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# Lasted In 0r»nfle C°U"tyl L re.- TK. New. of Or.n|| ^ Lunty for iteR1f of intere8t I, sections. It’* reported factual L true and without color or' bias. - - i Vol. 56—-No. Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy COUNTYWIDE COVI la Available Only In THE of Orange County. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. Eight Pages This Week ull Scale Road lean-up Begun <*♦ ■ ■ '_•_ «_*_■■ _•_ las Service legists Monday it Chapel Hill ■ rh'aoel Hill—The Chapel Hill Iralsit Lines, Inc., which has L„ently been authorized to oper L a town bus service in Chapel lill and Carrhoro, will begin op erations''officially next Monday, jctober 17, company spokesmen ,nnounced this week. ■ The company will provide two lusses to serve the two towns for le time-being on a schedule be ginning at 6:30 A. M. and con inufng until 11:30 P. M. every day. I Two rbutes will be covered by Jie line at the present. One of iese will run from Carrboro along franklin St. to Da ye Circle at he East end of Chapel Hill and lack. The other route witll be from factory Village, where many Uni versity veterans and their fami live, through the campus and heh To Sunset - St. i» the* Negro ■ction. - When the Country Club Homes, 300-unit apartment project on he Raleigh Road, are completed he transit line will begin a ser vice to the residents of that area a yet undesignated point in the gown. The busses will be colored blue Ind white in tune with the colors |f the University. The spokesmen the company stated that the busses will be new and will be op erated by safe and courteous (rivers. Fares for the new line will be |0 cents over both the routes now Ixisting. When the route from the (partment project is added the 'are will 15 cents as that area is put of the town limits. •o illsboro High Adders Face iiier City Friday Hillsboro—The Hillsboro Wild its will face a much improved iiier City eleven on the high tool athletic field Friday night, y 14, with the*kickoff-set for 8:00 o’clock.” The Wildcats have broken even n four starts with the losses :redited to Durham High 39-0 in he opener, and to the Roxboro ■ockets 40-7. The Wildcats’ vic >ries have been at the expense Dunn by a store of 13-7 and hirham County 13-0. Coach Glenn Auman has been unning his forces through rough vorkouts for the past two weeks md is expected to field an im proved squad against Siler City omorrow night. Harry Brown a real driving wUback is expected to lead the sweats, along with Carl Swainey lf,.S1;arp Passer and a very good t er' Br°wn who has returned 0 opening kickoffs for 93 and respectively this year nnii d*u lke nothing better than to y, •?? same trick against the u r , club again having re ed the opening kickoff against ^ touchdown S°n f°r 8° yard^ and sr2e,Wildcats have suffered a denar* °SS in the camP with the 2SUre °f Frarik Evans, as at n , coacll> wbo entered school at °uke University. 8*ld Yesterday Hr Mrs. Gattis Hillsboro—Mrs. S. M. Gattis j ' ,one Hillsboro’s oldest i here Monday n several years of no.1118 ^alth and a critical ne!f Of several days. veLU!l!ral services were condu b0rnerday afternoon at the H church with ^^raarles S. Hubbard, w”‘•tl“gmini»ter. Intern Mrs ^e,,Hillsboro cemetery late j,',r,attjs was the wife of daUghter'nr3!? GattiS S?-‘and Elizabeth ? Ule late Calvin surviv!!^ ,Lynch Parrish. Shi with h.er daughter-in Mrs. vjr made her h« S. M ££?% Gattis’ a grand Mi*,' aths III; a gwmddaugt «sa,s ~v "s and nephews. Hillsboro — The entire State Highway maintenance force in Orange County this week is en gaged in clearing away brush and bushes grown up.alongside roads and creating hazards at curves, bridge approaches,, and other dangerous spots. This action, announced by the office of District Highway En gineer' L. H. Gunter, came as the aftermath of last week’s tragic school- bus Occident in Nash Coun ty which claimed the lives of six children and has been termed the State’s worst school bus accident. Eighty percent of the roads of this county had already been cleaned up, according to highway officials, and the entire mainte nance force was concentrated on this task Tuesday and will be en gaged in this until the remainnig 0 percent has been cleared. An appeal was issued to all cit izens asking that any blind spots or uncleared areas unknown to thP highway department be L.uuidw to the attention of the districtof fice or to C. I. Walters, in Hills boro, who is in charge of highway maintenance work in the county. County, a coroners jury investigating the tragic accident charged both the State Highway