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, county every week thill i County Nowof HI BE TOOAY. (Published Weekly) Pmir Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 He buy, rent er get * J«b by THE NEWS of Orange County want M column*. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1950 Price: $s a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week /e R- Tilghman, seaman, USN (right), son of Mr. and Mrs. Tilghman of 32f MacCauley St., Chapel Hill, raises his right j "accept the oath of reenlistroent-in the U, S. Navy for six from the personnel officer at the U. S. Fleet Activities, * Japan. Tllghman, who is assigned to the Print Shop, completed six years in ,the Navy. (Official U.. S. Navy iraph). - - • baders Laud etiring Wilson sboro — Ben F. Wilson of s Township ended 12 years ■vice as a member of the e County Board of Commis s at the November session iy amid ringing praise from illeagues and other county nal Exhibit .8and9 fsboro—Orange County Fed in of Home Demonstration l are Sponsoring a group of its and a Farm Family Pro yastenl*!#' tod.^. irteen Home Demonstration have placed on display fex ■actiyities of the past year. B exhibits will be open to the |c from 10 ai m. to 3 p. En today. Exhibits will be led and relegated to blue and l-ibbon groups. The decision r judge!) will be announced at farm Family program. |e Farm Family program will I at 7:^0 in the Hillsboro High >1 auditorium on November Urs. Marvin Phelps* president c Orange County Federation lome Demonstration Clubs, preside. Chief speaker for the ion will be Mrs, W. Kenneth representative from this ** todhc Internatjonal meet ® Denmark this year. Mrs. Er one of five delegates North Carolina tBushels Corn 1 Per Acre as First Prise Jsboro — The com growing „ Was climaxed at the Cen C'h School in Hillsboro, ay night, November 1. ^ appearing on the program ‘ J W. Jeffers, Assistant f( Smte A vent of the N. C. Wi Extension Service, R. “‘cr, Soil Conservation Ser . p Barnes, Assistant Coun .ceri’s A- W, Solomon, State tentative of the Farm Bur-. • arvin. Rogers, Chairman of miJireau County Membership «ee’ Burton, President * Co«nty Farm Bureau, i ^'nners in the contest were 5 B.urr>ett, 144 bushels, mem ohi u6 veteran* class at the ~ High School, Chapel Hill *50 Savings Bond. Vol °* the Jordan Grove of r^°°^ 100.5 bushels win 1 a!!Cond Prize $25 Savings an« John A. Burnett. 98A Member of the veterans Lincoln High School. S in’ R C third prize $15 ■au - donated by the Farm <and presented bv -,2&eb , President. !^U€ *wpper priJf‘^he American Le No, 85 will sponsor a ky i#Upper the Legion hut • » at 6:00. The proceeds. * £??*** wUl'go towards 00 the debt on the hut. of Efland, was attending his final regular monthly meeting of the Board I which he . first joined in 1938. Sa'id Chairman Collier Cobb Jr., “He bias served the county well for the past 12 years and I don’t believe Orange County has ever had a Comissioner that has done a better job than he.” He praised his cooperative attitude and his re cord of intelligent service in the-* interests of all phases of the coun ty’s business. ' His words were echoed by Coun' ,ty Democratic Chaifffnan R. O. Forrest, who attended the meeting iand by .county elected and ap pointed officials who were present. Sip a formal statement addressed 1 to “My friends "all over Orange 1 County" regarding his.long tenure ■ of office, Wilson-"discussed the 1 | motivating Interests which have bis in the service- of the ! county and thanked the citizens for 1 their support. Saiqi the statement: "It has_been my privilege and pleasu re to serve the people of - Orange County* for the past 12 • years and I am deeply grateful to 1 my friends who have -supported 1 and stood by me in the several | which I was a cahdidate. 