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I [ns of Orange County can up with tha news from all ■ the county oy reading THE S OF ORANGE COUNTY HE NEW 59—No. 6 1/ “ ” ' Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 ■ buy. rant or g«t 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. FEBRUARY 7, ,95-, Price: ), a Year; 5c Smgle Cop, Eight Page. Thu Week * ision. . -Had it not been for fast footwork during the as holidays by a score of North Carolinians, Bob iton last week would have lunced his retirement from ress. > he was home in Decern visited his old friend, ar Governor Cameron Mar out from Charlotte, and they they solemnly discussed the ays. Doughton said his pre term would be hi? last. This i report we received - - and within an inch of reporting in January that Doughton i soon retire. He word got around. North ia folks like to have one eir representatives chairman Ways and Means Commit [ Telephones got busy. Letters written. The pressure was led to Uncle Bob. nother Term. . .'They “twisted arm”, as the saying goes, and ided for another go at it, disappointing at last a dozen fitious young men in the Ninth who for years 'have been, ing longingly in the direction Washington. Their ambitions [not sufficiently reckless, how to throw them into a race Bob Dough ton. S. Aside from the pressure acme, the other thing keep fit. L. Doughton in Washington his /personal ambition, to (be time the senior member of body. This honor he has had, Congressman Sabath llinois being the dean of the a. ugh ter Reba. . .The Principal on who keeps Uncle Bob go is none other than Reba hton, his daughter, secretary, administrative assistant, tly after Mrs. Doughton died ago, CongA-raman hton wanted to return to his home on the creek at Laurel tings. To eaipable daughter Reba the responsibilty for chang 'her dad’s mind. The story is M he had his announcement of pirament written at that time was preparing to call in the when she heard about it, Irieved from the hotel mail some news released for back papers, arid ipersuaded Uncle he was needed in Washingt has been chairmian of the ays and Means Committee since -it and the Democrats look per in, 1933 - - witjh the exceip pn of the Regpubllcan 80th Con - css — the session which Tru an used as a vehicle in his Mgn of 1948. EiSienhower. . .Believe it or there seems to be more in amoiig Democrats than Re as regards General Eis Presidential plans. This certainly true in North Carolina ere most Democrats profess to e Ike - - if only in secret - - ile the Republicans are shanp and openly divided between ft and Eisenhower. There is an Eisenhower Club Charlotte, Asheville, another in uquay Springs, and one is in e procees of development in sleigh. There may be others in e. State. John Park, 'published of the sfte:'noon nesiwipaper in Raleigh, ias been plugging hard for an Sisenhower Club. Some of the >est citizens in the Capital City laive gone quitely to Park in sup x*rt of the move, “but for the need’s sake don’t quote me.” Their ear of being associated with Re publicanism is indicative of the hard core of the Democratic South. They like Ike, but dread tike the plague any possible GOP stigma. That’s why the Eisen hower movement is stuttering in » many areas. Republicans may not have horns, but lots of North Oarolinihas still think so. Letter. . .The thing that bums many Republicans in North Caro lina to a ,crisp is Eisenhower's up stage attitude, his appraebt don’t gtve-a-d&mnishness. "J$ere he is Hned up with the administration professing his love >f«r the administration, working with the administration, while we Republicans are ready to sweat htootl to whip the administration.” said one .of the State's most pn> n&Mht Republicans in ««»«wtio* last week. He is for Taft, because “we know where he stands, feel that he is one of us, and know that he wants the job.” Well, John Park thought he would try a gander in Ike’s di rection. just to see what he would come up with. John wrote an editorial giving the paper’s sup port to Eisenhower, sent it to the general, and urged him to include Raleigh on his speaking itinerary. Eisenhower wrote Park from Paris last week saying: 1. He felt' complimented at the “friendly opinions”. 2. He was “'gratified” at the suggestion of a Raleigh visit; but 3. . .