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8 Pages This Week 1 COUNTY SER VICEMEN DISCARDED WORM RECENTLY; ONLY ONE NAVY N RELEASED UNDER POINT SYSTEM ** \ . ** - - % re iS a steady stream of dis sefvicemen flowing back grange. Thirty soldiers and bjior filed discharge papers |the register of deeds office the month of August and st week of September. All «e received their discharges [the point system. Two coun ters filed medical discharges [gust, making the total of . servicemen-to-civilians for st five weeks come to 33. nas H. McKee, T-4, of Rt. 2, .nont, accumulated enough for,a discharge last month (serving, four years and I'D s in the army surgical divi de saw action in the Euro md Middle Eastern Theatre, the Asiatic Pacific Theatre. .cott Cates, master sergeant Hillsboro, served three years even pionths in~“the army, jng up enough points for a (rge after two stretches in \MET. |n B. POole, Carrboro ser returned to civilian life af |ree years and nine months army, part of that time in lAMET. aid C. Duncan, T-4, of Rt. 2, |l Hill, had four years and months of duty behind him he got the welcome dis news. He had foreign duty APT. B. Sparrow, Jr., of Chapel ras a master sergeant in the [at the time of his discharge. Id been in four years and 10 Irey §hambley of Rt. 2, Meb eftthearrhy aftertfire^yeSrs bur months with the rank of |nt. es E. Andrews, a private, first [of Chapel Hill, has been re under the point system af years and eight months in rmy. He was in the India area overseas. [old M. Sykes, a Cedar Grove (sergeant, is now a civilian after four years and five [is of walking the army chalk ie was on foreign duty in fene F. Brown front7 Chapel eft behind his staff sergeant last month and is now out ay khaki. He had been in | years and 10 months. The ET was where he saw foreign Iiij r. Cartee, another Chapel (sergeant, had been in the five years and two months he was discharged. He also in the EAMET. rles B. Nichols, T-5 in army [has been, discharged after years and six months of fce. He comes from Rt. 2, jemont. Dmas Merritt, after four years five months in the army, has tjuished his rank of T-5 for pivilian life of his home in el Hill' P- AUison, Rt. 1, Hurdle was in the army four years hree months. His rank at the [of discharge was T-4. He saw in the APT. Nph C. Critenton of Carrboro [been in the army six years eight days when he was dis ced. The EAMET was his base Fy for much of that time, [lliam R. Bateman, a Hills | Private, put in four years and (Continued on page 7) Rural-Rotary Friendship Soldered mu.— ine .rural ac quaintance committee of the Ro tary club outdid itself in prepar ing for a big get-together of Ro tary members and Orange, church community guests in the Grange Methodist church near here last Wednesday night. Ladies of the Christian Service Society in the church cooperated with the com mittee in preparing for the big spread. There were 111 plates served. 32 of them” to Orange community guests. Mrs. Curtis Hogap was chairman -of the - food committee. Fried chicken, ham, pies and cakes were heapedl on a bounti ful table, and so much was left over that members of the Rotary club purchased many of the good things to take home for later U3e. Jim Phipps headed the rural ac quaintance committee and was as sisted by Dr. George Chrisman and Lloyd Roof. Dr. Chrisman greet ed everyone at the door with iden tification buttons bearing the Ro tary seal and typed name of the person. Pouring rain did not «&mpen the spirit of this gathering where gobd fellowship filled the church hut. Rotary President Vic Huggins pre sented Mayor R. W. Madry who gave a one-minute word of wel come. Rev. V. E. Queen, pastor of the church, responded to Madry’s toast and gave the invocation. Prior to picnic supper, Mr. and Mrs. Vic Huggins entertained Ro tary .members and their wives with a reception at the Carolina Inn. Between 50 and 60 guests were present at this affair. Some of the guests from the Orange church community were: Rev V, E. Queen, C. P. Freeland, Clarence Blackwood, P. K. Hogan, Charles Hogan, Lonnie Hogan, John Madry, J. A. Madry, Frank Madry, W. C. Freeland, Henry Birch, Lacy Birch, Curtis