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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1949 Price: $z a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week
10 Get
Divorce
becrees
Hillsboro — As usual divorce
cases predominated during the
early part of this week’s civil
tenn of Superior Court which got
underway Monday.
Ten "plaintiffs who obtained a
severance of the bonds were John
A. Murray from Natalie Elinor
Murray, Audrey D. Neville from
Lawrence Neville, Carrie Cotton
from James Cotton, Wheeler At
water from Irene Bumettea At
water, Wilhelmina Mitchell from
Lawrence F. Mitchell, Elizabeth
C. Frederickson from Hjalmar A.
Frederickson, Calvin Nunn from
Julia Bynum Nunn, Lucille Nor
dan from John Allen Nordan, R.
E. Hicks from Lelia Maude Hicks
and S. M. Daniels from Frieda R.
Daniels, all on grounds of two
years separation.
A contested divorce action
brought by Wilson Caldwell Jr.
against Virginia Dixon Caldwell
was still in progress late yester
day. • ■ -
In a hotly contested action
tried over most of a two-dhy. peri
od, W. A. Markham of Chapel Hill
lost a damage suit to William Lee
and Jean A. Macllwinen, graduate
student and his wife, who sought
to recover actual and punitive
damages from Markham as re
sult of an ejectment attempt
from an apartment owned by
Markham which the Macllwinens
had leased, Two hundred and
fifty dollars was awarded to the
plaintifts after th* Jury found
Markham forced them to move
without cause to place requiring
higher rental.
In a judgment signed by Judge
Burney, Walter S. Spearman, Jr.
was judged entitled to recover
$1,621.52 with interest from Min
nie C. Spearman. No evidence was
presented in open court.
Carrboro Lions
Honor Traffic
Accident Victim
Carrboro—At Its regular meet
ing Thursday evening, August 25
the Carrboro Lions Club conducted
a memorial service honoring Dav
id Dillehay, one Of its younger
members, who recently was killed
in-an automobile accident. The
Reverend J. L. Joyce, former pas
tor of the Carrboro Methodist
Church, delivered a memorial ad
deceased, together with a number
of friends attended the service as
dress.. Members of the family of the
guests of the Lions Club.
Reviewing the active life of Mr.
Dillehay, Reverend Joyce empha
sized his public-spirited qualities,
his enthusiasm for community
betterment programs, his effective
work with Boy Scout troups of
this area, and his loyalty to the
Lions Club of which he was a
member for several years.
This civic organization sustained
a distinct loss when the unfortun- j
ate accident claimed this worthy
member.
Church Women
Of Presbytery
To Meet Here'
Hillsboro — Members of the
Executive Board of the Women
Church of Orange Presby
,ery will meet here next Tuesday
m an all-day business session.
Mrs. N. G. Barbour and Mrs.
arence L). Jones, serving their
bird, year as members of the
hoard, will be hostesses at the lo
cal meeting and will serve lunch
• tlv» Church,
IOr me approximately 30 members
expected to attend from Rocking
ham, Caswell, Randolph, Guilford,
Alamance, Chatham, Lee- and
counties.
Some of the church officers and
women of the church will assist
airs- Barbour and Mrs. Jones in
receiving their guests.
Prep For Opener
Hillsboro—Hillsboro's Wildcats
continued to work hard this week
r?aer the watchful eyes of Coach
ten Auman and Assistant Frank
vans in preparation for the early
joening against Durham High. in
.ur ham tomorrow night at 8
®ebck.
k^ertnan Bob Collins was
inning at blorHng back on the
^tefle wing azain ’-esult of a
^ ihng by L. J. “Hap” Perry of the
Athletic Association that he
c°uld not play for Chapel Hill.
Mebane Festival Beauties
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MISS PEGGY CARUTHERS—Miss Caruthers, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Caruthers of Hillsboro", route 2 is one of the Contestants
for "Queen of the Mebane Tobacco Festival” to be staged on Monday
evening, September 5. Miss Caruthers attended Aycock High School
and her hobby is piano playing.
