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WeTcorrtc REA Member* To Ninth Annual Meeting (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO, N. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948 eicome REA Member* o Ninth Annual Meeting 1. 55- No- 5 Price: $2 A Year: 5c Single Copy Fourteen Pages This 1 Ichools Are Open; lad Roads Expected ,s Thawing Continues ftth the-reopening of schools ednesday morning Orange coun returned to near normalcy this frek after “digging out” of the tjrst snow and ice storm to hit vicinity in recent years, school Superintendent Glenn loffit announced plans^o re jrne school operations late^Jues iy afternoon following an' in action tour of the Efland, Cald altc and Aycock districts and i tec studying reports of rural |ad conditions in other sections the county. However, he ex 1 eased fear that roads'might be fme worse with the thawing-out locess of thp next several days, f Last weekend’s snow and sleet, Ihich blew in'from the northeast, lached depths of .6 to 9 inches in jus vicinity. Although no official leather records are available in| [illsboro, Police Chief Tom Rob- 1 |ts reported measuring 6 inches snowfall in the townL Chapel frill reported an estimated”? inches Chile Durham was blanketed with tore than 9 inches. Sheriff’s office in Hillsboro Wednesday morning reported no ccidents of any consequence re iriedto them during the week. 1947 Was Good 'ear For Swine (reeding In State The North Carolina Swine ireeders’ association conducted 16 urebred hog sales during 1947 ,nd sold 354 hogs for $36,257, ac :ording to Jack Kelley, extension ;wiire specialist at State college, Mr. Kelley stated that this wasj juite an increase over the 1946 sales when 136 hogs were sold for 13,174. The highest average received for jurebred hogs during 4947 was ob ained by breeders from Forsyth county when they consigned 11 hogs to the national sale at Cen terville, Ind., the specialist said. These hogs sold for $2,372, or an average of $215.63 per head. Plans for nqxi year’s sales have already b£en made, Mr. Kelley said, and the list of sales include the following: Berkshire Salg, Southern States Fair Ground at Charlotte, January 29; Duroc Sale, Worsley’s Livestock Market " at Rocky Mount, February 16; All Breed Sale, Behthall’s Livestock Market, Rich Square, February 25; and All Breed Sale, Sawyer’s Livestock Market, Elizabeth City, February 26. - - Not only is the association plan ning these sales, Mr. Kelley said, but they have set up the follow ing four-point, program to be car ried out this year: improve pure bred hogs by, production testing; use pasture to prevent worms and diseases; consign only outstand ing hogs to purebred sale; and, take part in county and district fat barrow shows. Hillsboro P.-T.A. Meets Tuesday; Eskridge Speaker J. Dumont Eskridge, Hillsboro attorney and solicitor of the Orange county recorder's court, will be the speaker at the P.-T. A. meeting in Hillsboro high school auditorium Tuesday night, Feb ruary 10, at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced this week. Eskridge will speak on the topic, “Are School Buildings Adequate.” In addition to Eskridge’s talk, a founder’s day program will be given. House-To-House Canvass Sunday Chapel Hill—At the January meeting ir\ Town Hall, the Chapel Hill Community Coun cil initiated plans for a Commun ity Fund drive to raise money for six local organizations, namely: the Boy Scouts, the Girl j Scouts, the white and Negro recreation centers, the Emer gency Medical Care fund, and the Negro Day Care nursery school. "Mrs.” U. T. Homes, president of the Community Council, ap pointed Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green ^co-chairmen of the drive, . Canvassers have been re quested to meet at the Town Hall Thursday evening ■ at 8 o’clock to make final plan* for the house-to-house cagpas to be v>made for the drive Sunday aft ernoon, February 8. v Mrs, Paul Green stated that they hoped to reach the 810,085, the amount requested t hy the sis groups. Exchange Club Play To Ran For Two Nights “Fun For You” is the name of a big variety show which is be ing sponsored by the Hillsboro Exchange club to raise funds for a wading pool at the Hills boro community center, and which will be staged in the high srhool auditorium on Thursday and Friday evenings, February'' 12 and 13, at 8:13 p. m. There are 10 scenes in this big stage show. They