THE NEWS of Oraage County
Published Every Thursday by
THE NEWS, INCORPORATED
J. Roy Parker, President
Hillsboro, N. C.
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Thursday, October 18, 1945
The war blasted quite a hole in the popu
lation around here. Not only did we lose many
of our young men. and womeir to the armed
services, but patriotism, or the lure of bigger
money, prompted many of our former neigh
bors to seek war work in some of the larger
cities.
Rural areas suffered the heaviest losses.
Chapel Hill gained the temporary population
increase of Pre-Flight and V-12 school” per
sonnel. Carrboro had the National Munit
ions Corporation which drew in workers.
Hillsboro, on the other hand, had neither
war school nor war industry and consequently
suffered heavily. Efland. Cedar Grove. Hurdle
Mills. Orange Grove. Rural communities, in
the main, the war a blow to each.
Now, with the war over, our yohng^men
and women in the Army and Navy will be re
turning to civilian life. Wherever they may
be as this is being written, they are no doubt
planning peacetime careers. To them we say:
“Come home.”
Unemployment is mounting in the big cit
ies. It is expected to reach 5,000,000 by the
end of this month. Many of our ex-neighbors
have lost their war industry jobs or may be
expected to lose them shortly. To them we also
say, “Come home.”
Of course our buildings aren’t as big as those
in larger cities, but we can offer a little more
room to breathe. People in this county may
not live so close together, but they do get to
know and love tWeft neighbors. Big city jobs
may even pay a little more money but big
city dollars don’t go nearly as far in buying
the things we need to live.
Here, in our forrest lands and farming
country there is no reconversion problem. The
products of our farms and rural industries
are in great demand. The need for pulpwood,
for example, is greater even than during the
war. Wages are high for cutting pulpwood, and
the demand for top quality is constant.
Poultry raising has increased in the county
and is a profitable occupation. Dairy farming
is a growing thing, and there is an urgent need
_ for more men in tips field. Out-of-county con
struction companies are being called upon to
do all the building that people have been
postponing throughout the war. Discharged
servicemen and war Workers could easily make
a killing now if they organized an efficient
construction concern. There are dozens of
Jobs waiting.
What could be a better welcome mat to
offer than the promise of a good job? To our
ex-servlcemerr and ex-war workers we say,
“Come home.”
BY THE EDITOR
STOPLIGHTS should be outlawed. I have
one stoplight in particular on my mind, and
if it’s not cut off again soon, I’ll be spending
a night or two in the Chapel Hill jail because
I’m too broke to pay any fine. It’s that light
up by Spencer dormitory which was cut on
right after V-J Day. I have gone right through
it four times now. Can’t seem to remember
it’s there.
HILLSBORO, I hear it rumored, is going
to have a stoplight soon. What I mean is, a
stoplight that turns red, orange and green,
but mostly red. The light that has been blow
ing around collecting dust at the intersection
of Churton and King Streets (why be so care
ful about giving the location when everyone
knows the light I am talking about,’ seeing as
how there’s only one in town anyhow!) is
going to be moved up next to the library.
When the step is taken, I’ll* just have one
more chance, to get arrested.
CUTTING OFF is the thing my motor
does best when I do stop for a red light. There
is always a traffic jam with me at the head.
It would really be a blessing if I never saw
a light, but drove blissfully through them
all. A long time ago I read the definition
gave of a split second—the time
t stoplight’s turning green and the
Of a driver’s horn behind you. I
nstant fear of changing that defin:
ic time between die light's turning
of a policeman’s sirert
am I color blind?
answer that I’m
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THIS OFFICE has been in a swirl trying to
clean up for the return of Mr. Roy Parker.
He’s finally decided that he can’t have a
vacation all his life, and we've decided that
he musn’t know what a pig pen we’ve made
of this shop since he’s been away. I’m getting
scared though. We area’t going to be able
to- find a single thing for this week’s paper.
Already news stories are being pulled out of
Christmas card boxes, Christmas cards are
cropping up in the advertising mats, soft
drinks are being discovered in the flit gun
where they were poured instead of down the
sirik, and the Beagle dog has been howling
front the linotype where he was stuck when
someone mistook him for a chunk of hot
metal. You may find all the type in upside
down this week. I will be surprised if it’s not.
