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■Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 1946— Hillsboro, N. C. Thursday, July 10, 1947 (Published Weekly) Your $1.»00 Share of the Tobacco Export Market. Vote July 121 nywy-nn 11 > County Every Week. $2.' 8 Pages This Week people, Spots In The News L —-Tgrr—. • | fOT’S TILE TABLE — Jeff and Jerry twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Sugene Martin, Kew Gardens, ^Y., learn their ABC’s at com Ibination play and dining table ■built by Daddy. Table top, made [of easy-to-clean ceramic tiles, is ■decorated with alphabet and ■Mother Goose figures. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON seems to apply here as David Jorn’s pose is imitated by his sor, William, in a Uther-and-son contest on the **■•* of the county court house, (Acmt) • CONTOUR CALIPERS’’ are used by Paul Mahoney in judging Linda Leonard (in calipers) for “Miss Los An geles County” title.* Other two girls are his assistants.' REAL HORSE LAUGH is played by Blossort^ old mare of Au«tr»U*. —r ,arge Vote Urged n Tobacco Poll •aturday, July 12 : Every flue-cured tobacco grower in Orange county whether landlord, tehsjit or shafe-cropper-^was urged today jy the chairman of the county triple-‘A" cofrinrittee, to- vote irv the tobacco referendum on Saturday, July 12. .. ■ ’ /..:7' The referendum, authorized by the last sessions of the legislature in both North and South Carolina, provides for flue-cured growers to express themselves in regard to an assessment of 10 cents per acre to be used in protecting and developing the export market for tobacco. E. Y. Floyd, secretary of Tobac co Associates, states that: 1. Only tobacco farmers who are engaged in the production of the 1947 crop -of flue-cured to bacco will be eligible to vote. 2. Regardless of the number of farms he may have, no grower has more than one vote. 3. It will require at least a two thirds favorable vote to put the Program into effect. All eligible Producers will cast their ballots in the community in which they live. The polling places will be the same as farmers had in the quota program unless the com mittee notifies otherwise. Orange county tobacco farm ers, whether tenants or landlords, will vote at the following places: Compton’s store at Carr; Long’s Service station at Cedar Grove; Hamlin’s store at Caldwell; Grange Hall at White Cross; Farmers’ Exchange at Carrboro and AAA in Hillsboro. Polls will be open from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Farm leaders joined in an all °ut appeal for a record-breaking v°te in the referendum. Dean I. O. Schaub, director of the North Carolina Statey college extension service, emphasized that every grower should exercise his right of franchise and express himself at the polls. “I know of uo election that has as much long-time significance to the to bacco growers,"’ Dean Schaub said, adding that every grower should be sure, to vote. farm bureau statement “As I see it, we are voting on something a lot bigger than whether or not we will tax our selves 10 cents an acre on our flue-cured crop,” said R. Flake Shaw of Greensboro, president of the North Carolina .farm bureau. We are voting on whether or not We will protect* the $200 per acre we received from the tobacco that went for export last year. This is too big a thing for any tobacco grower to dismiss because he is busy.” Pointing out that this is the first time farmers have voted in a tobacco program where “we are going to do something for ourselves,” Mr. Shaw said that “our whole tobacco program will be weakened in the years ahead unless we show, real strength at the polls on July 12.” GRANGE’S VIEW Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell, Greensboro, master of the North Carolina state grange, said that ‘‘next to July 4, I consider July 12 the most important date for tobacco growers.” -1 Pointing out that over 40 per cent of American flue-cured to bacco is exported, Mrs. Caldwell "said there “is every reason to be lieve that foreign consumption of American grown, leaf can be further increased.” The future welfare and secur ity of our nation and the peace of the world, she added, “will de pend to a large extent upon