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of Orange emptneee, precision and of ency are three eesenttals iob printing—Get all three * . ur ueu/o Why net try a want ad In TH* NIWI next week and reenlta will come quick and plentiful. Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, July 5, 1945 (One Week Nearer Victory) 6 Pages This Week Iotarians tnjoy Big Picnic ew Officers Are Installed phapel Hill, July 5—Rotarians de it a big night last Wednesday ieir annual picnic 'dinner which spread this year at the White fss school. Besides eating their | of fried chicken and ham, sal and sandwiches, cakes and s, they took time off to install officers who took up their lies at the meeting last night, ilore than a hundred Rotarians their guests were on hand to joy. the dinner. Visiting Rotari T were Donald Smith and Roy j-ker. Guests of the club in lcled Capt. and Mrs; Preston Irchant, Roger Neal,, Mrs. M. I Abernathy, Mrs. M. E. Hogan, s7 J. B. Johns and Mrs. J. C. ons. keventy-six more guests—wives Mren or friends of Rotary mem fs_were present. These,, were K”. D. Barnett, Mrs.F. C. bcksidge, Dorothy Blocksidge, Neal Creighten, Mrs. R.UW. Et, Mrs. F. O. Bowman, Mrs. |Z. Cannon, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. bbel, Mrs. Collier Cobb, Jr., Mr. Mrs. John Fuller, Mrs. R. D. Connor, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. bunt, Mrs. Grady Pritchard, Mrs. |W. Cummins, Mrs. M. R. Evans, s. J. M. Foushee, Mr. and Mrs. Eakin, Miss Fleta Mae Ev Mack Poole, Mrs. W. E. ampson, Mrs. J S. Henninger, |s R. J. M. Hobbs, Mrs. Roy newood, Mr. and Mrs. John ndon .and Mr. and Mrs. Will ridon, all of Pittsboro, Mrs. L. Huggins, Vicky Huggins, Mrs. T. Huntley, Mrs. Hugh T. Lef I, Mrs. R. W. Madry, Bobby Mad ] Jack Hazzard, Miss Joyce High lith and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. unders. Jrady Pritchard, Jim Klutz, ks.- H. C. McAllister, Mrs. E. E. acock, Ward Peacock, Mr. and h. C. P. Spruill, Mrs. L. J. lipps, Snooky Phipps, Dana [ipps, Mrs. Betty Johnson, Mrs. H, Flemmonls, Mrs., R. B. Jinhardt, Mrs. H. R. Ritchie, Mrs. R. Roof, Mrs. E, A. Slocum, barns, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Haz aan, Mrs. C. M. Smith, J. S. |>le, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barham, r. and Mrs. P. L. Burch, Bebe |hns, Julie Johns, Mrs. Bruce litmire, Douglass Whitmire, (rs. Esther Fagg completed the of guests. > • \ few officers installed were :tor Huggins, president; James dfrey, vice-president; Wilbur htz, secretary; Carl Smith, treas fer; Paul Brown, sergeant at lugh T. Lefler, retiring presi at, was presented a $25 war |nd by James L. Godfrey which dfrey termed a $1000 Confeder bond. This gift was given Lef by th dub in appreciation the work he had done in the 1st year, termed a very success 11 year, with eight new members Ided and much accouplished, I Cedar Grove ACAtlON BIBLE SCHOOL A daily vacation Bible sphool as held last week at North Eno resbyterian church. The school as under the direction of Miss lorence Root and Rev. J. W. ook. At the close of the school commencement was held Sun ay a. m. Home coming services ere also held during the day. ttend youth conference Misses Sarah Vaughn and Louise apple are attending the young eople’s assembly at Peace Col >ge, Raleigh this week. Ralph Cooper Compton, Misses ibby Liner and Miriam Pope at :nded the Methodist Youth Con irence in Louisburg. They report very interesting program. ersonals Sgt. and Mrs. Gordon Liner Monday to spend a few »eeks with Mrs. Liner’s relativ s in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Laws of Hills °ro visited Mrs. Martha Laws and ffrs. Lula Finley Sunday. Miss Mildred Finley is spend ng a few days at Lake Junaluska. Mr. L. A. Ligon is a patient at Juke hospital having undergone in operation last Wednerday. Mrs. Carrie Wright has retum from Burlington after visiting ler daughter Eunice for several veeks. Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Sharpe and laughters of Carr visited Mrs. -arrie Wright Sunday afternoon. Miss Elizabeth Hughes has re turned to her home here. I Mr. Robert Oliver of Durham Ppent Sunday with his parents. . Miss Relia Dark has been work in the Cedar Grove Post Of uce this week in th absence af Mildred Finley. Miss Dark is the assistant postmistress. Mrs. C. H. Pender is now em ployed with tire Orange county health department in Hillsboro. Rev. K. F. Duval has completed ''hu^hVa* mee**n* at Prospect Seaman George .Wilson is spend lug a 30 day furlough with his rule and parents, Mr. and Mrs. •ohn Wilson. ; This Week's ORANGE MAN A. H. POE Mr. A. H. Poe, joint owner of the Ppe-Mangum Auto Service in Chapel Hill, remembers the days in World War I when he had cream for his coffee every morning in France. At that time he was with the 113th Field Artillery in the 30th division of the Headquarters Com pany. Mr. Poe had been fighting in France for some time when he and his buddies ran into a dug out and captured its con tents—of which the prize posses ion was a cow. The cow was affectionately named Sookie and was taken along with the company as stand ard equipment, providing fresh milk every day. Then a crisis arose. Sookie became tenderfoot ed, and the men were afraid they would have to sell her. But Mr. Poe came to the rescue with his knowledge of blacksmithing which he had learned back on the farm. He made Sookie four iron shoes, and she travelled in comfort with the company for four months. Mrr Pcie was born in Chatham county in 1885, the son of the late Mr. G. R. Poe and Mis wife who is still living. He was raised on the farm with his four sisters and six brothers. After attending the school near by. he went to work on the farm until World War I when he served twelve months of active duty in France After the "war he went intb' the automobile business, workihgfirst in Pittsboro and then in Salisbury. In 1920 he came to Chapel Hill and Was employed with the Strowd Motor Company thirteen years. Then he became an independent dealer for Plymouth and DeSoto until 1939, Mr. J. Marvin Mangum coming in at that time as a part-, nei'. Now in wartime the Poe-Man gum Auto Service -on Franklin Street has its hands full, taking care of sick cars. In 1939 Mr. Poe married Louise Copeland of Chatham county. They have two children. Watts D. Poe, 20, has been in the Marine corps for two years, taking his training at Paris Island. He is now sergeant of the guard at Boygue Field. Elouise Poe Jones lives in New Haven., Conn. “ ' Mr. Poe is a member of the Junior Order and the Kiwanis club. He also serves. Chapel Hill by belonging to the fire depart ment. He is a Baptist. His main interest outside of his work is collecting . antiques, having ob tained many fine pieces in old places around North ’Carolina, in Tennessee above Asheville, and in New Haven, Conn. Bryan At Miami — Training Center . Carl W. Bryan, 25, chief store keeper, USN, Goldsboro, a veteran of several naval actions in the Pacific area, js attending the store keeper school at the Atlantic Fleet’s Naval Training Center, Mi ami, Fla. He entered the Navy in March, 1940. Hh participated in numer ous battles in the Southwest Pac ific area and on his Asiatic-Paci fic Theater ribbon, wears one sil ver and two bronze stars, symbolic of seven engagements in that area. He is also entitled to wear the Philippines Liberation ribbon with two stars and the Good Con ribbon. $ wife the former Floy Ez Meacham, and son, George rt, 18 months, live in Chapel $ _v ran is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich of Goldsboro.. ' To timber owners: the problem of producing enough crates and boxes to ship war supplies has mounted since V-E Pay. I New Officers Of Liras Chib Are totalled New officers were installed at last Thursday’s meeting of the Lions Club by past president John B. Midgett. Serving the club for the next year will be E. C.