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MILK MAKES A FELLOW GAIN. Or
so someone told me. I started out with the
idea of drinking a quart a day, thought it over
and reduced the amount to a quart every,
other day, and have decided now that-1 don’t
want to gain weight anyway. Pretty soon I
might be the size of Harry Large. Does any
one have an extra refrigerator around some
place that they would donate as housing pro
ject for all my six dozen accumulated quarts of
milk? I’ve filled up every nook and cranny in
all the refrigerators in the neighborhood and
need space to branch put. Stop my order for
a quart every other day? Don’t be silly. I’m
going to start a cheese-factory soon. : isss:
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THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
Last week end I drove through the rain to
Ramseur and surprised the folk% with a visit
for the first time in months. Five minutes
after I got there, my kid brother* (the perfect
one in the Navy that I got off on last week)
banged in with one of his buddies. It was the
first time that we had been together since last
Thanksgiving. Does anybody know where
Ramseur is? Of course, it depends on which
way you’re going as to which side of the road
it’s on, but if you head toward Asheboro from
Siler City, you’ll see the town on the left. If
you look very close you’ll see it. I’ve lived there
for sixteen years, off and on, and have gone
right, by only three or four times. So, you see,
the place isn’t hard to find at all. You only
have to keep your eyes open.
THE WORLD SERIES was all I heard
while at Ramstfttr. You’d think football games
never happened, so baseball crazy is that town.
Back at Hillsboro, the situation was almost
as bad. With Duke and Carolina both so close,
it does seem that people would forget base
ball once the football season gets underway.
Sports get me all confused. I look at the sports
page in the newspaper, and to save my life
I can’t tell whether the game is football or
baseball from the way the story.is written up.
-Then baskAball season starts and sports real
ly^ get in a mix-up. So-and-so kicks a con
version, the score shoots up two points, there
are three men on base and who’s at bat, some
one strips the basket from center to tie the
game. Now who knows what will happen
next? Maybe there’re all love games or just
under par. Does the pitcher pitch a close-out
or a walk-out dr a strike-out? Does the tail
back tail the quarterback, and what does the
blocking back block? What does the center get
when he gets the' jump, who dribbles what
and what is it so foul? It’s a sporting life, all
right, and who cares what the sport is?
THE NEWS la 1930
Hillsboro—James L. Cole, 12-year-old son
of Mrs. Bud Cole, died instantly last Thursday
afternoon at the home of a neighbor, the vic
tim of an “unloaded” pistol . . . C. P. Whit
field was reelected road superintendent by
the county commissioners at their regular
meeting last Monday . . . During the Christ
mas holidays, 21 Hillsboro boys left the high
school building on a tour through ten states
of the Union and two states of Mexico, as far
as Monterey, Mexico, Arthur Brown, presi
dent of the Hi Y club, planned and managed
the trip. Glenn Beasley drove the truck, and
other boys along were: Taylor Bivins, Harold
Bivins, John Billy Dixon, Marion Allison,
Clifton Turner, Talmadge Andrews, Paul
Lloyd, David Patterson, Tom Chandler,
Banks Wilson, Byron Eubanks, Murray An
derson, Phares Riley, Minnick Miller, Andew
Johnson, Edward Brown and Grady Riley.
Chapel Hill—Billy Arthur, known to radio
and vaudeville audiences as “One Yard of
Fun”, now holds the distinction of being the
smallest man at the University. He got this
name because of the fact that he is only about
a yard tall and plays humorous sketches . . .
Russell M. Grumman has been elected to suc
ceed Rev. Eugene Olive as president of the
Kiwanis club , . . Plans for raising money
to pay the $60,000 debt on the Methodist
church were laid at the meeting held in Ral
eigh . . . Jeter Lloyd, Charlie Henderson and
W. T. Dollar were charged with possession of
.equipment for the n^nuJEacture # wnoxicapu
in recorder's court here Monday. Henderson
and Dollar ^verer released on account of in
sufficient evidence and judgment was sus
pended in the case of Jeter Lloyd until next
week. . . . Robert Humphreys, son of Mr.
OUR DEMOCRACY
by Mat
FORWARD
Out of our war experience u»e draw
new strength. for tke tasks ahead —
confident in tke vigor of Our Democracy.
Church and budge
Directory
Hillsboro Episcopal Church
R. C. Masterton, Pastor
First Sunday, Holy Communion,
11:00 a. m.
Second Sunday, Holy Commun
ion, 8:00 a. m. Morning service,
11:00 a. m.
Third Sunday, Holy Communion,
11:00 a. m.
Fourth Sunday, Holy Commun
ion, 8:00 a. m. Morning service and
Litany, 11:00 a. m. x
Fifth Sunday, Morning service,*
11:00 a: m.
Saints Days, Holy Communion,
11:00
Hillsboro Methodist
Rev. Samuel F. Nicks, Pastor
First and Second Sunday at 11
a. m.
Third Sunday at 7:30 p. m;
Sunday School every Sunday at
9:40 ajn.
