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greeted l« Or«n#e County! read The Newe of Orange „ty for ,tem> of ,nt#r#,t trom u eectione. It’e reported factual true and Without color or blae. Vol. 56—No. 44 , Your fiome Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 (Puhlished Weekly)_ HILLSBORO AND^ CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 1949_Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single (Dopy Veterans tan go* Determine )ate Of Checks 0range County veterans can w figure about when to expect heir national service life lnsur ' dividend checks, according o the newspaper Vet Times. In a opvrighted story the paper said hat the number ip the left-hand orner of the acknowledgment* ard returned to veterans told the tnrv According to the paper if his number is AO 1 or AO -2, hecks should begin arriving the irst two weeks in January. If the lumber is AO 3 or AO 4, the ■hecks should be InTEOM3Is“By he last two weeks in the month, j AO 5 and AO 6 are due by the middle of February and so on ac ■ording to the paper, which said hat all veterans should have their heVks by the end of April next AllMnese calculations are con engent upon the VA’s getting tarted on schedule, the paper laid. If the program isn’t held up md mailing begins early in De :ember, as expe^ed, these Calcin ations may' be moved up two veeks, making the first checks iue for delivery by the last two veeks in* December, Vet Times ia)d; .. ." totarians Set Up $300 Fond For Scholarship Chapel Hill—The Chapel Hill lotary Club voted at its meeting ast week a $300 scholarship to be iwarded an outstanding Chapel Sill High senior who plans to en ;er. the University of North Caro ina. The scholarship, effective next fall, will be awarded to the graduating boy or girl who has ittended the high school here at east three years, has a scholastic ecord ranking in the upper fifth it the graduating class, and has m excellent record in conduct and eadership.” The stipend will be paid in in itallments of $100 a quarter during the freshman year in the Univer sity. The scholarship probably will )ecome an annual award. Purpose of the award, it was said, “is to encourage scholarship and leadership.” Selection of the recipient will be’ made by a com mittee of six persons composed of the Superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools, the president of the Rotary Club, and _ four members of the faculty appointed by the Superintendent. Y. Z. Cannon is chairman of the Club’s Community Service Committee which drew up plans for the award. ■ -- Hillsboro Map Restoration Aid At Williamsburg Hillsboro—An accurate .geo metrical layout of 18th Century Hillsboro, one of the four now famous maps of the Colonial peri od drawn by the French engineer Sautheir, provided authentic ref erences for usp in the Restoration of Colonial Wiilliamsburg. So stated Alden Hopkins, resi dent landscape architect for the Project, in an address here be fore members of the Eighth Dis trict of the North Carolina Garden Club in their meeting here last week. He described the maps as jmportant documents because not only 'were the streets and buildings indicated but the garden design details were clearly out lined.” Mrs. Walter'* Willard of Raleigh vvas elected new director for the disto-H -' 'stitfdfecrfhg Homewood of Chapel Hilt: A total °f 18 state officers and chairmen were present for the meeting. Speaking on the subject, “Gar nn Restoration,” Hopkins point ed out that authenticity must al . ays be the first consideration garden restoration and orna entation should contribute to n ai\acter and period atmosphere, ^den design has folowed many shions and sometimes fads, he continued. £3—5-o FLOUR MILL Efland and son ^almost completed a new flour f®e<d mill near Efland oh the °f the old one which burned ,i . y®?r- This mill will have com arge >0Ur ma^fn8 facilities and lan4 ,hanun«r mill and mixing Basic t making feed on a custom ft has raia storage separate fire proof faeUities. i he Need Is Real An Editorial „<S£*r» Note; This week. The News asked the Rev. Charles S. romint k t0 Prepare a discussion of the issues involved in the forth i g .®?e^lon‘ His clear> forceful presentation of the prob WIth the newspaper position that it is offered nerewith m editorial form, denoting our complete endorsement.) On November 22 the registered voters of Orange County Hill be asked to decide two questions: 1—Shall Orange County borrow $1,000,000 to improve its school facilities; and 2—shall Orange County borrow $250,000 to construct a new Court House building? In order to vote intelligently concerning these bond issues, citizens need the answer to a few definite questions. Is the need real? ■ . . - 'Hie enlargement and 'improvement of our school facili ties is hot* just a good thing-5-it is a Stark necessity"! There has been almost' 110 wotkddiar^hn the schools in the county for the past twelve years. The number of pupils has in creased greatly in many schools. Many of our sixteen small Negro elementary schools are in such condition that they a^pow beipg .operated in direct violation of state law. All of the white Chapel Hill and Hillsboro schools are so crowded as (o make effective teaching of its pupils impos sible. Here, as well as in other parts of the county, white and Negro children do not have proper classroom, library, lunchroom -eg-toilet facilities. The need is r<*al. "-'**“ The county courthouse was built to serve the needs of the county too years ago, but today