Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, July *6, 1945
(One Week Nearer Victory)
Iinson Makes Clear
udget, Tax System
o Hill Rotarians
lapel Hill, July 26—Town
pger T. E. Hinson went into
last night as he mapped for
rians just where the city tax
■’s money is to be spent next
and by what method the
late is determined,
ntative tax rate for Chapel
{residents has been set. at $1.62
}l00 worth of property, this
[■e subject to change at the
meeting of the city council,
[year’s-rate was $1.58 on $100.
on showed how this year’s tot
Kould be broken down so that
(will go for general operations,
I for schools and $.42 for debt
Ice.
his, said Hinson, is the way the
[rate was determined. First,
kdget was drawn up for each
j service under general oper
as—this indudes recorder’s
police department, charity,
hydrants, sewer, sanitation,
th, fire department, general
Lnses, legislative section, ad
Istrative section and contingen
-and the total needed to per
these services next year es
kted at $66,153.50
len, before dividing property
Ration into this to find the in
dual share, revenue other than
derived from -ad volorum
|>perty) taxes was subtracted,
er sources of town income are
and forfeitures, court costs,
tative assessments, rights and
fileges, pole taxes and intan
taxes. Net from these will
around $29,745. Subtract the
745 from the $66,153.50, di
i by four million dollars (prop
valuation in Chapel Hill),
there is the $.92 rate which
be spent on general oper
as.
e same procedure was used
lecide how much each property
ler must pay to meet debt ser
expenses. Total debt service
rements were estimated at
Revenue outside of prop
taxes to assist in paying this
total abuot $10,775, leaving
96 to be raised by ad vol
tax.
[.571
separate budget was sub
bed by the school and $.28 de
nined as the amount to be paid
[property owners to cover this
icular~ service,
sides' Hinson’s explanation of
system, R. W. Madry made
Report on the district Rotary
etings at Durham, Ahoskie and
Bern which he and-Rotary
iident Victor Huggins attended
week.
_for next week’s Rot
program is a talk, “My Life
he Acquaintance With Presi
Truman’’, by Colonel Paul
nderson.
icero Jones #,
asBosy Week
Willie Ashley, West Hillsboro,
s had two run-ins lately with
cero Jones at the Justice of the
ace court for public drunken
and disorderly conduct. The
st time, Ashley got off with a
fine and costs, but the last time,
ngs did not fare so well. The of
ider found himself sentenced
30 days on the road, with the
itence supended only if he be
ves himself for 90 days. Plus
s, he paid a $2 fine and costs.
Another West Hillsboro man,
orge (Pete) Jones, has been
ving his troubles with the court,
th charges of public drunken
s, disorderly conduct, injury to
opei'ty, larceny and public nu
ance, also a peace warrant, ag
nst him, Pete Jones has been con
ned to the county jail and will
vait there a Superior Court
taring on August 20.
Felix Andrew Shepard, of Dur
wn, was trying to solve, his own
rivate meat problem when he was
•ught in the act. Now he awaits
ial in Superior Court under $200
j>nd with the charge of larceny
’ chickens against him.
CaVl Owens, and Milton Spi
!y, both of West Hillsboro, paid
53 fine each and costs to Mag
nate Jones, Owens for disorder
conduct and Spivey for public
unkeness.
Archie Balden Blake, Hillsboro,
a been bound over to Superior
*urt under a $100 bond for driv
£ a car while drunk.
Jesse Pratt, Hillsboro, paid a
fh\e and costs for public drun
ness
Another out of county traffic
viator was fined $5 and costs
* week for a 50 mile per hour
This was M. O. Stout of Greeni
Raffoer Speaker At
College CM Fried
Chickea Sapper
The Orange county N. C. State
College club held a regular meet
ing at the Hillsboro Masonic
Lodge last Wednesday night. It
Was a ladies nftght affair and
everybody enjoyed themselves
at the fried chicken supper. The
affair was to be a chicken barbe
i cue at Bivin’s lake, but due to the
I inclemency of the weather the
chickens were forced to the fry
ing pan.
