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Orange County people read NEWS every week than any r Orange County Newspaper rtJU ■ -i. .'TTETSr f rr • V •.r* SUBSCRIBE TODAY. NEWS of Orange County Pvt gulck. proven results sett, b buy, rent er get a job by using THE NEWS of Orange County ^ )1. 58_.N0. 14 (Published Weekly) lour Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 -i want ad columns. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. N. C. THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1951 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week intest Looms ir Mayor, iwn Board Carrboro larrboro — In the Carrboro nicipal election to be held on 7th, two persons have filed [the office of Mayor, layor I. F. Hardee who has yed the town as Mayor for the year is filing for re-election, other candidate for mayor is J. Sullivan Gibson, a Univer of North Carolina professor. Jh listed the formal intention run and paid their one dollar on Wednesday of last week, the deadline for all candidates (enter the race, for the mayor four commissioners is April These officies are for a two lr terms each. Others may enter [ir names within a -‘few days, gistraticn of new voters is to fin next Saturday, April 14, and [tinue through April 28. Jr. Hardee, a supervisor at the iiversity Laundry and local resi ht for the past 15 years, is eom Iting his finSt term as Carr y's Mayor. He made no public foment with his bid for ra tion; )r. Gibson, a resident of Carr [o for more than three years saking his first race for public Ice. Aii associate professor of pgraphy at the University, he ?ie to Carnboro to make his ne from the..University of Wis bsin in Madison. He is a nativt? [Texas and a graduate of Abi |e State College. 3r. Gibson entered the race for yor of Carnboro at the request i a number of friends. He stated, am not running as a reformer am not going to make a lot promises. I am 100 per cent icerned with civic improve nts and-hrst want tn make a dy of what the town needs) id it’s possibilities.” one of the incumbent four jiissioners have, as yet filed re-election. However, the fol ing three persons, all running their first puiblic office, formal fiied for these fyllowyig posts ;’eral days ago. Sidney Barker, R. Shelton Lloyd id O. M. Powers. Barker who s been appointed as judge of e elections, will serve together ith T. C. Lindsay Sr. R. B. udebaker will serve as registrar. pril 22 Set or Waste Paper rive In Hillsboro Hillsboro — Plans for a waste •per drive in Hillsboro and vi nlty were announced today by fVcials of The Exchange Club of illsboro. Trucks will tour the town, and ie surrounding area to collect; aste paper Sunday, April 22nd. he Collection will (begin around 30 p. m. Citizens of this area 'e urged to put all scrap out5 for Election on this date. Funds received from the sale t this paper will be used to jrther the club’s recreation pro ram during the stammer months All types at paiper can be used. ■ is requested that carboard be sparated from other types at aper. _L " - . 4 j; Robert O. Forrest - . fvlew ^Coun'y Commissioner. More Donors Are Needed For Bloodmobile Chapel Hill — Volunteer donors ire desperately needed -for the Bloedmcbile which will be here next Tuesday and Wednesday. Hebert Schenkkan, chairman of the project, said yesterday morn ing that appointments for persons willing to give blood have been extremely slow coming in. A quota of 400 pints has been set for the two days, during which the Red Cross unit will again be set up in Graham MerrrorialT The 300-pints quota set when the -Bioodmcbile was hero in .February ■was exceeded by 31 pints. While persons who gave blood the last time will be eligible as tenors again. Red Cross Chapter Chairman Robert H. Wettach espe cially encouraged the partieipa^ tron of new-idon'ors. The Apl.ha Phi Omega Univer sity service fraternity will con tinue to schedule, blood nonors at the Red Cross office in Alumni -Building fs-r the rest of the week, and next Monday. ” Traffic Violations Make Up Most Recorders Docket Hillsboro — A short, routine session featuring traffic violations was held by the County Record ers Court this week with Judge L. J. Phipps on the bench. ' (Ca'ses were as follows: Thelma "Wade; failing to dim lights, $5 and costs; - James’ C. HinSlcy,; fol lowing too close and illegal use of spot light, $10 and costs; James Paul Poplin,* following too close, $10 and' costs; William Thomas Ovc raker, reckless driving, $Z? and costs; George Scurlock, no '^iveFs.license,—$25—and—costs; Charles Lee, speeding, $25 andj costs; illegal possession, 90 days on roads, suspended, $50 and costs: Irving Eugene Biglow, aiding and abetting in