-Liner as president, Don S. Matheson, first vice-president, R. H. Claytor, second vice-president, John P. Ballard, tjjird vice-president, H. E. Singletary, secretary and F. E. Joyner, tail twister. W. W. Abemethy discussed the Boy Scout work undertaken by the Dions and expressed the need for a scout hut. Guest of the club was Miss Gladys Scott, winner of the English medal presented by the club in the spring for outstanding work among members of the graduating class in English at'the high school. SPEECH CLINIC Chapel Hill, July 4—A speech clinic designed to aid children from 6-15 who are suffering speech defects cansed by cleft pal ates, particularly those who have had an operation but still have slight defects is to be held here from July 9 to August 18. As the number of children who can be accepted for this sum mer's program is limited, appli cation should be made immediate ly to Miss Ethel Honeycutt, Exec utive secretary of the N..C. League for crippled children, Chapel Hill. Financial arrangements wiH be worked out for the children on individual basis. This clinic is in connection with the summer school at the univers ity and will be used as a labor atory school for teachers training classes «—si_____ , Residents of the county are ask ed to contribute any articles of clothing, books, games or working tools which might be used on the clinic. —. ... ;jT ' . CARBRORO i. /•.. BRIDAL SHOWER GIVEN MISS FLETA MAE EVAN8 As a courtesy to Miss Fleta Mae Evans, whose marriage to Sgt. Mack Poole will take place next Friday evening, July 6, at the Cajrboro Methodist church, Mrs. Winslow Williams gave a bridal shower at her home on Lindsay Street Friday evening. Games and contests were enjoyed, and the bride elect received many useful and very attractive gifts includ ing crystal and silver in her chos en pattern. The hostes, Mrs. Wil liams, assisted by Misses Evelyn Pickett and Hilda Cheek served ice cream and cake to 44 guests. PICNIC At HOGANS LAKE The young women’s class of the Carrboro Methodist church were guests at a party given by the young women’s class of the Bap tist church last Friday evening at an outing-swimming party, and picnic lunch. Both classes enter ed a contest to increase the enrol lment of their classes. They work ed on a percentage and the Bap tist class lost. So they furnished the picnic lunch and refreshments. BOYS IJ^ SERVICE Lt. Robert Shields is here on on furlough with his wife, the for mer Miss Melba Ray. S-Sgt Weaver Lanning of 111., has been spending a 10-day fur lough here with his brother, Mi chel Lanning and family. Sgt Lan ning has recently returned from overseas duty. Sgt. A. L. Ferrell, Jr„ has just come from over seas duty and is spending a 21-day furlough here with his mother and other relativ es. This as Sgt Ferrell’s first "fur lough since he went into the army 3 years ago. „ Sgt Dee Bowden and Mrs. Bow den came from New York last Friday to visit Sgt. Bowden’s sis ter, Mrs. A. L. Pendergrass, and other relatives in this section. Sgt. Bowden has just received an hon orable discharge from the army on points. Sgt. Jean Peele of the army was here on furlough last week with his niece, Mrs. Pete Davis. He came from his army base in Tex as. ...J Pfc. Sidney Barker was here last week for several days with his family. He came from New York. Cpl. Edward Gates of the army air corps is home on furlough with his brother Jack Gates and other relatives. Cpl. Gates was a prisoner of war in Germany for many tndnths. PERSONALS , * Miss Edith Parsons of Boomer is here for 10 days with her sister rand family, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lackey. Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Rackley of Richmond, Va., visited friends and relatives here for several days last week. They left for Richmond last Saturday. Mrs. Virginia McKnight Thom as and Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Russ of Charlotte are spending some time in the mountains of western North Carolina. - Mrs. Laura Sturdivant Mrs. Nell (Continued on last page) Hill Masons Honored On 25th Year ™ Chapel Hill—University Lodge No. 408 awarded on Monday night June 25, four certificates of hon or to members who have been in the order for twenty-five years. J. B. Linker and Winslow E. Williams were present to receive their certificates. To Ralph D. Williams, now a. resident of New York City, and