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t ^ ;v#r. H#r« Orange Count/ people rood rHE NEWS .every wook than any ^ orange County Newspaper sUBSCWSe TODAY. (Published Weekly) want ads. Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since i8g3 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 17,1950 J Price: $* a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week Chapel Hill — The Chapel Hill ^arrboro Merchants Association Monday night joined the Junior Chamber of Commerce in refusing to take any action .on the proposed branch of the Durham Bank1 and Trust Co., Chapel Hill. The officials of the Durham Bank went before the two civic groups this past week and asked theih to approve a resolution and lend it to the State Banwing Com mission favoring the additional hanking facilities. Both groups voted :o adopt a “hands off” at titude toward the proposition after hearing officials from the two banks. The Sank of Chapel Hill offi cials had expressed the opinion at both meetings that thecontroversy did not by rights belong in the business of the constituted groups^ with them. . Althc ugh there is sentiment for and against the proposed branch bank, most of the merchants felt that support or opposition to the plan should come from individuals not civic groups. The Durham Bank and Trust Company. has sent .out question naires to local citizens about .the proposed bank and has filed a formal application with the State Banking Commission. Present plans call for ^public hearing on the matter early in September, after which the commission will vote on the application. The statements'made by officials of both banks ran along the same lines at both meetings. The Chapel ; Hill officials stressed th* belief that the town lacks enough wealth ts> suppoift two banks and added that they felt the bank was serv ing the community adequately. They also emphasized the fact that their directors are local men'and pointed out that the directors for the Durham Bank’s other branches are all Durham men except one. The Durham Bank took the stand J.hat competition in bank ing would b4T healthy and they stated that the town is large enough for additional -banking ser vices. They also pointed out that the Durham Bank has the young est group of officers of any bank in the state. The' Bank of Chapel Hill has been the only local bank sine® 1920 when it absorbed the in dependent People’s Bank. It has been operating here since 1899. -o ' V t Swine Sale Hillsboro — Farmers and breed ers throughout this section bought 31 breeding nnimylg at the second purebred SpottedL Poland China sale held at Farmers’ Mutual Livestock Market in Hillsboro on last Thursday night -for an average price of $55.00 per head. The sale consisted of 17 bred Silts, most of which /were due to farrow in September, 9 open gilts, and 6 boars.. The top price of 580.00 was paid for two top gilts - one consigned $65 to $75 per head. The open gilts weighed .from 175 t° 200 lbs. and averaged about 345.00 per head with the boars slightly under $40.ua - ' All of these animals were of good type and bleeding quality. Twenty-six of the thirty-one an imals were purchased by farmers and breeders here in Orange "County, a. third show and sale has been planned for February. BAPTIST HOLD REVIVAL ■- Hillsboro — The West Hillsboro Tee \ViU Baptist, Church will hold a miyabiMgfandafer Sunday, Au gust 20, and continuing through the week. fov. Mr, O. D. Foster, Nash viUe, Tenn., will conduct the ser Vlces *ith Rev. Mr. L. S. Joyner; PafJor °* the church, assisting him. _ v1® meetings will be held at ■30 in the church, which is op Ksite the Belle Vue Mfg. Co. —--—-o pOLlO REPORT ^ ^ne case of polio has been re m Northern Orange. The case of Curtis Riley, son ~ and Mrs. Charlie JRiley I: tne Schley community was -Tgnosed Sunday as polio. ■ Meanwhflej in Chapel Hill and V? southern part of the county Wols have been closed and precau^i°nary measures have ,/"en taken to prevent spread of * dreaded disease, after a num “r of cases were reported. Auxiliarf Observes Prayer Day Hillsboro — The American Le gion Auxiliary has set aside Sun day , August 20, as a day of prayer in behalf of the state, the nation and the world - - especially the American soldiers who are right ing in the Korean Theater of war. In cooperation with the Legion, the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches here will observe a special service on that Sunday, ■' -;-O--— South Settles Court Argument: Thomas Apologizes Chapel Hill — The Chapel Hill Recorders' Court and Highway Patrolman R. R. Thomas are back in business -at the same old stand, apparently by order of Colonel James R. Smith, the patrol’s com mander. - - In a hot letter, the contents »f which were revealed by this news paper last week, Judge John ,T. Manning had accused Thomas of failing to cooperate with his court by citing all of his cases to the in Hillsboro. Colonel Smith advised The NEWS that- he had ordered