“my responsibility to the mission which I am now (Continued on Page 2) --—-o--— Improved Road To Cross St Mary’s School Property Hillsboro — The Board of Edu cation this week granted1 the State Highway Commission per jpission to build a road across the 'grounds of the St. Mary’s school. Clarence Walters, h i g b way maintenance superintendent for thi9 county, presented the matter to the board Monday morning and the board inspected the site of the proposed changes in the aft I ermoon. The proposed change is to have the highway cut across the corner of the present school- grounds be tween the well and the school building, removing a portion of the rock wall now bordering the corner of the school grounds. The highway representative promised the Board that the well and waiter facilities would be taken care of and restored if the pipes had to be moved and agreed to plow up and level off the terrain where the old. rQftd_.jan and leave property rn as good condition as possible. In an action affecting the Ay cock sohool, the school board agreed to provide. materials such as sand, "cement and crushed rock in the amount of $300 to pour a cement walk around the front and side of the school and- the Ay cock community will furnish- the labor. -o Scouts Observing Boy Scout Week With Program Orange Couqty Scouts and Scouters join the nation’s 2,900, 000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Ex plorers and their 'adult leaders this week in observing Boy Scout Week, Fefb. 6 to 12, marking the 42nd birthday of their organiza tion by giving the nation a unique birthday present. This? week throughout the na tion tie Boy Scouts af America launch a new three-year (program known as “Forward . . On Lib erty’s Team,” a program of action (designed to help keep America strong and free. In Chapel Hill the two scout troeos have put up traditional window displays in downtown windows in competition for prizes. Special recognition ceremonies will be held on Scout Sunday, Feb. 10, when all scouts will at tend church together. The. Orange District Court cf Honor, sponsored by Troop 39, will clim'ax the week’s activities on Sunday even ing in the Methodist Church. Preceding the event an open house supper for all Boy Scout and members of tneir families Will be held Tn the Recreation Center. Ho formal* progam other than oarticipation in the Court V>f Honor has been arranged in Hillsboro. COOKIE SALE Some time between Friday, Feb ruary 8tih and Friday, February 15th, you will receive a call Irani a Hillsboro Girl Scout. She will be. taking orders for cookies. (De licious! Hall vanilla and half chocolate, cream filled - - and only 40c a box!) 'The cookies will be delivered to you in about a week and you pay for them on delivery. The proceeds from the sale of the cookies goes to the Scout J\md. There is to be a pcfce for the ttrtbridual Scout and no* larvtbe Troop selling the mart cookies. ' • - ." ■ ■ ’ In Congressional Race TOM SAWYER CARL T. DURHAM Congressman Carl T. Durham of (Chapel (Hill, announced ,hle candidacy for reelection as representative of the ISixth (District this week, hard on the heels of pm announcement of ,hie first challenger In the forthcoming Democratic (Primary. His lone (opponent so far is Tom Sawyer of .Durham, state (senator and .radio executive,, who had been plugging hard for veteran (bloc Support lately iwlth m campaign to secure a .bonus referendum in (North Carolina. In an nouncing hls candidacy, jSawyer professed to .hear an (overwhelm ing calf for “new blood and new faces" In the (legislative bills of Washington. Mr. 'Durham, In his announcement to this newspaper said “I would like to express my gratitude for the {support and confldence cf the people whom I have represented during the pest 13 years. I have endeavored to serve to the best of my ability, This I will continue to do." School Site Purchase Stalls Hillsboro — Negotiations be tween the Board of Education and Miss Rebecca B. Wall, owiier of the Cameron Park property se lected as a site for the proposed ■now Hillsboro Elementary School, have apparently re;tdhed a stale mate. At this weed’s monthly meet ing of the County Board of Edu cation, Suprernntenrient G. Paul Carr read a letter from Miss Wall which she stated: “It see.ns to, ifuv-thast *.1 with you and the Board of Edu cation of Orange County has not been conformed with. I shall therefore be glad to hear ' from you if they care to reconsider their offer.” The board instructed its sec retary to reply that the tentative offer of $20,000 was before Miss Wall had sold an acre of land to the St. Matthews Episcopal Church. That acre, being in a location which greatly affected the'value of the site for build ing purposes, caused the board to reduce its offer for the property. The Board of Education was au thorized by the County Board1 of Commissioners to pay $18,000 for the tract selected as the school site. No change was made in tlte offer made last month to Miss Wall, nior was there additional discussion of any possible action which may be taken in the event the present negotiations are not successful. In another action involving tihe purchase of school jjraperty, the