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Hillsboro Merchants
Discuss Revision Of
Local Credit System
The principal discussion of the
evening at the May meeting of the
Hillsboro Merchants Association
Monday night at Dud’s Tavern was
the revision of the credit flies
cf the local association
President Bob Forrest led the
discussion at what was called the
biggest gathering yet to be held
bv the Hillsboro organiza tion.
Members in attendance were given
{orrns that are to. be used in the
new credit bureau system and use
of the forms was explained by For
rest and the secretary of the asso
ciation, Mrs. Mary Roberts Trues
dale. - "*
The first business brought be
fore the gathering after it had been
amply filled with Brunswick stew
and barbecue was whether or not
to ask the city fathers to continue
traffic regulations as they are in
so far as red lights are concerned.
A motion was made by J. M. Blie
den asking that the red light not
be used. After a lengthy discus
sion, no second was received for
the motion so it failed to reach a
vole_ _ '
Clarence Jones commended the
president and Blieden on their
membership drive, which has
raised the association to its high
est strength since its organization.
Jones also spoke highly of Mrs.
Truesdale’s work, and gave the
crowd a brief resume of the in
formation that is available to them
through the services of the credit
bureau.
Jack Blieden then brought be
fore the meeting a suggestion to
hold a Dollar Day by all local mer
chants in which they would offer
some real bargains to attract peo
ple to town in spite of the various
shortages. Forrest suggested tying
this in with some sort of festival
and Mrs. Truesdale told them that
if the day could be arranged be-,
fore the end of June the Army
would furnish a considerable num
ber of men and pieces of equipment
to help the day go over with a
bang. , ---.
The steer which the association
bought in Durham at the recent
fat stock show was auctioned off
by “Fast Action” Blieden; half of
it was knocked down to Lucius
Brown and the other half to Bob
Forrest. Both halves brought the
same price, 56 cents per pound.
Even at this high price, which is
more than double the current OPA
level for beef, the steer was not
paid for, since it brought the high
est price of any of the Orange
county prize winners sold in the
recent show.
A collection was made among
those in attendance, and over S130
Was raised toward the balance of
the $528.05 purchase price paid
Joe Cortipton, Aycock school boy,
who raiseid the blue ribbon steer.
The balance of the meeting was
spent in discussion of ways and
means to persuade some new pay
roll or payrolls to come to Hills
boro. The gathering expressed the
view that a good bit of capital is
available at present in HillsborP
if some manufacturer is inter
Iested in finding a home for his
Plant.
Legionnaires
Pick Officers
Tuesday Night
The Hillsboro post of the Ameri
can Legion elected officers for the
coming year at its regular monthly
session in Masonic Hall Tuesday
night. Delegates and alternates to
the. state convention, which will be
held in Winston-Salem June 18
were also elected.
Dr. D. E. Forrest was elected
post commander; W. R- Fitzgerald,
1st vice-commander; Seth Thomas,
2nd vice-commander; Jessie Jor
dan, 3rd vice-commander; Steve
Allison, adjutant; H. G. Coleman
Jr., finance officer; Odell Cflayton,
sergeant-at-arms, and W. H. Rit
tenhouse, chaplain.
All of these officers are veterans
of World War II and Chaplain
Rittenhouse is a veteran of both
World Wars. He recently moved to
Orange county and bought the
Occoneechee farm where he and
JiiS three sons are living while
they attend the University in
Chapel Hill. Rittenhouse made a
short speech of thanks to the gath
ering, telling them how much he
is enjoying the Orange community
life.
O. S. Roberts, Dr. Forrest, W. G.
Wrenn and A. H. Graham were
elected to be delegates to the state
convention. Alternates are Max
Browning, Clem Strudwick, R. L.
Mohler and Steve Allison.
School Board
Plans Survey
Future iNeeds
" The county school board met
with superintendent Claytor Mon
day morning and voted to ask the
state director of school planning
to make a survey in Orange county
and offer suggestions for the ne
cessary work that will have to be
done to county schools in-the near
future. v
The board will meet again on
the 20th of this month when they
will take under consideration the
election of next year’s teachers
and vote on’ the school bus routes
that have been ' recommended by
the~-vafious local committees.’
COURSE IN ISAIAH AT
LOCAL CHURCH
Miss Florence Root will teach
a course in Isaiah at the Presby
terian Church in Hillsboro be
ginning May 15. The cgurse will
consist of three one-hour classes
which will begin at 7:45 p.m. on
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The public is cordially invited
to attend these classes.
West Hillsboro People
Ask Law Enforcment
The county board of commission
ers heard requests for additional
law enforcement officers in West
Hillsboro at their regular month
ly session in the courthouse Mon
day.
