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-*• ’V dSPT Give To The March OfDimcs-Your Dollars May Reclaim A Child p^S TOP NEWS khool Need* In Hundred. Hlsboro Restoration Proposed igh Team. Split Game, larch Of Dime. Drive On {W Stoplight At Hill THE NEW S of Orange County Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 189$ oh 56—No- 3 (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 Intererted In Orange County? Then read The News of Orange County for item, of interert from all sections. IP. reported factual ly, true and without color or bias. i Price: $2 A Year: 5c Single Copy Ten Pages This Week testore Hillsboro1 atest Proposal I ihboro.—A movement, which I assumed wide proportions on ! basis of space allotted it in [ham newspapers, has been hched looking toward the his tal restoration of Hillsboro L the lines of Williamsburg, ,ch a proposal was made Mon Ibv Robert D. J itterson, Jr., ham realtor, whc* apparently discussed the ma.ter with the ham Chamber of Commerce hk Pierson, and written to “Sandy” Graham, local at ey and present State Highway [mission chairman,/who *ciny lv resides in Raleigh-. ~ V s far as can be ascertained no ;boro residents have been con ?d regarding the matter and 5t reports from Durham are the m^or will be presented he Durham Chamber of Com fce “for discussion and possible n ” That organization was •ibed as “highly interested” in imposition. ‘ .■ action locally was mostly ;ed and there was consider Fspeculation as to Patterson s _v*. in pushing the proposition, las regarded as largely a pipe |m impossible of realization lout the interest of a /financial ll," who was not yet in sight; fed with the speculation was Intment at a Durham editorial aining implications not com entary to Hillsboro pitizens in lectkm with previous attempts |bb, president of the jrchants Association, letter to the Durham I for an answer to the bat has he (Patter and pointed to the possibility” of restor i along the lines of the fe restoration. He (that Hillsboro has had e in, . tiie. |tate’s __ places as might have been used con IJnd improved by gen iwners. He mentioned it efforts toward pres Hillsboro landmarks out a number of his cal structures which he said ht be “preserved” rather than ored. \■ NY ER QETSrAW Aff P onner D. Sawyer, Hillsboro rney, was awarded the Silver ver Award for distinguished lice to boyhood Monday night he annual banquet of the Occo chee Council, Boy Scouts of erica. Sawyer has been active Scout affairs for many years. —-—o-—--— . HEARN IMPROVING arrboro.—Friends of L. D. rn. prominent business man of rboro, will- be glad to learn ; he is improving satisfactorily r undergoing an operation at tts Hospital in Durham Mon New Masonic Officers Take Posts For ’49 Hiflsboro. —Hillsboro Masonic Lodge installed officers for 1949 Friday evening, January 14. Past Master W. H. Moore was install ing officer, assisted by^ Past Mas ter Hubert- Brown of Durham Lodge "No. 352 New- officers installed were: A. R. Williams, Master; Giles Long, Senior Warden; Carl Couch, Junior Warden; Garland Miller, Treasurer;*. Charles M. Walker,. Sr.., Secretary; Ernest Ball; Senior Deadon; William F. Lark, Junior Deacon; C. M. Walker, Jr., and C- -A- .Williams, Jr., Stewards; W. L. Smith, Tyler; and G. A. Brown,- Chaplain. . Retiring Master is John P. Bal lard . is' A. Ff. Williams, newly installed Master, • appointed the following committees: Finance: E. C. Liner, G., Ak Brown, H. W. Moore. Or phanage Committee: G. G. Bivins, EC ‘C. Liner, J. C. McDade, Jr., T. C. Ellis, S. H. Strayhorn, Cur tis Brown. Historians: R. B. Studebaker, G. A. Brown, C. M. Walker, Sr. Instructions Committee: C. M. Walker, Sr., G. A. Brown, H. O. Bvins, John Link, S. H. Stray horn; W. F. Lark, R. I. Thomas. Resolutions Committee: G. A. Brown, C. M. Walker, Jr., Jack Houser. Sick and Cheer Com mittee: E. C. Liner, J. B. Mid gett, S. H. Strayhorn, Giles Long, J. M. Dunn, Jerry B. Stone, tddki'ing Comm ^pe: G. F. Miller, OLE. Bivins, Bivins, Tay* lor Bivins, Masonic and Eastern Star Home Committee: C. M. Walker, Sr., W. L. Smith, J. P. Ballard. Re porter, J. P. Ballard. Radiosene Falls Near New Hope New Hope.