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your advertising mes sage IN THE NEWS WILL bring the desired re more PEOPLE READ THE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER "NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN ORANGE COUNTY SULT8 ■Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 1946— Hillsboro, N.*C., Thursday, April 17, 1947 (Published Weekly) 8 Pages This Week Quantity Of Narcotics Missing After Robbery FBI and SBI officers investi ated the theft of a large quantity If narcotics from James Pharmacy n Hillsboro early Monday morn ng, but so far reports from offi ers have indicated that no clues ,ave been uncovered pointing to he,.thief or thieves. , j Charles James, proprietor of fames Pharmacy, said that the >reak-in must have pccured be ween midnight Sunday and-the ime the store-was opened by Al en Lloyd Monday morning. Lloyd, lames said, filled a prescription ibout midnight Sunday and noted lothing missing from the pharm icy at that time. Entrance was gained by break ng a rear window. The door on he box containing the dope taken vas broken in order to take nar ;otics. Missing was an estimated [ npn to 1500 tablets of morphine. 100 to 400 tablets of pantapon, a ierivative of opium, and one-half ;o a pint of tincture of opium, rhree dollars was also taken from :he cash register. The amount of narcotics taken would be worth several hundreds Df dollars in the dope market, Jam es estimated. » Officers investigating the crime said that apparantly the thief was seeking only narcotics, for no thing else—other than the $3 in cash^-was missing from the store. Chapel Hill, Hillsboro Are Set For Tour _ The Garden Club Pilgrimage is scheduled to view a number of homes and garden in Hillsboro and Chapel Hill Thursday, April 17. Headquarters for the pilgrimage in Hillsboro will be the court house where guests will register and be directed by T. N. Webb, chairman, to the homes to be visited. Ad mission will be $1. The schedule will include Heartsease, home of Governor Thomas Burke and of Dennis Heartt; the William Hoop er house, home of the signer of the Declaration of Independence and now owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Brown; the home of D.r, and Mrs; J. S. Spurgeon; the Governor Abner Nash home, now owned by Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Moore; the C. D. Jones home; the gardens of Mrs. Paul Collins, Mrs. James Webb, and Mrs. Clarence Jones; the Pres byterian church, built in 1816; the Episcopal church, built in 1824; [ the Baptist church, built in 1860; the Methodist, 1857; and the Color ed Methodist church, made of ma terials from the original Orange county court house. At the conclusion of the tour, tea will be served in the dining room of the Colonial Inn, open for the first time since Colonel Paul Henderson began restoration. In Chapel Hill, headquarters for the pilgrimage will be the Caroline Inn, with Mrs. J. A. Warren, chair man. Admission will be 50c. The schedule will include the gardens of Mrs. Frank P. Graham, Mrs. W. C. Coker, Mrs. M. J. Rosenthau, Mrs. Ove Jensen, Mrs. D. J. Cow den, Mrs. Julius A. Page, Jr.,; Re stored farm houses of Mrs. Paul Henderson and Mrs. John Foushee; Mrs. Harold W. Walters’ modern istic House and garden; gardens of Mrs. H. R. Totten, Mrs. W. P. See (PILGRIMAGE) on page 8 State School Head Speaks Here Thursday Dr. Clyde R. Erwin, state sup erintendent of public instruction will make the principal address at a banquet to be held in the Hills boro school cafeteria Thursday night, April 17, honoring the Fu ture Homemakers of America, the Future Farmers of'America and the members of the Veterans farm training class at Hillsboro High school. A number of invited guests, in cluding the Orange county com missioners, school board and oth er county officers, will be pres ent for the occasion. The Hillsboro high school banc under the direction of Jim Ritten house will also be present to furn ish music for the banquet. Tom Bivins of Hillsboro, will ad as toastmaster. Milk and cream for the ban quet will be supplied by the Latte Cooperative Dairy of Hillsborc and ice cream, by the Farmers Dairy Cooperative of Chapel Hill Miss Helen Sorrell, teacher oi horn economics at Hillsboro school will direct the serving of the meal W. Hillsboro Civic Group Hears Reports The planning committee of the West Hillsboro Civic Organization met at the home of Chester Riley on Thursday, April -10, to hear reports of the various committees and to work on the details for the community brunswick stew which will be held on May 3 at West Hillsboro school. John Terrell who is heading up the DDT demonstrations reported that two demonstrations were giv -n last week at the homes of Rob ert Cox and Gaston* Chisenhall. rhis week a demonstration will be given at the home of Reldcw Scarlett. DDT is available at Eno Mill and may be secured Tree from either Sidney Green or Mr. Ter -ell for spraying individual homes. \ tank for spraying is also avail ible. ,. ~ « The regular monthly meeting of See (WEST HILLSBORO) page 4 Chapel Hill Bus Station Formally Opens Saturdayy Cherry Makes Main Talk Chapel Hill’s new bus station, satisfying a long-standing need, will be formally opened on Satur day at 12 o’clock noon at its West Franklin street location. Governor Gregg Cherry will be the principal speaker at a special v ceremony arranged in connection with the opening. Other speakers will include Dr. Frank P. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina; R. W. Maddry, 'Payor of Chapel Hill; and presi dent Hoffman of the Carolina Coach Company. - k Shortly after construction on the new bus station began on February 2, 1946, it wag discovered that sev en underground springs were un dermining the entire set-up.’ Al though brought under control by the use of a main pipe line, the springs &ill caused a delay or ov er two months on the project. Scarcity of materials and labor have also caused the opening or the new bus station to be much later than the original plans which called for completion by November 15, 1946. The structure has an exterior of brick veneer and is of Colonial design, in keeping with a request of the Chapel Hill town planning board that all new business con struction on Franklin street fol low Colonial design. - The old bus station on Colum bia.street has. been considered in adequate for several years, and if is reported that it will be torn down Upon opening of the new station. String Burning Event At Scout Rally II Hill.ill IK MW III I Hill'Oil 11 l II IHIII ■'"•'‘••''''"•wwr ~ • :• , * V Shown here is the top-scoring Black Arrow Patrol of Troop 9 pictured as the members were winning, the string burning event in the fire-making contest at the Chapel Hill Boy Scout Rally last Saturday. The string has just burned through, and one end of It may be seen at the far right attached to the pole. The Scout on the left is Charles Best and on the right is Ronald Shearin, who is leader of the Patrol. Other Scouts look on with eager interest. —Photo By Bob Brooks _ * Revival Speaker The Rev. J. F. Kernodle, pastor of the Pentecostal Holiness church, West Hillsboro, will conduct a re vival at the Mebane Pilgrim jchurch from April 18 through April 27. Services will be held each - evening at-7-:;i0-with Sunday morn ing services scheduled at 11 a.m. The pastor of the Mebane Pilgrim church is the Rev. J. R. Catlett. Chapel Hill Troop 9 Wins Scout Rally Held Saturday By Robert L. Brooks Competitive excitement reached a high peak Wire last Saturday when the Scouts of Chapel Hill held their annual all-day Rally with Patrols in froops 9 and 39 entering the Scoutcraft contests. The two troops proved to be rather well matched when final scores were tallied, which placed Troop 9 on top with 53.5 points and Troop 39 in a close second with 49.5 points. The winning Pa trol wasThe Black Arrow of Troop 9 with 26 points; runnerup was the Fox of 39 totaling 24 points. Weeks of careful" preparation were climaxed at lka.m. \vherfthe events got underway. Morning ac tivities included three tests of fire building technique. First was the making of fire with flint and steel Each troop enter ed one team of four Scouts who each made a fire by striking the flint and steel together to produce sparks. The Black Arrow of 9 won by completing their series ,pf four fires in the record time of two minutes and twenty seconds —an average pf 35 seconds for each fire. Second class scout Dean West of this Patrol produced his fire in 10 seconds—an all-time low. In the fire by friction event, the stick rubber from. JjofcK tro«m« failed to produced frarAeS.' ** ** * The Black Arrow of 9 won hgain in the string burning contest (See picture). By the more convention al method of using no more than two mptihes, this patrol built their fire to burn a string si/fependerj 30 inches above the ground. Ending up the morning activi ties was a three-legged race, in which—pair of scouts tied their legs together and raced 100 yards hobbling along on (heir impro vised, three legs. Tenderfoot scouts Billy Thompson and Frank Mead ows of troop 9 came in first with scouts Stan Peele and Bob Linker of troop 39 close behind them. After lunch events led off with Semaphore signaling in which the Black Arrow of 9 again placed first. ' / Troop 39 started coming fipAi behind to close the 22-8 score /gap between the two troops with^ the first aid event, which the FfflTPa trol won. In all of the succeeding five events this troop placed first, but—this high scoring was not enough to pass troop 9 in fipal tp See (SCOUT) on page 4 10 Of 13 Orange County Bills Approved By IS. C. Legislature A review of local bills affect ing Orange County and the towns within the county show that 13 were introduced in the General Assembly with 10 of the 13 being ratified by the Assembly before it adjourned. Courts and police officer, juris diction in the county were affect ed by four of the bills introduced; elections in Hillsboro by one bill, county officers by two of the meas ures; and regulation of carnivals, profanity on