Cap tain W. F.”Bailey, the area troop commander to investigate the mat ter and later stated in connection with the incident: “I -have investigated the cir cumstances of the recent occur rence in Chapel Hill involving the relations between Patrolman R. R. Thomas and the. Chapel IJill .Re corder’s Court. The Highway Pa trol has always followed a state wide policy of cooperation with the Courts of the State, including la rule that all cases originating within the territorial jurisdiction ! of a particular court must be tried in that Court unless there is an established local policy to- the con trary. Our investigations reveal that Patrolman Thomas’ action in taking all his cases to the Orange County Court, in Hillsboro have been at variance • with this state wide policy. Patrolman Thomas has apologized to the Chapel Hill Court for this variance and for the other misunderstandings and has assured the Court that it will receive his complete cooperation. “I have talked with Judge Man ning- of the Chapel Hill Cpurt and he assured me-, that Patrolmaif Thomas’ expression of his com plete cooperation make him con fident that he will receive this cooperation fully and completely. NO CLUES ■Hillsboro ».... There have been no clues yet as to the reason or identity of the person who first a bullet through the car wind shield of a Durham man travelling on Highway 70 near -Hillsboro Sunday night. E. H. Lovette, Durham appliance store operator, said the bullet mis sed him by inches as it came through the windshield and went out the open window of the right side. He could olfer no explanation for the incident. , . ■«_.-o-—- - • WINS SCHOLARSHIP‘S Chapel Hill — Alvin Ward Pea cock, recent graduate of the Uni versity, has just been awarded a regional scholarship, at Harvard University’s Graduate School ot Business Administration.^ Forty-nine such scholarships were awarded to members of -he entering class of the school .this r»ii v - - :' - . - Restraining Order Continued In Legion Row Hillsboro — The restraining order issued by Judge Leo Can on July 27. prohibiting officers of |.ie Hillsboro Legion Memorial Hut, Inc. from proceeding with plans for selling the Legion Hut here-was continued in full force and effect by Judge Walter J. tone In Alamance^ Superior Court Monday_ Judge Bone’s order stipulated tiat certain questions of law raised by the complaint must be heard in tie county of the defendant’s prin £ pal office and continued the old oMer until 2:30 p m. on October 2 then to be heard in Hillsboro before Judge Henry L. Stevens, or such other judge as may be presiding over the October term of Orange Superior Court. No representatives of the de fendant corporation appeared at Monday’s hearing. —- -■* = The civil action was brought against the present officers of the hut corporation by Post No. 85, American Legion Department of North Carolina, Clarence Rose mond, 6. S. Robertson and A. Max Browning,'individually and on be half of other stockholders in the hut corporation. --o TO CONDUCT SERVICES Hillsboro — Rev. C. C. Smith, retired Baptist minister from Dur ham, will conduct the morning services Sunday, August 20, at the First Baptist Church here. The pastor of the church, Rev. Paul T. Deaton, is on vacation. Sheriff Sals hfalflt Ot Welfare Lists la Order Hillsboro — Commenting on the Welfare Board’s request for re doubled efforts to apprehend seven Orange County deserters whose families have cost the taxpayers $8,821, “Sheriff S. T. Latta this week, hinted the Welfare Depart ment Itself might take some part in curbing its own expenditures. Looking over the list of August recipients of Welfare funds, he pointed out that the family of Redell MeClinton was receiving tin allotment of $81 per month. Me Clinton, who received three to four years in connection with the murder of Pete Jones, has been back from the roads for two months. As of the August payment, the McCtintons w^re still on the public welfare rolls. - Also cited was the ease of Otis K. Conklin who has been nicking the Welfare fund for $45 per month since he wes released from prison some time back. Although he continues in and out of court, his welfare check is issued with regularity, some of it finding its way back into the public coffers in court fines and costs. The latest incident was last month when he paid - a fine of (25 and .costs for operating a motor vehicle without s driver’s license. Typical of the difficulties en countered in apprehending deser ters and others who fail to support their families was the case of one James W. Isley, i Whose wife took out a warrant to bring him back. Learning that Isley was in Guil ford County, "the Sheriff turned the warrant ox'er to that County whose Sheriff w ;;te bock: “Un able to locate one J unes W. Isley. It seems his wife wired him and let him know that she had taken out a warrant for him.” ~ - g HI chapel jBU Ca^01^ T. A1W * « "**' Chapei Hill — The Chapel Hill Carrboro Merchants Association