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Citizens oY Orange County can keep uP w,th the n#w* from •,l I ** : • “ tver the county by reading THE ^EWS OF ORANGE COUNTY Vol. 59—No- 1 (Published Weekly) Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 For quick, proven results, salt, buy, rant or gat a Jab by using the classified ads on page 7 of THE NEWS of Orangs County HILLSBORO AND CHAPLL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952 Price: $* a Year: 5c Single Copy Twelve Pages This Week •'*. # -O _ ♦ * ' _ - Raleigh Ef;; m <¥> ”r Tiira. ' JAMBS H. POV 8A/IS/ Entertainment. . .For some time we had been bearing reports v,hat a number of our •priS'.n camps in North. Carolina provide tele vision shows for their inmates. Last week one of 'our little helpers contacted Prisons Direc tor Walter Anderson to regard- to these reports. He frankly admitted that approximately two-ithirdls - - or around- 55 of the camps - - are now equipped! with television seta They are set up to the areas which are available to television Stations: “The only reason we don't have them in other camps is that the television stations are tooo far a wzy for good reception. We event ually hope to have television in all our prison camps,” said An derson. O. L. Moore, editor and' pub lisher cf the Laurinburg Exchange first called our attention to tele vision sets in prison camps. Third. . .The prison, canvps, in cidentally, are doing same bet ter in this regard than regular folks in these United States. last week it was estimated in New York that 33 iper cent of all U. S. families now have television re ceivers. A year ago the figure was estimated at 21 per cent. There are mow approximately 14,558,80C television sets in use, anid 2,630, 000 are in New York City alone. —- —o-- - Umcanpentarily. . .Congressman Thurmond Chatham and his beau tiful young wife are laying plans for an addition to their beautiful heme just out from Washington, D. C., early this gpring - - and we don't mean architecturally or carpentarily. -o Mdiinney. . .The 1952 Jeffer son-Jackson Day Dinner will be held on Saturday evening, Febru ary 9, in the''Hotel Sir Walter speaker .Frank McKinney, new chairman' of the Democratic Party. Tom Banks, Raleigh attorney - who did sokh a fine job as finance — chaiman af the 195(V Dinner, -was named Friday by National Com miltteeman Jonathan Daniels as chairman of the forthcoming event. County Democratic leaders may contact Chairman- Banks by writ ing him at the Hotel Sir Walter. --o—. Sunday School . .Many af our .t9R. State., officials,, are. Sunday School apd church leaders. This -• may account for the fact that the ,g*ood name' of North Carolina is seldom sullied by major graft and scandal. ' W© can't attempt to call the roll of leading church laymen among our officials, but State Auditor I Henry L. Bridges teaches a Sun day School class, so do Prisons Chief Walter Anderson and Asso eoedate Justice of the State Su preme Court E. B. Denny. Con servation Chief George Ross has been one of the pillars in the 'First Presfoyteitian Church for many years. Record. . .Probably the record on Sunday School attendance ' among State officials is held1 by .Assistant Attorney General John Hill Baylor, who in December completed 43 years of perfect Sunday School. Is there anyone in your community who has been to Sundlay School 43. years with out a single absence? Few people anywhere can match this record; I and it is all the more phenomenal when you realize%that Pavlor’s office is in Raleigh and the church in, which he established the re cord is in Fanmville, where Pay lor is an elder in the Fanmville Presbyterian Church. Others. . .Another outstanding official here has not let distance •interfere with his church work •back home. Lloyd Griffin of Ed erntori, since 1942 executive vice president of the all-powerful N. C. Citizens Association, become executive secretary of the old State School Crmmhrxon in 1935. However, he saw no reason for moving to Raleigh. He had his ■home and family ties in Chowan County. He had his Sunday School class and church ^membership there. Since 1935 he has missed few weekends catching the bus to Bderjton. For more