North Carolina Newspapers

I. ,t to buy * nice home in Or . County? Loow at the fine *ains offered on The News sified Page this week. Make habit to read and use The News isified Add. They pay. Pul. 55» No-21 PHE (Published Weekly) Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and, Its Citizens Since 1893 Advertising In The News gets re sults. Over 7,500 people read The News every week. Look through this issue and see who is using the advertising columns and see what you are missing If your message Isn’t included. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. N. C . June 3. 1948 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week Isrrboro Health Center Dedicated To vie Association In Sunday Ceremony irboro—The Carrboro Health rte: buying was deeded to the rboro Civic Association in an t-fcSiive ceremony last Sunday r; n in the Health Center ding at 5 o*clock, when the deed tie building was presented by . i'. R. Evans, president of the jor Service League of Chapel to Mrs. W. R. Williams, presi df the Carrboro Civic Club, th the League and the Carr Glub have worked on a 50-50 to procure funds to finance project. dMrs. Williams in ac ing the deed expressed sincere ks to the league in its untiring •ts to make the project what it day. She expressed dfeep ap iation to the many persons and rganizations who have helped y way in the work. “So many helped, that I could not pos read all their, names in these minutes,” she said. Other ,kers on the short program were . Madry, mayor of Chapel Hill :. A. West, mayor of Carrboro. proximately 75 persons were nt for the dedication cere including Dr. W. P. Rich on, Dr. Fred Patterson, Dr. O. Garvin and David E. Arthur, iident of thf Carrboro Woolen who gave ~the building Mr. Arthur to the Junior lies lid lugh only condition was that the ling sbe moved from the prop This was in 1945. The league' ght a lot near the Carrboro ^ol two years ago, and with the i of the Carrboro Civic Associa I, has had the building moved |e and completely done over, oe health center will be used 1-baby clinics, pre-school [well pcs and dental clinics held, as Brecon the first Wednesday in fy month. Dr. Fred Patterson Chapel Hill is the physician in pge and nurses in charge will frs. Ashewell Harward, Mrs. and Raymond Andrews, both Stered -nurses of Carrboro. Bower arrangements for the ication last Sunday were fur fed by Mrs. J. W. Fesler of the ae, and members of the league fed refreshments to the guests pent. A telegram of congratu pns was received at the dedica hour from Mrs. Donald Klaiss rizona, ia former president of ' league in Chapel Hill, whose am had been to see the Health |ter a reality. --o— wrest Re-Elected igion Commander Hillsboro Post E>r. D. Efland Forrest of Hills-1 was re-elected commander |Hillsboro Post No. 85 of , the srican Legion in an election* of |cers meeting Tuesday night in Legion hut in Hillsboro. Either officers named were: first vice commander, R. L iler; second, C. D. Knight: fd, Tom Bivins; fourth Sam and; adjutant, Frank Ray; as ant adjutant, Plyler Cox; finance leer, E. E. Patterson; -chaplain, W. H. Rittenhouse Jr.; ser Int at arms, H. W. Pope; assist I sergeant at arms, Owen Alli I; and historian, Will Beard, fight delegates were named to ! Le«ticm convention in Asheville September. They were Dr. For It, H. G. Coleman Sr., Walter G. lea. Owen Robertson, R. L. Moh John Simpson, J. Martin Crab and A. H. (Sandy) Graham, discussion was held on the or bizajion Of a Legion softball team ■compete in a Hillsboro town Igue this summer.. It was voted ■sponsor a team and plans were |de for holding practice sessions selecting the members of the bad. lunty P-TA Group tmes New Officers he Chapel Hill P.T.A. enter ted the Orange County P.T.A. facil at the last meeting for the ir. Mrs. John Adams had charge the program.. Mrs. Charles tford, who has been president the Council for several years, ided over the