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-Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 1946— Vol. 54, No. 8 Hillsboro, N. G., Thursday, February 20, 1947 .. - __ 8 Pages This Week Tan . B- Todd Resigns Is Dairy Manager » b Todd, manager of the Lat lrooperative Dairy in HiUsboro Le the start of production in lie 1944. has submitted his resig tion to the board of directors, it announced this week. tfodd submitted his resignation lorder to take a rest and to un Lgo medical treatment, it was Inted out. He was a patient at ttts hospital Monday for a ^kup and returned Tuesday for ■ther treatment. jjo successor has yet bpen nam Jfor the dairy which has grown Ice its start to a $100,000 busi for Hillsboro and Orange linty. 3on s. Matheson, member of board of directors, said that dd has agreed to remain on the , until a successor could be nam “The board has several ap Ications for the position,” he |d, “but it has not yet made a lection. An out-of-town man more than likely be named "the position,” he added. U a recent meeting the board directors of_ the cooperative opted a resolution regretting ery much” the resignation of dd. It was pointed out that he „ made the cooperative an “ex tent manager”; that under his Edership the cooperative had own from its start in June, 1944 |a $100,000 business. Todd was amended as having been “most |icient in his managership” by directors. Inddy If Chapel Hill |igh Wins Feed |Buddy Williams, Chapel Hill ?h school, 4-H club member, won jbag of protein supplement, do tted by the Durham Farmers’ ichange, for having put the most Jin on his baby beef'during the nnth-br January ~ [Buddy’s calf, “Ddminick” weigh 593 pounds on January 1, and eighed 732 pounds on February according to the heart girth |easurement. This was a total gain 139 pounds. [Richard Roberts, Hillsboro high Ihool 4-H club member, won se Jnd place when his calf, “Jack”, 10 was last month’s winner, kined 129 pounds this month. [These calves, together with the other now on feed in Orange bunty, will be shown and sold at Je Durham Fat Stock Show to be eld the latter part of April. R. B. TODD 9-Year-Old. Is Injured In Accident Patricia Kenion, ' 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joe Ma son Kenion, escaped serious in jury when the school bus in which she was riding to the Hillsboro school skidded and slipped into a ditch near the Jack Workman farm1 Mondays morning, G. A. Brown, school principal, reported. Brown said the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenion requir ed several stitches in her head where she was injured. Three oth er children were carried to the doctor suffering from shock, but they were not bodily injured, he said. The school principal also said that thfs was the first time in 22 years that a child had been injured seriously enough to re quire medical treatment. The accident occurred, Brown said, when the bus failed to make a curve at the bottom of a hill. It skidded on the curve and slip ped into a ditch by the side of the road The driver of the bus was Ned Johnson who was substituting for the regular driver whose bus was in the shop for repairs. “Ned was not familiar with the road,” Brown pointed out, “and did not know there was a curve at the bottom of the hill.” hapel Hill Chapter Plans 'ed Cross Fund Campaign Chapel Hill— The local organ ation for the Fund Campaign for le American Red Cross has been >mpleted, and plans are being id to conduct the drive during ie week of March 1-8. •' ’• _ As previously announced, the und Chairman is Captain E. E. azlett. Under him are eleven di ision chairman, who will super ise the Work of their own groups, he residential unit, probably the rgest subdivision, will be under ie direction of Mrs. R. J. M obbs. The busines district will be )vered by E. R. Oakley, with .anas Williams as ' his deputy. arrt>oro will be handled as a iparate unit under the guidance f Mrs. Winslow E. Williams, and ie rural sections will be solicited y workers under Floyd Turnage. The student division will be andled by E. York, president of ie men’s interdomitory council, rhile Fred Weaver, Dean of men, ’ill direct the campaign in the ampus offices. Mrs. Hubert Rob ison will again supervise the ne ro division. The theatre division will be, as usual, under the direc tion of E. C. Smith, while Mrs. A. P. Hudson is chairman of the headquarters division. ~ A new division has been set up this year to cover the mUShrorm ing growth' of veterans’ housing, and this is headed by Mrs. J. B (Sue) Hunt. W. D. Carmichael, chairman of the chapter, wll again be in charge of the advance gifts division, and4 Miss Corneiia Love, assisted by Louis M. Connor, Jr., is handling the publicity. “There is still a need for vol