F. 8.1. ? If there be such, they are invited to come to the Chapel Hill post office be tween 10 and 12 o’clock tomor row (Saturday) and be inter viewed by W. A. Hilgendorf, the F.B.L , 's resident agent in Dur ham. High school graduates are eligible. Applicants must be at least 16 years old. The starting salary is 51.752. Ritchies’ Open-House Tonight Rev. and Mrs. Ritchie will have an open-house from 8 to 10 o'clock this (Friday) evening at the Congregational - Christian parsonage at 232 McCauley street.' . ' . CHAPEL HILL, K C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1945 New Chief of Marines Is Here from Pacific 1 Captain Preston S. Marchant has come from 29 months of service in the Pacific to succeed Major James W. Marshall as commanding officer of the de tachment of U. S. Marines in the Navy V-12 unit here in the University. These two officers are both from Greenville, S. C., and have been friends from boy hood. Major Marshall will leave in a few days for his new post at Camp Lejeune. Captain Marchant entered the Army as a private December 1940; transferred to the Marine Corps in August 1941; was com missioned in January 1942. He was in the force that landed on Guadalcanal about a month after the initial landing at Henderson field. In the 12 months that he was stationed at Tulagi his out fit was bombed 87 times by Japanese planes. He took part in the initial assault in the Bis marck Archipelago. Ribbons that he wears are the Pre-Pearl Harbor, the Asiatic- Pacific (with three stars), and the Presidential Unit Citation (with one star). Captain Marchant and his wife are at the Carolina Inn. They may seek other quarters later. Buy War Bonds \pril 4 will be the last day of the present fishing season. An other season will open May 20. Anybody who brings to the. University Service Plants officm an identification card signed Chief Sloan can get a permit mi fish at the lake. The boat fee for a half-day is 50 cents, and there is an additional fee of 25 cents per person. Negro Scouts Join in Waste Paper Collection The Negro Boy Scouts of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are joining in the waste paper salvage campaign. They will make a tour of the nj/gro sections of the community tomorrow (Saturday) morn ing to put paper out on sidewalks, and some of them will go around tomorrow afternoon, in the town truck, to pick up the paper and take it to the storage shed. White people who have paper they want taken from their homes are asked to telephone the town manager (5501) in the morning, and he will send for it. Service League to Hear Ness at Art Gallery Tuesday Afternoon “Come early” is a specially urgent plea to the members of the Junior Service League in connection with their meeting at 3:30 next Tuesday afternoon at the Person Hall Art Gallery. This plea is made so that the members will be able to see the exhibit of stage art before Kenneth Ness bgins his talk on “From Sketch to Stage.” The exhibit (which includes sketches from Okla homa,” the Ballet Russe, and several operas) bears directly upon his topic. University Music Department Gives Entertainments over Radio The University music department is giving a series of enter tainments from 12:45 to 1 o’clock on Saturdays through radio sta tion WDNC in Durham. Tomorrow’s program: Miss Jane Clark Cheshire (organ); Rex Coston (baritone solo); Miss Emery, Mrs. Burnham, and Miss Porter (trio —piano, violin, and ’cello). There will be 12 more of these Saturday entertainments. Meeting Wednesday Evening to Organize “Americans United” —: A meeting to organize a Chapel Hill branch of Americans Unit ed for World Organization will be held at 8 o’clock next Wednes day evening at the elementary school auditorium. After the busi ness meeting there will be a showing of the film, ‘Target for To night,” which tells the exciting story of the R.A.F.’s bombing of Germany. James P. Raugh Is Promoted to Commander James P. Raugh, commanding officer of the Navy Pre-Flight School, has been promoted from lieutenant-commander to com mander. He came here in May 1942 as head of the military depart ment of the school; was moved up to the post of executive officer when Commander (now Commodore) Kessing left; and about a year ago succeeded Commander Graff as commanding officer. The Schools WUI Have a Vacation at Easier-Time The Chapel Hill schools will have a spring vacation at Easter. It will begin at 1 o’clock next Wednesday, March 28, and will ex tend through Monday, April 2. Chapel Hill Chaff I like everything about H. M. Wagstaff’s home except one ar ticle of furniture in the hall. That’s all right as an article of furniture, too, if it could just be covered with drapes on the ap proach of a certain category of callers. When I went to call on Mr. Wagstaff on a recent after noon and looked through the glass panel of his front door while I punched the beii-button, I said to myself:* “Who* is that old bald-headed fellow staring at me?” I was startled, and dis pleased, to find that I was look ing into a mirror. •. * # Every newspaper editor, how ever experienced, is likely to get confused sometimes about what phraseology to use in the report ing of weddings, receptions, at homes, teas, and such like events. I mean male editors, of course. Society editors, invari ably women, know exactly how to say it. Or, if they don’t, they think they do, and that keeps them from having any feeling of confusion? If they want to sprinkle the word honoree through their reports, they go ahead and do it, without mercy and with no sense of guilt. In the chronicle of a wedding in last week’s paper I mentioned Mrs. Deane H. Vance as “guest of honor.” A subscriber chal lenged me on it, asking in a de risive tone: “Didn’t you mean ‘matron of honor’?” In this case I had good back ing, and I replied with assur ance: “Now, look here. I got the notice of that wedding from lieutenant Eiserer. He is the Btoiic relations officer of the Pjjjp-Flight School. He has never Rgfsled me yet, and 1 have