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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, AUGUST *5, 1949 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy ' Twelve Pages This Week
Kiwanians Of Carolinas Will Open Conclave Here Sunday
MISS PATRICIA HAYES—At
tractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Odell Sykes of Mebane, route 2.
Miss Hayes is being sponsored by
Acme Feed Company of Burling
ton, for Miss Tobacco Festival
of 1949. She is a senior of Hills
j boro High School- (Photo by Wil
liam Lynch.)
Manning Charges Muirhead Project
Will Gain $97*500 By Rate Policy
Chapel Hill—In an open letter
to Mayor Edwin S. Lanier, Judge
John T. Manning has charged that
William Muirhead will make $97,
500 over a period of 33 years if
Muirhead’g proposal for sewerage
service to the new Raleigh Road
apartment project is approved.
Manning declares that the Dur
L ham oentractor under proposed
arrangements will not be xequired
to abide by the sewer construction
and maintenance policy recently
established by the Board of Aider
men.
The judge listed the following
f requirements \vhich he said other
suburbanites must comply with
when connecting on to the Town’s
disposal lines:
(a) Pay a connection fee of $25
for each family unit.
(b) .Pay a . service fee for each
family unit of two and one-half
times the service fee charged in
side town,,
\ Oc) Install "and maintain a line
from the place served to the city
-line.-- - — J
According to Manning, Muirhead
will NOT: *
(a) Pay the $25 per unit connec
tion fee—a total of $7,500.
(b) Pay $9 per unit additional
amount required by the policy of
the Board or $2,700 per year for
thirty-three years, or $90,200.
Judge Manning further stated
that “Chapel Hill residents by loss
of revenues have invested in .the
Project about $100,000 any way
you figure it and will lose not less
than $13,462 cost in the capacity
y1 111 e new plant. There are areas
in town-with no city sewer reason
ably available even at the cost of
_8es from houses in town to the
sewer lines in the streets, much
less outsiders.”
He asked, “If the Muirhead pro
posal is not discriminatory, please
aovise wherein it is not?”
Manning agreed that the expan
sion of the University necessitates
additional housing, but he asked
anier to explain why this housing
should be provided by Chapel Hill
Residents and others by a discrim
story rate in favor of private en
erprise to enable either, (a) Muir
oad to make more profits, or (b)
® tenants to get cheaper rents.
■ *n conclusion Judge ' Manning
asked the Mayor: *
t Are. you and your Board willing
« say that Chapel Hill will furnish
wer service to anyone inside or
de the Town at the same rate
o Pay all the costs of installing
connecting lines? If Chapel Hill,
a.8°vemmental unit needs the
in 08114 It legitimately and
mess 40 all provide it and
profit? If it cannot le
^woiately and fairly provide it,
bpy “ould the govemoring body
- a part in a scheme which does
f herwise?”
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WOMBLE REUNION
■ *. r® Toel Graham and Louisa
, and Womblo family reunion will
• Surday, September 4, at
hrme of Mr., and Mrs. Clar
, in tlie Smith Level com
Uy thre; miles r — ithwest of
. Hill:i All members of the
• 1 y are urged to be present.
Drinking Cost Goes Up ,
Chapel Hill.—In the short
period of two weeks the cost of
drinking has risen 250 per cent
in Chapel Hill.
At least for Walter Johnson it
did. When he was hauled into
Recorders Court on the charge
of public drunkenness on August
9, Johnson had to pay a fine of
$10 and the costs of court.
This Tuesday he was back
again for the same offense, only
this time the fine was $25 plus
costs—a 250 per cent increase..
Long Sufferua*
Hobby Shoots
Man In Leg
— Hillsboro—Duii Carr, who ha,4
been going with Joe Pugh's wife,
Ella, for a long time and even
served time on the roads for it,
finally got it Friday night—in the
leg from Pugh’s 22 rifle.
Pugh found Carr with his wife
in the section beyond Fairview
and let go a few bursts from tlft
22. One shot below the knee broke
Carr’s leg and Ella said she umuld
have been hit too if she hadn’t
dodged.
Both Carr and Mrs. Pugh have
been convicted several times for
using rooms for immoral purposes,,
disorderliness and fighting and of
ficers said they thought Pugh fi
nally got tired Oi being "run away
from, home” by Carr. When
found by officers following the
shooting, Carr was drinking a can
of beer, sitting with his injured leg
in a ditch by the side of the road.
