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When you read The New* of range County, you are reading range county's and North Card ,,’c outstanding small weekly • wspaper. Get the habit of adina The News. You’ll profit Your message I Orange County their decisions. Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 1946— (Published Weekly) Hillsboro, N. C. Thursday, August 14, 1947 | People, Spots In The News H nUGUES PERFORMS—Gov ernment has "formally accept ed delivery^ of two XF-11 reconnaissance planes like that in which Howard Hughes is pictured here, and also of Hughes’ Flying Boat, world’s largest airplane, he revealed in Los Angeles. Only one Hughes plane re mains. undelivered. COTTON PICKIN’ TIME by the mechanical picker which is said to do the work of from 50 to 80 hand pickers in the cotton belt. CATCHY CATCHER is Cor ret ta Thompson of Morehead City, N. C., as she displays 20-pound dolphin at the Gulf Stream edge. ^ v li ■ .SBWgiMSSy STOP WORRYING—THEY’RE BOTH REPUBLICANS—Jim Beviloqua, keeper at Highland Park Zoo in Pittsburgh, got his hand back after placing a big apple in his special pet’s mouth. HH5 Farmers, 102,750, Acres In Orange County Benefitted, py Soil Conservation Work Farmer-supervisors of the feuse River Soil Conservation )istrict this week joined the upervisors of 1,900 other districts hroughout the nation in observ ing two major events in soil and ^ater conservation history. 'First is the tenth ^anniversary f soil conservation districts; sec nd is the reaching of the bil ionth-acre mark in soil con ervation district organization. “The nation’s first soil con ervation district was created by indowners in North Carolina lugust 4, 1937,” said Chairman lenry Hogan of the local district. That district is the Brown Creek 'oil Conservation District which ncldes the farm where Dr. Hugh I- Bennett, now chief of the Soil 'onservation Service, was born nd reared.” Chairman Hogan said that the oil conservation district move ient has made much faster prog ess than the pioneers in soil and fater conservation first thought ossible. “We had no ideai when the first istricts were being organized by armers, that in 10 years we wuld have districts covering a illion acres,” he said. “I believe aat here is proof that landown rs, when given an opportunity, hll take the leadership 'in solvings aeir own soil and water con ervation problems. Each district ‘ organized by farmers and con foiled by them under authority i a state law.” Farmers in Orange county °ted to organize the Neuse River oil Conservation District. Since lat time, soil conservation serv ;e technicians assigned to the dis fict have assisted 885 farmers to lan and begin applying complete Jrm soil and water conservation r°grams on 102,750 acres. ■H Club Week s Scheduled Annual 4-H club week will be eld at N. C. State college, Ra ^gh, during the week of August The morning periods will be evoted to assemblies and class D°m instructions. The afternoon be given over largely to 5^s> team demonstrations, games nd swimming. Evenings will be evoted to singing, folk games, Rd other types of recreation. All club members over 14 years t age who may be interested in tending this event should im 'ediately contact the local- farm l bpme Agent, _ . THE MEWS Asks ... What so-called luxury item in your home would you find it hardest to get along with out? Mrs. Lantham Latta, Hills boro: “The refrigerator. It is hard to imagine how incon venient it would be not to have one.” Kenneth Rosemond, Hills “The radio. When I'm sitting around taking it easy, I like to have the entertainment the radio provides^" Will Beard, Hillsboro: “The electric stove, because I have to fry my eggs for breakfast every morning.” Miss Marjorie Cole, Hillsboro: “The newspaper. It’s the first thing I look for in *the morn ing.” Rev. E. D. Young, Greens boro: “The refrigerator, because we have become so accustomed to having it that it can hardly be called a luxury now.” Mrs. C. L. Nelson, Hillsboro: “Having had a taste of the in convenience of getting along without my electric iron, I know that it must be the most im portant so-called luxury item to me.” Jeanette Miller At Red Cross Meeting Miss Jeanette Miller of Hills boro is representing the Orange county chapter of the Junior Red Cross at a 10-day meeting being held at Lake Jackson, near Cov ington, Ga., from July 12 through July 22- t • Approximately 200 Junior Red Cross members from several Southern states are attending the conference and will be taught first aid, life saving, and home nursing. \TTEND CONFERENCE Carrboro—Mrs. R. B- Stude jaker arid Mrs. Jesse West at ended a two-day conference in Italeigh last week on “Education 'or Responsible Parenthood, sponsored by tpe state P*-T. A. fhe conference was held Tuesday md Wednesday in the state lab jratory of hygiene. Farm And Home Week Red-Letter Days * "J ' Since its beginning 40 years ago, the biggest Farm and Home Week ever held is contemplated by John W. Goodman, secretary, and as sistant director of the State College'Extension Service as he goes over the events planned for August 25-29 with Director I, O. Schaub. Virtually every phase of farming and homemaking will be covered in activities on the State college campus, including exhibits, tours, demonstrations and lectures. List of prominent speakers includes Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Miss Dorothy Thompson, Congressman Stephen Pace, Repreentative Harold D. Cooley, J. B. Hutson, Thomas J. Pearsall, Dr. T. B. Hutcheson, and others. 