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your advertising mes sage IN THE NEWS WILL BRING THE DESIRED RE 8ULTS of Orange County 54 No. 12 -Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 1946— Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, March 20, 1947 { (Published Weekly)^ MORE PEOPL# READ THE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER NEW8PAPER PUBLISHED IN ORANGE COUNTY 8 Pages This Week Fr. trank Jr. Graham Speaks t High School Sunday Night DZ.FGAA/k P.OGAtf/M Dr. Frank P. Graham, president ! the Greater University of North arolina, will speak in the audi irium of the Hillsboro high school ; 7:30, Sunday evening, March 23. is topic will be “The Atomic Re llution Requires a Spiritual Re olution.” This meeting is being sponsored y the Laymen’s League of Hills oro, which is an inter-denomi ational organization with repre mtatives from the Baptist, Me lodist, Presbyterian and Episco al churches of Hillsboro. The public is cordially invited i attend. Music for the program will be rovided by the junior choir of ae Hillsboro Methodist church This is the first talk of a series fanned by the Laymen’s League i which a nupiber of prominent lymen in the state will be ore ented in Hillsboro. Buses Now Repaired. Jury Finds All school buses in Orange coun ty are in good mechanical eon dition, the Grand Jury reported late Tuesday afternoon in the March session of superior court, indicating that the buses reported in bad condition- in the January report have been repaired. In its report the Grand Jury further pointed o_ut: “In our re port during the January term of Criminal court, we asked that heat ers and defrosters be installed on all Orange county buses. We are going to continue to insist on these, safety and health measures -un til materials, are available and the necessary installations are made.” The Grand Jury also commend ed: 1. The county board of cgpnmis sioners in recommending the estab lishment of a_ county fourt; 2. The county officials for dis charging their duties in a compe tent and trustworthy manner; 3. The board of education for its work in making the repairs to the sQhools suggested in the last re port. Members of the jury are: Grey Culbreth, chairman; and Robert G. Thompson, Doc Walker, Ran dolph Parker, W. R. Pearson, Charles S. Mace, W. A. Gordon, L.-E. Jordon, J. R, . Ray, T. J8L Watkins, R. E. Scarlett, George D. Bennett, J. S. Morgan, W. J. Quakenbush, H.; M. Perry, Reid Roberts, T. B. Creel, excused, and C. L. Glosson, excused because of sickness. Ehapel Hill, Hillsboro Are 'n State Garden Pilgrimage Chapel Hill—Resumed folowing i six-year interruptionby the war, he State Garden Pilgrimage will ;et underway March 20 in Rocky Mount and will end with the show ng of Raleigh gardens May 1-2. Within that six weeks’ period, pri vate gardens and historic homes uid public buildings in 15 com nunities will be open to visitors. Sponsored by the Garden Club )f North Carolina, Mrs. J. S. Mit hener, Raleigh, president, the >ilgrimage is directed by Mrs. Roy lomewood, Chapel Hill, state ■hairma», assisted by a local'tours chairman in £ach of the partici pating communities. First stop on the pilgrimage in April will be Greensboro, where 20 gardens, running the gamut of lew to long established, small to large, informal to formal, city es tates to country gardens, will be open April 11-13, the dates corres ponding to the visit of the nation al president for the board meet ing of the-Garden Club of North Carolina. Concord will feature the farm house of Mrs. C. A. Cannon for its participation in the pilgrimage April 12. Pittsboro and Siler City share the date of April 15, ,and both places will open a large num ber of gardens. Wilson on the 15th will show eight gardens, many of them featuring azaleas. Chapel Hill and Hillsboro may both be visited, the former for a tour of many town and country gardens, the latter for a pilgrimage to his toric private homes and public buildings. Historic Cooleemee plantation and six gardens of the town will be included in the Lexington pil grimage on April 17 and 18. Elev en of the historic private homes and public buildings for which New Bern is cherished by^hose who are interested in both antiquities and architecture will be opened for pilgrimage there on April 19 and 20. Henderson and Elizabeth City share the date of April 22, the former to show six varied private gardens, the latter to include four historic homes and four modem homes and gardens. Participating for the first time this year, Wadesboro will open seven gardens, and the homes of two of the garden owners on April 23 and 24. In conjunction with the pilgrim age to Raleigh on May 1 and 2, the Raleigh Garden