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I THIS WEEK’S NEWS; litical Activity Increases IIT)0crats Rally gion Plans Barbecue , a rm Bureau Drive Starts mporee Opens Tomorrow_^ THE NEWS of Orange County Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange Cpunty and Its Citizens Since 1893 Interested In Orange Countyf Then read The New* of Orange County for items of interest from all sections. It’s reported factual* ly, true and without color or Mae. Vol. 55- No- 4». (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week Eratory Rings t Graham Rally f Democrats [With ringing pleas for support the complete ticket resounding torn‘top orators of the North Car ina Democratic party, Democrats j the sixth Congressional District Allied in Graham Monday after loon in the last of the series of ' such meetings which have been, [eld from Asheville to the coast. Delegations from Hillsboro and Chapel Hill were on hand. All of Tar Heel Democracy’s Iwho’s who” were in attendance Is a string of speakers “put out he latch string” to all voters for heir support. W. Kerr Scott, the party’s nominee for governor and i resident of Alamance County, welcomed the visitors on behalf of he home county.. Amo”ng those who spoke during [he rally were State Democratic Chariman Capus Waynick, Sena tors Clyde R. Hoey and William Umstead, Sixth District Con* ressroan Carl T: Durham, Sena for-nominate J. Melville Brough ton, Mrs. D. A. McCormick, state party vice chairman; State Treas urer Charles M. Johnson; Clifton Blue of Albemarle, state president of Young Democrats, and Victor Bryant of Durham, secretary of Ithe state executive committee. Also in attendance was Mrs. O. House Furnishings Expert To Be Here For Demonstration Miss Mary Em. Lee, State Col lege Extension Specialist in House Furnishings and Home Manage ment, will be in Hillsboro next Thursday, October 28, to present MISS MARY EM. LEE a demonstration on “Making and Remaking Lampshades.” The demonstration will be pre-1 sented at the Colonial Inn at 2 j p. m. Miss Lee’s appearance here has been specially requsted by various Home Demonstration clubs in Orange County. The lampshade demonstration is of special inter-: estf for it lias proved extremely popular or clubs in other counties. '“Sveyyotig is invited.. . .-..wW,_ Max Gardner of Shelby, wife of the late Governor and Ambassa dor to the Court of St. James. Speakers upheld the record of^ the Democratic party in this state and the nation, pointed out that the party should unite solidly be hind its ticket next month, and called for a minimum of one mil lion votes on election day in the state. They also pointed to their party, as supplying a government “for the people’’ and as an administra tion which has provided progress on the national level during the past 16 years that never has been surpassed in the nation's history. ‘ Senator Hoey told the audience, numbering approximately 250 peo ple, that voters should look upon President Truman’s overall record since he took the presidential oath in April of 1945 and compare the advances that have been made with the mistakes and 'disagree ments that have been recorded. .“I don’t think any o’f us have agreed with him on every thing he ‘ has done,” the Senator said, “but he has through all of. his many problems given.us a progressive administration that has more peo ple making more money today than at any time in history.’’ He criticized the Dewey-Warren platform and the manner in. which they have spoken out on com munism. “How can they tell us how to get rid of communism,” he asked, “when New York and California, their respective states, have more Communists than any area in the nation? “They can’t even get rid of Communists in their own states, so what could they do for all the states and the government?” Reports were heard from coun ty leaders wljo asserted that they have organized their areas on the precinct level for voting next month. The Sixth District includes Alamance, Orange, Guilford and Durham counties. Chairman of the Orange County Democratic Committee Robert O. Forrest and Young Democratic Organizer Jerry Stone reported to the assembled Sixth District Democrats on plans for party activities in this county, which include organiza tion meetings at precinct TeveT" and the YDC barbecue next j week. Among the other state officials,; many of them introduceii as: can didates for office, who were in at tendance were: L. Y. Ballentine, Pat Taylor, Thad Eure, Harry Mc Mullan, Brandon Hodges, Henry Bridges, William Hodges, Forrest Shuford,_Clyde A. Erwip, A. H. “Sandy” Graham, H. J. Rhodes. Senator Umstead and Charles M. Johnson, both defeated for nomination in the Democratic pri mary, called for the closing of any wounds that might exist and ex pressed their whole-hearted sup port for the entire ticket. ; Representative Carl Durham of Chapel Hill called for support on the party’s, record, saying, “We have done a good job. We offer no apologies.’’ Occoneechee Cawporec Starts Friday Rain or shine, cold or hot, the annual fall Camporee of the Occo neechee Council will get under way tomorrow with Boy Scouts and their leaders in attendance from the eleven counties of the council. The Camporee will be held- at Camp Durant, 10 mile's north of Raleigh near Neuse, N. C. Wes H. Klusmann, national director of camping and special events of Boy Scouts of America, and Captain Robert L. McCauley, Air Scout liaison officer assigned to Region 6, Boy Scouts of America, will be in attendance. The Camporee will be under the direction of Bonner D. Sawyer, Hillsboro, council chairman of camping and activities. He wll be assisted by members of the camp* hig committee, commissioner staff and the executve staff of the Oc* eoneechee Council. Every Scout troop jn attendance will be under its own adu\ leadership. The Camporee will be conducted on a patrol basis. Each patrol will he striving toward a standard which will class them as an “A” Patrol. It will be necessary to earn 2,900 points out of a possible 3,500 to receive the highest award. To qualify as a “B” patrol a minimum ot 2,300 points is- necessary. All * WES H. KLUSMANN patrols making less than 2,300 points will receive the “C” patroL award. Points can be earned on : uniform, Scouting spirit, camp | site, equipment and patrol proj ects. Dr. John W. Kincheloe, pastor of Hayes Barton Baptist Church, Raleigh, will conduct religious services Sunday morning. A color ful camp fire program will be held CAPT. ROBERT L. McCAULEY ! ... . < Saturday night. During the day Saturday there will be a tour of ] the demonstration area, camp site > inspection and activity periods, i The Camporee will open Friday « afternoon with registratons from ] 3 to 6 p. m. and will officially close | Sunday at 1:30 p. m. with the1 presentation of awards and lower ing of colors. Visitors are welcome 1 at any time during the Camporee. i People, Spots In The News FISH STORY NO. 1 is; a happy one, as John, Hokanson of Leicester,; Mass., proves the striped : sea bass he caught off Martha’s Vineyard! weighs a record 29 pounds, 14 ounces. He caught it casting with a plug after dark. SOME PUMPKIN! Wits ver dict as this 100-pound Au stralian field type, shown With Robin- Gale Miller, won blue ribbon at California, agricultural exposition. PRIZE BIRD in New York state chicken-of-tomorrow contest was grown by Jeanne Rumpp, 13, of Ghent, N.Y., shown here with John W. Newcomb, executive of A & P food stores, which spon sors nation-wide contest to pro duce superior meat-type chickens.* , FISH STORY NO. 2 is sad mystery of “mass suicide” of baby I whales off St. Augustine, Fla., where 48 of *hejn s\£am onto I beach to tlio, resisting efforts to haul them back into navigable • water. Experts can't agree on reason for their action. Farm Bureau Membership Drive Begins In Orange At a supper meeting held at Colonial Inn last Friday night, plans were made to start the an nual Farm Bureau membership drive in Orange County. Dave Kelly of the state Farm Bureau office addressed a .group of leading farmers and Farm Bu reau members on the work of the Farm Bureau in North Carolina and in the nation. He pointed out that now is a critical time and that the immediate future held lit tle promise to the farmer in regard to higher prices for farm com modities and that on the other hand farm prices are most likely to begin a decline. He also empha sized the fact that farming was becoming an occupation of a mi nority group. Fifty years ago it took about 80 per cent of the peo ple working on the,farm to pro duce food and fiber for the re mainder of the people. Today, due to machinery and increased effi ciency of production, it only re quires about 18 per cent of the people working on the farm to produce abundantly for all, he Stated. . - : ■ , . —- ■ ■■■ i i - | Kelly stated that in the light of all these circumstances it was more and more necessary that farmers have strong organizations to pro tect their interest and secure their rightful share of the nations, pros perity. — _;' •_ It Was also brought out in the .meeting tfiat all.the counties sur rounding Orange are in the midst of a membership drive and that these counties are considerably