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Advert tee where advertising fringe reeulte—Id THE NEW8. We’ve been et.lt Juet one year, but many more will follow. Volume 5>» No. 50 THE NEWS of Orang' _^ * -tr Hillsbon C., Thursday, January 25, 1945 Thle week THE NEWS ie cele brating Ita flret anniversary. Subscribe today and make the second year a still bigger one. (One Week Nearer Victory) 4 Pagfc This Teachers Favor 5 Proposals Public school talk in the Legis lature at Raleigh has created keen interest throughout the state and at a meeting of Orange county teachers in the office of the coun ty superiritendent, R. If. CISytor, last Tuesday, unanimous endorse ment of the five-point program set up by the United Forces for Educa tion in North Carolina Was heard. Two- new bills were introduced this week to raise the compulsory attendance law from 14 to 16, part of the five-point program set up; and to give teachers and princi pals nine-day sick leaves with pay and provide for the payment by the State of $3 a day for Substitute. The statewide program that was heartily endorsed by Orange coun ty’s teachers last Tuesday includes the following proposals: (1) To provide adequate sala ries for teachers to enable schools to secure a supply of well qualified teachers and to meet the rising costs of living. - The proposed basic salary for beginning class “A” teachers is set at $125 a month with increases up to $200 for long service, and pro portionate increases are asked for other teachers and school employ ees. , (2) To raise the compulsory at tendance age from 14 to. 16 and to provide adequate means of enforc ~ ing-the law. ..ura'.T'g (3) To provide health and re creational facilities in the schools and give physical examinations to entering students, with corrective follow-up programs. (4) To provide expanded facil ities for vocational and special ed^ ucation, and make the training available to returning veterans as well and regular school children. Care, treatment and education of handicapped children is also pro posed uu|der this point. (5) ^To employ principals for 10, months, giving them two weeks for organization before the open ing di schools and two weeks af ter the closing date to prepare more adore-, .^r.offi&'aanal leadership K tor the schools s ■ . --■ v, T. A. Stanford Dies At Home In Richmond Funeral services for Thomas A. Benjamin T. Crump Company in Richmond, Va., were held in Rich mond last Saturday with burial following Sunday in thd Bethle hem Presbyterian church in Or ange county. Stanford, formerly of Orange county, died at his home early last Thursday, January 18. Funeral ser vices were conducted at the Joseph W. Bliley funeral home, with the Rev. E. C. Pedrick, rector of St. Thomas’ Episcopal church officiat ing. Pallbearers at the burial were Tom, Walter and Charlie Teer, James Andrews, James Snipes and James Lewis. Stanford .had been, active in..civ - ic and church interests in Rich mond for a number of years. He had been associated with the Ben iamin T. Crump company for 38 years, entering the employ of the firm as salesman. He was a mem ber jjf the Hermitage Club and was senior warden of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Cecil Stanford; a son, Thpm as A*. Stanford, Jr., of Richmond; a daughter, Miss Cecil Stanford, Monckton, Md.; and two sisters, Mrs. S. E. Teer of Orange qounty and Mrs. Carrie S. Walker of Bur lington. He is the uncle of Walter w. Teer of Hillsboro. * I>t John Watters At Maid Beach MIAMI BEACH, FLA;, Jan. 24 First Lieutenant John-L. Watters of Chapel Hill has arrived at Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassign ment processing after completing a tour of duty outside the conti nental United States. Medical examinations and clasr sification interviews at this post, pioneer of several redistribution stations operated by the AAF per sonnel Distrubutlon Command for AAF returnee officers and enlisted men, will determine his new as signment Lieutenant Watters was a P-40 pilot during ten months in the Al eutians. He is the son of Mrs. Sa rah T. Watters, Chapel HilL His Wlfe, Elizabeth R. Watters, resides at Santa Monica, Calif. *.. This Week’s Orange Wonan 4 Evelyn Davis Public Health Nurse In County Since June Miss Evelyn Davis, public health nurse for Chapel Hill, is an exam ple of the ideal public health -mifsfc—t— - . . Born in Burlington and a grad uate of Wilson high school