Club will hold a flower show. The Governor s Mansion, the historic Andrew Johnson house and eight private gardens wil be visited. VISIT RALEIGH ' v* ♦The Hillsboro high school bas ketball team, both boys and girls, made a sight-seeing trip to Ral egh Thursday. Glenn Auman, coach, chaperoned the group. * Layman Unit In Hillsboro Reorganized A group of interested laymen representing the four churches of Hillsboro recently reorganized the Laymen’s League with the pur pose of promoting and stimulating all interdominational interests and ideals, it has been announced!' A regular part of the program of the reorganized Laymen’s League will be a monthly service featur ing a prominent and widely known layman as speaker. # The League will also undertake the promotion of other civic ser vices including a regular religious census and ^sponsoring occassional forums on vital subjects, if was pointed out. Under the reoganizational plan, as approved by all churches in Hillsboro, all church members are( affiliated with the league with cer tain members designated as the active steering committee. President of the Laymen s League, elected by the steering committee, is Elmer R. Dowdys teacher of agriculture at HilhA boro high school. Vice-president :s Ed Barnes, assistant county agent; secretary, Fred Sharpe, and treas urer, G. W. Ray, county ‘account - ant. • Other members include: Alfred Snipes, H. G. Coleman, Jr., Lan tham Latta, Wilson Cole, Tom Dula, T. N. Webb, Tom Bivins, Al-, len Lloyd, Harry D. Hollings worth, Charles Walker, Jr., and Herman Slrayhom. Polio Group’s Achievements Outstanding The Orange county chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis has made a fine record of achievement during the last 12 months, with a well bal anced and broad program of ser vices, according to a report just turned in by President E. Car rington Smith. . . In addition to spending $500 m direct aid for poliof victims, the chapter has purchased a $550 iron lung (infant size) and ha® it temporarily in Watts Hospital, for crippled children hefo every two weeks; and has supported a program for health education See (POLIO) on 5 What do you think would be a good question for THE NEWS ASKS Column to ask? Miss Loretta Brown, Hills boro: “How would you like to see Hillsboro’s streets washed occasionally?’’ C. B. Parris, Hillsboro: “Do you always wait until March 15 to file your income tax return? If so, why?” Kenneth Rosemond, Hillsboro: “Do .you think the town should have a new gymnasium?” Mrs; Wallace Williams, Hills boro: “What is your favorite Sunday dinner?” R.eggy Mangum, Hillsboro: - “What qualities do you think are most important In a school teach er?” 17 Days Left To Announce Candidancy Seventeen days remain for per sqpts interested in becoming can didates for mayor or commisioner in the Town of Hillsboro tp file their intention with the town clerk, according to the new regulations for holding town elections ap proved by the General Assembly. In a letter sent to all voters in Hillsboro, Mayor Ben Johnston pointed out that it was necessary for candidates for commissioners or mayor to file their candidancy. on or before the first Monday in. April which is this year April 7. Elections will be conducted on May 8. Excerpts from the Mayor’s let ter follow: “This to advise that the Election Laws governing the Town Elec tion have been changed by a bill passed in the 1947 Legislature ond the following rules will gov ern the Town Election to be held May 8, 1947, and all Elections in future years, for the Election of Candidates for Mayor and five Commissioners. “Any person desiring to become a Candidate for Mayor or Com missioner of the Town of Hills boro shall on or before 12 O'clock noon of the first Monday in April preceeding any election held there under file with the Town Clerk his declaration or her declaration of candidancy for election to any such office in such declaration shall, state his or her name, age, place of residence, length of.time a resident of the Town of Hills boro and- at the time of such fil ing pay t6 the Town of Hillsboro a fee of five dollars $5.00. “The General Election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May. “The Election shall be conduct ed as far as practicable in all things and in all details in accordance See f 17 DAYS) on page 5 Eagle Scoot Bill Teer, 18-year-old son of Mf. and Mrs. W. Walter Teer* of Hillsboro, was presented with the Eagle Scout Award at the March Court Of Honor of Or ange County. The award was presented by attorney Bonner D. Sawyer of Hillsboro. - Teer won the tenderfoot award in May '45, the Second Class in September ’45, First Class in December '45, the Star-Award In March '46, Life Scout in