thiaqf 25 years he hai taught a large group of young men, many of whom are now no longer young but refuse to leave Lloyd Griffin’s class in the First Baptist Church in Ed cntOn. You ihlay be interested in know in® that Lynn Nisbet, Raleigh (Continued on Page 2) Missionary Maae4 As Speaker > At Local Institute Hillsboro — The Rev. Thomas A. OTFarreli, a well-known leader in the educational and missionary service of the Methodist Church in Southern Rhodesia, Central Africa, will be the inspirational guest speaker at the Orange Sufo diistrict Missionary Institute to be held at the Hillsboro Methodist Church on Wednesday evening, January 9. The Rev. Mr. O’Farrelty now in the United States on a year’s furlough,, will speak on his ex periences during more than thirty years farAfrica and of the change® he has seen on the continent dur ing these years. The Rev. Mr. O’Farrell is the featured mission speaker for the Institute. Besides the service of worship at which he will speak, (peicial classes will be held by district leaders for workers with the various chunch grouipg. Rev. E. F. Smith1, pasltor of the Leas burg Oibrige, will direct a panel discussion of the aims of the total program of work for 1952 to be undertaken in the Durham Dis trict of the Methodist" Church. The Institute will begin at 5:30 P. M. with a sandwich and cof fee supper. At 6 o'clock there will be a Hymn Sing, followed by panel discussions on the total pro gram of the chunch. Then there will be group meetings of work ers with Children, Youth, Inter mediates, Adults, General Church School Superintendents and Board of Education, Chairmen, a Lay men’s Workshop, and a Workshop for the Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service. The general wor ship service will be from 8:50 to 9:30. Church members from the fol lowing charges, Hillsboro, Carr fooro,. Cedar Grove, Chapel Hill, Eno and Orange will be in' at tendance. The Rev. Mr. O’Farrell is Su perintendent of the Nyadiri Dis tract of the Southern Rhodesia Annual Conference. He travels constantly by car and on foot (Continued on Pa<re 8^ fj Annual Polio Fund Drive Underway The 1952 March of Dimes opens in Orange County this week with the avowed objective of putting ®e fight .against polio on a “pay as-you-go basis” after 'four suc •eetssive years in which,...thg^. Na tional' Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has gone into debt fighting the only epidemic dis ease still on the increase in, Amerca. - . „, g. Carrington Smith, Orange County March of Dimes chairman, said yedterday.it is costing $1,000 per month to pay the bills for treatment of polio patients in this county. DP ring the padt year a lone, the local chapter has had to obtain $10,000 from the Na tional organization to meet its ob ligations, he said. J. L. Brown Jr., co-chairman for the Hillsboro and Northern Orange area, and Smith both said he well known “iron lung” coin Collectors would be distributed dluring the latter part of this week and both urged that they be fill ed and returned to campaign headquarters as soon as possible to. relieve the urgent need. Eath issued a call for volun teers to atd with the drive, and asked that both individuals and organizations respond. Details of the campaign organization in va rious parts of the county are new being sei up. Smith announced that Mrs. Jesse West is leader for the Carr boro division, Miss Betty Branson is in charge of Business Arm col lection in Chapel Hill, the Rev. Samuel Habel is heading the •-hunch divisions -and'-"' Kenneth Jtones is handling the,Negro di vision. Ed Hamlin and Orville Campbell are working on publi city. A basketball doubleheader with ail proceeds going to. the fund is scheduled in Ohapel Hill on Jan uary 21 ‘between UNC and Fort Birrdg with a .preliminary con test between varsity (footballers of Duke and Carolina. A March of Dimes “road block” is beirg planned for later this month by the Jaycees. *' There’s a job for everyone in [the 1952 March of Dimes* which is the layman’s weapon in,, the fight against infantile ''paralysis, say the caimfpaign directors as they appealed for volunteer workers to assist in the Wmthibng campaign currently under way