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Ieri* Pf Oran)j« County, can uo with the news”Trom all'' ! the county by reading THE /s OF ORANGE COUNTY )1. 58_No. 16 (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL a6. ,951 Price: a Year; 5c Single Copy For quick, proven regilts, ‘anil, buy* rant or got a job by using the classified ads on nJL* ® *f V-. THE NEWS of Orange Eight Pages Thu Week leigh — The abrupt eleventh dismissal of Gurney P. Hood ^tate “commissioner off banks the appointment of Woodrow Isboro Croup [ins FFA Banner ir Second Year killsboro — The Hillsboro High tool Vocational Agricultural bartment has, won for the sec straight year the ; FFA ban > for being the outstanding agri |tural department in the DUr i-Orange County area. The jrd was presented at a Future aers of America meeting held Tuesday afternoon at the local ool. but of the six contests oh the le of which the award was ed’, Hillsboro won three first ces, two second places and one td place. Inal contest for the year took ce Tuesday morning when live fck judging teams from high aols in Orange and surround counties held an FFA live ck judging contest at various as in the area. First place in Ih the Dairy and Beef cattle fine contests went to the team Chapel Hill High School, [ched by R. S. Sizemore. cond place went to Hillsboro both judging, with Elmer Dow agriculture teacher, as coach, charge of the contest (were Tilson of the Dairy Coopera and Livestock Market, Elmer hvdy and Ed Barnes, assistant [inty agent. Jim Williams of the |lsboro team won the greatest nfeer of points in the entire pging. Sach school had a team of three ys to judge three classes of Iry cattle with four cattle in th class. Another team from ^h school judged two classes of cattle and one class of breed be Hillsboro FFA teams were I follows: Dairy—Freeman Dicky, pry Bunker, Jim [Williams, Ted tin, alternate. Beef cattle and fine—Bob Strayhom, Braxton banks, Ronald Kennedy, Bill alternate. i > * fw dcKnug ACCmaI WKlvIXO Health Office multiple screening program be conducted in Ohapel Hill Carrboro during the first two t*eks of May,- Dr. O. David Gar District Health Officer, an bunced today. |A chest X-ray, record erf blood •essure and tests for vision, dia stes, and anemia are included in le screening which will take only In minutes of each person’s time, l eryon? is urged to take all of |ese free tests. However, anyone the tests may be taken without Iking the others, if so desired, larvin stated. IA report of each test will be fcnt to all individuals so that pch followup as is indicated can done by their private phy Icians. I Die schedule for the screening I as follows: [May 2, Health Dept., 9 AM to PM; May 3, 418 West Franklin H 9 Aim to 6 PM; May 4, 418 Franklin St.. 9 AM to 5. PM; Pay 5, Baptist Church, Columbia 9 AM to 6 PM; May 7,- Bap r* Church, Columbia St., 9 AM P 5 PM; May 8, Carrboro Woolen fins, 9 AM to J PM; May 9, farrboro Wbolen Mills, 9 AM to I PM; May 10, Carrboro Woolen PiUs, 7 AM to 5 PM: Ma^ 1:1, arrboro Woolen Mills, 7 AM to PM May 17, Health Department, "AM to 5 PM; May 18, Health artment, 9 AiM to 5 PM. randals Abuse Roadside Peautiflcation Project _ 1 Members of the Hillsboro Gar len Club roadside beautifleatior Icmmittee reported this week thai versons have been pulling flowers lnd throwing trash on the re rently landscaped triangle at the |ead of Churton Street. They ask a* People refrain from pulling rie flowers as well as from throw jig paper and other debris on I e 'Plot. .* jie improvement oi fpots su ,-.4f the triangle at this Intersect adds to the beauty • the * aferf Hillsboro,” com Ittee r ■* « stated, "and we rsk -radon of the citizens J. Jones as his successor has caus ed almost as much yammering- - on a state level, of course- - as .he MaeArthur wrangle. = H<?od, who has done a good job for 20 years, says he heard about his replacement via,radio as he vvas driving to see a sick friend. ‘‘The first I knew about it,” he said, “was when 1 heard the radio armour, er say that the Senate had just confirmed W. W.. Jones as ._ommr. sioner of banks, replacing me.” Hood said he had received no word from Governor Scott or his office that he was to be put out to pasture. „ That aroused a storm of criti cism froffi foe and friend of the governor. There was almost unanimous opinion that Hood should have been given the common courtesy of notification that he was through. And it brought out trvvo ques tions both of which have not been - -and -are not likely to be- - answered officially. These ques -Hons are: ' 1. Why was Gurney Hood let out? 2. ’Why wasn’t he at least told goodbye? The answer to question