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[e Orange County people read NEWS every wook than any orange County Newspaper SUBSCRIBE TODAY, 1,1. 58__No. 10 (Published Weekly) /or quick, proven results sail. buy, rent or get a Job by using s • THE NEWS of Orange County want ad columns. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL’ HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951 Price: |s a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week Birthday roses Girt Scouts and their junior counterpart*, title Brownies, this week are celebrating their 39th birthday with programs and church attendance. In recognition of the events, the three Hillsboro troops gathered for pictures. Members of Girl S ;out Troop I are shown at top, above: Front row, left to right — Jane Neems, Hilda Strayhorn, Sylvia Strayhorn, Laura Mae Faucets. 2nd. row. 'eft to right — Jean Cates, Phyllis Blake, Q«Uy Strayhorn, Merle Mitchell. 3rd row, left to right — Sarah Ann Eskridge, Myra Miller, Peggy Jean Minnis, Becky Turner. ,, “ .Members of Brownie Troops II and IM, shown at bodom,.are: 1st. row — Charlie Frances Black welder, Judy Eskridge, Mary Catherine' MathSeon, Jilt Gilmore, Charlotte Jamee, Kay Williams, aw«e Turner, Cynthia Walker. 2nd. ro,w — Jean Freeland, Ann Hollandsworth, Catherine Roberts, katesy Webb,»Martha Hubbard, Jackie Lloyd,"pjtaabeth Matheson, Norma Neems. 3fd. row — Sylvia Freeman, Annie Laurie Blackwelder, Barbara Brown, Kno* Joneo, Anne Brinkley, Helen kldgev Henrietta Brown. Betty Jean Mlshee, Emily Hamlin. Members of Brownie Tre#p III net pictured are Vlekl Aumtn, Mnry Ruth Gibbs, Gerry Pearson, Carolyn Walker. — , Photo By B.P. Gordon Jr. wats, Brownies tbserve Birthday lillpboro — The Girl Scouts ltld Brownies of Hillsboro this —are_celebrating the 39th 'irthday of Girl Scouting with a unitK.-r' of varied activities' The Scouts and Brownies at fil,the Presbyterian ’church in 1 Sunday morning. ‘n Tuesday, the two Brownie x Presented a musical pro ;ram during the school chapel ’ Following the recital of the and salute, the girls sang, ,.Pere A11 Together Again,” Senate Together”, and “Hail !r ht’ Scouts.” Brownie leaders ; James Webb and Mrs. "> Matheson, troop 2; Mrs. Eldon Matteson, troop 3. , '1^.ch Scout group has made an , > t window in a local store. kjJ,Lj Scouts, used the , 3y theme to decorate the A;.e power Company window 30 a birthday cake displaying ®rownie 2 dressed a ln the Brownie uniform as uiuwiue unuorm as ,i,„.ncejltraI part of their window nmiUf' James Pharmacy. Group of handicrafts are dis ln J L- Brown and Sons as the Brownie 3 exhibit, cv t ®^°ut leaders are Mrs. . Vincent, Mrs. John Moul . 3nd Mrs. Stella Stanfield. •v: ut Baders called attention i ^eck to a number of radio ,.t€ evisi°n programs^ which W H -iill’i WU1U1 ?- o rry birthday greetings to - JHrtv ';'Uts- The NBC Birthday tj) will3 broadcast jon March feature many famous uieuiy Icuiiuua r,, »TS'ars’ The Jack Benny Show __ “irVfa M will weave in a ^'ijv*- v *Z- Wed vt, U1 i treatrnent of the group’!. Howdy Doody a -dL ^MY'TV will contain of setno of- ttu ** Brownies do NO OUTSIDE COLLECTION# ' Hillfiboro —'"The Town Board" Tuesday'night directed that town garbage collectors cease picking -4^0 garbage in the surburban areas immediately surrounding die town, torwn. It was brought to the board s attention that this practice had been carried on by employees on their own initiative. ___o-. Lora! Baptists Will Elect Deacons Sunday A business meeting for the p.ur- ( pose of electing deacons will be] held at the Hillsboro Baptist Ghu-J r.ch next Sunday, March 11, at the regular 11 o'clock worship hour, ] acting pastor. Dr. Charles E. Mad- ] dry announced today. A' the same ] time, the church body will decide! upon whether to institute the of- . | flee of deacones in the church. If this is passed, according to Mad dry, the members will elect seven deacons and four deaconesses to serve with the five-deacons"Rcw on the board. On Wednesday night at the 7:30 o’clock Prayer Service, the finan cial committee headed by Fred Blake, will