Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, January 2, 1^47
(Published Weekly)
4 Pages This Week
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bunty Court Bill Expected
ft Come Before State Body;
fsembly Opens Wednesday
^inge county’s representatives
Je State Legislature, which
ranes in Raleigh Wednesday,
[ ary 8, were making final pre
Jons this week for the open
I' the General Assembly,
pm W. Umstead, of Chapel
representative, and James
[a, of Hillsboro, state senator
- senting Orange and Alamance
fies, will be the county’s dele
in the legislature.
iBLISH COURT
J.iough discussion has been for
itroduction of several local
[one of the most important
4 pec ted to be introduced
a measure to establish a
|y court for handling cases
the jurisdiction of the jus
Jf.peace courts in the county,
^es Webb, in discussing the
1 bill, said he saw no reason
J le bill shouldn’t be introduc
fierk of court Edwin Lynch
out several weeks ago
Ee establishment of the court
shorten the docket in the
>r court and bring trial
quicker to those charged
violation of motor vehicle
TEN SUPERIOR COURT
ablishment of a county-court,
been estimated, would short
^e superior court docket by as
as 90 pecent. Also, it has
| stated, the county court would
certain increased amount of
|iue to the school fund from
levied and collected through
Durt.
Hillsboro Merchants As
ton has requested that a
be introduced limiting
apearance of traveling shows
ivals in the county to
stands. _Whether or not
itroduction of the measure
pressed, there has been no
ion.
bb also said there had been
[agitation raised for the in
tion of a bill outlawing sale
|»works in the county,
otal of 10 important state
| measures are expected to
|before the legislature.
are:-, .
Jreatly increased operating
iations requests,
atly increased permanent
dements requests.
|achers’ pay.
aether to separate game and
[fisheries from tbe Depart
! Conservation and Develop
ae Good Health Program,
late employes’ salaries.
Iquor referendum.
Insolidation of the Highway
State Bureau of Investi
land State Bureau of Iden
In.
sales tax.
roposed changes in solici
Istricts.
es in Raleigh have esti
|hat the session will last
March and probablj
ito early April before a
at.
$
Youth, Hit
By Car, Dies
Of Injuries
Kenneth Ray, 8, son of Mr. and
Mrs. June Ray of route 1, Chapel
Hill, died at Duke Hospital,
Christmas day cd injuries received
when he was struck by an auto
mobile early that morning on High
way 54.
Patrolman R. R. Thomas, who
made the investigation, said that
Kenneth and a playmate were
playing on the shoulders of the
road about seven miles west of
Chapel Hill. The children lighted a
fire cracker and then ran away be
fore it exploded. Kenneth ran onto
the road in the path of an ap
proaching car driven by Warsaw
W. Braswell of Newlaijd.
^Braswell tried to dodge the
child but was unable to do so. He
carried the injured boy to Chapel
Hill from where he was carried in
an ambulance to Duke Hospital,
where he died at 12:30 p. m.
Besides his mother and father,
the boy is survived by his paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Della Ray, Rt.
2, Graham; and maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Fred Eubanks, Rt. 1,
Chapel Hill.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday afternoon at Antioch
Baptist Church at 2:30 with the
Rev. William H. Poole of Carrboro
in charge.
Interment was in the church
cemetery.
The following -served as pall-'
bearers: Bernard Lloyd, Donald
Lloyd, Weldon Riggsbee, Mebane
Durham, Hubert Durham, and Bob
by Butler.
Thet following were floral bear
ers: Betty Jo Ray, Barbara Ray,
•Peggy Ray, Patsy Hold, Sylvia
Bowden, Hooker Butler, Glenda
Yow, Betty Lloyd, Mary Frances
Andrews, Margaret Andrews, Jean
and Jane Stanford, John Yow,
Bernice Ward, Sammy Lloyd, Peg
gy Bowden and Kollah Durham.
MOVES TO NEW CHURCH
Carrboro -p» Rev. William H.
Poole, who has resigned his pas
torate at the Baptist church here
moved on Friday of last week to
his new work near Smithfield. He
has accepted the pastorate of the
j Pisgah Baptist church in the John
ston association. ;
MECHANICAL DIFFICULTIES
HOLD NEWS TO 4 PAGES
Because of mechanical diffi
culties, THE NEWS is being lim
ited to four pages this week. We
hope to return to our regular
8 and 10-page papers with next
week’s issue. We regret the ne
cessity of omitting many news
items from this issue.