here. “Don/’t wait to be asked”, they, said. ‘‘Offer to help now.” I People wishing to assist the Manoh of Dimes drive offery.Jheir services by reporting to one of the chairmen. Throughout the" county,* efforts will be redoubled in this year’s .March of Dimes in an attempt to end the “deficit financing” for pa tieT.lt care wthidh has been re quired in the past. About $5,000, 000' if 1050 costs had to be carried into 195il and paid for out of the 196H drive. A * similar carryover cocif rents the organization this year. L “Increase in incidence of polio [has caused these deficits,” Mr. Smith said. ‘‘Nationally, nearly $7,000,000 w-as advanced to local chapters in. 45 state? from tJhe FH;demic Aid . Fund, . during the, first ten months of 195ii.’\ JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR 1NFANTHE PARALYSIS • FRANKLIN ft. ROOSEVELT, FOUNDER FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS REV. THOMAS A. p’FA|R«ELJL C. B. Jefferson, Automobile Dealer In Chapel Hill, Dies Chaipel Hill — Clyde Dormer Jefferson, 49, owner of Colonial Mo'tcrs, the Buick agency in Cha pel Hill and Carrboro, died' Tues day morning in a Durham hos pital. He was a victim of a rare dis ease, cryiptocoocus meningitis, and had been critically ill for more than a month. Funeral services \ ’ ,r> the Chaipel Hill Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock with the Rev. Samuel T. Hafoel officiating. Burial was in the Cha pel Hill Cemetery. Survivors fhclude Mrs. Jeffer son, the former Miss Louise Ash worth, of Columbia, S. C.; one daughter, Mrs. Frank Gossett, | Charlotte; two sons, Cpl. C. B. JcflferSon Jr., U. S. Air Force, Chanute Air Base, 111., and Billy Jetflferson of the home; his mother, Mrs. E. H. Jefferson, Washington, N. C.; three sisters. Miss Reva Jefferson, Mrs. A. S. Roberts, and Mrs. Guy Swindell, and one bro ther, M. D. Jefferson, all of Wash ington. Before opening the Buick agen tCentlny*^ on Page ?j Tax Listiag, Farm Sanrey Is Underway Hilildboro — Tax listin'? began in Orange County Monday and bocks in the county’s seven town ships will remain open through out the mordh. Thx Supervisor Ina A. Ward urged residents to visit the list ing places as early as possible and called attention to list of specific sinPoira'ments sot up by the listers, which is given in detail in an advertisement on another page of "Ms newspaper. Farmers of the obunty will al-< so complete a crop census survey as required! by the State Depart ment of Agriculture. This survey includes information on the num ber of persons living on the land, ' he acreage cultivated and idle during the past year, the amount of improved' pasture from which no craps were harvested-, the a mount of salable timber land, the various kinds of crops grown-, and fertilizer and livestock Informa tion. According to law, listing of real and, personal property for tax ation purposes must be done within the month of January. After January 91, a penalty is added for late listing. In Hillsboro, tax data far the municipality is extracted from | the county records. In Chapel Hill, however, town property listing 1 will .be. held at City Hall through out1 the mouth every weekday* Hdllsibero — An Orange County i 4-iH Club member has won third place in the Northwestern District Junior Canning Contest on the basis of her canning record dur ing the past year. She is Miss Jean Wilkerson, ■daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clai borne Wilkerson of the Sdhley community, a member of the Hillsboro 4-.H Club. Miss Wilkerson is the first dis trict winner from Orange Conn was entered in the State event after winning in preliminary com petition in Orange County. The contest is sponsored by the State 4-H leadership and the Sa vr.nnah Sugar Refining Corpora tion. In beccumhig a district win-, ner, Miss Willkerson has received ‘congratulations from L. R- Hiar riill, State 4-<H Clulb Leader, a $3 check from the spntosoring com pany, and a year’s subscription to the National 4-H Umstead To Seek House •> Seat Again For 7th Term Holidays Pass Quietly In Orange I NOT HERE Hillsboro t—The penny postal is !c thing of the past in most places - - but not In Hillsboro. Here, you just