range County pooplo road EWS every week than any range County Nowapapor. -; - — * THE V > ■ * . U BSC RIB* TODAY. —No. ii NEWS of Orange Far quick. «K* » I* * uatea IPuWished Weekly iour Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C.,THURSDAY, APRIL 13,1950 Price: $* a Year; 5c Single Copy THI NEWS Of /ant ada. Mr Pf ■ fw? wn Ten Pages This Week I HILLSBORO PTA OFFICERS—8hown following, their installation Tuesday night are President lidgette, receiving the gavel from Mrs. C. D. Jones, retiring president; and left to right, Mrs. . Dickson, vice president, Mrs. Glenn Auman, finance chaiman, Mrs. Fred Blake, secretary, and Elrod, treasurer. ’' ' _ o Work “North en than any other State in the except Texas and North a has more veterans en in the Veteran Farm Train gram than any other state.” Kirkland pointed out that ro. high school has one of departments in the state ain N. C. State seniors. He the various phases of of the teacher of agriculture, cularly stressed work adult farmers. ' C. D. Jones presented the of the “History P.TA." to Miss Rebec* compiled It. Copies given to all past presidents; ocoming president, G. A. G. T. Profitt. and C. D. chairman of the, local school officers were installed. — ** _: »• J. E. Adams New Leader 'A Council — Mrs, tf. E. Adams of el Hill was named president e Orange County Council of PT>A. at a meeting of the ty-wide group held here. She serve lor a trwo year term, er new officers elected, fol i their nomination by a ^ittee headed by Mrs. J. M. were Mrs. C. D. Jones, oro> vice president, and Mrs. Efland, Jr., Efland, secre [■trea surer. ner Dowdy, Hillsboro voca 1. tea°her, addressed ,t h e 5 ‘ on*ihe vocational agricul escribed projects being car on while Miss Lewis* home :rru°s teaether at Chapel Hill, ^ed, the work of her de nent___ -nbers from other sections te country were welcomed to fneeting by Joe Howard, presi 1 °‘ the Efland organization. dfrey Elected twian President ® Hdl—©r. James l#, God r; the University History De ^nt was elected president of 7 apel Hill Rotary Club at its ln® iast week. He succeeds ‘ W. Whatley Pierson, —r1 , ^ Varley was named viee John Clark, secretary, tetoie, treasurer, and' Her wentworth, sergeant-at-arms, directors were Col Qzf>> Danziger, James ^ Edwin Lanier and Don In School Controversy Charge Leaders Clouding Issue Cedar Grove—The Aycock com mittee named to meet with simi lar groups from other schools in the Hillsboro area to effect a set tlement of the attendance area controversy charged this week that leaders in Hillsboro seem to be doing everything t#isy can to cloud the issue and confuse the people. This charge was .made in a lengthy mimeographed paper re leased for publication which held that the high school attendance areas as proposed by the County Board of Educa tion is the only so lution to Aycock’s critical enroll ment problem. The excessive length of the article made its com plete publication in this news paper an impossibility. Previous reports in news columns here have attempted to present the events occur irag in an impartial manner. — The meeting of the committees from Aycock, Efland, Hillsboro, West Hillsboro, Caldwell -and Murphy with the Hoard of Edu cation is scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 o’clock at the court house. The Aycock paper, signed by members of the committee, Mar garet Warren Walker, Mrs. F. P. McDade and Henry B. Lewis, brought the school bond election into the picture, charging that in the minds pf a great many people the leaders from Hillsboro on the bond steering committee were in effect breaking faith by doing what they had said prior to the election they would not do, namely, “no| to do a single thing that would hurt the Aycock High School.” The statement issued by the Hillsboro committee follow ing the Board’s proposal several weeks ago was termed as rather childidh.” The statement contained most of the facts brought out in the hearing held at the High School here several weeks ago. It min imized the losses that would be and said the' prof)d§W~changes would help both schools,’ allowing Aycock additional pupils and teachers and alleviating to soQie extent the overcrowded condition of the Hillsboro school. The paper held that the changes would help the county economically by pre venting the necessity., for con structing another large high school building in five* to ten years. _---—0-: LAYMAN’S DAY SPEAKER Efland—E. W. Avent of Raleigh, widely known layman of the Edenton Street Methodist Church of that city, will be the principal speaker next Sunday at a charge wide Layman’s Day Service to be held_al the Efland Methodist, Church at 11 o’clock. ■-o———— MEW CARRBORO POLICEMAN | Carrboro—J- X Williams of Durham has been added to the Police Force in Carrboro and as sumed his new duties here several jays ago in that capacity A * EARLY VISIT DOWNTOWN Hillsboro — A squawllng In fant saw the light of day front. • vantage point inside an auto mobile on a main thoroughfare here last Week. __ -The mother was enroute to Duke Hospital when the birth took plate. The terrified hus band accompanying her sought aid at a local drug store and was directed to Forrest Clinic, whereahe was admitted after the baby wae born. From all re ports, both mother and child~‘ are doing fine. • ---o-—-: Former Kiwanian Head Honored Chapel Hill—Charles Milner, last year’s president of the Ki wanis Club, was honored at last week’s meeting of the club • in ceremonies which included the presentation to him of a gold seal certificate of commendation from Kiwanis International for the fine service he rendered during his tenure of office. Doc Crowder of Henderson, lieutenant-governor of the Fifth Kiwanis Division, addressed Uje club on the importance of the proper guidance of a community’s young people. It was his first visit to the Chapel Hill club. — ---o.. Bobby