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'~i - * Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 -— (Published Weekly) _’ HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY. JANUARY 5, 1950 Price: $8 a Year; 5c Single Copy COUNTYWIDE COVERAGE ’ l« Available On!/ In THE NCWI of Orange County. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. Pages This Week Sites ottered or Postoffice I Hillsboro—Seven proposals were ■offered as sites for Hillsboro’s new ■ postoffice building when bids were ■ opened Tuesday morning by Post I master Tom Bivins. | They included a variety of sites I in downtown Hillsboro, including the Colonial Inn and the Presby terian Manse properties. The bids already submitted, plus | others which might be entered later, will, remain with the Post master pending the visit of a rep resentative of the Public Build ings Administration, probably, within a month. • Highest property offered was that of Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt; on which their residence now stands on King Street, a bid of $20,000 for 89 feet frontage and 5264 feet depth. The Hillsboro'Pres byterian congregation offered their inanse property at the corner of Churton and Tryon, 108 feet front and 213 feet deep, for $17,500. The Henderson property which in cludes the Colonial Inn minus its furnishings, a 170 x 264 foot lot, was ottered for $35,000 and a 70 x 264 foot tract between the hotel and the J. W. Richmond property was offered for $8,500. Other offers were from A. H. Graham and F. S. Cates, a lot on Churton Street, L shaped front ing 54 feet on Churton and having a depth of 124 feet, $10,000; Dr. H. W. Moore at the northeast corner of King Street, 277 x 264, $7,500; T. N. and Alice Webb, a 120 x 170 lot on King Street between their home and Mrs. Mae Hates’ property, $7,500. ■o Pastor Fetes Church Board West Hillsboro—The Official Board and their families, of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, West Hillsboro, enjoyed a “Turkey Din ner” with all the trimmings, at the home of their pastor, Robert f\ £«nnarv 1st. . The families included were: Mr. !md Mrs. Paul Dickey, Mr. and Jrs. John A. Terrell and family, Jr. and Mrs. Earnest Dickey, Mr. rnd Mrs. Henry Johnson and fam ly. John Thompson, the. oldest oember of the church was in :ulded in the number also." The dinner and Christian fellowship was enjoyed by all. A drama, “The Passover,” will be presented Sunday evening, Jan. 8th, at the Pentecostal Holiness Church, at seven o’clock. A short sermon, by the pastor, will pre cede the drama. The Girl’s Club of the Pente costal Holiness Church will meet at the home of their Counselor, Mrs. Robert Frazier. Miss Dorothy Cole, the president of the club, will preside. The official business and re-organization for the en suing year will be discussed. Ajl members are urged to be present January 6th, at four o’clock promptly. ————o Wins Mary’s Shop Radio-Phonograph By Dot Haithcock Hillsboro FHA Reporter Jeanette Miller, Hillsboro Fu ture Homemaker, was the winner jOf the home project garment con gest sponsored by Mary’s Shop. This contest began last fall when fiery’s Shop offered a radio-phon ogarph combination to the,2nd or 3rd year home economics girl who made the best garment with'ma terials purchased from the shop. The entrees staged a fashion show. oi\ Monday, December 19, in the Hillsboro High School home economics degxartment, after which Mrs.' Catherine . Knight and Mrs. X Webfej^claiipeJ Jennette, a 2nd year home economics Wr dent, the winner. Tax Change Keeps Payroll Keepers Busy Hillsboro -.Payroll keepers throughout Orange County were busy during the past week pre paring changes in the Social Se curity tax which became effective by act of congress on January 1. This is the way tax will work: 1. For employees: If you work in a job covered by the Social Se curity law, your employer now deducts, 1 penny from every dol lar he pays you on whatever sal ary _you make up to $1,000 a year,1 for your Social Security tax, This is your contribution toward your Old-Age and Survivors Insurance benefits. After January 1, your employ er will deduct 1 1-2 per cent of the wages paid, you, up to $3,000 a year, for your Social Security tax. “ “ 2. For employers: You,' yourself now pay Social Security tax of | 1 per cent on all wages (up to the first $3,000 a year per employee) paid by you to all employees, if your business is covered by the Social Security law and you have ONE or more employees. After Januray 1, your Social Security tax will be increased to 1 1-2 per cent of your payroll, up