Monday night unanimously ap proved a resolution to oppose any change in the routing "of NC 15 There has been a movement on foot in Raleigh to change VC 15 Which now runs through Dftrham, Chapel Hill, Sanford, and Pine hurst to NC 15A, making the highway run straight south from Raleigh, along' the present NC 15 A. ■ V The merchants received^ notice^ carlierinthis week that-the San f»rd Chamber of Commerce had already sent a similar resolution to the State Department of High ways-in Raleigh. The resolution passed, Monday night stated that the towns af fected , had worked to build up their tourist areas and that a change in the Highway 15 would work a hardship on them and would keep .the tourists out of many of the most scenic sights in North Carolina. Nobody’s Hoarding, Jut Buying Staff To Keep Hoarders From Getting It By Scott Summer* t Nobody’s hoarding these days, they’re just buying up stuff to “keep the hoarders from getting iC I ‘ '77V A quick check around Raleigh brought this picture? " ; If Restaurants — Operators being told by their state organization to “raise prices or go broke.” Their food costs are jumping—up 15 to 20 per cent in. the last month and a half. One said he wished OP A would come back. “ If they don’t do that, or stop the whole sale price boosting, I’ll -have to go out of business.” This same man said the better restaurants are keeping the same quality foodj but are raising prices. If the prices on the menu are the- same as. they were a couple of months ago, he said: you can be sure that quality of the food has. suffered. simpheS'—- One .salesman -said” folks are buying ;|nough stuff to run them for a couple of years.” Outfits usually giving a $25 order HOr Are buying in. the hundreds of dollars class. * Groceries — From all over the State it’s the same story, folks are loading up on sugar, canned goods, processed meats. One clerk here said folks who never bought more than two to five pounds of sugar a week now are staggering out of his store with 50 or more pounds of the sweet stuff. “Makes you ashamed of bein’ a human,**—he said.; * Florists supplies — Wholesalers are being swamped. One Piedmont North Carolina florist — usually a ^few-dollar-at-a-time buyer re cently sent in an order that in cluded $250 worth of ribbon. In cidentally. the cost of ribbon is going up. It’s made in North Caro lina, sent to New York and given a.. new name, then sent back at twice the cost Board Moves To Curb Speeding In Hillsboro Traffic Cases Again Doauaate Weekly Court Hillsboro — Traffic cases again dominated the heavy docket of the County Recorder’s Court Mon day with Judge L. J. Phipps pre siding, and Jerry B. Stone, pro secuting attorney. A large number of the traffic cases called failed to appear and capiases had to he ordered. Most of the ^pther 'cases were public drunkenness. The - cases tried - are as folows; Thaddus C. Doss, reckless driv ing, on the left side of the road, personal property damage, nol pros with leave; Gilbert H. God frey, same charge, nol pros with leave; Hubert Oakley, Jr., no li cense, capias ordered; Charles Douglas Davis, no license, capias ordered; Fletcher Wright, assault on a female, costs; Dallas Oneil Thompson, no license, capias or dered;' Oi G Henderson, no license, capias ordered; Elihue Hamlet, reckless driving, $25 and costs; George A. Burton, driving drunk, no license, called and failed; James G. Hill, public drunkenness, costs and 30 days suspended; Clarence Cates, illegal possession of non-tax paid whiskey, $15 and costs; Rich ard Lee Kearns, no license, $25 and costs; John Austin, Jr., no license, $25 and costs. -- —Frank Stutts. public drun ken - ness, 30 days; Joe Jones, public -rh-tm ken ness, $5 and costs; Rud y Chunk” Vanhoofc, public drunk enness, costs; John Henry Pugh, public drunkenness, $5 and costs; Robert Alexander Hines, speeding and no license $25 and costs; Morris Terry, trespassing and dis rderly conduct, $5 and costs; Tom Walker, public drunkenness, 30 days; and Thcmas Champ Jordan, speeding, $10 and costs. Exchange Club Again Sponsors Softball Banquet Hillsboro — At their regular meeting last1 Thursday hight, The Exchange Club decided to again sponsor a banquet for the soft ball teams, managers and persons intrested in’'"the softball program at the close of the season. The house committee of which B. P. Gordon, Jr. is chairman is to handle the'arrangements. Tickets will be sold to cover the actual cost of the meal and expenses of the banquet. It was pointed out that this will not be a money making affair. Further details will be announced at ’ a later date. The recreation committee „ was instructed to purchase the trophies to be presented by The Exchange Club to the winners of the Boys and Girls playoffs. John Moulton made a very in-; treating report on the State Ex change Club convention held at Wrightsville Beach, August 4-6. —————o-— TECHNICIANS HEAR EXPERTS G. O. Reitzel of Hillsboro, and C. A. Gentry of