num ber one is rathev involved. Hood bankers claim that Kerr Scott still has not forgotten that the ext banks ccmmissicncr supported Charlie Johnson for governor and that that is the reason for his dismissal. They claim that since Scott’s election Hood has gone down the . line, for the governor, backing the schools, roads bond issues, backing Frank Graham for senator, and generally backing his boss all the way- -even incurring the enmity of his old conservative friends by so doing. Scott supporters, who were pleased with Hood's campaigning on behalf of Better Schools and Roads, infer that Hood’s apparent up-to-the-hilt support of Scott has not been all that it seemed. They claim that Hood has been giving klip-service to the Scott admini stration, but that his heart and some under-cover effort has been in at least giving “aid and com fort” to Scott enemies You san hear, -i f you’re listen - |lng in*: the right places- -that Scott promised the commissioner of banks job to Jones as far back as 1948. You also can hear, and probably have heard, that Jones, knew nothing of the appointment until the morning he was con timed by the Senate; that Jones; w^as called from the governor’s of (Continued van Page 8) Parent-Teacher Meet Planned For Tonight Chap*' Hill — The final meet ing of the Cha-pel Hill Parent Teacher Association will be held this even ig at the Elementary School beginning with a band concert at 6:45 o'clock oh the school lawn. At 7:15 o’clock, the program will i begin in- the school auditorium. After a short business meeting, there will be a demonstration by Mrs. Fred McCall showing ROW children learn to read music with ten y es, with Fourth graders from ■ he classes of Mrs: Gordon Ellis -n M.-s.^sy Kelhtm participat ir.g. R.iythm classes will be de monstrated by fifth and sixth graders^ and a high school French ■class wifs&Fa"French • sung, un der the direction of Mrs. Eulalia Solomon. A fifteen minute program of choral music by Junior and Sen ior High Sohool students will be directed by Mrs. Jan Schinhan. j After the musical program, stu dent guides will conduct the par .-nts on tours of the Elementary, -Junior-axid. .Senior _High Schoo.s^ Visiting classrooms and exhibits r-f children’s work in various sub lets. Parents will be welcomed ■>v Sunerintendent C, W. Davis. Miss Mildred Mooneyhan and the +^hecs—The—tours—will end Home Economics cottage, where Miss Margaret Lewis and. ---- -‘irflents will provide ref resh nts. - 'he committee on arrangements the program includes: Mrs. e Ponders, primary chairman, 5. Richard Weaver, Jr., Jtuuor •h chairman;'Mrs. Gordon Elhs, ■mentary chairman; Miss Mar et Lewis, High School cha^ ar Mrs. Fred B. McCall and Aim strong, program chajJ n: Mrs. Reece BeriyhiU, de ations chairman* ^ t Champion Speller Mlniiimrwi.ini 111 --- ■ N„e!l Beard Nell Beard Wins Spelling Contest, Will Co To Finals Hillsboro — Miss Nell Beard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Beard, and a student in the eighth grade at the Hillsboro School, was winner of the county-swide Spell-' ing Bee held last Friday at the Agricultural Building. A medal, given by the local Lions Club, will be presented to the winner at school commencement exercises. Nell will represent the county at the big Journal and Sentinel Station WSJS Spelling Bee to 'be held in the station studios in Winston-Salem Saturday at 1:30 o’clock. The word “inquiries" was mis spelled by Frances Andrews of White Cross School, who reached the’ sixth round and the finals against the winner. Miss Emma Lee Davis, English teacher (from Hillsboro, pronunced the words. John iMidgett represented the Lion’s Club at the spelling bee. The county finals was a written contest with words selected from the eighth grade speller. At the end of each round, consisting of ten words, teachers from each participating school swapped pa pers and graded them,, eliminating those making errors. The youngest speller ’ in the contest was Gordon Abernathy of White Cross and a fifth grader. He stayed in the contest' for three rounds, a champion In the making. Other’ contestants were;: Virginia Walker and Stanley MoCullock, Aycock School; Martha Ann-Cheek and.