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*• - - rf “• * " . of Orange County can with the nawa from ail the county by reading THE 8 OF ORANGE COUNTY (Published Weekly) buy. rant or gat a job by tha detained a da on page 7 of 59, No. 18 l our Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 189s HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, NT THE NEW8 of Orange County * r- ' y L’RSDAY. June 19 1952 Price: $2 a Year; g>t Single Copy >Eight Pages This Week Raleigh Kotmcf-uh OMIMG UP . • • With T. C. ason cut of the way, it looks f Governor Kerr Scott will i free sway in the matter of ltiryg paroles during the next •months. Don’t -be surprised if ■ come in wholesale fashion, irst on the list was Wall Ew ;[>f Fayetteville, who was con ed of beating his wife to death, had served (four years 11 iths, and 27 days of an 18-year encc. The term of Raymond • also of Fayetteville, who Roy -Coble at Wake Forest ege just .before Christmas of I, was reduced from 25-30 s to 20-25 years, ext on the list—unless this ad ce notice changes it—is Lin d Earl Summer of Goldsboro, i was convicted in January of ) of conspiracy and aiding and ting in robbery with firearms .he famous “hole-in-the-wall” >ery. ,’JUSTICE . . . Friends of N. iansdell of Fuquay Springs are tig red over his being trans ed from chairman of the Pro on Commission to the hot seat lead of the Paroles Ccmmis . They want him to resign, orts are that his wife urged to quit rather than change he Governor transferred him l a position where he had it three years learminig about >ation.s—and where he had bet thain an even chance of re rhr.ig for another four years— ihe graveyard of political ap iteebcm. . t gccd, honest, easy-going fel , Rarsdell may find orders .inig to him difficult to follow he months that lie ahead. Re altor may toe the only solu □INIOIDENCE ... On last rsday evening, when Mr. and • ifctes Kefauvar were in Ka i and Greensboro, an event of e significance was also taking e in Washington. I There, at the Georgetown home ot Congressman and iMrs Thur mond Chatham, (those Comgresfc ! men and fir tends closest to Senator | Richard Russell of Georgia were being entertained. Thus f was that a few of the leading party men in the State could not be in North Carolina .to greet the man who may be your next President. FIiGtEON ... Up around Wayn esville, jn Haywood County, the Umstead people are still giving out with alibis on what happened to thedr man. tHa^wood^gave CMve 5,037 votes to Umstead’s 1,858. Now that’s a licking on anybody’s field. The Umstead folks explain it toy say ing that Governor Scott promised Haywood County he would see to it that the Pigeon River Road would be put in first class con dition. This road, NjC. 284, lead® from the Tennessee-N.C. line down to Delliwood, which is about five miles from Waynesville. * Be that as it may Haywood gave Olive 3,179 more votes than Umstead and within a few days after the Primary Kerr Scott was in Asheville locking into the Pig eon River' thing. It is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg—the road, that I is—(but some of the Umstead folks still tell hew the Governor said he would “straighten it out”. It was no doubt talking figuratively, for it would require a dozen sky hooks and 40 wheelbases to straighten out that portion .running from Mt. Sterling to Cove Creek. The only other Twelfth district county car ried by Olive was Swain, where he led by 193 otes. — i TWO DISTRICTS . . . Inciden tally, Hubert Olive carried two | Congressional Districts—the Eigh | fh, which runs from Stanly | through Davidson diagonc' to the Virginia litv. and t:- fpir jth, which which emibrSfi ahe [ counties of Vance, Pranklip, Nash-. { Wake, Johnston, Chatham, and Randolph. Continued On Page 5 I Symphony Receives More Publicity hapel iHill—For the fifth time rin less than a year, the North olina Symphony Orchestra has lived widespread favorable onal publicity. ie latest acclaim comes in the n of an interesting article in music section of Newsweek ie 9). Previously (an Febru I Collier’s Magazine carried an itnated article, and three net ks (NBC,, Mutual, and CBS) aed nation-wide broadcasts of •Phony programs, he Newsweek piece is illustrat with a picture of Dr. Benja SiwaiLm, conductor of the •Phony, and Mrs. SwaLin. en d "Dynamo and ‘Mother.’ ” omtiing out that the Symphony year traveled' 9,000 miles to * 140 concerts in 67 towns in th Carolina, Virginia, Tennes andi Georgia^ the article calls , orchestra “that rare iphenom- j k a symphony directly sup- . ed by state subsidy.” , ounded in 1932 under Lamar J ngfield, who directed it un 1935, the Symphony was Wed its first state apprapaia- | of $2,000 -in 1943. Newsweek 5 the appropriation for the past * years has been $15,000 an % and that the rest af the an 1 budget (aipproxiimatey $107, in 1951-55 comes from $2 °'Wide suftwariiptions entitling Sl*®criber to attend all but v«ry few non-membership agement®. hditicnal income, the , article ^ «ut, comes from $5, S25, $100 subscriptions, plus col f membenshiips straight con- ( * e°mcerts, and a law outright s (BiBrfcngfon Mills gives the «*). urin® the lean years of the - federal aid was given the hestira. Newsweek points out. 939 Dr. Swalin reorganized the “Phony and became the musical ^°r. A native of Milwaukee former violinist in the Mine y Symphony, he came to ‘Pel Hill to join the University lc faculty. e^rriha^j him as a ‘(hard kln* dynamo,” Newsweek says pbri has molded . has serni ^Jional musScians into an or- | Svia which has earned higher musical regard year by year.” The article 'points out that Swa*. ton in 1935 married the farmer Mkxisne McMahon who narrates the children’s concerts, *plays cel esta with the Orchestra, and docs iSSig?piae^"^afabDfWfl^ninE&n!!es*fer46^i«0'.--:| loiBtos. She (has “mothered the en- 1 lOJ&Ub. Ollt? mvuitatu w«v tire organization/ And when asked ■ once what would happen if she and hear husband might be ill at the same time, she simply answer- ' ed: ‘We oanC ” J Swaton’s philosophy, according to Newsweek,' is that “we go, around the State preaching gospel—exf music.” the ■ Boy Scouts Open Camp At Durant Nearly 200 Bey Scouts of the (cconeechee Council Boy Scouts 1 Camp Durant Sunday in the rst of 8 weeks of camping plan ed for their deluxe camp site ear Raleigh. Dad's day turned out , be dad’s day to help carry :hnny’s gear to his camp site but e didn’t seem to mind—especial . those who can remember back hen they were scouts. Preparations for camp have >en going on .far same time under « direction of Jim Burch and awnond Snow of the Camp De ’Oapment Committee and over Dirty volunteer staff members idler Rosooe Stevens. Distract Ex nefit sale FiUsboro—There will be a rum erg and white elephant sale at =Eno Cheverolet Co. Saturday, te 21, sponsored1 by Circle No. i,f the mUhboro Presbyterian irch. The sale begins at 9 a.m. • ends 3t 5 p.m. will be dottles for all costume jewelry,, cakes, |y and oddis and ends on safe. M_L schedule ;0th: Eno Girls vs. Bellevue schange vs. Church. 24: Eno Girls vs. Hugh Girls, Eno vs. Legion. 25: Bellevue vs. Church. 27- High School Girls vs. , Gtrte, Legion vs. Ex Annual Meeting [ Of Electric Coop Set Fop Saturday Hillsboro - Th* members of the Piecl7no.pt Electric Corporation of Hillsboro will hold their thirteenth Anrnjal Meeting, Saturday, June 21, in the Hillsboro High School Auditorium starting promptly at 1:00 o'clock P. M. F. E. Joyner, manager of the' Cooperative stated that they were making plans for an attendance of' about 1800 members. The Co operative now brings electric ser vice to 4500 rural homes, churches, schools, and business establish- ’ ments in the rural areas of Dur- j ham, Granville, Person, Alamance' Counties over a network of more j than 1200 miles of distribution lines. Pred S. Sloan, State Program Leader, of North Carolina State1 College will be the principal j speaker. Entertainment will in-1 elude vocal’ and musical numbers ] by some of the 'best local talent. I Refreshments wall include ice \ cream for everyone. Over $500 worth of prizes will be given away to the members who (have registered; ;ttoese prizes include such items as an electric refrig erator, dish washer, savings bond, irons, toasters and many other valuable items. The business program wall cover the election of nine directors, financial and progress reports, discussion of expansion plans,,.and an open forum. Every member of1 the Cooperative is urged to attend this important meeting. Shate Finishes .7 Nile New Paving In County In May Raleigh — The State Highway Commission completed 0.7 mile of new paving in Orange County dur ing May, Commissioner James A. Barnwell of Burlington reported yesterday. The newly-bardsurfaoed road,, finan.ed iby the $200,000,000 sec ondary road bond ' program, and its length is ? Mason Farm Road from NC 87 south for 0.7 mile. The Fifth Highway Division in cluding Durham. Granville, Per- j sen, Alamance, Caswell. ’Guilford, Rockingham and Orange Counties brought a total of 96.1-6 miles of road work to oofipletaon during April and May- Gomrcftesionerr Barnwell announced. —--o--— Efland Girl Wins Better Speakers Contest Miss Betty Jane Walters, daugti er of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Walters jf Route 1.. Efland. was named the vinner of Orange County’s Bet ;er Speaker’s Contest. Betty Jane is a member of the Dfland 4-H Club and has been an ictive club member for a number :f years. She chose as her.topic The Advantages of Rural Living”, md -will represent Orange County n the district