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more people read the news than any other newspaper published IN ORANGE COUNTY THE NEWS of Orange County Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, February 27, 1947 (Published Weekly) * v YOUR ADVERTISING MES SAGE IN THE NEWS WILL BRING THE DE8IRED RE SULTS 8 Pages This Week Two Red Cross Drives Seek $5,400 In Funds From Orange The annual fund drive for the American Red Cross will get underway in Orange county Saturday when the Chapel Hill chapter and the Orange county chapter in Hillsboro will con duct simultaneous drives blanketing the entire county in an effort to collet $5,400. Coal of the Chapel Hill chapter is $4,400 while the Orange county chapter has been assigned the quota of $1,000. Announcement of committee heads to direct the drive in Chapel mu was made last week by Captain E. E. Hazlett, campaign director. The Chapel Hill drive will cover Bingham and Chapel Hill townships. John P. Ballard, campaign chair man, this week announced the •taff to handle., the collection of funds in the Orange county chap ter’s efjCprts. • • Mrs. John P. Ballard will serve as treasurer with the following di recting the various community ef forts: Schools—Assistant Superinten dent G. T. Proffitt; Eno Mills, Sid ney Green; Bell Vue, John Clay ton; University, Mrs. G. C. Trues dale and J. M. Harris; Orange Furniture Craftsman, Mrs. J. G. Goodwin and Joe P. Privett; and Hillsboro and community, Ballard and Carl C. Davis. Both drives will open Saturday, March 1, and close the following Saturday, March 8. On the eve of the start of the campaign, an announcement said: “The work of the Red Cross both m peace and war is too well known to require explanation. While its wartime activities have tapered Off to a great extent, -there is still much to be done for our men in the armies of occupation. Mean while the service to veterans nas grown by leaps and bounds, and this is of increasing importance in this vicinity, where we have such a large concentration of ex-ser vice men. “Harvey D. Gibscn, president of the Manufacturers Trust Company of New York, in accepting the post Of iidtiuilU* t —.mu ulc I Fund Campaign, made the follow ing statement: ‘The most important Red Cross task in the coming year is continuing its services to the armed forces and to veterans and their families. There are still more than two millipn men and women in the armed forces. The Red Cross troops at home and overseas with morale building services, and at the same time help meet the need of the 60,000 requiring hospital care in the country .Since war’s end .it has been necessary for .the Red Cross to increase vastly its.activi ties to 112,000, and the peak is still ahead.’ ” Hickory' House Plans Formal Opening Here The operators of The Hickory House are announcing in this week’s issue the formal opening of their new eating establisment in a modem building next door to Bruce’s 5c and 10c. store on Chur ton street in Hilsboro. The operators are the former owners of the Little Pep Cafe in Hilsboro and their building has been under construction here for the past several months. Modern in design and anoint ments, the owners have announc ed they have one of tm^most mo dern restaurants In this section of the state and certainly one of the most modern in the state for a town the size of Hillsboro. Lunchroom Prices To Hit 30 Cents la Chapel Hill Chapel Hill—C. W. Davis, prin cipal* of the Chapel Hill higt school, announced Monday that either the school lunchroom would have to' reduce' the quality and size of its meals or raise the prices. The new policy, he stated, has come about through the discon tinuance of federal aid funds for school lunchrooms. Formerly nine cents has-been paid on each meal. Unless some government relief Is given, Mr. Davis said, the 20 cent lunch prices will* be boosted to 30 cents after March 1* At the Chapel Hill hogh school, over 200 students have' fitfeH 'fectfMwff fitsVrom the federal afd eao^Y&y, Orange county schools have an nounced that lunch prices will be increased to either 20 of 25 cents, depending on the. school. PTA Council Meets Today At Carrboro The Orange county Council PTA meeting will be held'in Carrboro School on February 27 at 2:30. A program on Founders Day and music will be given by the school children before the business meet ing. A contest of health posters wil be held at this time. Each school is to enter the best poster from the school on “North Caro lina’s No. 1 Need, Good -Health”. A prize will be given for the best poster. The following schools will be represented by