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LneM. precision and of* v are three essentials prlntino—all three at THE NEWS. THE NEWS of Orange County Why not try a want ad In THE NEWS next weak and results will coma quick and planttful. No. 32 Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, September 20, 1945 6 Pages This Week Iran Girls Find Red Cross ludes Both Work And Fun CONSTANCE FAGAN .' Barbara fagan — fed above are Miaeee Constance and Barbara Fagan, daugh of Mrs. R. Fagan of Hillsboro, who are both serving with American Reel Cross overseas. Constance is shown as she s-a doughnut from the first batch turned out by one of the mammoth doughnut machines donated by the Doughnut Cor ion of America to the Red Cross doughnut kitchen in Mar *. France. Barbara is riding in a rickshaw in Kumning, China, eems to be proving by her happy smile that Red Cross life *as is not aM hard knocks for the busy girls.__ Red Cross life is not all nut handing-out, nor is it hng in rickshaws, as either ance or Barbara Fagan of oro could .tell anyone. Both vork hard at their jobs, and iubt they’ve seen hardships hey would never have run t home.- But Barbara writes ■nother that the different she’s been, the people that ls met and the unusual sights seen have more than made r any of the primitive liv 'nditions with which she has 0 contend at one time or an ‘stance has been to many 'ln the European theatre, and ira has moved around in the C ,region- Constance reached in April of 1944, spent uowing winter at .Red Cross carters in Reims, then moved ^eipsig, Germany, and flnal und up at Marseilles. She is )e°me on the Gripsholm in hara left America in August spent the winter in Cal : ^t Part of the summer mf> in a houseboat, and new over “the hump” to v?®’ China, one of the old 'hine , — cities which was vis , * ago by Marco Polo. She ierexpect *<> get home for or eight months, and hopes to see Shang she leaves China. *0 girls have both run into Hillsboro since they’ve ison F^fas’ Constance saw Sgt. Gates at ManeiUes not that ifnc* ^C- Ray wrote his at n i ^ come across Bar £ ^tta. girls seem to be enjoying their work tremendously. It isn t only coffee and doughnuts that the girls give the servicemen, al though a hot drink has meant a lot to men just out of combat areas: Little unexpected comforts, so welcomed to the men, include cigarettes, toothbrushes, soap, pho nographs, games and magazines. Just seeing the merry American girls has helped many ^ war-weary soldier get a new lease on life. At Marseilles, where Constance is stationed, is the port of em barkation for Pacific-bound troops. The Red Cross girls there live in camps located "on-semi-arid land squarely in the path of the mistral winds. In spite of this, the girls have carried on their jobs loyally and have even enjoyed perform ing their duties. Barbara is always on the look out for new talent for some show that is being prepared for the boys’ entertainment. She wrote her mother of finding a ten-year old boy on the streets of Kumning one day who was an expert knife thrower. Go-getter Barbara wast ed no time enlisting this young sensation for the feature attrac tion in the next Red Cross show. Constance graduated from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina with'a degree in history and French. she ha<* attended St. Mary’s m Raleigh as an undergraduate. Barbara holds a degree from Duke in econormcs. Both girls have done graduate work toward their master s de gree Constance at the University of North Carolina and Barbara at New York University. Garden-Ciiy, Long Island, was the home of the girls until they moved south at the beginning of their college day . Pvt. Woods Crashes To Tragic End Pvt. Stephen Woods, son of Mrs. Elva Lloyd Woods of the White Cross community, was mortally injured last Thursday night when his car crashed into a tree on the Durham highway about three miles out of Chapel Hill. He died in the Camp Butner hospital at f 8:20 Friday morning. . Thomas Clark of Chapel Hill and Harold Clark from near"New Hope Creek had been riding with Pvt. Woods early Thursday eve ning, but were not in the car at the time of the accident. Pvt. Woods had just taken Harold Clark to his home and was alone when his car crashed into the tree. Both the Clark boys had tried to persuade Woods that he was in no.condition, to. drive. While they were riding with him, an attack bringing on temporary blindness had seized