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I 4191 for the be*tfn new* and vertising coverage of any new* per published In Orange county. jr news Item* cover the county not just a particular «frea or a special group of citizen*. THE NEWS rf1 ge Coun —Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 194^— .■n ol. 54- No- 38 Hillsboro, N. C. The News, September 18, 1947 (Published Weekly) What other county give formation Tire News of Or The News to learn wfitt hap pening in the county. 10 Pages This Week People, Spots In The News BROTHER, CAN YOTSPARffl ICEBERG?—Polar Bear Pete swelters in 100-degree heat at the zoo in Brookfield, Illinois. IT SHOULDN'T HAP PEN to anyone, but there is the ball, stuck in a tree and “Rusty” does his Irish darndest to reach it, but can't. Master Larry Al banese of Boston urges his pal to retrieve it, so they can play again. • DEUTCHES DERBY is renewed at 1 Cologne, Germany, for first time since the war and this walking advertise ment was seen -among horseplayers. GIANT BEARINGS—With demand for ball and roller bearings up two to>five times above pre-war levels, SKF Industries is spending $4,000,000 to expand its two Philadelphia plants. Size of spherical roller bearings here being assembled illustrates trend toward larger bearings. ',250 Students Expected It Fall Quarter Session Chapel Hill—Approximately 7, D students will flock into the iversity village for the opening the fall quarter here this week. A. number of old students, of arse, will remain away until the it minute—September 24, the lal day of registration—=-but a ge number of new students, in iding freshmen and transfers, 11 begin arriving this week. Freshmen are expected to re rt in/Memorial Hall at 9 o’clock iday morning, September 19, len they will confer with Dean P. Spruill of the General Col :e and ttieir advisers. The meet I will launch a two-day orien ion program for freshmen who II take their placeemnt tests, ysical examinations, and be me acquainted with their physi 1 surroundings before/ register i Monday", September 22 1CEPTION All new students other than ishmen will meet with their ans at 3 o’clock Sunday after on, September 21, after which ere will be the president’s and ancellor’s reception in Graham emorial at 4 o’clock. Special "services will be held in the churches Sunday morning 1 lr"o’clock, and Sunday evening 7 o’clock churches will give re Ptions for the new students. A special program to inform all wcomers about student govern ent and the honor council will be Id in Memorial Hall at 8:45 Sun y night. Freshmen, transfers, students st returning from service, and ose old students who did not gister before they left the uni rsity for the summer or at the d /»f their last quarter here will register at Woollen gymnasium during the period Monday, Sep tember 22, and Wednesday, Sep tember 24. Registration for credit will con tinue for approximately one week. Old students are expected to pick up their class cards he fore classes begin Thursday..morning, Septem ber 25, at & Q,’clock. SLIGHT RELIEF According to Director of Admis sions Roy Armstrong, the pre registration of old students before they left the university last June or during the summer is expected to relieve the congestion that is obliged to result in trying to enroll such a large number of students in so short a time. He said that between 600 and 700 students here this fall will be 1947 North Caorlina high school graduates, and several hundred of the total enrollment will be North Carolina graduates who have been in service and are just entering college. The new policy of giving pri ority to North Carolina students as far as 'is possible has reduced the number of out-of-state students a great deal, he said. There will be only around 150 new students from out of the state and all these, except a few undergraduate girls, \vill have rooms off the campus. All available dormitory, Quon set hut and barracks space is filled as are Victory Village and the trailer camps. Many students Will be commuting from surround ing cities and towns. Some relief is in view f<$, the winter quarter, however, < Mr. Armstrong pointed out, when at least two of the three new dormitories should be fin ished. Vard Starts •ax Position ^ith County . Ira Ward Wednesday assumed s duties as county accountant »d tax auditor for Orange coun > replacing G. W. Ray of Hills »ro, who resigned after 19 years