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' ns 0f Orange County can up with the news from all the county by reading THE B OF ORANGE COUNTY v; gag THE NEWS of Orange County For quick, proven results, sell. 59—No. 3 Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County afid Its Citizens Since 1893 buy, rent or get a job by using the classified ads on page 7 of THE NEWS of Orange County (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952 Price: $2 a Yeai; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week ... 1 .mmamssmrnmmmmmKm Raleigh '’Rouncf-utj | Gov. • • • Last week Mar [Kurrfees, liberal mayor • of on-Salem, announced for amt governor. | Thursday, January 17, Roy of Pender County and the | of Burgaiw, will become a Ite for the same portion, j has been senator from Pen ^ur times and is a successful an. State Senate^Jbe estab for himself tfhe^reputation careful and conscientious jf-the-roader. While he is ell known through the State, _ have important support ill be a formidable conten |- a man to watch, her Kurfees nor Rowe will iy acceptable to Gov. Scott. is Frank Taylor of Golds who has been mentioned. Aspect there will ibe at least condidatef in this race.) your reporter is definitely | to run for re-election to the Senate, the ^ campaign for aant governor Is personally ant. Aside from that minor |the race is important to the of .the State. niplfl'ints. . .While we have Jly observed in several small id ties about the State lights which seem to take |-ed blush the motorist’s mere ach, we haven’t yet had aints from our tourists on mechanized version® o f Holmes. ver, the out-of-State vis like our speed law. Dom So, the Big Leaguer, was near Rooky Mount last | by the same patrolman who brother Joe a year or two d, in Wiipairgton, a woman paid $19.06 for with*the that never to see our likes lmgton Mayor E. L. White fiis City Council have forma 1 jested Col. L. R. Rosser of ate Motor Vehicles Dept, .to vhat might be done in North [ina albout lifting the 56 -ao-hour speed limit. Mayor said the Council had made lilar request last year, but [it got nowhere. He said that are dodging the are§ be ot our speed law, which he |cs should be changed to a dess operation” offense. Jurists moving from north to and vice versa can dodge Carolina, but it won’t be Neither will * the matter of fing our traffic law for those are eager to stay with us Ittle time as possible. rny part, 56 is fast enough ravel on our highways. What heed is more rigid enforcement he law. [ill Looking. . .Those in the ent State administration who what is known as a “formi candidate to oppose Bill1 tead for Governor were still png Bast weekends They said Fst Gardner of Shelby, distant [ of the late O. Max, is not' of choosing. At least, this is I official word until Gov. Kerr ft returns from a tour of the pbean. Chances are he will with the verdict, for one of | Proves when he took office the lifting of Attorney Gard fr'rw* the State Highway Ccm T-cn pp-vroll. loolhouses. . As the State |* i of Education announced week that North Carolina had "nded nearly $43,000,000 since [-year 1949 in hellping ooun cities and towns build and ovate echoolhouses, United ces for Education met here requested another Statewide issue for- more buildings for school children. le 1949 Legislature voted [000,000 for State support for pclhouses and laid the gropnd [k. for the people to vote an Titional $25,000,000 along with 5200,000,000 Toad bond issue. ppnecedented. .'.THis thing of State reaching out into every ion of North Carolina with ilhouse construction was un ited until 1949. Until this was taken, sole financial fusibility had rested with ^ school units as regards repairs, aaau’rai^, [^ruction, the $42,764,420.26 actually to date by the State, $23, v r’-'H 889,476.54 has gone for buildings for whites, with $16,534,295,18 going for Negroes and $350,646.43 for Indians. These sums, large as they are, of course do not include nearly $20,000,000 put up in local sup plements in cooperating with the State’s assistance. -—.