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mm ‘T-.k COUNTYWIDE COVERAGE , Available Only In THE NEWS of Orange County. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. THE NEWS Of Orange bounty Vol. 56—No. 1* (Published Weekly) Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since ittq* HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSI#kY, mXrCH 24, 1949 Interested In Orange Cwatyf Then read The News of Ceunty for items of Interest fr all sections. It’s reported factual* ly, true and without osier or Pra e: Si A Yeat: 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week 1 ikfcJfcfeC' Kites Saturday far Well Known Catholic Priest Chapel Hill — The community ost one of its most beloved citi zens last week in the death of the Rev. Francis J. Morrissey, D. D., castor of the Catholic Church of Chapel Hill. Funeral services were held Sat-. jrday morning at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh. Most Reverend Bishop, Vincent 5. Waters celebrated the solemn pontificial high mass with Very Reverend Monsignor J. Lennox Federal as arch celebrant. The itev. Francis Tait was deacon of lonor and ,the Rev. Francis Mur ahy was sub-deacon of honor. The Rev. D. Edward Sullivan acted as ieacon and the Rev. John Rouche is sub-deacon. The Rev. Francis O'Brien was master of ceremon es.__. ■ . Following the mass, burial took alace in the Chapel Hill Cemetery. Pall bearers were Leon Barnard, Dr. Wm. L. Engels, J. Arthur Branch, Giles F. Homey, W. D. Carmichael Jr. and John F. Mc Laughlin. Honorary pallbearers were W. D. Carmichael Sr., Dr. E. K. Cameron, John J. Keller, Sr., C. P. Erickson, Frank L. Johnson, Dr. Frank P. Graham, Robert H. Wet tach, R. B. House, Dr. L. E. Fields and A. R. Newsome. Delegates representing the North Carolina Catholic Laymen’s Asso ciation were Mrs. Giles F. Horney, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fentner, Mrs. John F. McLaughlin and Mrs. John J. Keller. Representing the Aquinas Club of the University of North Caro lina were Daniel H. McLaughlin, E. Uerot Fiero, Jim Gwynn, Don Mayanagd and Frank Strong. Representing the -bishop's com mittee for Christian home and illy v.-er&Mrs. . t 1. Wet tach, Mrs. W. D. Carmichael, Jr., and Mrs. George F. Bentley. The Knights of Columbus form ed a guard of honor at the cathe dral. • Final Services Conducted Friday For Mrs. Durham Hillsboro —Final services were held last Friday for Mrs. Ceceilia •Lynch Durham, wife of the late George A. Durham arid one of the community’s oldest citizens, who died Wednesday evening following a long illness. The officiating minister was the Rev. S. W. DuBose of Elkin, West Virginia, a former pastor of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, where Mrs. Durham was a mem ber for 6’ years. Interment was in the local cemetery. She was the daughter of the late Thomas M. and Cecelia Dorsey Lynch of Oxford. Survivors include a brother, Douglas P. Lynch of Orting, Wash., two nieces Mrs. B. T. Greene of Hillsboro and Mrs. J. Wheeler McGhee of Frannlinton; five nephews, J. D. Joyner of Gastonia, A. W. Bullock of Oxford, Dr. W. L. Bullock of Crews, Va.; T. K. Lynch of Wilmington and D. W. Lynch of Washington, D. C. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Friday from the Hills boro Presbyterian Church of which she was a member for 63 years, with Dr. W. S. DuBose of Elkin, Va., officiating. Interment will be in the Hillsboro Cemetery. Pre-School Hillsboro. — On Tuesday, March 29th, beginning at 9 a*, m., the Parent-Teacher Association of Hillsboro High School is sponsor ing the annual pre-school clinic, i Dr. Gaston W. Rogers, Mrs. Chris j tine Dickens, and' Miss Nan Bunn from the local health department will assist in this clinic. All parents who have children beginning school in the fall of 1949 are urged to bring them to this clinic for an examination and also any Immunizations that may be needed. North Carolina law re quires that children, before ent ering school, be given protection through immunization from these diseases: diphtheria, whooping cough and smallpox. TO UNDERGO OPERATION CarrbOro.—-L\ D. Hearn en tered Watts Hospital Tuesday to undergo a major operation. > Hillsboro. — The fate of Roy McAdams, charged with slaying his brother-in-law, Oscar Adkins, at their home near Mebane last April, 5 rested with the jury today. The jury heard'final arguments of counsel and.the judge’s charge, and “were sent home last night prior to beginning of deliberations this morning. The State announced at the be ginning of the trial, first of six murder cases on the criminal doc ket being heard this week by Su perior Court Judge Q, K. Nimocks that, it would ask for a verdict of second degree murder or man slaughter against McAdams, who is represented by Local Attorney Bonner D. Sawyer. Joining Sol icitor William Murdock ijn the prosecution