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COUNTYWIDE COVERAGE Available Only In THE NEWS 0f Orange County. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. NEWS «f ange Vol. 56—No. 21 Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County end Its Citizens Since 1893 (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL* THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949 Price: $2 A Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week « laUrwtad In Oman Cmntyf Then read The News of Orange County for Items of Interest from all sections. It's reported factual* ly, true and without eeler or Mao. ride variety Cases listed >r County Court illsboro.—A two weeks back provided a variety of cases for bs week’s term of County Court onday and still a large number bre continued, including one in living John Tolar who went on shooting binge over a week ago. ■Mrs. Elmer Gwens of near ebane pled not guilty to op ting an immoral and disorder house but prayer for judgment as continued until the next term court by Judge L. J. Phipps ho indicated he desired more ie to study her case. Melvin U, picked up with the Owens l,man, pled guilty, to being driink Id disorderly and was fined'$5 (d costs white Willie- Wynn, ne sted at the same time, received a guilty verdict on the same larges. IWalter Mebane for nonsupport an illegitimate child was or fered to pay $15 per month to the other. Clarence Jones on a sim assault count was ordered to tv costs. Irving Carey and Bur Ice Chapel pled guilty to public J-unkenness and disorderly con bet and were fined $5 and costs, tank Lane was charged the costs |r ^public drunkenness as was aer Smith, Robert Harris Crisp hd Frank Tolar. ■ |Foy Robert Pendergraph and and T. Perry were each fined 'and costs for speeding. | In a rash of assault cases, Sam aldwin was sentenced to 90 days the roads and $25 and costs for sault with a deadly weapon and ice Baldwin for the same ^arge and carrying a concealed eapon was handed a six months atence and fined $50 and costs, oth jail setences were suspended |r two years upon good behavior. seph Woods Jr. for assaulting ffemale with a deadly weapon as given 90 days and $25 and Jsts, the road sentence suspended year on good behavior. Ellis Ettiford pled guilty to assaulting is wife with a deadly weapon pd judgment was continued for years on condition he “live in ^ace and harmony with his wife nd children.” Jerry C. Torian, Reading guilty to assaulting Wil Claylon with a deadly 'weapon, bceived a ,90 day suspended jail pitence and fine of $25 and costs. Dhn Theodore Jones was ordered pay $25 per month for support his family after he was brought fito court on a charge of failing provide adequate • support. _ Cases continued in addition to Jolar’s were those involving Lin Nickson, Ernest Parker, Grady Uston, Fred Douglas, Sam Brooks, lallas. Moore, Harry B. Chase, joy H. Smith and Odie Jones. -r———O--— latheson Says fobacco Crop " iarly Planted Hillsboro.—County Agent Don • Matheson made a thorough invass of the tobacco sections in Tange County and reports that 5% of the tobacco ’bas already een planted and that plants seem > be living all right. Considerable hardship has been xperienced by growers this year 1 obtaining plants because of lue mold damage. Approxi lately one third of the plants lready set came from Eastern 'arblina. Farmers in the Cedar Grove ection report that they will have °me excess plants to spare the rst part of next week. Any armers wishing plants at this me should contact the county gent. ----■ drivers Warned tbout Licenses Hillsboro.—Highway patrolmen warned all Orange vejs whose esterday that the deadline for re-exam nation of driver’s licenses will'be une 30. Drivers whose last names begin mth H, I, J, or*H and are found riving automobiles after June 30 without the proper license will be ailed into court. The State license examiner is in Chapel Hill on Wednesday and hursday and in Hillsboro on Fri ay of each week. -—■-o-* SUPPORTS BOND JSSUI . . .. Hillsboro.—The executive board the Hillsboro Parent-Teacher Association at its May meeting lave unanimous consent to the proposed $25,000,000 bond issue or school building construction md special consideration to the ‘oads bond issue. Both issues will J* voted upon by ■the people on fune 4. UN Building Progresses Huge derricks p.gll girders into, positioa. lot ihe 39-st«ry .Secretariat Building, first and tallest building under construction at the new United Nations Headquarters site in New Y-ork. More than a thousand tons ot steel have been erected on the project.so tar. Fink Is Finals Speaker At Hillsboro Wednesday .Hillsboro.