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[i«y PM,#e Pour* Towns Get Beer Funds , sponsor Church Pafle ^es Group Plans Meet h’{ Leaoue Speaker Vol. 55- No- 45 Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since i8gj Then read The News of Oran«e County for Items of Interest from all sections. It's reported factual ly, true and without color Sr bias. (Published Weekly)_HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1948 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy" Ten Pages This Week tillsboro Men New Officers Occoneechee Scout Body boro.__ Harold Makepeace, r!':d businessman and civic rHpr was elected president of T Occoneechee Council, Boy L,ts of America, at a Council jL held Monday night at no Durant near Raleigh. Make re succeeds Hugh G. Isley, Ra j, who has served, as president .*e past three years. Other Council orficers elected |L-. vice presidents, E. A. Clem L Raleigh. James Webb, Hills L Claude T. Bowers, Warren L treasurer, H. K. Witherspoon, Heigh- council commissioner, L Dixon, Raleigh; National luncil, Makepeace, J. H. Coman, irhain, W- D. Campbell, South - i Pines, and E. Norfleet Gard l Henderson. The report of the itaating committee, which was cepted unanimously, was made Bonner D. Sawyer, Hillsboro. D0y m. Liles, Scout Executive, jesented a progress report to the Lcil members. The report lowed 36 new Scout units organ u in 1948 with-12 dropped for fret increase of 24. A loss in Imbership was shown during the llio months but is now being re „ned. An increase from 33 per iit to 36 per cent has been made I the training record for the coun this year. The greatest gain i been realized in commissioner jrvice, moving from 25 commis Lers serving 31 per cent of. the lout units in'the CoUhcil to 60 Immissioners serving 49 per cent the Scout units. Other phases , the report included Finance, jvancement, Camping and Ac Litieg, and Health and Safety, hairmen of these committees are R. Ot Humphrey, Sanford, fade Pridgen, Raleigh, Dr . JiV. W. pel, Henderson, Chris C. Hamlet, jurham, Bonner D. Sawyer, Hlils pro, and W. D. Campbell, South fn Pines. - — IA total of $76,000.00 toward a 1152,000.00 goal was reported kised for the construction of two puncil camps, one for Negro and tie for white Scouts. Plans for ping additional money needed It re made by Scout officials. |amp Durant is under construction present and the main building i exDected to be completed in the ear future. The Council annual banquet will e held January 17 in Durham, at fhich time new officers will be istalled. Dr. Elbert K. Fretwell, Drmer Chief Scout Executive for le Boy Scouts of America and ow Chief Scoutj will be the prin ipal speaker. All Scout Leaders, heir wives and friends of Scout ig are invited to ^ttend the ban uet which will be held in the (urham Armory. Teachers Hear >r. L 6. Greer * - ' - * Chapel Hill.—Dr. I. G. Greer, executive secretary of the Business 'fen’s Foundation, was principal ipeaker at the annual social of Grange County teachers last Fri •ay night at the Carolina Inn. Dr. Greer spoke on “How to Inshackle Youth.” Other speak ers included Rep. Carl Durham, >tate Senator James Webb and " H. Plemmons. Gifts were distributed by the nerchants of Chapel Hill and 'arrboro. AAA Elections Set Next Week; 10 Voting Places Hillsboro.—The AAA commu nity committeemen and delegates to the county convention will be elected in a county-wide election next Thursday, December 2, with voting places set up in the 10 dif ferent communities. Any person is eligible to vote who is participating in the 1948 .program or who will participate in the 1949 program. This includes, owner, operator, tenants, or share croppers. There will be a nominating com mittee in each community to nominate the candidates to be voted on for committeemen be tween 8:30 and 9. The voting will begin promptly at 9 o’clock. Listed below are the voting places and the name of the chair man of each community commit tee who will be present at these voting places: Caldwell—Flint Hamlin’s Service Station; Claude A. Gray. Carr—E. C. Compton’s Store; L. J. Rogers. Carrborq—Farmers Mutual Ex change; W. R. Womble. - ’ Cedar Grove*—Giles Long’s Serv ice Station; C. W. Long. Efland—Forrest & Forrest Store; W. B. Richmond. Hillsboro—AAA Office; Milton Latta. New Hope—Hollow Rock Serv ice Station; L. A. Hogan. Orange Grove—W. M. Snipes’ Store; C. E. Teer. St. Mary’s—St. Mary’s School; Clyde Roberts. _ -White Cross—J. Tom Brad shaw’s Store; S. A. Whitfield. -0 Title Contest Still Possible Chapel Hill.