the presidents and a group.of interested parents and teachers: Aycock, Mrs. J. B. Hurl ey; Caldwell, Mrs. T. F. McKee; Carrboro, Mrs. Benson Ray; Chap el Hill, Mr. John Foushee; Efland, Mrs. John Efland, Jr.; Hillsboro, Mrs. Mitchell Lloyd; Murphy, Mrs J. E. Ballenger; White Cross, Mrs. Lemuel Cheek; West Hillsboro, *R. Scarlett, 1945-46 presidents. All of the past presidents are urged to be present t<# answer to the roll call given for Founders Day by the local president. A re port of the outstanding project of the PTA work will be given by the presidents. Mrs. Charles W. Stanford of Route 1, Chapel Hill, is president of the group. Clubs Plan To Observe 4-H Week Orange county 4-H clubs will join in with the other 4-H clubs in North Carolina and the United States in the observance of Na tional 4-H week March 1 through March 9, it was announced from the office of the 4-H club lead ers in Hillsboro this week. Local plans call for window dis plays in Hillsboro and probably in Chapel Hill which will show the work and aims of the 4-H' clubs in the county. Reaching many farm hoys and girls in Orange county, the 4-H organization now numbers 12 clubs in the county with a mem bership of 383- girls and 375 boys for a total membership of 738. Local projects this year will be on food conservation, preparation. room improvement and_clothing for the girls, and hybrid corn, beef cattle, dairy calves, wildlife conservation and gardening for the boys. Misdirected Mail Arrives Too Late For This Issue THE NEWS regrets that per sonal items from several com munities in the county are be ing omitted from this Issue, but because the letters containing the news articles were missent to Elon College, they arrived too late in the office in Hillsboro to be set for inclusion in this week’s issue. C(j.w 's. Results Of Business Conditions Analyzed In Talk Chapel Hill—Dr. M. C. Mc Gregor, professor of marketing in the University School of Com merce, adressing Chapel Hill Ro tarians at their meeting this week, gave an excellent analysis of causes and results of present busi ness conditions. The 37 billion dollar Dudget be ing asked fof by President Tru man is»more than the U, S. govern ment spent for World War 1, aSp World War II cost this nation six times as much as all other wars put together, said Dr. McGregor, who formerly ,was with the Fed eral Reserve Bank- of Kansas City. —There is now in circulation in this country four times as much money as before."t^e war, he said. The. currency in circulation in creased 381 percent between 1939 and 1946, bank djeposits increased 233 percent, demand deposits 301 percent, and time deposits 180 per- . cent, he explained. “We now have 300 billion in sav ings, ' consisting of 175 million in cash deposits and government bopds, 60 million in real estate, 30 million in stocks and bonds, and 40 million in life insurance of cash surrender value”, he said. There are six million new families since 1939, and 12 1-2 percent more potential buyers who have reached the age of 20 to 35 since 1939, along with 15 million veterans who have changed their i wants considerably, Dr. McGregor | pbinted out. And so, although the potential demand for goods is large, it would See (CAUS^Von Pa9e 4 Local People Help Organize White Shrine In Raleigh Five people from Hillsboro as sisted in the organization,'of the North State^vhite shrine at Ral eigh- last 'Saturday when Mrs. Gladys Liner Coley of Hillsboro, worthy high priestess, directed the initiation of 115. This was thfe fifth shrine to be instituded in North Carolina under the leadership of Mrs. Coley. The others are in Durham, Greenville, Fayetteville and New Bern. Attending the Raleigh meeting with Mrs. Coley were Mrs. Barbara Liner Cannady, Mrs. Ester Good win, J. G. Goodwin and E. C. Lin er. * Lecture Wednesday On Hybrid Corn Dr. R. P. Moore, head of the North Carolina Crop .Improvement Association, wOU'give an illustrat ed lecture on hybrid corn at the New Hope Grange Wednesday night, March 5 at 7:30. J. R. Pulley, Master of the New Hope Grange, announces that this will be an open meeting and cor dially invites all interested farm ers to attend. Dr. Moore, as head of the North Carolina Crop Improvement As sociation, has charge of certifying all hybrid corn as well as other field seeds in the state. L. J. Phipps, J. If. Eskridge Probable Off icers Of Court . With the passage of the bill establishing a county court to meet regularly in the court house in Hillsboro, the talk has turn ed to who will be judge and so licitor of the court. Under the terms of the meas ure, the Judge and solicitor