—o 63 Million. . .All told, North Carolina folks have expehded ap proximately $63,000,000 in little more than two years for school 'buildings. While no. formal cinv parison has 'been made by this corner, it is doubtful if we have (Continued on Page 2) —--o Scoot Leaders At Camp New Hope Chapel Hill — Some 30 or 40 Scouting leaders from Durham and Orange Counties will attend a Basic Scoutmasters Training Course to be held at Camp Now Hope Saturday and Sunday. • Scoutmasters, assistant scout masters, troop committeemen and others interested in scouting will attend the event. Clyde Wheeler of Durham, and Jim Wadsworth of 'Chapel Hill are chairmen for the event, ft is the first of its kind to be held and those in at tendance will Sleep overnight in the cabins at the camp. The fol lowing weekend, January 26, 27 another such event will be held and those attending will sleep outdoors. Advanced registration will not be required. Such subjects as organization, growth, patrol and troop camp mg, seout oath and Law, and over night camping will come up for discussion under the leadership of Steve Storm, Capt. Ed. Robert son, Charles Wolf, Bobby Linker, Jimmy Wallace and Edvard John son of Chapel Hill and J. B\ Hicks, Dean Jones, and A. B. Chariton of Durham. -o-— - POMONA GRANGE MEETING The Orange County Pomona Grange will meet Monday night January 21st at 7:30 p. m. at the St, Mary's Grange Hall. Ait this meeting, the new of ficers for 1952 will- be installed. The business session wilt consist of a discusion of the Grange sponsored Red Cross Blodombbile. degree work and %’arious projects that the Pomona Grange can work on during the coming year. -A recreational program will follow the business session. 8. EARL 8TONE Earl Stone, 54, FonaerB8L' Offical, Passes iSelden Earl Stone, 54, former secretary of the Hillsboro Build) irg and Loan Association, dried Wednesday of last week at the beort Morris, in Yuma, Arizona. Mr. Stone resigned bis position here in 1950 because of %1 health after administering the local as sociation during its iperiodi of greatest, expansion and supervis ing the planning and construction of its new office building. He was a popular figure among the as sociation membership. Stone was a veteran of World War I and1 a member of the Ma sonic Lodge and had engaged in banking and financial administra tive work in various parts of the State prior to coming to Hills boro. A native of Buffalo, N. Y., he graduated from Duke Univer sity in 1921. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Constance Duhling Stone, former ly of Timberlake, a son, Capt. S. Earl Stone Jr. of Fairfield, Calif., two daughters, Mrs. Marian Bar ham of Denver, Colorado, and Mrs. Morris, with whom he lived at Y*ima. ’> ** DIME8 The Carrboro School was the first to complete its campaign for ithe (March' of jDimes and report to County1 Superintend dent G. (Paul Carr. < ■■ The 325-etudent institution raised $268.50 for the fund witl) Mrs. Agnes Andrews third o grade taking the lead with A contribution of #70* Ml., a.-liirr;ril--yv ffi-Vaafon — w ' BENEFIT GAME . Chapel Hill — A March of Dimes basketball game will 'be held next Tuesday night at the UiNiC gym betrween the tfarsity and Fort Bragg with all proceeds going to the local campaign. The program will get under way at 7 o’clock with a prelimi nary game between two midget teams/ Chapel Hill Officials Not Disposed To Push Zoning Without Mandate New Listing Policy Cited Again Costs Of Polio Have Been Heavy * - • ■ - In Orange County Chapel KB11 — In view of the fact that last year was the tough est in the history of the Orange Counity chapter of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation, E. Carrington Smith, County Chair man of the current March of Dimes campaign, and Mrs. George E. Shepard, Chairman of the Chapel HiH chapter, are stressing the need for liberal contributions. More than $1,000 a month is being spent now by the county chapter of the National Founda tion for the care of polio victims in Chapel Hill and the rest of the county, Smith said. The $4, 600 recently received went to pay back bills, he emphasized. “We received money from the Foundation’s national headquart ers every month in 1061”, he said. Committee chairmen for the Chapel HiH-Carrfooro campaign are Miss Betsy Branson, business district; the Rev. Samuel T. Havel, ministers; Mrs. Jesse West, Carr iboro; Kenneth Jones, Negro Com munity; Orville Campbell, publi city; and C. W. Gardner, treasurr er. Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will conduct the dirive among the fraternities, sororities and in Victory Village. Ordinarily, no individual fund-rising campaigns are conducted on the campus since there is a campus Commun ity Cheat drive, but, special per mission was grafted toy the Stu dent Legislature in. this instance because of the 'heavy expenditures by the Polio Foundation in the Chapel Hill area last year. This special solicitation will be con ducted Wednesday night, Jan uary 16. Chairman Smith reports that Orange County has contributed $32,339 to March of Dimes since 19*8. Half of this amount, $16, 1(94, has been used to provide fln ancial assistance to local, polio patients. During this same period the epidemic aid fund at National headquarters- has sent a total of $18;937, including $5,650 re ceived during the past "year, to the Orange County chapter. This means that $2,742 has been con tributed by counties in this and other states to enable the Orange County chapter to fulfillU its fi nancial obligation®. Hillsboro — The tax listers in 'Various Townships of Orange County report the people are list ing for 1952 taxes more promptly than in prior years. - They also point that a. large number of .people still have not made their annual appearance for this purpose. It is their hope that this prompt action by the 4gx .payers will continue as more than one half of the allocated time by law has already expired. The now method ifor listing household and kitchen furniture , has created considerable discus sion. This system requiring home .owners to list their household be longings at fifteen percent (16%) of the assessed value of their home and lot «nd renters at ten (10) times their monthly rent has been used by many of our ties for more than a decade. It is an idea that has been tried and tproved by most of the progressive counties in the state. The primary motive in this sys tem is to equalize values placed on this type of property. For years it has been the opinion oif tax authorities in the progressive counties that taxpayers normally have furnishings comparable to the house which they occupy whether they be owners or rent ers. This obviously would not ap ply in the case of either a parti ' ally c.r wholly furnished apart ment. There also may be other situations where this would not i apply. In such cases, the list tak ers in Orange County have been authorized to deviate from the set policy. The list takers have already noted that this system will result in reduced taxes for this particu lar type pay more than in prior years due to the use of this dif ferent method. The net effect, however, will be more equitable in the opinion of most tax officials in the state. As prescribed by law, the boun ty C&mmissi oners act as a board of Equalization and Review to to hear appeals on assessments on all types of property. —--o RESIGNS 'Hillsboro—Mrs.- Wilfred Phelps has submitted her resignation, as secretary oj the Welfare Depart ment here *in Hillsboro to be ef fective on January IB. _ Mrs; Phelps has accepted a job with Col. W. W. Holler, Office of Ordance Research, Duke Univer-1 sity, Durham, and will report for duty on January 21. To dlate no decision has been made to fill -th» vacancy————-r-?.- ... . 41 Percent Gain Recorded By Hillsboro B & L In Past Year; All Officers Re-elected For 1952 HiHfitooro — Another year of growth for the Hillsboro Build ing and Loan Association, reach ing toward the $1,000,000 mark, was deii'rilbed by Wade D. Key, secretary-treasurer of the Asso ciation, in his report at the an nual meeting of stockholders here Tuesday night. ■ Total assets of the 1,100-member oseo’iation as of the close of bus iness December 3'1 were $918,097. 04 which represented a gain of 41dp' -ent over the previous year. Total savings had increased $236, r,19 90 and the number of homes financed during the year was 1CS. ^Reelected during the annual -tcckholders meeting, were all members of the 9-man ooard of directors. They are W. John Clay ton, B. S. Carr. B°n-ner D Saw LTP- W. H. Walker, D- B. Mahaif fey’ W. T. Murray, R- T. Taylor, £ Scoft Cates and Wade D. Key. At the meeting of the Directors «rhich followed the stockholders neeting, W. John Clayton was re SSed President, B. S. Carr,,voce president and Wade_D._Key, sec retary-treasurer. Resolutions of respect were ossred.by the assembled stock holders for the late Earl Stone, arsst full time secretary of rale jnganization, who died in Arizona las’t week.. ' ' Vice President Carr and Direc tor Sawyer made short talks dur aig the siting, citing the record rf progress of the agieriatK* «*-■ n* its 39-year history, expressing their own gratification in its achievement, and calling for con tinued expansion and greater ser- | vice to the people of this area.1 Carr estimated that approximately 50- percent of the homes in the immediate Hillsboro vicinity had been built with the aid at Build ing and Loan, saving’s during the 39 years since the association members began their first “crack er barrel” meetings in a back store at West Hillsboro. Of the total heme loans last year, 40 were made for the pur pose of constructing new drwel ings, the majority of which were in the medium' .price bracket. It was pointed out that the associa tion cooperated with the Volun tary Credit Restraint program and that the usual care in regard to dawn J payments was exercised. The personal risk represented by lb “'borrower also was a factor in all loans made in. 1951. •During the year the association paid dividends totalling $21,103. 55, the largest amount in the history of the association. In the near future, Key report ed1, a-3 records will be handled on machines. Machines have already been, secured! for this purpose. During the next year, he said, those who wish to build homes requiring steel, cooper* and alumi num may encounter delays and possible postponements ini their building plans. The prospect is bright for a continuation of a moderate of modest heme build ing. V‘We appreciate the patronage and confidence cur members have shown, ami leek forward,to serv ing ethers who have rtot taken advantage cf our facilities,” said Key. _ _ ,W. JOHN CLAYTON r-n ■»'* r » 4 Pv fa M WADE D. KEY i Fiaal Services This Moraing For Mrs. Lockhart Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Noe*! Lockhart, 60, wife-<rf Sam uel P. Lockhart Sr., and member of a well* konwn Orange County family, will be held this morn ing at 1H o'clock at the Neiw Hope Presbyterian Church. The Rev. John Ensign, pastor of the church, and Dr. H. E. Myers, of Duke University, will conduct the services. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The body will be carried to the church prior to the services to Be instate. ' Mrs. Lockhart, native of Person County, died at Watts Hospital Tuesday at 9:30 A. M. aifter an illness of 11 years. She hod been a patient at the hospital for the paMASiO days.cad little hope had been held for her recovery. She was bom Nov. 22, 1691, the daugh ter of the late John and Nettie Stanford Noell. She lived in Per son and Orange Counties all of her life and for many years taught school in Orange County, Mrs.. Lockhart was a member of the New Hope Presbyterian Church. In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. K. J. Shaw of Laurinbung, Mirs. W. G. Gatling and Mrs. E. H. Cox both of Durham; three sons, S. P. Lockhart Jr. of Chapel Hill, John G. Lockhart of the home, and Charles H. Lockhart of Tanbqpo; three grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. A. Forest Dailey of Durham; and four brothers, C. W. Noel of Raloilgh, E. S., H. L., and A. S. Noel all of Durham. ----0———— Rnritans Have German Speaker • Cedar Giove — .Rudoff Sehorid de, a German teacher observing local achooC unfts, was the main , riT#aker at the January meeting [of the Cedar Grove RurRam Club. Mr. Schoridde gave an inter est ug- informative tglk about the political State of Germany today, and cited the eause of the recent world: war as propaganda and lack of understanding between Germany and the peoples of the Went. ■ The Won vena Society of Chris1 tian Service of the Cedar Giwe Methodist Church served a deli cious dinner to the 40 Huritan members and 7 guest that were present. During the busrre*'# ses sion presided over by President Wiifped vPbeips, 12r new. members were voted into the growing club. The total enrollment now stands at 56. Other business transacted was the presentation oif final plans for planting cedar post around the Aycock School lawn. The school bus drivers of Ay ccok School were guests of the club at the meeting and were warmly received by everyone. Their safe driving and road count ry were recognized by the Presi dent in hi# welcome remarks. The next, meeting of the club will be held on February 7th in the Ay cook School cafeteria. -o— -■— Officers Installed - By Exchange Club HillJboro—.New officers were in stalled by the Hillsboro Exchange Club in a meeting at the Hickory Hcuse Thursday night. Lee