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«r.«. ««.«*,! hen read TJi« New* 0f 0r*"fl* ‘"ty for'itemr of intent from actions. It'» reported factual true and without color or bias. "Ht NEWS of Orange County COUNTYWIDE COVI fa Available Only in me news of Orange County. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. "Vol 56—No. 4j*i (Published Weekly) Jour IIomeJ\eurspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 . „v . , r __ HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1949 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy Twelve Pages This Week new * or rest Clinic And Founder r House Sunday—Business Monday ew Hospital ening Sunday sboro—-An .events ranking in Iportance with many another [this historic community’s long Iperience is scheduled for Sun October 23. event—the long-awaited ening of Hillsboro and Orange Runty’s first private hospital, • the f Forrest Clinic on North Chur street. D. Efland Forrest, local Lysician who will operate the |w hospital, has annoiaaced that open house will be held at the spital Sunday from 2 until (’clock in the afternoon, during hich the public is invited to in ect the new facilities and look the modern medical equip jent with which it has been fur jshed. [Monday morning, the clinic will open for the reception of pa fcnts and, o| course, .will operate a continuous,. 2^-hquc. £asis Jereafter. J*- f €' |The new hospital, a colonial yle building 104 x 50 feet, was Instructed of colonial tapestry rick to provide an exterior in eping with spirit of the Hills bfo community, with its colonial ^ckground. Inside the building modernly and efficiently fcuipped to serve members of both |e white and colored races. [Not conceived as a general hos |tal, it is not proposed that For st Clinic will do major surgery, fccording to Dr. Forrest. It is puipped for minor surgery, ob etrics, tonsilectomies, the prac of internal medicine apd di nostic work. I Graduate nurses will be on [>ty 24 hours per day at the out sod a certified X-ray and lab atory technician will join the aff on January 1. Dr. Forrest has oved his practice from the office (his residence to the hospital and handle the hospital practice ■av pend*nS the acquisition of Itk °n^ med*cal assistance. ^ Clinic consists of 21 rooms, ^uding private and semi-private rooms, two complete delivery operating rooms, reception oms for both white and colored P rents, x-ray laboratory and Iteh*" ** rooms and a complete •«gro PTA Has Members LPju 0range County Parent . . er Association closed it: meeting 0f the year, Octobei [iUsboro Central High School h lemw. h“ndred ^and sixty eigh ^-ked the largest mem Oration* the history of the or _ttlm on Child Guidance wai by Howard Fitts, Healtl bsfhn0r^?r^Or *° the busines: talv a-Th'S was followed by : 1 dlsc^sion on solving chil n s Problems. - - t Bes school bond is I the „ conditions of school: \ of were the chief top ive bPr.iSCUSsion' Negro parent: Plorahi me keenly aware of the ‘ fw! Editions existing ir ®ro schools of Orange [The >ty. following officers TJb? new school ^Torian President; j vTce-president; son y^am* sec»tary; otfi*«l0rrow> treE wiU be install r 17 at Sartin Sch „„4rt Record Of Witness Gets Defendant Off Mm—A Not GU A Not Guilty ver Chapel HiH-rJ ^ by Judge diet was hand Recorders Court John Manrung » ^ that the Tuesday afte witness in a case main prosecuting nine times on had been m coUan(j ^ defendant various charges ^ before. had never bee rt Edwards, The defendant, a motor w» **««; »< «* vehlC'e damage >» P™>erW' “ owner, damag s license, having n° drlV®” wh0 was re Ernest Foush ’ ide a truck sponsible for^thur Tilman, testi belonging to A w t given Ed fied that he had n take the wards Penrn^°anrds claimed that truck,, but ®d been given him y permission n Eoushee. Edwards Tilman ies^lfie t0 him after had voluntarily d offered am^r-,-rsi testimony of tn . d {or the Eoushee, Manm men. When court record oftt* *J Foushee he Saw how many ^ Edwards had been m co r be{ore< Man had never bean td tbe word of the ing decided toita him ^ defendant an(* e of taking the Sr^bS permission^ Tco^nuadOnPa^1* 0110 rrug*— 5 P. T. A- Topic An -entertain Weal HiUaH»«-^r.,hlrd .grade S‘.'SSS«?1 tsff® as bond °f me W“*tH,U!' A.Monday f;*: ,'i steering * Wilson Colo'* ‘h‘rd„fwi5 Hillsboro — Without a protest from a single dissenting citizen, the Board of County Commis sioners Monday gave final ap proval to an order calling for a special election on November 22 on the .issuance of $1,000,000 in school