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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAY *5, 1950 Price:* fa a Year; 5c Single Copy Twelve Pages This Week
el Hill Pwt
: Memorial
ices Sunday
ft] Hill—'Members of the
|Hiii American Legion will
|g annual Memorial Day
I Sunday afternoon, during
I flowers and flags will he
Ln each veteran’s grave in
lern section of the County.
Lnerican Legion Auxiliary,
C in charge of the flower
Ions, requests that all
fctions of flowers . be
f to the lobby of the Le
tt by 2 o’clock on Satur
I* Robertson, chairman of
Kiorial Day committee, has
[that all members of the
the Auxiliary, and friends
Uh to take part In the ser
[Tmeet at 1:30 o’clock Sun
ternoon at the Hut. The
vill divide ihto two sections
tT to be able to cover all
neteries in this area. The
le for Section I is: Carrboro
iry, 2:10 p. m,; Damascus,
m.; Mann’s Chapel, 2:40
Lystra, 3:15 p. m.; Spar
3:30 p. m.; McFarling’s,
m.; Mt. Moriah, 4:20 p. m.;
[schedule for Section II is:
; 2:30 p. m.; Antioch, 3:00
Orange Chapel, 3:20 p. m.;
s Grove, 3:40 p. m.; New
and Orange
l, 4:30 p. m.
two groups will meet at the
l Hill cemetery at 5 O’clock
include the services there.
Isboro — The Rev. William
itenhouse will lead the Hills
[ American Legion Post No.
I the annual Memorial Day
ces to be conducted Sunday
e Hut at 2 o’clock,
lowing the services at, the
n Hut, Legionaires, Daught
f the Confederacy and others
visit more than 25 grave
in Orange County and place
on the graves of the ,veter
I interested persons and or
ations are urged to attend
jtheriae Douglas
Best Citizen
riillsboro. — Mise Catherine
gles was chosen as the best
en of the Senior Class for the
; 1949-50.
nnually the name of the par
chosen for this honor is en
’ed on a cup presented to the
sboTO Garden Club.
thers named as “'best citizens”
rades one through twelve "fw
term which ended yesterday
Brst Grade — Mary Frances
prtaker, Cynthia Walker, Don
Coleman.
ond Grade — Anne Lloyd,
bda Brewer.
phird Grade — Kay* Williams,
herine Roberts, Harvey Rein
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fourth-.Grade v—Te&ffiy Jean
hnis,. Jimmy Holmes,
fifth Grade—- .Flora Waddell,
by Bailey.
Sixth Grade—James Keck, Lin
Taylor.
eventh Grade—Patricia Bate
►n, Douglas Woods.
^inth Grade—Mary Smith, Car
11 Strayhorn.-1
Tenth Graded—Betty Lou Rein
dt, Edward Scarlette, Helen
bier.
eventh Grade — Kenneth
. Donnie Whitaker,
velfth Grade—Polly Roberts,
tstancwng CITIZEN
Hope — A certificate of
to the outstand
dty by the New Hope Grange
presented to Miss Christine
It a meeting last Wednesday
Hillsboro — Fifty-nine seniors,
the largest number to receive di
plomas in recent years, gradu
ated from Hillsboro High School
in Commencement exercises last
night.
W. D. Carmichael, acting presi
dent of the University of North
Carolina delivered the commen
cement address followed by the
presentation of diplomas by Miss
Mary Susan Robertson, chosen by
the seniors to present the diplomas.
Miss Robertson a teacher in the
Hillsboro School last year now
teaches at Reidsville.
The 1950 exercises began Sun
day with the B&ccaulerate Ser
mon delivered by Dr. B. G. Childs,
oi Duke University, Class Day ex
ercises were held at the school
Tuesday night by the seniors
under the direction of Mrs. E. T.
Campbell.
Following a 27 year old custom,
Bibles given by the Parent Tea
chers Association were presented
last night to each senior'by Mrs.
Clarence Jones.
