Newspapers / Harnett County News (Lillington, … / July 13, 1950, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
r it For More Than THIRTY YEARS Har^ DEPliHDABLE Nei^w AuiilmM llfallMitU IT’S YOUR COMMUNIIX Do someithing to help msike your community ^ gupH at you think it ought to be NEWS CONSTRUCTIVE... HameU*« Only Countyaeat Newspaper ,.. PROGRESSIVE Vol. XXXII—No. 28 $2.00 PER YEAR-^i A COPY LUlinfftoa, N. C., Thursday, July 13, 19S0 *Tf It Concerns Harnett, IPs In THE NEWS’* In and Out of Lillington SO REST FOR THE WF.ARY The Fourth ot July, the glorious Fourth. That’s one day in the year, along with just a few more, when governmental servants have the day off. But tor some of them, if they really want the day off any day they Just about have to go iiome- where and hide. Tuesday when the Fourth came around this month ws saw L. M. Chaffin, Clerk of Superior Court, down in his office. How come you’re here we queried. Didn’t he know that he had the day off? Yes, ^e came back, he knew that he h$A the day off, but that didn’t seem to make too much difference. He had just gone to the post office and got ten his mail and he already had enough work piled up to keep him busy all day. ' We suggested that he just forget it and leave it until tomorrow and make a clean start of it. That sound ed good, he admitted, but the hitch in that was that when he went back to work the next day he would have just twice that much work for one day. And Mr. Chaffin isn’t the only one we saw in the miseries of staring work in the face on a holida]^ Mrs. Inez Harrington, Register of Deeds, said that she was just about afraid to answer a knock on her door on the Fourth, because it might be someone wanting her to go down to the office and issue a marriage li cense. * « « NAME IN THE NEWS M. P. Crews, filling station opera tor and manager of the local bus station, told us one day not so long ago that he figured The News ought to carry more names of local people In its columns. People like to see their names in the paper he thought, and the people would really go for It if we put their names in every once in a while, like Blanche John son does in Harnett Ramblings. Well, we think that is a right good idea ourselves. And M.'. P., if you have read down this fitr, yiour name is in the paper this U'eek. * « * NICE SURPRISE When Mr. Mack Norwood praised the Lillington firemen for their heroic efforts that saved his brick plant from more serious damage and sent them a check for $50, the firemen were surprised because It was the first time anyone bad done such a nice thing. Those who know the Norwoode, however, were not so very much surprised. The Norwoods are just, that kind of people. It isn’t the fiirst nice thing they’ve done, as The News and others know very well. The Newsman went to them for a dona tion on one occasion, and Mr. George Norwood, president of the corpora tion. immediately said yes. “You see,’’ he said, “ a corporaMon must have a soul.’’ Numerous incidents showing the Norwoods to be public-spirited to no small degree could be cited. One of these days it'll make a story in your favorite newspaper. « * * ICE CREAM PICNIC The little colored boy vrho mows our lawn came up the other day and said he wanted to mow the lawn again so he could go''on a picnic. He had mowed only two or three days before! Well, the little fellow wanted a picnic—so he was allowed to i\iow the lawn again. Shortly ttfterward he was sighted coming up Main street with each hand full ot ice cream cones. An ice cream picnic it was, and he seemed to be enjoyiing it Immensely. • * « BUILDING ACnvm:’ (With twelve new scboolhouses in Harnett county under construction, and three more to start wi:tbin a few days, building activity has been given a strong shot in the arm. Not that it wan lagging and needed the stimulant—building in this county has been going on steadily ever since the war. What is most significant about it is tbat not only have business and professional buildings been going up at a rapid rate, but rMldences have been coming "up from the ground al most like mushrooms—all over the county, too. Now that bring up a question -The News has been wanting to ask: Do yon really think that ld50 census counted all the' people In Harnett county? Maybe it did. we can’t say, still it does seem Harnett county has (Continued on page two) Diihn Secures Order For Vote On Beer VOTE ON BEER TO BE HELD IN DUNN SEPT. 2ND Referendum Comes Under New Law For Towns Over 1,000 A special election has been called for in Dunn to decide the question of whether or not beer should be allowed to be sold legally within the corporate limits of the town. Indi cations are that there will be a close fight In the settemeni of the issue. The sale of beer in Dunn and In the rest of the county is not a new issue. Back in the fall of last year there was much ado laised over the question. On September 6, 144'9> a referendum was held on the order of the Harnett County Board of Elections to decide cm the sale of beer and wine in the county. The referendum was held at the inslst- ance of the Harnett