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Lant to buy a nice homo in Or L county? Loow at the fine Lrgain* offered on The News Cassified Page this week. Make fa habit to read and use The News Lssified Ads. They pay. Vo!. 55, No. 24 THE NEWSofOrangeCounty Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 (Published Weekly) Advertising in The News gets re sults. Over 7,500 people read Tbs Nstis every week. Leek through this issde and see who is using tbs advertising columns and see what you are missing If your messsgr isn’t included. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL,HILL, N. CL, JUNE 24, Price: $2 A \ear: >c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week j-.mployees of the Belle \ neMfg. Company of Hilf^ro who received service pins fin 36 to 40 years of service are-pictured ibove. They are m pai t of the 220 employees of mill honored in the fxercises. Left to right;they are; Harley* B. Tvson, so ears; Ermon Wheeley, 33 years; Tullie D. Moon. 34 years; Fletcher Strum, 36 years; James F. Richardson,\so vears; Mrs. tella B. 1 aylor, 3 > yeats, Miss Allie G. Burton, 37 years; John K. Whitaker, chairman board of directors BjtMe-Vue; Rich ird St 1 um, 3(1 yeats, Mrs. Alma M. Clayton, 30 years; James Dorrity, 40 years; and W. John Clayton, 40 years* Ilcconeechee Track Opens Sunday |>\ ilh 100-Mile Feature Attraction North Carolina's greatest racing -ogram since the days-of the farii is board track at Charlotte will be ■esented at the historical Occo :echee Speedway, located just itside of Hillsboro, Sunday after ton when Promoter Bill France ages the first 100-mile national ock car championship for this ?w mile speedway, rated as the test in the country. Time trials for this racing event the year will be staged Satur ly afternoon, starting at 1 o’clock, id then again at 1 o’clock Sunday ternoon with the consolation race arting at 2:45 o’clock Sunday ternoon and the featured 100 ile event starting at 3:30 o’clock. The beautiful Occoneechee leedway, now being completed, is cated between Hillsboro and urham on thb old highway. The storical Indian plantation, which one time was the center of horse cing for North Carolina, has been weloped into the fastest and most sautiful mile banked track in the itire South, and one that will val the famous Langhorne Speed ay just outside Philadelphia, ore than 1Q0‘ acres of land are /ailable for parking and a new andstand with a seating capacity E 10,000 has been completed. The irfectly sloped hillside provides leommodations for some 35,000 lectators with a perfect view of le entire track from every angle. The nation's leading stock car rivers will be on hand to compete >r honors, these including the iree Flock brothers from Atlanta, obert (Red) Byron of Anniston, la.; Marshall Teague of Daytona each, Fla.; Billy Carden and Wild il Snowden of Atlanta; Johnny rubb of Beckley, W. Va.; Curtis. . Turner of Christiansburg, Va.; uddy Shuman of Charlotte; Ros 3e Thompson of Atlanta, and irery outstanding driver from the astern circuit. The three Flock brothers, fresh ■om th^ir triple triumph last reek, wjll be among the favorites, onty whn the feature race at Bir lingham to regain his lead in the ational championship standings, hile brother Bob won at Colum us, Ga., and young Tim won the :ature at Greensboro. . ...’ r\_ t o tar ians Plan Annual Picnic it New Hope The Chapel Hill Rotary Club ill have its annual picnic at New _^>pe Church on June 30, at which nie the new officers will official take over their elected positions. B. Johns will become the Rota an president, replacing Carl M. mith. H. C. McAllister will be ce-president; J. B. Linker, sec tary, L. R. Roof, treasurer; and H. McGregor, sergeant-at-arms. Members of the New Hope hurch will prepare the food fSr >e picnic. Wives of Rotarians are vited to attend. * -O embers Of FI A. ill Attend Camp Members of the Hillsboro High ool chapter of Future Farmers America will attend the F.F.A. P at White Lake during the ‘k of June 28-July 3. They will accompanied by Elmer R. 'wdy, agriculture teacher. The boys will compete with other ‘lodls in citizenship and athletic ts. Champ Coining Sunday The nation’s leading stock car drivers are coming to Occonee* chee Speedway next Sunday to compete in the 100-mile national championship race over the new mile track, and included among these will be FotUy Flock,»the 1947 national champion and present leader of the I948~raeer~ebown-abov.e with his head mechanic, Ike Kiser. Flock won the feature race at Birmingham last Sunday-to regain the lead in the 1948 championship battle. Merchants Meet Monday At 7 P. M. To Elect Officers Thfe entire membership of the Chapel? Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association will meet Monday evening for a banquet and business meetinfe at the Carolina Inn ball room at 7 o’clock. Scheduled for the Monday meet ing is the election of new officers, reports oLthe past year’s activities, and planAfor the coming year’s work. There must also be an election of directors to replace re tiring board members Roy Bar ham, Y. Z. Cannon, and Mrs. G. F. Bason; and Bob Fowler who re signed due to the pressure of other duties. H. W. Wentworth, who has temporarily taken the place left vacant by E. B. Patterson, will either be replaced or renominated to fill the ur.expired term of three years. One Escaped Man Still At Large One of two- convicts who escaped from a road gang in Orange Coun ty last Wednesday morning is still at large. Bright Craig, superinten dent of the camp, announced this week. ' Robert Syrotehen of Connect^ cut and Clarence Isley of Greens boro escaped from a gang working on highway 86 near Kennedy s about 9:30 A, M, Wednesday. Sy-. rotchen was captured shortly after, noon on the same day near the home of Edmund Kenyon. Isley is still at large. Syrotehen was serving five years for housebreaking, 18 months for breaking and entering and two years for larceny of automobile. Isley is serving thre to seven years for breaking and entering. Hillsboro Cannery Open Wednesdays The Hillsboro High School cannery will be open every Wednesday morning, until fur ther notice, it was announced this week by Elmer Dowdy, teacher of agriculture. - The cannery will open at 8 A. M. Anyone desiring to use it should, bring produce by noon, Dowdy said. Additional operat ing time will be allotted if the volume is large enough, he<eaid. Garland Milter will again have charge ,of the operation of the cannery. — -.-zi-J.. a Health Workers Holding Session Teachers, school administrators, and public health officials 'have eome to Chapel Hill from all parts of the state . for the six-week Health Education Workshop cor responding to the first term of the University summer school.' Four courses, conducted in the Chapel tHill High School, deal with the major health problems of North Carolina. Outstanding leaders in public health and medicine are in structors at the workshop, which is sponsored by the State Depart ment of Education and the State Board of Health through the School-Health Coordinating..Serv ice. --O—:-: BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Theodore FreeWn, Jr., announce the birth of a daugh ter June 17. Mrs. Freeman before her marriage was the former Miss Beatrice Smith of Clayton. ' Durhant-Hillsboro Highway Hay Be Opened By July 15 If the^ present construction schedule Is maintained, the new section of hardsurfaced highway from Durham to Hillsboro will be opened to traffic by the mid dle of July, It was announced this week. Construction schedule calls for the pouring of concrete to bo completed this week. “The con crete must dry for 14 days be fore traffic is turned on the road,’’ the announcement said. Some shoulder work must also be done before traffic can be turned on the road, it was point ed out when ft was estimated that the road would be opened by the middle of July. - - George B. Lay Rites Are Held; Died In Korea The body of George B. Lay, 53, who died May 6 ifi Korea, where he was in charge of rodent and in sect control for the United States Army, arrived in Chapel Sunday, June 20. -^ Funeral services were held at the graveside in the Chapel Hill Ceme tery at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon with Rev. David W. Yates, Rector of the Chapel of the Cross officiat - ing.-- — ■ - - —.; - - - — Mr. Lay was bom in Concord, N, H.- at St. Paul’s School where his father, the late Rev. George W. Lay was a master. In 1907 his father was called to the rectorship of St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, young George continuing his education in Raleigh, at St. Paul’s, Yale, and the University of North Carolina. At Chapel Hill he was assistant in geology, and graduated in 1918. After his discharge from the Army at the end of World War J, he taught in Kinston apd Lumber - ton high schools. Then followed newspaper work in Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, Durham, New Bern,. Kinston, artcl Mount Airy in North Carolina and in Gaffney, S. C. He decided to resume his scien tific training and in 1932 he re ceived the degree of M. S. in zoology and entomology from N. C. i State College. He became For estry Superintendent in the C.C.C. Camp in Windsor. In 1935 he re turned to Raleigh as junior biolog ist‘with the Biological Survey in charge of rodent control in the Southeastern states. Mr. Lay conBhued his wOrkirr rodent control with the Fish