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atorootod ets r«*d fflly for joctlono- It's tru, and without c THE NEWS Four Home I Newspaper Serving Orange (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1949 _ - ____ ■« ' — Price: $» a Year; 5c Single Copy ^ - Subtle Santa In Seasonal Salutatioii % —Santa’s- message, if all could but see, is a word of greeting front .THE NEWS to ye. So love one another . . . be of :>od cheer . . . and may Christmas be with you. throughout the year. So from the management and staff of THE NEWS comes a hearty Merry Christmas to youse ... dear readers and ie.nds. ' •- ' Signed: E. (Santa Claus) Hamlin, Editor and Publisher arnwell Selects 42.9 liles to be Paved First Hillsboro—A total of 42.9 miles roads in Orange County have *n selected by Conapnissioner raes A. Barnwell for paving ider the first phase of the $200, 0,000 bond issue program, ac ting, to an announcement from e highway commission. The complete breakdown of the iving program is shown in an Ijacent column. The list consti tes approximately 50 per cent the work to be done under the h program, it was said. Some the work is already underway 'der contracts already let *for ads which, the commissioner had 'eviously decided would qualify cause of their heavy usage, irae of the roads being improved id be financed from regular sec "dary road funds in addition to e i:)ond money which became ’ailable September 28: ' One significant section of the "nmissioner’s announcement In ca ted. that difficulties with right-, ■ways could eliminate some a<7 from the program- Following ed)ond election last Spring, the ain from using bond funds for c purchase of right-of-way. °ads selections for paving in ange County were the result of ass roots” surveys made by juniittees inf each township after I ase allotfnents were made ailable by the commissioner and staff. “These local committees, ccord' ;ing to Barnwell, “were ex evmely helpful In making sur ys, and although we have not owed all their recommendations have used them in great maj y of the selection. I want to iw every Person who partici [ r® “i this experiment. I know u?ht them a great deal about nn, Problems of the Highway ■Qfnmissi(Hj.w ^ lat»cock ■nnL and Robert Babcock the birth of .a daughter, Jean, at Watts 'Hospital December 1«. SECONDARY ROADS CONSTITUTING AN ESTIM AT ED 50 PER CENT OF MI IjEAGE TO BE HARD-SURFACED IN ORANGE COUN TY UNDER THE $200,000,000 ROAD BOND PROGRAM Description Antioch Church' Road—From Jones Ferry Road west 2.4 miles . Jones Ferry Road—From Antioch Church Road to Da mascus Church Road New. Hope Church Road—From New Hope Church to Old Route 10 Buckhorn Road—From Cheeks Cross-Roads to Buckhorn Clyde Walker Road—From NC 57 to Durham County Line . . County Home Road—From Mebane City Limit toward Lebanoir-*Church 1.9 rh i Ies M ileage 2.40 1.80 1.70 2.20 4.30 1,90 LCUdltVI.I _ . Antioch Ch.urch Road—From end oil treatment to Ala mance County Line . _. . Old Pittsboro Road—From Carrboro City Limit to Chat ham County Line 7.20 3.30 Mebane-Oaks Road —From Alamance County Line to Lynch Store Road—Alamance County Line to NC 49 Airport Road—From end of oil treatment to New Hope Corbctt'^Road—From NC 49 to Caswell County Line 5.70 3.40 6.30 2.7 TOT^L 42.90 m. Chapel Mill, Highway Boss Advises Chapel Hill.—The new Chapel Hill - Durham super highway, which Governor Scott once dub bed the “football highway,” and for which contracts will be Mm the spring, will not enter Chapel Hill on Franklin Street, or any other street for that matter. That was the main point reveal ed in an interview between Ijg el Hill municipal officials a James Barnwell, district highway commissioner, last wee • meeting following the appear^ ance before the Board of Alder men of a large ^ahono* co zens who expressed alarm over engineering manifestations taken State the new highway ^ enter the ctty f>t Franklin Street. The surveys in the Strowd Hill section, the commissioner indi cated, were for the purpose of widening the Strowd Hill bridge and trying to add four feet to the width of the highway from the bridge up the hill to the point near Dr. MacNider’s house on E. Frapklin St., by which he hopes to reduce the sharpness of the curves. . ' .... The terminal of the highway iff the Chapel Hill area will consist of a by-pass from Highway 54 to a point west of Muirhead’s pro ject on Highway 15. which later will be continued to the Pittsboro road ' pear Purefoy’s bridge and later will be connected with a point of Highway 54 west of Carr boro. Enc Completes Installation Of New Machines - West Hillsboro—Eno Cottoji Mills last week completed the in stallation of new machines in its spinning department, president James Webb revealed yesterday. The completion of the installa tion program brings to a culmina tion almost a year’s work involved in the change-over to the larger and faster machines. -o Routine Cases Fill Monday’s Docket Hillsboro—Cases disposed of in Monday’s session of Orange County Recorder’s Court were: Leeward B. uggs, public drunk enness, $5, costs. James Lipscomb, permitting a person under 16 years of age to drive his car. $2^, costs. Otis Lee Yeoman, public drunk enness, costs. Billy J. Phillips, speeding. $15, costs. Henry Davis,' illegal possession whiskey, two months on roads, suspended 12 months. F os, teraalft* four months on roads, suspended i two years. I Worley