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Ml Orange county nowa for 11 50 In the county and $2.00 nits!rfe the county. All aerv eemen get the county rates. _ Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, May 3, 1945 A -V 8 Pages This Week arrboro Does It Again National Munitions plant in Carrboro but employees outdid all previous efforts when he Seventh War Loan drive came along, almost trebling what they werfe supposed to do. V the top group are bond workers from both shifts and officials of the company who elped organize the contests between shifts. In the bottom group are the directors of |ie drive who won the interplant contest during ‘ special emphasis week,” April i«-20. Inured here are; (Top) Front row, left to right: Kennon Strowd, C. A. Sharp, D. E. leal, Johnny McCauley, *W. D. Klimstra, Superintendent P .^"Campbell, H. W. Went lorth, Lewis Lloyd, Ed Roberson, W. R. Sloin, H. P. Breeze. Second row, left to right: Vs. Ruth Thomas, Mrs. Irene Carr, Mrs. Paulette Rossettos, Mrs. Ruth Williams, Miss largaret Richardson, Mrs. Emma Blake, Miss Ava Thrift, Miss Mildred Merritt. (Bottom) left to right: Johnny McCauley, Miss Margaret Richardson, Mrs. Irene Carr, Mrs. Ruth iilliams, Mrs. Paulette Rossettos, Mrs. Ruth Thomas, W. D. Klimstra, Kennon Strowd. Impel Hill Mayor 'iiij Officer Minus Contest lior Play Given Etland Seniors ffland.—How often we’ve heard well known phrase, “Tell it Sweeney!” But we never knew lil now that it could be used Jthe basis of one of the funniest |ys ever written. Bruce Bran the popular young play pght who has had so many stage to his credit, has hit upon brightest Idea for a comedy has named it ‘“Tell it to feeney.” It was presented at and high school on the evening 27 at 8 o'clock*, _____ Rehearsals were under the . di ction of Mrs. John E. Bradley. |e following- seniors took part the play: .Truitte Lloyd, Lil Thompson, Virginia Liner, hn T. McAdams, Clarine Tapp, pk Brady, Naydine Ward, Bob j Nichols, Marie Jordan, Thomas |rry, Dot Jones and Mozelle lerick. I-YNN fields helps tPTURE PRISONERS [■tempting ESCAPE ■ rith the Fifth Army, Italy. [*• Glynn Fields, truck drive: P °f Mrs. Minnie B. Fields c Mpel Hill, is a member of th ”h^ Field Artillery Battalioi hch has been employing tactic ?t have greatly increased th isoner take of doughboys fight " close to the Po Valley on th h Army front in Italy, the infantry prepares to mov a new position, the 329th fli rcction center quickly sets u massing and zone fires that neat cut all escape routes behin i rmans in the area to be oc Ipied. ~ These tactics Have bee with good results on at leas '0 recent occasions. One of thes cidents alone netted 150 Germa stives. By MARY HILL GASTON Chapel Hill, May i.—An estimated 850 Chapel Hillians wi 11 N ote in next... Tuesdav's municipal election which will select a mayor. thfee aldermen, and a judge of the recorder's court. There will be contests for all the offices except that of mayor and for the judge's post three candidates are in the race. In the coming contest incumbent R. W. Madry is unopposed for re election . as mayor. Madry has~ served three years already, having finished the unexpired term of John Foushee and serving one full two-year term. Six candidates are entered in the race for three seats on the board of aldermen. Incumbents up for reelection,are F. O. Bow man, wht> has served eight years, R. B. Fitch, with four years, and Bruce Strowd, with three years. Also running are Braxton 'Creel, owner of the Franklin Street Shell service station, Max .Weaver,, em ployee of the Carolina Cab Com pany, and Edwin S. Lanier, Uni versity studentfaid secretary, ©reel was a candidate in the aldermamc race four years ago. Aldermen whose terms do not expire for two more years are R. J. M. Hobbs, R. H. Wettach and P. L. Burch. Judge Henry A. Whitfield is standing for reelection as judge of the recorder’s court. He is op posed by Tom Henry, local attor ney and Paul Robertson, justice of the peace. Whitfield has served one full two-year term, in addi tion to filling, the unexpired term q| Andrew McIntosh. Registrar in the coming election is Rev R. L. Bolton, retired min ister. Judges of election are W. T. McGalliard and W. S. Craw f°Registrar Bolton stated that 100 new persons were added to the (Continued on last page) Town Officers To Be Elected Next Tuesday The citizens of Hillsboro will go to the polls next Tuesday to cast a non-competitive ballot electing town officers—a mayor and five -commissioners. Ben G. Johnston, present mayor of Hillsboro, is the only , candidate named for that office in the com ing election. At a mass meeting prior to the opening of the regis tration books, William Chance was named as a candidate to run against Johnston, but was elim inated by a, majority vote of those present at the meeting. None of. the old commissioners are on the ballot for reelection this year. They are Claude Sharpe, -H. O. Bivins, W. W. Walker, Dr. H. W.t Moore and Dr. B. N. Rob erts. The candidates/ running for commissioner positions in this election are F. E. Jdyner, C. J. James, Frank Walker, A. J. Snipes, and J. L. Brown, Jr. They are also running- without opposition since there are to be five commissioners elected. Negro Community Health Club Is Having Clean-Up Chapel Hill, May 2.