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Vdl. 56—No. 36
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HILLSBORO AN1) CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1949 Price? $2 a
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Eight Pages This Week
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fy./Y. ubservers in Action
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With civil strife continuing in Greece, United Nations military
observers teams continue their tedious, often dangerous jobs of
watching the country’s northern frontiers to make sure that there
is no illegal interference on the part of Greece’s neighbors. This
group of U.N. observers was photographed near Aghia ParaskevL
Rural-urban Split
Denied by Scott
Hone Economics
Croup Of Two
Counties Meet
The Durham-Orange Home Ec
onomics Association met Wed
nesday night at Newcombe’s Pond.
Preceding the business meeting,
the social committee entertained
the group at a weiner roast.
Miss Virginia Patrick, Presi
dent, presided at the meeting of
twenty-three home economists
including teachers, cafeteria su
pervisors, homemakers, nutriton
ists, commercial home economists,
and home agents.
Mrs. Bessie Ware gave an inter
esting andinformative report on
the background and activities of
the organization .
Miss arlene erns, ^secretary, read
the minutes of the last meeting.
Miss Patrick then led a discus
sion concerning programs, meeting
plans, and dates for the meetings
during the coming year. The fol
lowing dates and locations were
decided upon: Nov. 2—Duke Pow
er Company, Durham, Jan. 4—
. . . Durham, March 1—Schley, May
3 Chapel Hill. Definite hours and
__ meeting places will be announced
later. - ,
Following this discussion, the
President announced the appoint
ment of the following committees,
to serve for the next year. Pro
gram: Helen Sorrell, Chm.„ Mar
garet Lewis, Margaret Umberger,
Becky Rogers, Mrs. Jennings,
alternate. Social: Inez* Wilson,
Chm., Cleo Stickney, Virginia i
Cahey, Barbar, Gregg, Mrs. Bos-1
J?an’ alternate. Membership and!
Telephone: _ Mrs. Glenn Auman,
Mary Helen Hayman, Mrs. Davis.
Reporter: Mrs. Ware. • !
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Kernodle New
West Hillsboro
PTA President
Hillsboro—The first meeting of
the West Hillsboro P.T.A. was
held last week with the following
officers elected to serve for the
year 1949-50:
President—Rev. J. Ffl Kernodle.
,, Vice President—Mrs. Janies
Manum. ’
.^ice President—Mrs. J. M
Mr.
Harris.
Secretary and Treasurer
John Terrell.
The followin committee were
Ppomted by the executive com
mittee:
msoce: Sidney Green, chair
n, Miss Mattie Blackwood and
rs- A. M. Vick; Membership:
jw s' Dorothy Cole, Chairman;
J w ijarence Crawford and Mrs.
Dabbs; Program: Mrs. Lillian
‘to, chairman; Rev. W. C. Felt
a and Mrs. Broadie Dickey;
chair!l ty' Mrs * OUie Brown,
jamrma’1I Mrs. Andrews and Mrs.
mZT TTangUm; Publicity, Miss
M°yle Umstead. •
l94QF*u^e remainder of the year
th„ ’tb® meetins will be held on
mont?? * Monday in the
has w.mstead °* the second which
timeD€en ® regular meeting
Hillsbdro—Governor Scott, in
Orange three and a half hours
last Saturday afternoon to inspect
“instances of rural progress,” de
nied accusations that he was try
ing to align country agamst town
and explained his purpose was to
gain a higher standard of living
for all.
The governor said what he was
trying to do was “to make it so
you couldn’t tell the difference”
between living in town and in the
country.
His remarks were prompted by
accusations from various sections
of the press and public officials,
including Congressman Thurmond
Chatham, who pad - voiced the
charge in a recent speech.
Scott spoke informally and with
considerable force and sincerity
to 200 assembled persons at the
recently completed New Sharon
church. He stressed the import
ance of the church as a center of
rural life and lauded the resi
dents of the community for their
achievement in its construction.
He emphasized the need for bet
ter roads', rural telephones and
extension of electrification as the
needs of the hour for the .rural
areas. .
Enroute to the Schley Grange
Hall, which he inspected, he was
shown several outstanding farm
and soil Conservation develop
ments with the guidance of G. O.
Reitzel, Don Matheson, R. L. Moh
ler and Edmund Latta. He later
the Pleasant Green com
munity where a barbecue supper
was in progress and wound up
at St. Mary’s Grange Hall for a
barbecue supper in his honor.
