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' THIS WEEK'S NEWS: School Opening Delayed Calf Show Is Scheduled Superior Court in Session New Warehouse Opens Self-Service Plan Developed Vol. 55- No- 33 THE NEWS of Orange County Your Home Newspaper Sewing Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 (Published Week;' Interested In Orange Countyf Then read The News of Orange County for items of interest from all sections. It’s reported factual* ly, true and without color or bias. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy _ Eight Pages This Week r Mebane Man Draws 7 -10 Years Here — ..,VY. ’v Elmer Owens of Mebane, charged with attempted rape of his daugh ter, received seven to 10 years in I the State Pen when he was found j guilty of the charge in Orange coounty superior court Tuesday. Judge Leo Carr of Burlington pro nounced the sentence. Garnet Cotton, young unwed Negro mother of Hillsboro, re- J ceived three to five years when she pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of her two-day-old unnamed son. The Negro mother had been charged with murder. The child was found in a pit privy in Hillsboro the morning a*fter he was bom and died later in a Dur ham hospital. Other cases this week: Divorce granted Mary C. Burnett from Willie Burnett; divorce granted Hazel Riggsbee from Eli Riggsbee; Arthur Foushee, Arthur Fou shee, Jr., Willie Jenkins and Dor sey Hargraves, larceny, nol p’ with leave; Henry A. Head, alias J. C. Head, pros with leave; ulia Foushee, ille gal possession of liquor for sale, . continued;. . . __4. Thomas Covington, three charges of breaking and entering and one charge of larceny, four years on roads; * ' * Robert Riddle, passing worthless check, 30 days on roads and repay check; Leola Foust, illegal posses sion of liquor, two years; Earnest Rogers, manslaughter, three years. Report of the grand jury re vealed that all offices in the county were functioning properly and that 92 per cent.of the 1947 tax levy had been collected. -O **•«• Ban/, Mebsne.^ElT* under Wflv ^borate Dr-nc / colorfm toh*n Mebane to Sf 3re ers WarJh b cco bati in tu S^ge a ber 3?°^ on Fridavh| Farm' openin JUSf 10 days r> ®®Ptem- / £gl~ «^s*ggggs*i ot*nt U*,e,J fSSsfcsaSs/ meet t^^Joners «,!r ^ood^ iTV0! L?,!? rave not ‘her boards t,Tuesday, Grace Bivins Of ffillsboro Accepts Job As Teacher In Remote S. American Area Miss Grace Bivins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Bivins of Hills boro, left last Thursday for South America where she will help set up and teach in a Socony Vacuum Oil company school. The new teaching assignment for Miss Bivins offers an exciting challenge due to the unusual cir rJJJSSSiSfiPS under which she will ive and work, Fortunately she is being accompanied by Miss Mar garet Rauhof who last year taught ^ith her at the Winston-Salem -entral school. The two young teachers have )een employed by the oil company ° “start from scratch” in build nS a school for the children of the company’s American employees, f’he school will be located in a emote oil company in Venezuela vhich can be reached only by >urro or by plane. The oil com ^ny has provided a complete li >rary of children’s books and rec ird library as well as other modern ch°°l equipment. The school’s roster will include 15 names, all of children un w years of age. Miss Bivins teach kindergarten to six of he children and music to all, and *«s Rauhof will teach the others leoentary work. . Miss Bivins feels that the work --• - fr _ will be extremely interesting. “The most beautiful thing about the whore affair is that each child will have so much individual attention. Such a challenge to us,” she said. Miss Rauhof was the first of the two girls to become interested in the new adventure. “I wasn’t in terested,” said Miss Bivins, “until I had spnt a week in New York as a guest of the Socony Company. There I became very enthused about the possibilities ot the work and on top of that I spent one of the most exciting weeks I have ever enjoyed.” Miss Bivins must be in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 1. She will later fly to the little villatf; outside Barinas in th western part of Venezuela where, the camp is locat'd. Miss Bivins’ first teaching posi tion after graduating from High Point College was at Rural HalL The^e she directed the church choirs, and a year later she taught piano in Fairmount and directed the Methodist church choir. Among the things she is carry ing are old golf clubs contributed by Dr. Spurgeon of Hillsboro and an old violin and tenor guitar pre sented to her by Dr. Bryan Rob erts, also of Hillsboro. C. W. Tilson, general ger of the Farmer* Mutual,! Inc., Is