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High Jinks, for
Benefit of PTA,
At Gym Feb. 8
There’s going to be high jinks
at the Woollen gymnasium from
7:30 to 9 o’clock Wednesday
night, February 8 (week after
next).
(Here I look up high jinks to
see if that fits the occasion, and
I am made doubtful about it by
seeing Webster’s definition: “an
old Scottish game of forfeits at
drinking; hence, noisy revelry;
colloquial: wild behavior, tan
trums.” That sounds pretty
rough. But then I consult the
Oxford English Dictionary and
find high jinks definied as “live
ly or boisterous sport; romping
games or fun; free or unrestrain
ed merry-making.” Which is all
right as a description of what’s
going to happen at the gym. The
official name for it is Variety
Show.)
It's a benefit for the Parent-
Teachers Association. Admis
sion : 50 cents for adults, 25 cents
for children.
There will be singing, and
dancing of many sorts, and gym
nastics and tumbling. Norman
Cordon, former Metropolitan
Opera star, will be master of
ceremonies and will lead the as
sembled company in singing “The
Star-Spangled Banner.”
Spectators will sit in the same
stands that are need at basketball
games. These stands have a seat
ing capacity 0f6,000.
A curtain-raiser for the show
will be a parade of the high
school b$T wm
street
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* The PTA ways and means com
mittee, which is sponsoring the
affair, is composed of Mrs. C. P.
Erickson, chairman; Mrs. Fred
Patterson, Jr.; Mrs. Tom Scott;
Mrs. August Miller; and Mrs.
Pete Mullis.
Information about the per
formers will be given in next
week’s paper.
Benefit Dance Will
Be Given Tomorrow
A dance for the benefit of the
March of Dimes fund will be
given by the American Legion
from 8 P.M. to midnight tomor
row (Saturday) night at the
Naval Armory on South Colum
bia street. Tickets, at $2.50 per
couple, are on sale at Ledbetter-
Piskard’s, the YMCA, and the
Carolina Inn and will also be
available at the door.
The muisc will be provided by
Ithfe Jimmie Perkins band of
Burlington, with Miss Jackie
Robertson as vocalist. Johnny
Clements and Art Weiner, Uni
versity football stars, will be
masters of ceremonies. There
will be door prizes and special
entertainment.
A^ rangements* for the dance
are being made by the following
Legion committee: Capt. Wil
iiam M. Sanford, chairman; Paul
H. Robertson, Mangum Up
church, D. M. Horner, and Paul
Sexton.
The Legion sponsors a dance
annually for the benefit of polio
victims. All profits are turned
.over to the polio fund. Capt. San-
Word said yesterday he hoped
those who had received tickets
through the mail would respond
promptly. „■
Deadline for Tax Listing
Tuesday, January SI, will be
the last day for the listing of
county and town taxes.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Mb Grav«i
Editor
Or. Brauer Coming from California to
Be Dean of School of Dentistry Here
Dr. John C. Brauer, dean of the school of dentistry in the Uni
versity of Southern California, has accepted the appointment as
dean of the new school of dentistry in the University here. He
will come here March 1 with his family. Plans for the dentistry
building are now being made under his supervision.
This building will not be completed for another two years,
but it is expected that, before then, wings will be added to the
present medical building for dental laboratory space. Instruction
will begin next fall, but because of the limited facilities the first
two classes will be limited to 40 students each.
Dr. Brauer, who is in his early forties, was born in Nebraska
and took his A.B. degree, and his master’s and doctor’s degrees
in dentistry at the University of Nebraska; returned there to
teach after two years of practice; was in Atlanta six years as
director of a clinic and as a member of the Emory University
faculty; was at the University of Iowa; was a lieutenant colonel
in the Surgeon General’s Office in the war and was decorated
with the Legion of Merit; and was successively at the University
of Washington and the University of Southern California.
We Are Having Summer Weather in January
It was Impossible that there would be another winter as
mild'as last year’s—but it has happened just the same. .. .
Flowers are blooming, not just hesitantly here and there,
but profusely: the brilliant red pyrus japonica, spiraea,
sweet-breath-of-spring, winter jasmine, daffodils, English
snowdrops and violets; all over the village willow trees are
coming into leaf. . . . The thermometer in the ***** of my
west porch day before yesterday showed a temperature of
80, and yesterday it was balmy again People go around
without overcoats or wraps, and many men are seen in their
shirtsleeves. Life in the village is an out-of-doors }ife. Now
and then somebody is heard to wish for cold weather, but
the big majority of the population rejoice at the warmth.
