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(Published Weekly) Hillsboro, N. C. The News, September 25, 1947 _____ 4,91 for the beet In newsfcnd trtising coverage any n«w»* er published in Orange county. new* Itemf cover the county _t just a particular area or a (special group of citizens. —Awarded First Place General Excellence by North Carolina Press Association for 1946— ■ •7 4 1 ■ THE NEWS of Orange County What other medium In county gives you as much In formation about your county as The News of Orange County. The News to learn what's hap penlng In the county. 8!>ages This Week I Ians Announced For Building lile-Oval Race Track Here, 5,000-Gapacity Grandstand Ihe present plans of a group promoters materialize in the they have planned, Hillsboro by the middle of next year |t a mile-oval racetmck with OOt) settling - capacity grand jrading equipment this week led moving tons of earth in ding a four-lane gravel road A highway 70-A to the site of fold0 Oeconeechee race track f*obe Eno river, he promotors of the race track l purchased 200 acres of land teen highway 70-A and high - [ 70 in the V formed by the I ways The land borders on |0ld Oeconeechee home occu at one time by General Carr. F. Powell of North Wilkes 1, secretary-treasurer of the 1,000 corporation chartered by lUcretary of state last week, 1 this week the track when dieted would be the third f-oval race track on the East Ttre^ther~two~ar& cd at-Atlar'+a, ,and Lang le, Pa. Ie track will be able to handle K’pes of racing cars and motor bs from stock cars to the cars ted in the Indianapolis 500 Memorial day race, Powell [ie straightways of the old Oc echee race track^-where a horse was run when the was in operatoin—will be in the construction of the track, Powell explained. |ng the race season from 50 to people will be employed, he fed. handle the large crowds ex ed for the races, Powell said 125 acres of the 200 would [levoted to parking space. He 1,000 automobiles could be jlled in the parking lot |ned. he track will be known as febom -speedways. The cha - given the firm by Secretary of Thad Eure authorized a ital-stock of $100,000 of which DO has already been paid in. lembers of the firm are Ben of Burlington, vice-president; France of Daytona Beach, president; Powell, secretary; (Enoch Staley of North Wilkes and Joe Buck Dawson of pel Hill. Brief Hews Bits [port is sought ' VHITE CANE SALE . B. Cole, president °< [boro Lion’s club asks thMth lie cooperate in «*e 1 I [te Cane Campaignbeing , I ]ed this week by the Carr Hillsboro Lions clubs. 'i cSffii -v. ntratrof-the dtiue iii Cjjjjjjjjjj' will be aided by the Carrbor and Girl Scouts. is Hillsboro, J- «■ als0 [rman. Boy Scouts will als, :it funds here. * * * HOOL BUS ROUTE IS Lgeo after compla' a Allowing the comp am liber of citizens living in . Liedy’s Mill area of the c0 [ Hillsboro, a school bus ou ■been changed t>D roU*e ;n_ lol students to Hillsboro Id of to Aycock as was ong rpeSontas circulated among I school patrons who as tu_ ■bus be routed so that tQ Vs could continue to e ck pboro instead of to y L school. table Traffic _ je Is Planned >r Game Traffic If you are plannlnfl on *■ Chapel Hill <*ne hour b had re time Saturday, you -h” [ter change your PUn8 *?r* in fete Highway Patrol °*f,c® t. lleigh haa announced tha Ing traffic will be halte Q lur before start of the la-Georgia game and inc Iffic routed two abreast, the plan was used la*1 > the Carolina-Duke 0 ere and met with Instant *uo ps in getting the football tra [e into Chapel HIM and out o town after the name. t [it IN NEW YORK f Vr. and Mrs. Sam Bef?a" u. [pel Hill spent the Jewish hon Is visijing friends in New Wildcats Smother Bragtown 33-0 For Initial Triumph By Bobby Parlier After being defeated by a strong AA Durham high team, Hillsboro bounced back with a smashing victory over an out-classed Brag town evelen, 33—0, last Friday afternoon. The first tally came In the first two minutes of the game, when Steve Howerton threw a 30-yard pass to Carl Whicker in the end zone. The extra point was made by Howerton. Later in the first quarter-, Collins, Parker, and How erton drove the ball 55 yards down the field, when Kenneth Rosemond carried the ball to the three-yard line, where Howerton smashed over the second score. After a see-saw battle in the seeond- quarter, Bryce Newman threw Howerton a 15-yard pass which developed *into a 50-yard towndown run. Collins carried the ball over from a quarterback sneak for the extra point. The fourth score came during the third period, when Whicker caught a pass from Newman to set up the scoring position in which Newman carried the leather on a reverse for the next score. An attempted pass for the extra point fell short. * In the fourth quarter, the final score came when Newman threw Howerton a 20-yard pass and Howerton outran the secondary for the 'marker. The conversion by Howerton