—The com munity health club is sponsoring a clean-up campaign which be gan April 23 with a meeting at the colored* school. F. P. Brendle, county sanitarian, addressed the meeting and showed movies on mosquito and house fly control. Residents of the colored section are improving their own homes and prizes will be given to the one having the most attractive home and the one showing the most im provement during the drive. School ‘•children are making posters to popularize this activity and prizes will be awarded to the two best ones. Member^ of the community health club of.Pittsboro will act as judges and the campaign will end with a meeting May* 9. Miss Maria Zaldundo, health educator, is assisting ih an ad visory capacity. Spirit Rules Over Letter In Assault Case By C. H. Wickenberg, Jj*n USMCR Chapel Hill, May 1.—Spectators crowding Chapel .'Hill recorder’s court here today tew Recorder H. A. Whitfield exercise the spirit instead of the letter of the law in a case which he termed the first of its kind he had ever tried. Raymond Alston, h .Chapel Hill Negro, was charged! with assault on his wife by knocking her down and kicking her while down. The charge was made jby his wife, Lessie. * i The charge of assault is not un usual here,, but theri was more to the case than that. As four state’s Witnesses and the defendant took the stand, the courtroom sounds <rf whispering, coughing, shuffling of feet and moving around subsided. By the time the prosecutor announced, “The state rests, your Honor,” the room was strangely silent. It re mained that way for many sec onds as the recorder deliberated. Finally he spoke. “This is the first case I’ve ever tried where a married woman leaves her two children at home and goes off on a wild drinking spree, and then comes down here and swears out a warrant against her husband. “The worst thing about this Case is that there gren’t epough warrants.” He addressed ' these words to the courtroom, then turned to the defendant. “Technically, under the written law by man, you are guilty. But under right law, yc$u are not* If a man finds his wifjj* wrapped up in the arms and' legs of another man, a married mad at that, and doesn’t have feelings, he isn’t worth killing!” Alston was pronounced guilty, and charged one half the court’s costs. Court will not Convene next Tuesday because of the town elec tion. The next session will be May 10, Thursday, at 10’o’clock. Thirteen other cages were tried and dispensed with as follows: Lewis Burnett, colored, drunk enness, costs. ■ John D. Rogers, speeding, costs. James Frederic* iLilly, driving while drunk, $5 license re vokdtf fbr 12 mdmM™—'— Chloe Baldwin, colored, larceny of wearing apparel, sentenced to three months in jail suspended on payment of costs and( $31 to own er, and two years good behavior. Charlie Boles, colored, permit ting an unlicensed driver to op erate his motor vehicle and per mitting vehicle to be operated without proper brakes, costs. Carrie Boles, colored, no driv er’s license, costs. - Auburn Meacham, speeding, prayer for judgment for 15 days. • Hugh M. Wilson, improper brakes, costs. William Riggsbee, colored, drunkenness, costs. Lujcy May Foushee and Mary Jane Roberson, colored, disorder ly conduct, one-half costs each. Grady Lloyd, improper brakes, costs. ' • 1 - ——-— Emory Burnett, colored, drunk enness, costs. Erving P. Ritschell, failing to stop at stop sign, .fined $5 and costs. V. * Carrboro Woolen Mill Begins Operation With Twelve Looms; Weaving Military Goods Only Two Orange" Team Will Decide Winner Protested Contest Chapel Hill.—The Wildcats of the Chapel Hill high school de feated the Methodist Orphanage baseball team in Raleigh last Fri day, 16 to 3. Games for the remainder of the season are scheduled as follows: Sanford, May 1, here; Hillsboro, Way 5, here; Braggtown, May 8, there; and Siler City, May 11, there. The game with Hillsboro Friday is a playoff of the tie game run off in Hillsboro April 20. The game was never completed because of an argument, between opposing teams. It was a Conference game and the playoff will decide which of the two clubs will play Dunn high school for the district cham pionship. School Board Reelects All Teachers Here -—■—_ ■ .