—A Radiosene fell in the yard at Mrs. W. A: Craig’s Sunday morning with a parachute and balloon 'attached. It was §gnt out from Greens*. boro. earlier in the day by the United States Weather Bureau to determine the humidity, tempera ture and moisture. Instructions were on it to the finder to return to the United States Government', The Radiosene can be used again, but the, balloon and parachute were wrecked. Bines For North Carolina ■fillip S .'Randolph of'Chapel Hill. North 'Carolina state representa tive of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, shojvs Nurse Hazel Fraser of Bogalusa, La., a March of Dimes Check for $100,000. Watching is Billy Taylor, 6, a patient at trie Camp Sutton polio center. March of Dimes Drive Underway Hillsboro.—The Orange County March of Dimes campaign got underway last Friday and will continue throughout the month as workers attempt to raise $8,500 through solicitation, coin collec tors and other means such as ben efit events. A $2,000 quota was set for Hills boro and this immediate area ex clusive of collections in the schools. E. Carrington Smith is the general chairman, Mrs. J. W. Richardson is sub-chairman ' for this area and persons not solicited may send contributions directly to -these leaders. The need for this year is cited as much greater than ever before because of last year’s costly epi demic which struck North Caro lina a tremendous blow. Hun dreds are still hospitalized in this state as a result and great outlays of funds are still required for their care. . Art impressive full-page ad sup porting- this great campa%h*isfays be found on the inside pages in addition to data regarding the campaign and program. In Hillsboro, block leaders in the house-to-house canvass were announced by Mrs. Richmond as fo-llowsr-Mrs. HW.. Moore, Mrs. O'. L. Thomas, Mrs. Garland Mil der, Mrs. Virginia. "Gattis, Mrs. R. O. Forrest, Mrs. D. E. For rest, Mrs. M. B. Roberts-, Mrs. Lucius Brown, Jr., Mrs. J. W. Dickson, Mrs. C. C. Cole, Mrs. Vera Whitaker, Mrs. Virgin Teer, Mi - Duiru.nt Eskridge, Mrs, Phil. Har iee. John Clayton is leader lev. H. Grady Dorsett Has Led Varied life; Will Now Erect New Religious And Sicial Center In Carrfeoro By MRS. IRA MANN arrboro,—Rev. H, Grady Dor , who was pastor of the Carr 0 Baptist Church from 1918 to 1, has led a varied life, busi s and professional, operating a dware and machinery store at and at 26 years of age was :ted Register of Deeds of Chat n County, the only Republican !ister of Deeds ever to serve in itham. iev. Mr. Dorsett, son of the 1 Janies Dan Dorsett and Fan Hackney Dorsett, was born in °pka City, Orange County, rida, September 15, 1881. He >e to North Carolina with his ents at four years of age. In 25 years in the ministry he has yed Baptist churches in Vance/ anville, Wake, Chatham, Ala ace* and Person Counties and following churches in Orange anty: Carrboro, Cane Creek, thel, Mt. Herman and West Hsboro. ^fter serving as Register of eds, he entered the University North Carolina as a law stu it. He graduated from U. N. C. th the class of 1912 and later *cticed law in Salisbury in part rship with Judge R.„ E. Lee ’§ht. He was a candidate for ■ Legislature from Orange unty in 1912, where he says he s defeated by five votes. Mter his decision to enter the aistry, „he entered the South stern Baptist Theological Semi fy in Fort Worth, Texas, for ining. He was ordained as a nister at First Baptist Church, llsJ>ury, in 1914. His first pas- | torate was the Mobanc Beptis; Church in 1914 to 1915. . ‘ Rev. Mr. Dorsett.; toils, the .U'yt.