it simply will not do. Court room facilities have been the" mark of judges and grand juries for long years past. Irreplacable records can no longer be protected against damage or possible destruction. Busi ness efficiency cannot be expected in the office space avail able. This need is real, too. What improvements will the bond issues provide? The school bond money will be added to $401,000 made available to this county from state funds. The full amount, $1,401,000 will be apportioned on a strict basis of need. Newr elementary buildings for Negro children will be erected at Cedar Grove and Efland, as well as a new Negro high school building in Chapel Hill for use of the southern part of the county. The Hillsboro Negro school will be en larged and repaired. For white children, a new elementary school will be built in Chapel Hill. There, the high schdbl, serving the southern part of the county, will be completed. Additions, renovations, or both, are planned for the white schools at Aycock, Caldwell, Efland, Hillsboro, West Hills boro, White Cross and Carrboro. All planned improve ments will barely meet minimum requirements for present school needs. me $250,000 oouHflousf oona isssv wm n-ane powsme a, new fireproof building for offices, courtroom and record storage. Not one cent of this money will be spent on the old courthouse. The old building, designated for additional office space, will he renovated from current funds. What will the bond issues cost the taxpayer?; .■ The combined bond issues, if carried, will cost the county taxpayer 15 cents per $100 valuation. Since our current assessment is 85 cents, the future assessment will be $i.„This will add only $1.50 yearly tax for a $1,000 assessment,, and only $7.50 yearly tax for a $5,0*10 assessment. It is expected that, on this schedule, all bonds will be retired within 25 years. At the present time (exclusive of utilities) 52 per cent of our county tax money is paid in Chapel Hill township. This township has a property evaluation of over $14,000, 000. Hillsboro is second with less than $5,000,000, and Cedar Grove third with slightly more than $2,000,000. Eno, Cheeks, Bingham and Little River follow in order. Is there any other solution to the problem? Insofar as the schools are concerned, there is no other decent solution. The urgent school situation will not and cannot be ignored. If the school bond issue is defeated, it is certain that Chapel Hill District will vote its own bonds and build its own schools under the Cleveland County Act, and irreparable damage will be done to any future coopera tion between northern and southern parts of the county. What is left of the state funds will have to be spent entirely on Negro schools-in aireffort to forestall a just suit on the part oLour Negro citizens, or a crackdown from the State Board of Health. And the rest of the county will remain as it is now—in an impossible situation. The school improve ments must be made. They will be paid for out of current revenue, and, without the help' of Chapel Hill school dis* trict. And this will mean a tax increase very much greater thad the one called for by the bond issue. The proposed school bond issue d the only effective and decent way to do the job. The alternative solution to voting for the courthouse lioiiii issue is to be content with ridiculous coiirtroom con ditions and inefficient county government and business. This, too, is no solution. , backward in the midst qf progress. It is not expected that Or ui‘>e County values the health, comfort and trainifig of its children so lightly. It is expected that, on November 22, olu citizens will vote overwhelmingly for both bond issues and for an ever better community._ Erwin To Speak At Efland PTA Efland—Dr. Clyde Erwin. State Superintendent of Public In struction, will be the speaker vhen the Efland Parent-Teacher Association meets next Tuesday veht at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Erwin s opic was announced although it s expected to be on some phase of school administration Joe Howard, president of the *TA, issued a cordial welcome to he general public to attend this £og?am featuring the state s top iqhool official. . K {Religions Movie Scheduled Here Hillsboro—An outstanding re ligious movie just released by the Westminster Press will be shown at the Presbyterian Chut-ch here pn Sunday night November 6, at 7:3g p.m. The motion picture, "Into The Good Ground,” is nondenomina tional in character but presents a dramatic story of present day life, emphasizing the importance of Bible study in the home as well as in the Church school. Fan Trainees la Achievement Day Events Friday Chapel Hill—Oft Nbvember 4, 1949 the Vocational Agriculture students, members of the Veterans Farmer Training Program, Adult Farmers and the Home Economics students of the Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill, N. C. will conduct thei first Annual Tchieve ! ment Day activities at the High School beginning at noon. Plans for the day call for ev hibits of dairy cattle, swine, poul try. home panned foods, hams^ farm machinery, farm shop, sweet potatoes, eggs, com, cotton* fresh fruits and vegetables, tobacco, tailored dresses interior finishes and other tailored garments. At one o’clock the dairy cattle show and judging will get under way with music for the day being furnished by the Lincoln High School Band under the direction of G. W. H. Price, bandmaster. Refreshments will be available on the grounds by the local chap