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BRUNSWICK SUPPER
The Women’s Society of New
Sharon Church will sponsor a
Brunswick supper at St. Mary’s
school house on Saturday, August
27, beginning at 5 p. m. The
menu will 'include Brunswick and
chicken stew; hojne*made cakes,
pies, and ice cream; sqft, drinks,
coffee, and tea. The public is cor
dially invited. -
P.T. A. Lists
Accomplishments
Of Past Year
*
Hillsboro—On the eve of the
opening of another school year,
the Hillsboro P. T. A. at a meeting
last week listed the accomplish
ments of the organization during
the past year. The list included:
1. Increased membership 100%.
2. Promoted and secured a
dietition for the lunch room—also
worked for greater efficiency in'
operation, better meals and new
equipment
3. Promoted a shortened lunch
period, resulting in children eating
at school and staying off the
streets.
A. Promoted a music teacher for
elementary grades and high
school.
5. Bought a radio-victrola com
bination for use and $25.00 worth
of records.
6. Had store romp built in
school for uniforms and dress
equipment, .
7. Provided $1.50 per month
for room awards for attendance,
at P. T. A. meetings.
8. Had tall» shrubbery removed
from front of high school to give
light to basement rooms and re
placed with low shrubbery.
9. Bought $130.00 worth of
playground equipment. _ . ~
10. Local teacher designated as
Junior Advisor.
11. Set up system of room rep
resentatives using two fathers and
two mothers for each grade.
12. Received a certificate of
proficiency for summer round-up
work.
13. Had By-laws revised and
approved.
14. Set up citizenship goals for
school—best citizen elected peri
odically.
15. Had Study Group led by
State College specialist on the
’teen age problems with special
reference to sex education.
16. Sponsored a week of edu
cation towards preparing, for
marriage and family relations for
seniors.
J7. Participated in 'County Fact
finding survey with particular
reference to school needs.
18. Had program for Halloween
Carnival in October as money
raising effort with Junior Class.
19. Launchend a Holland’s
magazine subscription campaign
to raise funds.
20. Presented Bibles to Seniors
at graduation.
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Name Calling
Leads To Blows,
Fine In Court
Chapel Hill.— Henry Atwater
declared in Chapel Hill's Record
i ers Court Tuesday that his wife,
Jehnie, woke up calling him a
dirty name last Friday morning.
"Atwater was~trying to show cause
for striking his mate on the back.
—a blow which he testified, under
cross examination by Prosecuting
Attorney JJinshaw, was in reality
a “love lick.”
According to Jennie, it was Hen
ry who was doing the- name call
ing. She stated that .when she
protested against his abuse of their
children, he struck her.
When she first took the witness
stand, Jennie disowned any rela
tionship to Henry. In answer to
Prosecuting Attorney Hinshaw’s
question: “Are you any kin to
the defendant?" Jennie answered
“No.” Under coaching, however,
she later agreed that Atwater is
her husband. He was fined $10
and cdSts and was ordered to pay
a $4,40. balance on. a fine levied
against him in March, 1940.
Other cases and decisions hand
ed down by Judge John T. Man
ning were:
.Luther Edwards: ... Improper
equipment on motor vehicle
, (Continued on Page 8)
Exodus Of Summer Students Nears
Chapel Hill—The usual vacuum
created about this time every year
ated atbout this time very year in'
dlCU aiuuuv -- - .
University of North Carolina stu
dents will be filled by the Sunday
entry of more than 500 Kiwamans
and their wives.
Final exams for the second term
of summer school are scheduled to,
start Thursday morning and ena
Saturday. The vast majority of the
3400 summer students and ma y
of the faculty members are ex
pected to leave “The Hill ^y
r'ane ‘rain, bus, or car with as
little ’delay as possible, f°11J>^
the end of a generally hot andj
sticky session. . ,
The same highways and byw ajs .
that carry the University members
out on Saturday, will scarcely
cool well before being traveled by
the incoming Kiwanians on Sun
day. *
All dormitories on campus ex
cept one, will iye closed until
freshman orientation program gets
underway during the third week
of September.