near Graham, Miss Davis spent three years at the Roanoke, Va., Hospi tal Training^, School and emerged a full-fledged, registered nurse. During the next eight years she was supervisor at the Roan oke Hospital Training School, as sistant head nurse on a medical ward in the New Haven, Conn., Hospital, head nurse at Bradford junior college at Bradford, Mass., and of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, 'fhen she came south' and did private nursing for two years before becoming head nurse of the Moore County hospital in Pine hurst and, later, head nurse at Asheville’s Mission hospital. With all this experience and training behind her, Miss Davis studied public health nursing at the Richmond, Va., Professional Institute of William and Mary Col lege and shortly after completing her course there accepted her first public health nursing job in Row an county. Three months later she was transferred to Pittsboro, Chat ham county, where she stayed 3 years untihshe was mtjved to Rox boro, Person, county * where she gained valuable public health nur sing experience With that county’s rural delivery service (with mid wives arid doctors, not the Post Office department!). Since June, 1944, she has been public (health -nurse in Chapel Hill, with head auarters at the district health of covering a territory of ap mately 168 square miles. POPULAR Week**: . OPINION IN CHAPEL HILL By Sharman Lazarus Question of the week: What is your favorite recreation?” Olive Ann Burns, Carolina stu dent:”!^ interested in Iqft- ifoair' things to say one jn particular. There’s swimming, Playmaking, horsebacking, singing, painting, writing, reading, plain old study, movies, and there are always men, which are good for a number of things.” „ Vin Cassidy, Marine V-12er, vet eran of Guadalcanal and the Solo-, mons: “For recreation I take full advantage of all Chapel Hill has to • offer; 1 sleep.” ■ Foster Fitz-Simons, stage de signer ofthe Carolina Play makers; “I don’t know where work leaves off and recreation per se begins in—my life, but when I have such an extraordinary thing as nothing to do, I like to sleep, which is, up to now, not often enough.” Lt. W. F. Bennett, USNR, Pre Flight school “For recreation I like to take pictures. I have a col lection of several hundred color sHSes • up and down the eastern part of the U. S.; J also develop and print some of the black and white pictures I take.” _ H i W. H. Hipps, Jr., UNC student: ‘Reading, listening to the radio, go ing to the movies, and talking. The last one is most important.” Jim Dillard, NROTC: “To-tell the truth I don’t get around to a lot of recreation, but when I do, I go to the movies, or spend a little of my time down at Danziger’s or the Porthole.”__ - M. R. Alexander, University' NeWs Bureau: “Playing bridge and seeing or hearing Gilbert and Sul livan operettas.” Southerlands To Be Moved To Jones Connty Next Month O. P. (Duke) Southerland, soil conservationist in Orange county with his office in Hillsboro, re ceived notice last Saturday that he is being transferred to anoth er position at Trenton in Jones county. The transfer will take place about Ahe first of February. Southerland has been working tyere with the Neuse River Soil Conservation Service for one and a half years. He has been working with H. E. Singletary, who will remain in the Hillsboro office. Receiving training in agricultur al engineering at Duke University and State r College, Southerland spent seven yeafrs as a dratfsman and engineer with the conservation service, and has been working in the field as a soil conservationist the past four years. He came to Orange county from Gastonia, and prior to that time, he worked as a conservationist in various parts of the state. Mrs. Southerland, now employed in the Farm Security Administra tion office in Hillsboro, will be transferred to the F.S.A. office in Wendell. — Sin, a Cooper <, ’ JWanager a said ttib Uve Dairv °* the Lai y^SS,** ‘ha^a ” ^boro' he still'-^gress of H had SW. «« op.”S,,s w £$*J«a*£ xc; ®n°ugb tbat fif Wajk are 4. nd tfte •be P°u « the Con ® ^hlgfr °n VVave J?t °°n as ‘be ”°°r can Ppenin„ n„up- a n a«d wii/ be Possible**1* first of A "*« Perm,* ie °pJv if ‘ ^Prij chin*"® an<J ?