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NEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday by THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro, N. C. Entered at the Post Office at Hillsboro, N. C., as second-class matter. _ ; t Roy Parker... .President ■Harris. Large."..Editor and Manager Sue P. Large. ... - Secretary subscription Aates Year (in Orange County).$1-50 .. Year (outside Orange County).. ..$2.00 36 Months (in Orange County)....$100 1> Months (outside Orange County )..;..... * * .$1-25 ^Special Rate to Service Men « j> THE NEWS of Orange County is the oldest news paper of continuous operation in Orange County. I Member North Carolina Press Association and ' North Carolina Weekly Newspaper Association Thursday, December 21, 1944 Christmas ’44 r ' j Next Monday we will celebrate the fourth ' war time Christmas in the country, still secure Sin home untouched by the disasters of war, I. thanks to GI Joes in foxholes all over the £ world. - |# The News extends seasonal greetings to gall of its readers and patrons as it rejoices on lathis its first Christmas since publication under 0 present ownership, But as we exchange greet ings and wishes for happiness during the ,‘yuletide season, let’s not forget the sons, Hbrothers and husbands who are giving their Ilives and blood that we might have continued 1 peace on earth as we'worship Him who first | shed blood for a world of sinners. i; Those on far,distant battle fields will co» stinue the fight to bring peace on earth until the distasteful task is accomplished, but peace f on earth is not sufficient. There must be good ^ will or the battle will be in vain for the victor . as well as the loser. J, Who will establish good will? GI Joe’s | weapons that bring peace will be useless. It I will be up to us at home. If we do not un | shackle ourselves Trom the chains of greed . and false pride, there will be another peace | to be won and more lives and blood to be | sacrificed. fr As The News extends its greetings, it is • our wish also that it is more than mere words it, when we greet another next Monday morning | with the familiar “Merry Christmas.” f School Sanitation 1 The current report of the grand jury of f Lenoir county is something all who have * accepted responsibility for county government | in North Carolina would do well to take into | account. It deals primarily with the public school system and points out conditions which it calls “deplorable.” Since the items deplored I run to defective plumbing, shortage of busses, s water pumps that refuse to work, lacking or I faulty septic tanks and such-like it requires t no great stretch of imagination for up-state I folk to grasp the situation. We Orange folks I have been right there, and, we suspect, are I not without guilt at present, i What does the Lenoir grand .jury suggest | by way of correction? That the county super t intendent make the required repairs or get ' out in favor of somebody who will. That’s plain, understandable talk. There i ought to be more of it. We are not trying , to take the Lenoir superintendent, E. E. Sams, I who is a schoolman of repute, for a ride, nor are we talking at Orange’s superintendent by indirection. We are simply getting around * to the flat-footed statement that the people of North Carolina are fast approaching the point at which they are going to demand that those yjho administer the public school sys | tern leave off their boasts about the number I of pupils transported to eleven or twelve grades for nine months of the year and safe ? guard the pupils in transit and on the school premises. - • - . All of us who are conversant with rural ‘.schools in North Carolina know that in sani tation they do not compare favorably with the county prison camps maintained,by the .state highway commission. It may well be that the legislature has not provided sufficient money for the proper maintenance of the rural schools, it is pos sibly, that the counties must resume some sense pf obligation; but a county superin tendent who has a single school under his supervision inviting an epidemic of typhoid through a lack of sanitation or-a bus which picks up primary graders a mile from home before daylight and does not fetch them back within an hour by sun and doesn’t resign if he can’t do anything about it ought to be fired. ' If we refrain from saying what ought to happen to a state superintendent of public instruction who neglects the physical condi tion of schools and pupils to devote his time to attending the meetings of a state board of education which so far has not offered an answer to any of the questions parents of school children are asking, you may infer that what we say about the superintendent of one county ought to go about lOo times for the boss of the outfit. - LETS ALL BUY MORE WAR BONDS ..