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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24
Two Chapel Hin Candidates

Chapel Hill is proud indeed TO
be the home of two such candi-
dates for high office as Frank p.
Graham (for Senator) and Carl
T. Durham (for Representative
in Congress).
A few weeks ago it was hoped
that both would be unopposed,
but now Robert r. Reynolds Of
AsheviIIe and Willis Smith of Ra-
leigh have come out against Gra-
ham, and Ernest X. Williamson
Of Durham has come out against
Durham.
Both our Chapel Hill candi-
dates are expected by their ad-
herents to be victorious, but their
chances, though good, are not
good enough for the result to be
taken for granted. A vigorous
campaign should be conducted
for Graham and Durham, and
their home town should be in the
forefront Of IT.
/ appeal to every citizen Of
Chapel Hill: DO al you can to
bring about the election Of Cra-
ham and Durham.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24
Princes Book Has Nostalgia Flavor for
New Englander Remembering His Own Village
By Waiter Prichord Eaton

Princes attention to one passage
on page 123 of his book. Writ
ing of Battles Park, he says
thousands of people carved their
initials on the beech trees. MY
W. NJ. p, he says, was on
many trees in Battles Park, de-
spite what my elders had to say
about fools names, like their
faces !, but since coming back
/ have never found a set. Time
and bark have almost obliterat-
ed most of the older carvings,
some Of them quite high up now
as the trees have grown -"
In spite Of his education in
woodcraft By Billy Cobb and
others, something was lacking.
If Mr.. Prince can show me any
where in Chapel Hill, or any,
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24
Agatha Adams

Mrs. Nicholson B. Adams
known to her friends, and to the
public for whom she wrote. as
Agatha Adams, was admired and
loved by the people Of Chapel
Hill admired for her intellectual
gifts, her fine performance as q
member Of the University Libra
~ staff, and her writings, and
loved for her generous nature
and her never-failing spirit of
helpfulness. She was hard
worker, yet when the hours of
work were over she could be the
merriest and most warm-hearted
of companions. She embodied, to
a rare degree, a blend Of capabili-
ty with gentle manners and gra-
cionsness.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24
Cuttens' Family Gathering

Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Cutten
are hosts to a family gathering
at their home on Pittsboro
street. Their son-in-law and
daughter, DR.. Edward J. Man
well (surgeon) and DR.. Claire
Cutten MAXWELL (pediatrician)
arrived by plane last night from
Northampton, Mass. On Tuesday
their daughter, Mrs. Ralph X.
Hoitsma, win come from CIeve-
land, Ohio, and their son and
Mr.. and Mrs.
William r. Cutten, win come
from Wyoming, Pa.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24
The NCEA Presideney

What a comedy has been the
election Of a president Of the
North Carolina Education Asso-
ciation. The association had its
convention IN Raleigh a couple
Of weeks ago. With two candi-
dates for president, there had
been a vote by mailed ballots.
Part Of the program at the con-
rentiOn was TO be an announce
ment Of the result Of the cleo
ton. But when the time came
for this, the only announcement
was that the committee which
had been charged with counting
the ballots was moi yeI ready 10
report. Later it was announced
that on the first count Mrs. Nc
Dermott had won BY IA votes
but that on q recount Mr. Aber-
nethy had won BY is. Naturally
this made everybody suspect
that the counting committee was
not able to count, and that, if
the first count had been wrong,
maybe the second count was
wrong too. The affair was so
clonded with doubt that a spe-
cial committee was appointed to
look into il. The special commit
tee met in Raleigh, spent seven
hours in discussion, and then
passed the buck TO the board Of
directors of the association
Since this editorial is being
written two or three days before
it will be published, maybe you
viii have read, before you see
this, later developments in the
dispute. Ny own ldea = that this
NCEA election hBg raceived at
tention far out of proportion TO
its importance. Unless you con-
slider it highly valuable as com
edy, which may be the case.)
Outside Of the more political
minded element of school teach
ers and school administrators,
very few people care a hang
which Of the two, Mrs. McDer-
mott or Mr. Abernethy, is elect
ed president. In the interest Of
time-gaving, and for the preven-
ton Of confusion and distress, |
suggest that the NCEA amend
it's bylaws TO provide that in any
election hereafter, If the first
count shows neither Of the two
leading candidates leading the
other by more than so votes,
then the chairman of the count
ing committee shall toss a coin
and decide the result by heads
or-tails.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24