contest which will. x? held in Durham June 25th. The other contestants who par icipated in this contest were Nan >y Orabtree Ayoock dub. and rean Wilkerson, Hillsboro Club. f!he judges for the event were Sir. C. V. Ferguson and Mr. A. K. tfcAdams. < Jury Refuses To Grant Divorce In Mitchell Case Hillsboro—In an action rare in North Carolina courts, an Orange Ocunty jury 'this week refused to grant a divorce action brought on grounds of two years separation. Mrs. Ruth P. Mitchell at Hills boro contested the action brought by her estranged husband, Billy Ross Mitchell, also of a Hillsboro family, and the Superior Court jury after hearing extensive evi dence by both sides answered in the affirmative the fourfilf issue posed for them by Judge Henry Grady, “Did the ptadmtiK wrong fully abandon the defendant?” A The actual period off separation was not a point of contention in the case. Immediately after the verdict, Judge Grady set aside the jura’s action as being contrary to the evidence presented. Thus, the ac tion had the! effect of denying for the time being plaintiff's request for absolute divorce but enabled hftn to call for a new trial. A di vorce had previously been sought by the plaintiff without success in the courts of the State of Flori da. *7 ~ , Mrs. Mitchell charged in her testimony that her husband had returned her to the home of her parents here after they had set up a home in Clover, S. C. and had since refused without cause to provide a home (for her. She blamed'undue influence of the plaintiffs mother, Mbs. William Mitchell, as being largely respon sible for the separation, an alle gation which was denied by Mbs. Mitchell on the stand. In other actions during the session which adjourned Tuesday afternoon, five couples were di vorced, all on grounds of two years separation: Mary Lucille Lloyd Stanley from Thomas Earl Stanley; Sarah Doreen Pruitt Thoeapecn from Charlie Glenn Thompson; Dorothy Whitley Har ris from William B. Harris D. Howard WheeLey from Jenette C. Wheeley and Virginia W. Hurley from Carl Hurley. Mary Bell Watson won a ver dict from Imperial Life Insurance G3mfpan.y which ’had refused to pay a death claim on the life of Leroy Watson, who was Shot to death several years ago under mysterious Circumstances, which a coroner’s report had later list ed as accidental. —-O———— 22 Enter Rotary Oat Contest Twenty -. tnyo Orange County farmers have entered the Chapel Hill Rotary Oat Growing Contest and have agreed to keep the weight on the oats which, they wall harvest this season. Prizes totaling $50.00 are being offered by the ClUb to the farm ers making the highest yield of oats per acre on any field contain ing four acres or more. The har vest has already begun and pro spects are that some good yields wall be reoorded. The following Orange County farmers hav^ entered this contest: Jack M&ncey, J. W. Kirk & Sons, R. F. Poythress, John Cates, Jir., Ed Datta, Hanry Woods, Raymond Weaver. Banks Lloyd, John Appfle, W. I. Suftt, Andrew Lloyd, Sam Nelson, R. H. Tate, WaiKer Lloyd, Charlie Teer, Tcm Tear, Jim Mc Iver, Wiley Perry, Clyde Roberts, J Clyde Walker and Oliie Thomp son. Courthouse Can Be Built Without Raising Tax Rate Final Issue Of School Bonds Signed By County Hillsboro—County officials went busy this iweeksigning $265,000 in bonds sold ©n May 27 for Che county by the Local Government Commission. This issue was the last of the one million dollars in school building bonds voted by the peo ple several years ago to improve school facilities for 'both white and Negro oitizens throughout the county. The entire issue sold this time was bought by the First Securi ties Corporation of Durham at an interest rate of slightly less than 2j17 percent, slightljP more than the 1.9 percent rate for which the first $735,000 were bought at the beginning of the iprogram. The ■latest" issue will mature at annual dates from 1954 to 1979. Outstanding projects to be built with the final issue of the million are the proposed new Hillsboro and Ohaipel Hill elementary schools. -o-— -• ■ WADING POOL OPEN The Exchange Club announced tbjs week the opening of the Com- ; rminity wading pool for the sea son. 1 | The pool will be open from three ■to five each afternoon Monday through Fridays. Age limits are | 'from 10 years old' down. Some one will be on duty at the pool each j day, but mothers are requested, | iiif possible, to come with their ( ■children.. The pool is located' alt -the Scout Hut behind the Methodist Church. Efland Man Dead After Fall la Water Basia Mabane - A 29-year- old Efland father of five children lost his life 'here Tuesday night when he fell into an Hn ooft-gatlnn ,water basin at the Mobane Water Plant about 9 p. m. The cause of the fall wa® not immediately knotfotv and an au topsy was to be .held in an effort to determine If a heart attack occurred. .. Howard Cecil of Efland wits visiting his brother-in-law, Gil bert Scarlett, who was on duty at the water plant when the accident occurred. Cecil was with Scarlett who was Checking the coloration of the water following a rain there. Scartett »add that he waa lead ing the way with a flashlight when he hoard; a splash. Cocdl had fallen Into the 12-foot deep water basita, and Sceirlette Immediately turned tn a fire alarm.