County Minis terial Association which secured a number of names to petitions. In that election every 'precInct in the county voted against the sale of the beverages, Jmt the town of Dunn went heavier for the sale than any other part of the county. Later when advocates of ABC stores Insisted on 8.n election for opening liquor stores in Harnett, the Ministerial Association joined in the petiton wth the announced purpose of defeating the proposal. Again the county went about J-1 against the legal sale of alcoholic beverages, and again the (own of Dunn voted heavier than the rest of the county to have the .legal sale, although all Dunn precincts turned thumbs down. This time however, the Dunn vote was a little more ia line with the rest ot the county tlian it had been in the beer and wine election. The 1949 General Assembly of North Carolina passed an act which allows for towns of l.OiOO population or more to call for special elections on the sale of beer if the county in which they are located is dry. The law also states that the special elec tions may be called for only if as many of 15 per cent of the registered voters In the town have signed a pe tition advocating the election. In Dunn the advocates of legal beer have taken advantage of this new law and have secured the neces sary names amounting to 15 >per cent of the registered voters of Dunn on a petition. All the requirements of the law having been met with, the (Continued on page two) Four Killed By Exhaust From Auto! Qroceryman 'Truby Powell al lowed the exhaust from his car to asphyxiate four large rats Monday afternoon. By sticking a rubber hose run ning from the exhaust pipe into the rat-holes, the rodents crawled out In a v^ry “sickly” condition. Inunediately taps from a stick put the rats beyond recovery. The big rodents have been in festing the business portion of town for sometime, and discovery of their hiding places just outside his store put the groceryman on the prowl for rats, with the result' that four were put out of cwn- mission. Flane Crash Lands East of Angier A five-passenger Stearman cabin plane carrying two men from Balti more made a forced landing Sunday afternoon in a field about four miles east of Angier near the Johnston County line. Neither of the passen gers were injured. The two Baltimore men had been to New Bern and were on their way back to Baltimore when they lost their way in the heavy overcast that prevailed during the week-end. They couldn’t climb abore it, and they had to come down to lOO; feet before they could get below it, so they decided to make the forced landing. With the aid or local residents they dismantled' the plane for safe keeping, and the next morning one of the men returned to Baltimore. COMMISSIONERS CONTINUE WORK ON NEW BUDGET Approve Sanitary District For Erwin Cotton Mill Area Mr. A. R. Reep, Senior Statistician of the State Board of Health, appear ed before the County Commissioners Friday afternoon at a meeting sche duled to take' up a sanitary district hearing and to hear an explanation of the state and federal aid to the county health departments. Only three of the Commissioners were present for the meeting. Just enough for the Board to transact official business. Those present were L. A. Tart, chairman, Carson Gre gory and John A. Senter. Commis sioners Charlie Fields and Paul Ty- singer were absent from the meeting. On Monday, July 4, at the regular first Monday meeting of the Com missioners, there was consider able discussion of the system by which the state grants aid to the county health departments, and at that time it was decided that the Board should meet at 2 o’clock Fri day afternoon. It was also recom mended that a represefttatlve of the State Board of Health be secured to be present Friday to explain the re gulations by which state aid is grant ed to the iocal health departments. This was done because on Monday the Commissioners were not clear on how the aid was secured and they could not obtain Information that would clear them up on the matter at that time. When the meeting finally came to order at '3:30 Friday afternoon when three of' the Commissioners were present, theji quickly dispatched the business on hand of the sanitary district 'from Black River to the Er win Cotton Mills lino for water and sewer which had 'been petitioned for at the First Monday, meeting on June 5. This petition was approved and sent to the State Board of Health with the recommendation that the petition be carried out. Immediately following that, Dr. W. B. Hunter, County Health Offi cer, and A. R. Reep of the State Board of Health, appeared before the Commissioners. Mr. Reep went into a detailed discuseion of the way in which the State Board sets the amount of aid which is granted to the county boards. In substance, what'Mr. Reep told the Commission- ers is that the State aid is.based on (Continued on page eight) TOWN C()UNCE RAISES BUDGET Reefs T/tx rate Executive Reduce General Fund To Pay Street Paving The new .budget and tax rate .'or the fiscal year of 1^60-61 was voted on and passed ' by the Lillington