I THE NEWS ot Orange CoDMt;
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t.THE NEWS of Orange County is. the oldest news
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Thursday, .February 8, 1945
Comity Roads
A bill calling for the appropriation of
57,500,ooo for each year of the next biennium
for the improvement of farm-to-market roads
is being redrafted by a subcommittee of the
house committee on roads. Introduced by
John W. Umstead, Jr., of Orange and 61
other members of the house, the measure will
become the law promptly when the imperfec
tions conceded by its sponsors are removed.
The need for emphasis on county roads
is so obvious as-to require ho elucidation.
It should have been so obvious that the State
highway commission would not be explaining
negligence with respect to its pledges to do
something. *'
To be sure we all know that there are such
things as priorities. There areHTscTsnch things
as automobile licenses and gasoline tax. When
these cannot be transmuted into concrete or
asphalt' it is high time to give a bit of con
sideration to roads which can be built or im
proved without recourse to priorities.
Wejrave these-in North Carolina, several
thousand miles of them, and Acting Chair
man Charles Ross of the highway commis
sion admits that no improvement has been
made in .them since 1941. Yfcvjve concede
he has something in his argument that there
was a dearth of both material and labor; but
—there. -wasn-JL- a sufficient, shortage of either
to account for the well-nigh complete neglect.
Nobody has asked "the impossible of the
highway commission, but when it is inex
pedient to devote major attention to the main
arteries of transportation—requiring as they
might material imported from Trinidad and
elsewhere, it is high time to scratch gravel,
which all hands* understand, in favor of those
who will have more money to spend for motor
and gasoline taxes once they are able to get
their farm products to market.
It is possible that John Unistead and the
other signators of the bill for the improve
ment of county roads are a little above the
amqunt which should be applied to such roads,
but a highway commission which has not done
anything about the matter should certainly
not be permitted to say when.
University Trustees
The News of Orange County, which if
it so desired could not^ in its own mind or
that of its public divorce itself from its con
nection with the University of North Caro
lina, is, we think, properly concerned with
the demlnd by alumni of State College for
what they are pleased to term “eqpal rep
resentation” on the board of trustees of the
Greater University.
Wake alumni of State point out that of
the i do current trustees ig are State College
alumni, 11 alumnae of the Woman’s College,
46 former students of the*University at Chapel
Hill and the remaining 24 non-affiliated.
If there were time, and we felt sure you
were disposed to listen, we might deplore
some of the log-rolling which enters into the
selection of University trustees but a truce to
that—they’ll be pretty good men and women
in the main as long as they get by John W.
Uinstead, Jr. What we are about to state is
that any sort of selection is better than an
apportionment which-would require all the
trustees to be alumni or alumnae or even
close friends.
The Cniversity of North Carolina is of,
by and for the whole state. That is, reason
ably so; it ought to be made more than that.
, So, to our way of thinking, if there must
be reapportionment, first call should be given
to trustees unrelated by "blood' or marriage
to the University but who as taxpayers and
citizens may be trusted to demand that the
University in its every'division and activity -
deliver a'demonstrable quid pro quo.
ETAODfSHRDLU
IESEARCH DEPARTMENT . ., I ,
know ho\y many subscribers to The N
summary of the week’s war n
printed*in their favorite newspaper. A w
ago I sat around with a group of wet
newspaper men of the state arguing ui
’ ’ in the face against the practice sc
liters made of cluttering up their m
with battlefront news when th
were so many homefront items going unpub
lished or were played down in headlines. Now
comes a well wisher and original subscriber
to this newspaper offering the suggestion that
Orange county weekly newspaper subscribers
want the war’s news,, and asking me why
The N ew* didn’t publish a weekly war sum
mary. Some of you folks who are paying $1.50
for what- you want to read come Gallup-ing
with answers/ We’ll oblige.