Hogan, Burrass Hogan, J. R. Whitfield, Glenn 'Whitfield, Clyde Hogan, Eu gene Blackwood, Fred Potts, Glenn Hogan, Norwood Hpgan, Henry Hogan, Hubert Hogan, Jack Hogan, A. J. Freeland, William Potts, Claude Perkins, and O. D. Frank lin; Mesdames Curtis Hogan, Bur rass Hogan, Clyde Hogan, Frank Madry, Clarence Blackwood, Jim mie Madry and John Madry; Miss es Mary Hogan, Mildred Hutchins, Ethel Hogan, Fay Hogan, Julia Hutchins and Eugenia Madry. Three Injured In Wreck On Durham limul Three young lieutenants from ORD in Greensboro were seriously injured and two cars were com pletely demolished Friday after noon on the Durham highway just beyond the Hillsboro power plant. Lt. Q. E. Le Van of Reading, Pa., Lt. F. C. Weaver of Davids ville, Pa., driver and owner of the car, and W. E. Brooks of Wilming ton were in a ’41 Dodge sedan going wgst on highway 70, Hurley Greene, Colored man from Efland was driving a ’42 Chevrolet, go ing east. The two cars hit head on. In the pouring rain, no skid marks were left and, according to State Highway Patrolman T. P. Mofler, it has been impossible to determine who was at fault in the accident. All four of the men involved were taken in a Durham ambu lance to Duke hospital. The three lieutenants were moved from there to the Camp Butner hospital where they are being treated for serious injuries. Hurley Greene re mained at Duke overnight and was released the next day.’1* There were eight four-fifth of whiskey in the car of the soldiers, but from all reports, none of the men had been drinking. Four of the bottles were broken, but the necks with seals still intact were there as evidence that done ot, the bottles had been opened. The lieu tenants had been to Durham to buy refreshments for a party scheduled to be held in Greens boro that night. RICE REUNION CANCELLED From Mrs. S. N. Rowland of Mebane comes word that the Rice reunion, scheduled for this com ing Sunday, has been cancelled. jtetiiizer p*nkhead Association Backs cad And Fiannagan Bills Dre government interference 1 farmers and farm community ness men is threatened by the Panion Hill - Bankhead and fnagan bills now before Con sional committees, according “emergency bulletin” just by the National Fertilizer Ration, Washington, D. C. Pe bills propose government fruction of plants to supply fiizer to 75 farmers in each of agricultural counties, to the ^vantage of their neighbors and ‘be taxpayer’s expense, the etin maintains. • • - —1-—— also points out that 50,000' |uizer agents and dealers, mpst vhom are small businessmen, be unable to meet this gov nent competition 'with private rPrise. Moreover, the exis Pe of 1,100 fertilizer manufac Im8 • p.lants employing 20,000 |We is jeopardized by these bills, 1 buletin asserts. psociation spokesmen state that I 1Zer Production capacity has J ys exceeded demand and that |e Sovemment-built plants and P subsidized government oper f accordingly be a waste [Public money They point out, Under private enterprise fer ■ Priced lower than almost other commodity the farmer according to U. S. Depart -of Agriculture figures. Legion Masses Sum Of $1779 Chapel Hill—Gross income to the American Legion from the John J Kirkwood Shows, staged on the Airport road last week, was S1799.86. Expenses will run be tween $350-$450, which will leaVe the Legion a profit of something around $1,400. The exact net take has not been* counted. _‘ A 20 per cent share of money spent at the gate, on rides and °n shows plus $10 each for 50 con cessions went into the making of this gross income. After county taxes water, lights, installation of a power line, hired help and clean-up bills are paid, he re maining sum will go into the Le gion’s rehabilitation fund.; . ■ 8 Paul H. Robertson, chairman of tickets and finance, has expressed his appreciation for the tine co operation given by the di Keren Legion members who were called on to assist at the fair. „ The Woman's Auxiliary is , pre paring to stage an exhibition and Se at the .ttgWg* “f in the near future^rs Fred Va ^ lev chairman of the Auxiliary, heading plans for thi^vent. Mrs. Jack Ingle Is NEWS Editor ■F Mrs. Jack I note of Ramseur has joined the NEWS staff as Editor, to