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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1948
Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Six Pages This Week
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er 350 Ea joy
anal Picnic
Merchants
IHore than 350 merchants of
Kei Hill and Carrboro, their
■'■icves, and their friends gath
■ ,„r the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
■chants Association’s annual
■ . held Wednesday evening at
K Hope church, six miles north
K of the University village,
■he Chapel Hill Rotary Club,
■ch regularly meets on Wednes
K evenings, joined with the asso
■ion for the outing.
■ighlight of the event was a
■ball game during the afternoon,
■■Such the “Yankees,” made up
I employers and employes of
■ns located on the north side of
■nklin and Main streets of
■pel Hill and Carrboro, battled
■“Rebels,” composed of employ
■ and employes of firms on the
Kth sides of the main streets of
■ twin villages.
■Winning by a score of 13-6, the
■torious Yankees walked off the
Hying field with a bronze trophy,
■rented by Bank of Chapel Hill,
Rich they will hold for one year.
Ray Reeve, sports announcer for
idio Station, WRAL, Raleigh*
is guest of the association for the
ent, and he gave a play-by play
anint of the game over a public
dress system.. " "" -
In addition to the ball game,
>rseshoe pitching, group singing,
td square dancing were in prog
ss during the afternoon and eve
ng. At 6:30, the ladies of the
ew Hope Presbyterian church
>rved picnic supper to the crowd
f over 350.
Vic Huggins, president of the
isociation, presided over the in
umal session, and introduced the
flowing special guests: Mayor
nd Mrs. R. W. Madry, Chapel
[ill; Mayor and Mrs. I. A. West,
larrboro; Congressman Carl T.
Durham and Mrs. Durham; Coach
lari T. Snavely and Mrs. Snavely;
Postmaster W. S. Hogan, who is
klso president of the Kiwanis Club,
find Mrs. Hogan; Dr. Frank P.
Jraham, president of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, and Mrs.
Jraham; University Comptroller
f,. IJ, Carmichael, Jr*, and Mrs.
'arsftichaol; and Thompson Green
ret*ry, North
ants , Association,
Greenwood, Raleigh;
Town Manager Winslow Williams
of Carrboro; Town Manager Gi
lbert Ray of Chapel Hill; Chief of
{Police W. T. Sloan of Chapel Hill;
[Chief of Police R. H. Mills of Carr
[boro; Mrs. Marjory Bradshaw, re
cently appointed, hostess of the as
[soeiation; Mrs. Charlotte Creigh
ton, who represents Station WDUK
in Chapel Hill; BUI Shotts, who
j managed the public address sys
tem for the game; and Mr. and
I Mrs. Reeve, of Raleigh. ,
A string band which furnished
music for the square dancing was
arranged by Willis Knight and
composed of W. S. Hogan, violin;
Edward Norwood, guitar; Hubert
Meacham, guitar; and Ed Powell,
banjo. L. J. “Spot” Collins called
the figures for the dancing.
James H. Davis was general
chairman for the picnic.
BEAUMEKT WHTTTON
WILLIAM MUIRHEAD
ROBERT PATTEN
* Contractors Open Drive To Aid Education
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Leaders of a $100,000 fund-raising campaign designed to advance the teaching programs in construction
engineering at State College through the North Carolina Engineering Foundation are pictured here.
They have been chosen to head the educational endowment fund of the Carolinas Branch of the Asso
ciated General Contractors of America, sponsor of the drive.. Left to right: Beaumert Whitton of
Charlotte, vice-president of the Southeastern Construction Company and vice-chairman of the cam
paign; William Muirhead of Durham, campaign chaMnan and president of the William Muirhead Con
struction Company; and Robert Patten of Charlotte, executive secretary of the Carolinas Branch of the
Associated General Contractors, who will serve as campaign secretary.
7,500 Students Are Expected to Register
At University For Term Starting Sept 25
Approximately 7,500 students,
the same as last year, are expect
ed to be enrolled in the University
of North Carolina when classes be
gin Friday, September 24.
Registration is scheduled for
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, September 21, 22, 23.
Old students wrho registered be
fore leaving last spring will not
be required to register again, but
all students not previously regis
tered for fall term work will enroll
during the period September 21-23.
Transfer students will meet with
their deans Sunday afternoon, Sep
tember 19, at 3 o’clock.
Freshman Week will begin Sat
urday morning, September 18, at 9
o’clock whlpn Ghanfcellor R. B.