of the court will be appointed by the county commissioners with the commissioners scheduled o name the first court officers *n the near future. It is generally conceded that the fudge- though not required, should be a lawyer. In some counties in the state judges of recorder's court are not lawr yers, but «fe and are highly recognized for their handling of the court. However, It has been the gen eral belief that the fir* Judge should be a lawyer so that he could establish the court on the customs and procedure of law. L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill, former judge of recorder’s court in Chapel Hill,, has been fre quently mentioned for the po sition and will more than like ly be named by the commission ers when it comes time to select the judge. Dumont Eskridge has been mentioned most frequently for the solicitorship. It has been pointed out that the solicitor should be a Hillsboro lawyer so that he would be easily access ible to.the law enforcement of ficers here Tn itte'frepXriHton or* 'their cases before‘bVurt'aity- » - 80 it appears that Phipps will become Judge of the court and Eskridge solicitor. Do you think Hillabt)ro"h-c department should go outside the town limits to aifswer calls? W. L. Smith: ‘^Even when the fire department goes out into the rural sections it is able to do very little, because the water supply is limited. And thpre is the possi bility that it might miss the chance to really! put out a fire in town by goinjg outside." W. M. Laws: "The fire depart ment renders a 4ervlce to all of the county when jit goes into the rural sections, bui to a very small area when It stfays within the town limits." Mrs. Mary Boggs: “The fire department should go anywhere it can render help.” R. JL Smith: -“I think they should go if they are not called too far and If they are not out of touch with the town too long. J. W. Moore: “Yes. By doing' so they might save a lifei and that? would be well worth the cost of going out.” Mrs. Fred C. Gray: “I don't know whether the fire depart ment should, but I know it is appreciated when they do go out side the town limits to fight fires. The barbecue supper Dud Walt ers gave the fire department is an example.” Mrs. Lon Hayes: “The fire de partment should do" whatever It can to render service to any individual,1 no matter whether it’s in the town limits or not.” Mrs. N. D. Crabtree: “I feel that it can render the greatest service by staying in town. I feel this even though I do not live in town.” ' ■ FMX Holding Community Conferences A series of meetings of grange county members of the Farmers Mutual Exchange are being held this/Week. annou4»©ed C. W. Tilson ofyOuraanv manager of the ex change. The purpose of the meetings, ac cording to the announcement, is,to better acquaint the members and other interested persons with the service and policies of the ex change and to elect community di recetors. Tonight, Thursday, February 27, meetings will be held in Carrboro in the school auditorium, and at Prospect Hill school. Both Meetings wyll start at 7:30 p.m. -Toraorro w-^rnght, Fri4ay^.lh eet - ings will be held at the St. Mary’s school and at Caldwell school, both starting at 7:30 p.m. Meetings have already been held this week at Hillsboro, White Cross, Aycock and Grange Grove. Panel Discussion Is Held At PTA Chapel Hill—The Chapel Hill P.T.A. met last Tuesday, Febru ary: 25,. at 7:45 in the elementary school building. A panel discussion on the question “What Consti tutes a Good .School Program” was conducted. Chairman of the panel was Dr. Carson W. Ryan, head of the University education depart ment. Other members of the panel were W. E. Rosenstengel, T. Ross Fink, F. Edgar Lane and Mrs. Rosrmary Kent. Elementary teachers met in their classrooms at 7:45 that, eve ning to greet the parent,s and regis ter them for the attendance prize. High school teachers received par ents in the music room. Bethlehem News Mrs. Clarence Jones is visiting he sister in Baltimore this week. Mrs. Charles W. Stanford, vice chairman of “North Carolina’s No. 1 Need, Good Health” in Orange county attended the joint meet ing of the Legislature in Ralejgh. Miss Etta Morrow, who has been very ill from an attack of flu is better. A large delegation from Orange attended the' hearing in Raleigh of the measure to make cooperative and mutual marketing associations subject to the State’s income and franchise taxes. Mrs. E. C. Blair, Miss Margaret Stanford and Mr. and Mw.'