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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6,1951 Price: $2 a Year: 5c Single Copy Eight Images This Week
her!
. .Last week as Theron
Caudle, Weeding and weak
He knees, tried desiperatelyto
rained
the Wows (being
on him by the King stub
lee investigating Federal
frauds, another North Caro
Faii* Dealer.--was alSQ.. down
t the miseries.
obody was jglaid it haippcncd,
it seemed oddly humorous
appropriate that National
Tmitteeman Jonathan Daniels
yd suffer a broken toe ig his
yard as the dead wood fell
I Washington.
fust like we said!: Daniels was
•ying of a big stick of wood
the house. He didn't have a
I hold on it, and it -fell squ'are
|on his big toe.
Heavier timbers seem to be
yjrj7 in Washington - - and the
nds may well be more severe
a broken toe.
[0ld On Here. . .The State,
igh’s weekly magazine, is eon
ng its annual poll on North
ilina’s Man of the Year,
ong those nominated in the
■ent 'issue is one Kerr Scott,
<ause it was his idea to pusih
program for more and1 better
ids for our State and he is
ing what he promised us.” The
r happens to be from Mrs.
Graham of Iron Station in
In County.
fciw, hold on here, Mrs. Gra
The State wants unbiased
ion; and you know yiour hus
is a member of Scott’s High
ly Commission,
it is funny the Way family
.ion swings. From 1937 until
at 1945 the Graham’s of Lin
ln County had little use. for
rr Scott, because he so sound
trounced their kin Will Gra
m, when, he ran for Slate Com
moner of Agriculture in Ii936.
ie father of the Graham whom
ott lidked had defeated Scott’s
'T for commissioner _
5ts before. So, it is easy to see
the Scott’s' and the Graham’s1
re bitter political foes for sev- 1
il years.
however, along about 1945,
Tr Scott made a bid for Gra
friendahip. The “feud came
atl end- 1948, the former foes
Scott were his vigorous sup
rters for Governor. He rerward
them by making Joseph .Gra.
11 of Iron Station, a very caip
e gentleman, a member of the
^ Highway, Commission. ,
7* ^rs- Graham wants him
be The State’s Man of the
ear
iint- Gnaihaim should eon
? rasHog a vote for Evangelis
/^m, who is .probably no
hut who seems to be in the
as North Carolina’s Man of
for 1951.
QwjStanas Watch. . .Wake For
Athdetic Director Ji,m Weaver
u<^ socks. He has several
of these argyle, checker
■)ar<1 variety.
say that the laundry at
. »w«t has not been treat
other Jim right. It seems
ey have been shrinking his
J52 inoiuding the ipredous
h wt*®1 week he £<* tired
o , €n he sent his clothes
J1* laundry, he enclosed a Big
1! *arm ^ of itiheae
1USB ' ‘m-ner machines that
h.l j 1 e to come up like
\Z T. 1R'° ycur bedroom.
e " 2undry caught it there in
yr and immediately called
t ,a'er anid toH him he had
fQicthih,rm clock aiong with
1 klBw". said Jim, “You
at shrinkirg I want
Christmas.”
• -When Governor
P°Ut 4101 items at his
tto rivp,nferences’ be launches
fj* / an,d stream development
Garolina. He has been
iver VJ0t about the Cape Fear
EYpj’^ flood control and) power
»eibl en- °n that stream for
c 031 months.
Wl
r6ral w«eks ago he took the
pk ’raus ago ne took me
ectnpames to task for not
ea* r^iogs about the Clape
reporter® led by the
r*S°La^ ?l*s Particuiar oon
believe that the Army
im* had already reoom
«velopnvent;'of the Cape
e* fa,. fl 0pmerlt, of the Cape
control and power
«>n.
t Governor Kerr Scott,
K ®a*ineers report was
released because Of
frt»n Washington. He
hinted darkly that the State’s
Congressman were causing the re
port to be held up because - - as
the Governor further suggested -
-the Congressmen are elected by,
and take their orders from, the
power companies. Although not
given to surprise, as regards-the
Governor, we were a little sih/-de
ed at these statements. Now we
have been provided with the facts.