present the budget for consideration. ' ^-- no -0, NEW X-RAY TRAILER ! The first chest x-ray clinic to be scheduled in Hilb-bora m saver al months will be>eld on Mon • day. March 12th. 1-3 P. 5T. ^ ! .The public is* cordially invited to ccme at This time and see the trcrwlix-rav' trailer, as .well as have an x-ray. This new trailer was ourenased with money contributed by Hillsboro Tuberculosis Associa. tion and four other local tuber culosis organizations in the dis trict, which is composed of Orange, Chatham, Persons and Lxe Coun ties’ ‘ ‘ ' V. v T'" ' Orange dabs Join In Observance —---~ V __. Of 4-H Week Hillsboro — The Orange Coun ty 4-H clubs are participating in a number of projects in observ ance of 4-H Club Week, March 3-11, Miss Virginia Cathey, as sistant home demonstration agent, announced today. Motto for the week is “Working together for world understanding." The week of , activity opened Saturday with a county council •meeting, at which time new of ficers were elected. They are: Ted Martin, Hillsboro Senior Club, ; ibsidaht; Rachel Thompson; Cha tcl Hill, vice president". Ruby Wilke-son. Hillsboro Junior 'club, -eeitiary-trts u£*': Lois Liner, A week, program chairman. Dur ir’g_ th,?' session, the council made -plans to begin an overall health urogram in Orange County. In Hillsboro, the senior dub has begun repainting and redecorating the Home Demonstration agent's office in the Agriculture .Building as its annual project. The group has painted the walls, ceiling, and cabinets; will . sand and refinish the floors, refinish the furniture, ard make draperies. TrroseWhu cmpletcd the painting 'his week are: Bill Crabtree, Douglas Crab tree, Jack Holloway. Ted Martin and Patsy Martin. Joe Howard, former assistant farm agent, now serving as agri cultural engineer with the Duke Power Company, gave a lamp making ' demonstration to club members in February. This month the young people will use this knowledge to make lamps for- the desks in the home demonstration office, qoeerding to Miss Cathey. County Plans All-Out Effort In Dog Vaccinations; 1 Roads Approved musooro — ine »oara ox coun ty Commissioners approved 11 roads for addition to the State Highway system for improvement and maintenance at their meeting Monday and passed on their re commendations to the Highway Commission. The recommendations involved 7.8 miles of roadway out of the 11 miles total alloted ttf Orange County for the year 1951. Roads recommended included: III Cedar Grove township - Lillian Sharp Raid, .8 mile; a road from Bryant Br'adsher’s to the Person County line, Hi miles; a road from D. L. Poole’s to Floyd Truitt’s, 1.4 miles; the Roteat Store road, *6 mile. In Chapel Hill township: Stinson street, an extension of Columbia street, .8 mile; Valentine Lane in Forrest Hills, .1 mile; Dogwood drive, .75 mile; Morgans Creek and Whitehead Circle, .3 mile; Old Mill road, .7 mile, running from Arrowhead road " to Green wood road. In Cheeks township: Taylor Road, .85 mile, running from the Cedar Grove-Efland road to the Bfland-Hurdle. Mills Road; and Faincloth Road, .4 mile, which runs from the railroad hy John Harvey’s home. Jn other actions during the monthly session, the Board heard reports from officials and Mrs. Douglas Davis, disrtrict librarian, who said the circulation of books in Orange County had almost trip led during the past two years. Legal Whiskey In Orange Must Be For Own Use-Phipps HilMJdra —'“If you've beeil transporting whiskey T' Orange County for your friends even though you did not exceed the legal limit allowed you, you have been violating the law. Or,-so rtdpl Judge L. J. Phipps in Record#® Court this week when he fined Numa Rigglbee, Carrhoro man, $10 and costs for deliverings pint ito another Carr - boro man who the evidence show ed had given him the coat of the bottle two days previously. The Judge's ruling held that the jvhis key could be brought Into a dry county from a wet county only if it was for use by the purchaser, and his bona fide guests, in his own home. In another case involving a Carrhoro man and whiskey, Sam