Pre-registration for the fall
quarter has not been as large in
numbers as last year’s. Neverthe
less, university officials are mak
ing their plans on the basis of an
anticipated enrollment of over j
Over 1,500 new students have
sent in applications for admission
in September.
Two Speakers For Kiwanis Meeting
Two of the principal speakers
at the 29th annual convention of
the District of Kiwanis Interna
tional, to be held at the Univer
ity of North Carolina, August 28,
29, 30, will be John R. Wright
(left), Lakeland, Fla., an interna
tional trustee and official repre
setative of Kiwanis International,
who will address a fellowship
luncheon August 29, and Wayne
Guthrie, assistant managing editor,,
Indianapolis, Ind., News, who will
speak at the banquet session that
night. ’
On Railway Freight, Express And Telegraph
-mmmmmmm—rnm, .
Hillsboro Loses
Weekend Service
Hillsboro—Hillsboro will be
without railroad freight, express or
teregraph service on Saturdays and
Sundays after this weekend rail
road officials advised here this
week.
The three-man staff of the
Southern Railroad station here will
be on a five-day week, brought
about by the railroad’s recent
agreement with the labor union.
In accordance therewith, the sta
tion, including the Western Union
office, will be cleared for the week
each Friday afternoon.
Pointing to the coming estab
lishment of a 5-day-40-hour week
by the nation’s railroads on Sep
tember 1, the Southern Railway
System asked for the “coopera
tion and sympathetic understand
ing” of the public and pledged
itself to make the changeover with
the least possible inconvenience to
its patrons.
The announcement said that the
railroads ^‘necessarily agreed with
'be non-operating railway labor
unions to establish the shorter
work W'eek to carry out the find
ings of an Emergency Board ap
pointed by President Truman un
der the National Railway Labor
Act” -4
“This will require the closing on
Saturdays and Sundays of many
freight stations and offices here
tofore open to the public—on the
Southern as well as on all other
railroads throughout the country—
so that employees generally may
be given two consecutive days off
each week. Under the settlement,
the employees will receive for five
days’ work the equivalent of wages
formerly paid for six days’ work.
“As President Truman’s Emer
gency Board pointed out, the
shorter work week is in keeping
with the increasing trend in indus
try, banking and business general
ly, but for the railroad industry^
which must keep the trains run
ning day and night every day in
the week, it will create many dif
ficult problems. The Southern,
with your whole-hearted co-oper
ation and sympathetic understand
ing, pledges to make the change
over with the least possible incon
venience to the* public.”'
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ORANGE GUERN8EY COW
, SETS HIGH RECORD
1 Peterborough, It..- H.—A regia*
I tered Guernsey cow, Dinsmore
Majestic Viola,' owned by H. C.
Carr, University, N. C., has com
pleted an official Advanced Reg
istry record of 12,641 pounds of
milk and 645 pounds of butterfat
in the 365C day division starting
her record as a six-year-old.
Viola is the daughter of the out
standing Guernsey sire, Dinsmore
Majestic Rose King, that has sev
enteen daughters in the perform
ance register of the American
Guernsey Cattle Club.
This record was sup*>-vised by
the North Carolina State College
and reported to the American
Guernsey Cattle Club for appro—
CREDIT
-ctrt of "Ottr Town” appear-'
ing on th* Welcome Kiwanian ]
page was drawn by Chuck Hauser,
editor of The Tar Heel. .
Pre • School
Meetings Set 4f'
For Next Week
Hilsboro—With Orange County
schools scheduled to begin the new
year next Thursday September 1,
several pre-school meetings are set
for the early pari of the week.
- Principals meetings will be held
on both Monday and Tuesday af
ternoons at 3:30 o’clock at the
Board of Education offices here. On
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock,
a meeting of ail White teachers in
the county system will be held in
the high school auditorium here
and in the afternoon at 3 o’clock
a meeting of Negro teachers wil be
held at the Negro School.
All schools in the county system
will open Thursday, the 1st., with
the Chapel Hill school opening set
to foUgw on September 12. «.
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Deputies Raid ”
Charlie Long;
Hillsboro—Bootleggers and some
of their customers fared rather
badly here last weekend.
Sheriff’s Deputies raided Charlie
Long’s place Saturday night, found
11 pints and charged him with
possession for the purpose of sale.
He gave $100 bond and trial was
Set for September 5.
