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mptnettr Pf«c»«'®n ■"* •** >ncv are three eeeentiala |ob prl"tl"»—Qet ell three ;t THE NEWS. THE NEWS of (Orange County Why net try a want ad in THE NEWS next week and ilta will come quick and ... plentiful. (One Week. Nearer Victory) 8 Pages This Week land Negro, Convicted f Manslaughter, Gets >-15 Years; Court Ends -field Watson, Efland negro went before Judge Henry L. iens. Jr., in Superior Court ay on a murder charge, ten a plea of guilty of man ner which the state accepted, as sentenced to not less than d not more than 15 years in tate prison. tson came into Hillsboro at one Saturday night in June ng for some policeman so he could give himself up for ing a man. The man was Wil Allison, another Efland negro, Watson had poured every I of his six shooter in him. had been having a “skin ” in the Efland woods when gument over winnings began [ge, Watson turned himself to policeman D. T. Roberts saved the county authorities ■ouble of tracking him down, urge (Pete) Jones of Hills was tried for drunk and dis ly conduct and malicious in to property. The court found guilty of these charges, im I a three year prison sen and then suspended, the sen for five years on condition Jones stay awa^ from his wife any premises where she is icating beverages during this year probation period, ink C. Riggs pled nolo conten to charges of hit and run ng. His prayer for judgment continued for six months on tion of good behavior, non tion of any law and further IStion that he not operate. a r travel vehicle for 12 months. E. Vaughn recovered $20 from Suitt in a civil suit. Suitt was i with costs of this action, nes Alston was found guilty sault and sentenced to 12 hs on the roads. uige xnuipe, juugeu guuiy 01 ble trespass, was sentenced days in the county jail. 1 pros with leave was granted le cases of John C. Nordon, upport and assault on a fe ; 0. W. Patrick, driving auto 2e while drunk; and Roland ;ood, drunk and disorderly uct.„ ' vorce suits were won by the, wing: Bruce Strowd, Arthur I ly, Nettie Neal Mock, M. Fran iawkins, J. D. Davis, colored, Elizabeth Williams, colored, e Grand Jury reported Carr 's and Chapel Hill’s jails, also ounty jail, to be in satisfactory ition. Reports of the Justice ie peace were examined and 3 to be correct. All bills pre id by the Solicitor were pas s'A' conference was held with [• Claytor, county superintend of schools, and repair work h has been done on county bis was approved. The Grand [ recommended that the county d of education employ a reg maintenance ‘ man to over school repair. They also re mended that adult drivers for °1 buses be secured when pos ffices of the sheriff, clerk of t and register of deeds were ed by committees of jurymen found to be administering in tisfactory manner. The clerk ourt asserted that all records Iministrators and guardians are S kept up to date. le complete docket for Aug was covered Monday. This Superior Court in Orange un ^ecember. cal Scoots Have ther-Son Banquet father-son banquet was held scout troop 38 of Hillsboro day night, August 13, at the inic Biulding. Hamburgers onion, sliced tomatoes, ou ters and chocolate milk fur ^ by Tom Brown, were served * Present. The food was pre d by the scouts with the aid »utmaster W. W. Abemethy. 'e banquet was originally fuled to be held at Hackberry ’’ °wned by Tom Brown, but o rain, the meeting was trans the lod*e building, sstmaster for the evening was N- Roberts. Other fathers . included Messers Brown Us-Tom Brown, S. W. Hughes, ^ A Walter Teer. Scoutmaster • Abemethy, assistant scout er John P. Ballard and troop ’ ^y H. E. Singletary were ;nt in addition to the follow 'Couts: Billy Teer, Fronz and Roberts, Sam Hughes, Jr., ny Richmond, James Minnis, R°b Strayhom. A member of orham troop ll/was_guest of yening. Taylor at meeting £ S- F. Nicks and Ernest Tay ttended a meeting of the State * prde* at High Point Tues. Merchants Say Barbecue Was Record Beater Chapel Hill, August, 22—The annual Merchants Asociatign bar becue, Coming as it did oq Thursday after V-J Day, was turned into a gala victory celebration where over 400 people made merry. - This was the largest of the gath erings ever to convene for an As sociation barbecue. Besides mer chants, clerks and all store per sonnel with their families, Carr boro and Chapel Hill-town officials were present, also officials of -the University V-12 and Pre-Flight schools. They all packed into the Tin Can at the Elementary school and enjoyed their fill of barbecue and soft drinks. M. M. Timmons served as chair man of the committee which made plans for this occa^jpn. He was assisted by Lee Skinner, Brady McLinden, Brack 'Creel, Bernice Fitch, and Clarence Oakley. Roy Barhom was chairman of - ticket sales. E. Carrington Smith, President, reports that a dinner is being plan ned for the Association in the -near future at the Carolina Inn. No definite date has been set, but it will be as soon as a nationally known merchandise expert arrives in this area and can be secured as speaker for the dinner. COMMUNITY MEETING AT WEST HILLSBORO An important Community meet ing is to be held tomorrow (Fri day) night at eight o'clock in the West Hillsboro school auditorium, biscussion of the community’s health problem will be the teatf 'topic of this meeting. Free health movies will be shown, and re presentatives of the Orange-Per son-Chatham county District Health Department will be pres ent. Everyone in the community is urged to attend. Wolf 1»Creeasboro Sergeant Thomas Gordon Smith, Army Air Corps, pictured above son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Smith of Hillsboro reported to his new station Thursday after complet ion of fourteen days delay enroute. During his leave, Sgt. Smith spent three days with his brother, Lt. (jg) and Mrs. C. Dupree Smith presently stationed at Daytona Beach, Florida. During the latter part of his leave, Sgt Smi|h visi ted friends at Roanoke Rap ids, Goldsboro and Raleigh. Sgk Smith enlisted in the AAF in November of 1942. He'reported to overseas replacement depot in Greensboro, August '9. A graduate of the Class'of ’39, Hillsboro high school, Sgt. Smith was formerly a member of the underwriters as sociation, Durharh District of-the Imperial'-Life Insurance-Company. New Hope Mr and Mrs. Hubert Bivins and Irs. Jordon Bivins visited at Clyde logans last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hogan are pending this week at Grimsland. Kenneth Strayhorn spent the weekend at home. . Alfred Kirkland was at home Wednesday night and Thursday. Miss Florence Root met with ,e teachers of the Daily Vacation, lible School at New Hope. Wf^ esday afternoon. Cbisses wiUbe in at 9 and close ?t n;3£ CfcW n from other churches are invited J Wilson Womble is at home on a urlough. 500 Workers Dazed, Jobless As Munitions Plant Closes News that the Navy Department had canceled Ss contracts with the National Munitions Corporation at CarrborO 'greeted workers Friday morning as they returned to the plant after i two-day victory holiday. Instead of greeting this news of job-folding with wild cele bration as war workers in other sections of the country were report ed doing, they seemed a bit dazed. The cancellation had come so sud denly that no one was prepared. Friday night the 4-12 shift knuckled down, deternkiaed to tie up loose ends and leave the plant in order. Saturday mooting there were nearly 500 people faced with the problem of what w do with them selves. Only a skeleton force of some 25 maintenance men were kept. Civil service workers left. Naval officers and the enlisted sailors and WAVES are still at .their office, only waiting until orders’>come for them to move on. —- - -—,- —^ f— -— The greatest part of#the Munitions workers came from Orange county. Men came from their farms, women left off their house keeping, filling station operators, store clerks, mill workers—all kinds of people from all kinds of jobs came to Carrboro After the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor. _ . - What’s to become of them now? Monday; over 200 of them filed for unemployment compensation benefij at the Chapel Hill office of the War Manpower Commission. Louis Berini, interviewer-in-charge of the Commission, came to Hillsboro Tuesday expecting the Mayor’s office to bulge with ex-Munitions workers as had the Chapel Hill Town Hall the day before. But the tide had ebbed, and less than 50 applied for benefits. t So some of the workers evidently have jobs in mind or have gone right into work on their farms. These would not bother to file for unemployment -compensation. Others who have filed may draw this daim for the 16 week maximum that is permitted if they can’t find jobs or a job can not be found for them. Many of the women are going back to housekeeping and say that it will be a relief to get away from outside work. There are enough jobs in Chapel Hill and Camp Butner’s hospital alone to take care of the men, according to a report from the Commission. These jobs may not pay as much as the Munitions Corporation paid; no doubt, there are few that will; but there are jobs for the men, and soon the vaca tioning workmen will be hard at work again. Campus Cafe Charged With Price Violation; Fined $200 Chapel Hill, August 20—Lam ros Andrews, proprietor of the Campus Cafe, was fined $200 last Monday afternoon by the Price Panel Board for violations of ceil ing prices on food. J Fireworks flew in this special session of the board when mem bers of the Tar Hell staff and other University students appeared as witnesses to sustantiate previous, general complaints brought against the Campus Cafe the week before. They cited specific instances in which they had been overcharg ed on beer and sandwiches. Among those giving evidence was the Heel’s youhg editor, Bob Morrison, who aroused quite a stir the first week in July by publishing a stu dent petition for better food and lower prices throughout Chapel Hill. Lambros Andrews answered the charges wfit.lt a statement that violations might have occurred, but only as a result of negligence or carelessness, not by intentional action..v - Questions and answers were shot back and forth, and the district OPA member from Raleigh who was present put in his two cents’ worth. Finally, Andrews was found guilty of