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f The Newt family it flrowinQ larger every day. So why be „ outsider when you can Join J8 for only $1-M for one year. NEWS of Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, April 12, 1945 1>o you want to swap, sell or trade? It makes no difference, Just use The News want ads to get good and fast results. (One Week Nearer Victory) 6 Pages This Week education Board To Jick Committeemen » • . ?or County Schools %/ * eachers Will Be icked This Month R. H. Claytor, superintend ,t of Grange county public hools, announced this week at a special meeting o£ the unty board of education will held sometime within the xt few days to appoint new hool committeemen for the e school districts in the unty. After their appointment, the mmitteerffen will proceed with e election of teachers for the ming school year in their respec •e districts. The list of teachers Kited will be submitted to the ard for approval at the next gular board meeting, Monday, ay 7. —- =. — Four of the five districts in ange county have three com tteemen each. The fifth district s five committeemen. The com itteemen are appointed for a ■m of three years with their ex "ation dates staggered so that ly one committeeman goes out office at one time. The district th five committeemen has two tgoing officers. Local committee ;n for each of the local schools e all either replaced or reap linted at one time. The present strict committeemen are: District le, Hillsboro, Fred Lloyd, Bon ir Sawyer, Mrs. Beth Roberts; strict two, Efland, Eugene Berry, D. Graham, O. F. Jones; dis ict three, Ay cock, John E. Haw ns, Zeb C. Burton, Robert E. ughes; district four, Chapel Hill/ . K. Hogan, D. M. Ray, Jeter C. loyd; district five, Charles Berry, eorge McKee, Henry Miller, T. . McKee, John Brown. The committeemen listed first in ich of the first four districts is le incumbent that will either be ;placed or reappointed. The first jo men listed in district five will replaced or reappointed. ■\other committeman will also ive to be appointed to replace F. McKee who died last fall. Local committeemen for district le, Hillsboro and West Hillsboro, c B. S. Carr, Dr. B. N. Roberts, rs. O. E. Bivins; Orange Grove, E. Teer, James Snipes, John irk; Murphey, J. M. Harris, Wal r Dillehay, Tom Cook; St. Mary’s . R. Holloway, Jim Smith, Jesse tartih. Committeemen for district four, hapel Hill, are, Carrboro, E. M. anning, Burroughs Hogan, L. D. earne; White Cross, Mrs. S. L. ay, J. T. Whitfield, Lemuel heek. There are no local committee en for schools in districts two, iree and five, there is only one hool in each of these districts, erms for all local committeemen xpire at this time and they will ither be reappointed or replaced. IRS. ROSENAU IMPROVING ROM FRACTURED KNEE Chapel Hill, April 10.—Mrs. M. • Rosenau, wife of the dean of ie school of Public Health, who uffered a fractured knee last week i an accident in her home, is re overing satisfactorily at Duke lospital and hopes to come home ext week.-—....* *. The Lone Ranger Beginning with this week’s is* sue of The', News? The Lone Ranger will appear every week. Orange countians have express ed a desire for comics in The Ne>frs, and a large number of .them faOor The Lone Ranger., So in the columns of this paper each week you will find the com plete strip for the entire week. Much Damage In County By Recent Frost The recent frosts have complete ly killed the fruit crop in Orange County and seriously damaged most early vegetables, according to Don S. Matheson, farm agent. A considerable amount of barley beginning to head was killed. Other small grain may be damaged, but it is too early to know to what extent this damage might be. To bacco plants seem to be all right. Perhaps one of the greatest harms this untimely frost did was the damage to the lespedeza crop over the county. Farmers all around are carefully examining their les pedeza and speculating whether it will come out. There is one hope, even if a good part of the lespedeza which had already come up is killed, with a good rain there is still a possibility of a fair stand. tJsually about 30 percent of les pedeza seed do not germinate at first, but will come on later. A good rain- will bring these seed, and it is hoped that together with the undamaged