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L WEEK'S NEWS; ■open Monday |onven«on [plan* Meeting plans ' r At Mt. Carmel s. No. 36 l (Published Weekly) NEWS of Orange Coimty Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 _HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1948 Interested In Orange County 1 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. Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Six Pages This'Week [ Festival Scheduled For State Fair |w entertainment feature— at always gets a big hand Carolina—has been add tie program for this year’s pair, to be held October 19 he exposition grounds near It will be a folk festival, fid-time music and square to be conducted by Bas amfcr Lunsford, known far tide as “the minstrel of the Ichians,” |a long time Dr. J.- S. Dor ate Fair manager, hunted kome-talent event to supple j the professional perform j staged in front of the big Itand. Then he met Luns .ford, the singing, dancing, g’itar strumming lawyer from Turkey Creek, Buncombe county, the man who originated the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival at Ashe ville and the Carolina Folk Festi-. val at Chapel Hili. The two of them got their heads together and came up with plans for the State Fair Folk Festival and Dr. Dorton persuaded Luns ford to take the job of master of ceremonies. While details of the folk festival program are not yet complete, Lunsford said there will be contests for choirs, bands, square dance teams and individual performers. rage Weekly Pay Envelope In County s $36.75, State Report Reveals pm the fourth quarter in to the first quarter in 1948 Ige county showed a 3.20 pnt gain in employment, ac Ing to a report from the Jloyment Security Commis ange, county, tti the first months of 1948, had 2,514 h; IfcoylSSfi!> enutloyment earned $1,201,019, an aver f of $36.75 a Week. In con ption, this county had 60 leers employed, who received 289 in wages, an .average of 13 a week. i manufacture, 1,633 workers Jived $823,201 in wages, aver $38.78 a week. transportation and com ttication, this county had 5l |kers who. earned $23,575. finance, insurance and real Jte, 204 workers eamedr $92, In service occupations and er activities, 138 workers in county earned $55,098. compilation prepared by Campbell, director of Re fch and Statistics, shows that average weekly State wage lined from $42.03 in the last rtlr of 1947 to $41.i4 In the Jt quarter of 1948, due in part decrease in employment in construction. Average weekly wages in construction dropped from $43.49 to $40.31 and in manufacture from $42.29 to $41.60. In the mountain region em ployment gained 2.89 percent from the* fourth to the first quar ter, due largely to expanded em ployment in Haywood county in , paper manufacturing, and in Caldwell, McDowell and Burke in furniture manufacturing. In the Piedmont Plateau, employ ment declined 0.29 per cent, and in the Coastal Plain the declihe was 6 pe^ cent. Principal gains in employment in the State were in textiles, in which employment increased by 15,893, and in fur niture, which showed a gain of .1,588. Wages paid to the 644,108 workers reported in the State in the first quarter of 1948 amount ed to $344,592,228, average 041.14 a week. In the mountain 'area 82,326 workers received $42, r 591,086 in wages, average $39.80; in the Piedmont Plateau 446,443 workers received $246,544,965 in wages, average $42,47 a week; and in the coastal area 96,917 workers received ^42,953,565 in , wages, average $34.09. vo Last Half Touchdowns Give Dunn L7 Victory Over Hillsboro High - Isboro Minister ivited To Attend leigh Conference he Rev. Robert C. Master ton St. Matthews church, Hillsboro, among the official members of North Carolina Council of arches invited to attend the an al meeting of the council next k in Raleigh. The Rev. Mr. sterton is one of4he represen t ves to the council from the rth Carolina Diocese of the otestant Episcopal church. The general session of the coun will be held beginning at 10:30 m-> Tuesday, September 21, at Mary’s Schools Raleigh. It will preceded by a special session the 20th of the North Carolina °uneil of Church Women. The >ecial session will begin at 9:30 m-> in the United church, Ra '•gh. Ncorator To Give lelp At Hoggins Miss Mildred Helms, color styl r interior decorator of th< u~ Enamel Corporation, will b< 1 Huggins Hardware today, Fri ay> and Saturday:' She will ass is ousewives with their paintinj m problems. 