to F. K. Elder, navy captain, stationed at Bain bridge, Md., were mailed their awards made in absentia. J. Edward AUen, past grand master of Masons and present potentate of Sudan Shrine, pre sented the certificates. Allen was introduced by J; M. Mangum, dis trict deputy grand master of the twenty-first district. Receives Discharge Pictured above is Joseph R. Whitfield, son of J. R. Whitfield, Route 2, Chapel Hill. Whitfield, ,a former Master Sergeant with the third army in Germany, received an honorable discharge from the army June 23 ahd is now working with his father on the farm. Whit field had accumulated 106 points in the army. Eno News Mrs. G. D. Clayton of Duke Power Company is in Watts hos pital where she is receiving treat ment for bronchial pneumonia. Mrs. Ernest Cox left Sunday for her home in South Carolina, after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Cox; Mrs. Johns Truesdale of South Carolina arrived last week to spend some time with her hus band’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Truesdale. '• Mrs. D. D. Hinson, Mrs. Mar tha Walters, Mrs* Claud Moody and daughters Frances visited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harris at Duke Power Company this week. Orange County Soldier Nabs Hitler’s Own Tailor -«r ' Of all the soldier* who boasted before sailing for Europe that they, personally, were going to shoot Hitler right between the eyes, 8gt. Roy Strowd of Chapel Hill came nearer making good his boast. Thomas Strowd, proud uncle of Sergeant Strowd, h& been relaying this tale which came to him in a letter from Germany. Sgt. Strowd was on guard duty one night when he not iced a fellow whose feline movements aroused his bus* picions. Strowd ordered the man to'haft »and proceeded to search him. The going over revealed a twenty-two pistol which the man under arrest had taken great' care to / conceal. When "the G. J> team arrived 8trowd learned that his captive had been Hit ler’s personal tailor for the past ten years- ... The parents of the man who "almost caught Hitler” are Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Strowd of Chapel Hill. Tkesdore Morgau At Cuf Bntaer Pfc. Theodore Morgan, son of Mrs. Nellie Shanklin of Chapel Hill is currently stationed at the redistribution station at Camp Butner, .where he will spend two weeks before reporting to his new assignment in the United States. Pfc. Morgan was recently re turned to the United States after having served 7 months in the European theatre of operations, where he served as a machine gunner. He holds the European theatre ribbon with two campaign stars. Returning veterans are given ev ery opportunity ta rest, relax, and regain their bearings while they are being processed. The three days of processing include a com plete physical examination, tests and interviews to determine their proper assignment, discussion groups at which each soldier is given information on the GI Bill of Eights, the progress of the war, post war problems as well as an opportunity to air any personal or impersonal gripes. The remainder of the veterans’ time may be spent in visiting sur rounding communities, play|ng golf, bowling, bicycling, or just sit ting in the Post Exchange, or the Snack Shack where coffee and doughnuts are free, talking to veterans from other theatres. Legion Junior Team Loses And Wins The Hillsboro American Legion Junior baseball team lost to the Greensboro Junior Legion team on the Greensboro field Wednesday of last week but-made up for the loss by winning over the Durham Junior Legion team on Friday. - L Lester, pitching for Greensboro, ! pitched a two-hit game and walk ed two men in the 18-2 game, while Johnson pitched a five hit game for Hillsboro. Johnson made a much better showing in the game against Durham by pitching a two-hit game against Craig’s five hit pitching for Durham, the score being 13-8. Playing for Hillsboro in both games were Brown, Gravett, King, Couch, Johnson, Austin, Gates, Godfrey and Collins. ~ '»■: a* A Sore Sign (fs Plenty Hot! sleeves and high collar*^ r long SS2& ieTS agHB and olive green* hr" S'lp'overs #ke bought from reecbes look ^ the aSoretZ St? ^ greater appearance of com? ,°Ven c)f,hwhite,trousers and 33t02S Ihe-teeth* cadefcfTn'lh dressed^o* school have bowoV te Pre'flight sun by discarding 5 to Southern es- They march® to^ blous* they’ve lost th»t fIasses' but Whoever could h nnlitary look. straps New Hope '^SuXmorS,?1'001 *•«>* gave an intZS 8 Howard Tapp PP1 «< <E J^Peace Co„ege, ‘R'„*fh^ tending ,hj Pio^2r c^.are at this week at Peace rn.f ference Mrs. Otwa ^face Co'lege. ghters Nancy Jo Ynd *** 3nd dau~ left Saturday Juneon*,^ Lynn h°SrsinSW^ ^idfa0r boro visited .