and Wildlife Service as district agent in the 14 Northeastern states, un til he resigned and accepted the post in Korea. Hie had completed his assignment with the Army and was expecting to return home soon when he was taken ill with what was l^ter diagnosed as cancer of the liver. Besides his wife and daughters, he is survived by -his mother, Mrs. George W. Lay, and his sister, Mrs. Paul Green, bot}| of Chapel Hill, and his brother, Henry C. Cay, Lake Charles, La., and four sisters: Mrs. Charles White, Greenville; Mrs. Lytle Zuber, Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Harold Hodgkinson, Minne apolis, Minn., and Mrs. James E. Hawkins, Racine, Wis. A first cousin is Beime Ley Jr., the well known aviatior and writer. ■ * • North Carolina Voters Select Scott Or Johnson Saturday CHAS. M. JOHNSON KERR SCOTT CHHS Senior Superlatives Are Selected Dpt Hogan and Lawrence^ Cheek were hofiored with the title of “most popular’’ among the gradu ating class of Chapel- Hill High School. They and several other “Senior Superlatives” were chosen by their classmates according to the annual custom, and their photo graphs along with their titles were displayed in the high school ywr book. T^he feminine Senior Superlatives are Madeline Jennings, cutest and most talented; Lois White, best dancer;. Sue Partin, most mis chievous; Mary D. Williams, best all-round, and most personality; Coieen Hackney, friendliest; Jean Vashaw, best dressed; Ruth Sturdi vant, best looking; Dot Sloan, most naive; Joyce Boone, class baby; and Peggy, Durham, flirtiest. Dot Ho gan was voted the best girl athlete. Capturing the boys’ honors are John Bobne, best-all-around; Fred-' die Merritt, cutest; Lawrence Cheek, best dancer as well as most popular; Jack Cohen, best dressed and most personality; Cecil Riley, best' looking, Ted MeGavran, laziest; Robert Brooks, most flirta-, Itious and most likely to succeed. Former Hillsboro Resident Dies The following is from The Daily Banner, Cambridge, Md. Mrs.. Jesse Giles Barnett, wife of Edward FI. Barnett, died sud ! denly of a heart attack- early this I morning at her home on William I Street. Mrs. Barnett had' not been well lor several months following an operation in January but had seemed to be improving steadily. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Giles of Franklin, Va., Mrs. Bar nett was born at Hillsboro, N. C., and had lived at Durham and Chapel Hill, N. C. until her mar riage to Mr. Barnett on August 21, [-1926. She was a graduate of Sa lem College, Winston-Salem, N.’C. and had done graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel. Hill. She had been a resi dent of Cambridge since her mar riage and had taken an active part in civic and community affairs. She had taken an active part in campaigns for community and school improvements and for many years-had worked on fund raising drives conducted by civic and charitable organizations. She was a member of Dorchester Unit, No. 9f, American Legion Auxiliary add of th^'Woman’s Auxiliary of Christ i Epistfipal Church of which she was a communicant. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Barnett is survived by three daugh ! ters, to whom she was especially | devoted. Mrs. Aubrey. McCall, jMiss Jean Barnett and Mi.<js Schar lie Barnett, all of Cambridge; her parents.’ Mr. and Mrs. j. A. Giles of Franklin,'Va.; three brothers, W. E. Giles, Winston-Salem, N. C., [ Capt. R. T.. Giles, U. S A., Wash ington; D. C., and Dr. J. A. Giles, ; Wilmington, Del.; by three sisters, j Mrs. William R. Sowers, Cam ! bridge, Mrs. S T. Holland, Frank | Hn, Va., and Mrs. Fred Boyer, Wil [mington, Del., and by several nieces ! and nephews. Stew Is Planned At Pleasant Green The Woman’s Society of Pleas ant Green-Methodist Church will sponsor a 'brunswick stew supper at the church, Saturday, June 26, beginning at 3 o’clock. Chicken stew, ice cream, cakes, pies, and iced drinks will also be served. „ . . _ Hillsboro P.-T.A. Meets Tuesday In Lunchroom Tne Parent* - Teacher* Associa - tion will meet 4n the school lunchroom Tuesday; June 27, at 3 P. M-, 4t was announced this, week. Mrs. Mary Smith, head of the Child Welfare and Feeding group of the department of wel fare will discuss lunchroom problems. She is to give sug gestlons to the Hillsboro P-TA towards the improvement of the lunchroom here. following the meeting, Mrs. Clarence ipnes will preside over a business tiv»«tlng of the executive board. An announcement said: “The | P-TA looks forward to an active | year of constructive work and 1 it is hoped that there will be full I attendance.”-*_.