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enl of Orange County can «p up with tha nawa from all the county by raadlng THE OF ORANQE COUNTY \\ol 58—No. *7 r-v~ Far quick. Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 buy, rant or gat a jab THE NEWS al 7'_HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY ta, 1951 Price: $s a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week Mm b CAPITAL REPORTER Raleigh — The resignation of r0hn Gold as Prisons Director a a body blow to the rehabilita te Nprth Carolina's prison tion it need not be a death blow- - a return to the corrupt prac tices 0f the past- -if his succes sor is given a free hand to con tinue the work so ably launched yy the former Winston-Salem police chief. Gold has quit the tough prisons Presbyterians To Meet Today At Camp New Hope The Summer adjourned meet ing of the Orange Presbytery, to be held today at Camp New Hope, near Hillsboro, will hear initial reports of council and commit tees, Re-v. James D. Carter, Stated The presbytery will nominate a moderator in advance for the first time for election in the Fall. Be fore this year, 'nominations have been held just prior to elections at Fal> and Spring meetings. The moderator elected this Fall will replace Gov. W. Kerr Scott who will preside. Two candidates for the minis try will be presented. They are Fred N. Nance of Greensboro and Guy F. Miller of Rougemont. One minister will be received by transfer, Rev. Kay M. MSsen heimer who comes from Asheville to serve as pastor of the Eno, Little River, and Fairfield group of churches. Rev. John Ensign, host' pastor, will announce special orders of I the day and a number of reports will be heard. Trustees of various institutions in which the presbytery has a di rect interest also will report, a long with commissioners to the g«te|al^ assembly held last month . . . —T> ... -— ' Orange Paying ; Gains 23 Miles Oaring Jane Raleigh —• The State Highway Commission completed the hard surfacing on 23 miles at secon dary road in Orange County dur ing June. The newly-surfaced roads are: New Hope Church Road from NCMto Old Route 10, 4.4 miles; Mebane County Home Road frbm US 70 to Will Jackson Road, 2.4; Old Pittsboro Road from NC 8* to US 501, 3.7; Lynch Store Road from NC 49 to the Alamance line, 3.4; Airrport-Nerw Hope Road from end at pavement to New Hope Church, 6.3; Carr-Corbitt Road from NC 49 to Caswell County line, 2.7. More than one-half of the state wide paving goal under the sec ondary bond issue (program has been completed to date. Orange Fanners May Break - Pasture Record Hillsboro Farmers all over *he county are making plans to seed1 a record breaking acreage to ladino clover penmanent pasture this feu. . Three thousand aereas were seeded last year and indications are that a larger acreage will be sown this fall. The P. M. A. has been busy filling orders for lime *° go on pasture land. They will he able to furnish, approximately ore-half of the cost of seed be ginning in August. Two pasture contests are un derway.. One tQ select the bestj grassland farm in each of the tenj communities sponsored by the | Bank of Chapel Hill, the other; ° stimulate new growers by giv *ng each new grower a chance at *100.00 in -prizes offered by Cole mar>-Larws Company of Hillsboro. JbST MISS GOAL --r -'.’/'./.I . Hillsboro _ The Hillsboro Ex change Club narrotvgly missed teaching its goal of waste paper ast Sunday, but expressed ap preciation. for the; cooperation re gjWjMBifc'lKi ..I ^ - goal was to obtain efiougre *hen added to that already cm and to make a carload shipment. job to return to Winston-Salem as city manager. He was brought to Raleigh and the prisons job handed him with a pledge of “no politics” plus full support at the administration. That pledge has been kept. But reorganization ot the. far flung prison system, cleaning up of its personnel, launching of'an educational \a n d rehabilitation program, apd allocation of more than a million dollars for prison building has taken a lot of 24 hour days for John Gold. ... tiad e tough decision ' to maks'. fte' had ' niot finished the job he came here to do. But Winston-Salem is home to him and his family. So a $4,000 a year raise a/id promises of full, and non-partisan support as the Twin City s manager was too good’ to turn down. . ^ He may have stepped from the frying pan into the fire, because it seems impossible- -particularly in Winston-Salem- -to keep poli tics out of operation of the city government. v-toIu has done a great job- as prisons director. Even though he’s leaving Ibbfore the' job is com pleted, he at .least has the pro gram underway. His successor will have to prove to prison per sonnel - as Cold did- -that he means business, and will tolorate no petty or major graft. Incidentally, Gold did not ac cept the Winston offer until he got approval of Highway Chair man Jordan and Governor Scott. Meantime, all sorts of rumors have been flying around about Gold’s possible successor. The same forces that wanted Assistant