Maynor proved himself not guilty oh a public drunkenness charge when Judge Phipps decided the defendant could qualify as an “expert" witness as to his own drunkenness. Maynor declared he was not drunk but was haying “stomach spasms,” The police, he said, would not believe his story and locked him up for two days in the Chapel Hill jail. Other cases were as follows: Foy R. Pendergraph, driving while drunk, $100 and 'costs, two days id^jail and loss of driver's license; Leroy Collins, recklegs driving and no drivers license, $25 and costs; Arthur Thompson, failure to bury dead animals, 60 days in jail su spended, $50 and costs; Eddie D. Laws, reckless driving and speeds ing over 75 miles per hour, 60 days on the road suspended, $75 and costs, loss of driver's license; James R. Burch, reckless driving and speeding over 75 miles per hour, 60 days on the roads su spended, $75 and costs, loss of driver’s license; June Cates, as sault with a deadly weapon, 60 days on the roads suspended, and costs; Robert Gates, drunken driv ing, requests jury trial, trans ferred Jo Superior court; Joe Kite, public drunkenness, costs; Clinton Thompson, speeding, $>10 and costs; Dr. John R. Bender, speeding, $10 and costs; Trank Stutts, public drunkenness, costs; Everette E. Carter, speeding, $15 and costs; Charles M. Kirkpatrick, speeding, $20 arid cov'-. 'Bobby R. Woodall, speeding, $20 and costs; William FI. Scott, illegal .pcwsession and\ transporting whiskey, $10 and costs: William Charles Mercer, called and failed, capias ordered; James Alston, pleas nolo conten dere id disposing ai mortgaged property, costs and $27.25 for W. H Senter; Louis AtWater, assault on a female, not guilty; James Lewis May, failure to stop for stop sign, costs; Camell Hester, failure to make support payments, capias ordered issued. Board IWkides — To Condemn Site. Hillsboro — The Board of Edu cation has decided to institute condemnation proceedings if nec essary to obtain the Roulhac pro perty in Hillsboro for an ele mentary school site. The secretary of the brfard was instructed at Monday’s session to advise W. S. Roulhac of Mt. Ver non, N. Y.‘, owner of the site at the Northern” end of Churton Street, of this decision in a final effort “to see If he ,,would agree to sell under such circumstances.” The property, long known as 1,000-Person Goal Set For Teen-Age Benefit Supper Chapel Hill Over 1,000 per sons is the attendance goal set by Mrs. George Shepard for the Teen-Age Cliib benefit box sup per to be held in the University Tin Can next Thursday night, March 15. Mrs. Shepard, acting as ohair man' of the affair for the recently organized Chapel Hill parents’ teen-age advisor y committee, pointed out this will bring a pro fit cf-at least $500 to the Club, and make, it possible to erase the current year’s deficit of over $300. “With these added funds,” she said, “We should be able to con tinue the girls Tyen-Age Club, and expand the organization into a town-wide (teen-age program foi boy*ife wellf” .^ Tickets are "now on sale at bot£ adults and children's prices ($1.30 and $1:00) in all stores holding membership in the Chapel Hill Merchants Association w,h$ch is acting as a co-sponsor for "the fund-raising picnic. Several civic clubs here and in Caritboro have voted to forego their regular sup per meeting in Order to attend the affair as a body. - ' A full program off entertain* mest has been planed to follow the supper with Roy Armstrong, University Director of Admissions, to act as master of ceremonies. Following these events a square dance is to be held, with music by Eddie Norwood’s' local string band. Entertainment numbers, includ ing a skit by the Teen-Agers ed townspeople and University faculty members. This schedule .has not yet been completed, Mrs. fSh€t>ard said. As added enticements five or six merchants have consented to give valuable prizes-of mer chandise values around $50 each - -to luck ticket holders. Desserts of pies arid cakes pre pared by Chapel Hill housewives will be packed in with the half of a fried chicken hr each-box supper. --—O:-:— MINSTREL