shown addressing part of the large crowd that atte» rmal opening of the Farmers Mutual, Inc., warehouse h«re aturday Farmers *' Warehouse is Formal Op Over l,t tdJiy county farm ers insj '*3d the new Farmers Mu tual, In warehouse ure Saturday as a formal opening w s observed. J. H. McAdams, manager of the warehouse in Hillsboro, snipped the ribbon officially opening the warehouse and office to the milling throng of farmers and other inter ested observers who gathered for the event. County Agent Matheson in point ing out the value of the Farmers Mutual to the people of Orange county quoted figures from the Federal census of 1945 showing that in the past 10 years 11935-45) value of poultry products market erflrt County increased from $131,000 to $360,000. “I believd that by 1950 the poultry products marketed will exceed $500,000,” Matheson asserted. During the same period" dairying in the county has increased from an annual gross o $170,000 to $450, 000, he said. During the day prizes were awarded. The ollowing people re ceived them: Beulah Walker, Hills boro, sack of laying mash; Mrs. Fred Reitzel, Route 2, Hillsboro, sack of 16 per cent dairy feed; F. M- Ward, Route 1, Chapel Hill, 50 pounds of’flour; R. M. Baker, Route 1, Hillsboro, 16 quart presi1 sure cooker; and Isaac Brown, West Hillsboro, five quarts of mo tor oil.'__ --O-: Union Grove Homecoming Homecoming services will be held at Union Grove church on Sunday, August 29, with Dr. R. B. House as the principal speaker. • The congregation of the church hopes to have its new stone church completed in a few more weeks. Draft Deferments Listed By President; Married Men And Faraers Are Eieqrt Prqpident Truman last week set many a mind at rest by officially deferring married men, farmers, all men with deperftients and many others from the 21-month peace time draft. The deferments are far more liberal than they were during World War II. ( Most of them had been predicted long ago, but they are not official until the President announced them in a 30-page set o fregulations that also ordered selective service to speed upduction machinery. This will be accomplished by sending out the all-important clas sification questionnaires as soon as possible to single, non-father, non veteran eligibles after men 18 through 25 register at their local boards between August 30 and September 18. (Later, all except 188-year-olds must fill out the questionnaires.) - These forms, which will go to draft-age men 19 through 25, must be filled out in 10 days and re turned to draft boards which will use them to determine classifica tions. (Youths of 188 are not eligi ble for the draft, but- must regis ter.) The classifications as listed by the President today fall into 13 groups., with mien available for mil itary service listed as 1-A. Actual drafting of 1-A men will be by age, with the oldest called first. There will be no lottery as in the last war. The call, to ..uniform will be determined by classifica tion (set by local boards) and by age. These are the men who are ex empt from the draft: The law passed by Congress au tomatically exempts veterans with at least 90 days service between Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) and V-J Day (Sept. 2, 1945), or with 12 months service between Sept. 16, 1940, and June 24, 1948 (the date the draft law went into ef fect). Also exempt by( law are ordained ministers, students studying for the ministry, and conscieutious objec tors (from combatant service: they may be used in the military serv ices in non-combatant activities if they do not protest). Automatically deferred by the draft law are high school students up to graduation or the age,of 20 (whichever comes first) and col lege students for the rest of the academic year. Howevr, studnts must be doing all right in their studies. The law says the President has the right to defer certain others, and he has done that, listing them as flows: II-A—Men involved in study, re search, or medical, scientific or other endeavors considered neces 52fy to the national health, safty or interest. The deferments will be for one year or less, and may be changed by the President, or by local boards (if the men change jobs). II-C—Farm workers or men en gaged in agricultural occupation. The same deferment period and qualifications govern this group the same as II-A. II I-A—Anyone with dependents. This can mean a married man who maintains a bonafide family rela tionship, or a ma 'nwhose induc tion could mean hardship to a de pendent. Dependents are defined as • wife, a divorced wife, a child, par ent, grandparent, brother or sister, a nerson 18 years of age (or older if the person is physically er men tally handicapped) or, in s^ort, anyone who depends on the draft age man for a living or financial help. Some points probably will be cleared up later, selective service headquarters said. As th ruling stands now, it merely says a mar ried man is dferted, and does not set any specific.dates for his mar riage. Consequently, men married be-' tween now and registration peri ods would be exempt, draft offi-, cials said. IV-A—A rgisttant who has com pleted service, end sole surviving sons. (A sole surviving son is one -... |-r—.