the position to accept the city anagership of Chapel Hill. Ward, a graduate of Chapel Hill gh school and the University of °rth Carolina, is a native of range county and is married to e former Miss Carolyn Brunson Florence, S. C. Ward is the ® of Mr. and Mrs. Floy Ward. Wildcats Flay Braggtown v Hillsboro high's second sched uled football game of the season was cancelled last Friday night because of a conflict with the Winston-Salem Cardinals using the park where the Wildcats and “the Winston-Salem Hanes high team were to meet. Although efforts were made by G. A. Brown, school princi pal, and Glenn Auman, coach, to re schedule the game on an other date, they were unabfe to arrange a date convenient to both schools. This week the Hillsboro team journeys to Durham where 't meets Bragtown. 4 Hope' Is Seen For Building REA Storage Hoptf for the construction of the Piedmont Electric Membership corporation storage warehouse in the not too distant future was in creased recently by the announce ment of a field construction en gineer that he would yecommend an emergency appropriation of $15,000 for the warehouse con struction costs, F. E. Joyner, man ager -ef-the-eoepy^awt- this week. _ At present, Joyner said, it is realized by the board of directors that the $50,000 requested by them would not do a complete job of building the office and warehouse facilities needed by the coop, but it is essential that a warehouse be constructed to house the material. At present the cooperative has from $5,000 to $10,000 worth of material stored in back lots and wheat bins. Another $150,000 worth of materials is on order and is expected to arrive starting the first of January. Most of the metallic materials owned by the coop are stored in back lots while materials in paste board boxes are stored in wheat bins behind the farm agent’s of fice. » At present, the coop is serving 1656 consumers with a waiting list of 1600 which it hopes to cut on during 1948, probably after the first of June next year, Joyner es timated. Short News Bits HILLSBORO MAN ENTERS HIGHWAY PATROL SCHOOL Seth L. Thomas, a former em ployee of The News, Inc., Mon day entered the State Highway Patrol school at the University of North Carolina for six weeks training. * * * TRUCK KNOCKS OVER SUCTION TYPE PUMP When the brakes gave way on the parked truck belonging to The ■ t. , last Thursday after noon, the truck backed across the street and knocked over a suction type pump in front of Forrest Brothers store on King street. The vehicle had been parked in front of the Duke Power company of fice and backed across the street, narrowly missing an Eno cotton mill truck, before crashing into the pump. Damage was covered by insurance. * * * .'MRS. JULIAN CASTON HELPING IN COURT HOUSE Mrs. Julian Caston, former em ployee in the- tax collector’s of fice in the. Orange county court house, is helping out with the work during the month of Sep tember. Mrs. Caston, former resi dent of Hillsboro, is now living in Chapel Hill where her husband operates Caston Motor company. * * * EXCHANGE CLUB DISCUSSES PROJECTS The Hillsboro Exchange club at its meeting last Thursday, Sep tember 11, discussed a number of projects for the club including, lighting the athletic field at the high school here and, providing for under privileged children. The next meeting of the club will be Thursday night, September 25, at the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro. * * * SERVICES SUNDAY There will be services at the Hillsboro Presbyterian church Sunday, September 21, at 11 a. m. It was not known at the time this announcement was made who would deliver the sermon. NEW HOPE PYF HAS MEETING The New Hope PYF held its regular meeting at the church Tuesday night, September 16. The program topic was, “Learning Through Happiness.” Those tak ing part on the program were: i John Lockhart, Betty Lou and Helen Tapp. The devotional pro gram was presented by Christine Cates. CEDAR GROVE NEWS The Carr-Aycock Home Dem onstration club held its annual community picnic at Aycock school Saturday, September 6. Due to the showers the picnic was held in the school lunchroom instead of outdoors as planned. In spite of the heavy downpour of rain shortly preceding the supper hour* 57 people were pres ent at the bountiful tables. After supper several games and contests were enjoyed by the group. Prizes were wAi in nail driving contests, watermelon