—Coaches of the Chapel Hill and Laurinburg foot ball teams met Monday night to decide who should play Mt. Airy today for the state championship title in the Class A conference. Chapel Hill and Laurinburg fought to a 6-6 tie last Friday in a contest for .the eastern cham pionship and plans for a play-off game had to be cancelled. The matter was finally decided by drawing numbers from a hat, and Chapel Hill lost on the draw. If, however, Laurinburg defeats Mt. Airy today, they; Will play the Chapel Hill team again, this time for the state title. \ • • -o RETURNS FROM TOUR Chapel Hill.—Dr. William S. Newman, well-known member of the music faculty of the University of North Carolina, has just re turned from a two-weeks concert tour given in six Midwestern uni versities. He gave an average of two reci tals and three lectures at each school. Dr. Newman went as a “visitor” for the arts program of the American Association of Col leges.' ___ Chapel Hill - Carrboro Jaycees Name Committee Leaders For Year Chapel Hill. — Committee ap pointments for the coming year made by President Herbert Wentworth at the regular semi monthly meeting of the Chapel Hhl-Carrboro Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting at the local aptist Church Thursday night. Special program for the evening Was arranged by Roy Strowd and movies of th§ Carolina-Maryland ?otball game were.shown. Kenneth' Putnam, chairman'“0^ e projects committee, outlined a Proposal for helping the traffic uation which prevails in down town sections. The club took no eflnite action on the proposal but Wl discuss it at a later meeting. Committees named for this year as follows: Program—Roy h ii0Wb?’ chairman: Orville Camp e i. Edwin Riggsbee, Henry Fow r and Bill Freeman. Projects—r li^nneih Putnam, chairman; Wil j • Flowers, Vance Hogan, c. L_Fox> Jr., Charles Holloway, Perry and Theodor M. Dan ger. Gove < . a, ‘rane> chairman; Charles Ber p , ’ paul Bodenheimer, Bil PuM-Cr and Mervin H. Dyson m Relations—Louis Connor r' ®°race Carter and Orvill. ampbeU. Awards—W. Horae. Carter, chairman; Paul t'enaer graft, Mike Cooke, Jack Lasley and,J. R- Caston. Jaycee Participation—W. J. AJg burn, Jr., chairman; Frank Far rington. Charles Phillips and Bill Harrison. Membership—John F. Davis, chairman; W. Geddie Fields, Jr. Charlie Phillips, James Hearn, Hugh Joyce, Richard Cowhig, Vernon Lacock, Edwin Riggsbee and Herman Ward. Finance—Hugh Nanney, chairman; Richard Sloan and Vance Hogan. House-^John nie Veasey, chairman; George Pickard, John Kepley and Fred Steppe. , _ Youth Welfare—Paul Pender graft, chairman; Henry L. Bryson, Dick Young, Hank Koon, Ronald Pickett, David Marley and Ken neth Beeston. /Km, . , Agriculture—Charles McAdams, W. H. Campbell, Jack Johnson, B B Sparrow, James E. Taylor, Deward A. Blackwood and George Pickard. , „ , . Public Safety—Bob Smith, chair man; Bill Blake, Phil Brogden, Larry Marks, J. Phillip Riggsbee, Phillip Andrews and Richmond Sloan .1' - ' TT '~7T* „ Christmas Activities—Henry D Fowler, chairman; Hoyt Perry and Brooks Patton. Sports and Recre ation-Mike Cooke, chairman; Lindon Correll and Bob Smith. New Homes and New Lives for Refugees ■ "V -\ M' - r Alter year* of flight, growing numbers; of Eu ropean refugees are settling down in new home* found for them by the International Refugee Organisation (IRO). At left, In the sparsely fettled farm land* of Venezuela, a homesteader , (right) fresh from h refugee camp la Europe Chats with his new neighbors. At right, a pair of young displaced persons, who were among the first group of refugees to be admitted to the United States under a recently-approved lat. Prizes Announced For Xmas Hillsboro Decorations Contest Hillsboro.—With $70 in prizes being offered to the winners in various divisions, judging for the Hillsboro Merchant’s Association Christinas decorations contest will Stabilization Tobacco Stele To Be Delayed Raleigh.