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VoL 23, No. 46 Wake Forest to Meet Tar Heels Here Tomorrow Demon Deacons Are Given Edge In What Promises to Be A Spirited Contest By John D. Wood Carolina and Wake Forest will bring football back to Chapel Hill after a four-weeks absence when the two teams meet tomor row at 2 o’clock in the Kenan Stadium. Coach Peahead Walker will line up a strong Demon Deacon team against the ever improv ing Tar Heels. Led by Captain Nick Sacrinity, a great running and passing back, Wake Forest presents a big obstacle to Caro lina’s undefeated Southern Con ference record. The return of ace blocking-back Nick Ogno vich, who has been missing from the line-up since the Duke game becaiise of injuries, will help for tify the Deacon attack. Carolina will be hampered slightly by the absence of Tail back Don Clayton, who has been dropped temporarily from the squad, and also by a minor in jury to Tom Gorman’s passing arm. But there may be compen sation in the performance of two new backfield stars. They are Merl Norcross, who played so well against William and Mary last week, and Floyd “Chunk” Simmons, 186-pound hard running, hard passing ex- G.I. Because of Wake Forest’s fine showing against Tennessee and Duke—it outplayed both teams only to lose by narrow margins —the professional dopesters role the Deacons *ll*l4 favorites. But it is possible that the visitors’ recent three-week vacation may tend to invite staleness. Tomorrow’s game will be the 62nd in the oldest inter-collegi ate football series in North Carolina. Wake Forest and the University played the first regu lar college game in the state in 1888 at the state fair in Raleigh. Carolina is far ahead in the se ries, but Wake Forest won last year’s game and may well take this one. First 1946 Ford Is Bought by Dr. Henry Chapel Hill’s first 1946 model Ford has been bought by Dr. Marina H. Henry. The Strowd Motor Company kept it on pub lis display for several days be fore it was turned over to her. Government regulations require that in the distribution of new cars preference be given to physicians and to persons in certain other emergency occupa tions. Dr. Henry’s car is a 2-dOor super-de-luxe sedan. The price is $1,034, delivered, with tax in cluded, but this is subject to any adjustment that may be made by the OPA. The price of the same type of car in the 1942 model was $1,087. Many orders have been placed with Strowd (ford dealer) and with Hazzard (Chevrolet dealer) for 1946 ears, delivery to be made “as soon as possible.” No Burning on Pavement! Town Manager Hinson cau tions householders against the burning of leaves or anything else on a street pavement, whether sidewalk, curb, gutter, or roadway. Burning in your own yard is permitted if you have the fin watched carefully. »- A gift to a friend: the Chapel HiU Weekly for one year, If. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS CRAVES Editor Fire Alarm Calls to Be Made Easier; Teleohone Number Could Be Made 110 It is going. to be made easierju* Chapel Hill to send in a fire alarm by telephone. This decision is a direct result of the delay in getting a call through to fire headquarters after fire was discovered at the Uni versity gymnasium early on Monday morning of last week. The attention of the University (which owns the Chapel Hill Telephone Company) was called to the fact that nowhere in the telephone directory does the fire department number appear con spicuously. Also, it was suggested that the number should be an easier one to call by dial than the present one, which is 4666. After consulting with Business Manager C. E. Teague, who had had a report from Superintendent of Utilities H. E. Thompson, Controller W. D. Carmichael, Jr., said: “A person trying to put in a fire alarm by telephone might be in the dark, so that he could not read the telephone directory and could not see the figures on the dial. “Mr. Thompson tells us that it would be practical, from an oper ating standpoint, to use the number 110. That can be made the fire department number if the town authorities request it. “But of course the easiest number that can be dialed is zero. That connects the caller with central, and the next issue of the telephone directory will carry on the first page, in good big print, the information that a person wanting to put in a fire alarm can either dial the fire department direct or can dial zero and put in the alarm through central.” Fire Chief Perry said yesterday: “All of us in the fire company are eager to have the alarm system made as easy to operate as possible. If another telephone number is easier for people to use than the one we have now, then of course we ought to have it. We will take this suggestion under consideration.” In Durham the fire alarm telephone number is 116, and the police department number is 117. Pilotless Plane, Electronic Wonder, to Be Put through Paces at Emerson Field Monday Villagers will get a look at one of the Army's hitherto closely guarded war-time secrets when seven Fort Bragg soldiers come here Monday to demonstrate a radio-controlled target plane. The exhibition will be given at a Victory Loan rally at 4 P.M. on Emerson field. Admission is free to everybody. The plane, launched from a catapult at Express train speed, is “piloted” by a man on the ground who holds a radio box and moves a pencil-like stick to transmit signals over a fre quency-modulated wave to a ra dio receiver in the plane. These signals actuate, in the plane, a unit which, by transforming electrical impressions into me chanical action, moves the plane’s controls. The plane, with a 12-foot wing-spread, weighs 100 pounds and can fly 160 miles an hour. It is driven by an 8-horsepower two-cycle constant-speed gaso line