-Alice Gates, Carrboro School; Louise Jackson, Caldwell; Mar garet Wrenn and Nell Beard. Hillsboro; Rebecca Patterson and Patti Sue Moore, Efland; Frances Andrews and Gordon Abernethy, White Cross. All of tfiese school winners were presented certifi cates. • - - * Tobacco Planting By String Method To Be Demonstrated Hillsboro — Demonstration on tobacco row arrangements by the string method are being held in five sections of the county during April arid May, A. K. McAdams, secretary of the Orange County ,PMA committee, announced this week. Technical assistance is be ing given by the Technicians of the Soil Conservation Service, as sisted by other agricultural agen cies of the county. Orange farmers are urged to -attend these demonstrations. “Ex periment stations have shown a -jrea- need for proper row ar rangemenf for conserving the soil on which tobacco is planted, “Mc Adams. staled. .Schedule of meet ings is as follows: Wednesday, April 25, 1 p. m., Cedar Grove, Bob Anderson in charge; Friday, April 27, 1 ip. m., Carr, W. H. Wade in charge; Mon day, -Anri! 3Q. .IjP- m.. High Rock Road, Charlie Bardshaw in charge; Tuesday. May ~ 1, I p. m., Near Lester Brawn,- C. B. Taylor Jr. in - charge; Wednesday, May 2, 1 o. ir., five miles west cf Carrfboro, W AT I.lovH in Charge._ -o SELLING OUT , Chapel Hill — The Varsity, a femiliar establishment alqag Cha Hill's -main thoroughfare, Franklin Street, is selling out ac cording ‘ to announcements this week. The firm is being forced to get out by owners of the property who have .cancelled Its lease, says the firm. • ,\.v . 1 ' ' . ' * _ r . ... ' , , _ __ < __ Town Elections Shape Up; Broadwell Withdraws At Hillsboro; 9 Candidates In Field At Chapel Hill Chapel Hill — James R. Farlaw. local attorney, who filed lor the Board of Aldermen just three hours before the deadline, brought to nine the number of candidates seeking five public offices in the municipal elections oiv May 8. The final entrant, who has been a lawyer here since 1948, is presi dent of the Orange County Young Damccrats Club and a member of the Chapel Hill American Legion post. This brought the number of persons running for the three seats on the six-marvfobdy to six. Other aldermanic candidates are P. L. Burch, incumbent; G. Obie Davis, incumbent: O. K. Cornwell of the University Physical Ikiu^tibn De partment, running as an unofficial representative of the recently annexed Strowd Hill sector; and Giles Horney, supervisor of the University physical plant, and Fred Edwards, 57-year-old Negro builder, who filed late last week. Edwards, the second Negro to seek a council post in Chapel Hill, is a native of Orange and has been active in Negro affairs. There was no change in the judgeship picture with only two candidates Paul Robertson • amt William S. Stewart seeking the $l,500-a-year post now held by John T. Manning, who is not seeking re-election. Mayor fcdwin S. Lanier goes on to the election unopposed for his second term as the town’s top official. --u— Jaycees To Hold Pageant To Select Local Beauty Chapel Hill — A local beauty to represent Chapel Hill in the State finals for the annual Atlan tic City Miss America Pageant will be chosen here- next month. The Board of Directors oO the Chapel Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce announced the local group would ffponffr j an entrant, tb be chosen in opOn ‘competition, after receiving an invitation to participate in the event from^g-tate Jaycees headquarters. Miss North Carolina will be selected during a three-day festival to be held in Burlington in early Summer. .-The- Chapel Hill Beauty and Personality Pageant, as the local section of the Nation-wide Miss America selection, will be pre sented in the Carolina Theater on the night of .May 18. AU proceeds from the event will go toward initiating a fund to erect a com munity and youth center in the town*; . - • Prizes for Miss Chapel Hill will include an expense-paid trip to the State pageant, a complete ward rptoe. and numerous prizes to fere donated by local merchants. In addition a $250 scholarship will be made available to the winner. Local damsels, regardless of whether they are permanent or temporary residents of Chapel Hill between 18 and 27, are invited to enter. Only other requirements are that they be high school gradu ates or graduate this year, and be unmarried. Persons who will sponsor or propose entrants are requested to communicate with the Jaycees, Box 867, or telephone William Alexander, 6981 or Olivers Wat ' ins aj 2-13961. - —- - -o-_" ■ Pomona Grange To Hear Duke Man Hillsboro — The Orange Coun 1y Pomona Grange will meet at 4^ Orange Church hut, with the Calyander Subordinate Grange as host, on Monday April 30, at 8 p. m. One feature on the program will be a performance by the newly organized Heme Demonstration ' Club" "Choi at “group,—- ifflf lfe George Bason as director. Dr. | Douglass S. Hill, of Duke Uni versity, will be speaker of the evening. All Grange members in he county are urged to attend - ■—. ' ■—o-----.. - FEES TO GO UP Hillsboro— The higher schedule of fees in the office of the County Register of Deeds, authorized by the recent session -of the Legi slature, will go into effect May 1. Of most interest to the general public are the fees for birth cer tificates which after May 1 will be 50 cents for birth certificates and $1 for delayed birth certifi cates. 