Newspapers / The News of Orange … / July 28, 1949, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
interested •« <>«"•* Brhen read TheJl.. of Or.n«. ounty Interest from rtod factual* lor or bias. THE NEWS of Orange County Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 ' COUNTYWIDE COVERAGE Is Available Qr.Jj in Tne news SUBSCRIBE TODAY, of Orange County. (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, I HlTRstjAY, JULY 28, 1949 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy Ten Pages This We£k COMBINE COMBINES OPERATIONS This machine is the latest idea in speeding up the harvest ing ,6i the nation s biggest peacetime wheat crops. A standard automatic twine-tying baler was joined with a combine to do several jobs at once. With the arrangement, a two-man crew can cut } the ripe wheat, thresh it, hag it, and. bale the leftover wheat straw intone-continuous operation. At 4 - 7 the left an automatically twine-tied bale is shown ready to drop'fro • the baling chamber. I Heavy Vote Cast For Weed Quotas Hillsboro—Tobacco growers of Orange County went hand-in hand with state leaf growers in giving the continuation of the quota system and Tobacco Asso ciates levy a large favorable ma jority in voting Saturday. A total of 1,323 growers went to the polls during the day and only 15 dissenting votes were cast on either issue. Little interest was expressed on the alternative of one year of control instead of three as only five voters expressed a preference for one year instead of three. Heaviest voting was cast in the Cedar Grove area where 448 farmers went to the polls. Three opposed quotas and none were against the 10c per acre assess ment to support the, organization Tobacco Associates. which^fcps as its purpose the seeking of new markets for export and tobacco trade. Caldwell cast 11 of .15 votes against control and Tobacco Asso ciates and three of the five votes favoring the short term control... Three growers in Cedar Grove and one at Carr"voted against con trol and^one-in Eflandr and two at Hillsboro voted against the To bacco Associates assessment! The total votes by communities was: Caldwell 205, Carr 301,’Cair boro 43, Cedar Grove, 448, Eflpnd 100, Hillsboro 83, New' Hope 19, Orange Grove 22, St.> Mary’s 45, White Cross 57. Throughout the state, 149,553, 97.8 per cent of those voting, fa vored three-year quotas. Returns from the four states voting Satur day, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, gave a 40-1 preference for the extension of quotas for three years. Jordan Faulty Reunion August 7 Walnut Grove — The annual Jordan reunion will be held here Sunday, August 7, at the home of Mrs. W. L. (Jennie) McDade, it ^was announced today. “A1 Jordan descendants and their, friends are expected to at tend," the announcement said, when a picnic lunch, served by each family, will be served. Persons from as far away as Kaleigh are expected to return to alnut Grove on that day to be Present for this reunion which is ?n anr>ual occasion of long stand t11?, it was said. Carrboro Woman Finds Two-Hearted Chicken tZZSSSS Carrboro—Mrs. Mahler But ner of Carrboro believes her experience last Friday with a 'wo-hearted Chicken may have 8w °ne ^or the records. While dressing a chicken weighing about thfee't^pbuhds ® n°t only found a heart ere a chicken heart ought to e’ but also another heart al most as large as the first one th ,Was Rowing almost from e chicken’s neck. Mrs. Butner lrs* almost thought she was r*>ng double. She called in sight °rS to see the strange com1 ®he happened . to have but ^any. trom nearby Durham stra n° 0Ile ^ad seen such a ne_/Lge ehicken before. The un?, °,f the chicken, too, was anusuauy iong for the size, al ^ eight inches in length. 0 -:-----* Tomato Patch Melee Gets Man Fine, 17 Stitches ' Chapel Hill — Rufus, alias “Baby," Tuck got six injuries, 17 stitches, a $21 medical bill, and a fine of $15 plus court costs total ing $13.40 out of a melee that -took place in his-tomato patch last Saturday afternoon. Judge John L. Manning, pre j siding over Recorder’s Court of ; Chapel Hill Tuesday, handed 1 down a decision of guilty in the | case in which Tuck was charged 1 with assault on Marvin Baldwin. | At the sam™ time, Judge Mm | ning found Baldwin and his girl | friend, Patty Mae Burnett, not guilty of charges filed by Tuck of j assault with deadly weapons. Tuck alleged that Baldwin attacked him I with a tomato plant stick and .that i-Patty.' Mae-iBuwietT the head with a pipe, According o Baldwin. Tuck “got to fussin-’ and cussi-TP'-aftera ball game. Witnesses testified that Tuck had been drinking from a half gallon• of wine. Patty Mae stated that she