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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. N. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 8. 1950 Price: $* a Year: 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week
I iter Plant
ntract Let
i_ Contract lor the
0 addition to the local
t has been awarded to
Benfield Company of
was one of approxi
lf a dozen bidders on
,d the only one whose
elow the $30,000 figure
by Hillsboro voters at
.lection held several
Ird of the approximate
jcontract to Benfield last
L made subject to the
e Water Bonds by the
>verrypent Commission,
for Tuesday.
gale in Raleigh, the en
Was bought by the firm
fer and Arnold Associ
| and the R. S. Hays
Their low bid of 2%
lrst $10,000 and •*%%
jxt $20,000 was accepted
ocal Government Com
eduled construction calls
ag, a*new settling basin,
hamber and equipping
Iter bed to increase the
upadty from a quarter
on gallons per day to a
on.
bid, Benfield advised he
[in the job almost imme
£nd complete it in 60
cey Troubles
re Airing
|unty Court
caused the most trouble
eekend in Orange Coun
ting to the cases in the
i Court, Monday June
idge h. J. Phipps presid
A. H. Graham acting as
ig attorney, Parker Whe
r>Ur:y. „!-*'* Student. gpv
lilty of driving drunk and
i $100 and costs of court.
8 hag been appealed to
srior Court..
Curry pleaded guilty to
issession of non tax paid
for the purpose of sale
■ating a disorderly place,
sentenced to 90 days and
and costs. The sentence
invoked within two years
fendani is found guilty of
of any phase of. .the pro
aws or operates his house
ess so as to be a dis
in the neighborhood.
Miller and Robert E.
pleaded guilty to posses
ion tax paid whiskey and
Ed $10 and costs of court,
e Roberts pleaded guilty
charge of reckless driv
yer for judgement is to
nued on the condition that
ndant make proper resti
o the Morris Telephone
y for damages to the truck
fine of $10 and costs,
f for judgement was eon*
for one year for Thomas
i, found guilty of allowing
c to run at large, on the
n that the,, defendant pay
id keep his goats on the
ide of his premises from
Walker.
cases heard were; John
’-Pugh, public drunken -
and costs; Billy J- Stall
iblic drunkenness, $5 and
laymond Walker, public,
mess, $5 and costs; James |
as, public drunkenness and
?ossession of whiskey, $15
ts; George William Thompr
«ding, $10 and costs; Adol
irkland, Jr.. reckless driv
> and costs; Jack Carltoh
continued to June 26, and
do Roberson failed to ap
len called. C^se continued
indant required to give new
•r $300 for his appearance
e 26.
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tead To Talk
ioaecoauag
d. — The annu®’ >Tor’°
°«y program will be ob
Sunday at Chestnut Riage
■ four miles south of • Btf
*en the Honorable Willi
Umstead, former United
Senator, will be the prinCi
*ker.
«s Itoill be held it 11
followed by the usual
unch and an afternoon ser
Rally
Chapel Hill — A mass meeting
in behalf of the candidacy of
Senator Frank P. Graham for
re-election will be held here
Monday night at 8 o’clock at
the Town Hall.
This ahnouncement was made
yedCfcrday a few minutes after
Willis Smith announced*in Ral
eigh that he was calling for a
second primary m an effort to
unseat the Orange County man,
who emerged from the State’s
most bitter primary fight In re
cent history with a 53,000 plur
ality over the Raleigh lawyer.
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Merchants Body
Polls Meabers
On Trade Plans
Chapel Hill — The local Mer
chants - Association is conducting
a poll of its members to determine
trade promotion policies to be
carried out during the next six
months. 'Suggestions will be. pre*
sented at the next regular meeting
to be held Monday evening.
Questions on which opnions are
sought include: (a) the type of
trade promotion desired during
the summer, Ob) what part the
association should play in the
University Presidential Inaugura
tion, (c) suggestions for Orienta
tion Week, (d) type of trade pro
motion desired lor Fall, and (e)
, suggestions for Chrismas decora
tions.