1 £ By BILLY MANGUM The Dunn High School football team won its opener against Hills boro by a victory of 19-7. The DuB^team - scored the. winning touchdowns in the last half to win Richard Pierce 'sparked the Dunn team, scoring twice in the last half. He bucked over from' the 11-yard line for 6 points in the third and intercepted a pass and scooted 35 yards for the final marker in the fourth. Hillsboro was leading at half time by a margin of one point, 7-6. Hillsboro’s only touchdown was scored by Brice Newman, who bucked the line. Newman, also scored the extra- .point, when Swainey connected a pass. Carl Swainey is the most prom ising back of the year. The fleet footed tailback picked up yardage every time he ran the ball. SWai ney picked up about 50 yards on -three double^ inverses and also completed three passes on the muddy field to spark the Hillsboro team. Harry Brown is also a prom ising back. Brown is a top defen sive hack. Hillsboro plays ROxboro tomor row with Hillsboro being slightly favored. Hillsboro plays Durham County the following1 week for Hillsboro’s first home game of the season. ’' >1 HU ' O - * TQ SPONSOR SHOW The Blue Sky Boys will appear at the Hillsboro high school Sat urday night, ept. IS, under the auspices of the .Tram Road home demonstration club. Proceeds from the show will go to the community hut in Palmer’s Grove community. Scott To Address Ceunty Granges At St Mary’s W. Kerr Scott, Democratic nominee for Governor of North Carolina, will address members of the Orange county Granges and their friends at the St. Marys School building Monday, September 20, at 7:45 p. m. Mr. Scott has always been active in Grange affairs, having been State Master several years ago. At 6:30, before the spfcaklng, a barbecue dinner will be given by the St. Marys Grange. All Grangers and their friends are invited to attend this barbecue. There will be a small charge to cover cost of this meal and tick ets can be obtained from Henry Walker, Master of St. Marys Grange, Route 1, Hillsboro. -O Second Stock Car Race Is Scheduled For Track Sunday Curtis Turner, the brilliant Vir ginia stock car driver, will be makipg a bid to further increase his lead in the' battle for south eastern championship honors Sun day afternoon when the nation’s top stock car drivers swing into action again at the famous Occo neechee Speedway, located two miles east of Hillsboro on the old HillsborO-Durham road. The remarkable record of Tur ner in winning 14 of the last 17 feature events in which he par ticipated has established the “blond blizzard” as a decided fa vorite for the double feature thrill program at the Occoneechee Speedway, but the Virginia ace will face plenty of keen competi tion from such stars as Red Byron, the old master from Atlanta, and Fonty Flock, the 1948 national champion. Flock won the first event staged over .this new mile speedway a couple months ago, whirling his famous No. 1 Ford around the fast track in record-breaking time for 100 laps. The double feature card will offer two 30-lap races as feature events,_supplemented with two 10-lap.heats and a 10-lap consola tion. Time trials will be held Sat urday afternoon, starting at 3 o’clock, and Sunday’s racing pro gram will get under way at 2:45 o’clock. Sunday’s race at Occoneechee is expected to be one of the greatest ever held in the State. In addition to the Byron-Turner-Flock combi nation, the field is likely to include Buddy Shuman, Buck Baker and P. E. Godfrey, Charlotte; Bill Blair, Pap White, Jim Paschal and Jimmy Llewallem, High Point; Peewee Martin,. Bassett, Va.; Frank Reynolds, Danville, Va.; Johnny Grubb, Greensboro; Leon and Bernie Sales and Bob Lancas ter, Winston-Salem; Jack Cook, Salisbury; Fireball Roberts, Day tona-Beach, Fla.; Billy Snowden, St. Augustine, Fla.; Dave Euart, Faith; Thilbert Pierce, Franklin ton, and many others from Geor gia, Florida and South Carolina. --—O— Old Belt Auctions Average $52-$66 On First Sale Sales on the Old Belt flue-cured tobacco markets opened Monday with average prices ranging from $3 to $17 per hundred higher than on opening day in 1947. Most gains, however, were from $4 to $11. According to the United States, North Carolina and Vir ginia^ Departments of Agriculture, the greatest increases were for fair lemon and low orange lugs, up $13, and fair lemon and good orange primings, up $14 and $17 respectively. The smallest increases were $3 for good lemon leaf and low or ange primings.. 'Hie bulk of the tobacco sold brought average prices from $52 to $66 per hun dred. Most averages were well above Commodity Credit support prices. Deliveries to the stabiliza tion corporation were reported to be small. The general quality of offerings was better this year than opening day last year. There were more good to choice qualities and less low and fair. The percentage of nondescript was extremely «ir»»n compared to opening day of the previous year. Marketings con sisted of a larger proportion of leaf and smoking leaf with lugs. Lugs, however, nated. ■ People, Spots In The News TOKYO ROSE takes a final look at Japan. 