OMMERCIAL . . . We’ll even take a cue
from any non-subxriber who gets one of the
"Sample Copy” stamped News; and we won’t
charge you a penny for your thoughts—sub
scription rates are: $1.50 a year, $t.oo six
months, in Orange county; extra charge of
» 50 cents for not living in Orange.
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WHAT’S THIS? ^, . “Offside suggestion
has been nfiade it would be better for the
state to provide scholarships, at these estab
lished schools (Duke and Wake Forest) rather
than attempt to build' a rival institution from
scratch.”- (Lyn-Nisbet writing in afternoon
daily newspapers). Reference is to the pro
posed 4-year medical school at Chapel Hill.
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CAN’T LAUGH IT OFF . . . The pro
posed state medical care and hospitalization
program won’t be that easy to handle, and if
I can gauge public opinion even a little bit
the thing will take its place in the life of
North Carolina, and will develop and grow
as public finances become available and as
the folks in the hinterlands are convinced the
program is conceived, designed and operated
for them and is not just another chamber of
commerce project for a larger and handsomer
University of North Carolina,
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I CAN SAY IT . . . Down in the rural areas
of the East where I come from this medical
.program gets about as carte blanche accep
tance as any oUthe' state’s major developments
I have known in the 30 years 1 have cocked
an eye at public doings in North Carolina.
It is a sight more popular down there than
.$50,000,000 for highways was in the days of
Cam Morrison, and it won’t take anywhere
near the missionary work that j^ie. major de
velopments in the state’s public school system
did.
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DIFFUSE IT ... It will be well to remem
ber up here where hospitals and medical
schools abound that the people where I came
from are plugging for this thing because they
expect it to spread itself oiit to inchide them
in close-range of hospital beds. They intend
to have hospital facilities and they ate right
now paying through the nose to meet their
voluntary pledges for constructing and equip
ping one of their own. They'll gladly swa|5
their tax dollars to the state for aid in kind
from a state fund created to assist in carry
ing hospitals and medical care to them.
R.P.
BY THE EDITOR
WHAT TO WRITE . 1.
Did you ever try writing and find yourself
without anything about which to write? That
was the plight I found myself in last Sunday
afternoon in the midst of several attempts to
write this column, which might just as well
dr even better) be left unwritten. But the
following is this week’s product and the read
ing of it can be left to your own taste.
READERS ...
I haven’t done much exploring, but on the
surface it seems that the most religious readers
of this column are a small Hillsboro circle
seeking jabs, and they don’t hesitate to take
a poke at the writer once in a while. The
r ing leaders would have to include Carl Davis,
Ed Laws, C. B. Parris, and Fred Boone as
topping the list.
CRITIC'S CORNER ...
C. B. Parris tendered last week’s number
one criticism when he read the writer’s opin
ion of a certain airplane (or reasonable fac
simile) that is housed and even flown at the
^Burlington airport. Parris insists that plane
is one of the best flying ones on the field. I
don’t know from, nothing about the busi
ness of the fellows in the clouds, but I still
think that plane was getting mighty close to
the end of the runway (and eternity) before
it ever got its feet off the ground. And that
alone classifies it as a “crate” in my little
black book.- But then, I guess if I happened
to be on that airport again, I would be willing
to let the runway run out of footage with
me in that plane again as well as any other.
SUMlAY night .
Still no column and finally in the bed asleep.
But that couldn’t even last, because the fire
siren let out a howl that I finally heard after
a prolonged pounding by the Missus trying
to arouse me. But even so, I gQt.to the garage
ip time to see the truck off for Ed Laws’ house.
The fire didn’t amount to much but it turned
out to be a lirst class pajama parade with prac
tically everyone sporting a pajama collar out
side a coat collar. -• ' .pH
HE MADE IT THIS TIME ...
Hoppy Thomas reached the garage Sunday
night in time to grab a good handful of the
truck before it started moving. Last week he
missed it as it was going to a small fire down
main street,- but he grabbed enough to fall
MiKfelfaBl
all >tfVer the street. Hoppy said
that is the second time he has fallen
When grabbing for the truck, so
maybe that’s the reason he got to
the garage before it could leave
Sunday night.