board heard tl request from Rev. J. F. Kemodflc and Rev. H. W. Booth rapros' nting the West HaflWhpi o i committee that the board purchase five lots in front orf the present school build ing for • playground space. Ker nodle an spokesman said foui- of the lots belonged to F. S. Cates and the other to the Webb family and could be purchased for $500 each, or $2,500. No formal action was taken in this matter since money for such a project would have to come by apprqporation from the County Commissioners but the West Hills boro* committee was asked to look into the tpossiblity of securing a sixth lot, which would make a square of tihe proposed playground site, and of getting the street closed between the school and the proposed playground. New Episcopal Church Organized Chapel Hill — A new Episcopal Church has been organized in Chapel Hill under the sponsorship of the Chapel of the Cross and regular services are being held in Gerrard Hall on -the University of North Carolina campus. The new church, known as the Church of .the Holy Family, will eventually be focated in the Glen Lennox area on the Raleigh road. Until facilities become available there, services will be conducted regularly at 11 o’clock every Sun day morning in Gerrard Hall and Sunday school classes will meet in the YMCA building. Prof. Maurice A. Kidder of the University’s Department of Reli gion is in charge off the new mis sion and will deliver sermons each Sunday morning. The choir is under the direction of Dr. U. T. Holmes. Fifty Episcopalians in Chapel Hill signed a petition to be pre sented to the Rft. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, for the official or ganization and recognition, of the nerw church. The group will con stitute the charter members of the congregation. The new church grew out of the need for a second Episcopal church in this section, produced b ythe recent rapid expansion of Chapel Hill’s population and in anticipation of community growth in the next few years. Us con templated program* calls for the construction of church building on the Raleigh highway. PTA Variety Show Feb. 13 Ohaipel Hill — The Chapel Hill Parent-Teacher Association will hold its third annual variety show Wednesday evening, February 13. at 7:30 o’clock in Woollen Gym nasium. Mrs. Nonman Cordon is chairman of the program commit tee. Included on the program will be /party games with- Mrs. Fred .MctOall as supervisor; children’s dancing with Mrs. English Baghy in change; dances by publis in the Chapel Hill branch oif Doherty School of Dance; renditions by the Junior and Senior High School of Glee Clubs with Mrs. Jan Philip J Schinhan directing; a performance by the Leham School of Dance; harmonica numbers by Chancellor Rpbert B. House; a precision drill by the University’s NROTC drill team coached by Master Sgt. B. E. Wheeler and led ,by commander Midshipman Walter Travis Porter; and gymnastics and tumbling un der the direction of William Meade. . The Chapel Hill High school band will play and Nonman Cor don, director of the North Caro lina Music Program, will be master of ceremonies. . -;-Q ART EXHIBIT Chapel Hill — “Feet and Fan tasy", an exhibition of 30 works by contemporary American artists, will be on view in Person Hail Art Gallery at the University here from now until February 25. The exhibit which is open to the public was ftfirst presented at the Bartha Schaefer Gallery in New York. ^ State Act Stymies County In Dog Control Program Hillsboro — The Board of Coun ty Commissioners Monday wrest led. mightily with an old problem - dog vaccinations - but at every turn found itself stymied by the act of the 1&51 General Assembly which was designed to provide the protections sought by the local board. The Commissioners have been alert for some time to the grow ing menace of rabid dogs to pro vate citizens as well as to the county’s expanding livestock and dlairy herds. Since last summer the board had had under consi deration tl& possibility of appoint ing a* county dog warden to work on rabies control and enforce the laws on dog vaccinations. To that end a fund of $1,000 had been set aside in the 1951-52 budget for possible use in this work to sup plement such funds as might be available from dog taxes. Monday, the board consulted with both Dr. O. D. Garvin, coun ty health officer, and J. Dumont Eskridge, county attorney, rela tive to the matter, and after studying the enabling act discover ed that salary and travel allow ance for the .proposed dog warden allowed under the act must come from the proceeds of the* county dog tax. Since a large proportion Rural Church Music School Attended By 150 Hillsboro — The Rural Church Music school held In Hillsboro this week emphasized for some