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8UB6 RATES Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, March «8, 1946 (Published Weekly) Superior Court Hears 34 Cases In March Term The March term of Superior court in Orange county, with Judge Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill pre siding and Solicitor William H. Murdock making his first appear ance here since his discharge from the armed forces, disposed of 34 cases, the majority of them being divorce, drunken driving and reck less driving cases. The most severe sentence was passed on Easter Williams, Efland Negro youth who plead guilty to a charge of breaking and enter ing. Williams was sentenced to a term of not less thah five years and not mor$ than seven years. The young Negro was judged to be of less than adult intelligence, and prison authorities were asked in the committment papers to take this into consideration in the treat ment of the prisoner. James Henry MacMillan and James Edward Darvey were sen tenced to not less than three nor more than four years on a charge of breaking and entry. Lonnie H. Perry was given the same sentence when found guilty of a charge of larceny. In an evictraent case, brought by Mrs. Mollie C. Eubanks against J. H. Barber, the defendant was ordered to vacate the premises of the plaintant by April 15 and to pay $275 in full settlement of all claims charged by Mrs. Eubanks. Sentence of 12 months to Prank Vincent, who plead guilty to a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, was suspended on the con dition that he pay $25 to the owner of a house he damaged and be of good behavior for two years. Walter Berry was sentenced to a total of four years on the charge of assaulting Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Burnett. Willie Shaw, James Mack, Er nest Mack and John D. Brocks all were charged with malicious dam age to property. James Mack was given a sentence of two years, re duced to one year upon the con dition that he pay $50 to James Fuller in restitution of damages. The other defendants v/<*re placed on three-year probation. A mistrial was declared in the case against B. H. Lloyd, Jr., who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, because of a tech nical error made by one of the jurors hearing the case. Joe Mack an Earl Whitted were given a six months term on the road suspended on the condition that they each pay $25 and npt go on the premises of Bud Payne for five, years. •*>- Thomas Sykes, found guilty of the illegal possession of"whis key, was given a 12 month jail sentence suspended - on the con. ditions that he pay a fine of $50 and costs and remain of good be havior for two years. Judgment was continued on Ray mong Andrews on a charge of as sault with a deadly weapon, and he was placed on? good behavior for two years. Divorces were granted the fol lowing couples: William R. Fiske and Georgia Thum Fiske, Juanita Freeman and Thomas R. Freeman, Louise Perry Wright and Fred C. Wwght, Alma Mayes and Arle L. Mayes, Frank J. Often and Nina Often, Olivia Croom and William H. Croom, Odds F. White and Jes sie Collins White, Hilda Catherine Mills Norwood and L. H. Norwood and Percy Tuck and Jessie Wil Son Tuck. All divorces were grant ®d on the basis of two years sepa ration. Jessie Wilson Tuck was granted $30 per month for support of two children and awarded $100 attor ney fees. The following judgments were Passed in the cases of drunken driving that appeared before the court: Luther Wagoner, six months (See,COURT on Page 2) Smokey Says:' Do your part to protect the woods. Put out sma^I fires. If the blaze it teo much for you, notify « once the nearest forest ranger or fire warden. 1946 FARM PLAN8 A. K. McAdams, secretary of the Orange county A.C.A., an nounced yesterday that a good many farmers in Orange county have not signed their 1946 farm plans. . ■ He also states that in order to receive lime, phosphate, or pay ment for any practice, it must be listed on your farm plan, and this must be done by April 1. If you expect to carry out any prac tices this year, then go.ts your AAA office now' and sign your . 1946 farm plan. Triple “A” Aids School Loach Problem In N. C. State College Station, Raleigh.— More than $1,763,000 in assistance had been provided by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for the school year through February to help provide nutritious and well balanced midday lunches for North Carolina school children, it was disclosed this week by G. Tom Scott, state director, production and marketing administration_ Scott -said approximately 224, 204 children in 923 schools availed themselves of hot lunches in Jan uary, records indicating a total of 3,796,394 individual lunches were served. Though many schpols oth erwise eligible are not availing themselves of school lunch pro gram assistance, he said the pro gram is now in successful opera tion in 99 of the state’s 100 coun ties. These figures compare .with the following a year ago: Number of children participating, 182,163; schools participating, 865; individ ual lunches, 3,926,997; number of counties participating, 96. Scott pointed out that there is a con siderably larger participation in the over-all program as compared with last year that is not reflected by