Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, May 16, 1946 (Published Weekly) WANT TO »UYT WANT TO _r"' ijifffhliT ; -■ THE CLASSIFIED AD PAGE OF THE NEWS DOES BOTH 8 Pages This Week this PAPER CONTAINS MORE ortANGE COUNTY NEWS THAN ANY IN TH« the WORLD Citizens 1 hrough Petition Seek Colonial Inn Priority i jn an r»|ui * vv mhi/wuo w application filed by Colonel Paul Henderson for necessary materials to use in repairing the old Colonial Inn a group of citizens this week circulated a petition addressed to the Federal Housing Administra tion in Greensboro urging that per mits and priorities be issued to Henderson. Over 100 Hillsboro citi zens and business firms signed the petition. The petition pointed out the fact that once the Colonial Inn had been in good repair and had served Hillsboro as a first class hotel ,and that the building would be placed In condition for it to be used again • as a hotel. > The petition follows: , “Colonel Paul Henderson who recently purchased the old'Colonial Inn is making application for the necessary permits to obtain ma terials and labor in the repairing and remodeling of this hotel. "This property has been allowed to deteriorate to the point that it has been in recent years operated as a second or third-class rooming house; it was originally a first class hotel. Hillsboro, the county seat of Orange county, is withoutt any hetel facilities and with very limited eating facilities. “We the undersigned citizen^ of Hillsboro understand that Col onel Henderson plans to repair and remodel this property and after the work is* completed, he will have a modem first-class hotel retain ing as far as possible the original exterior colonial design, with 16 bedrooms and private baths, a large dining room, kitchen, lobby and auxiliary rooms and will provide for the operation of a first-class modem hotel and dining room ser vice. This type of building and business is very urgently needed in our community. “We the undersigned citizens of Hillsboro respectfully request that Colonel Henderson’s application for the said permits for labor and ma terials be given preferred atten tion.” County Agent’s News - Views-, SMALL GRAIN PROSPECTS IN THE COUNTY GOOD In traveling over the county the wheat, oats and barley are look ing good. The straw is of good height and the grain is beginning to fill. out. Barring some unfore seen disaster, Orange county farm ers should produce good yields of these grains,, The amount of bar ley is especially noticeable. The .acreage in this crop is much larger than any previous, year. This ex pected good yield will in a way offset the small acreages planted. Many farmers intended to plant more small grain, but because of unfavorable weather conditions last fall and lack of labor they were unable to carry out their inten tions. __ ___ - GOOD RESULT8 IK __ _ CONTROL bF BLUE MOLD ar Several tobacco fanners who used fermate to spray their to bacco plant beds this year report good resuljts. On all of these beds that were sprayed there occurred soirie mold, but it was not as severe as it was on the untreated beds. Hugh Vaughn, who has finished Planting his whole crop, stated that he was well pleased with the con trol fermate gave him and that he Planned to use it next year if he Planted any tobacco. J. S. and Cooper Compton have already planted two-thirds of their crop and they have not had to slow down their planting because of wold. An untreated plant bed a few hundred yards from the one they had sprayed with fermate wul not be ready to furnish plants dfrtil next week. * Robert Earl Hughes has planted ®t least one-half of his crop and nas been able to select good plants rom his treated bed as fast as he could use them. John Hawkins got fair control on his large plant bed. AH of these men agreed that in order to do a good job the spray to be applied with enough Power to reach the under side of he leaf and that the spray should e applied at least twice each week ogardless of rainy weather. The st of the spray material has been out $1.50 per 100 square yards, 'rom results obtained by these emonstrators, indications are that ere will be a large number of rmers spraying next year. WME 8PREADER AT