Commission and the County School Board with criminal negli gence in connection with the mis hap. Two Fires Strike Carrboro Hones In Past Week Carrboro— Two fires have oc curred within the last week in Carrboro. On Tuesday evening, October 4, ■ while Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bradshaw ' ,wer^ away from home the trailer in which they live, parked near the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. L. J Joyce on Greensboro Street, was i destroyed by fire of undetermined ] origin with all its contents. The Carrboro Volunteer Fire Department quickly answered the : call but the fire in the trailer had gained such headway that practi cally everything was lost from fire and smoke' The loss however . was covered by insurance and 1 firemen kept the fire from spread- 1 ing to other nearby homes. 1 The second fire was discovered ! early on Monday morning of -this- ( week in the attic of the home of ; Mr. and Mrs, Algie Johnson on ; Hillcrest Drive. Considerable ■ damage was done by fire and 1 smoke in the attic and fire burned j through the ceiling in the living 1 room and fell down into the floor, and some furniture was burned ( before it could be removed. Again Carrboro firemen were quick to ( answer the alarm, and saved the 5 almost new home from being 1 completely# destroyed. The home ( was covered by insurance. 5 Phipps Named Legiop Athletic Commission Bead ... . t..'jPhi Chapel Hitt—Ju<*ge ^ge 0f the local attorney Court Orange County chairman of has been appointed c Ath;etic the Amencan £*» ^ Caro. Commission lor lina department. ■ Phipps Appointment Godwin, of SSSfVSo Carolina Depart ment commander. athletic The lor the .commission is resp Legion s administration * - 0ther ath- t junior progran ” ored by* the! letic prbgrarns " phipps had, organization. Judged ^ active-| been vitally Legion ath ,y-ide»titied w.th thp l£tic e * ... t Hamlin, Hillsboro—j The News editor* and g||gl||f week was o£ Orange the Orange, appointed am Elections, sue-; Codhty Board Smith, local ceeding Bern ^ resignedbe furnit«T« dC 1 vtership of the local cause of me™ commissioners. town board 0 chairman of Smith served as^ a suc thC E1CtfS £ *at Post wiU he cessor to him meeting of the elected at the ^embers of the 1 new hoard. °th*r n Jr of Hills- \ board ^ civdP C: Carter °> boro and Ciyo 1 of Chapel Him t was made l Hamlin’s appo state Elec-1 by Charles chairman, upon rec-\ tions Board Cham Q ForreSt,\ ommendation of^ County** \ chairman 0*^J5ve Committee,, Democratic: Jordan, Sta 1 and B' tic party chairman. 1 Democratic P —— \ ana tic narty chaimw Democratic P -— 10 HogBreede* \ 1 Hillsboro—Ten -bit 29 ai /laH tW CoUnty Hillsboro—Ten ibit 29 ani- 1 -rsr st*,e ma'8 exhibited animais to crpss will reP*"j‘ preeding action of tn A . ' county- xu^ir entri®® i ma^ersS02'lunior_gnts,DrRicha^ junior «elen Monies» mature ®° ^ ’junior S^ts; DrRichard \ or boars, 2 lu • boar; KIC“ . \ ChrbeSn4 ionior gtfg Rob a tun or gilts; H- »■ vearling boar P*. KJ &r, 4 CH'CKlEadies oV the j^eChurch wiU have 1 odist C u school ca icken,\ supper m t Fned «* be 245^— New Chapel Hill Ordinance Forbids 48-Hour Parking; New Cops Approved | Chapel Hill—Two new orai j nances having to dq with Chapel ; Hill’s major traffic problem, and . regular monthly reports from city I officials were the main items of ! business taken up by the Board of Aldermen at their regular meet ing Monday night. One ordinance set the speed limit within ihe'town limits at, 25 miles per hour on all streets which were not part-of the state »__ ikn lirvilt wmui c— highway system where the limit | is set' by **** hour. The second act forbade the parking of any automobile on any street in the town for longer than 48 hours. Any car violating said ordinance would be hauled to the nearest .garage, and the owner would be liable for the hauling and storage charges, plus any fine which should' be set in the Re corders Court.' Regular monthly reports were made to the Board by Town Man ager Tom Rose, Police Chief W. . Sloan, and Health dfficer J-A. Westbrook in conjunction with District- Health -Officer O. David Garvin. The Board authorized Town Manager Rose and the Cemetery Committee to prepare a plan for a new brick tool bouse to be built at the cemetery for approval at the nekt* meeting. The present structure Is sadly dilapidated and Deyona repair^ Foy Baker, Negro; petitioned the Board for permision to operate a single taxi-cab in the town, but the decision was postponed until the next meeting. The appointment of three new policemen wai1 approved. The three new members of the Police Force are Earl Bush, C. J. Simp son, and Graham Creel, a veteran of several years on the force at Dunn, N. C., who will not report Asst, vteeks. Two of the men are replacements for' resignations from the force and the other was hired in compliance with the order of the Board sev eral weeks ago. William (Bill) Cochrane, As sociate Director of the Institute of Government and graduate of the U. N. C. Law School, tvas ap pointed to succeed Collier Cobb on the Town Planning Board. John Parker, head of thb De partment of l*ity Planning at^U. £rom the Town Planning Board because of heavy duties at the University.