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„ THIS WEEK’S NEW^: First Polio In Hillsboro, progressive Psrty Petition Checked Chapel Hill Budget Planned. Rains Help Farm Crops. County Budget bargest Ever. '^TSTNo. 28 (Published Weekly) Your Home, Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 'hIl'&BORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, JULY 22. 1948 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Sixteen Pages This Week It’s reported factual ly, true and without color or bias. County’s New Budget Largest Ever, got Increased Revenue Is Avails Without Raising Orange’s Tax Rate Draft Registration Dates Established; Starts August 30 Plans for registering men 19 through 26 years of age for service in the Army under the provisions of the Selective Service Act in Or ange County had not been formu lated Wednesday as President Tru man announced plans for the -start of registration of the eligible men on August 3D. The plans announced by Presi dent'Truman were of a general nature since the actual registration will be made by local units in a manner similar to the draft regis tration prior to the last war. About 9,600,000 men in the Unit ed States will report for registra tion in the first peacetime Select ive Service law. In excess of 3, 000 men registered in Orange County last time. The roll call will start with 25 year-olds and proceed downward by age groups until September 18, when youths who turned 18 on or before that date will register. Youths who become 18 after Sep tember 19 will be required to reg ister within five days after their birthdays. Under the law, only those 19 through 25 may be inducted for 21 months of military service. Eight een-year-olds may escape the 21 month hitch when they reach 19 by volunteering, starting tomorrow for 12 months service and there after signing up with an active re serve. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, said Selective Serv ice officials are undecided whether to start the draft in the 25-year age group or to use a lottery system similar to that of World War II. If the age-group proposal is adopted, men probably would be called for induction in the order of their birthdays. Under the more complicated lot tery procedure, each eligible man would be given a special number on registering and the order of induction would be determined by a drawing. Hershey said 13,000((100 registra tion cards are being printed and that after the initial registration about 100,000 men a month are ex pected to become eligible. v-onxroi 10 dc Loooii«a Truman’s proclamation was in general terms, since the 4,000 local draft boards will administer the law and handle the registration that still must be set up. But it specifies that all male citi zens and other male residents in the United States, its territories and possessions must register if they are in the 18-25 group and were not specifically exempted by Congress. Members of the armed forces, West Point cadets and Na Yal Academy midshipmen were imong the groups granted congres iional immunity. For the most part, each man will >e registered in the area in which ie has his permanent home or in vhich he may happen to be on the lay set for registration of his par icular age group. The exact locations will be an lounced locally,well in advance of tegistration Day. Schools and other >ublic buildings probably will be >sed, as they wer^ in World War Classifications Given . Truman listed 10 age classifica ions and ..ordered registration ta >e held between 8 A. M. and 5 P. 1. on these dates: 1— Those born in 1922 after Au ust 3Q will register on Monday, lugust 30. 2— Those bom in 1923 register on august 31 or September 1. 3— Those bom in 1924 register n September 2 or September 3. 4— -Those bom in 1925 register on eptember 4 or September 7. 5— Those born in 1926 register on eptember 8 or September 9. 6— Those bom in 1927 register off eptember 10 or September 11. 7— Those born in 1928 register on eptember 13 or September 14. 8— Those bom in 1929 register on eptember 15 or September 16. 9— -Those bom in 1930 before eptember 19 register on Septem -r 17 or September 18. 