friendly commercial relationships and trade between nations.” ecalls low prices Carl T Hicks of Walstonburg, •esic’ent of the Tobacco Stabili ition corporation, reminded rmers that “it is not so long ick to 1932 when tobacco in orth Carolina sold at an average •ice of only $12 a hundred mnds. “In that year, North Carolina Id 281,174,000 pounds of good, •ight tobacco for a mere pit nce—$33,638,000!, an amount >low what the single county of ;noir received last year. Mr. Hicks, said that one of the asons for the low prices m 1932 as because “international -rade as virtually at a standstill and Ided that we must do all in our )wer to protect and promote ade with* other countries which st year meant 40 cents out of fery dollar flue-cured growers See LARGE VOTE on Page 5 Nine New Grand Jurors To Be Named At August Term Of Superior Court Nine new faces will be placed on the Orange county grand jury at the August term of superior court, it was announced Monday, when the board of commissioners drew 44 names out of the jury for jury duty during the two-week mixed session of the court. Judge Walter J. Bone of Nash ville will be the presiding judge during the session, Clerk of Court Edwin Lynch announced. The jury box, according to Sheriff S. T. Latta, contained the names of women in the county but none were drawn for service during the August term of court. The commissioners and the sheriff breathed a sigh of relief when the names of women were not drawn 'for duty. They ad mitted that the court house did not have the facilities to take care of any women jurors and until the time comes when the court house sanitary facilities and ante room facilities are adequate to handle women jurors the county officials hope that none will be drawn. Jurors drawn and their town ships are: Andrew P. Willett, Eno; L. A. Yeargan, Chapel Hill; H. T. Scott, Cedar Grove; John W. Dickson, Hillsboro. I. J. Wilson, Hillsboro; Frank L. Ward, Bing ham;; W. S. Nunn, Chapel Hill; Forrest Corn, Hillsboro; W. J. McKee, Chapel Hill; Lee Brad sher, Cedar Grove; Carl D. Hicks, Cheeks; J. L. Wilkins Jr.^ Chapel Hill; C. C. Beal, Chapel Hill; At C. Walker, Little River;. T. C. Moore, Chapel Hill; H. G. McFarland, Chapel Hill; J. Hubert Sykes, Bingham; Earl Perry, Chapel Hill; George W. Pender grass, Chapel Hill; J. B. Allison, Little River; Edward P. Hyiatt, Chapel Hill; Charlie Parker, Hillsboro; W. E. Laws, Hillsboro; Clifton Pailtin, Chapel Hill; John S. Cannady, Chapel Hill; Lacy Morrow, Cheeks;_ Walt W. Walker, Hillsboro; Curtis L. Thompson, Cheeks; Clarence Lloyd, Bingham; R. C. Ellis, Cheeks; Luther Pickett, Cheeks; .S. A. Stoudemire, Chapel Hill; David Payne Jr., Hillsboro; E. L. Thomas, Cheeks; Walter D. Creech, Chapel Hill; Buywood Smith, Cedar Grove; Frank Mad ry, Chapel Hill; Thomas M. Aid red, Bingham; E. S. Taylor, Cheeks; Marion R. Alexander, Chapel Hill; J. P Johnson, Chapel Hill; and James A. Borland, Eno. _T.fi threshing °* Harvesting ■ wheat crop Orange county lv 6,000 acres is iUfPcomP^ed Don S- Mat£ “^y“!rMrroalcrop for Orange county n{ormation According Sanders, con ceived from H- county, the ty agent ° n ^ county resulted 7,600 acres m t d„ crop. in an “unusually 8 Qther cropS in Asked abou ^ said the the county, normal and that oats were bel° was spotted m the tobacco crop w sections. . wme row, Mathe often’ ^here will be large and son said. f tobacco, email stalks 01 1 t io 0ver the In an_inSPriav Matheson said county Tuesd^rafnice fields of he observed it was looking alfalfa and that county. good throughout tn were astancesj^—________ Court 0! Honor fnChapel On Monday Night 4 '""“renssr'£i ’S“uts_ boro and badges and ad will receive me r g at a court rSnof^ be ' » an"OU”Cthethcourte'o< honor Attending tb -u be a number from Hillsboro wi y E Joy. of scouters mc^ ^ Abernethy.t ner, the gawyer. and Bonner^_»__ Carrboro carrboro Woo» Lmp'°yee8 i d a vacation . Ml". Tone week', wage. y Tthe plant closed for the S i ^honday# Blalock Under $1,500 Bond Assault Court Spurgeon Blalo<$c, charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, was bound over to the August term of Orange county recorder’s court Monday. Blalock is charged with assault ing Harold Wilkerson, also