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Subscriptions . advertising . . . printing? Got it from THE NEWS office. Also Stationery and Office Supplies. J. Hillsboro, N.tC., Thursday, February 22, 1945 6 Pages This Week \oard 0/ Charities 'roposed Icifilie At a recent meeting of several Lading Hillsboro citizens, called Rev. S. W. DuBose, pastor of he Hillsboro Presbyterian church, t was proposed to appoint a per cent committee to be respon sible for the spending of local Ifunds raised in various charitable drives. In the past, these funds, espe cially infantile paralysis and tu rculosis, have been kept as idle h, not being applied to any spe local cases. Unless public Sentiment rules the idea out, this ) of men will appoint a board |to handle the money. 1 Tfiose attending the meeting Iwere S. W. DuBose, E. C. Liner, I John Midgett, Grady Brown, C. D. I Jones. It was the decisiori of the ■ group to pick the board from mem Ibers of various civic organiza tions. The proposed board con Isists of J. B. Midgett, master of Masonic Lodge; J. B. Johns, ■ ~...ghts of Pythias; Clarence Jones, [Red Cross; C. M. 'Walker, Coun I cil of Churches; R. H. Claytor, Lions' Club; Mrs. Roger Wilson, Eastern Star. County School Children Meet Quota o The children of Orange county contributed a total of $1,479.87 through classroom drives to"* the infantile paralysis fund, R. H. CTaytdf, County-’* principal and chairman of this drive among county schools, announced this week. The white schools in the county raised a total of $1,138.81 with the colored schools bringing in $341.06. The Hillsboro schools topped the list with the white school securing $349.71 and the colored, $204.55. • Claytor said Murphey sfchoolraised more mdney per teacher with a total of $l0l.5O. Contributions by schools were: White—West Hillsboro, $72.40; Caldwell, $100; Efland, $76.90; Murphey, 101-50; Aycock, $200; Carrboro, $178. Orange Grove, $35.30; White Cross, $25; Hillsboro, $349.71. , Colored — Hillsboro, $204.55; Ridge Road, $20; Flat Rock, $2; Wardsville, $3.75; Gravelly Hill, $3; High Rock, $1.50; Fairfield, $5.90; Efland, . $10.51; ‘ Jordan’s Grove, $16.50; Carr, $7; White Oak, $6; Cedar Grove, $5; Harmony, $2.20; Sartin, $17.65; Grover, $5,20; Merritts, $2‘; Damascus, $5; Morris Grove, $9.80; Piney Mt.r $5; Sun nyside, $2; Hickory Grove, $4.50; Poplar Grove, '$2. health department changes clinic date The Health Department of Hills boro announces a change in date °f ■> the Maternity and Infancy clinic. It will be held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 2 Pm. in the Health Department of <(fice in Hillsboro, instead of the second Tuesday, as previously an nounced. ®r- Rosalyn Ferguson is in charge. Expectant mothers and new babies are invited to come. —The. first clinic of the new schedule will be held Wednesday, February 28. ' Stotts Prisoner Of Germans Ten Days \ While Sgt. Wallace Stutts was visiting in Hillsboro last week end, it was learned that he had been a. German prisoner of war for ten days and was released when Allied forces liberated his camp. He remarked that the Ger mans did^not mistreat him, al though they did take all his be longings ^xcept for a silver dol lar he had in his shoe for good Tuck. The silver dollar had been given him by his cousin, Hugh Hayes, formerly of West Hillsboro, while thev were together in France last fan At that time, they were at Hugh’s camp and one of the com manding officers, hearing that they were cousins and had not seen each other for a year and a iialf previous to that, gave Hugh a jeep and the day off so that the two coulcb enjoy the day together. 110 Seniors Will Receive Diplomas At The University Approximately 110 seniors will be graduated from the University of North Carolina at the winter graduation exercises in Hill hall at Chapel Hill Saturday afternoon at 3:30 when Rear Admiral Os borne Bennett Hardison will be the principal speaker. The graduating class includes 71 Naval ROTC students who will also receive their commissions as ensigns. Admiral Hardison com manded the USS Enterprise dur "ing'the battles of Midway; Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Wake Stew art Islands, Santa Cruz, Solomons, and Marcus Island and the occu pation of Guadalcanal in 1942. Following