meeting. A md table discussion of the Is of Orange County Schools’ held. Charles McAdams iwed a number of slides of Or (e County today and tomorrow, se pictures will be taken over county for another year to help pw the people what our county loing in every phase of work. ien these slides are finished they be available for use at any ■ting in the county. Officers nominated for the next two Mrs. Allan Whitaker, of o, president; Mrs. John . Chapel Hill, vice-president, Mrs. Mitchell Lloyd, secretary Chapel Hill Finals Start Tomorrow Graduation exercises for ap proximately 48 Chapel Hill High School seniors will begin tomor row night at 8 o’clock in Hill Hall. Dr. |. G. Greer will be the prin cipal speaker: Awards will be announced at that tirrfe. Dr. S. L. Blanton of Wake Forest addressed the graduating class at their baccalaureate serv ih the Baptist-Church Sunday. -o Police Officer Is Taxed Costs For Refusing Bond Albert Pendergraph, member of the Chapel Hill police force, was taxed with costs of the court action when he was found guilty of re fusing a prisoner bond on his ar rest in a hearing before Judge L. J. Phipps in Orange Cdunty Recortf er’s Court Monday^ Through his attorney, Bonner D. Sawyer of Hillsboro, Perrdergraph aopealed the action to Orange, County Superior Court. Bond was set at $35. John T. Johnson of Chapel Hill brought the charges against, the Chapel Hill police officer. Other cases tried Monday were: Lawrence Allen Bennett, over loading a vehicle, $25 fine and costs; Mrs. JEd Laws of Rouge mont, assault with a deadly weap on, six months suspended two years on payment of costs; James Oscar Grover and Thurman Reeves, reckless driving, not guilty; R. H. Gaulden, reckless driving, not guilty; Paul G. Carrigan, reck less driving, $lf tin.' -costs* Gurney White, public drunkenn^s, costs; Henry Lassiter, nonsupport of illegitimate child, judgment continued; John Waller Stanley Jr., speeding, $10 fine and costs. Cases tried Monday, May 24: Barney Florence Blalock, viola tion of health department regula tions, 26 months North Carolina Sanitorium, prison department; Mary L. (Snooks) Jones, assault with deadly weapon, four months suspended an. payment of costs; Thomas Riley, public drunken ness, illegal possession of whiskey, drinking in a public place, resist ing arrest, and assault on an of ficer, six months suspended for five years on payment of $50 fine and Gilbert M.'“Pore,” driving--’ctrtmkv second offense, $200 fine and costs, Charlie M. Pore, allowing a per son to operate car under influence of liquor, not guilty; Clande T. Kelnodle, overloading vehicle, $35 fine and -costs; Alien Green no driver’s license, costs; Joseph Winpol. reckless driving, $5 fine and costs; Walter Riley, simple assault, 30 days suspended on payment of costs. —--——o--— Orange Soldier ^ Is Assigned To West Point S-Sgt. Joseph R. Whitfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R» Whitfield of Route 2, Chapel Hill, has been as signed as a member of the cadre unit at West Point, it* was an nounced this week. zHisduties wiil consist mainly of instruction in running tactical problems. S-Sgt. Whitfield is a veteran of the Second Division, 23rd Infantiy Unit, which spent much time in special training at Camp McCoy and accomplished outstanding achievements in the European theatre. His first service dates back to 1936 when he enlisted in the reg t^wy«»j>-^w5^as«|nedto duty with the '14th Infantry, then stationed at Panama. There he stayed lour years* until trans ierred' to the Second Division u* 1940 and went overseas with it. He accepted an honorable dis charge from military duty June >3 1Q45 but after two and a ^e’ars of civiliah life he decided he areferred the Army and now plans ;o make it his hie career He is married to the former Miss Vfyrtle ftehrndl of ttt Crescent, During his years of service he is won the Purple Heart with /0 clusters, AmeiKcan Defense edal with star, the Bronze Star, merican Theatre Campaign edal E. T. O. Medal with five ittle stars, the Good Conduct edal. Victory Medal and the ambat Infantry medal. S-Sgt Whitfield was graduated om Hope Valley High School to iirham County. Official Tabulation Of Tote la Orange County £ 1 - * 1 o z • V a «* i 2 i ° ! -Q O -Q C o e m . a> c a a) 5 2?! o <L> > O I I tv 0. County Commissioners o o O \ CC T3 C m , — £ I ( £ UJ ; ZD >sl r | ■ Jb } • f 5 * « -o ; S o t) > • ? ! O j o *3 to <V o o *• IV O J= n TJ u O ■X V v O 09 —I " < » o H Wilson Laws 584t 4811 350! 