^frenbne of Greens Blackw^d ann ISter’ Mrs‘ M. C. Freeland fast • £eST*'**** A j' her parents*1 is visiting a demonstration on insect e * °,r ssas-** « Blackwtwi H RSer Nunn- H. N. land, Louis VreelandPH John Free' I •nd Misses JeSaitaSS 2*PI> Blackwood and visitnZ^'- Mary Nunn, Betty Lou Tapp jgES* -Freeland, Jackie t,~P’ Jlmnue becca Tapp Tapp and Re Do i Beg^f. toplc «'<“ * "Howl Mr* and Mrs. John pn„ „ spending some time at toebla One Third Million Dollars Gleaned By Orange Farmers from Poultry Sales In 1944 Wounded 3rd Tune S-Sgt James C. Jones, husband of Mrs, Phyllis Ray Jones of Route 3, Hillsboro, was wounded for the 'third time in Germany, March 30, according to a telegram received by his wife from the wear department. Sgt. Jones’ pla iBon was assigned to take a Ger man town and to follow the tanks in. They had almost taken the town when one of the Jerries got Jones in his hip with a rifle bul let. He was carried to a battalion aid station, where he was placed in ah ambulance to be carried to a hospital. The ambulance was cap tured en route and Jones was a prisoner of the Germans two days before being liberated by allied forces. Since that time he has been convalescing in a French hospital. Arriving in France Sgt. Jones was attatched to the first army but was later transferred to the third army. He has four campaign ribbons for participation in the Normandy, Belgium, Rhineland and German invasions and wears the purple heart with twb leaf clusters, combat i the ETO ribbon. . Sgt. Jones has been overseas for one year. He expectS^to" be sfent to an army hospital in the United States sometime in the near fut ure. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. JoneSj also reside at Route 3, Hillsboro. Board Meets The board of education met "Monday At the court house. and discussed the findings of the board’s trip to all the schools on June .18. They also discussed the needs of the various schools and made decisions about repairs to be made in the White schools. How ever, no plans could be made for getting repair work done. A proposed school Budget Was presented to the superintendent for his approval after which the board appeared before the county commissioners to present the pro posed budget for the coming school year of 1945-’46. Cases Tried By Magistrate Magistrate C. H. Jones has had a number of cases to come up lately. Following are fourteen of Ihe cases he has tried in the past two weeks: George Massey, Camp Butner, speeding, $3.00 fine and cost; Archie Manning, Durham, drunken driving, bound over to August Superior Court, on $100 bond; Frank C. Riggs, Prospect Hill, hit and run driving, bound over to August superior court, $100 bond; Jerella Breeze, Cedar Grove, manufacturing whiskey, bound over to superior court in August, $100 bond; Henry Me Broom, Efland, operating vehicle without driver’s1-license, $3.00 fine and cost; Bushie Revis, Raleigh, no license plates, $5.00 and costs; James Henry Thompson, Cedar Grove, manufacturing whiskey, bound over* to August superior court, $100 bond; W. J. Wrenn, Hillsboro, public drunken ess, $5.00 fine and costs; John A. Nordon, West Hillsboro, non-support, waiv ed to superior court, $100 . bond; Ida Mae Ceprnal vs O’Kelly Po^ teat, bastardy settlement of $400 to be paid by Poteat; Frank Stutts, public drunkeness, 30 days on the roads; Pete Jones, drunk and dis orderly, 30 days on the roads; L. i C. Mitchell, public drunkeness, i $2.00 fine and costs. I According to