G. C. MoBain presented the
awards and medals to the fol
lowing seniors: Dorothy Haith
oock, scholarship by the Masonic
Lodge; Phyllis Forrest, English,
by the Lions Club; Mary Emily
Mohler, Math, by the Pythians;
Bobby Hastings, Science, by J. G.
Goodwin; Jeanette Miller, Orator
ical, given by Jerry Stone; Harry
Brown was presented the Athe
letic Award by the Exchange
Club; and Polly Roberts was pre
sented the medal for Best-All
AroUnd-Sport. ■ _
Seven awards were also pre
sented to seven Hillsboro bus
drivers, who completed the school
year without a serious accident
and for observing safety rules and
precautions: These awards given
fby the Orange County Board of
Education were presented t o:
Phillip Higgs, Paul Waddel, Ken
neth Brown. Charles Tilley, Ger
orge Wagoner, Billy Porterfield,
and Billy Laws.
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Roger TH«
Carolina
Athlete OE Year
Carrboro—'Roger Thrift, star
Pirate footballer - has been voted
the East Carolina Athlete of the
year. .
He was voted this honor by
members of the East Carolina
Varsity club in a contest sponsored
by the “TECO ECHO” which is
the East Carolina College paper.
Roger hails from Carrboro, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Thrift; Greensboro Street, Carr
boro. . , ,
He attended high school in
Chapel Hill where he was a four
year letter man in basketball and
a three-year, letter man in tcot
ball. His college paper says
“Thrift, a junior at East
Carolina, won most of his iavor
as a gridiron'great l^st- fall. Kit
ting expertly into Coach B-ii
Dale’s T formation as first string
quarterback, Roger captured AU
North State conference honors.
Thrift will receive his trophy at
arr atwri^riaiu^ d^te j^ th^e^near
future.”-;---_
Firemen Take
Morehead Trip
Hillsboro- Hillsboro volunteer
firemen spent their annual weeK
end -at Morehead last weeken .
.« _rt vear s . t
Harvey Watkins, Buck Knight,
V. M. Forrest. B.'B Forrest. B.
Smith, Dr. M. .B. Roberts, Fred
Sharpe, Herman Strayhorn James
Chestnut, Marshall Cates, J •>
Chandiler Cates Robert WjjJ.
Hoppy Thomas, Arthur Crabtr e,
Leonard Rosemond, Owen Allison,
Alton Williams. -.. ...
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trouble, DOUBLE TROUBLE
The pres, of the
weeks edition la . h um
plUkrn^P*f>*"'*dZZTr
Persons dooirlng to
advertisements In »e*t '
edition ore asked **5**f*
and get them In ea Y
CADET COLONEL, Cornelius
E. Liner, Regimental Comman
der,Georgia Military Academy,
College Park, Georgia, wjho
graduates Monday, May 29, 1950,
from dr.' College. Liner received
hie Commission as Colonel on
September 17, 1949, which Is
the highest Military honor be
^stowed upon a cadet at Georgia
Military Academy, an "honor
military school by Department
of Army. He excelled in boxing
and football and won recognl-»
tion in track and as a member
of the glee club and the octet,
and tie Is a member of the staff
of “The (aamilacad”, the school
paper. He has been voted the
most versatile cadet at G. M. A.
He Is the eon of Mr. and Mds.
E. C. Liner, Hillsboro, aind
attended Hillsboro High School :
before entering G. M. A.
Stone Denies
He’s Supporting
E. R. Williamson *
Hillsboro — Jerry B. Stone,
solicitor of Orange County Recor
ders, yesterday said catagorically
that he had not and would not
support the candidcy of E. R.
Willamson of Dqrham in his cam
paign for Congress against in*,
cumbent Carl T. Durham of
Chape! Hill.
Stone explained that he had
been acused od aiding the Durham
man by a number of people be
cause he had allowed Williamson
to use his telephone to contact the
High School Safety Patrol relative
to distribution of campaign mat
erial during their money-raising
for their recent trip to the Na
tion’s Capitol.
Stone said he told both Wil
liamson and the Patrol that he
would in no way be connected
personally with the Williamson
Campaign.