WORK! G. Merritt, who has the lime contract with the AAA to Orange county farmerS'With lime this year, tvTj l?urchased one of the latest ^wlel power driye lime spreaders. : attstJhni .fe- ibe and has a power take off litfc1 enaWes it to spread the e «t the same time it is de leted. June Superior Court Jurors For Two-Week Session Listed Through error last week THE NEWS printed a partial list of jurors for the June term of Super ior court and stated that it was a venire for the May term which closed Monday night after a one day session. Following is the correct list of jurors for the the two-week term of criminal and civil court opening in the Orange court house Mon day, June 10, with Judge J. Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill the presid ing judge; ~ - . First week (criminal court)—W. L. Latham, John G. Webb, C. R. Teer, J. W.- Johnson, Earl Straughn, L. T. Crabtree, Ormond Walker, W. Poney Pendergraft, E. G. Mer I ritt, M. P. Van Hecke, Parker Roland, Albert Poe, George H. Lawrence, A. P. Wright. J. H. McKee, D. S. Walker, Earl Smith, E. P. Gordon, J. T. Pender grass, Luther T Parker, Fred B. McCall, A. E. Wilson, Hoyle King, W. O. Sparrow, J. T. Daniel, Larry S. Coleman, T. F Hickerson, J B. Allison, E. W. Moore, E. G. Wad dell, John H. Workman. C. B. Pope, O. L. Lashmit, James Cobb, Marvin Clark, B. E! Lank ford. Second week (civil court)— George Edward Sheppard, Clinton Elkins, Jack Light, L, L. Sparrow, J. H. Hinson, W. H. Freeman, Ar thur W. Glosson, Robert I. Mills, J. Grady Crawford, J. T. Brown ing, Frank Pratt, Sr A; Johnson, J. Glenn Pender, Clairbome Clay tom Earl A. Manuel, James R. Couch, Roy McAdams, L. M. Riley, Ralph McKay Trimble, Frank W. Will Wright, William McKee. A. C. Harrell, J. E. Douglass, Clifford King, Warren Walker, Hanft, L. T. Hopkins, John P. Dal zell, W. H. Walker, C. P. Roberts. West Hillsboro Citizens Plan Clean-Up Week Sidney Green of West Hillsboro was elected chairman of the West Hillsboro Civic Organization in a meeting at West Hillsboro school on Thursday, May 9. The organi zation is for civic betterment and membership is open to any resi dent of West Hillsboro. The members of the organization voted to conduct a clean-up cam paign to be started immediately in West Hillsboro. A committee was appointed to make plans for the campaign; The campaign will in clude all of West Hillsboro. James R. Webb has offered the Eno Mill truck for the collection of trash in Eno Village section. The home owners in the main section of town are securing a truck for trash col lection in that area. The campaign committee met Monday night at West Hillsboro School and divided the comunity into blocks. A leader was appoint ed for each block and these lead ers will contact the people in their block to let them know about the collection system. Each home will receive a sheet of instructions about preparing the trash for col lection. The collection of trash has al ready begun and the people of West Hilsboro have cooperated. The West Hillsboro Civic Organ ization will meet on Monday, May 20, at 7:30 at the West Hillsboro School to make further plans for the campaign. All interested per sons in West Hillsboro are invited to attend. Little River Presbyterians Hold Homecoming Services Annual homecoming services were held at the historic Little River Presbyterian church in the Caldwell community Sunday with the pastor, the Rev. J. S. Cook, bringing the morning message. His sermon was based on I Chronicles 22, the story of David’s instructions to his son, Solomon, concerning the building of the building of the temple. At the afternoon service, the Rev. N. R. Claytor, a son of the Little' Rfver church, and present pastor of the Milton Presbyterian church, brought a message from the book of Isiah. The visitors and friends present for the day’s program lauded the membership of the church for the recent improvements made to the clflirch. Dinner was, served picnic style. Four Face Auto Counts Next Month Justice of Peace Cicero Jones ound four cases of careless and eckless driving over to the June >rm of Superior court in hearings onducted before him over the weekend. Each of the four men were placed nder bonds of $100 and ordered ) appear for the Superior court jssion starting June 10. They were: T. R. Murray of Dur am; Odell T. Breeze, an Orange ounty man; Linwood Rook, act ress unknown; and Willie T. Irumwright, address unknown. Ordered to pay costs and fined 3r speeding trucks were William :iley, route 2, Mebane, and J. C. iloyd, Burlington. Riley paid a 5 fine and Lloyd $3. Other cases were: Frank “tut"! f West Hillsboro, drunk, $3 ana osts; L". C. Medlin of West Hills oro, drunk and disorderly, $5 and osts; Leonard Hicks of West Hills oro, drunk, $3 and costs, Willie 7iley, of Orange county, d^order y conduct, $5 and costs; and May ard Whitted, Negro, assault of Joe ,ane, $50 and costs. tree Men Enlist ' G. was announced today by S-Sgt ird W. Chabot, sub-station -Hander of the Durham Re £g Station, that the following have enlisted in the regular -, subject to physical approval jrt Bragg. „ f T 7 Allen, Route three years; Earnest I. Can . Route 3, Hillsboro, 3 years. Veterans’ Officer Here On Thursdays During the sicknes of the HiUs boro Veterans’ Service Officer, A. W. Kenion, who is at present in the hospital, Charles A* Bedding field, assistant State Service Of-" ficer, will serve the Hillsboro area from the local office. Beddingfield will be in the Hills boro office each Thursday to as sist Orange county veterans in any problem they may have. Rotary Hears Prize Papers. Of Students Chapel Hill—Winners of a county-wide essay contest sponsor ed by local Rotarians read their prize winning papers at the regu lar meeting of the club this week. The contest was sponsored by the club for members of the seventh and eighth grades in connection with National Youth Week. Winners were Derith Alexander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Alexander; Johnsie Bennett, whose father, Jphn S. Bennett, is a char ter member of the Rotary Club here, and Sam Emory, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Sam. T. Emory, who tied for first place in the seventh grade with Ellie Toy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Calvert Toy. * Dr. Qaston Rogers recommended during the business sesion of -last week’s meeting that the club coop erate with and contribute as gen erously as possible to the current cancer drive. It was also announced that the following individuals would attend the annual 189th Rotary District Conference in Elizabeth City this week: Mr. and Mrs. L. Vic Hug gins, Mayor and Mrs. R. W. Madry, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rinehart, Roy Barham, Erie Peacock, Carl Smith, Jim Godfrey and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Whitmire. Participating on the program will be Madry, local Rotary presi- j dent Huggins, and Dr. Frank P. Graham, who was the luncheon speaker Tuesday. RETURNS TO CAMP ''i Sgt. Luther Davis has retimed to his base at Memphis, Tenn., after spending a short furlough here. He was called home on ac .feounrof the ilbi&xp -of h» mother,. Mrs. Erna Davis of West Hillsboro, who is a patient at Duke hospital; War Veteran Joins News As Editor v ■ • v'V- .£»■ ■ •' This week THE NEWS boasts the addition of the second veteran of World War II to Its staff within the past month with Harry D. Hollingsworth, veteran newspaper man in both the daily and weekly fields asuming the position of ed itor. During the war months, the staff of the paper has been partially manned by “come and go” part time personnel until a permanent man could be secured for the pos ition of editor and business mana ger. Hollingsworth is making his home in Hillsboro and will be a permanent partner’ with THE NEWS, INC. j - Hollingsworth, 25 ^ears old, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree of A. B. Journalism, class of 1942. While at the University ^ he worked lour years on the Daily Tar JHeel, Uni versity publication, and was sports editor in his senior year. While in school he spent his summer va cations in the employ of his home town newspaper, the Goldsbara News-Argus. He worked as report er for this daily and later as sports editor from 1939 to 1941 during the summers. Upon graduation from the Uni versity, he joined the News-Argus staff as a full time reporter and was later promoted to .the position of