9a hand to greet his Sis&s MU reside with the husband and ■ ther arrived an O ressel was Lt. wife and daughter “ ‘ stton-Berrlee lush otteer tor the Nasal 8* Carrhoro, N. C., and their duihV . - tether In Nasal housing on Guam, white he sersos his tour of duty there. (OSkui u.s. M«r Photo«r»ph—iom4M> :K§’.KK2 Curve Inn Row Continues As New Petition Signed i Chapel Hill — The battle over the Curve Inn beer permit con tinued this week when citizens of the surrounding section petitioned the State ABC Board to deny a license to the operator. The petition,Aligned by practi cally every resident and property owner of the area including Mrs. Carl Durham, wife of the con gressman, and others prominent in University and community acti vities, based its appeal on the new zoning classification of the area which would prohibit any n.dw businesses in the area, and classi fied it in the highest residential bracket. Of course, the business was in Operation as a surbunban estab ! lishmem lpng before the area was annexed to the Town of Chapel i Hill. The Board of Aldermen, in a split vote, recently approved is suance of a permit for beer to Eure Johnson, the new Curve Inn operator, after an earlier request had been denied. A State license had been refused but Johnson has appealed and currently awaits the outcome of this appeal. Thus, the local petition was directed-, over the heads of the local Board of Aldermen to 'th'e'State 'AiBC au thority. > C Said the petition: “We the un dersigned citizens, residents and property owners of that section of Chapel Hilt recently annexed, hereby protest the granting of a beer license to the business estab lishment known as th Curve Inn. “This property was zoned by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Chapel Hill in a resi dential area where businesses of all types are prohibited and we approved this action Of the Board i of Aldermen,” * _ Civic Club Plans White Elephant ‘~‘V ' '•~. Auction Sale Hillsboro — The Hills»boro Ex change Club will sponsor a “White Elephant”- auction sale at the Hillsboro High School gym Fri day night, May. 18, at 7 o’clock. Proceeds from this .sale will be used to fuither the recreation program which the club has been sponsoring each year. “We are making plans for expansion of the program this year”, officials stated, “but we need tlie cooperation of everyone to make this possible.” » Local citizens are asked to check atics and' ba seiriehTs~ for" artfctes to be donated to the sale. The sponsors point out that even things that need minor repairs will be acceptable. Donors are asked to cal! one of the follow ing places for trick-up service of the artciles: Gordons Grocery Store, Cates Esso Station or J. L. Brown and Sons. For several years the Exchange Club has worked toward an im« proved recreation program for the town. They have sponsored both softball and basketball teams and the Borwnie Scout program. The group also built and provides supervision for the wiuttefc pool behind, the Methodist ^Church. Probable Came Found By Phipps In Break-In Hillsboro—Jack Jackson, Negro of many aliases, who has spent six of-the last ten years in prison, possibly faces another-term be hind bars as Judge L. J. Phipps in County Court Monday found probable cause on charges of storobreakinig, larceny and re ceiving, and bound Jackson over to Superior Court with bond set at $1,000. According to prosecuting wit nesses from Carrijoro, the defen dant allegedly broke into the pro perty of Bendergraph and Grat ham Service Station at the corner of. East Main and Merritt Mill Road in that torwn, and stole 10 cartons of cigarettes plus a large quantity of pennies valued by the owners at $20. Jackson is alleged to have been seen spending a large number of pennies at one time and to having sold the cig arettes. Other cases -were .as follows: Herbert A. Rush, pleads nolo con tendere to improper drivers license and improper lights, $25 and costs; B. H. Taylor, failure to renew drivers license, $25 and costs; W. H. Vick, pass worthless cheek, nol pros with, leave; . Henman. S, Tate* driving drunk, moves for jury trial, transferred to superior court, bond set at $300; Dewey Williams, public drunkenness, costs; Geral dine kHolt, no drivers license, $25 arid costs; John Henry Edwards, larceny,, nine months . on roads; Lacy A. Jones, improper brakes, $10 and costs; John Heury Smith, i no drivers license, $2J and costs; J?mes Otlio Gordon Sr„ driving drunk, nol pros with leave, loss of driveis license; Richard Faucette Cn gfcett. improper lights, $10 and costs; William Gilmore, reckless dTivJffg and damage to property, nol pros; Roy Copeland, failure ttf ; give hund_ signal, nol pros; Her m 1 W nor, disorderly conduct j and public drunkenness. 