Hardison’s address, President Frank P, Graham will deliver a farewell message to the graduates and Charles Hackney, NROTC candidate and president of the senior class, will respond for the students. Carrboro Scouts Outrun ffillians The Carrboro Boy Scouts cele brated Boy Scout Week by collect ing waste paper and by attending a service for scouts in the Chapel Hill Baptist church on Sunday morning, February 11. Racing and other sports were enjoyed by the scouts and their scout leader, Max Weaver. _ * it-"' - On Wednesday gfternoon Carr boro scouts wpn over Chapel Hill in a track meet. There were three classes, based on 'weight of con testants: (i) less than 100 pounds, (2) from 100 to 115 pounds, and (3) more than 115 pounds. The score in total points was Carrboro 45, Chapel-Hill 22. HoVard Hearn of Carrboro* (in class 3) was high scorer. He was first in the ’50-yard dash and the 100-yard dash. Hill of Carrboro won the 220-yard and the 440 yard run. Freddie Baxter won in the dash for those weighing un der 100 pounds and Wayne Elling ton in thie high jumping for those weighing under 100 pounds._ PARISH GUILD MEETING The Parish guild of the Epis copal church met at the parish Monday night at 8’ o’clock with Mrs. Marion' Roberts, president, in charge of the meeting. Mrs.»Frank L. Williams acted as secretary in the absence of Miss Mary Susan Robertson. •> . — Masonic Lodge Eagle Lodge Duilding at'Hiiisboro, that caught Are in the main room downstairs eany last Tuesday morning. The blaze in the 122-year-old building was confined to the one room and was brought under control just before it burned into other parts of the structure. The building, constructed in 1823, suffered-an estimated loss of about $2,000. . ——. .. --——--: . -—r ■ ■ . Hillians Still Unsettled Over Town Limits Chapel Hillians are stalemated on the issue of whether or not to extend the town limits and there were strong dislikes and opinions expressed on both sides of the argument at a public hearing held at the elementary school building last week. E. E. Peacock, auditor for the town, pointed out the financial aspects of enlarging the limits by showing that the estimated valu ation of the new area plus the pres ent town valuation would bring the tax rater’down from $1.58 to $1.42. It was pointed ojjt at the meet ing that those living in the sub urban areas are enjoying such town facilities as fire protection, police protection and health serv ice, but at no cost to them. If the town limits are extended to include these people, more pro tection and facilities where need ed will be available. Chapel Hillians left the meet ing with still no agreement or de cision being made. Prisoner Of Japs Fro* Orange Heard ; Mrs.' Nancy Barbour, mother of Gordon Barbour, RDM2c, last week 1 received three communications telling of her son’s voice being heard over the Japanese prisoner of war program, by three boys in the south Pacific. One of* the three was Billy Mitchell of Hillsboro. The other two were strangers but had heard the broadcast and re layed the message to Mrs. Barbour. Gordon had sent word to his mother that he was well, and also sent his love. The,broadcast origi nated in Osaka, Japan. Gordon has been a Japanese prisoner of war for the past two years- and the only other com munication she had had was a letter receved recently which had been written by Gordon . dated August 1, 1944. The Growing News Family With this week’s issue of THE NEWS, we renew the publica tion of the Weekly list of new ar,d renewal subscribers to your favorite Orange County news paper, We suspended publica tion of the list several weeks, but that did not mean that Orange Countians stopped having faith fnough ip THE NEWS to come jn and subscribe—in fact, dur in9 that time our mailing list jumped from 800 to nearly 1* °00. This figure does not Include the large number of renewals that have been coming from all over the county and from many •erv icemen. - , In addition to the growing list °f paid-in-advance subscribers, °ur street sales boys are selling about 250 copies every week In Hillsboro and West End. With this kummary of the re cent growth of THE NEWS fam- ' ‘■y. we present this list of ad ditions for £he past four weeks and urge youto join the family this week. We might afso remind you