those figures, due to schools be ing closed in early January because of weather conditions, bad roads and flu epimedic. The school lunch program, spon sored at the state level by the U. S. Department of Agriculture under an agreement with the State Department of Education, is op erated locally by non-profit spon soring groups. Each lunch-room is a community project, and sponsor ing groups are reimbursed up to designated amounts for each meal served. Sponsors, Scott explained, re ceive up to nine^cents for each Type A meal served. Such a meal provides at least a third of a child’s daily nutritional requirements. A Type B meal, ^lightly less com plete, is .reimbursable at a smaller amount, and a still smaller re imbursement is made for Type C, which consists of a half pint of milk. Scott further pointed out that the school lunch program, is serv ing agriculture by giving farmers a local day-to-day expanded mar ket for their products, and also is making excellent use of seasonally abundant farm products purchased by the U..S. Department of Agri culture to support prices to farmers. X-Ray Results To Re Muled Most of the reports on the re sults of the x-ray survey held in Hillsboro and West Hillsboro two weeks ago are in the local health bureau office and will be mailed to the individuals concerned with in the next few days. According to Miss Mildred Spahr, director of the public health de partment in Hillsboro, the major ity of the ex-rays proved nega tive, although some cases of tu berculosis were discovered. The local TB Association is paying the cost of postage necessary in mail ing out these reports, and the cost of the clerical help employed in the survey. Miss Spahr said that it was ex pected that a pre-school clinic in the schools- of Hillsboro and Ay cock would be held during the next month. However, more de tailed information will be avail able later. Miss Alice Payne, graduate stu dent in the department of public health qf the University of North Carolina who formerly did puhhc health work in Harrodsburg, Ky., will be an associate member of the local bureau until June 6. New Draft Call Sends 59 Men To Fort Bragg The following 59 men were sent to Fort Bragg from Orange county for pre-induction physicals. Most of these men had been previously rejected but were sent to Fort Bragg according to recent changes in regulations regarding men clas sified 4-F. Walter L. Totten, Jr., Dan C. Anderson, Jack Harvel Conklin, Bobby Daniel, Neal J. Monk, Lu ther D. Wagoner, Macksene W. Chambers, Nicholas Cave Lind say, Robert L. Miller, Fred L. Black, Clabom E. McBroom, Coy O. Briggs, Odie Thomas Taylor, Robert D. Hall, Edgar G. Brown, Edward C. Leonard, Jr., Jerome S. Frankel, Dewey B. Carrey, Da vid W. Hamlett, Norman A. Whit fiekl, Watts D. Sparrow. James L. Little, Jr., David H. Harrington, David J. Hutton, Ralph R. Gyenn, David D. Waler, Jr.r Chandler H. Cates, Everett W. Cheek, Garnett T. Canady, Charles M. Coleman, James W. Crabtree, Albert F. Farrington, Winfred G. Clayton, Orangeleah Walker, How ard M. Tapp, Ervin E. Wright, James R. Riggs, Oray C. Owens, Paul C. Bowden, Richard L. Fou shee, Bill Holloway. Edward Flynn, Odie Terrell, Robefrt J. Friedlander, Royce G. Pickett, George R. .McKee, Carl C. McAdams, Edmond Brown, Billy B. Williams, Delbert J. Yates, John L. Wagoner, Twain L. AITen, Elmer O. Pendergraft, William R. Byrd, Jesse C. Riley, James T. Dobbins, Jr., James T. Allen, Don ald W. Sparrow, George Clarence Funderburk. To Hold Court Of Honor Here will be held in the Hillsboro court house Thursday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. An announcement concern ing the proposed Youth Center will be made,- and all persons in terested in scouting are^ urged to attend. Twenty-eight merit badges will be awarded, and the following boys' Wfil raOeive other recogni tion: Ronald Kennedy, tenderfoot; Donald Whitaker and Bobby Has tings, second class; Kenneth Brown, Bob Strayhom, James Minnis and Mitchell Lloyd, first class; James Webb, Jr., and William Teer, star, and Sam Hughes, life membership. Scouts A county-wide court of honor Youth Center Goal Raised To $4,0d0 The drive* to rais# funds for a Hillsboro Youth Cenjter is in high gear., and.apparently running smoothly. The original goal of $2*500 has now been upped to $4,000 in view of .the generous reception the drive for funds has met. J. M. Blieden, ideal merchant, who is heading the drive for 50 members to the $50 club reports 28 subscribers already and antici pation of more than enough $50 ; members to reach the first goal of $2,500. This fund, as regular readers of THE NEWS know, is to be used for a building directl^ behind the Methodist church op a lot given by Mr. and Mrs. HJ H. Brown. It will consist of a 24 by 40 foot building housing a' 2f by 24 assem bly room, a kitcheri and a work shop separated from the kitchen by two rest rooms, i Maintenance and supervision of the building will be in the hands of three, trustees; one from the Rena Lupton Circle of the Metho dist church, sponsor of the local Girl Scouts, one from the Lipns Club, sponsor of the Boy Scouts and the final member to be se lected at large from Hillsboro. Scarborough Oat h Sixth Race D. E. Scarborough March 17 an nounced his resignation as secre tary-treasurer