abso lute confidence in him. This piece came to me from his office clearly typed, in language that (Continued on last page) Merchants Will Meet Monday Evening to Hear OPA Official Explain Mew Price Regulations Gay Show Now On The Carolina Playmakers pro duce various kinds of drama, ranging from the starkly realis tic to the airily mirthful. The dominant note of the one now on at the Playmakers Theatre is gaiety. It was made specially for serv ice men, principally men in hos pitals, . and what they want in the way of a show is something frolicsome. “Polyphonic Pas times,” as it is called, which is being given here before being taken on a tour of Army and Navy stations, is mostly sing ing and dancing. Many familiar songs, of established popular ity, are on the program. The play has been given twice this week and will be given twice more, at 8:30 this (Friday) eve ning and tomorrow evening. Re served seats (at 93 cents) are on sale at room 209, Phillips hall, and the Ledbetter-Pickard store. A season ticket holder may get a seat without charge by presenting his ticket. Cameron Murchison Home from Iceland Sergeant Cameron Murchison of the U. S. Army has come home from a long stay in Ice land, and he and his mother, Mrs. Claudius T. Murchison, are at the Carolina Inn. They will leave tomorrow. Cameron is going to the Army rest and recreation center at the Grove Park Inn at Asheville. He doesn’t know what his next assignment will be. When his friends ask him what physical characteristic of Ice land impressed him most, he has no hesitation in answering. It’s the high winds. The cold is not so severe as to make the Ameri can soldiers unhappy, but the wind is a curse. Sandbags have to be put on Nissen huts to keep them from being blown down, and ropes are stretched from one to another to give the men something to cling to. Gales of 120 miles an hour are frequent. David, Cameron’s younger brother, is with a signal bat- 1 talion in Europe. He was with Patton’s army on one of its spec tacular sweeps. When he was last heard from, about three weeks ago, he was in Belgium. Peacock Is in the Navy Erie E. Peacock, Jr., went to. Fort Bragg early Tuesday morn ing to be inducted into the armed forces. “I hope they’ll put me in the Navy,” he told his parents just before he left Chapel Hill. In the afternoon they got a telegram from him saying he had taken a radar test, had passed it, and had been as signed to the Navy. He has now gone to the Great Lakes Train ing Station. Wisteria AU Over the Village Wisteria is blooming bounti fully all over the village. There is the independent wisteria, shrubs and trees, and there are the wisteria vines that climb along the walls and over trel lises and up trees. In some places the beautiful lavender foliage goes up into trees to a height of 50 or 75 feet. Seven Navy Nurses Promoted All seven nurses in the Navy Hospital here have been promot ed. Now the chief nurse is a lieutenant and the other six nurses are lieutenants (jg). 32 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy Its Purpose Is to Create Sup ply of Low-Priced Articles Not Now Found on Market Chapel Hill and Carrboro merchants are to meet at 8 o’clock Monday evening at the elementary school (in room 23 on the ground floor) to hear George P. Whitley, Jr., from the district OPA office in Raleigh, explain the important new regu lation, known as MPR 580, gov erning retail clothing, drygoods, and household furnishings. The Chapel Hill Merchants Association has created a com mittee to help merchants com ply with the regulation, and this committee will meet at 2 o’clock Monday in room 204 Peabody hall. Since present ceiling prices, based on prices of March 1942, were established, many low priced articles have practically disappeared from the market. The purpose of MPR 580 is to get such articles back on sale. This is to be accomplished by the fixing of a new price base, that of March 19, 1945; by a thor ough examination of the records of prices charged by manufac turers, wholesalers, and retail ers ; and by the allocation of ma terials only to those manufac turers who will sell at prices that will make possible fair wholesale and fair retail prices. Volunteer price-panel assist ants are distributing to retail ers this week a booklet contain ing the new regulation and other information. Every merchant is required to sigh a receipt for the documents brought to him. All merchants affected by MPR 580 have to make out pric ing charts to be filed with the district OPA office by April 20. Election Postscript: Lanier Is Candidate Just before going to press, the Weekly was informed that Ed win S. Lanier had declared him self a candidate for the board of aldermen. Mr. Lanier makes the following statement: “To the People of Chapel Hill: “I am a candidate for the Board of Alderman in the May 8 election, and I would appre ciate your support and vote. “Let me make clear my mo tive. I have no axe to grind. Rather, like all who have lived long in this community, I love Chapel Hill and am interested in its growth and progress. I en joy working with and for people. All phases of govern ment interest me. Chapel Hill is bound to grow rapidly during the next four to ten years, and there will be many interesting and difficult civic problems for the town’s elected representa tives to handle. I would like to try to help with them. “If elected, I will, to the ut most of my capacity and energy, listen to any citizen’s expression of opinion, dig for and study facts, and perform with impar tiality, faithfulness, and vigor an alderman’s duties to all the people in this town.” Lt.-Col. U instead Married Lt. - Colonel Frank Graham Umstead was married in Quan tico, Va., last Friday, March 16, to Corporal Margaret E. Burris of Wisconsin. Cpl. Burris has been stationed at Camp Lejeune. Mrs. John Umstead, Col. Urn stead's mother, attended the wedding. > N«ttfy the WmUi es mm «T any change *a year mMtws.
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