Director H. H. Honeycutt to have the job proior to Gold’s appoint ment are boosting their boy again. Central Prison Warden JoeCraw ford would not exactly turn down the post. And from the west comes mention of Highway Patrol Cap tain Speed for the job. -o Prophets, Etc. Ironically, John Gold had to come to Raleigh to get the folks trr -Winston-Salem to appreciate him. Gold admits that the city fathers never would have offered him the city managership had he remained in Winston-Salem as police chief. -- — /V- — Cut-Throatin' North Carolina’s Congreemen C. B. Deane and Graham Barden seem determined to try to keep the Air' Force.trdm" Sgtttog ugt-a big air base at Raleigh-iDurham airport. Both are-making loud and long speeches about using Either Laur inburg-Maocton or Seymour John son field at Goldsboro instead. They cite the millions already in vested at those two places and claim miney would be wasted if it were spent at Raleigh-Durham. They seem either to forget- - or (have not been, informed of- - *wo things: ,1. Millions already have been spent at Raleigh-Durham, too. 2. If Raleigh-Durham is not selected, the air ‘base will not be .placed in North Carolina, ac cording to information from Washington. ' i It seems the Air Force took a look at both Laurinburg-Maxton and Seymour Johnson and found neither acceptable for the job. ;-o——— ■ Stiff-Necked Governor Scott long has been! called stiff-necked, but he’s liv_ ing up to the name these days- - literally. Seems he was in an au tomobile /wreck while in Now York recently and tore some liga ments - in. his hedft . .. . .aas«_ Flo urine Suggested For Chapel Hill Water Chapel Hill - The -Board of AI dermen has taken. A*nde.r con sideration a suggestion that it _ r ClAiirinP SlUCffli'wn - permit the use of Flour.ne ,n the town's water. Exoeriments have shown that •' _' —n A S use of flouring/ in water - has acted as a successful teeth pre servative and many cities- are now experimenting with it a community-wide basis. The suggestion was made by Or. Syd Alexander of the Uni versity's Infirmary staff as a citizen and parent, and was re^ ferred by the Mayor to the Health Committee which plans £ confer with .oca, Rector* dentists, Dean yohn C, Braue of the UNC Dental School, an ***** now trying it be fore to the Board. Hiddea Mh Residents Renew Annexation Plea Chapel Hill — The residents of Hidden Hills renewed their peti tion this week that area be an nexed by the Tov*n of Chapel Hill. — _ The Board of Alderman com plied by taking the first steps in the the annexation procedure: (1) ordering that surveyor’s descrip tion otf the area be obtained, and (2) directing the Town Manager to prepare an estimate of the .‘.ex penditures which would be nec cessary. The petitioners were advised Monday night that 'it was hoped further action could be taken Monday night July 23. If the Board acts favorably on the pro posal a resolution would be pas sed setting a public hearing as the next step in the annerretion procedure. The residents of Hidden Hills first filed' for annexation in Au gust of last year, one day after other areas were taken into the city limits. They were advised Monday night that should they be annexed it was doubtful if sewer lines could be installed be fore the Fall of 1953. I After a request from Editor [ Louis Graves, the board directed that parking on Hooper Lane be tween Battlq Lane and Boundary street be limited to one side only. It was voted' to call for bids on he new street lights for West Franklin Street and to carry over to July 23 final consideration of the new budget. Communities Plan Building At White Cross Hillsboro A large grou/p of peo ple from the Antioch, Oaks .and Orange Grove communities met last Thursday night at the White Cross Cannery and made plans to erect a community building. They voted to purchase a lot adjacent to the school property. One-half of the purchase price of the lot was pledged at this meet ing and the heads of the grange, P. T. A., Home Demonstration Clubs and Junior Order were ap pointed to serve as a finance com mittee. The building committee is com posed of Aubrey MoLennon, Chairman; Clem Cheek, Walter LJloyd, J. F. Whitfield and Glenn Lloyd. They have available an old 'Cdmp Butner barradks given to the (immunity several months ago by John W. Umstead. RESIGNS HilUboro — Mrs. Sam Poole has resigned as assistant clerk in the office of County Aocoutant Ira Ward, effective July 14. A suc cessor will probably be named within the next few weeks. Expanded $523,164 Budget Gets .Commissioners’ Okay On $1 Rate New Superintendent Takes Oath G. Paul Carr made his debut as the |fiew county Superintendent of Schools lasb week and after attending his first meetina of the Board of Education as Its chief executive officfr took the oath of office from Clark of Superior Court Edwin ,M. A-ynch. He Is shown above while repeating the oath In the traditional manner. .Carr on July (1 succeeded Glenn Promt who returned to Harnett county as superintendent. Carr was principal of the An jler