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No Pressure. . .No report has
been held up by any pressure
whatever. Brigadier General C. H.
Choripening, assistant chief chief
of Engineers, states there is some
need of flood control on. the Cape
Fear, but any effective control
would cost more in terms of farm
land being covered with .water
permanently than it would be
worth.
“Additional hydroelectric power
can be developed", says General
Ghurpening, “tout the" unit cost
Would be high and the market
conditions would not absorb the
output for a number of years.”
. .In my opinion,; Federal
improvement of the Cape Fear
River and its tributaries for na
vigation, either, alone or in con
nection with power development,
flood control or irrigation - - or
any combination thereof - - is not
d'eemend advisable at the present
time.”
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A Long Way. . .Evidently the
Governor was just warbling in
his statements a few weeks ago,
for the only unpublished report
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Soil Supervisor
Election Being
Held In County
iZ. Hi’vfooro — A Soil Oonserva
«&oA- Supervisor is being elected
i© Oi+itige Coun'y this’ week. '
The present committee of the
Soil Conservation Supervisors for
Orange County is composed o>f H.
S. Hogan-, chairman, James Comp
ten. and C. W., Stanford. Stan
ford's term is expiring and he is'
a candidate to succeed himself as
g mrmiber of this committee.
The olp"tion is being held
thr-busb-be-t -iSi'e."State this week,-:
Dec. 3 through Dec. 8.
Ballot boxes are at the follow
ing places: The- PMtA- office in
W-VfHoro, The Farmers’ Mutual
W?"' r-'.ouoe In Hilll.lboro and
O^-boro. Giles Lontr’s Store and
Whitfield’s Stofe, White Cross.
Any qualified voter is eligible to
vote. The elected candidate will
serve for a term of three years.
Th:s committee se-ves as an
advisory com.mittee for the work
of Soil Conservation personnel in
the county, helping to determine
the over-all job in the county of
water and soil conservation.
Hogan has been serving in his,
present capacity since tihe S. C. S.
work came to the county. He is
also a member of the Neuse River
District, S. C. S., and also presi
dent of the State organization of
District Supervisor, Soil Conser- j
vation Service.
Ths late William Meade Prince of Chapel Hill contributed the above picture many years ago
to the New York Times “Hundred Neediest Cases’ campaign. Permission to reprint it in support of
-this year’s Orange County Empty Stocking drive, currently being sponsored on a county-wide basis
by the Chapel Hill Junior Servios League, was feidily granted by The Tlm»«-and #r». Prince. As
can be seen, the picture dramatically symbolises the cheerless prospects which many of our neigh
bors dnd fellow citizens face ati(Chr stmas time a d which, cap Be allevjated to tome ismall degree
only by the generous contribution and support Of the general public. .
Reappoint Ward
Tax Supervisor
Hillsboro — County Tax Super
visor Jna Wand has been re*aP“
pointed for a'new one year term.
This action was taken at Mon
day’s regular monthly meeting cxf
the Board of County Commission
ers at which largely routine mat
ters were considered. No other
appoinibmer.vs came up for con
sideration, although the board
confirmed the appointments of
tax listers already made by Su
pervisor Ward for the coming
year.
They included: L. R. Cheek,
Chapel Hill township; J. C. Lloyd,
Bingham tcrwndhip; Mrs. J. D.
Griffin, Eno township, R. J. Smith
Jr., Hilidboro township; Henry R.
Heath, Cheeks township; R. C.
Compton, Cedar Grove township
and A. E. Wi’jJon, Little River
township. ■
A three-day Christmas holiday
war'ret for counity employees by
the Board, Decermber 24, 25 and
26. County offices will also be
closed on January 1.
Four petitions for road improve
ments were received by the
Beard and reports were heard
from county officers. The roads
which residents seek to have tak
en over by the State include: a
road in Cedar Grove township
from Roy Oakleys to Eugene j
Tapp’s .4 mile; Hebron Church I
road in Cheeks township, two
males; another road in Cheeks
town hip from the Standard Oil |
Bulk plant road to the paved Old
Stage CoaKJ.1 road, 995 feet;, and
a reed in Bingham townuhip from 1
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‘Carol’. Reading
Will Support
Stocking Drive
The Carolina Playmakers will
join Wands with the Orange Coun
j ty Empty Stocking Fund in pre
senting a ; tvMU-fold program for
[the children of Change County.
