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roes Lead
hristmas
1 Sale Here
e close of the Christmas
ve comes in sight, final flg
ow the colored community
ong behind the drive shpw
tal contribution of $167.34
other sources worked by
boro association under the
ip of C. B. Parris contrib
ly $187.63. The Hillsboro
high school alone topped
te school with a total of
while the white school
in $126.25.
Parris, chairman of the
the Hillsboroand rural
area, commended A. L.
, principal of the colored
ool, on the organization
Fifty Center Club.” Each
who sold as much as fifty
worth of seals was given a
and named a “fifty center.”
the opening of the drive,
f 300 envelopes containing a
urging the purchase pf the
and 100 seals were mailed
flange countians by the asso
|on. Parris said only about half
Ee recipients of the letters and
Is have responded with either
money or the seals leaving a
;e number who have kept the
but have made no contribu
te the drive.— —
nuary
dio Drive
March of Dimes will begin
14 in Orange county un-’
le sponsorship of the Chapel
! Rotary and Kiwanis dubs
W. T. Huntley, Jr. heading
1945 polio campaign in this
annual fund appeal is be
Dnducted this year from Jan
14-31 in celebration of the
ient’s Birthday and, as in the
most of the funds will be
fto combat polio in this state,
iting out that the 1944 epi
of infantile paralysis wps
-vn^rst dfcibfaaiftHft- tie
in the history of the
States, campaign officials
the “need to reinforce
Jines of defense against this
tous enemy of childhood.”
lough North Carolina had
its worst epidemics of in
paralysis during the past
the death rate from the dis
s was the lowest ever recorded,
ise funds to provide medical
and equipment were avail
trough November 21 of this
848 cases of infantile paraly
lad been reported to the state
rd of health since before “the
(emic last summer. Of this
fiber 618 patients have received
Jtment at the Hickory Polio
prgency hospital, the “Gastonia
lopaedic hospital and—the
rlotte Memorial. Four hundred
thirty-five were treated at
ly 13 deaths were reported at
three hospitals, making the
death rate ever recorded
an infantile paralysis epidemic,
(ty-three per cent of the hos
ized cases reported will re
to nottnal or near-normal
Ith, as a result of early treat
lt. Seventeen per cent will re
some paralysis.
gt Franklin :
ts Purple Heart
Sgt. Vaxtor L. Franklin, son
r. and Mrs. E. S. Franklin of
te 2, Rougemont, has been
rded the purple he^rt for
nds received in Italy Novem
3. Official reports indicate that
eant Franklin is improving in
ospital in Italy. He was also
ded the Silver Star for gal
y in action in North Africa,
1 2, 1943. He entered the Army
arch, 1939, and has been over
33 months.
HENDERSON WITH
TH AIR FORCE
EIGHTH AIR FORCE LIB
R STATION, ENGLAND.
Lieutenant Archibald Hen
of Chapel Hill, former
Carolina athlete, is now.ser
with the Second Bombard
Diyision of the Eighth Air
er rival with Colonel Ram
Potts, of Memphis, Tenn.,
pup commander, for the
er one” $?ot on Coach Ken
high ranking tennis teams
apel Hill, Lt. Henderson has
ipated in 30 high altitude
on bombing attacks as a
tor on the B-24 Liberator,
r,” and has beep awarded
guished Flying Cross and
r Medal with three Oak
clusters.
Claude MahaffeySees Fast
PT Boat Action tn Pacific
Advancing through a barrage of
Nip ship and shore gunfire, an
I American 7th Fleet PT boat with
Claude C. Mahaffey, Boatswain’s
Mate second class, USNR, of Hills
boro, aboard, made a direct hit on
a large transport anchored in Or
moc Bay off Leyte Island in the
Philippines on Nov. 29.
Mahaffey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. B. Mahaffey, of Hillsboro, re
leased one of the torpedoes the PT
fired at the 7,000-ton enemy ship
and then manned his heavy caliber
machine gun during a running
fight. '.._L_ _
Both the attacked ship and en
emy shore batteries opened up
with 40 millimeter guns, and 75
millimeter shells from shore bat
teries were landing all around
the little PT.
“It was a very bright night,”
Mahaffey says. “We could see the
transports in the bay over a mile
ahead. We moved into firing posi
tion and let go all our torpedoes.”
“As we .were, pulling out of the
bay we saw a large explosion.”'
