. /.-J, . . T^s WEEK’S NEW8: kew< Ownership Changes Lb Market Sales Up ootba11 Game Tomorrow Lress Revue Held fewer Barn F'rdS THE NEWS of Orange County Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 Interested In Orange County? Then read The News ef Orange County for Items of Interest from all sections. It's reported factual' ly, true and without color or bias. Vol. 55- No* 37 (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. *3, 1948 Price: S2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week sboro High Plays Durham County 13 P. M. Friday For First Home Contest By BILLY mangum . A scrappy Hillsboro High Lhool eleven scored a touch down in the first quarter and made u stand to turn back Rox h0ro High 8-0 last Friday night I Roxboro. " It was Hillsboro's first victory L the year after suffering de Lats to Durham and Dunn, frouis Bobbitt recovered a fum L -on tbs Hillsboro 25-yard line Hillsboro plays its first home haine of the season Friday after Lon at 3 p. m. with the Durham county team furnishing the op position. ” ... i The game will be played on ■the high school field. Durham [county lost to Henderson last wee k. . set Up the Hillsboro score. Iwainey picked up eight yards on Vend run and Newman made it I first down whetn he sliced off ickle. Swainey added four more fards over center and Newman lunched out two more on a line luck. Harry Brown then carried l(»■ ball over center for eight yards [tui a score. line buck for the 'xtra point failed when Brown was stopped by the Roxboro line. Hillsboro’s safety was scored when Harley Heaffner blocked a Roxboro punt and the ball sailed into the end zone. Roxboro made seven first downs to Hillsboro’s 14, but couldn’t gain when it counted. Hillsboro was penalized 115 yards which cut into several of its scoring threats. Rox boro lost 15 yards via the penalty route. Carl Swain ey was Hillsboro’s top back of the game. His rushing average totaled 8_ 1-2 yards per try and his punts sailed for an average of ?9 .yards. One boot went for 60 yards, rplling dead on the Roxboro 4-yard line, i Norman Walker,. Louis Bobbitt and Clayton Heaffner were flje big men in the line. They were in most of the tackles. Haithcock did an exceptional job of acking up the line and intercepted one of Roxoro’s passes and returned it 25 yards before being halted. Arnold Kirk andUobby Collihs are being greatly missed by the team. Kirk is out with an injured knee which he received in the Durham game, Collins is out with a bad ankle which was broken last year and hasn’t responded tatreat ment. letty Ann Barber j fins First Place i Dress Bevoe j Betty Atm Bar!, Miss Barber, who wonJi«t dace, will represent- the county ,t the disttrict dress revue m Wir iton-Salem this month. Judges were Miss H^0mies •ell. Hill5b°r^rq KathSn Ham teacher, and Mrs. Orange •ick, home agent for Orang ;ounty. ^ -_ .egion Auxiliary >lans Membership I rive In Hillsboro Members ol the HUlio™^ No. 85 ol the “gj auxiliary are this w cam kheir annual niembersh p paign with Mrs. John Simpson -Mrs. D. E. Forrest serving as co ■chairmen of the drive, i Mrs. Simpson is chairman khe committee seeking Ibers while Mrs. Forrest ui dnect _ ling the activities of the g P Eliciting the renewai pf mcmlJ^e iships of present members o , auxiliary. r *' ■ To be eligible tor the j [auxiliary a woman must be _ i (the wife, sister, daughter or ■mother of an active legionnair Ithe widow of an ex-service • l The local unit of the Legion aux liliary; although one of the * t Jin the State, is one of the m |dCtIUs being hoped that the mem Ibership campaign .will be Ipleted in the, near future. Recreation Fond Total Is Nearing Half-Way Mark Contributions to the Hillsboro Recreation Fund climbed on up towards the halfway mark this week. The exact total of the contribu tions was not announced by the committee handling the solicita tions as several of the group were out of town and the total would not have been representative of the amount collected. With the halfway mark of $3,000 near; the committee is doubling its efforts to push the total to the goal of %' “The completion of the softball program this week leaves Hills boro without an organized recre ation project. When the drive now under way is finished, there would be something the year ’round for everyone t© take part in>” it was pointed out by a member of the committee;;-. --O— School Enrollment