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•\fONnr SHr* 3 fight ti lay ChrisfHW Seek THE NEWS of Orange County Interested In Orange Then read The News ef County, for Items of interest from el! sections. It's reported fecthel ly, true and without color or hiss. Your Home Newspaper Serving OrJpge County and'Its Citizens Since 1893 55 No. 49 (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1948 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single CoPT E»ght rhls Week verseas Food rive Organized i This County States Plan CROP Christmas Trains .Vs | kary Trick is one of thousands [America's rural folks contri ng to the 23 CROP Christmas for overseas relief. ) [ledges for farm produce, in ding grain, beans, meat, and on, are being accepted during Thanksgiving season. School Idren in many areas are contri [ing a quart of milk each. contributions will be as hbled in 23 stale trains between |c. 18 and Dec. 25. These trains roll to 10 different ports, lere simultaneous dedications be held on Christmas day. DROP Christmas trains are hsored by Catholic and Protes pt church groups.^-— tac Dothan, Sr., Idest Citizen, Carrboro, Dies arrboro.—The death of Isaac rham, Sr., who was Carrboro’s tst citizen, occurred Monday rning, December 6, at his Home e. Mr. Durham was 94 last ober 18. uneral services were conducted n the Carrboro Methodist urch on Tuesday'afternoon, nterment was in the Brown’s lapel Church cemetery in Chat im County, which was Mr. Dur m’s old home church. He is survived by the following ns and daughters: Mrs. T. N. ann, and Mrs. Doran Dark, of rrboro; Mrs. Marvin Mann and ary Durham of near Pittsboro; rs. Alton Perry, Chapel Hill; rs. Ira Ray, Jamestown; Rev. C. Durham, Raleigh, and Isaac urham, Jr., of the home, and a rge number of grandchildren, eat-grandchildren, * relatives and iends. EW STREET LIGHTS . Hillsboro.—The Town Board o ommissioners in a routine month session Tuesday approved thi anchise for operation of the Tay r Bus Lines over its presen >utes within the town arid au lorized the installation of nev reet lights at some ten stree tersections and other points. -- ■ -- hristmas program Carrboro.—On next Sunday eve inS. December 12, a Christma ’ogram of sacred music will b ven at the Orange Methodis aurch beginning at 8 o’clock. Th iev- M. E. Tyson is pastor of th hurch.. The public -is invited. Hillsboro.—An Orange County campaign to collect a boxcar of farm commodities for overseas re lief as part of the North Carolina Friendship Train being sponsored by the Christian Overseas Pro gram (CROP) got under way this week following thgifpfganization of a local committee to head the drive. R. H. Clay tor was named chair man of the group; Rev. I. E. Birdseye, treasurer; R. L. Moh ler, shipping director;- and Rev. John E. Ensign, publicity director. The county organization was set up art a meeting of leading citizens 'called last Friday by Don S Math eson, county agent. The Orange County collection is scheduled for December 20 and 21, when trucks will pass over the main thoroughfares of the county pick up the commodities being donated. Superintendents of Sun day Schools throughout the county have be^n asked to organize their section and provide the trucks to pick up the food and bring it to the loading point in Hillsboro. A public presentation ceremony wili. be held at 4 p. m. on the 21st of December rn connection with the loading of the car. Corn, dried fruits and other similar commodities are being em phasized in the drive in this coun ty. Contributions with which food may be purchased will also be accepted by the treasurer, Rev. Birdseye. A contribution of $1.50 will purchase a bushel of corn, it was stated. Six Southern states are now ac tively engaged in campaigns to collect these trainloads of farm commodities for overseas relief. The six states—Alabama, Geor gia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas—are included in a total of more than 30 states which will support food trpms by the end of the year. All contributions will be distrib uted overseas on the basis of need alone, without regard to race, re ligious creed, or political affilia tion. To date, CROP donations have been distributed in 43„ dif ferent countries, where special at tention has been paid to the needs of children, widows, the aged, and bv Catholic Rural Life. Church World Service, and Lutheran World Relief.. However, the prot ect in most southern states is sponsored by Church World Serv ice. ' CROP is sponsored nationally the sick. -• • ——~ , - In.spite of government aid and good crops in some areas, thou sands upon, thousands are too poor to buv food. CROP officials state, these, the only hope lies For in aid which will reach them through church channels—without cost. Range County (arch Of Dines Rota Is $8,500 Hill—Due to the ex iy heavy polio epidemic raged through the state this :he local chapters of the Na Foundation for Infantile rsis are calling on National lore money than has ever •equested. ir treasuries are depleted, 2 Carrington -Smith, drive lan of Orange County. The for the March of Dimes has een raised, Orange County’s eing set at $8,500. March of Dimos,^ which be oromoted January 16 rh 31, will be directed by imith for the whole of the f Mrs Bill Richmond for oro and West Hillsboro and ,perintendents of th£ Chapel nd county schools. « I • m ... t1 | ,1 1 , Production Marketing Association Names County And Precinct Heads , Hillsboro.