of Orange county, near Prospect Hill on June 19 with a .22 rifle. Wilkerson was hospitalized ; in Watts hospital in Durtvam fol lowing the assault. LARGE DOCKET The largest docket since the re corder’s court w»s started in May was handled by the court officials in Monday’s session. Seven of the cases were handed down to the court after they had been doc keted for superior court action. All seven of the epses were sched uled for superior court before the recorder’s court was established in the county. I At the conclusion of court Mon day Judge Phipps announced that the recorder’s cflurt would , ecu: not meet on nejit Monday, July 14. The next session of the court will be July 21. OTHER CASESX i Other cases handled in the court Monday ware: Victor Whit ted, no operators license, con tinued to July 21; E. D. Caldwell, speeding, $5 and costs; ■Nathan Terrell, drunken driv ing, continued to July 21; Herman (Terrell) Evans, larceny, con tinued to July 21; Bill P. Park, speeding, costs; Ernest S. Ander son, speeding, costs; P. C. Tuck, assault, continued to July 21” Jkfcmy Riley, drunk and disorderly, $5 and ebsts; T. B. ‘Wilkerson, Jr., drunken driving, continued to July 21; Shelton J. Blackwood, larceny, continued to July 21; J. B. Butler, illegal possession and transport ing whiskey, nol pros as trans porting, costs as to possession; Ervin Price, assault with dead ly weapon, $25 and costs, four months suspended for one year; Richard T. Crocker, drunk and disorderly, resisting arrest, $5 and costs; _ . George Manfum, assault with deadly weapon, $25 fine and cost^ Harvey Torian, assault with dead ly weapon, not guilty; Robert Hes ter, assault with \ deadly weapon, $25 fine and costs; Freddie Crabtree, reckless and careless "’driving, continued to July 21; George Walker, public drunkenness, costs, 30 days sus pended; v Lester J. Fitzgerald, public drunkenness and disorderly con duct, $5 and costs; John S. Press ly, public drunkenness, costs; Ed Thompson, assault, drunk and disorderly, $10 fine and costs, 60 days suspended one year; H. Carlyle Dixon, drunken driving, continued to July 21; Will Watts, assault on fema,le, costs, judgment continued 12 months; ' ' Orman Shaw, speeding, $5 and costs; Grady Berry, reckless driv ing and improper brakes, $10 and costs; Lindsay H. Mitchell, speed ing, $5 and costs; Ray Delaney, drunkenness, costs; T - Fred Harris, public drunken ness, continued to July 21; Nor vin Pleasants, reckless driving, $15 and costs; Charlie Foust, drunk and disorderly, $5 and costs; James Trice, driving on wrong side of road, $5 and costs; James Thompson, driving on wrong side of road, $5 and costs; James Ed ward Hudson, passing on a hill, $10 and costs. RENE LUPTON CIRCLE TO MEET MONDAY The Rena Lupton Circle No. 1 of the Hillsboro Methodist church will meet with Mrs. C/S. Hub bard Monday evening, July 14, at 8 p. m. PARTY HELD Miss Hilda Johnston enter tained at a Fourth of July -party. Those present were: Barbara Taylor, Jinx Rosemond, Ruth Privette, Billy Mitchell, Nick Carter, Luther Allison, and Roy Pearce. Cake, Ice cream and nuts were served. The table was dec orated ip red, white aind blue. What is your favorite sport? Mrs-. Julian Cats, Hillsboro: “Bowling, although my average Is still low." Norfleet Webb, Hillsboro: “Fishing." V Mrs. Donald Wright, Hills boro, “Baseball." H. J. Walker, Hillsboro: “Bird hunting used to be my .favorite, but I don’t do’ much of It any more.” Mrs. Fred Gray, Hillsboro: “I like picnicking and camping b^st, because I enjoy being with a crowd and being outdoors." Hofler Replies $1,500 Suit In Durham A blanket denial of charges filed by R. C. Yates, Duke Power company bus driver in Durham, has been made in the Durham county superior court office by T. P. Hofler, highway patrolman of Hillsboro, who is the defendant hr a $1,500 suit for wrongful ar rest and humiliation. Yates had previously charged that Patrolman Hofler seized and bodily threw him into his car, carrying him to the Durham po lice station on January 30, 1947, after first charging him with a. traffic violation in operation of his bus. . * In his answer, Hofler asserts that th^ bus driver pulled his bus into the path of the defendant on Duke street