city editor. In J antiary of 1943 he resigned the hometown, position to acept a job with Parker Broth ers, Inc., at Ahoskie, publishers of four progressive weekly newspap ers. Hollingsworth served as edi tor of the Hertford County Her ald and later handled all copy for the Herald and the Gates County Index, both being Parker Brothers publications. He entered the army as a private on June 15, 1944 and received basic training at Camp Croft, S. C., in the infantry. Later transferred to Fort Meade, Md., in Novem ber, 1944, he was assigned as cadre in Replacement Depot at Fort Meade in December. He worked in special services and public rela tions from December, 1944 until April 27, 1946 at Fort Meade and Camp Pickett, Va. Hollingsworth was stationed at Camp Pickett from September, 1945, until April 1946, when he was transferred to Separation Center at Fort Meade where he was discharged as a ser geant. * ~ Hollingsworth is married to the former Miss Norma Doris Large of Rocky Mount, sister of Harry S. Large of Hillsboro. They have a 9 months old son, Harry, Jr. Seth L. Thomas, native of Hills boro, is the other veteran who re cently jome3The’sl5ni)7~“THE NEWS. Thomas entered the ser vice of THE NEWS last April 8. 11 Divorces Are Granted Eleven divorces were granted Monday in an all-day session of Orange county superior court. The scheduled one-week session re cessed after a night session Monday until June 10 when a two-week criminal and civil court term is scheduled. Divorces granted were: Anne Bagby Welfare, from Bradley L. Welfare, Jr.; T. G. Richardson from Margaret Richardson; Ber nice M. Barbee from Woodrow Winston Barbee; Margaret Crowe Taylor from Robert Wilson Tay lor; Artis William Gregory from Rebecca Riggsbee Gregory. Margie Cole Russell from Her bert Russell; Edmond W. Wilson from Virginia C. Wilson; Louise Allen Durham from George W. Durham; Mary Council Black from Joe Black; Mavor W. Wright from W. David Wright and J. Roland Clark from Iva O. Clark. * All the divorces were granted on grounds of two years separation. Divorce action^ instituted, by v by Hairy Lee Dezem Hicks were continued. Robert Terrell and Hillsboro Is Without Night Mail Service Milk Survey Being Made In District L. L. Fittro, new sanitary engin eer with the Orange-Person-Chat ham Health Department is making a preliminary survey of dairies and milk producers in this county. Working with him this week has been B. L. Jessup of the State Division of Sanitary Engineering. Together they ate. visiting dairies, pastures, and distribution plants and will make recommendations of improvements needed and changes necessary for the improve ment of sanitation. Later Fittro will release grades and reports of his findings. 3A4 Veters Added la Local Precinct A total of 304 qualified voters— all of whom registered as Demo crats—were registered by Seth L. Thomas, Hillsboro precinct regis trar, before the books closed Sat urday for voting in the May 25 primary. Registration of the 304 men brought the total of qualified vot ers in Hillsboro precinct to 1,868. With the discontinuance of too Southern trains because of coat shortage, Hillsboro la now without any night mail service? Mrs. Cora Lynch, postmistress of the Hillsboro post office, pointed out this week. Although the coal miners have returned to the pits under a 12 day truce to reach an agreement on their difficulties, there Is no Indication that the trains will be put into service anytime In the* near future, it was further ex plained. Until such time as the night trains resume their schedules, Hillsboro will be served by two trains daily—the 8:28 a.m. trains which are scheduled to meet here going in opposite directions. Since these are the only trains serving Hillsboro and the three rural routes which are operated from the post office hero, all malf is not placed in the post office boxes until 11 a.m. and rural route deliveries are a day late. Rural carHers leave the post of fice every morning before the trains arrive. Suspended trains serving Hill sboro were No. 111 going to Greensboro and No. 112 going to Goldsboro. V.F.W. Post Organized Here Meets Again Tuesday Night Organization meeting of the Hillsboro Post No. 7123 