1 have "endeavored to fullfi.ll the duties, of the office to the best of my 1 knowledge and ability. I have had no favorites and have tyied to serve all alike, both white and colored. I have enjoyed the work 1 and I especially appreciate the fact < that I had the privilege of work- : inrg witS" men .of high standing character- and ability in the per- < s - ns of J Ed Laws, Collier C.obb 1 16111811 Tt’O-. -Irawsy wbfr'ail. had 1 the. interest of Orange County at heart and who had as their first aim to serve all the people of the ■ county. * TT-" “I have always worked, voted and used my influence, for the best interests of the county in every foi-ward step undertaken for the best interest of the"people. I "work ed and helped' promote both of the bond issues, have tried to be fair in investigating and- recom mending all roads to be improved so as to benefit the most people at the least possible cost. It was my interest at all times to hold the expenses of the county within, the income and help. fix. <! tax rate that was fair and within the. reach •of every taxpayer. In helping to set up the budgets I have studied the needs of every department and have tried to be fair in apportion ing each department their share of “funds so as to carry .on their work in a respectable manner. “I am leaving the office with a clear conscience in all that a have dope and have no apologies ><> make to anyone. I shall always have the best interest of Grange County at heart and try in every way to help promote any for ward movement for the bettei - ment of the people the cbunty. Again, I wish*to think each and every one who helped make my ^tay in office possible. We Commissioner? approved for. recommendation to the Highway Commission for stabilization a road, 1,5 miles, in Cheeks Town ship, from Highway 70 to Cebanan Road. Two other petitions for road improvements were received but no action taken pending myesti gation. They were in Chapel Hill township from Columbia Street extension to Airport Road. -3 nu*e, and in Cedar Grove Townships from Old Hessee place to Caswell !< bight Draws Long Suspended renns For Spree Hillsboro — William S. Knight yhose drunken spree terrified a leighborhood here several months (go finally got his sentence in the Dounty , Court Monday and a fiance to make a good citizen of limself since sentences in each >f the cases were suspended, de fending upon, the defendant’s be-i lavior. He has just completed serving i 60-day suspended sentence in 1 previous case which was in voked at the time of his trial on He five charges growing out of 'is entry at gunpoint into the iome of Mrs. Flora Dickson and J. W. Dickson, his rocking the louse of Bessie Dorrity and his subsequent theft of an automobile ind wrecking it. , Terms of Judge L. J. Phipps were that he leave Orange County iy Friday night and keep out for a two-year period, pay a fine if $25 and costs, and remain of jodd behavior or risk the invoking >f suspended road terms totalling! me year upon violation of any law. The following cases were tried: Willie Wiley, larceny, 8 months, suspended, $25 and costs; Ernest Vallines, larceny, 6 months su spended, costs to include $25 to J. A. Jordan for damages; James H. Thompson, driving while in dicated, 90 days suspended, $100 j snd costs; Williard McRae, driving ■ ntoxicated, 90 days suspended,1 5100 and costs; Lacy McCauley, jublic drunkenness, $5 and costs, j Willie Mack, illegal possession >f non tax paid whiskey, 4 months' suspended, $25 and costs; Sam Mbert, shooting fireworks, $5 and :osts; William Joyner, nol pros vith leave;, Clyde C. Collins, ron inued; Ed. L. Holmes, continued; roe Hogwood, called and failed o appear; John Clayborn Clayton, erkless driving_$25 and cOsts: David Walker, called and failed; fpssie E. Dority, illegal possession! >f non tax paid whiskey, $10,and' ;osts. ■. Darnell. Hester, non support of legitimate child, $25 a month to he child arid posts of court; Wil iam S. Knight, assault with a ieadly weapon on a female, 41 honths suspended on condition,., hat defendant leave the county iVillitim S, Knight, temporary lar jy midnightliov. 10, $^5 and costs; :eny, 90 days-.suspended; William s. Knight, assault with a deadly veapon on a female, 60 days iuspended; William S. Knight, as ault on a female, 60 days suspend-, :d; Wtfto.%.^,S- Knight, '3S.s^l.t. pended; “Edward S. Rlngley,, ipeeding, $10 and costs; George ienry Elliott, $50 and costs, prayer or judgement continued;,and C.iCT Dverman, p u b I i e' t drunkenness, i ■osts. --—----i ' Wedding Play To Be Presented At Aycock School Cedar* Grove — The “Woman ess Wedding” will be presented it Aycoek Schtxil FfidayrNovrtT it "7:30. The play is the story of a wed ling in which no women appear, rhe cast of characters include: >die Wilson, bride: Gordon Liner, [room; ’Will Wade, flower girl; fap Anderson, ’preacher; Tom! Cllis, organist; Sherman Long,' ingbearer; Cooper Compton, maid if honor; Claude Pope, old sweet ieart; and bridesmaids, Munn tllen, Gaines Liner, John Hawk ns, Jim Hawkins, Jack Long,, tobert Earl Hughes, and Bryce feece. Others in the cast we Bill 'olar,' Young Vaughn, Lin wood togers, Newby Jordan, Wade Xirruthers; Lee Kennedy, R. W. sley, and Glenn Proffitt. JEW MEMBER Chapel Hill — Jack Bright of ; ha pel HU1 has been recently iledged into the Rho Chapter of Upha Phi Omega, national Scout ervice fraternity at the Universi y. - * . The Rho Chapter has been amed in honor of the late Lon Turner of Burlington, who had ieen nationally prominent in Scout ctivities until his death recently.