in Durham with out warning or Signal, causing Hofler to swerve completely across the street in order to avoid colliding with the bus. He further asserts that Yates stated defiantly that he was not, going to be taken to - Hofler says he allowed the driver to re turn to his bus to get name^ of witnesses and his coin purse and then he took Yates to the police station. Hofler denies using force and states that the desk sergeant actually swore out the warrant for reckless driving against Yates. Yates was acquitted of the charges in Durham’s recorder’s court. Three Roads Added To State System -f Three roads in Orange county have recently been added to the state highway system iq Orange county, it has been reported by the county commissioners. Addition of the roads to the state system means that the state will maintain the arteries. Roads added to the state system are: 1. Stretch of roajd about 1,200 feet long leading from Weaver road and known as the Davie road to the cemetery now used by the people of Carrboro and the gen eral public. 2. Road in West Hillsboro known as North avenue, road be ing about 639 yards in length. 3 Mrddle sectiom crf road as direct from Mebane to Cedar Grove as possible about 1.6 miles long. The roads were added to the state system after petitions were received from the people affected followed by an investigation of the roads by the county commis sioners and the state highway commission. Health Clinics Are Announced Dr. O. David Garvin, district health officer, announced this week that the next X-ray clinic would be held June 14 in Hills boro between the hours of 1:30 p. m. and 4 p. m. Immunization clinics are held each week one Friday afternoon from 1 to 4:30 p. m. and on Sat urday from 9 a. m. to 12 noon. ADMITTED TO . HOSPITAL JM-rs. .Charles W. Stanford of r$hte 1, Chapel Hill, was admitted to Watts hospital Tuesday after noon for a minor operation. Welfare Department; Chapel Hill, Coun Specific budget requests totaling $204,660.02 were made by the Orange county school system, the welfare department and the Chapel Hill school administrative unit to the county commissioners in Monday’s'meeting as the commissioners en tered upon a period of budget requests and figuring. Schools Open September 1 Orange county school board in its regular monthly meeting Mon day set the opening and closing dates of schools and the holidays for the coming school year. Schools will open Monday, September 1, and close on Friday, May 21, if no days are missed be cause of bad weather or pro longed sickness. Holidays to be observed are: November 27 and 28 for Thanks giving and December 19 to De cember 31 for Christmas. The county schools will also observe Easter Monday. " CANNERY ASKED A committee composed of Zeb C. Burton, E. F. Cude and G. A. Munn, all of Cedar Grove, ap peared before the board and asked that $1,500 be included in A resolution of respect for the 30 years of service rendered by R. H. Claytor as superin tendent of Orange county schools was adopted by the school board in its meeting Monday. The resolution, printed In full on page 7 of this Issue, com mends Claytor fdr his service to the county during his long pe riod of service. school. The board of education indi cated that the request would be considered and be taken up with county commissioners when the schoo|*budget was presented. SALES APPROVED In Approval of sale of two pieces of school property *vas made and the bid on a third was rejected by the board. Approval'was given for the sale of the Orange Grove school site to the trustees of the Cane Creek Baptist church and the sale of the Flat Rock school building arid grounds to C. R. Copple of the Cedar Grove section. A bid was rejected on the Wardville Negro school and property. A request of George McKee who lives beyond the Caldwell school, for the Durham county bus to be allowed to come one-half mile further into Orange county was denied by the board. Homeconing Day At Palaier’s Grove Is Set July 20 Homecoming day will be held at Palmer’s Grove Methodist church on July 20 with morning and afternoon preaching and din ner on the grouitd’l at noon. This will also be the opening day of the revival which will con tinue throughout