109| 47| sij 35 65 64 I I I Cobb Allison Wilkerson m *W 445! 96! 4Sj 22: 27 34f 59 668) 5311 3401 130) 40| 23) 21 32 38 M 168! 576^45) 24| 15| 64 129! 43 14j 45j 20!" 35} 21 32 25~ 77| 270j 2411 221| 69; 30| 17| 65 105 27 14| 56 | U. S. Senator Broughton (short) -329J 325 174;. 54 23! 16) 19 47! 3‘ 61j 72| 122' 77| * 6»{ 1141 ’ 52] 37' 1077 * 72 ~ 34 29, 66j 45| 33| j; t r 1011 1102291 87) 72,2181 ~79| 41l2192 58: 48! 1*599 52! ’ 43(1354 Umstead (Short) J 601 382 519; 99j 40} 20) 68 102, 4 Broughton (Reg.) Umstead(Reg.) 3l iaj 27} 79 16( 37| 28; 28{ 47|1162 95 i 514 119) 68 2223 346; 327j 170; 58: 23| 17| 21| 59} 26} 2)’ 14} iff 37} 22i 491, 330 532: 98; 38|’ 16) 69| 99}- 58} -33) 86; 93|-7 48!119| 321 51)1216 971 63)2264 Governor Johnson Scott 2571 164) 288! 25 .5) 2| 3! 22! 6 40! 451 26 0| 899 Albright Barker 175;. 139, 2974 6fij 38; 32) 80, 184) - 32, | 371; 344j 135| 50] "iif 6) 23| 63} 64} ,-73! 1t2! 121} 115|1669 16! Boyd 39| 211 311 20; 3| »i 0} , 0| 6| 9| 21| 5| 1| 3| 0| 9| 4} 3| 15| 989 0| PI o| 0\- 0! 0! 0l 1} 0| 169 "13 Lt. Governor I I 1 1! Oi . 1| 0| 14 Tompkins 145} 172} 1311 681 16| 11 T4| 13| 33| 11!\ 141 18| 10) 17] 36| 32| 732 Auditor Bridges Miller 487] 3811 334| 83| 35| 11| 26j 50| 37| 9| 28| 53| |33| 82| 45} ,43|1743 207j 175| 247) 44) 12| 20| 341 60| 39| 17| 32] 31| 20| 32| 43| 44|1057 T reasurer Hedges Frazelle Vogler (• I I 429j 366| 347| 80| 15| 18) 47j 67| 48| 18) 47| 59). 30) 92) -61| 43|1767 >\ SI 4) 3) 44; 33) 431 8 7| 1| 1) 2) 14| 8| 6| 18| 200 )260| 199) 210) 58; 40) 10| 22 |40| 20| 6) 16| 26 15| 42| 36) 34)1024 Commissioner of Labor Shuford I I I I 466)' 440) 438; «8{ 41) 19) 48; *84) 611 16) 50| S2| 47: 92) 46) 68 2065 Sherrill ! CommlsaiooBcalAar. } | REPUBLICA fj/ (♦'17 163| 146| 154} 411 13) 18) 2 if 27) 13) 9| 7| 25| 14) 18) 42) 28) 734 in ,r i t 'T r r ~r t i f ,7 j MB I# ! f Gragg Willard 5; 5| 0) Of 1| ' 1) 0| 1| Of 0| 0| 3) 6) Of “ 2|" 0! 0! 0| 0) 11 il 3), 28 1! 11 Secretary of State l I I Eure Armstrong 615)481)4661 104| 48| 17: 53| 93| 54| 22) 54| 70| 59) 86! 79) 62,2363 26; 27) 21, 41) 794 171) 145) 176) 44) 10) 19) 26| 27 Congress, 6th District Durham Turner ! 613| 485) 524) 125| 45) 20) 46) 112| 64) 23| 85| 92! 89 121; 95; 89)2598 '.168! 151j 143) 31) 12 12; 26 13 15 8 3; 2: 7; 14 12 18: 635 Choral Clnh To Present Mozart’s “Requiem Mass” “ - The Chapel Hill Choral Club and the University Symphony Orches itra will perform Mozart’s “Re quiem Mass” at the annual com mencement concert here Sunday, June 6, in Hill Hall at 8:30 p. m. Paul Young, associate professor of music, will conduct. The soloists will be Mrs. Harriet Keen, sbprano; Miss Virginia John son contralto; John Brinegar, ten or. 'and Rufus NoTris, baritone. Miss Johnson, Brinegar and Norris are assistants in the Music Depart ment, and Mrs. Keen is a fbrmer student in the music department. The “Requiem” was composed by Mozart at the request of an anonymous commission which so affected his imagination that he grew to believe himself commis sioned by death to write his own requiem: The wofk IS among Mo* zart’s last compositions and was left unfinished at his death. The finishing touches were done by Francois Sussmayer, a pupil of Mozart. , _ ‘ The Chapel Hill Choral Club is a volunteer organization composed of University students and faculty members and citizens of Chapel Hill and has been pierforming