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Vol. 55- No- 34
Yoiir Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893
(Published Weekly)
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1948
Price: S2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week
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om Divms Assumes
'ostmastership Here
Tom Bivins, a native of Hillsboro
Ind the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E,
Bivins, Wedrfcsday assumed the
ostmastership of the Hillsboro
ost office.
A World War II veteran, Bivins
eplaces S. Strudwick as postmas
er. For the past several years Mrs.
hnra Lynch has been serving as
Jet in" postmaster.'
Bivins finished Hillsboro high
Ichool in the spring of 1938 and
{ntered State College where he
vas graduated in the spring of
1943.
From State he entered the Army
vhfcre he received his commission
Is a second -lieutenant in the in
fantry. ' '. ’ •* •
He served at Camp Blanding,
fla., and Camp Livingston, La., he
re' leaving for overseas service
August of 1944.
In November of the same year
lie was injured and was returned
lo the United States in January,
1945. He was discharged from the
trmy in February, 1947. During
tie intervening time he was a pa
rent in England General hospital
|n Atlantic City, N. J., and Walter
teed hospital in Washington.
He is a member of the Hillsboro
tethodist church, a Sunday School
feacher and a membe rof the Hills
boro Lions club.
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ivil Cases Heard
Superior Court
Session This Week
Civil cases were being consid
ered this week in the session of
Orange county superior court be
iore Judge Leo Carr of Burlington.
A number of divorces were
'ranted. They were:
Willie Mary Roberts Cu reton
rom William Cureton;..
Louise^ Helms Woodcock from
Herman Lee Woodcock;
Hilda Fowler Abril from Joe
April;
Mary Elizabeth Pope Cayton
rom Winstead LaVerne Caytop;
I or.nie Riggsbee fr-m M-ry 15a
wards Riggsbee;
Alma Cash Hearn from Clarence
Garland Hearn.;
Daisy Higgs Utsman from May
nard C. Utsman;
Effie - Winstead Jones from
James Lee Jones.
A mistrial was ordered in the
hearing of Arbie W. Parker,
charged with murder in the second
degree, when the jurors found him
not guilty of second degree murder
but could hot agree on a man
slaughter verdict.
Parker was declared guilty of
assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill, but judgment was
deferred until the December term.
In other cases, Gene Watson
drew 12 months suspnded for two
years on a charge of larceny, and
Joseph Broughtman had judgment
continued two years on a charge
of forcible trespass. A charge of
biganiy against him was dismissed.
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Water Plant
Budget Set
A budget of $16,050 has been
adopted by the town commission
ers for the operation of the Hills
boro water plant for, the coming
H?L .according^ to a report from
Mayor Ben Johnston.——
Items in the budget and the
amount set up for each are: salary
of superintendent, $3,250; power,
$1,500; supplies, $2,500; truck, $300;
repairs, $100; miscellaneous, $2,153;
State Board of Health, $64; debt
service, $6,080; and Rustop system,
$103.
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Inspection Lane
Dates Announced
For Orange County
A motor vhicle inspection lane
will be in Orange county from
September 14 through Septem
ber 29, it was revealed this week.
From September 14, through
Sptember 20, it will be located
in Hillsboro and from September
22 through r September 29 in
Chapel Hill. - -
Models of the years 1937 and
1948 must be inspected on or
before September 30.
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Former Carrboro
Man Dies In Maine
River Accident
Carrboro.—Charles W. Pender
graft, son of W. F. Pendergraft, was
accidentally drowned in Cauiboue,
Maine, August 19 while on a boom
of logs with two companions.
Pendergraft,,who was 24, is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Ruth
Gonion Pendergraft, of Midway,
Maine, where funeral services were
held with military honors.
Young Pendergraft, whose boy-:
hood was spent in this section,
served in the Army Air Corps two
and one-half years during the war
with overseas duty. He is survived
by the following sisters: Mrs. Er
nest Crain, Carrboro; Mrs. D. H.
Beam, Mebane; Mrs. Ben Fergu
son, Mrs. Carl Wilson, Mrs. Robert
Shelton and Miss Mary Pender
grr ft of the home, all near Chapel
Hi.i, one brother, Herbert Pender
graft of near Asheville.
H. F. Pendergraft, his father, and
Mrs. Crain and Mrs. Wilson attend
ed the funeral in Maine and re
turned home last Thursday.