Hev. Whitfield and J. R. Webb
stressed the need of sump sort of
a curb in the West Hillsboro com
munity. Whitfield, who appeared
lr> behalf of the ministers of that
section, says conditions are ex
tremely bad in so far as drunken
ess> gambling and vice • are con
cerned and he feels the presence
e' a full time deputy in West Hills
°ro would do a lot toward cor
16the situation
webb, who spoke as a repre
sentative of the mills, says he is
5 rongly opposed to the use of com
pany police to any extent in an
® tort to correct the troubles of
e community, but he says the
county will have complete cooper
ion from the naills in any efforts
aue in that direction,
sheriff Latta, on whom the res
ponsibility of obtaining a deputy
°uld *aU, says it is next to im
possible to get a man at the prices
ls*>ble to Pay at present. He al
w the suggestion that it
ouid be useless to arrest the law
ers unless some more posi
Punitive means counld be
break,
tive ‘a
J°Uhd* _
fil^^^i,rdrmreii xwir-.
i„ ,, and Webb that they would
dP- * e salary of an additional
Puty in the new budget, which.
10 be compiled in July.
MRS. THOMAS H. DULA
HAS ARTICLES PUBLISHED
Mrs. Thomas H. Dula, who write?
under the name of Lucile.Noell
Dula, will have an article yi a
summer issue of “Sun-up,” a home
and garden magazine published by
Kenneth Kitch in San Antonio.
Texas. The article is titled Nmth
Carolina’s Arboretum—a Natural
istic Design.” Photographs for the
article were furnished by Wootten
Moulton. photographers ol Chapel
Hill, and the University News bu
reau, al^o of Chapel Hill. /
The article is scheduled to ap
pear in the August issue. An article
titled “Land of the Sky” appears
in the. May issue of “South, pub
lished' by Ray M. Thompson in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
LOW WEEK FOR MAGISTRATE
Justice of Peace Cicero Jones
had an unusually slow weekend,
with only four cases com.ng be
fore him. Three of the four tried
were from West Hillsboro and
all were charged with the same
thing, public drunkeness, each
one of them paid $3 and costs,
Charlie Huffman, Leonard Hicks
and Henry B. Hicks.
R. W. Wilson of Yanceyville
paid the same thing for spee
ing.
Ecevirii
Mrs G W. Gilmore and daugh
jffl are recovering from an at
rk of measles.
Here are the three contestants for the sixth congressional district seat in congress. Voters will make
a choice between the three on May 25 when they go to the polls in the Democratic primary. Left
to right they are Carl Durham^ Chapel Hill; Earl Rives, Greensboro; and D. E. Scarborough, also
of Greensboro.
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Final Registration Day
Jury For May
Is Selected i
This Week
The venire for the May term of
civil court that will start on Mon
day, May 13, was drawn Monday
at the court house. The list is as
follows:
Chapel Hill: W. L. Lathar, Ron
nis Pendergraft, E. G. Merritt, M.
P. Van Hecke, Albert Poe, G. H.
Lawrence, J. T. Pendergraft, Fred
McCall, W. O. Sparrow, James
Cobb, Marvin Clark, George Shep
ard, Jack Leigh, J. L. Sparrow, J.
H. Hinson, L. M. Riley, Will
Wright, A. C. Howell, Ralph M.
Trimble, Frank W. Hanft, John
Dalzell, C. P. Roberts and T. F.
Hickerson.
Hillsboro: John G. Webb, B. P.
Gordon, C. G. Waddell, Robert I.
Miller, S. A. Johnson, W. A. Wal
ker, Luther T, Parker.
County Agent’s
News - Views
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MORE FARMERS ENTER
CORN GROWING CONTEST
Daring the week the following
farmers entered the corn growing
contest: Truitte Lloyd, H. S. Wal
ker.and Ben Wilson Jr, This brings
to 24 the number of farmers in the
county who have formally, entered
the corn growing contest being
sponsored by the Bank of Chapel
Hill. The winner of this contest
will receive a $100 War Bond. The
contest is wide-open to any
farmer, white or colored, and no
“holds” are barred. The purpose
of the contest is to get farmers to
try out on a small piece of land
some of the newest practices which
it iron-been demondffated wilT yiellt
from two to three times more corn
than that which has previously
been grown.
It is expected that several more
farmers will enter the contest be
iore/the deadline of June 1.
^Applications may be secured at
the county agents’ office.
CONTROL OF FLIES
Flies can be controlled in the
dairy barn and on dairy cows by
the proper use of DDT. James T.