of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars was held Tuesday night in the Masonic Hall in Hillsboro. The following officers were elec ted and installed: Charles M. Wal ker, Jr., comander; Marshall Cates, senior vice commander; Clarence S. Cates, junior vice commander; D. Efland Forrest, surgeon; and Harlan G. Coleman, Jr., quarter master. The next meeting" of the HStet is scheduled for Tuesday night, May 21. After these organizational meet ings, the Post will meet the third Tuesday night in each month at 8 during the summer months and at 7 p.m. during the winter months. It was decided at the meeting Tuesday night that all veterans who join the Post during the next 30 days will be considered char ter members. Twelve veterans were present for the first meeting. All overseas veterans are eligible and are urged to join. P Suggestion was made that the Post' be named in honor of some man from Hillsboro who gave his life during World War II. This is the first VFW to be or ganized in Orange county. Charter members are as follows othe» than those elected as officers: Seth L. Thomas, Leon Smith, Ber nard Allison, George Cates, Mel vin, Allison, Alonzo Kenion and David Rhew. .. . ATTEND WEDDING Among those from Eno commu nity attending the Blackwood Denny wedding at Trinity church in Durham Saturday were Mrs. L. H. Cox, Mrs. P. E. McKee, Miss and Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Strayhom and daughters, Peggy and Sylvia. Blackwood, a veteran, is an em ployee of Duke Power Co., having returned to his job in January fol lowing his discharge. Mrs. Black wood is a graduate nurse at Watts hospital. Student Hurt By Automobile Is Recovering Chapel Hill—Miss Ruth Alden (Sally) Stevens, young graduate student who was struck by an auto mobile on FranSSin Street last Thursday afternoon, is reported improving rapidly at Duke hospi tal. Relatives say she will be trans fered to the UNC infirmary today (Thursday). Officer C. E. King, who investi gated the accident, reported that Miss Stevens was struck by an automobile driven by Lee Leiser son, graduate student in the Uni versity’s chemistry department. Leiserson posted $300 bond, fol lowing the accident, for- his ap pearance in Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court Tuesday, May 21, No charge (pending the outcome of Miss'stev ens’ condition) has been placed against him. SPRAY DAIRY BARNS In two demonstrations held last week, dairy barns were sprayed with 5 per cent solution of DDT at a cost of approximately $1.50 each, for the materials used. It requires for' the average 20 Cow dairy barn about 2 gallons of the liquid DDT to cover the walls and feeding. Mr. Conner pointed out that one can use either the dry DDT pow der mixed with water or the DDT oil base mixed with water. He also .said that while DDT spray was probably as poisonous as arsenate of ledd if taken internally there was practically no dangei* from it if ordinary precautions were used. The county agents are prepared to give any advice on the use of this spray to dairymen or others wishing it. Hillsboro Scouts Presented Awards At Court Of Honor A Court of Honor was conducted by Boy Scout Troop 38 on Thurs day night at the First Baptist Church with the Rev, W. W. Aber nethy, scoutmaster, presiding. He was assisted by F. E. - Joyner, chairman of the advancement com mittee. Those Scouts who were advanced to the rank of second-class Scouts were presented their awards by James Webb. Scouts receiving this rank were Franz Roberts, Fred Blake "Jr., James Richmond and Harry Brown. Donald Whitaker and Bobby Hastings, who had pre viously won their second-class rank, were presented their in signia by Mr. Joyner. Walter Teer made the awards to those who were advanced to St&r Scout, rank. These were James Minriis,,. Mitchell Lloyd Jr. and Roy Straynorii. Merit badges were presented by Donald S. Matheson to the fcjilow Donald Whitaker, carpentry; Bobby Hastings, home repairs and reading; James Minnis, cooking; Bob Strayhorn, swimming, home repairs and farm mechanics; Ken neth Brown, cooking; Billy Teer, home repairs and bird study; Sam Hughes Jr., music and bird study; Mitchell Lloyd Jr., pioneering and personal health. Sam