~. '■ ETAOIN SHRDLU - THE LONE DISSENTER . . . John Foushee,~ Chapel Hill’s mayor before Bob Madry took over, has entered two protests against changes, that have been made in The News since it came to Orange for its printing job. He wants his “Lone Ranger” back, and he likes the tabloid size. I didn’t even have to send an inquiring reporter around to get his views about it, either; he made protest against dropping his favdrite comic the first week it disappeared from the newspaper and last Wednesday night before he’d seen his paper and the results of the opinion poll ex-Mayor Foushee was wanting to know why the paper had changed that Convenient size. DOWN MY ALLEY . . . The last two weeks’ front page headlines of your county newspaper have topped stories my typewriter has duplicated many a time. “Achievement Day,”. “Faftn-to-Market Roads,”—these were two of them. Then, there were the articles about progress in dairying, the REA man talking about electric line extension, a hint of rural telephone developihent, and Nor fleet Webb’s flower shop in Hillsboro and the Wests' in Carrboro. . . > Then, over in the advertising section was that half page news-tisement by Swift & Company. Did you read that one? If not, go back and check it. There wijl be a series of ads on agricultural topics by the same people. For the privilege of talking to Orange county farmers on sub jects close to their daily living Swift & Com pany is paying for liberal space in this paper. . . . And, you don’t have to be the newspaper counterpart of a radio Plug Shrinker to go all the way through the Swift messages. There’s no selling message in them. # # # ETAOIN SHRDLU, SCRAMBLED LET TER COLUMN OF YOUR NEWSPAPER, WISHES ALL OF YOU READERS, IF THERE ARE ANY READERS, THE BEST CHRISTMAS SEASON YOU, HAVE EVER HAD IF THAT WERE AT ALL POSSIBLE in a WSrld WHERE THERE IS , NO “PEACE ON EARTH” AND WHERE THE USUAL GREETING “GOODWILL TOWARD MEN” HAS A HOLLOW SOUND. NEVERTHELESS, I CAN SPEAK ' WITH AUTHORITY AS AUTHOR OF ETAOIN SHRDLU IN SAYING TO YOU ORANGE COUNT IANS, ' IN THE COUNTY AND AWAY FROM IT, THAT I AM GLAD TO HAVE MET YOU AND I HOPE WE WILL BE SEEING EACH OTHER REGULARLY FOR CHRISTMASES TO COME. AND MAY ALL THE CHRISTMASES THAT COME NOT BE LIKE THIS ONE. —rR.p, BY THE EDITOR CHRISTMAS ... it is natural for one to wonder what. Christ mas must have been like way back yonder. The season has been so commercialized that today there is so much hum-drum and nervous confusion that on December ?6th there is a spirit of relief, relaxation and sighing after about two months of running high and low. EXCEPTIONS . Of course there are exceptions to the day after-Christmas resting rule. There are those donning the ice pack on heads that feel en larged by about three times—the -result of an overdose of egg'nog and reasonable fac similes. They wish they could rest. RESTRICTIONS ... There are some restrictions on the wartime celebration though. .The one that has caught -me the hardest is the lighting problem. If there is a string of indoor tree lights to be had, they aren’t on my tree. But then there is a more advantageous shortage—fireworks. Before the war, there were at least two fire works stands in every town and "the whole community rocked with the booming of fire works for a month before and after. And some kid in the next block always held a “thunder bolt” or. “cherry bomb” in his hand too long and landed/in the hospital with a couple of fingers gone or his hand badly burned and bruised from the explosion. There are a few firecrackers in circulation, but nothing like there used to be, and I, for one, am not complaining of that shortage. LOOKING BACK .. . . rH. I remember the' Christmas season when fireworks were plentiful and two gangs of us rowdys got mad at each other. \Ve still insist that they threw at us first (not a sworn statement). The scrap resulted in our getting 1919—lit Orange County r- ■ ‘ * I Chapel Hill never before wit nessed'such a gathering . . . “Com mencement day or Rally day would have been swallowed up in the great throng.” .. 