VoL 26, No. 55
Luting of Men
For Draft Will
Begin on Monday
Place: American Legion Hut on
Rosemary St.; Hours, 9 to 5;
Mrs. Grumman is Registrar
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Registration for the draft,
under the new law, will begin
this coming Monday, August 30,
and continue through Saturday,
September 18 (omitting Sun
days and the Labor Day holiday,
September 6).
The place for registration in
Chapel Hill will be the American
Legion Hut on Rosemary street.
The hours: 8 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Clarence Pickard, responding
to the call for service, is again
Chapel Hill’s member of the
Orange county draft board. He
made the arrangements for the
registration here.
Mrs. R. M. Grumman will be
chief registrar for Chapel Hill.
Volunteers, to help her, are
needed. Anybody who will help
is asked to notify her imme
diately.
Persons born in years shown
register on dates op
posite the years:
1922 (after Aug. 30) Aug. 30
1923 Aug. 31 and Sept. 1
1924 Sept. 2 and 3
1925 Sept. 4 and 7
1926 Sept. 8 and 9
1927 Sept.. 10 and 11
1928 Sept. 13 and 14
1929 Sept. 15 and 16
1930 (before Sept. 19) —
Sept. 17 and 18
Persons born on or after Sept.
19, 1930 wif register within 5
days of the day; they become 18
years old. ,
Outside of Chapel Hill, regis
tration places will be: draft
board office in Hillsboro; Aycock
school building; grocery store
next to school at Caldwell;
Grange hall at White Cross.
The members of the county
draft board, besides Mr. Pick
ard,' are G. O. Reitzel (chair
man) and Sam Hughes.
Five New Homes on
Pine St. in Carrboro
Five new homes are being
built this year on Pine street in
Carrboro. Graham Parks of
Mount Airy, a student in the
University school of commerce,
and his wife moved into one of
them in January.
R. J. Kiddoo, new principal of
the Carrboro school, his wife,
and their two young daughters
recently of Burlington, expect to
move into another of the houses
before school opens. Dwight
Ray, who is building one of the
homes for H. F. Nanney, cashier
of the Carrboro bank, and his
wife and daughter, says it will
be ready for occupancy by the
middle of next month. Founds
tions are being laid this week
for Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Whit
fields’ home. (The Whitfields are
from Roxboro.) Mr. and Mre. R.
W. Oakley, also of Roxboro, hope
to have their house completed
by the first of November.
The Patton*
Mrs. James W. Patton has come
from Charleston to join her husband.
They have settled in their home on
East Franklin street which they
recently bought from the R. D. W.
Oonnors. Their 13-year-old daughter,
Emily Frances, will come when school
opens.
Printshop Binders Have a Picnic
The bindery department of the
Orange Printshop had a picnic at
the home of Hiss Patsy Ellinger on
the Durham road Tuesday evening.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Louis Gram
Editor
School Opening Postponed to Sept. 13
On the advice of the health authorities the opening of the Chapel
Hill schools, scheduled for September 7, has been postponed to
Monday, September 13.
Until yesterday afternoon it had been planned to open the
school on the 7th as originally scheduled, but after the reporting
of another polh) case yesterday morning Dr. O. David Garvin, the
health officer, advised the postponement. This paper delayed its
going-to-press in order to get the change in.
Superintendent Davis gave out yesterday detailed information
about the opening:
Registration for new students in the elementary school, grades
1 to 8, will be held in the elementary school office Thursday morn
ing, September 9, from 9to 12 o’clock. Transfer students for the
first 8 grades from other schools and beginners wsb did not regis
ter at the pre-school clinic last spring should report to Miss
Mildred Mooneyhan, the principal.
Also on September 9, all high school pupils who have not regis
tered or who wish to make changes in their registration should
report at the high school office between 9 and 12 o’clock.
On Monday the 13th all elementary school students are to re
port directly to their classrooms at 8:30. Student guides will help
small children find their proper rooms. A supply fee of $2.50
will be paid by every pupil to his homeroom teacher.
No lunch will be served at the cafeteria the first day. School
will close at 1 o’clock Monday the 13th. Beginning Tuesday the
14th, there will be full-day sessions and lunch will be served at the
school cafeteria.