plants, will make a stand. , With the damage already inflict ed on grain and hay crops, farm ers are thinking about changing their plans fto put in a few more soy beans for hay and possibly a field of sudan grass on the more fertile land. They are also thinking of ways to increase their com yield per acre. Orange County’s average corn yield pf only 22 bushels per acre can easily be in creased* to 25 or 30 bushels by a more liberal fertilization of nitro gen. The Experiment Station is recommending as much as 400 pounds of 6-8-6 fertilizer under the corn and a top dressing of 300 pounds' of nitrate of soda, or it’s .equivalent, when the corn is knee high. All indications are that 1945 will be one of the tightest years that we have ever experienced in get ting a sufficient supply of food and feed. It is still time to get in a full garden program, . Matheson said, and a good garden will be an insurance policy for every family this year. . STATE DENTAL SURGEON AT CALDWELL SCHOOL Chapel Hill, April lO.y-Dr. A. C. Early of the State Board of Health, division of oraf hygiene, is spend ing this week at Caldwell School. His work includes both dental examination and- repair. Next week Dr. Early will go to Efland School for' two weeks and after that to Aycock school. arming Sugar Ration To Wo me Tighter This Year “With the approach of the 1945 Lome canning . season.,” Moody W. Durham, Chairman of the local Var Price and Ration Board for lingham and Chapel Hill town ships said, “it is nearing the time >f the registrations for the issu ance of canning sugar. We must lo a great deal better this year because the sugar supply is-now °wer than it has been since ration ing began and there is no prospect ■or an early improvement since he demands of the war are in creasing and the total supply of sugar is not. This means that the 1945 issuance must be only about avo-thirdp of lagt year’s issuance. is the desire of the Office of ?rice Administration for consum ers to receive the amounts of sugar which they actually need for come canning purposes, but it is dso our duty and responsibility to screen home canning applications s° that illegitimate requests *will * cut to a minimum. The Boards cas the jmtbority mid the duty to leny applications when it has reason to believe that the sugar *01 not be used for home canning.” No canning sugar will be ob ained this year on stamps from he consumer’s .book. Spare stamp "°. 13 is to be attached from each ration book of the family umu There is a maximum' amount ot “twenty^ pounds' per person for the canning season and a family unit maximum of 160 pounds. Regard less of the size of the family, no Board may issue more than 160 pounds for a family unit. No more than five pounds of sugar may be used for the purpose of making jams, jellies, preserves, pickles, etc. Of course, this fiye pounds per person comes, from the amount allotted by the Board, as no sugar stamp will be designated for the .purpose of securing sugar for home canning. The maximum allowance is 1 pound per 4 quarts of finished canned fruit. Vegetable canning, like jelly making,, is subject to the above 5 pound rule. On the first application made by an applicant for home canning sugar, the family will not be given more than 10 pounds per person or 80 pounds in all, whichever is ■less. Only two applications may be made by a family in the entu-e 1945 seaiw'n. The ration to be is used on the second application can not exceed the difference between the family’s maximum for the year (20 pounds per person or 160 pounds in all. whichever is less) (Continued on last page) Hall Proaoted Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hall of Hillsboro Rt. 2 have recently re ceived word of the promotion ot their son Lieutenant Leroy Hall, stationed with the Air Corps some where in Italy. Lt. Hall was recently promoted from the rank of 2nd lieutenant to 1st lieutenant. He has been over seas since November, 1944, and has been awarded the Air Medal for meritorious duty as the pilot of a P-47 “Thunderbolt” fighter plane. He has completed 61 mis sions over German held territory. The 23 year old flier is the grand son of Mrs. A. C. English of High Point. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT RELEASES BULLETINS Raleigh, April 9.