had.,,hit..;Tu.clv “with a little old stick" because I was afraid of him and he knocked me down and -kick#?J • me."" Other cases and decisions handed down were: Odessa Cotton Hargraves, assault with a deadly weapon ((a bottle) .on Doris Far rington, $15 and costs; Lucy Mae Foushee, drunkeness, $10 and costs; Willie Williams, breaking and entering and larceny of mer chandise valued at $22 plead not guilty and was bound over to the next session of Orange Superior Court, under $200 bond; Reid Thomas Holland of New Hall, N. C. operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicat ing beveratfges, fined $100 and court costs; Melvin Ashby, drunk eness, $10 and costs; William Hen ry Gattis, drunknesses, $10 and costs; Jack. W.] Moody jot New .coasts; Jack W. Moody... of New Jersey,. speeding, $15 and costs, A. L. Britt of Guilford County, displaying improper license on vehicle, costs; Ernest. F. Carpen ter of Massachusetts, driving while drunk and reckless driving, $100 and costs. •O' VA Hospital' Site Protested erans' Administration' neuropsy chiatric hospital, sought by Hills boro and other towns in this area, to Salisbury has brought forth a storm of criticism frorn Parnlina Department of Disabled Veterans. . The announcement oi me awarding of the hospital was made last week: The DAV’s potest is based on the fact- that the n hospital’s location is too far from established medical centeis wheie sufficient medical talent can obtained upon -short notice. ---- SQUARE DANCE The Calvander Home Demon stration Club will sponsor a square dance at Hogans Lake Frid y. July 29, at 8 p. m. There Will a string band and cold drinks i variable. Once Late Leaf Crop Now Normal Or Above Normal HUlsb- —According to Don S. Mathiegi Orange-County agent, [recent sn vers have been* very beneficial > all crops in Orange County, an>* the tobacc crop, which was la^e on most farms be cause of lack of plants, has finally developed into a normal or above normal crop. In this connection, it is interest ing to speculate on the extra cost of obtaining plants this year. Due to excessive blue mold damage, about 500 farmers had to make two or more trips dqjyn to the eastern part of the state to get their supply of plants. It is esti mated that Orange County farm ers alone drove 250,000 miles- to secure plants. T>;r.y:stir.2 has already begun n _omc parts of the county. Some >f these early farmers, are<'L,S, | Newton. W. A. • Sparfbw,"* JA*rk j Norwood, and Sam Fearrington of I Chapel Hill; W. F. Pittard of Cedar Gr-ove, and E. F. McAdams of I EJland. Barring no bad drought the com rhopris going to be above normal. About one-half of the coi n plant ed this year is the improved hy brid. arid farmers have followed the advice of the experiment sta tion in the cultural and fertiliza tion practices. The hay crops arc looking very promising. Alfalfa is being cut the second tirhe and lespedeza and red clover are making satisfactory progress. Farmers all over the county are making preparations to sow a large acreage to ladino clover pas tures this fall. Assault, Liquor Troubles Bring Brady 90 Days Hillsboro—Clacy Brady’s trou bles with his wife got him 60 days on the roads this week and a little whisky on the side added 30 more in Monday’s se^ion of Orange County court. Judge L. J. . Phipps sentenced Brady_ after. finding him guilty on the two counts of assaulting his wife and other members of her family at the home of her mother near Duke Power Station with a knife and illegal possession of whisky. Brady pled not guilty but got nowhere arguing his own case. In other cases of the. short docket, W. D. Lane was taxed the costs for disorderly conduct while under the influence of intoxicants; Ralph Terrell and Claude Bratch ' w-.r-gfc* tiai orderly conduct; and Rubie Lee Farrington received a 30-day sus pended sentence for concealing mortgaged property and refusing to give it up on condition she pay the court costs and $23.58 due E. ~A. Brown: A-case -against Law rence Vanhook charging tempo rary larceny was nol prossed upon motion of the prosecuting attor ney. s r— -:-o--• VALUATION UP A recent announcement of the 1949 tax valuation on public utili ties in North Carolina listed the Morris Telephone Company, op erators of the - local telephone franchise, at $65,000. This was an increase of $5,000 over the 1948 valuation. School Heads . Are Attending Building Meet Chape) WU—School adminis trators iroin North Carolina and neighboring s t at e s, including County Supt. Glenn Proffit and C. W. Davis, Chapel Hifa principal, architects, and contractors are attending a five-clay conference on school buildings which opened in the Navy Armory at the Uni versity of North ^Carolina hero Monday morning and continues through Friday noop. Dr. W. E. Rosenstfeftgel of the University School of Education served as general chairman of the Conference. _ ..