the home-on-furlough Veteran, probably caused by the injury he had suffered in his chest while overseas. Pvt. Woods was only 19 years old, but had already seen action in Germany, France, Normandy and Austria, After being wound ed, he spent four months in a hospital in France. He was home on furlough at the time the acci dent occurred. Knowh to his friends as “Steamboat,” he was a familiar figure to all Carrboro and Chapel Hill residents. The young soldier is survived by his mother and one brother, Corbette Woods, both of White Cross. He is the grandson of the late Lueco Lloyd. Aunts and. un cles in the county include Mrs. Nannie Andrews and Mrs. Mahler Butner of Carrboro, Mrs. Bob Madden, Chapel Hill, Ralph Lloyd, Lester Lloyd and Miss Blanche Lloyd of White Cross, Mrs. Emma Lloyd, Caiyander, and Mrs. Ola Lloyd, University Station. Funeral services were held at the Bethel Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. A military escort accompanied the casket and taps were blown as the flag was lowered. A wreath with the in scription “Our Buddy” was sent by his friends in the service. ‘Atti^PpaHbe&rers were Don ald Stanford, Roy Lloyd, Howard Smith, David Durham, Lewis Cheek and Jasper Ward. Honor ary pallbearers were members of the Chapel Hill American Legion. Floral bearers were his school mates. • Special music was furnished by the church choir and by Pre Flight Cadet Graves with Mrs. P. Cleveland Gardner as accorrf panist. "4 < Progress At Woolen Mills Runs Steady Construction ' is going at full blast on the outside and remodel ing continuing on the inside of the old Durham Hosiery Mill building in Carrboro, now home of the sub sidiary branch of the Pacific Wool en Mills. Since the woolen mill opened in the latter part of April, much headway has befen made to ward the goal of a plant that will operate three shifts a day and em ploy around 250 workers. Windows have been -broken out and bricked up so that an air con ditioning system may be installed in the plant. This talk, delegated to Bahnson and Co., of Winston Salem, is about half. completed. Plans have been altered since David E. Arthur, resident man ager, and his- crew of a few key men moved to Carrboro. Now a “warehouse' on- the east side -is in the'offing, ’the old shed at_ the front of the office is being torn down, and many other changes are des tined to take place. Air condition ing was not included in the ori ginal blue prints. Government contracts were can celled right after V-J day, and the 50 mill workers are now complet ing weaving that will wind up ma terials called for in the contract. No one has been laid off; on the contrary, six from the National Munitions Corp. have been hired, and it is hoped that soon produc [ tion can swing to a full civilian output. * Arthur points out that the job of preparing for full-time opera tion is a big one and a lengthy one. 'The progress that has been made is phenomenal. In less than five months floors have been made fit to bear the weight of heavy looms, fluorescent lighting has been installed, around 10 men acquaint ed with operation of a loom have instructed 40 green men in the way to handle one of the ma chines, plans have been extended in all directions and soon peace time schedules will be going into effect. Carting and spinning machines were installed last week, and some are still coming in. There yvill be a need for women to operate these ! machines, and it is expected that ! many of the ladies *whd lost their jobs with the closing of the Na tional Munitions Corp. will be em ployed at the woolen mill after the looms are in operation. ”* J. E. Siirine and Co. of Green ville, S. C., has been the plan ning engineer for the changes in side the building. C M. Guest and Sons of Greensboro and Ander son, S. C., have around 50 men working in their assignment of outside changes. — - • • High Eleven Knuckles Under To Prendre For First Game Football season rolled into full swing at Hillsboro -High last week •with 26 boys out for afternoon drills under the able direction of Goach Harry Breeze and his as sistant, Randolph Brown.Only five lettermen are back this year, and the average weight of all th£ lads is light. But the team is expected to make up in fight what it lacks in experience and weight. With no graduating class at Hillsboro this year and with ex perienced men as few as they are, emphasis will be placed on build ing up a really strong outfit for next