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oard Seeks Beer Control
.ocal Woman Fatally Injured
o Raise For County Officers
chool Chairman Withdraws
ravel Walka May Q« Out
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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HHJt, THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1949 Price: $t A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week
lOne Local Woman Killed,
■Others Hurt In Collision
Hillsboro.—Mrs. Milton Latta,'
4-year-old English war bride of
ear Hillsboro, was killed and
Irs. Glenn Auman and her five
ear-old daughter, Vickie, were
Briously injured in a tragic auto
us collision at the intersection of
iregson Street and Minerva Ave
ue in Durham Tuesday after
oon.
Mrs. Auman, wife of the Hills
oro High School teacher and
oach, suffered a brain concussion
nd her condition was described
esterdaiy as fair. Her 16-months
ld daughter, Katherine, who was
Iso in the car, was uninjured,
[rs. Auman also is a former
?aeher in the Hillsboro schools.
ittle Vickie Auman suffered a
racture of the right leg, according
o hospital reports.
According to reports of wit
nesses, the Auman car, a 1941
Ihevrolet. coach, was travelling
ast on Minerva whan it collides!
rith the bus going north on Greg
The Duke Power Company
on.
ius was being used as a school
ius carrying Negro students, none
f whom were injured.
Mrs. Auman was thrown from
he car but Mrs. Latta was pinned
n the wreckage. The car was
truck, in the right side center and.
hrown into a vacant lot. Willard
Catlett, of Durham was the bus
perator. The case was still under
avestigation yesterday.
Mrs. Latta was married in
lillsboro’s Methodist Parsonage
xactly two ,years prior to the date
f her death,” March 8, 1947, 12
ays after her arrival in New
fork from England. She was the
Dimer Miss Joan Eleanor Slow of
kwthemwood, Hill Park Gate,
rkhanstead Herts, England. Her
usband ig/connected with Latta’s
’ractor Service in Hillsboro.
Funeral arrangements had not
een made late yesteday pending
/ord from Mrs. Latta’s relatives in
Ingland, who were notified of the
ragedy immediately after the ac
ident.
The Lattas and the Aumans
oth reside on the Durham High
way some two miles east of Hills
iorp.
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Inaior Projects
re Under Way
'or flower Show
Hillsboro. — Th* children of
lillsboro and vicinity will have
In opportunity to show their skill,
jmowledge, and workmanship at
ae annual flower show sponsored
the Hillsboro Garden Club,
April 23 and 24.
All are urged to enter an ex
hibit. Tray gardens, dish gardens,
flower arrangements—
liniature not to exceed 3 inches),
iall (6 to 8 inches), large (not
exceed 12 inches), posters, bird
kouses, and collections of any nat
ural resources can be entered as
jn exhibit.
Several grades in the Hillsboro
School are busy working on ex
hibits. Miss Annie. Cameron’s
irst grade is planning an exhibit
show how a seed comes up and
(low a plant begins to grow.
The third grade in Miss Rebecca
Miner’s room has constructed a
jolonial type house with a minia
-ire flower garden, and is leam
ig much about home beautifica
ion.
Mrs. Roland Dodson’s sixth
rade is studying the history of
lillsboro and Orange County.
pdwin Lynch is to speak to them
jt an early date in the courthouse.
Mrs. G. C. McBane’s seventh
krade is making a thorough study
ff Indian tribes of Orange County.
They are using Douglas Rright’s
h°ok, “The American Indian fri
lorth Carolina,” as a source of
^formation. A display of Orange
bounty Indian relics from the
Archeology Department, Univer
sity of North Jfca-rolina, will he on
iisplay at the American Legion
pudding during the flower show.
Mrs. Fred Blake’s eighth grade
Mid a history class of Mrs. Gilbert
Traig are delving into the history
tonceming the regulators.
■H Club Week
teiag Observed
Hillsboro. — This is National
-H Club Week in Orange County
nd for the nearly two million
oys and girls who are memebrs
f this organization throughout
he country.
To be identified with a 4-H Club
a badge of distinction, borne by
ore than 20,000 North Carolina
oys and girls last year. It is dur
ing this week, those boys and girls
e inviting many others in corn
unities and on Orange County
arms tt> enjoy the advantages of
-H membership.