—At a convention of he Production Marketing Asse rtion (AAA) held Friday in iillsboro, county committeemen vere elected with J. S. CoiApton ls chairman; John H. Brown, vice hairman; and P. B. Lloydj regu ar member. A. K. McAdams J'as re-elected secretary of the Association, and Virginia W. War io* treasurer. Community committeemen elect Ed in Thursday’s voting for the 10 immunities to serve during 1949 were: - Caldwell: Claude A, Gray, Clyde Beny, A. E. Wilson; Carr: L. J- Rogers, Lewis Dunn, j L. Scotton; Carrboro: W. R. Womble, J. S. Williams, Aubrey McLennan Cedar Grove: C. W. Long, J. E. »■£;?»*- “■ Marvin PNS'H.“'n.L|ttNew,o„. John Lockhart, J. R. CecU Orange Grove: C. E. Teer, uecu T lovd James Snipes; St Mary’s: Wallace Bacon, H. S. w A. Crabtree; 'Kitty Hawk' Comes Home With a Navy and Marine guard of honor standing by, one of three packing crates containing the Wright Brothers’ famous “Kitty Hawk” biplane is lowered from the USS Palau In Bayonne, N. J. - The craft that was the forerunner of modem aviation was shipped to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington fftMU London. _ 4 Murder Cases On Court Docket Hillsboro.—Four murder cases, a variety of other crimes of lesser violence and 18 divorce actions highlight the combined criminal and civil dockets for next week’s term of Superior Court in Orange j County. Judge Leo Carr of Burlington, resident judge of this ipdicial dis trict, will He on tfie ‘ bench 'and Solicitor William Murdock will Prosecute for the state, Faced with murder indictments are Arbie W. Parker, whose pre vious trial for the fatal cutting of James Lewis Ruffin near Hillsboro last February ended in a mistrial; Roy McAdams, who has been etiargedAvith shooting his brother in-law, Oscar Adkins, near Efland last April, and Wilson Honeycutt afid Bill Stanley, charged with the slaying of Paul Phillips. Other criminal cases on the reg ular docket include the following defendants and charges: Raymond Jones, housebreaking and larceny; C. R. Hutchins, driv ing automobile while drunk; Thomas Peck Brittian, robbery, James Smith and Frank Minor, Jr., larceny and driving automobile while drunk; Wm. A. Hardee, driving automobile while drunk; •Julia Foushee, illegal possession of liquor for purpose of sale; Haywood June Tinnen, bigamy; Geiter Farrington, obtaining money under false pretense; Hazel alias Grace Smith, driving auto mobile while drunk; Willie Page, secret assault; Willie Page, assault with deadly weapon; Oran Holmes, reckless driving; David Alston and Louise Farrar, affray and disor derly conduct; Myruth Brown, as sault with deadly weapon with in tent to kill; Mildred Brown, assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill; Robert Robinson, Jr., assault with deadly 'weapon with intent to kill; ^ Howard Fralix alias Roy Rit zell, forgery; Frank Minor, Jr., carrying concealed weapon and Jane Collins Wins Speech Contest Hillsboro.—Miss Jane Collins . was- ft5tfat$£d a medal for the win ning address in the speech' contest sponsored by the Hillsboro Ex change Club during the high school chapel program Tuesday morning. Miss Collins competed with 10 other Hillsboro High School stu dents for the prize. Miss Jeanette Miller was awarded honorable mention. * Judges were Jerry B. Stone, the Rev. Irving E. Birdseye, and Mrs. Everette Forrest. Birdseye made the presentation of the medal. The topic of the speeches was “The Position of the United States in World Peace.” -o CHE8T X-RAY CLINIC Hillsboro.—The regular chest X-ray clinic will be held at the Health Department in Hillsboro on Monday, December 13, 2-4 p. m. assault with deadly weapon; Ralph L. Smith, driving automobile while 4runk; John H. Flythe, driving automobile while drunk; Arbie W. Parker, murder; Marvin Norwood, Jr., manslaugther; Lonnie Tyson, Cruelty to animals; Lonnie Tyson, cruelty to animals; Herbert Wat son, Jr., larceny; Bill Horton, lar ceny and driving kutomobile while drunk; James M. Guthrie, reckless driving; Victor S. Underwood, reckless driving; Lee ,Vernon White, driving automobile while drunk; Lewis Jones, reckless driv ing, injury to person, and damage to property; John A. Qualls, lar ceny; Wilson Honeycutt, murder; Bill Stanley, murder; Roy McAd ams, murder; John T. Johnston, driving automobile , while drunk; Albert Pendergrass, refusal to al low bond; James Mack, assault with deadly weapon. County Board Appoints Phipps, Stone To Court; Asks More Road Upkeep -■-—-7 Mebane To Open Christmas Season Tomorrow Night Mebane.