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IUZZZ ,p up with the newt from all r the county by reading THE WS OF ORANGE COUNTY : THE NEWS of Orange County >1. 59—No- 8 Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 For quick, proven results, soil, 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, FEBRUARY 21, 1 95* Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy * Eight Pages This Week ISiibtle Influence”?. . .Speaking I delegates attending the annual /entircm off the Farm Bureau te last week, Kerr Scott warned hearers to be wary of the le influence” of chambers of amerce and similar organ! za as. He pointed' an accusing ger at 'physicians manufactur and the “conservative ple ats of tboth panties, saying they at to “stop what is going on.” was referring to the fights se 'groups are making on the ge Federal spending program, was the same old speech, the old harangue, the same old to make farmers think are being kicked around. of the folks present had it before. The Governor not received much many oool [ receptions than at the hands the 1,500 farmers gathered fir tire Farm Bureau meet all Young. . .Dr. Ralph Mc who was defeated for vernor -by Clyde R. Hoey 16 ago and again, by Gregg eight years ago, who has d tuberculosis and much al .persecution, will on May j be inaugurated president of ding Green State University Ohio. lithouigih the position may not try the honor of being Gover r, in a way it is better than rag Governor. The salary is *tl gt as good; and the length of ■ice is much longer. Bowling i is a large school, unusual man, at the age of McDonald had run twice for vernor of the State. He is now |y 48. When he came within uch - - and1 some say closer that - - of defeating Hoey [.1936, he was only 32 years of thur. . .A large group of raessmen in the Charlotte jry area are keeping the res hot these days in an effort [persuade General Douglas Mac bur to come to Charlotte or ay 20, Meoklenberg’s Indepen Day, for a major address. Jthough Eisenhower is said to 'gaining strength am'ong the and Ale Republicans of North arolina, you may be sure that speech made by MlaioArthur Sll follow the Taft line. Hot Fight. . .Hardly anybody believed it, but Congressman, R. L. Dcugh ton was serious when he said in December that he was planning to retire. He had made '.'he statement so often. We got it straight that he wasn’t fooling, that old age was catching up with him, but we flubbed the dub on i:t and crippled in with the also ran’s. In the Ninth District, which winds arid gerrymanders its way diagonally across North Carolina, the race for Congress will begin this week and continue right on into November; Approximately two dozen Dem ocrats and Republicans are po tential candidates. From now un til the latter part of June the ^Democrats will be struggling for 'he nomination. Then, from dog days til frost, the nominee must take on a Republican. Whoever wins will be virtually exhausted by the time he reports to Wash ington next January. It looks from here as if Clyde R. Green of Boone is the best mtan for the Republicans. He has given Uncle Bob a pretty fair country boy’s tussle on at least two occasions. We hear, that Farmer B'cb’s son Horton, of Statesville may run to succeed his father. . -o-— Cherokee. .Suppose you saw the other day how a 17-year-old art ist in Vancouver, British Colum bia, won high praise from a To ronto art gallery official for one of his “paintings”. The lad has admitted that the fine example of abstract art wias only a piece of cardboard on which commer cial painters had cleaned their brushes. This incident recalls another which occurred here three, four years ago. A young Raleigh gen tleman saw that the N. C. Art Society was* coining op with its annual December ‘‘Culture Week” here. He -got .busy, threw some daubs of paint on_ a canvas, and then -- just because hgihappened to be- from Brooklyn and had never 'been west of Durham - - named this bit of mess “CheiPkee County”' and entered it in the contest. His, entry won honorable mention. • - . -. -*—o— . . Surprise. , .When William B. Urru-tead-Seas a representative in Congress he voted consistently (Continued on Page 2) ---- i.i[—-— •range Choral Iroup Enters idio Contest [ Raleigh — Radio station WPTF, cooperation with the Home onstration Women oif North arolina, is sponsoring the “WP Choral Awards for Home snstration Women” and the ’range County Choral Group has Bready entered the contest. The radio station will send tape ording crews Xq towns within 50 male radius of Raleigh to acord the programs by the dubs ntered. They will be played on ae air each Saturday at 6:15 ip a. When all the club9 have made seordinig’s, a panel of judges will elect first and second place win ters in two categories: mixed aoru'ts ar.d female choruses. 'inners in both groups will be .vdied to come to Raleigh dur rg Harm and Home Week, at hic’n time $50 awards'1.will be ad‘2 to the winners* and $25 wards to the second place groups, he winners will make up a gen eral Heme Demonstration Gaojus which regularly performs during raim and Home Week. WPT3T; will carry a half-hour program maturing the combined chorus. Already 16 County groups have >een entered. Other county Home demonstration groups interested n entering should contact their bounty Home Demonstration Age The first broadcast during the contest will be on March 15 aruc* will feature a Home Dermonstra iori group from Nash County. Sroteps from the following coun ties have already been entered in £e contest: Nash, Randolph, 'Orange, WifeeJ, Sfadlrin,. Surry, Pasquotank, Way >e, Lenoir, Durham, Harnett, Richmond, and Chatham. Services Planned For World Day Of Prayer Event Hillsboro — The World Day of Prayer will be observed in Hills boro next Friday February 29 with a joint tihurch service to be held at the First Baptist Church between 1 and 2 p. m. Dr. B. G. Childs, professor of Education at Duke University, Will be the principal speaker. In an effort to secure participa tion by all the citizens business ‘firths' 'throughout- the' -cc-nsWl unity ; have agreed to close during the one-hour service to encourage at en-'ince. The local event is a part of the world-wide observance. ■ -v —--—O-: SPEAKING CONTEST -The North Carolina Barker’s I a- ;3-,-Cn’ with the Agricultural Agencies cooperation, is again t ing a speaking contest on “Green Pastures, Their Use ar.d dieancgam-:”, for High School 'Itudents. There will be two ech— tc one fer the white students c'r 3 one for the Negro students. The N. C. Banker’s Association is giving the prizes for the group and Slcte Contests, with the state winner getting $300 in savings bonds. The Chapel Hill Bank is giving the prizes for the School winners and for the County win ners in both white and Negro sdhp-oJs. By winning all the way through an Orange student would have five dollars in cash and $375 in savings bond's. Miis3 Dorothy Parrish, Assistant Heme Agent, and. C. V. Ferguson* Soil Conservation Service, are’1 working with the white schools, and M. C. Buft, negro County Agent, is working with the negro riot fa March 21, and the State Contest is April 11. Heart Fuad Drive Opens. In County Today C'hapel Hill — The opening of a two-week county-wide fund drive for the American Heart Association was announced today by William M. Alexander, chair man of the annual campaign. While no specific goal has been set for the drive, Alexander ask ed for a generous response to the appeal;, noting that diseases of the heart and iblocd' vessels now cause nearly half the deaths in North Carolina. Appeal letters and lit erature on the Heart 'Association’s work are being sent out to 4,200 persons in this com#nunity. Seventy-five cents, out of each dollar contributed will go toward maintenance of the Heart House, maintained in Durham by the Durham-Orange County Heart As sociation. The remainder wild, go directly to the American Heart Aisrociation for research in heart ailments. Purpose of the local campaign, vtuichf is being ‘presented on a large scale for the first time this year, is two-fold, according to Chairman Alexander, y/ihile the primary punpose is to raise funds, he pointed1 out an important ob jective is to more fully Inform the public of the Heart House. About two dozen .persons art a time, referred to the House by their