—Dr. R. L. Fink of the state Department of Educa tion, Raleigh, will deliver the graduating address to the Hills boro high school graduating class next Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Others on the program include H. P. Breeze, who will deliver the diplomas, E. R. Dowdy who will present the medals and R. L. Mohler who will hand out bibles given each year by the PTA. Preceding the graduating exer cises will be a class day. program for seniors Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock and the baccalaureate ser mon at 8 o’clock on Sunday. Rev. C. S. Hubbard will preach the sermon*and Rev. Paul Deaton will offer prayer. -o Hillsboro Test Area For New Cigarette Hillsboro—This "FlnFoF"tR&" “Test Localities” where the R. J Reynolds Tobacco Company, of Winson-Salem, N. C., is intro ducing its new cigarettes the ex tremely'mild, king size Cavalier. The cigarette. is_the -first new one introduced in 36 years by the Reynolds firm, which has been making Camels for that period of i time. „ | The hew smoke has already made—Rs-- appearance unattest basis in Providence, RT 1., Miami, Fla., Peoria. 111.. Flint; Mich., Norfolk, Va., Charlotte and Win-| ton-Salem. In Hillsboro the distribution! channels have been set up and the cigarettes are on sale. For the introduction of the product here, firm officials on hand include Jas. O. Pickard, Manager of the Greensboro Division, and his local, sales force. Betty Privette Best Citizen Of Senior Class Hillsboro.—Miss Betty Privette was elected by her classmates this week as Best Citizen of the Year in the seniof class, Hillsboro High School. Miss Privette will be presented a silver cup at graduation exer cises. The cup was purchased last year by the Hillsboro Garden dub to be presented annually to the best citizen of the senior class. Miss Privette’s name will be en graved on the cup, which will re main in the high school library. Bobby Mayes won the honor in last year’s senior class. Best citizens for the second se mester of the school year were chosen in the various home rooms this week, as follows: » =afesr-€aifl£’ Jirst.grade, JClarene Robinson; Miss Cameron's, first, Elsie Bobbitt; Miss Patterson's first, Elizabeth Mathesori; Miss McCauley’s second, Annette Til ley: Miss Miner’s third, Kenneth Roberts; Mrs. Carr’s fourth, Ann Barker: Mrs. Ray’s fourth,-Alice Faye Thompson; Miss Brown’s fifth, Patsy Kenyon; Mrs. Sharpe’s fifth, Clara. Carden; Miss Cole’s sixth, Ruby. Wilkerson:.Mrs. Dod son’s sixth, Christine White; Mrs. McBane’s sixth, Lois Privette; Mrs. Allred’s seventh, William McKee; Mrs. Crabtree’s seventh, Douglas Woods; Mrs. Blake’s eighth, Tom Kenyon; Mrs. Stray horn’s eighth, Gladys Dodson. In the high school, the follow ing were elected in their respec tive home rooms: Harley Heffner, Natalie Simpson, Betty Cpoper, Betty Privette, Armp Strum, Joan Rhinehardt, and Priscilla Lloyd. Second Carolina Folk Festival To Begin June 9 In Kenan Stadium ; Chapel Hill—The second annual three-day Carolina Folk Festival will get under way June 9 in Ke nan Stadium at the University of North Carolina with more than 600 participants, including 15 larae groups of folk dancers and singers from several Southern states, according to Bascom Lamar Lunsford of Turkey Creek m Buncombe county, who will ai ,rect the event again this year. / of the leading authorities on fofk singing and dancing, havl/lgI?' corded over 300 songs, ballads, fiddle tunes, and dance calls for Columbia University and the Li brary of Congress. He has labored long to put back into circulation the great wealth of music was buried behind the ramparts of the Blue Ridge and the Smokies. A number of dancers and mu sicians from last year’s initial and already been signed for this year s events. Mrs. Jackie Hale of Len oir Wtll'present a group of folk dancers from Kinston, and a dozen or more couples from Rose Hill in Duplin county, led by James Wa and directed by Mrs. L. A. Wil son, who will do dances as prac ticed in that county. Sixteen Waldensians from Val dese under the management pf Mrs.’ John Ghigo, will present several colorful dances of the Waldensians as well as their early religious music: They will give some of the songs their ancestors sang in northern Italy upon their departure for the New World in 180, in addition to the songs they sang the evening they arrived in Burke county in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina. The noted Denton square dan cers, winnefs of last year’s fes tival will be on hand again this —fe?. manager Floyd is. plays the-lead'fiddle, and Clegg Garner the five string banjo. Mr. Lunsford's county will be represented by square dancers from Rabbit Hand, Sandy Mush, and Turkey Creek sections rep resenting Lester High School. Farmer High School in Ran dolph county is represented again this June with Prof. E. H. Thom son as leader of a group of 12 couples. Teams from Bingham Scotch 'Highlands from Fayette ville, and -a group of dancer-musi cians, front Galax, Va., are also included orf the program. One«attraction of special in terest will be spirtuals sung by a large Negro chorus. Mrs. Susie Weaver of Chapel Hill is busy assembling a group of approxi mately 300 singers for each of the three performances. 