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Damascus Church
Homecoming Is
Held Sunday
A number of people from Carr
boro and Chapel Hill attended a
homecoming all-day service at Da
mascus Congregational church four f
miles from Carrboro last Sunday, j
The, Rev. O. D_ Poy threes was.
the minister who spoke at the' 11
o’clock,hour. .The Rev. Joseph Mc
Cauley preached the afternoon ser
mon. Both ministers spent their
boyhood near Damascus church.
Special music was rendered for
the day by Leary Poythress of
Washington, D. C., and his brother,
Rev. O. D. Poythress, of South Nor
folk, Va., who is conducting a re
vival this week beginning each
evening at 8 o’clock.
The service last Sunday was the
regular fifth Sunday meeting of
Chapel Hill Congregational-Chris
tian church, Martha’s chapel, Mor
risville, and Damascus church, of
which the Rev. G. C. Carmichael,
R F D., Burlington, is the pastor.
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St Mary’s Grange
To Hold Meeting
St. Mary’s Grange will meet
Thursday, September 2. {.
Schley Grange will be present
to have charge of the program.
Members of both Granges are
urged to attend. 7
Jersey Herds Of Two Orange County Men
Classified For Type By National Club
The registered Jersey herds
owned by Howard W. Odum and
Hubert Meachem, Chapel Hill,
have recently been classified for
type under the program of the
American Jersey Cattle Club, with
headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.
Professor G. E. Taylor of New
Brunswick, N. -J., an official clas
sier for the cattle club, made the
classification of the Odum hercT."
Under the Jersey herd classifica
tion program animals are com
pared for type against the breed’s
card which allots 100 points
mr a perfect animal. Animals are
pven individual ratings of excel
lent, very good, good plus, good,
tair, or poor in accordance with
the number of points which they
receive on the score card basis.
The 13 animals classified in the
Odum herd include the excellent
cow Triple Louisoxford Queen
1513773, 9 very good and 3 good
plus for an average of 86.73 per
cent. This score exceeds the aver
age rating of 82.85 per cent for all
animals classified in the Jersey
breed and Mr. Odum is to be con
gratulated on-the type, of jgattle
in his herd. r *
The 14 animals classified in the
5 good plus and 2 good for an aver
Meacham herd include 7 very good,
age score of 84.27 per cent. This
score also exceeds the average
rating of 82.85 per cent for all ani
mals classified. -
Awarded Eagle Scout Badge
Donnie Whitaker, age 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Whitaker of
Hillsboro, received his Eagle Scout badge Thursday at a meeting of
the Hillsboro Lions club. Bonner D. Sawyer, chairman of Orange
District, made the presentation to Mrs. Whitaker and requested that
she pin the badge on her son. Donnie is a mmber of Troop 38 of
Hillsboro, which is sponsored by the Lions Club, and his father is
Scoutmaster of the troop.
R. L Mohler Named Chairman Red Cross;
Miss Betty Jane Hayes, Secretary-Treas.
At a Red Cross meeting held in
Hillsboro on August 26, R. L. Moh
ler, who planned and headed the
Red Cross Fund drive last March,
was unanimously elected chairman
of the Orange county chapter for
the ensuing year, and Miss Betty
Jean Hayes was chosen as secre
tary and treasurer.
One or more vice-chairmen will
be named in the near future as
well as chairmen for the special
srvices which include disaster re
lief, home service, Junior Red
Cross, home nursing, first aid, nu
trition, water safety, public infor
mation and volunteer services.
Miss Janet Cox, Red Cfc&s arda
representative, who attended the
meeting, gave a description of these
various services and how they
function. She ‘stressed the fact
that many people think of the Red
Cross as a wartime activity and do
not realize the varied and vital
services that it renders in time of
peace.
Sh called attention to the way
in which the Red Cross is cooperat
ing in the present polio epidemic,
stating that it. was rsponsible for
having recruited 500 nurses for the
emergency.
Th'e Red Cross has also been sup
ply ng toys, books and gams for
polio victims and has carried bn a
shopping service for convalescents.
Where parents have been able to
visit their children, buses and
trains have been met and the par
ents taken to the hospitals where
their children were.
In addition to all this, the Red
Cross obtains daily reports from
the polio patients and gets them to
the parents. Mrs. Mabel Britton,
Red Cross field representative for
Orange county, stated that the par
ents of each Orange county polio
victim were contacted each day
with a report of their child's prog
ress.
Plans were discussed for in
creased Red Cross activity in Or
ange county and ways in which
wider service could be rendered.
‘Among- the things give® special -at
tention were the establishment of
first aid classes, more intensive
work with the Junior Red Coss,
the launching of a water safety
program, and increased home serv
ice.