transporting whisky, not guilty; Amos Yarboro, speed ing and improper brakes, $5 and costs; D. H. Eason, public drunk enness, costs; Richard F. Crockett, called and failed; Thomas Rob inson, reckless driving, $25 and costs; Charles W. Phillips fa.iling to dim lights, $9.55 and costs. Alexander Mew Jaycee President At Chapel Hill <t Chapel Hill — William M. “Pokey” Alexander was last week elected president of the Jaycees for the ccming year. He succeeds Charlie Phillips who now auto matically bec-omes a director of the club. Other officers elected, all of whrm will be officially installed next month, were: First Vice President, Richmond Sloan;?V President, W. J. Ogburn; Second Vice-President, Richmond Sloan; Secretary., Bill Waston; Treasurer, •J. C. Fox; Directors, Dr. J. Kemp ton Jones, William Sloan,. Ken neth Putman,- Roland Giduz. and. J. H. Koon. ' •? A local home and auto supplies dealer, Alexander is at present secretary of the two-year-old civic group. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and a former Durham radio sta tion announcer. Plans were announced at the meeting .fur completion of the street markers project fey felling i.h block numbers «t the top of each marker. As soon as stencils can be cut for these numbers, project chairman Herman Ward announced, this last step will be started. Farm Youths Will Take Part In Durham Festival Hillsboro —- Orange County 4-H members will take an active part in the annual Durham Farm Youth Festival, April 25, 26, which over 2,000 farm boys and girls are ex pected, to attend at the invitation ol' the sponsoring groups. Five county school groups, will have floats in the parade which will be featured at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. THfese are: Hillsboro High School, Chapel Hill High School, Aycock Elementary and High SrivooW Ciy-.nboi o " Eli - memory Sefib 1. and Effand Ele mentary School. The Hillsboro High School band also will take •part in the morning's show and a number of Orange County young, people will march in the parade. The festival features a cattle show, stock show and sale, ban quet and scfuare dance with en tries in various events from Ala-; ; rrranee, Franklin. Granville, Or ange, Person and Durham coun ties. . ... ■ - On Wedivesday. April 25. festi vities open -with the breed! ng cattle and swine show at 10 a. m. followed at 2 p. m. by the fat stock show' sponsored by the Dur ham Khvariis Clpb, and at 7 pi m. by a banquet for exhibitors and parents.__. __■ '■ Following Thursday’s parade, a fat stock sale will be held at 1 p ,m. Climaxing the two-day event will be the square dance at the city armory, the entire pro gram sponsored annually by the Durham Merchants Association and Kiwanis Club. Last year, Orange County had three winners in the stock show': Patsy Martin, owner of the grand champion hog: Carl Walters, owner qI a reserve champion calf. Robert 0. Forrest Is Named To Fill Vacancy On County Commission ----•... Price Control Clinics For Area Are Ansosnced Hillsboro — Price control clinics for the instruction of retail mer chants in this area who sell wear ing apparel and house furnishings, •will be conducted by the District Office, of Price Stabilization on Monday, April 23, in Durham, and on Tuesday. April 24, ih BuiV lington. Director ‘John G. -Clark announced this week. The Durham clinic Will be held lit the Crystal Ballroom at the Washington Duke Hotel at 2 p. m. and at 8 p. m. for merchants in Durham, Hillsboro, Chapel Hill, Roxboro, Oxford, Macon, Norlina, Creedmoor, Henderson, Warren ton and other communities. The Burlington clinic,* on Tues day the 24th, will be at 2 and 8 p. m. and will be for Burlington, Graham, Hillsboro, Roxboro, Haw River, Mebane and other com munities. The clinics are designed to ex plain C.P. R. 7 which covers the retail sale of all wearing a/pparel, accessories, piece goods and all house furnishings. Merchants cov ered by this regulation are en couraged to attend the most con veniently located clinic, Director Clark said. C. P. R. < requires that all merchants under its coverage must file complete price chafts with thr Eastern District O. P. S. 700 Tucker Street, Raleigh, by April 30. There- will be no further ex itension of time for filing price charts under this regulation, Mr. Clari;k stated. Acknowledgement of price chart filing will be made •'by O. P. S. direct to individual Iticrcv.ants. Those who do not re ceive acknowledgement must stop the sale of merchandies covered j.;by, the regulationon May 30. Carl Forrest Saccwnbs At 68; Last Rites Today f Efland-Stephen Carl Forrest, 68, prominent business man of this community, died yesterday morn ing at 7 o’clock at Duke Hospital after a short illness following, a heart "attack. funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Eflgjid Meth odist Ghuich with, the Rev, D. K. Christenberry in charge. Interment will be in Fairfield cemetery. Mr. Forrest i.s. survived by His wife, Carrie Turner Forrest; three daughters. Mrs. D. E. Forrest and Mrs. Joe Hughes of Hillsboro,, Mrs. W. H. Underhill of Greens boro; two sons, T. J. and S. C. Forrest Jr. of Efland; two brothers, T. J. Forrest of Jacksonville, Fla. and E. G. Forrest of Winston Salem; three sisters, Mrs. A. Kelly of Raleigh, Mrs. O. E. Bivins of Hillsboro, and Mrs. M. P. Ef land of Efland; and eight grand children. ---!