that no subscriber on our Hat was Induced' to Join us by any sort of contest or cut rates ~~nor will thia-happen In the fu ture. 1 Hillsboro—B. B. Forrest, Mrs. Frank L. Williams, Mrs. Frank Wood, G. W. Ray, E. M. Lynch, Miss Sue Hayes, Carl C. Davis, G. G. Bivins, Dr. H. W. Moore, Clarence Jones, H. E..Singletary, Mrs. T. N. Webb, J. F. Turner, O. E, Bivins, J. E. Laws, John P. Ballard, high school library, West Hill library. Hillsboro, Route 2—Bunn F. Riley, C. C. McDade, Aycock school library. Hillsboro, Route 3 — Orange Grove school library. * Chapel Hill—Mrs. Y. Z. Cannon, John W. Johnson, Collier Cobb, E. Carrington Smjth, A. H. Bush, Robert F. Logan, R. H. Marks, J. W. Umstead, R. R. Benson, W. B. Sorrell, W. E. Thompson, Chapel Hill school library. Chapel Hill, Route 1—J- Ralph Lloyd, F. j. Ferguson, Mrs. Floy War3, A. C. Durham, R. C.’Thomp son, Brady Lloyd, Aubrey McLen nan, Thomas Strowd* B, K. Dur ham, J. S. Neville, White Cross school library, . , Chapel Hill, Route 2—w. C. Blackwood. Chapel Hill, Route 3-t—Mr*. J. W, Bennett. Carr boro—Mrs. Lee Ella Rogers, Thomas Bland, Mrs. C. C. Ash worth, Carrboro school library, Mrs. Edgar Riggsbee. Cedar Grove—J. W. Tolar, Alice Hughes. T » Durham, Route 1 — Murphey school library, G. R, Durham. Efland—Efland school library. Efland, Route 1—J. L. Poole. Hurdle Mills, Route 1—E. G. Daniel. Mebane, Route 2—L. W. Lasley; Z. E. Davis./— Rougembnt, Route 2—Caldwell school library. University—Mrs. W. G. Stray horn. The News, Rutherfordton; Mrs. O. P. Southerland, Trenton; Mrs. M- E.- Haynes, Pittsboro; H. W. Davis, Canal Zone; Pvt. Jack E. Freeland, Camp Roberson, Little Rock, .Ark.; Mrs. J. B. Cave, Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.; Mrs. H.'H. Williamson, Jr., Madison;, A. S. Cheek, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Wil liam 'P. Cheshire, Christ Church, Va;.; Matthew Strum, SP(P) 2c, Washington, D. C.; Homer W. Wat kins, Canal Zone; Pvt. Rodney V. Copeland, Care Postmaster, New York, N. Y.; Col. Grover G. Bivins, Care Postmaster, New York, N. Y; Jas. A. Pickett, S2c, San Francisco 10 Negroes Co For Final IndaCtion According to Mildred W. Collins, chief clerk of the Orange county draft board at Hillsboro, the fol lowing ten colored registrants will go to camp for Induction into the armed forces Friday, March 2: , Walter Mack, Odie E. Breeze, James Webb, John Mebane Ross, Nathaniel Thompson, George A. Day, Oddie T. Cearnal, Osbun L. Whitted, Rufus Cotton, Charles W. Rainey.. - Jew»H*4o0an Jewell Hogan of Chapel Hill « one among several Orange County students who will be graduated from the University of North Ca rolina at the end of the February trimester. Jewell has majored m sociology and hopes to go into some kind of war work after graduat She is the daughter of Postmas ter W. S. Hogan who was featur ed as our Orange Man of the Week some time ago. Miss Hogan has always lived in Chapel Hill and attended the local high school Here she took part in a great ma ny activities and was a membei of the glee club. ~ She entered Greensboro College in the fall of 1941, majoring in mu* sic. She belonged to the college glee club, German club and the Emerson literary society. But af ter a year and a half at G. C., she decided to change her major tc sociology and transferred to the University at her home here. Even though she is not studying music Jewell takes part in many activities along this line on the campus. She has been a membei of the University glee club since she came to Carolina and every Sunday sings in the choir at the University Methodist church. Industrious lady that she is, Je well has worked part time dur ing the school year and full-time summers for the past four years. She did secretarial work for the Director of Admissions for two years and since September has been with the School of Arts^and SciffirJCeS. Jewell does not know exactly ■what she will do when she grad uates, but she hopes to go into some sort of war wirk. Prefer ably, it will be something in which she can use her training in psy chology and sociology toward helping the returning veterans. Burlington Pastor Now In Chapel Hill •rtie ninth one on the list of pastors, the Rev. A. Greig Ritchie, formerly of the Union Christian church of Burlington," has become full-time pastor of the United church of Chapel Hill. The church has gone a number of years now without a full-time pastor. Rev, Mr. Ritchie, a native pi Waterbury, Conn., attended Guil ford Cdllege, Hartford Theological Seminary and the Duke Religion School where he now is attending post-graduate courses. WOMEN’S CLAS* MEETS The young Women’s class of the Hillsboro Methodist church met last night at the home of Mrs. E. R. Dowdy. ORANGE ' >*'; ' * ‘ ' - ,%, This Week’s < and UNIVERSITY MEN ORANGE MAN John P. Ballard Farm Security Supervisor of Or ange County, Ballard is an im ported Orange Countian, having lived in this county since 1941. 