On December 9th at 8:00 p. m.
in the Playmakers Theatre at
Chiaipel Hill, the famed drama
group will present the head of
the University dram/a deportment,
Samuel Selden, in his traditional
reading o t Charles Dicken’s’
Christmas atory, “The Christmas
Carol.”
Preceding Mr. Selden's reading,
■he Orange County Empty Stock
ing Fund, under the chairman
ship of Mrs. Henry Clark, will
collect donations of money, cloth
ing, food1 or toys for distribution
to children in this county on.
Ghrir mas day.
Mr. SeMen’s reading, edited in
(Continued on Page 5)
_MW their annual Jr^BLtfg^y *?%♦ months back but the trophies only arrived last week. That eet
Chapel.'HW / y ^ ^ when ftha Jayceaa palled In Wilt 'Margaret Mfmeett to hand them -out to the ,p.a®tfd (recipient*
left to right, Frank iFearrington and -Earl ’Blackburn, BVght winnow? Herb Wentworth tournament winner? Mike
the etage for
S^XST-S **• H»nr. WM «!..
Teachers Reject
Evaluation Plan,
Board Is Advised
Lee Murder
Case Highlights
Court Next Week
Hillsboro — The arraignment
and possible trial of Hebert Lee
tor the murder of Mbs Rachel
Crook on August 29 will high
light a term of Superior Court to
be held here next week ' with
Judge Clawson Williams on the
bench.
The Lee case, which has re
ceived wide publicity throughout
the State, was placed cn the
docket for Mondlay when the ar
raignment will take place. The
State has indicated it will press
for a trial during this term.
Two other murder cases are
also docketed involving Ira Spar
row and Mattie Lee Whitley.
Sparrow, a 70-yCar-old Chapel
Hill Township farmer, told officers
he shot hjs wife on the night of
Sept. 16 when he siaw her in their
bedrocjn with another - man.
Mr®. Whitley, a teen-age Negro
|,fa';m wife, was remanded to the
! custody of her parents to await
trial following the June 18 shot
gun slaiying of her husband. She
was quoted a's saying she shot
her hrrfhand in self-defense after
he advanced on her with a knife<
A Hillsboro Negro, Thomas F.
Ca't. art,' indicted by toe Grand
Jury in June for practicing medi
cine without a license, is also
rchediuled for trial next week. He
is free on $500 bond, posted by
his attorney, Sijmund Meyer of
D u-he nr.
More than one-(fourth of the
regular eases—or a total of 28—
are on changes of driving while
drunk. In addition, there are 18
for- larceny and allied counts,
Three- tor manslaughter changes
and' Iff on various counts of as
j jault.
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Board Studies
Cameron Park
Contour Map
Ifil’ 5oro — The Board of Edu
cation fhis -week continued its
study of. the Cameron Park pro
perty as a possible site for a netw
elementary school for Hillsboro.
Architect Andhie Royal Davis
presented a contour map showing
elevations throughout the approx
imately 23 acre tract and it was
directed that an appraisal cf the
site be obtained from the Durham
Board of Realtors.
A bill from Currie Roberts for
$129.65 representing 10 percent of
the labor costs for his work in
supervising work and buying ma
terials for the building projects
at Hillsboro, Bfland and Central
schools was approved for .pay
ment after the Board toad1 declined
to approve it last month pending
further study and clarification.
A six-dlay Christmas vacation
v-r. approved for the county’s
-i r.icols and a three day holiday
for the Siroe-rttoterdent’s office and
maintenance department. Schools
will close December 20 after a
fill day’s work. A request for a
sficrt day op Thursday was dis
approved by the Board.
A dump truck for hauling coal
which the State Highway Ccm
miprion offered the s/jhocls for
S.100 was approved for purchase
and ie^truatiom were ir-yed • for
placing insurance cri tve new
bi-Cedar • Grove, Cen
tra! and Efland with the State in
line with the Board’s current
policy.