Professor Robert. H. Ruffner,
dairy production chief at the col
lege was guest speaker. He made
a very interesting and timely
speech on North Carolina public
and private institutions, and em
phasized in his talk that there is
than the “Old North State”. H.
P. .$Pbp" Taylor, Alumni Secre
tary for the North Carolina State
College Alumni Association came
along with Prof. Ruffner and also
made a short talk.
Officers for the new year were
elected and they are as follows:
Marion Allison, president; G. A.
Munn, vice-president; H. E. Single
tary, secretary and treasurer; J.
P. Ballard, reporter. William R.
Tolar of Ceda/ Grove is the out
going president. —’
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Laborers Needed
Construction of the Farmeifs
Co-operative Dairy. Inc., in Chap
el Hill is at a standstill because of
labor shortage. An urgent appeal
was made to the county U5.
Employment Service office Monday
for 15 unskilled laborers who
could begin work immediately.
The wages for this job are $.55
per hour with a 49 hour week.
Transportation from spot points
is offered by the contractor. It is
expected that construction will
take at least five months, but
since the need is pressing, men
will be employed on a five-day
basis if they wish. Any worker not
employed in essential industry or
any man who has not worked in
an essential industry in the last
60 days may apply at the USES
office in the Chapel Hill Town
Hall.
New Hope
.John Freeland and Kenneth
Strayhom, who have been at home
on a 15-day furlough, have gone
to a camp near Jacksonville.
Oneil Sharpe will report in Ral
eigh, July 8, for reassignment in
the navy. „ '
Alfred Kirkland left Sunday,
-July 15, for Greenville Air Base
after spending a weekend at home.
JOHN P. BALLARD
John P. Ballard, Farm Securi
ty Administration supervisor in
Orange county, announced this
week that he is transferring from
work with that organization to
soil conservation.
Ballard’s application for trans
fer has been approved and will
go into effect as soon as the nec
essary procedure of finishing his
work with Farm Security can be
accomplished. He expects to make
the change within the next few
days. He will work in Orange
county with the Hillsboro office
of the Neuse River Soil Conserva
tion District for a period of time
yet» undetermined. He win work
with H. E. Singletary and C. V.
FirS- has yet been named to
replace Bs*H**d £SA ,**?*",
ition. j
This Week's
WOMAN OF
ORANCE
MISS WOODWARD BYARS
Miss Woodward Byars was bora
in McMinnville, Tenn., just when,
she will not say. After testing liv
ing and working conditions in se
ven southern towns, she came to
Orange county in 1939 where she
has taken roots and built a four
room home. Her name is known
all over the county and with it
automatically is added county
Home Demonstration Agent.
Miss Byars, with her four bro
now live outside this state,
grew up on a farm. She insists
that she still maintains a rural
existence in her home outside
Chapel Hill where she has noth
ing more with which to keep house
than any country dweller* Besides
the many projects she supervises,
clubs she belongs to and office
duties to which she must attend,
she does her cooking, laundry,
sewing and gardening. Sewing, she
says, is her pet hobby now that
war measures keep her from trav
eling. Before 1939 she drove all
over the U.SJfc.. and parts af Cana
da and Mexico, taking the un
beaten track and indulging her
interest in people.
A summary of her school
ing and past experience is quite
impressive. She received a B.S. in
home economics at the Universi
ty of Tennessee in 1928. From
there she went to the University
of Chicago for graduate study in
the summer of 1930, then com
pleted work for her master’s de
gree at Iowa State College in 1932.
In the summer of 1938 she went
back to the Uniersity of Tennessee
for more graduate work. Her jobs
have included dietitian at St
Mary’s School, Sewannee, Tenn.;
high school teacher of home eco
nomics, GordonvUle, Tenn.; diet
itian at Pikeville College, Pike
vifte, Ky.; instructor of foods and
nutrition, Union University, Jack
son, Tenn.; head of home econom
ics-department, Tennessee^ College,
Murfreesboro, Tenhi; vocational
home economics teacher, Harlan,
Ky.; critic teacher in vocational
home economics, .Madison College,
Harrisonburg, Va.; and now county
home agent for’Orange County.
