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mm< of Orange County can with the new* from all county oy reaOfng THE OF ORANGE COUNTY of Orange County q_No. 11 ’'(Published Weekly^ Four Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 For quick, proven buy, rent or get a Job by using the clnaeffled ads on page 7 of THE NEWS of Orange County LILLSRORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1952 Price: $2 a Year; Single Copv Eight Pages This Week _At least one Ral ce is a little dumiounded oiiucai tactics being tol ov j_.Lii.ner H. Hodges of d6f candidate tor Lieu Jovernor. y last Thursday was ma rounds here m tne ca<p He was apparently cov >ery cffiice on every floor be the downtown buildings. rate, he came into this ar office, introduced him ked if the boss was in. he was not, Candidate left his nice card, with peasant parting remarks, lied on. five minutes he was the same office. Hodges td himself and inquired bss was in. The girl, about n,f her chair, said no. was ou!t. ate Hodges introduced declared solemnly that Isorry the boss was not in, [card and retired. |did it happen? Is this a etihod of making political lobody knows, but the in Vttracted no little atentlbn the subject of twittering phic conversation all day ly in the Raleigh Building, loccurance indicates that |h. Hedges plans to do a job of campaigning for bnt Governor. .. .Chief ' office as |to Charlie Parker, State reau chief, was Mrs. Mosely. She had work Brr Scott’s campaign head and within a few months tt became Governor mo State News Bureau brters.v ■ [week when Parker re ■ from an official trip to he found that his office ^t was no longer with him. art is that Charlie was surprised, but a little put lit it'. ipable Mildred had gone in Hubert Olive’s head fs. ...no doubt to use a any of the fine contacts Bde • in 1948. The story is be was directed to go and Ranker was not consulted, makes sense, whether not. Miss Jane Lassiter, fly with the N.C. Bankers ion, has succeeded Mrs. PJNG- Beer people are Nling from the drubbing | f*>k in the Chatham Coun p a few days ago. They ad p were swamped by about I one. F test is in Brunswick p on March 29. This will be jrt until August 30, when pis will be held in Cald pid Davie counties and in jolly. [ntime, wine has suffered at Fnds of the Stote A B c' \ It has wine be advertised on North 'a radio stations. It can be sod in newspapers only by statement. In other ths advertisement cannot the fine Qualities of wine, ■nd the many uplifting wine can do for one. ON,:.. ,J. Lloyd Lang tive vice ipresiderft of Dairy Products Asso s out a neat bulletin the March 'l l issue he asks;. r nnueh is a billion?” aswers it laCtically as fol 'If a milk dealer had start business in the year 1 A.D. a billion dollars and had €ed his business so poorly N $1,000 a day, in 1952 stiU have , enough oap out of the original billion to lose $1,000 daily for almost an other 800 years, or until 2739. The U.S. National debt in July of last year was more than $254 bil lion.” --o MODEST MC.... Ben McDon ald, Gabriel Heatter of the Tide water, has decided to run for Lieutenant Governor. Salesman, radicricle, whose broadcasts, in Wilmington are generously laced with light chatter on heavy sub jects. McDonald .is noted for his quiet dignity, 'his hcmiburg hats and flowing breast (pocket hand kerchiefs. His candidacy is most impor tant in that it illustrates fully how anyone of age and able to >pay the filing fee can run for State office. Of Boston Irish descent, Mc Donald may have a hard time carrying his home county of New Hanover over his Duplin neigh bor, Roy Rowe. ADVISOR;.. .One of the Chief advisors to William B. Umstead’s campaign staff here is John Har den, vice president of Burling ton Mills ad prime supporter of £@0. Dr.- Frank * Graham two years Father of the present editor of the fambuncticus*Tar .Heel, UNC student daily, Harden was secre tary to Gov. Gregg Cherry. Inci dentally, Harden’s daughter, Glen Abbot is the first co-ed editor of the Daily Tar Heel. NO NEW TAXES. .71 Although the Governor severely criticized the 1951 legislature because it showed stolid determination to hold the line on new taxes, iC finds himself forced to support a gubernatorial candidate Who talks just like the most conservative member of last years General Assembly. This is true, whether the Gov ernor is for Hubert Olive or not. In Wilson last Thursday night, the two principal candidates.... .Olive and Umstead/.. restated from the same stage what they have said before: they want noth ing te do .with new taxes. How do they plan to reduce the teacher load, keep pace with State em ployees salaries, .. provide decent accommodations for' the mentally | sick? An expanding economy, i good business,' was' the answer of' each candidate.. Consistency, thou