New Sharon Church
First Sunday, 11 ajn.
Third Sunday, 11 a.m>
Fifth Sunday, 11 ajn.
Palmer Grove Church
Second Sunday, 7:30 pjn.
Fourth Sunday, 3 p.m.
Union Grove Church
Second Sunday, 3 p.m.
Fourth Sunday, 11 ajn.
Sunday School every Sunday
morning.
Hillsboro First Baptist
Rev. W. W. Abemethy, Pastor
Sunday School e^ery Sunday, |
9:45. H. E. Singletary, Supt. r
Worship every Sunday morning,
11 o’clock; every Sunday night ex
cept first Sunday nights, 8:00.
Prayer service every Wednes
day night, 8:00.
West Hillsboro Baptist
Rev. E. D. Young, Pastor
Sunday School, 10 ajn. N. R
Swainey, superintendent.
Preaching services each Sunday
Morning worship, 11 ajn. -v
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and Mrs. Humpreys of Chapel
Hill, died from injuries sustained
in an gutoinoblle wreck in Cali
fornia. ,
Carrboro—Mrs, Joe Hardee and
Miss Mabel Blackwood were mar
ried Saturday, March 1st. . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Sparrow are
the proud parents of a fine boy
bom March 1st. Mother and baby
are doing nicely. . . . Miss Chris
tine Mann is visiting her cousin.
Miss Elizabeth Mann, near Bynum
this week. . . . J. F. Thompson
died in Watts Hospital early Sun
day morning. He is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. M. B. West, of
Carrboro and Mrs. James Dorty,
of Hillsboro. ‘. . . J. R. Evans at
tended the Metropolitan conven
tion of North Carolina which was
held in Charlotte last week.
Efland—The high school girl’s
basketball team is enjoying the
season* fcrfl»e history oi
the school. Having played 11 games
they have won nine. Only the
strong Alexander-Wilson team,
four times district champions, have
been able to give the Efland girls
a close game. '
Children’s worship, 4 p.m.
Evening service, 7:30 pan._
Prayer meeting Wednesday,
7:30 p.m.
Boys Club meets every Tuesday
at 7:30 pun. at the church for boys
11 and older.
Eno Methodist Church
Rev. Walton Spitzkiet, Pastor
Morning services—11:00 A.M.
each Sunday. Evening services—
8:00 P.M. each Sunday. MYF meets
at 7:00 P.M. each Sunday. Mission
ary Society meets every third Sun
day night at 7:00. r - . «
Sunday School superintendent.
Evelyn Kennedy. ’ •
Free Will Baptiet Church
Rev. W. D. Taylor, Pastor
Sunday School Superintendent
—Herbert Tucker.
10 a.m. Sunday School.
11 a.m. Sunday Morning Service.
7:45 p.m. Sunday Evening Serv
ice.
7:45 pun.—Every Wednesday
Week-Day Prayer Meeting.
Hlllsbcro Presbyterian Church
Rev. S. W. DuBose, Pastor
Worship: First, third and fifth
Sundays at 11 aum
Sunday School every Sunday,
10'aun.
Junior League every Sunday at
6:45 p.m.
Evening worship service on sec
ond and fourth Sundays at 7:30
p.m., through winter, and 8 pun.
through summer.
Worship: Second and fourth Sun
days at 11 a.m.
New Hope Presbyterian Church
Evening worship. -f:30 p.m.
Sunday School each Sunday at
10 a.m.
Chestnut Ridge Methodist Church
E. H. Measamer, Pastor
Services every second Sundaj
at 11 am., and every fourth Sun
day at 3 p.m.
Mars Hill Baptist Church
Two and one-half miles north of
Hillsboro on Highway No. 57
Rev. W. T. Smith, Pastor
Lone Mincey, Sunday School
Superintendent
Sunday School each Sunday at
10 am.
Preaching, second and fourth
Sundays at 11 a.m.
The public is cordially invited
to attend any or all of these serv
ices.
Young people’s meeting every
Sunday evening at 7:00.
Everyone is invited to attend
any or all of these services. A
warm welcome awaits you.
Baptist Tabernacle
Two miles south of Hillsboro
on the Orange Grove Road.
Rev. S. E. Elmore, Pastor.
Sunday school «t 10 am.
Morning worship at 11 o”dock
Services in the afternoon at
3:30 o’clock.
The public is invited.