Herman Craven, West Hillsboro,
was arrested and charged with
illegal possession and transporting
and Ike Pugh was charged with
illegal possession when he was
found with whiskey.
More Than 5^*0 Persons
\
Expected to Attend Meet
Costly Battery Charge
Chapel HIM.— The cheapest
way to charge a run-down bat
tery is not to speed through a 25
mile per hour zone at the rate of
75 miles an hour.
Such, in effect, was the ad
vice -given William A. Staley of
Hillsboro by Judge John T.
Manning In Chapel Hill’s Re*
borders Court this week.
Judge Manning fined him $15
and costs for speeding. Staley
had told arresting officers that
his battery was run down and
that he was trying to build It up {
Local garage men list the cost
of recharging a battery ait $T.'
Three More Bond
Meetings Planned
For Next Week
Hillsboro—Three more-ipectmgs
to sound out local opinion on pro
posed bond issues for school build
ing construction and a county of
fice building are scheduled for
next week by the county com
missioners and school officials.
They will be held Wednesday
night at Scheley Grange Hall for
the Schley-Caldwell section, next
Thursday night at the Carrboro
school auditorium and next Fri
da night, September 2, at the Ef
land School auditorium. Refresh
ments will be served at the Schley
meeting, it was said.
These meetings follow three
previous meetings held in differ
ent sections of the county.
In commenting upon the idea of
issuing bonds, county officials
point but that the county fiscal
condition at the present, time is
very favorable for an issu r of at
least a million and » J||fl*rter
dollars. The state’s statute df limi
tation on local government debt
Is 10 percent of which five may be
for schools and five for other pur
poses. With an assessement of 30
million expected for the next year,
Orange County’s, limiation would
be in the neighborhood of $3,000,
000. Our present indebtedness,
$237,000, some of which will be
retired this year, plus a million and
a quarter, should it be authorized,
woulch only lift the county’s debt
to 50 percent of the limitation state
law allows. *
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Naval Reservists .
Back From Cruise
Hillsboro—Lt. (jg) USNR Elmer
R. Dowdy and Wordie R. Fitzger
ald, M. M. 2-C USNR, have re
turned to their homes here after a
two-weeks training cruise aboard
the Navy Destroyer USS Ludlow^
The destroyer left Pensacola,
Fla., on August 3 and returned
August 20. During the cruise, train
ing under simulated battle condi
tions, gunnery practice and war
time tactics were stressed. Liberty
ports for the local men were Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and New Orlean,
La.
High Gridders Prepare For Durhaat
By BILLY MANGUM
The Hillsboro High School foot
ball team opened practice with a
bang as 35 candidates reported to
the call of Coach Glenn Auman.
It opens its season against the
strong Class AA Durham High
School Bulldogs next Friday night,
September 2, at Durham Athletic
Park. Game time is at 8 o’clock.
The lettermen returning to the
line-nup are Harry Brown, Carl
Swaihey, Bill Teer, Bryce Nesy
riiari,9 barley Heaffrier, Bobby Ri
ley, Paul Davis, Roger Dalehite,
Mitchell Lloyd] and Jack McKee.
Some new Candidates who reported
for drills were:, Bob Strayhom
Norman Haithcock, Dickie Barber,
Billy Joe Privatte, Gilbert Petty,
“Cookie” Kimbrey, Richard Tin
tano, Joyanne Michael, Bobby
Mangum, Fred Blake, George
Lloyd, Kenneth Riley, and many
others.
Uniforms were issued last Fri
day after limbering up exercises
had been going on all week. The
feam has some brand new uni
forms which they will put on for
the first time again s* Durham
High. _ The pants are blue with
small white stripes running down
the side matched with gold jerseys
with blue number?.
The Wildcats still competing in
Ztlass A District 3 conference race
aave a very rough schedule to dis-*
pose of. The schedule is as fol
[ lows:
Sept. 2: Durham High School
there.
Sept. 9: Dunp High School here.
Sept. 16: Open date.
Sept. 23: Durham County there.
Sept. 30: Roxboro High School
here.
Oct. 7: Asheboro High School
-here.
Oct. 14: Siler City High School
here.
Oct. 2L? -Oxford HigJj School
here. •- .
Oct. 28: Chapel Hill High School
there.
Nov. 4: Open date.
Nov. 11: Henderson High School
there.
