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. 55. No. 43
HILLSBORO ANO, CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, NOV. it, 1948
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Eight Pages This Week
Iiwortant Results Foreseen
r0ni Development of New
ype Grass in This County
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By JEAN B. SPARGER
Chapel Hill—Agriculture in the
[tfl may be revolutionized as a
|u;t of the successful production
suiter’s grass on the Mason farm
I Orange County.
this possibility was revealed
j by Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, head
■the Soil Conservation Service of
I United States Department of
hiculture, who hailed the devel
Uent of Suiter’s grass as * “the
|st important thing since the dis
Very of America.”
EStePs grass, which was dis
terea in Kentucky last year and
(ought to the Mason farm for ex
timentation and ‘development,
II “enable most Southeastern
fes to increase livestock produc
substantially and thereby
pieve a more diversified agri
:ure,” Dr. Bennett said,
he grass is known officially as
lentucky 31” and will assure the
Tvelopment of important beef and
Jiry cattle industries in the
lutheastern states of Virginia,
prth Carolina, South Carolina’,
gia, Kentucky and Tennessee,
J said.
■“Not only does Suiter’s grass
Ip erosion more successfully and
|la more . rainfall . than other
bsses, but it stdys green through
inter and summer and is highly
Itritious and palatable,” Dr. Ben
Itt explained. “Since cattle can
laze on Suiter’s grass the year
Jiund, the farmer does not have
meet the extra expense and
puble of maintaining mowing
Jachines, hay stacks and silos.”
■The Soil Conservation Service
lught one bushel of the grass
Join a Mr. Suiter, on whose farm
I central Kentucky it was discov
er last year, and brought it to
s nursery at Mason farm for
Iperimentation and production.
[Mason farm, which is on Uni
Irsity of North Carolina property
w miles from Chapel Hill on the
pieigh road, is one of 30 nur
rit ’ in the United States main
lined by the Department of,* pri
llture fof the purpose of increas
ig seed of new plants developed
" the United States and introduced
lom other parts of the world,
lason farm was chosen for pro
pction of Suiter’s grass because
pmatic conditions here more
parly approximate those in Ken
pcky where Suiter’s grass was
lund, Dr. Bennett said.
| Enough seed has been produced
rid distributed to grow five-acre
fots in more than 600 counties in
pe Southeastern states, he said.
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lection Date
iet For Farm
rote In County
Hillsboro,—Elections to select
>unty committeemen of the Pro
uction Marketing Administration
formerly the AAA) will be held
n Thursday, December 2, accord
og to an announcement by J. S.
•ompton, Orange County chair
nan of the P.M.A.
The delegates elected on De
ember 2 Will meet at the county
gricultural building the following
lay to select the county commit
eemen. Voting places will be an
lounced at a later date.
Orange County farmers are be
n8 urged to consider carefully
hose proposed for these important
obs of administering the various
arm programs of 1949.
Rotary Governor
Visits Chapel ffiU
Chapel Hill.—Sherwood L. Rob
erson of Robersonville, district
governor of the Rotary Club, paid
nis annual official visit to the
Chapel Hill Rotary Club Wednes'
evening at the regular meetff>r
ln the Inn. Mr. Roberson was the
Principal speaker.
Chairmen of all the Chapel Hill
Rotary committees met with the
district governor at thfe home of
*7 R- Johns, president, prior to
me general meeting.
Halloween Program
Nets $622 Profit
,Tl^lUsboro-~The Hillsboro P.T.A.
• . tbe Hillsboro High School
Class netted a Profit of $311
h„?j frorn the Halloween vamival
0cto^n the high school auditorium
° mRi,8™A8 bazaar
St boro ~The Parish Guild of
sL.thew’s Church will hold its
,Ua^ Christmas bazaar in the
in ^ room of the Colonial Inn
naisboro on the afternoon of
* »day> November 22, from, 3
Former Stars
To Play Game
For Light Fund
Hillsboro. — Former football
stars of the community will
battle the 1948 high school team
at the High School athletic field
next Wednesday in a game tfeirjg
played in behalf of the' fund
campaign of local civic organiza
tions to provide lights for the
athletic field.