June '46 and the Eagle in March ’47. He holds 22 mJbt badges, and in addition to his scouting ac tivities warf a member of the fboiball squad, ls( In the eighth grade and a member of the high school band. ] New Phlpne Started Here Workmen started this week lay ing brick for the new telephone building in Hillsboro which will house a dial system, replacing the old-style crank system now in use throughout the town. Officials of the Morris Telephone Company announced last Novem ber their intention^ to install the dial system* here and to construct the new building, 'all at an esti mated cost of $40,000. The company also announced at that time that more telephones would be available after the dial system was installed. I Construction of the new building and the use of the dial system here, according to the company, will give “Hillsboro the finest tele phone service available any where." MRS. AMELIA C. WHITT Mrs. Amelia C. Whitt,' 85,' died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Isaac .Qwens, Friday night at 8 o’clock following illness of 10 years. She had been critically ill Se.e (DEATHS) on page 4 Deaths Selection Of Jury To Try Breeze On Murder Charge Starts Today Joe Howard Made Grange Youth Head ; Joe N. Howard of Hillsboro, em ployee of Duke Power Company, has been named chairman of the Youth Committee of the North Carolina State Grange, Mrs. Har ry B. Caldwell, Master of the Grange, has announced. Howard is a graduate of State College and served, as assistant farm agent in Orange county for eight years. He has done outstand ing work among 4-H Clubs, Mrs. Caldwell said. “The State Grange is indeed fortunate in securing the services of Howard. We antici pate an oustanding year of accom plishments in youth activities,” she declared. Other members of the Youth Committee are Mrs. H. D. Robert son, Winston-Salem; L. R. Harrill, Raleigh; John Walter Farlow, Jr., High Point, and L. L. May, Raleigh. Plans are now being made for a Summer camp, location to be an nounced later. The annual youth Winter conference also is being planned for December, it was an nounced. Plans Made To Stress Seal Drive . A total of 1,500 citizens of Or ange county are this week receiv ing letters from the Orange county chapter committee of the North Carolina League for Crippled Children asking their support of the Easter seal campaign. The campaign in Orange county is being directed by G. T*. Prof fit, assistant superintendent * of schools, of Hillsboro, Dr. J. B. Riggsbee of Chapel Hill, co-chair man, and Kenneth Putham, treas urer, of Chapel Hill. The letter points out that the league provides medical and edu cational services to crippled children regardless of how the child becomes crippled; but that it has neither funds, facilities, nor staff to carry out the program. How the requests for the league’s services can be rnet depends upon the generosity, of its contributors, the letter states.' v Grange bounty chapter is striv ing to raise $1,500 in the cam paign. STORES TO CLOSE EASTER MONDAY Chapel Hill stores will be clos ed on Monday, April 7, in ob I cservance of Easter Monday, It was announced this week. Residents of Cedar Grove, Little River, Cheeks Oaitted In Yeaire Selection of jury to try John Henry Breeze, confessed attack er of Mrs. Agnes Wilkerson, aged Orange county woman, on a charge of first degree murder, is scheduled to start Thursday morning in Orange county superior court. Judge Luther Hamilton, judge presiding, Tuesday ordered a special venire of 50 men drawn. He specified that no residents of Cedar Grove. Little River or Cheeks townships be drawn Schools End Year May 26~ And June 4 Schools in Orange county will close on two dates this year, it was announced this week, with the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross schools ending the year on Wednesday, June 4, while the eth er schools in the county will close tor the summer vacation on Mon day, May 26. No plans have yet been announc ed for the graduating exerc-ses in the county’s high schools. ■ It was pointed out this week that the graduation classes would be the first to be graduated under the State supported 12 years of schooling. Last year, there were no class es and the year before the grad uating classes had only, in most cases, completed 11 years of school. If weather conditions or sick ness in any of the schools don’t close the schools, the announced dates will be the end of the school year. Extra time will be added to the year if any of the schools should lose any schools day3 be tween now and the end of the term, it was asserted. Syphilis Cure Is Given 295 ' From Orange Chapel Hill—Remarkable pro gress is being made In the rapid treatment centers in Durham