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Vol. 53» No- 24
Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, August 1, 1946
(Published Weekly)
10 Pages This Week
200 Attend 4-H Countv
Picnic A
By E. P. Barnes
Assistant County Agent *
In spite of cloudy weaker and
some rain, approximately 200 4-H
club members, parents and friends
enjoyed an all-day outing at Ho
gan’s Lake Saturday, July 27. De
spite the cool weather, most of the
club members were able to get a
morning and afternoon swim. Dur
ing the day several softball con
tests were played. The most en
joyable one of these was between
4-H*club girls and the men. Horse
shoe pitching was also in order .of
the day.’ Ladies present spread a
bountiful lunch and served iced
tea.
After lunch' a dress revue was
held. The dress modeled by Doris
Taylor of the Efland senior 4-H
club was selected winner by the
judges.
To add a carnival spirit to the
occasion, an amplifying system was
used to play records of popular
music. Bunting was spread be
tween many of the trees and a for
tune teller’s tent was set in the
midst of native foliage. Mrs.
Frank Maddry, Rt. 2, Chapel Hill,
played the part of “Madame Zula
Zula” and, befittingly costumed,
thrilled the youngsters with her
fortune telling.
Incidentally, one young girl went
back for a second visit with “Ma
dame Zula Zula” to learn more
about the eight children she was
going to have when married. '
In another tent, which was ap
propriately labeled the “House of
Horror's,” Miss Ethel Hogan, also
of Rt. 2, Chapel Hill, conducted the
blindfolded club members through
. a series of unforgettable experi
ences, while at the same time ex
plaining how the witches had
cruelly killed and severely muti
lated the body of a very wicked
old man out in a dark forest.
; Other features of entertainment
included a “Nail Driving Contest”
for-women which was won by
Mrs. W. A. Davies, Rt. 3, Hillsboro.
Similar contest for the men was
won by J. G. Whitfield, Rt. 2, Chap-"
el Hill. In a “Hog Calling Contest”
Charlie Berry, Rt. 1, Hurdle Mills,
walked off with top honors. As a
result, during the course of Mr.
Berry’s loud calling, it was feared
by many that the Hogan hogs, lo
cated some half a mile away, would
break through their fences.
The ladies too would not be left
out, of the calling contest, so they
■ had a “Cow Calling” contest. Judg- -
- es declared it was the best and
closest contest of the day. It was
finally decided by the judges that
the ^urging appeal for the “sook
cow” to come home was most ef
fectively presented by Mrs. E. S.
Taylor of Efland.
The county wide picnic is an an
nual affair in Orange county and
is looked forward to by the club
members, parents and friends,
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77 Applications Are Received
For Lockers In Chapel Hill
Gum Machines
Being Installed
Tl»e Hillsboro Ufcons club is in
the process of having penny gum
machines installed in most busi
ness houses in town. The pro
ceeds from the machines wHI
be used for the blind work’ of
the Lions clab.
County Agent’s
Mews-Views
During the week of August 12
17 4-H short courses will be held
at State College. This will be the
first short course held since the
war. Indications are that from 1200
to 1500 4-H club girls and boys
will assemble at the college for
this educational and inspirational
event. During the morning period
each day will'be devoted to in
structions in 4-H - organization,
citizenship, health, family rela
tionship. These courses will be
taught by college professors and
members of the extension staff at
the college. The afternoon program
will consist of team demonstra
tions, campus tours, and visits to
the various places of interest in
the capital city. Evenings will be
devoted to entertainment and reo.
relation rTKeTsHoft course offers “an
ideal opportunity to the club mem
ber to learn a great many worth
while things, to meet new friends
and have a good time.
The cost this year will be $10
per club member. Club members
will live in the State College dor
mitories and will eat in' the col
lege cafeterias.