MISS GERTRUDE SYKES—There’s going to be a lot of keen com
petition for the crown of Miss Tobacco-Festival of 1949 as the picture
above of Miss Gertrude Sykes would indicate. She is the daughter of
Mr. and-Mrs. MuriShy Sykes of Hillsboro.
Veterans File
Divident Forms
At Fast Clip
Hillsboro—Some 400 veteran
holders of G. I. life insurance
during the war have put their
applications for the special divi
dend to be distributed next Janu
ary in the mails this week, ac
cording to the estimate of Vet
erans Service Officer Walter G.
Wrenn.
Wrenn’s estimate did not in
clude those filing in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro, from which esti
mates, have not been obtained.
The applications were made
available Monday at -Post Offices.
and their branches, at the Ameri
can Legion building in Chapel Hu
and the office of the Veterans Ser
vice Officer here.
Veterans desirous gettin,
reir GI- Insurance .^L, 'ids
urekly as possible were warned
if one stumbling block by
"On filling out Item 4 of the
ipplication for dividend, prelim
nary ■ Veterans Administration
est cases show this glaring error
ie said.. “That items asks for .the
•«*» * S"SSsEB£
Under the caption ‘Ser- —
(S)., there are three sections
Sled ‘enlisted,’ ‘officer,’ and
ier ’ all referring to possible
Lal’ numbers the veteran may
e held.” , _
The word ‘enlisted cause
understanding,” Wrenl? Tt
ined “Tested veterans thought
L meant the date 0 their en
ment and they entered that
e under enlisted.’ Without h_
Iran’s serial number, the Vet
n’s Administration cannot pro
ry Js not necessary m con
tioh. with this applicatiom
,Tenn' added that the app
1 blank nowhere calls for date
entry into service, for date of
ry into is not necessary in con
tio with this application.
o
kindergarten opening
Hillsboro - Plans have been
completed for the opening of the
Patterson Kindergarten School
this morning at 9:301 o’clock^ After
opening day, .Qie hours will be
. fossae. y&Ui M ,£*oc
15,000 Expected
For Mebane Fete
Mebane—Final plans were be
ing completed this week to re
ceive 15,000 people at the second
annual Mebane Tobacco Festival,
sponsored by the Mebane Ex
change Club.
Decorating in two large tobac
co warehouses was almost finish
ed yesterday for the mammoth
celebration on Monday, Septem
ber 5th."
The warehouses will be used
for the Festival Queen contest,
and also for , the afternoon and
night performances of the GrShd
Ole Opry show.
The Grand Ole Opry show will
brin^ a troup of performers di
rect from Radio Station WSM, in
Nashville. Tenn. The program
features songs and entertain
ment by such talejit as Little
Jimmy Dickens, Annie and Danny,
the Country Playboys, Jabo Ar
rington. Coy Frank, Jack Foies,
Red Taylor and many others. Lit
tle Jimmy Dickens, referred to by,
radio publicity men as a “show
stopper,” is the boy who popu
larized such songs as “I'm Just a
Country Boy” and “Take An Old
Cold Tater and Wait.”
Final figures show that the Fes
tival Queen contest will find some
forty-five girls competing for the
crown and title. Late entries
who barely made it before the
August 25 deadline were still be
ing processed early this week.
Rehearsal of beauty contestants
who will vie for honors in 'the
Festival Queen contest got under
way Saturday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock. The girls are under the
supervision of Mrs. George C.
Amick, and she will be assisted
by Mrs. Ralph W. Riggs, Mrs. R.
T. HawkinSf- Mrs. .Mary- DixuH
Amick and Mrs. Iris Abernathy.
Local beauty parlor operators
are donating their ' services in
making up the girls prior to the
contest.
Judges ‘icr. the, .Festival Queen
contest include Lieutenant Gov
ernor II. P., Taylor, of Wadesbor.o;
Commander R. C. Godwin, of the
North Carolina Department of
the American -Legion;, Mayor Dan
K. Edwards of Durham; Bill
Scoggins, public relations director
for the North Carolina Farmers
Cooperative Exchange; James L,
Moore, publisher of the Kannap
olis Daily Independent; and Hugo
Germino, sports editor of the
Durham Sun.