—The official opening of the Christmas season in Mebane will be observed tomorrow. \ .C. Reginald Strouse, executive secretary of the Chamber of Cdm merce, sponsoring organization, asserted that the city has withheld its opening until December 10 in order to build up interest and spirit by Christmas Day. The city will decorate in several deferent manners. Merchants are going to conduct a window contest with prizes to be awarded for the two best decorated, a similar con test will be conducted for outside decorations” in the residential sec tions. Eight intersections will be deco rated. These decorations will in clude large electric wreaths with appropriate trimipings in the cen ter of the intersections and from these to the four comers , of the crossing will be ropes of garland intertwined with strips of red oil cloth. Additional city decoration in cludes the placing of small trees with whtie sprayed tops along the streets with red bows around each tree. Center attraction will be the 30 foot Christmas tree with its 500 lights erected on the main thor oughfare across from the theater. A public address system will be located in the vicinity and music played at intervals each day. At 7:30 o’clock on the night of the opening, church choirs, the school band, and residents of the community are to gather in the highlight observance. This pro gram will include a communHy sing of Christmas carols and the judging of store windows in the contest. On December 20 the resi dential decorations will be judged and prizes awarded. ----—o WEST HILLSBORO PTA Hillsboro.—The Friendly Four Quartet will present a program at the West Hillsboro, School Friday night, December 10, at 8 o’clock, sponsored by the P. T. A. Admis sion will be 25c and 50c. She's Ideal Selected from a field of 10 final ists, Patsy Miller, 17, of Osceola, la., was named the ideal farm er’s daughter at the National Farm and Garden Show in Chi cago. A 4-H Club member, she war awarded a complete winter wardrobe. Tobacco Allotment Applications Must Be In By Jan. 31 Hillsboro. — A. K. McAdams, secretary of the Orange County 8MA, ..announced today that any one who is eligible for a new to bacco allotment should make his application at the AAA Office prior to January 31, 1949. To be eligible for a new allot ment you must have had experi ence ni raising tobacco in two of the past five years, live on the farm on which you are making application for the allotment and you cannot own or operate another farm on which tobacco will be grown in 1949. You must also be dependent on the farm for your livelihood. Matheson Reports Year Of Progress On Farms Hillsboro.—A report of general progress on Orangfe County farms and In the county farm program during 1948 was presented to the Board of County Commissioners Monday by County Agent Don S. Matheson. \ ■ '_jj| Among the highlights of the re port was the information that the 1948 tobacco: crap in Orange Coun - ty has been sold for an estimated $2,325,600, or $25,000 more than last year, despite an acreage de crease of 1,100 acres in tobacco al-. lotments. The increase in gross return was attributed ot the heavi er »T948 Shpf -whichj averaged a hundred pounds per acre more than the previous year, and higher average of eight cents per pound more money received for this year’s offerings. Building of new sanitary, dairy barns by 15 Orange County farm ers, enabling them to raise the grade of milk to “A” and thus .produce $14,000 more than if they had continued to sell the lower Grade “C” product-, was also, re ported by Matheson in the parade of progress which saw, the county s corn yield raised, poultry flocks expanded and rural electric lines extended. Accomplishments of the year were attributed to the combined efforts of the farmers, the business qpd civic interests and all of the county’s agricultural agencies. Following is a complete sum mary of other major items in Matheson’s report to the commis sioners: 1. The county average corn yield prior to 1945 was never more than 20 bushels per acre. Now it will .average, between 30 and 35 bushels per acre, which means that farm ers are raising from 140,000 to 200,000 more bushels of corn on the same acreage- The use of hy brid seed corn, better fertilization i and improved cultural practices are responsible for the increase, j 2. Eleven of the 50 farmers en tering the Bank of Chapel Hill sponsored corn contest made more than. 100 bushels per acre. The winner, J. L. Phelps, made 136.4 bushels and the 50 averaged 86.9 bushels .3. An Artificial Breeding Asso ciation has been started to improve dairy herds by using some of the best proven hulls in North Caro lina, Indiana, and Wisconsin. 4. A five-county dairy heifer Show and sale was held in. Hills boro. Ninety-eight purebred and grade heifers were exhibited by club members and adult farmers. Twenty-nine of these animals were sold at auction. Dairymen built 28 temporary and 5 permanent type tilos, giving 900 extra tons of silage for winter feeding. 6. The grass land type of farm ing has made rapid progress. Two >'thousand acres have been secstesl to ladino clover wtih orchard grass or alfa fescue. Twenty-five hun dred tons of lime and 600 tons of superphosphate have been applied to grass. 7. The Spotted Poland China Association exhibited 18 animals at the State Fair and have sold breeding stoclc in eight counties. 