weight-guessing, family __ races, ctacker-eating contest. This picnic had been changed from its usual August date be cause of a change in our demon stration agent’s vacation time this year. Ballard Is Named Head Of Merchants John P. Ballard, Hillsboro in surance man, ^ was named presi dent of the Hillsboro Merchants association at a barbecue meeting held Monday night at Hines pond near Hillsboro. — Ballard, former administrator of the Farm Security program in Orange county, succeeds Jack Blieden, owner of The Dollar Store, in the president’s position. Other officers elected at the as sociation’s meeting were T. N. Webb, vice president; Marshal Cates Jr., re-elected treasurer; and W. T. Murray, Brown Gordon Jr. and Remus Smith members of the board of directors. Those three, plus Blieden, the retiring president, and the other new of ficers, comprise the board of di rectors of the association. Three past presidents, Clarence Jones. Charlie 3ames and it. u. Forrest, composed the nominating committee which proposed the names and which were unani mously adopted by the associa tion. Willett* Services Are Held Funeral services for Raymond McDuffie Willett, 35, of Univer sity were held Wednesday after noon from the Mt. Herman Bap tist church. Willett, a graduate of Hillsboro high school and one of the first men in Orange county to be dis charged because of wounds suf fered in combat in World War II, [died in Watts hospital, in Durham i Monday from injuries suffered when a pickup truck he was driv ing skidded off the old Durham - Hillsboro road near the Bennett place Sunday. The truck turned over several times after skidding off the road. Willett was employed by the Texas Oil company of Durham. Services were conducted by the Rev. W. H. RittInhouse and the Rev. John W. Bolitf. Interment was made in the church cemetery. —Veterans and Legionnaires acted as honorary pallbearers. Active pallbearers were Robert Michol, Cecil Allen, Bennie Os born, Wesley Crabtree, Floyd Clayton, R. C. Blanchard, Percy Jacobs, Tommy Hall. Willett is survived by fiis father, P. A. Willett, two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Goodwin of University, and Mrs. B. F. Stev<ens pf Durham; five brothers, James Albert and Andie Willett, all of Durham, and Ernest of Durham route 2 and B. D. Wil lett of Raleigh. Chapel Hill Bank Seeks Penaission To Open Branch The Bank of Chapel Hill at jChapel Hill, has filed an appli cation with the State Banking 1 Commission for authority to I open a branch at Carrboro. ! Gurney P. Hood, commissioner I of banks, will hold a public I hearing in the Town Hall at Carrboro on October 2, at 3 p. m. All interested persons will have an opportunity to be heard, said Hood. After the hearing, he will prepare a report and submit it to the State Banking Commission at its next regular quarterly , meeting, which will be held on October 22 at 11 a. m., In its meeting room, 210 Labor Building, Raleigh. In terested persons, will also- have an opportunity to be heard at this meeting. Tiie officers of The Bank of Chapel Hili are: President, Clyde Eubanks; vice-president, W. E. Thompson; cashier, ~X , Temple Gobbel.* 17 Orange Farms Are Equipped For Grade A Production Of Milk “* Seventeen Orange county farm ers have met the challenge for the production of more grade A milk by equipping their farms for the production of this much needed food. The increase in population in Durham and Chapel Hill to gether with a larger pe^ capita consumption of milk has created a temporary shortage. Marty Orange county farmers are considering the feasibility of adding a small grade A dairy to their farming operations. Seven teen farmers are in the process of investing from $3,000 to $5,000 in sanitary dairy barns and milking parlors, in pressure water systems and hot water sterilizers, and in electric refrigeration, etc., which will place them in position to pro duce grade A milk this fall. These farmers are: Roland --- Womble, route 3, Chapel Hill; A. M. Crabtree, route 3, Chapel Hill; Shelton Ray, route 1, Chapel Hill; A. W. Womble, route 1, Chapel Hill; William Dorsett, Efland; Wade Carruthers, route 2, Hills boro; Clyde Miller, Hurdle Mills; Roland Rogers, route 1, Chapel Hill; Claud Lynch, route 37 Meb ane, J. H. Martin, route 1, Hills boro; T. D. Lloyd, route 2, Meb ane; Shelton Womble, Chapel Hill; Irvin Womble, route 1, Chapel Hill; Clyde Merritt, route 3, Chapel