I/JY. Scouts Help Refugees
The United Nations Scout Association, sponsor! of a drive for clothes,
toys and food supplies from members of the U.N, staff and delegates,
collected approximately two tons of supplies at a ceremony held
at Parkway Village, Jamaica, New York (above). The clothing]
was turned ever by the Scouts to the American Friends Committee
for distribution to needy persons, especially Palestine refugees^
Pay Raises Out
For Officials
Hillsboro.—Any prospects for
salary increases for Orange Coun
ty elective officials during the
next two years were quashed by
the Board of County Commission
ers this week.
Sheriff S. T. hatta appeared
before Monday’s session of the
Board to ask if the members had
given any consideration to recom
mending raises, pointing out the
necessity for doing so at this time
while the Legislature is in session
if any action is planned.
He referred to the apparent cur
rent trend in the state government
toward giving salary increases to
several classes of state employees.
Chairman Collier Cobb, Jr.,
speaking for the board, ! replied
that consideration had been given
the problem but decision had been
raises for elective officials. He
stated .that it was agreed that
“things are probably tapering off
and there would be no salary bill
at this time.”
Earlier a $10 -per month raise
for Miss Catherine Brown, clerk
in the County Accountant’s office,
was approved, increasing her sal
ay fom $130 to $140 p.e month.
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Three Business
Moves In Offing
On Churton St
Hillsboro.—Changes in business
houses on Churton Street are in
the offing as result of the com
pletion of the new Sharpe build
ing.
Claude,Sharpe, proprietor of the
Young Men’s Shop, is expected to
move his firm into the new build
ing around the first of .the month.
This will be the signal for Smith’s
Ready-to-Wear, .operated by Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Smith, to move
from the Cole Building to the old
Sharpe site and' the Jack and Jill
Shop, operated by Mrs. Mae V.
Lark and Mrs. Mary Laws, will
move from upstairs in the Mincey
building to the downstairs store
which the Smiths are vacating.
Course Planned
For Seniors
Hillsboro";—A course of instruc
tion on Marriage and Family Life
will be offered to the members of
the^senior class of the Hillsboro
High School next week by the fol
lowing instructors:
Monday: Emotional and Social
Problems, Dr. R. M. Fink.
Tuesday: Physical Growth,
Misses Lovell and Brocker.
Wednesday: Economic Prob
lems, Mrs. Gilbert Craig.
Thursday: Problems of Parent
hood, Mrs. Virginia Swain.
Friday: My Philosophy of Life,
.Rev. Charles Hubbard.
Members -bf the P. T. A. and
other interested patrons are in
vited to attend these classes which
will be taught from 11 a. m. until
2:30 p. m. with time out for lunch.
Dr. Fink has requested that a
group of parents and teachers
meet with, him in the high school
library Monday afternoon at 3:15
to discuss plans for the future of
this form of education.
“Go-Getters”
To Be Honored
At Banquet
Chapel Hill.—The Chape| Hill
“Go-Getters,” American ^Legion
naires who have secured 10 or
more new members in the local
post, will be honored, along with
“Go-Getters” of other post§ in the
Third Division, at a banquet in
Durham this Sunday.
Jake Nurkin, Third Division
vice commander, will preside at
the banquet. Principal.speaker is
to be James Green, the 1948 com
mander of the Omaha, Neb., post,
largest post in-the world. Green
was also a candidate for national
commander at the last conven
tion.
One Of Oldest Chanel Hill Traditions—
Gravel Sidewalks—May Be On Way Ont
*9^ .ftldest
traditions of the University village
may be on the way out.
In its residential areas Chapel
Hill has always been -content to
get along with gravel sidewalks,
and many residents say they pre
fer them to the cement or brick
variety.
But the verdict is not unani
mous—some citizens insist a vote
would even produce a majority in
favor of cement or brick—and so
Mayor R. W. Madry, acting on
a resolution adopted unanimously
by the Board of Aldermen, has
appointed a_ nine-member com
mittee "to make a special study of
the situation and report back.
Members of the committee are
Judge L. J. Phipps, chairman:
Aldermen Obie Davis and Ed S.
Lanier, Clyde Carter, J. T. Dob
bins Mrs. Roland McCIamroch,
Mrs! John Gillin, W. M. Coch
rane, and Roy Strowd.
The committee has been asked
to try to determine the prevailing
sentiment of the community on
this question, to ascertain the cost,
to suggest methods foisgbsorbing
the cost, and suggest what streets,
if any, should be paved first.
