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. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY * i
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(Published Weekly)
la Available Only ca thb mawa
of Orange County.
•UMCRIM TODAY. A
Twenty Pras Thio^wC’
Iiddy Goalies,
i 'Dimes’ Duel
oro—The hilarious high
the season has been set
Mmviay night in behalf
March of Dimes here.
occasion will be a re-enact
| of the historic battle of the
court, the Hillsboro
Girls” vs. the local Ex
girls team at 7:30 o’clock,
years’ big show, which sent
500 howling spectators home
from laughter at the antics
lsboro bigwigs in female at
rought demands for a repeat
lance in behalf of the March
ies campaign, which appears
lagging ?s result of failure
il citizens to realize the need
funds to fight this dreaded
be right here at home.
show Monday night is being
ored by the Hillsboro Ex
ge Club, members of whiph
raking an all-out appeal to
illsboro and this section of
ge County over the top in the
Campaign. *
long the stellar attractions
Vernon (Tiny) Elrod, the
referee, and Clarence (Dim
Jones, coach of the “Oomph
On the team are Remus
s) Smith, Allen (Deldres)
i. F. E. (Sophie) Joyner, ”Cirl
r) Davis, Alton (Flossy)
Jams, Irving .(Minnie) Birds
)r. H. W. (Gert) Moore, John
b) Moulton, Charles (Fannie)
cer, T. N. (Agnes) Webb, Ed
fcoks) Laws, C. B. (Mimi)
s, and the trainer, Jake (Pills)
st.
those who like their basket
[in the serious vein, the strong
range boys team will play
/ille, featuring a large col
m of former college stars, in
attraction.
final
ith Division
impletes Tenth
Rural Paving
rraham— The Fifth Highway
ision completed 10.7 percent
year of its portion of the to
secomdary road paving pro
m proposed bjr Governor Scott,
les A. Barnwell, Fifth Divis
Commissioner has announced,
ast year Governor Kerr Scott
ed for hard-surfacing of. 12,
miles of secondary roads dur
the next four to six years,
n mission forces and private
tractors completed paving o-f
>6.8 miles of county roads dur
1949. They also added 240.9
es to the state’s numbered sys
i of- highways for a grand.,
il of 1,497.7 miles,
iarnwell stated that during the
t year his division hardsurfac
13.2 miles of state highways
l 126.3 miles of county roads
i stabilized 181.4 miles of coun
roads.
)nly a small portion of the
10,000,000 bond issue fund is
lected in work completed dur
1949, Barnwell pointed out as
st of the roads that were fin
ed were either planned or be
i last year.
5r. Henry Jordan, chairman of
! highway commission stated
•t the “Commission is not
ired for its greatest year of
tdbuilding and more miles of
ids were let for contract on Jan
ry 31, than at any regular high
y letting n history.”
t was stated by officials that
i road construction in this area
be begun in a few months
uld be announced shortly. It
s been previously announced
it work will be started this
ing on widening and re-sur
;ing Highway 70 from Efland
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Have Yon Given
To Dines Drive?
,, Have you contributed to the
March of Dimes? If you have,
give more, and if you haven’t,
do it today. Your dimes and
dollars are needed to fight the
ever* increasing rise of polio
throughout North Carolina arrd
the nation, also here in Orange
County.
The Orange County chapter
is broke. Down to its last dime.
Help fill the coffers again and
see that some child—or adult—
wiH walk again. Several thou
sand dollars more than was col
lected was spent in Orange
County for polio aid from June
1948 to June, 1949. One pati
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ent has received care totaling
over $5,000 and continues under
the care of physicians.
Get in the battle now. Who
knows—your cash may be need
ed to fight a polio battle in your
own home. The disease is not
a respector of persons and Is
subject to take a stab at any cit
izen from one to 70.
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Merchants Urged
To Make Plans
For Influx
Chapel Hill.—Dr. Reece Berry
hill, in an address to the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Merchants Associa
tion Monday evening, stressed the'
importance of a program «to pre
pare the town for the increased
number of persons and businesses
coming to the community during
the extensive building program
set up for the University.
Dr: Berryhill reported that
the medical expansion program
should be completed by Fall, 1951,
and that the approximate increase
in population due to transients
coming here to the hospital as pa
tients, visitors, - and personnel,
would amount to an average of
200 per day.
The Merchants Association,
headed by Wilbur Kutz, discussed
plans for a promotional program
to be carried out this year by the
association.