highways, remission of taxes by the county and the town of Hillsboro, county bonds, Chapel Hill extension and Chapel Hill recreation tax were affected by the remaing six bills introduc ed. A county recorder’s court to take some of the work off the Su perior court was authorized by the General Assembly in one of the first local measures presented. The court, ordered to start on May 5 by the commissioners in their meeting last week, will meet once a week in Hillsboro with L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill as judge and Dumont Eskridge of Hillsboro as solicitor. A bill, ordering that when re quest^are made for jury trials in the Chapel Hill recorder’s court the case automatically be sent to the superior court was not rati fied by the House, being post poned indefinitely on March 7. Jury trials are not authorized in the county recorder’s court un der the provisions of the bill as adopted by the General Assembly. Extension of Chapel Hill and Carrboro police jurisdiction to the area embraced by Chapel Hill was sought in a measure introduced by Representative John Umstead, but it was later withdrawn in fa vor of a bill fixing their jurisdic tion to the area embraced under the jurisdiction of the Chapel Hill recorder’s court. " Supported and suggested by the Hillsboro Merchants Association, which later gained the support of groups in Chapel Hill and Carr boro, a bill was passed limiting the appearance of carnivals and road shows in Orange county to 24 hour period. ( Procedure for holding election of town officers ilf'Hillsboro was set up by the Assembly in an elec tion bill adopted. Filing of can didates for this first election has already been completed and the election is scheduled for May 6. Extension of town limits in Cha pel Hill was sought in a bill intro duced by Representative Umstedd at the. request of the town boardof aldetmen. The measure di3d on April 1 when ft was reported un favorably by the House committee. Passed on April 5, however, was a measure providing a special tax in Chapel Hill to be used in the development of a town' re crea tion program. County officials benefitted by a salary raising bill approved. Of fice of county treasurer, however, was abolished by a bill passed and the work of the treasurer turn ed over to the accountant. Authorization for Orange coun ty to issue bonds for the construc tion of office building and schools in the county wis given in a bill ratifed on April 2. Already law in practically ev ery county in the State, use of pro fanity on the highways of Orange county was outlawed. After appealing to the town of Hillsboro commissioners and the county commissioners seeking to escape payment of back taxes on the Hines Harris property, the Hillsboro Post of the American Legion was finally able, through the consent of the town and county, to have introduced and approved by the General Assem bly a bill calling’for remission of the back taxes up to 50 percent of the principal and interest. Nothing in the bill makes it mandatory that the town or.county sh.ould re mit- the taxes, but only makes it possible and legal for them to do so if they desire. People’s Approval Before End Of May Is Board’s Desire Orange county board of commissioners—meeting in joint session with the board of education—T uesday night voted to submit to the local government commission and then to the registered voters in Orange county a one million dollar bond issue. Band Concert _ Here Sunday Campaign to pay for the band uniforms recently purchased by the high school band will be I launched Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. when the band will give a concert on the court house square in Hillsboro. THE NEWS Asks . . . Do you feel that your mistakes are usually your own fault? Mrs. J. B. Fleming, Route 1, Mebane? "Yes, usually, because' I am hastey in word and deed, and slow or unwilling to profit by the experiences of others." Mrs. Lucy Morris, Chapel Hill: "Yes, I do think my mistakes are my own fault.’1 Paul M. Crabtree, Carrboro: “Most of them are my fault, but •tome are not. I think the great er portion of anyone’s mistakes his own fault.” Bill Harrell, Durham, "Not al ways, but the majority them are, due to the lack of insight.” Cora Harraison, Ruffin, Jim Crow Law To Be Tested On April 29 Two white men and two Negro men are scheduled for trial April 29 in Chapel Hill Recorder’s court dri charges of disorderly Conduct .growing out of a disturbance at the bus station Sunday afternoon when two Negroes refused to move from the front of the bus I to vacant seats in the rear. Chapel Hill police said a white man and a Negro man boarded a Raleigh-Charlotte bus and took a third seat from the front, although there were vacant seats in the rear, ---.