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, for the best tn news end Lfl coverage ef any news [blished In Orange county. L items cover the county L a particular area or a pal group of citizens. No. 48 The News of Orango County. I The News to learn what's I penlng In the county. ■Awarded First Place General Excellence t>\ North Carolina Press Association for 1946— THE (Published Weekly) ^ < HILLSBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER *7, 1947 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week ■ - * - — ... ■— ' '■.= ■ llker’s Funeral Home Here \erves 25th Anniversary [Houston J. Walker Allen Walker •ving its 25th anniversary lonth, Walker’s Funeral in Hillsboro -presents the if having served the peoole ge county during the entire without any change in ment. ton J. Walker, and his son, t. Walker, who opened the home in November, 1922, II the active owners and rs. firm moved into its present g January 7, 1927, from a rame building on the pres of Hillsboro Dry Cleaners, leral home is a member of irth Carolina Funeral Di association and the Na Funoral Directors associa Allen H. Walker is a past governor of the fifth dls-; the North Carolina associ'-a le receive^ his embalming from Brown’s Embalming in Raleigh, May 8, 1926. J men have been active in ro’s civic organizations, aving served on the town and Houston Walker having on the school board and the county commissioners. He io served as Orange county f since 1936. ng the 25-year period, as •unger sons in the family ip, the Walkers established 1 homes in Chapel Hill and e, which are being operated by Joe and Marvin Walker, ively. I People of Orange county Fon be given an opportunity Ip in the fight being waged It tuberculosis by purchasing |rcias Seals distributed by the I * Tuberculosis association, rvill be placed in the mails in j Fxt few days, and in addition, I p schools of the county will fate in i conducting the Imas Seal campaign. FPh A. Staton, field secretary p North Carolina association, |sPeak at the high school r on Tuesday, December 9. r'ill also address the Hills |P -T. A. at its meeting that I afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. | F Christmas Seal sale in the [y is being sponsored by the “oro Lions club, and |he pittee in charge is Elmer R. 'y> chairman, assisted by the Charles Spence Hubbard, E. arnes and Clarence Jones, tele among the colored people e community is under the di )n of M. C. Burt and A. L. >ack. -iwi ion Auxiliary e American Legion Auxiliary meet Tuesday evening, De ier 2 at 7:30 at the American >n hut in Hillsboro. Vets Office Offers Aid To Veterans Walter G. Wren, Orange county service officer, this week made several announcements of inter est to the veterans of the county. They are: Veterans are urged to make cer tain that they have filed their claims for terminal leave pay. See Service Officer Wren at the Legion hut if you have not filed for your pay. Veterans interested in securing a GI loan are asked to contact Wren. He will be glad to be of any service possible in securing the loan for you. . _ . Deadline for renewing GI insur ance is January 1, 1948. Anyone renewing insurance after that date will be required to take a physi _ Office hours are from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the Legion hut. Mebane News The Mebane Music club met Tuesday evening at the teacherage with Miss Ruth Tyson and Mrs. W. E. Cook as hostesses. The meet ing was called to order by Mrs. C. S. Loftis, president. During the business meeting, Mrs. Jack P. Smith- agreed to accept chairman ship of the Junior clubs and a re port was heard from the maga zine committee. Mrs. Smith had charge of the program and read a paper on our early American com posers, mentioning Hopkinson, Billings and Lyon. Illustrations Were given by group singing with Miss Tyson at the piano and by selections on the record player. Choral practice was conducted by Mrs. Cook. Cookies, sandwiches and cocoa was served to Miss Ag nes Rudisill, Mrs. Loftis, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Cook, Miss Rebecca Maness, Miss Reba Vernon, Mrs. Lacy Pender, Miss Florene Dunn, Mrs. Frederick Dudley, Mrs. E. M. Yoder, Mrs. Norman Wood, Mrs. I. C. Clark, Miss Lillie Fowler and Mrs. W. M. Baker. FRIENDLY GARDNERS MEET The Friendly Gardners met Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. J. H. Gill anl Mrs. “Cicero Jobe ’at the home of the former! Mrs. C. J. Bubb presided over the- business meeting. Devotionals were con ducted by Mrs. Bubb after which Mrs. Gill read a paper on “Azal eas.” Bingo was played with Mrs. C. M. Ray and Mrs. W. T. Dillard winning potted plants as prizes, f rozen tarts wjth Russian tea was served to Mrs. W. T. Dil- j lard, Mrs, I. C. Clark, Mrs. A. B. Fitch, Mrs. Paisley Nelson, Mrs. Jack P. Smith, Mrs. C. M. Ray. Mrs. S M Hupman, Mrs. Claude J Bubb and Mrs. Walter Mason. TUESDAY NIGHT f BRIDGE CLUB MEET The Tuesday Night Bridge club net with Mrs. M. B. Miles, recent y, .with the following present: tlrs. W. S. Harris, Mrs. R. H. Kale, Wrs C S. Parnell, Mrs. J. H. Gill, Wrs. Claude Bubb, Mrs. Norman ■Wood Miss Blanche McDade, and V[rs w O. Bostic. Prizes were von by Miss McDade and Mrs. Wood for high scores and by Mrs. 3ostic for runner-up. The hostess ;erved a dessert course with ac :ompaniments. PERSONALS Mrs. C. N. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. T B Banks and Mr. and Mrs. bharles Loftis all of Garner were quests of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Loftis ast Sunday. . The Revf and Mrs. Leon Hoi" ingsworth attended the football ,ame at Wake Forest last Friday 11 Mn and Mrs. H. E. Wilkinson Jr. ind children, Hughes and John Dariielrof Durham visited relatives 1 Me,SandaMr, R. A. Wilkinson md Mr. and Mrs. Steve White at :ended the Carolina-Duke foot ball game Saturday. , B. F. Warren has been a patient ;n Watts hospital in Durham or several weeks. Harvest Festival At Masonic Hall On December 4 TTnoiract FPStlV3l t asrws: Brian Auxiliary start at 3:30 p. *»• and will last until everything is sold. Bank Of Chapel Hill Sponsors Corn Crowing Contest Above are shown two of the three winners in the corn growing contest sponsored this summer by the Bank of Chapel Hill with principals In the presentations of the awards last Friday night. Left to right they are: Don S. Matheson, county farm agent, who presided over the meeting; Dr. Ralph Cum mings of State college, who made the principal ' ress; Robert F. Thompson, second place winner;; W. E. Thompson, vice president of the Bank of Chapel Hill, who made the presentations; and Clyde Rob erts, first nlace winner. i v Clyde Roberts Corn Growing Champ W ith 93 Bushel Mark Conservation Committee. To Be Elected Election of three soil conserva tion committeemen for Orange county of the Neuse River soil conservation district will be held from December 1 through Decem ber 6, it was announced this week. All qualified voters in Orange county are eligible to vote in the elections- it-- was pointed out. The candidate receiving the high est number of votes will serve for a period of three years beginning January 1, 1948. The candidate receiving the second highest num ber of votes will serve for a period of two years beginning January 1, 1948. The candidate receiving the third highest number of votes will serve for a period of one year be ginning January 1, 1948. Ballot boxes will be pldced as follows: Hillsboro, AAA office. Decem ber 1 to 6, inclusive; Carrboro, Farmers Mutual Exchange, De cember 6; White Cross, Grange Hall, December 6; Orange Grove, Orange Grove school, December 6; Now Hope, Hallow Park Filling Station, December '6; Efland, Ef land school, December 6; .Cedar Grove, Giles Long’s Filling Sta tion, December 6; Carr, Compton’s Store, December 6, St. Mary’s, school,, Decembejr 6; Caldwell, Hamlin’s Filling Station, Decem ber 6. » The following men have been nominated by regular petition: H. S’. Hogan, J. L. Scotton, Clyde Roberts, John Williams, and Char lie Teer. Approximately 100 Attend Open House Sunday Afternoon The Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. HubbarcT^wSre hosts Sunday aft ernoon from 4 to 4:30 o’clock to members of the Hillsboro Meth odist and the New Sharon Meth odist , churches. The purpose was to show the guests the repairs and improvements that have been made to the parsonage. Those assisting Mr. and Mrs Hubbard in receiving were mem bers of the parsonage board of trustees of both churches, with their husbands and wives. They included °Dr< and Mrs. H. W. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Robert For rest, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Roberts, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Weaver. Miss Mary B. Forrest, Mrs. C. D. Knight and Miss Jeanne Knight, niembers of the Wesleyan Guild in Hillsboro, served refreshments. Approximately 100 guests called during the afternoon. ----:. Clyde Roberts of the St. Mary’s community won the $100 saving bond and first place in the corn gj-owing contest for 1947 with 93 bushels per aci-e. Robert F. Thompson of the Orange Chapel community won second place and $25 saving bond with 91 bushels per acre and Sam Nelson of the Hebron community won third place and $10 in cash with 87 bushels per acre. The average for all fifty contestants was 61.9 bushels per acre. These prizes were awarded by W. E. Thompson, vice president of the Bank of Chapel Hill, at a barbecue attended by about 125 farmers. The Bank ol! Chapel Hill sponsored the contest. > Dr. Ralph Cummings, head of the agronomy department at State college, made the principal talk, stressing the six most important steps in increasing corn yields, namely, well prepared seed bed, close spacing, abundance of nitro gen, shallow cultivation, stop cul tivation when corn is knee high and the use of well adapted hy brid. The corn yield in the county has been raised in the past few years from 23 bushels to about 30 bush els per acre average. This seven bushel increase per acre when ap plied to 15,000 acres of corn usually planted in the'-^county'! would amount to 105,00 extra bushels. New Hope By Miss Elizabeth Kirkland There will be preaching at New Hope November 30 at 11 a. m. The Bookmobile makes two stops in this