ahead of Orange in membership. It was the sentiment of the group present that Orange County would not be a slacker in this respect and plans were laid to start a membership drive immediately. The following farmers present agreed to solicit memberships: Vic tor Walters, Linwood Rogers, Har old Walker, J. L. Scotton, R. C. Compton, Bill Dorsett, G. F. Liner, J. H. Martin, J. R. Whitfield, G. R. McKee, W. M. Snipes, and H, G. Laws. •• > *• The next , meeting is scheduled to be held at the Aycock School Wednesday night, October 27. All farmers are being urged to join the Farm ^areau or renew their membership and' to-*attend the meeting at Cedar Grove. Kelly will be present also at this meet ing. Richmonds Injured In Auto Accident . Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Richmond received severe bruises in a traffic iccident near Gastonia Thursday right about 10:30. Their son, 1 3nice, who accompanied Mr. and' VIrs. Richmond, was not injured. Considerable damage was done to he Richmonds’ 1949 Ford sedan. The lights of an automobile Richmond was meeting blinded lim to the presence of a carnival ruck and trailer without lights, larked on the highway on the •ight side of the road. There were io flares to warn of the parked ruck’s presence, and Richmond law it just an instant before his :ar struck it. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond were lospitalized in Gastonia. They vere released and returned home s Saturday. When the accident oc urred, they were en route to Cnoxville, Tenn., for the weekend. The average price of tobacco so ar in 1948 exceeds that of 1947 or all types. Political Tempo Speeds Up As Parties Organize; Y D C Barbecue Tuesday Political activity in Orange County stepped up its tempo this week, with less than two weeks still remaining before .the Novem ber 2nd general election. I Democratic party leaders, after attending the Sixth District rally in Graham Monday, moved into a series of organization meetngs and appontesd additional precinct work ers in an effort to pile up the largest party majority in the dis trict. , The Young Democratic Club of Orange County, under the leader ship of President Ira Ward and County YDC Organizer Jerry Stone, also appointed precinct leaders among the Young Demo crats and made plans for a barbe cue to be held at the Hillsboto High School gymnasium Tusday. afternoon, October 26, at 4:30 oclock. At this event, Senator William j B. Umstead. Senator-nominate J. Melville Broughton, and Repre sentative Carl Durham will be the featured speakers. Some 300 per sons are expected to attend and the Hillsboro High School band Is tentatively s^ieduled for a part oh the program. Tickets for $1 each will be available from YDC members and at the door. Republicans also began active campaigning during the week and announced a full slate of candi dates for consideration by the elec torate. A list of these candidates may be found in another section of this paper. Membership Quota Attained 500 Are Expected At Legion Barbecue With barbecue being prepared for an expected 500 persons, members of Hillsboro Post No. 85, the American Legion, will celebrate attainment of their 1949 membership quota at a “membership barbecue” to be i I held at the Legion Hut from 5 to 8 o’clock tomorrow. The barbecue will also serve as a vehicle for launching an intensive drive to pay off the remaining indebtedness against * the hut. ' f ! Eligible for attendance are all Legionnaires and Legion Auxil iary members who have paid 1 their 1949 dues and prospective members of both organizations. The Hillsboro post, under the command of Dr. D. Efland For rest, is, the first Class B post in the North Carolina department to surpass its 1948 membership total, making it eligible for the membership trophy awarded an nually. . With a present estimated val uation of $20,000, the Hillsboro Memorial Hut, described by Past State Commander Ray Galloway as a “mansion, not a Legion Hut,” now has an indebtedness of only $6,000. The plan for » paying off this debt includesrthe sale of stock as an investment to the membership at $10 per share. Other fund raising programs projected at a meeting of the Legion held Tuesday night in clude the annual Bit^go Party schedule^ for November 18 and another scheduled just prior to Christmas. In a statement to members of the post issued this week, Com mander Forrest expressed his pride and gratification over the success of the membership drive and called upon each member to purchase as many shares of stock in the Legion home as pos sible. ~ He, especially praised Membership