Sykes Death
Termed Sucide
Efland - Ed Sykes, 68, a resident
of Efland, died of self inflicted
gunshot wounds Wednesday after
noon, Orange County Coroner H.
J. Walker reported.
Walker stated that he was not
calling for a coroners inquest and
ruled the death as sucide.
Funeral arrangements had not
been made late Wednesday and it
is expected that the funeral will
be held Friday. Walker’s Funeral
Home of Hillsboro Is handling
arrangements. ~
Legion Auxiliary
Sets Saturday
As Poppy Day
Hillsboro The annual Mem
orial Poppy Day Sale will be con
ducted in Hillsboro on Saturday,
May 27.
Members of the American Le
gion Auxiliary, mothers, wives,
sisters and daughters of the men
who served in two World Wars,
will again be on the streets, in
the stores, and at voting places
to ask Orange County citizens
to wear ,a Poppy in tribute to
the War Dead. ~ -
The poppies, made by disabled
veterans, will be handed- out in
return for donations to the Ameri
can Legion’s fund for work with
disabled veterans and children ofj
veterans. The poppies are crepe
paper replicas of the wild poppies
which-bloomed in first war ceme
teries in France and Belgium. %
The making of the poppies,
members of the local Legion Aux
iliary pointed out is of double ben
efit to the disabled veterans, serv
ing as a means of employment to
aid them to be self-supporting and
as an aid to recovery by occupying
hands and minds, breaking the
tedium of long idleness and restor
ing spirits crushed- by hopeless
ness.
In promotion of Poppy Day, the
Legion Auxiliary has set up a;
display in the window of Gordon’s
Grocery, with most of the artistic
work in connection therewith being
contributed by IJpster Lynch.
Four Chapel Hill
Scouts Tapped
By Hoaor Group
Ghapel Hill — FpUr Scputs from
Chapel Hill Troop 39 have recently
been tapped1 as candidates for
membership in the. Order of--the
national brotherhood of outstand
ing Scout campers. They are Allen
Williams, Ned Hedgpeth, Scoopy_
McAllister and Vic Huggins, all
patrol leaders in the Troop.
Scout must be of first class rank,
or above and have camped out
at least 15 night*. He is elected
by secret balloting of his fellow
Troop members and has no know
ledge of his election until he is
tapped by members of the Order.
As a candidate he must qualify
for the Ordeal Honor before be“
coming a full member. The Scouts
will have an opportunity for this
during summer camp. — j
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NEW OFFICERS
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Chapel Hill — Newly elected
officer^ of the Chapel Hill League
of women voters are Mn. H. W.j
Walters, preaident; Mis* Muaret
McLauchlip, vice-president; Mr*.
R. L.. Barrus, secretary; and Mrs.
F. J. Kottke, treasure; New Direc- '
tors are Mra. W. R'. Mann, Mra.
Paul Tuthrle, Mra. Herbert McKay,
and Mrs. Loren Mackdnnay. -
Transport Driver In Clayton Death
Case Bound Over To Superior Court
Hillsboro — Edgar M. Lyerly,
driver of the truck involved in
the fatal collision with Walter H.
Clayton, was 'bound over to Super
ior Court Monday following a
hearing in Recorders Court.
Judge L. J. Ph:pps ruled •,pro
bable c^c in the - manslaughter
count after hearing ?fi<e
the State, which included test
imony of investigating Patrqlman
T. P. Hofler and Louis Bobbitt.
Hofler described the. scene of the
wreck, told that impact ’ occurred
over 300 yards from the final
resting place pf the vehicles, and
said on the night of the accident
■he was able to see a man without
lights from a point on the high
way 800 feet west of the scene
of the first collision.
Bobbitt testified that he heard
Clayton groaning under the truck
upon his arrival upon. the scenes
He was among the first to arrive.
Other eases before the court
Monday for the most part also
involves traffic offenses. Five de
fendants were charged with driv
ing under -the influence of some
intoxicants, one for reckless driv
ing, two others- for speeding and
another for driving without a
license. - ; & ' :
The record: v ’
H. Claborn Cates, no operator’s
license, $25 and cofcts; Walter
Umstead, allowing unlicensed o
perator to drive; Arthur' Eugene
Syk.es Jr., speeding in excess of
jjaxs. ^Bended and.