unteer workers. If anyone can give the time to assist the cause, good use can be made of his services. Please get in touch *With the ap propriate division chairman, ^ Cap tain Hazlett announced. ' I “The empasis this year will be, placed on complete coverage of the j area under the Chapter s juris diction and an effort will be made to give each adult citizen the opr portunity to become a member of the Red Cross. A sybscription of See (RED CROSS) on page 4 School Lunch Prices To Increase March 3 R. H. Claytor, county superintendent of schools, announced Tuesday that beginning March 3, the price of lunches in all school lunchrooms in Orange county will be increased from 15 cents to 20 or 25 cents, depending upon the school. This advance in price, he said, is necessitated by the fact that the amount of Federal aid is not as great as in the past. More schools than ever, he pointed out, are participating in the lunchroom program. Last year, he said, 1,015 schools in North Carolina participated in the Federal school lunch program with a daily pupil participation of 211,609. The figure increased sharply this year, he said, with 1,233 schools and 289,520 pupils participating.' MESSAGE TO PARENT8 Mr. Claytor sends the follow ing message to the parents -pf school children in Orange county: “For the past several y£ars, the Federal government, through the State Department of Public in struction, has paid 9 cents on ev ery Type A meal served your child in the Orange county lunchrooms. This year we have received around $2,000 per month, or a total of $10,000. — “In addition to this finlndal as sistance, the Marketing Division of the Department of Agriculture has given us potatoes, cabbage, spinach, beans, orange juice and other commodities valued at ap proximately $1,000 and we are expecting further donations of foods from this department during the next few weeks. “The above facts are given for the purpose of pointing out why we have been able to serve these meals at a cost of only 15 cents for each child. “The Congres of the United States at the beginning of the 1946-1947 school year made an appropriation t<J North • Carolina of approximately $2,500,000 for the school lunct program. There has been a tre nendous increase in the numebr < f school over the state that have jugi recently es tablished lunch rooms and are now participating in these funds. Therefore, with the increased par ticipation, there will not be suf ficient funds to finance the pro gram after March 1, 1947. “Beginning Monday morning, March 3, it wil be necessary for us to charge 20 cents or 25 cents per lunch. I am very anxious that we maintain the same standards for our lunch rooms as we have had in the past. It is expected that sufficient appropriations^ will be made bjK the present Congress to enable us to go back to the 15 cent lunch • at the begining of next school lyear. It might be wise for you to inform our congressman, Carl T. Durham, House of Repre sentatives, Washington, D. C., as to your views at|out this program and enlist his support in getting a supplement forfthe remainder of this year and fjn increased ap propriation .for next school year;’ Town Election Bill Placed In Hopper Weed Acreage In County Is Reduced Orange county’s tobacco acreage for 1947 will be 6,292.3 acres, based on estimates received from the of fice of A. K. McAdams in the farm building. * This is a reduction of 34.3 ac res over the allottment of 6,323.3 acres for 1946, it was pointed out. The estimated 1947 acreage does not include any allottment for neW growers and for adjustments, Mc Adams pointed out. Additional al lotments will be received for new growers and adjustments, where they are authorized. McAdams said that in a series of farm meetings held last week 60 percent of the farm plans in the county were' signed and that the" remainder would be signed in the next few weeks. Carrbero Mills To Increase Wages Carrbpro Woolen Mills has an nounced that upon reopening there will be a general upward revision in wage rates averaging 10 percent. Hd-Belt Sales Highest Ever, Iut Average Prices Tumble Volume of sales for the 1946 'r°P of Old Belt flue-cured to bacco was the largest ever record ed but the general average was ower than the previous year’s. This is reported by the United States, North Carolina and Vir ginia Departments of Agriculture. Gross sales totaled 334,900,983 pounds averaging $43.36 per hun dred—an increase of 35.4 million pounds over the 1945 crop but a decline of 70 cents in average. In spite of the decrease in average, the gain in volume was large enough to result in the crop hav ing the highest value of any one in history. Marketing of the crop was fea tured by a much noticeable strong er demand during the first six weeks of sales than throughout the' remaining ten weeks. The former period saw the weekly gen from. $.46.66 to $51.21 per hundred pounds. A spo stantial drop took place the sev enth week, which was in early November and the decline was constant for the rest of the season. The lowest weekly average was $32.43 for the fifteenth week of sales. Much disappointment was expressed over the considerably lower prices toward the latter part of the season. . .. _ Prices by grades were under the foregoing'season for common to fair qualities, but good to choice tobaccos showed advances. D - creases ranged from $100 to $18. 