———-—: - 7T- ~: — The Hillsboro lScal board of education met at the high school Wednesday of last week to elect teachers for the elementary schools at Hillsboro and West Hill and the Hillsboro High School. Mrs. T. W. Crabtree was re elected to teach another year. Mrs. Crabtree, who is eligible for re tirement, must be reelected by special motion each year in order to continue teaching. Teachers elected by the board are: Hillsboro elementary school: Miss Annie Cameron, Mrs. D. E. Patterson, Miss Ruth Crawford, Miss Maude McCauley, Misij Re becca Liner, Mrs. John Gtaftam Webb, Mrs. Mamie Ray, Miss Es telle Brown, Mrs. R. H. Claytor, Miss Rosa Cole, Mrs. Marvin Phelps, Mrs. T. W. Crabtree, Mrs. Whitt Mincey, Mrs. Alfred Eakes, Mrs. Claiborn Carr; West Hill ele mentary school: Mrs. Tom Brown, Miss Mattie Blackwood, Miss Moyle Umstead, Mrs. Wilson Cole, Mrs. R. J. Smith, Mrs. J. W. Rich mond; Hillsboro High School: Mrs. Gilbert. Craig, Miss Mary Susan Robertson, Mrs. Everette Forrest, R. J. Smit^h, Miss Malvena Shinn, Mrs. B. P. Gordon, Jr., Mrs. J. E. Latta, G. A. Brown. There are no changes. in the naming of the faculty; All present teachers were reelected, and the boardexpressed the hope that all teachers would continue their con tracts. RETURNS HOME Orange Grove.-—Arnold Kirk has returned to his home after three days at Duke hospital. To Meet Bond Quota In Orange Will Take By MARY HILL GASTON Chapel Hill, May 3.—Plans are nearing completion for the mam moth E Bond sales drive to be staged in Orange county and all over the nation May 14 through July 7. County chairman for the seventh war loan is J. Maryon Saunders. An E Bond quota of $458,000 has been set for Orange, with the overall coi^nty quota, including the individual E Bonds, set at $574,000. National seventh war loan quota is 14 billion dollars. W. E. Thompson is head of the Orange county War Finance com mittee in charge of all bend drives here. Chairman of the women’s division of the committee is Mrs. S. E. Leavitt, who will direct operations of women in the county in the coming drive. Hillsboro chairman of the war finance com mittee is S. A. Johnson, and di recting the seventh drive in Hills - boro and in the rural sections of the county will be Gilbert W. Ray. V This spring’s drive, the first of two whirii will probably be held this year, began April 9, with em phasis placed on the payroll de duction savings plan. Highlight of the Orange county campaign so far is the “special emphasis week” held April 13-20 at the Carrboro Munitions Corporation, when workers there subscribed over $42,500 in E Bonds. As a result of that week’s activity the Carr boro plant is authorized to fly the Treasury T flag for 90 per cent Worker participation with 10 per cent deduction in the payroll plan. In a statement this week Mr. Saunders said, “Americans as in dividuals are taking on their big gest quota to date—7 billion dol lars, 4 billion dollars in E Bonds alone. In Orange -county,,with its 23,000 people, this means more than one $25 bond per person— man, woman, or child. —— -— ““Symbolized by the official Treasury campaign poster of five Marines raising an ^American flag pold on Iwo Jima, ‘The Mighty Seventh’ will give every American the chance to add an extra punch to the knockout blow we’re aim ing at the Axis,” concluded Mr. Saunders. r Lions Honor The War Fund Leader Here Mrs. Allen Whitaker, chairman of the 1945 Red Cross war fund drive in this county, was special guest at the regular meeting of the Hillsboro Lions club last week, at which time she was pre sented a certificate for meritorious performance from the American National Red Cross for the excep tional job done as chairman of the recertt war fund drive. The certificate was presented to Mrs. Whitaker by Clarence D. Jones, president of the Lions club and chairman of the Orange coftn ty Red Cross chapter. The quota for this chapter was $4,000, and under the leadership of Mrs. Whitaker, $5,263 was raised. Dr. Sylvester Green,‘editor of the Durham Morning Herald, was guest speaker at the meeting last week. He was introduced to the club by John B. Midgett, and spoke on the problems facing the San Francisco Conference and the steps we must take to assure fu ture peace in the world. Plans for the coming Lions club Ladieg’ Night were announced to the club. A ladies’ night bahquet is slated to be held at the lodge hall in Hillsboro next Thursday night, May 10. That meeting will take the place of the regular meet ing at Thursday noon. Members of the ladies’ night committee are: John' 5. Ballard, chairman; J. D. Eskridge and T. N. Webb. Graham Gets Highway Job ~ A1. H. (Sandy) Graham, Hills boro attorney, was this week ap pointed by Governor R. Gyegg Cherry to serve as chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission at a salary of $10,000 per year. Graham, who was actively en gaged in campaigning for Cherry' ip < the recent' Democratic guber natorial nomination; was a candi date for Governor in 1936. He ran third in the first primacy, with both., former , governor .QlydeR. Hoey and Ralph McDomHa TeacT— ing him. ■ Graham will succeed Charles Ross, acting chairman, and will probably be ih charge of the State's reconstruction and repair program following the war, for which $40, 000,000Js already on hand. An Orange countian Since the date of his birth, Graham was born in Hillsboro in 1890. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was graduated with an A-B. degree in 1912. He studied law at U. N. C. and also at Harvard University. He has been practicing law since 1914. L Playing an active part in politics, Graham was speaker of the House of Representatives in 1929, and Lt. Governor from 1932-36. At pres ent, he is county attorney for Orange county, and a member of the Hillsboro Post of the American Ta»gif»n „ : AYCOCK P.-T.A. Mrs. Leona East, health edu cator, will report On a sanitary survey made by the students of public health at the University at a Ay cock PT A meeting to be1 held Thursday. May 17. All Local Laber Win Be Employed 1 he first bolt of woolen military cloth was , manufac tured at the Pacific Woolen Mills subsidiary at Carrboro last week in the* building for merly occupied by die -Dur ham Hosiery Mills. The mill is getting underway- aheacf of time in filling a contract of 100 per cent weaving of gov erninent goods. C. M. Guest and Sons, a contract ing firm, is renovating the build ing that will house a large quan tity of weaving machinery. The machinery will completely occupy the large building. At the present time, there are only about 12 looms in operation. David E. Arthur, resident manager of the mill, said it would probably be next fall be fore the plant will be operating in full force, working three shifts and employing about 200 workers. Except for several key men, the plant will be operated by local labor exclusively, and will become one of Orange county’s outstand ing projects. Officials of the plant are David E. Arthur, resident man ager, from Lawrence, Mass., where he was assistant manufacturing superintendent of the plant there; William Shearer, overseer of weav ing, also formerly connected with Pacific . Mills at Lawrence; and Charles Smith, office manager in charge of payrolls and accounting, formerly associated with the same firm at Lyman, S. C. All three of these men have been connected with Pacific Mills many years and have had extensive training and experience in the weaving of woolens and worsteds. Military cloth manufactured by other Pacific Mills plants are: OD serge lor enlisted men, flannel for shirts, enlisted men’s ^fge forffiniferms, marine shirt ing, worn serge for Army coats (dark), wool serge for aviation shirting, light shade wool serge fp£ Army trousers. Army officers’ tropical suitings (light and dark), officers’ gabardine shirts and trousers, OD shirting (two types), officers’ and WACS tropical uni forms, wool lining for Army wind breakers, wool covert for Army nurses’ uniforms, woolen filling for enlisted men’s uniforms, Navy nfefion for jackets, -flannel shirt- . ing for Marine shirts, Marine .Corps covert- shirting, and red, white and blue bunting for flags. _ Before the war. Pacific Mills was manufacturing materials for men’s suitings, light coats, women’s dresses, auto fabrics, etc. They will resume civilian production after the war, and the plaint at Carrboro is to'continue operation under peacetime'schedules. Arthur, said the looms.now. being installed . at Carrboro are of the latest type built. r - \ 32 White Men Are Inducted Thirty-two white men left Hills boro last Saturday morning for . Fort Bragg where they were in ducted into the armed forces. Tfi iJSe feipsfyMifr^fea vhig'' -from this board were: Myron Francis Lewis, John Henry Williams, Andrew Wallace Davis, Robert Lee Strowd, Samuel Edgar Jobe, Claude Matheson York, Allison Verdon Neems, John Aubrey Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Berry, Roland Clinton Sykes, Roy Coleman Allison, Jr.* William— Everett Blackwood, William Thomas Patterson, Warren G. Harding Mincey, Isaac Wade Mor ris, Walker Lee Kennedy, Orin Paul Minnis, Robert Thomas Shelton, Bernard Utah Mayse, Edwin Byrd Riggsbee, Ar thur Settle Beckham, Jr., Charles Hughes Williams, Walker Alex ander Wpmble, Walton White An drews, William Joyce Caldwell, Jesse Thomas Howard, William Sterling Hunt, Jr., Wallace Henry Bradshaw, Clifton Waylon Pen dergrass, Brown Puckett Gordon, Jr., Dewey Couch, Samuel Green Huff. : . ,z~~... ■ CANCER CONTROL MOVIE Chapel Hill, May 2.—Members of the Health Department will meet with the PTA of Ridgewood school Thursday, May 17, and pre- , sent a movie on cancer control. -j "... ... ~ .—.. " *■ merican Legion Dance * High School Gym
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