^ative* lS73i2ation ofth ti5e Lonc?lZ has been f f^e co. .G'/bertvv R ZT" aSffeteg: ""a,,*" g| Cedar Grove’s Tom Ellis Is 6Eigger9 Man For The State And Nation’s Small Business tace Was Pianist For ‘Cyclone Mac,’ Noted Evangelizer Cedar Grove, as everybody knows, is a small community. But, •“a better mousetrap” has beeh made there by one of its sons, and' the world is accordingly making a beaten' path to its door—via the U. S. mails, in most instances. The mousetrap, in this case, is the Ellis Business Service, origi nated by Tom Ellis and copyright ed in October, 1943, under the name “Dollar-a-Week” double en tory bookkeeping service. This is not a fly-by-night enterprise by any means, but a going cone^rn with hundreds of customers ip 47 of these 48 United States, as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Canada. ..... • ' Mr. Ellis has figured out an in genious way of keeping books, in Cedar Grove, for hundreds of business men all over the state and nation. All these men do is fill out a simple *form (known to the El lis Business Service as Form J) each week and mail it to -Cedar Grove. Mr. Ellis and his office force do the rest. At the end of each month a complete financial report is mailed to every, customer, and at the end of the year two ab solutely accurate photostatic co pies of income tax data are stap led to the proper income tax re turn forms and sentvto the Custo mer for his signature. The original data is kept in the Cedar Grove JL THIS MAN ELLIS juggles figures as dexterously as he once wrote music, played the piano and sold newspaper ad vertising (like this THE NEWS is giv ing him). files. That’s all there is to it. It is like a good dream come true to countless farmers' grocers, cafe and lunchroom operators and oth er owners of small businesses. There are three girls who do all this -work, under the supervision af Mr. Ellis: Miss Virginia .Wells, who is in charge of the general of fice records and correspondence; Miss Elizabeth Liner, head book keeper, who is responsible for cor rections, adjustments, journal pos tings, ledger maintenance, trial balances and profit, and loss state ments; and Miss Bertha Holmes, who does all the photostatic work: All three are* Cedar Grove girls, personally chosen and trained by' Mr. Ellis. He says proudly that be can leave the office for several months at a time and things run smoothly during his absence as when he is there. They really “know.their stuff” and it is a rare thing for one of them to encounter a problem she has to ask him to solve. The idea of the “Dollar-a-Week” double-entry.bookkeeping service is not new, but Mr. Ellis is the first to devise a system simple enough to work in actual practice. He learned most of what he knows about accounting, he says, from his experience as liquidation auditor for the North Carolina su perior courts. But, he has plenty of other experience in the accounting and tax fields, as credit manager for a large Detroit concern, audi tor for a major tobacco company, bank examiner and district finance officer for the govement. He did veer from pure account ing long enough, from 1917 to 1920, to work as advertising sales -- (Continued on page 2) Negro Farther Is First Oran, Countian To Purchase Horn Loa »#####♦##########»»###»####»###» This Week's UNIVERSITY MAN GEO. COFFIN TAYLOR *= George Coffin Taylor was bom in Charleston, S. C., March 26, 1877. In due time he grew to man hood and on April 18,1911, mar ried Ellen Elmore Taylor. In more due time Eliza (Mrs. Martin Shockley of Charlton College, Minn.TjD and Mrs. Howard Man ning, living at present in Chapel Hill with her small son while her husband is with the Army in Cal ifornia, arid Edmund Rhett, at present an army captain who for Dr. George Coffin. Taylor. the last two years R'as been serv ing as a surgeon with the Roose velt hospital attached to CSmeval Patch’s army overseas. Eliza has two children, a boy and a girl, giving him a grand to tal of three grandchildren to bless his declining years should they catch up with him, which is ex tremely doubtful. The trouble with this Taylor man is that he; is interested in too many things; for instance, learning. He has accumulated, among oth er things, four degrees: an A. B. anij Litt, D. ■ at the University of South Carolina (at different times, by the way), an Mr^-at-Hatvard. and a Ph. D. at the" University of Chicago. Not .content with this cursory contact with education, he went so far as, to act succes sively (and successfully, for that matter) as instructor, assistant professor and finally professor and head of the Department of Eng lish