—Three bul letins of the State Department of Agriculture are now ready for dis tribution, according to D. S. Col trane, Assistant Commissioner oi Agriculture. Two of the publications, the Seed Laboratory Report and the Fer tilizer Bulletin, are issued annual ly, while the other bulletin, the Biennial Report, covers the work of the Department from July 1, 1942, through June 30, 1944. Harri Made In H Keen intei in Hillsboro abou Harry C. Harrisdn, x-marine for merly of HiUsl£)ra charged with first degree mdrde and arson in connection with t e death of a distant cousin, Mrs John Higham of Raleigh. Officers arrested young Harri son shortly after th s charred body of the wealthy Mr j Higham was found in her partial Y burned home in the Hayes-Bar on section of Raleigh. Easter Monday morning and almost immediately charged him with first degree murder and arson. Conviction on either of fense carries the death penalty. At the time ofithe arrest, the qf ficers had a warrant for Harrison for the theft of an expensive wrist watch from a friend. He had some jewelry, identified as belonging to Mrs. Higham, on his person and more iii the automobile which he was driving at the time. The watch, alleged to have been stolen by Harrison from a friend, was found in a Durham pawn shop in Harrison’s name. Harrison has denied all charges, including the theft of the watch. He is being held without bond by the Raleigh police. He will face trial soon on the theft charge, and will probably have a hearing on the murder and arson charges in the May term of Wake county superior court. * ...i Authorities said that among the jewelry on Harrison’s person was a watch belonging to Mrs. Higham on which there were blood stains. Examination by Duke University specialists revealed that it was hu man blood. Harrison formerly lived, in Hills boro and is well known by Hills boro people. Hft has been as sociated Raleigh foi ing which visits to Hi! urance firm in months, dur made frequent Orange Minister To Be On Baptist Hour Carrboro, Aprir'10.—A new •series of the “Baptist Hour” broadcast has begun, originating in Atlanta, Ga. Station W3B will bring to the radio audience many outstanding leaders. Next Sunday, April 15, a North Carolina leader in rural church work, Rev. Garland. Hendriks, pastor of Olive Chapel Baptist. Church, 'this' association, Witt ' speak. The time each Sunday morning is 8:30. New Subscribers To The News * 7 Still growing! More and more every week, new and renewed subscriptions to The News come in. When is yours coming? If it is not already in, this is your invitation to visit us and give us a try. Subscribe for a year or six months and see if you won’t agree with us that The News prints amore news of Orange county than any other paper in the world. Hillsboro: W. A. Pearson, Mrs. O. H. Clayton, R. H. Claytor, Sam Allison. _ Hillsboro, Route 1: W. J. Smith, J. G. Garrard. HHIsboro, Route 2: C. E. Heff ner, G. ST WKlfte'dT t Hillsboro, Route 3: Hiram B. Dodson, I. C. Key, E. E. Vaughan. Chapel Hill: L. M. Brooks, Paul Green, Dr. W. G. Chrisman, . Franklin C. Erickson, G. C. Tay lor, Hardin Craig, Louis Graves, Dept, of Journalism, Phillips Russell, O. J. Coffin, Robert H. Wettach, D.^M. Horner, J, G. Bean, Clarence Heer. Chapel Hill, Route 1: Frank L. Ward, Chapel Hill, Route 2: Mrs. J. D. Dixon. -—Chapel Hill, Route 3: Eric* Womble. ^ * .Cedar- Grove:. 4- A. Jordan, Mrs. Jule Allen, Arthur Clayton, Mrs. Martha Laws. „ Care Postmaster, New York, N. Y.: Pvt. Frank A. Plummer, CpL Jack L. Snipes, CpI. Alfred J. Snipes. . - - _Miss Mary B. Forrest, Emory University, Ga,; George Byrd, Route 3, Mebane; N. C. N$wbold, Raleigh; Mr*. Ed Sykes, Efland: Haywood, Route 1, Cedar Grove; C. N. Woods, Hurdle Mills; Mrs. W. G. Brown, Durham. After t^HngNlfeNl^ange coun ty young men, *If people your age don’t know ftny better than that, I don't know what’s to be done with you,” Recorder Henry A. Whitfield at Tuesday’s session of the Ohaphi -* Hill recorder’s court ordered Ed Collins, Watts Johnson and Larue Sparrow held for the nejctpautah of the superior court under bond -of $500 each for “maliciouj and fflonious damage to growirfr erepep to wit, alfalfa.” The men pled guilty to the charge. The state’s witness gave the only testimony. He said that about 2 o’clock last Friday mdrning the young men drove a 1936 