was A. M. Carroll, C. C. Cates and Glenn Pickard of Burlington . - The- case, got under way early Tuesday . The prosecution with a parade of witnesses, including Mrs. Cora Belle Adkins, wife of the murder ed man and sister of the defendant brought out details of the fatal -hooting in the bedroom when Mrs. Adkins 'had been sleeping with her two children. Adkins, the testimony brought out, came Home iff a1 condition of intoxication to the house owned jointly byl. Mrs. Adkins and McAdams, a fight ensued in the adjoining bedrooms occupied by the brother and sist er, and McAdams, after shoving Adkins to the outside door of his wife’s bedroom, went to his own room, pointed his shotgun through the door and shot his brother-in law in the groin and little finger. The defense based it’s case on McAdams’ testimony that he feared for his life and on testimony of Adkins’ demeanor during his “drinking” periods. A crowd ov erflowed the courtroom and the aisles throughout the week’s ses sion. Eleven divorces were granted during the first day’s session, all on grounds of two years separa tion. They were Catherine H. Al ston from -Lewis -Benson Alston, Ella Carver Corbett from Thomas Odell Corbett, Thomas Jefferson McDade from Naomi Carter Mc Dade, Frances M.. RiggsMe from Lewis W. Riggsbee, Omie R. Stutts from Frank D, Stutts. Mary Wilma Pardue from Ted Pardue, Eliza B. Boyd from James Boyd, Jack Cotton from Leanna Cotton, Dora HHtoi|-£rom William B. Hil ton, Margaret Anne Wright from Dwight and Clyde Andrews from Robert O. Andrews. 4 Three Negroes, Bayard Rustin and Igal Roodenko in the cele brated bus seating test ease of last year, who had been free un der an appeal to the Supreme Court, surrendered to county of ficers and. were ordered_ commit ted to the roads for the 30-day sentence previously imposed. The fourth member of the group failed to appear' and a capias was is sued for his arrest. True Bills were returned by the Grand Jury against Joseph Broughmon. Frank Wells and Rob ert McBroom in two new murder cases'coming before the court. A long list of cases on the heavy docket were ordered continued for the term. Sentences meted out before this newspaper went to press included six months to W. F. Glosson for giving bad checks; 90 days or fine of $200 and costs to William Henry Collier for driving a motor vehicle while' under the influence of narcotics or intoxi cants, 60 days or $25 and costs to Leary Ellis for forcible trespass; 60 days or $100 and costs for Ralph Smith for driving while drunk. Robert K. Nicks was charg ed the costs for speeding and Wood row Durham was remanded to the Carrboro Mayor’s Court for com pliance with a sentence for pub-j lie drunkenness. Bill Horton was . handed four months for assault with a deadly weapon after plead ing guilty. t . High School Students To See Driving Tests Hillsboro. — Automobile drivers are often heard to remark, ’T can stop it on a dime.” The students at Hillsboro High School will par ticipate in a series of tests to de termine the size of that “dime at various speeds next Thursday morning at 9 o’clock, it was an nounced by Principal G. A. Brown. The demonstration will be con ducted by a safety representative of an insurance company with a specially equipped automobile. Yellow paint bullets fired from re volvers mounted on the front bumper of the car will show graphically how much time each driver requires to put his foot on the brake pedal and how far the car travels before coming to a full stop. Norman Cordon Laymen’s League Speaker Sunday Hillsboro-r-On Sunday-. Evening, March 27th, the Laymen's League of Hillsboro will present to this community Norman Cordon, Met ropolitan Opera, star, in an address at the Hillsboro High School at eight' o’clock. -His- topic will be “Music in Religion.” Cordon, formerly a student at the University of North Carolina aijd later a star with the San Carlo Opera Company and then with the Metropolitan Opera Com pany, returned to North Carolina several years ago and is heading up a state-wide project designed to promote a greater knowledge, understanding, and enjoyment of all kinds of music. He is now working in conjunction with the University Extension Division at Chapel Hill. Elmer R. Dowdy, program chair man for the Laymen’s League, feels that Mr. Cordon will prove to be a speaker with an exceptional message for the people of this community. Fact-Finding Group’s Report To Be Discussed White Cross. — The Orange County Council ot the Parent Teachers Association will meet at the White Cross school Tuesday night at 7:30. The program will be devoted to a discussion of the report of the Citizens Committee on the Needs of Orange. County. This fact finding committee was' appointed last fall by the County Commis sioners and the County. School Bbard to make a study of the needs of the county, especially in regard to schools, roads, and pub lic buildings. The committee sub mitted its report to^ the County .Commissioners and the County School Board last month. The discussion Tuesday night will ,be limited to the section of the report dealing with school needs. Mrs. Clarence Jones of Hillsboro is chairman of the sub committee which prepared this part of the report. Members of the subcommittee will be present to discuss it. Preceding the discussion boys and girls of the Carrboro school will sing, under the leadership of Mrs. Ira Mann. s Surprise Colonial Inn, Running Huge Loss, Receives Tax Reduction Hillsboro.