.fl.' W. Stanford attended the Startford Bowman wedding in Greensboro. The blade is the youngest daughter of the late Gaston W. Stanford a well known resident of Orange [county for many years., _ A Lewis Hill, teacher of the “seventh ancT W White Cross school, chartered a See (BETHLEHEM) on paoe 4 Honor Court For Scouts Set March 10 Members of the Orange county district committee of Boy Scouts gathered last week at the Caro lina Inn in Chapel Hill for their monthly supper meeting. The date of the next county wide Court of Honor was set, for March 10 at Hillsboro. It will be held in the community hut at 8:00 p.m. J. Minor Gwyn of Chapel Hill was made the head of a group, of Scouters who are to compile a list of qualified examiners to test Scouts on merit badges. Each com munity of the county is to have its own set of examiners for the 100-odd badges offered in Scout work. Announcement was made of the Scoutmasters’ Training Course to be held at Pinehurst March 29-30. Landscaping ■ Demonstration To Be Given John Harris, horticulture spe cialist at Statfe College, will be here on March 3 to give dem onstrations on landscaping in connection with the home im provement contest in Orange county. The first demonstration will be at 10 a.m. Monday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. p. Wilkerson jn the Schley com munity. The afternoon demon stration will be held at Mrs. J. B. Brockwell’s home at Caivan der at 2:30. All persons who are interested in the home improvement con test are invited to attend. There will be a talk on landscaping and the use of native shrubs._ Names Of All Veterans Are Wanted Here Are you a veteran of World War II, either of the Army, Navy, Ma rine Corps, WACS, $PARS, WAVES or women Marines? If -you are, the Hillsboro Post No. 7129 of the Veterans of, For eign Wars would like to have your < ... The post Is preparing a book for distribution over all of Orange county and list of all Orange coun ty persons who served in any of the armed forces during the Second World War is dedlred. Records in the draft board of . fjce are not completed for many | discharged servicemen have not reported to the draft board fol lowing their discharge. Neither ' does the draft board know of the discharged officers, warrant offi cers, or those who entered any of the reserve corps following their discharge. So if you served in any of the branches of armed services dur ing the war, send' your name and address to either Charles Walker, or the VFW Post, Hillsboro, on a post card. And you can be certain then that your name will appear in the forth coming publication by the Post. Please Observe These Deadlines To bring you THE NEWS eac|i week on time, it is necessary., i that pertain deadlines be ob served in submitting advertis ing.and news copy for inclusion in the week’s issue. To insure as best position as possible in the newspapar, all advertising copy should be in the office iit..HUlsb,ar.o by.Mgnday. night. However, the advertising deadline is not until Tuesday noon, and advertising will be accepted for publication in the week’s paper until that hour. Except for late news stories, all news should be in the of fice by 3 p.m. Tuesday. Society items, personals, weddings and club meetings should be mailed or brought to THE NEWS office by Monday afternoon. Society items cannot be accepted for publication in the week’s paper i after 5 p.m. Monday. By observing-theSe deadline*-, THE NEWS is able to print Tues day Alt&rnoons and, Wednesday papers in the postoffice either before, or shortly after noon 'on Wednesdays. x, . Breeze Is Identified As Alleged Assailant By Mrs. Wilkerson Mrs. Agnes Wilkerson, 71-year-old woman of near Hills boro,' postively identified John Henry Breeze, 30-year-old .Negro, as her alleged assailant from her hospital bed Mon day morning in Burlington where she is recovering from injuries sustained In a brutal beating and robbery at her home last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Wilkerson identified Breeze as the man she alleged entered her home last Wednesday, severely beat her with a stick, robbed her of $16 and left her on a burning bed. Breeze was carried to the hospital by Orange county of ficers where Mrs. Wilkerson identified him in the presence of the officers. ' * . ‘ . A report on her condition Tuesday morning'said that she was sitting up in bed and being rolled around in a wheel chair. Her condition, however, was still described as danger ous with the possibility that her condition could take a turn v for the worse. * ’ " * ' Meanwhile, Breeze was still being held in the Orange * county jail in Hillsboro on the charge of assault. The as sault on Mrs. Wilkerson was described by officers as being one of the