include im personations of such popular radio programs as "The Quiz Kids," "Singing Commercials,’ Barn Dance and Grand Old Opera Scene,” Dr. I. Q. Quiz S h o W,”' “T o m Breneman’s Breakfast in Hollywood,” and a patriotic number called “Treas ury Star Parade.” In this home talent show, the audience has an opportunity to compete for silver dollars, or chid corsage*, »ylnn» and many other valuable gifts which are awarded to those who give the correct answers in the quiz show and variety scene'numbers in the production. • - Change Necessary bOld Belt Tobacco growers in the old belt realize this year more than ever before that they must change from the old line varieties to the broad er leafed and thinner bodied cig arette type tobaccos. The 400 variety produces good yields and of brighter cigarette tobacco than other varieties now being grown generally in the old belt arid should be adopted by growers who do not have black shank disease in their soil. Four hundred ranked among the four top yielding varieties in a variety test conducted in the old belt in 1947. This variety ranked first among nine .varieties in quantity of bright cigarette tobacco pro duced. Where black shank is not a problem, Yellow Special also has been found by a member of grow ers to produce good yields of qual ity tobacco, Where black shank is a prob lem, the grower should stick to OxforcM and follow a two or three year rotation. On severely infested soil,. Oxford 3 tvill show more resistance to the black shank dis easet, though Oxford 3 is riot of as good quality tobacco as -Ox-, ford-1. Some, of the Vesta strains, having resistance to black shank, may be tried on a limited scale. The 400 and Yellow Special grow with a yellow cast and ‘must, therefore, be .allowed to become well^ripened before priming. Proper topping and spacing to baecQ have an important bearing on the production of bright cig arette tobacco^ Growers must practice fairly high topping and Tjpace the tobacco , in the row at 20 to mot over 24 inches. between hills. On strong land; some of the medium leafed varieties such as Oxford 26 should be spaced about 18 inches. The fertilizer rate definitely af fects the quality of tobacco. Grow ers .who figure on increasing‘ the fertilizer enough to produce as much tdbacco on 28% less land as they grew in 1947 will do well to revise their plans. Fertile soil and where legumes, such as leS nedeza are grown in " the rotation should'be fertilized with a 2-10-6 atThe rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds per acre. Some of the gray sandy soils may be fertilized with 1,000 to 1,2.00 pounds per acre of a 3-9-6 or 3-9-9 on potash"deficient soil. Four hundred and other va rieties of tobacco seed are avail able from certified seed growers-. See your**county agent for details. Church Circle Holds Meeting pel Hill—The Walt>- Patten1 of the Methodist church met v home af Mrs. Eugene An : on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Grumman and Mrs. Etta man were .hostesses for the Eubanks circle, and Mi's. Pell was co-hostess with M H. Stacy for the Laura urn circle, at Mrs. Stacy’s The Minnie Wilson circle it Mrs. B. L. Smith’s. , Presbyterian church’s cir o. 1 met at the home of Mrs. 1 Arthur Monday afternoon Mrs Paul Guthrie co 55.* <hrde No. 2 was enter i by Mrs. Richard Jente. . FEBRUARY 6TH TO 12 H More than 2,000,000 members of the Boy Seoats of America will observe Boy Scout Week, Feb. 6th to 12th, marking the 38th anniversary of the organization. This year Boy Scouts are empha sizing conservation of food and natural resources, planting gardens, safety and fire prevention, home repairs and personal health check up. Scouting promotes world peace through World Jamborees and practical help among 42 nations with 4,409,780 members. Through its World Friendship Fund of voluntary gifts the Boy Scouts of America helps Scouts overseas to rebuild their units. So far, more than 3,000 tons of equipment have been shipped. Above is the official poster marking the Scout birthday. Full Program Is Arranged For REA Meeting Saturday An estimated 1,000 members of the Piedmont Electric Member ship corporation from six counties will converge upon Hillsboro Sat urday morning for the ninth an nual meeting of the group. The session will begin at 10 a. m. in the high school audlfdmim ~ with President Ji.