ter of New Farmers of America and New Homemakers of America both local organizations composed of students studying agriculture and home economics respectively in hgh school. ' At 4 o’clock in the afternoon in the school-auditorium and sur rounded by the various exhibits the speaker for the occasion will be introduced by R. D. Smith, local Agriculture teacher. Plans for the Achievement Day are under the direction of E. O. Bovian, and Hatrold McNeill, in structors in the Veterans Farmer Training Progam, Miss R. P. Pope, Home Economics Teacher, Offi cers of N. F. A. and members of the Advisory Council to the Ag riculture Department. The public is cordially invited and encou raged to bring friends. ■o laycees Plan Ladies Might At Ina Tonight Chapel Hill—The Chapel Hflll Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its first ladies night of the Fall at the regular meeting to night at 7 o’clock in’ the Carolina Inn B.allroom. Regular^ “business will be dis pensed with, while the evening is turned over to entertaining the wives and girl friends. Mark Barker, who was in charge of the arrangements, announced that there will be dancing and several entertainers. Featured entertainers will be Forest Covington, a University student who is famous around this area as a ballad singer; Sam Green a tenor who will render several popular songs; Miss Betty Lou Ball from Winson-Salem who Has ap peared several times as featured vocalist in the floor shows held in the Rendezvous Room of Gra ham Memorial, the student union, and the Harmoneers,, a student quartet, led by Lanier Davis. All members are urged to con tact Lloyd Senter and let him know haw many guests they are bringing in’ order that proper ar angements may be made. r~:.. -- o Orange Negro PTA Wins Cop For Membership Hillsboro—-The Orange County i Negro Parent-Teacher Association was awarded a gold cup by the Piedmqpt District P. T. A. at its annual meeting which convened in Reidsville last Saturday, r The cup was awarded on the •basis of largest increase in mem bership over a one year period, j •it b/l&Sis ieoasSHrffe- vimtf'ei carp nas bedn awarded in the district and created miich interest throughout the district. The counties making up the Piedmont District organization are Alamanc^, Guilford, Stokes, Cas well, Surry, Rockingham and Orange. •-o— Phone Lines Being Extended Chapel Hill—The University Consolidated Service, under the management of J. S. Bennett, has begun the extension of telephones into several rural sections of southern Orange County. A line has already been built to Calvander, about four miles north of Chapel Hill, and lines are un der construction west Of Chapel Hill on the Antioch Road and south to the Chatham County line. Committees Push Road Work For Monday Report A WARM RECEPTION from the hungry children of Rechtenbaqh, Germany, is given a shipment of CROP food, sent from American farmers as a result of the 1948 Friendship Food Trains. 28 states par ticipated in the collection which sent food to youngsters like these, orphans, refugees, old people and the ill in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East last winter. North Carolina’s 1949 CROP Friendship Food Train collection will reach its high point in mid-November. Counties throughout the state are now organizing for the collection of corn, wheat, peanuts, milk and cotton through their county CROP com mittees. Fan Achievement Winners Rewarded In Annual Fan Family Program Here Hillsboro—The Second - .Annual Farm Family Program was held Wednesday night at the Hillsboro High School auditorium during which reports of home demonstra tion and -4-H cl*ib progress during the past year were given. Miss Virginia Cathey awarded medals to the county 4-H club winners, while John W. Umstead, Jr. made the presentation of prizes to the dress revue winners. Those receiving medals were Miss Polly Roberts in girls’ record, Miss Peggy Bowden in gardening, Mis Patsy Martin in room im provement, and , Miss Margaret Vaughn in clothing. First place in the dress revue went to Miss Faye Hogan, second place to Miss Mar garet Brown, and third to Miss Patsy Teer. The Tram Road home demon stration club was designated as winner of * the pressure canner. This award is made each year on the basis of club activity. Thirty reading certificates and eight ad vanced certificates were presented by Sidneys Green to home demon stration club members who had, met the reading requirements. A skit written by Miss Elizabeth Kirkland was given by members of the Blackwood-New Hope club. Following this program the guests were invited to the gymnasium where fourteen exhibits had been arranged by home demonstration clubs. Club exhibits were sponsored by the Hillsboro Branch of the Dur ham Bank and Trust Company. First prize was awarded the Smith Level- Club on their exhibit on project activities of club, women. Second prize went to the Orange Grove club. Jelly making was featured in, this exhibit. Antioch Road ■ Club received third prize on their mail tox improvement exhibit. In the needlework division for individual entries Mrs. Dupree Smith received first prize on her blue afghan, the Carr Aycock club, second prize on a baby blanket, and Mrs. Ivan Lloyd third prize on a hooked rug. Honorable mention was given Miss Mary Lloyd on a plaid dress. Individual entries in the canning exhibit were judged as follows: Miss Kate Browning first prize on canned fruit, Mrs. Sharpe first prize on on vegetable and Mrs. C. W. Ho gan second prize on vegetable. Judges for this event were Mrs. Henrietta Auman, Miss Margaret Lewis and Mrs. Angela Pepper. An auction sale was held in the gymnasium immediately after the program in the auditorium. Rob ert Nichols was auctioneer. Re freshments were served at the close of the program by the Cal vander and Orange Grove Cluljs. Master Sergeant From Orange County >« W A—,-—m nr+Mim**.