P T A, School Patrons Get Peeling Chore
When County Gets 380 Bushels Of Pears
Hillsboro--- Members of PTA
groups "and ladies of the various
Orange County school communi
ties this week' were busy. peeling,
coring and canning 380 bushels’ of
nice,* juicy Bartlett pears shipped
here by the Federal government
for use in the school lunchrooms.
Canning operations for all the
lunchrooms were at the Ay cock
and White Cross school canner
ies. Distribution to the lunch
rooms was made on the basis of
the number of children fed and
pears were peeled and cored by
the patrons of the respecting
schools in the'county sytem. The
.regular canning force at the two
High School Girls Win Community
Softball Title In Pair Of Close Games
Jstsrs'i2~£,&
ball championship Tuesdaye™fen
ad the finals of the ser.es between
the Legionnaires and the Eno
Owls were scheduled for
night.
The Championship senes go
underway Monday night when he
High School lassies topped th
Eno Chevrolet team 7-5 and the
rejuvenated Owls .dubbed the
errors and a home run by the
T°WlS ^ndStytSeneverVble
Tuesday night, the Legionnames .
came back with a 9-7 verdict over
the Owls to tie the series while
the High Schoolers eased by Eno
Chevrolet 2-1 to take the title.
Hilda Scott was the winning
pitcher in both games for the girls.
In the boys’ series, the Owls
reached the finals by topping the
Methodist church 2-1 in a thriller
last Friday night to win two out
Dr. H. W. Moore hit a long homer
for the chufch team. The Owls
got one in their half and then
"broke-up the- game with- another
tn* the" T3th: Tbe Legion beat .the
Eno Cards two straieht to make
the final series. The Eno Canaries
and the Belle Vue Belles were the
losers in the prelimiary series of
tne playoff.
schools, under the direction of
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Munn at Ay
cock and C. K. McAdams at White
Cross. were doing, the canning
with' the assistance Of vdluntdei'S:
The only cost to the lunchrooms is
that of the actual^canning.
The schools received the pears
in accordance with the following
division: Hillsboro, 175 bushels;
West Hillsboro 24; Murphey" 14;
Efland 33; Aycock 38;'Carrboro 33;
White Cross 24; Caldwell 19; Mor
ris Grove 10; and Gravely Hill 10.
White Cross was »doing the
canning for Carrboro, Morris
Grove and White Cross while the
Aycock cannery was serving the
remainder of the schools.
" The pears Mw %in^ecTW
classed surplus commodities by
the government as. made available
as result of thp Hawaiian-West
Coast shipping tie-up.
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ON HAW RIVER FACULTY
Cedar Grove—E. F. Cude, for
mer principal of the Aycock
School, will teach mathematics in
the Haw River school during the
coming school term. He will con
tinue to live in this community
and commute to his duties at
Haw River. He resigned at the
close of the last school year h^
cause of the pressure of .combined
duties as principal and teacher.
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—■»- HAYES REUNION -.7. .___
.The Dudley Hayes Family Re -
union will be held on Sunday,
September 11th,, at the Burling
ton City Park, at 11 o’clock. All
relatives of this family are cor
dially invited to be present.
Chapel Hill—■ The 29th annual
Carolines District Convention of
the Kiwanis International ad
journed Tuesday after three days
of addresses, business sessions
and fellowship activities.
The Kiwanians heard principal
addresses by John R. Wright,, rep
resenting Kiwanis International;
Chancellor Robert B. House;
Wayne Guthrie and Dr. Charles
Armstrong, immediate past presi
dent of the, International.
About 500 delegates from the
two Carolinas attended the Con
vention. Official delegates' from
Chapel were Charles Milner, T. A.
Rosemond, and John Riggsbee.
Every Kiwanian in Chapel Hill
registered for the convention,
' Expressing appreciation for
their presence in Chapel Hill as
being a tribute to the Chapel Hill
Club," Mayor Edwin S. Lanier
welcomed the Kiwanians. In his
address he envisioned Chapel Hill
as one of the future convention
centers of the South with an audi
torium capable of seating several
thousand and housing a dining
hall, a large number of office
suites, and a printing press—to
l?e used as executive head quarters
for civic organizations.