Not Up To Number* For Last Year Enrollment in the schools of Orange county at~the end of the first week is 3,565, according to records released from the office of Superintendent of Schools G. T. Proffitt this week. This compares to an enrollment of 3,651 at . the end of the first month last year, he pointed out. Schools of the county have got ten off to a good start, Proffitt said this week, and no more com plaints than were expected have *]peen received on the routes the school buses are following. _—O— Webb Is Named Merchants Head T. N' Webb, proprietor of trie Hillsboro Flower Shop, was elected president of the Hills boro Merchants association at-* a meeting held last Wednesday Other officers named were: Charles M. Walker, Jr., vice president: and W. T. Murray, Allen Walker, Jake Forrest, J. P. Ballard, Webb and Walker, members of the board of direc tors. Cards Defeat Legion 4-3 In Fourth Game Of Series To Win Championship The Cards became the softball champions of Hillsboro Monday afternoon when they pushed across one run in the seventh •nning to lick the Legion, 4-3, in the fourth game of a best-three out-of-five series. In winning the championship the Cards maintained the pre ^ason speculations, having fin 'shed in a tie for the league lead at the end of the regular games a"d disposing of the Methodist church entry In the eeml-finals. A single by Medlin, who Pitched the victory fbrthe Cards, the seventh Inning "drove h#n»e the winning run wlthn no °n« out. Successive singles by Austin and Crawford bad placed two men on the bags to set the stage for Medlin's single. Dick Riddle’s triple in the fourth inning was~the big blow of a three-run uprising for the Cards which sent them into a 3- lead over the Legion. A walk to Riggs, Riddle’s triple, a singleby King, a sacri “fice'antf an error accounted for the runs. The Legion scored in the opening inning when two walk*, a fielder's choice, two singles and an error accounted for two runs. Ward’s triple in the fifth inning tied the score at S-S. Chapel Hill Curb Market Sales Hit Total Of $39,731 Total sales on the Chapel Hill curb market for the year closing on Sept. 11 were $39,731.76, a total gain of $3,141.10 over the sales for the prior year. This report was made at a facet ing of the group held in the Caro lina Inn in Chapel Hill on Sept. 18. The report contained figures The Chapel Hill curb market will open at 8 a. m. and close at 10:30 or 11 a. m. each Sat urday that a football game i» Played In 'Chapel Hill. The 8 a. m. opening will begin with the Texas gathe this Saturday. for the sales from the period Sept. 20, 1947, through Sept. 11, 1948. Poultry and eggs ran a close race for top place in the sales list with poultry totaling $14,442.24 while eggs amounted to $14,421.73. Other items that ranked high in total sales were vegetables, cakes, butter, meat and flowers. The market this year has a total of 27 sellers as compared to 29 last year. Mrs. Allen Latta, Mrs. Alton Durham and Miss Pearl McLennon had the three highest individual sales. Mrs. Latta is president of the group and presided over the meet ing. Martha, Lloyd gave a treas urer’s report ahd read the minutes of the previous meeting. The activities of the curb market are directed by Mrs. Kathryn Hamrick, home demonstration agent for Orange county. Last June the market instituted a Wednesday opening that has con tinued throughout the summer. Al though only an average of five sellers have used the market on Wednesdays, total sales were $1,065.70. Wide publicity has also been given the market during the past several months. The Carolina Co Operator Magazine published an illustrated article on the market and marketing specialists for North Carolina and Texas exten sion services and curb market leaders in Wake county have vis ited the Chapel Hill market. -O Hillsboro High Band Elects ~ Officers For Tear The Hillsboro High school elect ed band officers Monday night to serve for the school term. . Officers ara Billy Mangum,- cap tain; Donald Chance, co-captain;* Janie Liner,' secretary-treasurer; and Patsy Teer, librarian. The band this year is composed of 28 members, 19 of whom are beginners. Mrs. Miriam B. Kurb jun is the new teacher of the band this year while Jim Rittenhouse will continue to serve as director. An announcement from the band members said that they would be happy to play for- any function desired if they