— -- Registration ju$es will be open between the h^ffs 61 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. on days designated for registration. Persons born in the year 1922 after August 30, 1922'—-Monday, August 30, 1948. Persons born in the year 1923 —Tuesday, August 31, 1948, or Wednesday, September t, 1948. Persons born In the year 1924 —Thursday, September 2, 1948, or Friday, September 3, 1948. Persons born in the year 1925 —8atUrday, September 4, 1948, or Tuesday, September 7, 1948. Persons born In the year 1926 —Wednesday, September 8, 1948, or Thursday, September 9, 1948. Persons born in the year 1927— Friday, September 10. 1948, or Saturday, September 11, 1948. , Persons born in the year 1928 —Monday, September 13, 1948, or Tuesday, September 14, 1948. Persons bo'rn in the year 1929 —Wednesday, September 15, 1948, or Thursday, September 16, 1948. Persons-born In the year 1930 before September 19, 1930—Fri day, September 17, 1948, or Sat urday, September 18, 1948. Persons who were born on or after. September 19, 1930, shall be registered on the day they at tain the eightenth annlvrsary of their birth or within five days thereafter. ~ Places of registration are: " Aycock High School Building; Caldwell, Grocery Store next to School Building; Chapel Hill, Le gion Hut; Hillsboro, Local Draft Board Offices over Corner Drug Store; White Cross, Grange Hall. of a family of which one or more sons dr daughters were killed dur ing the last wear.) IV-B-r-Almost all public officials elected to office, including the Vice President, state governors, any official choSen by voters of the entire state (Congressmen, for ex ample), a judge of a court 6f rec ord, a member of the legislative body of any state or territory or possession. IV-C.—Aliens. IV-D—Ministers of religion or divinity students. This means any duly ordained minister, or students preparing for the ministry under the direction of a recognized church or religious organization. XV-E — Conscieutious objectors opposed to both combatant and non-combatant seryice and train ing. (The law says an objector need not serve as a combatant in the armed services, but could as a non-combatant. Last week’s ruling frees him from either service if he requests.) • IV- F—Physically, jnentally, or morally unfit. V- A—A registrant over the age of liability for military service. Opening of Schools Is Delayed Because of General Polio Threat 1949 Agricultural Program Outlined At Cartilage Meet A. K. McAdams, secretary of the county committee, attended a meeting on August 5, at Carthage, where, representatives of a number of county associations discussed with the PM A fieldman the plans for the 1949 Agricultural Conser vation program. Congress has authorized the de velopment of the program for next year on the basis of an.increase in the appropriation over the funds available for the 1948 program. The amount which can be paid to farmers in this county for carrying out practices in 1949 will be about the samb as the funds available in 1947. In the meeting, practices which are included in the 1949 State Handbook were reviewed and dis cussed. The practices selected by, the county committee will appear in the county handbook which is to be prepared and submitted to the state committee for approval by August 25. It is hoped that the Orange coun ty handbook will be approved in time to distribut to all farmers In the county by October 1, in order that they can make their plans regarding practices which require action this Fall. For example, a farmer who plans to establish a winter cover crop of rye, wheat, oats or barley will need to obtain prior approval of the county com mittee in time to seed the crop by August 31, 1948, and will then need to report the acreage seeded at the county office by November 1, 1948. One important change from pre vious programs is that prior ap proval of the county committee will be required for all practices, and that a farmer will be required to report practices carried out in^ mediately after completing the practice. -This plan of operation will enable the county committee to make more efficient use of the funds available. -O