* vjuapt-1 niu — most vt uie tele phones planned for the rural com munities in Orange County will be installed by the first of the year, a cording to 3. S. Bennett, director of operations for the Uni versity Telephone Company. - The lines for these telephones have been up for some time anfl the utilities office has been waiting on switchboard equipment before installing the telephoues. The equipment was ordered some two years ago and is now being in stalled in the Chapel Hill office. Within the next ten days, a telephone will be installed at the home of Charles W. Stanford, Bethlehem community, as an ex perimental unit. The telephone Is being installed there because it is at the end of the line And utili ties officials want to iron out any defects or faults that may occur in the operation of the phQne The telephones will bo installed in the ordep in which the lines were put up. The right7 of ways for all the telephone lines were cut by residents of th» various communities during the summer months. Telephone officials expressed the belief that the switchboard equip ment will be installed by the end of the month and at that time they will begin installing the rural telephones. ■ --O' - CHRISTMAS BAZAAR St. Matthew's Parish Guild will hold its annual Christmas Bazaar at the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro on Wednesday, Nov. 15 beginning at 3:00 p. m. The items on sale Wall include fine hand?* -fit, cos tume jewelry, Christmas Cards toys, doll clothes and novelty items for the children, good food and a Carrboro Man Is Ordained By Baptist Body Carrboro — Following a request from the Carrboro Baptist Church, presbytery was called October 24th 1250 by the Mt. Zion Associational Ordination Committee, to be com posed of ministers and deacons of the Mt. Zion Association, for the purpose of examining E. W. Ham rick for the ministry. Mr. Hamrick was carefully questioned concerning his conver sion, call to the ministry and doct trinal beliefs. Following a most satlsfatory examination, the pres bytery voted unanimosly that Mr. Hamrick be recommended for the ministry. The following ministers partici pated in the examination service: Dr. Samuel Habel, Chapel Hill, Rev. Gutherie Colvert, Burlington; Rev. Walter Brown, Haw River; Rev. Guy Cain, Graham; Rev. W. R. Waggoner, Mt. Carmel; Rev. G. N. Harward, Carrboro; Dr. O. T. Binkley, Louisville, Ky. and Rev. Troy E. Jones, pastor of the Carrboro Baptist Church. Hr. Hamrick, son of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Hamrick, of Shelby was^rdained in the Carrboro Bap * fist Church in a soodal service on Oct. 26th. He, with Mrs. Hamrick, the former Miss Shirley Philbeck of Shelby have marie their home l ib Carrboro sin''" 1945. The Rev. Mr. Hamrick is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate Of It N- C. will receive doctors degree in the School of Religion at Duke University in —--. I Mew Directors Reverse Decision To Sell Hillsboro — A new board of directors, elected at a Superior Court-ordered meeting of stock holders of Legion Memorial Hut, Inc., Monday night reversed a decision of the previous board of Legionaires to sell the Hut and took steps to pay off the remainder of the indebtedness on the building without recourse to further private sale of stock to members of local PpSt SSi jgasa. .. Thus was resolved apparently a controversy which split the JPoct and threatened a serious breach in activities of one -of most active units of the North Carolina De partment. — At Monday"® meeting A. H Oraham was named president of the corporation of Legionaires which own the 'building, A. Max Bro%vning was elected vice presi de! Arnold Hastings, secretary treasurer, and Jerry B. Stone, as sistant secretary, Qther directors are Ben G. Johnston. James Ches hire Jr., Walter Wren, Robert Earl Hughes, Sim Efland, B. N. Roberts, Sam Gattis and Clarence Rosemond. By unanimous action, the new October Aids fc7 Mies Paving 1*0 Orange Roads