Since being in Orange county,
Miss Byars has served the Chap
el* HiU Curb Market in an advis
ory capacity, has seen enrollment
pick up-in 13 girls’ 4-H clubs and
met each club once a monfh during
the school year, has met monthly
with 17 home demonstration clubs
and has organised 200 neighbor
hood leaders for emergency war
work. ,
As if all this weren’t enough to
fill Miss Byars’ time, there are
still other things demanding of her
attention. She is president of the
Orange-Durham County Home
Economics Association, belongs to
the Chapel Hill Book Club, the
American Home Economic assoc
iation, North Carolina State Home
Demonstration Association, and the
American Association of Univer
sity Women.
Negro Fans News
BY M. C. BURT
Mr. James T. Jeffries, Rt. 2,
Cedar Grove, of the Carr neigh
borhood is conducting wilt resist
ant tobacco demonstration on a twe
acre lot on the south side of the
Carr Negro School. The tobac
co being used in the demonstrat
ion is the Oxford 26 wilt resistant
variety. A few of the heads , have
already been selected and enclos
ed inapaper bags by Mr. James T.
Jeffries assisted by Mr. J. W. Jef
fries, assistant Negro state agent
and M. C. Burt, Negro county ag
ent. •
The two acres will be certified
in a very few days by the field
inspectors from the certified seed
Association.
Mr. Jeffries plans to grow en.
ough certified seed to supply the
needs of his neighbors who are
having trouble with tobacco wilt.
Mr. Jeffries states that the last
timfe he grew tobacca on this, plot
Town Health
Subject For
A survey committee composed
of students in the school of 'pub
lic health at the University are
making a thorough study of Hills
boro’s history, geography, popu
lation, agriculture, industries,
schools, civic and welfare groups,
health, sanitation and recreation.
The purpose of this survey is to
promote public hgjplth in general
and to help educate people in the
service public health offers. Aft
er completion' of this project in
August, information can be ob
tained from' the .compilations at
the district health department of
fice in Chapel~Bk.. .._4__ .
North Carolina is one of the
leading states in pubuic health
education. Hillsboro was selected
for the survey because of its ad
vancement in this field, and it is
hoped that other localities will
profit from the information gath
ered from the records.
Mies Helen ntfSon, of Astoria,
Ore., is in charge of the group
working here. Shi is now living
with the public health nurse, Miss
Evelyn Burke, and expects to
remain in Hillsboro until after the
survey is comple^fl. Working with
Miss Wilson are Miss Mary Blan
che Armstrong, .Sharron, Miss.;
Mrs. Kathleen Kimble, Reedsville,
Va.; Mrs. Catalina Maymi, Caguas
Puerto Rico; Miss Annette Suther
land, Baldwyn, Miss; and Miss
Eloise Young, Ds#i» West, S. C.
Miss Elizabeth, Lovell), health
educator in the district health de
partment office at Chapel Hill,
says that although this survey is
made as part of the class work of
the surveyors, s$e will attempt
to put the inforndhtion into prac
tical use by using It as a guide for
future service to Hillsboro.
Brunswick Stew At
New Sharon Church
The Women's Society of Christ
ian Service of New Sharon church
will sponsor a Brunswick Supper
at St. Mary’s school house on Sat
urday evening* August 4, begin
ning about five a’0ock and lasting
as long as the foods holds out. As
planned at present, the menu will
include Brunswick stew, chick
en stew, home-made ice cream,
cakes, coffee and soft drinks, and
perhaps ^iome made pies. The
public is invited to attend.
Intense
Jane Cafe Of Carrboro, And
Ormand Allison Of Caldwell
Queen And King Of Health
Dickersea-Dickey
Emate Hnm with
“BIoedy Bucket” .