—L. T. Weeks, Raleigh, manager and secretary of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, declared this week that the organization’s nearly 325,000 members need have no fears that tobacco taken under the loan by Stabilization from the 1948 crop will be sold before the current marketing season ends. “There ha? been some question amon£ growets that perhaps Sta bilization has been selling 1948 to bacco and causing a decline in market prices,” Weeks said. “This is not so, for Stabilization adheres to a policy established by its board of directors when the organization was formed in 1946 which prohib its such sales during the current marketing season. “The board’s policy is simply this: No tobacco taken under the loan by Stabilization during a sea son is sold by the agency until all growers have completed selling their tobacco produced in that par ticular year. In fact, tobacco taken under the loan by Stabilization is not sold until (1) the season is "ended; (2) the costs of buying, re drying, and handling the tobacco are figured; (3) and a suggested selling price recommended to the board of directors by Stabiliza tion’s staff is acted upon.” Weeks sa^d he was making this statement to reassure grower members of the corporation who might have the impression that Stabilization has been selling 1948 stocks of tobacco prior to comple tion of the 1948 marketing season. He added that the interest of every flue-cured tobacco farmer from Virginia to Florida is well pro tected by the Stabilization policy of “no sale of current season to bacco” until the season ends, costs have been figured, and the board of directors has approved a sug gested selling price. z.;— ,v I ’v ' •* ■ ~ . I - . ^____ “School For Scandal” -On Playmakers’ Bill . Chapel Hill.—“School for Scan dal,” a comedy which has been playing the English and American theaters since 1777, will be pre sented by the Carolina Playmak ers in Chapel Hill <>n December 1, 2, 3, and'4, directed by Harry Davjs. Tickets are on sale at the Playmaker business. Office . in Swain Hall and at Ledbetter Pickard’s. After the production in Chapel Hill, the show will go on tour for two months, appearing in Ashe ville, Statesville, High Poinnt, Gastonia, Buies Creek, Wilming ton, Rocky Mount, Goldsboro, and Spartanburg, S. C. -;—o CLINIC DATE CHANGED Hillsboro.—The date for the rgeular maternity and infancy clinic held at the Health Depart ment in Hillsboro each month has Wn rliMprf tnr thi« Only, and will be held on Tuesday morn ing, November 30, between 9 ann 12 noon. This change is being made because the regular clinic date falls on Thanksgiving holiday. get under way next Tuesday. The Tuesday judging will'be for the business firms, with $25 of fered for first prize. Deadline is noon. Second and third prizes will be' $10- and $5*"TJecoratians must be visible from the street. Judging in the residential con test will be held on December 20 with prizes for $10 each being of fered by the best decorated win dow, doorway and yard. Lighting Fond $212.15 Richer Hillsboro.—Last week’s gridiron classic between the high school football team and a team of all itars, composed of former players af the community, brought $212.15 to the recreation field lighting fund, it was learned this >veek._ ' The idea for the game was origi nated by John Midgette, who coached the all-stars to their 12-6 victory, and sponsorship was by the group of civic leaders compos ing the Recreation Lighting Com mittee. Chapel (fill, Carrboro Christmas Decorations To Go Up Within Week Chapel Hill.—Plans for Christ mas decorations for the business districts of Chapel Hill and Carr boro were formulated at a meet ing of the Merchants Association of the two cities earlier this week. Decorations will go up within the-aext week, aid will consist of several large cedar trees fully dec orated with colored lights. These will be placed at intervals through out the business districts, tenta tively scheduled for the lawn at the Methodist Church, Baptist CJiurch corner, bus station, the lawn in front of the former muni tions plant building in Carrboro, now owned by Woolen Mills, ^ind one or two other sites still to, be. selected. The equipment now on hand will be incorporated in decorating the trees, and it* is contemplated that little.if any new equipment will be purchased this