76 Are For Jury la Jrae Tem Hillsboro.—Seventy-six Orange County citizens hove beet/ drawn , for jury duty during 0 two-weeks term of Superior Court scheduled here in june. Following is the list ^ith an abbreviation of their^OewiMdp cf residence following each njfipe in parentheses: ?Ir*t We B. S. Thompson f Hill, Jr. (CH), J. (H), C. H. Allison ( Andrews (H), Tate (CG), V. )Jf. A. Crabtree , M. William 'Frank G. Wall (LR), C. B. Hines (H), Williaih Har graves (CH), E. C. Fauceft® (B), Zan Crawtord-(B), C. Nj Oakes (CG) , Harry W. Crane. CH), Clarence J. Walker (ft), R. Miller (LR), <John Lewis Tilley (LR), T. R. Pendergraft ^CH), R; A. Fetzer (CH), G. E./piott (Eno), James E. Daniel, Cks). S. G. Miller (Cks), Qhariie Alston / (B), R,. ,M , H*l* fclnoX, E. C Campbell (B), Floyd Crab tree (CH), H. D. Cro^kford (CH) , N Ruth Blackman (H), Charlie Burton (H). C. B. Stan ley (H), D. ML Horner (CH), .Martin Luther Andrews'' (ft), John M. Thompson (B), C. H. Cates (H), Donald McDade JCG), Fred A. Compton (CG)„ John Moore (Cks), Ollie Council, (CH), Walter T. Talley (Eno), M, R. Mann (B), R. E. Bivins (ft). Second Week N. D. Ranson (CH), OVarles Bradshaw (Cks), Efuist Hicks (Cks), E. C. Compton (CGI. V. A. Hill (CH), Rainfty B. Cla^on (Cks), James A, Pendergrass (CH), R. T. Dalebite (Eno), Rob ert Davis (H), Flrtcher M. "Green (CH), Hoyle Kiifc (Cks), "W. F. Prouty (CH), J. Whitfield (B), Miss Sue P £ .yes VH), C. N. Cheek (B), JL. E. Boone (CG) , Julian E. Gill (Cks), Ervin Green (Eno), Isaac Brown (H), J. B. Sykes (B), Ed Oakley (LR), Reid Roberts (Eno), J. H. Dickey (LR), James W. Oakley (Cks), Jeff Thomas (CH), Chester F Roberts (LR), R. C. Dan iel (CG), John J. Keller, Jr. (CH) , H. S. Williams (Cks), Jul ian Pace (CG), G. ’ laer (CO), Harold Weaver (Clt), Vv. L. Lloyd (Cks), P. G. Allison (CG), B. Earl Bradsher (CG), C. T. McAdams (Cks). -o-; Five Students From Orange At Wake Forest Wake Forest. — Five students from -Orange County are cm rent ly enrolled at Wake.Forest Col1 lege ‘which this year has had a record-breaking enrollment of 2111 f _Three -of the students are from Hillsboro: They are James Good win and Walter Vaughn, juniors, and William Ray, sophomore. Mary Lee Thompson is a soph omore from Chapel Hill, and Hen ry ,Pope a freshman from Cedar Grove. Three years ago the Smith Reynolds Foundation Fund, val ued \at around $11,000,000, was added to the resources of the Col lege. This fund was donated on the condition, that the College be moved to Winston-Salem and that sufficient funds be raised by 1952 to begin construction of the new college. At the same’lime a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Babcock of between 400 and 500 acres of the beautiful Rey nolda estate was made available to Wake*Forest College as a build ing site. Steady progress is being made in securing necessary funds for the building program. More than $2,000,000 in cash is already available. ---O SOFTBALL SCHEDULE softball schedule iSi-r league includes the following games: Tuesday Owls vs. Cards; Whites vs. Methodist Church. Thursday (first games under the new lights)—Belle Vue vs. American Legion; Eno vs. Chev rolet Girls. Friday—White’s .vs. Exchange Club; Belle Vue vs. High School. -O———— New Stoplight The new stoplight in front of -the Carrboro post office at the intersection of Weaver Street and Main ‘^t^eet which was installed by the town of Carrboro last week is a much needed addition to the town. This has been a dan gerous intersection and the light is a great improvement. Umstead Carrying Bond Drive Throughout County -4 Jaycee Sponsored Lustron Hone Exhibit Opens To Pnbiic Sunday Chapel Hill.—The all-steel Lus tron house which the Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce is sponsor ing will be open to the public Sunday, May 29. • Visiting hours of the Lustron house will be from 1 to 9 o'clock on Sunday and from 4 to 9 o’clock on week days. An admission of 25 cents will be charged visitors with the proceeds being used by the Jaycees to improve .the Chapel Hill high school athletic field. The house will be completely furnished with the latest styles of Drexel furniture by the Ogburn Furniture Company. Also, the master bedroom will be fully car peted by a new Alexander Smith rug pattern which was rushed di rectly from the factory for the Lustron house. The rug pattern is" brand new and will not be shown to the public until the house is opened. Drapes for the house are sup plied by the Carolina Drapery Shop as well as the Venetian blinds. The-kitchen will be fully stocked with the latest electrical appliances developed by Westing* house *ahd Philco. In addition, a television set will be included in the living, room as part of the completely modern furnishings. The crystal and sil ver settings in the Lustron house are supplied by Wentworth and Sloan’s Jewelry Store. Cancer Drive Recognition Given By Cline Chapel Hill.