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Fsceorafeisert,
Seen In Condition
Of Charles Walker
1 • ’ .' "" ' ^ . r.= ~.
Hillsboro — The condition ■ of
Charles Walker, Sr., who is criti
cally ill at Watt’s Hospital, was
described yesterday as being “as
good , as can be expected.”
Doetors were reported as being
encouraged by their examinations
which- revealed Mr. Walker had
suffered a hemorrhage of tissues
around the brain and not a dam
age to the brain itself.
Mr^ Walker suffered the at
tack Monday morning around 10
o’clock on .Guess Road about 14
miles from Hillsboro while on his
mail route.
Pasture Tours
Are Scheduled
To Stress Need S£
Hillsboro — Beginning at Cal
vander Service Station, 5 miles
north of Chapel Hill on Route 86,
a pasture tour will be conducted
west through the Orange Grove
section of Orange County on Wed
nesday, June T4.
Seme excellent ladino clover,
orchard grass, and fescue pastures,
together with alfalfa fields will be
■seen. The tour will begin at 2:00
o’clock and end at 4:00.
Farms visited will be those of
Lewis Lloyd, Willie Neville, Lem
uel Cheek, Hugh Wilson, W. I.
Suitt, Lacy and Duree Dodson Jim
Snipes Banks Uoyd John Kirk,
and Gera Sykes. There will be
only three or four farm stop*, but
most of the pastures can be seen
from the road.
- This tour has .been arranged by
the County Farm Agent and other
farm workers and'a special invi
tation is extended to business
men, seed, feed, fertilizer and im
plement dealers, and others in^
♦.rested in Orange County’s agri
culture:
A similar tour will be conduct
ed tomorrow, beginning at 1:00
p' m. at E. C. Compton’s at Carr,
by M. C. Burt, Negro county agent.
Leaving Carr at 1 p. m., the
tour will visit ,the following
farms: Alonza Parker’s, Shepherd
Burnett’s, B C. Corbett’s, Luther
Corbett’s, Clyde Russell’s, John
Poteat’s, Wesley Poteat’s, Edward
Poteat’s, Charles Bradsher’s and
Oddie Lee Torian’s.
The purpose of this tour is to
stress the need for at least ohe
acre of pasture on each farm in
the county. During the tour
farmers who have not participate
ed in the pasture program will be
urged to start preparing land
now, and placing orders for lime
in order to be ready when the time
comes to seed the pasture.
Governor Scott has Approved
allocation of $8,600,000 in surplus
highway funds for the state’s eight
most critically needed primary
road projects^ Highway Chairman
Henry W. Jordan announced.
The special appropriations will
augment the Commission*! current
$21,000,000 primary construction
program for the biennium and
Jieip balance up expenditures on
‘primary and secondaty toads.
Listed for immediate attention
under the special appropriations
are twenty miles of now location
on US 29 and 70 from (the end
of the Thomsville by-pass south
east of High Point to US 421
southeast o f Greendboro;
$2,000,000; and 15 miles on US 70
from a point west of Sfland to
a point southwest of Burlington,
also new location; cost $1,500,000
also new location; cost $1,500,000.
These projects, when linked up.
will by-pass Thamasville,. High
Point, Greensboro, Burlington and
Graham, forming part trf On even
tual four-lane highway ‘built to
specifications of the Federal
Government’s inter-regional high
way system. This is one of the
heaviest traveled and most con
gested sections
North Carolina.
Five Manslaughter
Cases On Docket
Hillsboro — Five cases of man
slaughter, the outgrowth of the
increasing accident rate to Orange
County, have been docketed for
trial at a session of Superior Court
opening Monday. !
Judge W. C. Harris Will be on
the bench and Solicitor^ William
Murdock will prosecute!
A varied assortment ^pf other
violence and whiskey of|pnses are
I included for trial.