W. Powell, failing tb provide support for minor child, judgment continued on condition he pay $22.50 monthly for sup port of child until she is 16 yrs. I of age. Raymond Poteat, reckless driv j ing, $25, costs. ____ Rubin Long, giving worthless check. Ordered to pay J. R. Tolar amount of check and pay costs of court. Jessie Norman, driving without llicense, $25, costs. Frank Tolar, speeding, $20, costs. Elbert Lee Brooks, failure to give hand signal, $10, costs. Lonnie Dameron, illegal posses sion, $10, costs. Ludwin Cates, improper brakes, $5, costs. Autrie ' Wilkeraon, driving car without license, $25, costs. istmas ,-—-M Victory Village Annexation Studied Chapel Hill—Proposals for new traffic regulations and the annexa tion of the Victory Village area will be considered at a meeting of the Chapel Hill Board of Aider men next Wednesday at 8 o’clock. Also up for consideration will be a proposal to extend East Rosemary Street east to a point on the Chapel Hill-Durham road near the home bf W. S. Kutz. The Victory Village matter is up for consideration because of the large number of citizens living in, the area who already receive many of the city’s services such as police and fire protection, etc. The property involved is owned by the University and few, if any, private homes" w'ouTd~T5e_ThvdIved‘. tJndef' the Van.derlinden Statute, the pro cedure, for annexation is not too involved. Important among the considerations will be the bene ficial effects of inclusion of this population inside' the ..city limits during the 1950 census, inasmuch as census figures are the import tint yardsticks in a number of matters involving municipal reve nue and benefits. The traffic regulations to be con sidered included: A. No parking at any time on East Rosemary, between Hender son and Columbia Streets. B. Carry out our intent declared last August to make Pickard Lane a one-way street. C. Suggestions that the on-way traffic north on Henderson Street, between .Franklin and Rosemary," be reversed to* one-way traffic, south. D. That parking on Henderson, between Franklin and Rosemary, be moved from west side to the east side of the street, if traffic remains one-way north. E. ^Watch for Children” signs fqjf certain danger spots. These five questions are re ferred to the SAFETY COMMIT TEE and Mr. Rose for study and recommendation to the Board on December 12. • . .- . -. ■ n --—... Miss Wilkerson Chances, Coles Prizewinners Hillsboro—Miss Annie Wilker son, the William Chances and the O. P. Coles won first prizes in the Christmas decorations contest sponsored by the Merchants As sociation here. — - Judging took place Tuesday with $10 prizes going to each of the first place winners. Miss Wil kerson for her Christmas tree, the Chances for the best doorway and the Coles for “general effect.” Second and third for Christmas trees went to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wagner and the Rittenhouses; second and third for doorways went to Mr. and Mrs. R. O. For rest and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Walk er; and second and third for “gen eral effect” went to Mr. and Mrs. Buck Knight and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Dowdy. Christmas Program The New Sharon Sunday School will present a Christmas program on Tuesday night; December 27, at 7:00 p.m., in the church sanc tuary. A Christmas tree, withall the trimmings, will follow im mediately afterward in the church •basement. The public is cordially invited to attend. Compton (or 17th Tine As Head of County P. M. A. Connittee Hillsboro—James S. Compton | of Cedar Grove was re-elected for the 17th time to serve as chairman Of the Orange County committee of the Production Marketing Ad ministration at the county conven tion held here last Friday. Elected to serve with Compton | were John H. Brown, vice chair man, P. B. Lloyd, regular member, C. W. Stanford, first alternate, and J. E. Hawkins, second alternate. On the previous day, elections were held in the various communi ties to name community commit teemen. These groups include: Caldwell—Claude A. Ray, A. E, Wilson and Clyde Berry. Hillsboro—Earvin Phelps, Reid Roberts and Milton Latta. i Carr—L. J. Rogers, J. L. Scot ten and J. G. Rogers. New Hope—L. A. Hogan, J. R. Whitfield and I. S. Newton. Carrboro—W. R. Womble, L. R. Cheek and W. J. Crabtree. Orange Grove—G. W. Lesley, James Snipes, Jr. and Frank Um stead. - Cedar Grove—Coy W. Long, Jule Allen and J. M. Hawkins. St. Mary’s—W. A. Crabtree, Wallace Bacon and Tom Thomp son. Efland—W. 3. Richmond, Bill Dorse tt and Jessie PooL White Cross—C. C. Atwater, Edmond Shelton Strowd and Shel ton Ray. . iJt. Phipps Named Officer in Bar Group of Area Durham—Alamance County atr torney Louis C. Allen, Sr. of Bur lington, was elected as the new head of the Tenth Judicial Bar Association at its annual meeting in Durham last Frilay. Another Burlington attorney, E. S. W. Dameron, was selected by the bar group to represent Alamance County on the Execu tive committee, ~a post Allen “has held previously. The principal address before the attorneys was delivered by Su preme Court Justice S. J. Erwin, Jr., who explained the new pre , trial bill which was passed by the last General Assembly. The new bill, he said, allows a day in yvhich lawyers representing both sides of the case to meet: with the judge ■who will hear it and eliminate various costly