was good. Ed Pead stood out in the Brag town backfield, while Smith and Remanio supported the line. With Hillsboro’s forward wall standing out on both offense and defense, and with the backfield coordinating with fhe 'Tlne, Hills boro’s future games should bring forth more victories and promise of a better team. Hillsboro has an open date this weekend. New Hope V * By Miss Elizabeth Kirkland W. B. Pace, farm agent of Dur ham county, and Don S. Mathe •son,.Oxange,-County farm agent, made talks on the subject "What Does My County Have That Yours Does Not?” at the meeting , of the New Hope Grange on Wednesday night, September 17. The Grange sponsored a weinpr roast on Sat urday night, September 20. Kernie Lloyd, a former resident of this community, passed away at his home near Buies Creek Satur day, September 20, from a heart attack. He was the husband of the former Miss Nannie Lloyd of this community. He is survived by, one sister, Mrs. P. K. Hogan of near Orange church a~nd one brother,. Roland Lloyd of New York. Fu neral services were held at the home and interment made in the McDuffie Memorial church. The woman’s auxiliary met at the church Sunday, September 21. Representatives from this auxil iary will attend the district meet ing in the Second church in Bur lington on September 30. Plans were made for entertaining the Presbytery on October 14. Minis ters and elders from all Presby terian churches in Alamance, Per son, Caswell, Lee, Chatham, Guil ford, Rockingham and Orange counties will attend. Young men from this commun ity who have entered the. Univer sity at Chapel Hill are John Free land, Neal Tapp and Sharpe Pit shopped in Louisvi fort, Ky., also in Ind. CHURCH MEETINGS Carrboro—The. .young women s circle of the Women’s Society of Christian Service met on Monday evening of this week at the home of Mrs. J. L. Joyce. The Woman s Society met on Tuesday evening at the church hut. The Youth Fel lowship met on Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Mary Kat erine Hogan with *er f™nd mother, Mrs. Nannie H?ckney JJ^ groups are of the Carrboro Meth odist church. Cooperation Of Citizens Is Lauded Dr. S. W. DUBose, former pas tor of the Hillsboro Presbyterian church, now professor of Bible at Davis-Elkins college in Elkins, W. Va., this week issued a state ment thanking the people of Orange county for the cooperation they gave him as chairman of a drive to collect clothes for over seas relief. Direction of the Orange county effort in this endeavor was the last public service position that Dr. DuBose filled before leaving for Elkins. According to information re ceived from the World Relief Cen ter in New Windsor, Md., North Carolina, is far in the lead in the number of pounds of clothing con- 1 tributed during the drive. Effort to collect clothing was carried to every section of Orange county and a large number "of pounds was contributed by the citizens of the different communi ties. Miss Avett Bible Teacher In Schools Miss Louise Avett, a native of Norwood, has accepted the posi tion of teacher of Bible in Orange county, replacing Miss Florence Root who recently returned to Korea as a missionary. Bible teaching in the Orange county schools is a function of the Orange county council of churches. At present Miss Avett is on an indefinite leave of absence from work under the Methodist Board of Missions in China. She has an A.B. degree from Duke univer sity and a masters degree, in re-, li'gious education from Searritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tenn. Prior to her work in China, she taught four years. Miss Avett’s first five years in China were spent in East China near Changhai where she worked in both rural and urban communi ties. She came home on her first furlough in the summer of 1937, landing in San Francisco July 7, the day the war between Japan and China began. In January of 1939 she returned to China and for two years worked in territory already" occupied* "by the Japanese army. In March of 1941, just eight months before Pearl Harbor, she went to West China rather than come home to America after having been back on the field only two years. Her first year in Szechuan was spent teaching in a girls’ high school and learning to speak a new Chinese dialect. The other three years in the west were devoted to work on a neglected circuit and work with young people and women and children in the interior city of ( Suining, which is about halfway between Chinking and Chengtu. In January, of 1945 she began her long, slow trip home. She flew from Chungking to Calcutta and then waited five months in India for boat passage. On July 5, she joined more than one thousand who left Bombay on the Gripsholm en route to New York. They landed on August 2. Miss Avett’s present Bible train ing schedule in Orange county is: West Hillsboro, Monday morning; Hillsboro, Monday afternoon; Hillsboro, Tuesday; A