State Beard Renders Status Qm4
Decision In School Area Dispute
CANNER CLINICS
canner
clinics will be held in. Orange'
County during the next 'week, .ac
cording to Mrs: Katherine'Hamrick
Orange County Home Demonstra
tion Agent. Tuesday, June 13, a
clinic will be held at Morgan’s
Esso, Station in 'Carrboro, from
10 to 12 o’clock. Tuesday after
noon. a.xiinje will bg held[_in^ Wal
ter’s Garage (formerly Cole’s
Garage) in Hillsboro from 2 to
4 o’clock. Giles Long Station, Ay
cock, will be the place, for a clinic
Wednesday morning, June 14,
from 10 to 12 o cloek.
Forty Awards Made To Orange Scouts
At Court Of Honor Held In Chapel Hill
Carrboro — Jack Bright. Ex
plorer Scout- of Post 20- Ghapel
Hill was ipresented-'his Eagle Scorn
Gold PI am last week at the Orange
County District Court of Honor
held in the Batist Church here.
>f0 receive tihe award Bright quali
fied for 10 merit badges above t. c
rank of Eagle, highest Scout ran*.
inK oi - A
Fo^tT^ffier'awSTtiy -we^- «tad£.
at the court, which- wa s .preside
‘ler", the Rev, ,B. V. Monger,;
district^ advancement Chan-mam
The ceremony was held m c
light, and a model lighted .cam
fire was on a platform at
front of the 'auditorium.
A camping Scene with tents and
other gear was set aroii ^
fire .with a natural grounding
small trees lining the. bacK
of tha platto:
sented the awards sat ^ound
of honor was carried ong ^
ingatm0s:phereJrooP£45ofrCge_
boro was in anarge u
Roy Armstrong, Jr
inm“le'Svedt.h^‘l.ar'™nhs
.«■»***£*££
five merit
u/Are Presented t , Troop
and lilie V
9, Chapel Hill, and Johnny
^nTcTasfkdvahcementw.ent
Charles Fitzgerald, Wag
Nicky «
3«
- m
Burns of Troop 45. v
Merit badges were awarded in
Post 20 to Russell Rullovk for
camping and civics. William Fyfe
for civics and pathftnding and
Coleman Gentry, Jr., for canoe
j ing~ arid woodwork; 'in Troop} 38
to Carl Carr for persona! health,
[Bobby Forrest for home repairs,
Max Kennedy for personal health
and Skippy Webb for personal
'health~ cncr'Tn'~Trbop' 39 rn Roy
' Arm'strong, Jr., for persona! health,
home,repairs and carpentry, Rob
ert Thompson for pathfinding, per
sonal health, first aid. public speak
ing and art. and Scoutmaster J. E.
Wadsworth for electricity.
Civic duty awards for 100 hours
were maHq to Ivan Squires and.
Roy Jones of Troop 45.
Ribbons for the Oceoneechee
month were presented. Clarence
Weldon, Scout executive from
Durham, pointed out that all
patrols which attended from the
Orange District won red or blue
ribbons, the two '"top rank,ngs.
Blue ribbon? wen! to the Eag.e and
Flaming Arrow: Patrols of Troop
9"and to the'' Eagle Patrol of
Troop 39. Red ones were given to
the Panther Patrol of Troop 9,
the Beaver, Bat and Fox Patrols of
Troop 39, the Owl and Flyteg
Eagle Patrols of Troop 38 and the
Wolfe Patrol of Troop 45.
The monthly attendance award
for the court'of "honor was won
by Troop 45 of Carrboro for the
fourth cnsecutive time. The troop
had 3l5^ per cent 4f its registered*
membership at the court, includ
ing parents and friends. / •
Hillsboro— The Hlllsboro-Ay
cock school attendance area dis-:
pute, precipitated by a decision
of the Board oi Education to en
large the Ayeoek district which
was later reversed, has been set
tled by the State Boarded Educa
tion. __ “v_
State Superintendent of Publiq
-Instruction C!ydev,A. Erwin ad
vised, county authorities that the
Board at its June 1 meeting decid
ed that: _ ■ ■
“(a) no pupil,who has been at
tending or who lives ,:i the a.ea
from which pupils have been at
tending high school a: Hillsboro,
afford at the Hillsboro High
ing the additional opportunities
afforde at the Hillsboro High
School, ",
... “(b) the Aycock High School
continue as it is at present.”