10— Those J>om On or after Sep mber 19, 1930, will register with ■ five days after their 18th birth Truman must take two addition steps before the registration can art—-appoint the 48 state draft rectors and name members of the 100 local boards. Most state gov nors already have nominated eir bo-yd members and the mes are on the President’s desk siting his approval. i Orange County’s budget_ten* j tatively adopted two weeks ago by ; the commissioners—is the largest i ever proposed for the county, but i the revenue is available for two i reasons—and neither is by an in - j crease in the tax rate. The tax rate in the new budget 1 remains the same as it was last lyear—85 cents on the $100 valua ; tion. And is three cents less than | it was in 1946. . Last year when the budget was ,| adopted, only $2,500 was budgeted ,j for revenue from beer and wine i sales in North Carolina. A total I of $8,500 was received. During the year the county sheriff’s de partment in conjunction with the S.B.I. confiscated a large amount of liquor and two trucks. Sale of | hides resulted in $11,000 in round figures being added to the county’s treasury. This $11,000 plus the $6,000 sur plus from the. beer and wine reve nue gave the county $17,000 more revenue last year than was expect ed. the ABC liquor and the two ve Then during the year real “estate and personal property valuations on the tax books increased $1,973, 930 over the previous' year’s fig ures. On a basis of an 85-cent tax rate this will bring in $16,778.40 in new revenue not received last year from ad valorem taxes. Also, during the year, the county estimates on receiving $11,500 from the beer and wine taxes in North Carolina. - - . So, as a result, all those increases in revenue makes it possible for the county to enjoy a larger budget at no increase in the tax rate. Those increases in property valuations draw an interesting picture. * Following are the increases made in the different townships during the year: Bingham, white, $86,164; Negro, $407. Cedar Grove, white $92,304;_ Ne gro, $23,631. Little River, white, ^863,269; Ne gro, $3,838. Cheeks, white, $184,066; Negro, $17,310. Eno, white, $65,853; Negro, $11, 887. Hillsboro, white, $248840; Negro, $38,755; corporations, $9,483. Chapel Hill, white, $722,256; Ne gro, $48,221; corporations, $368,800; fraternities decrease of $1,000. Valuation on public service cor porations in Orange County have not yet been receive^ from the state office. By taking the value on public service corporations last year, the total property valuation in the county is $27,218,973. $1>63 Tax Rate For Chapel Hill Slays Same Under New Budget Although the cost of labor and practically all services have in creased during the past year, Chapel Hill’s tax rate, now $1.63, will not be raised, according to a tentative budget adopted by the Board of Aldermen for 1948-49. Salaries of several of the town officials and of most of the police men, firemen and members of the labor force were increased on an average of from seven to 10 per cent under the new budget, which calls for a total expenditure of $118,084 as compared to a budget of $100,547 last year. ' A report by Manager G. W. Ray showed that-last year’s budget was underspent by; $3,973. The town on July 1 had an operating surplus of approximately $20,000. A total of $68,200 is expected to be raised through ad valorejpt taxes, as compared to $67,330 daT ing the pait year. A total of $20 000 is set aside for maturing bonds. The contingency fund is set at $7, 000. Wages for the labor force constitute the biggest single item in the budget, the amount for this purpose being. set at $28,750 as compared to $25,659 last year. The Board announced some of the money ($35,000) provided for in the recent bond election for streets will be used to improve the sidewalks too. There will be a saving in the funds appropriated for street work, due to the fact that the State Highway Commis sion has used some of its funds al located to Chapel Hill to seal coat several of the streets. Of the $1.63 tax rate, $1.10.. will t?e for current operating expendl tures, 33 cents for debt service and. 20 cents for schools. Specialist Te Visit C. H. Curb Market Miss Myrtle Murray,' Specialist | in Home Marketing, from Texas will be in Chapel Hill this week to visit (She Curb Market. This is one of six markets she plans to visit while in N. C. Miss Murray is in terested in housing of the market, rules and regulations. She will be accompaniel bj? Miss, Willie Hunt er. ■ Miss Rose Ellwood Bryan, N. C. Extension Specialist in Marketing said of the Chapel Hill jyiarket. 