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' ’ - 4 ' 'V • Our news staff doesn’t and can’t know everything that takes place in Orange county. A telephone call to 4191 will make certain that your news item gets in print. Jo 1. 55» No- 3 i?"—_~ ~ HILLSBORO, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 88, 1948 Price; $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy If you have something far sale or rent or If you want to jiurchaes an item, try a NEWS classified ad. You’ll be surprised at the fast results. Eight Pages This Week IJohn Umstead Files Wor Re-Election As range Legislator John W Umstead of Chapel Hill, Representative from Orange coun ■n the General Assembly for ■he past four sessions, Tuesday Announced his candidacy for re flection, subject to the Democratic brimary on May 29. Umstead’s announcement was first to be made for action by the |ounty voters. Orange county this tear selects a senator, a repre sentative and a board of county lonitnissioners. - • Umstead’s statement for re jection/ollows: . ' ' “After discussing the matter vith a number of my friends throughout the county I have de rided to become a candidate for |he House of Representatives from Orange County subject to |he action of the Democratic pri nary in May. “The 1947 General Assembly kid much to give us better schools, better health, better roads and better farms, to mention only a blishments. There remains much fo be done to improve thejse serv Jces for our citizens. With the Experience I have had in both the enale and House of Representa tives I feel that I can render a lervice to the people of this coun ty and the state.. “My record as a legislator in the bast is known to the citizens of fhe county. I hope that it meets vith their approval and that they nay see fit to support me in the homing primary.” RECORD Umstead began his service in (the General Assembly in 1931 vhen he represented the district In the Senate. He was- again elected, senator in 1939 . and in 1941, 1943, 1945 and 1947 was named representative. In the 1939 session he served >n five committees and was chair ian of the committee on univer sity trustees. His committees ere appropriations, education, tealth, roads and mental institu ions. '■ . He authored the resolution call ing for the education study in the state, and the bill providing for the purchase of Camp Butner. He is a member of the education commission for the state and nom inated Orange county to be one af the counties studied by the education leaders. He is a member of the Univer sity of North Carolina board of trustees, the hospital board - of control and the board of direc tors of the Chapel Hill Merchants association. ’ „ He has lived in Orange county since 1929 and was bom in what was originally Orange county. Polio Drive Contest Is Being Held Chapel Hill—Eleven valuable prizes will be presented by mer chants in Chapel Hill to winners of the March of Dimes contest which is being sponsored by radio station in Chapel Hill. Everyone is eligible to enter the contest except WDUK personnel and their families. The rules of the contest are sim ply to write a letter in 25 words or less stating “Why I support the March of Dimes,” enclose either $1 or- one dime with the letter, and mail to March of Dimes, P. O. Box 70, Chapel Hill, N. C., be fore January 30, 1948. Any person may submit as many entries as he wishes, but edeh must be accompanied by a dollar °r a dime. First prize will be a $90 record player, given by Carolina Sport Shop; second prize, a $75 14 carat, gold fountain pen and pencil set ^donated by Wentworth, and Sloan ■Jewelers; third, a $64 8 mm movie camera given by Foister Camera Store. Fourth prize, a $45 suit Varsity. "Bennett-Blocksidge will present a $40 radio to the fifth-1 Place winner. Sixth prize will be a $1$ woolen blanket from Ber nian’s Deoartmerit Store; seventh, i S95 worth—of—groceries from Fowler’s Food Store; eighth, a Goodyear tire to fit any make car WH1 be given by Strowd Motor company; ninth, an orchid from University. Florist; tenth, a meal Bck^from the College Sandwich Shop; and eleventh, a unique ash tray from Huggins Hardware. For other information concem inR the contest, listen to WDUK in Ghapel Hill each afternoon at 1:45. x , — x I John W. Umstead Dollar Store j# Sold lo /. M. Cobtree I . J. M. Blieden, owner and op erator of The ‘Dollar Store in ■ Hillsboro for the past 18 years, j announced this week that he had I sold out his stock and fixtures to J. Martin Crabtree of Cedar Grove who assumed ownership last Thursday. Blieden retained own ership of the building in which the store is located and the adjacent building occupied by Parker’s shoe shop. Blieden said that ill health of Mrs. Blieden was the reason for the sale. Doctors have ordered