The State board's decision was
rendered as result of appeap from
both sides presented the Board’s
May meeting after lire Orange
County Board, reversing its ear
lier proposal, had sfet hew boun
| dary lines which pla ced approx
: imately six additional families in
[-the Aycock area. .
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Pleasant Green
Homecoming Jnn. 11
The Annual Homecoming will
be observed at Pleasant Green
Methodist Church Sunday, June
11, with Dr. Harry Srn.th as guest
speaker. '
Morning worship will be held
at 11:00 o'clock followed—with
dinner on the grounds. /The pre
sentation' of the history of the
&ureh a&Ts&eciltf W.
features of the ’ program. All
friend? of the church are invited
to attend. ^
•The Vacation Church School
will be conducted June 12-17 for
the- children of the community
between the ages of 4 and 16
years. All children within this
age group arfe encouraged to at
tend.
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VISITING. MJNI8TER_
Hillsboro — Dr. David Bradley
of Duke University will Occupy the
Presbyter&s pulpit here next Sun
day while the pastor • the Rgv.
Irving Birdseye, is attending the
annual General Assembly of the
church at Massanetta Springs, V*.
as a commissioner Iron* OnSige
PreAytery. : J <
School System Assigned
Revivalist
The Rev. . Eugene Baldwin,
above, of Hendersonville, will be
guest minister during revival ser
vices at the West Hillsboro Pen
tecostal Holiness Church, June
12-25. The Rev. Robert C. Fra
zier is the pastor. Services will
be held each evening at 7:30
o’clock.
Appropriations
Asked By Library
Coauaittee Here
Hillsboro — A vastly increased
circulation of book* in the Or
ange County Libraries and Book
mobile was reported to the Com
missioners Monday by Mrs. Doug
las Davis, district librarian.
The increase was 45 percent for
the first'nine months of this fiscal
year as compared with the entire
previous year up to July i, 1949.
The figures were cited In a
report presented to the board in
justification of a request for an
appropriation of $1,000 from the
Cotinfy for the library program.
$400 will be asked from the Town
of Hillsboro.
Policies of the Library Com
mittee in book purchases and a
description of the program in the
county were given in the discus
sion by Mrs. Davis, who was ac
companied to the Board by Sid
ney Green, chairman of the Li
brary Committee.
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WEDNESDAY DLOSIN&
Chapel Hill — Member store*'
—of — tbo Chanel H11 l -Carrboco
Merchant^ Association will be
et in closing on Wednesday after
noons, beginning next Wednes
day and continuing through
September 13.
I Hillsboro — A familiar structure
on Court Square, long an eye
sore but a necesary adjunct to
the County’s office system, will
fall to the wrecker’s bar shortly
after the middle of next month.
That was th« decision made
Monday by the Board of Com
missioners as preparations go for
ward for the construction of the
County's now courthouse on the
present site of the Board of Ed
ucation offices
Temporary offices for the School
Superintendent have been rented
on. the second floor of the Hayes
building, above Corner Drug Store,
effective July 1. The Superinten
dent expects to move around the
15th .and bids wilt be sought in
mediately thereafter on the job
of tearing down and removing the
old wooden office building andr
garage which was built around
1914 as a tobacco warehouse muT
was later used as a skating rink
when plans for the tobacco market
could not be fulBUled.
This action will pave the way
for the letting of contracts and
the beginning of construction on
the new courthouse early in the
Fall. Final plans, however, have
•riot yet been completed by Archi
tect Archie Davis.