to $3,000 a year per employee. Suitt Funeral Held Yesterday Chapel Hill—Mrs. Anna Gene va Suitt, 74, wife of John Suitt, died at her home here " Monday at 7 a.m. following an illness of several months. Funeral services were held from Mann’s Chapel Methodist Church Wednesday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. John Cline, pastor, and the Rev. M. E. Tyson, offlcating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are her husband; a daughter, Mrs. N. H. Tucker of Hurdle Mills; two sons, Jessie and Charlie Suitt, both of Carrboro; nine.grandchildren , and seven great grandchildren. -o— Completes Pond Hillsboro—Andrew Lloyd, Ef land, has recently completed a farm fish pond. When- the pond fills with water there will be about three acres water surface in it. This pond will serve a three-fold purpose, water for the dairy herd, good fishing in the back yard, and it 'will put this acreage to its best use, since it is low, wet land. I YES, POLIO IS EXPENSIVE § 3,088.50 | Five-y(<ar-old Nesbitt (Nebbie) Ann Burdsall of Midwest City, Okla., is back in school today after 13 months of hospitalisation. Nebbie was stricken with infantile paralysis In. June, 1948. her spine, right shoulder, arm and hip, her left shoulder and leg severely affected by the crippling diesease. Oklahoma County Chapter of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and Nebbie's parents report expenses for first IS months as detailed above. For years to come, expenses will continue—In diminishing degree. Happiest items special shoes, $5.70, proof that Nebbie can walk again. Large part of cost of care and treatment for thousands of polio vie. tims is carried by National Foundation through contributions to March of Dimes drive, January 16-31. <4 March of Dimes Drive_ Opens Jan. 16 In Orange Chapel Hill—Plans are going forward for the March of Dimes campaign in Orange County, E. Carrington Smith, county chair man of" the drive, said this week. The drive will get underway January 16, .concluding January 31. Coin collectors will be placed in stores and other conveniently .located places, in Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, CaA'boro, and through out the county. Edwin J. Hamlin will head the drive in’ the Hillsboro, West Hills boro, and outlying communities in this area of the county. Glenn Proffit and C. W. Davis will direct the drive in the schools, Hugh Na,pny will serve as chairman in the Carrboro area, and Orville Campbell will be publicity advisor and chairman of the campaign on the UNC campus. A great need exists for support this year, Smith stated, pointing out that tremendous outlays for polio research, great expenditures for medical and professional edu cation, together with the sky rocketing costs for medical care caused by last year’s record polio epidemics, have seriously reduced the resources of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Fifty per cent of the collections made in Orange County will re main in the county, and the other fifty per .cent will be sent to na tional headquarters of the Founda tion. Practical Peacemaking in Palestine Members of the Israeli-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Comrmssion MAC for short—iron out a demarcation line problem on the spot ;n the Palestine desert. The MAC is one of four set up under the agreements between Israel*jj her neighbors—Egypt, the Kingdom of Jordan, Lebanon and Syr a. Tax Listing Underway In - Orange County; Crop Survey Being Made Also By Listers Hillsboro—Tax listing began in Orange County Tuesday and books in the county’s seven townships will remain open throughout the month. Tax Supervisor Ira A. Ward urged residents to visit the list ing places as early as possible and called attention to list of specific appointments set up by the listers, which is given in detail ip an advertisement on another page of this newspaper. Farmers of the county will also, complete a crop census survey as required by the ^tate Department °f Agriculture. This survey in cludes information on the number of persons living on the land, the acreage cultivated and idle during the past year, the amount of im proved pasture from- which no crops were harvested, the amount of salable timber land, the vari ous kinds of crops grown, and fer tilizer and livestock information. According to law, listing ol real and personal property for taxation purposes must be done within the month of January. After January 31, a penalty is added for l*te listing. In HillsBoro, tax data for the I municipality is extracted from toe county records. In Chapel Hill, however, town