building bonds and $250,000 in courthouse bonds. The original-* orders had been passed two weeks earlier and Monday had been set as the day for a public hearing on the pro i posed bond issues, in- accordance with North Carolina statutes. ! Immediately upon passage of 'the orders, legal machinery was set in motion for holding the election. The County Board of Elections met yesterday and appointed reg istrars and judges, in ycases in which previously appointed offi cials were unable to serve, and established polling places in the county’s 16 voting precincts. Books will be open for new registration .October 29, November 5 and 12 In Ta fhaprf Hill Police Following Cane %Chapel Hill—A lady’s mink neckpiece made of four mmksjvas only one of 200 items lost in Kenan Stadium during the Cardm - Wake Forest game last Saturday S taken to the Chapel Hill police station ' for safekeeping, Sloan said early this week. Fortunately, the latJy owned the minks was able claim the neckpiece a game. Chief Sloan said that ove half of the items lost.were turned to their owners before they were taken from the stadium^ ; AH the lost articles were f«u under The temporary stands at the top and ends of the stadium- Prior to Saturday’s game, tog Jj" found booths had been maintained on both sides of the stadium, but many articles lost under the bleachers had not been getting to the booths. '<■ Guards were placted under each section of the bleachers and re covered lost articles almost as fast as they were dropped from above. After the game the Board of Al dermen’s room in the Town Hall ■looked as if there.was going to be an auctiotv For several hours after the ’game —there was a steady stream of grid fans coming to the room to look for lost belongings. Among the items still at the station awaiting claimers are 20 men’s overcoats,, one pair of field glasses with its case, five umbrel las one plane ticket, six mens hats, and many other items in cluding even lipstick holders. and November 19 will be chal lenge day. Following Monday morning’s bond hearing, the commissioners spent the remainder of the day’s session in studying road petitions and inspecting property upon which tax assessment protests had been lodged. --o Cub Scouting Fate To Rest On Attendance Hillsboro—After a few parents met at an organizational meeting for a Hillsboro Cub Scout Pack, it was made public today that another meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 25, at 730 p. m. at* the .Presbyterian Church. If parents of boys 8, 9, and 10 years of age show interest in the project, it was said, then a Pack will be formed. However, it was announced . that unless enough .jgBEB&Ste indicate a general interest ip this phase of scouting the {den to or ganize the program here will be dropped. Clarence Weldon, Boy Scout > Executive, will be present at the | meeting of the parents and will explain the program and show movies illustrating the type of i meetings the boys will attend.! John Ballard, Orange Promotional Director, for the Boy Scouts, and other members of the local Com mittee will be present to aid in the actual organization of pro gram that evening. The complete local program will be arranged at the meeting if interest warrants it, it was said. _ : 411 the ministers in Hillsboro have expressed their interest and desire to cooperate in establishing the program that is being spon sored by the local Lions Club. . f <’-■«* Township Paving Mileage Allotments Are Released =■• .. - v ' 1 ‘ ' m Employment Picture Shows Gain In Orange Raleigh — Average non-farm employment in North Carolina, covered by the Employment Se curity Program, was 606,623 in the first quarter of 1949, drop of 5.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 1948 and a drop of 6.2 percent from the first quarter of 1948. This decline of 32,600 workers from the’ last quarter of 1948 to the first quarter of 1949 is more than the usual seasonal decline, it is pointed out by Hugh M. Raper, director of the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Em ployment Security Commission, who made the report to Chairman Henry E. Kendall. Orange County, the report shows, had average employment In the first quarter of 1949 of £682 a gain ; of .26 percent when compared with" the last quarter of 1948. Total wages paid in the county in the first quarter of 1949 amounted $1,302,229. or an average weekly wage of $37.38. In construction work, this coun ty had average employment of 87 in the first quarter of 1949, with total wages of $41,713 and