physicians, can be thorough ly checked and instructed in fak ing proper precautions with the heart troubles thnoug this insti tution, he explained. The Junior Service (League, un der the leadership of Mrs. E. M. Adisms, is assisting in carrying on. the campaign. Contributions may also be turned in through the plastic containers placed in stores throughout the community Alexander noted. As other fea tures of the drive later there will be a Tag Day and basketball game between two (women’s semi professional teams from Burling tion. Four More Eater Chapel Hill’s Beauty Pageant Ohapel Hill — Pour more young ladies have entered the annual Ohapel HiU Beauty and Person ality Pageant, bringing to eight the total thus far entered in the event to be held next Friday night, February 29, in the high school auditorium. They are Miss Evelyn Matthews, Mary Haley, Louise Curlee, and Patsy Ellinger. A gala entertainment program has been arranged for the event to be sandwiched .between the two appearances of the beauties, once in evening gown and once in sports outfit. A take-off on a popular hillbilly band by the Pi Kajppla Alpha entertainers, a min strel routine by the Jaycees and the appearance of Miss Bonnie Piper, Miss Durham of last year, are among the program features. t Miss Matthews is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Matthews. The 17-year-oldi brunette has been dhosen a class sweetheart aft Ohapel Hill High for the past three years. She lists art school as her ambition. Blonde, 17-year-oM Miss Haley has been active in school func tions as a member of the Glee Club, Y-Teens, and copy editor of the sdtoool paper. She is the daughter of Mrs. W. M. Kara binos and lists modeling as her ambition. Miss Curloe, 24-ycar-old native of Pdlkton, is a cosmetologist and was runner up three years ago in the Anson County Beauty pag eant. Miss Ellinger, a second year student at the Woman’s College in Greensboro, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C,. H. Ellinger of Ohapel Hill. A 1950 graduate of Chaipel Hill High School, the 19 year-old coed is working toward an A. B. degree in teaching. Murray Files' For Commission Hillsboro — Another candidate entered the contest this week for. a seat on She Board of Coun ty Commissioners, subject to the May '31 Democratic Primary, summarizing his political convic tions in thKjphrase, “No Politics.” He was R. E. Bob Murray, operator of a mercantile business at CaltilweU to Northern- Orange. Murray joined R. J. M. Hobbs and Roland McClamroch of Cha pel Hill in the race for the three seats on the county board. No other candidates (have yet an nounced,_ • _ Also filing his notice of can didacy with Elections Board Chairman E. J. Hamlin was Representative John W. UmStead Jr., who announced last month he would be a candidate to suc ceed himself as a member of the lower house of the General As sembly. Murray’s announcement of can didacy was as follows: “This is announcing to the Or ange-. Ca’uhty,,.voters. .of -the May Democratic Primary my candi dacy for nomination to the office of County Commissioner. “I am forty-three year’s old, a native and life-long resident of Orange County, My parents were the late Joseph H. Murray and jDella ThomjF^on. Murray of Bfland Hilfaboro. I have always voted the Democratic ticket. •‘Since twelve, I have been con nected with some form or other’ of the family mercantile business and for the last two years I have operated my own business in' the Caldwell fcfcmmunity. I feel that this experience qualifies me ■ to deal with the ~ pradfldal side of administering county*expenditures and fiscal affairs. “My .political convictions can be sumimed up in the phrase “No Politics”. In other words, I be lieve in an equal and just propor tionate distribution of all county funds and benefits; and in the promotion of whatever is best for the county as a whole, regardless of geographical areas, “friendship leases”, or other biasing influen ces. If elected, I pledge myself ahfrays to act officially in accord ance with these Convictions.” United Education Forces Organize; Kenyon Leader Over 200 Attend Recreation Prograa Of 4-H