Olds* mobile belonging to Collins’ moth er several times around an alfalfa field owned by Mr. Andrews. The field is located south and west of Chapel Hill near Morgan’s creek. Collins was driving the automobile which arresting officers later iden tified by alfalfa caught on various parts. ^ No reason was given by the ac cused for committing the alleged felony. On questioning, they said they were not drunk, nor did they have a “grudge” against the owner of the crop. r « The felony case is out of the jurisdiction of the recorder’s court and will be tried at the next ses sion of the superior court. Four cases of drunkenness and four traffic cases made up the re mainder of the docket for Tues day. They were dispensed with as follows: V. H. Stout, operating an auto mobile after license had “been re voked, sentence suspended, and costs, ‘ Henry Dorsett, speeding, second offense, $25 and costs. James Rbbert Bolden, speeding, $15 and costs. Robert J. Dixon, colored, speed ing and failing to stop at stop sign, $15 and costs. v Thomas Clark, colored, drunk enness, costs. Charles Forester, colored,.drunk enness, costs. Robert Flack, colored, drunken ness, second offense, $5 and costs. Joseph Roland, colored, drunk enness, $5 and costs. BETTY JOHNSTON GIVES WEINER ROAST MisS Betty Johnston enter tained with a hay ride and weiner roast, at Hogan% lake Saturday night in honor of Ehs. Bob Rose mond and S 2-c Clarence Rose mond. Out-of-town guests enjoying the occasion were Misses Agnes Hen drix, WCUNC, Greensboro; Doris Van Hook, Danville, Va.; and Jean Gattis, Winston-Salem. Hillsboro guests were Hilda- Johnston and Virginia RosemondL Citizens9 Mass Meeting Brings CriticisjmOn School System; i Brown Responds To Complaints Captain Bob Saith, War and Football Veteran, Gets Third Degree... Nasons By KAY KUOLER t Past Masters W. M. Pugh and E. G. Harrington of the University Lodge No. 408, AF&AM, conferred the third degree on Captain Robert B. Smith Friday night, April 6, at a special meeting of Chapel Hill Masons. T. A. Rosemond, master of the lodge and former resident of Hillsboro, presided, and the lec ture was given by Past Master Sol Lipman. Captain Smith’s step father, T. B. Creel, and his brother, W. T. Smith, assisted in conferring the degree. A large delegation of Navy officers and enlisted men were present to witness the cere mony. Captain Smith served one year in Italy and was then sent back to the States for a special course at Washington and Lee. He is now at home on a 21-day leave, after which he will return to Italy. Cap tain Smith entered the Army in June, 1941. He won the expert rifleman’s badge while a corporal at Fort Bragg, N. C., and was com missioned a second lieutenant a year later at Fort Benning, Ga. life is the wearer of Pre-Pearl Harbor and European Theatre of Operations ribbons with two bat tle stars. Before entering the ser vice, Captain Smith attended U. N. C. and was center on the football team. Captain Smith makes the eigh teenth member of the Lodge in the service. Others are Lt. Cols. J. B. Linker and T. E. Hinson (both honorably discharged). Majors J. Obie Harmon and John W. Fos ter, Captain M. A. Hill, Jr., Lieuts. E. E. Caldwell and P. R. Perry, Jr., Flight Officer Wm. B. Brittain, S-Sgts. C. P. Magoffin and Law rence Flinn, and Pvt. R. M. Pitt man (honorably discharged]), all of the Army; Captain F. K. Elder, Lieuts. G. Obie Davis and F. Birt Evans, enlisted men L. O. Over street and Wm. F. Barlow, of the Navy; and Lieut. S. A. Nathan, Jr., of the Marines. ■ This Week’s WAR NEWS IN BRIEF By GISLI ASTH0RS80N Cutting off 80,000 enemy troops in Holland with a push within 20 miles of the North German coast-. American troops on Monday of this week fought their way into Essen, Europe’s greatest arma ments city, while the British Sec ond Army and the United States Ninth, First and Third Armies hammered toward the Elbe River, last major barrier between them and Berlin. At the same tjrue Al lied armies were preparing¥ final assault on Hannover, and five di visions of the United States Ninth Army, led by the motorized 83rd Infantry Division, had already broken into the province of Bruns wick at a point 137 miles from the German capital. British troops, making a bid for Bremen, were engaged in fierce fighting five miles from the city. RUSSIANS IN VIENNA On the Eastern front, hard-fight ing Russian -assault forces were swiftly over-running Vienna, the fall of this second largest city ol Adolf Hitler's Greater Germany appearing imminent, while farther to the north the garrison ol Koenigsberg, capital of East Prus sia and cradle city of Prussian militarism, capitulated. 