Several . Orange county club
members have already macte ap
plication to go to the short course'
this year.Sinee there is a limit
to. the number each county can
take to the short course, it is sug
gested that all 4-H club mem
bers 14 years old or older get in
touch with the county or home
agent -in Hillsboro at their earliest
possible date.
Transportation will be provided
in. cars from Hillsboro to Raleigh.
I Seventy-seven applications have
been received and deposits placed
in the Bank of Chapel Hill by
workers interested in securing a
freezer locker plant in Chapel Hill,
it .was reported Tuesday.
Of the total 77 applications re
ceived, 46 are farmers, it was
added.
Goal of the work in Chapel Hill
is to secure 100 townspeople and
200 farm people on the rolls as
desiring 'a freezer locker. The
Farmers Mutual Exchange has in
dicated its desire to construct a
freezer locker in Chapel Hill and
Hillsboro if enough signers can
be secured.
A report from the workers in
Hillsboro showed that only six ap
plications had been received and
deposits placed in the Durham.
Bank and Trust Company branch
in Hillsboro.
In Chapel Hill the Rotary club
under the direction of Dr. Ed
Hedgpeth is sponsoring the move
ment for securing the freezer
locker. The Lions club in Hills
boro is sponsoring the movement
here,
Applications for a locker in the
proposed plants can be secured att
the Bank of Chapel Hill and the
Farmers Mutual Exchange in
Carrboro for those interested in
the Chapel Hill plant, and at the
office of The NEWS of Orange
County, the farm agent’s office, the
bank, and the FMX warehouse for
those interested in securing a
locker in the proposed plant to be
built in Hillsboro.
Civic Clubs Help
Committees from the Carrboro
Lions club and the Chapel Hill
Kiwanis club are aiding in the push
I for the freezer locker pKnTTnf^he
Chapel Hill area.
A house-to-house drive is being
planned and a series of meetings
with farm people in an effort to
complete the solicitation of lock
ers by August 15.
The following meetings have
been planned: Schley Grange,
August 6 and. the meeting of the
Hillsboro Lions club August 8.
- Committee members directing
the effort in Chapel Hili-Carrboro
area are: Kiwanis club—John W.
Umstead, . Temple Gobbel and
Charles Davis* * Rotary club—Dr.
Hedgpeth, F. O. Bowman and Dr.
George Chrisman: Carrboro Lions
club—Eric Neville, Winslow Wil
liams and Ed Humphreys.
LAYMAN’S LEAGUE
The Hillsboro Layman’s League
meets Sunday night at 8 p.m. at
the Episcopal church in Hillsboro..
Rites Held
For Youth
Shot Playing
Eno.—Funeral services for Wiley
Ramsey Wiggs, 13-year-old grand
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Blake,
were held Sunday at 3 o’clock at
the Clyde Kelly Funeral Home in
Durham. The Rev. H. P. Ruppen
thal officiated and music was ren
dered by the Porter Sisters df West
Durham. Interment was in Cedar
Hill cemetery.
Pallbearers were Howard Brew
er, J. C. Brewer, Bobby Honeycutt,
Giovanni Micol, Willard Cannada
and Kenneth Clayton.
Wiley, a pupil in the sixth grade
of Murphy school, was killed acci
dentally Saturday morning about
9:30 o’clock at his home off the
Hillsboro road when his playmate,
Bobby Yow, son of Norman You,
shot him with a .22 rifle while
playing cowboy and Indians.
The shooting tookzzplaeer! while
relatives were in town shopping;
The only other person at the home
was an aged grandmother.
The accident was investigated Dy
Sheriff S. T. Latta and Coroner
H. J. Walker of Hillsboro. The
boy was shot in the back, the bul
let entering about the region of
his kidney. After being hit he
jumped out of a window and fell
dead, near the .steps of the home,
it was reported,
Surviving are his mother, who
is ill in a local infirmary, his
grandparents, and an aunt, Mrs.
Mallie Mae Beck.