House will welcome the new stu
dents. Continuing through Mon
da^, September 20, the orientation
period will consist of placement
tests, physical examinations, and
meetings with faculty • advisers.
The.freshmen will also, have an
opportunity to get acquainted with
their surroundings before settling
down to class work.
All qualified North Carolina stu
dents for undergraduate work
who. applied, for admission have
been accepted,- provided housing
space could be found for them, but
between 5,000 and 6,000 out-of
state students had to be turned
down because of the trustees’ rul
ing that aut-pf-state jjtudents must
be limited to 15 per cent of the
new students admitted and because
of lack of housing space, said Roy
Armsrong, director of admissions.
The number of freshmen accept
ed for admission went over the
1,000 mark this week, Director
Armstrong said. This includes
nearly 900 North Carolina high
school graduates. In addition,
nearly 300 young women who have
not been’here before have been
accepted as undergraduates. The
number of new undergraduates ac
cepted now stands at 1,800.
The total enrollment for women
students will be around 1,000, the
same as last fall.
The three new dormitories will
provide space for nearly 900 occu
pants, and the housing shortage
will be relieved to that extent.
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New Pastor
At Mt Carmel
Carrboro.—The "Rev. W. R. Wag
oner of near Winston-Salem has
beeir called to the pastorate of the
Mt. Carmel church, three miles
south of Chapel Hill, to fill the
vacancy left by the Rev. Thomas
Bland. Mr. Wagoner has already
moved into the new parsonage just
completed near the church at a cost
'of approximately $12,000. The
Wagoners Have .one son, Otis Tuck
er, three years old..
The family received an old-fash
ioned pounding at the church on
last Wednesday evening by mem
bers of the congregation.
The Sunday school sendees are
held every Sunday morning at the
church at 10 o’clock and preaching
service at 11 o’clock.
Allep J, White is the Sunday
School superintendent and Vernon
j Sparrow is president of the B. Y.
!P.U.
Dairy-Poultry Farm
Combination Made
By Cedar Grove Man
W. G. Carruthers and son, Glenn,
of Cedar Grove, have converted
their farm into a combination dairy
and poultry farm and like the re
sults.
Two years ago they built two
large poultry houses and are now
keeping about 500 laying hens.
They have been selling a small
amount of grade C milk on the
milk route that ran by their house
and this year constructed a cement
block combination milking parlor
and milking room. They are now
selling about 20 gallons of grade A
milk each day. Mr. Carruthers has
constantly improved the fertility
of their farm each year by turning
under red clover and legumes.
One ten-acre field adjacent to
the Carruthers’ barn was seeded in
oats last fall. With the aid of an
electric fence, these oats were
grazed off and on all through the
late fall and until January 1. They
were then allowed to mature and
when harvested averaged 70 bush
els, per acre. The” Carruthers are
now harvesting a splendid crop of
approximately two tons of lespe
deza hay per acre off this same
field and are storing it in their
recently remodeled barn in which
“they have installed a hay fork.
The Carruthers have done prac
tically all the building themselves
and are able to carry on these
many activities with the help of
two tractors and mechanized
equipment.
What Do People Like About Chapel Hill?
people like about
What do
Chapel Hill?
r What is there within the com
munity that has made it such a
pleasant place to live in, work in,
and life so enjoyable to the 13,500
townspeople and students who re
side within the community?
These questions, going unan-*
swered for ever so long, have both
ered a good many people, but none
more so than the class in Commu
nity Leaderships of the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology of
It was time, they thought, to
get ,down to “brass tacks” and sci
entifically betermlhe what the res
idents of Chapel Hill thought
about their community—not only
the good things, but those that
were not so good too.
Under the general supervision
of India Pitts Boozer* graduate as
sistant in sociology from Charlotte,
and under the direction of Gordon
W. Blackwell, professor of sociol
ogy and director of the Institute
for Research in Social Science, a
Questionnaire with scientific validi
ty for analytical purposes was for
mulated with the aid of Daniel O.
Price, statistical specialist in the
social science field. -
The class enumerators, 45 in all,
then went to work in earnest. -On
the basis of 200 samples drawn at
random from the population cards
of people residing in Chapel Hill,
excluding students, and choosing
one out of every eight heads or
wives of households in the com
munity for personal interviews—
t*1* students with the wholeheart
ed cooperation of the townspeople
to find the answers
found before.