A representative of the spon
soring group said it was believed
Special arrangements would be
made to permit student attend
ance and that a number of busi
nesses had agreed to close dur
ing the afternoon to permit a
greater attendance.
John Midgette will coach the
all-stars who are expected to
vin Scott, Junior Clark, Joe
Rosemortd, Bobby Knight,
Wayne Frederick, Jack Stray
JWOj Frank Frederick and Al
fred Smith?*
Admission will be $1 for
adults and 25 cents for children.
Symphony Goal
Not Yet Reached
In Drive Here
Hillsboro. — The membership
drive for the local chapter of the
North Carolina Symphony Society
is proceeding satisfactorily al
though the goal set at the outset
of the campaign has not yet been
reached, Mrs. E. M. Lockhart,
president, said yesterday.
Members of the membership
committee who rftay be contacted
for cards include Mrs. R. O. For
rest, chairman; Mrs. H. W. Moore,
Mrs. D. E. Forrest and Miss Eliz
abeth Collins.
Mrs. Lockhart pointed out that
anyone may hear a Little Sym
phony icon cert. When the orches
tra comes to Hillsboro this winter,
the auditorium doors will be wide
pperi to non-members and Sym
phony Society members alike.
Non-members, however, will have
to buy a ticket at the box office.
A Symphony Society member may
attend every cop.cert sponsored by
the Society throughout the state.
“From a standpoint of personal
interest,” Mrs. Lockhar-t said, “the
Symphony Society membership
pays the subscriber dividends in
pleasure and rare cultural experi
ence; in a broader sense it pays
even higher returns—the satisfac
tion of knowing that his mmber
ship is helping the state to a
richer life and making possible the
free concerts for school children.”
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Roxboro Man
Heads VFW Unit
For 6th District
Hillsboro.—W. Gordon Carver of
Roxboro has been elected com
mander of the -newly reorganized
Sixth District, Veterans of Foreign
WahS. The district is- COmjNSed <4
Durham, Person, Alamance, Or
ange, Caswell, Granville and
Vance counties.
Also elected to serve the group
are J. Bedford Gum of Burling
ton senior vice commander; Jessie
C. Bowen of Durham, junior vice
commander; Joe D. Pridgen, Jr.,
of Durham, quartermaster; Donald
Dorey of Roxboro, judge advocate
Philip Moseley of Henderson .
N. Jrmiip -
iurgeonAl and Elwood N-. Pearce of
Burlington," chaplain. ; "
HHS Band Performs
At Game Saturday
Hillsboro.—The Hillsboro High
School band was one .of 15 North
Carolina high school bands partici
pating in half-time entertaining
at thf Duke-Wake Forest football
game in Duke stadium last Sat
urday.
Teachers of NCEA to Meet
The officers .and_
members of the Orange
committer
Count>
jirit of teachers of the NCEA will
Tieet Thursday evening at 7.3C
,’clock at the Hillsboro High
School. The superintendent o
schools and principals are asked t<
neet with them as advisory coun
:il to plan the. work for the year
Among Winners At Hillsboro Dairy Show
Showmanship Winner B. F. Spencer, Left, of Orange County, and David Ladd, Dur
ham County, Winner of Best Honors.
W. H. Meacham, Chatham County, with Blue (left) and Red Ribbon Registered Jersey Heifers, shown
immediately above,'was also among the winners at this first combined show and sale ior dairy heifers
ever held in the state. The event was October 29.
County Awaits Verdict on Schley Grange
4s Winner of Contest to Name Top Group
Hillsboro. — Members of the
Schley community and Orange
County as a whole await next
Wednesday’s announcement of the
winner in the National Grange
Community Service Contest, to be
announced from Portland, Me.