18-Year-Olds
Must Register
Miss Faye Jones, clerk in the
Orange county draft board, has
reminded youths becoming 18 years
old“ to be-certain~tir register -with
the draft board.
She pointed out that recently
a number of youths had been late
in registering because they did
not know that they were to regis
ter even though the draft board
will not induct anyone into the
army until September.
Revival to Start
At White Cross
A revival^-seiwitS*^ will start at
the White Cross road Baptist
Church on August 4 with the Rev
W. B. Cone of Murry, Ky., preach
ing, it has been announced by the
Rev. J. M. Wright.
• Services will, be each night at 8
p.m. The Rev. Mr. Scarlett in
Hillsboro will be in charge of the
music. The public is invited to at
tend. "'7 ' .
White Cross Cannery Serves Wide Area;
700-800 Cans Of Food Put Up Daily
By Lois Cranford
White Cross—Once again it's canning time in Orange coun
ty and this year as never before housewives are turning to jars
and tins to insure tasty meals for the winter months ahead.
Reason for the banner^eason is the White Cross cannery,
j^ght miles west of Chapel Hill, where tomatoes, peaches, corn,
beans and other fruits and vegetables by the bushel are find
lng their way into hundreds o.f neat tin cans.
Both rural and urban housewives in the county, tired of
lighting a losing battle against shortages at the grocer’s, are
looking to the cannery as at least.partial salvation from further
siocery-seeking woes come winter.
7°0 CANS DAILY
Some 700 to 800 cans of food
tinned every day may not offer
Very formidable competition to the
big commercial canneries, but they
Put perfectly .preserved food on
tables of Orange county, and
v homemakers say, is their
chief concern anyway.
The White Cross cannery was
uuilt and operated for the first
une in 1942. Laek of qualified per
sonnel and a defective boiler term
lnated the project, however, a
^uple of years ago. This year
Orange farmers, attending a grange
r«ly ar Hillsboro on July 5, .de
C1ded that the cannery should be
re°pened and arrangements were
made with the county school board
^hereby the board put up the ne
cessary funds for purchasing tlje
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> LOIeman -A. Gentry is -now in
charge of the cannery, as a part
of his duties as assistant to Elmer
Dowdy, agriculture teacher at
the Hillsboro high school. Dowdy
^Pervises the operation. Dowdy
also works with Orange county
veterans in the agriculture training
program, under the GI Bill of
Rights, assisted by Gentry, a veter
an of 24 years of Navy service.
OPENED JULY 17
The cannery opened the season
on July 17 • and operates every
Tuesday and Thursday. Business is
always gopd, with enthusiastic
canners often coming for many
miles to take advantage of the
quick convenient canning methods
offered.
Frequently whole families show
up, making short work of their
fruits and vegetables by sharing
the job of preparing the produce.
The Charlie Teel family, of the
White Cross community, canned
peaches recently on the “family
plan”. With .Teel, Mrs. Teel,
daughter Lydia, and sons Stan
ford, Thomas, and Raney all
working together, .they had the
peaches prepared and packed ftf
tins by mid-morning. Thomas par
ticularly seemed to enjoy his work
as he presided at the mechanical
fruit peeler which makes quick and
easy work of an otherwise not-so
pleasant task.
One of the most active women'
at the cannery is Mrs. Coleman
Gentry, wife of the superintendent
of the center. Mrs. Gentry was
busy last Thursday putting up gar
den fresh ears of corn. First scrap
ing the corn from the cob into a
dishpan, she then placed the pan
for processing under a jet of live
steam. After processing, the corn
was dipped into cans and sealed by
an automatic electric sealer before
being further processed in pressure
cookers.
ENJOYS REPUTATION
Mrs. Gentry has gained quite
a reputation for her home canning.
And now that she has available
at. the cannery faster methods than
at home, she is taking full advan
tage of the facilities. The Gentrys
canned a total of 109 quart-size
cans of vegetables on one day in a
recent week, and prior to the op
ening of the community cannery,
Mrs. Gentry had put up about 300
quarts ’ of fruits, vegetables, and
meats in her home, with two small
er pressure cookers.
