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Ip NEWS ge Outlays Proposed rchants Banquet at Hill liters Cleared of Manslaughter ge Savings Backlog in County lljams Electrical Inspector l THE NEWS of Orange Co fVol. 56—No. 6 Your Hnmr Newsptiftrr Orange County and Its Citizens Since 189s Interested In Orange County? Then read The News of Orange County for Items of Interest from all sections. It’s reported factual* ly, true and without color or hlaa. (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY to, 1949 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week (range Savings ond Holdings ear 6 Million ■Chapel Hill.—The people of lange County today are holding 'backlog of financial security in S. Savings Bonds amounting J$5,605,129.75, W. E. Thompson I Chapul Hill, county chairman of Savings Bonds Committee, an lunced today. « r-This sum represents the net lldings of Series E, F and G War lavis Suggests faree MiUiou School Needs By W. HORACE CARTER ^Chapel - Hill^r-“Orange . County Tool,facilities are far from ade [late and in my opinion it woulcf te $3,000,000 to put them in first ass shape,” C. W. Davis, head the Chapel Hill school system |at accommodates the southern Id of the county, said last Thurs by night at the regular semi jonthly meeting of the Chapel Ell Junior Chamber of Commerce. | “We all know that state restric ons make it impossible for our bunty to raise and spend any where near this amount but we jiould work for all possible aid Worn the State and Federal gov iments and raise all we can to ward putting our educational sys up to standards required by ar expanding enrollment,” Mr. avis said. “The local school system is, in opinion, carrying out a good cademic and vocational program id the records show that about per cent of the high school raduates here go on to institu |ons of higher learning and do ell. But most classes are crowd lighting isn’t very good, and rith the expected increase in fu me enrollment, we may be faced tith jfcudeftts and ttacheis and no oom in which to put them. ” In addition to Mr. Davis’ ad press, the Junior Chamber of Commerce discussed its forthcom ing charter night, tentatively planned for March 17 Kenneth Putnam, chairman of |he tree planting committee, re prted that' about 50 trees have been planted in the Chapel Hill larrboro area to date and that locations for some 50 others have aeen staked out. Members of the Jaycees were scheduled to plant |trees again last Saturday. Buster Ogbum, chairman of the barticipation committee, reported pat this group has completed ar rangements for presenting a rotat ing cup each year to the Ja-ycee t’ho works the most hours on club projects. President Wentworth announced that a club bulletin will be pub lished each month and that the first .would be distributed at the [next business of the organization. Bonds and peacetime Savings Bonds (after all redemptions or “cash-ins” have been deducted) since May 1, 1941, and through December 31, 1948,” Mr. Thomp son said. This information was received by the county chairman from Allison James, State Direc tor of the U. S. Savings Bond Di vision in Greensboro, in the an nual Savings Bonds Report for 1948. Savings Bonds sales for this county for the year-1948 (January 1 through December 31 > -were as follows, according to "the annual report: Series E Bonds, $446, 720.75; Series F Bonds, $16,978.00; Series G Bonds, $177,600.00; coun ty total for 1948, $641,118.75. “These splendid U. S. Savings Bonds holdings and sales are' com munity asset? of the highest type,” Mr. Thompson continued. “They will stand the many indi vidual owners in good stead in time of financial need; they will help stimulate local community business when and if times get hfird; they bring in to our county in interest and accruals about 2Vt per cent a year on the total hold ings. “The primary and patriotic rea sons for the Savings Bonds pro gram,, of course, are to help sta bilize the nation’s economy by fighting inflation, and to properly manage the $252 billion national war debt by spreading it widely among our people, but the by product of ‘community reserves’ and future buying power of our county’s citizens is a mighty im portant reason also. The aim of the Savings Bond Committees of volunteer workers in every county in the nation is to help increase Savings Bonds sales, through pay roll savings where you work, Bond-a-Month savings where you bank, and over the counter sales. “Every citizen should be a vol unteer in helping this program to succeed,”- the county Chairmdir said. “We need voluunteer work ers in every town in the county, and in farm communities to keep the urgent need for the Savings Bonds program before the people.” In conclusion Mr. Thompson said that net holdings of Series E, F and G Bonds for the state of North Carolina as of Decem ber 21, 1948, were $641,439,784.25. Nationally, 80,000,000 individuals hold $47 billion in E, F and G Bonds—a greater amount than during the wartime oeak of 1945. - :c..