“The North Carolina League of
Municipalities and the Institute of
Government, which ought to
know, tell me that the general
practice is for the property own
ers to bear the whole cost of pav
ing sidewalks, that, this rule ap
plies in more than 90 per cent of
the North Carolina towns,” Mayor
Madry said.
Although the town’s labor force
spends a good deal of time in fill
ing ruts and holes in the gravel
sidewalks, a heavy rain may
wreck the repair work at any time,
and there are complaints from
some citizens from time to time
about the condition of the gravel
sidewalks, the mayor said.
’‘Bullets" From Deaton
Idea Fails To Stop
Youngster On Errand
Rev. Irvine K. Birdseye of
the Hillsbocn Presbyterian
Church was winding up his
story of Jonathan and David for
the children last Sunday, em->
phasizing the moral of doing all
jobs, even the smallest ones,
we]J, when the congregation saw
Dlnnie Neighbors, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R«lph Neighbors,
hurry to his front row seat.
And, although he missed part
of the pastor’s miniature sermon
to the children, Dinnie had just
proved he does things well even
when it requires running several
blocks on an errand he didn’t
understand. * ♦
It started this way. Choir
Member Clarence Jones, think
ing it would fee dice for other
members to have one of the
day’s bulletins being handed out
by the deacons in the vestibule,
sent Dinnie to the other end
of the church with instructions
target some bulletins from tfye
deacon. When the breathless
Dinnie returned,\ he had run
several blocks to the Baptist
Church, called upon Pastor T,
Paul Dpaton for some “bullets”
for the Presbyterian Church,
and returned the same route in
confusion over the failure of
his mission. ,
Mr. Deatonreply, no doubt
expressing consternation over
the turn of affairs at the Pres
byterian Church,- has not been
recorded and it-has not been
ascertained whether Mr. Jones
ever received the day's bulletin
or not.
Man Sentenced
For Violating
Health Lafws
Hillsboro*—*A man who violated
the health by failing to com
ply with healt© department orders
to prevent the spread of tubercu
losis received gjtwo to six months
sentence this week in County Re
corders Court.
He was Theodore Trice. He was
ordered confined to the prison di
vision of the State Sanatorium, his
release durihg the period of the
sentence to be at the discretion of
the Superintendent.
In other cases James Lane and
Thomas Irby waived preliminary
hearing and were hound over to
Superior Court under $3(t0 bond
in connection with the robbery of
Ira„ Peed’s store.
Lacy Vaughan pled guilty to
operating a motor vehicle on the
highways while under the influ
ence of intoxicating beverages and
was fined $100 and costs. Wil
I liam H. Yarboro received a fine of
$25 and costs for driving without
a license. Public drunkenness
cases found Harvey Jones and
Graham Cates being charged the
costs and W. J. Wrenn a $5 fine
and eosts upon their pleas of
guilty.
On a charge of assaulting a
female with intent to rape, Earnest
Thompson was bound over to
higher court and bond set at
$1,000. Phillip Walker was judged
guilty of carrying a cdncealed
weapon and fined $50 and costs
and the gun was ordered confis
cated and destroyed.
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Winners Named
For Birdhouses
Hillsboro.—The birdhouse con
test sponsored by the Hillsboro
Garden Club was closed March 2.
Prizes were awarded in two ago
groups as follows:
Age group 9-12:
First prize, Leonard Dodson,
age 12, grade 7; second prize, Da
vid Latta, age nine, grade 4; third
prize, Betty Jean Roberts, age 10,
grade 5.
Age group 6-3: Carolyn Bivins,
1 ag<£'”?; grade 2; second prize, Du
pree Jones, age 6, grade 1; third
prize, “Toby” Hubbard, age 7,
grade -2.
Serving as judges for the con
test were Mrs. D. Efland Forrest,
Allen Whitaker, and John P. Bal
lard .
The prize winning houses will
| be featured in the flower show
which is competing for the purple
i ribbon award- April 22-23, Mrs.
H. W. Moore, bird chairman, an
nounced .
P.T.A. TUESDAY
The Home Economics Depart
ment of the school will be in
charge of the program of the Hills
boro Parent-Teacher Association
next Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock
it was announced yesterday by
Mrs. Clarence Jones, president.