The Nips on the beach continued
firing on the American PTs all the
way out of the bay. When they
were out of range, Jap float planes
that had attempted to bomb them
twice as they were approaching
the targets resumed their attacks.
“There were several near miss
es from 500 bombs,” Mahaffey
says. “No one was injured. We
opened fire, and made a definite
hit 6n one of the planes.”
The young Hillsboro bluejacket
has been in the Southwest Pacific
for 12 months and has taken part
in 35 combat patrols in the Philip
pines and New Guinea area.
He enlisted in the Naval Re
serve on Jan. 4, 1942, and receiv
ed recruit training at Newport,
R. I. He attended Hillsboro high
school, and The Citadel, Charles
ton, S. C.
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Requests For
Allotments
--—f
Due January
** AW eligible producers Interests*
in applying for a new grower flue
cured or burley tobacco allotment
for 1945 should file their request
at the Orange county AAA office
prior to February 1, according
to J. S. Corrtpton, chairman, Or
ange county AAA committee.
The announcement by the War
Food Administration that market
ing quotas will apply on these two
types of tobaCco for the market
ing year 1945-46 specified that five
per cent ofv the national market
ing quota would be made avail
able for establishing new allot
ments.’
To be eligible for such an allot
ment either the farm operator or
the person growing the tobacco
must be living on the farm and
largely dependent on the farm for
-his livelihood. -——
Orange Farmers Show Increase in
Production During The Past Year
According to Don S. Matheson,
county agent, the farmers of Or
ange county showed decided in
crease and improvement in pro
duction during 1944. The following
is a summary of activities and re
sults for the year on Orange county
farms:
4,360 acres of tobacco made ap-»
proximately 4,360,000 pounds and
sold for an estimated $1,962,000.
Commercial dairy products, in
cluding grade' C milk. sold for more
than one-half million dollars.
Dairy cows were increased from
5,000 to 5,680.
Chickens raised in the county
were increased from 400,000 to
500,000, approximately 180,000 be
ing laying hens. " v - ,
Two cooperative milk market
ing organizations have been formed
with plans to build^fcyq^pnodem
milk plants, one in Qfiyppiill and
the other one in riffl^Pro.
488 boys enrolled in tf-H Club
work. Approximately 150 of these
boys produced enough food to feed
a fighter for a year.
4-H Club boys showed 25 dairy
animals at two Junior Cattle Shows
winning a total of 17 blue ribbons
and 25 red, ribbons plus $361.25 in
premiums.
Demonstrations with the new
wilt resistant tobacco variety just
released by the Experiment Sta
tion proved 90 ■ to 100 per cent
effective in controlling wilt. Every
farm in the county known to have
wilt has been provided with wilt
resistant seed for 1945. These re
sistant plants will save tobacco
farmers in the county from $50,
000 to $100,006 annually. -
Farmers have invested a sub
stantial amount of their income in
War Bonds. Intensive campaigns
have been conducted by neighbor
hood leaders in each War Loan
drive. Our county has exceeded its
quota each time. /.
By cooperating with the AAA
program, farmers have received
4,000 tons of lime, eight carloads
of superphosphate, and 10,000
pounds of Austrian winter peas.
They have been able to purchase
at cost for feeding'livestock 17,
000 bushels of feed wheat and 480
tons of cotton seed meal.
The exchange of farm labor, the
working overtime of every mem
ber of the family, and custom work
by farmers owning tractor machin
ery have enabled high production
with much less than normal
amount of labor.
Orange county farmers did their
share in the Farmers’ Exchange
annual volume of business amount
ing to . $3,936,148. The livestock
market in Hillsboro sold $285,000
worth of farm animals. The Curb
Market in Chapel Hill did a $30,000
volume of business.
Two Efland Teams
Win Over Mebane
Efland boys and girls beat Meb
ane high school in two basketball
games Friday night in the Mebane
gymnasium. Both games were
hard-fought and good sportsman
ship was shown by both, sides.
The Efland girls topped their
opponents by a 38 to 28 score.
Efland boys shot 17 points and
Mebane boys tossed in 11. . - “
The lineup for the girls .is as
follows:
Efland; Nichols, ’ Ward,. Liner,
Lloyd, Jones, Trimm; Mebane:
.Williamson, Bowen, Gattis, Scott,
Lynch, Graves.
The boys’ lineup is as follows:
Efland: Nichols, McAdams, Ber
ry, Efland, Brady; Mebane: Lynch,
Sykes, Bowen, Miller, Scott.