y c o c k, Wednedsay* Caldwell, Thursday; Efland, Friday morning; Hillsboro,! Friday afternoon. MRS. NANNIE RIGGSBEE HONORED ON BIRTHDAY Carrboro—Mrs. Nannie Riggs bee was honored on her eighty fourth birthday last Sunday by her sons and daughters and a large number of her grandchildren and other relatives who gathered atithe Dwight Bay park on Park way drive. Mrs. Riggsbee’s chil dren living in Carrboro are Mrs. Estelle Farrell, Herbert, Numa and Willie Riggsbee and their fami lies. Mrs. Riggsbee makes her home in Durham with her daugh ter, Mrs. Maggie Lougie. Hillsboro Planning Clean-Up A campaign to bolster civic pride by “cleaninjpup” the streets and sidewalks of Hillsboro was set in motion at a meeting of rep resentative groups of the town forming a “clean-up committee” on Wednesday evening, September 17. The campaign, to be launched an. Septemb.er. 30 with the presen tation of a chapel program at Hillsboro high sdtiool, is spon sored by the civic improvement committee of the ^illsboro garden club with the aid* of the Parent Teacher’s association as co-spon sors, and is endorsed by the Orange county board of education, the Hillsboro school board, the Hills boro town council, school adminis trators, and local civic clubs. The officials of the Hillsboro colored school have also agreed to co operate in the program. In order to accomplish its pur pose of education toward civic pride, “the clean-up committee,” composed of representatives of the Hillsboro Garden club, the P.-T. A., citizefts-at-large, and school personnel, adopted the slogn, ‘‘Clean Up Hillsboro,” and set up the following projects and committees: Poster and Essay con test—Mrs. H. H. Brown, Miss Re becca Liner; chapel programs for Hillsboro school—Mrs. Clarence Jones; recommendations for citi zenship programs and a good citizen contest in Hillsboro school —Glenn Auman, Mrs. Ross Porter, Grady Brown; tag committee— Mrs. John G. Webb, Mrs. Bonner Sawyer, and publicity committee —Mrs. Brown P. Gordon Jr., Harry Hollingsworth. Mrs. Charles S. Hubbard will serve as co-ordi nator of the clean-up committee. As a part of' the citizenshij committee’s work during the cam paign, a poster a id essay contes will be conducted in the school and points aware ed to the indi vidual students f ir being a gooi citizen. Three prizes tvffl be awarded at the end of the school year to the three highest good citizens in the school. Emphasis in the good citizenship contest will b.e stressed on town and county pride and cleanliness and respect for other’s property. The Hillsboro town council is placing garbage containers on Tryon and King streets this week for the convenience of the school children. Other garbage contain ers belonging to the town are also being painted, and w;eeds along the streets cut. To make the campaign more effective, the residents of the town are asked to evaluate their own private premises and improve them when they consider it neces sary. CAMPBELL IS HEADING NEW PRINTING CONCERN Carrboro—Orville Campbell, an alumnus of U. N. C. and former publicity director of the Woman’s college in Greensboro, is in charge of the new print shop opening this week in the newbuHding just completed in Carrboro at the in tersection of highways 86 and 54 near the Carrboro school. Opera tions will begin Thursday of this week, September 26, with the first edition of The Daily Tar Heel, ac cording to Bill Rhyne, student at U. N. C. Excessive War Profits Suit | Of $2,200,000 Filed Against Carrboro Munitions Concern _ ____ n_i__ m__ Cafe Operator Found Guilty On Beer Violation Charge &4LI II • VAUWklVV) vyiivtvi 1 the Hillsboro Cafe here, Monday was found guilty of allowing beer to be consumed in his place of business after midnight Saturday and before 7 a. m. Monday in vio lation of a county ordinance. Judge L. J. Phipps in Orange county recorder’s court ordered Crabtree fined $50 and costs and declared him not guilty of selling beer after the deadline. Crabtree had been charged on both counts. The decision was appealed to Orange county superior court and appeal bond set at $75. Other cases tried Monday were: McBride Albright, speeding, $15 and costs; Lacy Freeland, driving drunk, $100 and costs; Jim Frank Harrell, no driver’s license, 60 dayssuspcnded on payment of $lt) fine and costs. ~~ Cases tried Monday, September 15, were: Cicera Durham, failing to pro vide adequate support for wife and. children, judgment continued two years Thomas Baldwin Blanchard, speeding, $5 and costs; Katherine S. Guthrie, driving drunk, $100 fine and costs; Tommy Howerton, no driver’s licejise, $10 and costs; Otis W. Jeffries, reck less driving, $50 fine and costs; Raymond H. Porter, speeding, $15 and costs; J. Ella Hardin; speeding and passing on hill, $10 and costs; Ella Pugh, public drunkenness, using profane language, 60 days; Duff Carr, assault on female with deadly weapon, two