Like Village Atmosphere
After -weeks of interviewing,
cheCkifig and tabulating, a sum
mary-statistical report was prer
pared by Miss Boozer revealing
that most people enjoy living in
Chapel Hill because it is a univer
sity town.
That, however, was not the only
answer given • ■ < not *>y any
means . . for the second largest
number of people said they liked
living in the community because
Chapel Hill is a smalt town with a
village atmosphere.
Others liked it because the peo
aro s6 desirable and such a
homogeneous group,' While-addi
tional persons preferred being id
Chanel Hill because of its freedom
and informality; the cultural and
intellectual advantages of living in
a university setting; the friendli
ness of its populace; its geographi
cal location and environment; and
its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
It is interesting to note that
only five persons Wterviewfed pre
ferred living in Chapel Hid be
cause of the educational advan
tages it offered their children, and
only three mentioned the fact that
Chapel Hill is clean as their mam
reason for liking to live here.
Some of the Need*
"The majority of Chape! Hillians
interviewed felt that the greatest
needs to be met for the improve
ment of their town were paved
streets and adequate road mainte
nance. The paucity of recreation
facilities, especially for ^children
and young people, was also noted,
followed by these other stated de
ficiencies: inadequate housing, the
for more paved sidewalks.
improvements in traffic control,
especially at the post office, park
ing facilities, better sanitation,
more adequate sewage disposal, in
adequate, telephone service, and a
great supply, variety and quality
of foods, both in restaurants and
grocery stores.
A number of people also felt
that Chapel Hill could improve it
self by increasing the number of
nursery schools maintained, im
proving the local church organiza
tion to provide a more suitable
program of activities and gearing
the town’s facilities to its rapdly
g»wng university student body.
School Nefds Cited
The answers to „ the question
“What are the needs of the Chapel
Hill Schools?” brought revealing
responses. More than one-half of
those interviewed said that the
greatest needs of the Chapel Hill
schools were better buildings with
more space and more adequate
equipment, and a well-planned ade
quately equipped playground.
More teachers, more teachers
proficient in their teaching fields,
and higher salaries for those en
gagd in the teaching profession
were uppermost on the list of rec
ommendations as to personnel, ap
plied to both the white and the
Negro schools.
Almost half df those interviewed
preferred that the community
adopt a single federated drive to
include provisions for all local »im
national agencies which raise
money in the community—gather
.than have a separate drive f A- each
local and national agency, or even
one fund drive to «n local
and i
each national agency.
Outstanding Organizations
The three most outstanding oro
ganiztions aiding in |he soluton of
community problems, in the opiSr
Ions :of-the €hap^l Hillians .inter
viewed were:
For the whites: the Community
Club, the Junior Service League,
and the Rotary Club, followed In
subsequent order by the Kiwanis
Club, Community Council, Parent
Teacher Association, the churches,
League of Women Voters, and the
Garden Club.
For the Negroes, the clubs and
organizations designated as giving
most aid in solving community
problems were: the Communty.
Center, Elks Club, National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of!
Colored People, Parent-Teacher
Association, 'and the Masons. "• |
The study also revealed the fol-,
lowing salient facts regarding lead- j
ership in Chapel Hill. It appears
that leadership among the white
people residing in the comunity is
diffused, with very little concen
tration of leadership powers in the
hands of any one person, or any
Small group of persons.
Among the Negroes, on the other
hand, there is a marked tendency
to rely almost exclusively on three
individuals for leadership in Negro
community affairs and problems.
Boih die white and Negro commu
nities in Chapel Hill reveal a lack
of young, potential leaders to fill
leadership responsibilities at pres
ent occupied by- the more mature
men and women of the city.
This is Chapel Hill as Chapel
Hillians see it, according to the
survey.
$2,000 Collected
P°r Recreation
Program Here
the drive*flTfSlji/f* °f
ni*y recreat|0n In H,l^h C°mmu
receipt* of over $2 ooo °r° #h°W
of the goal of thr ’ °°’ one'th,Pd
''^"8 fund,! c°rnmlttee no
wa* wee^eatC°mmittee
Wa® decided to orrf. * wh,lh 14
^or the field Mohm matep'«'«
became available* 1"° *“ ,und*
P'«ced thi, week for "**
•*ry pole*. They are .** "®CM'
b -
tact each memh*0 m"de to con'
working |n /J-*■** .of *he force,
Hillsboro nd“*trlal plants
'•yed due to tack of b*e" de"
«•% but thl. ,i7e!eW#Pf",,,‘
out and eonrtructi b"° WOrk*d
ward ,oon IOn wi" Bo for
tegion Delegates
Set For Convention
Starting Friday
No. 85 f6fmthtrSAmIJi1ISb0r0 Post
have been elected^,!*/1 Legf0tt
Dr- D. Efland Fo^n^Uon are
ertson, H. g Or? *' °wen Rob
H Simpson, MaSn ranK Sr- J°hn
Bivins, R L m nhICrabtree- H. O.