es that music is an act . of wor ship, whether it be hymns by the congregation or a special num ber by the choir. Mrs. Eugene Umstead and Mrs. George Lindsey, instructors, with the Orange County Choral. Group demonstrated how church music should^ he interpreted as an aid to worship. In presenting the music, Mrs. Lindsay,- showed how important the technique of the accompanist is for the success of any music program. Other phases discussed were organizing a choir and music for special occasions. i he Kura I Church Music school was sponsored toy the Oranige County Home Demonstration Council. iMrs. Charlie Mincey, county music leader, with the lo cal music leaders assisted' in .plan ning and directing the school. The Orange County Home Demonstra tion Choral Group is under the direction of Mrs. H. G. Bales, and accompanied by Mrs. B N. Rob erts. Among the 150 people who at tended,1 the two sessions of. the school as representatives of 34 churches were representatives from Caswell, Person, Durham, Alamance Counties. Also present were, Miss Anamerle Arant, Northwestern District Agent, and Mrs. J, C. Dodson, District Music Chairman. / • -a-—o------- ' Girl Scout ' Leaders Attend Training Course The leaders of the Hillsboro Girl Scout and Brownie Troops, attended a training course led by Mrs. W. E. Lindsay Jr., Chair man of Training Committee, and Miss Virginia Suiter, Field Direc tor of the Durham County Council of Girl Scouts, Wednesday, Jan uary 30th in the Colonial Inn. After an opening session of Girl Scout songs and singing games, Mrs. Lindsay explained Scouting, giving some of the interesting his tory from the beginning of the idea with Sir Robert Baden Po well in England in 1908, through the rapid expansion of Boy Scouts and the launching of Girl Guides in 1909 with Miss' Agnes Baden Powell, Sir Robert’s sister, as the first president. Both Boy Scout ing and Girl Scouting spread rap idly to other countries. Mrs. Juliette Gordon Law, a friend of] the Baden Powell’s, from Savan nah, Ga., became very interested in Girl Guiding while in England and determined to organize the American girls. On her return to Savannah sihe met with a group,of girls from Miss Nina Pape’s school and on 'March 12, 1912, the first Girl Guide Company was organized. The name was changed to Girl Scouts in 1913. Through the tireless efforts and enthusiasm of Mrs. Law, in spite of poor health and almost total deafness, in spite of no funds other than her own income or her sacrificed heirlooms, Girl Scout ing grew rapidly. By the end of 1916 there were 5,000 girl scouts, organized with a National Council, a conustitution and by-laws, and charter. By the end of IMA there were 34,081 member* and now there are over a million. National Girl Scout Week is al (Continued on Page •) Orange School Children Donate $1,681 To Drive Hillsboro — A total of $1,061.80 has been contributed to the 1952 March of Dimes campaign by Or ange County school children, ex clusive of Chapel Hill, according to the final report submitted to Chairman E. Carrington Smith by Superintendent G. Paul Carr, Carrbcro and Hillsboro schools both raised over $300 in their drives and both Efland and Ay eoek passed the $200 mark. The record by the various schools was as follows: White Schools: Carrboro. $316. 92; Hills,biro $310.77; Efland $228, 95; Ayicock $204.25; West Hills boro $197.50; White Cross $98; Murphey $72.21; and Caldwell $24.80. Negro Schools: Central $120.14; Cedar Grave $80; Efland $23.21; Gravelly Hill $14 and High Rack $9.05. The campaign in Hillsboro and North Orange County is corttinu- I ing through Saturday and J. L.' Brown Jr., chairman, for this area all ipersons planning to do so make their contributions at once in order that the quota of $2,000 in this phase' of the overall drive can be reached. In Chaif>el HH1 the general drive was concluded last week, but final reports have not all been turn ed in to Chairman Smith. -o—— Grice Is Naated Chapel Hill’s Young Man 01 Year I Chapel Hill — William Grice, Chapel Hill High Athletic Coach, was-awarded the title of this town’s Jfoun Man of the Year for 1951. The third annual award was presented by Mayor Edwin. S. Lanier at the Chapel Hill Junior Cham/ber of Commerce Distin guished Service Award and Boss es’ Night Banquet at the Carolina Inn Thursday night. The award is presented each year to the man under 35 years of age in the community who has rendered the greatest civic service according to the selection of a secrei committee. Jaycees Presi dent William M. Alexander, turn- 1 ed the award to Grice, especially appropriate for 1951. since the Jaycees’ number one national pro ject during that year -was in as siting youth activities. J. B.' Brane of Durham, a na tional director of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, was I speaker for the everting and ex plained the award. The program was presided over by Herbert. W. Wentworth,, first president of tfte Chapel Hill Jaycees. 