-.-‘1__ \ The program began Monday with welcoming addresses by Dean Guy B, Phillips of the Uni versity School of Education and State Superintendent Clyde A. Edwin. The School of Education and the Stat^ Division of School house Planning o fthe State De partment of Education are spon soring the Conference* A large part of the' program is being devoted to group discus r;ons, or school planning. Group chairmen and discus >’•11 leaders and their topics in clude Dr. A. M. Proctor, professor of education. Duke University, on planning school plants; James M. Webb, associate professor of planning. University of North Carolina, construction problems; W. F. Qredle, State Division, of Schoolhouse Planning, care and maintenance of buildings and equipment; Pendleton Mitchell, director of schoolhofise planning, State Department of Education, Georgia, alterations rind repairs of school buildings, Dr. W. H. Plem mons, asoeiate professor of edu cation and former executive sec retary, State Education Commis sion, financing school building programs. >ieakers included John W. Lewis, Assistant Superintendent, Baltimore schools; John A. Park er, head of the University Depart ment of City and Regional plan ning; J. G. McCracken, director of -insurance, State Board of Edu cation; James Ketch, Ncla Park, Ohio,, representing General Elec tric’s engineering. division on 'school light; N. E. U. S. Of fice of Education, l^ilmer M. Jenkins, Superintendent, Durham county schools; Reid Ross Lilling ton, county superintendent; Wil liam H. Deitrich, Raleigh archi tect,*arid William Muirhead, Dur h-am-eowtractor, ~~ - •O' Miss Faye Hogan Wins 4-H Dress Revue Held Here Hillsboro—Miss- Faye Hogan of the Chapel Hill 4-H Club won first place in the 4-H Style Show held here last week. The show featured dresses made by the senior 4-H girls who en tered the contest from throughout the county. Miss Hogan’s dress which won her the blue ribbon and first prize was a pink summer cotton. Second prize was awarded Miss Margaret Brown of New Hope. Miss Brown modeled a lightweight green gabardine suit. Third prize went to Miss Patsy Teer of Hills boro, for her gray and pink striped summer cotton. Prizes are given each year by John W. Umstead to the first, sec ond and third place winners in the County Dress Revue'. Other girls showing dresses in the revue were Misses Carolyn Thompson, Elea nor Thompson, Lois Liner, Marga ret Vaughn, Mary Ann Wilson, Jeanette Wilson, arid Eloise Mad drey. Judges were Mrs. John Cate, Mrs. J. W. Richmond, and Mrs. Clarence Sharpe. Chagel Hill-Carr boro’s “All Out" Effort Band Promotion Event Gathering Momentum Orange County Veterans To Receive Over $600,000 In Insurance Refunds Hillsboro — Orange . County World War II veterans will re ceive over $600,000 next year in dividends on National Life In- I surance policies taken out in service. » ~ This figure is based on an av- ■ erage of $175 payment per vet eran and according to Walter G. Wrenn, Alamance County Service Officer, there are between three and four thousand veterans in Orange. Cottnty. Payment Of the G. I. insurance money, is being made because of dividends that have accrued even though the veterans’ insurance was set up on a low scale to take care of members of the armed forces in the last war. Payment of the cash refunds is scheduled to begin in January. The cash refunds for the nation will total $2,800,000,000 for 16, 000,000 veterans. Payment wiltybe made during the first six months of 1950. The divident payment program is being set up _now. Application blanks are not available yet. Forms are being printed. Nearest of kin of deceased vet erans can file claims for divi deads. Only men and women who served at least 90 days are eligi ble for dividends. Policies ac quired.since January 1, 1948. are not eligible for the dividend. The biggest checks in. the forth coming GI insurance dividend payment, probably will .go to the younger veterans because they have had a comparatively low mortality rate. Veterans who converted their term insurance policies into any of the six types of permanent in surance also are likely to harvest proysrtionately larger dividends. The converted policies '“cafrled:i higher premiums, although a part I of the increased premium builds’ up~as savings. *— . Tiie lowest dividend check will go to owners of policies of $1,000 that have been in effect only three months. The highest payments will be on the maximum amount policies of $10,000 that have been in effect for the