4.H Picnic Saturday At Hogan’s The annual county wide 4-H picnic will be held Saturday, August 16, at Hogan’s Lake near Calvander. This year’s event will feature a health pageant, at which time" the county Kings and Queens of Health will be crowned and a dress revue for the girls at which the county winner will be selected to represent the county in the district contest. In addition there will be games end swimming. All 4-H club members are urged to come with a well filled basket and bring their parents ■ and friend® with them. The prograift yvill get underway around 10 o’clock Saturday morning with softball, horse shoe pitching, swimming, etc. After lunch, the health pageant and dress regue will be given. Another* feature of entertain ment will be a bingo party. — Last year, in spite of threat ening rain, over 200 club mem bers and friends attended the picnic and it is expected that a much larger crowd will be on hand this year. County Board Ends Work On Revaluation Orange county board of com missioners, Monday nigHt in a special session completed the work of the board of equalization and review after more than 10 days of riding over th gating complaint^ raised by tax payers. By completing the work the board closed the valuation of county investi door on the re l&foperty started early in the year by a board of three men who 1 Joked over prac tically every piefe of property in li^if mT\lW !k^| -i- * - • the county cUiHflyTne time it was making the re-assessment on the taxable' property. The commissioners hailed the re-assessment as one oi the best pieces of work done in Orange county in many years and were not hesitant in pointing •outffjtbat without the revaluation the coun ty’s tax rate would have jumped considerably for the present fis cal year- - - The commissioners asserted that, before the revaluation many pieces of property were valued for taxation at a few hundred of dollars while in actual sales the property was bringing tremendous, prices. Jim Crow Bus Seating Law Is Set ^ _ For Trial In Superior Court Here School Lunches To Cost More Money Thi£ Year Because of a decrease in the amount of money made available by the Republican dominated con gress for school lunch rooms, par ents in Orange county will pay more during thfe Coming school year for lunches for their children than they did last year. Actual cost of the lunches have not been set by Glenn T. Proffit, superintendent of schools, but it is known that-the lunches will cost more money. * Last year Orange ^county re ceived ■from the federal govern ment a total of $16,744.59 for food. This amount was allocated to the county on the basis of nine v cents per child per meal where milk was served; seven cfents per child per meal where milk was not served; and two cents per child per meal where milk only was served. During the coming school year the county will receive from the government money for food based on the scale of five cents where milk is served; three cents where no milk is served and two cents where milk only is served. Orange county last year re ceived from the government a large amount of surplus com modities on which no monetary value has been placed. The commodities received in cluded the following: 215 bags of potatoes, 23 cases of pineapple, 20 cases of pears, 15 cases of beets, 40 bags of onions, 75 bags of cab bage, 31 bags of spinach, 35 cases of orange juice, 80 cases of .tomato juice, 20 cases of cheese, l& eases of peach jam, four cases of plum jam, eight qases of apricots, 17 cases of figs and 10 sacks of beets. ' In addition to the allottment of commodities and the money'based on the type and number of lunches served, the county also received a total of $4,282.17 for equipment for the different lunchrooms in the county schoof syXtWm. According to Proffit, no money will be received this year for equipment unless some of the other counties in the state fail to use the money allocated to them. Then, that surplus would be channeled to the different counties for purchase of equip ment. Proffit already has on file applications for $6,0p0. for equip ment in case any surplus money bceomes available.' North Carolina school lunch room program allotment for the coming nine months of ^school is $2,241,509' or approximately one half of the estimated „needs. Amount to be allocated to Orange county has not yet been de termined. REA