-No action was taken in finding a replacement for him. at ^ meeting. Alderman Kenneth P u t n a m presented the proposal of the, Chapel Hill Jaycees to place street markers in the town. The Board approved his request to erect 2 sample markers with the cost and| labor being taken by the Jaycees. Gov. Scott’s ‘Deplorable’ School Remark Draws Orange Comment Committees Are Appoiated For Gardes Meet Hillsboro—The Hillsboro Gard en Club continued!? its prepara tions this week lor the meeting of the Eighth Pistrict of the State Garden Club, to be held here Oc tober 26 with Aljden Hopkins, resident landscape architect of the Willinamsburg Restoration, as main speaker. Committees were set up to han dle Granville, Johnston, Person, Wake, Warren and* Vance coun ties, which with Orange comprise the district;': ' " '— -i' Named, as chairmen of the fol lowing committees jtverl: Luncheon Arrangements, Mrs. H. W. Moore; Hospitality, Mrs. Garland Millers Registration. Mrs, J W. Richmond; Tour, Mrs. T. N. Webb; Publicity For District, Mrs. E. R. Dowdy.. 1—— Other committee assignments included: ‘ Luncheon arrangements— Mrs. H. W. Moore, Mrs. Clarence Jones, Mrs. Garland Miller, Mrs. Don Matheson, Mrs. M. B. Roberts, Mrs. Oscar Parsley, Mrs. Brown Gordon and Mrs. Felix Forrest. Registration—Mrs. J. W. Rich mond, Mrs. Ben Johnston, Mrs. L. W. Strayhorn, Mrs. Van Ken yon, Mrs. R. L. Mohler. Music—Mrs. B. N. Roberts. Arrangements for Methodist Church—Mis. George Gilmore. Tables and mantel in large din ing room at Inn—,jMrs. Clarence Jones, Mrs. Don Matheson, Mrs. J. F. Moulton, Mrs., Curtis" Scott: Small dining room—Mrs. D. E. Forrest, Mrs. M. B, Roberts, Mrs. James Webb. Lobby—Mrs. Felix Forrest, Mrs. Joe Hughes, Mrs. Oscai^. Parsley. Hospitality at Methodist Church —Morning," Mrs: *3d#} XJattls, Mrs. B. B. Forreft, Mrs. T. N. Webb, Mrs. Charles Robertson, Mrs. Doh Matheson. Afternoon—Mrs. J. L. Brown, Mrs. T. E. Lynch, Miss Mary Spurgeon, Mrs. Grover Bivins. Hospitality at Inn—Mrs. Gar-' land Miller, Mrs. H. W. Moore, Mrs. C. S. Hubbard, Mrs. J. S. Spurgeon, Mrs. Owen Robertson, Mrs. J. C. Webb. Pages at Church; Momnig—Mrs. Clarence Jones^ Mrs. George Gilmore. ‘ Afternoon—Mrs. Claude Sharpe, Mrs. C. M. Walker. Favors— Mrs. Garland Miller, Mrs. E. R. Dowdy, Mrs. Allen Walker, Mrs. Brown Gordon, Mrs. Eldon Matteson, Mrs. C. S. Hub bard, and others. Tour—Mr. T. N. Webb. Willima Hooper House — Mrs. H. H. Brown, Mrs. R. O. Forrest, Mrs. Allan Walker, Mrs. R. C. Masterton, Mrs. Glenn Auman, Miss Maude Brown, Mrs. T. P. Hoffler. Presbyterian Church Arrange ments—Mrs. Fred Cates. Presbyterian Church Hospifal itv—Mrs. Mary Crawford, Mrs. Claude Bivins. * Presbyterian Churchyard — Mrs: Dennis Neighbors, Mrs. N. G. Barbour. Directions to Regulators’ Graves —Mrs. H. W. Moore, Mrs. Walter Teer, Mrs. Oscar Parsley. Guide at Grave of Unknown Soldiers—Mrs. George Gilmore. Local members are reminded that the last day for registration is Friday., October 21—all mem bers planning to have lunch at the Colonial. Inn are asked to register with Mrs.“Richmond. - On PTA Program * HillsbOro—Judge C. C. Cates, presiding jurist of the Burlington Municipal court and that city’s juvenile court, will be the princi pal speaker at the meeting of the Hillsboro PTA next Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock at the school audi torium. '‘Juvenile Delinquency” will be thp judge's topic. A blind attor ney, Cates has achieved a wide reputation as a judge and civic speaker. - ---- EA8TERN STAR PICNIC Chapel Hill — Eastern S tar! Chapter No. 264 iri Chapel Hill will observe Masonic Night tonight in the form of a picnic at 6:30 o’clock. Members of the Masonic Lodge will be the guests of the! Eastern Star. Pendergraft Threatens Suit Against Chapel Hill Chapel Hill—A $10,000 damage suit against the Town of Chapel Hill was eminent Tuesday, after the Chapel Hill Board of Aider men refused to accept a claim for that amount, which was placed before the board by T. Ruffin