average weekly wage of $36.88. In manufacturing, the average employment was 1,740, with total wages of $879,014 and average weekly wage of $38.86. In transportation and commu nication, the average employment was 45, with total wages of $20, 056; in trade average employment was 442 and total wages $190,367; in finance, insurance and real es tate, the average employment was 184 and total wages $97,650; in service and other activities the average employment was 184* and ^otal wages $73,429. Average weekly wag£ of cov ered workers in North Carolina ’ during the first quarter of 194.9 was $41.9*; which was a drop of $.86 from the fourth quarter of 1048, but an increase of 78 cen^s over the average for the first quarter of 1948. Total Wages paid in the State in the -first quarter of 1949 amounted to $330,822,428. ————o Boy Scout Fund Drive Underway Hillsboro—A Boy Scout fund raising campaign got underway in Orange County Monday and will continue through the remain der of this month, according to James Webb, chairman of the finance campaign for Occoneechee Council. General solicitation of citizens throughout the community will take place during the. period of the campaign. An interesting folder showing what Scouting is, the progress made by the Occoneechee Council and “how .the Scout dollar is spent” will be distributed prior to the beginning of solicitation. A quota of $800 was accepted for the Hillsboro community and $2,000 for the entire county. j TOWNSHIP MEETING Hillsboro—A meeting to se lect the roads to be paved on the one mile allotment given Hillsboro township under the rural roads paving program will be held at the courthouse Monday night at 7:30 o’clock, according to an announcement made by Van Kenion, chair man of the township committee.. Cates Says Home Life Responsible For Delinquency Hillsboro—“The family unit is the fundamental training ground for the child,** Judge C. C. Cates of the Burlington Municipal Court, told members of the Hillsboro P. T. A. in an address here Tues day night. _ __^_ The blind jurist spbke on '“Juvenile Delinquency,’’ charging modern life with a large share of blame for current delinquency among the children of today. Ra dio, newspapers, movies and com ic books also came in for censure as factors in the child's educa tional process. He offered the teaching of parents the value of parenthood and the return of both children and parents to Sunday School and church as solutions to the grave problems of handling the child. Robert O. Forrest and Bonner D. Sawyer spoke in behal fof the current campaign for the issuance of bonds for school and courthouse construction. Membership honors were won by Mrs. McBane’s and Mrs. Dod son’s classes, with 200 percent each, and by Mrs. Webb’s and Mrs. Ray’s rooms with 100 percent. A social hour was held in the lunchroom following the meeting with Miss Helen Frostick and Mrs. Rachel Sharp . pouring tea. -#—o Women’s Group Of Farm Bureau To Meet Tuesday Cedar Grove—The Associated. Women of the Orange County Farm Bureau are to hold their first meeting Tuesday October 25, .7:30 p. m. at the Home Eco nomics Department, Ay.cock School. All Farm Bureau' members’ wives are urged by Mrs.. Z. C. Burton, chairman, to be present. The membership drive is on and this is the first project to help reach the goal of 700 members in Orange County. The’ Farm Bureau membership will nteet with the ladies at this meeting. Other bus iness will be discussed, an inter esting program is bqing arranged. -o *ASHEBORO TOMORROW Hillsboro—Hdllsboro High School's gridiron forces, .fresh from an 18-6 triumph over Siler City last week, will meet the strong' Asheboro. team here to morrow nitght at 8 o’clock. Hillsboro Man’s Suggestion On Shipyard Problem Saves Government $18,000 Alertness and a keen insight on the part of a former Hillsboro man and his associate were combined recently in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard with the result -that the government was saved $18,000. L. L. Duffee and W. T. Stone, SDdro, Both engi neers in the Public Works De partment in the yard, came up with the money saving idea when a high voltage circuit transmitting electric tower to dry dock pumps in the shipyard failed. Power plant electricians traced the trouble to a section of cable in an underground duct between two manholes 225 feet apart.' Public Works Department maintenance electricians first at tempted to pull the faulty cable out of the duct; finding this im possible, they then attempted to restore service by