— — Morgan Lee of Mebanc, volun teer fireman and 'former Navy difver went into the bifsin but was unable to reach the bottom. Offi cials * then drained' 10,000 gal tons of water f.v.m the basin, and on the second attempt Lee reached the bottom and pulled Cecil out at about 9:25 o’clock. Artificial respiration was started Immediately, and Burlington fire men arrived a few minutes later to continue resuscitative treat but,without lC-iuiU, Funeral services will be held Thursday at 3 o’clock at the Ef land Methodist Church. Governor’s Road » .. . ' Is Not Approved j Hillsboro—If the Highway Com 1 mission ipaves the Orange County section of tlhe road to the newly aoquired holdings of Governor Scott in this' county, it will do so without the sanction of the Board of County Coni miissioners unless a special additional allotment Is pro vided. for that purpose. • A petition from the Governor aftd three Orange County resi dents requesting that the two'and a half mile stretch of road be ap proved for adding to the State Highway system was not among the 12 approved by the Board Monday during an aflil-day survey of roads on which petitions had been filed from all sections of the county. , There are only four land owners on the 2 1(2 mile road leading from the Widow Brown’s place on the Bflland-Cedar Grove road to the new King’s Pond-toward Mebane road. In addition to the Governor they are Clay Dorsett, J. B. Haith and Thomas Eaton. In giving their approval for roads to be added to the State system, the Board of Commission ers have followed the policy of approving those roads serving the most people while adhering to the small allotment granted the comi ty by the Highway Commission Mary Burnette District Winner In 4-H Contest by iMr*. Bonnie B. Davie Negro Home Agent Mary Burnette, daughter of Mr. tnd Mrs. Sheppard Burnette of larr Community was declared tne vinner in the dairy food demon itration in the Western District, vhich includes 18 counties in Western North Carolna. The title of the demonstration s “Boiled Custard for Dessert” vhich rafted a score of 95.5 with he highest possible score being CO. Her county award is a gold illed medal. Mary wild compete cr state championship against the j oriheastem and Southeastern district winners in Greensboro luring 4-H Club Week. The award or the state champion is a 17 ewel wrist watch ar.d a certifi iSte of honor which is toeing giv n by the Carnation Company, ftery has been a 4-H Club mem ■ar fcr 7 years and has ccmplet d 10 projects and among them were Focd and Preparation, Cloth ing, Roam Improvement, Focd Preservation, Making and Keep- j img FSriends. During her seven years in 4-H Club work she has received numerous blue riboorvs in dress reviews, individual and team demonstration anti exhibits. In Ii947 She was a member of the 9econd place demonstration team. Other county 4-(H Clpb mem bers who won blue ribbons ait the 4-H District Federation in the Dress Review Division were; Bar bara Wells party dress, Portia Burt, church dress and Annie Francis Wells, srhool dress. Bar bara's party dress wen first place', in the district in its division. Seventeen other county and Eta'e awards were recently made iv< liable to-Nsgro 4-H Club mein- : xxs in programs offered through National Committee on Boys ord Girls Club Work. Some of the rourety awards include gold and ; sterling medals with tne state iwaird being $60 bonds, 17 jewel wrist and pocket watches. each year. The county Board, however ten tatively agreed to approve the Governor-instigated request pro vided the county As given -an ad ditional 2 1(2 mile allotment for that specific purpose and is pro mised that the additional allot ment 'will not toe charged to the county at a later date, ... The property .recently purchase, ed by the Governor in this coun ty is the farm 'known as t3ie Old flukes place. During iMcnday’f session, the Board gave its approval to 12 pe titions calling for improvement at 5.3 miles. Each erf the' approved roads were for less than a mile. The approved list included the following: Ray Rd. from Standard Oil Bulk Plant Rd to Old Stage Road, 0.25 mile. iMaDade Rd. near Efland School (Negro), 0.76 mile. Off . .o. 622 S.W. edge of Ef land. 0^50 mile. Sis Riley Rd. South of Old No. 10, 0.45 mile. ' Fcnrest Rd. N. of Fail-view, 0.25 mile. From End of No. 5 (above) to ^ U.S. 70, 0.35 mile. Stagecoach Rd. in Greenwood Chapel HiR, 0.20 mile. Extension erf Oakwood Drive- j Chapel Hill, 0.25 mile. ~1 Gooseneck Rd. off Morgan Creek Rd. South of Chapel Hill, ! 