30 days | on roads, suspended. Pre-School Clinic At Murphy School Scheduled May 1 Chapel Hill •— A Pre-school t-linic will be held at the Murphy re u[ ffn ‘ Tuerday;"Wayi“trTtt-i rOix Ur, O. David Garvin, Dis | r?3 Health Officer, announced lo iy. Parents are urged to bring JT’l rhildfenwho wilT beenterkig the school next fall. The birth certificate and a rec ord of ‘immunization against di r?ase, obtained from the family [physician or from the Health De partment, should be brought to the clinic. In addition to the physical ex | amihatioh of the thikiren, the activities of the clinic will include conferences with the nurse and the first-grade teacher, an educa tional program for the parents, and-refreshments for the children. Hillsboro —- Town Commission er H. Broadwell has withdbawn as a candidate for reelection to the Town Board of Hillsboro. His withdrawal leaves an even five men as candidates for the five positions on the board, elimi nating a contest on May 8 when only a token vote will required to name the town fathers. Mr. Broadwell had been re luctant to seek reelecfio'rr because of the pressure df private affairs, including his wife's illness, but had finally consented to run at the urging of other town officials. When F. E. Joyner, a former mem ber of the board, later filed for a seat, Mr. Broadwell decided to follow his -original desire in the matter. Thus, the new Hillsboro Town Board when it takes office in June will be composed of Joyner and the incumbents, V. M. Forrest, W. M. Chance, R. J. Smith and Dr. H. W. Moore, with Mayor Ben Johnston, who also has no op-' position, presiding. ■ -? —i. -~o» No Action Yet Ob Chapel Hill Trailer Issae Chapel Hill — The Board of Aldermen t^ok no action at their meeting Monday night on the re quest from the Town Planning Board that an ordinance be passed * requiring all trailers located at points other than approved trailer courts equipped with standard toilet facilities be moved to such courts by September 1. The matter received considera tion along lines of two important factors - - zoning and sanitation. It was indicated that the loca- - tion of such trailers was probably already technically prohibited by zoning regulations. Dr. O. D. Garvin, district health officer, told the board that three ip factors- were involved from a sanitation dvtndpotat: the tack of adequate toilet facilities; failure to keep the trailers clean wider neath; and inadequate sewerage and drainage. He said he had not enough complaints along sanitary lines to assume authority for or dering the trailers to move. Spring Federation Of Hone Clubs ' To Meet May 2 HUIUboro — The Spring Fed eration meeting of the Orange County Home Demonstration cltibs ’ will be held at Camp New Hope qn Wednesday, May 2, at 2 o’clock, Mrs. Katherine Hamrick, county home demonstration agent, an nounced today. Mrs. Paul Long, ccunty council president,‘will pre side. Principal speaker for the event will be Mrs. Kenneth Cuyler of Dunham, who was orve of five. — delegates to attend the Interna - tional meeting of Farm Women in Denmark last Fall. She will dis cuss the convention and show slides of her trip. The County Chroal group will I present a program of music under jjthe direction of George Bason of Chapel Hill. Refreshments will be i served by the Schley and Smith Level clubs. ~ The spring meeting is being held during the sixth annual Heme Demonstration Week, which will be observed from April 29th thfough May 5th. Taking part in this clinety in the county are 17 ’clubs with 443 members, 95 of which have been added during the past year. Theme for . the week is “To day’s Home Builds Tomorrow's World”, a fitting subject sihce our country is engaged in a struggle for-the -preservation, erf dwnnfwv, states Mrs. P. P. Gregory, presi dent of the N. C. Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs. “We r~: 'know that bur homes and family~ | life are basic to the strength of democracy. With this in mind, let’s emphasize the importance of j homemakers in the total mobili zation program.” - According to Mrs. Hamrick, lo cal clubs and the Grange * will sponsor a series of first aid courses with Red Cross instructws, as a community service project in the overall defense program. The dubs also are encouragin and food preservat canning, free-"—