installing a new cable in a spare underground duct but they found that all spare ducts were partially filled eri5t-a rock like cement obstruction, "leaking it impossible to pull a new (Sable be tween the two manholes. The duct was then excavated and opened at air Intermediate point and the obstructing material was found to extend through the entire section in all spare -ducts and it appeared that it would be necessary to completely rebuild the section between manholes at an estimated cost of approximate brill Conceived It was then that Duffee and Stone suggested the possibility of designing a drill that would re move the cement obstruction at less cost than building a new duct. The public works qfficer approved their suggestion, and work was immediately begun to design such 1 a drill: i About 12 days after the sug gestion was presented the drill had been rigged in the manhole and the cutting head had been j Inserted in the,first duct. At least i 1,500 pounds of cement drillings 1 were removed from all ducts. The 1 clearing of the cement obstruction ( »nd repairs to the underground < iucts, using the suggestion of Duffee and Stone cost approxi- 1 nately $1000, .thereby resulting i n a saving of approximately $18,- 1 >00 to the shipyard. November 7 Set As Return Date For Road Reports Hillsboro—Sixty miles of hard surface paving, four-fifths of Orange County’s mileage allot ment under the $200,000,000 sec ondary roads program, were dis tributed to the seven township committees here Tuesday, night for their use in selecting roads to be paved; , - —.- . . * Recommendations by the com mittees will be returned November 7. A crowd of some 150 citizens including the countywide steering , committee and the township com mittees attended the meeting called by John W. UmStead, Jr. chairman of the countywide group;. The distribution of mileage by townships was supplied by James A. Barnwell, fifth division high way commissioner, who said the allotments were—made hr the ;— townships on the basis of the fol lowing factors: (1) area, (2) school population, (3) unpaved school bus mileage, (4) . present paved | roads, and (5)" equitable distribu tion. ‘ 1 The allotments: Township Mileage Hillsboro"1.0 Cedar Grove 11.7 Cheeks * 8.5 Bingham 12.9 Chapel Hill 14.5 Eno 5.4 Little, River •»*. 6.0 Total 60.0 Tuesday night’s committee ses sion adopted a resolution urging the Highway Commission to pave no roads under the program until next Spring and added an amend ment asking the commission to make all necessary surveys, award bids, etc. prior to that time in or der that actual work can be started in the Spring. 12**pitablisbmg for - the township -reports taMnn, it was — - pointed out that the decisions on paving should be* made as soon as possible in order that stabilization work on the remaining 426 miles to be improved could be begun as soon as possible. Opinion was ' ‘ expressed by the chairman that stabilization work (tar and gravel) would not be done on roads se lected for paving under the pro- ’ T gram. . ! - This action was based on the difficulties expected to be en countered in tearing up school bus routes during the winter, the un satisfactory results of paving dur ing the winter months and the generaf"belief that little could be accomplished on the paving pro gram prior to Spring anyhow. ■o Needlework Guild To Hear Welfare Head Chapel Hill— Mrs. Clarence Heer, Orange County Superintend dent of Public Welfare, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Chapel Hill Branch of the Needle work Guild of America at the Chapel Hill Recreation Center next'Wednesday at 3:30 p. rh. Mrs. Heer will tell members of the Guild about the more needy of the many cases arising in the County and will tell the Guild what it might do to help these people. This meeting will be the annu al Ingathering at which members and anyone desiring to be a mem ber may bring at least two new garments for needy children or money which will be used to pur- ' Mrs. Arthur Roe, president of -> the organization, stressed the fact that all the money and itema de lated are used right here in Or mge County except for $15 a year which is sent to the national of fices. She urged that as mtjpy people as possibly can, attend the neeting and bring whatever they ire able to donate. -4ALLOWEEN SHOW Hillsboro — A gala irogram featuring the t~j. — t*s Crossroads School” and an 890 Style Show will be presented ty the Hillsboro P. T. A. next Fri day night, Octot
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