full eight years. The Veterans Administration is still working on the dividend pay scale. The agency has not yet in dicated whether it will release de tails of the scale when it is com pleted. .1 3400 Students Begin Second Summer Session = ~ Chapel Hill—Incomplete figures from Dr. Guy B. Phillips’ office indicatf that enrollment for the second session of the University of North Carolina summer school has taken the usual drop. Ap proximately 34000 students began classes last Thursday. . Like the first session, the pres ent term will last six weeks. On ^ August 27, classes will be com pleted arid classes will be discon tinued until the middle of- Sep terfibeT. The approximate figure of 3400 students is a drop gf nearly 2000 below The first session’s total, and a declinen of 102 compared to the second session of last year’s sec ond session. Special institutes scheduled for this term include a School Build ing Conference and the -Carolina Coaching School, both’ Of which are already underway; an Ehglish Institute, Aug. 4-8; the Credit Bureau anA Merchants’ Associa tion Management Institute, Aug. 15-19; and the North Carolina Federation of Business and Pro fessional Women’s Clubs, Aug, 6-7. t -o———— Bill Stanley b Recaptured Hillsboro — Bill Stanley, con victed bootlegger who still faces an indictment for murder in Or ange County Superior Court, was recaptured by local Prison Camp officials Tuesday. He had been at large since he escaped June 10. Stanley was recaptured near Murphy School in the woods and claimed to have been in this vicin ity since his escape. He allegedly had been bitten by a snake and sustained .other injuries during his “freedom.” He ' is serving four ! years for manufacturing liquor. New Sewerage Disposal Plant Begins Operation At Chapel Hill This Week Chapel Hill—The new $425,000 Chapel Hill sewage1 disposal plant was put into operation Tuesday morning, following an official in spection by Town and University authorities Monday afternoon? ~ Along* for Hhe 4mw*-wereJUaxor Edwn S. Lanier, Town Manager Thomas D. Rose, Aldermen Ken neth Putnam and G. Obie Davis, U. N. C. Busness Manager C. E. Teague, Superintendent of Opera tions 5. S- Bennett, J. A. Branch, purchasing agent; John R. Gove, assistant engineer; and Represent atives of the Charlotte contracting firm of Boyd and Goforth. Town Manager Rose estimated that the new.plant will take care of the Town’s needs for 20 years. ! It was so designed as to make pos sible further additions in the event expansion is needed. \ V The old disposal unit will be kept in operation and will handle about half of the sewage. For this reason only part of the total ca pacity of 1,500,000 gallons will be utilized. This capacity, reported ly, will serve the needs of.17,000 people. Construction was begun in Au gust, 1948, on a site on the Mason Farm, south of Morgan’s Creek.* Any new buildings, such as the proposed Medical School, located south of the ridge on Cameron Avenue, will have sewage lines connected to the new plant. The Town of Chapel Hill do nated $200,000 and the University gave $225,000 and provided the lancf for the plant. Rose described the new plant' aa a *<high rate trickling plant” with a double fil tering process. Guest Speakers Will Occupy Baptist Pulpit Hillsboro—Caldwell* Williams, son of Mrs. Andrew J. Williams and the late Mr. Williams, ef Hillsboro, will be guest speaker I at the First Baptist church of Hillsboro on Sunday, July 31 at 11 a. m. His subject will be“What It Means To Be In The Kingdom.” Williams has . beer^ a student at the University of North Carolina and will enter a Baptist theolog ical seminary in Texas in the Fall. J. G. Goodwin Jr., who is taking "his prg*theot»gjeatni traliiing Wake Forest College, will be guest speaker at the morning ser viee on August 7. . Rev. J. Paul Deaton, pastor, is on vacation. .... 1 T.-.-l---O---—:— . Permits Issued For Building Total Large Sum Chapel Hill—Building permits totaling $114,110 were issued in Chapel Hill by Building Inspector P. L. Burch during the period June 1 until July 13. "Largest single item on the building inspector’s report is a $60,000 brick commercial building now being erected on North’ Co lumbia Street between the Smith Prevost Cleaners and the Carolina Cab Co. The new building will be two stories high and will house several businesses including a res taurant. The old University Services Of fice on East Franklin Street that was- gutted by fire in December, 1947, is now undergoing repairs which, according to the inspector’s report, will cost $29,000. One new home has been author ized. A permit was issued to R. P. Moore to construct a residence for $12,000 on North