—Orange County went well over its quota of $1,710 for the cancer drive held during the month of April, announced George B, Cline, county drive chairman. The. quota .was reached evenL before the drive had +>een dompleted. Orange County’s chap ter of the Cancer Society received favorable state-wide publicity for being one of the three counties to go over the top first. Col. Cline gave much of the credit for the successful campaign to Mrs. R. E. Studebaker, Mrs. James Snipes, Mrs. Hubert Rob inson, and Mrs. W. Carson Ryan. Mrs. Studebaker organized the drive in Carrboro, making the rounds herself to the businesses and through the school. She col .‘ecteci-three time* as much as had ; ever Jties-, rt<vne Mrs. Snipes and Mrs. Robinson con ducted. a most successful cam paign in the Negro districts, as they have done in previous years. Mrs. Ryarr handled all-public in formation, distributing displays and literature, and conducting tag '■day;' a project carried oafed&vthe Girl Scouts and Brownies. Two ot the many services sup ported by the Cancer Society are Jhe surgical 'dressing unit, under the direction of Mrs. A. T. Miller, and the Cancer Detection Center •at ■ Watts Hospital .in Durham. The Center offered tree service to all persons over 45 years of age. Presbyterians To Recognize Rural Life Hillsboro-—A special service of > worship will be held at the Hills boro Presbyterian Church on Sunday, May 29,-at 11 a. m. in observance of Rural Life Sunday. It will be a day set apart for the 'invocation of God’s- blessing upon the seed, the fruits of the soil, and the cultivators of the earth; for the consideration of justice for agriculture and the spiritual values of life. Various farm organizations have been invited to attend that both the town and country may express in common worship their interde pendence upon the soil and its Creator, it was announced by the pastor. Special music will be pre sented by the chancel choir and the pastor, Rev. J. E. Birdseye, will preach on4 “The Ways of the ■CrVOM* • -Q—, Saturday Is Poppy Day 'Hillsboro. — Saturday will be Poppy Day here. Sale of poppies as. in years past will be sponsored by the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary as a means of raising funds for disabled vet erans and- the needy children of men who fought in the two World Wars' v Hans Freistadt Affair Stirs Durhaa, Who Takes Fink Stand On Fellowships The Hon. Carl Durham of Chapel Hill, this district’s repre sentative in Congress, and a mem ber of the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy, last week ex pressed deep concern over the Atomic Energy Commission’s pro gram which heretofore has- per mitted the awarding of felloiv sHips to students without FBI clearance. His statement to the House in which he introduced . the bill re quiring FBI clearance for siich recipient will be of considerable interest to his constituents in this county. It follows: Mr. Speaker: For the past few days we have seen in the press and heard oyer the radio discus sions in regard to the Fellowship Program administered by the Atomic Energy Commission. That program deals with the training of students in the fields of phys ics, biology, and medicine as well as other branches of science. ,Jjn der. the direction of Senator Mc the" Joint Committee oh Atomic Energy on January 23, 1949 which committee was headed by Senator Hickenhooper during the 30th Congress, the staff of this com mittee was authorised to investi gate this program in preparation for committee hearings on the sub ject. A hearing was held on May 5th with the Commission and an .open hearing is scheduled for this! afternoon at 2:30. The Commission has taken the .position that students who receive this fellowship are not required to have FBI clearance before they are granted such a scholarship. Neither are they obligated in any way for future employment by the Commission. The position taken by the Commission is one that I disagree with,. I believe that all students receiving this fellowship should be required to render some service to the Fed -eral. Government in return for receiving their education, I am thoroughly aware of the need to train scientists and feel that the program c'ould be' of 'great bene fit in providing more and better •qualified men for the field of science in which field there is. a critical shortage here in America. The Atomic Energy Commission requires FBI clearance of all per sons before they are ctnpibyed by the“Commission. Certainly il wu are going to train these scien tists with the expectation of using them later on