Tier to t.ake a long rest and Mr. and Mrs. Blieden expect to leave in the next three or four weeks for Florida! _ • _ Blieden came to Hillsboro 18 years ago from Henderson- and opened The Dollar Store which for many years handled both dry goods and shoes. In February of 1946 T. N. Webb'opened the Hills boro Flower Shop in the dry goods department of ■The Dollar Store and since then Blieden has han dled only shoes. The Bliedens expect to maintain their residence here .for the time heing. He has been -active in a number of civic campaigns and is a past president of the Hillsboro Merchants association. Birdseye Is , Named Relief Drive Head Irvine E. Birdseye, of Hillsboro as chair man of the overseas relief drive for Orange county. has been an nounced by the North Carolina Council of Churches which is spon soring the statewide “Fill a Ship with Friendship” campaign Jan uary 25-31. The Rev. Birdseye, pastor of the Hillsboro Presbyterian church, is one of the 100 “county chairmen who will* organize community col lections throughout the state to gather clothing, bedding, shoes and household goods for shipment through Church- World Service, relief igency. % To be packed for shipment, the naterials will go to New Windsor, del., where the Church World Service Center for this area is Io ated'. Oldest and largest of nine W. S.' centers scattered through out- 4he United -States, the New Windsor, center, has capacity for processing nearly a million poiimTs f relief supplies a month. During the year just ended*, 3, 12,764 pounds of goods were processed at thrs center—Of that mount, North Carolinians, who ave been in the front ranks of American giving sipce the war nded, contributed 661,641 pounds. )ther donations were from Vir inia, West Virginia, the District r Columbia, Maryland, Delaware nd Pennsylvania, as well as from cattere^ states outside the area. 1 OUSE- TO - H O U S-E DRIVE A house-to-house Canvass of V . iIUU^-vo -- lsboro will be made on Feb iry 1, Birdseye said this week, 'he week prior to February 1 ; been designed as collection ek in the schools in the county, mol childretf . during that week . being urged to bring old thes. and other articles needed overseas relief to the schools ere it will be collected. Community Council Starts Fund Drive For Six Croups -***** iuc uatiuai v xii meeting in Town Hall, the newly . to fined—Community—-Councils of. Chapel Hill cholse for its first proj ect a Community Fund drive _to raise money for six local or ganizations. 'B The Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the white and Negro Recreation Centers, the Emergency Medical Care Fund, and the Negro Day Care nursery school requested funds which totaled $10,085. The requests were slightly trimmed and the total amount lowered to $7,500 by the council’s evaluation committee headed by James W. Fesler. „ Mrs. U, T. Homes, president of the Community Council, appointed Mr. and Mrs Paul Green, co-chair men of the drive. - , S. H. Basnight requested $960 for the Boy Scouts in Chapel Hill. GIRL SCOUTS Mrs. J. Maryon Saunders, rep resenting the Girl Scouts,■„ asked for $500, an average of $4 for each of the 125 girls. Mrs. Robert H. Wettach, director of the white recreation center which has ben closed several months , for lack of funds, re quested $300 to reopen the cen ter. the popular meeting place of Chapel Hill school children; The paid by the University, but there cue iju iwuuitco iu |j&y ujc udiiifu i .recreational workers which super r a week. ■( NEGRO NEED8 Hubert Robinson, speaking for the Negro recreation center, said that $2,000 is needed in order to hire a full-time director to train servants teach handicrafts and serve as librarian. Mrs. Clarence Heer, county superintendent of welfare, re quested $200 for the emergency medical care fund to pay for med ical care and hospitalization of non-county residents who can not afford the atterition they need. NURSERY SCHOOL Miss Alberta Lindsey, teacher at the Orange county training school, reported that 25 children regu larly attend the day cafe nursery school for five days a week. Some, of the operating expenses are met toy food sales, entertainments, and charges of $3 a week for one child in a family, $5 for two, and $7 for three. Parents who are unable to pay, however, are not ‘charged The nursery school asked for $2, 725. There will be a house-to-house canvas for the drive Sunday aft ernoon, February 8. Mrs. Paul Green stated that they still hope to reach the $10,085 goal. The council plans Jo organize a permanent Communlty Chest next fall. Polio Campaign In Full Swing r Orange county citizens this week were busily making their contributions to the March of Dimes campaign which started January 15 and lasts through out the month.