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Carr boro Church -
Serving Supper
Each Saturday
Carrboro—Members of the Carr
boro Methodist Church are serv
ing suppers every Saturday after
noon beginning at five o’clock in
the Methodist Church hut on Main
Street in Carrboro for the benefit
of the drive to build a new Meth
odist church in Carrboro,
Different organizations of the
church are sponsoring the suppers
each week. In the last two weeks
more than a hundred dollars has
been cleared by, these suppers
for the church fund. Every one who
Jias taken a part in this drive has
been pleased with the home
cooked food prepared by the la
dies of the church and every one
is cordially invited to come to the
hut for supper beginning each
Saturday afternoon at five o’clock
[and continuing until all food is
sold. The suppers will be sold
each Saturday at least until Eas
In. Roosevelt Sees Need For More
Personal Relations Among UN Groups
Chapel Hill — Mrs. Eleanor
•osevelt, addressing some 1,200
•dents at the University Tues
y night, declared that one osf
e most important needs of the
S machinery is increased per
WI relations and understanding
nong its delegations.
Tracing the organization of the
••ted Nations, Mrs. Roosevelt,
10 is one of five United States
degates -to the General Assem
y. stressed the point that the
N is an organization of “people”
an organization of “people”
iher than “government”
Mrs. Roosevelt’s address in Me
or»i Hall at tiie University was
the first in the annual senes of
three Weil lectures on American
citizenship. The lecture series
was established at the University
in 1914 by the families of Sol and
Henry WeiJL of Goldsboro.
Governor Scott introduced Mrs.
Roosevelt Tuesday night and a
welcome to the University was ex
tended to her by Chancellor Rob
ert B. House.
Mrs. Roosevelt’s general topic
for the Weil .Lecture is the
“United Nations.” Last night she
discussed the economic and social
phases of the UN. She will make
her final address of the series to
night.
Official poster marking the 40th birthday.
1950
BOV SCOUTS OF AMERICA
I The 40th anniversary of the
| Boy Scouts of America will be
observed Feb. 6 to 12 in every
| part of the nation by more
i than 2,300,000 boys and adult
: leaders. “Strengthen Liberty"
I is the birthday theme. The Boy
Scouts’ “Crusade to Strength
en the Arm of Liberty" con
| tinues through 1950.
! _ During Boy Scout Week,
Units will hold “Crusade
i Night” meetings when 1949
; Crusade Awards will be pre
, sented. Representing the 12
Scout Regions, 12 outstanding
i Boy Scouts will make a “Re
port to the Nation” fit Wash
ington, D.C., where the Move
ment was incorporated Feb. 8,!
1910. They will also take part
in an impressive ceremony at
Independence Hall in Phila
delphia.
The highlight of 1950 will be
the Second National Jamboree
which will see 40,000 Scouts
and Leaders camping together
at Valley Forge, Pa., from
June 30 to July 6, including
Scouts of other lands.
Since 1910 more than 16.
500,000 boys and nfen have
been identified with the Boy
Scouts of America.
Time to Enter
Big Contest Now
When the clock strikes it Is
time to go to work, especially for
you who work by the hour or by
the day.
In The News of Orange County
cash joffer campaign you do not
have to work by the clock, neither
by the hour, nor by the day, blit
you get bigger pay by far in this
campaign and work when you
want to. It is time to go to work
now if you want tp win. This goes
for the folks who have already
entered their names as well as
those who are thinking about en
terig: The contest will officially
open Monday, Febuary 6, 1950, and
the names of those who have al
ready entered will be published in
the next issue of THE NEWS so
it is to your advantage to get your
name in the*first list and be One
of the big prize winners. Yes, it
is true that the first grand prize
is $600 dollars: The second prize
is $300 and the third award $150.
All other active contestants who
work in this campaign for the next
few weeks will receive one fifth
of all the money colected by them.
Everyone is paid and all you have
to do is get subscriptions, both
new and renewals, to The News
of Orange County, a newspaper
that has been in most of your
homes for many years.
There may be something that
is not clear to you about this
campaign and you would like to
know more about it so that you
too can share in this good money.
Drop us a post card and we will
and talk this campaign offer over,
How To Enter
All you have to do to enter The News of Orange
County’s Cash offer Campaign and win a $6 00.00
cash prize or other awards is: Bring or mail yoar name
and address to the Campaign Manager at the office of
The News of Orange County.
Name . ... ....
Address .... • ..
K F. D.•”»'.'• • •'
All Details Cheerfully Given Free. Send Name and
Decide Later. See the Details Printed in This Paper.
or better still drop, in to see us. All
details will be cheerfully given,
don’t wait, do it now. Regardless
I of where you live, you can enter.
The advantage in working now
is that you receive more votes or
credits on subscriptions sold bet
ween now and the 11th of Feb
ruary. This is known as the bigg
est extra vote offer of this entire
campaign. No time will subscrip
tions cbiinF as much as now. For
each $15.00 worth of subscriptions
you sell now you will receive 150,
000 Extra Votes in addition to the
regular votes that appear on the
face of your receipt book. When
you accumulate sales amounting to
$15.00 start to work on another
$15.00 club, for each $15.00 in sub
scription money entitles you to
this winning vote. Sell as many
$15.00 clubs as you can.