13,000 to 14,000 persons attended the Carolina Virginia football game .,. . Caro lina outclassed the Virginians. / * * * In Rocky Mount, where Chapel Hill high school was playing foot ball a crowd of several hundred rushed on the field and tried to start a fight. . . . -“Rocky Mount did everything in its power to get the Chapel Hill team to fight but the steady Hillians kept on play ing ball.” * * • * Carrboro’s Ellington St Durham store was broken into and a quan tity of merchandise was stolen. * * * Efland’s John Clark and a party of friends, going to Hillsboro Thanksgiving evening in his Ford, was struck by a larger car and the Ford was almost demolished. No one was hurt. . . . Miss Annie Cole of Hillsboro was visiting her sis ter, Mrs. John Smith in Efiand. *, * * “White Cross Is coming, So just look out and see; If you find a better place, Just report to me.” * * * “A new buggy feyer is raging in this section. Look out girls in every direction.” . . . “Guess Rex is still studying his geography for more information concerning the stars.” (White Cross.) * * * The‘Graham Memorial fund has reached the $104,000 figure. * * * At Rock Hill: “We are having good behavior at Rock Hill school. Hurrah for Miss Dark. She’s a good one.” f , * * * “Cotton 39i4c, cotton seed $1.28 per bushel.” * * * * “The Bank of Carrboro opened Saturday , . . first fray’s deposits amounted to over $300,000.” * * * _1 The Chapel Hill graded school has a Ford truck nicely equipped for the purpose of hauling chil dren to school, those who live in the nearby country.” * * * Chapel Hill: “The renting of the new boxes in the new postoffice building took place Tuesday morn ing at 9 o’clock. The next impor tant thing to ’do is to have free mail delivery in tpwn and the University.” »■ ” * * Hon. Thos. R. Marshall, vice president of the United States, spoke in Raleigh Monday night. * * * (. . . These were the things THIS NEWS (then published at Chapel Hill) was reporting in its issue of December 6, 1919 . . . and, sig nificantly, it said: “All subscrip tions not paid up before Jan. 1st, •1920, will be cut oft beginning with the Hew Year. Some may take this as a joke, but don’t be dis appointed, come in during the next week Or so and pay up and renew as next year is a political year, and you will want THE NEWS more than ever before.”) MORE THAN THE U&UAL " NIP IN THE AIR Unofficial weather diagnostic ians in and around Hillsboro are in pretty much agreement that below -average temperatures have prevailed in these parts during the late fall days of this year. Although Orange county has escaped, the snow blizzards of further-North areas and the snow flurries that have fallen in other sections of the state and certain sections of the “sunny South, it has experienced low temperatures for days at a time and has seen its pre-Christ mas piles of fuel fall lower than Is customary. Winter’s arrival tjiIs week has been attended by no signs of a rise in the temperature. Headlines Of Old --—- -T-r-•1 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Big extra vote offer will close Saturday night; Sheriff Sloan and deputies capture still, oil burner soldiers’ and Widows’ pensions Hillsboro boys on sight; seeing trir in west; report of grand jury; mar riage license issued; the Merry Minstrels; honor to whom honoi is due. ’ all the thunderbolts we could find and their getting all the torpedc bombs they could find. They hid in a house and we stood on the street comer. The only casualties were a cut arm on our side, a stunned hand on the other, and two broken gutter pipes and a shattered window on the house as we threw thunderbolts at them in the window and they threw tor pedoes at us on the street. I am sure the parents of both groups knew nothing of tire row or there woyld have been more casualties. That has convinced n\e that chil dren’s hands sure too small! for firecrackers. - •y3fc:y.' Schley News Alton Wilson of State College is home for the Christmas holi days. Ray Allerson, Jr. is home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Al lerson, from State College. Mrs. Leonard Wilson of Hills boro spent*the day with Miss Ruth Wilson recently. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Johns are glad to have their daughter, Jessie; visit them from New York. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Johns, Jessie, end Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wilson of Hillsboro had supper with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wilkerson Friday night. Misses Inez and Mary Wilson of Meredith College are spending the Chirstmas holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wil son. , Miss Louise Wilson gave her brother, Ray, a surprise birthday party on Saturday night. Mrs. Herman Wilson entertained her Sunday school class at a Christ mas party on Friday night. Mrs. Glenn Kennedy, had sup per with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Min cey Sunday night. Alton and Ruth Wilson visited Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins of Ce dar Grove Sunday evening. BARBARA CASHION IS HIGH SCHOOL QUEEN; BERNARD LLOYD KING Chapel Hill, Dec. 20.—Barbara Cashion was crowned Queen and Bernard Lloyd was crowned King of Chapel Hill high school at the “ProconivaL’V a carnival sponsor ed by the Proconian, student news paper of Chapel Hill high school held at the high school “Tin Can” Saturday night. Runners-up in the popularity contest acted as ladies-in-waiting and pages to Queen Barbara and King Bernard. They were: Ardie Hamilton, Evelyn Merritt, Hilda Sharkey, Rebecca Huggins, ladies in-waiting; and Jimmy Blake, Frank Farrington, Billy Carmi chael and Preston Carroll, pages. Queen Barbara and King Ber nard were“chosen by popular bal lot. The formal program prior to the coronation ceremonies consist ed of a trio singing “Pistol Packin’ Mamma”, a group of Christmas songs, and “Don’t Fence Me In.” Members of the trio were: Fay Jo nes, Nancy Williams and Charlotte Dollar. Movies, oddities, bingo, dancing and other features of the usual car nival were offered at the Proconi - val in addition to the coronation ceremonies. CEILING PRICES RAISED ON BARROWS AND GILTS Raleigh, Dec. 20.—Ceiling prices on all live barrows and gilts have been raised to $14.75 per hundred weight, Chicago basis, as a result of action by the Office of Price Administration in extending high er ceiling prices on light-weight live hogs to all weights of hogs except sows, stags, and boars. The Raleigh QPA said ceilings on sows, stags and boars are now 75 cents per hundredweight un der ceilings for barrows and gilts. Get your supply of stationery^ and statements for 1945 from THE NEWS printing office. . Eflaai Birthday Party Miss Nell McAdams was hon ored Saturday night by a surprise birthday party given to her by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mc Adams at the Fairfield Community House. Apples, oranges, and cake were served to the following guests: Jessie Gray Nichols, Doris Taylor, Merle McAdams, Jane Compton, Sarah Vaughn, Edna Burke Nichols, Catherine YTilson, Rita Vaughn, Zelota Compton, Burch McAdams, Bobby Nichols, Ben Lloyd, Birch Compton, Glenn Caruthers, and William Dorsett. Personals Air Cadet Perry Brown has re turned to MOody Held, Ga., after speeding his furlough with his Mrs. FredBrown P*rents> Mr. Wayne Taylor spending the his Parents, Mr S. Taylor. Miss Bettie Sue Uoyd ?°“*ge “ spending the holidays with her and Mrs. A. B. *'lora Jane Efland of an s College, Greensboro is tog the Christmas E'fLT” 'Mr- •" . Miss Catherine Meat, mer is a patient in Watts tal, Durham. tts hosP‘ Miss Lillian Thompson sDent n. Buy another "E" bond this mr>n*y Our wishes are as endless j as the continuous, un broken circle formed by I 'the holly wreath which marks our doorway as one [ of Christmas cheer! Hillsboro Flower Shop T. N. Webb . Phone 15 me Dirtn ot the Christ bahe 1944 years ago this December 25th, gave to the world a glorious spirit \yhich isi commemorated by this day. 'In that spirit we wish yotr the seasori!s ^„: greetings. .LSBORO SUNDRY
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