art a jewel! * i DULL. 1 . .Meantime in Raleigh, j administration friends were ask- j ing when the Governor planned to begin injecting more life in the Olive campaign. “Isn’t it about time for Kerr to start talking to the branch head boys?” asked a Scott appointee. With bursting ibuds and blushing maples around the Mansion and grass growing greener outside his oreasingly difficult for the Gov office window, it is becoming in ernor to stay in Harness. He is likely to break cut any day new. Although the campaign is young.,. .lUmstead has just em ployed his publicity man after scouring the State to find what he wanted... it is extremely dull. This suits Umstead fine, for he has built a fine organization. However, Olive is in dire need of excitement. Burden cf providing it falls squarely cn Scott’s shoul ders. ' - Speaking Contest Winners Named HILLSBORO — The County Speaking Contest on the subject “Green Pastures - Their Use and Management,” was held at the Centra8! llTgh School last Friday. Portia Jean Burt. 11th grade stu dent of the Central High school was winner of first prize, wU was $25 Saving Bond. Second prize of $3 was awarded to Ralph Hester, Third prize of $2 awarded to Joyce Long, 4th PJ« nf tl was awarded to Sylvester Brook'" R U- Mohler, Soil Conser vXnls. ol Hillsboro presented the awards. Judges were Paul Carr, Superin tendent of Orange County School; , Ridnev Green, Member of School ( SK.Se: R. L.Mphler. Soil C«-| servationist and Rev. W. L. , ZZ Methodist Minister of Hills- ( fwo In Family Win Superior Music Ratings ANNE ROBERTS i BRYAN “BUCK” ROBERTS Bloodmobile Visit Scheduled A total of 200 pints of blood U the quota set for citizens of Orange County when the Red Cross blood mobile visits here on March 31. The mobile unit will be set up in the American Legion Hut and will be operated between the hours of 12 Noon and 6:00 o’clock. “The casualty lists from Korea have already demonstrated the drastic need for blood by our armed forces,” said Tom Bivins, chairman of the Orange County Red Cross Chapter, which is spon soring the bloodmobile unit, “in addition, the seriousness of the world situation in general is evi denced that our government should build up reserves to be used in the event of national attack. “Ours is one of many communities not previously participating in the Na tional Blood Program, which now are being called upon to devote their energies exclusively to de fense blood needs. It becomes the duty of\e^ery citizen in Orange County to see that these needs are met. Your Red Cross chapter is here to help you meet- this re sponsibility. Anyone wishing to make an appointment to donate blood may do so by calling 3262. All btoodmobilcs operate from a fixed .center and cover communi ties usually within a 100-mile ra dius of the center. Blood collected by the mobile unit here will be taken to the center at Charlotte in special refrigerated containers, and there it will be typed, ana lyzed and processed. At the re quest of military, authorities, blood will be. prepared at the center for overseas shipment. Bivins stressed the fact that do nating blood .is a simple, painless procedure that has no handful af ter effects. All healthy men and women between the aages of 21 and 60 -are eligible to donate if they weight at least 110 pounds. Those between 18 and 21 may do nate if they are self-supporting. married, meiiiucis ui «**»«« forces, or if they have the written consent of their parents. All technical aspects of the do nating process win toe supervised by a qualified physician, assisted by registered nurses and techni cians. Only 30 to 45 minutes of time is required for the entire process, and this includes the probable time spent in the canteen, where Red Cross volunteers will serve light refreshments immediately following donation. “Once again let me urge every able-bodied man and woman in Hillsboro and vicinity to telephone 23262 and make an appointment to give a pint of blood,” Chairman Bivins said. “When we make ap pointments we shall try to stagger them in such a way that no donor will be put to the inconvenience of long waiting. We should like to keep the time consumed at a mini mum, making it as simple as pos sible for busy citizen* to parti cipate in this noble a-'.d lifesav ing service.” S. F.. POYTHRESS CARRBORO — S. F. Poythress, A, who had made his home in ’arrboro with his son F. B. Poy hress and family in Carrboro ihce'1935, died in Watts Hospital ast Tuesday after having been in ailing health for the past several ears. Funeral services were held on ’hursday afternoon at the Damas us Christian Church bv the Rev. 