of Piedmont Na tional Farm Loan Association in order to devote full time to his candidacy for Congress from the sixth district in the Democratic primary. He filed his candidacy in Raleigh Saturday, jMarch 13. Scarborough is tvell known in the four counties oil the district, particularly among farmers. He re sides on his own farm near Oak Ridge. Piedmont National Farm Loan Association is a servicing organ ization for farm loans through the Federal Land Bank. The regional office for the eight-county area of Guilford, Randolph. Person, Ala mance, Orange, Durham, Caswell and Rockingham is in Greensboro, where Scarborough has his head quarters. He has been an official of the farm loan association for the past 10 years. Orange USES Announces Job Openings In Honolulu And Panama Now Available Louis Berini, local manager of the USES, announced, Monday the receipt of a large job order for workers in Honolulu and the Pahama Canal Zone. He said that workers interested must sign up for an 18 month period, and that transportation would provided by employers to and from their places of business. Particularly specified in this or der was the need for refrigeration' mechanics, automobile mechanics, general helpers, carpenters, truck drivers, painters and machine shop specialists. Persons interested in these job openings may contact Mr. Berini in Hillsboro, at the Agriculture building across the street from the high school, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and in Chapel Hill, at the Town Hall, on Mondays. Veterans will be given preference. Mr. Berini also announced this week that beginning immediately employers in this county would be solicited for job openings to be filled by returning veterans, war plant workers and others. He has requested that employers list all type openings. Up to the present time approximately 255 veterans in this county have been placed by the local office. , “The employer Will benefit by listing his jobs with USES,” em phasized Mr. Berini, “since he will have a greater chance, of hiring the worker he wants than through other means.” It is maintained by the USES that the employer has his biggest chance in securing labor these days because the widest choice of avail able workers are veterans, who often constitute the cream of the labor crop, and most of Whom are registered with the employment office. Says Mr. Berini: "We are doing everything pos sible to make the local USES office a central community job clearing house, -where all employers and all .workers, including veterans, can get the best employment re sults. We ask the cooperation of employers and workers alike.” - • Murphy P.T.A. Held Meeting Last Week The Murphy P.T.A. held its reg ular kneeling Tuesday, March 12, called to order by the president, Mrs. W. H. Helms. Members decided to have a mu sical program at an early date. Mrs. J. M. Harris, principal, dis cussed Saturday school days. Since missing 14 days due to weather conditions, classes will be held on Saturdays until school closing time. Mrs. W. H. Helms' announced a county council meeting to be held at White Cross school March 21 at 2:30 o'clock. An interesting report on the November county council meeting was given by Mrs. L. H. Cox. Mrs. G. P. Walker’s room won attendance prize. The program chairman was Mrs. G. P. Walker. The guest speaker for the evening was Mrs. Hogan, county health nurse, who gave a talk on communicable diseases. .Miss Lovell, county health educa tor, presented an interesting mov ing picture on “Health Care.” In spite of the fact that the PTA has not been able to function nor mally due to weather and road con ditions, it is still crowing, with a 10 per cent increase in mem bership over last year. Mrs. Walker announced a com munity sing for the April meeting, and extended a cordial invitation to every member of the community to attend. : - RED CRO88 DRIVE C. C. Davis, treasurer for the current Red Cross-, drive, reports that $1,419.19 has been placed in the Hillsboro Bank since the be ginning of the drive. Contributions have not yet been received from many rural areas, or from local schools. It is expected, however, that the commuaiig*. wiH easily make its $2,000 quota for this year’s drive which' ends March 3L Large Audience Expected Friday By Fane Bureau A large number of people are expected to be on hand to hear Ex-Governor J. Melvile Brough ton discuss the post war problems now confronting farm people on Friday afternoon, March 29, 2 o’clock at the Court House in Hillsboro. This meeting is being sponsored by the newly organ ized Orange Cpunty Farm Bureau. The Farm Bureau is a national organization of over a million farm families. Its primary purpose is to try to get for farm people a fair share of the national income. There are 40,000 members in North Caro lina. - In addition to Governor Brough ton’s speech, there will be a repre sentative from the North Carolina Farm Bureau who will explain the work of the organization. Don Matheson, county agent, will al so speak briefly on the problems and needs of Orange county farm ers. ~ . Collier' Cobb, chairman „of the county board of commissioners, well present the speaker. Pfc. Cates Gives First-Band Repeif 0a Atom Bomb Test Pfc. Fred S. Cates, Jr., who is taking part in an