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Exchange Club
To Aid Needy
Hj” fopro — The Exchange Club
rf Hillaboro will again distribute
baskets to needy families during
the Christmas season.
-—-PeiSQCS having ntrf Hothae nr
toys are requested to call 4251 j
and a club member witt'-pick up
and see that they are included in I
the baskets. .
At test week's meeting at the
club, the school playground fence
project received further discus-1
skuvand left oped pending-*. final.
Of Ike finance committee!
aoi«r making a convaae fot fund*
HilMx>ro — A .program desir
ed to evaluate and analyze the
various schools of the Orange
County school system has been
rejected by vote of the teachers
in every White school with the
exception of Cariboro and Eflarnd.
The! Vote at" West HiEaboro was
a tie.
The program,, which was sub
mitted to the teachers for i their
gicccptarrce or rejection on a vol
untary bails at recent teachers
meetings throughout the county,
was proposed as this county’s ac
tivity under the Kellogg Founda
tion program for which the Board
cf Education agreed to appropriate
$1,500 over a two year period to
match Foundation money. Orange
County was one of 10 oounfeies in
the State rejected for participa
tion in this cooperative improve
ment progi-am.
In view of the lack of complete
acceptance of the proposed eval
uative program in all county units,
the future of the program in Or
ange County, therefore, is doubt
ful. County Superintendent G.
Paul Carr, in reporting the mat
ter to the Board of Education
Monday, said University officials
conducting the Kellogg program
have no desire to force such a
program on the teachers since
complete and voluntary coopera
tion is considered necessary for
any beneficial results.
The program contemplated the
use of Evaluative Criteria devel
oped by a group of Southern edu
cators as a yardstick by which
to measure the schools at every
level and! in every phase of their
activity. Described by the super
intendent as, "the most practical
device yet devised for measuring
school and teacher efficiency,”
Ojirr said the program was “a1
selif-imprcvQmerjt iplan designed
to left them <the teachers) com
pare their school with what edu
cational leader® consider a good
school.”
Carr told the -Board that ac
ceptance of the program by the
Hllliib oro school was the key to
the whole program. Teachers and
principals in several schools which
feed students jo- to The Hillsboro
school indicated they would be
agreeable to the program if Hills
boro approved it.
Semtimenit of >. the members of
l-fee. -Board at Education to the
supeririendeR’/s report was to di
rect the institution of the evalua
tion program despite the teachers'
rejection. However, in view of the
expressed opposition at the Uni
versity personnel to this approach,
it was decided to carry on the
program in the Cawteoro and Bf
2an:d sichools and *•* the Negro
-schools of the county ard pcssi
bly institute in the remaining
schools at the beginning of next
year.
Board Member Harry P. Breeze,
a former teacher, expressed strong
support for the Evaluative Criteria
plan and said it was vitally need
ed in the local schools. He termed
it as the logical beginning ft>r
any improvement, program 'and
praised Principals W. B. Wilder
at Efland and T. S. Turbyflll at
Carrboro as being m line with
modern educational trends as
reflected in their leadership and
the unanimous approval of the
program by their teacher's.
No schools in the Orange Coun
ts' system are on the Southern
Association Accredited list at the
present time.
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Annual Scent~
Sinner Friday
At Schley Grange
Hi:: boro — Orange County ~
:'o:ut leaders, frient«? of Scouting,
“nt- their wives- will have their
annual Scout Dinner tomorrow
at 7 o'clock at the Schley
Q range.
District Chairman Dr. William
Morgan of CSiatpel Hill will pre
side and Harold Makepeace of
Sanford, former president ol Qc
eoneochee Scout Council, wiU
show pictures and hfc n_
Boy Scout Jamboree heMtaAus!
tria feast August.
In September every Boy Scout
unit in the United States was
served with a “mnrtgagi “ to nt
five new members before “
31^ 1951. Unite that have
ed fhsiy ' amrtfeefr - -
ite in a mottgi^e
—-mmy.at the Schley