Council Hutieboro — Over 300 Orange County youth from all parts of the County attended the Recrea tion Night program held) last Sat urday night at Schley Grange by the Orange County 4-H Coun cil. - , . • One of tjve regular monthly recreational programs which are being held alternately in various ports of tihe county, Saturday nigrl’s event Ifeatured group games, folk dances, and square dancing. A varied program brought enthusiastic participation by individuals otf ail age groups. Members otf the county 4-H Coun cil acted as hosts for the occasion. The recreational program, which has been well-received through ou(t the county*-serves as a means of getting 4-H members and cither rural residents -together for an evening of planned entertainment and fellowship. Miss Dorothy Parrish, county 4-H leader, was instrumental in getting the pro gram undei'Way. At the .Schley event, Mrs. Clai borne Wilkerson, Mr. and Mb's. Victor Walters, Mr. and (Mrs. Allen Latta, and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Mincey acted as chaper ones. o Mid-State Safety Council To Hold Meet At Henderson Seme 200 industrial plant and highway supervisory people fro^n Orange and 13 nearby counties aie expected to attend the meet ing erf the Mid-State Safety Coun cil to be held in Henderson on Friday, February 22, it was an nounced today by. Council Chair men William C. Creel. Featuring an. address by State Insurance Commissioner Waldo C. Cheek, the meeting will be hold in the Handerso-n High- School auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Com missioner Cheek will talk on the subject "The Effect of. Accidents on Insurance Ratos.” The program also will include a short "intot ion picture on a safety subject and entertainment to be furnished by a Henderson group. The Mick-Stote. Safety .Council is ’ com posed of members from Caswell, Person, Granville, Vance, Warren, Franklin, Johnston, Wake, Durham, Orange, Ala mance, Chatham, <Lee, and Har nett counties: Wildlife Meeting At New Hope Hiifflsib'oro — On Wednesday night, February 27th, 7:30 V. M., there will be a wildlife meeting at tlhe Now Hope Church hut. This event is sponsored by the New Hope Grange and will feature a speaker from the Wild life Resource Ccmmitsior -.All. interested jpepple,. ^chflber Grange members or not, are in- j vied1 to attend this meeting. Sin L EHand Maned To Head Red Cross Drive H'iM'shioro — Sim L. Efiand, Ef land industrialist and member of the Board of County Cimmission ers, tolas been named Chairman of the annual Red Cros3 Fund Cam paign for Orange County, which begins March 1. The goal tor the fund this year has been set at $2,200. A dinner meeting of campaign leaders and workers will be held Sunday night at the Hickory House to map /plans tor the drive. Announcement of the appoint men tbf the fund chairman was made by Tom E. Bivins, chair man of the Orange County chap ter, who s»>d “A major share of the 1952 funds will be spent tor basic services Red Cross gives to members of the arme}} forces, veterans, and their families; dis aster preparedness and relief; support at the organization’s blood donor program in funds and/ vol unteer services; and in a train ing program in the fields of first aid, water safety, home care of siidk and care of babies." “The critical world situation makes it imperative that the Red Cross be fully prepared to an saver the call of people in need,” he said. “The bumamtiarian aim® of this voluntary organization can be met only if people everywhere heed the call of their less fortunate neighbors.” Details at the campaign organi zation will be announced later. Roland MaClamrocih /previously ] has been selected, as fund chair man tor the Chapel Hill chapter. ■o PTA Variety Show Nets Fond $945 Chapel HiH — The Chape! Hill Parent—TeachenrAsseolation’s suc cessful Variety Show here netted S947.75 for the group's art and recreation fund, Mrs. Clyde E. Mull is, reported yesterday. Mrs. Mullis, chairman of the steering committee which directed the show, estimated4 that the at tendance at the eight-act perfor mance more than &,O0, ■ - - , The projec t is three years old anti is one of the most successful promotion programs for the active group.. .