Pendergraft, Chapel Hill property owner. The suit is expected as Pender graft had told the Board that if they did not accept his claim, he would carry the matter to the courts. No word was available prior to press time as to When litigation would begin. . The immediate cause for the claim waj damage which resulted from .a.torrential, rainfall when this section of the state was hit by the tail end of a Florida hur ricane late in August. In the claim put to the Board,i Pendergraft charged that, “the Town of Chapel Hill paved, curbed and guttered Franklin St. in such a way and manner as not to pro vide for adequate disposal and exit of water accumulating in the bottom in front of claimant’s land; that the Town j>f Chapel Hill paved Rosemary ^St. which runs parallel to Franklin' St., and has carelessly and negligently failed to provide culverts and means of exit for the w a ter across the claimant’s land and allows trast^and other debris to accumu late and fill up sand culverts so as to prevent. the water from es caping through said culverts.” Pendergraft, owner of property located between W. Rosemary St. and W. Ffanklin St. and between Fowler’s Food Store and a build ing and lots owned by Geddie Fields and E. G. Danziger, claims .... - ‘' •. T. Ruffin Pendergraft that the failure of the city to pro vide such water drainage has caused irrepairable damage to the building he owns which houses the Village Service Station and a residence which is located behind the service station in a hollow several feet below the street level. On, numerous occasions, Pender graft claimed, he has called the matter to the attention of town authorities but has never received any redress. In a telephone conservation with the claimant on Tuesday it was learned that the claimant has been notified by the people who rent the residence from him that they are moving because of the damage to the house. He claimed that because of this damage it (Continued on Page 8) Release Of Road Mileage >uot's At Tuesday Meet Hilsboro—Mileage quotas for road paving under the $200,000, 000 program county’s townships will be available for distribution to township committees at ' the (meeting to be held her next Tues day night at 7:30 o’clock. « This announcement was made yesterday by John W. Uinstead, Jr., chairman of the central steer ing committee for the bond pro gram, who said that township . maps had been prepared, quotas had been allocated and were being re-checked by the highway com mision, and other data had been compiled to enable the township committees to begin actual work toward the selection of roads to be paved. ^ He indicatecf he expected rec ommendations of the' township committees would be turned in to the central committee around the end of the month. Meanwhile, it was announced Tuesday by the Highway Commis sion that it had advertised for bids for the hard-surfacing of two “sections of county roads, a total of 9.17 miles, in Orange County, the first to be paved under the huge program approved last spring. The bids were asked to include grading, portland stabi lized base course and bituminous surface treatment. The two sec tions to be paved were not fur ther identified. Tuesday night’s session at the courthouse here will include the township chairmen and the full central committee composed of county and school officials and representatives of farm, civic and municipal organizations who were included in the set-up approved at a mass meeting of citizens here some weeks ago. 19th Century Law Dug From Files To Punish Man On Gun Firing Charge , Chapel Hill—An ordinance passed in 1896 was dug out of the files and dusted off Tuesday in Chapel Hill Recorders Court be fore Judge John Manning in order to find James Snipes guilty of discharging firearms within the city limits. Snipes, who had just been re Jeas^d from ■Jjtos&pstbe&ta®* drunkenness charge, was * visiting at the home of a friend on Mon day morning when the inaident occurred which resulted in his ar rest. The version Snipfcs told the judge was that he saw a shotgun sitting in the corner of the room and picked it up. In picking it up, Snipes said, the gun bumped’ a corner of & nearby table and ac cidently discharged. 