__l___ E. Carrington Smith of Chapel Hill, _chairmdn of the drive in the county, said the county’s quota was^ $4,500, $1,000 of which had been allotted to Hillsboro, another $1,000 to the schools and the remainder to ■ Chapel Hill and Carrboro. „ Rural people living_near Hillsboro will count their con tributions towards the Hillsboro quota and the rural population near Chapel Hill'and Carrboro will make their gifts to the quota set up fo„r the twin towns. Council Seeks Bible Teacher For Schools The Orange county council of churches is seeking a replacement for Miss Avet, Bible teacher in the schools, who, resigned recently because of sickness in her family. The Rev. Robert Q. Masterton. rector of St. Matthews Episcopal church in Hillsboro, said a com mittee is now at work looking for a new teacher. “However, there are few teachers available as most of them are now engaged 16 some teaching job.” ' Since Miss Avet’s resignation, her father has died and her mother remains very ill, Mr. Masterton said. Teaching of Bible in the county schools is financed by contribu tions from a number of churches in the county. Mr. Masterton expressed the thanks of the council to the churches whose contributions have made the teaching course pos sible and said a new teacher would be secured as soon as possible. Chapel Hill P.-TJL I Meets January 29 . Chapel Hill—The Chapel Hill Parent-Teachers association will discuss, the subject, “What Makes an Ideal School” at their- next meeting which has been post poned from January 22 to Thurs ! day, January 29. A TVA educational film about the Wilson public school will be showr. ,at the meeting. Dr. Doro thy McCusky of the university’s department of education will give a short talk following the film. Man Is Held On Check Charge H- W. Crabtree of Durham, for mer operator of the Hillsboro Cafe in Hillsboro, is being held in the Orange county jail on charges of passing four bad checks, sheriff's deputies said this week. Crabtree is scheduled to face trial in Monday’s ,8683100 of Orange county’ recorder’s court. Births More Than Deaths In Orange Dr. O. David Garvin, district health officer, had released the figures on births and deaths in Orange county for the first 10 months of 1947. In the 10-month period 671 babies were born to Orange coun ty residents. During the same period 173 deaths were recorded. Heart disease lead thq causes of death with 36 Orange chunty i citizens dying from this cause. In tracranial vascular lesions was second, taking the lives of 25 per sons. Cancer was third with 19 victirHs. Nephritis ranked fourth, with 16 deaths and pneumonia was the cause of death in eight cases. Other causes included: accidents (non-auto), 5;- auto accidents, 4; tuberculosis (pulmonary), 2; in fluenza, 1; and pregnancy, 1. Thirty additional deaths were listed under the miscellaneous classification. TUBERCULOSIS STILL A PROBLEM Dr. Garvin pointed oat that the four deaths reported from pul monary tuberculosis did not in clude^those people with tubercu losis who died from some other complication (such as pneumonia, heart disease, etc.). These deaths were listed under the immediate cause. "’Il-;"- ■ - —■—~—■.— The health depaftmerit~is 'ftotd ing an X-ray clinic at the Hills boro office the second Monday afternoon in every month and at the Chapel Hill office every Fri day afternoon.f Orange county residents are urged to come to these clinics for an X!-ray. “If the people of Orange county will take advantage of the X-ray clinics, many deaths from tu berculosis can Be prevented," said Dr. Garvin. 6 Garden (Jlub Members Will — " ~ '■ ' At lent l Show Chapel Hill—Six members of the Chapel Hill Garden club--will attend the camellia show in Jack sonviile, Fla., on January 24 and 25. Mrs. H. R. Totten, Mrs. Frank Hanft, Mrs. John Umstead, Mrs. E. E. Peacock, Mrs. William B. Neal and' Mrs. J. S. Bennett will | join a party from Raleigh onj January 23 and travel by bus; hrough Savannah to Jackson ville for the show r Those who wish to visit St. Augustine .vfrill take a sight-seeing t tour from Jacksonville. The Garden club members will stop off at {he Charleston gardens and the Archibald Rutledge plantationdn'thei r way back to I Cnapel Hill. r ! The trip is not limited to the garden club members, but is open to all persons interested. James Webb Webb Named •/ < x Vice-Head Of Council James Webb of Hillsboro was elected vice chairman of the Oc* coneechee council at the annual council meeting in Raleigh last week. Webb, state senator from Orange and Alamance counties, has been active in Boy Scout work in_Orange countv for several years, having served as chairman of the finance committee and in other capacities. • - " . John Foushee Is Named President . Of Country Club Chapel Hill—John Foushee was elected president of the Chapel