50 with the largest numebr amounting to $10.00 or over. Most of the gains were«»from $7.00 to $1 The 1946 crop was heavier bod ied than the prior year’s and was not as desirable for cigarette man ufacture. More lemon, red and green tobaccos were In evidence and less orange. The percentage of good to choice qualities in nr eased whereas* common to fair grades showed a corresponding de fine. Leaf was marketed m much ■utters, lugs, smokin.S QualS mndescript was smaller. Quality !f Uie crop in the Virginia area of the belt was far superior to that part grown in the North Carolina section. Common to good leaf and fair and good qualities of cutters and lugs made up the bulk of All markets opened September -23. November 11, Armistice Day, was observed as a holiday and sales were suspended November 28 and 29 because of Thanksgiving. A long period of inactivity follow ed, as the markets did not reopen until January 2 because of the coal strike. Practically all markets closed during the last two weeks in January and- the season ended February 7 when final sales were held at Winston-Salem. The sale of the crop this season was again governed by certain | regulatifcns. At the start of the season sales were limited to 4001 baskets per hour with a restriction^ of 5 hours or 2000 lots per day per of extremely heavy volume, smqll (TOBACCO) on page 4 Bill establishing election pro cedures for the fown of Hillsboro has been introt^iced in the State Senate by Jarri# Webb of Hills boro, senator representing Or ange and Alamance counties. The town board of commission ers at a meeting in January au thorized Attorney Dumont Esker idge to draw up the ordinance and requested Senator Webb to intro duce the measure. The proposed measure sets up the procedure to be used in elect ing five members of the town board of commissioners and the mayor in biennial elections. According to the' Institute of Government’s Bulletin of Local Legislation the measure provides the following: “To amend the charter of the town of Hillsboro, North Carolina, so as to provide for the general election of elective municipal of ficials.” (Secs. 1 artd' 2: would pro vide for holding biennial elections for a mayor and 5 commissioners of Hillsboro, beginning on the Tuesday after the 1st Monday in. May,“1947. 'Those'“‘elected* would take office cn 1st Monday in June subsequent to election. Would pro vide that elections shall be con ducted jn 'accordance with the gen eral election laws of the State un less provided otherwise by this Act. Sec. 3: would require candi dates to ratify town clerk and pav $5 fee on or heforp noon of 1st Monday in April preceding elec p n S~c. 4 deals with preparation of ballots. Sec. 5: would require i Town Commissioners at least 30 days before the election, to select See (TOWN) on page 4 Roof Destroyed mu C. R. Weaver House In Village Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed the roof of the home of C. R. Weaver, 137 East Rosemary Lane. Chapel Hill, about 11:45 Monday morning, and rendered considerable damage to the inter iQr.jol.the house.*———'-—— * The Weavers were not at heme Even a fireman is capable of becoming excited at times. Several of the boys who help ed to remove the furniture from the Weaver home in Chapel Hill while its roof burned Monday reported that while everyone else was straining to remove the> heaviest pieces of furinture. one of the firemen rushed in, picked uo a box of Kleenex, and rushed out. at the time of the fire, and the entire roof was ablaze when fire men reached the scene. In a mat* brpuglif' under control and all the furniture with only slight dam ages removed from the house. Board Discusses Court House Renovation At Special Meeting Work Slated On 2 Roads year Hillsboro _Two roads in Orange county are scheduled for treatment ac cording to plans announced by Chairman A. H. Graham of the North Carolina Highway and Public Works Commission. Contracts wiL.be let on Feb ruary 25 in Raleigh for 68 miles of roadwork involving an esti mated cost of $2,660,000 and two projects in Orange county are included in the group. One of the two projects in volves