suibceecT Harry Large, who has taken responsibility as manager. Mrs. Ingle, a graduate of the University of North Caro lina, was pinch hitting for the former 'editor while attending summer school and moved to Hillsboro two weeks ago today to accept a full-time position as editor and reporter. Mrs. Ingle’s husband is at Saipan, stationed with the Navy. He has been overseas for more than a year. Jurors Drawn For Oct Civil Court Jury list for civil court begin ning Oct. 1, as drawn last week by the county commissioners, is as follows: Chapel Hill—H. R. Richie, W. M. Lackey, J. G. Hogan, Earl H. Hartsell, Harfy Hartness, Thayes Lloyd, I. F. Hardee, J. R. Wright, E. C, Smith, J-. P. Crabtree, Al bert.Vernon Powell and P. Ei John son.- •• . Cedar Grove—R Et ^Wright, J. D. Woods, Banks Wilson, H. J. Wrenn, W. L. Kennedy, G. F. Lin er, T. J. Wilkerson, J. I. • Trimm, J. Paul Long, A. L- Wilkins and J. C Monk. —: — Hillsboro—Walter G. Wrenn, W (Continued on page ?) OLD BELT MARKETS TO BEGIN SALES TUESDAY Harwood Is At Opening Of Caldwell Caldwell’s problems have al most been solved. On the eve of school’s opening last week, no principal had been secured and there were two other vacancies in the teaching staff. Now a princi pal and one teacher have been found, and there is a substitute to fill in until the remaining teacher is on hand. George N. Harwood, teacher in the Aycock school at Cedar Grove last year and elected to instruct in English at Hillsboro this year, was switched at the last minute to principal’s positiop at Caldwell. Harry Breeze, a former Hillsboro English teacher who left at the be ginning of the war to work in the National Munitions plant in Cart boro, is returning to take Har wood’s place. Mrs. B. E. Beasley of Hillsboro has Ailed the vacancy in the Cald well elementary school, and Rev. J. S. Cook, minister of the Pres byterian church in .Cedar Grove, is substituting in the high school until a permanent teacher can be found. Caldwell principals played tum over-fruit-basket all last winter. Miss Elizabeth Murray, who start ed out the year as principal, had to leave because of illness toward the first of the term. She was fol lowed in rapid succession by Mrs. Beatrice Hossley, t>. G. Chadwick and Mrs: Nelle Cooke. Caldwell this- year was. reported running smooth as cleck-wqrk on opening day and Tuesday. Sevea Orange Girls WiU Enter WCUNC Enrolled at the Woman’s Collage in Greensboro for the 1945-46 ses sion are seven new Students from Orange county--A number of oth ers will return-as fqjgper students^ Admitted to the freshman class are the following: Frances Ellinger, Hilda Sharkey and Venitah San ders, of Chapel Hill, and Jean Gu lick and Shirley Joyner, of Hills boro. Two other Orange county girls, Doris Ward and Ruby Fair cloth, both of Chapel Hill, will enter the one-year commercial de partment. Opening date for the 54th ses sion of the college is Sept. 17, when freshmen and transfer stu dents will arrive for an orienta tion program that begins the fol lowing morning. One-year com mercial students will arrive on the 19th with registration for them and freshmen set for Sept. 20. Juniors and seniors will have con sultations with their advisers on Sept. 20, and sophomores on the 21st. Both groups will complete registration Sept. 22. Navy Sings ’Happy Birthday’ Gives Discharge As Present Public Reminded Of Overseas DeadHue On Chris baas Gifts It’s time to be thinking of mailing Christmas packages overseas. Army postal officers have re minded the public that even though hostilities have ceased on all fronts there are still rpany thousands of American troops who will spend their Christmas in foreign lands and these troops will be looking forward, to packages frcgn home. The regulations governing the mailing of overseas Christmas gifts to Army personnal remain the same as last year—they must be posted between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15—one package a week may. be rent without a request by -any one person to thcTsame serviceman— the usual restrictions as to the size and weight of Christmas par cels applies—not more than fifteen inches long or more than 36 inches in length and girth