County Agent, Don S. Matheson, the preliminary figures of the 1945 farm census indicate that Orange county poul try farmers sold $336,244.00 worth of poultry products in 1944, which Was nearly three times the am ount sold in 1930, the figure for that year being $131,947.00. The greater part of this income came from eggs, while broiler raising is increasing in poularity and several new dressing plants make it easier to market them. The commercial production of eggs has proven to be the most profit able poultry venture. It is inter esting to observe that the annual poultry income now in the county is six time the income from cotton. NEW MECHANIC AT RICHMOND MOTORS Lonnie Workman, of Mebane, a former employee of the Eno Chevrolet Company of Hillsboro, will become a member of the Rich mond Motor Co. personnel Mon day, July 9. Mr. Workman, who has been away from Hillsboro for about six years, is employed with the Melville Chevrolet Co. at Me bane. Workman is an A-l mech anj^ _r _ —•" Mrs. J. W. Richmond has re cently joined the staff also, and plans to work full time during the summer. Carr Mews WORD FROM SERVICEMEN CpI. Clarence H. McCulloch has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. L. McCulloch, that fie witl be home soon fof a 30-day furlough. CpI. McCulloch has served with the Thirteenth (Black Cat) Armored Division in Oermany and now has completed three years In the service. Robert Gate of the Ninety-Sev enth Infantry is home from Ger many on a 60 day furlough. At the end of his leave he will report to Fort Bragg for further training. Billy Richmond, U.S.N., is in a hospital gomewhere in the pacific is receiving treatment COOPER-COMPTON CLAN SETS REUNION DATE The executive committee of the Cooper-Compton Clan met at E. C. Compton’s home Sunday night to set a date for the clan reunion. The group decided on July 22. the fourth Sunday in this month, as the date and announced that the American Legion hut In Me bane would be the place. Mrs. Mur ray Furgerson of Mebane is chair man of the program committee. All friends and relatives of the Coop e-r-Compton Clan are invited to come and bring a light lunch. PERSONALS Mrs. . J. E. Dixon- spent—last week in Danville, Va., with’ her sister. -- ' - Mesdames Jule. Alien, Sherman Long, E. C. Compton and Isa belle Martin spent Tuesday after noon in Burlington. “ 1 Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Allen and family of Roxboro spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Car ver. Miss Pauline Rogers left for Daytona Beach. Fla., to visit her brother, Marvin, who is in Camp three. Mrs. Maynard Parker and Dau ghter Janet and Miss Salome Phelps spent Friday in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hawkins, of Columbia, S. C., were here for the funeral of Mrs. Eva Hawkins. . Mrs. Isabelle Martin of Phila delphia, left for Kinston Wednes day after a visit to Mrs. E. C. Compton. Mr. and Mrs.jQdie Wilson and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wil son and family, and Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson and family spent last week at the beach. '•? Mr. and Mrs- Joe Wilkerson and Jim Allen- attended the barbe- - cue supper at the American Leg ion hut in Mebane Friday night. ’Mrs. Billy Richmond and Miss Cornelia Lynch of Burlington are spending this week with their mother, Mrs. Hattie Lynch. Jack Whitted of Danville, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. Will Tate Sunday night. Miss Sudie Fulcher of Burling ton is spending this week with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. r. McAdams. Rev. and Mrs. E» C. Upchurch >f Wake Forest spent Saturday light with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Carver. . _ Nash is the first county sign ng up for free cotton classifica tion under the Smith-Doxey Act. Sinners are obtaining bonds, ac cording to Dan Holler of the Ex tension Service at State College. A countrywide shortage of food containers of all kinds is report ed by the War Food Administra lon; - - . '* ; ’ *' .
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