___Z_ Member* of the executive board are: president, Mre, Clar ence D. Jones; first vice presi dent, Mrs. R. L. Mohler; second vice president, G. A. Brown; sec retary, Miss Rebecca Liner, and 1 treasurer, Mrs. Alton Williams. Committee chairmen — pro gram, Mrs. Mohlerj finance, Mrs. Williams; lunchroom, Mrs. R. O. Forrest; publicity, Mrs. Charles 8. Hubbard and Miss Annie Cam eron; music, Mrs. j. W. Dickson; citizenship, Mrs. Clyde’ Ray; grounds, Mrs. Don Matheson; recreation, Mrs. Glenn Auman;; membership,'"John Midgettec health, Mrs. H. W. Moore; audl- ! toriurri, Elmer Dowdy; sanitation. Rose Porter; grade mothers, Mrs. Reid Roberts; adviser, Mrs. Mit chell Lloyd. Community chairmen: 8t. Marys, Mrs. J. H. Martin; Schley, Mrs. Otey Mlncey; Or ange Grove, Mrs. John W. Kirk; Murphy,-Mrs. Sidney 8trayhom; West Hillsboro, Claude Mahaf fey; Efland, Mrs. J. D. Lee; Caldwell, Mrs. Clyde Walker. -—O C of C Executives Attending Classes . Classes are being held this week fordhe 300 Chamber of Commerce executives and the 192 Cbamber-ofj Commerce secretaries meeting in. Chapel Hill from nine Souihern i states, for the Fifth Annual South- j eastern Institute. " The top men in the field of commercial organiza tlon in the South are instructors, for the Institute. The regular classes are held every day in the N. R. O. T. C. Armory with examinations sched uled for Saturday. “Talent Night," “Fellowship Night,” a speaking contest, and a dance are included in the week’s program of enter tainment. - ' . j O New Hope Church Calls New Pastor New Hope—The Rev. John E.1 Ensign of Chattanooga, Term., has accepted a call to the New Hope Presbyterian Church to serve as its minister, it was announced this week. The Rev. Mr Ensign and Mrs. Ensign are expected to arrive In the community on August 15 to be gin their full-time duties,, with the church. The new minister was educated at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., and , the Theological Seminary hi New York City. Amid a flurry of charges and counter-charges concerning the status of road building in the State,1 coercion of State employees, State money deposited hr banks not drawing interest, machine candi dates vs. antimachine candidates and numerous other quarrels be tween the two candidates, North Carolina voters go to the polls Sat urday to select their new Demo cratic candidate for governor— Kerr Seott or Charles M. Johnson. Johnson led Scott in the first primary by 8,000 plus votes, but R. Mayne Albright polled over 70,000 votes to make a second primary necessary when Scott asked fojr it. Both candidates have declared themselves for better State-roads,, better schools,, better health, im provements of agriculture and for other State improvements. . No definite issues have developed in the campaign, there being only differences in the personalities of the two men running tor governor. Polls in Orange County will open at 9:30 A. M. and close at 8:30 P. M. Voting will be done at the same places as in the first primary. -O Transport Track— Rips Through Shed Of Efland Business Efland—A large transport truck, property of the Pilot Transfer Com pany, ripped off the shed of a fill ing station operated by John Haith early Sunday morning. State High way Patrolman T. P. Hotter re ported this week. Hotter said the truck’s left front wheel collided with an automo bile driven by an unknown person and was cammed off the highway Befot _ the driver could regain control Oi u'e truck, it had smashed through the shew over the filling station, ripping the supports from their foundations. No one was hurt and the trans port truck was able to continue on its way. A search is being made, Hotter said, to determine the driver of the automobile. ■--O c****"* « two ^ ■j:Jr—ion m . .a«i tSsass--?r l<w'«ks aRG ^'^T total Ol «u * sffSffU-*01^ 54I.26 ,hooV fund- truck CT“»«' Tif*«^'d ”*«oX ««» ■" uo forme' « solo *i a am.n «™o;V«“ W^SSS?***"* <M s^^-aast The Board to tables on State ABC perishaW*^. candy ck were aoW,t?.neS is court the truck and finest ^ «&%$&*«+ * . SSp*»22q . Men Volunteer * Dftt (Or today by Sgc * - announce A.rmy nuBo^ Hart'eyR^ruiter tor Dj£*_ ■fSTr’ss«“ \r. »””• '“^a '<■'«' Ke8»iar leered «» yea*^rt L. Rid period were-. M^e Eugene Hdlsboro. ^Vdisborp, die, w RoUte 2, WeS krtuY urr Riddle, > Enpnc€rf„ted that he u™ -.he P^ that it ani ; interested views aITeducatioGs ar .obt a ri» .M« f' |ood P« #Ah witter than *** g00d P*^ in a *««£ promoUon>^ntaCthr» chance J^ ^at-theT ^ and securtt .q _^ at the - Cedar Grave Church Plans Hoaecaauag Homecoming services will be held I at the Eno Presbyterian Church I in Cedar Grove Sunday, June ST. \ I Following the II o'clock morn ing service, a picnic lunch will be served on the church grounds. 1 Afternoon services will he held at S P. ML'v
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