combined and maximum weight five pounds. Most stores have a stock of boxes approved by the War Department for overseas gift shipments. The Army asks that gifts be se lected which a soldier is unlikely to find in the particular area in which he Is situated and to re member that intoxicants, inflamm able materials (such as matches and lighter fluids) and perishable matter are unacceptable for mail ing -Families and friends of men stat ioned in the China-Burma Theat et, India Theater, the Middle Cast; or on the Pacific Islands, are urged to avail themselves of the early mailing date to insure receipt of Christmas presents by Christmas Day. It is suggested that parcels routed to these distant bases be mailed as nearly as possible to Sept. 15 and nonater than Oct. 1. Above all, don’t' forget the im portance of the correct addreife: rank, name, serial number, branch of- service and organization, A. P. O, number and post office which will handle the irttatt. ff-ttie ffctblic follows instructions given by the Army, it’s a pretty sure bet that the Christmas boxes will go through on time and reach the service men for whom designated Local postmasters can furnish any clarifying details relative to overseas Christmas mailing. CHURCH-GOING TO BE SPURRED BY THE NEW* R. C, Jones, representative of the ■ E. E. Keister Company of Strasburg, Vs., Is visiting the different merchants of Orange county, Issuing them an invita tion td take advantage of a se ries of church advertisements, promoting the church and church going. Mr. Jones is working un der the authorization of THE NEWS and- we know you wilt want to see; his material'and discqip it with him. Icelandic JML tr S Contributor Must Soon Forget English To Write For Paper In Homeland Gisli J. Asthorsson, who has jeen contributing editorials, fea :ures and a column, “Americans ire Vitlausir” to the NEWS fop :he past two months, not to men tion,.news stories all during last year, graduated last Wednesday from the University of North Caro lina. He left immediately for a trip to Carolina Beach, New York, California, Washington state, Chi cago, Washington, D. C., and ba$k to New York, all of which sight seeing he expects to finish in time to be back in his native Iceland by Christmas. You se him pictured as he look ed on registration day in January of i He had iust finished his first look at the Carolina cam pus and was having a bard time understanding the difficulties in volved in in American college registration. .Gisli has changed quite a bit since the picture was taken. For one thing, he’s gained 20 pounds and says he’s still gain ing. He has lost that frightened look. Americans don’t scare him anymore! they just amuse and amaze him by turns. - — ... - If„,yO!A've wondered what “Vit lausif” means in the two months that his “Americans are Vitlausir” has been running, it is the Ice landic word for strange or crazy. But if he thinks Americans are crazy, what do Americans think aboftt Icelanders? Take a look at the forwarding address Gisli leaves at the University. Gisli J. Asthor sson, Sola, Vestmannaeyjar, Ice land. “Sola” is the name of Gisli’s father’s house. On Vestmannaey jar island, houses are named in stead of numbered by streets. That’s plain crazy, and any Am erican will hasten to tell him so. Another crazy thing that Gisli and2 other Icelanders are apt to do is swim in outdoor pools in Iceland’s summer season. Summer there would correspond to our very early spring, ahd yet those foolish Icelanders' go prancing ar ound with bnly skimpy bathing suits between themselves and the elements. . *5 Gisli plans to work on a paper when he gets home. He’ll write in Icelandic, of course. He says that it is going to be more than a little hard for him, at first, to get into the swing of Icelandic news style which is slow and gen eral, quite opposed to the American system of crowding all the facts possible into the first sentence. He has a paper in mind where he thinks he’ll work. It’s MORGUN BIAIID, which translated means “The Morning Paper”. This pap er is published in the capital, Rey kjavik. Entering Carolina as a fresh man in 1943, Gisli has been in Chapel Hill continuously since and