S-SGT. Joe Hurley Dickey and j
Pfc. Paul L. Dickerson are en
route borne from the European
Theater of Operations with the
veteran 28th Infantry, “Bloody
Bucket” Division, which in eight
months saw vicious combat action
from Normandy’s hedgerows to
the heart of the Reich.
The 28th quit its occupational
duties in Germany July 5th and
moved to Camp Pittsburg, one of
Assembly Area Command’s 17 re
deployment camp near Reims.
Entering action. July 30, 1944, at
St. Lo, the “Bloody Bucket” men
battled across Normandy through
Paris, proceeded east through Bel
gium and Luxembourg, and smash
ed into the Siegfried Line Sep
tember 11th the first troops to
enter Germany in strength.
After its November fight in
Hurtgen Forest, the 28th moved
to the “Quiet” Luxembourg sec
tor. On December 16, it' caught the
full force of Von Rundstedt’s Ar
dennes offensive. Quickly recup
erating, the 28th moved south to
help liberate Colmar in Alsace and
drive to the Rhine. Within a month
it was again gt the Rhine near
Coblentz.
Sgt. Dickey is the husband of
the former Miss Betty Wrenn and
Private Dickerson is the husband
of the former Miss Pauline Ril
ey, both of Route 2, Hillsboro.
Each holds the combat Infan
tryman’s Badge, Good Conduct
Medal, ETO ribbon and two cam
paign stars.
They are due to be home in the
next two weeks.
3LAUGHTERER8 REGISTER
Generally, farmers who oper
ate class three slaughtering es
tablishments do not slaughter live
stock during the summer months.
In order to permit the registra
tion of farmers who will begin
their slaughtering operations aft
er the summer months, the date
before which such slaughterers
must register is extended to Octo
ber 14.
White Cross Downs Silk Hope IO-4
| Merchants
: Plan Now For
i Hot Barbecue
I Chtpel Hill, July 24—Date for
the Merchants Association annual
barbecue has been set for Thurs
' day night, August 16. Tickets are
now being printed which will self
' for $1.23 per person and will be
j available soon. Roy- Barham is
chairman of the sales and should
’ be contacted when purchase is
.desired.
5 Every store manager or owner,
’ his entire personnel and members
of their families are invited to at
tend. The picnic is being given as
> near to cost as can be figured.
! Last year, over 252 attended and
it is hoped that even more will
! come to this year’s event.
! E. Carrington Smith, president
’ of the association, has taken great
: pains to unravel knots in the qom
' plicated process necessary for se
: curing points and ingredients,
: and it was through his efforts that
a definite date could at last be
set and detailed plans launched.
A committee has now been ap
pointed to prepare for the occas
ion, with M. M. Timmons to serve
as chairman. Lee Skinner and
Brady McLinden will take care of
tjie food end. Brack Creel will
see about soft drinks, and Bernice
Fitch and Clarence Oakley will
have charge of preparing tables.
Place of the barbecue will be
i the Grammar School playgrounds.
The fun will get underway fit 7
o’clock. »
EIGHT MEN DRAFTED
Listed below are the names of
eight white registrants who were
forwarded to Fort Bragg for in
duction into the armed forces
Wednesday of this week.
William T. Overaker, Marshall
E. Duncan, Jesse T. Howard, Dew
E. Wrenn, Harrison P. Martin,
James E. Mabe, Thomas R. Poole,
and Tyson H. Riley.
he lost at least $600 worth of his
crop, which was destroyed by to
bacco wilt. A check on the two
check rows in the field show a
loss of, 50 per cent of the tobacco
which was not wilt resistant. -
—A baseball team has been organ
ized at White Cross and placed
in the Chatham county League.
Other teams, all in Chatham coun
ty, are Pittsboro, Moncure, Silk
Hope, Olive Chapel (Fearrington),
and Brown’s Chapel. White Cross
manager is Mr. C. S. Durham.
J. L. Norwood is the business
manager.