Type X-Ray Equipment
isned Health Department
ft. David Garvin, District
feficer, announced this week
(United State Public Health
has assigned the District
)epartment a 35 mm Photo
aphic Westinghouse x-ray
>nt.
equipment i\ to facilitate
e finding aid follcw-up
f the Health Department,
As a result if the survey
[sponsored by the Health
aent and the Tuberculosis
jtee during th4 first of the
le need for suq equipment
Health Depaiment has
fry active in Vberculqsis
ding and super4ion wr>rk,
been limited 11 .the lack
dent and adequte equip
r the making of Vrays at a
_j and inexpensil method.
> equipment willferroit the
taking of x-rays at a rate of two
to four each minute if necessary,
and will do away with the need of
each person undressing,” Dr. Gar
vin pointed out.
“The Tuberculosis Committee
has contributed to the financial
support of the work of the Health
Department in the past and
through their cooperation1 and as
sistance the mass x-ray survey
was made in the spring of this
year,” the health director contin
ued.
It is urged that each and every
individual take advantage of the
jpportupity of, securing a chest
K-ray. Vms x-ray equipment will
tie brought to Hillsboro January
»3 24, and 25. The hours for the
clinic will be 10 a. m. to 12 m. and
1 p. m. Jo 4 p. m. on the 23rd and
24ih, and lu a. m. to 1^ m. on £>«“■
arday, the 25th. - ,
Tax Listing. Now Underway;
Citizens9 Cooperation Asked
With the mailing of information cards to all property own
ers in Orange county, the office of county accountant, under
the direction of Gilbert W. Ray, tax supervisor, has started the
task of assembling the necessary information for the reassess
ment of real property in the county. . -" - ■
Appealing for the cooperation of the county’s citizens in this
task, Ray this week asked that
they study the copies of the inform
ation cards mailed them and be
ready to answer all the questions
when they list their taxes. Else
where in this issue, there appears
a tax listing schedule.
FIRST TIME
“This is the first time that we
have ever attempted to secure
from our tax payers a complete,
detailed description of the prop
erty on which they pay taxes,’’ Ray
pointed out in urging that the
citizens cooperate in every pos
sible way in the work.
A letter, now being mailed to all
tax payers, says: “The Board of
County Commissioners, in con
formity with the state law, and in
order that all property may be
assessed on a more equitable bas
is, has ordered that a reassessment
of real property be made in 1947.
“To aid in this revaluation pro
gram, information cards have been
prepared for use of the various list
takers in obtaining essential in
formation regarding each parcel
of real property in the county. A
copy of this card is attatched and
it will save you considerable time
in listing, if prior to that time, you
will study this card and fill in all
the information requested, except
as to values. T’his part will be filled
in by, the Board of Assessors, which
will begin the work of assessing
•as soon as possible after-the tax
listing period is over.’’ ^
LI8T EARLY
Tax payers in Hillsboro and
Chapel Hill townships are being es
pecially requested to list their tax
qs early. "In past years,” the letter
said, “about two-thirds of the
property owners . . . have listed
during the last 10 days of the
month. With the increased w/irk on
the list taker this year, won’t you
| please fill out the information card
and go list as early in the month
as possible.
After tax listing has been com
pleted a board of assessors will
then take the cards filled out ahd
make new assessments on the prop
erty.
The boajd will be composed of
Zeb C. Burton of Cedar Grove;
Sterling H. Hunt, route 1, Hills
boro; and Roland P. McClamroch
of Chapel Hill.
-It is expected that the board Will
begin its work about February 1..
THE NEWS
Asks ...
What was the most important
event in your life in 1946?
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Miss Marjorie Cole, town clerk,
Hillsboro: “Friendships rthat I
have made in 1946 have been
more important to me than any
thing else.”
Mrs. J. L. Rosemond, Hills
boro: “Having all my family
__home for Christmas for the first
time in four years.”