The campaign office is - located
in the office of The News of
Orange Qruntv and jyill be open
; Saturday/afternoons. Make your
j reports at this time. Those of you
1 who live outside Hillsboro and can
not come to the office, be sure to
mail your reports on this day to
the campaign manager, c/o The
News of Orange County, Hillsboro,
N. C.
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SUIT FILED
Chat>el Hill—T. Ruffin Pender
graft otf Chapel Hill filed his long
awaited $10,000 suit against the
Town of Chapel Hill, E. G. Dan
"ziger, and W.' G. Fields,, Sr., in
Superior Court Friday for wateg
Plan County-wide Event ■
Celebrating Scout Week
RE.4 Members From Six
Counties Here Saturday -
Hillsboro, N. C —The Piedmont |
Electric Mambership Corporation
of Hillsboro, will hold its eleventh
annual meeting February 4, 1950
m the Hillsboro High School,
Hillsboro, N. C„ Co-op Manager
„• J°yner, announced this week.
He said he expected a record
turnout.
'^>r.0Sfess and financial reports,
consideration -of an increase of the
debt limit and election of directors
for the next twelve months will
be on the day’s program, in addi
tion to lively entertainment, lunch
and pnze awards, Mr. Joyner said.
Its going to be a great day
for everyone who comes,’’ the Co
op manager promised. “We’re
going to have a good time, but
we are also going to transact some
important business, including the
discussipn^of ^laiis to take
——r—- ^ a . .mecirai
service4o as many of our neighbor
as soon as possible,”, he said.
Mr. Joyner pointed out that th
cooperation has planned a ne\
J150,000 line CQns.tructiofv prggrar
designed to bring electric servic
to 300 farms and:other rural non
farm rural establishments sUch a
schools, churches and srpall in
dustries. The cooperative is ncn
operating 1000 miles of line serv
ing 3600 consumers in Orangf
Durham, Person, Caswell, Ala
mance and Granville counties. T
date the cooperative has borrowe
$1,493,000 .from the REA and ha
paid back $105,000 os principa
including $20,000 paid in advanc
of the duexdate.
The nature of this meeting is c
utmost importance and the man
abernent and officials urge eac
of the cooperative’s 3600 member
to be present.
Brothers Bound
Qver bt Murder
Of Lewis Cobb
Hillsboro— Alexander and Jesse
Boldin* -brothers of Chapel Hill,
Route 1, are free under $500 bonds
each for the murder of Lewis Cobb
in a Chapel Hill tavern affray
January 13.
The pair were bound over to
Superior Court after pleading not
guilty to the charge. -----
Evidence presented tended to
show that following a fight inside
an eating'and drinbinf place on
the outskirts of Chapel Hill Route
1, Cobb came outside threatening
to kill Alexander uoidin. In a"
scuffle which followed over
possession of Cobb’s gun, Jesse
rushed in with his knife and jn
the affray, Cobb was cut on the
leg and bled to death from the deep
slash. _... ..
The Boldin brothers are sons of
Mattie Boldin, who several years
ago killed their father and is now
serving a term in the penitentiary.
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March Of Dimes
Campaign Extended
Chapel Hill—The March of
Dimes campaign has been extended
for two more weeks, Mrs. Phillips
Russell,. Director of Organization
for the State announced Monday.
Mrs. Russell said, in announcing
the extension of the drive, that
’’people in North Carolina are
generous, and we feel sure they
will contribute all they can to help
our young people recover from
polio. Even if we do not have any
polio this year, it will take $500,
00#’to continue to treat those who
were stricken in past epidemics.”
4BC Clerk Gets
Too Much, Winds
Up In Troable
•Hillsboro^—An ABC store clerk
went On a drinking spree last Sun
day and got himself into a heap of
trouble with the law along with
scaring women and children who
were his unwilling passengers in
a station wagon on Highway 70
near here. ■ ' **' •
Returning to Durham following
a visit here, J. B. F. Woods, Jr„
519 Willard St.; Durham, slipped
under the wheel when the driver
went into a service station for
some cigarettes and took off with
two ferrifrecTwomen arid four
children screaming for . help be
fore he had gotten very far.
Finally halted by Patrolman T.
P. Hofler, Woods was charged with
drunken driving.
Placed in jail here, he contin
ued to raise a disturbance until
in the evening Deputy Sheriff
Rainey Roberts smelled smoke and
found the mattress in his cell on
fire and two other prisoners near
by on the floor partially suffocat
ed. Prisoners said they had been
unable to attract attention to their
plight because of the noise and dis
turbance being raised by Woods.
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Chapel Hill—An Award Court of
Honor will be the first county
wide event in Boy Scout Week,
1950.