at the University of Colorado during the years 1890-1909. The call of the wild, relatively speaking—sounded in his ear in 1909 and he became a tiller of the soil, defined in certain^ publica tions as an agriculturalist, but translated locally as a* farmer. From farming he turned to the practice of law in Colufnbia, S. C., but even so" didn’t escape from the world of higher learning entirely as he became a trustee of the city schools of Columbia in' 1913 and served in that capacity until 1925, when he left South Carolina to join the faculty of the University of North Carolina as associate pro fessor of English. Two years later he became a professor, and since 1934, has been Kenan professor, the professorship he holds at pres ent. He is a member of the Chi Psi, Phi Beta Kappa and Gimghoul fraternities and of such organiza tions as the Modern Language (Continued on page 6) Press Institute Annual Meeting The 20th annual North Caroli na 'Newspaper Institute will be held in Chapel Hill Friday and Saturday of this week. The pro gram opens Thursday might with a talk by a recently returned for eign correspondent of the United Press. The program will be given in Gerrard Hall on the university campus. Group meetings and a lun cheon session, all in the Inn, take up the daytime program for Fri day The institute will close with a banquet program at Duke Univer sity Friday night. A representative af the Associated Press will speak, and Governor Gregg Cherry will make awards of prizes to prize winning weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. ■ ■ - k ' . si -iK-At" ' ; ONE CANDLE The Newt hat one candle on Ita birthday cake thia week and it ly mighty proud of that one flicker. The flame on the end of the candle'la just a pilot light to the fire that ahall tome day burn If wd, through the years to come, receive the cooperation and the Warm reception'that has been extended us by Orange Coun tians both at home and abroad In thia one short year; Our start was with a little pa per printed 150 miles away and you gave ua support and had faith in aur promise to establish a worthwhile newspaper with the printing and office at home. You have encouraged us to hold our heads above the water and keep the candle burning for one year. We are trying not to burn that candle at both ends, but, with your faith and continued cooperation, kindle that candle into a far-reaching beacon that wilt shine-on credits due Orange county and record through the years the memborable deeds of her people. Commissions Brigadiers - -,'Tftid wemen‘8 division of the Orange County War Finance Com mittee sponsored a luncheon at the Carolina Inn at Chapel Hill, Sat urday* January 20, in honor of the women who qualified for commis sions in the Blue Star Brigade of the Sixth Waf Loan. . •• I Recognition was based on the number of persons to whom the Brigadiers sold bonds and the high est rank, County f^eneral, was at tained by Mrfe. Pdwfette fteS ettos, who sola bonds to eighty four people in the National Muni tions?, Corporation at Carrboro. Other women representing the corproation were Mrs. Leona How ell, Miss Ava Thrift, Mrs. Janie Clark, Mrs. Ruth Williams and Mrs. Emma Blake. All of these ‘women had outstanding : records and received commissions. Chapel -Hill .women who. receiv ed commissions were: Mesdames Gladys Angel Beard,. Mary M. Bai ley, Gwendolyn Duffey, Edith K. In-gwersen Marguerite M. Judson, Alga Leavitt, Reba H. Lineberger,-. Blanche S. Mattox, Jean B. New-, man, Maud H. Rosenau, Colby Sampson, Mary G. Whitfield, and Bessie Roberson Woollen. -^ Mrs. R. O. Everett, regional chairman, was a guest of honor and a speaker at the luncheon? She congratulated the women of Orange county on the splendid wojk they were doing and said she was most impressed -by the fact that every one present., represent ed an organization or a committee that was doing active work in the women's organization of the coun ty: Congratulatory messages were also received from’MrSTKartBish opric, State Chairman, Mrs. 