'T feel you have one of "the. nicest representative markets in toe state under very trying conditions." The j market is the third largest in the < state. —==»-—O | Pressure Canner I - w i Clinics Are Set I—Li _• In answer to requests by pressure canner owners to have their can ners tested, two clinics have been scheduled. The first will be held Tuesday morning, July 27, in Catfr I boro at Neville’s Ga% Station. The j second will be held Wednesday morning, July 28, at Cole Motof Company in Hillsboro. Both clinics will be held between the hours of 9-12 o’clock. Each pressure canner j (not pressure sauce pan) will be ' checked for steam leakage, pres sure gauge accuracy, and proper 'exhaustion of the j5et cock. I Please clean the canner thor oughly before bringing it in. Sale Of Flue-Cored Tobacco Starts On Georeia-Florida Belts July 22 Sales for -the 1948 flue-cure to bacco crop wil begin Thursday, July 22 on the Georgia-Florida auction markets. The estimated production for this particular type will amount to 103.500.000 pounds. This indicates the crop will be considerably smaller than last year when pro ducers sales totaled 156,190,825 pounds and brought an average of $38.06 per hundred. The estimate is also the smallest released for any crop since that of 1934. Th‘e principal reason for the smaller production is because of a 27 Vi per cent reduction in the acreage from the previous season. A contributing factox.is a de crease in the average yield per acre. Total flue-cured production for '19487 has-been estimated at 888.500.000 pounds as compared with producers sales totaling 1, 304,605,314 pounds in 1947. The Georgia-Florida crop was produced under adverse growing conditions.' In the beginning there was an abundance of healthy plants and a large number of farmers set out tobacco earlier than usual. The crop was off to a good start,. but early in the growing stage a prolonged period of dry weather sefTfT This resulted in .many-of the plantings not being able to fully utilize their fertilizer and also caused the tobacco to ripen prematurely. The overall picture, judging from leaf already harvest ed and cured, portrays a spotty crop. The tobacco in some sections is not up to expectations, notwith standing large proportions of good qualities. Primings and lugs are cleaner, being somewhat freer of sand than usual. There is still a large amount of tobacco in the fields. At the present time heavy harvesting and curing is in prog ress and this will continue well into next month. Regular showers will help these remaining crops, but heavy rains would be more detrimental than beneficial. < . Commodity Credit Corporation loans for grades advanced through the Flue-Cured Tobacco Coopera tive Stabilization Corporation have been increased from $1 to $8 per hundred pounds in most instances although a fairly large number of loan rateS. remain unchanged. The grade price loan rates for flue cured tobacco everage 43.9 cents per pound, which is 90 per cent of the June 15th parity price. For “united” offerings the rate for"each grade is four cents per pound be low the rate for “tied’ ’tobacco of the same grade- Georgia and Florida tobacco is marketed “un tied.” --O Trainee Agent Is Working In County Miss Rosemary Dean, jui.ior at Meredith College, is working with the Extension Service in Orange County as trainee agent. She will be in the county for six weeks. During this time she will visit Home Demonstration Clubs, the Curb Market, and will take an ac tive part in Home Demonstration and 4-H activities- —— After graduation nftt spring, Miss Dean plans to accept work with the Extension Service. -;-O “V J-Months-Old Child Found Dead In Bed A three-months old child of Le roy Parrish, Negro, of the Calvan der section was found dead in bed Wednesday morning. Coroner H. J. Walker, who in vestigated the death, said the baby apparently died from unknown1 causes. He said the child’s par-1 ents said it had not been HI. 176 Naaes Verified On Wallace Petition la Orange County A check of 288 names on the ' Progressive, Party petition ask ing for thsi name of Henry A. Wallace to bo placed on the bal fotr In the November election has been mads by Mrs. Iris Cates under the direction of the Orange bounty Board of Elections, ft. O. Forrest, ehttrman, said this week. Of the 288 names checked, a total of 176 were found to be good petitioners. The remain ing petitioners were either not registered or had voted in the first primary In May, Forrest said. Forrest pointed out that those 176 people were now registered as members of the new Progres sive Party and could not vote in either the Democratic or Repub lican primaries. A lot of people didn’t know that fact when they signed the petition, .lie said. •&—-O Eastern Star Unit Feted By Officers Mr. and Mrs