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-I grange County people reap NEWS every week than any Orange County Newapapei Subscribe today. R«n» tprtjrtr. fiewe reouHa Mil. buy, rent or o*t a joe by oetng THE NEWS Of Orange County K 57—No- 3* Kour Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 i (Published Weekly) . -1 ... I HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C , THURSDAY, AUGUST m I tii Page* TKi* Week pja ospital loses Hillsboro — The hospital area Forrest Clinic will be closed soon as all patients now con ed there can be released, Mrs. Efland Forrest, wife of the spital’s founder, announced this eek. It is possible that all patients ay be able to leave by this eekend, she indicated. While the hospital section of e Clinic will be closed, the front ffice-will remain open for an in efinite period with Dr. W. Dang on Smith, who joined the staff st week, practicing there. Closing of the clinic was at ibuted to Dr. Forrest’s illness. The hospital’s staff included .ur nurses, a laboratory technici an secretary, and maintenance rip.;. 1——: The brief statement announc ng the closing was as follows: Mrs. Forrest states that the hos ai area of Forrest Clinic will e closer due to Dr. Forrest’s ill ess. However, the office area ■ ill remain open with Dr. Lang don Smith in charge.” Second Sale 01 Purebred SPC Swine Tonight HillsborcH—On Thursday night, i August 10th, beginning at 8 o’clock teen Orange County Spotted Poland China breeders will offer 3'l selected animals to the farmers and breeders throughout this sec tion. *■ The sale will be held at the* Farmers’- Mutual Livestock Mark et in Hillsboro and will consist of 16 bred gilts, 9 open gilts, and 6 boars. A screening compaittee of breeders has checked all x of the animals entered and made 3ur® that they represent excellent type and quality. ' This will be the second sale of purebred “Spots” held in the county. The first sale being held in February of this year. Many of the bred gilts will far row in Sej '-nifoer s-d October which are ideal months for those who like to get fall pigs to carry over for next years’ meat supply and will also offer an excellent opportunity for 4-H and FFA Club members to obtain gilts that will farrow at the right time to feed their pigs for the Durham Fat Stock Show next spring. The 9 oipen. gilts anH B boars will re p resent some of the-best individual aimals of the spring farrowed lit ters and should be ideal for breed ing this fall for pig crop next spring. Most of these animals car ry the blood lines of Style Prince, Challenge Me, Advancer, and oth ers of the best blood lines in the Nation and North Carolina. It is expected that a large num ber of farmers and breeders will be on hand to participate in this sale. The sale is being held at night because the coolness of the evening will be of much benefit j to the animals, and too, it will otter a better opportunity for more fanners and breeders throughout the area to attend the sale. The sale should be over by 9:30, which should allow the buyers plenty of t'me to load the animals and 8®t back home well before midnight. Lester Lloyd Dies Alter Lesag Illness Chapel Hill — Lester (Shack) Lloyd, 60, died at his home on Route 1, Monday, August 7, fol Lwing.. an illness of several ange, the son of the late Lufce and Ella Phipps 'Lloyd. He was a carpenter by- trade and had Joeen employed by the University for 14 • -years. • Funeral services were held at tl»e Bethen Baptist Church, Tues day with Rev! H. G. Dorsett, pas tor, officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs* Jessie Thompson Lloyd of the home; three daughters, Mrs. J. r'' Montgomery of Richmond, Va., Mrs- Thaxter Bost of Burlington, and Mrs. CarLPitch of the home; sisters, Mrs. T. E. $Joyd, Mrs. r*v® Woods,' and Miss Blanche Lloyd, all of Route 1, Chapel Hill, “Lss Emma Lloyd and Mrs. R. T. Madden, both of Route 2, and Mrs. lahler Butner of Carrboro; two tothers, Clarence Lloyd of -Bur -'hgton, and Settle LJoyd of Or Lndo, pia; and ’ his ' stepmother, j