—I'he County Com missioners, meeting Monday as a board of equalization and review, reduced the tax assessment for three petition***, including Duke University an# the Cplonial Inn. By far the largest reduction was that for the Inn, the restored land mark of this historic community which Martin Henderson, operator and son of Chi. Paul Henderson, the Inn’s patron, told the board operated iq the red $12,000 last year. J v - Henderson asked for a reduc tion from^lh* $21*750 previously assessed valuation, submitting that the project had always been a financial loss and was being op erated largely as a service to Hills boro. He indicated that restora tion of the Inn had cost $50,000 and an additional $12,000 had been spent on furnishings. The tax assessment was reduced to $16,750. .. Assessment on a Duke tract in Hillsboro township was reduced from $1,375 to $890 and a five and a half acre tract of S. F. Pore in Cedar Grove township was Ipw ered from $550 to $450. A request for a reduction from Mildred Vil lines, Cedar Grove, was refused and a number of requests from the southern part of the county were held in abeyance pending further investigation. - Burton Chosen For School Post « Polishes Arts, Crafts Exhibit This Weekend Chapel Hill. — Mr$ John Fou shee, well known Chapel. Hill art ist and teacher of arts and crafts, will present this weekend an ex hibit of works by her former stu dents and other craftsmen in Dur ham and Chapel Hill who are in terested in participating. All articles to be exhibited should be in Person Hall Art.Gal lery at the University between 9 and 10 o’clock Saturday morning, March 26, she said-. The exhibit will ppen Saturday and continue through Sunday in Person Hall. The major crafts to be shown are those in leather, metal, wood carving, t fabric decoration and ceramics. Chapel Hill 'handicraft workers may get further details from Mrs. Foushee in Chapel Hill. Mrs. Foushee also announced that she will resume her arts and crafts classes in the Gallery here the first week in April. They will be held weekly, beginning Monday, April 4, with sessions from 9 to 12 in the mornings and from 7 to 10 at night She will give an intro ductory. course for beginners and an advanced course for her^orm er students and others interested. Draft Board Cuts Schedule 2 Days Hillsboro.—Beginning last Mon day, Selective Service Local Board No. 69, Orange County, an nounced it will .-not be open on Monday or Tuesday of each week. The office will be open the usual hours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Chapel Hill PTA To Have Program On School Building Planning Tonight By MRS. J. E. ADAMS Publicity Chairman of P.T.A. Chapel Hill—School building needs continues to be a subject of vital interest to Chapel Hill citi zens. There is the still unan swered question as to where the money is to be found tp complete the high school building as origi high building costs make it im possible to carry out the original plan in its entirety, there is the problem, of modifying it in the best possible way. There is in addi tion the increasingly urgent need for/ additional elementary school facilities. t . The Chapel Hill Parent Teach ers Association, realizing the pub lic interest in these problems, will devote its next regular meeting, on Thursday, March 24, to a pro gram on planning school buildings. James M. Webb, of the depart ment of city planning of the Uni versity, will be in charge of the program. It will include a 20 Tiinute sound-color movie entitled ‘Design for Learning,” which shows the planning and building of a modem school. New methods of planning and construction are illustrated and explained ip de tail, with emphasis on the reasons for using new departures, in terms of savings in costs, better teaching space in terms of greater adapta bility to modern teaching methods, better lighting and greater flexi bility to meet future needs. The idea is also developed that plan ning a school is a community proj ect which' requires participation by many,.groups in the community’ Following the movie, a panel discussion on “Community Plan ning for School Buildings” will be Ted - by " m&ei> panel will include W. F-. Credle, State Supervisor of School Build ing, and representatives of the Chapel Hill school