violations as charged and was subjected to the maximum penalty which could be imposed by the local group. ... __ The $200 fine becomes effective in thirty days provided that no in jured customer brings suit for triple damages. As usual, the case can be reviewed by the district board in Raleigh. Hurdle Mills The Methodist Youth Fellow ship of Walnut Grove church met with James Webster on Saturday night. Foy Terry led the program with several members participat ing. After the program games were played and refreshments served to the following: Birdie, Cora Lee, Anne, George and, fcouise Wagon er, Blanche, Foy a*d~ Bernard Ter ry, Bra, Ellen antfe 44m -Waater Laws, Lacy Hughes, Wagne Tiliey, Virginia Jordan, Roy Parker, Bil ly Porterfield, James Webster, Mrs. A. H. Hawkins and Mrs. L. H. Til ley. Charles E. Berry has returned home from Merrial Inlet, S. C., where he participated in the deer hunts. S. J. Parker has returned home after receiving treatment at Watts hospital in Durham. Miss Kathleen McBrown of Dur ham spent the week end with tier parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mc Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Summer announce the birth-of a daughter qji August 16. .. Mrs. Luther Tilled and Law rence are visiting relatives at Hemp. Melvin Parker, who has been receiving treatment at Watts hos pital, has returned home. Mea Aai Wmkh la The Service ######»»##^###»»#»»»»»»»»»#»»»# Staff Sergeant William L Eng els, associate professor of Zoolo gy at the University of North Caro lina previous to his induction in to the Army, will be returning home soon. After serving over seas for 32 months with tfie 19th ' Weather Squadron, S-Sgt. Engels is one of a group of men wf»o have been declared surplus and is on his way back to the United states, by plane, for reassignment.. After a 21 day furlough, S-Sgt. Engels will be sent to an Afr Corps Distribution Center, probably Sey mour Johnson Field. Froif’k there he will be sent to some weather installation in the states. Staff Sergeant Claude J. Phelps of Hillsboro landed at a Miami airport bn August'7 after a flight home from Italy. He had been overseas for ’20 months with the 88th Division of the 349th Infant ry. In less than 24 hours after reaching Miami he left for Camp Blanding, Fla., by rail. From there he will go to a recreation cen ter nearer home. S-Sgt. Phelps wears the Com bat Infantryman’s Badge, the Mountaineer Service Placque, 3 battle stars and the Good Conduct Medal. — Matthew W. Atwater, S 2-c finished his boot training at the Bainbridge, Md., Navy Training Center in June and was stationed there until the sixth Of August. He was transferred then to the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauder dale, Fla. * His home is near Chapel Hill. Private first class, Roland P. McClamroch, Jr., son of Mrs. Clara McClamroch of 514 Senlac Road, Chapel Hill, has been assigned to the 75th Infantry Division which is redeploying American soldiers from Europe. Landing in France in December of last year, Pvt, McClamroch spent 98 of his 126 days on the continent in contact with the ene my. His division took nearly 21,000 prisoners. McClamroch wears bat tle stars for the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central Euvorf campaigns. • /' West Hill News Mrs. Estelle Stansbury has re turned to her home after undergo ing a major operation at Maria Parham hospital at Henderson. She was accompanied home by her mother, Mrs. Luther Clapton and sister, Miss Louise Clapton. Mrs. Leroy Williams and son, Bennie and Miss Mary Smith 'of Kinston spent the jpast week with their aunt, Mrs. Hattie Crabtree; Foy Crabtree has returned home after having undergone a major operation at Watts hospital. Miss Louise Clapton will return to her home in Henderson after spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. R. J. Stansbury. IN DURHAM LAST WEEK Mrs. Annie Jones, son Clinton, and daughter Clarice, were in Dur ham last Friday. County War Manpower Commission Guides Well Veteran And Worker; Is Still Able To Place All Unemployed In the two months that a branch office of the War Manpower Commission has been located in this county, 225 veterans have contacted the office and an av erage of 150 to 200 civilians a week have asked for advice in securing jobs. In the last week, 250 National Munitions workers from the Carrboro plant have fil ed for unemployment compensa tion. There are three agencies hous ed under this collective title of War - Manpower Commission—the U. S. Employment Service, Un employed Compensation Commis sion and Veterans Administration. In the Chapel Hill Town Hall is the main office. Louis Berini, in terviewer-in-charge, brings the Commission’s services to Hills boro every Tuesday where he can be found in the« mayor’s office from 9:00 o’clock in the morning until around 14:00 o’clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Mary Alice Smith, interviewer is in Chapel Hill on Tuesday from 8:30 until 5:30. Ev ery other day in the week, both she and Berini are in Chapel Hill at these same hours with the ex ception of Saturday, when the of fice closes at 12:30-. Goal of the War Manpower Com mission is to serve satisfactori ly employer, employee, the vet eran and all unemployed, with special emphasis right now on the /e{eran. Berini, working in the War Manpower Commission office at Camp Butner before coming to this county, and Mrs. Smith, an interviewer in the state office at Raleigh for two years, are both seeped in techniques that will help the county office reach its goal. VETERAN GET8 ATTENTION Let’s take a close-up of the of fice in operation and see just what happens when a veterarf comes in for advice. 