standard and modern oratories and -c&ewiLjJiQJte iQX LXiSHh . —-o New Sharon Plans Homecoaung Homecomihg will* be observed at the New Sharon Methodist Church op Sundays June 6, it was announced this week. Sunday school will begin at 10 A. M. and sermon services at 11 A M. The- public and friends of the church are cordially invited to attend. __-o 20 POUNDS r In a single hot day, as much as 1 50 barrels of water may evaporate from the surface of the leaves of a large elm tree, according to Dr, Curtis May of the U. S. Department [of Agriculture. Mrs. L.R. Sturdivant Completes 48 Yean Of Teaching School; 34 In Carrboro Carrboro—“Aunt Josie” Sturdi vant’s curiosity almost got the best of her before she learned Tuesday night the reason "for all the extra hustle around Carrboro School the past few weeks. The secret of the mysterious ac tivity unfolded that night as Mrs. Sturdivant, who is retiring this spring after 48 years of teaching, was crowned May Queen in a col orful festival on the school ground. The community turned out en masse to witness the festival and among the spectators were scores of former pupils of the beloved woman who has been teaching here for 34 years, 16 years as principal. 250 Pupil* Participate The festival was participated in by some 250 pupils of the school. Brightly costumed fairies and spring flowers, Robin Hood and his jaunty band, tumbling clowns, daneers, heVald;;, and a rhyth m band made up the cast. After the festival the Carrboro P.-T. A. paid tribute to the retir ing principal. Mrs. Jessie West, president of the P.-T. A., and a former pupil _of Mrs. turdivant, presided as P.-T. A. officials, town officials and community leaders praised the veteran teacher. A large portrait of Mrs. Sturdi vant which has-since been placed was unveiled, and Mrs. Sturdivant was presented a watch from parents, teachers and pupils. _ —* • “Aunt Josie” was only 16 years old when she did her first teaching "1—in a six-.weeks school with only an eighth grade education., When she was 18 she taught a two months school in Georgia. She considers that she did hei* first real teaching when,she was 20. i Received Her Degree In 1909 Determined to complete her education Mrs. Sturdivant attend ed Grand- Vipw High School in j Tennessee where she completed her high school work in 1905. While going to high school she taught in summer schools. She entered Car son-Newman College in the winter of 1909 and was graduated in 1909. ; After teaching in several places she married Luther 'R. Sturdivant; and they moved to Qarrboro, where , he opened a store which he is still operating. That was in 1913. Mrs. Sturdivant’s first teaching experience in Carrboro was with an overflow of pupils from the Public school. She taught 40 chil dren in her own home, and she re calls that they had to be seated on boxes and stumps, and at a few doubledesks. A new room was added to the Carrboro school the next year, and Mrs. Sturdivant has been there ever since. In 1924 Mrs. Sturdivant com North Carolina for her master’s de gree . The next milestone in her life was when she was named principal of the Carrboro School in spite of her statement that she did not want the job. Teaches Community Leaders For several years Mrs. Sturdi van conducted night school in her home for pupils in the community. Several community leaders, in cluding the town manager and a department store official, attended these classes. Mrs. Sturdivant has been active i in church and community affairs, I and few people know the needs of I the neighbors better than she. 1 Incidentally Mrs. Sturdivant at tended Baptist Tarining School in Louisville, Ky., in 1911 and 1912 Aiatil hef.health .forced her to with draw. ' v “Aunt Josie” believes that a ^ teacher should get out oi the pro fession when she thinks more of herself than the children. She holds to the idea that the child should come first in the life of the teacher. Mrs. Sturdivant’s