year. Since this is true, merchants- will not be so licited for the usually substantial donations they have, been called upon to give at former Christmas seasons. ——— The Association is sponsoring a contest among members in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro, award ing first and second prizes of $10 and $5, respectively, to the store whose front is decorated most ef fectively along the Christmas thorny. The window displays will be considered, inasmuch as" they tie in with and affect the overall frontal display, but the competi tion is not planned to be purely a window-display contest, but is de signed to stimulate an interest in decorating the overall” store fronts, thus drawing attention to the indi vidual stores as Wfell as contribut ing; to, the 'beautification of the town during the Christmas season. The Chapel Hill Garden- Club is. sponsoring a home decoration con test this Christmas, and the Asso ciation is cooperating with this group by encouraging local mer chants to give prizes which will stimulate interest in the project and thus seek to make the entire town more beautiful through its overall Christmas decorations pro-| gram,__■ _ DHI r/n, the hay and the com and the wheat that U reaped, for the labor well done and thetarns that areheaped.« for die trade and tlte still and (lie wealth in our land, f^r tire cunning and strength of the working manshand fr^our country extending from sea to sea, _land that is known as the! and of the free, ^ <fJhanksg i o i rig! Ohanksgioing 1 -Amtto**evs Vr-. V Longratulatory Messages To Schley Grange^ Pour In As Members Plan Building NAVY RECRUITER TO VISIT HILLSBORO Commencing November 19, a Navy recruiter from the U. S. Naval Recruiting Station, Raleigh, will be in the mayor’s office, Hills boro, each Friday to interview ap plicants for enlistment in the U. S. Navy. Applicants between the ages of 17 and 30, who meet the Navy’s educational and physical require ments, may enlist for 3, 4, or fl yearSt Applicants 18 years of age may enlist for- i yea*" under the terms of the current Selective Service Act. P.TJL Council To Hear Uastead, Plemnons, Heer Hillsboro.-1—The Orange County Council of the' Parent-Teachers Association will meet at the Hills boro School on Tuesday^ Novem ber 30, at 7:30 p. m. The program will consist of a discussion of the report of . the State Education Commission, par ticularly as it applies to Orange County. The speakers will be the three members of the Education Commission who were from Or ange County—W. H. Plemmons, John W. Umstead, Jr., and Clar ence Heer. As Orange County —as one of the counties ch Commission for special study, the citizens of the county have been awaiting the report of the Com mission with great interest. The purpose of the County Council of the P. T. A. is to bring together the members of the various P. T. A.’s in the county, and to provide opportunities for | the discussion of common school j needs and problems. All who are [ interested in the schools of the ' county are urged to-attend. * ■o Legion Bingo Party Success Hillsboro.—The American Legion added over $700 to the building! fund as result qf the successful bingo party held here JJonday. A large crowd filled the huge Hillsboro High School cafeteria for the eveht, many of them coming from distant "parts of the county and from out of the county. Prizes were donated by merchants of the county. ’, ' —-O-! Methodist Circles Schedule Bazaar Chapel Hill.—The Women’s So ciety of Christian Service, made up of the Methodist Church circles in Chapel Hill, will hold its annual Christmas bazaar on December 9 in the “ladies’ parlor.** It will be the third consecutive year that the society has presented the bazaar. Many kinds of Christmas gifts, some handmade by circle mem bers, will be on sale from 1 o’clock until 5:30. There will also be a table of antiques, a “white ele phant” table, and home-cooked food. * Mrs. Roy Armstrong is chair man of the Women’s Society of Christian Service. Hillsboro.