Conner, extension entomologist
from State College, will hold two
demonstrations on the proper use
of this material. These demon
strations will be held Friday after
noon, May 10, on ■' the Fred Lloyd
farm at Orange Grove at 1:30,
and at the- J. E. Latta farm near
Schley at 3:30.
All interested farmers are in
vited to attend.
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
On Monday evening of last
week Mrs. William H. White was
hostess to the members of the
Presbyterian Auxiliary, with Mrs.
F. E. Joyner and Mrs. A. H. Walker,
as assistant hostesses.
The devotional was conducted by
Mrs. S. W. DuBose, with Mrs.
Glenn Auman aS program leader.
The program theme was “Chris
tian Education and Ministerial Re
lief,” with Mrs. Allan Bain of
Burlington as guest speaker,.—.
Following the pro-am light re
freshments were served to the 20
members present.
WEST HILLSBORO CIVIC
ORGANIZATION TONIGHT ~
A meeting of the West Hillsboro
Civic Organization has been an
nounced for Thursday night, May
& jftUsbpro ■' schooL
E veryone who'is interested in com
munity health and welfare is cor
dially invited to attend.
Saturday, May 11, is the last day
for registration to vote in the May
25 Democratic primary. All vet
erans who have not voted except
by the absentee ballot used for
the armed forces are ask£d by
county election officials to remem
ber this and make an effort to get
their names on the books before
sundown Saturday.
Orange county voters have only
three races presented to them in
this primary but two of the con
tests offer a good bit; of interest
to the politically miiided of the
county.
Perhaps the biggest interest is
being shown in the three-cornered
race between Carl Durham of
Chapel Hill and Earl Rives and
D. E. Scarborough of Greensboro.
Durham, the incumbent, is expect
ed to pile up a considerable mar
gin in Orange, his home county,
and local gazers into the political
eight ball predict that Durham
county will give the contestant
bearing its name a comfortable
margin.
Alamance county may cast the
deciding vote in this contest since
Guilford is slated to #> strongly
to Rives. Local Durham supporters
feel that the entry of Scarborough
in the race has made Durham’s
chances for reelection better, since
votes . for him in Guilford will
lessen the predicted Rives majority
in that county.
The race for sheriff in Orange
has not given off too many sparks
in the open, but a lot of backdoor
politicking is being done in this
contest. Bob Thomas, jex-highway
patrolman, who resigned to enter
this race, seems to have consider
able siijjgort in the southern part
of the' cotmty, while incumbent
Sam Latta is expected to hold the
edge in the northern section.
In Hillsboro township George
Hunt and Martin Terrell offer the
rest of the three-way choice be
fore the voters in the primary.
Junior League
Bridge Party
First Since 43
Chapel Hill. — The, first Junior
Service League bridge party" to be
held since 1943 was conducted, in
two sessions, last Wednesday af
ternoon and evening at Graham
Memorial. Refreshments were
served at both sessions. Mrs. Mor
ris Newton was chairman for the
benefit, proceeds from which will
be used for the League’s white,
colored baby clinic.
Mrs. H. E. Thompson, president
of the League, said that receipts
from the benefit had not yet been
tallied, but estimated that in the
neighborhood of $125 had been
cleared. The League meets the last
Tuesday in each month, and the
clinic is held the first and third
Wednesday of each month. Mrs.
Henry West is clinic chairman.
ENO METHODIST CHURCH
TO HONOR MOTHERS
The Eno Methodist Church of
West Hillsboro will honor its
mothers, both living and dead,
with a special service of worship
at the 11 o’clock hour, Mother’s,
Day, Sunday, May 12. The theme
of the hour of worship " will be
“The Glorified Mother.” Special
music dedicated to all mothers of
the world will be sung by the vest
ed Children’s Choir. One of the
high moments of the service will
be the presentation of flowers to
the mother with the youngest child,
the mpther with the most chil
dren, aind the oldest mother. The
pastor of the church extends a
friendly invitation and offers the
prayer that on this Sunday all
(pothers of our county observe
somqjvhere and glorifying God as
He has glorified them.
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Hillsboro^Man
Killed Sunday
Newport News
Ora J. Scott, 46, son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. J." C. Scott of Hills
boro and brother of Curtis and
Clyde Scott of Hillsboro, Was killed
Sunday night-jn Newport News,
Va., by a hit-and-run driver.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at 3 o’clock in the
Hillsboro Methodist Church. The
services were conducted by Rev.
C. S. Hubbard and Rev. S. F.
Nicks. Burial was in the Hillsboro
cemetery.