Board ot Councllmen last Wednes day, July 5, in getting the town fi nances straightened out for the com ing year. The bi^get that was work ed out had somc^ changes in it from the 1949-50 one); and there was an increase of $2,0D0f involved in the final resolution. While the builjget was ‘being rais ed $2,0(?0, howetter, the tax rate re mained the same, as last year, $1.74. What would seem to be the answer to a legislator's prayer, (hat of rais ing the budget 'Without raising the tax rate, works out fairly simply in the case of th^' ILiilltngton budget. The way it works out is that when a property revahttrtlon was made re cently, an occuiSailce of about every ten years, propd^iy was set at a higher value in (he town. Therefore, while the tax i^te remains at the same level, .more taxes will be col lected than before from the same property which has a higher value. In the breakdSiwn of the ibudget figures, the maj^ change is seen in the decrease in t^s amount set aside for the general fi(iid and the increase for the debt service. Also the sink ing fund was increased more than 100 per cent, although this does not amount to as much of a dollar for dollar raise as that gained 'by the debt service. The $4,900 increase in the debt service appropriation is to facilitate the paying off of the bonds issued for the paving of streets in Lining' ton which took place last year. In order to make the Increase in the debt service without raising the bud get t'Oo much (ho general fund was decreased (romiiUkds'SOO in the 1>9'49 50 budget to $25,40'0i in the 1950-51 one. .This was a cut of $4,'100 for the general fund. In order to meet the Internal changes in the budget and at the same time to keep the tax rate at the same level, the Councilmen Jug gled the tax levies 'by cutting the levy for the general fund by 46 cents while raising the rate for the debt service by i3i7 cents and for the sink ing fund by 9 cents. The 1950t-51 it'udget that was ten tatlvely adopted by the Councllmen is shown as follows: General Fund $25,40'0i.00 Debt Service 7,600.00 Sinking ‘Fund 2,'OOO.OA' Echo (M Konin War Is Heard In Call For Draftees Greham Brands As Untrue Reports He Will Resign Senator Graham has branded as untrue the reports he 'Plans to re sign immediately to clear the way for appointment of Senator-Nomi- nate Willis Smith. Also, the Senator said he will remaia» in Washington while the Korean war is In progress. Apparently he believes it won^t be a long war, since his Senate tenure is now limited to about four more months. Several Tar Heel Houhe' offices helped circulate the report about the Senator resignin(; hut it turu'ed out It Isn’t so. ThelBcnator said, “There’s nothing to that. It’s the first I have heard of it. I still have a job to do here.’’ Prior to Graham’s denial of the report, there had beeif considerable speculation on tlie House side about the rumor. Some observers felt, how ever, that if Graham did resign, Gov ernor Scott wouldna appoint Smith Senator now. There still remains in existence one phase of the rumor, namely that Graham' would quit the Senate right after the Novem-ber 7 election. More and more, the report is be ing heard on Capitol 'Hill that when President Truman names the new U. S. delegates to the United Na tions, appointments which -must be made before September, Graham will be among them. Some sources here believe that Chief 'Delegate Warren Austin, who is in poor health, will resign before that time, and that Graham will be named to that post. There la general agreement in Washington that Gra ham is a "natural” for appointment to the UN delegation. Total - $36,000.0'0 The tax levy for the coming fiscal year is bhown as follows: General Fund $.1.11 Debt Service $ .60 Sinking Fund .1'3 Total — $'1.74 In order that a comparison might be mad'e with the 'budget and tax rates for the fiscal year of 19491^60, •they are also shown. Budget for fiscal year 194'9‘-50i: General Fund $29,500.00 'Debt Service 2,70’0i.00 Sinking Fund SOO.O'O Total — $33,000.00 Tax levy for the fiscal year 1949- S'Oi: General Fund $1.67 Dibt Service .14 Sinking Fund .04 Total $1-74 Jean Maness Work* In Service Office; Dunn Office To Reopen The Veteran's Service Office has a new employee, Miss Jean O. Maness, who is taking the place of Bonnie B. Willard who formerly held the cleri cal position in the office. Miss Wil- uard is now employed in the payroll office at the Erwin Cotton Mills. Miss Maness started to 'Work on Monday of this week. She is a resi dent of Dunn R-3, near Turlington’s Cross Roads. She Is formerly of 'Fay etteville. Service Officer L. B. McLean says that beginning on Friday of this week the Dunn office of the Veter an’s Service Officer will begin dhe regular .schedule of 'being open for two dayis in the week, a service that had, to be discontinued when Miss Willard resigned her position. By Friday, McLean said. Miss Maness will be able to take care of one of the offices by herself, allowing the two-dAy week In Dunn to 'be re sumed. LARGE COUNTY T.B. SURVEY BEING PLANNED Plan To Go Into Effect When State Program Completed County