'J. S, Mitchener, vice-chairman, Allison James, state executive manager, W. E. Thompson, county chairman of men's division, and J. Maryon Sdundersy chairman of the Sixth War Loan 'for Orange county. - -:-SL-. Mrs. Gill Dies In Durham Hospital Mrs. Bertha Wilson Gill, 51, of Mebane, Rt. 2, died Thursday, De cember 11 in Duke hospital follow ing a heart attack the day before. Funeral services were held the following Sunday, January 14, at the Hawfields Presbyterian church and burial followed in the cliUFch cemetery.. _ * Mrs. Gill is survived by her hus band, J. S: GdH;- two daughters, Mrs. Henry Webster of the Haw fields community and' Mrs. Marion Buckner of. the home; her mother, Mrs. Henry Wilson; five brothers, W. W„ B. F., H. A., Jr., and.J. B. Wilson, all of Mebane, Rt. 2, and J. C. Wilson of Graham. Mrs. Gill was a-member of the Gfange, having joined when it was first organized in the county. She was a member of the Hawfields Presbyterian church, where the funeral was held. The funeral ser vices were conducted by her pas tor, Rev. N. N. Fleming, assisted by Rev. E. H. Measamer, pastor of the Hebron Methodist church, and Rev. T. B. Hough of the Me bane Methodist church. v. - Join Parker Pays Up ta Six Tears John Arch Parker (46), colored, of Hillsboro, Route 2, was given a deed of trust to his 145 acre farm last Saturday, winning for him- the tfisttncttonof being the first man in Orange county to pur chase and pay for a farm under the Bankhead-Jones Farm-Tenant Act through the Farm Security Administration. The deed of trust, marked “paid in full,” was given to him last Saturday afternoon at his farm by Robert E. Hughes, chairman of the Orange county FSA committee in the presence of other members of the committee,, T. M. Riley and Marvin Phelps, and John P. Bal lard, supervisor of the FSA office in Hillsboro. Parker was also the first colored man in Orange county to obtain a loan through the FSA, borrow ing $3,915 August 5, 1938, to be paicf in 40 years. Under the vari able payment agreement in which the borrower agrees to pay a 1 lord’s share, or one-fourth oi total earnings during the yea paid for his farm in six yea; payments to meet the oblig; of the mortgage were ob from Parker’s crop income the exception of $1,500 whi paid as the result of a timbe; The Bankhead - Jones Tenant Act is designed to hel; the lowest income brae: farmers, who have previousl; dependent on farming for livelihoo'd and who t^Hhot tiate loays either through sources or other govemmen cies, to become farm owner; to the negotiation of the loa' ker farmed three years for Toler of Orange county. At time the loan was made, he o two mules, two cows, 20 a walking plow, and a t plow. Since obtaining the besides paying for thd en in six years, he has boug] rake, mowing machine, nev and a disc harrow. He also has 150 chick says he has more and beti stock. His family, includini dren, has also become mo dependent. Parker was on welfa; about 1934 .when he beg; subsistence loans through In 1938 . he. was granted to purchase a farm and 1 the basis of his past req began doing diversified under the farm planning { and kept an accurate req of his achievements. Ea Parker kept the most acc ord book in the county last year. When asked what word of ad vice he would give to any tenajv or share cropper, Parker said h< would advise them to buy as soo; as they could and to go in fo; diversified farming. Bill the! Martin Sentenced To Twenty Tears . Edward Jewett Martin. 24-year<i old Charlotte Chemist, drew a'f year sentence after a trial in Boonville, Mo., court, for the mur« der of his grandmother, Mrs. Ed ward M. Jewett, and the throwinj of her body in Eastwood Lakt near Chapel Hill last May. After Martin’s arrest in Durha last Spring, and the discovery ojj Mrs. Jewett's body in the lake, man ny far-fetched tales and solutior to the crime were offered, anc, the’public kept eyes and ears peel^ ed for a possible hearing of th« case in Durham and, perhaps, ev< en in Orange county. But it wa^ established by authorities that th^ crime was not committeed in thii state and the trial would have t< be held elsewhere. * The jury convicted Martin . second degree murder,” turning _ deaf ear to pleas for an insanity or a manslaughter verdict fror the defense, and Mrs. Jewett’i “favorite”-grandson- was sent prison for 20 years. Health (hi The Air “Communities Awake!” is a net radio program which wiil .be he every Saturday afternoon at o’clock over WDNC; jointly spot, sored by the Orange-Person-Chat ham district health depart and the department of health ucation of the School of 3 Health. University of North „ lina. All scripts will be pret_ by health education students. Chapel Hill grade school ren will participate in the this Saturday.
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