geography book j is traditional in the community as, a device for classroom* punishment, j and.many a-former pupil looking on Tuesday night recalled personal encounter with the geography book. Among Mrs Sfurdivant’s ideas about punishment is that of occa sionally letting the children de cide how they should be disciplined. But she also believes in seeing that such punishment is carried out properly. “Aunt Josie”. has said that she, considered if unfair to a child to, permit him to think he could get ... See Mrs. Sturdivant, Page I J 10 High School Bands Sign JDp For Music Festival Ten high school bands from ihe smaller schools in North Carolina have already accepted invitations to participate in the small high School band ‘ festival to be spon sored ..iSSt the Hillsboro. Exchange .Club at Occoneechee speedway near Hillsboro on Monday, July 5, it was announced this week. Expectations are that from five to 10 more bands to whom invita tions have already been extended will accept and take part in the first annual festival. . t Exchange club officials also said that the 82nd Air Borne drill team from Fort Bragg had accepted an invitation to appear at the Festival. A recruiting display will also be presented. An estimated 5,000 to 7,500 peo ple are expected to attend this festival which is already attracting state-wide attention- The North Carolina Bandmasters Association has approved the festival for high school bands: -“v A parade from Hillsboro—fea turing floats, bands and Army equipment—will precede the start of the day’s activities. -o Musical Sextet Presents Program Por Kiwanians A sextet of five University music < students playing violins and horns entertained the Chapel Hill Ki wanis Club at their May 25 meet ing with several unusual*renditions of Bach movements. They were di rected by Miss Emily Porter of the University music department.—. C. C. Bell of the Dillard Paper Company in Greensboro and Hugh Nanney, manager of,the Branch Bank of Chapel Hill in Carrboro, were guests of the Kiwanians. vJ On Friday, May 21, J. T. Gobble, T. A. Rosemond, John Riggsbee, Kenneth Putman, W. S ' Hogan. W. P. Richardson, and C. H. Cook at 1 tended the Annual Interclub meet ing of the Fifth Division, Caro Una’s District of Kiwanis Inter national, held at the Edenton Street Methodist Church in Releigh. Dr. Richardson, Lt. Gov4WOG , Riehardson, lieutenant governor of [ the Fifth Division, received re , ports on the year’s projects and ’ activities. o Superior Court Has 31 Cases Slated For Trial Jifge Chester Morris will open a one-week criminal session of Orange County Superior Court Monday, June 7, in the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsboro with a docket of 31 cases. Cases on the docket are: ■» Charlie A. Brown, driving drunk; Jesse C. Mangum, driving drunk; Johnnie W.. Walker and Henrietta Walker, immoral conduct; . Elton Crdtts. driving drunk; Raymond Jones, housebreaking and larceny; C. R. Hutchins, driv ing drunk; Herbert G. Andrews Jr., speeding and reckless driving; Arthur Foushee, Arthur Foushee Jr., Willis Jenkins, and Dorsey Hargroves, larceny; Johnnie H. Barber, violation beverage control act; ;Thomas Peck Brittian, James Smith and Frank Minor, robbery, larceny and assault with deadly weapon; ;Henry A- Head, alias, J. * "^Wear^WeaSrriSr^ftd Tttbritte and larcenj; I John H. Flythe, driving drunk; j Asrbie W Parker, asshutt with deadly weapon with intent to kill; I Arbie W. Parker, murder; Roy McAdams, murder; Thomas Wesley i-Simmons, reckless driving; i William A. Hardee, driving j drunk; Coleman B. Noell, driving drunk; Charlie Hodgins, robbery; John T. Johnston, .driving drunk; Ira Thomas, bed and cohabitation not beinfe married; John Collett, driving drunk; Julia Foushee, il legal possession of liquor for jtale, Percy Baker, affray with deadly weapons and damage to property; Forest Carpenter, carrying con i cealed weapon; Wilson