Joe N. Howard
Leaves County
Agent’s Office
ariJoe N, Howard, formerly Orange
county assistant county agent, has
resigned that position and on Jan
uary 1 took a position with the
Duke Power Company as Agri
cultural engineer with his office in
Greensboro.
Howard’s work will include all
of North Carolina served by Duke
Power Company, and he will work
with the farmers in the use and
promotion of electrical machinery
on farms. He is repfacing Lexie
Ray of Greensboro, who recently
vacated the position to work with
the North Carolina Dairy Prod
ucts Association. ’ ■ ■ . ■ ---
Don S. Matheson, county agent,
said it is probable that no one
will be secured tp replace Howard
here because^, of the acute man
power situation. j ;
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This Week's
ORANGE
And
UNIVERSITY
MEN
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William Henry Walker
William Heriry Walker, manager
of Walker Brothers Mill in Hills
boro, has been a resident of Or
ange county one year less than
three score and ten. -
Well known among Orange
countians, as would any man who
Jms carried a rural mail route 35
years, he has been managing the
mill since 1941.
Born in the northern part of
the county January 20, 1876, he is
the son of the late R. J. and Mar- •
garet Walker. Re married Lorena
Reynolds frbta South Carolina
January 30, 1906; and reared a
family of five girls: Lucille Stray
fiorn arid Ethel whetstone, Hills
boro; Hazel Stroyhom, University;
Miriam Allred, Lee county; and
Iris Walker, at home. He also has
six grandchildren.
Among his brothers are H. J.
and Charles Mj. Walker of Hills
boro; T. E. Walker, Burlington;
and J. E. Walker, Orange county.
He has one Sister, Mrs. D. R.
Taylor of Hillsboro, Route 2.
He carried mail on an Orange
county rural route 35 years from
1906 until 1941 when he retired
and took over the job of manag
ing the mill. He was at one time
president of t$e Fanners and Mer
chants Bank in Hillsboro.
William Howard Plemmons
If your soii wants to go to the
University of North Carolina, do
not be surprised if he gets a letter
saying all the girls’ dormitories are
full. • ' . ,
That actually happened to one
hopefully prospective _ university
student when he sent in his appli
cation to enter the university too
late and Willem Howard Plem
mons, admissions officer and act
ing registrar, gpt letters mixed up.
With his usualttact and diplomacy,
"Mr. Plemmoh| straightened him
out, however.
Born in Buncombe county near
Asheville in 1004, Btfrs. A,.
M. Buckner and the late Nelson
Plemmons, Mr. Plemmons receiv
ed his education in the Buncombe
county schools, his A. B. degree at
Wake Forest College, his M. A. at
Duke University, and his Ph. D..
from the University of North Ca
rolina.
Mr. Plemmons was married in
1931 to Miss Elizabeth Sparrow of
Wilmington. .
He taught and coached in Hall
Fletcher junior high school in W.
Asheville, taught and was faculty
manager of athletics in Lee H. Ed
wards senior high school in Ashe
ville, was in the grocery business
from 1933-35, was principal of Lei
cester high school, and principal
of Lee H. Edwards senior high
school in Asheville for five years,' at
the end of which time in 1941 he
came to the University to Finish
work on his Ph. D.
He has been admissions officer
for a year and a half and acting
registrar for eight months.
He and Mrs. Plemmons now re
side at D-2 Graham Court Apart
ments. He is a Baptist and be
longs to the Rotary club. •
Mr. Plemmons has two brothers
and one half-brother: Ralph
Plemmons of Asehville, now over
seas; Donald Plemmons, a drug
gist in Asehville; add Harry Buck
ner of Asheville, now in an over
seas hospital. . ,
Wins Fourth Star
Carrboro, Jan. 10.—A fourth re
newal of the Army Navy “E”
award plus a new flag with four
stars has been awarded to the
National Munitions Corporation
plant in Carrboro, according to
word received by officials here
from Adm. C. C. Bloch, USN(Ret.),
chairman of the Navy Board of
Production Awards.
Paying tribute to the workers
in the Carrboro plant, Admiral
Bloch said: “Each and every man
and woman of Plant No. '5 is to
be heartily congratulated for the
splendid production record that
has been established and main
tained since the time that the ori
ginal Army-Navy ‘E’ was granted.
The determined support of all is
required to back up our courageous
men on the battle fronts.
