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(range County people reed |eW8 e.V*ry week then, eny range County Newspaper SUBSCRIBE TODAY. } our Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 unty '■‘or quick, proven results self, buy, rent or get s job by using THE NEW8 of Orange County went sd columns. 8_No. 12 published Weekly) l _ HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week nr Get rms t0r0 — Two sordid cases doned children and blight es'which have cost Orange taxpayers $9,000 over the ew years unfolded before j. Paul Frizzelle in Superior this week, eliciting the acid 1 remark, “This doesn’t like North Carolina.” never seen anything, like all my experience as a ir and on the bench,” said idge after hearing abandon ed non support Charges t Bandella Tarlton Bailey heiton Blackwood, two par whose children have beer^ irted by the Welfare Depart ,ost continuously during several years while, they time or else were fugitives th law. Bailey woman, alternately [g, protesting, her love for her ldren and spouting defiance elfare and law enforcement ies, received a two-year pri erm for her fourth abandon offense. Blackwood, similar ■otesting his regard for chil who Judge Frizzelle said Id have died of starvation months ago but for the wel department” received—two on the roads on the aban ent count and another two for bigamy. esses for the Welfare De ent said over $6,000 had spent providing care for the ley children, still costing the ty at the rate ctf $220 per th, and that $2,600 had been t for aid to tho Blackwood illy: otoing into her background, Judge heard from Mrs. Bailey ; she had been drinking since was 12 years old, that she had practically no contact with church and in fact could name r one active church member o had ever been to see her. heard from officers that she arrested in a drunken con *0 in the Korn'S of a Neg.* hefor surrounded by by ,six aftel^having failed to •ear to. answer charges In the t terni of Superior Court. Said ige Frizzelle, “She had little to rt with and he (her , husband o is now serving a prison term the same offense) made the ret «t that. I don't doubt that ■ had been victimized and istialized by this man.” At one ht when she accused the wel * and jheriiPy department of fsecuting her, Judge Frizzelle ted “Do you suppose anybody tes you bad enough to spend of $6,000 of pifelfc ads?" ■following the story of Blaek >°d’s abandonment h» ijt •edly came out at prison and ind h« wife with a fifth child, which another man was the --— woo wr, and his bigamous marriage another woman, Judge Friz e ignored all pleas for clemen and described him as “utterly of any sence of social re onsibility.’’ In other eases: Abel Riggsbee ned $50 and costs and given years suspended road sen ^ possession of t ,,€y I°r sale; Dennis Edwards ■ same sentence for public nnkenness and residing an otf H- Hall, $100 and. costs ree months suspended for ing under the influence; Wil Uoyd, $200 fine and 12 months d sentence to take effect in rt , fr driving after license re mZ (fray€r for Judgement con hiil ln other cases of driving ftp- Vnder the influence and ■rrv rev°hed); Eugene rdJi,. I days> drunk and dis * a**frson IXifeiin, 3 years, ates F .ficketlhook from Bessie oro. FamUy Shoe Store in Hills granted included: E. *orter cf *ram Irene Stevens rotn r j?USle Hasin Th'rrmson i Luther Thompson; William I p,; v from Myrtle Blalock Elizabeth Keaton from Lula nd “ xvuzato [ Keaton. !«ty To Be Sent 'OP Hillsboro — Forty men will f . 0n Wednesday, March 28, ^ ^faction ffila the armed (for the ^rS Copland, clerk of Orange County - draft board, ^IIT>t*LtQdair - board has received a call f6 men to go to Raleigh fcr ^'induction physical examina 15 ♦ ^5>ril 13, sb^ stated, and for to be inducted on April 20. I tithe classroom-at Caldwell Taking an order at the grocery store.,« .third and fourth grade boys at the Caldwell School. Act To Permit Carr boro, White Cross Tote On School Tax Is Introduced Raleigh — Legislation to per mit an election on an extra tax r’cr schools in the White Cross and Carrboro Elementary School Dis ,-riels in Orange County has been introduced in ^he Abuse. Rep. John Untratead said he tossed the bill in the hopper at the request of school officials. If- passed, the bill would allow school authorities in the’two dis tricts to call for an election on a special tax with the approval of the governing authorities. - Umstead said school authorities in the two districts want the extra cash to pay for high school tuition for students to be sent to the Cha pel Hill High School. Neither of the districts has a high school at J present, necessitating that eleanen jtary school graduates in the dis tricts go elsewhere._ At present, school districts with more than 1,000 students can ask In line at their pontoffic*. . Playing postofttce is more than a game at Caldwell school, ? the rural elementary 1X011 in Northern Orange. You might say