‘ G. Laws presiding. Dr. EfaVid S. Weaver, assistant director of extension service at State college in Raleigh, will de liver the principal address at the morning session before visitors from Orange, Durham, Granville, Alamance, Person and Caswell counties. The meeting will adjourn at noon for barbecue and brunswick stew. Dinner will be served by ladies of New Sharon, Methodist church. Scheduled to speak at the'aft ernoon section, which will get un der way at 1:30 o’clock, is-Avery C. Moore, representative of the national association of "REA lines. The election of-officers and th.e drawing of‘prizes awarded by lo cal merchants will comprise the remainder of the afternoon pro gram with adjournment scheduled for 3:30 p. m. The Piedmont corporation cur rently is serving ^1,800 members DAVID S. WEAVER with electricity over a network of 500 miles of lines in the six coun ties. call for the corporation to serve 3, 500 members with 1,080 miles of lines by J952. Over i00 miles of lines have been built and '-500 members have- been added during the past year. ■County Schools To Be Inspected February 6 By School Board Commissioners. Adopt Plan; Cor Evaluating Automobiles The Orange county commission ers, meeting Monday in their reg ular monthly session, drew a jury list for the March tdfm of Su perior court; adopted a procedure for evaluating automobiles for tax purposes, and heard a report of progress on the paint job now un der way at the county jail. Chair man Collier Cobb presided. Used car values quoted in the annual edition of Red Book of the National Used Car Market Re port, Inc., previously had served as a basis for automobile tax valua tion in Orange county. However; a survey of the 1948 Red Book disclosed that the recent infla tionary trend had pushed used car prices 5 to 22 per cent higher than last year for the same model au tomobiles. In view of this in crease the commissioners decided to base tax valuations on figures contained in last year’s Red Book. County Accountant . Ra Ward reported to the commissioners that satisfactory progress is being made on the jail paint job. A cohsider ahlosaving may Joe realized since the work is being performed by' prison labor. The list of 44 names drawn for jury duty from the seven town ships follows: Hillsboro—Lindsay M. Lloyd, Sidney Green, Lonnie E. Dickey, Robin M. Williams, W. B. Cole man and D. Curtis Rhew. Chapel Hill—C. B. Mayse, R. D. Roseoe, Homer R. Topp, Mrs. Gbie Davis, Albert Poe, L. B. Collins and R. L. Fowler, i Cedar Grove—Henry Tate, Dal las H. Brooks, R. M. Anderson, C. L. Byrd, John A. Parker, Jule C. Long, R. L. Wilson, Sherman E. Long, J. Tom Tate, Ernest Tate, D. J. Oliver, J. L. Roberts and Gordon Anderson. Eno—O. H. Cook, E. T. Blake ly, W. O. Parrish, W. T. Riggsbee, C. R. Miller and Beatrice Umstead. Bingham—Settle Crtiwford, L C Cooper. Sr., Strowd Long end - C. W. Stanford. * Little- River—>-William McChsl-. land Hunt, S. N. Riley, David Rob inson, Henry T. Robinson and Lloyd T. Hopkins. Cheeks—Chester W; Thompson, J. E. Taylor and W. G: Smith. 1 ' •-• New Drag Store Opens For Business ChapelHill—Sloan’s Drug Store; opened Tuesday afternoon« and' welcomed all townspeople to come in and look around at the mod ern interior and the varied dis play of merchandise. The new store is-located on the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets in the. building formerly occupied by ! Penders. . • W. L. Sloan, owner of the drug store, and Mrs. Marshall Brewer scriptiop department. Joseph Sdoan, W. L.’s brother, and James Feace of Siler City are salesmen in the store, which has a soda fountain, candies, toiletries and gift assortments, — Future Of Dairying In County Is Presented By Don Matheson ' /'■ • v-dter ; ‘ •• •' ' 1"‘'. r-;— Don S. Matheson, Orange county farm agent, is a great booster for dairying in Orange county and it is with pleasure we present this week his ideas on the future of dairying In Orange county ar\d more par ticularly during 1943. WHAT ABOUT DAIRYING UN 1948? By Don S. Matheson ' - One, , roan’f -. guess is about as good as another as to what 1948 has in store for dairy farmers. It is a well known fact that feed prices are good, but the milk price are most likely to remain so all of this year, It is also true that milk prices Are good, but the milk prices is not so fayorable in- its relation to feed prices as it was some few months ago. Feed prices and other t items of expense that enter into (the cost of producing milk fluc I tuate from day to day, but it is the custom, whether wise .or not, for milk prices to remain constant tor a period of months or even years] Out; present milk prices were formulated when feed prices were much lower than they are today. In 1948, it will be one of the' main problems of the milk producer to dp all that; he can to lower his fee*, cost. It should i.