IT’S FEBRUARY ... "~N .
It has been promised that Hills
boro citizens who fail to purchase
and display city license stickers
for the automobiles will be sub
ject to discipline after February
1st. The sticker-bearing aOtos are
few and far between, but there
has been no grumbling over pun
ishment yet. Everybody is still
cluttering up the streets with left
hand, double, and "crazy house”
parking, and getting by with it. In
fact they won’t even park inside
the lines.
THE MANPOWER PROBLEM . . .
It seems that„ the woolen mill to
be established in Carrboro is go
ingto be of more importance to
Orange county than most of us
thought at first—at least for some
time anyway. There has been ru
mor about the munitions pl3!¥t cut
ting down production and laying
off a large number of employees
even after the discontinuation of
the third shift last spring. A blow
finally came last week right on
the heels of word that the woolen
mill will be placed in the.build
ing 'across the road from the mu
nitions plant. A large number of
workers were laid off, presenting
an even greater need for the
woolen mill to keep up a full quota
of employment m Orange county,
faow one of the outstanding ques
tions of the day is, What will be
come of the building and the
workers when the munitions plant
completely ceases to produce?
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Young American
OPINION
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(Uncensored editorials by mem
bers of the class in Country
Journalism, University of North
Carolina.)
FELLOW MURDERERS
"^Thousands, of American boys
were killed all over*the world to
day. Did you kill any of them?
These men were in the army or
the navy or the marines, and they
died giving their all to help win
this war. What have you, Mr. and'
Mrs. Average Citizen, sitting in a
comfortable easy chair or playing
a • fame of. pooljor. jsigxing 1ft a
nice cool movie, done to help wfn
this war. . . . Buy a few war bonds
perhaps? But that’s all right, you
didn’t mind that too much, because
look at the terrific interest you
know that you’re going to get back
at the end of a few years. After all
that isn’t too bad, is it? Or maybe
you worked an extra hour on Sat
urday at the local war plant, or
had to work a few hours ort Sun
day. Well, now that sort of "broke
into your day, didn’t it, but think
ing. about tbe,.. gxtra money you
earned sort of made up for it.
And so it,goes day in and day
out. American^ all over the world,
losing: their lives, and here we are
back home, comfortable, 'secure,
grumbling about buying another
bond, or working an extra hour.
Maybe some Amterican soldier
wished he’d had an extra bullet
in his gun, so he could have killed
the Jap instead of the Jap killing
him. That would have been nice
wouldn’t it, Mr. Jones or Mr.
Smith or Mr. Brown? Nice, be
cause maybe that was your boy,
and it would have been so de
lightful to have seen him once
again.
So next time you are asked to
work an extra hour—work sev
eral hours instead, and don’t be
asked to buy a bond, which in
reality is not only for the future
of the country but-you as well,
but go ahead and buy it anyway.
Perhaps that extra bond or extra
hours will furnish your brother,
son or father with the ammuni
tion he needs tb kill the enemy.
You know, in war, it’s either kill
or be killed.
Think it over next time before
you say* you can’t afford another
war bond, or you can’t work an
extra hour because you have a real
important date. Think it over, be
cause maybe you are the one that’s
killing American boys all over the
world. And that’s not a pleasant
thought, is it? Think it over, fel
low murderers. . . . —S.C.L.
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Repair Shop
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Made to Order
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Chiropractor .
Office* over Rogers' Drugstore
Practiced ip Durham
For 20 Years
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Flavored news, vieu>sy and
observations about the
people of Orange
Chapel Hill . Dined with
two charming little girls Sunday:
Sherrill and Caroline White. They
are back in Chapel Hill after an
absence of four and a half years
filled with exciting travels.
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...... There’s pf-e-war stuff at
ithe Varsity (or was Tuesday): ba
nana splits. Remember?