. “In view of your excellent rec
ord, the Army and Navy have de
cided that your company may re
tain the flag for a year before be
ing considered for the next re
hewal.” < , . -
In addition to their excellent
production record, the workers at
the Carrboro plant went over their
quota in the Sixth War Loan drive
by buying $57,206.25 worth of
bonds. Their quota was $52>,500
and the drive was held during
November and December, '
Hillsboro High School Opens
Lunchroom; Serves 400 Meals
Daily Under Federal Program
Tar Had Sergeant Needled
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15th AAF in Italy.—A» AAF photographer who sought Sgt. John
Joseph Keller, Jr., of Chapel Hill for the conventional “promotion pic”
(he has just been advanced from corporal in the command section of
the 15th Air Force Flying Fortress wing headquarters in Italy); found
him being inoculated by Sgt. Robert W. Sheehan, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The effectiveness of regular immunization against typhus, typhoid,
smallpox, tetanus and cholera is demonstrated, according to army
medical authorities, by the almost imperceptible number of cases of
these diseases occurring among military personnel, even when sta
tioned in war-battered, disease-ridden areas overseas.
Sgt. Keller 4
Follows Dad
15th AAF in Italy.—While fol
lowing ip his father’s footsteps,
John Joseph Keller, Jr., of Chapel
Hill wears the paternal chevrons.
The 23-year-old member of the
15th Air Force Flying Fortress
wing headquarters command sec
tion, just promoted Ao sergeant, is
the son of Mr.--and Mrs. John
Joseph Keller of Chapel Hill.
The elder Keller, also a sergeant
and widely known to Tar Heel
alumni as “Sarge,” retired in 1927
after 26 years service, including
periods in the Philippines, the
Boxer rebellion in China and, with
the Fourth Field Artillery, in
France in 1918.
Mrs. Keller; the former Miss
Frances McGee of Louisville, Ky.,
was an army nurse in France in
World War I and now has reserve
status. , , -
In addition to his parents, nine
othfer forebears of Sgt. Keller of
thd 15th Air Force have served
the' nation in uniform.
A graduate of Chapel Hill high
school, where he was a.letterman
in basketball, football and tennis,
Sgt. Keller was supplies store
keeper for the University of North
Carolina Athletic Association and
the U-S. Naval Pre-Flight School,
Chapel Hill.
Having arrived on Christmas
Eve, 1942,lin Casablanca, Morocco,
he wears the European-African
Middle Eastern campaign ribbon
with four battle participation stars.
Credit Association
Meeting January 27
At a recent meeting ol the board
of directors of the Graham Pro
duction Credit Association it was
decided that the association will
hold its 11th annual meeting in
the courthouse at Graham January
27 at 11 o’clock, according to "J.
C. Moore, secretary-treasurer of.
the association.
Two directors will be elected at
this meeting and, as usual, an in
structive program has been ar
ranged. C. T. Hall, president of the
association, will be in charge.
A report of the financial status
of the association, as welT as facts
concerning its activities during the
past year, will be presented by
Moore. _* '*•
The Graham Production Credit
Association selves Alamance, Cas
well, Chatham, Durham, Guilford,
Orange, Person, Randolph and
Rockingham counties.
22 White Men
Go For Exam,
January 18th.
Twenty-two white registrants
of the Orange county draft board
will be forwarded to Fort Bragg
January 18 for preinduetion phys
ical examinations, according to
Mildred W. Collins, chief clerk of
the board. •
Registrants to be examined on
the 18th a re: Clifford Leigh Rea^
ley, Vernon Royal Bivins, Craven
Holloway, Henry Harrison Daw
kins, Thomas Alfred Wilson, James
Albert Sparrow, William Lester
Parker, Clayton Tillman Cook,
.Leary _ Edward »- Wilson. Franklin
Bane Efland.
Roy Hubert Edwards, George
Junior Hicks, John Smith, Rq^ert
Julian Cannada, Rufus Leroy An
drews, William Haywood Brown
ing, Horace Lee Ward, Peter Eu
gen Hexner, Malcolm Worth Cole,
Bobby L. Van Vynckt, Leon. Lewis
Gordon, Jack Harvel Conklin.
MRS. CLAUDIA SIMMONS
BACK AT SCHOOL WORK
Chapel Hill, Jan. 10.—Among
those returning to the Chapel Hill
high school when it reopened Jan
uary 3 was Mrs. Claudia Simmons
who spent last fall visiting her
two sons out west.- She is now
teaching, the combined fourth and
frfth grade classes.