were given enough notice. -O Stone Opens Law Office In Hillsboro Jerry Stone, young Hillsboro native" and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Stone, has returned to the coun^^sMY'^riid^di^ft^-’Jr^sw of" fice earlier this month in^the Min nis building. Stone received his LL.B. degree from Duke University with the class graduating on August 27. A graduate of Hillsboro high school, Stone served three years i nthe Army during the war as a member of an amphibious trac tor battalion. He was in the Phil ippines 18 months. Durin& his last year at Duke, itone was p^IderiForPhf Alpha Delta legal fraternity, president of the Duke Masonic club, in which he was instrumental in Or ganizing, president of the Young Democrats club, and North Caro lina collegiate chairman of of the Young Democratic club. -O— Two From REA Here Attend Conference F.- E. Joyner, manager of th< Piedmont Electric Membershif corporation, and N. B. Berry ol the Walnut Grove church commu nity, a member of the board ol directors of the group, attended i meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative association ir Washington last week. President Truman spoke at of the sessions of Uu 8,gt. \ Services Are »eld ' For S-S«t J** MCarr*>t*chttt< .—r./ c-fttft. Clar* Suneral serves lor^ ^ nre R- JoneS’ ? Carrboro, were! SS«a ,_„h with ii Poole ol» ch nev WvUiam B and J*e c0uh-, ciating- b rn in °ra g^uCat-\ JarC oi S£*o»: a?d C R Williams « and BW”™} Jtl. The AmeIjCioran WOtlC“ Wo. « ’served gion . „nd neigbo° was P‘"SCeeveM. The aS flora home of h ^ tbe br0rSl*boro and remaned s^y h”o“ | mSm? ‘ouiicit — , Ud icr ihe 0c‘ The Fall Bound-UP ^ way \r£^rss££ 1 SKSSs^i'iMCm”^ i which w“haaU scout uu>«u«d.up i he. al' attraettoe council i lying arv . made at the ,"«V££uet m J»nue»u annual ior a Seoul the l sand points ' quality Jim Gill Talks To Rotary Club Coach Jim Gill -talked to the -Chapel Hill Rotary club Wednes day night on the University foot ball prospects this fall. He also told of his trip to Texas last week end to scout the Texas-Louisiana State football game. Gill was in troduced by O. K. Cornwell, 'who wa§ in charge of the program. M. L. Jacobs of the University school pf pharmacy was greeted as, a new member of the Chapel Hill Rotary dub Wednesday nighf." R. W. Madry and Vic Huggins attended the Durham Rotary meet ing Monday. -O Hillsboro Bos Line Under New Owner The Hillsboro Bus Line is now lender new - management, accord- j ing to announcement made this j week by R. T. “Bozo”. Taylor, the i new'owner. Mr. Taylor purchased the local bus line from the Allison Brothers. A complete schedule of the busses’ operation may be found in another section of the paper. In announcing the new schedule, the new owner indicated the buses would be available for charter service. Mr. Taylor is the opera- j tor also of a restaurant and a taxi service. * The News, Orange County’s old- j est newspaper, underwent man agement changes this week as Ed win J. Hamlin, who was associat ed with North Carolina news- j papers prior to the war, assumed J active management and editorial direction of this newspaper and The The Alamance News, pub lished in Graham. Hamlin, a native of Roxboro in nearby Person county, purchased i the majority interest of J. Roy! Parker in The News, Incorporated, which publishes the two news papers and engage^ in a general printing business with main of fices in Hillsboro. Transfer of the property took place on September 1 but active management was not assumed by Hamlin until this week. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Hamlin was a member of the editorial staffs of newspapers in Roxboro, Burling ton and Winston-Salem prior to entering the service in 1942. Fol lowing four years service in the Air Force and his release from the tary grade of major, Hamlin joined the staff of the Air Force’s Flying Safety Division in a civilian ca pacity as Assistant to the' Direc tor. He resigned from this position to take over the local business. Hamlin is well known by many people in this county, having mar ried a Hillsboro girl, the former Louise Claytor, -daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Claytor. Mr. Parker, one of the most re spected men in the newspaper field in North Carolina-, was forced to dispose of the local property because of ill health, which has kept Mm confined for well over a year: A professor of journalism at the University of North Caro lina, Parker has taken a leave of absence for the new school year and will have his post fillled by Thomas J. Lassiter, editor and part owner of the Smithfield Her ald of Smithfield. Lassiter has accepted the posi Presbyterians Here Launch New Drive For Building Funds This week the Presbyterian church launched its 1948 cam paign for funds to complete its educational building. To date the building- has cost less than $10,0(10, but an •additional $7,000 is necessary to finish the actual building. 