Hill; John H. Cate, route 2, Chapel Hill; Richard Cates, route 2, Rougemont; Homer Tapp, route 2, Chapel Hill. PASTURE MEETINGS BIG SUCCESS Hundreds of pounds of pasture grass seed have been delivered to fanners at recent community meetings held over the county. More and more farmers are be ginning to realize that economic livestock production requires good pasturage. The demonstrations conducted with ladino clover by several farmers of the county last year- have convinced everyone that this clover is one of the best that has ben used in our state and the demand for these seed has been unusually heavy. Any, farm er who wishes to sow from one to five acres of pasture this fall and who has not already received his seed may yet do so by making ap plication to the AAA office in Hillsboro. Mebane Plans For Gala Festival Prior To Mart Opening Tuesday Mebane — Mebane merchants and business men were Wednes day busily preparing for the beauty contest and other tobacco festival activities Friday which will climax the pre-opening fes tivities preliminary -to the start of the 49th year of sales on the Meb ane tobacco market Tuesday, Sep tember 23. With a host of lovely girls en tered in the-beauty contest and a jam-up entertainitaenf"1 program' outlined with such events as a street dance, water polo, horseshoe pitching, band concerts and a fes tival parade scheduled, the Meb ane business men, merchants and civic leaders are planning to give the market opening a big sendoff. BEAUTY ENTRIES Girls entered in the beauty con test are Dot Boone of Carr, Clara Jean Cable of Mebane, Mrs. Pau line Riggs of Prospect Hill, Malby Tally of Corbitt, Mable Long of Ridgeville, Rita Vaughn of Hills boro, Margaret Vaughn of Hills boro, Mary Ann Pittard of Cedar Grove. Mildred McCullock of Cedar Grove, Minnie Lee Hicks of Meb ane, Betty Lou Bland of Mebane, Eula Mae Young of Mebane, Peggy Fritz of Burlington, Mary Smith of Prospect Hill, Becky Hieks of route 3, Mebane, Margaret Burton .of“Ced'aT'GTOve; Martha-Fousteee of Cedar Grove, Jane Compton of Cedar Grove, Nancy McBane of Mebane, Sarah Colcne Westbrook of route 3, Burlington, Mary Joe Fox of Mebane, Mary Louise Kirk man of route 2, Burlington. Jacqueline Kapps of route 3, Mebane, Dorothy Pore of Cedar Grove, Josephine Nicholson of route 2, Mebane, Mrs. Catherine Wilkerson of Mebane,' Ellen John son of Graham, and Pat Johns of Hillsboro. FESTIVAL PLANS B. H. Haley, publicity chairman Tor the event, released the’ follow ing information on the beauty contest and; - the other events scheduled for* the tobacco festival Out-of-town dignitaries whc will act as judges for Mebane’s Tobacco Festival Queen contest were announced by George C Amick, president of the Exchange club of Mebane. The judges wil be R. C. Godwin, director, Vet erans’ Employment Service foi N. C., Raleigh; John Marshall commander, Raleigh Post No. 1 American Legion, Raleigh; E. C Qualls, executive vice-president radio station WFNS, Burlington Howard White, assistant editor The Daily Times-News, Burling ton; and Joseph H. Warren, chair man, Mebane Tobacco Board oi Trade, Prospect Hill. Mr. War I ren has been designated to act as chairman of the judging commit tee. The contest to select the queen -of the.-Mebane ..Tobacco Festival will be held beginning at 7 o’clock on Friday night, September 19, in Mebane. This contest will pre cede a street dance which is sched uled to begin at 8 p. m. Prizes will be awarded to the queen and sev eral of her runners-up through the courtesy of local merchants and manufacturers. The afternoon of the festival will see a variety of entertainment presented free for all who care to attend. There will be a mammoth parade at 2 p. m., featuring four high school bands from Mebane and surrounding towns. Another interesting feature of the parade will be a float carrying a preview of the festival queen contestants. This parade will be followed by, a horseshoe pitching contest at 2:30 and a water polo game at 4 o’clock p. m. ? Hi|h school bands expected to play t&r the event are Hillsboro, Graham, Burlington and Mebane. TOBACCO MARKET The Mebane tobacco market,, starting its 49th year of operation; led the other markets in the Old Belt last season with the highest average and the tobacco ware housemen, all of whom are to bacco farmers, are expecting an other banner year for the market. Three warehouses a,re offered the tobacco farmer in Mebane, all well-lighted and well-manned to care for, tobacco placed on the floors. „ • / , ..