PROGRAM - Eflanti — A minstrel program -Ayill feature next Tuesday night’s : Parent-Teacher Association meet ing at tihe Bfland Schooi at 7:30, o’clock. „The seventh and eight grades are sponsoring groups. the Ruffin property from its form er owner, the distinguished jurist. Judge Thomas Ruffin, was selected last Fall as the most suitable site for the proposed new elementary schoot. X proposition to purchase it was submitted to Roulhac but the latter has ignored all corre spondence relative to the matter. The site was selected as unost suitable for the purpose by a special committee . appointed by thX school board and was ap proved by both local and district school committees. In an effort to obtain both the gymnasium and lunchroom, for their school from the money ap prcprlated for the purpose, a com mittee from the Ayeoek school this week proposed the community be allowed to supply certain materi als and that a local man be given the construction contract in order that the project cost misfit be brought within the limits of avail able funds. The committee, com posed of L. Jr Roger*, John Haw kins and William Tolar, proposed^ the construction of a gynmasium building with a lunchroom under .t. FoilowIng an inspection of the grounds bv the school board and Architect Archie R. Davis, the committee was advised that regu lations of the State Board of Edu cation would not permit such a building and that it was practic ally impossible to contract work with.the provision that the owner is to supply certain materials or labor. John Efiand, of the Eflimd School committee, asked for as sistance in repairing- Jhat' school's i • tin chri” and wgs requested to prepare and submit estimates to the Board for future considera tion, , , Generally, the Board heard from Architect Davis that satisfaet* pry progress is being made on all school construction projects and that other projects would be put under contract as rapidly as plans and Specifications could be prepared. Red Cross Fond Drive Will End : Satarday At Hill Chapel Hill — The local Red Cross chapter’s fund ; drive tor $8,000 will end this Saturday. Miss Elizabeth Brdrisbn, chair mian of the campaign. indicated earlier this week the drive war progressing well and stated she was optimistic over the quota's being reached. While preliminary reports from the headquarters in Strowd Motor Co. have not yet been tabulated, a great number .of the 150 volun teer workers in the drive have turned in their funds already. -0-a ESKRIDGE APPOINTED_ Hillsboro — J. Dumont Esk ridge, local attorney, has been ap pointed secretary-treasurer of the annual Cancer Crusade for Hills boro and Orange County. The appointment was announced yesterday by Miss Virginia Cathey, chairman, who said other an nouncements relative to the cam paign and participating personnel would be made in the near future. i Baptist Survey Finds 16,699 Potential Members For Sunday Schools Of Area Hillsboro — The results Of a ' survey concluded Iasi week by ' the Mt. Eion Baptist Association, '-reveals that there are 7,631 per j sons attending Sunday Schools of the 22 churches in' the Associa-, tioh. with a total resident mem bership of 6,358. 1 The Association comprising Orange, and Chatham, in its Sun day School. Enlargement Cam paign, learned that there are pos TtidriHies a total x>L 16,6th} mem-. •hers- in the areas served by the churches. , The campaign wa&_ conducted by L. L. Morgan State Sunday School- Leader, and Rev. John Lambert, Association Missionary. Special workers wejre brought to, th earea by the State Convention! da assist in the campaign. - | It was also learned that ap proximately 9,068 prospects for church membership. Rev'. Lam bert stated that the data complied will be turned over to the church es concerned for yan intensive campaign to follow, for increased Sunday School enrollment. During the week special Sun day School study courses were held with- an ayargp attendance pf 875. Churches participating in the campaign included City. Lake.. Fairyibw. Graham. First in Hills boro. West in Hillsboro, Harw Riv er. Mars