Chapel Hill, Local Technicians for the Orange Coop erative Breeding Association, at tended the Fq-st Annual Tech nicians’ Conference -art the Hotel Langren in Asheville on August 11th and 12th. . Mayor Blasts Chapel Hill Critics In “White raper chi Communists -vekidi ■t'a-jiMtim. T'lrm.mm ;t rsfefnairrgaijsBEBsg Chapel Hill — As widely quoted in the North Carolina daily press, Mayor Edwin S, Lanier has issued a verbal “white paper on Com munism at Chapel Hill: addressed to the people of the State and de claring the town was bei^c° stantlv and unjustly branded a^ a center of leftist activities. :,;®ecame two Of them (Commu nistsj happen. jggg||g gg they do not live in ih7 town lnd are rarely . ^ there” he told the Duiham Kiwams Club in a luncheon ad dress “We are branded through tTom y. S‘”gp£ culators of the Stockholm Peace Petition.” - s Junius Scales, Carolinas District Communist Chairman, who has. a mailing address at Box .62, Chapel Hill, was an obvious target of the Mayor’s blast. During the past few weeks Scales has made several ap ! peals for the so-called Stockholm Peace Petition which asks outlaw ing of atomic weapons and would brand any government which first uses such weapons to be a war criminal .*.nd dealt with as such. 6 -PSiaJiing out that ‘‘Nearly any thing that happens in Chapel Hill has enough Statewide interest to give the newspapers an excuse for splashing it across their pages,” | the Mayor appealed to the people of North Carolina* to “QuitvPidicul ing and speaking, unkindly of-us : just because we are cursed, from, time to time with the temporary presence of some transient, - lying rattiesnaKe communist ana iew o f his loud-mouthed, moronic sympathizers.” /'Percentage wise, what town in* North Carolina of 20,000 or more people lean guarantee that it has less Communists than Chapel Hill?” he challenged. “The people of Chapel Hill de spise a Communist and his follow travelers just as much as you do,” the Mayor continued. “But we are not Klu Kluxers' and we will not take the law—or lack of law—into oiur own.hands.” “We will continue to plead to Congress and the Supreme Court to declare" Communists to be what they actually are, and tostrip them naked of the protection of our Constitution' which they hide be hind while they fanatically seek every deceit ana tricx tneir patne tic, sordid, twisted minds and imaginations can concoct to over throw and destroy-the government based on that Constitution.” He appealed especially to the people of the State to try to find out what Communism is really driving at, as one of the most effective weapons of defense a gainst it. “We will live in fear and ftice the dangers of Commu nism until the masses of our people ( understand that . . it is aimed and relentlessly fanatically pushed toward one over-all objective; namely the complete annihilation •of* personal freedom, the complete overthrow of/ representative gov ernment,' and the smothering of every expression of faith in God and the practice of Christianity.” Hog’s Head Potato Slated For Mantel Hillsboro —- John H, Jeffries, grandson of B. Q. Jeffries, out standing Negro farmer of Ala* mance County bro'ught a prize potato by THE NEWS office last week. The Irish potato was not too large, weighing only one half a pound, but it was shaped and appeared to be a'ttffnature pigs nead with slight buldges on each side for ears, one in> the middle for a snout. When queerled as to who* ther or not his grandfather planned to sell the unusual po tato, John 'grinned and stated, “Nah, suh, he’s gonna put it on the mantle-piece”. i -.•.— —-—0—--; Court Expedites Trial Of Transient Traffic Offenders HiUsboco — In a move to co operate with out-of-county motor ists involved in minor traffic vio lations, Orange County Recorders Court this week took steps to allow immediate trial in cases in which the defendant desires to plead guilty.... Such cases may be brought be fore a justice of the peace by the arresting officer an^ a consent judgement can be entered, sub ject to the later approval of the court. , . - - ■ This new procedure will enable ^out-of-county drivers-: to dispose of their cases ..-immediately, in-. |stead of being subjected to the inconvenience" and expense of re turning at a later date for trial in the county court. Such a procedure is practiced in many sections nf the country. Such a service Would ~m>\ ~~5e available to residents within the county. - •/ .. : • . ^ Graham Truck Driver Killed Near Chapel Hill Chapel Hill — A truck driver was killed instantly near here Fri day afternoon when his vehicle ran off the highway and crashed into a tree. He was Roy C. Billings, 24, of Graham, an employe of the J. B. Goldston Lumber Co., Carr horo. 'Billings was driving a Ford flat body, truck loaded with about one ton of cedar logs from Graham to Chapel Hill on Highway 54 about five miles west of here when the accident occurred at about 2:50 •P.'