-'—9-■- - CLAPP ADDRESS TONIGHT Chapel Hill.—“Working, and Living with Our Resources” will be the ,topic of an address to be given by cordon R. Clapp, nox ville, Tenn., chairman of the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, in Alumni Building at the University here.'tonight at 8 o’clock. The public is invited. I Waiters Not Guilty In Manslaughter Case Involving Death Of Peter Benton Hillsboro.—Orange County Re corder's Court Judge L. J. Phipps found no eyidence of contributory negligence on the part of Dwight Walters of Hillsboro on a technical charge of manslaughter in connec tion with the highway death of Peter Benton, local Negro, two ‘weeks ago. Walters pled not guilty to the charge and findings were insuffi cient to bind the case over to Su Benton was struck by Walters’ car on Highway 70 after he report edly walked out in front of the on coming vehicle. Other cases disposed of Monday were mostly of the traffic and Public drunkenness variety. D. ^^* Hefe fiuBose plecf noloAIdc5rf tendere to a charge of failing to give proper hand signals and was ordered to pay the costs of court. Graham Ashley for operating a motor vehicle without an opera tor’s license was fined $25 and costs. Harvey Ray on a like charge received a similar sentence. M. W. Thompson for failure to give a proper hand signal was fined $10 and costs. Edna McCauley on a driving without operator’s license charge also received the $25 and cases assessment after she pled guilty. Herman Craven, charged with operating an automobile on the highways while under the influ ence of intoxicating beverages and damage to personal property was judged not guilty. . Puublic drunkenness convictions 'and their 'sentences included: Clarence Cates, $5 and costs; Dal I las Moore, 30 days on roads and costs, suspended for six months: ! Prank -Battle, 30 days, on, mad* and costs, suspended for six ■ months; Maynard Whitted, $5 and costs; Dave' Parker, costs; Sam Brdoks, $15 and costs (also guilty of disorderly conduct); Sue Mc Adoo, $10 and costs; Rufus Poteat, $10 and costs (also guilty of dis orderly conduct); Charlie Brooks, $10 and costs (also guilty of disor derly conduct. , Howard Torian piga guilty tc the larceny bi property valued at $20 ancT-was given a six months road sentence and ordered to pay a' fine ««« zssi3FSsS&.*&k j tence suspended for two years on ■ good behavior. Leroy Beasley I was ordered to pay the costs- on ;.an assault charge. Walter Mebane, charged with nonsupport of an illegitimate child, was found not guilty of-failing and refusing tq support the child’ Roy j McAdoo on a nonsupport charge I received a 12 months jail sen | tence suspended on condition ol payment of $100 to Stella Mae I Enoch and child and $25 per month hereafter: James Thomp ) son was judged guilty of failure to support his illegitimate children and also given a 12 months term. | suspended . upon payment of the I costs and $05 to Alberta Williams and her two children and $30 per '-month hereafter. Whatcha Know? Joe! ■■ Hill I —nil— .Ill ^ Newsmen and arm-chair diplomats strove unsuccessfully to ar . “range a meeting between President Trumah and Marshal Stalin, but it was no trick at all for artist Jacek Kafpowicz of Paris, France. Karpowicz, who views the present era of “phony peace” pessimistically, made his own Truman and Stalin of papier-mache, and got them together for this striking; portrait. ... Gala Merchants-^ Banquet Friday Chapel Hill.—Final plans are being made for the annual banquet of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer-. chants Association, to be held to morrow night at 7 o’clock in the Carolina Inn ballroom. A special table will be set up for the directors, of the Associa tion and their wives. Favors will be placed at every plate. These favors were donated by Rose’s 5 and 10c Store, Bank of Chapel Hill, Danziger’s, Led .better-Pickard Store, Varsity, Co lonial Press and University Florist. The ballroom charge was donated to the Association as a gift from the Carolina Inn. Norman Cordon, Metropolitan Opera singer, will lead the group singing, accompanied by Mrs. R. H. Marks. Mrs." Marks will present a .toast to' the ladies in the form of-song and music, A skit directed by Herbert Wentworth and sponsored by the Jaycees will be given to present the achievements of the Associa tion for the past year. Andy Griffith, a University stu dent well qualified in dramatics, will present a skit using, members from the audience as participants. These skits will be very humorous and entertaining with laughs for all. _-» ' ' During the banquet prizes will be given to those who are lucky. | These—prizes_were donated by ! members of.the Association. Mu ; sic will be by Carey Lloyd and his i music makers. Vance Hogan is chairman of the danqe committee. ■ -— -6-■ . John P. Wilson Called To Duty . •• Hurdle ’Mills.