The Orange County grange,
North Carolina champion, was vis
ited Saturday by the judges and
announcement of the winner will
be made over an NBC hookup be
tween 12:15 and 12:30 p. m. First
prize is a $15,000 fully equipped
grange hall for the winning com
munity, or some other award of
comparable value if the winner
.doesn’t -need a. hall. _
The judges, who flew to the
Durham-Raleigh airport by special
plane to inspect the Schley activi
ties, included:
William Pearson, master of the
Minnesota State Grange; Homer
Shride, former master of the Mis
souri State Grange; William
Dripps, farm director of the Na
tional Broadcasting Company; and
Dean McNeal, director of business
analysis for Pillsbury.Mills.
I',‘ ; c'o *£$Sr
final decision or that of his fellow
judges, William Drpps sad he was
“impressed by the well rounded
program” of Schley Grange. “Many
Granges,” he said, “emphasize one
project. This Grange seems to have
a well rounded program in their
projects, covering soil conserva
tion, home and church beautifica
tion, telephone service, and youth
center. These people have done
an outstanding job of rural co
operation.”
The judges and their party were
met at the airport by a reception
committee including State Grange
Master Harry B. Caldwell and
former State Grange Master Mrs.
Caldwell; Fred T. Reitzell, master
of Schley Grange; and other local
Grange and agricultural leaders.
The group passed through Duke
campus on its motorcade to the
Schley community. There, the first
stop was at the home of
Grange Master Fred Reitzel, where
E. J. Condon tried Reitzel’s new
phone, one of eight recently in
stalled in a cooperative effort by
the local Grange and telephone
company.
When the project Is finished,
within the next few months, it will
cover about 18 miles, and connect
most of the homes in the area. Un
der the project Grangers agreed
to obtain rights of way, and pro
vide and place telephone poles in
return for installation of wires
and phones by the telephone com
pany.
Second stop of th%- inspection
tour was Mars Hill Church, where,
a beautification project had been
put into effect.
Third stop was at Milton A.
Latta farm, scene, last March, of
the state’s biggest soil conserva
tion field day. There judges
climbed into waiting jeeps and
toured the 195-acre dairy and to
bacco farm, taking special interest
in the large farm pond.
From the Latta farm the party
Schley . Grange
Hall, and there feasted on im
mense servings of barbecue, bruns
wick stew, cole slaw, and a wide
choice of pies. —
With Grange Master Reitzel pre
siding, the judges heard from
Grangers who had directed or
helped in the various projects.
They heard G. O. Reitzel explain
how the cooperative telephone
project had come about to give
phcme service in an area where
sucn service ordinarily would be
was not so much in the prizes as
phone company.
They heard U. S. Soil Conserva
tion Service Representative R. L.
Mohler testify that the conserva
tion practices installed on the
Latta farm have benefited the
whole community, hy encouraging;
other farmers to follow similar
techniques.
They heard County Farm Agent
Don Matheson tell how every
j Grange family had entered the*
; home beautification contest, which
j offers pure-bred livestock as prizes.
I The tour ended a five-day so
journ in seven states, where other
Grange projects > were examined.
! The other states with finalists in
the contest are: Nebraska, Indiana,
vdflc,- "Mw
Jersey and South Carolina.
Methodist Ministerial Changes
At Three Orange County Charges
Hillsboro.—The list of appoint
ments as made at the tenth annual
session of the North Carolina
Methodist Conference held in
Greenville finds all Orange County
ministers returning to- their
churches for another year, except
two.
Appointments are made for one
year.
New ministers to this county are
the Rev M. E. Tyson at Carr
boro, the Rev. H. B. Lewis at
Cedar Grove, and the Rev. D. K.
ChrUtenberry, Jr., at Orange Cir
They succeeded the Rev. J. L.
Joyce, who was appointed a stu
dent at the University of North
Carolina, the Rev. J. B. Hurley,
who was transferred to Littleton,
and the Rev. T. M. Lea, who re
tired, respectively.
Methodist pastors returning in
cluded the Rev. Charles S. Hub
bard to Hillsboro, the Rev. H. G.
Ruark to Chapel Hill, the Rev.