board, the Uni versity School of Education, and the Chapel Hill planning board. Slides of the plans of the pro posed high school building will be shown and discussed. The mem bers of the panel will outline some of the major state, county and local considerations to be taken into account in developing a feasi ble .and practical program for Chapel Hill’s school needs./*; The discussion will be directed towards discovering the steps to be taken in developing a" comprehefisive planning program for the Chapel Hill schools. . , _ - The elementary school teachers will be in their class rooms and the high school teachers in the elementary school library at 7:45 p. m. The program will begin in the elementary school auditorium it 8 o’clock. > Hillsboro—The Orange County Democratic Executive Committee last Friday selected Zeb Burton, well known citizen of the Cedar Grove section, as successor to James S. Compton as a member of the county Board of Education. Compton, who had previously been certified by the Democratic organization to the State Superin tendent of Public Instruction for reelection to the board, asked that his name be withdrawn because of poor health. Burton’s name has already been handed to Representative John Urnstead, Jr., for subsequent.action by the legislature. The action by the county party organization is tantamount to election. Twelve of We county’s 16 pre cincts were represented at last Fri day’s session. School Board Pays Tribute To R. ILClaytor Hillsboro.—The Orange County Board qf Education at its meeting this month unanimously adopted a resolution .paying tribute to the late R. H. Claytor, who was asso ciated with it for . over 30 years as Superintendent and Superin tendent Emeritus; .—.. The resolution follows: Whereas, Mr. R. H. Claytor served faithfully and loyally as Superintendent of Orange County Schools from September 1917 to July 1947 and since that time as Superintendent Emeritus;- and Whereas, during these long years of service, by the integrity and uprightness of his character, he set a most worthy example of good citizenship and Christian liv ing; and • Whereas, through his cheerful ness, patience, courteous manner 1 and knowledge of school affairs he directed, guided and served the. school personnel, the pupils, and the public as an official excellently and humbly; Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Orange • County Board qf Education: first, that we acknowl edge our great loss in the passing of this good man, for by his advice and counsel the board of education benefited greatly through the years; Second, that we express our sympathy to the family in their bereavement, and our own sorrow at his passing; Third, that a, copy of this reso the Board of Education, a copy be sent to the local press and a copy be sent to the family. * This resolution unanimously adopted at the regular meeting of the Board of Education toeld this the seventh day of March, 1949. ■o Williams Quits County Electrical Inspector’s Job Hillsboro. — Charles Williams, appointed in February as county electrical inspector, has tendered his resignation to the Board of County Commissioners, making it effective at their pleasure. Williams’ failure to pass the state test for electrical inspectors in two attempts was assigned as the reason for the resignation. Dfe.FKAAt* P G#AH/1,M Chapel (fill’s First Dog Show Next Sunday Chapel Hill. — Chapel Hill has long been famous t for Its dogs. Last summer they* hogged the headlines for a spell when Univer sity authorities threatened'to bar all of them from veterans’ quart ers and trailer courts overnight. And now comes the announce ment that the village’s first dog show is to be held Sunday after noon, March 27,..on Emerson Field. All proceeds will go to the Chapel Hill Humane Society, which does a good Job of looking after stray dags and which is in urgent need of funds. Mrs. Sterling Stoudcmire is chairman of the show. She will be assisted by Mrs. L. L. Vine as vice-chairman and Mrs. Oeorge Demas as treasurer. All entries must be at least si> mouths old and pure-bred* bul not necessarily registered with the American Kennel club. .Only dogs whose owners live in Chap el Hill or Carrboro are eligible A $1 entry fee will he charged for each dog. Entry blanks may be picked uo at a number of' the town’s business- establishments. - Judges, prizes and classes for dogs will be. announced soon. There will be «o admission charge. Methodist Youth Of Orange Meet, Name Officers Hillsboro.