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p up with the newt from all V i 0f Orange County can r the county Dy reading THE ws OF ORANGE COUNTY Volume 59 No. 24 Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1895 Hr quick, proven results, buy, rent or get a Job by 1-, the claaalfled ads on page 7 of THE NEWS of Orange County (Published Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY. July io, 1952 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy Eight Pages This Week TiAL&GH 111.! ftouncf-uh IH3 f . ... Although Bill U<m OT iS not a regular delegate to Democratic National Conven ! he and Senator Richard Rus n’became 'good itriends during nstead’s sojourn in the U. S. jjate and Russell has asked him | come (to the (Convention, feo, the Democratic nominee for hvernor will toe in Chicago a v days hence and will play a «re important role than many a dar delegate. IKE Almost without Iception the Democrats here in (ileigh—particularly those around about the Capitol—a he for a. Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the hall of the Bouse, vari officials grabbed a few min j from their work to watch ithe publicans frolic via ’television i there by, Raleigh’s WCRAL several TV retail outlets here. the record, several ’of our Democrats would be delight to have Ike as their nominee (President. This was evident last week as the Taft-Eisen ver controversy daily 'grew ■bitter. I .UTOS . . . Despite the beauti Fords now being produced, it es look as if Ford cannot catch ' with Chevrolet in North Caro ia. We checked on new car registra nts for May when they became ail able last week and found that 524 Chevrolet to 1,165 Ftonds -re sold during the month of ay in this State. This report is nfined to automobiles only, and es not include trucks. Running a ipoor third was Ply outh with 77(1. In fourth place me Buick at 576. Pontiac was tth at 561. Dodge was next with 2. Here lire yher*: CswUlla^, 9; Chrysler, 1168; Mercury, 872; dsmotoile, 361; Studebaker, 225; • Soto, 126; Hudson, 97; Lincoln, Kaiser, 56; Packard, 116 Hen- I J, 9S; Nash, 150; Willys, 75; All- 1 State, 3; Orosley, ilO. ONE PURPOSE? . . . Regarding the Republican National Conven tion, the New York Times said this in its editorial section of Sunday, July 6: “The coattail power of the can didate is expected to be a big fac tor in the final settlement of the Southern delegate disputes. Con tests .over delegates from the South are nothing new in the Re publican' party. Historically, they have involved a struggle between. the “ins” and the “outs” in an area where the Republican party or ganization has existed for one pur pose only—to deliver delegates at the convention in return for pa tronage.” NOT AROUND HERE ... Rep. Monroe Redden made a little talk in the Congress last week upon the eve of l\s, departure from the August body. The papers said there were hints that he was getting ready to run for Governor in four years. Re tiring Congressman Redden was rather shhy and modest when ask ed about the rumor, admitting there “has been some talk of it.” Maybe so, but ncrt around Raleigh. Redden has friends in Wake County, and elsewhere, and may be the Cover nor who moves into the Mansion in January of 1957. However, it is going to take some shanp promoting.__ Western North Carolina is due. Redden is from a natural location, but Brandon Hedges of Asheville must foe reckoned with before the spotlight is turned on Redden. There is also Luther Hodges of LeaksviLle. Congressmen seldon resign merely to run for. another office— four years in advance of the time for pa ignirg for ttyat office. SECOND PRIMARY .-r . That runoff thing in North Carolina* a few'days ago was a fiasco.- It led (Continued on Page 2 ^ ver 2,000 Tobacco Farners Eligible 'o Vote July 19 On Tobacco Quotas 'More than. 2,000 flue-cured ibaoco growers of Orange >unty are eligible to vote in e referendum do be held Sat #ay, July .19, oh -flue-cured baeco marketing quotas, as rding to James S. Compton, hairman of the County PMA munittee. The referendum is >ing held to determine, in ac >rdance with the law, whether owers want quotas for three ars; whether they want quotas r the 1963 crop only; or whether ley do not want quotas. Market t quotas win continue in effect more than two-thirds of the "oweTs voting in the referendum ist favorable ballots, hi connection with the referen Lun- an organization meeting is heduled tonight at 8 o’clock in ** courthouse in Hillsboro to reuse interest and get out a sub ■antial vote. All tobacco growers, ankers, civic club members, usines® men, farm organization nd agricultural workers aTe in ited to attend to hear represent lives from Tobacco Associates I ^ the State HMA office, in-1 Luding E. W. Avent, FIMA field lan tor this district. The -purpose of marketing quo as is to provide growers with a lethod of adjusting supply to de mand and to help them obtain fair rices for the tobacco they pro uce. According to -Mr. Comptom, Anyone who has an interest in le 1952 crop of flue-cured to aoc°. either