■ .■ ■ — ■ -o CRIME iPREVENTION WEEK Hillsboro — The Hillsboro Ex- I change Club this week ip observ ing Crime Prenvention Week. Climaxing the week next Sun day, the club will attend the Hillsboro Methodist Church in a body. -o SOLICITING FOR PATIENTS Hillsboro — The Orange Coun Ova.pt er of the American Red Cross has been requested to soli cit, from the public, cards, pock et editions, ar.d funny books for use of patients at the V. A. Hos pital at Fayetteville and the hos ‘pkaL.-at. Fcrt Bna&g—Pibgse bring to „the collecting point, the Post OfTlce at Hillsboro, More Than 100 Neighborhood Leaders Named In Rural Progress Campaign Hillsboro — More than 100 leading farm men and women of Orange County are in the pro cess e-f making a survey. to en courage every farm family to take part in the state-wide Rural Pro gram of progress. This program, adopted by ail agricultural agencies ar.d sponsor ed by farm, civic, arid religious organizations has three objectives: (1) To increase the income on the farm by $1,000 ( 2) to make at' 'east one improvement in every heme (3) to take part in one or more worthwhile community acti vity. Twenty seven neighborhood meetings have been held through out, the county at which time men and women leaders discussed the program, and brought up to date a mailing list at all families iving in that neighborhood. These leaders volunteered to contact sach of these families, encourage aach to take part in the program md complete a questionnaire de signed to give agricultural Work er? 4 better .oooortunjtv' to work with those families who want lelp. The following farm men and women are volunteering their services in this cause: Hobbs Cross Roads: Gera : P. Sykes, charm., John Jones, Rev. J. F. Minnis. esse Wagoner, Miss Clara Sykes, Mrs. Fenimore Hicks and Mrs. Jf hn Anpie. Damascus: Mrs. Paul Long, dhjryn,, Mrs. E. P. Hiatt, Mrs. Clarence Cole, Roland Womtole, . N. W, Dollar, R. F, Poythress, and George Cole. Bethel: Mrs. L. R. Cheek, chmn., L. R. qheek, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Neville, Arthur Lloyd., Everette Cheek, and Everett Lloyd. ,'Murphy: John Lodkhart, chmn., B. F. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Felts Paschal!, Mrs. Malcolm Hicks. New Hope: Mrs. Winston Stray horn, chmn., Jannie Blackwood, | Mrs. Sam Blackwood, Dolores Dodson, Mrs. Clyde Hogan, Luther Sharpe, and Mrs, Clarence Stray horn. Orange Church; L.. A. Hogan, Charm., Mr. and Mrs. ack Tilson, Mrs. V. A. Hoyle, Mrs. F. C. Mfed dry, Rainey and Glenn Whitfield and' Mrs*. Walter Everette. Palmer’s Grove: Mrs. Philip Hauser, charm., Mrs. Ben Yates, i Mr. Gbie Whicker, W. V. Arm-» I field, Mrs. E. F. Waters. Cjalvander: ft. D. Tu-nage, chmri. ; Mr. and Mrs. fftenry Hogan, Mrs. Curtis Hogan, Henry Bruch, John I H. Cate, Preston Hogan and Mrs. ! F. D. Turnage. Union Grove: Mrs. 'Amide Bor- 1 land, chmn., Mrs. Star.ely Bejes- I ter, Mrs. Oran Dodson, Merle ! Dodson and Amick Borland. Orange'' Grove: Clem Cheek, Chinn., Manley Snipes, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. j ernes Snipes, Jr. Mt. Carmel: Mrs. John Williams chmn., Bill Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Odell Blaokiwood, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sparrow, Mi-, and Mrs. E. T. Dollar, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Blackwood, Mrs. E. G. Merritt, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Best and John Williams. x . ‘ White Cross: Mrs. Herrod C. Lloyd, chmn., Miss Martha Lloyd, J. F. Whitfield, Mrs. Aubrey Mc Lennon, Mrs., James Andrews, Mrs. Charlie Teer, and Mrs. Charles Atwater. . - , OrSngt uSpet' ItSrienf Tfusmi* son, chmn., Irvin Womble, Mr. and Mrs- Eugene Crawford, Mi's. Sample Fonbus, Mrs. Ola Craw ford, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund , Strnwd. Cooper's Store: Wiley Perry, j cl am., O. W. Eu; ker. Mrs. Thorfi rs Tuobytflll, L. C C c -or,. John j Apple, A. II. Apple, and1 Wiley Perry. . ':z~ Schley: Mrs. H. G. Bales, churn., Mrs. R. L. Mihler, Mrs. C. M. Min coy, W. O. Mim-ey, Mrs. A, B. Laata, J. E. Latva and Floyd Wilson, Fairfield: Mrs. Bill Dorset!, j chmn. Carr: Mrs. J. K. Woods, chmn.,' H. M. Compton, Marvin Rogers, Linewood Rogers, Mrs. Fred Reit zel, Mrs. Robert F. Kirby, Mrs. Draufjhn Rountree, Mrs, Raney Foushee. Ridge Chrunch: O. F. Jones, chmn., Harvey Ray, G. B. Cook, H. M. Carter, Mrs. Warren Hol mes. Eflarxfc J. M. Dunn, chmn., D. K. CSuristentoerry, Myrtle Brown, Mrs. M. P. Bfland, Mrs. A. B. Lloyd. Mrs." V. Cl Wsftens,. (Continued on Page K) Hillsboro — The United Forces for Education^ ih Orange County crme into being at a meeting held here Monday night aft the high school, (attended by laytnen and teachers from ail parts of the edutrty. At the organizational meeting Van Kenyort .of Hillsboro wm darted president, Cooper Comp ton of Cedar Grove was named secretary, and Mrs. Thomas Beard of the Kunphey School area, was chosen secretary-treasurer. These officers, plus a representa tive of each school district yet to be named, will make up the executive council for the organ ization. County Superintendent G. Paul Carr served as presiding officer for itihe organizational meet ing and representatives at all county schools were in attendance. Purpose of the organization is to promote on the local -level the State-wide program of the United Forces for Education. In outlining the State program, Henry MoFadyen, publicity di rector of -the North Carolina Edu cation Association, enumerated the 5-pcint program of the United Forces and the reasons therefor: 1. “Reduce teacher load from 52 to 30. A child canned be taught effectively in crowds -’-^roo-ms. 2. “Salary scale $2800 to 4100 for Class A Certificate teachers. Children cannot be taught effec tively without a supply cS quali fied teachers. 3. “Provide attendance officers. A child cannot be taught effective ly itf he is not present regularly to be taught. 4. “More money for supplies and materials. Our children can not /be taught effectively without an adequate supiply of instruction al materials. 5. “Sufficient S*ate funis to complete the building program. A child; must have adequate class room space." Representative J-bn “w. Urn stead Jr., speaking to the group, added a recommendation that teachers thotttd be 0a :ct on a 12 months basis and promised his support for advances in the gen era! education pre-grrm. -o— World Peace Speaking Event At High School r HilL'boro — Seven Hillsboro Hlffh School students ■ will com pete tarrtorrew morning at 10 o'clock in the school auditorium in the finals of the High School World Peace Study and Sipeaking . Program, sponsored locally by the Hillsboro Lions Club. ■ The public is invited to attend. Speakers will include Bruce Richmond, Charles Boggs, Paul Goodwin, Nonman_Haithcock, Margaret Brown, Judith Fulton and Patsy Martin. The purpose of the" program which is being climaxed by the speaking event ijs to stimulate in terest and furnish information on the problems of World Peace. The aim is to reaah not only high school pupils but through them the masses of people .Whose col lective conviction eventual World Peace must hinge. - --——■ • — Q— FOOD SALE FRIDAY Chapel Hill — The Catholic Women's Build of Cl . >el Hill Wii 'nponssr a H mc-:n lie food sale this Friday, February 22. at Fowler’s ^ S'1' n<t ’ 5 05 A. ?*• r\--r , • i- •< cookies, candy^and -ether home mtde food such as wuhetti, etc., will be efferoi. Mrs. ■ Maurice Ncwtcn and Mr?. Anthony Jeruz zano are Co-Chairmen and will be assisted by Mrs. C. P. Erick-, sen, Mrs. Jchn MdtaurhLin, Mrs. D G. Monrcer-Mrs. Lawrence F. Cooney, Mrs. Jchn S. Keating, Mrs. Hugh Fortesoue, Jr., Mrs. Jchn Sc icily and Mrs. W. L. En gei?. -0-5-' ATTENDING CONCLAVE Hillsbcro-^-Three Orange Coun ty educational leader’s left this week for St. Louis, Mo., to at tend the meeting of the Ameri can Association of School Ad ministrators. They are County Superintendent G. Paul Carr and Dr. W. E. Rosensftengel and Dr. Alien Hurlbert of the University - -». SPEAKER Hillsboro — Dr. John S. Brad why, director of the Legal Aid Clinic and professor of Limr at Duke University, will :bp the 30whir-:M jb&A iffillili- meeting of the Hillsboro Lions Cfa*. -
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