—Congratulatory mes sages by the score continued to pour into the files of the Schley Grange this week as members met to plan their new building, won as result of their selection as the ’ Nation’s No. 1 grange organization in the National Grange Community Service Contest. At a special meeting held Tues day night attended by the mem bership 100 per cent, congratula tory messages were read by Presi dent Fred Reitzel from groups and organizations throughout the coun ty and state and many from other parts of the nation. „.... All of them were* laudatory in their comments over the achieve ment Of the local organization. Mapping plans for the building program, a special steering com mittee was appointed Tuesday night to carry it out. Their names had not been learned here late yesterday. It is contemplated the $15,000 building will include a recreation hall, a completely outfitted kitchen and a library. It was reported that the Sears Roebuck Foundation had offered the services of'their own architect for the planning of the Schley Grange hall or would obtain ah architect of the Grange’s choice. The course of. action in this con-> nCction had not beiSh decided, it ■* was understood. ■o Orange County Gets $14,552 From Beer, Wine Hillsboro.—Orange County fell heir to $14,552.72 and municipali ties to lesser amounts when the State Revenue Department mailed out checks covering beer-wine taxes earlier this week. The county was one of 88 coun ties in the state receiving these »e towns, »‘xpel^l received $3,216.9T, Hillsboro $L 154.19, Carrboro $1,280.95, and Mebane $107.41. It was the first full-year distri bution of beer-wine taxes since the 1947 General Assembly doubled beverage taxes and set up the com plicated refunding process. The distribution for counties and municipalities which permit sale of wine and beer totaled $2979, 116.76, according to Director W. C. Pickett, Jr., of the beverage tax division. Tax distribution was measured on the basis of populations of counties and cities The money which would have gone to dry areas was retained by the state. *■ —-o » • Layman’s League To Hear Albright Hillsboro.—R. Mayne Albright, young Raleigh attorney and for mer candidate for nomination for Governor, will be the next speaker for the Laymen’s League oh fhdir Dec. 5 program, it was announced \ this week. Albright will speak on the sub ject, “Is Peace Possible?” A former student body president at UNC, Albright formerly direct- ' ed the N. C. Employment Service and was executive director of the United .World Federalists, a peace organization... — Orange County Business Finus Sponsoring Church Page In This Paper Hillsboro. — Approximately 50 ! per cent of Orange County people | are not affiliated with any church, if the county is a typical cross section of America. Recent statistics show that ap proximately ball of the American population is not a member, of. any church, and that about 27,000,000 of our children and youth up to 24 years of age are not receiving re ligious training. On another page of today’s News is the first of a series which is in tended to stimulate interest in and support for churches of the Na- j tion. The News will publish the l series every other week for some time. This series is an attempt to place before the public Christian teach ings in such a way as to appeal to the best in human hearts. The church builds character and good citizenship. Through the medium -ot-the .press thousands of citizens can be reached. Intended as an honest, human appeal to all that U finer in Ameri can hearts, thiji series of advertise ments is an attempt to sell an in stitution — the Church — around which all of the basic institutions of America are built. It is gen erally conceded by church leaders, S and statesmen alike, that a democ racy cannot long endure without a foundation of .good citizenship. g Snce the Church is the outstand ing institution in the world which constantly strives to build charac ter and cultivate the great spiritual values in the human heart, it is believed only logical that a con sistent appeal should be made to the general public through the press for the support of the Church. This program has been endorsed by prominent Orange County peo ple. The series is being sponsored by business firms of Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, West Hillsboro, and Carrboro. < All - white churches are invited I in order that the public may be adequately informed about serv ices.
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