All games will be played at night
t with the exception of the Chapel
Hill game.
Coach Glenn Auman hos two
assistants working with him until
the Durham I’ gh game. They are
Luther KSftf S uking in the back
field and Joe Rosemond in the
line. The'Wildcats are expected
to have a very strong backfield but
to be weak in,the line. Graduation
and quitting school took away 6
out- of the starting line which
means that they will have to try
some new material. Although
they won oply two games last sea
son, those against Roxboro and
Durham County, Coach Auman is
expecting a much more successful
season. '
Chapel Hill—Between 500 and
600 Kiwanians will gather in
Chapel Hill Sunday for the 29th
annual Carolinas District Conven
tion of the Kiwanis International,
Convention highlights for the
delegates and their families, who '
will represent more than 95 clubs
embracing a membership of 7,000
business, and professional men, in
the two Carolinas, include three
major addresses, a memorial ser
vice, several busines sessions, and
various special events and social
activities,
Local Kiwanian President
Charles Milner of the University
Extension Department has an
nounced that registration for the
three-day convention will begin
Sunday at the Naval Armory, - -
A Sunday t ’ dinner meeting
of the Board mstees at the
Carolina Inn wx. \ • folowed by a
religious service i. Till Music Hall
with Dr. Frank S /ickman, Dean
of the Duke Univ - ty Chapel, as
speaker.
Special music fT the . services
will be provided by; 'iss Catherine
Bunn of Henderson-i nd New York
City and Norman Cordon, Director
Of ihe North Carolina Music Foun
dation. f
District Governor Spurgeon
Boyce of Durham wiU officially
open the convention in Gerrard
Hall Monday morning. Welcoming
addresses will be extended by
Mayor Edwin S. Lanier for the
Town of Chapel Hill and by J.
Maryon Saunders, past District
Governor for the University of
North Carolina. U. N. C. Chancel
lor Robert B. House will that! de
liver an address. ^
The official representative of
Kiwanis .international, John R.
Wright Lakeland, Fla., who
serves on. the International Board
of Trustees, will speak before a
fellowship luncheon on Monday.
Wayne Guthrie, assistant man
aging editor of the. Indianapolis,
Ind.. News will give an eye-wit
ness, account of the
explosion at Bikini
quet Monday night.
On Tuesday, the final day of the
convention. Dr. Charles W. Arm
strong of Salisbury, a past Inter
national Presideint, will speak.
Election of officers will be held
Tuesday morning, along with com
mittee reports and other official
business.
Official delegates from the local
club are Milner, T. A. Rosemond.
and John B. Riggsbee. Milner
stated that every Klwanian in
Chapel Hill has registered for the
convention and each has been
named to some committee. ^
Arrangements for the three-day
program are being directed by
sell M. Gruman with the aid of
Milner. Boyce, District Secretary
Herb Hennig of Darlington, S. C.,
and J. L. Morehead of Durham.
A complimentary movie at the
Carolina Theatre on Monday
morning, and a luncheon at the
| Carolina Inn, and motor tours of
> the University and the Town have
been scheduled to provide enter
tainment for the lames.
®. Freeland
Succumbs At 7®.
Funeral Sunday
Irvm D°' Freeht^r3*-.^erv*ces for
b°'0. route 2 Whn -7°' °f HiRs- “
afternoon after a Inn ^ Saturday
declining health 3 °ng Period of
afternoon at the uCre beId Sunday
The Hev E W)™* °' hie so„y
oHk.eling ..u,;u,f' '’eV' »«* the
Rev. paul FreelanA1^6 by the
John Ensign **
Nhw Hepe^e'^t *« to
heuehters, Mrs. WUHern*^*’ ^
Norfolk, va Jon®s of
Squires of Efland- ^th* Nelson
Charles, James ar5 sons:
H'hsboro; ones£ of
Womble of ^ Blanch
brother iLa^Sa®"; SS
der Freeland sn^r ”d’ Alexan
,and and fivt gran?^ W *«*«
Hhtobeckle of hotoe™^”
®«ferior Cant
Ferm Next Week
S»«1S°0^ '£S‘s Civil term «
Monday with Judge JnhT'i*1^ here
on the bench. W John J* Burney
tjons !2f otoeTaVii0/^0*^ ac'
which have been many of
time, has beSTL ln* for *
oeen set up tor trial.