00O00
. V . . Saw a Navy station wag
on bowling down toward Woollen
gym the other day equipped with
a little smokestack. Later found
out it was the exhaust pipe ex
tended over to the side and up.
Queer looking..
ooOoo -
Hillsboro. . . . Walked over part
of town the other day, and met
only four living creatures. Two
extremely small boys "and two full
grown dogs. The little boys spoke
to me, which is more than can be
said of the dogs. They growled and
backed away as if I were a menace
of some kind. !
ooOoo
.... Out on highway 74, to the
left, is one of the most spacious
looking houses I’ve ever seen. It’s
in the middle of a big yard, with
a little brick houSe off to the right;
It entranced me. It’s white, and you
probably know who lives there. I
don’t.
UUVJtHJ
.... Back in the business sec
tion, saw a man chasing his hat
clear out to the middle of Chur
ton street. It blew off his head as
was cojning up the street by Hay
es’ drugstore. A sight 1 hadn’t seen
since last March.
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Entered Minnis’ grocery
just in time to meet a little dog
with no collar tearing out the
front door. Met him again down
at Forrest’s grocery store doing the
same thing. Nobody seemed to
know where^e belonged, although
everybody agreed lie was an at
tractive little tiding.
ooOoo
.... Several citizens seem to
be getting their victory gardens
in shape for an early planting. My
grandfather used to say, “Plant
earlier than everybody else. Nine
times out of ten the first planting
will be killed hnd you’ll have to
plant again, but the tenth time
you’ll be having vegetables on your
table from your garden weekly
ahead of everybody else. And af
ter all, seeds are inexpensive and
most people cap afford to plant
twice.” He knew about gardens,
and he could catch hummingbirds,
too. -
ooOoo
. ... If you are a pretty girl
about seven or eight years old, with
blonde plaited hair and pinned
up, you’re the one I- saw going in
the five and ten cent store about
four o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
CARRBORO RAISED $1?8
FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Carrboro.—-The drive for funds
for the “March of Dimes” cam
paign in the Carrboro school clos
ed last week with the entire school
being 100 per cent. The total am
ount raised and turned in last Sat
urday was one hundred and seven
ty eight dollars. _
News of The
Colored Community
SENIORS PRESENT SCHOOL
MITH MOVIE PROJECTOR
The senior class of Hillsboro
high school presented and enter
tained the student body with the
first picture of their new movie
picture machine, which they are
leaving to the school. The first pic
ture was historical and education
al. It gave the story of our ancient
human beings, which proved most
interesting and exciting. J
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8TUDENTS COMMENDED
The “March of Dimes” drive has
ended at the high school. A. L.
Stanback, principal, commends the
student body for its vital interest
and support. .
The report of the grades was as
follows: first grade, $11.45; sec
ond grade, $9.30; third grade, $10;
fourth grade, $11; fifth and sixth
grades, $2^.25; sixth and seventh
grades, $30.40; 8B grade, $16; 8A
grade, $17.45; 9A grade, $14.30;
tenth grade, $24.60; eleventh grade,
$25.80; and good manner club, $2;
total for-school, $204.55.
HELEN PHILLIPS WILL
HEAD CHAPEL HILL
HIGH SCHOOL DRIVE
Chapel Hill, Feb. 7.—Helen Phil
lips was elected chairman of the
Chapel Hill high school's Red Cross
at a mass meeting held in the ele
mentary high school auditorium on
Monday -morning.
Other candidates nominated in
cluded Bobby Cornwell, Ruth
Young, Nita Sanders and Mary
Helen McFarland.
Plans for the annual Red Cross
drive, which is to take place in the
month df .March, have not as yet
been formulated.
, COMMISSIONERS
(Continued from page 1)
boro school lunchroom, where they
inspected the lunchroom and ex
afnined its method of operation,
the commissioners then. drew. the.
jury list tor the March term of
superior court. They had lunch
with the board of education dur
ing which time G. A. Brown, prin
cipal, explained the operational
schedule of the lunchroom, and
compared costs with Other coun
ties, which showed up. favorably.