'roy E. Jones pastor of the Carr ioro Baptist Church and the Rev. Vtltlam H. Poole, -of -Kannapolis, ormer pastor- of the Baptist church lere. Burial was in the church emetery at Damascus. Surviving members of the fam ty Ihclude S. E. Poythress, Carr >oro, W. F. Poythress, Chapel nil* D. H. Poythress Raeford, sons ,i the deceased, (me daughter Mrs. Villiam Stanley, fit Greensboro, ix granddaughters, and one great ;randdaughter.. «r-sr PARENTS’ MEETING FOR NEW CUB PACK CHAPEL HILL — For all par ents of 8, 9, and 10 year old boys who want to join the new Cub Pack: On Monday, March 24, at 7:30 in the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, a .“learn how” meeting will be held. The session will center around the Cub Scout in the Den with explanation of the Wolf, Bear, and Lion ranks, and the place of the Den in the Pack. Many boys be tween 8 and 11 years old are in terested, rarin’ to go. The lowest joining age is 8 but parents whose boys are nearing this age should also attend. Parents’ knowledge of the pro gram and their cooperation are vital in this family - neighborhood way of happy growth in character and citizenship. It will be a profit able evening? for parents who like the word “with.” Come and hear what experienced Den Mothers have to say. Counity To Hire Assistant Tax Supervisor HILLSBORO — The Board of County Commissioners has tenta tively agreed to hire an assistant, to the County Tax Supervise#-, ef fective about the beginning of the next fiscal year. This information was revealed in informal discussions held here, Monday following the Board’s meeting as a Board of Equaliza tion and Review. The new county officer would, in addition to assisting Tax Super visor Ira Ward in his work, would act as a sort of executive officer to the Revaluation Board which will be expected to make the regu lar quadrennial revaluation of county real property in time for listing next year. Only a few complaints of tax valuations were presented at the regular meeting required by law | Monday and the board adjourned, to meet again in May for further hearing of such complaints. Five Complete First Aid Course HILLSBORO — Five Orange County school teachers and offL clals are now qualified First Aid Instructors, having recently com pleted the Advanced and Instruc tors Courses at the University School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill. They are Mrs. Irene Pender, county elementary school supervi-. sor of instruction, Mrs. Louise Winslow and Miss Marie Wells, Aycock school teachers, R. W. Is ley, Aycock school principal, and Mrs. Henrietta Auman, Hillsboro school teacher. Mrs. Winslow is at present con ducting First Aid courses at her school and Mrs. Auman will teach First Aid at the Hillsboro school in the future. Plans are being made for similar instruction in the coun ty scout Organizations. IflLLSBOR 0“* TWO youthful IfUUboro musicians, Anne and Buck Roberts, daughter and son of Dr. and Mrs-. Marlon Roberts, were awarded “superior” ratings, highest recognition offered, for tbelr piano selections at the Dis trict Music Contest last Thursday at Meredith College. Anne, wh:> Is 17, played in the Senior Division, and at the cor„ etuston of her rendition of h e r third number,- a difficult one in the popular catagory entitled, "Rush Hour In Hong Kong.” the audience burst into spontaneous applause, a practice that is strict ly against the rules and which one veteran contest observer said she had never seen in her 30 years of attending the event. Anne’s oth er selections were Bach’s “In vention No. 3” and Beethoven’s "Sonata.” As a result of her performance at Meredith, Miss Roberts appears in the State contest to be held at the Woman’s College of the Uni versity of North Carolina on April 24, with Rudolph Ganz, one of the nation’s distinguished music critics and head of the Chicago School of Music, as judge. A student of the piano for 10 years, Anne was a pupil of Mrs. Annie Lockhart of .Hillsboro for seven years and for the past three years has received instruction from Dr. Wilton Mason at the University in Chapel Hill. She represented Hillsboro High School in the contest. ! Buck Roberts, who is 14, won ! his “superior” rating irv the Junior [Division, playing Bach's “Prelude'' and “Song To The Sea" by Mac Dowell. He has been a piano stu dent eight years under Mrs. L6ck hart. Of Anne's placing, the judge wrote: “This playing is of an ex tremely high order. . , someone has taught you extremely well.” Of Buck’s playing, the judge Wrote: "It is good to hear good solid Each . played. ;~Ihelleve you have a very fine teacher.” Hillsboro FFA Wins Contest; Aycoek Second * HILLSBORO — The Hillsboro High School F.F.A. parliament ary procedure team placed first and the team from the Aycoek school placed second in a contest tljat was held at the Aycoek School Tuesday afternoon of this week. The Bethesda School of Durham County placed third. Other schools participating were Mangum, Low es