11^ With air and ground activity growing in the Italian area, news from the Pacific indicated stiffen ing enemy resistance on southern Okinawa Island, where American artillery, and guns and aircraft of the Pacificc Fleet were reported engaged in a thundering duel with Jap heavy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire. RUSSIA RENOUNCES PACT Although the question whether Russia will go to war against Japan was left unanswered, possibly the most important news last week was the strongly-worded Moscow note denouncing the pact of neu --:-'—4—---— MR. LAWS HANDLING CIRCULATION FOR NEWS Eugene Laws of Hillsboro, traveling representative for the Watkins ProductsXompany and well known to town and rural Orange county, has joined the circulation, department.. of The News. Mr. Laws will accept new and renewal subscriptions to the paper in all of Orange county except Hillsboro and Chapel Hill. Subscribers will still receive their advance notices of sub scription expirations from the newspaper officfe, new subscrib ers will be sought through the use of selected mailing lists, and subscribers may continue to stop by the office and subscribe or they may mail them to the office. However, Mr. Laws is authorized to receive youf re newal and new subscription, ai\d to many of you it will be ■ •a convenience since Mr. Laws makes regular trips through the county, and he will have with him The News mailing list and receipts so that you may get your receipt on the spot. The News believes it is for tunate 4n securing the services of Mr. Laws'to handle the rural "circulation for the paper,' which shall continue to plape emphasis In word and act on the county - wide scope of service to Orange. .' . ..v • \ v trality between Russia and Japan. The Moscow announcement said that Foreign Minister Molotov told the Japanese ambassador that the neutrality agreement—which is not to expire until April 25, 1946 —had “lost its meaning and con tinuance of this pact has become impossible.’’ Preceding this news another highly significant development (Continued on page 3) 0. Rhew b Awarded Bronze Star Medal With the 2nd Infantry Division in Germany.—Private First Class O. Rhew, Hillsboro, North Caro lina, was ^recently awarded the Bronze S\ar Medal for gallantry in aetion. He is the son of Mrs. Sara Rhew. His citation read in part: '^ » “Private First Class Rhew was ordered to direct troops of the 28th Infantry toward a line. He was posted at the crossroads in the town of Wirtzfeld. “It was dark and the men were not able to keep contact, making it necessaty to have a traffic director at' the 'potntr -The Germans laid down several heavy artillery bar rages on this road crossing, i« .dieting many casualties. Pfc. Rhew personally took charge of the wounded and administered first aid. “Pfc. Rhew continued to main tain his post, even though he was doing so at great, risk to his life. As a result of this action all troops were guided in the right direction and a free flow of traffic was main tained. Pfc.- Rhew was the -last man to leave the area. He re mained until all the wounded were evacuated and the last straggler had passed.” ___ V '/T ■ ' - ' Parents Parting Biased Far Fanils A number of Hillsboro citi zens “let their Hair down” and laid their cards on the table in the form of criticisms and complaints toward the opera tion and result of the Hillsboro school system at a meeting Tuesday night and after a lengthy response from G. A. • Brown, principal, public sen timent was split into two fac tions, one upholding Brown's response and the other cling ing to tht^omplaints. . \ At the so-called “citizens’ mass meeting,” following the regular PTA meeting, a motion was intro duced that two more members be appointed to serve on the local school committee in addition to the regular three members. The motion, however, was withdrawn because the meeting was not \, official. , The meeting, it seems, grew out of varied feelings and rumors about the