" Scott, who was working for the
Newport News Drydock Company,
was a veteran of both World Wars
and is also survived by his wife,
the former Lillian Rebecca Jones
of Marion, S. C.; twor daughters,
Mrs. R. A. Blood of Berkeley, Cal.,
and Miss Nancy Scptt of Mebane;
one sister, Mrs. S. J. Minnis of
Durham, and one other brother,
B. H. Scott of Newport News, Va.
Soil Conservation
News
Thomas Strowd, Mrs. C. F. An
drews and Otis Lloyd of Carrboro
community .had terraces staked by
the personnel of-the Neuse River
Soil Conservation district. The
farmers plan to use their own farm
equipment to construct these ter
races.
M. R. Walker, Rt. 1, Hillsboro,
plans to turn under a good crop
of red clover by the middle of
August on three acres which will
be deeded tojalfalfa in September.
Mr. Walker highly recommends the
use of red clover as a land builder.
Robert E. Hughes of Cedar
Grove makes a complete soil con
servation plan of his Tarms with
the Neuse River Soil Conservation
district. Mr. Hughes plans to build
a fish pond this summer and re
seed part of his pasture land to
a good pasture mixture as rec
ommended by the county agent,
D. S. Matheson, A. K. McAdams,
AAA, and R. L. Mohler, soil con
servationist, all of Orange county.
HIDDEN TREASURE
IN HILLSBORO
Tales of burigd treasures have
long been a part of the local folk
lore, but few if any of the local
citizenry had any idea how close
they had been for the last five
years to a considerable under
ground fortune.
Disclosure of this cache came
yesterday when the gasoline dis
tributor sent his service man out
to check the tanks of the filling
station that P. J. Reeves is open
ing at the head of Churton street,
where highways 86 and 70 inter
sect.* » .
This check is routine for stor
age tanks that have long been idle,
since the condensation inside the
tank often will accumulate con
siderable amounts' of wafer. The
Sinclair service man lowered his
measuring stick into the last tank
on the west of the station and
pulled it out to find, over 500 gal
lons of gas that had lain there for
over five years. Thousands of gas
huifgry folks have passed that cor
ner during the gas-rationed years
of the war, but naturally, as things
discovery did not corSfe ilnui n
was too late. .
Beer License Denial
Takes Much Of May
Commissioner Meeting
Auxilliary Is
34 Years Old
Wednesday
Wednesday, May 8—The an
nual birthday party of the Pres
byterian Auxiliary of the Hillsboro
Presbyterian church will be held
tonight in the home of Mrs. Paul
JR. Caston at the old Barracks at
8:00 p.m.
Principal speaker of the eve
ning will be Mrs. John W. McQueen
of Birmingham, Alabama, former
member of the staff of womans
work at the southern assembly in
Atlanta. Mrs. McQueen, who with
her husband, a former Chaplain
in the services, is the author of
the Auxiliary program for the com
ing year will speak on the subject
of home missions.
Mrs. N. G. Barbour, president of
the local auxiliary will presfde
and introduce the speaker. The
program for the evening is under
the direction of Mrs* Clarence
Jones.
A quartet composed of Mrs. J.
, W. Diejcson, Mr. Sidney Green and
[ Mr. and? Mrs. Clarence Jones will
L be accompanied by Mrs. Bryan
^ Roberts^ for( the musical part of.
the evening.
’ Mesdames T. H. Antrim and
William White will be in charge of
refreshments. Members of the
Young Women’s Circle will assist
with the serving.
This is the 34th annual -birth
| day anniversary of the local aux
iliary and all members are urged
to attend.
; High Baseball
J Team Defeated
' By Methodist
After seeming to get. off to a
good start last Wednesday with
three runs in the first inning,
Hillsboro was handed a 6 to 8
defeat at the hands of a small but
spunky Methodist Orphanage team.
Johnson, the local pitcher, gave
up five hits compared to, three for
Rogers, the visiting hurler. Hills
boro made three errors.while the
• Methodists made eight. r~
, PICTURE TO BE SHOWN
, AT AYCOCK SCHOOL
hew 30-minute sound motion
| picture, “The Way to . a Man’s
Heart,” will be given a special
showing by Aycock branch of
Future Homemakers of America
at Aycock school May 16 at 2
, o’clock.
> Hroduced by the National Live
Stock and Meat Board, this pic
ture depicts in interesting fashion
the functions of food in proper
* nutrition and stresses the advarP
tages of cooking meat at a low
temperature.