---£ Commissioner Opposition Kills Proposal Chapel Hill — Last Friday. Representative John W. Umstead introduced a bill in the legislature which would have permitted one raan to serve as prosecutor for both Orange County and Chapel Hill Recorders Courts. .. Monday afternoon, he asked his colleagues to kill the measure after opposition developed from the Board of County Commissiofiers, which had apparently not been consulted prior to the introduc tion. The bill was introduced by re quest cf the Board of. Aldermen of Chapel Hill and would have been without legal effect com pletely if the two boards failed to act on the matter later. In three brief sections it provid ed that: Upon resolution of the aldermen and county commission ers the two groups were jointly to appoint one person to serve as prosecuting attorney for both ecu:ts: the term of office of the new prosecutor would be deter mined by tiV? two boards, and no such appointment could be made during the present term Of the prosecuting attorney of the County Court. The" attitude of the County Board was that it did_ not wish to act hastily on the matter and felt that t,hv measure should have further study. Omar Bradley Is Scheduled For Local Address ChBpel Hill — General Omar N, Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs eg. Staff of the Army, -Navy «fid Air Foiee, will deliver a public address at the University next Thursday night, underspon sorship of the Carplina Forum, pon-partisan student organization. He will speak in Memorial Hall at 8 o’clock. « So far this year the Carolina Forum has brought General Mark Clark, Radio News Commenator Edward R. Murrow and Senator Leverett Saltonstall «f Massa chusetts to the University eam NJEW ASSISTANT CLERK Hitlsboro — Sam Gattis has been appointed assistant Clerk of Orange County Superior Court by Clerk Edwin M. Lynch to succeed Lucius Cheshire, who resigned. Gattis is the son of the la'e 3. M. Gattis II, a form er attorney here, and Mrs. Gattis of Hillsborot IHis grandfather, S. M. Gattis, was an outstand ing Masonic leader and prose cuting attorney for t/his Judicial District. Rural Fire Body Sets Deadline At Old Fees i Hillsboro — New members lit what is now called the Orange Rural Fire Department No. 1 will be accepted at the original lee up to May I. After that time, naw members will be accepted in accordance with the discretion of the Board cf Directors of the organization. That was the decision made this week by the newly elected Board of Directors of the organization which was formed- recently to pur * chase fire fighting equipment for the rural sections of the county; surrounding Hillsboro. The truck and some equipment has been purchased and is al ready here. An additional $1900 to $2,000 will be needed to purchase i hose, ladders, axes, chemical ex-1 tinquishers and insurance cover- j age before the truck will be ready i for service. —-;.;.:■ 1 Since the original membership! meeting, the influx of new mem bers has lagged and there are still several hundred property owners in the area to be served who have not joined. To thdfce potential members, the board of directors, by decision at flits meeting, announced, that’ the fire truck will answer no calls except to members of the associa tion. In return for the Town of Hill?boro’s furnishing of gasoline, oU,i greasing, washing and hous ing! the truck will be used as , a supplementary truck in’ Hills I buro. in cases of emergency. ; T. C of Or >vr president of the association. The treasurers report indicated that the membership now totalled 27W persons and firms who have: contributed $4,770 to the project. w - * Masonic Leader To Address Pablic At Chapel Hill Chapel Hill — One of the coun try's outstanding Masonic leaders and speakers, Justice George £. Bushnell of the Michigan Su preme Court, will give a public address at the University next Monday night, at 8:30; Hii sub ject will be “Masonry As A World Force,” • . . ' ; Hi.s appearance will be the opening feature of the two-day 164th annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina set for April 17 18 in Chapel Hill. Presiding over the sessions will be Dr. W. E. Caldwell, head of the University History Depart ment and this year’s Grand Mas ter of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina. \ Hillsboro — Robert O. Forrest of Hillsboro, chairman of the t * . Democratic Executive Committee in Orange County, has been ap pointed a member at the Board of County Commissioners to fill the unexpired term of Commis sioner H. G. Laws. Forrest was appointed by Clerk of Superior Court Edwin M. Lynch, who. indicated Forrest would probably be sworn ipto of fice by him today. ' Laws attended his last official jjcard meeting here Monday, a •peeial•session called primarily to approve agreements with the Dur ham Bank and Trust Company relative to the deposit at close to half million dollars realized fltxn the school bonds recently — sold by the county to be spent on school construction projects now underway. He submitted his resignation to the Board and the Board in turn approved a formal resolution commending him for his long and valuable service on the Board covering several terms. Laws will take office as town policeman In Hillsboro next Mon day.- ^ Forrest has been prominent in civic and political activities for many years and has served for several years as County Chair man of the Democratic Party. He is a native of the county. The Commissioners—at their _ Monday meeting also appoifnted three new members of the Chapel Hill Zoning Commission Enlarged, in accordance with the provisions of the special esabling act re-« cently passed by the legislature, which was promulgated primarily to enable zoning of the new Dur ham-Chapel Hill boulevard area in Orange County to prevent commercialization along the four lane thoroughfare. , - The appointees included: Alas tair L. Muirhead, Glen Lennox, - one year; D. W. Loomis, Hidden Hills, two- years; and Dr. Lucy Mo/gan. Jjaam^ck, .{toad, ;«tars. '* - Formal action was taken desig nating the Durham Bank and Tryst Company the* official tfe pcsito.y for Orange County funds — effective until December 1961 and agreements were signed by the Ccnihussioners and the bank to insure the safety orf the bond money deposit as required by law. —7^ The bank was required to estab lish sufficient collateral in other banks to cover the $489,000 left for deposit after the county paid off bond anticipation notes and . Interest on funds secured prior to the three quarter million dollar sale last month. Flaw Proceed ~ For Talent Show Hillsboro — plans are going forward rapidly for the Lions-* PTA sponsored talent show to be held Friday evening, April 20 at the School Auditorium. A full length show is being lined up by the sponsors and proceeds WiU go toward a nerw curtain for the high school stage. Classrooiri Procpfturps Take On j\ewer Trends In Orange Megro Schools Although poor buildings, in dequats. facilities and impassible ’ ads are still present in many ascs in the small onb-and-two oom Negro schools of Oron^e_ Icunty. fewer than ever class CUTn situations are. now being bserved where isolated subject natter is being imposed upon hildren. Rather, more stress is' eing placed on important aspects f living with information being athered from many areas," thus cabling the child to gain a richer understanding into human "felsF jcmships and social progress. The hildren are being taught to live ather than a fervv isolated facts f<hp books. And, while the buildings are sjttal and ramshackle in many a”e5» as was shown on tnis page * so many months ago, their nteriors in numerous cases are ^Inactive and conducive to the 1fAV ,*ype of instruction being car Uct on. The scene at left, above s at Carr School, a two-teacher J7'‘l m Northern Orange, and news a well planned classroom 0T the primary grades, the type . enviromn«nt which stimulates ve child to work. The scene at Sht, “^ove, is at Ridge Poad, a *■ •*< Iwo-teacJrer seheol-just_n?rth oi Hillsboro. Here concern for others WJliSDortJ. v,— and group participation are de veloped in situations important to children. “* • ) - Throughout the Negro Schools of Orange County, increasing at tention is being given to >vay* in which children grow, develop and learn. Teachers and school au‘ho~vties a're putting forth more effort in seeing that the curriculum I is so designed that children may experience in classroom and the community the important aspects [of living and be given opportune ties for creative expression. In so doing, their aim is to develop a more useful and responsible citi zenship for the benefit of the ] whole cotjimunity
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