Chairman Harland Coleman and his assistants for their efforts ip making their achievement. Opening Of New Carrboro Store Set For Tomorrow White-Oaks, the Carrboro de partment store formerly named Whitefield and Oakley, opens this Friday and Saturday in the new Bivens Building across from the bank. During the opening days, 5 and 10 per cent discounts oh all cash purchases will take the place of door prizes. The brick building, divided into two stores, was completed in Sep tember by C. A. Bivens of Hills boro; White-Oaks will have twice as much space and a more com plete line of apparel than the old store, according to A. B. White field, co-owner. Mr. Whitefield and Mr. and Mrs. Roy- W. - Oakley eame to^Carrfeom, to open their store last November. They were formerly located in Roxboro. -o BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Gordon Jr. of Hillsboro announce the birth of a son October 19 at Watts Hos pital. Mrs. Gordon is the former Miss Mable Lloyd of Efland. Rev. Earl Brewer To Fill Pulpit At Presbyterian The Rev. Earl Brewer, profes sor at Emory University and now completing his doctorate at the University of North Carolina, will occupy the pulpit of the Presby terian Church this next Sunday, October 24. Mr. Brewer was ordained an elder in the Methodist Church in 1940 and will resume his teaching post at Emory University in Jan uary, 1949. The Rev. and Mrs. I. E. Birdseye will spend the weekend in Morris town, Tenn., Mrs. Birdseye’s home, and will have their daughter, Ann, baptized by the Rev. Dr. S. Hay, who married them. Stone Addresses Pre-Legal Group Jerry B. Stone, Hillsboro attor ney, was guest speaker Wednesday evening at a meting of a pre-legal fraternity at Elon College. Stone’s topic was “Preparation ' for a Legal Education.” Democratic party precinct com mitteemen and interested Demo crats in the southern part of the county held an organizational and inspirational meeting at Chapel Hill Tuesday night and made plaps for the remainder ot the campaign and election day. A similar meeting for represent atives and citizens of the northern precincts will be held at the county courthouse in Hillsboro at ~8 ©dock tonight- All county candidates and the party’s nomi nee for Congress, Orange County’s Carl Ditrham, will be present. Appointed at the Chapel Hill meeting Tuesday night as leaders in the southern precincts by Coun ty Democratic Chairman Robert O. Forrest were the following: Chapel Hill (N): J. W. Umstead, Clyde Carter, Miss Sarah Umstead, W. M. Cochrane and Mrs. R. P. McClimroch. Chapel Hill (S): L. J. Phipps, Mrs. R. H. Marks. R. C. Andrews. P. W. Wager and Mrs. W. A. White. Carrboro: Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant, Dwight M. Ray and W. E. Williams. White Cross: Wilbur Lloyd, Miss Martha Lloyd, F. M. Ward. Rock Springs: Miss Saline Sykes, Frank Umstead and Clarence Lloyd. Patterson: Glenn Whitfield and Charlie Hogan. Cole’s Store: Mrs. Winston Strayhorn, Luther Sharpe and Amick Borland. Precinct leaders for the northern section will be named tonight. The executive committee of the Orange County Young Democrats Club this week appointed the fol lowing precinct chairmen: St. Mary’s: Henry Walker and Wallace Bacon. ^ * { Caldwell: Clay Johnson Jr. and Flint Hamlin. / i Tolars: Milton Latta and |Hoyd T. Sumner. Cedar Grove: Don McDade and Giles Long. Carr: Lynwood Rogers and r Howard Compton. Cheeks- Henry Heath and W. A. Moore.__' ■ ' ■■- ’ - ■_ Efland: - Turner Forrest and John Efland Jr. ' Hillsboro: Jack Snipes and - Charles Walker Jr. Cole Store: Kenneth Strayhorn. Chapel Hill: Jim Farlpwe, Wil liam Sloan JV., Miss Betty Marks, Harold Cannon. Rocksprings: James Snipes Jr, — and Earl Lloyd.- - ——r • . White Cross: 'Bernard Durham and Melvin Lloyd. ^Cajrboro: Benson Ray and Lem* ael Cheek. Patterson- Glen Whitfield. University Station: Felts Pas- ” :hall, Doc Griffin. Jaycees Select New Officers At Meet The newly-formed Chapel Hill Carrboro Junior Chamber of Com merce will meet tonight (Thurs day) at the Farmers Dairy Co operative to adopt a constitution and by-laws, and to elect officers. Richmond Sloan is temporary chairman of the organization. ~ Two preliminary, meetings- have been held to shape the plans for a permanent Chamber of Com merce, and invitations h'ave been sent to prospective members. ■-o CHAPEL HILL WMU MEETS The Chapel Hill Baptist Wom ens Missionary Union met Monday night at the Baptist Church to hear a talk by Miss Ruth Provence. To Speak At Y D C Barbecue Tuesday I NOMINEE J. M. BROUGHTON RlPr,CARL DURHAM
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