part of a highway in Or ange and Person counties, but the other, occording to the an nouncement, is totally in Orange county. As described by the State High way and Public Works Commis sion the roads are: Orange-Person — Grading, surfacing and structures 6^5.77 miles, from a point approximate ly 10 miles east of Hillsboro northeast to highway 501 in Per son county; Orange — Grading and surfac in7.0 miles on a county road from the junction with high way 70 west of highway 751 to the junction with highway 70 east of Hillsboro. (This is the commonly called “old Durham highway.”) . r Appltcalions Already Made For Contest A number of Orange county farm families have already ; jOt in th2ir applications in the Home Beautification contest being spon sored by the Hillsboro Branch of Lhe Durham Bank and Trust Com pany. The bank is offering $100 savings bond; $25. savings bond; and $10 cash prize respectively for the top three winers in the contest. There is no entrance fee or no cost attached to the contest and no restrictions pther than at least 90 * percent of the family income must1 be derived from the farm. Pictures showing the . scenes before im provements get sorted are al See (APPLICATIONS) on page 4 THE NEWS Asks ... What is your favorite comic strip F Mrs. W. F. Poythress, Chapel Hill: “Little Orphan Annie, be cause it carries good moral les sons for the children.’’ Mrs. V. F. Keck, Hillsboro: “They're all my favprlfes, but Libia Is, J«e Palooka is. most Iff teresting at present. We'/e an xious to see when-Joe will find Ann.’’ Nettie Strum, West Hillsboro: “Little Henry, because he is such a typical little boy.’’ John Kirkland, Jr., Route 2, Chapel Hill: “Little Henry, be cause it is true to life.'' Mrs. Mary J. Laws, Route 3, Hillsboro: “Sad Sack Is my fav orite, because he really is such a sad sack.” — Ruth Blackwelder, Hillsboro: “Joe Palooka, beause of the sus pense it creates.” Bill Lloyd, Carrboro: “Some times one, sometimes another Is my favorite. At present, I en joy Li’l Abner most.” Mrs. Donald Wright, Hillsboro: “Bringing Up Father.” It keeps me wondering what Maggie will do next.” N. D. Crabtree, Hillsboro: “The Lone Rangerf' ' Training School To Be Conducted At Stock Market A training school on the clipping fitting and showing of baby beef calves wit be held at the Livestock Market in Hillsboro Wednesday, February 26, Extension Agents and Vocational Agricultural tfech ?rs f'-om Granville, Person, Durham, Chatham and Alamance counties will attend the school. L. I. Case, extension animal hus bandryman from State College, will demonstrate the proper me thods of clipping, fitting, and show ing baby beef calves. This school has been arranged primarily for the, leaders in the various counties who in turn will demonstrate to their club members .the proper methods of fitting and showing the animals; however, all persons in terested in these baby' beef pro jects are UCged to attend the meet ings. ' ■■ ■ ' Familiar Sight In Village Is Robbie And Mrs. Jordon By Frank Sellg, Jr. Ghapel Hill—“It is really a mat ter of opinion,” laughed diminu tive Mrs. A. M. Jordon, when ask ed whether she took Rebel, her massive Newfoundland, for a^walk or whether he took her. “Actual ly he is quite gentle and extreme ly obedient, and in spite of the fact that I am a very small person while he is a very large dog, he minds me well; so you might say that I lead him, whether it looks that way or not.” ’A familiar sight on Chapel Hill streets, Mis. Jordon and Rebel usually cn a chain, are now ac customed to being approached by interested pedestrians. Rebel pa tiently waits while his mistress answers the usual inquiries about this unusual canines — —— QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS “He is really rather small—for a Newfoundland, that is.” “No, he doesn’t eat us out of house and home, and finding fc/od tor him was not too difficult dur ing the war.” “He is about five years old, come ♦he summer. He is very, gentle and, no, he doesn’t bite. Weighing about 115 pounds, he is about three feet high and about five or six teet long.” These are her stock answers with See (FAMILIAR SIGHT), page 8 Four Churches In Hillsboro '\ . . - To Observe Day Of Prayer Members of the four denomi nations of Hillsboro will partici nate in the program of the World Day of Prayer .Service which will held Fridly’, February 21, at 30 p.m. in the Episcopal church. The leader will be Mrs. H. H. Brown, and the following young oeople from the local churches will have a part in the program: Dot Lloyd, Audrey Smith, Jean ne Miller, Betsy Ann Forrest and N'aney Lloyd. A union choir will lead the congregation in the sing ing of the hvmns. with solo parts by Mrs. J. W. Dickson. Miss Sue Haye^ will be at the organ. A cor dial invitation is extended to all. All who can sing are reminded to meet Thursday, February 20, at the Episcopal church for a re boi»r«al of the ch^'r. The program. “Make Level in he Desert a Highway for uur Indian woman, Mrs. Isabel Caleb, )n the staff of Ewfng Christian College, Allahabad. The World Day of Prayer is sponsored by the United Ceuncil of Church Women and has been planned locally by a committee composed of Mrs. R. C. Masterton, chairman, Mrs. W. W Abernethy, "Mrs. C. S. Hubbard. .Mrs.