Other guests included Congress
man and Mrs. Carl Durham,
State Representative and Mrs.
John W. Umstead, County Com
missioners H. G. Laws and Ben
Wilson, State Grange Master and
Mrs. "Harry Caldwell', Coimty
Democratic Chairman R. O. For-'
rest and Mayor Ben Johnston of
Hillsboro.
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WATER RATES GO UP
Hillsboro—Water rates for out
of-towrn customers of the Hills
boro Water Works will be in
creased November 1 in accordance
with a decision of the Town Com
missioner. The eufrent minimum
rate is being increased by $1.00
per month and the rate for water
above the minimum 'goes up 50
percent.
to say, the increase is
proval from out-of-town -users.
Grange Moves To SetUp Nd'i
To Guide Rural Roads Program ...
Hus Franchise Action
On Agenda For Board
Chapel Hill—The Chapel Hill
Board of Aldermen, at its reg- ,
ular meeting next week, is ex- j
pected to approve a franchise
contract with the Hastings Bus j
Company of Durham which will I
give the town and its outlying j
iareas a town bus service. i
The board is also expected j
to decide on adding one or :
. more new men to the police !
force.
Thirty Awards
Go To Scouts
At Honor Court
Chapel Hill, Sept. 20.— Thirty
achievements badges were pre
sented to local Boy Scouts this
week in one of the largest court
of honor awards programs held
here in recent months. The cere
“monieswere conducted in the
Baptist Church.
Height Swearengin, former
Scout executive for the °ranS*\
Durham District, now with the
advertising staff of the.Durham
Herald-Sun Papers, took part in
the program:
The Gold Palm award to Her
man Husbands and the danger
award to Henry Hight, both of;
Explorer .Post 20, highlighted the
list of honors presented. Charles
Wolf and Bobby Linker, also of
Post 20, received the Bronze Palm (
award. Palms are awarded1 to
Scouts who have completed addi
tional merit-badges beyond the 21
required for the rank of Eagle]
Scout, 5 for Bronze, 10 for Gold, j
Merit badges were awarded to ■
the following: Russell Bullock,
swimming and life saving; Her
man Husbands, basketry and!
wood work; Sam Emery life sav- ,
ing and swimming; Luther Bui- ;
lock, animal industry; Richard;
Vaughan, swimming and life sav
ing, all of Explore Post 20; Carl
McPherson, Troop 9,. personal,
health; James King, Troop 45, life
saving, swimming and P«sonal
health; James King, Troop 45, life;
saving swimming andr¥,pers0”®11
health; Frank Lamson, Troop 45,
painting? salesmanship and public
speaking; and Jack McLaughlin,
Troop 45, swimming and life sav
ing. _
Other awards were: second class
rank to Roy Jones and Ivan
Squires, Troop 45; Woodsman to
Russell Bullock and Luther Bul
lock, Post 20; Frontiersman to
Herman Husbands, Jack ®rl8hj
and Sam Emory, Post 20; and
Civic Duty awards for 75, 100 and
125 hours to Charles Wolf, Post 20.
Fire Destroys
Hogan Grannery;
$8,006 LOSS
Chapel Hill—A two story gran
' i >ii i uTorn rnm -
-arty and - mill - bouse .were com
-artyana- n»u- - . .
pletely destroyed by lire> at the
Hogan Lake Farm on Monday.
Samage was estimated at over
$8,000. . . .
The granary contained 1.50°
bushels of wheat ,1,500 bushels
of oats, and about 1,000 pounds
of clover seed. Several pieces of
valuable machinery were lost
the mill house.
Orange,; Durham, and Shatham
counties sent their fire 1 ght^g
organizations to Preventthe
ings. __.—
County Council Of PTA Endorses
Proposed County School Bond bsne
At a meeting of the executive
Committee of the Orange County
Council of the Parent-Teacherss
Asociation on September 16th a
motion was made and unanimous
ly pased endorsing the county
school bond issue of a million dol
lars which will be put to the
vote of the people on November
22 , and pledging the support and
asistance of the Council to _ the
County-wide stedring** qpmmittee
which is working for the passae
of the bond Issue.-: -
The Council also endorsed and
urged the observance pf American
Education - Week, November 6th
J
to 12th, the theme of which is to
be, “Making Democracy Work.”