Miss Cox reported that Durham
had been recently designated as a
blood center and stated that within
the next eight or ten months this
center would be ready to start op
erating. She gave a vivid descrip
tion of the vital-need for the Red
Cross blood program and discussed
with the group ways in which the
Orange county chapter can co
operate.
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Garden Club Meets
Today At 1 O’clock
The Hillsboro Garden club will
hold its first fall meeting this aft
ernoon at 1 o’clock in tKe' Colonial.
Inn.
Mrs. Roy Homewood, who is dis
trict chairman of the State Garden
Clubs, will be the guest speaker.
Mrs. Charles S. Hubbard, presi
dent of the local club, urges all
members to make plans to attend.
Tow“ Bulge* Set;
$1-25 Tax levy
^ Established
A budget calling r0r th»
diture of u . 1,16 e*pen
by the Hillsboro t &S been ad°Pted
the 1948-49 tax l*?n council and
Mayor Ben rl 6set at 51-25,
this week. ^ ns*°n announced
Pay^rai^rft^fu’t™‘ch deludes
Is higher than the S17 fli?n ?“pl°yes»
adopted for operati^84?'12 bud«et
last year or 266°^* t0wn
ed by the towm,266ji9 *xP**d
budSr weraiSeS U"der bbe new
dayandStSf t0 b°th S
clerk and the mayor™60’ the lowo
from $400°to^OO^ay°r Was raised
clerk from $] 4»o fea«' tbe town
anIOtCimdeLln$2So5rf,bU^et is l
large in Sr L »>at
m°ney jn case the^to* S°fflci0rlt
needed to be r»«i town s truck
»« betore «“
ako 'bci.,,.,,; .
3*000 Expected
Ear Mebaae Weed
Festival Friday
o' *•«» Pec
"» Tobacco Fc-s|,caieF"'L‘he ,Meb‘
Sept. 3, in Mebane Ffday night,
mated this weSfbv Afr -^3S esti'
Mcbane Exchang^ci-of1^8 9* -h?
of fhe evtm - 5 C b’ spoors
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last year’s beaufv 6’ Winner of
tbc iffld 0,2 »"> 'ead
m last year’s c-ontestAfia c a 0813018
vlted to partidwtei^Zhr"1?*
contest agai nthis year y
®®wble Feature
Stock Car Race
Scheduled Here
South is slated^or tho'ned 'n ,he
ra«. P In<b' **Pons©Fs- of the
This will be the s«va„j
on the Speedway *ace held
o' »hichPS
mer. a car«^f- P ted th,s s™
■»«>«> is K^a^jV0-000
event. * exPected for the
Chapel Hill, County Schools
Will Open on September 13
Glenn T. Proffitt, superintendent
of Orange county schools, this week
announced the second postpone
ment in the opening of Orange
county schools when he disclosed
that the county schools would open
on September 13.
Previously the school opening
date had been moved from Septem
ber 1 to September 7. Chapel Hill
schools will also open on the same
date as the county schools.
The second postponement on the
opening was made at the recom
mendation of Dr. O. David Garvin,
county health physician, who
pointed out the dangers of opening
the schools ’ with po^io cases still
occurring in Orange county.
His letter to Superintendent
Proffitt was:
“The occurrence of four cases
of poliomyelitis in Orange county
within the past eleven days, in my
opinion, warrants the postpone
ment of county and Chapel Hill
schools one week beyond the sched
uled opening on the 7 th. This rec
ommended opening date would be
the same as that scheduled for
some of the adjoining counties.
Specifically, I recommend that
you delay the opening of the coun
ty schools until the second week
of September.
-“The most recent case of polio
myelitis occurred in Carrboro on
the 26th with two having occurred
in the county during the past
week.”
Proffitt said that everything was
ready for the opening with the ex
ception of getting three teachers
in the system. One teacher is need
ed a't Hillsboro high, one at Carr
and Aycock.
In the past week four new school
buses have arrived for the county’s
use. Orange county is .due to re
ceive seven new buses this year
and it is being hoped that the re
maining three will be secured be
fore schools open.
A total of 42 buses will be op
erated this year by the county, 33
for white students and nine for
Negro students. ~ ■ '
No major changes have been
made in the routing of school
buses. They will, for all practical
reasons, follow the same routes as
they did last year, Proffitt stated.
Twelve buses will be operated
1 from Hillsboro, three from Efland,
seven from Aycock, three at Cald
well, three at White Cross, five at
' Chapel Hill, six at Hillsboro Negro
| and three at Orange County Train
ing School.
ui leacners in tne scnoois
1 this year follows:
j White Schools
Hillsboro School: G. A. Brown,
! district principal; E. R. Dowdy
'Glenn Auman, Mrs. Ellen J. Craig,
Mrs. E. T. Campbell, Mrs. Beth G.