Golf Contest to Be Staged at Country Club
For Benefit of March of Dimes Polio Fund
Everybody Is invited to take
P**t in the hole-in-one contest
Wn* staged by the Chapel Hill
Country Club for the benefit of
the March of Dimes. Compsti-
daily from 8
jlMgLfrom today
Feb
ruary 6, at the 7th hole on the
club’s course.
Since the 7th tee is right by
the road (just across from H. R.
Totten’s), anybody who goes in
a car can take part without walk
ing more than a few yards. Con
testants don’t have to be regular
golfers. Anybody, either students
or villagers, may drop by and
hit a few at any time. Golf balls
will be provided for those who
have none.
The charge will be three shots
for 26 cents or one for a dime,
every cent of the proceeds to go
to the polio fund. Every ball
reaching the green will be mea
sured, and the winer of the first
prize will be the person whose
shot was' nearest the pin. Other
winners will be permitted to
make their selections from the
31 prizes in the order of their
distance from the pin. Selections
will be made at 4 P.M. Sunday,
February 5, at the first tee.
The contest will be directed
by Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page,
with the assistance of the fol-
Deadline Near on Auto Tags
Tuesday of next week, Jan
uary 31, is the deadline date
for the affixing of town li- /
cense tags to automobiles
owned by people in Chapel
HiU. This means that on Wed
nesday, February 1, the police
wiU ticket all cars tb i they
see without town tags, and
the owners will be fined. The
deadline is the same for town
as for state tags. The town
tags ase on sale for $1 each
at the town manager's office.
Mrs. Roosevelt Will Speak
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wiU
deliver the University’s annual
Weil lectures on citizenship at
8:80 P.M. Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday in Memorial hall.
Everybody is invited.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950
lowing members of the club:
A. S. Winsor, Dr. R. B. Lawson,
L. A. Williams, and CUff Jones.
The prizes and their donors ore
as follows:
Shield’s Store, case of etfiffl
eola; University Service
cor washed and greased; HorvyV
Grill, a dinner; Hill Bakery, a
cake; University Florist, candle
stick holder; Carolina Coffee
Shop, 2 dinners; Varley’s, 2
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Methodists to Honor Pastor
A reception in honor of Rev.
and Mrs. W. M. Howard will be
given from 8 to 10 P.M. Monday
at the Methodist church. All
members and friends of the
church are invited.
NevUle’s Early Gardening
This week's warm weather
moved E. W. Neville to begin
work on his vegetable garden.
He planted peas Yesterday and
potatoes, beets, carrots, and
radishes day before yesterday.
Chapel HM Chaff
I Miss Mary Henderson tells me
yf the applause with which a
gathering of women in Salis
bury, a few days ago, greeted a
statement by Mrs. Edwin P.
Lucas about a vote cast by Rev.
David Yates of Chapel HiU at
the national convention of the
Episcopal church in San Fran
cisco. Mrs. Lucas, who is presi
dent of the North Carolina
branch of the Woman’s Auxili
ary of the church, was giving a
report on the convention. She
said that two women had been
sent as delegates (she did not
remember from which states
they came) but that the council
which passed upon credentials
refused to seat them because of
a long-standing rule against the
admission of women to member
ship in the convention. When
the council’s decision was sub
edited to the whole body of dele
gates, Mr. Yates was the only
delegate from North Carolina
who voted to seat the women.
It was when Mrs. Lucas said
this that the applause broke out.
Some friends of mine among
the women members of the Epis
copal church here in Chapel Hill
have remarked to me that, inas
much as the Women’s Auxiliary
chapters throughout the country
raised $3,000,000 for the church
hurt year, besides rendering
other valuable services, it aj>
pears high-handed not to allow
them representation in the con
vention. These commentators
whom I am quoting declare that
tills attitude on the part of the
ItiMh) govern the chnreh is
H|eive. I gather that the
IPMpal women of the United
States may be preparing to raise
a howl treatment.
Ernest Thompson, who re
tired two or three years ago
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EnroUment Is 6,895
The University enrollment for
this quarter is 6,895„as com
pared to 7,619 in the fall quar
ter and 7,106 in last year's
winter quarter. The present en
rollment includes 6,985 men and
910 women.
Little Returns to Davidson
Crowell Little, the University’s
freshman football coach, has re
signed to become head football
coach at Davidson College.