“-1 Moves To Oh*—
mure Control Ovt
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School Chairaan, Possible Successor
... COMi i ON
Hillsboro. — j. S. Compton,
chairman of the Or^ge County
School Board, has requested the
county Democratic Executive
Committee to withdraw his name
from consideration for re-appoint
ment by the General Assembly for
another two-year term.
Chairman Robert O.. Forrest
announced the committee will
meet within the next few days to
select a successor.
Poor health was given as the
reason for Compton’s decision to
retire from the board. His quali
rication as a Democratic candidate
in last year’s primary and subse
quent certification by the county
rganizaifc (*rere tantamount
election when the names of repre
' sentatives of the dominant party
are presented to the legislature by
the State Superintendent of Pub
. lie Instruction.
Discussion as to Compton’s suc
cessor centers around Jeb Burton,
prominent resident of the Cedar
Grove section, who is being men
tioned most. freely for the post .
He has been active in community
and school affairs for many years.
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James Street
Named Cancer
Drive Chairman
_Chapel Hill.-«~James Street has
been named chairman of the Or
ange County annual cancer drive,
which will be conducted through
the month of April.
Street succeeds Roy Armstrong,
last year’s drive chairman. Chair
men of the smaller units within
the county have not been appoint
ed yet.
A quota of $1,742 has been set
for the county, according to Mrs.
Donald Kent, county commander
in the National Cancer Society.
Solicitations will be made by mail,
and coin boxes will-be posted in
the stores. There will be no
house-to-house canvass.
Permanent members- of the
county chapter are Mrs. Kent,
Fred Patterson, executive chair
man,1 and Gilbert Ray, treasurer.
Several Roads
la County Taken
Over By State
[■he «tlla «f*hwaV
Hillsboro.—The »t*l» «l*hway
and Public WorkScommission has
approved the addition of several
Orange County Roads to the high
way system, according to infor
mation received Monday by the
Board of County Commissioners.
One road and sections of two
mothers which h id been recom
mended for if*ishal&on by the com
missioners werd turned dcfwn by
the highway body.
Roads approved for state main
tenance included:
American Legion Road, located
in the Mebane area near the Le
gion hut.
Duncan Road and Old Durjiam
Road, both locat ed in the south
easTSrn secriorTbr the county.
One mile on the east end of
Bryant Bradshaw Road, in the ex
treme northern section of the
county, and .5 mile on the north
end of Torian Rt>advln the Cedar
Grove section.
.Disapproved were the McClam
roch Road, located southwest of
.CarrbOro near University Lake,
and other sections of two roads
partially approved, on the grounds
That the services~fehcTered" will not”
justify the expenditure at this
time".
Pre-Parenthood
Classes Continue
, Chapel Hill.—“Labor and Hos
pital Procedure” is the topic to
be discussed at the next session
of the Pre-Pa rent hood course be
ing conducted by the District
Health Department on Old Frat
"Row on Monday, March 14, from
3 p. m. to 4 p.. m.
The final session w,ill be held
on March 21 at the same hour and
place .-.The topic to be discussed
is “The New Family Set-up,”
Philip S. Randolph Expresses Thanks
For Red Cross Aid Daring Polio Epidemic
Chapel Hill.—Phillip S. Ran
dolph, prominent Chapel Hill resi
dent and known throughout the
state for his work as North Caro
lina epidemic co-ordinator for the
mntmm FmmatMi' idr finfanWe
Paralysis, has issued' a statement
of gratitude to the American Red
Cross for the organization’s work
during the state epidemic and the
program now being carried out in
the convalescent period.
Said Randolph: “I should like to
express my appreciation for the
many services supplied to polio
hospitals and patients by chapters
of the Red Cross and by the
Southeastern Area office of ARC
during and following the North
Carolina polio epidemic of 1948.
“It was always comforting to
me to know that these services
were available whenever" and
wherever they were needed. No
statement that I could make
would sufficiently express my
gratitude to this great organiza
tion, for without the Red Cross
rid during 1948, the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis would have had to fight an
overwhelming battle in North
Carolina. ”
Randolph went on to point out
that in Orange County the local
Red Cross chapter had supplied,
thr wgh sewing imm, wuffitf’Wt
the isolation gowns worn by the
polio nurses and hospital workers
The Orange County chapter, said
Randolph, volunteered - to trans
port polio victims in the county to
and from treatment centers. This
work is still being carried on.