School. Town Revokes Curve Inn Permit After Hot Protests Chapel Hill — The Strowd Hill - Curve Inn war entered a new phase this week and the major vere a heated hear ! ing wBfore ^Ke' Board of Aider men, revocation of the building permit allowing alterations to the east side sore spot, and retaliatory defiance from theawrter who al lowed work to continue. The residents oif the Strowd Hill area opened up with all bar rels and added heavy attillery from Durham in the form of At torney Victor Bryant and his legal firm here Monday night after pre senting a petition asking (a) that the April 5 building "permit be revoked; {fo) -that- the building code, the electrical code and the plumbing code be enforced in every instance - in that area and in all of Chapel Hill; (c) that the zoning ordinance be both fairly and strictly tnforced; (d) that the October 9, 1950 beer and wine use ordinance be enforced at 'all times. Permit for alterations to the Curve Inn was issued to Dr. S. A. Nathan on April 5; four days before the area was annexed by the Town of Chapel Hill tout it was indicated that work did not begin until after the area was zoned as Residential Area 10, the highest residential 'zoning ,in the Town’s code. Repeated attempts have been made during the past several months to prevent issur anc otf a beer permit to the Inn operators. —_ ■ ■■ ' _■ - . • The 15-persons delegation and its legal advisors called upon the Aldermen to “preserve the finan cial equity we have In our homes and properties,” and said the ex panding business known as the Curve .Inn and Dance Patio was “neither conducive to a good and pleasant environment Xor our homes nor helpful in maintaining the values of our properties. The “alterations'’ to the roajd house were described a major expan sion. Wilbur Kutz; one otf the peti tioners, called the place a “nui sance” and said “if this continues we may as well admit that we Precaution Urged As First Potto Reported Chapel HiH — Mrs. George E. - Shepard, Chairman of the Orange County Chapter of the -National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, has received a report of Or ange County’s first ipolio case --this year. Although this case is a mild non-paralytic polio, it emphasizes the need for complying' v?ith polio precautions recommended by the March of Dimes organization. . "None of these precautions can guarantee immunity to polio”, she said, "but they are common sense 5te;s that may very well reduce a ycungter’s chances" of getting pa: ;.!>•'ic polio." She said scientists have found ■hat during a polio outbreak there are hundreds of "silent” carriers of. the disease -- that is, persons who have been infected by the infantile paralysis virus but are Iff! sick-. ‘We are told,” she explained, "that such, things chilling or over-fatigue may constitute the TnTgeF^Which converts a silent case Into a clinical case with full recovery and a severe case with residual crippling.”---— Mrs. Shepard said the precau tions recommended by the Na tional Foundation were as follows: —1: Don't get over-tired by hard play, exenKse, work or travel. 2. Don’t get chilled'. Don’t bathe or swim long in cold water, or sit around in wet. clothes. 3. Don’t have mouth or throat operations during a polio out 4 A.void having children mix 'w«h «£■- •** V 1951 POLIO POINTERS 1 DON'T ***** Mm* Ne* CROUPS IF POLIO COMES •» u RECOMMENDED BY THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS I the close daily living of a home. | 5. See that children -wash their lands carefully before eating and always after using the toilet._ If polio should strike, the local rfeaksaan said, the ton ty Chapter at the Foundation stands. ready with financial assis tance for all those. needing such -ilife The local Chapter may be contacted by calling Chapel Hill 8560. have no zoning.’’ Several speakers including the Rev. W. H. Poteat spoke of the disturbing noises at night. Admiral Donald Loomis said during his career in the Navy he had slept in rackets all his life but that the Curve Inn was the worst yet encountered; while Dr. Sam Knight indicated his sympathy for those (who live much closer to the place than he did. J. B. Graham called the place “offensive" and E. C. Markham told the Board it had a moral obligation to do something atoout the situation. Attorney Bryant in summing up the case told the Board the place is literally “ruin ing1' this area for residences,.. In the face otf this strong at tack, the Board of Aldermen voted 5-0 to direct the Building Inspector to revoke the permit, Alderman and Building Inspector P. L. Burch refraining from vot ing. Tuesday morning Policeman e. IL. Merrit served the order signed by Burch on Dr. Nathan inhi biting further work on the struc ture because: (1) the actual build ing was not begun until after the district was zoned as a residential section on April 9; and (2) the cost of the alterations has been in excess of the $2,144.76 specified in the permit. Late Tuesday afternoon, con struction was still underway and an attorney said