Sometimes, when / see in q
newspaper something compli-
mentary to one Of my friends,
! cut it out and send It to him
on the chance that he may have
missed seeing it. One day this
week | had occasion to do
this service for my neighbor
across the street, T. r. Kicker
son, professor Of civil engineer
ing in the University. The ar
ticle | sent him, cut from the
New York Times, was headed,
Engineers Called Best Of Mar
riage Prospects II consisted OF
passages from an address at the
Carnegie Institute Of Technology
in Pittsburgh by DR.. James
Bender, director Of the National
Institute for Human Relations.
Among the reasons he gave for
engineers being the best mar
riage prospects were these
"They apply logic TO morals,
economics, sciences, and job 10y
atty" "They are one-women
men and don't get involved with
their secretaries" -. "They are
homebodies and like to putter
around the house" They
are religious and good church at
tenders" They are the least
neurotic of all vocationa a
groups" DR.. Bender added
Most engineers are shy fellows
and need prodding."
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24

where in the world, a tree on
which initials cut 80 or 800 years
ago are one-sixteenth of an inch
higher above the ground than
they were the day they were cut,
4 will fell the tree for him and
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24

Rates for classified ads in the
Weekly: minimum, for Is words or
less, soc; over Is, per word &c.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24
Chapel Hill Chaf

(Continaed from first p0geJ
that his granddaughter is al
ready a dancer at the age Of one?
Does If mean that she is indeed a
prodigy or does it mean that a
teetering progress across the
floor, normal at her age. takes
on the guise Of dancing in the
eyes Of an adoring mother, is so
deBcT ihed n letter IS kz. Z. pei pei
Hill, and is swallowed whole by
an equally adoring grandfather? !?
Mrs. knight is going to visit the
Ludlows in April, and when she
gets back ! can ask her whether
or not Anne can dance. But what
good will that do? Will the grand
mothers testimony be any more
impartial than that Of the mother
and the grandfather? doubt it.
But expect to get the real low
down on the matter, with my
own eyes. Mrs. knight says Anne
will be here for a visit in May.
When hear she has arrived ] am
going down to the knight home
and say: Please bring Anne out
and let's see some Of that dane
ing" hope that she will live up
to all the advance notices and
that / will be able TO report that
/ saw her do an exquisite minuet
or anyway a lively cakewalk or
tap-dance.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24

Southern Part Of Heaven" with
great relish, and even though
most Of the characters men
toned in the book are strangers
to me, and ] can only guess at
what Chapel Hill looked like be-
fore the motor cars invaded it,
! really believe that my pleasure
in Mr.. Princes work has no less
nostalgia favor than that of
any Chapel lillian. The village
/ grew up in not far north of
Boston was, for all its proximity
to a large city. remarkably like
the Chapel Hill Of Mr.. Princes
description. Our house fronted
the town, but our back yard
petered out into the forest.
Everybody knew everybody,
people weren't afraid to be indi-
viduals 80 that the town was
full of characters" neighbors
were kind, no ladies' had legs,
and if ] had been heard to use
the word stink" even to de-
scribe a very bad odor, ! shudder
even now at the grief it would
nave caused my n1ottfher ]
ultimately myself.
On Decoration Day the town
all went to the cemetery for
services around the Soldiers
Monument, and then the Wom--
ems Relief Corps carried baskets
of flowers TO the graves of all
the soldier dead, including those
who fell in the Revolution, the
War Of 1872, and the Mexican
War. Each grave was marked
by a fresh flag, and the day end
ed when the GAR. veterans
stood in formation and a bugler
sounded taps, the beautiful,
grieying notes floating away over
the cemetery to the distant
woods. If Mr.. Prince were to
eliminate the adjective "Confed-
crate" in his account of Chapel
Hill Memorial Day it would fit
perfectly in spirit my boyhood
yilIage-or almost any other up
and down our land.
We had almost no Negroes in
our town, To be sure. But we had
French Canadians who were in
some ways almost as plctur-
esque in idiom and metaphor,
and often closer than we could
understand TO primitive things.
| remember a French Canadian
boy of eighteen or twenty who
was employed to NOV the putting
greens Of our first golf course in
1895. This course was laid out
over an old cow pasture, and for
some time the cows were en-
lployed TO keep down the falrway,
which had its obvious disad-
vantages. One noon-time we
came upon our greenskeeper eat
ing his lunch surrounded by a
bevy Of quail. He could call them
from the bushes and they would
come skittering 10 his feet to
be fed. This youth was looked
upon by grown-ups as a bit weak
minded, but to Us boys he repre-
sented mysterious link with
nature.
OF course we had snow in
winter, bob-sledding, ice-boating,
skating, and other winter pas
times unknown to Billy Prince
and Collier Cobb. And we had no
college in the town. But at
Andoyer, only a few miles away,
the Phillips Academy boys
played football on a field that
was almost devoid Of turf, and
full of stones.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-24