that the theory in modern progressive education that learning the three R's at least for the younger children, need not necessarily be a formal and arduous <procedure is resipon sible for such a radical change of procedure. But before making a hasty judgement let’s take a look. “Let’s have a ipostofflce, suggest ed the children in the first and •eccnd grades. So, with their tea cher, Miss Asa Rihew, they got busy and built a postofftce from old wooden boxes. The prretoffice was complete with windows for stamp sales, letter ■and parcel post delivery, and a mailing slot. Bach child had a mail box with his name and .num ber cn it. There was plenty of olay money for business transac tions. “Tommy-rot.” you think at the Easter Seal Sale Is Underway Hillsboro -- The Orange Caun ty Chapter of the League for Cr:, pled Children is making its appeal for aid to the physically handicapped of the county through *he annual Easter Seal Sale. G. a Proffit, superintendent of ‘he countv schools and chairman of the local chapter, stated today that letters containing seals have been mril'-d throughout the county.^ “'Letters*.-were.stuffed by - h e Icme Economics- classes of HUP ,ar0 High School under the di ejfic-n c.f . their . teacher,f Mrs Lena Auntan. Proffit asked tha icse, not receiving seals- ma> pake a contribution to the dm >v sending funds e:.hc. t-i ‘‘n‘ ,r to C. A. Hoiick, treasurer ot he organization. “The* aid of mi ens of the county will be greatly *oifeiiated,” • Proffit . said. The rood that it Will do can be ®aasu. ed only by the value of a citizen vho has been rehabilitated and s able to take place im society as, seif-sustaining person. . .first /find second grade »tud first hard-boiled glance. But, in reality, these children were learn ing many valuable things. They were learning in arithmetic-, - - buying and selling, making change, adding and subtracting numbers and solving problems; in spelling - - -teaming— to- apell names of children and parts of the post office. They had to do a lot of craft work in making the post office, printing signs, making stamps and purses to hold the play money. Of course, they had to learn some writing. In their social studies the chil dren learned different ways of carrying the mail and the develop ment of character and citizenship was one at the most important Jaycees, Public To Hear Addresses By Saltonstall Chapel H411 — United States Senator Leverett" Saltonstall of Massachusetts will deliver a pub lic address at the University to night. under the sponsorship orf the Carolina Forum, non-partisan student organization. He wilt speak in Memorial Hall at 8:30 o’clock, with Carolina For ■m Chairman Bob Evens presid ing. ~ He will also speak informally ‘onight at a dinner meeting of the Chapel Hill Jaycees at the Caro lina Inn. ■Elected in the fall of~F944, Sen ator Saltonstall began his career ;n Washington after serving three - ;i-ccu‘ive terms as Governor of • he C mmwealth, a period . em .braping- the war years. Senator Saltonstall is the mi oontv whip in the Senate and is a member of committees on cp orcpriaticns, armed services, small business, and Republican policy. ,As Senator , he has been closely identified with national legisla tion on international affairs and aid, Selective Service, unification cf Armed Services, National ScL erce Foundation, child .health, Displaced Persons, Naval affafars and antifilibuster. >■-. County School, Welfare Heads Turn In Resignations; Strowd Appointed snt* at the Caldwell School. outcomes, e. g. practicing courtesy, learning to fake films cheerfully, striving for good conduct so that they would qualify as postmaster and “service with a smile" at all times. ' The third and fourth grades under the guidance of their teacEr er, Mrs. Mary Mitchell, operates a grocery store U6ing the same principles as the first and second grades did with their postoffice. Mrs. Mitchell also provides learn ing experiences in teaching the use of the telephone. With such practices, the teachers feel the children learn easier and what’s more, as the pictures above seem to hint, it’s fun. Methodists Plan Annual Easter Service, Breakfast . Hillsborp — The Hillsboro Me thodist Church will hold early Easter services at 8 o’clock^un day morning, followed by a fel lowship breakfast in the church basement. Special music will be presented by the choir under the direction :f Mrs. Ernest ''Lockhart, and members of the circles will assist !n serving the breakfast. All fri ends of the church are invited to attend this annual observance. The regular Easter wopship ser ice will take piece at 11 o’clock with the pastor, C. S. Hubbard, ope airing on “The Resurrection.” The last two of v series pf Holy Week messages will be delivered by the pastor tonight and Fri day night at the church. ---O--; EAStER MONDAY HOLIDAY , " HvIIf^cro —■» Easter Monday w>lJ be reserved generally as a holi day here with most business firms and