-l\ Il"?L ; be remembered that feed cost is about one-half of the total cost of producing milk. Where an abundance of good hay and silage are available, it will be dhe part of wisdom to cut the amount of grain feed to the minimum. This will .cause the cows to consume more rpughage and thus derive more nutrients from this source. Cows that are fed a heavy grain ration will not consume the amount of hay, silage and' pasture”“'that' t^outt "be the most economical.. Far too much of our milk is produced from high priced iconcentrates. Unless con centrate consumption is lowered and more nutrients- secured from roughages, 1948 has in store low er net profits for dairymen.. —^ In many cases resorting to more simple grain mixtures will lower feed costs, and result in the pro duction of just as much milk or. even more. If a good source of, carbohydrate, such as home grown com and a good source of pro tein, such as cottonseed meal are available, a home-made mixture composed largely of those two things supplemented with such other grains as may be ’available will give good results and lower the cost of the grain ration. It would seem wise to plan for as early grazing this year as possi ble. I would suggest that some .form of niTro.gcn be applied to a part of the jagrmanent pasture in Order to force the grasses to an earlier growth. Where,temporary grazing is available, it would cer tainly be profitable to top dress liberally with nitrogen. m This year will bring ipdre -pres sure from milk dealers for an ,even;ng out. of the milk produc-, tion. During the war years we ■go*-to ~tke. larger^per cent of our milk during the summer months. This has forced dealers to look to other sources, often out-of-state sources, for a miik supply to meet their de mands during the winter months. Many of* them are be.ing forced to contract milk for the surplus sea son as well as* the deficit period to be sure#of adequate supnly when they need it most. This practice if allowed to go fob far will result in a loss oj-a portion of our market to outside of state1 dairymen. This is the year‘to do all we can to remedy this situa tion. Breed as many cows as pos sible for fall freshening, plan to grow all the good hay and other feed possible for next winter, and at all times produce, a high Qual ity milk. -—I—J-* Overseas Relief Drive Scheduled - For This Sunday The Hillsboro Overseas Relief house-to-house canva^st will be held this Sunday afternoon from 2 to 3 p. m. The drlv«> was can celled last Sunday because of the weather but every effort will «, be made this Sunday to cover Hillsboro, West Hillsboro, Fair view and the homes along the Durham road and 8t. Mary's road. Trucks manned by the Lions club, Exchange club, the Girl 8couts- and tbs Boy Scouts will leave from the court house at 2 p. m. and visit every home in the-town. Affray Charge Brings Fine Of $50, Costs Chapel Hill-*-William Lattimore and Bruce Baldwin, Negroes, were found guilty by Judge H. A. Whit field in the recorder’s court on February 3"of participating in an affray, where deadly weapons, pistols and knives, were used. They were fined $50 plus costs and sentence to three months confine ment in the Orange county jail to be assigned to work on the roads of the state. The sentence was suspended for three years on good behavior. James Nunn, Negro; driving un der ihe influence of alcohol, fined $100 and costs. > , ' Walter Lee Bynum and Bruce Baldwin, Negroes, carrying con cealed weapons, both fined $50 anifWost, Baldwin's sentence of six months on the road and By num'i. sentence of three months on the road suspended for two years on condition that neither shall be found in Chapel Hill or Carrhorcr during the two-year period. : Walter McCauley, Negro, drunk, $25 and costs. James Farrington, Negro, op eration of motor vehicle while in possession of altered driver’s li-, cfense, $50 and costs, six months sentence suspended for two years on condition that he does not op erate a vehicle on N. C. highways for the two-year period. • Lohnie DeGraffenreidt, Negro. Orange county resident, no driv er’s license, $10 and costs. William E. Spurlin, parking on sidewalk and failing to bring in citation, costs. * Allen H. Moore, parking on sidewalk and failing to bring in citation, costs. George W. Campbell. Negro, Winston-Salem resident, speeding, costs, Betty Burnett, Negro, drunk, $5. Woodrow Mathey, drunk, $5 and W. S. Dodson, resident of Mary land, drunk, costs. t Joseph D. Williams, Winston Salem resident, no driver’s license, nol pros. Edward' Hopkins, no driver’s license, nol pros. ! 