* ■" rswttrtt M-Sgt. Joseph R. Whitfield, 1st Sgt., 1st Company, USMA, Prep aratory School Det., son of J, R. Whitfield of Route 2 Chapel Hill was chosen as “Outstanding Sol dier” of the 1802 Special Regi ment, by a board of regimental officers according to a report published recently by the Pointer View, official publication of the United States Military Academy. This special award, established by Headquarters, First Aarmy, is offered as a recognition of out standing soldierly qualities of en listed men of all ranks. The award is in the form of a three day trip to New York, including and, at no expense to the winner, sight seeing trips in the metropolitan area, Broadway shows, big league ball games, visits to night clubs, appearances on radio and tele vision broadcasts and rooms at one of the better New York hotels. M-Sgt. Whitfield was selected from a field of twelve contestants of the 1802 Special Regiment. The sergeant, a*veteran of 10 years service, served • 27 months in the ETO during the war, during which time he earned the follow ing awards and decorations: Com bat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star with cluster, Purple Heart with two clusters, Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Medal, Ameri-{ can Campaign medal, EAME Med al, with service stars for cam-! paigns in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Alsace, Rhine land and Central Europe, World War II Victory Medal,. Distin guished Unit emblem, Meritorious Unit emblem and the Belgian Fourrangere. He served with the Second Infantry Division from .1940 to 1945. Before the war M-Sgt. Whitfield served with the 14th Infantry Regiment in Panama, from 19S6 to 1940. He was bom in Chapel Hill i Contracts Let For Two Projects In Orange County Hillsboro—The rural roads pav ing program continued to hold the spotlight in the county’s seven townships this week as community committees in each wfeund up pre liminary work prior to presenting their selection to the county-wide steering committee here Monday night. In many township^ meetings were held this week to complete recommendations while in others, notably, the smaller ones with smaller paving allottments, com mittees had already completed their work. No announcement was forthcoming as to any specific recommendations pending their presentation to the steering group and action by that body. Monday night’s meeting is at 7:30 o’clock at the .courthouse and the heavy interest in the road pro gram assures an enthusiastic at tendance for those, interested in the location of the 60 miles of paving passed to the county com mittees for their selection. Meanwhile, announcement was made late last week of the letting of contracts for the paving of the first two stretches of road under the $200,000,000 program. They were an approximate two mile section from Cheeks Crossing to Buckhorn and an approximate seven mile extension to the county line of the Carrboro-University Lake road. Paving on this latter road is being completed from the University Lake to Aubrey Mc Lennan’s farm with current funds of the Highway Department. The extension for which the contract was let to the Nello Teer Company last week will be from that point to the Alamance County line, from where an approved Alagrance «mnty prole* %e ]*vmg from the Orange lirtp to Highway 87 through the Eli Whit ney community. The Cheeks Crossing-Buckhom Pav.inS{ Will extei3d..thfi paved road reaching frorn Highway 70 to Cheeks. While no announcement has been made to that effect, it seems highly probable from previous statements by Highway Commis sioner James Barnwell that the nine miles of paving already al lotted will come from the 20 per cent of Orange’s total mileage re served by the Commissioner to use for connecting links, inter county projects, etc. -o Hiflh'' School. Football Tomorrow; Chapel Hill vs. Rox Ckmto at Chapel Hill. ** : - Hillsboro vs. Fuquay here. _ Last Friday Chanel Hillsboro 21-0 in a nud at Chapel Hill. Goes Over Top hi Membership Hillsboro—Bade from a mem bership meeting of the North Carolina Department at Golds boro, Commander Jerry B. Stone of the Hillsboro American Post No. 85 this week paid tribute to Legionnaire John Simpson and other members of the local mem bership committee for their work in putting the post over the top of the quota set by the- state or ganization. “Where other posts is the state have had a lag in membership, the local committee by hard work was over the top when the Golds boro membership meeting was held, Stone said. He descriherf Simpson as one of the leading “go-getters,” the ten Legion uses-to describe its leaders Attending the Goldsboro meet ing with Stone were Owen S. Rob ^on’f. H-Graham, Sim Efland, and Allen Watkins. Both Stone and Graham spoke on the mem bership record of the Hillsboro post. WaUer G. Wrenn and J. Martin Crabtree serve on the member S«1P ^[nmittee along with Simp mondEfland’ Robetson and Rose Tentative plans for annual Bmgo Party on November 22 and b£er^aiHiCeK program h«ve been made but details have not been released.
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