property listing will be held at City inrougnoui the. month every weekday. This year, for the first time, there will be separate abstracts in Chapel Hill for the two classi fications of property. Heretofore, town property had been listed on the county abstract. This simpli fied things at the time of listing bu* often caused considerable in convenience later when the ab stract had been carried back to the county courthouse in Hills boro and was not available here for reference The town’s book keeping and billing procedure will also be simplified under the new system. Orange Observes Quiet Holidays Orange County observed a comparatively quiet Christmas ! and New Year's season. Businesses for the most part I remained closed two days fol ! lowing Christmas and one fol lowing New Year’s Day. Law j enforcement officers reported j generally quiet times with no . crimes of any significance mar ring the holiday period. Activities took on a more normal pace Tuesday. W. C. Merritt Passes At-,1 Hillsboro—Funeral services for William Clifton Merritt, 71, of the od Durham-Hillsboro Road, were held from Mount Herman Baptist Church Thursday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. C. S. Norville officiating. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery, Durham. Mr. Merritt, an employee of the Highway Commission for many years, died at his home Tuesday morning after an extended illness. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Merritt; a daughter, Mrs., R. H. Williford of Durham; two' sons, H. L. Merritt of New York City and William C, Merritt,. Jr., of the home,- and two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Stone of Chapel Hill, and Mrs. A. S. Holt of Durham. Active pallbearers were Herman Strayhorn, Noah Sweeney, Harvie Davis, Sam Bowling, Brack Craig and Tom McKee. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Stanford, A. H. Graham, B. S. Carr, H. J. Walker, C. A. Letczing, WHliam Mitchell, John Marks, Joe Reihh&rdt, Hubert Blackwood, Winston Strayhorn, J. W. Powell, Howard Lester, Sidney Strayhorn, Mirian Godwin, Jim Bolling, Gar land Kirkland and State Highway employees of Orange County. -:—t-o-— Legion Head Says Buy Bonds Commander Jerry. Br Stone of American Legion Post No. 85 of Hillsboro, announced today that all Legion membcrss an/1 other veterans of World War II are be ing urged to invest a,t least, a' part of their National Service Life-In surance ■Dividend- in U. S. Sav-' ings Borids^' ,. - • . | Commander' Stone, said that payments- of-~ne&*tr $3 irtifion v/r NSLI dividends will be made to veterans' of World War II begin ning in January. In North Caro lina about 350,000 veterans will receive more, than $50 million in dividends. ( National and. state commanders of veterans’ organizations are call ing for an intensive drive among local posts to urge every veteran ! to invest part of his dividend in' Savings Bonds. Imprinted on the back of each dividend check will be thhe words “USE IT WISELY —BUY U. S. SAVINGS BONDS.” -Inasmuch as some veterans are not affiliated with any group or association, the American Legion extends to them the invitation to join in the campaign to consider carefully how each dividend can best be expended, and tp be wise, be sure—invest in U. S. Savings I Bonds. May Seek Competition In New Courthouse Design Engineer Preparing Plans For Water Plant Addition New Tobacco Types To Help Farm Incomes Millions of dollars eventually may be added to the State’s farm income as a result of three new flue-cured tobacco varieties by the North Carolina Agricultural Ex periment Station, believes. Dr. R. W. Cummings, associate director : of the station.. The varieties are Dixie Bright 27, Dixie Bright 101, and Dixie Bright 102, all of which were re leased last week. The first com bines good yields and quality ; ivim”higfr.resistance to Granville wilt. The other two have combi nation resistance to black shank and Granville wilt. Of course, it’s still too early to predict exactly how these varie ties will perform on the average farm,” Dr. Cummings says. “They have all shown up well in ex periments on State test farms. But we know their utlimate value depends on how the growers like them.” To give some idea of their po tential value, Dr. Cfimmings cites the case of Oxford 26, the varie ty now being used on»most soils infested with Granville wilt. “The U. S. Department of Ag riculture estimates that Oxford 26 has added more than a billion dollars to the nation’s annual farm income since- it was introduced in 1945,” he says. Graville wilt had become so bad in the