High school students will report in front of the high school
building at 8;30 Monday morning the 13th to receive instructions
on the schedule of the day. School will close at 1 o’clock the first
day.
All students should get their books the first day. The rental
fee for the year will be $4.50.
Mrs. Baity’s Narrative of Her Travels
The most vivid and spirited
travel narrative that I have read
in a long time is the one by
Elizabeth Chesley Baity that ap
peared recently, in installments,
in several newspapers. I am
sorry that there was not enough
space for it in my paper; but it
is a good thing for all readers
that Mrs. Baity did not make it
short enough to be contained ip
the Weekly, for that would have
meant leaving out much that
should not have been lost.
She was in a touring party
that went to Europe on the
Queen Elizabeth and returned on
the Queen Mary. “The ships
were magnificent, the food excel
lent.” Her tour covered six
'countries, with Monaco and the
Papal State thrown in for gla
mour. She beheld beautiful land
scapes—mountains and rivers
and forests and wandered
through castles and museums
and the streets of ancient cities.
But there was much more to her
trip than the conventional sight
seeing. She talked with all man
ner of people upon all manner of
topics, and she reports keenly
and engagingly upon what they
said.
The shooting of the Italian
Communist chief, Togliatti, oc
curred soon after she passed
through Rome, and the result-
Another Case of Polio
The tenth case of. poli£> in Chapel
Hill and vicinity, Jackie Fitzgerald,
17-months-old daughter of Mrs. Jack
Fitzgerald of Greensboro street,
Carrboro, waa reported yesterday by
Dr. Fred Patterson. The girl was
sent to Watts hospital. The ninth case
was John Thomas Dixon, 4-year-old
son of Clarence Dixon, of route 2,
Chapel Hill. The total number of
cases in Orange county now stands at
16.
W. J. McKee to Conduct Services
W. J. McKee of the University
education department in extension
work will conduct the Lutheran ser
vices in Gerrard Hall at 11 o'clock
August 29 and September 6 in the
absence of the pastor, Rev. E. C.
Cooper, who is attending the Student
Pastors’ Conference in Interlocken,
Michigan.
Panbrougks in Their Naw Homs
Mr. and Mrat Douglas Fambrough
are planning to move into their new
home off the Mason Farm road this
next week.
CHAPEL HULL, N. G. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948
ing nation-wide protest strike
involved her in exciting adven
tures. Tanks and armored cars
rumbled past her hotel in Genoa,
and there was the rattle of ma
chine gun. With the other tour
ists she crouched behind a desk
for fear of stray bullets. They
walked through dark streets to
the railway station. Their car
was attached to a freight train,
and a little while later it was
abandoned on a siding ’way out
in the open cogntry. At last,
after long delays, and hunger,
and weariness, they reached the
French border.
Dog Dispute Ends in Compromise Agreement
The dog dispute has come to
a close with the announcement
by Dean of Men Fred Weaver
that the University and the Vic
tory Village Council have agreed
upon a modified version of the
complete ban which was imposed
July 24. The 300 residents of
the Village will now be allowed
to keep their dogs on certain
conditions.
The agreement requires that
all dogs shall have been regis
tered by August 23 and that the
dogs’ owners conform to the
regulations of the local health
authorities and the Village Coun
cil. The dogs will have to be
kept inside the owners’ homes
(not in a yard or pen) from 9
P.M. to 6 A M. daily.
Moreover, no more dogs may
be brought into the Village by
incoming tenants, and residents
Slow-Poking, Aimless, and Ablent-Minded Drivers
By Cornelia Ltpe
A great deal has been said about the spewing car and its danger on our
crowded village st.eets; but nothing has bed said about the slow-poke car,
which can be quite as great a menace.
On the road, often, some old fellow in an ancient Ford jogs comfortably
along at twenty miles an hour while the driwrs pile up in his rear, fretting
to pass but rarely able to do so on such a| archaic road as that between
Chapel Hill and Durham. Sometimes them is a driver who just hae to
would infer that five minutes sated in his day is worth untold
gold—and therein lies the danger. Some oi these slow drivers are women,
whose fault is. rarely speeding. They hesitate at intersections, so that no
one knows what they are going to do, and sityply cannot make up their minds
to pass a large truck.