Grove, Oak Grove and Chapel Hill. The subject of parliamentary procedure is a regular part of the course of study in high school agri culture. The purpose of this work is to teach the proper way to conduct a meeting. Each team was composed of five F.F.A. members and the teacher of agriculture. Members of the Hillsboro group were Bob Stray horn, president; Edward Scarlette, vice president; Ted Martin, secre tary; Charles Holmes, treasurer; James Horn, reporter and Elmer R. Dowdy, adviser. The Hillsboro team will repre sent Durham and Orange counties at a district contest, which is to be held at N. C. S'ate College on May 3rd. Red Cross Fund Drive Lagging HILLSBORO-The thermome ter on Court square has reached the $1600 mark, $600 short of the goal of $2200 it was announced yes terday by Sim P. Efland, Fund Chairman. * This years goal is the same as the goal set for 1951. And the need is great as ever! You are urged to Answer The Call: Every body a Member. We need Our Red Cross services. Our Red Cross i needs our support. One of the many services offered by the Red Cross is the collection and pro cessing of life-giving blood, which will be conducted in the near fu ture at Hillsboro and Chapel Hill. If you are not . yet a member of our Red Cross, give your SI to a volunteer worker. . Watch the thermometer on Court square. Lee Murder Trial Near End After State Rests Case HILLSBORO — Opposing coun sel reached the halfway mark in their arguments to the jury in the Hobert Lee murder trial at ad journment Thursday and the case is expected to go to the Jury some time today. The State rested its case shortly after 11 a.m. and in a surprising move in a capital case, defense at torneys, still appearing jocular and in a confident mood, announced they would offer no evidence to counteract the strong circumstan tial arguments advanced by the State. Arguments to the jury be, gan at 11:40. —— THURSDAY'S REPORT HILLSBORO — The accused murderer cf, Miss Rachel Crook ■ "'rode to one corner of court square as court adjourned late yesterday afternoon to ponder his fate another night, and, the 13 member panel of his peers trudged i~in clouble file Tn The opposite dl i .action — tc the Colonial Inn to ponder al30 biu not to talk even among themselves about the sen sational trial being unfolded in the Courtroom. EXCHANGE CLUB MINSTREL HILLSBORO — The Hillsboro Exchange Club will present "Ole Time Minstrels Of 1952” Friday and Saturday nights, March 21st and 22nd At the Hills bo^p High School auditorium. The show will begin at 8 p.m. Otto King will be interlocutor for the show. Endmen will be E.E. Patterson, C. B. Parris, J. L. Rose mund, -Wade Key, W C Mangum and Paul Davis There will also be a chorus of about fifty voices. Solo numbers will feature Paul Goodwin, Joan Reinhart, and Rich ard Armfield. The entire show will follow that of old fashion minstrel shows. Sev eral special acts will be feature during intermission, i Advance tickets are on sale at James Pharmacy, Corner Drui Store and Hillsboro SuncAiy, ’ Rules Announced For Uinstead Scholarship CHAPEL HILL — Rules for se lectlng the recipient of the Urn stead agricultural student scholar ship were 'announced this week by Representative John W. Umstead. Several weeks ago, Mr. Umstead announced he would contribute a State College tuition scholarship to a selected student of agriculture, with competing students from Hills boro, ‘ Aycock and Chapel.H i 1.1 high schools. The basis for the selection will be as follows: ■ All Seniors in Aycock, Hillsboro and Chapel Hill High Schools who have taken work in the Vocational Agricultural courses and who re ceived diplomas at the 1952 Com mencement will be eligible for i this scholarship. The teacher of Vocational Agri culture courses in each High School shall be Chairman of a Committee of five teachers from that school to select the school's candidate I for this scholarship. The four other1 members of this Committee will be named by the Principal and Superintendent of the school. After each school has selected its candidate for the scholarship the records of these -boys will be . presented to a Committee from the ; Extension Department of State College for a final selection of the , boy to receive the scholarship, j Should this Committee wish to j interview the three applicants for the scholarships the donor of the scholarship agrees to carry- these | boys to Raleigh for appearance before this Committee. , The Committee, in selecting the candidate from each school shall have due regard for: " I 1. The interest of the student; in a college education as evidenced ; by his scholarship standing dur ing four..„years in High School. j 2. Interest of the ‘ student in good citizenship as evidenced by [ his reputation ' for being a good i citizen among his fellow students. 