atomic bomb ex periment through the Army air corps, wrote his family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Cates, Sr., a little first hand information on the pro ject. His final destination was Kwa jalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, and he says of the place: * “It is neither too good, nor too bad. One can stand in the middle of the island and spit into the ocean on either side. The'Widest part is 200 yards and, I estimate, a mile and a half long. Pfc. Cates reached his destina tion March 9, after leaving Ha waii at 5 o'clock the previous eve ning. He related that the trip took 12 hours in all, but that 24 hours was gained when the crew passed the international date line. His letter continues as follows: “Our group of 30 men are the first on the island in connection with the atom bomb project. The ATG (Air Transport Command) has 20 men stationed here to Ye fuel planes flying from the States and Japan. We are the only Army personnel on Kwai, but there are about 5,000 sailors here, most of whom sleep on ships. A large group of AAF men should arrive by boat within the next ten days. “My work isn’t very pleasant, since my hours of duty are from 11 p.m. to 10 a.m. I’m supposed to sleep m the daytime,' I think, but you can imagine how hot, it is this close to the equator. I fished a while yesterday afternoon and Caught a three-pound bass.” Pfc. Catfes volunteered for this special duty with the Army, and his present address is: 1535th AAF BU CPW PD ATC, Navy 824, c|o Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal. Citizens Are Asked To.Conserve Foods J. S. Compton, chairman of the Orange County AAA Committee, has been designated as Emergency Food Program manager for Or ange county and will help to speed the job of supplying food under President Truman’s emergency famine relief program, in an effort to reduce the terrible suffering caused by enemy invasion and drought in Europe and Asia. Mr. Compton will enlist the co operation of the Orange County USDA Council in coordinating the program and organizing the food conservation measures recom mended by the President’s famine emergency committee. Local food conservation meas ures are now being worked out and every man, woman,'and child in Orange county are requested to voluntarily conserve food daily,, especially bread, fats, and oils, to make more available for shipment into destitute areas. Bakers, food distributors, home makers, hotels, dining cars, res taurants, institutions, and all pub lic feeding Industries are requested to adopt conservation and eco nomical use of bread, fats, and oils. Local civic groups, churches, schools, newspaper editors, theater managers, and all other organiza-i tions and groups are.- requested Jo. help carry out the prpgram on a voluntary basis. AYCOCK. BROWN WRITES ABOUT BURNSIDE Aycock Brown, fQrmer resident of Hillsboro, had an article in the Durham Morning Herald and the Greensboro Daily News on Sun day. This article traced the his tory of.Burnside, which is now owned by makers o£ the Wall family.. Grand Jury Finds School Buildings In Sad State . > / MEET SMOKEY This week’s issue of THE NEW8 introduces “Smokey," an amiable cartoon bear, with a wise and time ly forest fire prevention message. This Inimitable character, wear ing trousers and a forest ranger's hat, will present to our readers a message on forest conservation and protection. A. W. Kenion Heads Orange Vets Service A veterans’ service office for Orange county will be opened in Hillsboro April 1. The office will be located in the county garage building. A. W. Kenion, Jr., has been appointed the veterans’ ser vice Officer for this county. The local office will be under the supervision of the North Caro lina Commission which was es tablished by the 1945 General Assembly. The function of the agency is to provide a definite means through which the veter ans of Orange county can secure any rights and benefits to which they are entitled. It will assist veterans in filing claims, secur ing educational benefits, convert ing insurance, and like matters. The representative of the 6 th District of the North Carolina vet erans’ commission, Mr. Charles Baddingfield, wil be present in Hillsboro April 3 and 4 to assist in the establishment of the local office and to get it started prop erly. Republicans Elect Harward New Chairman George N. Harward wes elect ed new chairman of the Orange county Republican executive com mittee at a meeting in the Hills boro courthouse Monday night of this week. Walter S. Crawford of Chapel Hill was appointed secre tary. Precinct chairmen.were elect ed to serve under Harward and Crawford, forming the executive committee. These precinct chair men will appointed members of their own committees to serve in each district. A discussion of tentative candi dates for county offices wes held and articles for the platform to be drawn up were discussed. A list of candidates will be selected at the next meeting, April 0 and their names will be filed for election. As far as is known, this meeting will take place fit Hillsboro, but if it should be changed, farther announcement will be made later: Mr. Crawford will prepare a plat form for the party, which he will present at the April meeting for the approval of the