0JI*' cha\ w>r sssSsr&S HiU cVvaP^. yniversUy^ ThurSddy ^hfcbaP^d ***- , evening ¥Lni«hl ”lch0setv v^e_/ Sdent and 3 jnd^^ Vesor ot ulej*aaui^rW3oT?l\ 1 .♦— article wjSSS* £t!3*5? ,? ---'ftw-art'c^vcK *’" wnt\e,Viiisb°ro e^cSon noitf> ca ; .. : • *in®- .-J Raleigh—Committees from the ’state education commission will visit schools in Orange county on February 6, during a statewide study of North Carolirta's public school system. Information gathered in the survey will be used in compiling S report to the 1949 General As sembly, uyjh possible recom mendations for changes and im* provements in the education pro gram. This section of North Carolina has beeh selected by the commis sion as one of the, special study areas in the survey of the entire educational system of the state. School officials are cooperating with the commission in the study and will make their entire fa cilities available to Visiting com mittee members. . Dr. H. F. Alves or tne Univer sity of Florida, general consultant to the area of organization and administration and finance, will be In charge of the Orange coun ty visits. His group will study transportation and school plants as well as organization and ad ministration and finance. The visiting committees are among 15 groups working with the state education commission. The commission was appointed by the governor following authorization by the 1947 General Assembly. A. Grady Rankin of Gastonia is chairman and W. H, Plemmons of Chapel Hill, executive secretary. Orange county .committee mem bers include: Russell M. Grum man, W. E. Rosenslengel, Ethel Honeycutt, R. E. Coker, H. D. Meyer, Dr. Cecil G. Shepps, John E. Ivey Jr., James T. Tippett, Mrs. R. H. Wettach, R. L. Weaver, Mrs. C. W. Stanford, Charles Miller and Guy B Phillips. Community Council Is Talk Topic Cl.- e, Hi}. 'X kin S. Lanier. .Jiretyh <5i ur^rerslty student aid and central records office, spoke at the January 27 Riwanis club meeting ori the recent movement . in Chapel Hill in organizing a Community Council. The council will be composed of representa tives of the 60-odd clubs and or- j ganizations in Chapel Hill, and its objective will be to spot problems cus the attention of the clubs on j of general community interest, fo- ] these problems and mobilize the efforts to solve them. Lanier stated that in the ab sence of an organized Commun ity Chest, the new Community Council, under the presidency of Mrs. U. T, Holms, is lending its efforts > to raise .the 1947-1948 budget for. the following activities: Boy and Girl Scouts, the Recrea tion Centers,. Day Care Nursery and Emergency Medical Care- —. j Other serious " community prob lems should be tackled, at once, ^aid Lanier. Among these are sewage disposal, the perennial ’ parking problem, the school build- j ing situation. street maintenance, a Community Center and or ganized supervised recreation for j the youth of Chapel Hill. St Mary’s Grange Postpones Meeting The Pt>mbn$ Grange fneeting, plaiined for February' 5 at St. Mary's has been postponed be-] eause of weather oondltkmft it haifi been announced by Henry S.] Walker, master of the St. Mary’s Grange. . A . - Just A Case Of Getting Wrong Auto Chapel Hill—William A. lUc, Knight, Spanish professor, wasj as startled as he was pleased to] ■• •see- ThTf~ca r - whtctr -^r«r hatf lieved stolen in the safe keeping j of the Hazzard Motor company. Mr. McKnight’s mother-in - law i had parked the car in one of I the campus' parking lots on a] snowy night last week. A few] hours later, it had disappeared. The police were immediately] notified and given the licer number. The next day Mr. McKnigh| was cruising around town wb« he spotted the very car at tht Hazzard Motor company. When the tale was unravelled, it ap peared that Hazzard has not| I turned detective, but only An swered a call of dtatroas fron some aiiow-bound oar owner ! They just brought In tha wr hear, that’s all. \ " - • r\ »