‘_ story of great-great-great-gfand father Rev. Fraftcis Dorsett, his first- ancestor from England* who came over before lt40 and was one of the leaders of.EHe Regula tors: He with ten •others was brought to Hillsboro for trial. The Colonial prosecuting attorney who made a fiery speech against them was taken out by the Regulators at night and severely thrashed. Judge Henderson, one of the Brit ish judges, only turned them all loose the next morning, adjourned court and returned to Rowan County. He also tells very inter esting stories of his college days.. at Ur N. C. He and MgS? happy and'contented at their home near Carrboro and one mile fropn the University campus They ar living in their large home of 11 rooms, built when he was pastor of the Carrboro church in 1918, which he calls “The Garden of Eden ” The home is situated on a high hill surrounded by 17 acres of land owned by the Dorse..s'. Though retired from all churc pastorates, Rev. Mr. Dorsett . is always ready and willing to j ply any church when calledl upon. He is very active in church work; in Carrboro where he and Mrs. j Dorsett brought their membership] when they returned to their oldj home here. He is always happi est when his friends come to see him in his home. He was married in 1902 to Miss Sankie Henderson. They .have live sons—Lester G. Dorsett, wno is n w a railway clerk from Wash- j 'inG. *K) Charlotte; James. R. .Dorsett, who is assistant^qtu ary for the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company in Greensboro; Henry G. Jrr, who is with the Navy. Research Labo-, rafor^in Washington. D. ©4J Ralph HT Dorsett, who is a dairy man in Rowan County, formerly in the U. S. Navy where he did outstanding service; Frank T. Dorsett, who was in India 22 months during World War II, is now teller for Security Bank and Trust Company in Salisbury. Their daughter, Mrs. Christine Dorsett McCoy, is the wife of Capt. War ren G. McCoy, who is now flying }rtsy mot or i n a Salisbury aijrport,. Rev. '’Mr.' Dorsett’s special ac tivities in the future will be as manager or director of a religious, social headquarters, especially for men, in a hall he has rented on Carrboro’s Main street over the Cnrrboro Cafeteria and Grace's 5 and 10 Cent Store. This will be operated somewhat on the order of-the Y. M. C. A. There will be a men’s prayer meeting every Tuesday evening, and prayer meeting for everyone every Thurs day evening. Each Sunday after- j noon at 3 o’clock a religious serv ice for everybody will be held. Rev. Mr. Dorsett in our inter view was very enthusiastic about this new venture which will be known as “Love Center. The opening service will be held next , Sunday afternoon, January 23, at 3 o’clock. for Belle-Vue; Allen Whitaker for Eno Cotton Mills; J. G. Goodwin for Orange Furniture Craftsmen, Mrs. G. C. Truesdale for Duke Power Plant; John Efland, Jr., for Efland Knitting Mills; Mrs. Wil liam Chance and Fred Cates, Jr., for theater solicitation; and John Midgett, Alton Williams and Char lier Torian, special solicitations. •o Tractor, Other Equipment Taken From Dr. Hobbs . Chapel Hill. — A practically brand new David Bradley garden tractor, which had only been used one-half an hour, was stolen out of a brooder house on Dr. S. H. Hobbs’ farm at Damascus Church some six miles from Chapel Hill, he reported today, vvAiitsfe Also stolen was a cultivator and plow and some other equipment valued at $300. Dr. Hobbs is of fering a $50 reward to any one Who can give him a lead. The equipment was stored in the brooder, house which was pad lockedT” The" thieves broke the lock and took it with them, but “why they wanted to take the broken lock, too, I don’t know,” Dr-. Hobbs said. - I have the- key.” There is no house on the farm now, he explained. It was burned to the ground last winter. Dr. Hobbs doesn’t know.' just when the equipment was stolen, for he said he., hadn't visited the farm since shortly after Christmas until during the past weekend when be discover:,! the robbery. ■“ Although the land is posted,’’ he said, “I found six or eight men and about 15 dogs hunting out there Saturday.” o Traffic light At Post Office tecf At Hill Chapel Hill.