R. B. Studebaker, Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron of Hillsboro Chapter No. 180, Or der of- the .Eastern Star, served a bar6ecue supper at the Masonic Hall Thursday evening, to 48 mem bers of the chapter. After the supper all assembled in the Chapter Room fpr the regu • lar meeting. A program centered around the-theme, “Being Loyal Eastern Stars,” was presented. At the next meeting, August 5, 22 Past Matrons and 19 Past Pa trons will be honored by the chap ter. Eastern Star friends are always welcome. The meetings are the first and third Thursdays at 8 o’clock. ~ -- .' -—-O—---:T " • White Cross News Miss Lydia Teer is at home after attending the summer school at W. C. Revival services are being held in Bethlehem Presbyterian Church this week. The meeting will close with the service Sunday night. The Rev. Mr. Boyd of the Burlington "Ch'OTch is assisting.dhe mtrrwter, the Rev. L. T. Edgerton. Mrs; Charles Stanford- and her children, Donald, Bill, Jean and Jane, drove up to New York City for their vacation!—They were joined by Charles Stanford Jr. of Staten Island and had a week of sight-seeing. Among the many things that they saw were the sail ing of the Queen Mary, where Clark Gable, Kay Kyser and wife and Paul Kelly were aboard ship. Charles Jr., returned to Chapel Hill with his mother for a few days. Jim Mclver is at Kure Beach for a week’s vacation. * Charles W. Stanford and sister, Mrs. Jeanette S. Blair spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. O.'D. Brownscombe at Camp Lejeune. While there they visited the Rev. and Mrs. Joe Jones of Bramwell, Ufa., who are at their summer cot tage at Morehead City. While in Morehead City Mr. Jones christen* ed little Evelyn Carol Browns combe at the Presbyterian Church. She wore the long dress of Jean ette Stanford Blair in which she was christened when she was a baby. Jehile Morrow was buried at Bethlehem Church on Sunday aft ernoon. ■ Charlie Teer is at home after an operation at Watts Hospital. — Tobacco Earners View Experiments At Oxford Station One hundred tobacco farmers, including veterans from Aycock ahd Hillsboro schools, visited the Tobacco Experiment Station at Ox ford last Wednesday and spent the afternoon studying many interest ing experiments. This station, sev eral years ago developed the wilt resistant Oxford 26 variety, which has meant a saving of millions of dollars to the tobacco farmers and is still at work trying to perfect a broad leaf wilt resistant variety which will be more than the 400 strains. Realizing that many farms are now infested with both Gran ville wilt and Black Shank, they are attempting to breed a variety of tobacco which will be resistant to both of these dreaded diseases. The station has some promising crosses growing this year and hopes to be able to make available some seed of this resistant variety next year. A variety test was observed which indicated that the broad leaf varieties such as Bottom spe cial. 402, 500. and yellow special gave the highest yields per acre and also returned more money per acre than any of the rest. A ferti lizer test indicated that about 1,000 pounds per acre of fertilizer was the most profitable application. Where more fertilizer was used, the increase in yield did not pay for the extra fertilizer. Another test was observed which indicated tobacco topped high made more money per acre than either low topped or tobacco which was not topped at all. It was interesting to note that tobacco which was not topped at all returned more per acre than low topped tobacco. Pulling the suckers which grow between the leaf and. stalk take a lot of labor. A harmone has been found, which when painted on the broken end of the stalk, when top ping the plant dries up these suck ers without apparent injury to the rest of the stalk. The farmers were interested in the study being made of the effect of phosphrous fertilizer on tobacco plants. This phosphorus has been i made radio active and its course ! through the plant was determined by using the same type instruments used to measure atomic energy. Curing barn construction and ! methods of curing afforded more I new ideas than any other experi ments. Two barns similar in every respect except the insulation of one with fire resistant cotton, and the use of better ventilation saved 1,169 pounds of stoker coal in a total of four curings. During the yellowing period of curing four ventilators six feet long weife opened about two inches or a total of four square feet of opening. These ventilators were closed when