governmental agencies being Officials of the Merchants As sociation announced that most merrJber firms would toe closed but that the tpolicy for individual stores relative to tfce Wednesday afternoon closing this week rested with each firm individually. tor an election on extra money for schools without getting the Gen eral Assembly’s okay. But neither the White Cross nor the Carrboro districts has a school population, reaching that number. Thus, they’ll have to get special permission from the State’s law makers. ~ fc.no River Pollution Cited By Grand Jury “"Hillsboro-The Grand Jury gave county departments a clean bill of health following their in vestigations this week but did transmit reports from “health de partment officials" that “the l>ol luticn of Eno River and the poor sewage facilities at Eno Mill Vill age should be given" the proper attention.” Later, Dr. O. D. Garvin, county health officer, said he knew noth ing of a report to the Grand Jury and praised the recent coopera tion of Eno Mill officials in their program “Of replacement of sani tary facilities in homes of thef tillage. The Mill has been carry ing on an improvement program Cor some time with regard to Abater and sewerage facilities. Vance Martin, foreman of the 3 rand Jury, said the report came to the Grand Jury committee from he “nurse” at the office in Hills ooro and they were not advised Ehat the Eno improvement pro gram was in progress. He said the report referred primarily to the general pollution of the river a-\ long its course in this area. ---o-—:— Funds For Schools Called Inadequate By NCEA Speakers Hillsboro — “The attitude of the hoid-the-liners toward legis lation favable to the school pro gram is not very good,” Miss Zona Livengpod, (president of the N. C. Classroom Teachers Association, old persons attending H special meeting of the Orange County Unit of the North Carolina Edu cation Association Monday arfter noon at the Hillsboro school. According to the spaker, unless more funds are provided than the present legislation rails for, it is going to be difficult for the pre sent school program to be carried on, much less any knprovemeht made. "In Georgia," she said, “the government already has in creased teachers’ salaries to range from $2400 to $3600 for Class A certificates. How can we fail to do as much?” i John Umstead, Orange County representative in the legislative, unable to attend the session due tO f> mffting Qn schools, asked E. R. Dowdy, legis lative representative at the local NCEA group, to speak for him. “I ap backing up with every thing at my command the entire program of the United Forces for Education," Dowdy quoted Urn stead a? saying, “to improve the educational facilities in North Carolina. TJie legislative chairman also remarked that Dr. Clyde Er win, State superintendent of pub lic instruction, has said he is 100 percent for the salai*y schedule cf $2400 to $3600. "If we don’t have this we shall see a great exodus of good teachers from our state.” • The special NCEA meeting was calied .by Mrs. Alpha Blake, pre sident of the Orange County un it, and Dowdy. — —.1 1:.. GOAL IS NEAR Chapel Hill — The local Red Cross chapter’s .goal of $8,000 will apparently be reached, it was announced today by Miss . Elizabeth Branson, chairman of the organization’s local 1951 fund drive. With almost all reports now Tri tor She campaign held the first 10 days of this month, the drive is within “» few hundred dollars” of its objective, she said. A complete tally ,ls ex pected to be ready by this week end.. G. T.,PROFFIT - - - resigns Presbyterians »>ly Week Series Continues Tonight Hillsboro — The Holy Week Services 'at the Presbyterian Chunch will continue tonight and Friday night with services be ginning at 8 p. m. This evening the pastoi, Rev. I. E. Birdseye, will administer the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper in commemoration of the supper Jesus held with his disciples on the Thursday before the Cruci fixion. The Friday night service will be similiar to the service held on Good Friday- in that church for ‘he past three .years. it was said. The service is rather unusual, Mr. Birdseye said, as it reverses the usual practice of a candlelight service. The fully lighted church if. slowly darkened throaghout the -wvice until pne cannlg remain* lighted at the end of the last hymn. This candle is then ex ‘mgutstied following the benedic tion leaving the church in total darkness and silence except for the projection of a famous paint ing of the Crucifixion upon the Chancel wall. To close this dramatic service the people are asked to leave and return to their homes without con versation, it was said. The Easter morning service will be held at 11:00 A. M. with the pastor preaching on “The I»ord of the Living,’’ and the Chancel Choir {providing special Easter music. Mrs. William West of Cha pel Hill will be guest soloist. Second Roond In Speech Contest Here Tomorrow ~i_. Hillsboro — The second pre liminary round in the speakings conftest being sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Associa tion, will be held Friday at 1:30 p. m. at the Courthouse. Agricul tural agencies are assisting in the ( contest, subject oi which is “Green | Pastures-Their Places in the Economy of N. C.” . ... _ \ t Representing Chapel " Hitt will be Lee West, a senior at Chapel! Hill High School. Speakers from Hillsboro and Aycock are to be selected later in the week The county winner will be de termined in this contest and will represent- Orange County in the group contest to be held in Ger rard Hall at the University of Nor^h Carolina, March 30th at 1 p. m. Speakers from the fallow ing conties will take part in this. group contest: Person, Granville.' Vance, Warren, Franklin, Wake, Johnston, Harnett, Chatham. Dur ham and Orange -- - j . --*•»..0— . .. New Column Gives ! Tips On Gardening ' ;“"■«* • —*-i A new graden. column entitled , ‘Garden Time." prepared by Rob- | ert Schmidt^ associate professor of1 hor'iotilture at fi. C. State College,' appears for the first time today j in The News. — ' The column, which will appear as a regular feature each week, is designed to give practical sugges tions on how to grow better fruits ami vegetables for—the family food APPPiy-; Hillsboro — Two major county officials have resigned their posi tions this week- -one to accept a more lucrative position in anoth er county, the other for reasons of health. They are: Glenn T. Profflt, superintendent cf county schools, since 1947. Mrs. Jean M. Heer, cdunty superintendent of welfare, since 1947. Proffit’s resignation will be ef fective June 30, the close of the current fiscal year, and Mrs. Heer’s on .April l.~ Mis$ Annie . Strcwd has been named acting welfare superin tendent. Superintendent Profflt will re- .... turn to Hamett County, in which— he served for 12 years, as princi pal of the Lafayette and Dunn schools ar.d later acting superin tendent, before coming to Orange County as assistant Superintendent in August of 1946. Announcement of his unanimous election as Harnett County Super intendent was made Tuesday night niyht by Chairman of the Board Sydney G Thomas; He will suc ceed C. Reid Ross, who is leaving to become city superintendent at Fayetteville. Contacted here, Mr. Profflt said the offer from the Harnett Board had come entirely unsolicited, but the increased enrollment and higher salary in Harnett made it advantageous for him to accept. He indicated - his resignation of the Orange County Superintenden cy was made with the greatest reluctance and regret. During his tenure in Orange County, he has resided in Chapel Hill and Mrs. Profflt Ijas taught in the Chapel Hill unit. • Proffit’s successor will be chosen dt the meeting of the Board of Education in April as provided by; law. *- • ■ Mrs., Hepr said she resigned her positiqa.-' Because erf ill health. ’The Jgkjard of Welfare at its meeting Monday named- Miss Annie Strowd of Chapel Hill as acting superintendent pending her' passing of the State Merit System examination. She has heen a case worker in the Chapel Hill office for approximately 10 years and a native of Orange County. In announcing the appointment of Miss Slrorwd, G. A. Brown, Welfare Board Chairman said: “Miss Annie Strowd has been ap pointed acting superintendent <rf Public Welfare in Grange ^County to replace Mrs. Jean M. Heer, whose resignation was accepted this morning, Miss Strowd’s ap pointment to become permanent at the time she passes the merit system examinations, ” ^ Mrs. Heer said. “I leave with great regret as 1 have enjoyed the work and the associations in Orange County very much.” She joined the department in 1945 as •hild welfare worker and became superintendent in June 1947. __. ——--o—— Two Local Piaaists Rate Excellent In Music Contest Hillsboro — Two local pianists and the Chapel Hill band received excellent ratings in the final events of the - Raleigh District High School Music Contest held at Meredith College last week. Miss Anne Roberts and Bryan Roberts, daughter and son of Dr. and Mrs. Marion Roberts, were among twelve pianists receiving an excellent rating. Altogether, approximately 2100 students from high schools in Is counties were enrolled for participation in the two-day contest. -o TO SUPREME COURT The “help your^ neighbor” game when it involves bringing ABC liquor to a friend in Orange County, the dry desert adjacent to the oasis of Durham, is still in dispute. The Superior Court jury yes terday found Numj Riggsbee guilty of transporting~and illegal possession for sgje in' a case up on a appeal from the County Recorder'* Court but the defen dant through his attorney ■ ap pealed to the Supreme Court. Riggsbee claimed he bought the pint pf whiskey at the request of a friend, Arthur Clark, who he alleged gave him the money two day previously.
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