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In other actions Monday, the
Board heard 'petitions from a
number of persons seeking to have
roads placed on the state high
way system. These included one
in Hiilsfboro, for Tryon Street, on
which residents, School officials
and members of The Session of the
Presbyterian Church Joined forces
to request widening and black
topping. G. O. Rietzel was the
spokesman and told of the ac
cident potentialities due to the
heavy traffic,, school bus usage and
church parking. Another was in
Bingfiani township off Highway
86 near Orange Grove, 1.2 miles;
one in Hillsboro from Highway
f6-A running, back gf the Kanior
Property, a distance of one mile on
which 25 4q 30 families reside:
and one in Cheeks township, 3.6
miles from Buckthorn ■ to the old
highway south of Bfland. Only ap
proval issued by the Commission
ers was for a .15 mile stretch off
the Airport Rgad by the residence
of Mrs.- T-. M, Green near Chapel
Hill, The remainder of the peti
tions received were tabled pend
ing further investigation-.to deter
mine which of the petitions cover
ing over 50 miles are most meritor
ious in view, of the limited 4,5
miles allotted to the county for
this year:
A meeting of the Commission
ers is set for Monday to consider
further the road petitions facing
the Board.
Erwin Commencement Speaker Friday
At Chapel Hill Finals; 7Z To Graduate
i Chapel Hill—Dr. Clyde A. Er
| win, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, will be the
ccmrnencement^ speaker tomorrow
I night 'at 8 o’clock at Graduation
ExertisC' of .the Chapel Hill 'High
School to.be held in Hill Hall.
j J. T. Gobble. vice chairman of
! the Chapel Hill School. Boat'd
| will present diplomas to the 72
nf «i» graduating class
from Chapel Hill, Carnboro, White
Cross and other sections included
in the Chapel Hill H.gh School
attendance area.
Members of the graduating class
will include:
J. Thomas Bradshaw,' Jack M.
-Bright. Charles. H. Creel. Franklin
R. Dennis, John C, Earnhardt, Jr?T
Bobby-F. Fowler, Tommy Gravilt,
*&&&&&*&*»■ -BoetHg,.., .Bill ;Magaa,
Charles Hunt, Joe Jones,‘''Tad' Me-"
Govron, Fenno McGinty, Eddie
Mann, Jr., Allan W. Markham,
Jack W. Maultsby, Delbert E. j
Mayse, Marvin Morris, E>on Mul
lis, Stanley Peele, Lewis E. Phil
lips, Renny Randolph, Nat L.
Sparrcw. Sidney T. Sparrow,
Raymond Stainback, Howard L.
Stewart, Waylan B. Stinson, Jr„
Edwin Lee Thompson, Matt Lee
Thompson, F. Davis Turnage, Jr.,
Dewey Wright -----—
Beverly Austin, Johnsie Ben
nett, Ruth Benson. Jane Berryhillr
Sue Carter, Bobbie Clark, Jackie
Copeland, Charlotte Davis, June
DeLaticy, Patsy KUinger, A»qe |
Ferrell, Margaret Gutierrez, Mar
ilyn Habel, Boots Hampton, Josiej
Mae Hardee, Margaret Hayes, |
I Peggy Jernigam Norma King, Beth
Lloyd, Eloise Maddry, Peggy Mar
tindale, Jane' Matthews, Betsy
Meadows, Sarah- Nesbitt, Doris
Norwood, Jean Pa*tin. Peggie Poe,
Clara Jo Riggstoee, Sarah, Rose,
Caroline Ross, Julia Shields, Cath
c; i,e Smith, Barbara Sparrow; El
eanor?Thompson,. Emogene
j Thompson, Anne Umstead, Elinor
Wagner, Betty Williams, Rebek.ah
Yfiiv. , ~ . - 5®
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Chapel Hill—A vacation Bible
School for all children between
the ages of 4 and 12 will Joe held
from June 12 to June 23 at the
Ttlethodist Church under* the' jofnt
auspices of the li^fethodist and the
PuiLCh-. It meet
Tftrffi ' 8:4% to 10-45 -every morn
ing from Monday-^through Friday.
Those whb wish their children to
attend are asked to phone Mrs.