T. B. Hough to Mebane.
The Rev. Robert L. Nicks, son
of Mrs. S. F. Nicks of Hillsboro,
was returned to the churches of
Burlington Circuit, where he
served during the past year. I
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Orange Presidential Vote
Proves Largest In History
As Final Returns Counted
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No Ceremonies
To Mark Armistice
Event Here Today
No formal ceremonies mark
ing the observance of Armistice
Day will be held in Hillsboro
today. - .
The American Legion with the
assistance of the Boy Scouts will
display flags throughout- the
business district but in contrast
to other years, no parades,
speeches or other events are
scheduled.
Piedmont Area
Music Groups
Meet In Mebane
Mebane.—Junior, and Juvenile
Clubs of the Piedmont District met
in Mebane last week in the First
Methodist Church with the local
club as hostess.
' MiSs- 'Georgia, Smith of Greens
boro, Junior chairman, Miss Doro
thy Barrier of Winston-Salem,
Junior vice chairman, and Miss
Vivian Miller of High Point, Junior
secretary, presided over the meet
ing, assisted by Mrs. Charles S.
Wilkins of Greensboro, Piedmont
District Junior counselor.
The principal address during the
afternoon was made by Mrs. Carl
McMurray of Marion, State Junior
counselor, during which she urged
the children to take part in all
phases of the club work and ex
plained to them some of the schol
arships being offered by the Fed
eration.
Reports were given by the presi
des of the Junior Clubs on ac
tivities of the group. Hymn-sing
ing by the group was directed by
Mrs. Gene Gosnell with accompa
niments by various children and
the story of each hymn given. A
musical program featuring win
ners in the festival was presented.
The following officers of the
Senior Clubs were present: Mrs.
Charles Wilkins of Greensboro,
Piedmont District Junior, coun
selor, Mrs. Carl McMurray of
Marion. State Junior counselor.
Mrs Lloyd Home of Greensboro,
National Festival committee
woman, Mrs. M. L Board -of
Greensboro, newly elected Pied
mont District director^Mrs. Her
bert Coble of Burlington, second
vice president of the N. C. Fed
eration of Music Clubs.
The meeting was followed by
tea in theKiwanisHall
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Barbecue Friday
For Couuty Corn
Contest Winners
.
Hillsboro.—Winners of the coun
ty corn contest will be honored at
a barbecue to be held at Camp
New Hope tomorrow night at 7
o’clock.
The contest, sponsored by the
Bank of Chapel Hill, attracted 50
fanryprs over the county. The
farmer producing the' most com
per. acre in the county will be
given- a-$100- savings bond,, and.
each township winner will receive
$5 in cash.
Dr. Frank H. Jeter, agricultural
editor with the Extension Service
at State College, will present the
prizes. . I
PTA WiU Meet
Tuesday Night
Hillsboro.—The Hillsboro P T A.
will meet Tuesday evening, No
vember 16, at 7:31Lp. m. in the high
school auditorium.
Mrs. J. W. Richmond will be
in charge of the program, which
will feature a panel discussion on
“The Characteristics of an Ideal
School Program.” Dr. Gordon
Blackwell of Chapel Hill will lead
the discussion. Others participat
ing will be the Rev. Irving E.
Birdseye, Dumont Eskridge, Glenn
T. Proffitt, Don Matheson, Miss
Nan Bunn and James Webb.
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PTA EXECUTIVE BOARD
Hillsboro.—The executive board
of the Hillsboro Parent Teacher as
sociation will meet Tuesday after
noon at 3 o'clock at the high school
agricultural building, according toj
an announcement yesterday by.
Mrs. Clarence Jones, president. I
Hillsboro.—Last week’s Demo
cratic sweep of the nation had its
counterpart in Orange County as
citizens polled the largest vote for
President in history.
Final tabulations gave a total of
5*843 votes cast for the presiden
tial candidates, Harry S. Truman,
of course, receiving the lion’s
share with 3,523. Thomas E.