Hill country club at the meeting last week to take the place of Walter Spearman,, retiring presi dent. William Perry will be vice president for the coming year, and Mrs. J. W. Fesler will be sec retary. John Manning was elected treasurer. The executive committee wilt include the ,.bnve 'floors and Clyde Carter, Mrs. Sterling Stoud cmire, Mrs. John Couch and Wal ter Spearman. Federation Of HD Clubs To Meet Jan. 29 The first meeting of the Orange County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs will be held Thursday, January 29, at 2 o’clock in the hom^ agent’s office. Mrs. Vicdrr Walters, president of the group, will preside. Min utes will be read by Mrs. Henry S. Hogan, Following the business session, Miss Elizabeth Robertson, Hillsboro health nurse, will talk to the group and show the film, “Mr. Williams Wakes Up.” Mrs. J. E. Adams will lead a discussion with the presidents and vice, presidents meeting. The secretaries will ad journ to another room where Miss Martha Lloyd of the AntiOch Road club will lead the discus sion. Local home demonstration club officers and county project leaders will be present. Those who were installed at the January meeting are: Orange-1 Grove club'. President, Miss Mae Crawford; vice presi dent, Mrs. Cecil Lloyd; secretary, Mrs. H. M. Perry. ~~ White Cross club: President, Mrs. Frank Ward; vice president, Miss Effie Eubanks; secretary, Mrs. Elva Woods. Fairfield: President, Mrs. Victor Walters; viel? president, Mrs. J. D. Graham; secretary, Mrs. J. L Scott on. Carr Aycock: President, Mrs. R. Y. Vauchn; vice president, Mrs. ,T: S. Crmnton; secretary, Mrs. W. F. Pittard. - Schley club: President, Mrs. Harold Walker: vice president, Mrs. Charlie Mincey; secretary, Mrs. A. B. Latta. OMvander club: President, Mrs. Curtis Hoean: vice president, Mrs. Marvin Cheek; secretary, Mrs. Lemuel Che^k. Stroud Hill: President. Mrs, Mary Markham: vice president, Mrs. T. R. Pendet-wraoh. Smith Level: President, Mrs. Louis Worpble: vice , nresident,. Mrs. George Cole; secretary, Mrs. Paul Long. Tram Road: President. Mrs. J. B. Yates: vice president. Mrs. D. F. Waters; secretary, Mrs. PrE Hauser. The officers of the Mt. Carmel, Antioch road, B%ckwood-New Hope, Gravely Hill and Efland< clubs, will be announcetfcat their club [meetings later orf in ,the month. ? t Thomas Turner To Seek Durham’s Seat In House Clothing Drive In Chapel Hill To Be On Sunday v * ** — Chapel Hill—The state-wide drive for new or used clothe* for foreign relief, sponsored by the Council of Churches, will be held this Sunday. Carl Smith, chairman for the drive in Chapel Hill, says the quota hap been set at one pound of clothing per person in the state. If the goal Is realized, there will be enough clothes to fill an entire ship fr.om North Caro lina. - Routes have been set up through the residential sections of Chapel Hill, and local mer chants will furnish* 'trucks for the house-to-house collection by the Boy Scouts. Clothing from the university dormitories will be- collected through the Y. M. C. A. Hoard Okays For Treatmen t Orange county commissioners in obsession with the state highway division engineer Monday ap proved four roads in Orange county for hard surfacing. Final decision, however, cm whether the roads will be hard surfaced rests with the state high way commission of which A. H. (Sandy) Graham of Hillsboro is .chairman. The commissioners approved two roads in the southern end of the county ari i two in the north ern end. Northern roads approved were: From Kerinedys to Walnut Grove church and from Efland 2.8 miles north towards Cedar Grove.— a S "them roed’ '•^proved v»jre: Antioch church road 1% miles west of University lake and Da mascus church 1% miles west of University lake. These two roads fork at that point, one going slightly ■ north and the other slightly south. The- commlssloriers also cut the assessment on the real property of Mrs.' Mary B. Brawn in Chapel Hill from $8,000 to $6,850 after an inspection of her property and -after com paring it with li ke prop erty in the town. Mrs. Brown at the January meeting of the COhw -missioners charged that the re valuation of property last spring* and summer was a “hi^ or miss” affair. . ., ^.. i ^ — Weed Quota Applications /ire line iVout A. K: McAdams, secretary of the Orange county ACA, announced this week that any farmers who! are interested in receiving a new] tobacco allotment on their farms | must come to the AAA office be- | fore February 1, and file an ap plication. In order to be eligible for a new tobacco allotment all five of the following.requirements must be met: 1. The, farm operator shall have had experience in growing the kind of tobacco for which an, al lot meriF is requested’' either as a share-cropper, tenant, or as a farm operator during two of the past five years: * Provided, how ever, that a farm operator who i has been in the armed services shall be deemed to have met the requirements hereof if he has .had experience in growing the kind of .tobacco for whifdi an allotment His requested during one year with in the five years immediately prior to his ehtry into the armed, i services, • i_2. The farm operator shall [live on and .be largely dependent I ter his livelihood on the farrti' covered by the aoplication. 