1 „ * The arresting officer, however, testified that Snipes had admitted to him at the time of the arrest that h$ had been shooting at a bird sitting on -a wire outside of the' house. * Judge Mainning, unable to find any record, of an ordinance for bidding the shooting of a gun in the city limits, charged Town Attorney C. P. Hinshaw to find such an ordinance, or the defen dant would be set free. ' r - . ■ v';-; ^ An official of the court left the room and a few minutes later re turned with the ancient and dusty ordinance which required that anyone found guilty of such an action should be fined $1.00 and costs. Judge fanning, hardly able to conceal his smile at the Size of the fine, immediately found the i*®s%-)SSsJi§p-' sssi and costs. A few minutes earlieV Snipes had been fined $15.00 and costs on the drunk charge which had put him in jail on Sunday mdrn ing. Other cases tried at Tuesday s session were: Robert Hayes Ed dens, Moncure, N. C., Speeding, $10 and costs; Edgar Markham, Drunk, cost; Wallace Gates, No Drivers License, $10 and costs; Henry Taylor, Assault On Female, $10 and costs and $10 for Doctor’s bill; James C. Wilson, Driving On Wrong Side Of Road, costs; Au guster Faucette, Drunk, $10 and costs; Hazel Taylor, Drunk, $25 and costs; Harold Gilmore, Drunk, costs; Tom Gattis, Abandonment and Non-support, road sentence suspended on basis that defendant pay $20 a week to County Wel fare Supt. until daughter Ersella Gattis is 21 years old; Leroy Jesse Parrish, Improper Brakes, costs. r or res i sees Bond Election As Corrective Hillsboro—G o v e r n o r Scot’s p lblicized comment regarding the “deplorable condition” of Negro scnools in Orange County brought forth quick and varied comment yesterday from citizens in all parts of the county. Scott’s remarks^were made to a n. - group of state officials in Raleigh who were meeting for a discussion of Southern regional education programs when he cited progress being made in providing better facilities for the minority race in North Carolina. He was quoted in the daily press as saying there are still bad spots, however. “In Orange County, for example,” he was quoted as say ing, “I understand the Nggro "schools are in deplorable condi tion.' It is my understanding that the people coul bring suit against school officials—and that’s in the county which is the home of the Greater University,” he declared. - Robert O. Forrest, chairman of. the steering committee directing a campaign to secure the approval of a million dollar bond issue for school construction to supplement the money to be derived from state sources, was among the first to comment. He said: “Governor Scott in commenting upon school conditions in Orange Count, brought to the forefront a problem which we are attempt ing to remedy with the only means at our disposal, an appeal to the people to provide through the ap proval of bonds sufficient funds to bring our Negro schools to the level they deserve. Many of us in Orange County have recognized the existence of inadequate school facilities for some time. When the majority of our responsible citi zens realize this need, the ‘deplor able condition’ spotlighted by the Governor can be corrected.'! Forrest and countywide com mittee of citizens are currently are in the process of an intensive campaign to secure the approval of "the proposed bond issues for better schools in the county. Other comments were critical of the Governor, pointing out that the chief executive find his forces in the past legislature were bit terly opposed to a proposal for appropriating monies from- state funds to construct a modem prac tice teaching high school at Chap el Hill to ease the county’s finan cial burden in connection with school construction. There was no immediate com ment from members of the County— Board of Education and County Superintendent Gle*n T. Prof-J fit was in Raleigh yesterday and could not be reached for a state ment in connection with the Gov ernor’s remarks. Presbyterian Youth Host To ISO Here Hillsboro—One hundred and 80 members of the Presbyterian Youth of District Three of Orange Presbytery met last Sunday at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Ernest Easley presented a brief opening worship: Miss Eve lyn Boyd of Burlington and Flora MacDonald College presided dur ing thebusiness meeting. A skit was given by the Mebane Fellow ship under the direction of Miss Jocelyn Mackie. Miss Ann Fen— .ton, chairman of Christian Faith quotas and Miss Mildred Brad shaw of Graham was elected new District Chairman. The president of the Hillsboro group, Miss Patsy Teer, gave a welcome and Miss Phyllis'Forrest presented the registration report There was a brief recess during which refreshments were seved and then the group assembled in the sanctuary for an inspirational address by Rev. Russell Fleming ^ His topic was “Be Strong In The Lor^-” A duet by two of ham’s young people the worship program. FoBowirM* ika
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