CHAPtL HILL CHURCHES
Services at the churches of
for Sbnday are sched
uled as follows:
am. morning wor
vespers;
Busy Neighborhood
Leaders Near End
Of Active Duties
Have Been Backbone Of All Wartinc
Programs In Rural Orange; Are
Now Praised For Outstanding Work
County neighborhood leaders,
faithful for over three years in
helping secure participation of ru
ral families in agriculture’s war
time programs, have been called
on again, this time to aid in the
National War Fund Drive.
Last week letters were mailed
from the county agent’s office to
all 172 leaders requesting that
they contact. everyone on tfceir
list,.. Each: leader’s list includes
from five to ten "families,- the num—
ber worked out in such a way that
every person in rural Orange can
be contacted easily. —
In the War Fund Drive, which
was supposed to end Monday, nei
ghborhood leaders were requested
to see that all those on their list
mailed in contributions or gave die
money to a school head by wie
fifteenth. They were told to inform
everyone, however, that contri
butions made later than this date
are acceptable.
Ever since the war began, these
neighborhood leaders have worked
hard, all their efforts entirely vol
untary, at the various tasks assign
ed them. War bond drives, Red
Cross drives, efforts to increase
production of various essential
foods, scrap drives, clothes drives,
finding farms for those farmers
displaced at the buildnig of Camp
Butner—in all these undertakings
the neighborhood leaders have
played a vital part.
ORANGE ONE OF FIR8T WtTH
NEIGHBORHOOD SY8TEM
Orange county was one of the
first localities in the country to
make use of the neighborhood sys
tem in stimulating every rural
family to carry out specific actions
desired in agriculture’s wartime
program. In November and Dec
ember of 1941, ten community
meetings of selected farm leaders
were held and the communities di
vided into neighborhoods. Names
of prospective neighboorhood lead
ers were suggested. In 39 meet
ings during the week of January
12, the plan was explained and
neighborhood leaders were elected.
Total attendance at the meetings
was 1,677, an average of 43 at
each. A typical neighborhood of
45 white families had five neigh
borhood leaders. „
The United States Department
of Agriculture thought so much
of the idea that it made a survey
of the situation in Orange add in
Lee county, found the prograin to
be working 'splendidly, andr ad
vised that it be tried in rural sec
tions throughout the United States.
There has hardly been a breath
ing space'for. these neighborhood
leaders throughout the war.. If
they haven’t been working on a
time-limited drive, they’ve been
busy seeing that victory gardens
in their district were producing to
a maximum, that the farmers were
switching from less essential fofod
production to production of an
other food, women in the neigh
borhood were canning all they
possibly could.
A MUST IS DUE
With so many accomplishments
behind them, it has hardly seemed
fair to add the burden of col
lecting for this last drive. They
have done well every task pre
viously assigned them, but with
the war over, many feel that they
are due a rest. This National War
Fund Drive is one of the last tasks
that they will have. The Victory
Bond Drive will probably be. the
very last. Then the 172 home-front
fighters can rock by their fire
places in winters to come and swap
yarns with returned servicemen
about how they, too, fought hard
to win the war.
The list of these neighborhood
leaders is a long one, but now
seems the time to pay tribute
where tribute is due. Read through
the following names and you read
the names of patriotic Orange men
and women who “by their works
are known”.'
Berry’s Grove—Mrs. R. D. Park
er* chairman, Mr. and Mrs. Rob
MiiifJ5Ir* ,nd Mrs- Henry
a,nd,fletch«' Porterfield.
JS^***? L- R- chair
w“nDN^k’W-P-U°*““1
10 am. Hill nr»n
Christian Science — 10:45 a
Sk-«0r3hip: 6:30 Cantertn
'-iUD, 8 pm. organ recital.
Friends—ri am. Graham 1
mortal.
Jewish—10 am.; .Friday,
pjn. Hilld House.
mortal.
•U
Graham*
, —if am.; 6 pm. \
ley Foundation.
Presbyterian—li am. morning
, (Continued on page 4)
Buckhom—A. J. poe,
Shambley, O. F. Jones and
R. A. Dodson.
Caldwell—Walter McKee chain
man, Frank Laws, Mrs. Tom Z
Kee, Mrs. Clyde Walker and Ch*
Miller.
Calvander—Mrs. Henry R
chairman, Jienry Hogan, and
and Mrs. John H. Cates.
Carr—Mrs. Sudie B. %
chairman, Lin wood" R6gew ,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Compton,
Carrboro—Hugh Rogers, ehaj,
man, M. W. Andrews, Mrs.
Pridgen, Mrs. Bruce Riggsbeej
Edgar Lloyd.
Cedar Grove—Coy Long, chan
man, Wallace Boland, Robert
Hughes, Mrs. C. C. McDade i
Mrs. Wade G. Carruthers.