as owner, tenant, or larecropper is entitled to one vote ! n *be question of marketing quo w. Each person concerned, how Ver, is entitled to only one vote Ven though he may be engaged a the production of flue-cured to in two or more communi counties or States.” ®®r- Compton pointed out that ^eage allotments will be contin an 1953 if marketing quotas fe al>praved. Notices with speci acreage allotments for f963 ®rmot be proposed in time for tfying farmers'if the referen j”1. ** to be held prior, to the wning of the markets in July, notice will he sent to each farm ^outa ining information for which the farmer can compute his 1953 allotment.' The regular allot ment notice with the specific ac reage allotment for each farm will he sent to farm operators as usual at a later date. Mr. Compton added that price support loans at 90 percent of par ity will be provided for 1953 crap tobacco if the quotas are approved in the referendum. -—O'-— Tourist Court Near Completion Chapel Hill—The new 34-unit tourist court, University Lodge, located two miles east of Chapel Hill on the Raleigh road, is ex pected to toe completed by the end of next month. The colonial-style, air-condi tioned Lodge will consist of four sections, each containing eight rooms, and a fifth center section housing the office, ldbby, and two one-room suites. The suites have, attached living rooms in addition j to bedroom and bath. All rooms. will be carpeted and ftirnished with colonial-style furniture. The Lodge faces the highway and is built in the shape of a huge half circle. The entire area in the vicinity of the motel will be land scapted and beautified with grass id shrubbery. ’Rhe rear of the court faces Fm y Golf Course, affording visit 's a birdseye view of the golfers om the second story rear porch ! the motel. There will toe a park ,o area in the rear of the tourist ourt. Charles D. Nottingham is own r of the lodge. ■o if it Supper e Woman’s Society of Christ Jervice of New Sharon Meth Church is sponsoring a awick and Chicken Stew er at the church Saturday 5:30 to 8 o’clock p. m. Home . pies, cakes and ice cream also toe served and the puto incited. - / \ High Bond Set For Man Charged With Girl Attack Hillsboro - Rudolph Cotton, Chapel Hill Negro, who is no stranger to Orange County courts, was bound over to Superior Court by Judge L. J. Phipps in County Recorders Court Monday on a charge of having carnal know ledge of an eleven-year-old girl. Bond was set at $2,500 follow ing the finding of probable cause on the evidence of the girt, Jose phine Farrington, who described the attack. Other pending charges against Cotton are for shooting another Negro several months ago and an attempted rape charge brought by a woman who is now said to be dead. The record: E<l<iie Thompson - Bastardy - Not Guilty; James Louis Ruffin - Temporary Larceny of pick-up truck - 6 months to roads, Sus pended and derendant to pay $50.00 and costs for Browning Cain Lumber Oo.; Melvin Dur ham - Assualt on a Female - $25 and costs and 60 days to roads; Suspended for 2 years on condi tion defendant not molest Mrs. Luther Durham or tplead guilty or be convicted of violating any law; | Rudolph Cotton - Carnal know ledge of Female - probable cause bound over to next term of Or ange County Superior Court $2, 500.00 bond; Lewis B. Hyman, Jr. Failing to stop at stop sign - Nol Pros With Leave; Dewey Williams Drunk and DisOrderly^ and Dis turbing the Peace - $6.00 and costs an.d one month to jam; Sus pended for 12 months; Thomas B. irammen - .fc,xceeding reasonable speed - $10.00 and costs; Joseph costs; Arthur Christopher Croc her - Failing to stop at stop sign $10.00 and costs; Louis M. Amos - Speeding - $5.00 and costs; Hu bert Alvin Stewart - Speeding - $5.00 and costs; Andrew Luther Gilliam - Improper equipment and Improper registration - $10 and costs; William Laury Davis - Improper equipment and Failing to stop at a stop sign - $10.00 and costs; John Freeland - Improper equipment®- $10.00 and coses; Kermit Henry. McNair - No Op erators license - $25.00 and costs; Lewis Turner Bond, Jr.- Speel- ■ ing - $10.00 and costs;; William I Dalias Myridk - Speeding - $5.00 1 and costs; Robert Mack Iatta - Failure to yield right of way - $10.00 and costs; Dewitt C. Fish er - Speeding - $10.00 and costs; James B. Farris - Speeding - $15 and costs. ... ———'-O Home Coming at Mt. Moriah Home Coming Services will be observed next Sunday July 13, at the (Mt. Moriah Baiptist Church, in Orange County near the Durham County line. The services will be gin at the Sunday School hour of ten o’clock, followed by the Church worship service at eleven o’clock, and from 12 p.m. until 1:30 a picnic dinner will be enjoy ed on the church grounds. The arfternoon service will feature special music, and a Memorial j Association will be organized. Every one is invited to attend and (bring a picnic dinner. $721,365.08 County Budget Approved By Commissioners; $1 Tax Rate Held Former CmtjF. Coamissioaer Dies At Efland. Efland—Funeral services were held at the