The Council discussed the need
for emphasis on health and safe
ty in the school program, particu
lartly as they apply to the school
buses. Each local unit was urged to
do everything possible to make the
buses safer.
The fall meeting of the Council
was set for November 29th, at the
V£est Hillsboro School.
The following local chapters
were represented at the meeting:
Ay cock, Chapel Hill, Efland,
Hillsboro, Murphy, and West
Hillsboro.
Orange Farmers
To Meet Friday
At Aycock School
A County-wide meeting of all
Orange County farmers is to be
held at Aycock High School Audi
torium at 7:30 P. M. tomorrow,
uflder the1 sponsorship of the
Orange County Farm Bureau.
All farmers are urged to at
tend this meeting. There will be
matters discussed that are of im
portance to dairy farmers and all
other commodities growers in the
county.
The ladies of the Aycock Par
ents Teachers Association plan o
sell Brunswick stw and dessert,
priced $1.00 per plater The pro
ceeds will go to the P. T. A. The
stew will be served from 6:00 to
7:30 P. M.
Zeb Burton, president of the
Orange County Farm Bureau ap
pealed today to the farmers of
Orange County to become mem
bers of the Farm Bureau Parity
for Agriculture Club.
“To become a member,” Bur
ton said, “it is necessary for a
person to join the Orange County
Farm Bureau and secure the
memberships of at least nine
other farmers.”
“Only through strong farm or
ganization, “Burton said, “can
farmers make headway against
the forces which tend td strangle
production, peg prices, and hinder
the free distribution of goods and
services to the disadvantage of
producers and consumers.” *
All farmers ate urged to at
tend this meeting and bring then
wives, due to the interest some of
the ladies have shown in Farm
Bureau. The plan is to organize a
Women’s Auxiliary at this meet
ting. Mrs.. Irby Walker who is
a very able speaker will be pres
ent and have charge of organ
izing the ladies. Also there will
be other speakers from the State
Farm Bureau Office.
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Veteran Reunion
Planned By Legion
For Next Tuesday
Hillsboro—An Orahge County,
Veterans Reunion, sponsored by
the local Legion Post No. 85 as
part of Its membership drive, has
been planned for next Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock at the American'
Legfbn building here.
All veterans, whether members
of the American Legion or not,
are being invited to attend this
all-veterans jamboree. Entertain
ment and refreshments will be
available and leaders of the local
post expect the event to attract
a large crowd.
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Church Women
Hear Teacher
Hillsboro — Women of the
Church of Hillsboro and all the
Presbyterian churches in the sur
rounding area met in Hillsboro
Monday to hear Miss Lucy Steele,
Bible teach at Peace* College, Ral
eigh, teach the book of John.
She pointed out the necessity for
basic belief in a living Christ, the
loathsomeness of lethargy and
how what we believe shows in
our lives. She showed how every
thing in the book of John pointed
toward belief and it was written
for that purpose.
She said the cry of the Old Tes
tament was “who is God?” and
Christ showed us who he is and
what he is like and only through
Christ and because of him can
We^jjp^Wt-h <366. srfS
trations of people who have ac
complished things that they never
could have accomplished if they
hadn’t been Christians.
Whitted Final
Services Held
Hillsboro—Funeral services for
Miss Mary Pearl Whitted, 69, of
Rt. 2, Hillsboro, were held Wed
nesday from the New Bhearon
Methodist Church, conducted by
the Rev. Daniel Cristenberry.
Burial followed in" the church
cemetery.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. C.
A. Cole of Burlington;and three
brothers, R. C. Whitted of Deca
or, 111., Jim Whitted of Route 1,
Hillsboro, and George Whitted of
the home.
Mass Meeting Called For Monday Night At Courthouse;
New Group Would Assume Responsibilty For Approval
fJillsboro-^A move to place re
sponsibility for approval and al
location of Orange County roads
to be paved under the $200,000,000
rural roads program in the hands
of a citizen’s committee from all
sections of the county was begun
here this week by the Orange
County. Pomona Grange.
The action followed similar
movements which have been
placed into effect in Guilford and
Rockingham counties.
A mass meeting of citizens from
all parts of the county has been
called by the Grange for next
Monday night to be held at the
county courthouse at 8 o’clock.