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Mrs. W. O. Pearson, Jackson,
Mississippi (a subscriber to THE
NEWS): “Hearing in December
that my husband was on his
way home from overseas was, by
far, the most important event to
me in 1946.”
Miss Sue* B. *Hayes: “Selling
the Hayes Drug Store, which j
was established in 1673.
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David C. Rhew; “The most
imoortant thing to me was the
realization that I was able to re
adjust to civiliaif life after be
ing discharged fydm the Army."
West Hill
Baby Clinic
Is Tuesday
Tuesday, January 7, at 2 p. m.,
the first well baby clinic at the
West Hillsboro school will be held.
Dr. -Q. David Garvin, District
Health Officer, has announced.
Dr. Garvin urges all mothers of
pre-school age children to take
their children to family physicians
or to the well baby clinic for im
munization against diphtheria;
whooping cough, smallpox and ty
phoid. In addition to receiving im
munizations at the clinic, children
will be weighed and measured and
parents will be given an oppor
tunity to talk privately with a pub
lic health nurse concerning the
health problems of her children.
A new film, “Infant Care”, will
be shown to the mothers and “Lit
tle Boy Blue” will be “shown to the
children.
The well baby clinic, sponsored
by the West Hillsboro Civic Organ
ization, was started in September.
It meets regularly on the .first
Tuesday at 2 p. m.
Mrs. Robert Woodard, chairman
of the well baby clinic, committee
of the Civic Organization, urges
the continued support of the clinic,
“It is a real pleasure to have a clin
ic right here in our community
and to see so may parents attend
ing the clinic,” addad Mrs. Wood
ard. “We hope that during the
New Year every mpiher in West
Hillsboro will visjft^ftie clinic whe
ther she has any® children of pre
school age or not." Refreshments
will be served by the Civic Organ
ization.
Cates Esso.
Station Gets
High Honor -*
In a recent state-wide survey
made by the* Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey, Cates Service
station in Hillsboro was chosen
as the cleanest Esso station in
North Carolina.
Second place in the contest was
won by J. A. Barkley of Elizabeth
City and third place by Y. C. Bail
ey of Durham.
In a recent letted to C. H. Cates,
J. L. Wright, Jr., of Charlotte, di
vision manager for the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey, stat
ed: “We want as many motorists
as posible to know that yours is a
station where cleanliness and good
housekeeping is a prime consid
eration, and have' arranged to have
your name, publicized over The
Esso Reporter on Station WPTF
January 12 at 12:25 p.*m.”
The message to be broadcast is
as follows: “When you travel . ._
What do you watch for? Let these
men help you: C. H. Cates, Hills
boro, J. A. Barkley, Elizabeth City,
Y. C. Bailey, Durham.
“Like your own careful neigh
borhood dealer, and like hundred*-'
of other independent business men
who sell ESSO gasoline and ESSO
Motor Oil under the red, white
and blue sign.... these men
tain clean service stations . .
driveways and - rest zooms-.
Cleanlines is. a habit with them
... a good habit, of which you
approve. It is significant that these
men have signed a special pledge
to keep all parts of their stations
clean and spotless . . . So that you
can better enjoy Happy Motoring.
[Sew Officers
Are Installed;
Parris Master
Officers of Eagle Lodge No. 19
A. F. & A.M. in Hillsboro were in
stalled by Past Master G. A. Brown
in installation ceremonies con
ducted at the meeting on Decem
ber 27.
Elected officers installed were:
C. B. Parris, Master; John P. Bal
lard, senior warden; A. R. Will
iams, junior warden; Garland Mil
ler, treasurer; and C. M. Walker,
secretary.
Appointive officers installed
were: G. M. Long, senior deacon;
C. H. Cates, junior deacon; G. W.
Ray and J. E. Latta, stewards; and
W. L. Smith, tyler.
■« Committee members for 1947
are: finance—G. W. Ray, E. C. Lin
er and C. A. Bivins;
Oxford Orphanage—> VG. Biv
ins, E. C. Liner, G. A. Munn, J.
Clair McDade, S. H. Strayhom,
and J. M. Dunn;
Sick and cheer—E. C. Liner, W.
L. Smith, M. P. Lloyd, S. H. StrBy
hom, G. M. Long and J. Clair Mc
Dade;
Historians—G. A. Brown and R.