Parlier Elected MYF District President Bctotoy Parlier of Hillsboro was • elected president of the Durham District of the Methodist Youth Fellowship at a meeting at St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Dur ham Tuesday night. % The Rev. William Howard of the Chapel Hill Methodist Church was guest speaker. Wreck Victim Brings Easter Toll Of Violent Deaths to 3 in Orange Suicide-Murder By Mental Patfeat Shocks Village Chapel Hill — “Just the type of person children would love.” Thus, some Chapel Hiliians and acquaintances described .the man who on Good Friday shocked this community beyond anything it has experienced in recent mem ory. That was the reaction, follow ing high excitement, which evolv ed after Len Broughton Sami they, a sober, retiring former graduate student shot and killed, apparent ly in cold blood, his friend, George Bennett, in the basement of the V. A. Hill home at 210 Henderson Street. __ After a manhunt which reached state-wide proportions and na tional publicity, tiie former mental patient’s body was found slump ed at the base-of a tree in Battle Park where a 38-caliber bullet from the same gun that killed Bennett had ended his own life. Coroner H. J. Walker off Hills boro ruled the two deaths as murder-suicide and held an in quest unnecessary. Thus, the Uni versity community was spared the continued publicity which attend ed the Hair-Coble tragedy on the Wake Forest campus. - \ Smithey and Bennett had got ten along well together prior to the shooting, aoquaintenances said, but Smithey was known general ly as a quiet reticent type. He had been a .patient at a Veteran's Hospital where he was diagnosed as a paranoic schizophrenic and released over doctors’ protests. Apparently his persecution com plex was well fouftded_i»ccgrdlng to beat reports. 1 wfisjSSF' His closest friends declared that Smith ey's life was one of con tinued struggle for an education. When his parents moved out of Chapel Hill, he chose to remain here and finish hjsrjSucation. He was in his third year off high school then. During his last years off high school, he lived in basements, fir ing furnaces and accepting odd jobs in order to finance his way. Just before he joined the. Army in 1940, Smithey came to live at the home off Mr. and Mrs. J. 1& Pullen of "Ransom Street; where he was considered “one of the family” Mrs. Pullen said, He felt so close to the Pullens that he named Mr. Pullen as his next of kin whe* he enlisted in the Army. “He helped out scrubbing floors and called this his home,” Mrs. Pullen said. “I don’t see how he could do the thing he did.” During the War Smithey: was assigned to the South Pacific theater. Among the action he saw there was the battle for Guadal canal. Wlhen he returned, Mrs. Pullen said, he was a changed man. -- ’ ' . Before the War, Smithey had been known as quiet, unassuming, an intensive student. On his re turn, Mrs. Pullen, said, he had changed to an irritable, moody, “nervous wreck.” “Two years ago, he turned against us. He thought we were working against him, while all the time we were trying to help him,” Mrs. Pullen related. (Continued On Page 8) os: Puppy on the Block WILLIAM MEAOE PRINCE AND “CANCER COCKER”—“Bonny^" the five-month-old cocke spaniel puppy shown hero with William Meade Prince, Chapel HIM Instructor ,and author, la a dog jof 'destiny. His master, Carl Boettcher, well-known German ;wood-carver, died of cancer in Chapel Hill recently (and “Bonny" is being offered (at auction 'as |a .memorial gift in thd name of Mr. Boettcher and Os a contribution to the Orange ^County Unit of the t American Cancer Society. Bids of not less than $00, together with quallftealone to be come the owner of “The Cancer Cocker” are being accepted by /Mrs. Donald E. Kent, Box 1147, Chapel HIIL* By william Meade Prince Ohapel Hill—A touching and tender story about a dog and a man is in the making, ft is one which tugs at thd heartstrings, tor most <4 us'.lch^w the man, who died just a rSfr wgeks ago—and if we did not know the man, we knew his works. But the story will have a happy ending. You, the reader, will supply the last chapter...- -7—-- — "Sonny” is a pure bred cocker spaniel puppy, five months old, anc| red as his own tongue. His brown eyes are mournful or mis chievious as he chooses, for cock ers may sorrow one minute and turn complete clowns the next. Sonny's blood is blue, and his lineage something to make a Cin cinnati member of a D.AjR. turn green with envy. Champions hang from every lim of Sonny’s family tree, and he is fully eligible for registration in the American Ken nel Club, that Who’s Who of dog dom. And Sonny is a dog of dest iny, for his fate is to be one which would make the heart of the dead man proud and happy. The man (who owned Sonny’s dam, Princess Kate, and subse quently her puppies) was Carl Boettcher, the artist who brought his skill from his native Germany to Chapel ‘ Hill, and added so much beauty to a spot already beautiful. His amazing wood-carv ings, beginning with the majestic American eagle on the pediment of the Navy ROTPC Building, to ; the gay and riotous Circus mural in the Monogram Club, have de lighted thousands. Carl Boettcher loved animals, as his work denotes. One of his last outings before he succumbed to that ‘grim enemy, Cancer, was a ,trip ta the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Kent, to see “Princess -(Continued On Page 8)_1 SMITH H SENATOR GRAHAM IS ALREADY TJiERE—This interesting arrangement of senatorial campaign banners intrigued Young Democrats at their recent regional rally in Asheville. First, Supporters of : Willis Smith put UP their sign, Soon, adherents of Bob Reynolds spread their banner above Smith's j sign. A little later, Senator Frsnk Graham's supporters topped them all with their fctogan: fFrank , Graham is Already There.’’. Smith is the only