Gentry returned to Orange coun-,
ty last October after his discharge
from th^Navy, in which he enlist
ed in 1922. Until he went over
seas his family had been with
him at various stations around the
country. When he was sent to
England early in 1943 his family
returned to White Cross where
before his .enlistment. There Mrs.
Gentry built a home on land they
owned and she. and her two young
sters, a son, 11, and a daughter, 10,
moved in. This was the first real
home the,.traveling Gentry family
had ever known.
As a chief storekeepr in the Na
vy, Gentry served overseas in Eng
land and Ireland for 27 months,
and for awhile before D-Day,
found himself operating a latge
hotel for officers.
CHIEF DIFFICULTY
His greatest trouble in running
the cannery, he says, is getting
people to come early enough to get
their food packed into cans and
ready for final processing early in
the afternoon. Unless they have
it ready for the pressure cookers
by about 3:30, he explained, they
hold up closing time too much.
Cooling vats needed for the can
nery have been improvised from
odds and ends collected in war
plants. These rectangular vats hold
cold water into which the piping
hot cans coming from the pres
sure cookers are dumped.
Charges for use of the canning
facilities and for the cans them
selves were established by the
county cannery committee. It was
decided that 6 1-2 cents for No. 2
cans and 7 1-2 cents for No. 3 cans
would pay the costs of operation,
keeping the equipment in repair,
paying the necessary help for ser
vices, and purchasing cans from
jvyholesalefs.
‘ Originally the funds which built
and equipped the cannery were
provided by county, state, and fed
rm?a&aah?'X&j£ yes®. feuds
-for operation or replacing equip
ment are provided, so the charges
for the cahs must pay the bills.
See (WHITE CR088} Page 6
Large Crowd Expected In Hillsboro 11
Saturday For Close Of Jubilee;Month
Jordan Faarily
Reunion Attended
By 175 People
One of the oldest home sites in
Orange county—the home of Mrs.
W. L. McDade in the Walnut
Grove community—was the scene
of the Jordan family reunion on
Sunday, July 28. Approximately
175 attended the reunion.
This was the first reunion of the
descendants of John Jordan who
settled in Orange county in 1800.
Relatives at the reunion decided to
make the affair an annual one.
Mrs. McDade, 83, is the oldest
living relative of Jordan. Her home
is famous as the home'of the late
Colonel William H. Jordan of Civil
War fame.
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Hillsboro merchants Saturday bring to a close a month long
Jubilee Month sales promotion with the offering of outstand
ing bargains in-many types of merchandise and free prizes for
those who have been trading in Hillsboro for the past month.
Drawing for the prizes—which include a General Electric
washing machine, a Philco radio, a .22 rifle, a pressure cook
Raleigh Men
Buy Occoneechee
'W. 8. Murchison and W. L.
Rogers of Raleigh purchased the
Occeneeehee farm tract at an
auction sale Wild last Wednes
day* afternoon for a reported
purchase price of $13,500.
Included in the sale was the
large barn, 200 acres of excellent
farm land, tractors and other
farm equipment.
Glib-Tongued Salesman Faces
Trial In Orange High Court
W. T. Wingate, 32-year-old glib
tongued mail order salesman, now
being held in the Orange county
jail, will be arraigned on a charge
of obtaining money under false
pretenses in Orange county supe
rior court which convenes in Hills
boro on August 19, it has been an
nounced -by Sheriff S. T. Latta.
Wingate, picked up Tuesday
night. July 23. in West .Hillsboro
on a suspicion charge, was later
described by Director Walter F.
Anderson of the State Bureau of
Investigation as the man who has
been fleecing “hundreds of North
Carolinians out of thousands of
•dollars” on phony orders for
i clothing.