work it up into two-foot lengths
for his fireplace.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13

son, director; Ruth Bredenberg
Erie, Pa, accompanist.
Taking an hour or so out of theil
busy week to sing, these students
of Huron Road Hospital of Nurs-
ing are finding relaxation in the
realm of music. The choir, spon-
sored by the Women's Board of
the hospital has an enrolment of
90, but due to the varying sched
ules only about half of this num-
ber are able to make the Tues
day night rehearsal. This brings
new directing duty to Mrs. F. S.
Ericsson since it means covering
the same assignment twice to
reach the entire choir.
SO far the new chorus has made
but one public appearance. This
was at the lovely Gaping cere-
monies held in February. However,
it plans to be ready to sing at it's
own school and hospital affairs,
as requested.
Mrs. Ericsson, whose husband
is on the hospital staff, attended
Beaver College in Jenkintown, Pa,
and is a graduate of Westminster
College, New Wilmington, Pa. Miss
Ruth Bredenberg of Erie, Pa, is
proving an able accompanist for
the choir.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13
High Churehmen And
Missionaries Here For
Methodist Church Meet

The Third National assembly OF
the Division of the Woman's So.
ciety Of Christian Service convenes
in Cleveland April 1921 in the
Music Hall of Public Auditorium
There will be 1900 delegates and
100 missionaries and deaconesses
attending.
Speakers include Bishop Arthur
J. Moore, President of the Board of
Missions and Church Extension;
Vera Micheles Dean, Director Re-
search Department, Foreign Policy
Association; and Harold A. Bos-
ley, Dean of Duke University
Divinity School.
The spiritual significance of the
Assembly is evidenced by the three
major topics to be discussed,
namely: christian Faith for A
World In Revolution" "The Church
Woman's Rights" and "The Chris
tian Woman's Responsibility for
World Missions"
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13

These young women represent
about half of the number enrolled
in the newly organized Huron Road
Hospital of Nursing. Reading from
left to right they are: Back Row
Gwen Humell, Cleveland; Dorothy
Rood, Ridgeway, Pa; Edith Mar
BILE, Solon; Priscilla Mcfarland,
Ashtabula; Sarah Short, East
Cleveland; Joline Behnke, Cleve-
land; Loretta Sperling. Center
Row: Ruth Philabaum, Hudson;
Lois Finlayson, Ashtabula; Shir-
ley Roth, Columbia Station; Doro-
thy Schneider, Lindhurst. Lower
Row: Viola Hunyak, Cleveland;
Clara Gamble, Bedford; Marilyn
Sator, Cleveland; Mrs. F. S. Eric
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13
.DeMolay Show Friday

Heights Chapter DeMolay are
putting on a play tomorrow night,
Friday, April 14th at 8:15 in Mon
ticello Jr. High School auditorium,
1865 Monticello ave. Titled "You
Name IT.. The leads are being
taken by Jack Mackey and Con-
stance Findley.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13
EARLY VISITORS

The Erman Shirk family is just
moving into 1854 lakewood ave. In
fact they had brought in a few
things ahead of the usual moving
load. Too early callers entered via
a rear basement window and de-
parted with three small table
model radios from among the items
which the family had taken with
them as they went to prepare the
house for moving in.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13
Its Cleanup Time
At Shaw Hiqh School

It's Cleanup time at Shaw High
School. Under the supervision of
the Student Council Spirit commit
tee the week of April 18th has been
designated as Spring Clean up
time. A series of posters and
morning broadcasts will remind all
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-04-13

and sundry to cleanup for spic
and span appearance throughout
the building.
Leading the drive are Mary
Henry, chairman, Marlene Tar
aglia, Janet Kathy and Bob Mears.
Evening star., 1950-04-16
Modern Paul Revere Finds Famed Path an Obstacle Course