most brutal crimes committed in this section in years. _ ‘ According to the sheriff, the Negro was arrested near noon on Wednesday, after Mrs. Wilkerson had given a description of her assailant, and he did not resist arrest, though he has steadily denied knowing anything about the case. Sheriff Latta said that Breeze, employed by a saw mill near Hills boro, has a court record, and investigation proved that he had not been working this week and was spending money, which could have been that which was taken from Mrs. Wilkerson’s home. The sheriff said that no date had been set for a prelimi nary hearing in the case. Breeze lives about four miles from Mrs. Wilkerson’s home. According to a report of the case issued by the sheriff, the assailant entered the home of Mrs. Wilkerson, who lives alone, mauled her severely with a stick, robbed her, and then set fire to two beds in the room where he evidently thought she would be burned to death. Another angle on the case was that the guilty party picked up Mrs. Wilkerson, according to the sheriff evidently think ing her dead, and set fire to the bed so that all evidence lead ing to an arrest would be destroyed. After this had been ac complished. he fled the scene. Mrs. Lettie McDade, a friend of Mrs. Wilkerson s, had an ■appointment with her at 9 o’clock and discovered the action upon entering the home. She put out the fire, which had not spread rapidly, and called in some neighbors to assist her. A neighbor, in turn, called Sheriff I.atta into the case. The sheriff said that he talked with Mrs. Wilkerson after he arrived at the scene and again after she had been admit ted in the hospital, and judged from the description that she gave of her assailant where he could start on making the ar rest.. He said that on following the description he found Breeze at his home and took him into custody around noon. It was reported that only |i6 ayas taken from the home Of Mrs,'Wilkerson, the ^amount being all of her savings. The roornsKowedsignsofbeing well ransacked by the thief in his attempt to find the money. Good Health Bill Passage Is Predicted-By Senator; ~ Sees Four-year Med School James Webb, of Hillsboro, state senator representing Or ange and Alamance counties in the General Assembly, pre dicted in an informal interview Monday that the Good Health bill would be passed by the .Assembly in its entirety. Stating his convictions on the measure, he’said that he was not opposed to any part of the bill and considered the con struction of a four-year medical school at the University of Mebane Leads In Price’Paid - Comparison of average prices paid cn the old-belt tobacco markets during the selling season just recently closed shows that Mebane tobacco market led the 'belt with an average of 44.63' per,hundred pounds. Table of poynds and average of North Carolina markets follows: 1946 GROSS SALES AND AVERAGES _ ; r.;.' North Carolina Pounds ^Average Burlington 12,891,611 43.71 Madison _10.028,417 38.43 Mebane 9.576,236 44 63 Mt. Airy 14,672,466 42.60 Reidsville 16,262,178 41.55 Roxboro 11,253.917* 42.88 I Stoneville 8.989,094 39.69 ! Winston-Salem 75,541,012 41.72 Total —t— 159,214,931 $41.88 These figures are subject to re vision.*’ 10 YEARS OLD * Mild reel * Wheeled, • daugtt ftW of Mr. and' Mrs. Cftho Wneetey bf West Hillsboro, celebrated her 10th birthday on February 12. North Carolina ip Chapel Hill as one of the most important aspects of the bill. In discussions and committee hearings in Raleigh, the extension of the present two-year school at tire University to a four-year cen ter has met with some opposition. Much of the opposition has come from larger centerg such as Char lotte where leaders have indicat ed a desire that the school be con structed. Senator Webb pointed out Mon day, however, that he felt it was the duty of the University to pro vide for a fou'r-year medical course for its students, and that it was his belief that the Assembly would approve the Good Health measure in its entirety. The Good Health measure, popu larized in one of the most exten sive advertising campaigns ever handled in North Carolina, pro vides for the betterment of the health conditions throughout the state with the construction of health centers in rural areas, more doctors for the rural and urban areas and plans for the improve ment of the health of all the peo ple of North Carolina. . FAVORS WILDLIFE GROUP “I’m with the wildlife boys," was his instant reply to a question on his stand in a measure provid I of - the fr&m cHe / ." See (WEBB) on P«fl« 4 ■»
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