fcommunity on the second Tuesday in each month. Special books are provided for home demonstration club members and certificates are given to all who complete the reading unit of three? books, both fiction and non fiction. Workers are on the job all the time at Camp New Hope-and 200 campers are expected there next June. A spacious utility building is nearing completion. It is lo cated near the church. The ad ministration building and cabins for boys and girls and athletic fields are south of the utility building. Malcom Hicks is building a new! bungalow near his father’s on the Durham road. Square Dance Friday Night The sophomore' class of Hills boro high school is sponsoring a square dance in the Hillsboro high school gymnasium Friday, Novem ber 28, at 8 p. m. All citizens of this section are urged to attend and support the sophomore class in its fund-raising effort, y'l " '■ ■ \"/ - .. ■ '■_ Study Begins Of Schools In County Five consultants of the North Carolina committee . studying all phases of education in the state visited a number of schools in the county last week securing a cross section view of the schools in ac tion. • -Schoolsvisited- by the commit ,tee were Hillsboro and Chapel Hill high schools, Efland (white), Fair field (N), Aycock, Hillsboro (N), West Hillsboro, Efland (N)', Graveley Hill (N), High Rock (N). Different members of the com mittee visited different schools in the county. Members of the com mittee were Dr. John E. Brewton, head of division of fieKf studies, George "Peabody college, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Chqrl.es R. Spain, pro fessor of education and director of bureau of school service, Uni versity of Kentucky, Louisville, Kty.; Dr. Louis E. Armstrong, pro fessor of education, George Pea body college; A. B. Combs and Miss Julia Wetherington, both of division of public instruction, Ra leigh. Mrs. Charles W. Stanford of route 2, Chapel Hill, president of the county council of P.-T. A., is a member of the committee in vestigating instructional materials in the schools of the state. Dr. S. H. Hobbs Jr., of Chapel Hill is chairman of the committee on resources of the schools of the state. | The study will btea continuing af fair for the next several months in nine counties and seven city sys tems in the state. Orange County Recorder’s Court _ Leroy Andrews, public drunk enness, $5 and costs; Samuel *B. Blakely, public drunkenness, costs; Ellis Hall Jr., public drunkenness, costs; Willie B. Stanbury, improper brakes on car, $10 and costs; L. A. Chalmers, no driver’s license, $10 and costs; Charlie Crisp, illegal possession of non-tax paid whis key, $10 and costs; Billy Huffman, public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, $10 and costs; James Mack, possession of supplies arid materials for manufacturing whis key, $150 and costs; Thomas Med lin, assault on female, 6 months on roads, capias to issue witfrin two years on motion of solicitor. m Ballard, Hender«« Washington Eor 1,000-Bed Hospital Chapel Hill Starts Friendship Train Fund Campaign j Chapel Hill—The Frienlship Train idea is snowballing in Chapel Hill, in spite of the fact that it go off to a late start. Following the lead of the Uni versity Students’ Friendship Train committee, the whole Chapel Hill community is getting behind the ‘drive. The schools, churches, business firms, civic clubs, and individuals of this university town are finding ways and means of getting their contributions in to University Chancellor R. B. Hpuse, who will forward the money to Drew Pear son at the close of the local drive. Achievement Day Is Held Negro School By M. C. Burt Negro County Agent The Farm and Home Achieve ment day was conducted at the Hillsboro Negro high school, Tues day, November 18. Adult farm ers and 4-H club members put on a com show. The following participated in the corn show: Blue ribbon—Irvin Greene, Walter E. Torian and Kenneth Mann; red ribbon—Char lie Withers, Willie Franklin, Wal ter E. Tarian, Mrs. Mary L. Pratt, Samuel Trice and William Mc Cauley; white ribbon—Lawrepee Breeze, Herman Russell and Win der Turrentine. W. E. ^orian of the Ridge Road neighborhood, told how much his once acre of permanent pasture has meant to his family welfare this year. He said, “I think that has proven to be the most valuable acre of land in cultivation on my farm. My cow has been grazing on that plot of land since early spring and she was still grazing this morning. She has produced j more than three gallons of milk per day during the time she has grazed on the pasture.’ Torian pIs.Q staled that Re had followed the recommendations 'of the coun ty agent and the specialist at State college in preparing the land for seeding and he also stated that he topdressed the pasture in the spring according to recommenda tions of the pasture specialist. Following Torian’s discussion on pastures, Ed Barnes, assistant county agent, who served as judge for the corn show, discussed points to be considered in selecting corn for show purposes. Mr. Barnes said that with re duction in tobacco acreage, we will have to lind supplementary in comes. He mentioned hogs as a possibility for increasing the in come from our higher yields of corn. He mentioned, the fact that the Piedmont Packing company is purchasing more than a quarter of million dollars worth of hogs out side of Orange county annually. Mr. Barnes says that this home market offers unusual opportunity to those who would like to increase their income by using the in creased corn yields to produce more hogs for the home market, j Kenneth Mann and Earnestine Cole, 4-H club members, were I crowned king and queen of health, by A. L. Stanback. j The following were awarded | championship certificates: Cald- j well Hester, corn champion; Ken neth Manh, reserve corn cham pion: J. C. Enoch, milk production champion; Paul Cole, swine pro duction champion; Paul Cole, swine production champion; calf club champions: Moses C. Burt Jr., county, district and state champion in showmanship; Her man Russell, reserve champion in showmanship in county, district and state shows. Ice CresuH Part; one aunts The PTA ice cream_party; which was to have been given to Mrs. : Patterson’s grade in the Hillsboro [ school last Wednesday, was post poned due to a number ol colds among the pupils until Wednesday of this week. The party will be iiv celebration of Thanksgiving as well as a P.-T. the class, mothers, John P. Ballard, president of Hillsboro Merchants association, and Martin* Henderson, member of a merchants association commit tee, spent Tuesday in Washington conferring with Veterans Admin istration officials pushing Hills boro’s petition for the construc tion of 1,000 bed Veterans Admin istration hospital here. Ballard on his return from Washington Tuesday night said that Henderson and he were well received by the Veterans Admin istration officials in Washington. He stated that Carl Durham, 6th district representative in Congress and a native of Orange county, of fered his aid in any way possible in conferring at length with the Hillsboro representatives. Hillsboro was one of a number of towns and cities in North Caro lina that presented petitions for the construction of the hospital— expected to employ over 1,000 peo ple—near or in the city or town limits. Last week Ballard received a short letter from J. E. Harris, chief requirements division, real estate service of the Veterans Adminis tration, thanking him for the cour tesies extended the officials on their recent visit here. 'T'lie letter said: ‘-This is to thank you and your associations for the courtesies ex tended to our representative, Mr. James E. McMurrer, on the occa sion of his recent visit to Hills boro in connection with the se lection of a site for the new 1,000 bed Veterans Administration hos pital authorized for construction in the North Carolina area. ' ~ “Maps and other information furnished by your office have been made a part of the record for con sideration in connection with sites presented. When approval of a definite site has been secured, you will be advised.” tobacco Price Faces Sharp Drop In N. C. Income of North Carolina’s flue cured tobacco growers in 1948 will drop aBout $106,000,000 below this i year’s income if acreage yield and average price remain the same as in 1947, W. P. Hedrick, tobacco marketing specialist "With the state department of agriculture, said in calculating the effect which the 28 per cent acreage reduction for 1948, as announced by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, will have on North Carolina pro ducers. In Orange county a 28 per cent cut with acreage yield and average price remaining the same as this year tobacco farm ers would lose $154,000 over their income for this year, pre liminary estimates reveal. A slash of that size will lower the gross income of the state’s flue-cured producers to approxi- — mately $274,000,000, as compared with this year’s estimated income of $380,000,000, and will cut in come far below the gross income of $451,000,000 in 1946. In poundage—still assuming that the acreage yield will remain constant—the 28 per cent reduc tion will cut production of flue cured tobacco in this , state from this year’s estimated ? 908,000,000 pounds to' 654.000,000 pounds, a drop of 254,000,000 pounds. North Carolina produces 67 per cent of all flue-cured tobacco raised in the nation, Hedrick said. Cedar Grove »###^#»#^#########»#####»»####> The junior class presented a three-act play, “Here Comes Char lie,” in the school auditorium last Friday evening. Those' taking parts were Martha Foushee, Rob ert Hughes, Nell Liner, Polly Rogers, Hugh Liner, Bobby Woods, Sara Lou Vaughn Dorothy Dorsett, William Dorsett and John Knox Williams. The play was directed by Mrs. Margaret Walker. The P.-T. A. is sponsoring a rhanksgiving pinner to be served in the school lunchroom Friday evening at 6:30. Everyone is in vited to come and buy a ticket. The price is $1 per plate. Robert Long, Buck Liner and Walter Cook, students o£ N. C. State college, Raleigh, spent the weke-end at their homes here. J: W. Tolar and several from the community attended t Duke-Carolina football urday. The FHA dub and I Mrs. Louise
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