Forrest, Mrs.- Betty J. Snipes, Mrs.
Miriam B. Kurbjun, Mrs Betty L.
| Rosemond, Mary Susan Robertson,
1 Helen Sorrell, Mrs. Alpha 3. Blake,
i Mrs. Lucille W. Strayhorn, Mrs.
T W. rviKtrp*., Mrs Alice M. Mc
Bane, Mrs. Mary B. Dodson, Rosa
Cole, Mrs. Luther Sharpe, Estelle
Brown, Mrs. Helen D." Carr, Mrs.
Mamie B. Ray, Mrs. Mary L. Webb,
Rebecca Liner, Maude McCauley,
Ruth Crawford, Annie Cameron,
Mrs. D. E. Patterson, Mrs. Alice S.
Cates.
West Hillsboro School: Mrs.
Gladys H. Harris, principal; Mrs.
Lillian J. Smith, Mrs. Dorothy G.
j Cole, Carrie Moyle Umstead, Mrs.
| Ollie H. Brown, Mattie Blackwood.
! Murphey School: Mrs. Erna U.
1 Link, principal; Mrs. Mary W.
I Browning, Mrs. Myrtle U. Walker,
i Efland School: C. L. Cates, prin
f cipai; Mrs. Clare P. Lee, Mrg. Betty
J T: Hubbard, Mrs.' Turner Forrest,
jjMtel^S^J^ Mra. Limaa D. An
drews, M rs. Mary lD: Muftayr ‘*““*
Aycock School: E. F. Cude, prin
i cipai; Mrs. Jennie B. Wells, Mrs.
Margaret W. Walker, Mrs. Louise
1 W. Winslow, G. A. Munn, Mrs.
Irene O. Pender, Mrs. Rosa T.
i j Claytor, Marie Wells, Mrs. Odie
| V. Munn, Mrs. Pauline O. Lloyd,
. Mrs. Janie H. Pope.
Carrboro School; Raymond J.
j Kiddoo, principal; Mrs. Ethelyne
Studebaker, Mrs. Amelia F. Thomp1
- son, Mrs. Irma H. Hand, Mrs. Eliza
! beth B'. Lockhart,' Agnes Andrews,
Mrs. Louise L. Maddry, Mrs. Paul
ine W. Ferguson.
White Cross School: Mrs. Blanche
Mattox, principal; Mrs. Lillian D.
Meredith, Mrs. Jean P. Stephenson,
Margaret "Stanford.
Caldwell School: Thomas H- Ra
ney, principal; Mrs. Bonnie W.
Raney, Mrs. Mary R. Mitchell, Asa
I^hew.
Negro School*
Hillsboro School: A. L. Stanback,
principal; Betty Pretty, Martha
Chavious, Mrs. Cora J. Tuck, Mrs.
Catherine Stanback, Mrs. Louise
W. Madden, Harold Webb, Mrs.
Viola K. Speller, Robert Rabb, Mrs.
'Narvia W. Coward, Mrs. Lena E.
Richardson, Mrs. Ruth F. McRae,
Mrs.'Miranda D. McPherson, Mrs.
''Josephine E. Yorkley, Mrs. Rosa
Lee Bellamy, Mrs. Fannie C. War
ner. , _.
Ridge Road School: Mrs- Alethea
A. Burt, Mrs. Ruth S. Torain.
Efland School: Beecher Coward,
Marjorie Norris, Mrs. Ava L. Van
story.
Fairfield School: Mrs. Annie M.
Fuller.
■- Gravelly Hill School: Bruce A.
Hill, Mrs. Margaret Hester.
High Rock School: Mrs. Alice T.
McAdoo.
Carr School: Mrs. Nina M. Fof
ten.
Cedar Grove School: Ethel Stan
field.
Grover School: Henry K. Groton,
Mrs. Lucy M. James.
Harmony School: Mrs. Ossie T.
Snipes.
Jordan's Grove School: Mrs.
Lara P. Vanhook.
Sartin School: Mrs. Elizabeth P.
Rainey, Gladys Morrow.
White Oak School: Richard
Traynham, Mrs. Bertha T. Cooper.
Damascus School: Mrs. Rosa S.
Holloway.
Hickory Grove School: Earl T.
Artis, Mrs. Pearl M. Caldwell,
i Merritts School: Mrs. Ethel S.
Clark.