engine. Carrying a gas load of V/i gallons, it can stay aloft an hour and ten minutes. It makes about 116 miles an hour in level flight and can do better than 160 in a dive. The main purpose of this elec tronic wonder was to provide a The War Fuad Campaign Is Not Closed Some people have been asking whether or not the United War Fund campaign is closed. It ia not. The com munity’s quota ia $9,000; the amount so far collected is $8,087. The canvass now being made on the campus is not expected to fill out the quota, hence the cam paign committee hopes for more contributions from citizens. Checks should ha sent to J. T. Gobbel at tha bank. CoL Bennett Bound for Home Lt-CoL John 8. Bennett is on a ship bound for the United State*. He la expected to land in Norfolk about November 28. Miee Braun* to Art Faculty Miss Anna Braun* has joined the faculty of the University's art department. CHAPEL HILL, N. C» FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1945 real flying aircraft practice tar get for gunners using .30 and .50 caliber machine guns and 40mm anti-aircraft guns. Highly man euverable, the plan can simulate the attacks of enemy planes with its diving, looping, snap-rolls, and other acrobatics. After a flight, the plane is landed by a parachute built into its fuselage. Lt. Johnny E. Gambill will bd, in command of the seven-man crew which will put the plane through its paces here. Sixteen-Year-Old Boy Confesses to Robbery Os Eight Homes in Chapel Hill Negro Section Arthur Holt, a 16-year-old ne gro boy who was arrested day before yesterday in Hillsboro by Sheriff Latta’s men, has con fessed to implication in the day light robbery of eight negro homes in the western section of Chapel Hill on Friday, Novem ber 2. The robberies, which took place between 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. while the occupants of the houses were absent, was similar to other daylight break-ins com mitted this fall in negro homes in Raleigh and Durham, and to which Holt also confessed. The youth was arrested at the Hillsboro bus station a few min utes after the sheriff's office had been notified that a Hillsboro Hamilton, Back from Japan, la Met by His Family in Durham Lieutenant-Commander Howard Hamilton has cpme home from Japan. Mrs. Hamilton and the children were over at Durham yesterday to meet him when he stepped off the train. In a day or two he will go to Norfolk, accompanied by his wife, and they will return here after he passes through the procedure of being re leased from the Navy. As flag secretary to Commodore Kerning, Lt-Cmdr. Hamilton was one of the early arrivals In Japan. His ship was anchored at the Yokosuka naval base before the signing of the surrender. The Westevetts Have Taken the Gay Johnson Hone* Captain George C. Westevelt, U. S. Navy, retired, and Mrs. Westevelt have taken a lease on the Guy Johnson house in West wood. They have bought the Ralph McDonald lot on Tenney circle and expect to put up a home there aa soon aa building becomes practicable. Captain Westevelt Is by birth a Texan, Mrs. Weste velt a Virginian. They have two daughters; one will enter the junior class in the University, the other will be in the high school. Christmas Gifts for Soldiers at ths Camp Butaer Hospital * The American Legion Auxiliary is preparing Christinas gifts for the soldiers st the Camp Butner hospital. Contributions may be dropped Into boxes that have been placed in stows, or chocks may be sent to Mrs. J. J. Keller, 219 Pittsboro street. Ths Red Cross will deliver the packages at tha hospital. Chapel Hill Chaff In Tuesday’s New York Times Arthur Krock devoted his col umn to President Truman’s visit to Berryville, Va., and the resentment caused among the townspeople by the fact that the President, who went to Berry ville to be best man at ex-Sena tor Bennett Champ Clark’s mar riage, was driven to the church by a back street, entered by a side door, and left town rapidly without giving the waiting throng on Main Street an op portunity to see him. Mr. Krock mentioned Betty Smith’s article, about the incident, that was pub lished recently in these columns. Here is how the name of this newspaper appeared in the Krock column: the Chapel Hill, N. C., weekly. Look at that little w! A capital initial is supposed to make a word prominent, but a far greater effect of promin ence is produced upon the editor who sees his paper lower-cased in this fashion. Before his hor rified eyes the word fairly leaps from the page. It sticks out like a sore thumb; it flames like fire ( in the night. If these be mixed ,metaphors, the editor’s distress ful state of mind is excuse [enough. * To make the shock worse, else- Nvhere in his article Mr. Krock, referring to the Berryville news paper, wrote: “This impelled The Clarke Courier to publish an ‘editorial . . ~” etc. Observe that not only does the name of the Berryville newspaper have a cap ital initial, but so does the pre ceding The. Is not this heaping jinsult on injury? I thought of going before the aldermen at their meeting night last and asking them to adopt resolutions of condemna tion, but after reflection I feared (Continued on last page) negro’s home had just been robbed. Loot from the robbed house was on his person, and he confessed to the robberies in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Dur ham upon being questioned by Chief Sloan and Officer Yeargan of the Chapel Hill Police Force. The houses robbed here were thoroughly ransacked, and money and firearms were among the missing items. The police have recovered some of the loot and hope to recover more of it. Holt, who is from Gastonia, is being held in Durham, where he will be tried for the robberies committed there. It is not yet known whether or not he had