Another 6.7 miles of Secondary •oad have been paved in Orange bounty during the month of Octo >er>-6fee State Highway-Commis lion announced this week. ' The Commission finished the tallowing projects: On Buckhom Road from Cheek’s Croaaroeds to Bukhorn, 2.2 miles; Oh Rower Plant ftoad from US 70 to Cole MUl Road, 2.6; Cole Min Road from Durham County line to Power Plant Road, 1; West' Hillsboro st’-eets, 0.9; More than 20.5 miles of new hard-surfacing have been added to Orange County’s road system i since the start of the accelerated construction program last summer, according to James A. Barnwell, Fifth Division Highway Commis sioner. In a special quarterly report issued recently. Dr. Henry W. Jordan, Highway Commission Chairman, announced the paving of 4,658.5 miles of secondary road during the last 20 months. This sets a new al-time roadbuilding record for the State of North Carolina. Over $54,000,000 of the $59,000, D0Q in bond money allocated to road projects has been spent since the start of the $200,000,000 pro gram last year. o Bishop Peak Announces New Methodist Pastors lltllrboro — Only one change in Methodist pastoral assignments in ’his area,was announced by Bishop W. W. Peale, of Richmond', in the 12th annual convention of the North Carolina Methodist Church Sunday in Kinston. C. B. Dawsy, Jr., was named to fill the Durham Circuit left vacant by C: J. Huneycutt. Huneycutt re signed to take foreign language courses at ¥»le University. The Durham Circuit includes McMan ren’s Chapel and Pleasant Green Church. All other assignments remained the same. They include: Carrboro M. E. Tyson: Cedar Grove, J. B Lewis; ..Chapel Hill, W. M. Howard Jr.; Eno, Vf.. C. Feltman; Hillsboro C. S. Hubbard; Mebane, T. B Houghrimd for the Grange Circuit D. K. Christenberry, .Jr. . — R. L. Nicks,“son of Mrs. R. L Nicks Qf TTIUIbor.0,, was assigned to Bahuma He has previously ser ved in Alamance County. . • Adult Farm Club ^ To Be Organized Hillsboro—.Farmers in the Hills boro school area are invited to meet with Elmer R. Dowdy, tencfi er of agriculture, at the high school agriculture building Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. The purpose of this meeting wil| be to organize an adult farm club, which will meet weekly for a series of twelve classes. The agri culture subjects to bo taught will be chosen by members of the club It is expected that instruction will be given in the shop as well as the class room. School Board Discusses New Building Sites Hillsboro — Routine business, most of it dealing with new school sites, occupied the members of the school boarthet their regular jneei^ inf November 6. • All members of the board ware present and voted unanimously on all action taken. Since the Fair field Negru School is not in ipera tion, the board authorized the secretary to confer with the county attorney in regard to selling the property. The board voted to allow the Efland District Cpmmiftee and the Efland Negro School Committee to present at least two acceptable sites for the proposed Efland Ne Sehool. Board members had looked over the sites already proposed in the area and found their prices too high. The plans for the Cedar Grove Negro School were accepted by the board and bids will be opened on December • at £00 in the Courthouse, 'the group also voted ‘.o increase the insurance on all existing major school building in view of the fact that the Inspec tion and Survey Report showed that the valuation of the biuldings had gone up. School holidays were changed, Thanksgiving, from November 30 and December 1 to November 23 and 24 and Christmas was ex extended to include January 2. The secretary reported that the request for $100,000 from the state School Plant Construction Im provement and Repair Fund had been approved by the State Board of Education. ' Other Business included autho rizing the secretary to publish the records of the school funds, au thorizing the secretary to reim burse school principals for at tending the janitors meeting in Greensboro, and hearing a request from the Efland Negro community to haye their school taken under consideration Immediately. **-—.