-S.-F. Nicks and Mrs, S. W, DuBose. As some may not be able to at tend the service at the church, it has been planned to have the church open and heated all day for those who may care to dropdn for a few moments of prayer. Also .the teachers at the school have been'asked to take a lew min utes of that day for a brief per iod of prayer. The offering taken at the church will be sent to the United Council of Church Women for religious work among migrants and share croDpers, to support religious work directors in eight govern ment Indian schools, for religious literature to ttrreign court'ttireg. and[ to eight union Christian colleges in India, Japan and China. Definite steps towards reno vation of the century-old Or ange county .court house and the construction of an office building to house the over flow of county officials were made at a special meeting of the Orange county board of com missioners Monday morning. The meeting was attended by all members of the board: Collier Cobb, Jr., of Chapel Hill; H. G. Laws of Hurdle Mills; and Ben F. Wilson of near Mebane; Dumont Eskridge of Hillsboro, county at torney; Sheriff Sam T. Latta, * ClerkwOf Court Edwin Lynch; Reg ister of Deeds Ed Laws; County — Accountant G. W. Ray; and At torney, L. J. Phipps of Crapel Hill The commissioners called in the county officials and Attorney Phipps in order for them to hear the report and discusion of H. Ray mond Weeks, Durham architect, who is drawing the plans, for the renovation of the historic court house. _ _ Weeks pointed out that the reno vation would be made without marring the outside lines of the court house. Extra space could be provided in the building, the ar chitect told the group, by exca vating a basement under the entire’ building and rearranging the court room to provide more seating space, jury rooms, conference rooms, judge’s chambers and oth er conveniences of a modem court room. Heat is also to be placed in the court house. Present indication for the reno vation of the court house do not indicate space in the building for the office of the county accountant or the tax collector. These officers would be placed in a separate office building which would also house the health de >artment, the welfare department, he school superintendent’s office md any other county officials. Utfort % meeting Monday vfth *e *ral changed in his pro >osed plans and is to report to the :ommissioners at their regular nonthly meeting on March 3 with i new set of drawings showing the evisionsv ‘ Esther Cheek ts Crowned Beauty Queen Miss Esther. Cheek, of Chapel Hill was crowned Beauty Queen at the Valentine Ball, sponsored by the junior class of Chapel Hill high school, last Friday night at the school Tin Can, Voting for the queen and her court took place earlier in the week. Each class selected twogirls to run in the finals. The girls se lected were: Senior, Jackie Mer ritt and Esther Cheek; juniors.*Dot Hogan and Madeline Jennings; sophomores^ Jane Cate and Dana Phipps; and freshman, Beth Lloyd and Clara Jo Riggsbee. Pictures were taken of the girls free of charge by Wootten-Moulton Studios, and were placed in the Varsity “Soda Sellar” with ac companying voting boxes. Votes were one cent each. Esther Cheek, I of the senior class received the I largest number of votes. I The pennies received were u'cd 1 to finance the dance. Figure' were not available on the amount of money taken in. Moose Leaves* Monev To Pay For Damages H'H vou ev*r hear of a con , scientioui mouseT James Harington of Route 2, Hillsboro, recently returend a table model radio which he had _ _purchased several day prey iously_ from Smith’s Furniture with the statement that the radio Just wouldn’tlplay. Remus Smith sent the radio to Wayne McDade to find the trouble. Uoon looking inside the r*c«o. McDade said, “This is the first time I have ever known a a mouse to leave money to Jay for damages done.” A mouse, who had torn up the speaker, had taken a one dollar bill and two quarters in to the radio through a small hole. Harrington, who had laid the money on the table beside the radio before noing to bed one &*«***< • morning, but didn’t know what " had happened to It.
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