work of the school be ing impaired , and inadequate. Brown’s speech presented to the audience a clear explanation for any suspected inefficiency, some of it being laid on the doorsteps of the homes. Mr. Brown said, “I think the meeting held Tuesday # j night is the healthiest sign for * ! the good of the school that the people have shown in the last five years.’V In his speech to the group pres ent, Brown said he reported to I the school board last April when they elected teachers that “we had had the poorest year of work in over ten years.” He also pointed out the reasons, reminding them of the loss of six men from the faulty and the change of janitors Altar time’ since the war started. .iGQASiteM these losses, the only coarse dropped by the school has been agriculture. He said it took seventeen years to build the high school faculty up to what it was before the war started, and it took only a few months for the war to destroy it. ; In responding to complaints ^ about students failing their work and going to college ill-prepared, he pointed out that “if a teacher is to maintain a • high standard, | she must fail her weak 'students, but if .she fails the' students, she .... will heat from some parents some- -t;. i times in rather-strenuous tones. . . . The only way any school can maintain a high standard is to have a larger group of parents who want a high standard than those who know nothing about school standards and insist upon promot ing all the students.' arid those par ents who want a high standard ' must be willing to back up the teachers who are doing high stand ard work in opposition to the other group even when their own stu dents are ones who are failed.” He further pointed out that most of the complaints come from the parents of failing children, and the failure of the child cannot always be blamed on the teacher because records show .that such students have difficulty sunder all teachers. Ail sorts of drives brought on by war conditions hinder the (Continued on last page) Chapel Hill Clothing Drive Is Getting Into Full Swing By ZELDA JOHNSON Chapel . Hill, April 12.—Chair men of all committees serving on the United Nations Clothing Drive met last night.-to consolidate their plans for getting the drive into full sWing. W. D. Carmichael, Sr., and Mrs. R. B. Lawson are co-chair men of the Chapel Hill drive. All bundles should be placed on front porches before 9 o'clock Sat urday morning. ^ Collection depots, to which con tributions may be taken any time this month, are the parish house at the Episcopal church, for Chapel Hill; the Methodist church at Carr boro,- for Carrboro; and the Rock Hill Baptist church for Negro citi zens. -_.. Edgar Alexander, scout master, will supervise the collection by the Boy Scouts bn April 14. The Parish house at the Episcopal Church wiH be open during the month of April to receive dona tions The drive here is being sponsored by the Kiwanis and Ro tary clubs, »in Carrboro by the Lions club and in the Negro sec tion by a committee composed of D. M. Jarnagin, chairman. Rev. J. R. Stanford and Arthur J. Cald well. The Boy Scouts are offering able assistance to all groups. _ The steering committee is com posed of Dr. W. B. Snow, chair man; Dr. Hugh Lefler, Rev. Kelley Barnett, H. C. McAllister, W. M. Pugh, James L. Phipps, "R.., M. Grumman, and Clarence Oakley. Citizens of this community were urged to make a generous response in a proclamation issued this, week by Mayor R. W. Madry. Calling attention to the desper ate need. Mayor Madry said that surveys have indicated that “as many war victims have died from exposure and lack of adequate clothing as have died from star vation.” The need is urgent and this is the only call for clothing that will be made this year. Based on the national estimate the goal for Orange County is 27,000 pounds. There is an urgent need for bed ding as well as warm clothing of all kinds. Knitted caps, gloves and sweaters are especially desir ed, but any practical, serviceable clothes are acceptable. All should be washed but need not be ironed Shoes should be paired and tied firmly together and should be ox fords or high shoes, preferably with low or medium heels. High heels and open toes or heels cannot be t Continued on page 5)
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