the tobacco was yellow and it was desired tou kill the leaf Many types of automatic curing ! systems were seen being tried* out. Perhaps the two .most promising were a jet oil fluless and a stoker ! fluless both of which were new and still,, in the .experimental stages. Both of these systems have cured ' tobacco at very low costs. J -O | NAVAL RESERVE CRUISES ARE CANCELLED IN N. C. All training cruises for all en l listed personnel of the Naval Re serve in North Carolina have been cancelled because of the polio sit uation, it has been announced. First Pali* Case Develops la Hillsboro; Comity Health Director Asks Parents To Use Caution la Children’s Movements Dr. O. David Garvin, Orange County Health Depart ment director, issued a special appeal Wednesday morning for all parents of children in Hillstwro to use caution in allowing their children to follow other than their normal pursuits. I Polio Cancels Many 4-H Events Due to the polio epidemic the following 4-H activities have been cancelled: 4-H camp, 4-H county picnic, 4-H short course, dress revue and health contest. The summer activities In the county have been cancelled upon the request of Dr. O, David Gor - vin. Couqty Health Officer, and , L. R. Harrlll, State 4-H Club | leader. — .m ’ Suspended Terns Given Five Men - On Affray Charge At the July 20 session of the Re corder’s Court in Chapel Hill five Negroes of Chapel Hill dnd Dur ham, Bonnie Atwater, Theodore Winston, William Jenkins Jr., Alvls Whltted, and James R. Crawford, were charged with engaging in an affray, but without deadly weap ons. A one month’s sentence on the roads was suspended by Judge Henry Whitfield bn the conditions of three year’s good behavior and payment of the full court costs by each defendant, as if each were a separate case. John K. Powell, resident of Dan ville, Va., speeding, coats. Hubert H. Redmon, speeding, costs. . — .4 Lonzo Lowery, Negro, resident of Norfolk Va., no driver’s license and failure to transfer tiJAe, four months sentence suspended on con dition defendant not operate ve hicle on North Carolina roads with out proper title and license, &nd on payment of costs. Henry K. Williams, rtsidri of Florida, speeding and 'running through a red light, $15 and cogts. Bobby Marks, resident of Dur ham, reckless driving, prayer for judgment on payment of costs. Leslie J. Bolton, resident of Greensboro, speeding, $25 and costs. Thomas Martin, resident of San ford, driving while drunk, $100 and costs. ..... Ernest Farar, Negro, drunken ness, costs. Robertson Pendergrass, driving while drunk, $100 and costs. Marvin J. Clarke, Negro, drunk enness, $25 and costs. Rob BroWhe, 'Negro, drunken ness, costs. Johnnie Barbee, Negro, larceny of hog valued at $100, bound over to the next criminal term of Or | ange County Superior _Court on $150 bond. ' Mrs. G. W. Norman, resident of Greensboro, failing to stop where school bus was discharging chil dren, $5 and costs. Sam W. Wade, Negro, resident of Durham, permitting an unlicen sed driver to operate his motor vehicle, prayer for judgment on payment of costs. Rain Improved Crops la Orange Cooaty, Bat More Is Needed, Matheson Asserts The "several sessions of rain last week in Orange county- brought the crops ou t'ccsrs sTaefabtyDon S Matheson, county farm agent, said this week, but some more rain could be used all over the county. Com and tobacco has been dam aged some by the long dry period, he said, but the rains last week helped them much. The North Carolina department of agriculture made the following report on general ^condition of crops in North Carolina: Dry Spell Causes Headaches There seeihsTd be general agree ment that crop prospects looked pretty good in North Carolina un til July I, but the weather since then has caused headaches for government crop forecasters as well as for farmers. The mid-summer forecast of the Federal-State Crop Reporting Ser vice paints a rosy picture of the agricultural scene on the basis of | July 1 information, then reverses itself somewhat by pointing out that ground moisture was “becom ing dangerously low in many parts of the state.” „ It takes time to gather informa tion from crop correspondents all over the state and more time to compile vit in a comprehensive,, comprehensible report for the pub lie. Meanwhile the weather can change the whole situation. That's exactly what's happened, so the, crop forecasters naturally hedged a little in their latest estimates, summarized briefly as follows: Flue-cured tobacco—July 1 in dications pointed to somewhat higher acreage yields than last year*and a total production of 681,. 