Mrs. Lucie Lloyd of Route l.L Chapel Hill. '\\ Commander Orange Men Form Ififantry Company Of 81st Division Chapel Hill — An all-Orange County infantry company of the famed 81st "Wildcat" Division- is •veil underway hpre, it was an nounced by William Shuford. re cently appointed company com mander. ^ • Eighteen local men currently make up the strengtlTo'f the Com- ! pany and there are a number of' excellent openings'in the company for enlisted men-and five com Ipany officers. Veterans and non-veterans alike are invited to join the group, which meets Bi-weekly the first and- -third Thursdays of each month, in the Air ROTC Armory. For the two-hours instruction period each meeting, a full day’s pay is given to each man. At present -a company orderly room i? being . maintained from! * to 5 each day bv acting first) sergeant Lfjon Helguera at num- ! ber 18, Village Apartments/phone 8411. “ ' , Orange County members of the company are; Lee A Barclay, First Lieutenant; Joseph K. Byrd, Jr., Second Lieutenant? Warren Dixon, First Lieutenant; George F. Tay lor, fSecond Lieutenant; John P. Rogers, Second Lieutenant; James H. Street, Master Sergeant; George Cline, Jr., Sergeant. .. Herbert W. Cox. Corporal; Sey mour C. D'llon, Corporal; Charles O. Long, Corporal; Collier COibb, II, Pfc.; Erwin M. Danzlger, Pfc.; Joseph Leon Helguera, Pfc.; Thomas McGlothin, Pfc.; James I. Mason, Pfc.; Fred B. Hartness, Ret.; Merrill P. McGavran, Ret. White Cress Cuts Right-Of-Ways For Phone Lines White Cross — The right-of way for the, telephone lines to White Cross school have been cut and the lines are going up rapid ^Members. of -the community are contributing $30 for the right-of way cutters and plan to give them and their families a party with the money, „ The "right-of-way cutters are members cf the Community who *ave a minimum of -a half day t xovk to cut through” the area of oiop.erty other than their own for he necessary telephone ease nents. These generous citizens in dude J. F, Whitfield and son’^1' /in, Alton Durham and son, Hojt, Coleman A Gentry and son Cole nan, Jr., Otis Perkins and John Vtorrow, the only 0 . cu,tt^ J S. Bennett, of the University telephone Service, said the plans being made for the phone lines o 'SWefcWi' *C 54 as soon as-possible Me lers of this section of the Coiji minity met with .1* telephone eruce men last month m anat; em’pt to have theliney extemtrf. The right-of-ways were cut bv nembers of the commumty be ause*the telephone co . icials had advised them that t> elephones If the rgbGoteways were cut immedi IN -hWRECK xyro — Jimmy King, son - Tnd Mrs. Bob Wright of d?o, wa| seriously anford Highway, last Fri ^ening'lh'a'ntautomobile ac He was rushed by ambu to the Lee County Hospntalj iford and remams ln a cnti idition, but hope is held for { covery Judge Charges Patrolman With “Gestai Tactics And Patrol Boycotts “ ■ ■ Judge Coauuents On Neglected Court Finances Chape! Hill — Judge John T Manning, apparently seeking to inject a shot-in-the-.arm into the waning revenue tills of the Chapel Hill Recorder's Court, Monday in serted a lengthy deposition into the court records calling attention to the “neglected'' financial af fairs of the court and praising local government groups and law enforcement agencies. At the same time, he took another verbal poke at an .un named highway patrolman,^ ob vidtislv Patrolman R. R. Thomas, and singled him out for criticism fa—‘4ack of cooperation." ___ In the four-page single-spaced typewritten, statement the Judge lauded improvements in court room facilities, the cooperation of fcther agencies such as the Board of Aldermen and County Welfare Department* with the municipal body, and the assistance of the local police department. Regarding finances, he said, “The Court is very much con cerned over the neglect which in the past has been accorded the financial affairs of the court . “ . It has been reported orally * to the Court that the amount of un paid fines and costs approximate $6;000. Noting that a partial list of delinquents