Settle, Treasurer of the State organization, conducted the installation service. Officers for 1992 are: Carl C. Davis, president; Wade Kay, vice J president; E. Wilson Cole, secre- 1 tary and H. G. Coleman Jr., treas ure. Now Board of Control mem bers for 1992 are: B. P. Gordon, Jr., J. L. Brown Jr., Jack Ray, John Moulton, G. A, Cannady and Frank Ray, jfa9t president. ■ Plains for a - hanger drive was discussed and refered to com- I mrttee for study. Chapel Hill — Unless there is a clear-cut demonstration by the people of the Chapel Hill section of Orange County that they want __._1 the protections and restrictions of a zoning law, the present proposed zoning ordinance probably will die a natural death. That is the interpretation to be gained in discussions with Mayor Edwin S. Lanier and some mem bers cf the Board of Aldermen as result of Monday night’s con troversial and sometimes vitriolic pidriic hearing, which exploded in' opposition to the proposal which was originally designed to restrict commercialism of .the new Durham-Chapel Hill boulevard. Said Mayor Lanier yesterday: “I don’t believe the Board of Al dermen of Chapel Hill is in any mood to do anything about re stricting the use of land along these highways or anywhere else outside of Chapel Hill, until there is a clear demonstration by the people - of Orange County that they don’t want to run the risk of havirnr the "highways- tw this— section of Orange County and the adjacent properties to these high ways spoiled by a conglomeration of honky-tonk joints, gypsy stands, unsightly signs and possi bly’ a tallow factory. “ft happens that the Board of Aldermen is the only agency au thorized by the General Assembly of North Carolina to enact any kind of zoning restrictions along these highway®. “The Boaord is going ahead and examine the proposed ordinance “Mne by line,” the mayor indicat ed and predicted that another public hearing may be held at a later date. “I thunk very like ly,” he said, “That -the Board after studying the matter very closely’ may decide to invite the public to come before the Board at another hearing to make any observations <rt cares to make about the advisability of adopting or not adapting regulations of some kind along the highways in this sedtion of Orange County.” Both Lanier arid members of the Board contacted emphasized that they were not trying to ram anything dawn anybody’s throat. “However, some of us do feel”, . Lanier said, “that if there aren’t some restrictions on use of the property along these highways it will not be long before these highways, especially, the one be tween Chapel Hill and Durham will be as badly messed up as - is the one between Fort Bragg and Fayetteville.” It was apparent at Monday night's meeting that .there was much resentment as well as mis understanding' of the proposal. One woman said she understood , she wouldn’t be allowed' to “set her old hen without permission” if the restrictions are placed in —^ effect: Others expressed doubt as to its constitutionality and op posed what they considered un- , warranted interference with rural affairs and extension of jurisdic tion. Judge L. J. Phipps, who was ibe tanget of most of the barbs of —. the opponents af the ordinance as chairman.„of the Chapel Hill Zoning Commission) Enlarged, created by act of the last legisla ture with the present proposal in mdnd, said he didn’t believe there would be much opposition to the plan outside of a few individuals who are misinformed. The proposed ordinance would zone the area within a four mile rad;us of Chapel Hill, excluding Carrboro. The possibility of a watered down ordinance calling ‘ for zoning only along the new boulevard appeared highly unlike ly. BJrrrbe* 9 of the Institute of Government staff at the hearing advi.;ed that so-called piece-meal zoning of areas has often been held illegal. * . — 5379 Registered For Winter Quarter Chcipel Hill — There are 5.379 students registered in the Uni versity of North Carolina at Cha pel Hill for the winter quarter rr just begun._. - The enrollment figures were tabulated by Edwin & Lanier. Di rector of Central Records, and were released earlier this weeE. There are 4.520 men stureots and 899 women. - * ■n»e«* are 4186 students'here frpm Nqrth Oaaalta*.': Ufa iftber states and 62 from foreign countries and U. S. Possessions. tr
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