Joe Jones
Aasittant Editor
Traffic Count Is by Police
Officers, Students, Boy Scouts;
Project Organized by Parker for
The Chapel Hill Planning Board
Frost Charms Again
It has been Chapel Hill’s good
fortune, once again, to have Rob
ert Frost stop by on his way from
Florida to New England and give
a reading of his poems.
He was welcomed night before
last by an eager and admiring
audience that filled the Hill Music
hall. Many of the people there
had heard him on his previous
visits to the village and felt that
they were in the presence of an
old-time friend.
Mr. Frost is a humorist and a
philosopher as well as a poet. At
a reading of his, intervals be
tween poems are filled in charm
ingly with stray bits of reminis
cence, comments upon happen
ings in the world, and whimsical
observations on this and that.
He is a guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Lyons out in Greenwood,
and he has been having a good
time strolling through the col
ony and the nearby woods and
looking at spring flowers bloom
ing ’way ahead of spring. He
will set out for the North today.
Mother and Two Sons
Struck Down by Car
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People were going home from
the basketball game last Satur
day night. Automebilea streamed
along the South road from the
ggrtiasiuin, and
along the walk betwfUftfi
and thellitr^nrarrtl^Mßßß
At Ihe intersection of the
South road and the Country Club
road the cars bound out the Ra
leigh highway halted so that
other cars could turn into the
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Marvin Baas Resigns ,
Marvin Bass, defensive line,
coach of the University football
team, has resigned to return to
the William and Mary line
coaching post he held before he
came here a year ago.
Jubse Mnllls at 8ekoo! Again
Jubee Mullis, 6-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Mullis,
has made a good recovery from
her recent operation and is back
at school again.
$2 a Year in Advance in Orange Coantjr
S 3 a Year Oat of Coanty. Sc a Copy
A comprehensive traffic count,
embracing Chapel Hill and Carr
boro, was taken yesterday. *
A project of the Chapel Hill
Planning board, of which L. J.
Phipps is chairman, the count
was organized by John A. Par
ker, head of the University’s de
partment of city and regional
planning, in collaboration with
Town Manager Thomas D. Rose
and Chief Sloan and Officer Dur
ham of the police department. It
was supervised by Mr. Rose and
the police.
Traffic counts are of great val
ue as the basis for decisions, by
state highway authorities and
municipal governments, on the
laying out of streets, widening—
and other improvements, the in
stallation of signal lights, the
routing of traffic, the fixing of
speed limits, and policing. The
results of yesterday’s count here
will be used by the Planning
Board in the preparation of a
major street plan for the Chapel
Hill planning area.
There were short-count and
long-count stations. This means
that at some stations the count
went on all day, while at others
it lasted only four or five hours.
The long-count stations were
manned by police officers, the
short count stations by graduate
students in Mr. Parker’s depart
ment and by Boy Scouts shrtad
get special PesnMMom par
rot* shd rtHHk for
Among the Scouts who hafcpod
in the count were Carl McFher*
son, James King, R. B. Fitch, Mel.
Sommer, Charles Wolf* Ranald
Shearin, Roger Logsdon, Cola
man Gentry, Russell Bullock,
Lloyd Pendergraft, Richard
Vaughan, Louis Phillips, Neal
Harrington, Herman Husbands,
Paul Valentine, Edward John
son, Ralph Boggs, Jack Bright,
Dean West, and Dick Coffey,
troop leader.
The members of the Planning
Board, besides Mr. Phipps, are
Roland McClamroch, N. J.
Demerath, William Cochrane,
and Miss Elizabeth Branson.
Hunting Season Will
Close Next Tuesday
District Game Protector Bob
Logan wants to remind every
body that Tuesday, January 81,
is the last day of the hunting sea
son. After that day it will be il
legal to hunt quail, rabbit, or tur
key. The regular season on other
game in this area is already clos
ed.
The night-hunting season (on
’possum and raccoon) will end
Wednesday, February 1. The
trapping season for all fur-bear
ing animals ends January 81.
In making the above an
nouncements, Mr. Logan said
that the quail and turkey hunt
ing in Orange county had been
better than usual this year. He
also expressed his appreciation
of the cooperation the game
wardens had received from hunt
ers.
“Very few of them acted as if
this was the last hunting season
we would ever have,” he said.
“Consequently, there is consider
able game left for next year.”
Social Security Tax Deadline
January 811a the deadline data
for filing social security tax re
turns covering October, Novem
ber, and December of 1948,
aid i