050,000 pounds, about one fourth smaller than- last year because of reductions in acreage alloments; but dry weather following July 1, especially in the middle and old belts* was Hkety to- reduce yields and total poundage. Corn—Another recordbreaking crop, with a record yield of 32 bushels an acre from a record acre age of 2,309,000, was in prospect July 1. The effect of dry weather in early July will not be known un. til after August I, the forecasters warned. Cotton—Acreage estimated at 730,000, or 12 percent more than last year. Production forecast ban ned. by law. Wheat—This year’SuJiarvest esti mated at 7,344,000 bushels, 13 per cent below last year’s production but much better than average and far better than expected earlier. Yield of 17 bushels an acre equals 1946 and 1M7 record. ^ \ ' • ' " ' miiareci ixmise i nompson, tnree year old daughter of E. H. Thomp son of West Hillsboro, was admit ted to Duke Hospital in Durham Tuesday afternoon suffering from polio. First reports on her condi tion said it was “good.” Although a number of cases have been reported from Chapel Hill and a tight quarantine has been placed on the activities of the children there, this was the first case in Hillsboro. The discovery of this case, Dr. Garvin said, is nothing for parents to become alarmed over. But it would be a good idea to practice' caution in the movements of young children, he stated. He urged that the following rules be observed: Call your doctor if you not* such symptoms as headache, nausea, a cold, upset stomach, muscle sore ness or stiffness or unexplained <ever. Avoid new Contacts if infantile Arrangement* can be mad* with the Orange County Health Department office In Hlllaboro to have your home.and premia** aprayed with DDT to combat file*, mosquitoes and other In sect* In the fight againet polio- . If aa many' a* 16 families In Hillsboro and vicinity desire the eervlce, the Health Department will bring over from Chapel Hitt It* portable equipment and do tho spraying for a nominal oe*t of approximately *1. Citizen* of Hillsboro Intr |t st. In th* aervice ahoufd to' Jetted th* Health Department, dial 4161, and give yeur name to either Mrs. Wilson ar Mia* Dunn. *r •praying will be den* aa seen aa 18 families request the aerv ice. paralysis seems to be spreading In the community. Try not to jnin gie in crowds. Danger points during epidemics art thH»l»rs trains, ba>es, boats, ^*d beaches. Do not get overtired, as extrema fatigue lowers resistance. Avoid chilling. Do not stay long in very cold water. .« Be careful about cleanliness. Wash hands before eating, keep insects away from food, and cover garbage pails. Consult your family doctor as to. the advisability of removal of tonsils, adenoids, or other mouth and throat surgery during the usual epidemic months. . If there is a diagnosis of polio by your family doctor, contact the local chapter of the National Foun dation located In Chapel Hill. Gor don W. Blackwell _is chairman of the local "Chapter; David CT Garvfh is the. medical advisor. Costs of treatment will be paid, in whole or in part, if you cannot meet the cost. Dr. Garvin said that he was not I going to issue a quarantine notice in Hillsboro as has been done in Chapel Hill, but that he would urge children under 16 years of age not to attend picture shows or other large gatherings of people. In Chapel Hill a quarantine has , been placed on the movements of the children there and even news boys are required to have permits to carry their regular routes. Swimming pools have been closed and picture shows have been asked not to sell children 16 and under tickets. a Street Blocked Here On Two Occasions Traffic w^s blocked for a while on Churton Street in Hillsboro Tuesday on two occasions. Early Tuesday morning all traf fic was routed around the court- ; house while town workmen cleared ' dead branches from the trees bor dering the street on the courthouse side. ■ Later in the day. a large-trader disengaged itself from a tractor pulling it and blocked traffic until it eould be moved to King Street next to the agricultural building. -O--— Ladles Night b Planned Ry Clnh The Hillsboro Exchange CClub will have its. Ladies' Night meeting Thursday, July 22, at 7:30 R. M. The Rev. L I Birdseye will be the speaker and special music will be rendered by Mesdames John X,‘ Billy Dixon and Robert accompanied by Mrs. Scott Cates.
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