At the end of his speech, Lanier
handed Distinct Governor Spur
geon Boyce a five pound wooden
key to “little ol’ Chapel Hill’s
great heart’ . The key was painted
gold and .measured two feet long.
On the .final day of tne conven
tion Dr. Charles W. Armstrong
expressed the conviction that
“the , civic clubs of these two
states, along with- the church have
.made a greater contribution to the1
general health, happiness and
welfare of the people -of North
and South Carolina than any other
Organization or combination of
organizations.’’_._ __
Apparently answering the
famed “peanuts” charge hurled
by. Governor W. Kerr Scott, in
which the governor accused the
civic clubs of playing for peanuts
in their relations with the farm
ers, Armstrong said that he was
not defending Kiwanis or any
other cfvic clubs-—“for they., need
n6 &efehdih£’'~t)\it ftierely citing
the record.
He pointed to last year’s farm
record of the Kiwanis. According
to. I?r. Armstrong, the Interna
tional sponsored 4,266 4-H Club,
Future Farmers of America, and
other junior farmer activities;
1,049 conservation or drainage
projects; .1,876 tree planting proj
ects; 1,318 local farm festivals;
entertained 182.964 farmers, and
secured. 20,552 workers for har
vesting crops.
Cmarles Milner, president of the
Joca) club, yesterday commended
“the fine spirit ■ of cooperation-'
shown by the Merch nts Asso
ciation, the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, .the Rotary Club. the.
Lions Club, and all of Chapel Hill”
during the convention.
A large factor in the success of
the convention according to Mil
ner was “this fine spirit of co
operation.’
2 Orange Dairy
Coops In Merger
Effective Today
Most Busiaess
Finn To Close
For Labor Da;
Citizens throughout the
county are making plans tor the
long Labor Day weekend)
Monday, being a legal holi
day, banks, postofices and
other government offices will ’
be closed. Members of the Mer
chants Association in Hillsboro
will be closed for the day and
commercial activities generally
will be at a standstill.
The Chapel Hill Merchants
Association is making closing
optional with the individual
stores, but it is believed a ma
jority will be closed because of
the absence of the student body
from the University.
Tuesday Meeting
Nay Bring Bond 'u2£
Issue Decision
Hillsboro—A decision on the
much discussed proposed bond
issue referendums for construc
tion of vitally needed school and
county office facilities is expected
at the monthly meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners
next Tuesday morning.
The meeting has been set or
Tuesday instead of the usual first
Monday date inasmuch as the reg
ular meeting date falls on Labor
Day, a national and state holiday.
Meanwhile three additional
meetings in different communi
ties are being held this week to
sound out sentiment for the pro
posals and to give cunty and
school officials a ' chalice ifc ex
plain the needs and provide other
basic information incident to the
proposals.
A meeting last night was held
at Schley Grange Hall for the
Caldwell-Schley area, tonight’s
meeting is at Carrboro and to
morrow the commissioners and
other officials will meeting with
citizens,of the Efland community
at the Efland School,
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SPECIAL MEETING
Chapel. HU1—The Chapel Hill
Board of Aldermen will meet in
special session at Town Hall to
night to consider recommenda
tions by the Safety Committee for
setting up new traffic regulations.
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Brunswick Stew Supper
The Youth Fellowship of the
Carrboro Methodist Church will
sell Brunswick stew at the Meth
odist church Rift,*'on the church
lawn, next Saturday afternoon,
beginning at five o’clock.
Hillsboro—The Latta Coopera
tive Dairy, located here and serv
ing customers in this county, Me
bane and Durham, today is being
merged with Farmers Dairy Co
operative, Inc., of Chapel Hill.
The name of Farmers Dairy
Cooperative, Inc., will continue to
be used as the operating title of
the new cooperative organization.
The merger was a straight
stock and membership transfer
with all Latta stockholders, both * .
preferred and common, receiving
stock of equal value in Farmer’s »
Dairy Cooperative, and all pro
ducer members of the Latta or
ganization retaining membership'
and producer privileges in the „
larger cooperative.