'Although he has befen here only a few years, he knows Orange’s oldest citizens living in the most hidden corners of the county. He knows most of them by their first names and has a fair knowledge of their family history. Many Orange countians, who are-not ..now farm owners, will soon own their farms *hr*k*gh ”lsS< loans from FSA. Those buying the farms on this plan come to. know Ballard well, as he goes '-about the work of negotiating loans and helping those along who already have loans. But woe be unto the unscrupulous scoundrel, who tries to gyp Uncle Sam after he has ex tended a hand to help him become a farm owner.Hut in Orange Coun nty, Ballard gets the cussing and the blame, although-it is still the fault of the borrower when a FSA client loses his farm." 'Born November 5, 1915, Ballard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M.-r- L. Ballard of Fuquay Springs, Rt. 2. When he left his Harnett County home, he attended State College, during which time he spent his summer vacations working as a bookkeeper in the field office of the Southern Construction Com pany of Charlotte. While employ ed with this firm, he worked in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Ballard had not lived long in Orange county when he married Mary Rountree, daughter of Mr. an<j Mrs. D. Rountree o^.Cedar Grove. A 30-degree Mason, he is a meiri ber of the Eagle Lodge at Hills boro and the New Bern Scottish Rite Consistory. He is also Worthy Patron of the Eastern Star and secretary of the Hillsboro Lions Club. . Although lie doesn’t point out any one thing as a hobby, camp ing would probably rank high oh the. list. He works with the Hills boro Boy Scouts, and frequently he and Bonner Sawyer take off for a weekend of the camping in the eastern part of the State. If you receive a Sample Copy of THE NEWS this week. It j* your Invitation to become a subscriber. UNIVERSITY MAN John Frederick Dashiell John Frederick Dashiell, Ph. D. and Kenap prpfessor of psychology, was born ip 1888 in Indiana. As a boy, his schooling was received in various sections of the state, due to the fact that his father, a~Meth odist minister, was transferred many times. Upon reaching college age,~ Dr. Dashiell went to Evansville where he was quite outstanding in the field of sports, especially in foot ball, basketball and'baseball. The v»tter was the favorite and two of his right-hawd fingers art proof enough that the outlawed spit bsrtls were real bone breakers. After receiving his B. S. de gree in 1908 and B. Litt. in 1909 at Evansville, he did graduate work at Columbia University where, he was awarded an M. A. in 1910 and Ph. D. in 1913. The Ph. D. waS ac tually given in philosophy but that put him to sleep literally, so it was psychology he chose to teach, and it still is. -. JDr. Dashiell married Clara Syl via Knowles' on September' 17,' 1912. They have two children and one grandson. Daughter Dorothy, aged 17, now attends Stevens Col lege in Missouri, and the son, John Frederick, Jr.“ (Dick), who re ceived his journalism degree at the University of North Carolina, is a combat correspondent with the Ma rines in Guam. ./ Since his marriage Dr. Dashiell has taught at the University of Minnesota, Princeton (which some will recall as the alma mater of the lath Dr. Caldwell, the first president of the University _of North Carolina, and the current Dr. J. Penrose Harland), and now at the. University of North Caro lina. During summer sessions he taught at Syracuse, Clark, Colum bia, Texas, Oregon, Southern Cal ifornia . and Wisconsin, but with all this teaching his whole heart really isn’t.in it. .It seems that. Dr. Dashiell has