After getting off to a slow start
and dropping three of the first
four league .games, White Cross
players hit their stride last Sat
urday and downed Silk Hope 10
to 4. Bernard Lloyd pitching star
for Chapel Hill High. School this
past spring, limited Silk Hope to
6 scattered hits, and had the sit
uation well in hand all the way
through. Zollie Andrews copped
both fielding and batting honors.
His home run with two on gave
White Cross a safe lead early in
the game, and his running catch
in deep center field stopped a
threatened Silk Hope Rally.
The line up for White Cross
was Riley, If; Butler, If; Durham,
lb; Norwood, 2b; Andrews, cf;
Ward, c; R. Lloyd, rf; B. Lloyd, p;
Snipes, ss; Cheek, 3b. >
The Silk Hope line up was
Peary, cf; J. Lindley, lf;F. Lindley,
ss; Moon, rf; H. Fox, 3b; Johnson,
lb; J. Fox, 2b; W. Campbell, c;
V. Campbell, p; Phillips, p.
^ Efland
Mrs. Nell Wall and Mrs. Marie
Freeland are spending this week
at Carolina Beach.
Mrs. Claude Murray has re
turned home after spending some
time in Creswell with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Davenport.
Carl McAdams, Troy Lloyd, and
Everette Lloyd spent several days
this week at Carolina Beach.
Miss Jan Wall is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Chester Taylor, in
Greensboro this week.
Miss Peggy Hurlocker of Albe
marle is spending the summer here
with her grandmother, Mrs. Brown
and other relatives.
Mrs. Sam Boland of near Cedar
Grove visited relatives here this
week. ::”r' ~ .
^ Bill Hogan of Chapel Hill spent
this week with Ben Lloyd.
B. D. Sawyer Hillsboro Attor- <
ney, preached at the Efland Methr
odist church last Sunday in the
absence of the Rev. E. H. Meas- 1
amer,.who is onrj^catton.
Wrenn Wins
Science Award
’ W. J. Wrenn, Jr., of Route 2,
Chapel Hill, is the proud winner
of one of the treasured - awards
offered annually by tho Gilbert
Hall of Science for “important
research in chemistry, microscopy
or electricity.” The award carries
a prize of $10 in cash.
Sponsored by A. C. Gilbert, the
inventor of Erector and founder
of the Gilbert Hall of Science, these
awards are the highest honors of
fered to boy scientists and attract
entries from boys all over the
country. Participation is limited
■ to boys not over 17 years of age,
and only 11 awards are made
each year.
This Orange lad is 13 years old
and will be in the eighth grade
next year. He. saw an advertise
ment about .the contest in a news
paper, wrote to the science in
stitute in New Haven, Qonn,, for
particulars and decided he’d see
whst could be done along the
chemical line. After buying books
and studying chemistry all he could
he began to work on an idea.
In his own words, “ I finally
thought up some experiments and
tested them, finding them to be
O. K. I mailed my experiments in,
and after the contest closed I re
ceived one day in the mail a check
for $10. I took the money after
I had the check cashed and put it
in war stamps.
Meaorial Service
PFC. DANIEL C. JONES
Memorial service will be, held
Sunday at 4:00 p.m. for Pfc. Dan-,
iel C. Jones, husband of the former.
Miss Elsie Workman, Hillsboro,
Route 2. Services will be conducted
by the Rev. S. F. Nicks, pastor
of the Hillsboro Methodist church
and the Rev. E. D. Young, pastor
of the West Hillsboro Baptist
church, and will be held at the
Gospel Baptist Tabernacle, two
miles south of Hillsboro on the
Orange Grove Road.
Special music will be render
ed for the service by the Burton
sisters.
Pfc. Jones was killed in action
on Leyte Island, December 5, 1944,
according to a telegram received by
his family.
In addition to his wife he is
survived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A Jones; four brothers.
Pvt Allen, somewhere in Ger
many, Pvt. Odell, on Luzon, S-Sgt.
James, now home on furlough
after overseas duty, and W. I.