32 year-old Mrs. Iva Toguri D’AqUino boards ship at Yokohama to stand trial for treason in U. S., for her war-time radio broadcasts. BRON CO BEAUTY Joan H u g g, U. of Arizona co-ed, j salutes tfie sun from the sad ! die of her Cros ley albino in a [desert pass near Tucson. WEST POINT mans the gridiron famparts. Army’s 1948 foot 'or first practice as Capt. Bill Yoeman East’s - ¥*■ ball squad takes the field fo; carries the ball. Experts say Army may be best Occoneechee Scout Council Plans Annual Drive For Operating Funds October 17-23 , . • ; ... ~ Bonner IX Sawyer and James Webb, both of Hillsboro, are members of the Occoneechee Council budget committee which has completed plans for the area-wide finance campaign scheduled for October 17-23. The council will be seeking $51,488.63 for the 1949 operating budget in the 11 counties the council covers. Each county will be assigned a definite quota to meet which will be broken down further in the county to different sections arid towns in the county, it was pointed out. “The 1949 budggt represents the minimum needs of the Occoonee chee council for 1949,” it was asserted. “We believe that the*citizens Assistant Horae Agent Is Hired For County Work Mia* Virginia Cathey, a Jan uary 1948 home economics graduate of the Woman’s Col lege, has accepted work as the assistant home demonstration agent for Orange county. Miss Cathey is now employed ' by the T. V. A. at Elizabethton, Tenn. As soon as » car is avail able for her, she will report for work here. Miss Cathey is a native, of 8kyland. 8he comes to Orange "cddnty “trigitiy— recommended,^ Mrs. Katherine Hamrick, home agent, said. -O California Trip Described By Smith At Rotary Meeting ■ Carl Smith,- ex-president of the ! Chapel Hill Rotary Club, gave- a j report at the club' meeting last week on his recent trip to Cali fornia. The Smiths made a 38-day motor trip covering 10,000 miles j and including most of the scenic wonders in the West. The most beautiful park the family visited, he said, was not Yosemite or Yellowstone, as might be presumed, but the Crater Lake park in Oregon. His most amusing experience wds riding through the Grand Canyon on back of a mule, and the most impressive thing he saw war the Will Rogers memorial at Claremore, Okla. William Sloan of Sloan Drug Company gave a classification talk on the operation of a drug store. The average drug store, he said, must carry about 10,000 different ' items, though many will sit on the ’ shelves for years. of this area will make is possible for us to continue our aggressive Scouting program by contributing the full amount needed. They need only to understand why a budget is necessary.” Items necessary for the opera tion of a Scout council include of fice rent, for council headquarters, salaries for three trained office workers, telephone ^and telegraph, postage, equipment, office sup plies, training, advancement, or ganization, audit, field expense, and salaries of eight Scout execu tives who are constantly working with the 1,800 volunteer adult leaders in the council. --O Store Building About Completed; Openings Planned Carrboro.—The brick and con crete block building that extends from Weaver street across to Main street near the Carrboro Baptist church and almost directly across Main, in front of the new Carrboro j bank, is just about completed. j Large plate glass windows are in place and face both Weaver and j large- store rooms j each. The Whitfield” anff Oakley clothing and dry goods store will | be moved across the street in the near future and will occupy the entire building on Main street. j The store next to the Baptist tehurch on Weaver street will house a branch bakery of the Hill Bakery of Chapel Hill which will open on Friday of this week. L. C. Blackburn, who comes to Carrboro from Dunn, has opened the B]%cktjurn Salvage Store in the other part of the building fac ing Weaver street. j FISH BOND BUILT Carrboro.—Ralph Neville, who lives at the Claude Neville home place two miles beyond the Uni- ■ versify Lake, has just completed his three-acre fish pond. \ This is the latest fish pond to be "built in die county and has not as yet been stocked with fish. Chapel Hill Conaaaity Group Asks State Aid In Construction Of School Building; Points Out Precedent And Obligations The Community Council of Chapel. Hill, composed of leaders of many different organiations in the University Town, has adopted a resolution requesting the State’s General Assembly to include in its appropriations when ' it meets in January a sum to be used in the construction of a school building in Chapel Hill. In a report to the County Board of Commissioners last week the Community Council pointed out the need of . Iditional school buildings in Chapel Hill, asserting that the present Chapel Hill high school “is now functioning on a purely makeshift basis.” The report to the Commissioners was made after a committee front tlie council on the situation in Chapel 1 -ill both from the present population status' in the Uni versity area and from the expected' increase in’population with the resultant increase in school students when cer-, tain functions of the University are expanded. The money requested by the group of Chapel Hill citi zens would be used for the construction of a “teaching laboratory" to be employed by the University's Depart ment of Education.in training teachers and in giving the rmdent-teadiers a chance to observe the methods and practices of more experienced teachers. ”.'