—Upon the recom mendation of the Institute of Traf fic Engineers, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen has completed arrangements for the installation of a traffic light system at the intersection of Franklin and Hen derson streets, the post office cor ner. There will be two sets of lights operating' sd'rtttdtaneously to eon> frol both motor and foot, traffic. One will be on a raised “safety island” directly in front of the post office, and the other will be suspended over Franklin street facing Henderson street. In addition to the red, yellow, and green lights for automobiles, there will be ‘.'wait” and “walk” signals for pedestrians. The sys tem^ was designed especially for this intersection by the General Electric Company. i- - , U-turns will Jae forbidden at this corner, and it is probable that there will be a no-parking zone in front of the* post office. Installation will be directed by Grey Culbreth and B. F. Potter. The cost of the new system has been estimated by Gilbert Ray, ;ity manager, at $1,000. School Needs by Hundreds Reported at Hearings Here Hillsboro. — Orange County’s fact-finding committee asked for reports on “school needs” from each community and they found P. T. A. leaders in the various schools ready with the answers." Public hearings held here last week brought forth hundreds of recommendations for school im provements covering all phases of school activities from the physical plants and classroom needs to cur riculum changes. Reports from white and Negro groups were heard on succeeding nights, with little difference in the nature of the needs reported by each. No effort was made to evaluate the needs from a monetary stand point. The reports received by the committee, headed by Mrs. Clar ence Jones, will be used as basis for the report being mad? by the fact-finding board to the Couniy Commissioners a£ their meeting the first Monday in February. The full reports of the various com munity groups will later be turned over to county school officials for their use in making such improve ments as are feasible and possible from an administration standpoint. Greatest needs in scope and va riety came from reports of spokes men from Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, "who indicated their units are virtually “bursting at the seams,” while some of the other schools are fighting for existence, on the basis of their enrollment. No in dication of the committee’s inten tions as to its own report has yet been given. Carrboro school was the.only one not heard from among the white schools.. Chapel Hill spokesmen reported a need for two elementary schools and a complete new high school within the next few years. Now operating a high school in eight classrooms in one wing which has been built of a proposed new building to take the place of the high school destroyed by fire in 1942, a need was cited for 22 class rooms and special departments for the high school division, plus a lunchroom, library and audito rium. -A' minimum need of 30 Heralded Restoration ______„_,*__,< / ( AN EDITORIAL) ’ The Durham Morning Herald in its editorial columns yesterday appeared to be chastizing Hillsboro citizens, cast- 1 ing serious implications that the folks here had been un cooperative and in general a millstone around the neck of the people who in times past had attempted restoration of this historic community. Its rather smug reference to Sandy Graham as Mister Number One of Hillsboro ap peared to have an uncomplimentary tone, also; Mr. Graham being a resident of the county but not of the town itself. In short, this newspaper strongly resents the attitude of the neighboring daily, not for its appraisal of the current proposal by one of its citizens but for the insinuations it levels at our home town. The Durham Chamber of Com merce,''it reports* is taking the matter under advisement, a procedure which Smacks highly of* the “horse before the cart.” It has not yet been mentioned to the folks at Hills boro, as far as can be ascertained, and the Durham Herald is already accusing us of not wanting to be restored. A highly unorthodox procedure. Apparently, the esteemed daily editorialist does not real ize or has ignored the fact that the one necessity for such V project -t^ an- '-ange-l'-' ^iclV as a Rocl^felter at W^lItams : burg. If there is such'a man among us we don’t know him and until the Durham backer can produce one, or at least a good suggestion regarding one, we’ll not take the Durham Herald's implications except in resentment. >’ew Chevrolet f o Be On Display :lere Saturday 1—A-product oi llircc years' dev L'jpment work and more than a 'million