totalled- ever $3,4Q0T he said that citations had been issued for all defendants who were in arrears. .. He praised highly the coopera tion of Cha-pel Hill and Carrboro police but .said the lack of co operation of the un-namcd patrol man /was detrimental 'Tertfre best interest of the community and to its citizens. - —o---’• ’49 Delinquent Taxes Total $8,500 At Chapel Hill Chapel Hill — Approximately $8,500 in delinquent real property taxes is owed the town of Chapel Hill for the year 1949, according to figures released today 1 by Town Manager Thomas D. Rose. All deliquencies still outstand ing op August 15 will be publicly advertised on Friday, August 16. If the taxes are not then paid by September 11, the property will be subject to public sale by the town for payment thereof. In all, it was revealed, 189 per sons and firms are deliquent for the past year. Although thousands of dollar additional in taxes are yet owing the town for previous years, state law does not permit public advertising of these more than once, and that only for the year immediately past. -o -- Spurgeon Family Gather* The Spurgeon Family is assem bling in Hillsboro to celebrate Dr. J. S. Spurgeon’s 87th birthday, August 14. ■Dr. and Mrs, A. - J. Warren, Scares dale, N Y., Mis? Carrie M. Spurgeon, and Miss Hildale Burn ham, New Orelans, are visiting the Spurgeons this week and the J. A> Warrens and the R. F. l>>nnans of Chrnel Hill will join the family oh Sunday. M r*1 THE BITTER AND THE SWEET Compel HIH—Foe every silver lining there’s a cloud, to mis quote the 6ld saying and that’s the way Mayor Edwin S. Lanier feels this week. 3 After his pet-project, the ex tension of the town limits was passed last week, Lanier had a few phone calls from some local jokesters in the new. area. One told the mayor that now that he lived in the town he wanted hie garbage picked up immedi ately. Another told Lanier that he had some atonbsvy about the size of his fist,’ In front of hls yard and he wanted them picked up. And so It goes. The Boarp of Aldermen had announced last week that these e$un tel pat ser vices would be av|pllaole within 30 days. ~ jf—:-. Commissioners Pass Budget; Call For Bids Hillsboro — The Board of Coun ty Commissioners formally adopt-" ed the $419,814.60 tentative bud get and $1 tax rate for the new fiscal year at the monthly meet ing here Monday, i '' ,/ The budget had been on public display for 20 days since its ten laiive adoption last month. No protest was heard by the Com missioners curing the interim. Moving she. d vri’.h plans fer county bt l’Juig im lrn/untanU, Lae Commiss.dne: s moved to call for bids immediately on clearing the gttfe ui the new courthouse, on \vhtcir the old budding TdrmerilT occupied by the Bodrd of Educa tion now stands. Advertisement for bids-on. the job was begun in {his week’s paper and bids will be opened on August 23. Archi tect Archie R. Davis was instruct ed also to prepare specifications and call for bids on the installa tion of heating equipment in the old courthouse, a job which is ex pected to be completed before cold weather. v T7~. cT Prior to adopting the new bud get, the Board declined to raise the salaries of the Negro Farm Agent and the Negro Home De monstration Agent as requested by the district agents for tire Bx tension Service. , It-is requested that'State High way and Public Works Commis sion to place more adequate warn ing signal at the intersection of Highway 7(Tand St. Mary's road, the site of four accidents during the past two weeks. In further action during the day-long session, the Board moved to request the Governor to caned both civil and criminal court terms scheduled for th« weeks of August 21 and 28. These actions were taken on recommendation of the Orange County Bar asso ciation. —-0-— FARMERS BUILD POND8 Hillsboro — Eighteen Orange Count/ farmers have built jfarm fish popds this summer and have placed applications for fish to stock the ponds this fall. The most recent ponds complet ed 'are on the farms of Mitchel Lloyd and Eugene