0.15 mile. Section between Knolls & Lin- ; coin High School off Merrftt Mill, Rd. near Chapel HOI, 0.65 mile. From Neville’s Chapel on Jones Ferry Rd. South. 0.90 mile From Antiook Rd. N. towards Mrs. Nora Brewer, 0.60 mile. -. o~ MORE DELAY ON SCHOOL HiR?bcro—Cole and Cmmparker, the contractors on the new Ef fc nd Negro School, this week no tified Superintendent G. Paul Carr that the job could not be finished before the' opening erf ' school next Fall, j Contract was let last July but H various delays which the super intendent has attributed to the; 1 contractor have allowed the work to drag over many months. The * firm blamed the latest delay cm J the heating contractor, but this,* was dented by him. H Hillsboro — Definite plans to build the new Orarnge County Courthouse and bold the tax rate art Its present level during the next fiscal year were formulated this week. The Board erf Education with a harmonious gesture of cooperation to the Board of County Oanwnis sloners agreed to cut its budget request for capital outlay by $48, 000 for the forthcoming year and pave the way far the completion, af the overall county building pro gram within the $1 tax rate con templated when the schools and courthouse building program was presented to the people in a bond election campaign over two years ago.'"- " -V Thus was written another chap ter in the record of dose cooper ation which has characterized the 1 operation of the ’two major coun ty boards during recent years. Previously it had been contem plated that it might be necessary to raise the county tax rae from 5c to 7c pei- $100 valuation of the county was to accept the low bide on the new courthouse project when ran to $311,000, or roughly $01,000 more than was vgted in bends for the purpose. , Since the passage of the bond issues over two years ago, both boards have taken the position that school construction was the most important 'phase of the ■bfuiildtog program. Concentration on the school improvement pro gram plus the rising inflation and war-necessitated short agei delay ed the courthouse until that build ing could1 not be built with the money provided by bonds. At a joint meeting of the two beard- , the Education forces join ed the Commissioners in the utv.mmo' opinion that the court ly s-vould 'go ahead with the courthouse plans and suggested that they duke the 44 percent cut in their requested appropriations ft the building cculd be built without raising taxes. $109,000 had previously (been requested by the schools ter capital outlay. - Wi'.h t*his $48,000, .phis a $7,000 out in thn capital outlay roq^oit of the C» .xpel Hill S ’tool Bt#a rd and other savings, the Commis sioners now feel that contracts can be Jet and the courthouse financed within the present tax rate. It is expected that the new bud get wiM be passed on the first Monday in July and after a 20- ' day period of (public, Inspection the new tax levy wiU be made and a formal contract with the building qoqtFactors cm be sign ed. Chairman Collier Cc-bb Jr., in commenting upon the plans for building the courthouse without increased taxes, sadd: “We were reluctant to take any action that might jeopardize the school pro gram. The cooperation of the school board, therefore, tn enab ling us to complete the building program in accordance with our original plans is very gratifying.” County officials were notified yesterday that the $250,000 bond anticipation note sold Tuesday hi anticipation of the issuance of courthouse bonds went also to the First Securities Corporation of Durham with a bid of 1?10% in terest rate. ? UNIVERSITY LAW STUDENT WINS AWARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP Ohopol Hill—Ccover C. Mooney* ham, of Ohapel Hill, who receiv ed LL.fi. degree from the -School of Law of the University of. North Carolina this month, was voted by the law faculty as the winner of the “US. Law Week” award. Through the generosity of the editors of the “United States Law Week,” a year's subscription to Law Week” is awarded arnual ly “to the student who in the judgment of the faculty, makes the most satisfactory scholastic E*'c«ress during his final school peaT.” —— --. revival services The (public is cordially invited o attend the revival services to ye held June 32-29 at the Fairvifcw * 5o.pt ist Mission, hew Aubrey T. ^aker-bu h, paste? of the Ossippe Sadists Church. Burlington, will Mfing the mssregcc. Services will *e *t 11:00 A. M..and 7:30 P. M. n Sunday and at 7:30 P. M* hiring the week._.. _
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