and Charlotte in the cure of syphilis, Dr. Ralph B. Hogan, surgeon in the United States Public Health Service, in charge of the two cent ers, said in a talk to the Chapel Hill Rotarians at their meeting this week. - ' ’ The program was arranged by Dr. Gaston Rogers of the Orange County Health Pepartment who presented the speaker: More than 23.000 cases of syphi lis have been treated in- the two centers since the program was started thedatter part of 1943, and See (SYPHILIS) on page 5 "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez,” Deep-Voiced Moody Durham Cries At Weekly Sessions Of Recorders Court As He Completes 18 Years Of Service As Clerk By Kit Coleman Chapel Hill—“Oyez! Oyez! O yez!”—how fimiliar are those words slurred almost beyond re cognition by Moody W. Durham, court clerk, to those attending vol untarily or involuntarily ttfe week ly sessions of the Chapel Hill Re corder’s court. » To many, Moody Durham is the robust, deep-voiced, elderly clerk, who opens and closes court and collects the money. But to those who know his duties, he is a vital and important figure in court life. He is the man with the records. “I have to process papers, make warrant recordings,” said Durham in explaining his responsibilities as court recorder, “make a month ly financial report to the Motor Vehicle Department j*nd to the town, and report on disposition of cases pending on the police blot ter.” “I also make a statistical report and report on the final disposition of all cases in court to the Attorn ey General’s office,” he added, “make a monthly report on the amount of taxes collected on each individual, keep statistical files set up in numerical jind alpha betical reference on all defendants tried in cdurt, and keep a report on applicants for governmental jobs. It has to be accurate.” 18 YEARS SERVICE . ■ Excepting a short period of six inonths, Durham has been behihd the clerk’s desk for 18 years and has seen a number of judges—five in all—come and go. Moody Durham is one of the old timers who has seen Chapel Hill grow and changer He came here first as a student in 1903. “Chapel Hill, was a great deal different then,” he said. “It was a village of unpaved, muddy streets. Why, in front of the place where Berman’s Department Store is located now was the sign “No Fishing.” Anyone crossing the street had to walk on a special mound rising above the mud.” ONE-MAN FORCE The police force was a one-man affair, he said. The job made him a jack of all trades and he even put the village to bed at 12 o’clock when he blew out the oil lamps. Durham was bom in Chatham county some sixty odd years ago. After two years at the University in Chapel Hill, he took a traveling position for the Reynold’s Tobacco Company and remained with them for 14 years. In 1917 he returned to his col lege town to live and began a car i service between Chapel Hill and' Durham. “There were no .buses then," he explained. Oh being asked why he chose to live in Chapel Hill he said he came, on business and just stayed. “The milk was better, the water was better, ah<Vthe atmosphere \^as .better,” he added jpkipgly. ( When Durham was appointed to the position of court recorder in 1928, there was no court house, only the old jail olcated in the middle of Columbia Street at the intersection of Rosemary. Court was held at that time in the old Pickwick Theatre and later in the Wettach Building. When the new courthouse was built Durham took over the recorder’s desk there. When asekd if his job demanded daily appearance, he smiled, "Ev ery day except in hunting season.” HUNTING, FISHING ENTHUSIAST During the fall when not in the courthouse, Durham can probably be found on his farm in Chatham County tulrkiy ] hunting. He is a member of ’’the Riverside Club composed of 11 hunters who of ten join him on his farm—the old home place—for a bit of sport. In the spring Durham occasionally slips away from his daily duties to fish in the Haw River which flows through his farm. ~ Durham said he has kept his farm because it is his family home rather than as a financial asset. “I have a few fruit trees though,” he said,” and am now putting in some wheat and oats. There is some water power undeveloped there too.” Aside -from being court clerk, Durham has a personal real estate business and owns a .great dal of property in. and. around Chapel mn;~ - In civic affairs he has served on the Board of Alderman and for 18 years was a members of the Or i ange County Board of Education. ! RATIONING OFFICIAL During the war he was the top man at the rationing board. “We had fine cooperation,” he said, “and fine volunteer help. NaturaTly some people were disgruntled when they didn’t get what they thought they