Then Browri pointed out, with an
expression of pride? tKe grade A
rating given the lunchroom by the
sanitary inspector.
'Porty jurors were drawn for the
March term of court. They are:
Hillsboro township — William J.
Thompson, D. T. Hardee, A. S.
Dameron, Roland Riley. Chapel
Hill township—J. Walter Clark,
L. C. Davis, O. F. Jensen, T. C.
Lindsay, R. H. Marks, Walker A.
Wombfle, Cecil W. Thompson,
Samuel T. Emory, M. D.. Pridgen,
William D. Hinson, Ed Vaughn, -J.
W. 'Roberson,~ James' Talmadge
Dobbins, Floyd King, John S.
Sparrow, C P. Roberts, I. W. Rose,
_J. Maryon Saunders, Clifton Par
titt. . ■■
Cedar Grove township — Will
Tate, Tate Scott, Albert' Thomas,
L. R. Rice, Aubrey D. Graham,
J. P. Thompson, Doc Phillips, W.
G. Caruthers, Z. C. Burton, R. R.
Compton. Little River township-s
C. T. Crabtree, Raymond Gray,
F. T. Gates. Binglfam township—
Robert Ward. Eno township—W. L.
King, L. H. Cox, James Douglass,
MEN OF THE WEI*t
(Continued from page 1)
Caldwell is also past high jpHist
pf Durham chapter of iv A. M.,
master of the Durham council of
R. and S. M., an officer in the Dur
ham Commandery of K. T., and. al
so, an officer in the Grand Lodge
and Grand Chapter of North Ca
rolina.
Other organizations of which he
is a member include the American
Historical Association, the Classi
cal Association, the American Ar
cheological Institute, Acacia, and
Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1919 his “Hellenic Concep
tions of Peace” was published and!
in 1937 “The Ancient World.” Al
so, in 1926 his translation of Jean
Capart’s “Thebes” appeared in
print.J
JAMES HUBERT McADAMS .
James McAdams, a resident of
Efland, Route 1, has for the past
three years been delivering the
goods to Orange countians on the
farm who are doing more and more
every year to rrteet wartime pro
duction needs.
Having been associated with the
Farmers Exchange for the past
three years, he has been busy deal
ing out the seeds; feeds, fertilizers
and many other farm needs to
Orange county crop-growers.
Mr. McAdams is a transplanted
Orange countian, having given up
Caswell where he was born on
January 13, 1898. He is the son of
Mrs. J. S. McAdams and the late >
Mr. McAdams. He is one of a large
family of nine including five sis
ters and three brothers. His sis
ters are: Vera, Burlington, Route2;
Lottie, Mebane, Route 3; Estelle
and Thelma, Burlington; and Shel
lie, deceased. The * brothers are:
Jack, Burlington; Earl, Mebane,
Route 3; and Clyde, Rougemont.
On December 27, 1927, he mar
ried Pauline Hester. They have
one daughter, Nell Marie, 15.
Mr, McAdams attended Orange
county schools and about a year
ago took over the managership of *
the FMX. He is a member of the
Carr Methodist church and the
Junior Order of United Apieriaan
Mechanics. 'r. .
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Hatched from 2-year-old hens
mated with R.O.P. roosters.
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and Friddy-—■ — —
Order direct from us or through
the Hillsboro Farmers Exchange
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Hatchery
HILLSBORO ROUTE 1
■iELIGHT her heart with gifts that
say “I love you.-’ Make hir eyes
sparkle with gifts that express more
elegantly than words your deep senti
ments. For this is St. Valentine's Day
—Cupid’s day, your day and her day.
Choose from our treasure chest col
lection of memorable gifts. ~
' THOMAS JEWELERS
Ralph I. Thomas, Owner
HILLSBORO