a court suit may toe in the offing. --- o- ■ -- Extra Checks " ,K* '" • ~ For Teachers Coming July 20 Hilldboro — Orange County ' -rhool teachers will receive "their •I'erncnial ‘pay. ehceki. on July j 20t . >. J C. D. Douglas, coutroler for the S ate Board of Education, said that local,, school units had been authorized to release the cheeks - n that date.1 . The checks will total slightly more than $8,000,000 in the State will go to more than 29.000• ‘cichers, -principals; amt, super in- : tendcnts. The payments jvill range; from $72 for teachers with non- : standard1-Certificates to $387 for graduate certificates teachers with 12 years of experience. Teachers holding A certificates with" 11 years of experience will receive' $351. ■ - '-,- J The 1949 Legislature authorized the pay raises on teachers’ sala- I ries for the 1949-50 and the 1950 Si fiscal years provided that state revenues were sufficient to pay them. | > Hfflsboro — A tentative budget calling tor expenditures totalling *523,184.16 during die next fiscal year, an increase of over 21 per cent over last year’s budget, has been approved by the Board of County Commissioners. The new budget, which in cludes salary raises for practically all appointive employees and in creased expenditures in most de partments. is nevertheless based on expected revenues from the same tax rate of $1 per hundred dollar valuation ae last year. In creased property valuations and additional other revenues account for the increase. ..... -- The proposed expenditures total *90,069.56 more than was appro priated a year ago, and $106,592 84 more than was expended dur ing the past year. The 91 tax rate is expected to yield $3)10,933.47 this year as com pared to last year’s *270,944.97 by virtue of the additional taxa ble .property on the tax books while other revenues during the coming year &re expected to total $212,230.69 as compared to only $139:869,63 expected at this time last year. a summary ana analysis on me _ new budget and tax rate may be jfound on another page of this edition and the complete budget statement la on file for the next 20 dsyw for public iruparion in the ofltoe of the clerk to the board, Register of Deeds J. Ed Leaks. ! While general budgetary in creases were allowed in all major sections of the overall budget, in creases noted in capital outlay ap propriations tor' schools, $59,500, and salaries for employees and appropriations for new equipment accounted for the bulk of the in crease. Included in the $72,920.28 ap propriated for the General Found were funds for buying mkrodkn equipment for the Register of Deeds, $6,000; painting the out side of the old courthouse, $4, radiofor the Sheriffs Pdpart»ite1ti^|tljiOO; an automatic bookkeeping, and tax billing machine for the tax de partment. $3,500; increased travel allowances of $20 per month for ^the Sheriff and all-deputies except the office deputy; the Hyconee ahee District Library, $1,700 ($!, 000 last year); the Forest Service $2,030 ($1,610 last year); the Vet erans Service Office $2,800, in cluding a $25 per month salary increase for the incumbent; and salary increases of $10 and $5 per month for the county's share of extension workers' salaries. Salary raises of $400 per year to the»County Accountant and Tax Supervisor and $300 to the Taxr Collector were inciuded. Their new salaries will be $4,500 and $3,200 respectively. Top clerks in each of the major county offi ces were raised to $2,400 per year and the assistant clerks to $2,040. Sheriff’s deputies were increased $25 per month to $2,700 per year except Deputy Albert Pender grass who was jumped from $2, 250 to $2,270. The appropriation for operation of the Recorders Court was In-_ creased from $4,400 to $5,300, in cluding $300 per year increases for the Judge and Solicitor. The total salary fund went from $40,414.39 to $46,805; the health budget from $11,400 to $13,500 and the county’s share of the Welfare budget from $59,818. 00 to" $60,382.40. Debt service for hools went up $7rl 15 to take care of interest due during the year on the bone's sold last March for school construction. For operating expenses for the schools, $73,771 was appropriated for ’he county and $23,389 for ~ .;el Hill on a. per capita basis anr’ ? 102.000 was set up for capi tal-outlay -in- the county .'.and, $45, kaiti in Cha. ’et Hill. $17,500 was * d front the original re quested school budget submitted by the Board of Education. A breakdown of the $1 tax rate 44-for general fund, in aitews chiding salaries^—.039 for health; 025 far Superior Court and Jail; .118 for Welfare; .105 for a ;f $573 for schools.—1 —r-e TO ATTEND CAMP Hillfiboro — There will be a special meeting orf the F. F. A. members of Hilsboro High School ad next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock for the purpose of completing plans for the trip to the White Lake F. F. A. camp during the week of Jtdy 23. E. R. Dowdy, chapted adviser, will be in charge of the Hillsboro group.
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