would like to have.” " D.urham remarked that the re gulations were always the decid ing factors and not personal feel ings, but that some expected ex ceptions^ He even said he felt at tiipes the regulations permitted peolpe to get more than they were entitled -to, but it was a “cut and dried affair.” “It was hard ta get tires, su gar, meat, typewriters and bicy cles. People often had more points than food. This led to undercount er dealings. I don’t think the south had the black market operations the north did though,” he added. Even with priority, he said, the rationing board couldn't get a typewriter and had to borrow two from the University until the gov ernment finally got one. The,“proud grandfather” twink j le comes into Durham’s eye when he speaks of his only grandson I who bears his sire name. Worth Durham Banner, bora Nov. 26, S1946. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Worth Banner, Mrs. Ban ner being the former Virginia Dur ham. They are non living in Chap el Hilk where he is a'jthember of the language department at, the ‘university and is studying for his doctor’s degree. r~ • . in xne venire. Mrs.-' Agnes Wllkerson, who died last Tuesday In the Alamance General Hospital in Burlington, was a resident of route 2, Hills- ' boro, arid a strong feeling 'against the 30-year-old Negro has devel oped in the Cedar Grove, Little River and Cheeks townships. Brought before the judge In court Tuesday, Breeze indicated Twenty-five of the 50 men * drawn on thev special venire are Hated below. The other 25 men had not been drawn at 10 a.m. Wednssday when THE NEW8 went to press. R. M. HIII. J. F. Watkins, E. L. Lockhart, H. C. Wilkins, O. R. Holloway, J. M. Ball, M. L. Hut chins, W. R. Link, C. W. Spar row, Walter Stephenson, C. R. Miller.' John H. Mlchol. O. A. Couch. E. B. Stanley, I. M. Crab tree, W. Y. Hicks, A. D. Ctayton, J. F. Stegall, W. P. Andrews, C. H. Walsh, O. O. Wicker, all of Eno township; E. C. Kirkland of Chapel Hill township and C. L. Davis, T. Y. Riley and P. T. Hardy of Hillsboro township..,. that he would plead not guilty to the first degree murder charge. The Grand Jury had earlier in the day brought in a true bill for first de gree murder against him. Breeze has confessed to officers of the Orange county sheriffs de partment that he entered the home of Mrs. Wilkcrson on February 19 and allegedly assaulted her with a stick of wood; tossed her upon her bed and set fire to the room. Mrs. Wilkrrson was discovered by who had made an appointment with her. The aged woman was carried to the hospital in Burlington where she died on March 11. TWO MURBER TRIALS The trial of Breeze Is the first of two first-degree murder trials scheduled for this term. Grand Jury also brought in a true bill of first-degree murder against Edgar Rice, Negro, charging him with shooting Charlie Vaughn on Jan uary 20. ' . , Other scases handled Tuesday ware; Wilbert Walker., guilty to force able tresspass, six months suspend ed for three years; Warsaw W. Braswell, manslaughter, not a true bill; Owen Hastings, abandonment and non-support, 15 months sus '! pended on condition he pay Mrs. Hastings $75 by March 31, $17.50 in addition, and $17,50 each month thereafter; manueii x-wniuy, gximy ut mwr* slaughter, 7 to 10 years; John A. Qualls, larceny; Johnnie W. Walk er and Henrietta Walker, immoral conduct; Howard Duncan, man slaughter; Jim Wills, Sr., assault with deadly weapon and robbery, all continued; H. M. Perry, permit another to drive his automobile while intoxi cated; Oscar Williams, assault with : deadly weapon; Jeppie Mae Duke, J possession of whiskey for sale, all I nol prossed with leave, MONDAY'S SESSION Orange county superior court opened Monday morning at 10 o’clock in Orange county’s century old court hotke in Hillsboro with Judge Luther Hamilton of Beau fort presiding. The court faced on* of the largest dockets in many terms with a total of 83 cases sche duled for trial. Opening of court was marked by an invocation given by the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, pas tor of the Hillsboro Methodist church, and was followed by a one and one-half hour charge giv en by Judge Hamilton. — In his charge to,the jury, Judge Hamilton asserted that the fail ure of man to cope with human See (COURTJ on page S Red Cross Drive Is Still On Collections by the Orange county chapter of the American Red Cross this week had reached the sum of $600, according to a report from John P. Ballard* campaign director. Goal of the drive ft $1.0©0. Last week the Chapel HIM .i chanter reported that its goal of $4,400- had been oversubscrib ed by $900 and th.«t more waa b*lpg expected.
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