Republican party. Several members of the group were appointed to attend the Con gressional meeting in Greensboro and the State meeting in Winston Salem during the month of April. There were about twelve appoint ed to attend these meetings. The first meeting of the Repub lican party this year included a good majority of veterans with a group of about thirty in all being present. QgDAR GROVE REVIVAL The Methodist and Presbyterian churches of Cedar Grove will hold a joint revival in that section her ginning Sunday night at the Meth odist church. Rev. R. L. Hethcox, Methodist pastor of Newton Grove charge, will lead the service. ' Rev. Hethcox will conduct a spe cial service for the young people at the coming meeting, and other services every Friday night before the second Sunday. The commu nity is urged to attend these meet ings. VOTERS TAKE NOTICE R. O. Forrest, chairman of the Orange county board of .elections, asked that all. Orange veterans he reminded that the registra tion they made for voting by absentee ballot while out of the States is not flood for voting in the regular-manner. In order to vote they will have to re register. v Registration books will be open from April 27 until May 19. All Orange voters not' listed ere urged to get their names on the books In tlscs too tfe.*,-rS^.. Democratic primary. I The grand jury report to Judge | Paul Frizz^lle at the March term of Superior court dealt to a large degree with the poor condition of the schools in Orange county. Only four of the 22 schools in the county were classed as in pass able condition by the investigat ing jurors. The jury recommended that fountains m the toilets of the Carr boro school be moved and that the ones .now outside the toilets be repaired. The gymnasium of the Hillsboro high school was con demned as unsafe and the roof was reported as leaking. The Mor phy school needed repairs to the roof, coal Bin and boiler room. At White Cross, the boiler room, porch windows and "gutters drew comment. Hickory Grove is hav ing roof and stove pipe troubles. The same troubles were found at the Efland school that had been reported-in the December report of the Jury—fountains in bad con dition and flues needed for the gym. Sunnyside had a roof that gave trouble when the sun did not shine on Sunnyside. The jury asked that the state insurance in spector be called to inspect the auditorium of the Caldwell school. The Ay cock building was still as reported in December—in a gen eral state of bad repair. Jones Grove drew the same comment. At White Oak, the roof was drip ping and the’ doors were in poor condition. The colored schools were in the same need of repair and improve ment, there being only one out of the eight in the county that got a passing mark from the jury. Merritt school had the usual leak ing roof, no lights and no road for entry to the school. The jury urged that a road be built giving access to the school. The Damascus school was in bad condition from top to bottom. In Hillsboro the plumb ing, cellar and ceiling were the principal troubles. At Efland, the stove pipe was reported as a Are hazard but that had apparently been foreseen since the latter part of the report on this school stated that the schbol was out of fuel. Gravely Hill was another in need of general repair. Carr needed weatherboarding and Cedar Grove needed a bit of every type of re pair. The jury in answer to Judge Frizzelle’s comment on the poor heating system of the hourt house reported that plans were under consideration by the county com missioners for the correction of this Situation. County records, buildings and offices inspected other than the schools and., court house received a clean bill of health from the jury. Cooley Writes Of Young Days At Hillsboro Does anybody remember the late Joseph G. Cooley of Hills boro? THE NEWS asks because we received a letter this week from his son in Berkeley, Cal,, C. A. Cooley. Mr. Cooley wrote asking that his name be added to our ever-increasing subscription list, and his letter reads in part as follows: “The reason I am interested in your paper is that I was brought up in Hillsboro. My father was a railroad agent there for quite a while. “The first job I ever had was delivering telegrams between the depot and town. Those were the days before the telephone, the au tomobile, or before paved streets were in vogue. The Western Union paid me a salary of . $1.50 per month. “You can imagine how slippery transportation by foot was in wet weather. I had the seat of my trousers covered with mud more than once. “I left Hillsboro November 2, 1894, at 5:47 p.m. by rail, apd transferred to a mainliner if Greensboro for Atlanta, where I caught the Georgia Pacific (later, the Southern Railway) to Birming ham, Ala., and have been going ever since. » *1 am sure that I shall find the names of' some very interesting people in your paper. If I should return to Hillsboro now I expect 1 would feel almost three timgs as mystified as Rip Van Winkle, when he returned tt» his home town af ter having been asleep for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains,” Well, Mr. Cooley, you probably would be surprised at the new ' things you would find in the Hills boro of today, but why don’t you t^ ttWU towii' a see ;;; yourself?