within 100 yards of where you and
Dawes were joined by third rider
that night-Dr Samuel Prescott.
Out in the lovely country. among
the rolling farm lands and apple
orchards, was stopped by .
policeman.
"Detour." he said, road under
construction. explained my
mission,
TOO bad" he said.
Got Back on route.
A mile-and-a- half farther. I
finally got back on your route. in
Lincoln. There. Just of the road.
past a roadstand and this side OF
the Paul Revere tourist cabins"
is a big stone and marker signify
ing the spot where the British
seized you.
On the left, the farm road along
which Dawes escaped is all wooded
over. On the right. beyond a line
OF eVergreenS and a culvert, is an
old stone wall. This may or may
not be the one Prescott jumped
over in escaping. Anyway, tour
lists cart of some Of the bis stones
every year.
And down the road piece. there
used TO be farmer who had q
big sign which said: This is the
farm Paul Revere would have
came by If he hadawent thiSaway"
Evening star., 1950-04-16

which you made the copper Mt
tings in 1897.
Stable S Miles Away.
In a nearby square. under the
"el," there is a tablet saying this
is where you actually got on the
horse and started to ride.
I couldn't find Deacon Larkin's S
place. where you got the horse
and you'd have a time finding a
nag now: The nearest stable is
five miles away.
The idea is pretty quiet now.
City Court Clerk Jim Mullin told
me most Of their arrests involve
drunks and speeders.
Riding through charlestown. I
didn't see any meadows or
marshes as you did. Just past
Charlestown neck is a tablet
marking the spot where you were
intercepted by British horsemen
and had to veer to the North. Be-
hind the marker are a milk COM
pany and a billboard advertising
refrigerators.
No trace now of Marks gibbet.
where they hung runaway slaves
in your time. Also. I couldn't find
any clay pond. where one of your
British pursuers got stuck. but you
could easily lose him today in the
truck traffic along Washington
street.
Park Named for Him.
Remember Winter Hill, in
Somerville. where you logged right
for Medford? Well. the fork is well
marked now. The smallest park
I've ever seen is there. The park is
named after you. Behind it is "Ye
Paul Revere" apartment house
no lettering in the vestibule."
At Main and Harvard streets,
a cop directed me: Revere went
that way. Straight up Main and
across the Craddock Bridge.
The bridge into Medford is all
concrete and steel now, not wood
en- planks. Just over it. where you
turned to the left, I had to go
right, around a traffic circle.
The beautiful old house where
you reused Isaac Hall, captain of
the Medford Minutemen, still
stands. So does the iron horse
hitching post you used that night.
But you'd need a nickel now, for
just few inches from the post is
a five-cent parking meter.
Remember how you got onto
Massachusetts, avenue. Arlington
cit was called Menotomy them :?
You couldn't do it the same way
now. There's one-way, the wrong
way. And at the corner where you
passed Cooper's Tavern, there's a
drugstore now.
RuSselPs House is Museum.
I guess you remember Jason
Russell, who sent his family up in
the hills to hide while he fought it
out with the British April 10. He
and II others were killed fighting
in the cellar and on the stairs. The
house, now a museum. stands in
the back yard of DR.. G. w. Bowl
by, osteopath.
In the doctors waiting room
I found a nice. gray-haired pa
tient, name of Grace Parker. Miss
Parker thinks history has neg
lected Arlington. After ALL" she
said. more men were killed here
Evening star., 1950-04-16

than In Lexington and Concord
together"
Riding over trolley tracks. past
stores and gasoline stations.
came into Lexington. And there it
was, the beautiful green. where
the first shots were fired the morn
ing after your ride.
Buckman Tavern. where you
reused the Minutemen. is still
there on the right. So are the old
bar. water bags. musketS and the
very same door you pounded on
with the very same bullet hole
made during the battle.
Clark Passonage Stands.
Bet you couldn't find the old
belfry now. Because of local
squabbles. it was moved OF the
green up to a hill on the left.
But UP the road way. there's
still the Clark parsonage. where
you awakened Sam Adams and
John Hancock.
You wouldn't find it on the left
side Of the road though. It's been
moved to the right side and now Is
run by the Lexington Historical
Society. The table where you and
Dawes stocked up on refreshment
before heading for Concord is still
there.
On the road to Concord, I came
Evening star., 1950-04-16
By Soul Pett
AP Nevsfeatures Writer