Anderson said Wingate had ad
mitted writing “hundreds” of fake
orders for shirts, pants, coveralls
and caps on non-existent com
panies.
The racket, which was worked
widespread .-through . Jmd,
South Carolina, began, Anderson
said, last November. A half dozen
Order books, which were found on
Wingate, showed that he had issued
phoney orders in dozens of cities
and collected his -fee of-25 per-cent
deposit.
When asked how much his
scheme had netted him, Wingate
was quoted as saying, “thousands
of dollars.”, ^ut he had “drank up
and otherwise spent the money.”
Posing as a representative for
a mail-order clothing firm, Win
gate issued .deposit slips .tq. cus
tomers using the firm name of the
Topps Garment Company .of Char
lotte^N. C., Danville, Va., St. Louis,
Mo., Rochester, N. Y. and various
other cities. One other firm name
he used was the George W. Fast
Company, but no address was list
ed on the slips.
In filling out the order blanks,
Anderson said, Wingate used sev
eral aliases, including. Wyatt , and
Crews as last names. Many of his
victims were filling statiori oper
ators and garage* workers from
whom he received orders for cov
eralls, the SBI head added.
“There’s no telling how many
orders he wrote all together,” An
derson said. “He admits that he
destroyed several deposit slip books
after he had filled them up.”
Among the North Carolina towns
listed on the duplicate deposit slips
in the order books were Asheville,
Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Ra
leigh, Durham, High Point, Fay
etteville, Goldsboro^ Concord, Shel
by, Lumberton', Morganton, Gas
tonia, Lexington, Salisbury, Reids
ville, Thomasville, Hickory, Ashe
boro, Waynesville, Lenoir, Char
lotte, Kannapolis, Raeford, Rock
ingham and others.
Anderson said that as far as he
knew, Wingate was a bona fide
representative of the Polk Indus
tries of Atfanta, Ga., for whom he
took orders for^furniture.
Sheriff Latta said this week that
a description of Wingate and his
picture had been distributed
throughout North Carolina with
the request that police officers
having any information of his ac
tivities to report them to the of
ficers in Orange county.
Four Cases Heard
By Magistrate
Four cases have recently been
tried before Magistrate Cicero H.
Jones.
•' They are: Ralph L. Sparow, Dur
ham, speeding, $5 and costs; L. C.
Medlin, West Hillsboro* drunk, 30
days suspended on condition of
good behavior and payment of
costs; J. B. Austin, W-est' ttills
court under $100 bond; Lena^Free
man Smith, Hillsboro, . driving
drunk, to superior court under
$100 bond.
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Negro Youth
Hit by Car
Carlton Long, 5-year-old Negro
of Hillsboro, is a patient in Lin
coln hospital in Durham suffering
from injuries received last Friday
•afternoon when he was hit by an
automobile driven by Charlie Long,
also of Hillsboro.
The Negro youth suffered punc
tured lung and. other internal in
juries.
Patrolman T. P. Hofler, who in
vestigated the accident, said that
information he received showed
that the child dashed in front of
Long’s car at a time when Long
was proceeding slowly. No charges
have been brought against the
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The’ accident occurred near the
Negro school in Hillsboro.
Methodist Guild
Plans Program
The Wesleyan Service Guild of
the Hillsboro Methodist Church is
having an open house Thursday,
August 1, from 8:30 until 10 p.m.
in*"the church’ basement.
Members are being invited to at
tend. A silver offering will be
taken.
Development has been reported j
of a system of formulas by which
a total of 1,000 tones, tints, and
shades can be produced from six
paints.
er, an electric toaster and nylon
hose—will be made Saturday after
noon at 5 pan. on King street in
front of the court house.
R. O. (Bob) Forrest, president
of the Hillsboro Merchants Asso
ciation and chairman of the com
mittee which planned the event,
will be master of ceremonies for
the occasion. J. L. Brown, Jr.,
Clarence D. Jones, and Jack Blie
den will be the judges in deter
mining the eligibility of those re-"
ceiving the.prizes.