Old Belt that growers were abandoning their farms. Despite weaknesses in yield, Oxford 26 enabled grow ers to stay in the business and make money. New Dixie Bright 27 should further add to income from wilt-jnfested soils. Dixie Bright 101 and-102 are the first varieties to offer resistance to both black shank and Granville wilt. Depending on how farmers like them, they could easily be of as much value to the State as Oxford 26. that release of these varieties does not mean an end to the tobacco breeding program. This kfnd . of research is a continuous thing, he says. New diseases will con tinue to show up as long as tobac co is grown. The varieties just released will some day be out of date. One immediate problem is to develop a variety resistant to Granville wilt, black shank, and Fusarium wilt, since some farms in North Carolina now have all three diseases; Another problem not yet solved by plant breeders is that of nemato'des, the tiny soil pests that bore into tobacco roots and'stunt the nplants —;-_—~ch~— - - ■ Christmas Party Attended By 250 Chanel Hill-—Approx innately 250 members; employees, and guests of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro lVlejv. chants Association attended the Association’s Christmas party on December 27. Aat 4:30 in 'the afternoon,- the group attended the showing of the “Star of Bethlehem” at the More head Planetarium. A buffet dinner wait served in ,the dining room of the I^prehead Building at six o’clock. ruusDoro—engineer Tom Rose of Chapel Hill has been authorized tp draw up plans for a proposed addition to the Hillsboro Water Plant as result of action taken by the Town Board at - its regular meeting Tuesday night. Preliminary plans call for an addition to the settling plant and equipment inside the plant to double its capacity, from 250,000 gallons to 500,000 gallons per day. Following the completion of plans and specifications, the Board is expected to call for an election to provide authority for the is suance of bonds. A recent increase in water rates for out-of-town patrons is expected to provide the needed revenue to retire the bonds. Cost of the project is expected to be in the neighborhood of $18,000 to $20,000._ ■——-o-: Cedar Grove School. Heads Building List Hillsboro — Architect Raymond Weeks met with the Orange County Board' of Education at their regu lar monthly meeting Tuesday as all phases of the forthcoming building program were discussed. Indications were that the Negro School in the Cedar Grove area would be the first constructed in the county system under the re cently approved bond program inasmuch as plans for this struc ture were drawn some three years ago and are still available. Weeks was handed the job of bringing these up to date and making them comply with the specifications since laid down by the State Schoolhouse planning division. ---o Building 8 Loan Stockholders Paid $5300 In Dividends Hillssboro —Semi-annual divi dend checks totaling $5,300 were mailed December 20 to thfe stock^ holders of the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association, it was learned yesterday from Earl Stone, secretary and treasurer. . This was the largest dividend payment in the history of the or ganization, Stone stated. Last July, dividend payments totaled $4,$00, making the. total for the year 1949, $9,900, accord ing to Stone. ——-o-; Awards. Won By Carrbdro Folk Carrboro—The one hundred dol lar Savings Bond offered by the Chapel Hill-Carrbbrb Merchants Association for the best Christmas decoration by- a club .or,business firm was awarded to the Carrboro Civic Club.. The Club president is Mrs. W. E. Williams who was assisted by i other club members in arranging the display near the White Oak’s Department Store in Carrboro. Tte- best display for home dec oration was .also a hundred doi-1 Iar Savings Bond and was award ed to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Riggs bee of Carrboro. The second best home decoration which Was a fifty dollar Savings Bond, was awarded also to a^Cagrboro home, it went to Mr. and 'Mrs. Jesse West of Carrboro. Grange Car Owners Segin Paying Extra Cent For Gas; Dealers Feel Pinch Too HillsbSro—Orange County mo torists on Sunday began paying an additional cent per gallon of gasoline and while motorists were feeling the slight pinch on the poeketbook the increase also meant an increase in the work for oil dealers anjd operators. The dealers had a little more to do this year because of inven tories that were on hand at the dose of business on Saturday. The law requires the collection of the tax on inventories