technicalities. The officers elected to serve with Allen for the new year are: W. H. Murdock, Durham, vice-presi dent; L. J. Phipps, Chapel Hill, secretary-treasurer; and R. P. Meade, councilor. —--o Several Programs Slated This Week In Carrboro Carrboro—A number of Christ mas entertainments in this area are to be giveh tms week as fal lows: The Christmas program for all the Sunday school members of the Carrboro Methodist church will be given on next Saturday evening, December 24 th begin ning at 7:30 will be under the dir ection of Mrs. James Hearne and Mrs. J. T. Johnson, Jr. A Christ mas tree will be a feature of the program and gifts will be dis tributed and favors to all* members of the Sunday school. A Christmas tree and a program by . the members of the unday school of the Carrboro Baptist Church will also be given on next Saturday evening at the church beginning at 7:30. On next Sun day evening, December 25th at the Baptist church a pageant, “Why Christmas” will be given. The Christmas tree and program of music was enjoyed at the Orange Methodist Church on Wednesday evening of this week. The Christ mas tree, program and Christmas entertainment at the Antioch Bap tist church will be held this next Saturday evening, December 24 in the church beginning also at 7:30. All teachers in the Sunday school are helping with the en tertainment. Every one is cordially invited to all these Christmas services, pecial Christmas serv ices at all these churches will' be held next Sunday, Christmas day. —-—-~o-. ZONING HEARING Chapel Hill — January 23 has been set for a public hearing on proposals ot rezone a part of West Rosemary street and a paid ol Graham street between W. Frank lin to W. Cameron streets. The former is currently a business zone which some residents desire changed to residential and the latter is a residential zone which has been proposed ast business. With the annual visits from Santa Claus only two days away, citizens and especially the small fry of Orange County are mak ing last minute preparations for the holiday season. Christmas spirit has appeared more abundantly in the last few days and from all reports the season should measure up if not surpass previous Yuletide seasons. In general, Orange County and the various communities will observe a two day holiday peri od. Schools closed throughout the county last Wednesday to reopen on January second. The traditional Christmas parties, programs, and the exchange of gifts were observ ed. Inasmuch"as Christmas day falls on Sunday this year, merchants for the most part will observe a NO NEWS NEXT WEEK The News of Orange County will suspend publication for Its issue of next week to enable ^members of fliei staff to enjoy the hoiiday season with their families. Publication will resume with the issue of Thursday, January 5th. two-day holiday, Monday and Tuesday following Christmas. are paying employees bonuses or “extra payments" with this week’s payroll, but officials of none of the concerns would reveal the amount? to be paid. Generally, the payments were based on per- ' centages of earnings during the year. Belle Vue Manufacturing Com pany announced the longest shut down, indicating it would be closed from Saturday morning at 7 a.m. until the beginning of the morn ing shift on January 3. Eno Cotton Mills will be clbsed Friday morning for the holidays and will xe-open with the 7 o’clock shift on ’Tuesday December 27. The Whit.' *5” niture plant closes ' tbfi .X .%} .-'-ope*, nexl- Unirr- . day, December 29, except for* sainpling operations. It is expected that th® release of thousands of dollars in Christ mas bonus money will spur trade -in local communities during the remaining days before Christmas, inasmuch as Christmas buying has been light during the early part of the week. Postmasters throughout the county reported that the increase in. volume of business was as heavy as expected, necessitating adding extra help through the busy period. Many churches and Sunday schools are planning special Christ mas programs featuring special music, children’s program’s the traditional Christmas tree, and vis its from Santa Claus. Offices in the county courthouse and in the town of Chapel Hill will close at the usual time Sat urday and will be open for busi ness on Wednesday morning after Christmas, with the exception of law enforcement agencies, who will have skeleton crews on duty. --o James Comptoa New Member Of Soil Board Hillsboro—In the election last week, James Compton, Cedar Grove, was elected to succeed Clyde Roberts, St. Mary’s, as a member of the Orange County Board of Suprevisors, Soil Con servation Service. Compton will serve for a period of three years.- • The board, with Henry Hogan and Charlie Stanford, old members, and Comptoh, the new member. -. week and . ^ cffgaalzed.MxiS Hogan was made chairman, Stan ford, viee-ehairman, and Compton secretary. Hogan becomes a mem ber of the Neuse River District Board of Supervisors. He has been chairman of this board, as well as the county board, since their formation in 1939. W. O. Lambeth, Supervisor of Neuse River District, met with the board and discussed the work of the Soil Conservation Service. The newly organized board will meet the first week in the new year and ste goals for the year in the field of “Saving the Soil.” --O- ■ ■ Mrs. Ward’s Grandmother (Mea
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