Graham, Clare^h TVand A‘ *
res‘ is chairman^ tlTe ffrDr‘ F°r*
The delegation will c^°UP'
candidacy 0f Miss a P?nsor the
the position of iStn^ Maris for
c N
Legion Membership
Campaign Is *®w
progress Here
Hillsboro "^Sreaih'sS
AmeriCntnoIfefi0 membership quota
per cent ot us . Legion con
by the time the_a‘ • ;n Asheville,
vention opens Friday
it was said this%^e Legion is 452,
The quota for tb ^ ^ # qUota
but the Legion 1 hLast year the
of 600 for^yea fey nearly
Post exceeded its « g up 385
100 members in b
members. membership®
Approximately secured.
for 1949 have already ° . bar
In early October^ „
becue ior al local post,
be”* barbecue will ® •
Revival Meeting
West Hillsbora
Church Scheduled
Revival "'“‘‘^RiU^onduUed
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the services.
Anuians Attend
Layton Funeral
Mr. and Mrs. ^^vicesol Mrs.
tended the fu^ejQel q Dayton, Sr.,
Auman’s uncle, . Sept- 5.
of Ullington. Su eer Harnett
Layton was P er real
laymen. --
Shoe Quits Job
On Town Council
cv.ue a member of
Thomas Shue, a d an
^nSTh* %.«>« *
town limits. council
.irrjisr*. »r
t°,£'£rfUon ha. not bean fill*
"S. Mrd and probably wlU
Hillsboro town election.
Orange county school doors i
swing open Monday morning for
an estimated 4,000 students, Glenn
T. Proffitt, superintendent of
schools, said this week.
This will be the third attempt to
open the county schools, polio hav
ing caused two postponements of
scheduled school openings prior to
Monday’s date.
Cciiool. will start at 9 o’clock
T'rnday morning with a short day
Jwhedule for the first day only.
Starting with the second day, Prof
l,tt said, all schools will operate
on a full-time schedule. _ ' _
Z'.x of the seven new school
buses awarded the county by the
State have arrived and will be put
into use on the opening day. School
bus routes this year follow the
same course they did last year
with only a few,minor, changes in
minor changes in some of the
routes.
By the middle of this week most
of the Schools were in good repair
for the opening. Proffitt said it
was hoped to get around to all the
Schools before the opening day.
Teachers meetings are being
held on Saturday with the white
teachers meeting in the high school
auditorium at 10 a. in. and the
Negro teachers in . the Negro high
school auditorium at 2 p. m..
The x-ray truck from the county
health department will be In Hills
boro Monday afternoon for the
purpose of giving chest examina
tions to all teachers.
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Labor Day Holiday
Quiet la Orange
Orange county experienced a
quiet weekend over the Labor Day
holiday with no accidents, shoot
ings, or murders being reported
by the sheriff’s department.
Sheriff S. T. Latta said Monday
that it was one of the quietest La
bor Day weekends he could recall
in several years.
All the stores in Hillsboro were
closed on Monday and the streets
were practically void of heavy
traffic. , A few people walked
around the streets and visited the
drug stores, the only merchants to
sitay open for the holiday.
All offices in the courthouse
were closed.
Hillsboro P.-T. A.
Plans Meeting
On Sept 21
The Parent-Teacher Association
of the Hillsboro school will hold its
first meeting of the 1948-49 school
term on Tuesday, September 21, at
3:30 in the high school library. The
program will be an interpretation
of public school laws of North Car
olina, with the Rev. Charles S,
Hubbard as speaker.
The P:-T. A, having been active ,
during the summer, held a meet
ing in the lunchroom in June, at
which time the speaker, Mrs Smith,
State lunchroom supervisor, com
mended the lunchroom manage
ment and urged several improve
ments in order for it to conform
to good lunchroom specifications.