ac complices. Roman Catholics Have Bought Lot and Expect to Make Start On Church Soon after New Year L R. Wilson Finds Black Widows Louis R. Wilson, of the facul ty of the University’s school of library science, has found three spiders of the famous poison species, Black Widow, on his place on East Rosemary lane within the last two weeks. He was already interested in the Black Widow from his read ing of a book on the subject published last spring by the Uni versity of North Carolina Press. His interest has been greatly augmented by close personal ac quaintance. “I found two females and one male,” he said yesterday. “It is the female that is very poison ous. The male is poisonous, but much less so. “I came across one female under a board that I moved when I went out to cut off the water from the spigot in the garden. The body is about 5/Bths of an inch long and shaped something like an hour-glass, and there are eight legs. The color is glossy black, with a red spot in the middle of the abdomen. “I found the male between two rocks when I picked up one of them to drive a stob in the (Continued on last page) New Western Union Manager Comes Here First Lieutenant Robert B. Osborne of Albemarle, recently placed on inactive duty by the Army Signal Corps, has come here to be acting manager of the Western Union teleghaph office. His wife and 6-year-old son, Rob ert, Jr., will come on from Al bemarle as soon as he finds a house here. Meanwhile, he is staying at the Carolina Inn. Before entering the Army about four years ago Mr. Os borne was manager of the West ern Union office in Albemarle. Much of his war service was in the Pacific, where he was radio operations officer at Sixth Army headquarters in New Guinea. He also saw action in the Finscha fen and Hollandia campaigns. Since his arrival here last week, Mr. Osborne has been busy reorganizing the Western Union office. “We are putting in some new and more modern equip ment,” he says, “and pretty soon we expect to render service up to our pre-war standard. We will have a strictly up-to-date of fice.” Wettach Resigns from Board At their meeting Wednesday evening the board of aldermen accepted with great regret the resignation of R. H. Wettach. The deanship of the law school, the chairmanship of the com mission that is making a study of the state’s insurance laws (for the purpose of recommending remedial legislation), and other commitments, have put such pressure upon Mr. Wettach that he feels obliged to give up his place on the board of aldermen. His successor, to fill out his term ending in May 1947, will be appointed by the board. Bingo Party Next Tneeday There will be a Bingo Party at the American Legion Hut on Tuesday evening, beginning at 7:80. Everybody is invited. Turkeys, fruit cakes, and other valuable articles will be given as prises. $2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy Sit* near University Campus; Building Will Be of Brick in the Ceiouial Style The Roman Catholic parish of Chapel Hill has bought a lot on the west side of Pittsboro street, about a hundred yards south of Cameron avenue, and will erect a church on it as soon as possible. “We hope to make a start on the construction soon after the New Year,” said Rev. Francis J. Morrissey, the parish priest, yesterday, “and the work will go ahead as rapidly as circum stances permit.” The architect, James McGaedy of Wilson, N. C., has made plans for a brick building in the Col onial style. The lot was bought from D. J. Smith through the Service In surance and Realty Company. With a frontage of 130 feet on Pittsboro street, it adjoins the westernmost of the two barrack buildings that were put up by William Muirhead, the Durham contractor, for the University, about two years ago, to meet a war-time emergency. The dwelling that stands on the south side of the lot will re main where it is and will be used as a rectory. The other part of the lot, on the north side, pro vides ample space for the church building. For several years the Catho lics here have been planning to build and have been looking around for a suitable site. They consider themselves fortunate to obtain this one, is on high ground in an agreeable neigh borhood and is near the Univer sity campus. * The latest pre-war count of Catholics in Chapel Hill, includ ing students, was about 200. Father Morrissey now has an as sistant, Rev. F. K. O’Brien. Game Here Today Is Last of the Season The high school football team will wind up its season today in a game with the undefeated Methodist Orphanage at 3 o’clock on Fetzer field. The Wildcats, at full strength and all set to shoot the works, have vowed to give the powerful orphans a fight to remember. Chsrpel Hill lost to the Oxford high school, 28-0, last Friday in a night game at Oxford. The much heavier Oxonians, using power plays straight into the line, displayed unadorned brute strength in marching 55 yards for their first score as soon as the game got underway. Their oth er three touchdowns came on a pass in the second quarter and a blocked kick and an inter cepted pass in the last quarter. Standout players for Chapel Hill were Jimmy Blake, fullback, and Smitty Lineberger, right end. Following today’s gsme, the visiting team will be entertained by the high school seniors from 6:80 to 8 o’clock at a party at the Recreation Center. There will be dancing, and the program will include vocal numbers by Nancy Williams and Clyde Prid gen, accompanied at the piano by Johnny Johnson. Winifred Thompson will be mistress o t ceremonies. Phil Sehtahaa Back to U. & Phil Schinhan has come back from Europe. He will stop by here to •ee 111* way to join hi* wife ip Athens, Georgia. £ ' y * * ». • • i m. 'V’i jAifJ
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