The announcement of the mer
ger was made in a joint statement
by H. F. Latta, president and
manager of the Latta Coop, and
G. B. Cline, manager of the Farm
ers Dairy Coop., prepared for de
livery to customers with this
morning’s milk' ^
Purpose of the merger, accord
ing to the statement, is to enable
the growth of one stronger dairy
cooperative with Grade A pro
ducer members all located in this
vicinity, which in turn would —
provide customers better service,
a better product and more eco
nomical operation.
,The resignation of H. F. Latta
as president and active manager
of the local plant is effective with
the transfer today. He plans^to de
vote his entire time to his farm
after being closely associated with
the cooperative since he assisted . *
in founding it in 1945. Other
members ©£. the Board of Directors
of the former Latta dairy are Don
S. Matheson, Dr. Joe Beard, J. E.
Latta, M. A. Latta, and Gordon
Liner.
No announcement has been
made. regarding other personnel
of the Hillsboro plant, which will
continue, in operation with the
addition of additional products,
such as Homogenise «dP:s, cot-'
tage cheesa ^ind better.i avaiiab?/
as result of tne affiliation with the
larger organization at Qhapel Mill.
Orange Y.D.C.
To Meet Today Sj
At Courthouse
H illsboro-^The Orange' County 5KS
Young Democratic Club will meet
this afternoon at 5:30 o’clock at
the county courthouse, President
Jerry B. .Stone announced this
week.
Selection of delegates to attend
the 14fh Annual North Carolina
YDC cwnvention meeting later
this month at New Bern will be
on the agenda along with other
matters of interest to YQC mem
bers.
State President H. Clifton Blue
of Southern Pines named Stone a
member of the Constitution Com
mittee for the convention. Stone
will also make a comm ittet*. report
on National Freight^? Rate Dis
crimination. ....
Chapel Hill Negotiating Bus Lim>
Franchise With Durham Motor Fir*
Chapel Hill — The town of
Chapel Hill, through its attorney,
is negotiating a bus line franchise
with the Hastings Motor Company
of Durham.
At last week’s special session
of the Board of Aldermen, it was
revealed that the town attorney
and Oscar Barker of Durham, a
candidate for governor in 1946
and legal spokesman for the
Hastings line, are working on a
franchise with the State Utilities
Commission. * -v*_A... :>?■ d, • -•
No details on proposed routes
that would 'be operated in the
event that a franchise is given to
the Hastings Company have been
disclosed. However, a town offi
cial stated that the busses would
probably run to Carrboro and as
far east as the Durham Road.
The Durham Gas Company has
informed the Board the* it will
open nn office and a maintenance
shop~ in Chapel Hill as soon*as
the Univer ity Service Plants va
cate the Gas Company’s old office
space next to Strowd Tractor
Company.
This information came after a I
request by the Aldermen that the
Company ■ reopen their , Chapel
Hill offices. ----,
.... The Board approved a policy
permitting out-of-towners to use
the new town dump on Airport
Road for a fee to be set by Town
Manager Rose.
Final action on the 1949-50 tax
rate was taken with the proposed
rate of $1.43 per $100 approved.
The 20c school district tax here
tofore collected by the town of
Chapel Hill will, in the future, be
collected by the Orange County
Tax Collector in Hillsboro.
The Board agreed to hold two
regular monthly meetings in the
; future—on every second and
fourth Monday. Mayor Edwin La
[hier stated that “the volume of
work has become such that we
' slmrpfy can n'of get ft done In orig '
meeting.”
The BoaM passed a resolution ’
asking the Durham County Board
of Commissioners to make avail
able to Orange County the Dur
ham detention home for juveniles.
At the present there is no place
of confinement for juvenile law
breakers in Orange County.
A letter from Victor S. Bryant
of Durham, informing the Board
of his resignation from the special
committee appointed by Governor
W. Kerr Scott to study the ques
tion of'utility ownership and op
eration in Chapel Hill, was read
to the Board.
Bryant gave as his reason for
resigning the fact that he is a r
member of the University of North ;
Carolina Trustees Committee to
nominate a new president for the
University 'of North Carolina
and has not the time necessary to
devote to both jobs.
Kiwanis Leader
Answers Scott’s
Civic Club Charge