year. Placed last year pre cariously in Class B conference, this year the team will stay away from conference games and plan for a triumphant entry next year. Returning letterrrten are Frank Fredrick, back, Luther King, back, Mather Howerton, end, Gates, end, and Collins, guard. In the back field, Fredrick and King are show ing up exceptionally well. The whole line is inexperienced. Other candidates for this year’s edition of the Hillsboro football team are: Yates, Boone, Lloyd, Parker, Rosemond and Gilmore, backs; T. Howerton, Dalehiti, and Riley, ends; Smith, Roberts, Haith cock, Heafner, Carr and Kirk, tackles; Austin, Roberts, Wm. Gra vatti, and Wiley Gravatti, guards; and Cates and Griffin, center. First game of the season will )>e played next Friday, Sept. 28, at Siler City. Parents and all High rooters are urged to go along and boost the home team. On Oct. 5, the Yellow Jackets will meet Rox boro here. Two tentative games are sched uled next, one with Bragtown, at Bragtown, on Oct. 12 and the other with Bethel Hill, there,, on Get. 19. Following this are three perma nently scheduled games, one with Graham here on Oct; 26, -one on Nov. 2 at Roxboro, there, and a return game with Graham on Nov. 9. "• .__ Two more tentative games com plete the agenda, o£e with Bethel Hill here on Nov. 16 and the last one at Chapel Hill on Nov. 23. Two Barbecues Held At Firema’s Hat Carrboro.—Local firemen made this year’s annual barbecue sup per a big event when they got together with, many out-of-tov/n guests last Wednesday night at the Firemen’s hut near here for an evening of good food and good fel lowship. Several speeches were made, the main pne of the evening by State Fire Marshal Brockwell. Other guests besides Brockwell were Fire Chief Lloyd of Raleigh, Chief Perry and three members of the Chapel Hill fire department, Joe Walker and Jack Andrews from Walker’s Funeral Home in Chapel Hill, Mayor West and the Carr boro town aldermen. Tuesday night the Firemen’s hut housed another group of barbecue lovers — the Chapel Hill Jr. OUAM’s. This supper was the cli max to their drive to secure funds for the Junior Orphanage at Lex ington. Albert Best and Brodie Clark made talks in behalf *0t the orphan age. An offering was taken and the sum of $100 contributed to the fund. Mack tale Takes Metropelhaa tat Carrbbro.—A full-time debit has been established here by the Met ropolitan Life Insurance Co., and Mack Poole, recently discharged by the Army point release sys tem, has accepted a position as the Carrboro representative. The work of the Metropolitan here has grown to such an extent that a man was needed for a full time job. Previously, J. R. Evans had worked the Canboro, Bynfim, Pitts boro and Chapel Hill area. Evans has been with the company since 1934. He will continue to be the representative in Bynum, Pitts - boro and part of Chapel Hill. Roads Blocked, Bridges Gone; Streams And Rivers Swollen; Property Damage Seems High Sgt Edwards, Veteran Of Leyte And Manila, Wins Discharge NEWS Makes Special Offer To Subscribers A special subscription offer is being made by THE NEWS for those who have never taken the paper before and for readers whose subscription expires before the first of the year. The sum of $1.50 from anyone within the county and of $2.00 from anyone outside the county will pay for THE NEWS from the date of subscribing to Jan. 1, 1947. This $1.50 in-the-county and $2.00 outside-the-county is stand ard rate for twelve months' sub scription to the paper. Now, with the special offer, a person who mails in the coupon included else where in this issue will receive issues free up until the first of the year, in addition to the twelve months from Jan. 1, 1946 to Jan. 1, 1947. * . ~ " 7-» In other words, here is some thing that you should take advan tage of right away to get the maximum of free issues. The t longer a person waits to sub scribe, the shorter his period of frpp iccnpc 4 Last week THE NEWS made this offer in 500 sample copies sent out over Mebane, Efland and Cedar Grove routes; The papers were mailed Thursday, and on Saturday night the first coupon to be returned was found in THE NEWS box. It was from P. C. Tuck, Rt. 1, Efland. He wasted no time. So beginning with this issue, he wilL receive free copies of the paper up until the first of the year and then continue to have a copy in his mail box until the first of the next year. Cedar Grove AYCOCK SCHOOL OPENS Aycock school opened Monday, Sept. 10,. with a good enrollment. ‘ The opening exercises were con ducted by the principal, E. F. Cude. The devotional was led by Rev. K. F. Duval, pastor of the Cedar Grove Methodist church. Mr. Cude talked to the students, faculty and visitors on the plans Land organization for the school year.