Hughes Sr. presented an award to James Richmond for 50 hours of community service and to Harry Brown for 75 hours service. An award was presented to Mitchell Lloyd Jr. for 12 months perfect attendance. Donald S. Matheson spoke on the cancer control drive now in progress throughout the nation. E. I. Moak, field executive for Durham-Orange-Chatham coun ties attended as did several repre sentatives from Troop 33 and the Girl Scouts. . Patrol leaders are Sam Hughes Jr., Kensssth and Will Gilmore. Cab Driver Fined Costs For Contempt Chapel Hill—Max Weaver, Cha pel Hill taxi driver who criticized sentences judged by the Recorder** Court here in a recent letter to tbe Tar Heel, student publication, was fined costs of court here Tuesday on a charge of contempt of court. Judge Henry A. Whitfield or dered that Weaver pay the costs of court after Solicitor Clarence P. Hinshaw read a letter to the court which appeared in Tuesday morn ing’s edition of the student paper in which Weaver apologized for his previous letter. The first letter alleged that the court had been unfair in its treatment of traffic violators. — Bob Morrison, editor of tire newspaper, who had also been or dered to appear before Judge Whit field, was not present in court. Other cases handled were: Wil liam B. Goldston, breaking glass in street; John R. Muse, drank; Odesa Sellais, Negro, drunk; Frank Brewer, Negro, assault on wife, Alma; J, C. Fox, Speeding; and R. M. Johnson, running through • stop sign. All were fined costs of court. Automobile driving license of Clarence W. Ramsey was suspend ed for 30 days and costs assessed him when he was found guilty of speeding and reckless driving. Holiness Charch Revival Underway The Rev. Wray J. Smith of Ramseur is conducting a revival meeting at the Pilgrim Holiness Church in Wesf Hillsboro. Started Sunday, May 12, the meeting will continue through May 26. During the revival, services will be held each evening at 7:30 pjn. and at 11 ajn. on Sundays. “If you don’t hear this man of God, you will miss a treat,” the Rev. J. F. Kemodle said in an nouncing the plans for the two week religious meeting. Soil Conservation i News Shelton Ray of Rt. 1, Chapel Hill, makes a soil conservation plan with the Neuse River Soil Conservation district. Mr. Ray plans to seed an acre of alfalfa for permanent hay this fall. W. M. Perkins seeded a 10-acre area to serecia lespedeza for a per manent pasture. Mr. Perkins states that serecia lespedeza makes good grazing, if you graze it while the serecia is young and tender and never allow it to become tall and weedy. J. L. Scotton of Rt. 1, Efland, and Knox Woqds of Lynch’s store neighborhood, have dug ditches with dynamite. R. L. Mohler, soil conservationist for the Neuse River Soil Conservation district, assisted with the ditching. M. R. Walker of Rt. 1, Hillsboro, H. E. Walker of Cedar Grove and W. T. Edwards of Carr community have had terraces staked out and plan to build them with their own farm equipment. "" R. H. TaTe of Lynch’s" store neighborhood and J. D. Ray of Walnut Grove community, had their tobacco rows laid off by the string method, giving a uniform row drainage and preventing ex cessive soil loss. This system has proved to be very satisfactory and is recommended by the county agent, AAA and Soil Conservation Service. Claude Lynch of Lynch’s store neighborhood, Henry Webster of Cheeks Cross Road neighborhood, C. F. Wilkerson of Schley neigh borhood and H. M. Blackwood of New Hope community have seeded bicolor and serecia lespedeza on unproductive field borders to con trol erosion jand to furnish feed for birds. These seed were con tributed by the N. C. department of conservation and development, division-of game and inland fish eries-, of Raleigh and distributed by the personnel of the Neuse River Soil Conservation district. HOSTESS TO CIRCLE Mrs. Ross Porter was hostess to the Rena Lupton circle of the Methodist church on Monday eve ning. Mrs. Garland Miller conducted the devotional and Miss Mildred Spahr made a short talk on pea€C. Mrs. Van Kenion, Jr., reviewed the life of Sarah, as the group continued its study of “Women in the Bible:” The hostess served applesauce cake to the 15 bers present. > Mi