Dewey, the GOP standard bearer,
received 1,813 in the county’s pre
cincts and J. Strom Thurmond, the
Dixiecrat, 362.
Other Democratic candidates for
state, district and „ county offices
won huge majorities, as indicated
*>y -the -unofficial figures publshed
last week, immediately following
the vbtng.
'-'ne nepuoncan candidate, C. H.
Sparrow of Chapel Hill for consta
ble, defeated his'Democratic op
ponent, who was not listed on the
ticket, Frank Madry. Sparrow won
1,016 votes. Madry received 1,001
write-in votes for the office and,
according to election observers,
approximately 50 other ndications
of support by citizens who wrote
in his name but failed to make the
necessary X in the preference col
umn as required.
Orange County was one of 29 of
88 reporting counties who sup
ported affirmatively the. proposed „
constitutional amendment "to raise
the pay of legislators. On the basis
of returns now available the prop
osition was defeated in the state as
a whole and the chances of any
substantial change from * the re
turns from the 12 unreported coun
ties is slight. Orange voters also
approved Amendment No. 4 for
determining the results of special
elections by majority vote but op
posed the other two regarding debt
limitation and increasing the
amount of taxes which may be
levied on property.
Final tabulations of the county
vote gave the following totals:
For Senator: J. Melville Brough
ton, 4,158; John A. Wilkinson,
,4,232; William T. Brown, 128.
For Governor^ W.'Kerr Scott,
4.638: "Georgg* OT. Frltehard, 959;
Mary Price, 114.
For Xleuteharit Governor H. P.
Taylor, 4,210; Kyle Hayes, 990;
Kenneth Harris, 119.
For Secretary of State: Thad
Eure, 4,247; James S. Dockery, 957.
For State Auditor: Henry L.
Bridges, 4,130; M. V. Hickman, 993.
For State Treasurer: Brandon P.
Hodges, 4,129; Ben L. Spence,
1,018. • f
For Attorney General: Harry
McMullan, 4,170; Herbert F. Sea
well, Jr., 995; C. O. Pearson, 120.
For Superintendent of Public
Instruction; Clyde A. Erwin, 4,182; .
Buford T. Henderson, 998.
For Commissioner of Agricul
ture: L. Y. Ballentine, 4,137; Watt
H. Gragg, 993; John W. Stubbs,
119. _'
For Commissioner of Insurance;
William P. Hodges, 4,141; Deems
H. Clifton, 990.
For Commissioner of Labor
Forrest H.' Shuford, 4,161; M. it.
Harrill, 986.
For Associate Justice Supreme
Court: Sam J. Ervin, Jr., 4,135;
Robert H. McNeill, 997.
For Congressman: Carl Durham,
4,266; Ralph O. Smith, 1,078; M. H.
Ross, 148.
For Senator, 16th District: James
Webb, 4,190; John F. Crawford,
I, 187.
For House' of Representatives:
John W. Umstead; Jr, 4,083; Max
Weaver, 1,277; Doris Friedland,
135.
For County Commissioners: Col
lier-Cobb, ijr.. 3,965;'Ben F. Wilson,
4,019; H. G. Laws, 3,959; D. L.
McBane, 1,344; W. S. Hunt, 1,332;
Ruffin Pendergraph. 1,235. •
Vernon Gates
Gets Valnakle
Player Award
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Hillsboro. — Vernon Gates ‘ of
Hillsboro High School was present
ed the theater’s, “most valuable
player” award at ceremonies held
Monday night at the Gem Theater.
Gates, who played left end on
this year’s football team, was voted
the season’s most valuable player
at a poll conducted by the mem
bers of the team.
Presentation was' made by Hosea
Rodgers, University of North Car
olina star, who was introduced by
Dumont Eskridge, local attorney,
who was master of ceremonies.
Art Weiner, star Mid on the Tar
Heel team, was also a guest of the
theater and spoke briefly during
the brief program. t
Charlie “Cboo Choo” Justice,
who was scheduled to make die
presentation, was prevented {torn
appearing by confinement to the
University infirmary.