a burning desire to be a. dihing room conductor, and if that position isn’t open, a brake man or switchman would do. The greatest gift possible, to his way of thinking, would be a pass on all the railroads in the country. Anything at all concerning trains intrigues him. The mention of dining cal’s also brings up the subject of food, and that is another of his main inter ests. The foreign dishes including (Continued on page 2) ; Estimated Loss Is $2,000 In Morning Blaze The 122 t year - old Eagle Lodge Building at Hillsboro suffered about $2,000 damage >r when it caught fire for the first time in its history early last Tuesday morning. The fire was discovered by Ed Thompson, an employee at J. L. Brown and Son, and -the . alarm was turned in at ‘about 7:30 a.in. The blaze. Which was confined to the main room downstairs where it started, was brought under control soon after it was dis covered. » When the fire department ar rived on the scene, the pnain room downstairs was a complete mass of flames and smoke. After the blaze had been extinguished and the smoke subsided to admit, en trance into the building, firemen found the Lodge room upstairs to have remained undamaged ex cept for smoke. No fire or water damage was done in the Lodge meeting room. As yet, direct cause for the fire ha^ not been determined, but un official investigations indicate that it started around the coal stove in the room where the blaze origi nated. The section of flooring around the stove was completely burned out. The entire woodwork in that room was left in a mass of charred timbers. Tables and chairs were completely destroyed ahd also a piano. The one thing to which the sav ing of the entire building is attrib uted is the partition between the burned room and the front en trance where the stairway is lo cated. The firemen extinguished the fire just before it would have gone through the partition and up stairs to the Lodge room. Mem bers of the lodge say that if the fire had gone upstairs, much would have been lost that cannot be wiy priee. Tt»y - estimated' me loss downStaifS to a range from $1,500 to $2,000. The Eagle Lodge at Hillsboro was organized in 1791 and the building was constructed in 1823. It was constructed in the form of an almost perfect cube with each dimension being 40 feet. Its walls are solid brick. . Several civic organizations used the downstairs for a . meeting plac4. The Knights of Pytthias held their regular meeting there . last Monday, night. No announcements have been1 made as to the repairing of the building. The building committee consists of J. H. Liner, O. E. Bivins, and-. H n. Ptivlns. E. C. Liner. Tyler of the Lodge, is caretaker of the building. John Midgett is master of the Lodge. Chapel Hillian Dies In Blaze Graveside service was conducted Monday morning at the funeral of J. Mallie Long who died Satur day night_in a blaze that de-«. stroyed his Chapel Hill home. Mr. Long lived alone in a small house thaL_ neighbors discovered burning at 12 o'clock. When they arrived at the scene of the.blaze, the heat was so intense they were unable to remove the victim. A native pf Orange county, he was employed^by the University of North Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Berta Womble Long; two daughters, Mrs. James Hack ney and Mrs. George Freeland; two sons, Paul and Jack Long, all of Orange county; six sisters and nine grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at Damascus Christian church with ] the Rev. William H. Poole of Carr boro in charge. Friends served as pallbearers and floral bearers. P.T.A. MEETING HELD , AT SCHOOL LIBRARY The Hillsboro Parent-Teachers Association met at the high school library Tuesday, February 20, at 3:30 pari. Mrs. Walter Teer had charge of the program on Founders Day. She presented the president, past presidents and charter mem bers present with a corsage of red roses.' . ' _ Mrs. R. C. Masterton read the story of the Founders-of the Par ent-Teachers Association who were Mrs. Alice Birney and Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Miss Mai vena Shinn and some of the home-economics girts served coffee and pound cake in the home-ec department. A silver offering was taken for the Found ers Day* fund.
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