1 In larger offices, the veteran would be referred to the veteran’s representative, a man from the ranks of veterans, who explains just what services the discharged servicemen can expect. The Chap el Hill office has no veteran on its staff, but Berini knows the G. I. Bill from one end to the other after his experience at Camp But ner and serves as counselor to the veterans in absence of a vet eran’s representative. So a veteran who is available for work comes fn and files for readjustment allowance. To qualify for this payment while waiting for a job, the veteran must have an honorable discharge, must have served at least 90 days, and must have been in the service since 1940. To draw the maximum amount of $20 a week for 52 weeks, he must have served for ten and a half months in the armed forces. There are two vet erans in Chapel Hill and six in Hillsboro who are now drawing this allowance while waiting for a job, A specific tool employed to help veterans find work which their [ ’ •• . - . . - . duties in the service have prepared them is a catalogue called “Spec ial Aids for Placing Military Per - takes all service jobs and lists sonnel in Civilian Jobs'.” This book their equivalent in civilian work Coupled with this is another book, “Oral Trade Questions”, with which guidance the interviewer can determine how much about a certain task a man knows. After a veteran has filed for readjust ment allowance, he must take any suitable job which the Cohimission finds for him. With these tools at their disposal and their long ex perience in successful placing, Ber ini and Mrs. Smith hardly ever miss in finding this “suitable” job. JOB IS PICKED WITH PER80N’8 ABILITIES IN MIND Now, say a civilian comes to the office desiring either to change the job he holds or .to find work after a tempory period of un employment. His chances of be ing placed in a position he likes are excellent. Besides the “Oral Trade Questions”, there is another guide in the Commission office, “Dictionary of Occupational Tit les”, which gives the specific dut ies for any task and can tell the civilian just what' any potential job has to offer. The employer is likely to be pleased with persons sent him, too, since the trade questions eliminate candidates who have no proper qualifications for (Continued on page .8) * Hillsboro Boys Learn Of RAF From Youthful British Flyer 3 Boards Say "No Soap” To School Bids Chapel Hill, Aug. 21—Three in terested boards—the Chapel Hill school board, the county com missioners and the county board of education—put thumbs down last Wednesday on bids made Friday, August 10, for construc tion of the new high school build ing, — Lowest bid made on the.two j units came to $144,769, and only $110,000 had been set aside for this project. When the county com missioners made available this amount of $110,000, they follow ed closely the architect’s esti mate which had been a very lib eral one, taking into consideration both the high cost of labor and scarcity of materials. The bids seemed’ too high on this basis. Al so, the boards decided that with war ended and contracts cancel led, the bids of August 10 were already out of date. As jjopn , as Jt. seems feasible, bids will De reopened. Even with a delay of from two to four months, construction should be finished and the building ready for use by the fail of 1946. Rejec tion of these bids by the three boards will mean a short delay all right, but even if immediate building had begun, the two units could not have been completed before next May. 75 Low bids as they stood on Aug ust 10 were: $116,360 for build ing alone of unit A and unit B, bid made by the Atlantic Building Co., of Charlottes $4,319 for wir ing of two units, General Elec tric Co., of Durham; $6,990 for plumbing in two units, J. R, Bag well Co., $11,900 for heating, Beaman and Rowe; and-architect’s fee to Atwood and Week’s, Inc., of Durham, $5,000, making a total of 144,769. One unit could have been built with money appropriated by the commissioneirs^but it wa,s agreed by all members of the three boards that construction of unit A (which will contain classrooms) at ex orbitant cost and a consequent loss of unit B (where agriculture shop, showers and dressing rooms will be housed) would be foolish when, in all probability, both un its San be built within a few months for the price just quoted on one. . ,0 EIGHTY SEVEN YEARS . CELEBRATED BY MRS. JULIA BROWN Vs" Mrs. Julia Brown celebrated fyer eighty-seventh birthday at her home Monday. A number of friends called during the afternoon to wish Mrs. JBrown many happy re turns and some to bring gifts. Mrs. Brown