$50 and costs; Jack Lloyd' reckless;
driving;* $100j and costs; W. W.
McCoy, speeding, $10 and cost^;
William Shepherd” Talbert, driv
ing under influence .and public
drunkenness, $100 and costs; James
H. Holman, hit and hun, $50 and.
costs; Charlie Brown, non support,
costs; Aubrey Lloyd, driving un
der the influence, continued to
June 26; Wiley L. Upchurch, driv
ing under the influence, continued
to 29; Milton T. Allen Jr’.,
driving under the influence, $100
and costs and Gracie Brewer,
illegal possession. thWimpnths,
suspended upon payment oi fSE
and- costs and upon condition she
not violate any phase, of the
prohibition law for two years and
allow her premises to be search
by officers at any time with ,or
without search warrants. *
SAMPLE
Democratic Primary Ballet
Fir County Officers
v r v INSTRUCTIONS
1. *To vote for a candidate on the'ballot make a
cross (X) mark in the square at the left of his
name.
a. It you tear or deface or wrongly mark this bal*
lot, return it to the registrar and get another.
- - FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS
(Vote for One)
□ ARCHIE G. WILLIAMS
O J. ED LAWS -• - ■ •;
FOR SHERIFF
(Vote for One)
□ GAINES F. LINEk
□ S T. LATTA
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
(Vote for Three)
P HENRY S. WALKER
□ COLLIER COBB. JR.
□ COY W. LONG
□ BEN F. WILSON
-□ H. G LAWS- '
Q SIM EFLAND
FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION
(Vote tor One)
□ HARRY P. BREEZE
Z. C. BURTON
Chairman of Grange County- Board, ofElection*
Election Returns
Tobacco Crop ■
Two-Thirds
Planted
— Hillsboro— Orange County to
bacco fanners followed Experi
ment Station recommendations and
treated their plant beds with'
Fermate. -
As a result, they had scarcely
no B!ue~'MTTld"'daTnage and have a
,nn plus of plants.
As otf Saturday, May 20th,
County Agent. Don Matheson, re
ported that the planting is two
th:: d«' ftffnpleted-h* Orange County
and plants ' segfn~to be growing
well.
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Baptist DVBS
Starts Friday
Hillsboro —- Preparation Day
wjll be held at the First Baptist
Church of Hillsboro, Friday, May
School scheduled to start Mohday'
May 2J>, until June 11.
The Bible School w\’l be from
9 until 12 each morning with
commencement exercises on Sun
day, June 11. The school is open
to all children sixteen years old
and under. Those under four will
be in the Nursery department,
those four and five, in the Begin
ners, nine through twelve in the
Juniors, end thirteen through six
teen in the intermediates.
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birthday event
" Httlsfeonr - The family - of John.
Watkins is celebrating his 75th
birthday anniversary Sunday at
the home on Hillsboro Route 1.
Relatives and friends are being
invited Jo attend and bring* a
basket
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Hillsboro — The office of The
News of Orange County this year
will be the spot at which the
election returns will. be assembled
[ for Orange County in the Domo
i cratic Primary election and the
Sixth District Republican Primary
for Congressman on Saturday,
May 27.
The office will-he open until
all returns from the county’s 16
precinct have been received.
Elections officials are being ask
ed to telephone the returns (Tele
phone Number is Hillsboro 4191)
as soon as the vote is counted in
eaeh box. Injthe event there is a
delay in completing the counting,
the State returns should be tele
phoned first-' ■ .
During the evening, returns"wilT
be tabulated and posted ^at the
News Office as fast as they are
received and everyone is welcome
to come around and keep UR with
the returns during the evening.
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M^KE PHI BETA KAPPA
Chapel Hill — Four Orange
County situdents at the University
Kappa the national scholastic fra
ternity.
From Chapel Hill: Charles Allan
Northend Maria Kerr Jones and.
