The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Autumn Brings Beside Falling Leaves, Many
Reunions And Football Games For lar Heels
1I1LIA McNINCH SLEAR

JULIA McNINCH SLEAR
To many people in the world,
October is merely mid-Autumn
the month of falling leaves,
swirling smoke, Halloween and
sudden frosts. Translated into
Washington Tar Heel talk, Oc-
tober is the perfect time for
week-ending "down- home," the
prime excuse being football
(you could taAe your choice last
Saturday - if you could get a
ticket!), belated family re-
unions or community festivals.
It's the perfect time for skim
ming down the roads that lead
homeward through the gentle
countryside-the time ito take
lit easy"-the time for renewing
friendships - and the ties that
bind-the time for sweet init
macies.
The cavalcade that left Wash
ington last week was a sight
to see, with virtually every
North o linian who could
manage to get away, steaming
down for one Of the three top
flight college games. Jack
ISpain was somewhere in the
lead, and so were Hal Thomer-
son, John Slear, Frank. Sanders,
the Newman A. Townsends, DR..
and Mrs. Fred Morrison, Fred
Gillian, and William Yount.
Also among those going down
were the Tom McSwains, Bill
and Mary Lou Medley and Don
and Sallie Reese, who were fly
ing Wake Forest banners. With
their destination some twenty
two miles farther onto Ra-
leigh where Duke tangled with
it's fiercest rival, North Caro-
lima Statement Mr.. and Mrs.
John Scott Mabry, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank A. Billiard, the "Kidd"
(P.O.) Brewers, Tom and
Frances Dickson, and MI. and
Mrs. W. Stafford Hicks.
The happy ending of the
Sugar Bowl replay at Chapel
Hill brought forth a real cele-
bration in the Capital, with
many Of the university alumni
gathering at the Georgetown
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus
T. Banks for a late buffet sup
per and re-hash of other his
toric games. Rube Donaldson
and Sarah lBanks) Bundy had
their heads together and its dol
lars to doughnuts that they were
discussing some of those after
the-games escapades back there
in 1910. Cliff Norwood was there
captivating the ladies as usual.
Mrs. H. C. Lowe looked soignee
in a smoke gray felt which
topped her new blue frock and
Warren Wilkes made a twosome
on the enclosed terrace. Plat
tiers piled high with cold fried
chicken, hot biscuits, rosy ham,
champagne cocktails and a
mint bed spreading from ice for
the makings of old fashioned
juleps topped the affair off in
Tar Heel fashion.
CRUISE
A cruise and cocktails aboard
their boat, Come . again, high
lighted Sunday afternoon for a
number Of the North Carolina
Colony, with Mr.. and Mrs Dick
F. Harrison hosts to thirty or
more of their friends. Tipping
by on her cupboard motor with
a couple of friends during the
cocktail party, was attractive
Jane Cooper, who in her more
sedate moments is on duty at
Walter Reed hospital - and is
one of the most popular girls
in service there because of her
cheerful and blithe spirit - and
the sparkle of her eyes.
Professor and Mrs. T.. S.
Mayer have returned from Hen
Jacksonville where they attended
the Tooth anniversary of the city
last month. And back from the
Poole reunion are Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Poole Davis, Miss Sc
lene Poole and Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Sterling.
People are beginning to drift
back to town. Mrs. Everett e,
Stone has returned after spend
ing a week with her grand
mother, Mrs. l.. j. McFall OF
Hickory and home again from
a weekend in the State is Jim
Cunningham, who was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Saline.
Terminating a month in the sun
on Cardinals Eastern Shore are
Mr.. and Mrs. N. c. Moore who
spent September at Mays head.
Mrs. Mary c. Murphy of Snow
Hill has returned from Chapel
Hill, where she accompanied
, her daughter, Mary c. Murphy,
Jr., student at the university.
And Mrs. E. L. Mason who Wis
tied her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Mason, accompanied them to
their cottage on the Wisconsin
lakes on a fishing trip. Before
returning she visited a number
of the places of interest in that
section, including the pictur-
esn11a Indian VILLAGES Mr. and