has, completed four years of work in two and one half. He hasn’t seen his father or mother or his two brothers and two sisters in all this time. It would have been lone some for him at first if he had not come to know a group of four Icelandic students at Duke. Two of them were from Reykjavik where Gisli had gone to prepara tory college. “What in the world dp you do in Iceland for amusement?” is a question UNC classmates are al ways asking Gisli. He shrugs hill shoulders and replies, “Oh we work hard in the winter during fishing season, but in the summer we have more dances than you have here, we,go to American movies and (you guessed it), we swim." WILLIAM H. CLARK Carrboro man first In county to gat discharge on point system. Birthday presents come and birthday presents go, and moseare soon forgotten. But the present William H. Clark civilian, of Carr boro and Durham received on his twenty-fifth birthday, Aug. 28, from Uncle Sam is one that he will never forget. William was William H. Clark, gunner’s mate, second class, in the navy on Aug. 28. He was sweating out navy life at Bainbridge, Md., and was in any kind of mood but one of celebration when news of his discharge under the navy's point system came through. The discharge di^ not jo into effect until Sept.* 1, but knowing That The discharge was coming was enough to make William’s twenty-fifth birthday the happiest of his life. The first Orange resident to be discharged from the navy because of point accumulation, William has had no difficulty in accepting the change to civilian life. He has se cured a job in Durham, and he and his wife can now be found at 523 Warren street in that city. Eight after basic training was <*ver?.3yilltam was assigned to a; P.C.Ijsub-chaser to laMdlubbers)? an& he served on the same , ship through North and South Atlan tic waters, the Caribbean Sea, the South Pacific and the North China Sea. His total time in the navy was three years and seven months. He wore the good conduct medal and two battle stars on his blouse before he became a civilian again. William’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Clark at ICarrboro, have six sons who have been in the service. Kenneth Clark, now in California, received a medical dis charge, from the Marine Corps some time ago. There are four oif the Clark boys still in service— Coporal Ollie Clark, Walter Clark, Jr., pharmacist’s mate, first class, and Marion Clark, storekeeper, second class, all of whom are now in the South -Pacific; and Eugene Clark, 17-year-old- son, who en listed recently in the .’Merchant Marines. , . ■ Stewardess Wings Presented Recently To Manrine Latta Miss Maurine W. Latta, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Latta of Hillsboro, is now a full-fledged stewardess with American Air lines, Inc. She recently received her wings, coveted symbol of air line supremacy, at a graduation luncheon held at the Hotel Roose velt in New York City, after com pleting a two months course of training at LaGuardia Field. She has been assigned a permanent base in Memphis and will become part of the crew of the Flagship airplanes as they fly out of that city to all parts of the country. To prepare her to play a vital role in the air world of today and tomorrow as a Iflight stewardess with the nation’^ largest domestic airline, Miss Latta spent her school : period studying radio, theory of ■ flight, meteorology, air geography, 1 routes and schedules and many ; other subjects with which a stew- 1 ardess must be familiar. She made several observational- flights on scheduled trips To different cities served by„ American Airlines out of LaGuardia Field. , Miss Latta is a graduate of Hills boro High School and Queens Col lege- where she took an A.B. in English and Social Science and was a member of the Kappa £>elta ^Sorority. She is fond of bridge and riding. After leaving school, she taught for a time at Sayre School 1 in Lexington, Ky. She left to be- < come part of American Airlines, ' because as she says, “I was in- 1 terested in a type of work which 1 would allow me to travel widely, 1 meet people and allow me to be 1 of service to others.” 