8. FFA and 4-H boys and girls j exhibited 25 baby beef calves at! the Durham Fat Stock Show, 18 of which won blue ribbons. At the same show, Orange County boys entered 28 of the '55 hogs present and won the reserve cham pionship. 9. Field identification of tobacco wilt and black shank disease has been made on many farms and resistant varieties recommended. 10. Fourteen fish ponds totaling 19 acres have been built with 17 ponds stocked with bream and 11. Fifty-live miles of terraces were staked off by Soil Conserva tion Service during the year. 12. Poultrymen made the third largest income and have expanded their flocks. Five have bought and erected barracks from Camp But ner for chicken houses. .13. Fifteen forestry demonstra tions in thinning have been con ducted with 50 acres involved. Several timber estimates were made for selective cutting. 14. Finished or under construc tion are 100 miles of additional ftiral "electric lines giving service I to 350 additional farm families. 15. Much interest has been evi denced by farmers in the farm or ganizations which include four Granges and one Farm Bureau The Schley Grange sponsored *a Soil Conservation Field Day, which attracted 5,000 people to see Mil ton Latta’s farm undergo a face lifting. This, together with several other community activities, won Grange Community Service Con test sponsored by Sears-Roebuck. The prize is to be a completely equipped community house built to their specifications. 16. Farmers have installed 150 water systems, and a beginning has been made in the extension of much needed rural telephone lines. 17. A home and farm beautifi cation contest, sponsored by the Hillsboro branch of the Durham Bank and Trust Company, is being held. 18. The Farmers’ Mutual live stock bam which burned last year has been replaced by a $16,000 conveniently arranged structure located at the same site near Hills boro. $402,000 worth of livestock has been sold there during the year. Hillsboro.—The Orange County Board of Commissioners, after taking the oath of office for a new two-year term, moved into an all-day session Monday, high lighted by the appointment of court officials and passage of a resolution urging the State High way and Public Works Commis sion to use its entire force in this county for road upkeep and main tenance. Noting that a large number of roads in this county were in poor • condition as result of recent rain% 4 ' the resolution requested that any r new construction authorized for the coiinty be accomplished by contract and that highway forces be used exclusively for upkeep te alleviate the'present condition. A number of citizens appeared before, the board with road re quests and several recent requests' for highway improvement were given further study. Judge L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill was reappointed presiding ! jurist for the County Recorder’s Court for the first full two-year term and Jerry Stone was named prosecuting attorney for the same term. Both were given the oath of . office by Chairman Collier Cobb, Jr., who himself had just been selected chairman, for the new term by, his two colleagues, Ben"F. Wilson and H. G. Laws. All three incumbent board mem bers received the oath of office from Clerk of Court Edwin M. Lynch in ceremonies in the lat ter’s office. Other swearing-in ceremonies were held for newly elected con stables, Lewis W. Sparrow and Carson D. Thomas. _ The commissioners heard a re i port from James Webb, chairman of the fact-finding committee named to investigate and report on the county’s needs, who asked that his group be granted an ex tension of time for reporting until -|hf* February session. Hft indicat ed that a voluminous report touching on a wide variety of county affairs was forthcoming and that a public hearing would be scheduled by the Education sub-committee in mid-January to air certain school problems'. A blanket mdney and insurance policy covering county officers was approved arid applications for beer licenses were granted to Raymond J. Stansbury of West Hillsboro and Cecil M. Proctor of Chapel HH1. ————o Car Inspection Lone Here Now; Deadline Near Hillsboro.—The motor vehicles inspection lane is in Hillsboro all this week, offering automobile owners in this part of the county their last opportunity before the December 31 deadline to get their vehicles inspected. Rigid enforcement of the inspec tion law is promised following ex piration of the present period of grace ending the last day of the year. The inspection larie is located on Churton street west of the library. The current schedule is primarily for inspection of 1941 and 1949 model automobiles, schedules for otffer models having already * pasised. However, all vehicles must be inspected prior to the deadline. * From its Hillsboro station, the inspection lane will move to Chapel Hill where it will be set up all next week on Country Club drive, near the Patrol School bar racks. o MORAVIAN FEAST Chapel Hill.—The University Methodist Church and its Wesley Foundation will present a Mora *vfarf tmrasftfrrijflSjfVt? students and residents of Chapel Hill on Sunday evening, December 12, at 7 o’clock. \ 0% SHOPPING \ m • weens terrv
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