Fairfields Presbyteri an Church Tuesday afternoon for John Hodge Hanner, 77, promin ent Orange County farmer, who died in a Burlmgtqjb hospital Mon day morning. Bu&al was in the church cemetery.' ■Mr. Hanner had been in fail ing health for several years and critically ill for the past 10 days. A native of Orange Ooun/ty, be was the husband of Mrs. Vend Hanner and the son of the late John Ervin and Elizabeth Hodge Hanner. He was a former member and chairman of the Orange Coun ty Board of Commissioners and was also a member of the Orange County Welfare Board. He was a member of the Fairfields Presby terian Church where he served as deacon and trustee for several years. Surviving are his wife of the home; one lister, Mrs. Henry Woods of Hillsboro, Rt. 2; and two brothers, George W. Hanner of Logan, Ohio, and Joe E. Hanner of Huntington, W. Va. - o Mrs. Edna Roberts Passes At 82 Hi 1 lsboro—Final fiteswefe held at Little River Presbyterian Church near here Sunday after noon for Mrs. Edna Mae Roberts, 82, one of the community's oldest citizens and mother of two local physicians. Services were conducted by the Rev. I ,E, Birdseye and the Rev. K. M. Misenheimer and inter ment was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Roberts, * v had been in poor health for a. metime .died Friday morning in‘a IXffhain hos pital. She was the daughter of the late Samuel and Betty Ray Wil son of Orange County. Survivors are her three sons, Dn. Bryan N. and Dr' Marian B. Robets, both of Hillsboro, and Howel P. Roberts of Durham; one sister, Mrs. Dora Breeze, of Route 1, Hurdles Mill; one brother, Thomas Wilson of Burlington; and four grandchildren. ..—.O'— ■ - New Postoffice Can-boro - The local post office opened for business Mon day morning In its new quarters, the new brick building con structed especially for it on Main Street. The building was completed just last week according to spec ifications at the Post Office De partment. The new equipment and addi tional space are particularly wel come by Postmaster Claiborne Oakley and his assistants who ex pect to be able to render more efficient service by virtue of it. Urgency Of Hillsboro School Need Discussed Hillsboro - The urgency of the school building problem in Hills boro was- reported to the Board of Education here Monday by Su perintendent G. Paul Carr, who reported the allotment of three additional teachers for the next school year who would not have classrooms in which to teach. To make way for one of the new teachers, classes of Glenn Auman will be moved *o the gymnasium and for others the scout hut and possibly the new West Hillsboro lunchroom will be used. This situation was spotlighted in board discussions following receipt of a recommendation from the joint Hillsboro local and dis trict school committes that action leading toward any condemnation of the Cameron Park site, which Mias Rebecca Wall declined to sell for $18,000, be delayed pending a report from a committee of ex perts to foe invited to study the needs of Hillaboro relative to a high school of elementary school and the type af site most suitable. Expected to be invited to make this educational analysis will be a representative each from the State Department of Education, Duke University and The Uni versity of North Carolina. Con tacts will be made in this con nection ^s soon as possible. A eon-tract for heating theAy coek gymnasium was approved tentatively for $5,012 with the B & D Plumbing and Heating Co. of Durham and no progress was reported on the proposed pur chase of four lots near the West Hillsboro school from Fred Cates. -,-o----— Public Concert On Campus Tonight Chapel Hill . . . The Summer Session Chorus of the University of North Carolina will present a concert tonight .in Hill Hall. The Chorus will be under the direction of William Whitesides with Almonte Howell assisting at the piano, and harpsichord. (Main feature of the (program will be the Bach Cantata No. 106, “God’s Time is the Best." The rest of the program will consist of the three madrigals by Pales trina, Gibbons and iMorley, and •two American works. “Be <?lad then America” iby William Bill ings, America’s, earliest native - bom composer, and ‘iAUeluia* by the contemporary, Randall Thomp son. During the Bach Cantata the j chorus will be joined by three I soloists, John .Park, Greenville, S. C., tenor, George Muns, Chapel Hill, Ibass, and Maurine Stfnan, Memphis, Tenn., alto, and will be assisted .by a small orchestra of flutes and strings , 1 There will (be no admission charge and the public is invited. Courthouse Contracts Signed Hillsboro—The Orange County Board of Commissioners Monday signed contracts with low bidders for the construction of the new courthouse and wrote another chapter in the wrangle over ap proval of the road petition in stigated by Governor Scott and others in connection with a road through a sparsely settled area in the western part of the county. Commissioner Sim Bfland press ed for approval of the petition sub mitted some weeks ago for addi tion