Highway Commissioner James
Barnwell, and probably members
Orange Home
Club Members
Planning Tour
Hillsboro-' Orange County Home
Demonstration Club members will
conduct a tour of Orane County
homes tomorrow. Visits will be
made to homes of witiners in the
Kitchen Improvement Contest and
Home Beautification Contest, and
to floor finishing demonstrations.
Anyone interested in making
this tour may come to the County
Agricultural Building here in
Hillsoro where departure will be
at 9:45, according to Mrs. Kath
ryn Hamrick, home agent. The
first stop will be at Mrs. Bill Dor
sett’s in the Fairfield community,
then to Mrs. R. E. Hughes’ of Ce
dar Grove, and to Camp New
Hope for a picnic lunch and a
visit to the manse there at New
Hope.
Persons may join the group en
route, or at the camp for the after
noon visits. Lunch is scheduled
for 12:30 and departure again
about 1:30 o’clock.
The first visit in the afternoon
will be to Mrs. Amic Borland’s in
the New Hope community, then
down the Orange Grove road to
Mrs. Jeter Lloyd’s and Mrs. Glenn
Lloyd’s in the Antioch Road com
munity. *
The last visit for the day will be
V? t,,‘‘ home <4 Miss Em;*-' Pol
lard’s on the Damascus Road '' in’"
the Smith Level community.
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Bond Committee
Meets Tomorrow
To Map Program
Hillsboro—Activity in connec
tion with the campaign for the
proposed bond issues for school
buildings and a new courthouse
will get under way this week with
a meeting of the steering com
mittee for the drive tomorrow
night.
Meeting with the steering com
mittee will be the Orange County
and Chapel Hill! school boards,
the County Commissioners and
county officials making up the
group which has carried the de
tails of the program to the va
rious communities in previous
meetings.
The committee, composed of
17 citizens from all parts of the
county, is headed by Robert O.
Forrest of Hillsboro.
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STEW SUPPER ---
The W. M. U. of the Ebenezei
Church will serve a stew
s u.p per Saturday, September
24, 1949, at the St. Mary’s school
from five to eight o’clock. The
menu will consist of Brunswick
j ar>d chicken stew, pies, cake ice
I cream, and drinks. The proceeds
will go to the Church’s Building
Fund.
Neiv Planetarium
Schedule Saturday
Chapel Hill—Because of the
N. C. State-Carolina football
game here ^hls Saturday, a
special schedule of shows at the
Morehead Planetarium will be
observed, Dr. Roy K. Marshall,
director, announced this week.
Open Housejwill be held from
10 to 2:30 a. m. and from 7 to
10 p. m. There will be a show
at 11 a.m. instead of the usual
Saturday^ matinee held at 3
o’clock. The evening perform-^"
ance will be held as usual at
8:30, but extra shows-Will ba -
ijiven throughout the evening as
the size of the crowds demands.
Sunday’s schedule will be as
usual with two performances,
a matinee at 3 and an evening
show "** 8:30.
Enrollment tip
In AH Schools h
Of Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill •— Enrollment in
creased in both Negro and White
schools in Chapel Hill according
to figures released early this week
by C. W. Davis, superintendent of
the Chapel Hill schools.
There areabout 18 more stu
dents In the Whit? high school
th«n these west The
present figure stands M 395 stu
dents..
In the elementary school for
Whites, the enrollment of 544
showed an increase of about 25.'
At the Orange County Training
i School (Negro), there are about
110 more students with an enroll
i ment of 183,
The elementary division of
O.CLTJS.' showed an increase of
about 35 students with the figure
of 500.
Superintendent Davis pointed
out that a few more may be ex
pected in the White schools when
children of* families who have
been on vacation return to town.l
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Disabled Vets —
Christmas Gift
Drive Underway
Hillsboro-r-Aiinotmcertlent was
made here recently Of the Dis
abled Veteran’s Christmas Gift
Drive to be conducted by the Aux
iliary of the Hillsboro American
Legion Post.. „
The gifts collector are provided
to the veterans that they may give
them to members of their families
(wives, parents, and children) at
j Christmas. All person desiring to
, participate in this worthwhile
endeavor are urged to contact
Mrs. R. L. Mohler, Legion Auxil
iary President, or carry the gifts
direct to Mrs. W. L. Smith at
Smith’s Ready To Wear Store.
Deadline for receipt of these gifts
has been set as September 25.