— ___— PARENT-TEACHERS ASSOC. ' APPOINTS NEW CHAIRMEN The Aycock P.T.A. held its first meeting of the year in the school auditorium Friday evening. Mrs. Allen Lloyd directed the singing at the beginning of the meeting. Rev. J. S. Cooke conducted the devotional. Mrs. Sudie Warren, president, presided over the business session, and at that time appointed the chairmen of the various commit tees. Following the business ses sion, the program chairman, Wil liam Tolar, read an article on child training in the home and at school. PLANS FOR CANNERY AT AYCOCK SCHOOL A call meeting was held at Ay cock school last Friday evening to make plans for the erection of a cannery at the school. Z. C. Bur ton, presiding at the meeting, pre sented the group with the idea of a cannery and a building commit tee, consisting of Z. C. Burton, G. A. Munn, and John Hawkins, was appointed. Plans for the building will get underway in the near fu ture. A good crowd attended the meet ing and much enthusiasm was shown over the new project. *q PER80riALS Walter Cooke, who has been working on a farm near Siler City, returned home to resume his stud ies in the Aycock high school. Mrs. Caston of Hillsboro is do ing substitute teaching at Aycock school this week, during the ab sence of Mrs. Tom Dula. who un derwent an operation recently. The Methodist Sunday school had a wiener roast at the church Saturday afternoon. Miss Mildred Finley and Mrs. Bertha Holmes shopped in Dur ham last Tuesday. Miss Sally Vaughn of Watts hos pital, Durham, spent last week (Continued on page 0) Technical Sergeant Virginia Ed wards, sister of Mrs. Florence Barnes of 741 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, received her dis charge on Sept. 8 at Fort Bragg. She visited her sister last week and, following a visit to New York, is planning to return to Ghapel Hill,where she will make her home. Welcomed hack from 18 months overseas was Tec. 4 Edwards when she arrived at Fort Bragg’s Per sonnel Center for her discharge with 60 points to her credit. Her first army service Was with the WAC detachment at Fort Bragg with which she served for 15 months before, going overseas. During that time, she was a fre quent visitor in Chapel Hill. • Sgt. Edwards has served in Aus tralia, New Guinea, Leyte and Lauon. Her first, assignment in Manila at General MacArtliur’s headquarters was that of chief clerk in the combined ..message section and recovered personnel section. Her work with the re covered personnel section was concerned with the processing of liberated prisoners of war for their return to the United States. She wears the Presidential Ci tation with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Southwest Pacific ribbon, with one battle star, the Good Con duct-ribbon and the WAC service ribbon. Sgt. Edwards landed with jEhe first plane load of WACs to Manila. — In civilian life, Sgt. Edwards was a telegraph editor for the St. Augustine Herald, St. Augustine, Fla. " Rev. Gwynn To Address All Churches Rev. Price H. Gwynn, Jr., has been secured as the speaker for the convocation of churches, spon sored by the Orange County Coun cil of Churches, which will be held in the Presbyterian church of Hillsboro on Wednesday night, Sept. 26, at 8:CfO o’clock. This an nouncement comes from-the presi dent of the Orange County Coun cil, Rev. J. S. Cook, minister of the Presbyterian church at Cedar Grove. - & Dr. Gwynn is director of Chris tian Education for the Synod of North Carolina of the Presbyterian church and chairman of the com mittee on Bible in the public school for the North Carolina Council of Churches. He is a noted speaker who is in demand all over the state and an author who has gained national' recognition. The officials of the Council have ex pressed the hope that the people of Orange county will avail them selves of this unusual opportunity and come out to hear Dr. Gwynn. At a recent meeting the execu tive committee of the Council ap proved the plan to request all of the churches to contribute an amount equal to sixty cents per member for the support of the Bible teacher ip the county. The Council emphasizes