add a one cen^t stamp to the old card and drop her jn. That’s all you can do because iPostmaster Tom Bivins’ order for the new postals has not yet been filled. Meanwhile, as the change be came effective yesterday, local postal employees noted little reaction from buyers. This ;isn’t the first time the penny postal has been removed from circulation. During World War ;l rates on first class fnall. were raised from two cents to three cents an ounce and the rate pn postala from one cent to (two cents. After the close of the war, rates returned to the old levels, and the two cent stamp .carried a letter until rates were Increased during the de pression. The one-cent postal held its /ground until the con tinuing postal deficit put suffi fient pressure on Congress to increase the rate. The Christmas holidays passed quietly in Orange Ciunty. No major accidents were report ed and a minimum number of ar rests were made by law enforce ment officers. ■Merchants generally reported brisk business in the period just prior to the holidays and streets were thronged. A -few minor accidents were reported but none -of them fatal. *Hie most serious was-at Chapel Hill where George Sparrow, in a pick-up truck, ran through a dead end street, past prominent signs, and over an embankment at high speed. Sparrow and Roose velt Farrington, 18-year-old Ne gro, were painfully injured. A Are in a drying kiln caused an estimated $8,000 to $10,000 at the Golds* on Lumber Co. at Carr boro. On Saturday before Christinas Leonard Riddle shot Calvin Wag ner in the arm With a 45 caliber pistol at. West Hillsboro following ;n argument but Wagner was not seriously injured. Riddle was charged with assault with intent to kill. A ntmuber of parties and social occasions were held, but for the most part Orange County people were content to take the holidays for rest and relaxation and en tering into the spirit at the Ycule tide season. Business firmsgenerally closed for two days at Christmas time and on New Years Day this week. -a Grange Youth Choose Officers 4 At Schley Meeting Hillsboro — Kennedy Sharpe of Hiddenite was elected presi dent of the North Carolina Grange Youth as the group held its an nual Winter conference at Schley Granlbe near here last weekend. Shanpe succeeds Sam Latta of this county. O' her officers elected were Pol ly Roberts of Orange County, vice president; Doris Chrisman, Eton, secretary; Margie Humphrey, Sh-antoc-n, treasurer; Jane Lam bert, Albemarle, chaplain, and Archie Wingand odt Concord, his torian. Joan Isenhour of Lenoir was named to the executive com mittee for a' Uirefe-year tefthr ” “ Trophies Awarded Martha Anne Niforag, 19-year old member of the .Lewisville Grar ;e In. Forsyth County, and Lonnie Karriker, 17, of the Cor riher Grange in Rowan County,! received trophies as most rep re- I sentative Grange Girl and boy of , the year. Others receiving cash I awards were Harold Burris, Stan- | ■ly County; Roy Wilkerson, Or ange County; Carolina Ferguson. Wilkes County, and Polly Roberts, Orange County. Speakers during the two-day session included R. B. House, chance"or of the University cf» North Carolina, and W. T. Smith of Lexington, Ky. The group decided that the Grange Youth encampment will he held in July of next year at. a Jr action to be. ajr.nc ur.ccd later.1 Chapel Hill — John W. Um stead this week announced he will seek his seventh term as the representative of Orange County in the House of Representatives of the North Carolina General Assembly. Mr. Umstead thus became the first announced candidate for lo cal office to seek the support of the people in the Democratic pri mary to be held next May. While Mr. Umstead’s announce ment of his intention to seek re election was • not Unexpected, it mlay serve as a forerunner of. other announcements of a political nature during the next few weeks. Cottier Cobb Jr., chairman of the Board of County Commission ers, has let it be known privately fihat he plans to retire from the Board at the conclusion of this term. A lively race for this va cancy may be expected should this veteran official stand firm in his desire not to be a candidate again. Mr. Umstead has served sox (terms in the General