I cannot believe it to be a wise policy lo train them without FBI clearance first. I do not believe such requirements would trespass on academic free dom. I believe it would have been wise for the -Commission to have corrected this which they could have done under the authority ofe the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. Certainly I am opposed to 'edu who admits that he is a commun ist as Hans Freistadt has admitted and who has been awarded an Atomic Energy Commission fel lowship or to any other person who is not loyal to our form of government. I assure the mem bers of the House that I am going to do everything I can to correct this serious mistake of the Com mission, so I am, today, introdu cing- a bill which requires FBI clearance before a person may receive Atomic Energy Commis sion fellowship. 1 am deeply in terested in the Atomic Energy program and I know of no mem ber of Congress who desires to takes any action that would jeop ardise the program but I do not intend to sit idly by and see the program destroyed by infiltra tion of communists. The campaign to secure passage of the two proposed bond issues for roads and schools continued in Orange County this week with Director John W. Umstead Jr. personally spearheading the drive in all sections of the county. Last night at Chapel Hill, Capra Waynick, state Democratic chair- I man and nominee for the post of ambassador to Nicaragua, spoke to a group at the Chapel Hill ele mentary school in the only county wide meeting thus far scheduled with an outside speaker. Um stead spoke to Schley Grange Tuesday night and will conduct a meeting at White Cross tomorrow night. Other meetings will be held at Efland. Cedar Grove and St. Mary’s at times to be announced later. There appeared to be little change in the county-wide align ment 'for and against the issues, with the rural areas apparently lining up strongly in favor of the program to issue $200,000,000 in bonds to improve secondary roads and the municipal residents gen erally cool or opposed to the issue. Little opposition has been noted to the school issue. s In an effort to take the cam paign into the homes of the coun ty Umstead called upon school principals to assist in sponsoring a letter writing contest among the school children. Details were con tained in a letter addressed to the principals yesterday as follows: — "As Director of the Campaign for Bonds for Better Roads and Schools I am asking that you co—— operate with me in putting on a letter writing contest. "The letters are to be directed to me and the subject of the let ters is “Why my parents should vote for Bonds for Better Hoads and Better Schools in the election to be held June 4th. ” '..._ “The first prize will be $7.50; the second prize will be $5.00, and the third prize $2.50. “Tb* committee of judges to inward the prizes will be E. J. Hamlin, Editor of the News of Orange .County, Don Matheson, County Agent, and C. K. McAd ams. , “Each , pupil in th& schools of ' Orange County may submit-a let-.. . ter of not more than 300 words to the principal of the school they attend. “The principal will then read * the letters and select the five, best letters to be submitted to the above named committee for the final selection of. the winners. “The pupils may get 'informa tion from any': source available. As director of this campaign I will leave with each teacher some in -formation _ that, they may use. They may also get information from their parents or other rela tives but the letters should be written by the pupils themselves. “The letters should be in the hands of the teachers not later Chan Monday, May 30. The teach ers should get the five letters from their, school to me not fater than Thursday, June 2. Winners will be announced in; the News of Or ange County Che week following - the election. "The letters will be judged from the ^standpoint of reasons given for ^voting for bonds, neatness and expression. .Letters should’ be .written only on one side of the sheet of paper and may be writ ten with either pencil, pen or typewriter. They must be signed and carry the address of the writer.’’ Union Grove Homecoaung Sct for Siuuiay"''1 Hillsboro.—Homecoming will be observed this coming Sunday at Union Grove Methodist Church as the opening service in the new stone church just recently com- . pleted. . - Principal speaker at the 11 o’clock hour will be Hon. William B. Umstead well known Durham attorney and former United States Senator. Speakers in the after noon will include Dr. E. L. Hill man, superintendent of the Dur ham District of the Methodist Church, and others. Rev. D. K. Ghristenberry is the pastor. Construction of the new church has been underway during the past five yeafcs with work being accomplished by the church mem bership. _
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