B. Studebaker;
Instructions—C. M. Walker, G
A. Brown, H. O. Bivins, S. H
Strayhom, and A. R. Williams.
Resolutions—DrvH. W. Moore, C
M. Walker, and Tom C.* Ellis;
Building—G. F. Miller, O. E.
Bivins, H. O. Bivins, and Herbert
G. Riley.
Occoneechee
Council Flans
Annual Meet
Scout leaders of 11 counties from
Occoneechee council wili gather in
Raleigh on January 9 for the an
nual meeting of the council..
Reports will be made and new
officers elected fro the ensuing
ye^gjfThe program will start with
a meeting of the council executive
board at 4:30 p. ra. in the Poin
dexter building of the Edenton
Street Methodist church. District
commissioners will also meet at
the same hour. Other scouters of
the council will meet in a round
table discussion while the execu
tive board and the commissioners
are in session.
At 6:30 p. m. the Annual Coun
cil Meeting will be held. This will
be a dinner meeting to which all
Scouters in the Council and their
wives are invited. Tickets for this
meeting have been distributed to
every District in the Council, and
may be obtained from the District
Chairman. A program has been
prepared for the Annual Meeting
W; A. DobSori, Regional Executive
from Atlanta will be the speaker.
Special provision will be made
for the entertainment of the ladies
while the afternoon conference and
discusions are taking place.
Present officers of the Occonee
"hee Council are Hugh G. Isley.
Raleigh, president; Harold Make
peace, Sanford, vice-president;
Earl Dameron, Durham, vice-presi
dent; Rev. E. ?J. Gardner, Hend
erson. vice-president; E. A. Clem
ent, Raleigh, commissioner;, H. K.
Witherspoon, Raleigh, treasurer.
The Negro Division of the Coun
cil will hold its annual meetiKg-pw
Wednesday. January^ 8. at 7:20 p.
m. in the.Crosby-Garfield school,
Raleigh, with Dr. R. P. Daniel pre
siding. .A general roundtable will
be held at 6:00 p. m. All Negro
ScouteiTahd theft: wives are invit
ed to attend.
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Many Repairs Already. Made -
At Expenditure Of $27,593;
No Fire Escapes At Cnrrboro
By Mae V. Lark
Conditions in Orange county’s schools have become serious.
Despite the tremendous number of repairs made throughout
the county since last March, 13 schools are still crying out for
badly needed improvements.
The board of education should be highly commended for
the work it has done since the grand jury made certain recom
mendauons alter inspecting tne
school buildings of the county last
March.
29 SCHOOLS REPAIRED
Twenty-nine schools have been
generally repaired at a cost of
$27,593.55. Broken window panes
have been replaced in 22 of these
schools, 15 roofs have been repair
3d, five buildings have received
new coats of paint, and new black
boards have replaced worn-out
ones in seven schools. Plumbing
Improvements have been made in
20 schools, and four wells cleaned.
Coal stoves have replaced wood
burners in four schools. An equal
umber of schools have been equip
ped with new stove pipes.
MORE IMPROVEMENTS
Two floors and three porches
have been rebuilt and one plaster
wall has been patched. Window
shades have been replaced in four
schools and Venetian blinds.add^d
in one. Three schools now have
better wiring and lighting.
Four schools have new or re
paired doorsteps, and one has new
weather-boarding. A partition has
been built in the basement of the
Hillsboro high school (white) for
dressing roopis, and the foundation
wall under one side of the gymna
sium has been rebuilt.
TOILETS REPAIRED
Four toilets and seven drinkftig
fountains have been repaired, and
new locks placed on 13 doors. Four,
boilers or' boiler rooms ha\#e -been
improved. *
ELEVEN SATISFIED
Besides these, many other con
ditions have been bettered. Yet,
when the grand jury recently
questioned the principals concern
ing needs of their schools, there
were only 11 with no complaints to
make ahd no requests for assist
ance. These were Carr, Cedar
Grove, Aycock, Ridge Road, Sartin,
White Oak, Murphy, Cool Springs,
Damascus, Sunnyside, Hillsboro
(colored).