years. BTU Group Meets Sunday In Graham Dr. Sankey L. Blanton, head of the department of religion at Wake Forest college, will speak at the annual convention meeting of the Mount Zion Baptist Training union, Sunday afternoon, Septem ber 28, at 2:30 o’clock' in the Gra ham Baptist church in Graham. Floyd’ Rhodes Jr., general di rector of the organization, will -preside and will also bring the de votional. ’Special music will be rendered by the male trio of the West Durham Baptist church. The main feature of the busi ness period will be the selection and approval of the officers for the new year, for election by the dis trict association at its annual meeting in October. Civil Court Term Opens Monday— Civil term of Orange county superior court opens in the court house in Hillsboro on Monday, September 29, with Judge Bone aS^he presiding judge. V,, A total of 28 civil cases have been docketed for trial. Mebane’s First Festival Declared Huge Success By Mary Wilkinson . Mebane—Mebane’s first Tobac co Festival began Friday afternoon at -*2 o’clock with a parade, fea turing. horseback riders, the American Legion’s 40 and 8 train, Army Recruiting Units, entrants in the beauty contest riding in open cars and a variety of floats. School bands from Burlington, Graham, Hillsboro and Mebane furnished the music. The line wound its way through the main business sections of the town and led the crowd to the site of the championship horse shoe pitching contest. Prizes were presented by G. C. Amick, presi dent of the Exchange club, to Glen Heath of Burlington, who won the singles championship and to the Garrison-Patton team who won the doubles prize. Other events during the after noon included a football game be tween Mebane and Trinity high schools with the local boys win ning by a score of 20—19. ~At 4 o’clock, the Mebane fire department divided itself into two teams, with Tom Rideout and Morgan Lea as captains, for a game of water polo. Armed with hose attached to convenient hy drants, the two teams converged on one lone barrel in the middle of a street in the heart of the to bacco warehouse section. Lea’s team won the game when they forced the barrel over their op ponents’ goal line. Preceding the beauty contest at 7 o’clock that night, the Mebane school band, under the direction of Mrs. Margaret Porter, gave a concert. About 30 pretty girls were entered in the contest. Judg ing was close and the officials were glad they had minor prizes to give to each entrant. The jack pot presented to the winner, was a cross-section of the goods manu factured in Mebane and of the things to be found in the up-to date stores. Included were: a mattress, solid mahogany drop leaf table, wing-back chair, cedar chest, the newest in fountain pens, etc. The girl, finally chosen fo receive "first prize and to be crowned by Mayor L. P. Best as queen of the 1947 Mebane Tobacco Festival was Miss Nancy McBane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. McBane of Mebane, and a student atW. C. U. N. C. , A square dance, held in a roped off section of down-town street, brought the activities to a close late in the night. f What do you enjoy most about Autumn? Miss Beulah Scott, Hillsboro: “I think fall is the most beauti ful season. Football games and welner roasts are the main at tractions.” Mrs. Petain Berry, route 1. Hurdle Mills: The “In-between" weather makes it a pleasure to dress up. There isn’t that hot, ; uncomfortable fa*ling, an7f one isn’t bothereeT wIth heavy coats and other wraps as in winter. Mrs. Oscar Lashmlt, Hills boro: “The happy expression on my husband’s face when he comes home from a successful hunting trip. And the stories he tells about ‘the one that got away.’ ” Mrs. George Gilmore, Hills boro: “Fall is my favorite sea son. It’s so calm and peaceful.” Martin Henderson, Hillsboro: “Cooler temperatures.” Miss Mildred Gibbs, route 3, Hillsboro—“I like fall because it’s time to get Into skirts and sweaters again. Homecoming Will Be Held At Cane Creek October 5 The annual Cane Creek Friends church homecoming will be held Sunday, October 5, at the church. The day’s activities will begin with the Sabbath School at 9:45, followed by the worship at 11 a. m. The welcome will be given by Earl Wright and Isaac Harris, Yearly Meeting secretary, will deliver the message. ' A picnic dinner will be held at noon. The afternoon will be de voted to a program honoring for mer leaders in Cane Creek. E. P. Dixon will preside during the aft ernoon. Short biographies of Ruth M. Hinshaw, John Thompson, and John C. Griffin. This portion of I the annual homecoming have be come a custom through the years. There will be a reunion of rela tives of those honored at this year’s homecoming on this day. The Cane Creek Friends church was established October 7. 1751. Cedar Grove > The Aycock P.-T. A. met in the school auditorium Thursday eve ning, Sept. 18, this being the first meeting of the year. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. J. B. Hur ley. The group sang two songs, “Holy, Holy, Holy,” and “Amer ica” and the Rev. J. B. Hurley conducted the devotional. The president appointed the fol lowing members as chairmen of the various committee. Membership chairman, Mrs. Coy Long: hospitality, Mrs. Z. C. Bur ton; national magazine, Mrs. Lin wood Rogers; budget, • Mrs. R. C. Compton; radio, Mrs. E. C. Comp ton; health and summer round up, Mrs. Harris Pope. Music, Mrs. Alen Lloyd; found ers’ day, Mrs. Sudie Warren; legis- ' lative, E. F. Cude; room repre sentative, Mrs. J. S. Compton; reading and library, Mrs. Tom Dula; school lunch room, Mrs. E. C. Compton; historian, Mrs. C. H. Pender; parent study, Mrs.' Donald Wells. Other officers who have been elected are president, Mrs. J. B. Huxley; vice president, E. T. Cude;, secretary, Mrs. Louise Winslow; treasurer, Mrs. Giles Long; pro gram chairman, Mrs. Jule Allen. After the business session the program chairman introduced the : speaker, Mrs. Sudie Warren, who gave ah interesting talk, discuss ing the subject, “Why Join the ; P.-T. A.?” after which the meet ing ajourned. The next meeting See CEDAR GROVE on Page 4 i vxicviwwujiu-a ouno 0.00.1115 recovery of $2,200,000 from Na tional Munitions corporation of Carrboro for alleged excessive profits realized under wartime contracts and sub-contracts with the navy department were filed by the federal government Mon day in Durham division brmiddle district court. The Carrboro Munitions Plant during the war years employed a large number of Orange county residents and its holdings in Carr boro were recently purchased by the Carrboro Woolen Mills, a di vision of Pacific MiHs. The claim stipulated that in re fund of the profits, the defendant is entitled to credit for taxes paid thereon in accord with the In ternal Revenue code. One suit asked judgment for the sum of $1,600,000 (less tax credit), named as excessive profits for the defendant corporation during the fiscal year ending July 31, 1944. The complaint requested payment of interest on net liability at the rate of six per cent annually from April 28. 1947.----1— SECOND SUIT Claimed profits of $600,000 on part of the defendant for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1945, were listed in the second suit. Payment was also asked for six per cent in terest on the balance, after deduc tion of tax credit, from June, 1947. Proceedings in the cases for the plaintiff were conducted by repre sentatives of the war contracts price adjustment board, after the notice to the defendant and in compliance with the renegotiation act, according to statement of the plaintiff. Chairman of the navy’s price adjustment board determined amounts of said profits realized by the defendant under contracts and sub-contracts subject of renego tiation. The defendant was noti fied of determination, the plaintiff claims. The orders were later reviewed by the war contract price adjust ment board and sustained, it was stated. The defendant was directed to pay to the treasurer of the United r States said amount of profits, “but the defendant has not paid any part of obligation,” the plaintiff alleged. Time for the defendant to file a petition in tax court of the United States for redetermination of the alleged profits has expired, ac cording to the plaintiff. ---Deputies of United - States Mar shal Edney Ridge served the com plaints on the defendant yesterday morning, it was reported here. County Agent’s News - Views DAIRYMEN TO GET HIGHER PRICES FOR GRADE A MILK Realizing that the sfiarpe in crease in feed prices has seriously handicapped dairymen who are already operating on a close mar ing, milk plants all over the state are raising the price of grade A milk 30 to 50 cents per hundred pounds. The retail price of miRc has been increased on most mar kets two cents per quart to the consumer and it is anticipated that within the next few days these prices will be standard over the state. Corn, the principal ingredient in dairy feed, has advanced in. the past six months from $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel. PASTURE GRASS SEED AVAILABLE Thousands of pounds of pasture grass seed were distributed to Orange county farmers for seed ing this fall in recent community meetings. Any farmer that has not received pasture grass seed this fall may get as much as five acres at a relatively small cost by applying to the secretary of AAA at Hillsboro. A large supply of iadino clover and other pasture grass seed are now available.. COMBINATION TOBACCO CURING BARN AND PACK HOUSE IN USE Jim Monk of the Hurdle Mills community needed both :uring barns and pack houses on ■wo of his places, so he decided to build a combination curing ba md pack house. According to li Monk, these barns tor curing tobacx tave pro'~*~ rhey l floors ™