.t file outset." he report savs. “it should be stressed tin this is not a novel request. Although th‘e construc tion of school buildings has normally been considered a county func tion, the. State, has recognized the existence cl special circumstances justifying State appropriations for county school buildings. In school areas where State financed colleges used for teacher training have been located, the General Assembly has in the past appropri ated substantial sums to assist the counties in constructing ;. bool buildings . . . “An appropriation by the State . . . will therefore facili • r.c the work of the expected expansion of the School of Education at the University, and represents no new depar ture in the fiscal policy of the State. “The present Ghapel Hill Elementary School building '.vas built in ic)i8 to serve the high and elementary school r.ccd of a much smaller community. The building is two stories in height, non-fire proofed and contains 13 class roMns, two administrative offices. A .cafeteria, toilets, and teachers' recreation room are in thejiasonient. It is poorly , ventilated, lighted and has hiadequat plumbing facilities.' . The auditorium is inadequate. There is, at this time, an insufficient number of classrooms and administrative offices. No rooms are equipped for special instruction in science, art, music, dramatics, physical recreation, nor are there rooms or facilities for exceptional children or stu dent activities. * -—— “The Chapel Hill High School building is one unit of a proposed three-unit building. It has eight permanent classrooms aiid five additional temporary classrooms occu pying the space designed for the cafeteria and" separated only by temporary partitions. This completed unit has no provision for administrative office rooms, student activities room, library,' science laboratories, cafeteria, music room, auditorium, gymnasium, home economics, lockers or storage space. There is an insufficient number of toilet facilities. A small auxiliary building houses the _heating plant, team dressing quarters, and agricultural —room. Administrative offices and home economics occupy=== one of two old homes which have been pressed into tem porary service. __ “It is quite apparent, therefore', that the present school facilities are inadequate for present needs, much less future needs, and that the situation is critical. Also it is apparent that Orange county is being called upon to fur-. , nish school facilities for those contributing nothing to the support of these school facilities.” — _ _ry Greensboro.—Farmers must “be on the alert and work together it we are to hold our own in eco nomic equality,” R. Flake Shaw. Greensboro, executive vice-presi dent of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, said last week. Shaw was principal speaker at t&eet.pg ftf some 20 Farm Bureau leader in connection with" the annual state-wide membership campaign. The state quota this ■year is 80,000 members; present membership is more than 70,000. “We are facing the most strate gic position in agriculfore we haev ever faced,” Shaw sam. “because other groups are already so well Organized. We have the facilities and the personnel to do the job, members in numbers larger than but we need the support of farmer we have ever had befor.” Shaw pointd to the Stabilization Corporation, Tobacco Associates, Inc., which were established; through the efforts of the North! Carolina Farm Bureau, and thej groups Plant Disease fund to fight the $80,000,000 annual loss Tar' Heel farmers suffer through in-! fected plants as “pioneer pro- j grams.” He added that to continue' such programs, farm .Bureau' needs the strength of a larger membership. David L. Kelly, Winston-Salem, assistant secretary, also spoke, outlining details of the campaign and distributing materials to be used by county Farm Bureaus in securing members. He cited false charges against the farmer for the present high cost of -living as one reason why farmers should be more fully organized to defend their position in our economy. Leaders of the three counties represented accepted the follow ing membrship quotas for the drive: Guilford, 1,250 minimum , and 1,400 maximum; Chatham, 500 and 650, and Rockingham, 1,675 and 1,800. Other counties in the district include: Orange, Caswell, Alamance and Randolph. T • O..... RETURNS'TO U. S. " George H. Webb, son of Mrs. Golde Truck of Chapel Hill, has returned to the UnitetJ States aboard, the rUSS Macon after a voyage to Europe and Cuba. Webb went on the Midshipmen’s Prac tice Cruise as -a member of the : crew, steward apprentice. He ex pects to be home on leave seme- / time this month. f
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