Blackwood. Both of these ponds are in pasture land and were built to provide water for livestock and fishing for the family. Deserters Cost Public Big Sum Hillsboro — Payments to faini lies of seven deserting husbands in Orange County have cost tax payers a total of $8,^21-, T Details of these expenditures were revealed by the Orange County Board of Welfare this week tn a letter to Sheriff S, T. Latta'urging that he lose no time in making a determined search for these men. Copies of the corres pondence were given to the Board Of Commissioners at their meeting Monday. f'T Wrote the' Welfare Board: "We have become increasingly, con cerned about the very large sums of money which have been and still are expended by this Board for the support of families whose husbands haye deserted, ‘ Now that a new deputy has been added to your staff, we are writing to give you a summary account of the situation in these families, and to request that you make a determined'effort to locate these men and to bring them to trial. We feel sure that you are as in terested in preventing unneces sary expenditures as are we, and now thatyou have a larger staff, yon will Jose no time in making a determined search for these men,” The fetter Ilstetf seven families, with a total of 19 children, which, had become public charges be cause the Sheriff could not lo cate the fathers. Said the Board, •'the expense of finding these men, no matter how far they had gone, would certainly not have come to any such figure.” Total ex penditures for these seven fami lies to July 31 have been $&,621. The' alleged deserters and th^r foirner addresses were listed as: latwrence Mitchell, West Hills boro; James Thomas, Hillsboro; Jay de Hester, no address; Odie Ccru nal, Route 2. Hillsboro; James Vaughan, Route 2, Mebane; John Terry, Route 2, Hilistooro; and Willie Norman, Route '2. Hills-' boro. Merchants Elect Gordon, Adopt Collections Plan Hillsboro — The Hillsboro Mer- | chants Association, holding . its monthly* session Tuesday night,! eleoted B. f\ Gordon, Jr., its pew i president and adopted a system of j ( i edits reporting and collections l'oi use by its members. Othe^ officers elected by un animous vote were E. J. Hamlin, vice president, and B. B. Fovwtih, H G. Crlefnan, Jr., and J. L. j Brown, Jr., directors. The new of-: i ficers will be installed at the nextj meeting, •) JJnder the new credit system . adopted bv the local Merchants, the association’s secretary serve as a collecting agency for deliquent accounts of the member merchants and reports of poor credit risks will be disseminated to the members on a confidential basis --o Health Officiate Announce Clinics For Vaccinations Hillsboro — Or. Of. David Gar vin, District Health Officer, re minds parents of school age chil dren that all children entering school this fall must be vaccinated for smallpox, whooping cough and diptheria before school begins, according to state law. If three years have elapsed since the child received the series' fur whooping cough and diptheria, he must have a booster dose. These immunizations can be given at the Health Department, or by a physician. Certificates showing the immunization received must be presented the first day of school. -Immunization clinics are held at the Health Department in Chapel Hill or Hillsboro every Friday afternoon, 2-4 p.m., and Saturday morning, 9-12 Noon. Grange Yoath At Camp Mew Hope; Governor Speaks Th« North Carolina 'Grange Youth Camp opened Monday at Camp Ne\w Hope, midway be tween Chapel Hill and Hillsboro with Grange youth leaders rang ing in ages from 14 to 25 partici pator. , “Batty—classes are being con ducted on “The Grange and Youth” with State Grange tflficials in charge. Art3, crafts, music and swimming instructions are featur ed each day. J. Hall Campbell, Greensboro, is serving as Camp Director, as sisted by the regular staff at Camp New Hope. ,i Speakers during the week have included Governor and Mrs. W. Kerr Scoft who paitlcipated In the Vesper Services Tuesday evening, Dr. James