----- / ■ -• -.Ar.h •. IV Croups Observe Art Week Chapel Hill — The Chapel Hill Parent Teacher Association. Uni versity of North Carolina Art De partment. Friends of Person Hall, and the Carrboro-Chapel Hilt Merchant Association are co-oper ating in the observance of Ameri can Art Week. November 6-13. fcocal artist-have been invited to submit pictures to be exhibited in store windows There will also be. exhibits at Person Hall, Graham Memorial and the Morehead building. At Person Hall modern school builcf ings will be seen, at Graham Me morial paintings and sculpture by Rebeckah- Huggins Walston, and at Morehead, sketches of Univer sity professor* by William Meade Prince. - . Hillsboro ers during a day which saw only of the registered voto colls. The cut-and-dried Democartic victory was reeled off as expected and tf usually light General Elec tion vote was made even lighter with the absence of all Republican opposition at the county level. In other contests Orange voters mere ly added their bit to the comfort t>le margin the Democrats were piling up in 5the State as a whole Five constitutional amendments «n which- the citizens were asked to express their opinion were carried in the affirmative, general ly to the tude of about 3 to 1, with the legislators’ pay raise a mendment getting more opposition than the ethers, Most unusual on the voting re cord was the unusually large write-in support accorded fellow townsman Frank Graham by Cha pel Hillians. His 19 votes at Carr boro also deprived Primary Op ponent Willis Smith of a clear-cut majority in that box. Write-in votes were 183 for Graham in Chapel Hill, Northside, and 171 in Chapel Hill, Southslde precinct. Smith got 417 and 257 respectively In the trwo precincts and E. L. Gavin, his Republican opponent. — polled 293 and 216 respectively. Write-in exponents had a field day generally as is usually the case fir lightly contested elections. Al bert Coates got votes for the post of Senior U. S. Senator, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Associate Justice’s poet sought by Jeff Johnson.and Guy Weaver. Both Mayna Albright and Dougald McMillan got a vote for Senator. Donald Hayman, als.> ;of tile In stitute of Government staff, picked tip a vote for Carl Durham’s Con gressional seat. Henry Whitfield, Chapel Hill attorney, had one sup ported for Superior Court Judge >f—the-4th District, and Rupert t Jemirgn. one for the House of Representatives. Robert O. Forrest, county Dejno oublican vote for Sheriff and Wil liam Henry Jordan, the Efland political jag§ got one for State House of Representatives, . Ralph Scott’s Alamance majority for State Senator for this district _ composed Of Orange and Alamance -eceived a substantial boost on the basis'^ of returns from 12 of he 16 perein<*« which gave him 2441 votes to Thomas C. Carter'a >42. . Carl T. Durham polled his «r- • - jeeted majority over A. A. Mc lonald of Durham with the in cmpiete returns giving him 2361 t> 567 for MoDongld. Other returns ■n Uiv basis of the 12 precincts _ . m thxrrfthg gave the following tbtsihe William H. Murdock for Solicitor 1630. J. Ed Laws for Register of • i Deeds 2657. Edwin M. Lynch for 'or Sheriff 2684. Allen H. Walker for Coroner 2699, Johp W.' lim it end for General Assembly 2617, ... Collier Cobb Jr. for commissioner 2629, II. G. laws for commissioner 2604, and Sim Efland for com missioner 2642. Other totals gave Clyde R. Hoey 2462, Halsey B. Leavitt for U. S. Senate 649; Willis Smith 1840 and E. L.' Gavin for U S. Senate 900; ' 3nd fa- Su>>reme Court, Walter P. Stacy 2512. Sam J. Ervin Jr., , 2572. Robert H. McNeill 586, Emery ; D Denny 2427, Jeff Johnson 2480, Guy Weaver 662. Waldo Cheek, [insurance commissioner 2479. and for . Superior Court Judges, R. Hunt Parker 2447. Clawson Wil liams 2440, W. C. Harris 2408. J. H. Clement 2382, F. Donald Phillips 2409, Frank M. Armstrong 2394. Justus C. Rudisill 2384, Julius A. Rousseau 2380, J. Will Pless 23 89. Zeb V. Nettles 2384, and Dan K. Moore 2355. _...... _ The vote for permitting any person to waive indictment in all except capital cases when repre sented by counsel was 1755 to 520; for securing and safeguarding the funds of the Teacher’s and State Employees’ Retirement System 2~ 387 t& 303; for allowing limited necessary compensation of mem- ^ bers of the General Assembly 1812 to 643; for permitting the General Assembly to prescribe ad ditional judges of Superior Court 1844 to 505; and for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court authefity to assing judges and call special terms of Superior Court 1875 to 487. v Precincts not reporting by noon yesterday were Patterson, Col*_ Store, Caldwell, and Carr.'
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