Caldwell, violation beverage control act; j John A. Qualls, larceny; and Matthew Jones, RedeH McClintcn, j Wilson Honeycutt and Bill Stanley, ' murder. Large Majority In Chapel Hill Boxes Returns Incumbents To County Board; Scott, Umstead, Durham Carry Orange Orange County voters—trooping , to the polls In the largest number for a Primary election in many years — overwhelmingly returned the incumbent board of commis sioners for another term, gave Cart T. Durham a majority of 1,963 votes in his race for Congress and approved Kerr Scott for their gov ernor. - The present board of commis sioners—who had filed as a group and who had sought re-election as a unit—ran up a large majority in the two Chapel Hill boxes to sweep the three places on the board.' Saturday night—when the re turns were coming in—it appeared until the Chapel Hill precinct re ported their votes that two mem bers of the old board had been swept out with Steve Allison run ning high, Ben F. Wilson ^second and T. J. Wilkerson. The returns from the Chapel Hill boxes, how - ever, jumped the three incumbents into the lead and back on the : board. j Scott High Man . ... Heavy voting in Orange Coun ty’s rural precincts—coupled with a larger than expected Albright support—pushed Kerr Scott into' loting, Albright ran second with Johnson third. Scott pplled 1,569 votes, Albright 989 arid Johnson r 899. Orange County gave “Bill” Urn* stead a heavy vote for his return to Congress, but in the state-wide returns Umstead ran behind for mer Governor Broughton who un seated Umstead as North Carolina’s junior senator. Thomas Turner polled 635 votes to run way back of Carl Durham in his unsuccessful attempt to se cure Durham’s seat in Congress. The Sixth District—Orange, Dur ham, Alamance and Guilford—re turned Durham to Congress by a good sized majority. For the other officials. Orange County voted yith the state and went down thie line for successful candidates. 18 Seniors Get Aycock Diplomas At Graduation I Eighteen seniors received their J diplomas from Aycock High School ' in graduation exercises held last Friday night. John W Umstead of Chapel Hill, State Representa tive, was the principal speaker. • Seniors graduating were- Ralph C. Compton, Bernard Terry, Mari anne Pittard, Doris Louise Taylor, Julia Warren Allison, Margaret Susan Burton, Wade Glen Caruth ers, Btiirch Chandler Compton, ~ Alice Zelota Compton, Sara Ann Frazier, Walter Warren Hawkins. Daniel Franklin Liner, Margie Marie McAdams, Beulah Elizabeth Oldham, Victor Harris Phelps, Henry Thomas Pope, and Mary Alice Sharpe. Charles Poole, who received part of his high school r from his Army service, was ' also presented a diploma. Glenn Proffit, superintendent of . education, made the presentations, i John W. Umstead, in his talk, cited the improvements needed in the North Carolina school system. Doris Taylor was valedictorian ; and Ralph Compton salutatorian of i the class. ... Mrs. C. H. Pender presented the • eighth grade diplomas. H~ J■ —-°-— . Chapel Hillians Are Selected To Symphony Posts Several Qhapel Hillians were elected officers or trustees of the North Carolina Symphony Society at the annual meeting Saturday. —. . a. . ... M. Grumman was re-elected execu tive vice-president of the organiza tion, and Albin Pikutis was elect ed assistant treasurer, both to serve a' two-,year term. Symphony director, Benjamin Swalin of Chapel Hill, and Mrs. A. C. Burnham, Mrs. Fred B. McCall, ancl R. W. Madry were among those chosen to compose the executive committee along with the officers. . ■ __ Elected as trustees fo rthe com ing two years were W. D.„ Car- . michari Jx», Norman.Cordon, I. G._ Greer, James Street, Mrs. St. Pierre Dubose, and Mrs. Roland McClamroch. It will be the sec ond term as trustees for Mrs. Du bose and Mrs. McClamroch. President Spencer Murphy com mended the work of Mrs. Fred B. McCall and Mrs. Benjamin Swalin at the meeting.