3. Need oi tne candidate tor this scholarship in order to enable him to attend State College. CHURCH SUPPER The W.S.C.S. of Palmers Grove Methodist Church will sponsor a (ham) plate supper consisting of bam with vegetables and the trimmings. Coffee free. Also ex tra, will be cake, pie and cold drinks. Proceeds are to go on improv ing church property The public It was the end of the second day of the most closely watched trial in this county in several decades . . . the State of North Carolina versus Hobert Lee, the Burlington bulldozer operator who during two days trial has shown little visible emotion but apparent keen Interest in the legal maneuvering of oppos ing counsel during one day of questioning 74 potential jurors and another of State’s evidence* Yesterday Lee sat behind his at torneys, Bonner Sawyer and Rob ert Gkntt, and between his comely wife and aged mother, leaned for ward frequently to confer with his counsel. Other members of h i s family occupied an entire bench within the bar, while at least an estimated 300 persons jammed themselves into the courtroom. Evidence yesterday followed the same pattern as had been pre sented during the preliminary hear ing here shortly after the murder, but with several additional wit nesses to fit In pieces of the gen erai story previously .presented. R. B. Fiteh. Chapel *HiIl lumber dealer and first witness, told of seeing Miss Crook in the afternoon of the murder, of carrying her some nails, and of her expectation of having a carpenter in for some work that night. Mrs. Ed Vaughan, second witness, was the dressmak er at whose home the 71-year-okl spinster had On appointment on the evening of her murder. Mrs. E. S. Robinson, wife of the patrolman, who lives on Highway 86, related Kdw she heard screams from a passing vehicle and noti fied Chapel Hill police. She did not' see the vehicle. C. E, King of her call and told of relaying the message to Deputy Sheriff C. H. Hurley, then in Carrboro and bead ed out 86 toward Hillsboro. Hur ley reitereated his previous testi mony of his ride over 86 to the prison camp and of seeing nothing suspicious. Patrolman R. R. Thom as told of finding the body and the condition of the body and the surrounding area. Sheriff S. T. T.atta related his i *i •'Wlfrmefirsm.'’ .«onv«r* safions with l,fe, of the liter's re fusal to submit to a lie detector test, and the defendant's. indirect admissions of guilt in his answers •to the carefully phrased questions of the Sheriff. On cross examina tion Defense Attorney Sawyer heckled Latta sharply for his fail ure to take no(tcs and produce memoranda on the basis of his testimony but was. unable to shake the sheriffs attitude of positive recollection of the conversations. Judge R. Hunt Parker overruled . the defense’s' objection to -admis-- • sion of this section of the Sheriff’s testimony and an exception was„ . noted by the defense. Sawyer brought oh ccoss-exami uauun ui uie aumu uiai u a 11 Headen, a Negro resident of the New Hope section, had been re tained 30 hours in connection with Latta admitted a blanket' in Hea den’s fJickup truck had spots on it which could not be established as blood. Headen was the owner of the truck similar to one from which Eugene Mauer, an early wit ness, heard a woman "hollering” as it passed over New Hope bridge from which he was frog gigging. Final state's witness before ad journment yesterday was James R. Durham of the SB I, who testi fied in detail and with pictures of the similarity of the tires on Lee's green pickup truck and the tracks at the murder scene. He said a heel print near the scene, in his opinion, also was- the same as wpuld be made by Lee’s work shoes which were introduced as part of the State’s evidence. Three co-workers of Lee on the Cary road project testified to seeing scratches on Lee's face the day following the murder but did not think they were too abnormal. Lee's superior said he had said he was sick on the morning following the murder and had taken a tw'o-hour rest. lee t,old Sheriff Latta he had been so^ drunk on that night that he did not remember what had oc curred. Among the jurors are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ligon of West Hills boro on the' jury are: R. L. Batton of Hillsboro, mill worker; Raymond Cheek of Cheek’s Township, power company em ployee; Lacy Wilkerson, Hillsboro Township, bulldozer operator; John F. Morris of White Cross, farmer; Monroe Allen of Cedar Grove, farmer; W. H. Browning of Efland. farmer; L. G. Hoover of Cheek's Township, wood worker; R. C. Ray of Mebane, electrical worker; Lew is T. Tilley of Little River Town ship, farmer; J. H. Ball of Hills boro, store clerk; and Mrs. Robbie Hayes (alternate juror), Hfllsboro, housewife.
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