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-— (Published Weekly) _’ HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY. JANUARY 5, 1950 Price: $8 a Year; 5c Single Copy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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._
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'