miles of r gin "'ring, re search, the 1949 Chevrolet goes i on display in dealer showrooms in Orange County ? turday. Loijal; dealers ieceiv,ed a prev iew of the | new model in / .anta last week end . The latent model "bedn~cdm- ' p’.ctely restyled. It is lower, wider See CHEVROLET, Page 10, Pair Of Stills Are Destroyed; Five Arrested —Hillsboro—Sheriff’s officers, as sisted by Chapel Hill police in one instance, captured and destroyed two illicit liquor manufacturing plants this week and arrested’five men as operators. Monday afternoon a 300-gallori capacity outfit was cut down in Bingham township just off the 'dad ffO'ftTwfhiteoSrDss to Dodson’s Crossroads. Six thousand five ; See STILLS, Page 10 classrooms and special units was cited for the elementary school and two separate buildings on ade quate sites were recommended to fill the needs of the 900 students expected lit the elementary grades by 1952. The elementary school now has 15 rooms. A high school, population of 500 its expected in five years on the basis of a recent census estimate by the Junior Service League. Crowded conditions and poor facilities' were painted for the Hillsboro school, where it was said two teachers have no class rooms- and--ottwr- classrooms being - held in the basement, described as dark and damp. Lunchroom and toilet facilities were described as “alarming” and the gymnasium was described as a fire trap. Among the needs cited were eight classrooms, lunchroom, toilet fa- : cilities, a music room, a mechani cal room for the agricultural building, a new gymnasium, re pairs to the halls, auditorium and ceilings of the rooms in the old buildings, equipment of rooms, auditoriums and halls with ac cousfaboard to lessen noises, one new bus, three bus replacements, curriculum changes offering some type trainijjg for exceptional stu dents, additional foreign language and higher math courses, plus 21 additional needs from 18 door knobs to a mechanical lift in the boiler room. “In short,” conclud ed Spokesman Charles S. Hub bard, “a new senior high school for Hillsboro.” West Hillsboro reported a need for a lunchroom, library and other minor items, including “full length mirrors for each room. Caldwell needed an auditorium and recrea tion facilities, and called for the establishment of an attendance of ficer. Caldwell’s spokesman, in calling for new busses, asserted they were “shocked every time the bus gets to Hillsboro on time.” Efland saw a need for a Junior High School (ninth grade), heat ing system, drinking ‘fountain, sanitary facilities, lunchroom to adequately take care of the eorpll ment and adequate lights. Mur phy needed a number of minor improvements but cited a tele phone as the number one need. It was stated that'17 of its poten tial students are being allowed to attend other schools outside the district, thus weakening the Mur phy school. Aycock’s s p o k e s m a n , Bob Hughes, discussed some modem curriculum trends and cited minor, items of repair, voicing the septi men t,.as did other- spokesmen- -for the district, against any move to eliminate the Aycock school or consolidation of their high school with others. White Cross cited inadequate -space and the need for a gymnasium, lunchroom, inside fountains and several other im provements such as better light ing and toilet facilities. Dissatisfaction over bus faciLi TiesT~\v5S cited by most of -the spokesmen. Spokesmen at the Negro hear ing sought consolidation of eight schools in the northern part of the county into a large school at Cedar Grove and the "heed for improve ments in the physical plants, bet ter transportation facilities, inade quate toilet, lunchroom, and rec reational ' facilities was cited by most speakers. .. Aerodynamics an Influence an ft Pictured with a U. S. Air Force jet fighter plane, Chev rolet’s Fleetline De Luxe four-door sedan exemplifies the dean, flowing surfaces that are the essence of modern transportation styling. Fleetline sedans are distinguished by the unbroken sweep of the roof line over rear quarters * . of the car. A two-door model is also available.
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