As an outgrowth of this and pre
vious months of planning by school
officials, Mrs. ' George Cannady
has agreed to serve as dietitian for
the Hillsboro and West Hillsboro
schools. She will be aided by the
, experience of Mrs. Clegg, who has
supervised the lunchroom from its
beginning and seen it grow from
50 to 450 students. A lunch period
shortened to 30 minutes was urged,
with full supervision in this way,
the lunchroom can accommodate
all children.
Having been aware of the need
for a public school music teacher, *
especially in the grades, the P.-T.
A. has pledged its cooperation, to
the newly arranged music sched
ule, whereby the elementary school
is allotted half of the public school
music teachers’ time, and hopes
that through concerted effort, a
good public school music depart
ment can be built up.
Officers of the association are:
Mrs. C. D. Jones, president; Mrs.
R. L. Mohler, vice-president; G. A.
Brown,- second vice-president; Miss
Rebecca Liner, secretary; Mrs.
Alton Williams, treasurer; and
John Mftjgett, membership rh air .
man.
Mrs. Jones asks that members of -
the executive board, which is com- 8
posed of officers and committee
chairmen, meet on Thursday, Sep
tember 18, in the school library, at
3:30 o’clock.
10-Day Grace Period tor Auto Inspections
Ends Friday; State Requires Car Check
jackpot question for hundreds
of North Carolina motorists this
week is “What will happen to me
because I "failed to get my motor
vehicle inspected before the August
31 deadline for models of 1936 and
prior vintage and for 1947 and 1948
models?”
Members of the State Highway
Patrol hdve been issued orders to
stop ■ motorists driving these past
deadline models that have not been
inspcted. However, the motorist
will not be 'fined but given a cita
ion to have his.car inspected within
ten days. Actually this amounts to
a ten-dgy extension or grace pe
riod.
“The wise motorist,” says Cole
man W. Roberts, president of the
Carolina Motor Club, “will have
his car inspected as soon as possible
and not risk this ten-day grace pe
rroa'beeame-fhe1 deadline for
and 1946 models is September 30,
and those cars will be rolling into
the inspection lanes throughout the
State in a steady pasade all during
September.
“Also, most motorists feel em
barrassed when they are stopped
by the Highway Patrol for any rea
son, and t.he majority would much
rather that this did not happen.
Lane inspectors will examine any
mpdel^car regardless of deadline
for thaV model and wilt not report
late comers to the Highway Pa
trol.”
Regulation Number Five' issued
by the Department of Motor Ve
hicles Mechanical Division pro
vides for the inspection periods for
various year models and for semi
annual inspection during 1949.
This regulation designates that
all models to and prior to 1936 and
1947 and 1948 must i>e inspected
by August 31, and that all motor
vehicles of the year models 1937
and 1946 shall be inspected on or
before September 30. All motor
Vehicles of the year models 1938,
1939, 1943. 1944. 1945 shall be in
All motor vehicles of the year mod
's pected on or before October 31.
els 1940 and 1942 shall be inspected
on or before November 30, and all
motor vehicles of the year models
1941 and 1949 shall be inspected
on or before December 31, 1948.
This information is provided in
1 . w.- j .fWli
a small booklet which is being dis
tributed by the Department of Mo
tor Vehcles and motorists may ob
tain a copy by writing the Meehan- *
ical Inspection Division. Another
booklet, also free, is titled Motor
Vehicle Mechanical Inspection Re
quirements and is available from
Raleigh.
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Increase In Leaf ,
Exports Predicted
By Fans Analyst
^Leaf tobacco exports during the
current fiscal year may exceed
those of last year by as much' as
100 million pounds, largely because
of the Marshall Plan for aid to
European countries, according to
T. K. Jones, farm management an
alyst at State College.
Exports from July, 1947, through
June, 1948, reached about 400 mil
lion pounds, approximately two
thirds of the amount exported dur
ing the 2946-47 fiscal year. It has
been estimated, Mr. Jones said, that
exports might exceed 500 million
pounds in 1948-49 and 600 million
pounds in 1949:56. assuming ow
funds are still available under the
European Recovery Program for
the payment of leaf exports and
that there is some increas in avail
abl dollar exchange for cash
chases.
"There seems to be little doubt
of the increasing prqferenc of im
porting countries for tobacco grown
in the United States,” the analyst
asserted. “In 1946, fourteen. West
ern European countries obt
about 69 per cent of their
requirements of leaf
United States