NEEDED REPAIRS
Attention was called to needs of
other schools' as follows: Lunch 'r~7
room space at both Hillsboro high
and West- Hillsboro schools is in -
adequate.
Walls of the auditorium in the old
building at Caldwell are unsafe,
and although the inside of the
building is not used, there seems
to exist some danger that the walls
might sometime collapse upon
children playing outside the build
ing. "" ~ -—
COVER WELL HOLE
At Poplar Grove school, a well
hole seven feet deep covered by
gotten planks should be filled or
recovered for safety.
Carrboro school needs two
fire escapes at the school now.
Repairs to roofs, windows, toi
lets, stoves and stove pipes, floors,
walls, and improved lighting con
ditions are requested by Cald
well, Poplar Grove, White Cross,
Hickory Grove, Gravely, Fairfield,
Efland (colored), Efland (white),
Orange county Training School,
Carrboro and Morris Grove,
The grand Jury urged In the
Interest ^.of better ..aye health
thatsome, ‘•conscientious” at
tention be given to improving
lighting facilities and conditions
in all the schools of the county.
These reports from the board of
education and the grand jury clear
ly show that the problem is a
serious one and will require much
more attention than the tremen
dous amount already giyen/it.
Orange Has Goal Of $3,500
In Jan. 15 30 Polio Drive
' Cl
The 1947 March of Dimes, an
nual fund rais^g drive of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile Pa
ralysis which sparkplugs the nev
er-ceasing battle against polio, will
be held January 15-30, it was an
nounced this week by E. Carring
ton Smith of Chapel Hill who is
serving as Orange county’s chair
man in the effort.
Bonner D. Sawytfr, Jlillsboro at
torney, will assist Smith in the ef
fort by directing the drive from
Hillsboro, it was disclosed. \~
SCHOOLS AID
The drive in the schools will be
directed by the superintendent of
schools, R. H. Claytor, and his as*
sistant, Glenn Proffit.
Orange county has a goal of
$3,500 to raise in the drive which
starts on Wednesday, January 15
and extends through Thursday,
January 30.
“The people of Orange county,
in common with Americans every
whefe,” Smith ssaid, “have been
most generous in the past in sup
porting the .fight against infan
tile paralysis through the March
of Dimes. Indications are that they
will be even more generous this
year because they know that this
fight is their fight. They realize
that the March of Dimes is their
best insurance against polio—and
that the battle will go on in the
laboratory until final victory is
won and infantile paralysis joins
the other great scourges of man
kind unmasked and disarmed by
knowledge.”
That polio strikes all ages is
.well known, but not many pen Die
realize the great.
care of the victims and the amount
of money needed for further re
search, it was pointed out
Here in Orange county during
the past year, there have been sev
eral cases of polio with death tak
ing one of.thoee struck.
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News of Eno
By Mr*. S. H. Strayhorn
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Truesdale,
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Truesdale, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Talley and Carolyn
spent Sunday, December 22, in
Salisbury as guests of Mr. and Mrs.
E. C Haithcock.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harris and
Mary Jo returned home Saturday
night after having visited rela
tives in Mt. Holly and Sanford
over the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Haithcock
and Bradley visited Mr. Haith
cock’s parents in Macon on Friday
of last week.
S-Sgt. Paul Ballenger visited his
brother, J. C. Ballenger, and fami
ly during the holidays. He left
Saturday morning for Duncan, S.
C. to visit his
Turning to duty at Fort Elgin, Fla.
Mr, and Mrs. W. F. Lark visited
relatives in Easley, S. C„ and Salis
bury during the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. J, H. Truesdale and
Sarah Ann, Howard Cox, and Mire
Carrie Lockhart returned from
Honea Path, S. C., Friday.
Miss Carrie Kay of Belton. S. C.,
spent several days last week with
her sister, Mrs. L. H. Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Haithcock and
E. C., Jr., left for their home in
Salisbury Sunday after visiting
Mrs. Haithcock’s-parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Truesdale.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harris of Ander
son,'S, C., visited Mr. and Mrs. L.
Mrs* L.HLLJoyd*Visited in Chap
el Hill over the weekend. L. E.
Lloyd visited in Hillsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Talley find
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Tjuesdale mo-,
tored to Greensboro Sunday after
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