H. Hilton, State Col lege, who addressed the Grange YouthTuesday morning bn, "Ag (--{cultural O p p 6 rtu n I t i es for Youth,” and Mrs. Corinne Grims ly. Family Life Specialist, N. C. Extension Service, who spoke Wednesday morning on “Family Relationships.” Mr. and Mrs. “Harry B. Cald well, Greensboro, Mr. and MflTT.: W. Ferguson, Ferguson, ( end Mr. and (Mrs. J. Hall Campbell are serving as counselors. -o BABY BURNED Carrboio — Lemuel Henderson, eight-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Henderson, suffered a badly burned left arm and hand on last Wednesday morning when he turned hot coffee over on his hand at breakfast. He was car ried to Duke Hospital, for treat ment and is improving at the home of his parents. i— ju^-c Or ’ere Mental Test, Revokes Probation For Neighborhood Terrorist j ''-c£¥&&ti#ro — Williams S. Knight, ti^ man who terrorized » neigh borhood wUh shotgun and rocks on the night of July 31, had prayer for judgement continued in County Recorders Court here Monday and state doctors will get a chance to examine his sanity be fore Judge L. J. Phipps pronoun ces judgement on August 28. Knight faced three charges of assault, upon Mrs. Flora Dickson, her daughter in law, Mrs. John W. Dickson, and Mrs. Bessie ,Dor rity, an automobile theft charge and drunken driving and hit and run charges, as result of what wes apparently a drunken ram page near the outskirts of Hills boro. _ Witnesses for.the/.prosecution for th e most part contended Knight acted like a “fasy” man ana Defense Attorney James S. Patton sought to weave that throughout his cross examination ' . '/ In continuing ftwfaeroetft. Phipps invoked a three'months suspended road sentence against Knight in an old case anc^ called upon State pdhal , doctors to give him a through physical and mental ex amination prior to his being brought back here for judgement on August 28. Knight won acquit tal on the drunken ^driving count. The Knight trial was sand whiched between more thanj a score of traffic offenses and other crimes during an all-day session. The record: Robert D. Payton, drunken driving, Jury trial re quested, bound over to Superior Court; Gracie Brewer, illegal pos Sesion of non-tax paid whiskey, not guilty; Luther William'Brewer, illegal possesion of non-tax paid whiskey, $50 and costs; Clyde Howard, assault with a dead ly weapon on a female, 90 days; Clyde Howard, assault, 30. days; John H. Pugh, public drunkenness, costs; H. B. Hicks, passing worthless check, costs; Ned Browning, public drunkenness, costs; Ned B.'h"jK illegal pos sesion of non-tax. paid whiskey, $15 and costs; E. T. Forrester, speeding, $15 and costs; B. J. Car ter, tailing to obey an officer, $10* and costs; Paul Shelton, reckless driving, $25 and costs; Gerald M. j Womble, reckless driving, $1001 and costs; Bynum B. Barnes J speeding, $20 and costs; Carl T. Forehand, speeding, $15 and costs; William L. Sprinkle, speeding, $12 and costs; Clyde Edwards, driving while drunk, 90 days, suspended, $200 and costs, appealed and bound over to Superior Court; Robert Huffman, driving while drunk, $100 and costs; W H. Hall, public drunkenness, costs. Percy Riley, driving whilej drunk, request jury trial, bound; over ' to Superior Court: Maxwell King, driving while arunit and > after license was revolted, $200 ■ and costs; /antes R. Jones, patsing on a hill and speeding, $15 and' costs; Roy M. Little, speeding, $10 and costs; A. M. Mann, speeding and passing on a hill and follow ing to close behind anothed car, $1$ and costs; Edwin Dogle Hol land, passing on a curve, $10 and costs; James M. Hazelton, passing on a hill, $10 and costs; Roland Watson, Jr., parking on a high**! way without lights. $10 and costs; Clifton V. May, speeding, $15 and cost, Martin Terrell* speeding, $15 f and costs; Charlie CL Hall, failing; to stop for sign, $10 ;.nd costs; j Larry H. Hicks, permitting*, a drunken man to drive, state moved for ‘a jury trial, bound * over to Superior ' Court; Corhelius Liner, I faliure to stop upop entering a highway, $10 and costs; Robert Johnson, failure to obey an officer, : ci>«*r. ?”