Health Officer Dr. W. B. Hunter said last week that sometime in the future, possibly in about a year or a year and a half, his de partment will make an extensive sur vey of tubercular patients in the county. At the present time. Dr. Hunter said, there are often cases that come up here and all over the state where a person has tuberculosis and needs hospitalization, but there are not enough hospital beds to take care of the large number. In that case. Dr. Hunter continued, the tubercular most stay at home where his condi tion does not Imji^ove, but gets worse if anything. And not only that, but when they reach the com^muni- cable stage, they spread the disease. In order to meet this situation the state has stared on an eight million dollar building program in the T.B. hospitals to provide enough beds to adequately handle all the patients in the state. Dr. Hunter said that he expected it would be about a year or a year and a half before these addi tions will be finished and space made available for all those who need hospitalization. When this space is ready Dr. Hun ter said that his department will then 'begin a large scale survey of the count)-: to find those who need hospitalization for tuberculosis. He went on to say that he is counting on having five mobile units to cover the county with, which will ibe fur nished by the state. Dr. Hunter estimated that right now there are from ‘•h2 to 15 persons in the files in the offices in Lilling ton and Dunn who need to go to a T. B. hospital, and would if they could, but there is Just not enough space available for them. When space is available he stated that the coun ty-wide survey would begin and much could' be done about stopping the spread of the disease. In the past. Dr. Hunter said, the people in Harnett county have 'been very cooperative with the depart ment in such matters, and he has hopes that the future T.B. survey will be of great benefit to the county. Power Off Here Short While Sunday Power will be off in Lillington area from 2:00 P.Sf. untU 4:S0 P.M. Sunday, July lOth to allow the crews of Ae Carolina Power and Li|{ht Company to replace sub-station transfonners wiA ones twice the sine of the present ones. This work is part of the.cmn- pany’s ei^nslon program to bring better service to conmnnity and customnrs, aanonneed H. M. Tyler, District Manager for the Carolina Power Sc Light Co. Lillington Youth Make* Sharpshooter Ft. Bennlng, Ga. — Cadet Fred C. Holder has qualified as Sharpshooter with the M-1 rifle on ^he range at the ROTC'Summer Camp in Port Benning, Georgia. Holder fired a score of 166 out of a possible 210. Cadet Holder is the son of Mr. D. C. Holder ot Lillington. 'He is a student of Davidson College. WORK ON FOUR COUNTY SCHOOL PROJECTS BEGUN Eight More Will Get Their Start Within One Week Four of the twelve school projects for which contracts have been let have already, been put into motion, it was announced' Wednesday morn ing by School Superintendent C. Reid Ross. And by this time next week the other eight projects for which contracts have been let will also be undei’way. At the Harnett County Training School actual construction has al ready begun. O. W. Godwin ot Dunn is the contractor for the work there -where 4 classrooms will be made out of an old auditorium, and a fire tower and four toilets will be con structed. At the new Negro Elementary School in Erwin, which will consoli date five small schools. Contractor R. M. Turlington of Lillington has laid off the ground for the school site. - Contractor Turlington has laid off the sites for the 'projects that have been 'begun at the Coats and LaFay- ette schools also.^At Coats there will be four new ^assrooms and two new toilets and a physical education building. At the LaFayette school there will 'be five classrooms,, an agricultural shop, and toilets. Much of the time up to now since the contracts a'ere let, said Superin tendent 'Ross, has been taken up by the contractors in buying the netos- sary equipment and materials with which to work with. But now the work is actually beginning and the feeling around the school office is that now things are beginning to move and the building program is realty getting somewhere. 'LOCAL DRAFT BOARD READY TO ROLL NOW No Order* in Yet But Machinery I* Set For Operation The Harnett County draft board is all ready to go into action, according to the latest report from Miss Helen Hofmann, clerk to the local board. As yet there have been no orders received by the board calling for the induction of men, but under the cir cumstances the machinery for send ing out the call to eligible men in 1-A is being oiled up. “We haven’t received any orders yet,’’ Miss Hofmann said, “but from what we see in the papers and hear on the radio we think that we might as well be ready when the orders come.” Right now the local office is preparipg forms tc be sent out to eligible men in the 25 years age group, which according to reports will be the first called if it becomes necessary for the draft law to be put into operation. Then if and when the orders do come through, all