-'-M. a . Highway Patrolman E. C. Par nell, investigating the accident, noted there were no signs on the highway or embankment to ihdi cato braking of the vehicle, nor were there any eye-witnesses to the scene. As there were no other passengers in the truck, cause, of the accident has not been estab lished. The truck rounded a slight curve over the brow of a hill, apparently fan along the shoulder of the left hand side of the road about 50 feet, and then careened off along a thicketed embankment for over 200 feet before.crashing into a tree Such’ was the final impact that both front wheels were knocked completely off the axle, r “7 Billing’s had been working for 'Goldston’s' about four months. He is survived by a wife and two chil dren. The body was taken to a ----o—*-—r RECEIVES COMMISSION Chapel Hill — Four men from Chapel Hill have . just received commissions as second lieutenants in the Air Force Reserve at grad uation exercises for the summer encampment of the Air Reserve Officers Training Corps at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colo., The men, students at the Uni versity, are C. S. Clauson, B.--C. Crawford, A, M. Jackson, and J. H. Long. - - -■-- —O ; STUDENTS TO SHOW Chapel Hill — Elizabeth Flowers and Bemis Sheffield of Chapel Hill! and Jessie S. Latta of Hills boro will take part in a book show to be put on by the Uni versity's School of Library Science on August 22 and 23. Hillsoro — The Hillsboro Board 0 f Commissioners, unanimously expressing alarm over the use of certain streets as virtual speed-’ ways, this week moved to apply corrective measures in an effort to bring the situation under control The traffic situation, especially as it pertains to King Street, the main artery of traffic between Hillsboro and West Hillsboro, was brought to the Board’s attention by Commissioner H. Broadwell, who charged that the present speed limit was being flagrantly abused by trucks, taxis and pri vate conveyances and these speed ing vehicles constituted a serious hazard to children and other pe de st r Ians along this main thoroughfare. He cited numerous complaints and received' concurrence uf other - board iftemheSL&nddhe faayor, alt of whom either live or have bus inesses on this street. As a corrective measure, he moved to erect a stop light at the corner of King and Hazel Streets, which would serve as a deterrent to speed at the most hazardous in tersection, and to lower the speed limit in residential sections all over town from 35 to 25-miles per hour. Both of these motions were una.himou.sly approved and the Mayor was authorized to proceed with the purchase of necessary speed signs to erect on each street. Other business handled at its. 1 Tuesday night meeting included the approval of a resolution estab lishing the Town of Hillsboro as a Bird Sanctuary, • in accordance with a request from the Garden Club, the approval of a $23,164.75 budget for 1950-51 and adoption .of a tax rate of $1.25 pfer hundred _ ' dollar valuation for the next fiscal yeaT: The Commissioners in., approv ing-the tax rate of $1.25 IV Slowed a custom, of some 14 years, it having been that Jong that the ’same rate* has bee^u held <despite - SjpMilShuMted increases Vi tiller towns. -_The approved budget rails for expenditures closely approximat ing those of the past year and includes $4,315 for administration, $4,700 for police service, $12,490 for Street and cemetery work, $800 for the Are' department and $859i.75 for miscellaneous expen ses, including library contribution, insurance and bonds. Calvander Grange Agenda Shews Varied Propwa The Calvander Grange has had interesting programs for the sum mer months. In June, a skit, "A Topical College Day” was given by several young ladies of the community home from college, with the help of the Grange Lec turer, Everet Cheek. At the meet- ? ing in July, E. G. Hogan, Grange Chaplin, talked on the Korean War. Professor Hoyle Presided in the absence of the Grange Master,. Floyd D. Turnage. In August, pictures taken by Davis Turnage on a trip through the western states with his par ent s.,"Mr.''and'"Mrs.' Floyd Turnage, were shown. The pictures were in color. At this meeting, the charter for the newly organized Calvander Grange was presented by the State , Grange Master, Harry B. Cald well. . ' “ -o Vets Leave Pay as Charles At Beddingfield; District ^ervice Officer, North Carolina Veterans Commissiojfi, Oxford, an nounces that the deadline on Ter minal Leave Pay has been expend ed to June 30, 1950. ~ Wdrld War II veterans who were separated from Service be- ' fore September ;1, 1946 who failed to file an application for their Terminal Leave Pay mavjjtf' so now. '-**<**\ Claims for^ mentally disabled veterans may* be filled by the guardian or by the person upon whom the veteran is dependent for his chief support. •' - - Eligible veterans that dgsire to make , application may Contact Mr. Walter G. Wren, Veterans Servicer Officer rf Orange Countv ••• the Hillsboro American Legion Hut. k ! •• ■••• •