| BOSTON, April l5.-Dear Pau
Revere:
! Well. it's ITS years since that
April 18 when you made youl
great ride. and you'd never know
the place now. Matter of fact. you
couldn't make the same ride
today.
| II a burlesque house didn't STOP
you, the one-way streets. detours
| traffic snarls and small boys sell
| ing information on Paul Revere
would. I know. I just retracec
your course, not by horse, by
automobile.
I tried to cover the same l6
miles you did, from Boston past
Lexington. Now and then I also
| followed the route Of William
Dawes. your fellow express rider
that night in ITS.
Warren's House Gone.
First, I went looking for DR..
Joseph Warren's house, on Han
over street in Boston, where you
got your orders to ride that night.
It isn't there. On the approx
mate site are a parking lot and
burlesque theater.
Next, through narrow streets
and back alleys, past pushcarts
and pizzerias and second-floor
shops, I came upon the site of
Sexton Robert Newman's house
He's the fellow who hung the
lanterns in the old North Church.
His house is gone. But just a
few steps away, in a neighborhood
almost all Italian, the fine old
church still stands. Your family
pew is still there.
North Square. where your house
is and where you had to duck
around redcoats that night, was
full of small boys when got
there. One little guy ratified this
off: Paul Revere had l6 children
and two wives"
Found BOokie Joint.
Your house has been restored
About $4,000 people come to see
it every year. Your mothers house
next door also has been restored.
1t was in private hands until last
May when the cops raided the
place and found a bookie opera
ting.
Remember that on the way to
the Charles River you and two
pals stopped off at a girls house
to get something to muffle the
oars? AS I get it, somebody
whistled and she threw down a
still warm petticoat. Her house
is gone. In about the same place
there's a gasoline station.
The place where you found the
hidden rowboat on the Charles
River is now occupied by the Army
Corps of Engineers. Just so yards
from where you took off is Drinks
Inc, where some fellows swiped
$1.500,000 at gun point a few
months ago.
Where you rowed across the
river, rode over a bridge. Didn't
see any British frigates. Not far
away though, were some American
destroyers In the Boston Navy
yard and "Old Ironsides." for
Evening star., 1950-04-16
Large Barn and Hogpen
Burn in Frederick Area
BY the Associofed Press

UTICA MILLS, Md, April is
The large barn and hog pen on
the farm of Mehrl H. Ramsburg
near this Frederick County town
were destroyed by fire today.
Mr.. Ramsburg estimated the
loss at more than $4,000. Ten
purebred. registered hogs were
killed. Mr.. Ramsburg's son had
been raising them as a. All club
project.
Evening star., 1950-04-16

A chill and biting wind swept
across the Watergate last night
as the Japanese Cherry Blossom
Festival was presented before
a sparse audience which dwindled
to 80 by the end of the hour-long
program.
Billed as the Goodwill Cherry
Blossom Celebration. sponsored
by the Japanese-American Society
of Washington, the attraction
drew 200 persons at the outset.
But the cold whitfield down the
crowd. particularly after the sun
disappeared behind the Virginia
landscape.
The program, shortened because
of the weather, presented songs
and dances of Japan. The strange
music of Nippon came from the
Watergate barge, and was carried
over toward the frigld blossoms
of the cherry trees edging the
Tidal Basin.
Jesse S. Shima, society presi-
dent. announced tickets for last
nights performance will be good
Evening star., 1950-04-16

Cathedral Choral Societies and
the Agriculture Choristers.
Uncle Sam. portrayed by Will
liam A. Wood of the State Depart
ment, narrated the story of the
pageant and introduced the stars
of stage, screen and opera who
took leading roles.
IRA Petina. of the Metropolitan
Opera. sang Life; William War
field, well known baritone, sang
JEANNE With the Light Brown
Hair" and Muriel RAIN; con-
tralto, sang Through the Years" ."
Immortal words uttered by
Thomas Jefferson and Daniel
Webster in defense of American
freedom were recited by film ac-
tors Edward Arnold and George
Murphy. ~.
Crowd Seeks Mrs. Barkley.
Then Mr.. Barkley was intro
duced.
For the finale following the Vice
Presidents address, four George
Washington University students,
costumed to represent each Sec
tion of the Nation, gave appropri-
ate recitations under the heading
This Broad Land" They were
Patricia Hall. George Foley, Sally
Rubin and Harvey Shipman.
Gladys Swarthout of the Metro
politan Opera, and Ann Crowley,
Broadway star, each sang a selec-
ton. at the close of which all the
voices and the massed bands
sounded the National Anthem.
AS the echoes of the Star Span
gled Banner" faded atross the
plaza, hundreds of spectators
pressed forward to get a closer
glimpse of the Vice Presidents
smartly dressed wife.
Police had to array themselves
about the edge of the ceremonial
stand to keep a number of Spry
ladies from mounting chairs and
tables to get onto the platform
within elbowing distance Of the
distinguished party.
Mrs. Wilson Is Greeted.
At one point the crowd parted
and police assisted Mrs. Wood
row Wilson. widow of the World
War I President, to the rostrum.
There she was warmly greeted by
Mr.. and Mrs. Barkley. who talked