Six C«uty Schotts
Using New Plaa
The Hillsboro high school lunch
room, operating under the fed
eral child feeding program, was
opened to the students last week
and is serving a A" rnfol
to an average of 400 students each
day. at a, cost of only ten cents to_ ....
the ttudaqt. ■» . '■ ^ ^
The move to bring school lunch
rooms under the federal child
feeding program got under way
early last fall with Carr boro lead
ing the county, opening during the
month of September. The program
has grown through the county to
the extent that six out of the nine '
white schools in the county are
serving “class A" lunches under
the program and one colored school
is operating under the same plan.
Two colored schools are serving
.the “class C” lunch.
Mrs. Bertha Klegg is dietitian
of the lunch room in Hillsboro
with Miss Alice Anderson assist-_
ing her. The lunch room is located
on the east side of the new exten
sion of the building next to the
cannery. New stores, refrigerator,
and dish washing apparatus have *
been purchased and installed to
bring the lunch room up to stand
ards required by the federal pro- —
gram to receive federal aid.
To qualify under the federal
child feeding program, the school
must secure its own lunch room
and equipment necessary to meet
the required standards. The county
commissioners are granting $3,000
to the establishment of the lunch
room here. Under the child feed
ing program, the government pays
nine cents for every “class A”
meal-*Served, makingv the cost to
each student here only ten cents
for .a well balanced meal consist
ing of three vegetables, a meat or
meat substitute, bread, fruit and
milk. Thfrchild pays for his meal
!iipon entering tlife lunchroom ajjd
may have more than one serving
without cost.
The program is so designed that
underprivileged children are not
left out. If a student is unable to
pay ten cents for his meal, he is
granted free meals. Meal tickets
are issued to the students to avoid
any distinction of the free meals.
White schools in the county now
operating under the child feeding
program are Hillsboro, West Hills
boro, Efland, Caldwell, Murphey,
and Carrboro. Aygock is making
plans to enter the program. White
Cross and Orange Grove are not
participating. The Gravely Hill
colored school is serving “class A”
lunches, and the Hillsboro and
Ridge Road colored schools are
serving “class C” lunches.
Orange Serviceaea *
Receive Discharges
Following is a list of honorable ,
discharges granted during the
month of December and the first
of January, and filed in the regis
ter of deecls office.
Albert J. Hudson, Chapel Hill,
December 7; William O. Hastings,
Hillsboro, December 18; Paul Lee,
Hillsboro, December 17; Mangum
B. Toler, Hillsboro, * January 2;
John Archie Jackson, West Hills
boro, December 27; Costori H.
Berry, Hurdle Mills, December'22;
and James R. Cobb, colored, Chapel
Hill, January 3.,
This Week’s
POPULAR OPINION IN CHAPEL HILL
By Sherman Lazarus
Question of the week: Are you
in favor of one year of peace
time compulsory military train
ing ?
1st Sgt. Walidislaw Dezak, 24
years in service of U: S. Marine
Corps: “I am strong^ in favor of
it, because it will give my boy a
good-military education. Not only
that, it will give him training and
teaching in all points that he’ll
want to know, keep him on the
right step. I hope he’ll be able to
follow in my footsteps.”
Mrs. J. L. Sutton, Sutton’s drug
store: “Yes. I think we need to be
prepared. We’ve been letting our
selves in for a lot of trouble by
being unprepared. In the forma
tive year, military discipline is
good for young people.”
Jimmy Wallace, UJN.O law stu
dent: “J’m-not in favor of it. One
reason I’m against it is I don’t
believe compulsory military train
ing will result in anything but a
competitive international race to
wards ^militaristic preparedness
and subsequent imperialism.
Walter James, instructor in the
Physical Education department: “If
the program could be planned so
as to give educative and military
services to tho^£ affected, I would
definitely bo in favor of it,”
Anne Osterhout, U.N.C. grad
uate student: “Yes. I think the dis
cipline and the military teaching
would tend to make clear in the
minds of youth the freedom we
brag about, of which wte have no
conception. H?
Pfc. Arthur Newlander, Army
medical student; “Yes. I believe in
compulsory military training. First
of all for the physical well being
of the individual, present as well
as future life, and secondly that *
we should keep ourselves pre
pared to prevent such events as
the present world situation has
created.’-’
Gene Johnstone, Naval V-12er:
“One year of military training
would keep a trained reserve ready
in case of war. It would also im
prove the physical condition, of
the men.”