Assembly’s tower house and two in the Sen-. ate. Among the mo^t active mem bers of the Assembly, he has served' on every important com mittee, pushing generally for im provement of educational facili ties and facilities for the care of mental patients in our state in stitutions. In each of his eight terms in the Assembly, he has served on Education and Public Health committees and been a member of appropriations and mental institutions committees during five terms and finance | three terms. CurreWtl/y he is vice chairman of the State Hospitals Board of Control and a member of the executive committee of the -University Board of Trustees. In announcing his candidacy, i Mr. Umstead indicated his inten sion to work for further progress in the fields of public education, public health, public roads, mental and tubercular health and the supervision of penal institutions during the' 1043 term On the lo jdH) level he premised to sponsor only legislation tint may be pro |’>< red * toy, the local governing toedies. * His complete statement to The News follows: “After discussing the matter with a number. of m.v friends „ through cut the county I have de cided to offer for the House of Representatives from Orange County subject to the Democratic ; ■ Primary- in May. * “Aitbeuigih much progress has been made during recent years i» sujppqi1! of public education!, at and tubercular health and the nipervision of penal institutions I feel that there remains much to be d ne in these fields. With the oioerienee gained through eight sessions of the General Assembly I think that I can make a definite contrivuticn to further progress in '.these fields during the 1953 Genera! Assembly. “Eelrig a film believer in-local se’f government I shall sponsor on the local lev-el, only legisla tion that may be proposed by the local governing bodies. “If nominated and elected I shall strive to serve the besit in TeresCs of the' people of our state and county.” Traffic Cases Fill Light Docket Hi!’ fbcro -r- A light docket ; f •r'minsj rapes, composed almost entirely of traffic violations, was di mserl c-f in Orange County Re corders C urt here Mnday. The record: Robert Darden, speeding, $10 ard costs: Theodore Roosevelt - T ’ylor, driving under irfJiieroe, $100 ard costs; Jerry McPherson, ’■•i.'eery, four months cn ’ reads suspended and costs, including $30 to pay prosecuting witness for battery; Cecil (Joe) Shambley, • iV'e drunkerm.-ss^ $5 and -costs; Bobby MoCullock, failing to stop fer stop sigrf, $10 and costs; Mar vin Swan, public drunkenness, costs; Nathaniel George Fuquay; ciriving under the influence. $100 ar.d costs: Albert Gray, driving without license, prayer for judge-j vrtcmt continued; Bill E. Miller/ operating car on wrong side of highway, costs; Floyd Byrd, public1 drunkenness, not guiltyr Nathaniel Dee Arrington, failing to display state license, $15 and costs; Guy Benjamin Foster, improper equip ment, $10 and costs; David R Blanco, speeding, $10 and costs; Owen FranJdiri Smith, speeding^ $10 and costs-; Trank D. Buchanan, iittJiorciper lights, $10 and costs; Pc»-ncry Putrfam, no operators ::c'~r.~e. $21 and coifs ($15 re mitted); Simcn P. Bradshaw, im . i-per lights,-$10 and costs: Sam uel W. Borland, speeding, $5 and cos*-: Hugh M. Browning, failing ~*o -stop for ste p sign, $10 and c sts: iaciroie L. Clayton, speed ing, $10 an;} costs; Francis C. Reese' speeding, $5 and costs; Willard A. Pittard, failing to stop tor if.op sign, costs: James N. Brown, failing ‘to stop for stop sen, $10 and costs: Jefferson Jchnscn, speeding, $15 and costs; James E. Hewett, speeding, $10 and costs; Frank P. Williams, fail i n g to stop for stop sign;- $19 and costs; Lawrence Sismmey, speed irg, $5 and costs; Allen Howard, ipeeding, $5 and costs; Ralph E. Harris, expired operators license, costs; Bernice D, Clayton, stop sigh violation. $10 and costs; Charles R. Miller, failing to stop for stop sign, $10 and costs; Cath erine V. Tysiriger, speeding, $5 and costs; Bryant’ C. Rcfednsoin speeding, . $5 and costs; James Gregory, public drunkenness, costs;,Charge AOten Capdpn. JM*. ' (Continued on Page,#) . i'ii;
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