1 Another featured .even of the ! program was the. awarding t f Key imen keys to five local Jaycees, voted by their fellow club mem bers as the most valuable to the organization. These went to Charlie C. Phillips, W. J. Ogbum, William Alexander, J H. Koon, and Roland Giduz. ---o HONOR ROLL Mars Hill — The names of two Grartge County 'students appear on the Dean’s Last at Mars Hill College for the first semester! They are Zdb Carson Burton, J*-., son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. C. Burton, Route 1, Cedar Grove; and Philip Dodson Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Scott, HUbhoro. To be eUgtte for a place on the Dean’s List one must earn at least 40 quality credits with no 'fr»de loafer than a C. of this tax money is returned to da* owners as an incentive tor having dtogs vaccinated and a nother large chunk goes for pay in* citizens for damages to stook caused by stray dogs, little ii loft for any other use. Under the act there were no other provisions for paying a dog warden or oper ating a pound and other expenses incident to such a program. The Commissioners and the health department have been dis ^atifled with the number of dogs vaccinated for many years and in several meetings have been highly critical of "the Sheriff's'de partment for failure to prosecutg violators more vigorously. Only a small percentage of dogs in the county are vaccinated each year. The act of the general assembly under consideration at this week's board meeting empowered Boards of Commissioners to appoint a county dog warden, operate a do* pound and provide other measures to curb the depredations of stray and ownerless dogs which range the countryside causing consider ■iblo f'inarvoial '<±5* and irroparabie injury to citizens who are with out adequate remedy at law to recover their loss or prevent re pitition. The board settled on a more vigorous educational and adver tising program as the only means available this year to secure greater compliance with the vac cinations larw. As a concession to irate resi dents of 'the area around Chapel Hill who are opposing the pro posed zoning law, the Board of Commissioners appointed three “dirt farmers” to succeed the three county members of the Cha pel Hiill Zoning Commission En larged for the remainder of their unextpired tenms. The new members are Luke L. Connor and John S. Williams of Route 3, Chapel Hill and Henry S. Hogan, of Route 2, Chapel Hill. They suceed Alastair Muir head, head) of the Glenn Lennox development, Admiral Donald W. Loomis, and Dr. Lucy Morgan, who were appointed last April to serve one, two and three year terms respectively. ~ All of the three board members had submitted letters of resigna tion to the board but gave no reasons for their action other than Dr. Morgan who said that “cir cumstances ever which I have no control” made the action neces sary., , The board amended by a new resolution; its budget 'resolution ..of. last July bring the General Fund rate within the constitutional limitation of 13c per $100 valua tion, transferring several items erf improvement into another cata gory of expenditure. This action was taken after Southern Railway sought a tax refund at $198 on the alegation that such expendi tures from the General Fund a bove the l'5c limitation were illeg al The railroad’s demand for the refund on the technicality, at course, was denied by formal re solution. Upon advice of the At torney General, however, a re lease was allowed the Institute of Pharmacy on its lflSVO taxes on thevgrounds that it was not sub ject to ad valorum -taxes as an educational facility. The board approved a request for increased Are insurance on the Hillsfcoro Library and its con tents, heard a request for a 40 hour week from the staff of the County Health Department, and heard several road requests in cluding one from C. H. Hurley and W. P. Gates representing citizens of West Hillsboro who are seeking an extension of Mar garet Lane through the Belle Vue Village section. -o-— New Bnildlng Being Erected For Carr boro PO Carrboro — Carrboro is to have a new HOO-squane foot post of fice building erected on Main Street. L. D. Hearn is to erect the brick buikting next to his own store. x' Carrboro Postmaster ClaiHbome Oakley said that all near equip ment will go into the new build in* which is expected to be com pleted about May let The Qtnboro eAoe which is now third class win move up into the second das* 1st,
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