Here Making Plans To Extend Electricity To 1,500 More Farms The Piedmont Electric Mem bership corporation with head quarters in Hillsboro plans to ex tend within the next few months electric service to 100 new out lets—most of them on farms— and eventually will add 1,500 other customers at the comple tion of its long-range planning program, H. G. Laws of Hurdle Mills, president of the association, announced this week. North Carolina still has 146, 204 farms without electric serv ice, according to a report just sent by REA to the Piedmont Electric Membership corporation, Hillsboro, President H. G. Laws of Hurdle Mills, announced. About 2,500,000 of the nation’s farms still do not have service, ac cording to the figures received by President Laws. Great progress has been made, however, during the past 12 years, when the per centage of farms with electricity increased from 10.9 in 1935 to 57.4 as of the first of this year. In North Carolina, the figure has risen from 3.2% in 1935 to 4.9% now, Mr. Laws said. Mr. Laws reported that the co operative, organized in 1938 and financed with loans from the Rural Electrification Administra tion, now has 500 miles of line serving 1,600 consumers in Orange, Durham, Person, Ala mance, Caswell, and Granville counties. “Our construction program has gone ahead much §}ower than we had expected,” Mr. Laws said. “Nevertheless, We added 400 families to our lines, during the past 12 month*. We are build ing new lines just as fast as we| can accumulate materials, men i Unlighted Rural Areas Show Electrification Job Ahead oi Form* Without Electric Service* and money to do the work. A year ago we had about 1,000 ap-. plicants for service, and now we have 1,600. Our principal diffi culty at present is getting trans formers, wire, meters, etc. We have ordered large quantities of line materials but deliveries are slow. The manufacturers prom ise delivery in 1948 on orders placed now. But so long as any rural family in this area cannot have electricity, our construction program cannot be considered finished. So long as North Caro lina has 146,204 farm? without electricity, we still have a long way to go.” Mr. Laws emphasized thatHhe Piedmont Cooperative is an inde pendent local business, controlled by local people. It has borrowed $901,000 to build its electrical sys- i tem, and it has paid $37,000 in I principal on the loans, including $20,519 paid aKead of schedule. I The Co-op employs 12 local peo ple and plans to build a new head quarters building in the near fu ture. i> The statistics which Mr. Laws J J has received show that 60% of the j, farms without electricity in the “ United States are east of the Mis- ] sissippi, and that New York, \ Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West ‘ Virginia have. more unserved farms that all the 11 westernmost e states. Nine states each have J more than 120,000 farms still un served, and 18 states each have * See R£A on Page r 1 Enfield Man Bids High — On Auto Jake Taylor of ^ute 2, Ef larid, submitted the highest bid for the new 1947 Ford offered for sale by Hillsboro Post No. 85 of the American Legion, it was announced Wednesday morning by H. G. Coleman Jr., finance officer of the legion post. Taylor’s ^ bid of $1,906.50 topped the 12 other bids sub mitted. Four of the bids came from Hillsboro, two from Lex ington, one each from Enfield, LaGrange, Louisburg, Mebane, Raleigh, Greensboro and Bur lington. Says Legion Strongest U. S. Group Speaking before one of the largest gatherings of legionnaires in Hillsboro in recent months, Roy L. McMillan, former com mander of the North Carolina De partment- .and .farmer vice com mander of the National American Legion, asserted in the high school auditorium here Tuesday night that the American Legion was the strongest, most powerful organization in the United States today. The speaker appeared at a spe cial meeting of the Hillsboro Jgqjii No. 85 of the American Legion designed to increase the spirit of the local post and to give men not members of the post an idea of the work of the Legion in North Carolina and United States. Using as his topic, “The Ameri can Legion, Its Background, Its Program and Its Challenge,” the former state commander, who is mentioned frequently as a candi date for governor of North Caro lina, declared that the program of the Legion was the most extensive in.the history of any, organization. “The Legion’s junior .baseball program is easily worth the $3 membership of a Legionnaire,” he declared. He alluded als# to the hospitalization," rehabilitation, and child welfare program of the Le gion, calling attention to the Le gion’s outstanding work in those fields. [ The Legion’s challenge, the speaker declared, is to preserve the peace which its members fought to obtain in two great world conflicts. To preserve this peace, America needs to be strong. America needs to be prepared for any eventuality it may be called upon to face. The