Committee which has planned
and directed the campaign during
the past month was composed of
Forrest, Jones, R. B. Todd, Har
lan G. Coleman, Sr., S. A. John
son and Blieden.
An announcement from the com
mittee concerning the eligibility of
those winning prizes said: “All
merchants in the Hillsboro trading
area, members of the Hillsboro
Merchants Association, their em
ployees and members of their im
mediate family (those living un
der the same roof) are disquali
fied for participation in the event.”
A big day is being planned by
the committee. Band music will be
provided, a loud speaker will be
installed to make it possible for
everyone to hear plainly when the
numbers are called and biggest of •
all Hillsboro merchants are offer
ing bargains on all types of mer
chandies to make it possible for
traders in Hillsboro to purchase
many goods at cost price and in
many cases less than cgst.
Your attention is directed to the
many ads which appear in this
issue calling your attention to the
special offers being planned for
you.
Fire, starting from an overturned
can of gasoline, damaged a truck
belonging to M. C. Burt, Negro
county agent, in the Eno Chevro
let Company, garage Tuesday
morning.
Quick action by mechanics in
the garage in using fire extin- -
guishers on the blaze prior to the
arrival of the firemen prevented
the fire from gaining headway.
LEGION TO HOLD
BUSINESS SESSION
Chapel Hill.—Chapel Hill Post
No. 6 of the American Legion will
hold a business meeting tomor
row (Friday) night at 8 o’clock at
the Legion Hut. The membership
program will be discussed at this
time.
Tour Shows Crops
In Good Condition
Most crops in Orange county are in excellent condition and
show that farmers have used much thought in planning their
crops and work to obtain the maximum use from their land,
was the opinion expressed by District Farm Agent O. F. Mc
Crary following a tour through the farming section last Thurs
day afternoon.
McCrary was conducted on the tour by Assistant Farm
Agent Ed Barnes, R. L. Mohler, Orange county soil conser
vationist; and G. L. Winchester, district soil conservationist
for Orange, Durham, Wake, Wil
son and Johnston counties.
The group visited the farm of
I A. B. Lloyd of Efland where his
pasture was observed and inspect
ed. A tour through the pastures
showed that Lloyd is practicing the
ideas of good farming as pro
claimed by the farm extension
workers and the soil conservation
people. .
From Lloyd’s farm the group
motored to the J. A. Davis farm
on route 2, Hillsboro, where Davis
is engaged in having some repair
work done to his house.
There Davis’ hybrid corn was in
spected. The group was particu
larly interested in seeing a field
of hybrid corn planted from seed
saved by Mr. Davis from his crop
of the proceeding year. Although
this practice is not recommended
by the farm extension experts, it
appeared that Davis was securing
a good yield from his crop.
Farm experts recommend that
each year a person planting hybrid
s^djr^lhef-Jhap.
‘use selected sahrpfes Of his own
product . • •
From the farm of Mr. Davis the
group proceeded to the pasture of
G. O. Reitzel, near Davis’ farm
land, and there observed what was
considered by the district agent as
one of the best pastures he has
observed in Orange or any other
county.
Reitzel said that he was not in
the habit of turning over his pas
tures often. He said that he had
discovered he was able to secure
a better pasture for his herd of
cows by spreading lime and fer
tilizer over the top of the land
rather than working it into the
soil.
The group also observed a ditch
blasted by the use of dynamite
early in the spring. The ditch had
drained one section of his pasture
of 120 acres, thus reclaiming for
pasture land that formerly had
been of little use. . *
Last stop on the tour was at the
farm of J. E. Latta Where the
group observed his pastures and
his herd of cows, all of which are
registered Guernseys. -
. One, of the cows during July was
on state test. At the time the'Kjvew
ante
aging 60 pdJwi. _________
month. This is equal to about seven
gallons of milk and two, an ’ —
half pounds of butter per