>; .1 \*«: Snivey, I public drunkenness, costs. Manning bsacs Bitter Attack On Patrobnaa Chapel Hill — Dissatisfaction *• with the operation of the Ch»p#i— Hill Recorder's, Court' has result ed fn n boycott of that court by the Highway Patrol and a bitter denunciation of Patrolman R. R. Thomas by JudgeJohnTMam bing. " ... In a letter to Thomas, with copies to Colonel James R, Smith, State Highway Patrol Commad-’ er, Manning charged Thomas with the use of “gestapu” methods and suggested that he either seek a ■ transfer to another area or the. Highway Patrol Would~Ht»e—pre vailed upon to transfer htm else where. Continuing, Manning told Thomas that he would “run" the— court and that it would not be run by a "State Highway Patrol man," Respite any loss of revenue_ which might result by virtue of the transfer of Highway Patrol cases to the Orange County Re corder’s Court. - '•••• Mayor Edwin, S. Lanier, al-, though declining to issue a direct statement on the cantroversy.in dicated he considered Manning’s attack on Thomas unfair both to Thomas and the Town of Chapel Hill, a move indicating at besi a serious breach between admin - j istrative add judicial branches of i the town government. Thus far; Thomas has declined to comment publicly on Manning’s letter and Colonel Smith has made no statement" other than to ac knowledge receipt of Manning's letter Thotnas’ 'mm«dhV ruperi or in the patrol is us *d to have sanctioned .the action of pa trolmen. stationed in this county in -initiating their cases in the county court. ; The c atrnversy was touched otf *>. a ''h ,«el H£H court c-aae in which a man and his wife were charged with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct and tres pass, and in addition, th^-man-was charged with drunken 'driving. Defendant* Exonerated r The incident occurred on Thom as' property. With Thomas as the ' sole prosecuting witness, Manning exonerated the couple on all counts. In his letter to Thomas, Manning explained the deficiences in the testimony -which led to his verdicts of not guilty in the spec ific .Charges, pointing out further that the testimony showed that Thomas had made th^ arrest while_ dressed in scivvy shirt and khaki pants; had presented no identifi cation, and that any defendant hfti the right to question tb* *u ihority of the arresting office?. Reviewing the testimony further, the Judge charge^ the Patrolman with exhibiting pride in the use of force to handcuff and subdue .««. «u uvut of bis wife, and in searching him and his wife’s”1 ppcketbook without a search warJ rgnt. He intimated that Thomas might be subject to punishment for failing to accord the defend ants their lawful right to have their bonds determined, give bond ah'* be released. Manning said the Chapel Kill Recorder’s Court was set up to determine criminal cases accord ing to law and not according to "what an enraged Highway Pa- ’ trolman thinks, believes or hopes is the law. This is not a ‘police state' and little gestapo’ methods will not be tolerated as long as I remain on the bench,” he assert ed. He pointed out that persons within the jurisdiction of the Chapel Hill court have a right to have their cases brought in that ecui t and depriving them of that right is both an inconvenience and an expense. The Orange - County Recorder’s Court has con current jurisdiction in the Chapel Hill area. _;• : _ ■ ; _ "As a Highway Patrolman.” Manning wrote, “you are em ployed to represent and protect the people of-No^.i Carolina in certain law enforcement matters. You do not make the laws. It is your duty to respect the law your self. "Gestapo” methods are not consonant with f our democratic way of life and will not be tol erated, “Although the Town of Chapel . ^ Hill loses some revenue whites it needs by the reason of the insti tution of actions by you in the Orange County Recorder's Court. h-Jth Ccurts are establish Wi prt- ^ (Continued On Page S)
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