at the end of the year. "The new tax was approved by the people of the state in a special election last June and will be used exclusively ter retire the bond debts incurred in the current program of the state in building $200,000, 000 worth of rural roads in the state. Tax officials in Raleigh state that the gasoline tax increase is expected to tiring in more than $7,000,000 annually. The gasoline tax is remitted to the Department of Revenue and raises the gasoline tax from six to seven cents per gallon. Distrib* utors, hilling statical operators, and large consumers are required to pay tax by January 20 or be penalized. It was reported that spot checks were made by the state highway patrol throughout the county to determine if the in ventories were made and recorded as the law requires. Hillsboro — Indications that competition among architects will be sought in connection with the construction of Orange County’s new courthouse, authorized by the voters in November, wdre given Tuesday at the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners here. The idea was advanced by Chairman Collier Cobb, Jr., and seconded by other members of the board, that the county should make every effort to obtain an “outstanding building” that will be an attraction to visitors just as the old courthouse has been. Whether the architects of the area could be induced to enter into competition for the contract has not been ascertained. '_Tentative plans now call for the beginning of construction next Fall. The Commissioners received a report that only 4.26 miles had been alloted to the county for the addition of roads to the state high way system during 1950, inas much there still remained a 1.17 miles overdraft from last year. Mosts of the day was spent in conference with L. H. Gunter, district highway engineer, in dis cussing roads to be paved" under the $200,000,000 program. Although most, of the commissioners rec- -ij ommendations were completed, no announcement of their decision was made pending a conference with Commissioner James Barn well. Reports were heard from vari ous county officers and-a discus sion of details in the handling of the $3,406.91 appropriation made to the county By the last legisla ture for a student health program was held with School Superinten- « dent G. T. Proffit, Health Officer Dr. O. D. Garvin and Welfare Superintendent Jean Heer partici pating. i -o Chapel ffillians Qn Debate Team Chapel Hill—The varsity de bating team ip the University of North Carolina has made a unani mous sweep of debates with three northern universities during its recently completed fall tour. This is the tirst-time since the war that such a feat has been accomplish ed by a team here. The debaters took two decisions each from American University, * New York University, and Colum bia University. . Making the trip were Hurschell Keener, Lenoir; Bob Evans, Dur ham; Herbert Mitchell, Tusca loosa, Ala.; and Paul Roth, Chapel Hill. Keener and Evans were the affirmative team, and MitcheU and Roth composed tire negative team on, the proposit10", “Re solved: That the Untied States should nationalize the basic non agricbltural industries^’ ■ An intra-mural debate program will be launched by the Univer sity Debate Council at the be ginning of the winter quarter and the debate squad will 'travel to Miami and Boston for meets in February. Dave Pittman, Rocky Mount, is president of theh Debate Council. *and ""B^b Hutchinson. Rockingham, is secretary. Dr. G. A. Barrett and Norman W. Mat hs are faculty advisres. Other members of the Council, fri addition to those making the northern trip, are Gus Graham, Chapel Hill, and George Rodman, Washington, *N. C. —u— Schley Is Scene Of Grange Event Schley—The eleventh annual .. State Grange Youth Conference ended here; Sunday with the elec« The two-day affair was attended _ by 10Q representatives from IS counties. Sessions were held in the recently dedicated Schley Grange Hall. Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell of Greensboro, Grange public rela tions director called the meeting to order and presented Hill Carter of Lenoir, who served as acting president of the conference. E. B: Garrett, State coordinator of the U. S. Soil Conservation Serv ice. was the main guest speaker. His talk was entitled “Oppor tunities for North Carolina Grange Youth.” New officers of the youth or ganization are: President Roy Nlfong, Clemmons;. Vice-President Don AngeU, Winston-Salem; Sec retary Reva Ingram, Stokesdale; and Treasurer Bennie Robbins, Trinity.'
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