- . When the driver, Ned O. Leon ard-, -of -the—Carolina -Coach Com= pany, who swore out the warrants asked the Negro to move to the rear and he refused, the driver called in the police and preferred charges. Tickets were held to out of State points, Leonard said. As soon as the Negro was eject ed, another white man and a Ne gro man moved from the rear and occupied seats together near the front of the bus, police said. The two white men in each in stance resisted the efforts of the officers to eject the Negroes and were charged with interfering with an officer in performance of iiis duty as well as disorderly con duct. The men arrested gave their names and vocations as Igal Rood enko, white, horticulturist, New York City; Joseph A. Felment, 25, white, lecturer, Asheville; Bayard Ruston, Negro, 32, educator. New York City; and Andrew S. John son, 21, Negro, lecturer, Cincinnati. Police said that no sooner had the arrests been, made than two white men, apparently traveling with the Negroes, for the purpose of making a test case, put up bond One said he was a lawyer and gave the name of George M. Houser, no address,' and the other, wh» furnished pond, gave the name of; James Peck, no address. Police said that soon after the arrests, the Rev. Charles M. Jones, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill, took the Negroes and the white men to his home, saying he was doing so to protect them from possible violence. Shortly afterwards. Rev. Jones telephoned police that he had re ceived a telephone call threaten ing the burning of his home unless the mm involved left his house soon. At the suggestion of police, the Rev. Jones sent the men out of toymT If approved—and tentative, un official approval has already been given by the local government commission—the one million dol lar issue—largest ever to be sug gested for the county—would be used in school construction work in Chapel Hill and in the county school system, in renovating the present century-old court house and in the construction of a new office building to house present county officials now using rented office space;-- --; -— VOTE BEFORE MAY 31 Tentative plans now call for thei [bond issue vote to be held in the county within the next six weeks —which would place the tentative deadline on May 31 Actual voting day will be set at a later meeting of the county commissioners this month after bond attorneys in New York provide the commissioners with the necessary information and resolutions to be adopted. County Attorney Dumont Es kridge at the special meeting Tues day night indicated that plans for holding the bond election within the next six weeks would depend largely on how fast the New York. bond attorneys acted. “Everything will be done here to push the elec tion as fast as possible," he said. NOT ENOUGH In approving a bond election for one million dollars, the commiss ioners recognized the fact that it would not make available enough mor; ‘v fp do everything needed for all the schools in the county and would miss by a considerable sum the nearly one million dollars re quested by the Chapel Hill PTA fo„ completion of the present school , building now under construction and for other school construction work requested by the PTA. At the April regular meeting of the commissioners and the board of education, representatives of the . Chapel Hill PTA presented re quests for repairs and school needs and equipment totaling nearly one million dollars. “We know that this amount g. won’t do an adequate job in either Chapel Hill or in the remainder of the schools in the county,” Board of Commissioners Chairman Collier Cobb, Jr., pointed out, “but under the l^w we are permitted to issue bonds for five percent of the total property valuation for school needs. We have gone^our limit in approving the one million dollar bond issue ” TOT ALE ARM ARKED _ The board earmarked $235,666 for construction of an office build ing in Hillsboro and for renovation of the present court house. The remaining $765,000 was allocated tor school construction, 50 percent being allowed for Chapel Hill school system and the other 50 percent for school needs in the county. The amount approved for school construction plus the total debt al ready owed for school needs in the county will approximately equal the five percent bond issue maxi mum allowable under present sate laws. i* The meeting Tuesday night was the second special meeting held by the two boards in the past week to discuss the bond issue. Last Friday night the boards met and authorized G. W. Ray, county ac countant, and Cobb to sound out the local government commission on the possibility of its approving a million and quarter dollar bond issue. After Cobb and Ray had re ported the local government com mission was not receptive to ap proving the first suggested figure, the board then approved the mil lion dollar figure—suggested and tentatively and unofficially ap proved by the commission. Age Knows No Barriers Eugene G. Daniels, 37, of Hurdls Mills and Verna Weav er, 13, also, of Hurdle Mills, were issued a marriage license this week in the office of register of deeds in HHIsborc. fIn., the. od«|po Daniels had been married be fore, but had been a widower for the past several years. I ' • ' • ' :
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