Patricia t>. Stanford.— —;■ -
From Hillsboro: Robert Miller
Arthur,
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WESTERN SHEEP PURCHASED
Hillsboro — Reid Roberts, Ray
mond Weaver and Henry Walker
of the St. Marys Community have
received twenty Western ewes
from a shipment brought in by
the North Carolina Depei-tment of
Agriculture. There ip considerable
interest evidenced by farmers of
the county in ratting a ltjyt more
sheep. At present there are only
shout ..twenty flocks.
Hillsboro — Intense activity on
the pert of ell candidates for
office has set the stage this week
for the biennial Primary elec
tion on Saturday.
Polls will open at 6JO a. m_
in the county’s sixteen precinct*
and the fate of a dozen candiate*
for county posts and candidates
for four state and district job*
hang In the balance.
Orange County has a more than
average interest in two candi
dates for major office, both in
cumbents, Senator Frank P. Gra
ham and Representative Carl T
Durhsm. i ' -J'' '
Senator Graham faces his ma
por opposition in the person at
Willis Smith, Raleigh lawyer, who
has conducted a bitter, smear
type campaign hardly equalled in
intensity in the past 50 years.
Carl Durham's opposition is E.
R. Williamson of Durham, Labor
Paper Editor, who is not expected
to seriously threaten the Orarnge
County man's long tenure. _
On the County front, most heat
ed battle appears to be in the
Sheriff's race in -which Gaines
F. Liner, Cedar Grove farmer, is
seeking to unseat the veteran;
S. T. Latta. Liner has conducted
a vigorous campaign since filing
time on April 15 and Latta, more
recently after a siege of illness, "
has also been busy seeing the
voters. In a race for Register of
Deeds, voters have a choice be
tween incumbent Ed Laws and
Archie G. Williams of Efland.
Harry P. (Buddy) Breeze is op
posing Zeb Burton of Cedar Grove
for one seat on the Board of
Education and three candidates
are seeking to overthrow the
three incumbents on the Board
of County Commissioners, Col
lier Cobb Jr., H. G Laws and
Ben F. Wilson. They are Sim—
Efland, Henry S. Walker of St.
Mary’s and £oy W. Long of Cedar
were pieced on ssr refcistratlow
books in Orange County several
weeks ago and a heavy vote i«
expected throughout in view of the
local Campaigns and the bitter
battle for Graham’s Senate Seat.
A Republican primary race i*
being held between two candidate*
for nomination to oppose Durham
in' {he CSngresshoral -race, H:
Grady Dorsett of Chapel Hill is
t)pposing^A^.A, McDonald of Dur
ham in the only Republican con
ies t in the county.
Worship Service
Chapel Hill—The Choir of the
Presbyterian Church will lead_
the worship of both the morning
services on next Sunday, May^_ ”
28th. There will be no sermon,
William Waters will direct the
choir in the singing of Brahm's • ■
Requiem. Soloists will be Har
riet Keene and Richard Cox.
The first service will begin 15
minutes earlier than usual,_ at 9tS0
rather than 9:45. The second ser
vice n/ill hpflin at 1100 o'clock. ^
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Local Woaen
Voters Appointed
_Chaoe! H ill.—North Carolina
•women Iron) ail sections" 1ft‘ the
state are included on a list of
committees appointed by Mrs.
John Gillin. Chapel Hill, presi
dent of the North Carolina League
of Women Voters, to carry on
the work of the League during the
current year.-1 -—
Named on the groups from the
Chapel Hill organization were
Mrs. Donald Hayman, committee
on organization; Mrs. George E.
Artlmr Fink, budget and finance;
Mrs. Edward Woodhouse, chair-—
man of the program and hand
book committee; and Mrs. Ray
mond Adams, nominating com-'
mittee.
Kiaesvflle lead
Work Nears Ead
Carrboro — Work is nearing
completion on the thirty mile
stretch of hard surface road from
Carrboi’oie Kimesville. NaBa
Teer Company of Durham has '
contracted the construction of the
road which is to nil a, much ml .
need in this area. This is part of'
the Jones Ferry Inert •?