program was arranged by Elmer Dowdy and Owen Robert son introduced the speaker. Red Cross Chapter Will Meet Tuesday Carl C. Davis, chairman of the Hillsboro chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross, urges all those in vested in the Red Cross to at tend the meeting of the local chapter to be held at the Con federate Memorial Library ' on ruesday night, August 18, at 8 j’clock. The purpose of the meeting is he election of new officers. Miss ranet Cox of Rocky Mount, dis rict supervisor, will be present. Alamance county with 18,676 egistered motor vehicles leads he six county area of Alamance, laswell, Chatham, Durham, Per on and Orange in motor vehicle egistrations, according to a re tort from L. C. Rosser, commis ioner of motor vehicle depart nent in North Carolina. Durham ranks second with 18, 49 while Orange, Person and Chatham counties, strangely nough, tied for third with 5,232 egistrations. Caswell county has 3,657 ve icles registered. /, Motor Vehicle Figures Given a case expecieu iu ntudtv statewide attention is scheduled for next “week’s criminal term of Orange county superior court when four men are docketed for trial for violating the North Caro lina bus seating statute. The men, two from New York, one from Cincinnati, and one from Asheville, are scheduled for violating the statute on the night of April 13 at the Chapel Hill bus statioii.N . The “charge grew out of an in cident which occurred when the four men, two Negroes and two white men, failed to observe the state bus seating rule of Negroes to the rear and white persons to the front of the bus. Racial tension reached, a high point, in some quarters of Chapel Hill and Carxboro as a result of the incident, - arid several charges were made of taxi drivers beating up Negroes. Several other inci dents were alleged in which Dr. Charles E. Jones, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill, played a role. Should the case come fo trial as docketed, it is expected to have a far-reaching effect on the bus seating regulations in the state. The men facing trial are An drew S. Johnson, 21-year-old Ne« gro of Cincinnati; Bayard Rustin, 32-year-old Negro of New York; Igal Roodenko, white man of New York and Joseph A. Felmont, white man of Asheville. Charlie (Spook) Cotton, Negro of Carrboro, is scheduled for trial on a charge of murder. He is al leged to have killed Lpuise Far rington, Negro, of Carrboro on May 17. Other cases are: George H. Gibbs, driving drunk; Cathalene Trice, two charges of forgery; T. R. Murray, reckless driving; ~ ~ --- Charlie A. Brown, driving drunk; Lonie- Freeland, driving drunk; John Smith, speeding; Willie Ashley, breaking and entering; Rufus A. Moore, driving drunk; M. P. Ward, driving drunk; Louise Farrington illegal pos session of frniskey cor sale; Rob-, ert Mitchell, larceny; Edward Griffith, driving drunk; Utis Farrish, bastardy; Jim Wills Sr., assault with deadly weapon and robbery; L. C. (Bud die) Medlin, assault with deadly weapon; Hobart Ollis, larceny; Julius Buck Jones, breaking and enter ing; Jerry DePriest, reckless driv ing; Wade Higgs, reckless driving; Martin Watkins, affray; Willie Pitts and Charlie Brookshire, lar- ' ceny; Joseph R. Daniels and Joe R. Daniels, fraud; --^elenel~Mimkan. bigamy;, Hen ry Thomas Jenkins, breaking arid entering and larceny; Spurgeon Blaylock, assault with intent to kill; Raymond Jones, housebreaking and larceny; James Alston, as sault with deadly weapon with in tent to kill; James Alston, break ing,entering and larceny and damage to property; Robert L. Rogers, three charges breaking, entering and larceny; John T. Johnston, reckless driv ing; John W. Jefferies, driving drunk; Leroy Smith, breaking, enter ing; Howard Duncan, manslaugh ter; John E. Simon, breaking and entering; Raymond C. Lloyd, driv ing drunk; Wesley, breaking and entering and larceny and a second charge of larceny only; Jake French, assault on a fe male with a deadly weapon; J. C. Carr, driving drunk; Charlie Mc Broom, driving drunk; John A. Qualls, larceny; Jesse C. Mangum, driving drunk; Johnnie W. Walker and Henrietta Walker, immoral conduct; Edgar Rice, murder; and Elton Crotts, driv ing drunk. Following next week’s criminal term a civil term is scheduled for the following week. Judge Wal ter J. Bone of Nashville will be the presiding judge. West Hill Man Claim Quartet Robbed Hi« Of $135 Charlie Williams of West Hills boro has notified Durham police rhat Thursday night he was picked up at the edge of Durham ay a man and three women who •vere traveling’ in a car beating Georgia license plates and was ater held up at pistol point and robbed of his wallet which con fined $135 in cash. * * |f The alleged victim explained ;hat after he was allowed to >oard the machine the crowd rode :o Raleigh, then back,to »oro where the robbery Mter he was relieved noney, the automobile >ack toward Durham, he
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