3Che. new building ’will bouse the Sunday school and recreational hall. A new chancel in the church will extend back into the new structure, providing room for the; choir and the organ as well as the new pulpit and lectern. _| “The first floor will provide five classrooms and a study for the pastor while the second floor will be occupied by a large recreation and assembly room, a church lounge and a kitchen. , -O— Hayes Reunion Held Near Here Mr. and Mrs. Wade Oakley of Hillsboro Route 1, were the hosts' at a family reunion on Sunday/1 September 12, at their home. j Relatives gathered -at 10 o’clock and dinner was served picriie "style on the lawn at 1 p m Plans were made to hold the reunion annually. Mrs. Ethel Hodge of Burlington was named chairman. Other of ficers are Miss Mickey Anne Hayes of Graham, Miss Betty June Hayes of Hillsboro, and W. D—(Bill) Haves of Burlington. -O Fred Ccites* B iys Gem Theater Fred Cates, Jr., of Hillsboro, has recently purchased the Gem theater in West Hillsboro from Scott Cates and is now operating it under the same name. A new feature for movie goers in Hillsboro has been started by Cates with the showing of Sunday movies. -O ALLISON BROTHERS BUILD MODERN PACK BARN P. G. and A. S. Allison, tobacco farmers of.Cedar Grove* have re cently constructed a three-story tobacco pack barn 40 by 54 feet* having a 40 bj 50 foot ordering basement and covered driveway. This bam is frame construction { covered with galvanized iron andj complements their all-metal-cov-1 end gambrel-roofed barn, located juft across the road. I tion for the fall quarter and will act as lecturer in the course on small newspaper management. Parker, who with his brother pub lishes several weekly newspapers in eastern North Carolina, entered the journalism teaching profession just prior to the start of the last war and except for brief periods of absence because of his health h? remained throughout the pe riod of the emergency to teach “country journalism” and news paper advertising. He organized the corporation now publishing The News of Orange County and The Alamance News after moving to Chapel Hill. Harry D. Hollingsworth, who has served as editor of The News of Orange County for several years, has joined the staff of the Durham Morning Herald but will continue to make his home in Hillsboro? F!.e Destroys FiTe Tobacco ^ " P us In Conaty Latest records from the office ci County Agent Don S, Matheson reveal that five tobacco farmers in Grange county lost their barns ‘this season by fire as compared to eight last year and .12 in 1946. Matheson said the reduction in largely to “greater care being ex ercised by the farmers in prevent ing fire and improved fireproof curing systems.’’ " The extension service for three yfears has publicized the great loss due to careless and unsafe curing methods practiced by so many farmers and has given suggestions for preventing fires. -O 60 P-TA Members At first Meeting Hear Rev. Hubbard The Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, pastor of the Hillsboro Methodist chuich, was the speaker at the first meeting of the Hillsboro P.-T. A. held at the school on Tuesday afternoon. 5 Spea-leing on the subject, “In terpretation of the Public School Laws of- North Carolina,” the speaker emphasized the ideal of uniformity under which the schools operate and cited some of the laws pertaining to the duties of various offices of the school system Mrs-. R. L.