Chandler’s Store—Z. 'C/Bwti
chairman, Mrs. Giles Long, Ralp
B. Compton, Mrs. Young Vaugh
and Clyde T. Roberts.
Cooper’s Store—W. I. Simmon
chairman, I. C. Cooper, Mrs.
lie Johnston, Mrs. John Apple
A. J. Sykes.
Crabtree’s Store—Mrs. N.
Jordan, chairman, N. N. Jorda
Thomas Wheely, Thomas Crabta
and H. T. Scott
Damascus—S. C. Wilson, chair
man, Jesse Neville, Roland Wi
ble, Mrs. Clarence Cole and
Pearl McLennan.
Fairfield—Mrs. Edmond Tayk
chairman, Cox Wilkinson, Wi
Reitzel and Mrs. John Hanner.
Hebron—A. K. McAdams, chair
man, Mrs. A. K. McAdams, Ben
Wilson, and J. Sam Nelson
Efland—Hubert McAdi
chairman, Walter Richmond,
M. Dunn, Mrs. Coy Riley and Mn
Robert Nichols.
High Rock—J. L. Scotton, chair
man, Jesse Pool, C. E. Patterso
and Mrs. Joe Ward.
Hobbs Cross Roads—Gera Syki
chairman. "Clifford King, J
Faucette, Mrs. Ada Ray and Mil
Clara Sykes.
Kennedy’s Mill—Mrs. Lou
Kennedy, chairman, Harry Woodi
Lee Kennedy and Roy Kenned)
Lynch’s Store—Chas. T. Poe
chairmah, George Strayhom, Hi
ry Tate; Mrs. Will Tate and Mi
T. H. Bradley,
Mars Hill and Hillsboro-W.
Davies, chairman, Marvin Hectrii
C. P. Hines, Mrs. Gary Lloyd an
Mrs. Harold Latta.
Mt. Carmel—Mrs. Jesse Merritt
chairman, Ben Tripp, Mrs. E
Merritt, June Sparrow and Jami
A Sparrow.
Mt. Moriah—Clyde Carrol
chairman, Mrs. Clyde Carroll
Mrs. Dallas Crabtree.
■ Murphy—B. F. Hester, chair
man, Mr. and Mrs. Paul McKee
Mrs. R. F. Paschall, John Mir
and Mrs. Gordon Couch
New Bethel—Claude Cray
chairman, Mrs. Claude Gray, Mn
G. W. Hall and L. C. Hall.
New Sharon—W. J. Smittl
chairman, Miss Rosa Cole, M
Walker, Mrs. Fred Merritt i
Miss Laura Watkins.
Oaks—Mrs. C. W. Stanford
chairman, C. W. Stanford, Mr,
Mrs. George W. Lasley and wa»
ter Lloyd
Orange Chapel—Colon mow
son, Kerney Rogers, Z. P. Crawf
and Mrs. Hope Durham.
Orange Church—L. A. Hog#
chairman, Jim Maddry, Jr., Ra«
Whitfield, Mrs. Frank Maddry
Mrs. J. G. Whitfield.
■ Change Grove— Manley Smp«
chairman, Clem Cheek, Otto Km*
Mrs. Julius Andrews and ***
John Kirk. , JL
Palmers Grove—T. H. An
chairman, Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
and J. W. Powell. T j«v
Pleasant Ridge—Clarence
chairman, Ed Umstead, John
ler, Mrs. P. M. Holloway, Stera*
Browning and M. L.
Ridge Church—Mrs^ ^
Holmes, chairman, ^ —•
T. R. Tapp, Mrs/Foust TapP
Warren Holmes. ' irmam
Schley—A. E. Wilson, chair®*
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mincey, *■
Latta, Marvin Phelps and
Mincey.
St. Maryi
Mrs. Clyde R*fJ
chairman, W. S. Hunt, JefLm
Martin, Clyde Roberts and
Raymond Weaver. rMjp
Union Grove—W. I Slllt ’ im
>!*
man, Mrs. G. D. Atkinson, -
W. A. Minnis, J. W- Cates, an
M. Riley Dickef
Walkers Mill—J M i l
chairman, Neil Summers,^
Walker and Mrs. Harold
Walnut Grove H. ■ yjQojh
chairman, Loy Tilley. J- r. yd
Mrs. ^ M. Hawkins, Mrs- ^
TiHey and S'. Josh Parker
White Cross and.Anti°c ^
Whitfield, chairman,
ham, Sam Durham, Altom ^ £
Miss Martha Lloyd,
-Uoyd and Mrs. Tom Bra ^
Faucette Mill—Mrs.
zel and Mr*. L, E. Blackwoo*