Merchants Group Plans Annual Picnic Sept 1 TheCHaftel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association will have its an nual picnic at the New Hope Pres byterian church on September 1, with the New Hope Grange fur nishing the food. It will be the! first social affair for the associa tion on a large scale. Merchants .and their wives, employees and their families will attend. Septem ber 1 will mark the last Wednes day of the summer closing period. At 3:30 a softball game will be gin with teams chosen from the south and north sides of Franklin street. The Bank of Chapel Hill will award the winning team a lov ing cup to be kept one year and then awarded at the next annual game. Jack MeDade of the Electric Construction Company has been elected manager of the north team, and Charles Phillips of the Farm ers Dairy Is manager of the south side. -O-—— I / . ' -r Recorder’s Coart Casfes. 4n recorder’s court last week were: . J. “Marin” Godfrey, reckless ‘drtgfttgr not guilty? Advrs- McCau ley, reckless .driving, $15 and eosts; Haywood Dunnagan, public drunk enness, $5 and costs; Kidd L. Green, public drunkenness, costs; Alphonso Carroll, public drunk enness, not guilty; Glenn Duck worth, possession of non-tax-pald whisky for the purpose of sale and selling whisky, six months sus pend 12 months on payment of $50 fine and costs; Glenn Duckworth, assault with a deadly weapon on a female, $25 fine and costs. Frank Mack, public drunken ness,. costs; Elmira. Hudson Jefc. feries, abandonment arid non-sup-, port of wife, judgment continued 12 months on condtiion he pay costs at the, rate of $15 per week and support his wife and two minor children. Jack Snipes, reckless driving, not guilty; V. I. Moody, flailing to give hand signal and damage to personal property, not guilty. Opening of Orange county schools has been delayed until Sept. 7, it was announced this week by County Superintendent Glenn T. Proffitt, because of the contin ued prevalence of polio in the county. Schools in Orange county had originally been scheduled to open on Sept. 1. The delayed opening was ordered by Proffitt after re ceiving word from Dr. O. David Garvin, superintendent of the health department, that he would recommend, the schools not open on the scheduled date. Dr. Garvin announced this week that children entering school this Pall should bring with them cer tificates from their physicians showing what diseases they have been immunized against. Dr. Garvin’s statement in full is: “This summer there have been several cases of diphtheria and whooping cough in the county, among children who were believed to have been adequately immu nized. Due to this fact, we feel that it will be necessary for the parents of all children entering school for the first time this year to furnish the teacher with a cer tificate signed by a physician, showing what immunizations the child has received. This certificate should be furnished the teacher .not later than 14 days after the opening date of the respective schools. If no certificate has been furnished by that date, it will be assumed that the parents expect the child to receive those immu nizations in the school, as required by the North Carolina law. “These laws have been passed in the interest of preventing, through adequate immunization, the spread of the diseases—diphtheria, whoop ing cough, and smallpox—which are particularly dangerous during childhood. “These immunizations may be obtained from your physician or at your local health department. Clinic hours at Hillsboro Health Department are: Friday, 1-4 p. m.; Saturday, 9 a. m.-l noon. Clinic hours at District Health Depart ment in Chapel Hill are: Friday, 2-4 p. m.; Saturday, 9 a. m.-12 noon." Five-County Dairy Calf Show Scheduled To Be Held in Hillsboro Friday, Oct 29 o'f much interest to club mem bers and adult farmers of this sec tion will be a dairy heifer show and sale which will be held at the local market On Friday, October 29. The purpose is to stimulate in terest in the production of more and better dairy animals in this section. Sponsors of the show and sale will be the Farmers Mutual, Inc., in cooperation with the milk distributing plants of the area. _This show will take place in the morning and the sale in the after noon. The show will include both purebred and grade heifers which will be divided into two classes. Animal# up to one * year in one class and a second class from one year to freshening. Prize* will be awarded as follows: A11 owners of heifers winning blue ribbon awards will receive $6;, red ribbon, $4; white ribbon, $2. In addition to Orange county,' entries will be made from Person, j Durham, Granville, and Chatham