Scouts, Scouters, friends and
parents from all the troops in
Orange County will assemble Sun
day night at eight o’clock in the
University Methodist Church of
Chapel Hill. A spot-lighted rep
lica of the Statue of Liberty will
focus attention upon Scouting’s
Crusade of the Year to Strength
en the Arm of Liberty.” A birth
day cake, topped by .40 candles,
will proclaim the Fortieth Anni
versary of the Boy Scouts of Am
erica. A unison reading of the
’’Declaration of Purpose” will
lead all Scouts to a rededication
to the Scout Oath end Law.
The address of ,the evening will
be delivered by Chancellor Robert
House of the University of North
Carolina. Norman Cordon, former
Metropolitan Opera star will sing.
The Rev. Wm Howard of the Uni
versity Methodist Church will, de
liver the prayer of invocation.
The awards to Scouts who fcave
com pleted Merit Badge work and
who have earned , advancement,
will be given by James Webb,
State Senator from Hillsboro,
John Umstead, State Representa
tive form Orange Corunty, and Roy
Armstrong, Director of Admissions
of the University of North Carolina
and serving this year as Chairman
of the Orange County District, Boy
Scouts of America. The Court of _
Honor has been planned and will
be conducted by the members of
Alpha Phi Omega, campus service
fraternity, under the supervision
of Rev. Bernard Munger, Advance
ment Committee Chairman, Orange
County Boy Scouts. The public is
invited to share in this ’’birthday'’
celebration for the Scouts. A
special invitation is extended to all
parents of Scouts.
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Chairman Calls
i
Associated Fsni
Women To Meet
Cedar Grove—*.A meeting of the
Orange County Associated Farm
Women will be held^next Wednes
way, February 8, at 7:30 p, m. in
the Horae .Economics Building at '
Aycock School, Mrs. Z. C. Burton.
Chairman, announced this week.
Delegates will be elected to at
tend the State convention at
Raleigh February 12 through 15,
and several matters of business
will be discussed.
In announcing the meeting, Mrs.
Burton urged . that all members^
attend, and also make plans to go
to Raleigh for the convention.
Of special interest at the Raleigh
meeting will be an address Monday
morning, February 13, by Dr. Jane
S. McKinnon, N. C. Extension Ser
vice. Mrs. Charles S. Sewell, Ad
ministrative Director, Associated
Women American Farm Bureau,
of Chicago, 111., will speak Monday
afternoon on ’’Farm Bureau As a
Family Affair.”
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CENSUS1 JOBS
Hillsboro—*feed a job? Some
25 census takers and other work
ers will be needed to handle the
1950 census in the next few
months, according to J. D. Rogers
of High Point, supervisor for
the Sixth Congressional District.
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Basketball Tonight
Hillsboro—The Hillsboro Ex
change basketball team will meet
Louisburg College here tonight at
the High School gymnasium. In
a previous game, the local team
nosed out Louisburg |>y six points.
rce Bulletin
'■m®. y^sypagaag
Taxable payrolls under the
old-age program of the Federal
Security Agency rose 7i per cent
in Orange county between 1946
and 1948, according to information
received here from C. Parker
Persons, Regional Director of the
U. S. Department of Commerce in
Atlanta.
Taxable payrolls under the
program in 1948 totalled $1,363,OOP
compared with $797,000 in 1946.
The information is included in
booklets prepared by his agency
entitled “County Business Patt
erns”, now on;$ale at all field
officesof the Commerce Depart
ment, Mr. Pedsons said: The
information, he pointed out, was
compiled for the purpose of helping
businessmen to achieve greater
sales performance andto plan
their 1950 sales campaigns by
supplying them with facts and
figures pointing the way to potent
ial demands fpr consumer and in
dustrial goods.
The booklet, priced at 25, cents,
shows, it was stated, that employ
ment under the program in Orange
county went from 2,354 persons in
1946 to 3,247 in 1948. A total of
280 firms engaged in wholesale,,
retail, and service tr&de activities
and other pursuits -participated in
the reporting.
The compilation is considered
comprehensive in the business
field, Mr Persons stated, because
the old-age program covers all
business establishments employing
onne or more employees at any
time duridk a reporting quarter.
“except self, family, ^aslial, agri
cultural, domestic, railroad, and
certain types of nonprofit organi
zation employment.
. The booklet issued by the Com
merce Department reflects data for
the State and for all counties. It
shows the following additional
information for 1948 on retail,
wholesale, and the service trades,
as well as other industries oper
ating in Orange county.
Contract construction, em
ployees, 109 and taxable payrolls,
$43,000; manufacturing, 1,815 and
$799,000; public utilities, 57 and
$27,000; wholesale trade, 52 and
$22,000; retail trade, 686 and $261.
000; finanee, insurance, and real
estate. 214 and $89,000; and service
industries, 312 and $114,000.