the following Sunday with services each eve ning at 8 p. m. All friends and members of the Palmer’s Grove church are urged to attend the homecoming and re vival services. Tobacco, Corn Shorn Progress Tobacco and corn crops In North Carolina are showing “good progress” -following a week of favorable weather and cultivating conditions, the Fed eral-State Crop Reporting serv ice reported. Tobacco is overcoming some of the lateness caused by the dry and late spring, but in some areas tobacco stands are “spotty” because of poor con ditions at the11 time of trans planting. Most of the burley crop has been transplanted to the field, and reports indicate that cultivation of the ' flue cured crop is over 50 per cent complet in most areas. Recent rains d^i much to im prove corn prospects, ahd cul tivation of -the crop is about 75 per cent complete. Only other actual budget re quest received by the commission ers prior to Monday’s meeting has been a request of' $7,400 by Dr. O. David Garvin for the work of the Orange county health depart ment during the coming fiscal year. \ Mrs. Clarence Heer of Chapel Hill, superintendent of wtelfare, presented #a budget5, request of $37,780, a total of $1,040 less than the tentative budget presented to the commissioners by the welfare department at the June meeting of the board. REQUEST DOWN The request is also $193 less than was ‘requested from the county last year to carry on the work of the welfare department. In a breakdown of the tentative budget presented the commission ers by the welfare department head, the county is being asked to provide $37,780 for which the fed eral and state governments will contribute $72,872, making a total welfare budget of $110,652. Last fiscal year the county ap propriated a total of $37,973 for the welfare department as com pared to $47,626 contributed by the federal and state govern ments, making a total of $85,599 for the 1946-47 welfare depart ment budget. ADMINISTRATION DOWN The budget breakdown also shows a decrease in the adminis tration costs for the welfare de partment. Last fiscal year total federal, state and county appro priations for administration was $19,690 as compared to $19,546 | for 1947-48. re of the adminis down from \p»t year’s figure of $14,604 to this year’s request of $13,646. CHAPEL HILL REQUEST C. W. Davis, superintendent of the Chapel Hill district schools, presented to the board a special request of $49,400. He told the ^ board that the request was to be considered speciaJl.and was not to be confused with; the per capita appropriation forjthe phapel Hill district schools., s He indicated that the money t would be spent in the following manner: * 1. Purchase of Ford property, adjacent to the new wing recent ly constructed for the high school: * $6,500. 2. Stoker for elementary build ing—$1,250. 3. Repairs to lunchroom—$3, 146. 4. Lunchroom equipment—$4, 360. 5. Fire towers for elementary building—$20,000. 6. Repairs to Negro school— $8,700. 7. Salary for vocational teacher —$4,915. 8. Rent and insurance on Negro lunchroom—$529. ORANGE SCHOOL REQUEST G. T. Proffit, superintendent of Orange county schools, presented to the,, board a budget of $117, 480.02 as compared to expendi tures of $83,800.70 during the past school year. ’’ij The request of the county board of education shows the following: General control—$2,762. Instructional service — $18, 277.02. Operation of plant-1—$?,166. Maintenance of plant—$13,000. Fixed charges—$6,925. Auxiliary agencies—$6,159.50. Capital outlay,$52,100. Debt service—$19,250. Largest increase in the re quested appropriation over the amount spent last school year was in the capital outlay request. Last year the county schools ex pended $26,308.14 in capital out lay; The request for this year is $52,100. Collier Cobb, Jr., chairman of the board of commissioners, said that the board would take no for mal action on the requests until the members could view the budget as a whole. No estimate on the possible county tax rate was ventured. PLAY GOLF ; Charles Chance, William Cates, and Bernard Allison, members the. Hillsboro Exchange spent the afternoon fa* one day last week playing of %
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