“Cqme and ' sell' your tobacco with us’ is the genial'cry of the merchants and tobacco men in , Mebane. Middle Belt Prices Are Lower On Opening Day Than Last Year .Opening dav of sales Monday, September 15, on the nine Middle Belt flue-cured tobacco markets saw prices for practically all grades lower than on'the first day of sales last year, according to the United States and North Carolina Departments of Agriculture. Losses by grades ranged from 50c to $9 per hundred. The bet ter qualities were hit hardest as most of the $5 to $9 decreases oc curred in these. Other tobaccos were down mostly from $2 to $4 Bulk of sales brought from $41 to $57 per hundred with quotations of $57 recorded for choice and fine lugs and fair cutters.. Lowest aver age of the day was $7.75 for poor est thin nondescript. It was esti mated that around 7 to 12 per cent sold below the support price of the Flue-cured Stabilization corporation. Only three grades averaged below the advance, these being choice lemon lugs, fair, lemon cutters, and common red leaf. The general average was esti mated to be from $42 to $47 per hundred. Last season on opening day, gross sales amounted to 4, 624,990 pounds at an average of $48.98. Sales were fairly heavy in vol ume. Quality was slightly better when compared with the previous year. More good to choice grades appeared on the floors and less common to fair. The percentage of lugs and primings was much greater than in 1946 while the pro portion of leaf was corresponding ly smaller. Principal offerings consisted of fair to fine lugs, low to good primings, and low and fair leaf. The 1947 production for Type II, which includes both Old and Middle Belts, was indicated as of August 1 to be 459,700,000 pounds. This is around 5 % per cent less thanthe harvest ~o#~fhe foregoing season. PRICES STEADY The third week of sales on the Eastern North Carolina flue-cured tobacco markets was highlighted by heavy volume but lower qual ity and fairly steady prices. The United States and North Carolina Departments of Agriculture re port gross sales amounted to 50, 708,610 pounds and averaged $40.47 per hundred. This average was 52.23 below that of last week because of the lower quality of the offerings. Gross sales for the season totaled 106,782,601 pounds at an average of $41.78. The gen eral average is running around $9.75 under the comparable period last year. Prices for the majority of bet ter grades were steady to stronger than last week. However, most lower grades of leaf and nonde script showed declines. Except for the higher trend in green leaf and primings, all changes could be Considered as_normal market fluctuations. Variations stood in most cases around $1 to $2 per hundred. The volume on the grades in which gains occurred outweighed by a large majority those which suffered losses. Thus, as a whole the market was higher based on average prices by grades. A few baskets of better leaf and cutters were observed selling at $60 but the practical top re mained at $58 per hundred. The general quality was below that of last week. A much larger percentage of leaf was marketed with the increases chiefly in com mon and low qualities. Also, more nondescript was sold. Less better grades appeared ;with the See TOBACCO on Page 4 4 Garden Club Holds First Fall Meeting Mis. Charles Hubbard was host ess at her home Thursday for the Hillsboro Garden club’s first meeting of the fall season.. Four teen members attended, i The president, Mrs. H. W. Moore, presided. It was an nounced at the meeting that the site has been selected for the new post office in Hillsboro. The club decided to ask that the Early Greek Revival style of architec ture, which is the style used on the historic Orange county court house, be used. The need for keeping the town’s streets and sidewalks cleaner was also dis cussed. Mrs. Eldon Matteson handed out folders on gardening pointers for the month. Mr. LeClair of the University of North Carolina spoke to the group on “Horticulture.” Rice Reunion Is j On September 28 The Rice family reunion will be held on September 28 at the same place it has been held in previous years, five miles north of Mebane, Mrs. S. N. Rowland of Mebane an nounced this week. Neighbors and family are invited reunion and
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