- Mohler was in charge of the program and Mrs. Clarence Jones, the new president, presided over the 60 membrs present. A report on the budget by Mrs. Alton Williams and a report of the school -lunch room activity by Mrs. George Cannady, the rfeW dietitian, featured the meeting. --O County Granges Hear Kerr Scott W. ' Kerr Scott, Democratic nominee for governor,of North Carolina, reiterated his pleaa for all-weather school bus routes, rural telephones and rural elec trification in a talk before mem bers of the Granges In Orange county Monday night at St. | Marys school. Between 300 and 400 people attended the meeting. -1 Henry Walker, master of the St. Marys Grange* presided and | Introduced the speaker. | Barbecue and brunswick stew wsrs served prior to Scott's talk. * Breaa Are Placed In Ponds Owned By County Men Fish (bream) were put in the ponds Qi the following farmers last week: Edmond Strowd, White Cross community; J. E. and Milton LattO, Schley community; Hay wood Vallines, tfedar Grove; and St. Pierre DuBose, Chapel Hill. All these ponds were stocked at the rate of 1,000 bream to the surface acre of water. Bass will be added to these ponds next spring. Two of the above ponds have re cently been completed, Edmond Strowd’s arid Milton Latte's. Mr. “• Latta’s pond was* planned and construction started in connection with the Farm Field Day held on the farm last March. This pond has been Well constructed and has an area of two acres. Aubrey McLennon and hjs brother, whose farm is west of Chapel Hill, are building a farm fish pond that will have about four acres of water surface. Terraces Terraces were staked for James Snipes and sons, Orange Grove, and for J. L. Scotton, North Efland, this week. Mr. Scotton is plan ning to terrace his tobacco fields this fall and will run his rows by the string method next spring. Personnel of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District, Orange County Work Unit, are working with these farmers in getting their terraces and other soil conserva- - tion practices established. Pastures Walter Lloyd, White Cross com munity, has cleared ten acres for pasture, terraced it, and will seed to Ladino clover and orchard ~ grass this month. -O Coupons Given To New Students The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer-‘ chants Association distributed to over 1,0QQ new University students envelopes containing gift coupons exchangeable for merchandise in many of the local stores. A pamphlet on Chapel Hill and a message of greeting from the Association were also included in the packages. Nearly 20 merchants participated in the project to ac quaint the college freshmen and new students with the town. -O NEW STEAK HOUSE Aggie and Jeff Thomas, co owners of "Jeff’s,’ ’ the well-known Chapel Hill confectionery, are opening a steak house this week end in the building formerly occu pied by Fowler’s. “Pete Dorton is the third partner in Uk. business.- — Hyconeechee Memorial Library Group Serves Orange, Person and Caswell By Mrs. DOUGLAS DAVIS. Regional Librarian The Hyconeechee Regional Library Board held its second meeting in the Confederate Me morial Library in Hillsboro on Monday afternoon, September 13. The members of the re gional board are Sydney Green, Ira Ward and Glenn Proffitt representing Orange county, Mrs. A. Y. Kerr, Holland Mc Swain, and Erwin D. Stephens representing Caswell county/--" and R. B. Griffin, F. D. Long and Mrs. J. Y. Humphries rep resenting Person county The officers of the organiza tion for the year are: Green, president; Stephens, vice-presi dent; Mrs Douglas Davis, re gional librarian and acting sec retary, and Long, treasurer. After the approval of a consti tution and by-laws for the re gional library and the transac tion of routine busniees, the meeting was adjourned. The name Hyconeechee has aroused the curiosity and ir.ter •d of the patrons of the libra He*, The member* Of the li brary committee wanted a name that would have meaning for all three counties. Still they did not like using just the names of the counties or an alphabetical abbreviation of the names. ^ A study of early history was n«r help in finding a name that would have significance for all three counties. Finally the sug gestion was made that the name of the Hyeo creek and river, running in Caswell and Person counties, be combined with a part of the name of the Occo neechee mountain lying in Or ange county. In such a way was \ the nsme Hyconeechee formed. The library systems in Cm we", Person, and Orange coun ties have incorporated a* the Hyconeechee Regional Library to Increase the effectiveness of library service In all throe coun The mutual benefits In clude an increased book collec tion, better bookmobile service. trained supervision of the II- " brary work, and better ergaoie xatien in the libraries.