TYPHOID IMMUNIZATIONS
FOR ORANGE COUNTY
1 May 8.—Dr. O. David Garvin,
1 district health officer, announced
yesterday .the following schedules
' for typhoid immunization clinics:
they are at Aycock school on May
■ 9 and 17, West Hillsboro school
■ on May 14 and 21, and Hillsboro
colored school on May 16, 24 and
31. TheTyphoid Immunizations are
free to everyone.
The refusal of the county com
missioners to re-license J. A.
Thompson to sel beer in his filling
station, the “Log Cabin”, on the
Mebane road was the principal
topic of discussion at the regular
session bf the board as it met Mon
day in the courthouse.
During the morning session Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson both appeared
before the commisioners and spoke
at some length of what they call
ed a “Dirty Deal”. The Thompsons
claimed that they had not know
ingly violated any laws and felt
that they were due another chance
to prove their ability to run a de
cent and orderly place of business'.
They argued that they had been
treated unfairly on the basis of
the evidence that has been present
ed.
At the afternoon session, Bonner
Sawyer, counsel for the Thomp
sons, appeared in another plea that
they be given another chance.
The appeals were in vain, how
ever, for the board voted unani
mously in favor of continuing the
refusal of the license. The board
advised both the Thompsons and
their lawyer that they had the
protection which is provided them
under the law of appealing the
case to the Superior Court.
The Thompsons stated they had
rather settle the argument out of
court, but if It proved necessary
they did intend to carry it to court.
The board approved the grant
ing of beer licenses to the follow
ing: Flint Cameron, Clifton and
Frank Wilkinson, Henry L. Cobb
and J. M. Batson.
Harold Gulick was paid $11.25
for 15 hens killed by dogs.
The board will meet in Oxford
on May 15 with the district high
way commissioner for discussion
of paving priorities in Orange
county.
Mrs. Katherine Hamrick, home
demonstration agent, reported the
; activities of her office for the past
| month. Included in the report were
plans for improvement of curb
market facilities in Chapel Hill.
Sales last month at the market
were $3,001.56, according to Mrs.
Hamrick’s report.
Dr. Garvin, district director of
the public health service, appeared—
before the board and asked for
an increase in the coming year’s
budget of $900. He reported 'that
10 new cases of tuberculosis were
discovered in the recent survey
and that several cases that possibly
may be cancer were detected in
the same tests. . ^
Garvin said response to the ra
bies inoculation clinics that have
been held all over the county was
very poor. As an example he says
that only 40 dogs from Chapel Hill
township were vaccinated.
The board approved the increase
in the budget and moved to in
clude it in the next fiscal estimates.
FARMERS, TAKE NOTE
A. K. McAdams, secretary of
the Orange county AAA com
mittee, has announced that the
time for filing 1946 farm plans
has been extended to June 1.
McAdams states that quite a
few farmers have failed to do
this so far, and would like for
those who have neglected this
to do so at once before the ex
piration date.
It is necessary that your farm
be signed up for 1946 before you
can receive any material, or pay
ment, for any practice carried
out on the farm.
Weaver and Morrison
Ordered Before Judge
Whitfield Next Week
Chapel Hill, May 7. — Judge!
Henry A. Whitfield ordered Max
Weaver, local taxi driver, and Bob
Morrison, editor of the Tar Heeh
to appear before the court at its
next session and explain a letter
from Weaver printed May 4 in
the Tar Heel.
Whitfield issued this order after
Solicitor Hihshaw read the letter
to the court this morning. In the
letter Weaver charges the court
has been unfair in its treatment
of traffic violators. He cites a re
cent instance in which a taxi driver
was fined $50 and costs for speed
ing, while other speeding offenders
were )et off with much less.
Cases disposed of in this week’s
session included five speeders who
were taxed the costs: Paul Sher
man, J. L. Hutton Jr., T. L.'Tur
lington, William M. Andrews and
Junior Baldwin. ' • -v .
”' LaWrertcw' jaciwftt&v
guilty of temporary possession of
a truck. He was sentenced to 12
months on the roads, sentence sus
pended on the condition' that he
remain out of Qrgngp county for
five years.
Clarence Nickerson was given
two months on the roads for oper
ating a vehicle without a license
after having been previously warn
ed about the same offense.
Arthur Clark, drunk, costs; How
ard F. Kane, driving drunk with
out license, $50 and costs; R. C.
Tweed, public drunkenness and al
lowing drunk to operate vehicle,
$50 and costs; Charles A. Brown,
public drunkenness and driving
drunk, $50 and costs—notice of
appeal filed; .Wesley Hill, disor
derly conduct and damage to pri
vate property, pay Varsity Shop
Alex Baldwin, operating
without brakes or license, $25
costs;. .Thomas Morrow,