that will have to be done is to mail out the already prepared forms. Miss Hofmann said that there are only a very few eligible men in the 25 year group in the county, because most of them of that age are either veterans or are married. But, based on the figure of 610' men that North Carolina has been asked to furnish in the first call, the county should be able to meet its quota of the few men that would probably be Har nett’s share of that number. Many Licen*es I$*ued 'Driver’s license examiners of the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles issued 51,440 driver’s li censes during June, the Department reported today. Of that number 13,889 were chauf feur’s licenses for the fiscal year 1'950-51 and 34,309 were operator's licenses issued on new applications. GoodwiU HD aub Makes Splendid Progress In 6 Years , (Contributed). On March 19, *1941 Miss Maude Searcy, Home Demonstration Agent of Harnett County, met with a group of ten women at the home of Mrs. L. D. Jones and organized the Good will Home Demonstration Club. This small group did not realize that from this meeting there would grow one of the largest and most progressive cubs of our county. Four of the original members are still active in the club at the present time. Today this club has a membership of thirty-nine. Our community has had a great many improvements in the past nine years, and we feel sure our club women have played a big part in this. In many ot our homes we have about all the imodern con veniences one desires. You will find in most homes— refrigerators, wash ing machines, -water systems, electric stoves, bath rooms, home freezers or tree/.er lockers rented. There are also many seeded lawns. The present Home Demonstration leaders are Miss Loraine Vail and Miss Lela Huntley. There Is no way tO' extlihate- the" value of these lead ers and club members to our com munity. The foUowing list Is a tew of the club projects that are dem onstrated by the leaders and carried out by the club members: Foods and Nutrition, Home Gardens, Poultry, Home Dairy, Food Preservation, Home Furnishings and Management, Family Life and Clothing. Anyone should know that more time and studying on these things would make our homes a better and happier place to live. The Goodwill is proud of its large membership, but it 'has one menrber it wants to pay particular honor to, she is Mrs. E. L. Parrish. Mrs. Par rish has been an outstanding mem ber in our club and in. the county. She was elected Secretary-Treasurer when the club was organized. This position she held for four years. She also served several years as Vice- President. As club project leader she has served to the best of her ability and with the best interest of the club in mind. There is one other thing Mrs. Parrish is outstanding In and that is in all the nine years of the club’s existence she has not miss ed a meeting. We feel honored to have her as a club member. JAMES BUREN STOUT BURIED LAST FRJDAY Operator of Lillington Ice & Coal Co. Died In Hospital Last Wednesday James Buren Stout, 34, popular. businessman of Lillington, died in a Fayetteville iiospital Wednesday of last week at 12:05 p. m. after sev eral weeks of declining health. He was a native of Davidson county, a son of the late S. D. Stout and Jennie Surratt Stout. He had operated the Lillington Ice and Coal Co. here for a number of years and has a wide circle of friends throughout this sec tion who mourn his passing. He was a member of the Lillington Metho dist .Church. Funeral services were held Friday at 11 a. m. from the Lillington Me thodist Church, conducted by Rev. W. L. Loy, pastor, assisted by Rev. T. A. G'.iiton, Lillington Presbyterian pastor, and Rev. S. F. Hudson, Lill ington Baptist pastor. Burial was iu Harnett Memorial Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the former Cornelia McKinney; two sons, James B., Jr., and Reginald of the home; a daughter, Virginia, also of the home; two brothers, Everett and S. D. Stout, Jr., Wallace; two sisters, Mrs. James Kelly of Mocksville and Mrs. D. J. Snider, Greensboro. NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED AT ROTARY MEET L. H. Campbell Makes Talk At Weekly Meeting The new president of the Lilling ton Rotary Club, Malcolm Fowler, toSk over the chair at the weekly meeting of the organization last Thursday night. Other officers for new year who .were installed at the meeting were Or. J. K. Williford. Vice-President, and John H. Black- E.on, who was re-elected as Secre tary. Retiring officers of the Club, who gave way to the incoming officials Thursday night were C. Reid Ross, President, and Mack Norwood, Vice- President. Professor L. H. Campbell, Presi dent of Campbell College, w&b the guest speaker of the evening, and he made a very entertaining and humor ous talk to those present. Professor Campbell is a former member of the Lillington Rotary.' There was one guest attending the meeting, Robert Baker, a mem'ber ot the HooreeviUe Rotary.
Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 13, 1950, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75