is the mother of 11 children, twenty-nine grandchild ren, and twenty-five great grand children. Making her home in Hillsboro for the last thirty-five years, Mrs. Brown Is the oldest member of the Hillsboro Methodist church. She joined the church as a child but moved her membership here after making it her permanent resi dence. Ma Reeves and Mrs. Brown are thought to be the two oldest women living in this section. BURGLAR TAKES LOOT FROM f RED GATES HOME The home of Fred Cates, one of Leroy Hall’s houses on Route 2, Hillsboroj was enterd sometime* Tuesday while everyone at the ,Cates home, was away, sunt of clothes, a hat, a 12. guage single barrel shotgun and $4.50 in cash were stolen./As yet no due to the identity of the marauder has been discovered. The smiling lad pictured left is Donald A. Jones, a 17-year old Britsher who is enlisted in the Commonwealth’s Air Corpe and who has been spreading a lot of British plane lore to two Hills boro boys by correspondence. Robin Gilmore and J. G. Good win, airplane enthusiasts from 'way back were looking through an is- • sue of Model Airplane News in the Sundry Drug Store about two months ago when they came across Donald’s name. Both Robin and J. G. decided to write to him and see what they could find out about the way British planes are con structed, and anything else v about flying in Great Britain that Donald might tell them. . - — The first letter that was writ ten to iOonald* oh June *18, brought an answer with maps and pictures enclosed, A later package from across the Atlantic included stamps magazines, more pictures and a pair of R.A.F wings. This cor respondence shows every indication of doing a lot to build up Anglo American good will. Robin and J. G. are even more interested in flying now than they were in June. Robin, who is 15 and will be in the tenth grade at the Hilsboro high school this fall, says he wants to be an aeronautical engineer. J. G. is entering the University of North Carolina in November and wants to take fly ing there as soon as civilian les sons begin. Eflaad REVIVAL AT CHE8TNUT RlDGE Revival will begin at Chestnut Ridge Methodist Church Sunday August 26, with services at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. There will be a picnic at the noon hour. Begin ning Monday night services will be held each night at 8:15. . ' Rev. E. C. Maness of the Brooks dale Charge of Roxboro, will preach. All are welcome to these services. •BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR MISS ANNE BRADLEY Miss Anne Bradley was honored ** * birthday pSWrgivan to T»er at home by her mother, Mrs. John Bradley. When the guests arrived, grape juice was served and games were played. Then they went to the dining room and favors were given for all. Ice cream and cake were served to Jan "4Wall, Judy Porterfield, Ann Efland, Lois Liner, Priscilla Lloyd, Helen Graham, Nancy Lou Meas amer, Louise Graham, Peggy Hur lopker and Peggy Caruthers. VIRGINIA LINER AND EUGENE CLARK FETED Miss Virginia Liner and Eugene Cla.rk of Chapel Hill were honor ed Saturday night by a birthday party, given to them at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Liner. Many friends were present and ice cream .cake and soft drinks were served MEN IN SERVICE -_..r..'. ' Pvt,. Samuel Taylor is spending his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Taylor. Before his return to the states recently, he served in Germany. Pvt. Frank Efland is spending his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Efland, Sr. He has just completed his basic training at Florida. Pvt. Sam Arnold and his sister, Mrs. Inez Smith of Thomasville visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nic hols and family last week. Pvt. Woodrow Berry of Camp Lejeune, spent the week end with his wife and children. They have gone back with him to spend a few aays. Dewey Couch S 2-c spent his'- “ leave with his wife, Mrs. Lilly Couch and children. He has just completed his boot training at Camp Peary. Va., and reported back there. PERSONALS Miss Nell McAdams is spending some time with her grandmother near Cedar Grove. Mrs. A. B. Lloyd and daughters spent last Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Lloyd and fam ily. Miss Annie Catherine Measamer w returned home from Watts hos pital last week. She had a part of the bone of her right arm re moved. Miss Jane Hogan of Chapel Hill and Larry Miller of Mebane were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols this week. ... J Mrs. John Bradley and Ann have returned from spending a week at Carolina Beach. Mrs. » Bradley has just completed a ses sion at summer school at., the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chap el Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Parris Murray and Richard have returned home after spending a week in Salisbury with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mayes. - - Miss Pauline Rogers of Cedar Grove and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mor gan of Raleigh visited friends here Suhday. Mrs. Morgan is the former (Continued* oo page t)
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