In 1944, he related, the founda
tion and the American Red Cross
entered into an agreement where
by the Red Cross was to recruit
volunteer nurses during polio epi
demics This same year in North
Carolina, the Red Cross recruited
over 1,000 nurses from all over the
United States to aid in the epi
demic then raging.
“Without this service,” stated
Randolph, it would have been
’mpossible to give medical treat
ment to all of the polio victims.
This past year the Red Cross sent
i over 700 nurses into our stricken
1 state, and without this tremendous
i help the epidemic could never
(have been properly handled.”
> Hillsboro.—The Board of Coun
ty Commissioners this week
mored to take over additional re
sponsibility for the regulation and
control of beer sales in Orange
County, approving in effect a local
control bill to be presented to
representatives in the General As
embly for introduction into the
egislature.
As on several occasions recent
y, members of the board ex
pressed dissatisfaction with the
ipparent laxness with which the
beverage is handled by many
iealers, predicting that the peo
ple will demand an election and
vote it out unless violations of cur
ent laws are less frequent and
iealers take more responsibility
for operating “decent” places.
Under purrent regulations, the
Commissioners have no authority
to disapprove a request for (beer
license provided all provisions of
the law are complied with regard
ing previous convictions of the
applicant, his fitness for operating
a beet- place, etc. Under the pro
posed, measure, more discretion
would be given the commissioners
as to who can and who cannot
secure a beer license.
' Dissatisfaction was expressed in
connection with a present state
wide bill, now under consideration
giving regulatory authority to ""
Cemmissieflgf el Revenue, which
would relegate iieehsihg authority
at the PWflfflisiietterfi to mere en
dorsement of the action fit the '
state revenue chief.
“I think it’s our duty to take
over this responsibility," Commis
sioner H. G. Laws stated in cast
ing his vote for the proposed
measure and Commissioner Ben
Wilson commented, “If it’ll help,
I’m willing Uj try."
The ftenrd announced that it ,
would be in session on the third
Monday in Marcn as a Board of
Equalization and Review as re
quired by law for the purpose of
equalizing the valuation of prop
erty in Orange County, hearing
appeals and attending to other du
ties pmacihed by law.
Other business conducted by
the Board included presentation
of routine reports by county of
ficers and the approval of new
requests for increased allotments
to two blind persons under the
county welfare program.
5,000 Expected
For First Negro
Soil Field Day
Hillsboro.—The first all-Negro
Soil Conservation Field Day ever
to be held in this state, and possi
bly in the nation, is scheduled next
»i me nation, is .scneouiea next
Tuesday on the farm of Oddie Lee
Torian in the High Rock neighbor
hood .
Ail agricultural agencies in the
county are participating in the
program and leaders estimate
sonje 5,000 persons will be in
attendance for the all-day session,
featuring demonstrations on 17
farm practice*, music by the Hills
boro Negro High School Band and
other features. ^
Last year a similar' Field Day
was. conducted , for wrhite farmers
m trie Schley community with ap
proximately 8,000 attending.
Among those in attendance will
kf fIfad‘ng Negro farm specialists
set-up St3te ahd district extension
Conservation practices to be
established include thinning young
Pjnes, preparation of site for'tree
planting, tree planting, seeding of
permanent pasture, old pasfure
treatment and gulley work land
irteaPbbsaH0n f°r Seeding
stablishing strip cropping with
corn smaR gram, and lespedeza)
rnemlnig ‘i"3065 with famTequip-'
ment, layfhg off tobacco rows by -
Hf il ?eth°d> establishing wikj
or-cpi^ed
lespedeza), establishing meadow
vaUolf aVand \t0° Wet for cu,ti
tion (ladmo clover and Ky -311
»nd la„d,capi„e of ,rou„ds aid
home improvements—plans to be
w
s!«rt,mpri>vem'"
The following people are to be
Smith*1** 0t the pr°gram: R. D
aSeh’ <SfHc,Ulture teacher at Ori
M C Burt VM Training School;
tv farJfUrt’ Negro Orange Coun
ty farm agent; R. H Mohler
S: *oil conservationist o't
Orange County; and Miss S L
Larson Negro County home deml
onstration agent of Orange.
bJSS w“.b* “'■*»
birth
Ch£*i hi?. M”irvin Yates «*
Chapel HU1 announce the birth of
• son, Marcum McLean, March a
•t Duke Hospital. ^ 8