—John P. Wilson, on of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Wil son, and a graduate of, Hillsboro (.High Sr bool, has been' called back to active duty .in the grade of cap tain by tlie Air Force and assigned to Manchester, N. H. He has been on duty as a re cruiting sergeant during the past year at Paris,, Mo. He served eight years in the Air Force during the war period and spent 10 months in North Africa as a bomb er pilot and 10 months in England as a pilot of fighter type aircraft. He. is married to the former Miss Maureen Mitchell of Topeka, an.., and has a small son . They will ,.«££©*at Manchester ^ Journey here Due to an overflow of teams, arrangements have been made to play two nights of the Stem C. B. A. tournament in the Hillsboro gym. Four games are on tap here Saturday night, Feb. 12, with both Hillsboro High teams in action that night. -~ On Monday night, Feb. 14, there are three games on tap with both Hillsboro Exchange Club teams in action that night. The winners of this district tournament will play in the state finals in Asheboro. Trophies will be given to the winning teams and prizes will be given to the best player and sport of the boys and girls teams. ---«----r-: Pre-Parenthood Series Continues Next Monday Chapel Hill.—“The Psychology of Pregnancy” is the topic to be discussed at the third session of the pre-parenthood course being presented by the District Health Department Monday, February 14, at 3 p. m. The course which meets each week at the same time at the dis trict offices on Old Fraternity Row is being offered as a commu nity service for prospective par ents in an effort to familiarize them with the various phases of pregnancy and care, jaf th^ mother and ba^y. Several of the sessions are to be scheduled at night for the con vevnience of those who are unable to attend in the afternoon., Those interested may still register at tfte regular weekly meetings. Future, subjects to be presented include: Hygiene and Nutrition of Pregnancy, How Your. Baby Grows, Labor and Hospital Pro cedure. Care of the Baby, Bathing Procedure, and The New family Set-Up_ - . - O . ■ '• , VL New Hospital | For Chapel Hill Gets Approval Chapel Hill,—The proposed con struction of *u. 318,-bed hospital, in . Chapel Hill, has been given final approval by the United States Public Health Service, Rep. Carl T, Durham from Chapel Hill an nounced last Friday^-— ■ Three installments amounting to $1,500,000 will be given'through ‘federal aid. Estimated cost of the ; hospital is $5,290,000. “Staggering” Needs Set Forth By County Survey; road Plan Is Proposed Hillsboro.—A voluminous and detailed analysis of the county’s needs was presented to the Orange County board of commissioners Monday calling for vast outlays; for, improvements in schools, roads, county departments and other phases of the county gov ernment. The document was the work of the 15-member fact-finding com mittee, headed by Senator James Webb, which was appointed last October to investigate and report on the.county's needs. V! No estimate of the cost of the new construction and other im provements was attempted by the committee, which commented in its report that “probably some of the recommendations will be be yond the financial ability of the County to provide.” In accepting the 31-page type written document from Chairman Webb, Chairman Collier Cobb, Jr., of the Commissioners termed the needs “staggering” and un officially estimated, that accom plishment of the proposals would require something ov.er three mil lion dollars for "schools alone and frisfaJ/atfoi, Of vIBi.# Bs__ New H#Pe Win 8e **1J Efla**, ** ®»toric Milestone New Hope.—An event of great significance to Presbyterians of the New Hope and Efland commu nities will take place Sunday with the installation of the Rev. John Ensign as minister of the two churches. C Installation services at the Ef land Presbyterian Church will be at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and at N4w Hope at 7:30 in the eve ning.