In town we also have the menace of the the old grad who must
show his family just where he roomed, or tke tourist taking j the campus
for the first time. Our complaints against tjtem would be less—we might be
downright sympathetic—if they would pull over to the right of the road in
their sentimental wanderings. But this doesn’t even occur to them! They
are not only on the extreme left of the righl half of the road but frequently
straddling the white line. The perspiring driver in the rear is moved at
times to wish for an invention whereby ha might squirt water on the road
hogs; and while he is about it he might us well douse those student pedes
trians who saunter slowly in front of the c4r, jrith s saucy stare at him aa
much aa to say, “I dare you to run over me?’
Chapel Hill Chaff
Mrs. Frank Miller, who is
here visiting Mrs. Charles T.
Woollen after their trip to Alas
ka together, walked uptown one
day this week with her friend,
Mrs. Charles Snow. Mrs. Snow
had a notice fronklhe post office
about a piece ofNnail on which
there was due 2 cents.
“I wonder what it can be,"
she said. "I didn’t bring my
purse with me and haven’t a
penny."
So Mrs. Miller provided the
money. They went into the post
office and got the piece of mail.
It was a postcard bearing the
picture of a beautiful Alaskan
scene. Mrs. Miller had mailed it
in Alaska and neglected to put
a stamp oh.
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“1 wholly agree with you in
your spelling of crepe myrtle,”
writes Roland F. Beasley, editor
of the Monroe Journal. “The
old-time printers who could
spell correctly are dead. The
present ones spell any way that
comes easiest. For instance, few
of them know the difference be
tween principal and principle.
The proof readers, even when
they know better, cannot catch
them all. Neither the printers
nor the proof readers know how
to use the words senior and
junior. In current popular lit
erature the niceties of expres
sion in the selection of words
are no more.
“We shall all have to adopt
your theory of following our
own bents. The multiplication of
printing resulted jn the estab
lishment of uniform spelling till
half a century ago. Now it is re
sulting in universal bastardy.
“Years ago an old citizen of
Union was writing a circular ad
vertising a sale of horses. He
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retaining dogs are forbidden to
bring in others.
Th« modified ban will be tried
out ftr a year. Suggested by the
Village Council through its
“mayer," William M. Goulding,
it has received the approval of
the lliiversity administration.
The Council, in addition to
suggesting this modified ban,
also urged that the administra
tion and the town authorities at
tempt to rid Chapel Hill of all
stray animals.
The modified ban for the Vil
lage Joes not apply to the Trailer
Court district and other areas.
These are now covered by the
complete ban. Dean Weaver
says that the administration is
ready to consider modifications
if the residents of these other
areas request them.
Annual Lull Is Now Beginning;)
People Will Go on Vacations;
Limited Schedule for Library;
There'll Be Fewer Automobiles
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Morning Gloried
When I go out on the porch
; in the morning, on one of these
summer days, to take my exer
; cises, I am compensated for this
tiresome routine by the sight of
j morning glories.
These delicate and beautiful
j blossoms, quivering faintly
against the green of their heart
shaped leaves, are in many col
ors—pink, blue, and rose. They
i run along the high gray stope
wall; they swing from the top
erf the white crepe myrtle; and,
nearer by, they climb beside the
rounded pillars of the porch.
When I take a few steps be
fore coming indoors, and look
around the corner of the house,
1 see a cluster of them at the
foot of the little statue of Saint
Francis : in the brick court.
They are fresh and dewy. In
an hour or so the sun will strike
i them and they will wither away.
But from buds swelled by this
same sun will spring more morn
ing glory blossoms to delight me
tomorrow.
“Aggie’s,” New Grill,
Soon to Be Opened
A new grill wjll open about;
September 15 in the building for
merly occupied by Fowler’s Food
Store. Jeff and Aggie Thomas,
who now operate the Campus ;
will compose a
operation. The name of the grill j
will be “Aggie’s.”