Street. The only r other new House listed is a $250 child’s play house being built by M. A. Abernathy. Marooned In Currituck * Hillsboro—Two local men" got themselves marooned in Curri tuck Sound last weekend but the big bass one of them caught was worth the trouble, it • was reported. Remus Smith and Carl Davis were the fishermen WBose'mcP" tor boat ran up on some sub merged pillars which at one time supported an abandonpd ■ pier. After- considerable effort, they were “rescued” by their cohorts left on shore, W, T. Fryer and B. P. Gordon Jr., who reported the incident with much glee. Smith didn’t mind the inci dent a bit, however. The five pound bass, one of the largest pulled out in that vicinity, he caught more than compensated for the chagrin. i Chapel Hill—The Chapel Hill Carrboro Band Promotion Pro gram is gathering the force of a bandwagon going down hill with several dozen civic leaders push ing amt scores or music-conscious ~ merchants and clubs pulling the load. # By the end of last week the shop windows up and down the main stem, from the Chapel Hill Post Office to the westward lim its tif Carrboro displayed a high stepping drum majorette bursting wHS'lsS Information that on Au-. gust 1, 2s and 3—Monday. Tues day, and Wednesday—all good citizens should come to the aid of their high school band. In this *iall oift civic effort” to raise $3000. for clothing and equipping the band’s 80 mem bers, t the Altrusa (Club, the Boy Scouts, the Carrboro Athletic_ Club, the -jhyee.es, the Junior Service'Teague, the Kiwanis, the Lions, tire Merchants Association, the P. T. A., the Recreation Cen ter, and the Rotary have joined into the chorus of ‘Strike Up the Band.” „ Already a profit of $29 has been reported on-the*sale of window Signs and "I Am A Band Booster” buttons are going fast according to student salesmen. Beginning'Monday, individual - band members will be stationed in various stores in Chapel and Carr^ boro and all of their earnings wtlir be added to the Band fund. At 2:00 P. M, Tuesday a parade featuring the Band will pass from Morgan’s Service Station in Carr^ boro to the Chapel Hill Post Of fice. A pair of softball games will be played at the Carrboro Softball Park Tuesday night. Carrboro Athletic Club will meet Erwin Mills in the opener and the newly crowned champs of the North Central District, the Electric Con struction Co., will go against'the Ossipee Mills in the second con test. un me nnai day an afternoon and evening of carnival revelries, fish frying, and auction bidding have been prepared for i'.a lawn ■ of the Chapel Hill High School. Bingo, horseshoe pitching, for tune telling, fishing (for prizes), an old fashioned cake walk, an ice-cream counter, and a soft, drink stand will be open to the _ public. Chef Roy Barham’s char coal fried fish will be ready for the ketsup by G:00 P, M. and Tom Rosemond will aet as distributor ! for the anticipated multitude. The ~ fish fry will Serve the extra pur pose of this year’s ~7* ployee get-together. Following the seafood, Geddie Fields will auction off" gifts do tted by Chapel Hill and Carrboro businessmen. A highly incomplete list of the items to be placed on the auction block next Wednes day include: an electric ironer, sport shirt, sweater certificate, an 8x10 portrait, auto tires, hammock and rubber wading pool, flashbulb camera, bedspreads, theater passes, seersucker suit, shampoo and hair set, pillows, furniture, radio, car wash, lubricating service, medicine cabinet, shirt, sack of flour, shoe trees, indoor basketball set, boy’s suit and a dress, card table, make up kit, recorder turner, two bot tles shampoo, money gifts, record cabinet, and autographed copies of “Tomorrow Will Be Better,” “Step Down Elder Brother,” and “Bright Leaf.” " The P. T. A. is attempting to — have 60 to 75 cakes at the auction. Twenty-five have already * been pledged. Tickets for the softball games are being sold by band members and Jaycees and may be pur chased at the gate. The band members are also handling tickets for the fish fry with an assjst from the Merchants Association, .t, Club Disclaim Responsibility At Wading Pool Vest!»rHa°rt^ The Ex<*anse Club yesterday announced that respon utUzin/^h SUpervision of children utilizing the new wading pool had not been arranged. Until such time as this has been chddrePn ted' n is su««ested that children be allowed - to use the pool only when accompanied by a parent *or some other authorized Person. The club feels it cannot ^responsible for the ,^n, a4rran*ed and desires ents thW faCt 56 known to 411 Par
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 28, 1949, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75