Peter Lavin at 71366.
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PLACE IN CONTEST
Chapel Hill — Charles .Way,
Chapel Hill High School, has won
third place in the State High
School Spanish contest, sponsored
by the University. Honorable
mention went to Margaret Guit
errez and Ruth Benson, Chapel
Hill 'Three hundred and twelve
student* representing 17 schools
throughout the state "participated
in the contact.
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Re card Finals
Save Distinct
Orange Cater
Chapel Hill — A new record
was set in the total number of
students graduating in one class
at the University of North Caro
lina last Monday night at the
156th commencement exercises
when 1600 students received their
degrees. Of this number, 143 were
from Orange County. =-f~
Most of the degrees listed on
the Commencement program were
represented by at least one Orange
County student.
Viewed from a percentage angle, „...
Orange was represented by 9 per
cent of the total graduating class.
By virture of this figure, when
compared on a county basis
throughout the state, Orange can
be figured to place high in the
number of students, attending the .
University from each county. '
Not numbered among this group,
but still a resident of Orange
County and who received a de
gree also, was a little man known
to every person In this county—
Dr. Frank Porter Graham. A1- .
though Dr. Frank has many de
grees, another one was awarded
to him last Monday night when
the faculty and the Board of
Trustees of the University con
ferred upon him the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Law. Also in
line for a degree, was a neighbor
ing county citizen by the name
of W. Kerr Scott who also receiv
ed an honorary Doctor "of tawr
degree.
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Orange Students
Win UNC Honors
Chapel Hill — The University
of North Carolina students who
have made outstanding records in
various fields of endeavor this
year were presented awards at
the 156th Commencement exer
cises in Kenan Stadium here Mon
day night.
Students from Orange County
receiving' awards .were: Patricia
Stanford,. .Ghgpel . Hjfo.Valkyrie
Cup for distinguished service to
•women’s activities':- Alvin Ward' * •
Peacock. Chapel Hill. Delta Sigma ' -
Pi Award in Commerce; Arthur r
Simeon Winsor, Jr:, Archibald
Henderson Medal in Mathematics; •
Urban Tigner Holmes. itlcCfiijj#!'"
Hill. IDben . Alexander Prize in
Greek; Mrs—Maria Kerr Jonesf_, • ;
Chapel Hill, Chi -Omega Prize In
Sociology; Wilton Mason. Chapel
Hill. Joseph D. Feldm:;:i Award
in Play-writing, Alvin Ward-Pea
cock. $500 Essay Prize from N!a
tional Association of Manufactur
e’s. and N. $?.- Association of Cer
tified Public Accountants Award.
The award; were announced by
Mackie. .
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Civic Clubs Plan
Benefit Outing
.Chapel Hill-—■_ In a cooperative
benefit effort. e:v. chib* cl Chbpel
Hill and Canioro will partici
pate in'jin outing on June 21 in
stead of their regular meeting of
(..Hiai.. --4^_yv.
Entertainment, a barbecue, and
ball same will feat
';nd proceeds will'go to the Lions
Club and Carrboro Athletic Club
to be use d •to.ward their Ball Parte
fund. !' *
. Roy Barham wfll be in charge
! of the banbecue./Hubert Hender
| son in charge of the band and the
;Carrborn Athletic Club will
djile a game for the’ evening,
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WA+tE • FOREST G R A OU AT ESr
Wake Sorest—James G. Good
win of Hillsboro and Elizabeth
Hellen of .Carrboro were awarded
degrees at Wake Forest College’s
•116th annual commencement ex
ercises this week. The Bachelor
of Science degree was presented
to Miss Hellen and the Bachelor
of Arts degree was given to Mr
Goodwin.
Cast clinic of season
The regular chest X-ray? clinic
wfU He held gt the Hih«*ot*o
Health Department Monday. June
12th, 1-3 p. m. This is the. last
X-ray clinic that will be held be
fore September, since eno elinkw
have been scheduled during the
summer months.