—The first meeting of the Orange “County Subdistrict, Methodist Youth Fellowship, was held last week at the Hillsboro Methodist Church. Hillsboro Wal nut Grove, Carr, Cedar Grove, Union Grove, Chestnut Ridge, Lebanon, Hebron, Efland, New Sharon, and Palmer’s Grove were the churches which were repre 1 sented by more than a hundred active participants. The opening exercises were conducted by Rev! Bill Wells and the business was directed, by Glenn Hannah, president of the Durham District MYF. Others serving on the program were: Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, Clint Harris, Jennette Miller, Nancy Cox and Corky Thomas, Election and installation of of ficers climaxed the meeting. Ann Efland was elected as president. Polly Roberts as vice president, Patricia Hayes as secretary, Rob ert Johnson as treasurer. Bob Par lier as publicity, superintendent, and Rev. D. 1$. Christenberry as ice cream and cookies were servfe’d as refreshments by the Hillsboro MYF chapter An impressive, can dlelit investiture concluded the meeting. The next meeting of the Orange Subdistrict MYF will be held at Cedar Grove Methodist Church, April 20 at 7:30 p. m. -o- v County Council Of 4-H To Meet Hillsboro. — The 4-H Club County Council will meet Satur day morning at 10 o’clock at the Agriculture Building here for the purpose of making plans for sum mer activities: camping, annual picnics. Achievement Day, annual 4-H Short Course, etc. All dub officers and leaders are expected (Continued on Page 8) Reaction Arc Varied Locally, In State, Natioa Chapel Hill. —Orange County wag agog yesterday as political lightning in the form of the sur prising Gov. Kerr Scott reached out and picked the University of North Carolina's 'famed liberal president, Frank P. Graham, for the United States Senate vacancy left by the death of J. Melville Broughton. The appointment, made at a dinner here Tuesday night, struck the state with surprise inasmuch as Graham had not been promi nently mentioned, if at all. The appointment was interpret ed widely as North Carolina’s an swer to repeated attempts a few months ago to link Dr. Graham’s name with Communist front or ganizations with th<f charge that he had lent his prfestige to such organizations. — - .. Speculation as to the meaning of the appointment ranged far and wide, it being hinted that the ap pointment might have been influ enced by Harry Truman, himself. It was admitted by all speculators that the appointment would strengthen North Carolina’s tie with the administration since Dr. Graham has served the President on several special missions, and has been warmly defended by the chief executive. Dr. Graham immediately ten dered his resignation to the Uni versity but action will probably not be taken until a Trustees’s committee meeting in Raleigh Saturday. In the nation reaction to the appointment ranged all the way from the highest praise by leaders of liberal leanings to Representa tive Eugene Cox of Georgia’s com ment, “God save the country.” Dr. Graham is 62 and has been president of the University since 1930. He will make the second Chapel Hill citizen in the state’s Congressional delegation, joining Rep. Carl T. Durham, the former Chapel Hill druggist. — Speculation was rife also over Dr. Graham’s successor as presi dent of the'University after Gov ernor Scott indicated his opposi tion to the Trustees’ granting him a leave of absence.. -o . Hillsboro Future Homemakers Hold ’ Open House At PTA Hillsboro.—The Hillsboro Chap ter of the Future Homemakers of America held open house at last week’s regular P. T. A. meeting. In the high school auditorium the girls presented first a program as part of the P. T. A. meeting. Miss Helen Sorrell, F. H. A. ad viser, introduced Joan Reinhardt, the F. H. A. president, who gave a few facts on F. H. A. activities and introduced a program given by F. H. A. girls which consisted of the official emblem ceremony. The eight girls, dressed in white, explained each part pf the emblem as it was assembled. Those par ticipating in the program were as follows: Betty Lou Reinhardt, Pa tricia Hayes, Margaret Brown, Helen Mohler, Lois Liner, Peggy Berry, Betsy Forrest, and Alice Holloway. The pianist was Phylr lis Forrest. Following the business session, the guests were Invited to the Horae Economics Department which was decorated with spring 9§3Sfi#te5ws3*feBi* - .3 swcarcr. xamafim In the sewing room blouses, pa jamas, house coats, petticoats, dresses, suits, and evening dresses made by the girls were on dis play. During the evening the fol lowing activities were in progress: :utting out of a blouse, working auttonholes with attachment, nonogramming With buttonhole ittachment, using f the hemmer, md using the ruffler. Demonstrations in the kitchen vere carried on with the fOllow ng equipment: automatic washing nachien, flat plate ironer, dish vasher and garbage disposal unit, md the home freezer. The parents were invited to the lining room where they, were served fruit punch, homemade sookies and peanuts. Anne Fau *tte, chairman of the social cam nittee, presided over the punch >owl. Over a hundred parents md teachers were registered in he guest book.
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