8 The farm covered by the ap plication, shall be the only farm owned or operated by the farm o^«'ri)for on Which ’any flue-cured tobacco is produced in 1948. The farm will net have a 1948 ^allotment for any kind~Wtobaeeo i other than that for which aoDli cation is made hercunde’-; and 5. The farm was not a part of an old tobacco fa-m in any of the • past five years 1942-46 or If It j was part of an old farm during such period, was not eligible foe a-f tobacco allotment as an old farm because if made no contribution I to the allotment on the old farm, when It was combined therewith. ■ . >!:“ ' > * Thomas burner, ^47-year-old Greensbioro attorney, World War . II veteran, and.former state leg!*-" lator, broke the ice for the spring primary campaign in the Sixth District last week with announce ment of his candidacy for the Sixth Congressional District seat held since 1938 by Representative Carl T. Durham of Chapel Hil^ The announcement was not un expected, Turner having said be fore Christmas that he planned to enter the,, congressional race early in the new year. Representative Durham has not announced his intentions but it is practically certain that he will seek another , term in Washington'. Turner’s statement announcing his candidacy follows in part: “I shall be a cariciidate for Con gress from the Sixth Congressional District subject to\ the action of the Democratic primary May 29. “It is my belief that the people of the district are more than ready for a change and that such change should bring the congressman to the western part of the district. “At a more appropriate season I shall make a full statement. For the time being it suffices to say that I have definite ideas on the issues before the country and shall any desire or effort to assume the posture of * • e straddling.’*. _ Ti ative of High Point . pCt. deed law for a num ber of years before moving resi dence to Greensboro. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. — Cartcliate Turner, has been ac tive in Democratic party affair and for six years was vice chair man of the Guilfdrd County Derr ocratic executive committee. H was a member of the House dur ing the 1931, 1933 and 1943 ;es sion of the General Assembly. At the clo-,. of the 1943 sessior Turner entered the army ana served 30 ^months overseas in the European theater. He later was military government officer in command of the district of Ham- _ au, Germany. Turrtor i# vice commam, of Gate City Legion Post, a member of the 40,and 8, and Veterans of Foreign Wars, lie also is a mem ber of the Episcopal church and ^s an Elk. He is married and has three dldldren. Youths Fined For Larceny e Four ‘white youths of the Cald well section, of Orange county had judgments^against them continued for 12 months on payments of $10 fine each and costs on charges of larceny of gasoline from a school bus and damaging the bus to the extent of $980.10 in Monday’s ses sion of Orange county recorder’s court'. The to a school bus in the act of siphoning gas from ft and the bus burned. They were: Lacy Tilley Jr., Henry Sheppard, Herman Harris and T. Chalmers Allison. The $980.10 damage done to the bus was included in the costs. DEAD HORSE CASE C. T. Green of Durham, charged .yith defiling or corrupting the Hillsboro water supply by im properly burying a dead horse, fc'as fined $25 and costs. Gieen did not bury the, horse, it tvas said. Chief D. T. Roberts of he Hill|]>Oro . police f re ■ with :he aid Of the town street force, juried the animal. Other casts in the c‘*urt were: 3eorge—Whit ted, driving drunk, 5,100 and costs; Charles B ~oks, lisorderly .conduct and 1 ud and joisferous cursing. $10 and costs; Albert Owens,- tyvp clri>'"es of -r*hHc~- -d-rtihkenth^ss; • so daw? effi, each Charge; Carl Fvye. public irunk,ennes, costs; Joe* B~yant Watkins, speeding, $1.0 fr» and :osts. Sawyer Heads Scoot District Benner D. Sawyer cf Hills* -v yi is elected cha'rm’n of the Orange county scout district 'aV. a meetln-i held last week in fh-nii HH«r . ' * ■' jt _ , lawyer succeeds F. E. Joyner Of Hi'isboro. ' A Westbrook of Chapel H tl ' Orange county sanitarian, -ww e’ected vice president of the d’strict. Other officers will bs ap pointed by the president at a later date. , ■ ■
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