that this is to' be considered a minimum only and that each church is to give as generously as possible. Also contributions from individuals and other organizations are ear nestly desired. The people of the county are asked to send their con tributions as soon as possible through their church or to G. A. Munn, Rt. 2, Hillsboro. Creeks became rivers and riv ers turned into raging currents Monday night all over the county. Exact amount of the damage caused to homes, roads, bridges, animals and plants has not been determined, but from the reports circulating Tuesday morning, the damage is considerable. NINE BRIDGES OUT * Nine bridges in the county, all on country roads, were reported washed put to county superinten dent of state highways Clarence Walters.. The steel bridge at Dem- . ■> mock’s Mill, just beyond West Hillsboro, was broken by heavy .waters from one of the Eno River tFibutariesT The b£gg«it !bildgirto' ; go was the one four miles north ~ of White Cross over Haw River at the Orange-Alamance line. The bridge across King’s Point at Ced-_ ar Grove was washed out, also the one across Back Creek be tween Bob Walker’s and Lynch’s., store. Two more reported were OtT Mt. Slnal rOfid~HIHt~ on Book er road. Hillsboro’s firemen were called on to evacuate two families in Eno Village, the Talbots and “Tink” Terrell’s household. Fire Chief George Gilmore, with Chand ler Cates, J. L. Brown, Jr., and Alton Williams, devised an in genous scheme for routing the women-folk to dry ground. They stood in water up to their arm pits and held together ladders over which the women walked, wetting only their shoes.. Traffic on the Hillsboro-Dur ham highway was blocked by a landslide at Highland Park. A one way lane was made about 2:00 o’clock Tuesday morning and traf fic was resumed. Hillsboro was being served by reserve water Tuesday after Eno River had risen four feet above the high water mark at the City Water Plant and put one of the pumps out of commission. It was expected that the pump could be put back into operation in a day or two. ’ . JT: TALL TALES CIRCULATED Walter Wrenn gave an account of pigs being washed down the stream by flood waters that were lassoed by some aspiring cow boys. Whether this is a true story or just another, of the thounsands of tall tails racing around town Tuesday has nt>t been determined. One tale, and this is a true one, centers around Duke Power Comp any transformer and Duke’s ser viceman. Fred Boone! Boone, who had been o»t in the. pouring rain for hours repairing sagging lines, had just returned, Changed into dry clothing and was settling down for a” much-earned rest when some Duke power official (no one would give the name) called Boone and demanded that he come immed iately to fix a transformer that was blazing red hot. The trans former that was supposed to be ready to explode was near Jim Shue’s store. Boone hurried out of his dry house and found to his disgust, and reluctant amusement that the “red hot” transformer was one that had been stripped of its outer coat of grey enamel to leave the red paint underneath exposed .Through some trick of lighting, the paint was glowing red hot into the night. There were so many other tales in the air, most of them too rid culous to be repeated, that a person easily got the impression Tuesday that the whole storm, floods and all, was the biggest joke of the season. But underneath there was a serious side, and when the dam age is tabulated, there will be no escaping the fact that this sudden rising of the waters on Sept. 17 was one of the most history-mak ing events to hit the county in many a day. . New Hope , Circle No. 2 met with Mrs. John Freeland last Tuesday. The pro gram topic was “What Shall I Say.” Members present were Mrs. W. S. Nunn, Mrs. W. A. Craig, Mrs. A. J. Freeland, Mrs. Louis Freeland, Mrs. C. J. Simpson, Mrs. John Kirkland, Eleanor Craig and Elizabeth Kirkland. The next meeting will be with the chair man, Mrs. W. S. Nunn, on Oct. 9 at 2:30. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Blackwood and three sons, Sam, Bob and John, have moved to Carrbero. The Woman’s Auxiliary will meet the fourth Sunday. Plans will be made to send representa tives to the district meeting in Graham on Sept. 25. Rev. S. W. DuBose will preach at New Hope next Sunday, and on the filth Sunday Dr. Patter son, who has been received Into (Continued on page 5) *
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