-—. I The installation at Efland will be the first in the church’s 41-year history. It heretofore has, been served only by a “temporary sup ply.” Mr. Ensign will be the first resident installed pastor in the almost 200-year history of the New Hope Church. The Presbytery committee for the installation at Efland will con sist of the Rev. W. M. Baker, presiding; Dr. T. Henry Patter son, preaching the sermon; and Dr. C. E. Hodgin, giving the charge to the congregation. Elders Sid ney Green and R. H. Hughes complete the committee from Or ange Presbytery. Dr. T. Henry Patterson will preside at thg New Hope installa tion, the Rev. W. M Baker will preach, and the Rev. Irving E. Birdseye will deliver the charge to I the, minister. Elders Hughes and Green will again participate. The Rev. Mr. Ensign came to this community last August after A. K. McAdams Heads Red Cross Fund Campaign Hillsboro—A. K. McAdams, of the New Hebron Church section in Western Orange County, secretary of' the county AAA, has been ap~ pointed chairman of the annual Red Cross fund Raising drive to Hoe held next month. Appointment of McAdams has just been made by R. L. Mohler, chairman of the Orange- County Red Cross chapter. ; Rev. John Ensign, pastor of [New Hope and Efland Presbyte rian churches, hu.sbeew-selectcd as publicity director. Organization for the drive and the appointment of corhmunity leaders will be an nounced shortly, it was said. ---o—--— ELECT m© A LINS RECTO R Hillsboro.—Charles Williams of Hillsboro was appointed county electfical inspector. Monday by the Board of Commissioners. His appointment was retroactive to February 1 and- he succeeds Ar thur C. Cole, who resigned. ■> REV. JOHN E. ENSIGN graduating from the college of Emory University in Atlanta. He took his theological training at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, serving as assist ant for one year to Dr. Ralph Sockman of Christ Church, Park avenue, and for two years in a small rural church while in .fee Senrtnafy. He served one yea* in a rural church in Tennessee. He has had experience in 15 summers of camping, five as camp program director in the Smokies, fitting him for his work in connection with Camp New Hope. County To Take Over School Tax Collection Hillsboro.-—Orange County will assume responsibility for collec tion Of the school tax in the spe cial school district of Chapel Hill next year. The Board'd! County -Commis sioners made this decision Monday after a delegation, including Gil bert Ray, city manager of Chapel Hill, told the board collection of the tax by the. City of Chapel Hill brought forth resentment from cit izens in the district who live out side Chapel HHl and etervnot un derstand why they have to pay this tax at the City Hall. A legislative act will be required to make the change. ■: Almost a third of the patrons who pay 'the tax are outside the city limits. The delegation; including F. L. Gobble and C. W. Davis, also sought .tp remove a &70Q architec tural feel from their capital out lay budget and were advised,that specific fund/ had been allotted for the purppose. jointed out that statutory limita ions on school indebtedness for :his county was in the neighbor lood of one and a quarter million. The report, traced the “present, critical state in which the Orange County Education System finds it self" to the lack of careful, long range planning and the failure to provide sufficient monies to sup port an adequat school system. It recommended the abolition of “the present ineffective district ' and local school board system,” giving more responsibility to ad visory committees in each locality. * ~ It recommended a uniform pat tern of elementary schools, junior high schools and two senior high schools, at Hillsboro and Chapel Hill,, proposing that Aycock re main a high school only if enroll ment increases sufficiently to war* rent its continuance as a senior high school. Recommended were a new high school building at Hillsboro, com pletion of the presently planned - high school at Chapel Hill, the immediate oonstrtuction of an ele mentary school and the renovation of the present elementary school at Chapel Hill, a complete new Negro* school for the southern part of the county, and numerous other additions, improvements and en largements. The report made broad recom mendations for curriculum changes, personnel utilization and additional teaching equipment. In the field of county depart ments, it proposed a new office building for court officers and a court room, renovation of the pres ent courthouse building to house one or two county officers not connected with the court, and a new county garage to take the place of the present strtucture it called “a_ fire trap.” n proposed a Droad road im provement program with specific recommendations and tied in this ' yith ^he school . iraproj^cm *nts after recognizing the close'relation between the two problems. '* The complete report will be published in The News in this and the following issues, space limita tions preventing the complete re port in this issue. The first half of the report tnay be found in an other _section of today’s edition. ^The board torlk: under consid- K eration a number of road peti tions during the full day’s session, heard reports, from county of ficers, approved new and revised applications' for welfare allot ments, granted beer licenses to two applicants but refused one to John L. Wagoner because of a ' previous court conviction. » 'A jury list cjrawn for the next term of Superior Court included: ’ James E. Wadsworth. H. L. Riley, T. C. Lindsay, G. T. Dur*^ ham, J. B. Faueette, Luther Dawson, A. S. Allison, D.—L. MeBane, James H. Shambley, David Arthur, Glenn Miller, Clyde T. Miller, Robert C. Thompson, C. H. Pruitt, H. G. Dillehav. Floyd F. Miller,, M. J. Dawson, Wallace Womble, G. C. Kennedy, Gladys Head, Charlie M Mincey,’ Robert Mayhor, J. T. -Thompson, T. H. Yates, J. L. Brown, Jr., P M. Thompson, J. A. Borland, Mrs- Alice Cates, L. L. Copc.lrmd, „ John Hargroves. D. A. CoUch, L. J. Byrd, Clarence Burch, Lewis T Tilley, C. W. Brown, Troy" Hackney, Clyde Hogan, .Robert. Glenn Lloyd, J. B. Wilson, C. D. • Sykes, J. W, Fuller, Luther Bos tic, Claude J, Dunn and. Dewey B. Carey. Text of First Half of County Survey Report NOTE: This is the first half of the report of the county fact finding committee presented Monday to the Board of County (Commissioners and the County School Board. Space llfhita ^¥f(5*rfs<:W^Trrt¥d the complete report. TJje sec i ond half will be presented next 1 week. -o February 4, 1949. At a joint meeting of the boun ty Commissioners and the Board of Education held in Hillsboro on October 4th, this special commit tee was appointed and instructed to make a thorough study of “the needs of Orange County, particu larly those requiring capital out lay.” The membership of fifteen comes from all sections of the county and represents both races, both sexes and both political par ties, as ‘ follows: James Webb, Hillsboro f z. C. Burton, Cedar Grave -- B. C. Corbett, Cedar Grove Hubert Robinson, Chapel Hill Mrs. C. D. Jones, Hillsboro J. L. Brown, Jr., Hillsboro Lemuel R. Cheek, Chapel Hill, j Route 1 —■*/' - TChanat H.EJ.I. Route 1 > John L. Efland, Jr., Efland Raymond Andrews, Carrboro J. B. Johns, Chapel Hill Gordon Blackwell, Chapel Hill Mrs. Clyde Walker, Rougemont, Route 2 * Mrs. M. R. Evans, Chapel Hill H. G. Coleman, Sr., Hillsboro Mrs. Evans found it impossible to serve and she was replaced by Mrs.'. John Gillin of Chapel Hill. The Committee held an organi zation meeting in Hillsboro on the night October 18th, 1948, and thoroughly discussed the problem to be studied and ways and means of accomplishing the desired re sult. It was quickly apparent that with the limited time available to the Committee, it would not be possible for each member to make a personal study of every need of Orange County. The alternative was to divide into a number of sub-Committees,—-tor —intensive needs. Preliminary discussion re vealed that the Committee was in agreement as to the. principal needs to be studied which were outlined as follows: 1. School System 2. County Departments 3. Roads and miscellaneous The Chairman, therefore, made the following sub-Committee ap pointments: Schools—Mrs. Jones, Chairman; Mrs, Gillin, Mr. Blackwell, Mr. Efland, Mr. — Corbe11. County Departments—-Mr. Bur ton, Chairman; Mr. Brown, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Cheek, Mr. Rob inson. “ . “-* Roads ' and Miscellaneous—Mr. Johns. Chairman: Mrs. Walker / Mr. Andrews. Mr. Teer, Mr, Efland, These sub-Committees have taken their assignments very seri ously and much good work has been done.. Theic reports cover- . — uh.w*»< txi t,ho_ oy««U . . study as revised and approved by the entire Committee, in fact, make up this report. The Committee has felt that it had neither the time nor the facili ties to go into the matter of the cost of the improvements which we are recommending. Rather our function was to survey the needs of the county and to leave costs and financing to the Board of Commissioners. We feel, there fore, that, relatively speaking, we have had the easier part of th% job, realizing as we do. that .the that the financing will be most difficult. Probably some of our' recommendations will be beyqKd^t the financial ability of the County f See The “Oomph” Girls At Hillsboro Gymnasium Tonight For March Of Dimes — - -\ . " • ■ ■ *- v ... r ' * few
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