to the State sysem of a road leading off' the Efland-Cedar Grove road at the Widow Brown’s place and running through a new ly-acquired farm of Governor Kerr Scott and lands of others for a distance of 2 >l|2 miles and serving four homes. Commission ers R. O. Forrest and Chairman Collier Cobb Jr. were both dead set against giving their approval without shifting, complete respon sibility to the Governor-dominat ed highway commission. Bfland argued that the area ‘•heeded opening up” while .For rest and Cobb argued that approv al would be in violation of the long Standing policy of the board, to approve only roads within the state allotted mileage which would serve the most people and would be breaking faith with numerous other people all oyer the county whose need was greater. Finally passed was a motion by Forrest, which Efland would not second but for which he later cast a reluctant affirmative vote, which approved the petition “provided the State Highway and Public Works Commission allocates an additional 2.5 miles to be added to the State System in Orange County for this specific purpose.” The four contracts, which in cluded change orders to bring the costs within the bond money available, and the amounts in volved. were as follows: Coltrane & Graham Construc tion Co. of High Point the general contract, $205,303.20. Omitted from the original contract among other things were lathing, plaster ing, interior millwork and paint ing and tile and toilet partitions totaling $42,346 JO. Dixon Sc Cbristophe- Co. of Greensboro, heating, $7,895. This was a reduction of $10,756 from the original specifications, and in cluded elimination jof the boiler, stoker, circulating pumps, radia tor and other equipment. Ingram & Suggs, Durham, plumbing contract, $5,442. This was a reduction of $4,200, omit ting all fixtures and pipe cover ings and labor for installing same. Thomerson Electric Co. of Dur ham, electrical contract, $8,264. This was a reduction of $7,300, omitting such items from the original specifications as lighting fixtures, bulbs, electric water coolers, etc. All items, it is contemplated, I will be returned to the contracts by change orders A'hen addition al financing is made (possible by special legislation or issuance of bonds next year. No delay in construction or additional costs are contemplated by the change in specifications. Little progress is ( expected on the project until the government freeze on steel is lifted so that the Orange County allotment can be removed from the “bank.” The board declined to approve a proposal for cheaper brick and selected to use in the new building a Tennessee-made brick which blends more closely .with other buildings here. Samples of two proposed types were erected by sales companies on the site of the courthouse and may be seen by interested citizens. vital School Dates Hillsboro • Following their tra dltlonal practice at the July meet ing, the Board of Education Mon day set opening and closing dates and official holidays for the next school year In Orange County. Schools In the county system will open on September 2 and afte~ 180 teaching days will close May 22. A two day holiday was approved for Thanksgiving, sets for^ Easter and six for Christmas, the latter period to run from De cember 20 to December 30. . _ -...o Merchants Body To Hear Caims Chapel Hill - Dr, Robert Cad mus, director of the new Uni versity Hospital, will speak to members of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro Merchants Association tonight at a dinner meeting at 7:15 o’clock in the Pine Room of the Carolina Inn. Dr. Cadmus will discuss plans for the hospital and for the pro posed hospital store which has been the subject of speculation on the part of the merchants. The dinner will be a “dutch" affair.- . „ Name Two Draft Delinquents Hillsboro - Two Chapel Hill men were nam-ed this week as delinquents ,by the local Select ive Service Board Ho. 69 of Or ange County and friends and re latives were urged to render as sistance in- locating- thentr—-—~ They were Marlon Fillmore (known as Sonny Boy)'Whitley and Percy O’Neal Black. The draft board office called attention to the fact that delin quency subjects the registrant to immediate induction and urged the pair to. communicate with the office at once. --O-; Last Hites Held Far Mrs. Greene Hillsboro — Funeral services were’ held far Eranklinton Sunday afternoon for IMrs. B. T. Greene, who died suddenly at her home on Try on street here Saturday morn ing. The Rev. J. E^ Birdseye and Dr. Charles Maddry officiated and interment was in Fairview Ceme tery there. Mrs. Greene had resided in Hillsboro for a number of years but was the widow of the date B. T. Greene of Vance County where her parents, the late Thomas and Margaret Lynch Joyner, also re sided. SurvHvors include three daugh ters, Mrs. C. G. Grady of Four Oaks, Mrs. Robert L. Young j Angier, and Mrs. D. G. Banks of Greensboro; one son, B. T. Greene of Charleston, S. C.; six grand children; one sister, Mrs. John W. McGhee of Franklinton; and