Morris Grove School: James T.
Snipes, Mrs. Eleanor M. Brown.
Poplar Grove chool: Mrs. Mar
garet F. Battle.
Campaign For Lighted Athletic Field
Gets Under Way In Coonty, Hillsboro
The campaign to provide Hills
boro and northern Orange coanjy
with a lighted athletic field got
under way this week.
A team of solicitors are contact
ing local business houses and are
also making a house-to-house can
vass. No report on the progress
of the solicitors has been yet re
ceived. Weekly reports, however,
will be released in the future.
•A total fund of $6,000 is bing
sought for the first phase of an
organized recreation program for
Hillsboro and surrounding Orange
county.
The lighted field ’will provide
for softball, baseball, volley ball
and a large variety of other sports
at night when more people are free
to take part and also to be specta
tors.
When the field is completed, rep
resentatives of the N. C. Recreation
commission are coming in and
make a survey of recreation facili
ties needed. Their report will list
recommendations fpr a complete
program, fully utilizing all the fa
cilities both day and night.
A full-time director is contem
plated for the summer months to
direct a full-time program. This
would include activities during the
day for the children at a wading
pool, athletic fields and recreation
buildings.
The committee sponsoring the
solicitation of funds for the pro
gram urges everyone to make as
large donations as possible. If you
are not contacted by a solicitor,
mail your donation to Recreation
Committee, Box 397, Hillsboro.
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Checked Approved
first Inspection
Raleigh.—Through July, the me
chanical inspection division of the
Department of Motor Vehicles in
i spected 315,578 vehicle*, the de
I partmept anounced today.
■ Latest figures of the department
show that 893,259 motor vehicles
are now registered in the State, so
this means there are still 577,681
vehicles to be inspected by Decem
ber 31.
The.mechanical inspection report
showed that 60,505 vehicles were
checked during the month of July.
Of the vehicles inspected thus
fur, 149,881, of 47.50 per cent, were
approved on the first check, while
the- remaining. 165,697, or 52.50 per ’
cent, were found defective on the
first test and had to have defects
j cot rcted befor thy obtaind their
seals of approval
Fire Escapes Bnilt
At Cantoro School
>
New fire escapes have been con
structed at the Carrboro school and
the lunch room has been painted.
Other improvements have been
completed in and around the
i school in making it ready for the
I opening on Sept. 13.
20,000 Bream Placed In Fam Fish Ponds
in County; 5,000 Put In Mew Grahan Lake
Fish Delivered
Ten thousand fish (bream) were
brought tc the count ylast week
l tor stocking farm fish ponds. Half
I of Wiese, 5,000, went into the re
' cently built pond of A. H. Graham..
Other ponds that are being built ;
this fall will be stocked from f a
later order of bream.
Ed.m >nd Latta has his pond about
finished,. and Bradfy Lloyd, Ivan
Lloyd, and C. C. Young, all of the
White Cross community, are plan
ning to build farm fish ponds this
fall. P. R. Perry, Chapel Hill, is
also having a fish pond site sur
veyed.’ Pesonnel of the Soil Con
servation Service, Netise River Dis-.
trict, assist with these farm fish
pond surveys, and also assist with
getting the fish for stocking the
ponds.
Terrace*
Terraces were staked last week
for T. B. Ray, Orange. Grove road,
and C. M. Hight, Durham road.
Farm Wani y
With the assistance of Orange
county work (knit soil conservation
personnel, the following farmers
have recently made a long-period!
plan wfor their farms: William D. -
Parker, Caldwell; Haywood Val
lines. Cedar Grove, Thomas Val
lines and Lee Bradsher, Walnut
Grove church neighborhood; G. F.
Nntter. William Henry Williams,
and William Breeze, Hillsboro;
Paul Fearrington, Chapel Hill; and
H. G. Bales, Schley. In these farm
plans, after the land has been clas
■SiXiet.Js.to type of soil7 slope of
the land, and degree of erosion; “
every part of the farm is consid
ered, and each acre will be used
for whatever crop it is best suited
for, such as pasture, forest, crop
land, roads, fish ponds, etc.
Serlcea Loapedeza-Corti
Erriest Jeffreys, a colored farmer,,
of the Carr community, planted a
washed-awa field to sericea lespe
deza about six ears ago; He har
vested seed from the field until
this ear, when it was- terraced and
put in com. Ernest reports that
the production of com will be
about 40 bushels to the' acre;- Hr
also reports that with the terraces,
and with the com tows ran around
the hill with the terraces, very lit
tle soil has washed out of the field
while producing the com.
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