r coounties. In the afternoon, .the owners of any of the animals will be permitted to place his animal in the sale. This sale is not com pulsory. The show and sale are. open to any club member as- well as adult farmers in this five-county area. Applications for an entry of an animal may be obtained from the County Agent’s office or voca tional teachers. All farmers who have purebred or good grade heifers are urged to take advantage of this opportunity to show, and, if desired, to seU the animals at this event. It is estimated that there will be approximately one hundred ani mals entered in the show. It is the first of its kind to ever be held in North Carolina and its success will do much to create a greater interest in dairying throughout the area. Garden Club to . Start Activity At Luncheon The Hillsboro Garden Club will resume fall meetings with a lunch eon September 2 in the Colonial Inn, at 1 o’clock. . Mrs. Roy Homewood, who is dis trict chairman of the State Garden Clubs, will be the guest speaker. Mrs. Charles S. Hubbard, president of the local Garden Club, urges all members to attend this meeting. The following are the officers for the year: president, Mrs. Charles S. Hubbard; first vice-president, Mrs. C. D. Jones; second vice-presi dent, Mrs. H. W. Moore; secretary, Mrs. L. W Strayhom. The committee chairmen are; birds, Mrs. H. W. Moore; civic im provement, Mrs. Don Matheson; Conservation, Mrs. M. B. Roberts; experimentation, __ Mrs. Everette Forrest; flower show, Mrs. R. O. Forrest; highway beautification, Mrs. Glenn Auman; Historian, Mrs. J. S. Spurgeon; horticulture, Mrs. C. W. Sharpe; librarian, Mrs. Felix Forrest; pil grimage, Mrs. George Gilmore; publicity, Mrs. E. R. Dowdy; pro gram, Mrs. C. D. Jones; restoration, Mrs. T. N. Webb; social, Mrs. Gar land Miller; year book, Mrs. H. H. Brown. ~:r=rT=r. . --—o REUNION POSTPONED The annual Johnson and Jones family reunion scheduled at Mount Olive Baptist church on route 2. Graham, has been postponed this year because of the polio situation. Fanner Near Chapel Hill Develops Plaa For Selling Fresh Eggs By Self-Service „ HL A gones pf jgpute JL^uflMUn*, Is putting a hew selling plan into effect this week at a new roadside stand which he has named “Th Egg Hous.” His 10-acre chicken farm which he purchased two years ago is lo jcated on the Durham-Chapel,-Hill ' road just a few miles out of Chapel Hill and directly across the road from Dr. Foy Roberson's Cedar Terrace farm. Mr. Jones has been two years 'imiMmg up ftiir tloete ot lay* ers. They are Austra Whites which is a cross between a white leghorn and an Australorpe. The Austro lorpe ispa breed of fowl that was developed ir\ Australia and, quot ing Jones, is the world’s hardiest breed, of chickens. When cross- j bred with the white leghorn, a big egg producer, you have the Austra White \Hiiich, according to Mr. Jones, is ap excellent,, producer, and is quite poplar ,in California apd Arizona. ^ “The Egg House” is located at the roadside about 300 yards from - Stir. Jones’ house and can easily be identified by *a large sign inj close proximity. It is covered with a good weatherproof roof and open at the front. Eggs are stacked on a shelf in dozen cartons. A box is provided for the customer to drop his money in ami he can save him self. Mr. Jones said that he had a lot of confidence in his fellow man ^.aud.he quite suxe. that his-cus-v 1 tomers would leave the rquired amount of money for the egg? they wished to buy. Let’s hope that he has no reason to lose that faith and I for one don't think that he will. The prices I of both his medium and large eggs will be plainly posted in “The Egg House” and if the person who wishes to purchase eggs has the right change I am sure the proper amount will be dropped in the box. "Mr Jtnr<*S”*K ~semn$r wfs medium eggs this week for 45 cents and his large eggs tot 65 cents a dozen. I asked Mr. Jones how he hap pened t odecide on such a method of self-service. He said that it was so inconvnient for patrons to turn into his driveway which is a very abrupt turn, particularly with some some of the fast traffic at times on the highway on this straight stretch of road. Also, the fact that his house sets back from the highway and makes it rather inconvenient as far as time is con cerned for a customer to drive up - to his house. Sufficient space, be side the hard surface has been filled in to allow tike motorist to pull completely off the highway In front of “The Egg House” to make:: bis purchase. I wished Mir. Jones a lot of suc cess In his n.ew venture and as sured him that 1 would be one of his anient customer*. t.mp
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