Hill. First in Mebane. Moore’s Chapel at Saxapahaw. Mt. Adar at Mebane, Mt. Carmel at Chapel Hill. Swqpsonville. Cane Creek at Hillsboro, Bethel of Carrboro. Brookwood. First of Burlington, Glenhope, Grove Park,1 Hocutt Memorial, Southside, Cal-, vary, and Carrboro. —• Hillsboro — A determination to conduct an effective dog vaccina tion program‘in Orange County in 1951 and thus materially lessen the toll of rabies was dearly evi denced here Monday at a meeting r»f the District Health Office, the Sheriff and the Board of County Commissioners; ^ ~.. The commissioners, deeply con cerned over the potential human suffering and the property damage . which could be caused by a mad dog r.aid intq a large herd of valu- - able blooded cattle in this dairy ing county, called the meeting of the two departments to plan the annual vaccination campaign after last year’s vaccinations dropped 40. percent from the previous year. Approximately 2,000 dogs were vaccinated in the Health Depart ment's program in 1949 while last year’s vaccinations totalled only around 1.200 dogs, it was reported. This year’s campaign will get underway around April l, in ac cordance with North Carolina state laws which require that all dogs over six months of age be vaccinated against rabies each year in that month. A total of 2,768 dogs were listed for taxes last year, but this was estimated unofficially to be only about one half of the dogs actually in the county. Officials described '‘natural in el iff ere nee” and “bullheadedness’’_ as some of the reasons for the failure of many dog owners to get the vaccinations, and the Sheriff promised an intensive ef fort to enforce the law in co operation with the Health Depart ment’s rabies inspectors, who are the county’s veterinarians. It was agreed among the conferees ’ that - it. might be necessary to make ‘‘an example of a few people” in order to get the cooperation of dog owners in every community - Dr,- O. D. Garvin, health officer, said that ’•'rabies were reported in praeticni.y every month of lari year” and the worst spots were in the Southern part of the coun ty. In Glen t*ennox 13 people were4 taking the'iftnti-rabic treat ment at one time* he said, but residents in all parts of the coun ty have, been affected At various times. The costs of the vaccination at the county-sponsored clinics .to be conducted in April at cpnventient locations and at various times dur ing the month Is $1 per animal - tout credit for $1 is later given Che owner in the payment at his dog taxes; mahing the coot for a male dog nothing- since tax , on , a male dog is $1. Tax on a female dog is $2- Funds derived from dog taxes are used to pay claims 'or damages incurred by citizens from dogs in the county and any excess annually goes Into the agriculture fund. Payments for_ damages in the fiscal year IMS 50 was listed at $143 1 -o Court Of Honor To Be Held Seaday At High School ~ HiJlsboro — The Orange Dis-~ trict of the Qcconeechee Council of .Boy Scouts will bold a Court of Honor on Sunday, March 11 at 8 o’clock at the Hillsboro High School. Rev. C. H. Hubbard, chair man of) the court, will make the principal address.* ' The presentation of rank arwnrds and merit badges will be made by E. R. Dowldy, B. D. Sawyer, C. B. Jones. Rev: E. I. Birdseye. W. M. Baldwin and J. B. Mid gett. Following -the announcement - of rnspection and attendance a wards. Rev. E. I. Birdseye will ctcso the court of honor. Everett Forrest, Scoutniaster of Troop 38, Hillsboro, will be in .charge Of the program, and a large number of advancements are anti cipated from the nothem end ot the county. Ti e contests for attendance, won las- month by Troop 45 of Carr boro. and uniform inspection, now held by Explorer Post 20, will a/ativ be heldr:..————— A number c-f advancements to the First and Second Class ranks re anticipated from Chapel Hill. -o ON* DEAN’S LIST Durham — Eugene G. Kenion, Hillsboro student at Duke Uni versity, has achieved the distinc tion of being named to the Duke Dean’s List for the Spring Scenes ter. Kenion is the son of Mrs. A, W. Kenion. ot Hillsboro.