Jones of Durham; three sisters,
Mrs. Grace Goldbefg, Vineland,
N. J., Mrs. Faydene Newton, Arch
dale, and Miss Louise Jones of
Hillsboro.
Pvt Jone& entered the service
February 9, 1941, and went over
seas in December of 1943.
High point of the annual 4-H
picnic at Hogan’s Lake last Sat- ,
urday night was crowning of the
county Queen and King of Health.
Dr. O. Daved Garvin, head of the
Orange county health department
picked Jane Cate of Carrboro,
and Ormand Allisbh, of Caldwell
to rule. Runners up in this contest
were Beth Lloyd from Chapel Hill
.4-H. club and Ben Lloyd of the
Efland club. *
Twelve pairs of prospective
queens and kings, a pair picked
from each of the 12 county clubs
before the picnic, were entered in
the contest, in making his pres
entation to the winning pair. Dr.
Garvin stressed the fact that poor
posture and bad teeth were the
two most common defects among
contestants. He said that these
two defects should be called to
the attention of all boys and girls
in the various clubs.
Another important feature of
the picnic Saturday was a dress
revue contest. Nancy Lloyd, Hills
boro, Julia Hutchins, Cajrrboro,
Arlene Thompson, Hillsboro mod
eled dresses that they had made.
AH dresses shown cost under $2
and were made by the girls who
modeled them. Miss Helen Sorrell,
new home economics teacher of
Byars, county home demonstration
agent, served as judges in this con
test and could not reach a decis
ion Saturday. After careful inspec
tion of the dresses, they awarded
$10, donated by John W. Umstead,
Jr., to Nancy Lloyd, Right up at
the top-were Ann Eflahd’s agd
Doris Taylor’s creation!. ‘
Council officers for next year
were elected Saturday. Jane Cate
will serve as president, Nancy
Lloyd as vice-president and Bob
by Nichols, of Efland, as secretary.
There were about 200 4-H mem
bers present at Hogan’s lake for
these festivities which began in the
morning with swimming, followed
by a picnic lunch, and ended with
the contests and election of of
ficers. Lt. Comdr. Waller of the
University Pre-Flight school dir
ected recreational activities.
Men And Wian
la The Service
Staff Sergeant Earl E. Walker
was recently decorated with the
air medal. It was an award made
in .recognition of courageous ser
vice to his combat organization,
his fellow American airmen, his
country and his home.
He was cited for meritorious
achievement while participating in
Serial flights in the Southwest Pa- “
cific Area from January 3, 1945 to
April 25, 1945._ _- " ■ •
He took part in sustained oper
ational .flight missions during
which hostile contact was probable
and expected. These flights in
cluded bombing missions against
enemy installations, shipping and
supply "bases, and aided ponsider
ably in the recent successes in this
theater. ' , ■ ~
His commanding officer, Gen.
George C, Kenney, writes Earl’s’
sister, Mrs. G. C. Kennedy, that he
is proud to have her brother in
his command. Walker is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Walker of
Route 1, Durham.
• • •
Army ground and service forces
redistribution station. Camp But
ner—Sgt. George L. Allison, son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Allison,
West Hillsboro, and husband of
Mrs. George L. Allison, Hillsboro, «
is currently stationed at the Re
distribution Station, where he will
spend two weeks before report
ing to his new assignment in the
United States.
Seargeant Allison was return
ed recently to the United States
after having served 9 months in
the European theater of operat
ions, where he served as a squad
leader. He holds the purple heart,
bronze star, and the combat infan
tryman’s badge and the ETO rib
bon.
• • •
Sgt. Crawford James Blake, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall
Blake, Chapel Hill, has reported
to the Overseas Replacement De
pot, Greensboro, for assignment to
an Air Force installation in the
United States. Sgt. Blake recently
returned to this country aften
having spent thirty-six months in
the South West Pacific Theater of
Operations.
• • e
Miami Beach, Fla., July 25—
Captain Alfred K. Patterson. 24, of
Otepel HtU, has arrived at Army
Forces Redistribution Station No.
2 in Miami Beach for reassign
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