Street Work Already Is Underway
Chapel Hill—Plans for a 300
unit apartment near Chapel Hill
neared completion last week as
the State office of the Federal
Housing Administration approved
a $2,231,000 loan for its construc
tion.
The project, to be known as the
Country Club Apartments, will be
built about two miles from Chap
el Hill on the Raleigh-Chapel Hill
road. , ■ - - ~i~
The Security National Bank of
Greensboro is making the loan to
the Country Club Development
Corp., promoter of the project.
The permanent mortgage in
volved in the transaction will be
taken by the New York State
Employees Retirement system.
Allison Stubbs, attorney and
spokesman for the project, an
nounced that the total cost of
construction would be in the
neighborhood of $3,000,000.
Designed to relieve the housing
shortage in Chapel Hill, the proj
ect will be one of the largest ever
undertaken in the Piedmont area.
The 300 family units wil be of
one-story type construction and
will rent for $60, $70, and $80
per month, according to William
Muirhead of Durham, who is one
of the sponsors for the project
alonk with W. E. Witt, also of
Durham.
Work has already begun in
opening streets on the site, which
will cover 44 acres. Some of the
units are expected to be ready for
occupancy within a few months.!
of his staff, will be present to
outline the current plans for the
huge road building program and
possibly indicate the extent of
responsibility to be allotted the
new committee in asignment of
roads to be paved or improved.
State Grange Master Harry Cald
well will also be present, as will
officials from Guilford who are
familiar with the operation of the
proposed program in that county...
Under the plan worked out in
the other counties, citizens at
tending the organization mass
i meeting nominated and elected
fellow citizens from their own
townships for the central county
committee, which would be rep
resentative of the entire county,
-uch a move would relieve the
county commissioners of their
present responsibility for ap
proving or disapproving road pe
titmns as intermediary for the.
State Highway and Public Works
Commission. Petitions and re
wmflH Kf<>t v, r2?d..improvement
would be handled by the new
committee, should it be set up
following the plan proposed by the
.9.ranSe and adopted by the citi
On^ GtUl f0rd and Rockingham.
Opposition to being relieved of
thei} responsibilities under the
’SETTS' T ““'2!
fnK d County Commissioners
although definite comment to that
effect was not forthcoming yes- •
,he board —-4
Chairman Collier Cobb, asked
for comment, said he believed tS
responsibility for the road pro
gram should be with the duly elect
ed officials of the county. “Our
board has taken this road business
rather seriously,” he said, “and
is willing to asume responsibility
for it.”
“If something constructive can
be worked out,” he continued,
“the commissioners will be de
lighted to have any help it can
get.” He emphasized the belief
that it is most important to de
liberate a sufficient time to de
cide which roads should be paved
or surfaced to the benefit of the
greatest number of people. He
saw “no big hurry’* in jumping"
into .the paving program Inasmuch
as Orange’s share of the money
will be available anyhow, having
already been set up by law and
could possibly purchase more
paving later than now.
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New Homes
Near Completion
At Carrboro
Carrboro—Several new homes
in Carrboro have recently been
completed or are now nearing
completion.
Mr. and Mrs." Talmage Johnsort
have moved into their newly com
pleted seven-room home on High
land Drive. Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
McCallum have alsho recently
moved into their new home with
its attractively arranged rooms,
on South Greensboro St.. Edward
and Ernest Mann, brothers, are
building large new homes on ad
joining lots on north Greensboro
Street and on a new street that
has been cut, which runs from
Greensboro Street to Highway 86.
Both these homes have up-stairs
as well as basement space.
Cleveland s Lindsay is erecting
another new home on Brookdale
Ave. , and several other new
homes are going up in different
parts of Carrboro. The home of
Mr. and Mrs. E.. F. Humphreys on
covering of asbestos shingles, and
much improvement has been com
pleted on the inside with new pa
pering on several rooms and other
rooms enlarged and a complete
renovation in all parts of the
home.
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WINS LIBRARY AWARD
Hillsboro — Certificates were
awarded to each child in Hills
boro reading as many a$ 10 books,
a, Reading Course prescribed by ‘
the gyconeephee Regional 14
Drary.
Evelyn Lloyd, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Lloyd, won the
pme which was offered by the
the child reading the
most books over 10. Evelyn
80 children’s hnn^. This eoi
>ths
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