one brother, J. D. Joyner of Gaston. FIRST AID COURSE COMPLETED The Red Cross First Aid Course sponsored by the Fairfield Home Demonstration eluib completed its classes on July the 2nd. The classes were held in the Sunday School assembly room of Fairfield Church. Instructors for the course were Miss Marie Wells and Mrs. C. H. Pender of Cedar Grove. Those completing the work were: Mrs. J. C. Long, Mrs. Roy Clay ton, Mrs. G. F. DLiner, Mrs. George Hdbgood, Mrs. V. C. Wal ters, Mrs Robert Wheeley, Mrs. Clarence Sharpe. Mrs. Charles Latta, Misses Mary Latta and Bobby Ann Pierce, Mrs. E. S. Tay lor and Mrs, Bill Dorsett. ———• --—o . PREPAYMENTS Hillsboro—$48,960.10 in prepay ments of 1952 taxes had been col lected by Orange County through July 1, when the two percent dis count period ended. Hillsboro—A tentative budget calling for expenditures totaling dose to three quarters of a mil lion dollars, the largest in the county's history .has been approv ed by the Board of County Com missioners for the next fiscal year. The new budget, which includ es salary raises for practically all n appointive employees and elective officers as well as increased ex penditure in most departments, is nevertheless based on expected revenue from the same tax rate of $1 per hundred dollar valuation as for the past two years. Increas ed property valuations and in creases in other revenue sources account for the increase in expect ed revenue. The proposed expenditures total $721,365.0$. This figure is $36,970.02 more them was appro priated a year ago for operating the county government and $62, 563.74 more than was expended during the past year. The $1 tax rate is expected to yield $336,541.35 this year as com pared to last year’s $310,933.47 by virtue of the additional taxable property on- the tax books while other revenues during the year are expected to total $384, 823.73. Major item in the “other revenue” category is the $173,936. 39 in welfare funds to come from state and federal sources to match the $45,966.01 appropriated from tax money for this purpose._ _ A summary and analysis of the new budget tentatively approved by the Commissioners Monday and the tax rate may be found on an other page of this edition and the ' complete budget statement is on file for the next 20 days for public > inspection in the office of the clerk to the board. Register of Deeds J. Ed Laws. Final approval will be given the budget at a meeting to be held on July 28. While budgetary increases were allowed in all major sections of the overall budget, increases not ed in general funds expenditures, including salaries, debt service for schools, special appropriations for a complete property revalua tion and assessment program and the inauguration of a full time county-wide dog and rabies con trol program accounted for a large portion of the increase.. The Oeneral Fund budget was increased from $78,038.70 to $92, 087.22 and $14,500 was set up for operating the health department, this representing a $1,000 increase. $7,600 was set up to renovate the old courthouse .building and the jail and $37,070.00 will be spent for retiring county bonds and in terest. The Recorder’s Court, tfhich last year had a budget of $9,050. this year got an approved ,, $18,431.96 appropriation, reflect ing the increase in expected rev enues from this source. $13,768.77 was realized from the court during- the past year. The budget for schools listed $99,536.00 for current expenses, $127,060.00 for capital outlay and $55,072 >for debt service. Among the special items includ ed Is $16,830 for the property rev aluation program and an addition al $1,600 for travel in carrying out thjs program. $4,100 was set aside to set up a full time dog program which contemplates the hirlrlg of a full time rabies con trol officer and the conduct of a vigorous protective program in this field. Salary raises of $300 each per year went to the Clerk and the Deputy Clerk of Court, bring ing these officers to $4,400 and $3. 000 respectively. The county ac countant and tax supervisor re ceived a $400 hike to $4,900, the Tax Collector went from $3200 to $3600, the Register of Deeds from $3600 to $3800 and the Sheriff from $3800 to $4100| The Judge of the Recorders Court was raised from $2100 to $2250 and the Solicitor from 1800 to $1950 per antoum. Sheriff’s Deputies received in creases of $12.50 per month and clerks and stenographers in the courthouse $10. $10 per month in creases went also to the farm agents and the assistant home demonstration agent of the Ex ension Department. The home demonstration agents, both white and colored, got $5 per month raises from the county as did the secretary for the Negro exten sion office The secretary to the white farm and home agents got. an increase of $15 per month. A breakdown of the $1 tax rate allows .149 for General Fund, In cluding salaries; .039 for Health; .017 for courthouse and jail im provements; .094 tar bonds; .14 tar welfare; and .561 tor schools.
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