Work is now under way to
prepare for an opening before
the University opens in the fall.
Aggie Thomas says that the grill
will serve breakfast probably
till noon. After that no prepared
meals will be served, but sand
wiches and cold drinks will be
obtainable all day long.
The equipment includes a
stainless steel grill and modern
booths which will seat up to 150
customers. A dining room,
which will be used mainly for
private parties, will contain
tables and chairs for about 25
persons.
Only bottled drinks will be
served, since there will be no
soda fountain.
Mr. Dorton came to Chapel
Hill from Durham, where he
was operator of the Goody Shop
until the space that he was rent
ing was sold to another person.
Charles Ronald Justice
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Justice Monday night «f this
week, August 23, in Duke hospital.
He has been named Charles Ronald,
and the parents say they are going
to call him Ronnie. The father is the
famous football player known as 1
Choo-Choo Justice. Some of the news
papers are calling the son Little Choo- i
Chao. “He should be available for
football duty in about 1968,” Bays tho
Raleigh News and Observer. But by
that time Little ChocfChoo will be 20
years old and, if he is a football
player, the sports writers will prob
ably be referring to him as a “vet- 1
eran.” 1
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Mrs. Rose’s Trip to the North <
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Mrs. Augustus W. Rose is st home |
again after a month’s absence. She \
was with her son, Dr. Rose, in Boston, 1
and her daughter, Dr. Stifler, in Bal- <
timore. She went from here to Boston i
by airplane. The scheduled time for i
the flight was five hours, but it was i
shortened almost to four by a tail i
wind that caught the plane at New i
York. f i
$2 t Year ia Advance. 8c a Copy
Village Theatre to Be Chwed;
One Part of Student Body to
Be Here: Foot boll Players
! Now begins the annual lull in
; Chapel Hill, the period between
the end of summer school and
! the beginning of the fall term.
It will not be the lull it used to
be, for there’ll be pre-season
football practice, and maybe
gatherings of one kind or an
other, but it will be a reposeful
time compared with the rest of
the year.
The final summer school
examinations will be held today
(Friday). University faculty
members and office workers wjll
be going away on vacations.
One of the two movie thea- *
tres, the Village, will be closed.
The University Library will
be on a limited schedule: open
from 9 to 5 o’clock six days a
week, closed on Sundays. The
regular schedule will be re
sumed when classwork for the
fall quarter begins four weeks
from today (Friday, September
24).
For people along Franklin
street the chief reminder that
the University remains a going
concern will be the sight of at&l—
wart youths—the candidates for
the football team—strolling on
the sidewalks and going in and
out of the theatre and the barber
shops and the stores.
■Bb
speeding will of course go on, as
ever, but crossing the street
should be somewhat less danger
ous than usual. (Don’t let this
tempt you to be any the less care
ful!)
Registration for the fall term
will be held Sept. 21, *22, and 28;
but the village will begin to buzz
before that, for new students
will come in Saturday the 18th
for orientation and placement
tests.
Merchants* Party to
Begin with Softball
The annual dinner of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants
Association next Wednesday
evening, September 1, at New
Hope church, six miles north of
town, will be preceded by an ap
petizer in the form of a softball
game. Ray Reeve, sports broad
caster for radio station WRAL
in Raleigh, will call the plays
through a loudspeaker with the
help of Tom Rosemond as spot
ter.
There will be horseshoe pitch
ing, too, with William Huntley
in charge.
Arrangements have been
made by Sam Lockhart for the
transportation of persons who
do not have cars. One pick-up
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Misa Jones Wins 91,000
Mias Dorothy Jones, who was in the
University’s sociology department n
few years ago and is now a member of
the faculty of Winthrop College in
Rock Hill, 8. C., recently won a prise
of $1,006. The owner of a building in
the town had announced that he would
give this sum to the person who made
the best suggestion for the use of the
building. Miss Jones’s suggestion,
conveyed in a letter, waa that it bo
used for a restaurant which would
specialize in really good Southern
cooking. In her letter she said that
such a restaurant was specially need
ed for the Wmthiop Collage girls
and their eacorts.