5- fi Mefeaae Prepares Far Gaai Seasaa EXPECTS TO HANOL^ 10.000 i)00 POUNDS '* --- Old belt tobacco markets will open this coming Tuesday, Sep tember 18. Reports from the Me bane Tobacco Board of Trade say that warehouses in that town are expecting to sell 10,000.000 pounds of tobacco this year, topping last year’s sales by 2,000,000 pounds. Middle belt markets opened Tues day of this week, reporting prices slightly better than last year. Mebane, old belt market near est Orange, has three warehouses with a combined floor space of 200.000 feet? Mebane was estab lished as a tobacco market in 1909 and has been in continuous oper ation since that time. Always a progressive market, it has grown \ rapidly through the years, _ __ W. Y. Malone, president of the Tobacco Board of Trade in Me-_ bane and Joseph H. Warren, sec retary of the board, say that there 7^ will be a sale a day in every ware house. Government graders will be on the market, and the ser vices of two good auctioneers have been enlisted. The auctioneers are Harvey Chandler, a native of Ala mance county and Harry Nunn of Tabor city. -1 ' T~— Walter Dillard, Joe Warren, Joe Dillard and Burch Keck are with Planters warehouse; Ros coe Coleman and Oland Coleman are the owners of the Farmers house; and Joe Woods and Carlyle Farabow are the * proprietors at Piedmont. All three are modern clean warehouses. Themiddle and old belts are ’ ex x pec ted to yield 397,900,000 lbs. this^ year. Their yields are figured together since both produce type 11 weed. ' ORANGE TOBACCO IS ALMOST ALL CURED Total tobacco acreage in this county is around 4,000. Word from the county agent’s office says that there is .very little left to do on tobacco farms before the whole crop will be ready for the mar ket. Unlike tAnoco in the east ern belts, this tj^unty’s crop has rains. It is estimated that an aver age of 1,000 pounds to the acre has been produced this year. About two-thirds of the tobacco produced in the county comes from Cedar Grove and Little River ■* townships and the section around White Cross. There is a little bit scattered all over the county. The Cedar Grove and Carr to bacco, back in the wraper days, was noted for quality. Average acreage then was 500 pounds. To bacco was cut with a knife and the whole stalk " was hung up to cure. Now, with the cigarette in dustry demanding more quantity than quality, emphasis has been shifted to getting more yield from the acre. Acreage control and bet ter fertilizer have helped stimu late the . shift. ..tobacco is topped higher now and leaf by leaf. As high as 1500 pounds to the acre is produced on some , farms, MIDDLE BELT -QREMINGR. " SHOW SLIGHT VARIATION IN GRADE PRICES Middle belt opening sales gav£ an unofficial average of 43 to 45 cents a pound. Much of the offer ings showed little indications of thorough grading. This has been the case in eastern and border belts also. Tobacconists said that was the result of the 44 1-2 cent ceiling and good demand. Fair to common leaf has been bringing only a few cents less than best quality. A report from the North Caro lina and Unj^ed States Depart ments of Agriculture says that although most grades were steady , on /opening day, a few of the low ;r qualities increased $1.00. Low orange primings dropped $3.00 and some of the better grades were off M OO. Average prices by grade * showed little change when com oared with opening day last year. The report also states that qual ty was not as good as on last % rear’s opening sales. There were considerably more low and com non qualities this year with a corresponding decrease in fair to choice grades. TJhere was also i substantial amount of damaged ind high order tobacco. Main of ferings were common to fair quali ty leaf, low to fine lugs, and low to 'air cutters. iGT- ELLIS CALLS WIFE fROM ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Sgt. Nat D. Ellis called his wife Tom the Aleutian Islands Sunday light, Aug. 26. dt was the first ime she had heard his voice for nany months. He says he is gat ing along floe and wants to get lome. Sergeant dis has been sU ioned in the Aleutians for more ftan a year. ' ' •*.
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