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n* of Orange County can up with the newt from all the count/ Dy reacting THt . 0F ORANGE COUNTY NEWS of Orange County Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since' 1895 *or quick, proven buy, rent or got a job by the claaaified ade on page 7 of THE NEWS of Orange County N —4-(Pubhshed Weekly) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C-, THURSDAY, July 24, 1952 Price: $2 a Year; 5c Single Copy Ei«ht Pa*es This Week Raleigh Round-up ■ f f / i i l , PLEASE . . . Last morning around 11 Georgia’s Senator IRichard looked up from his desk Headquarters in the Hilton Hotel in Chicago, looking down at him like gangsters who had come their man, were: Senator Byrd, looking rosy amdi freSh as an apple; or Byrnes of South Caro vemor Humman Talmadige gia; Governor Shivrs of ■White of Mississippi; and Morrison of North Caro he explain, please, what what he meant— he wanted the Taft law repealed? SO . . In. the first iplaoe, lichard Russell, squirming a Jhe did not use the term re |He said he had called for a on of the law. Sharp Eastern reporters had left the im Jon that he said repeal: That he work of some “high-pow fboys” from New York and conversation continued. Jerners and others began to Saturday morning that the 111 cause was gone—dead as Ho, extinct as a dinosaur, and [it completely lacking in sub That’s the way they felt. i i LATE . . Our information, red straight from Chicago on lay afternoon,, is that Rus utterances about the Taft ley Law—whatever they were ]mld have been left unsaid, matter of fact, Russell had only slight comment about aw. He certainly felt it should j a new name. And, not only a [toy any other name, etc, but [also it should be revised to extent. hen he saw* the mimeograph [atement which sharp advisors sed, he was a little shocked, |et it ride. You know the ef A lot of folks, who. would - iow the TaftnHartly Law if met it in he middle of the jumped up and down and “Has Russell gone stark, ag mad?” Nothing like that. He was pv Jtasi company—aim -cum in dined to do or say any i to deal in half-truths if ry to win their ipoint. n§MAKT *r. . In their eagedr to secure big city strength, of Russell’s friends were ng to trade a little principle restige. They (began clamor [for the controlled blocks of The statement went out. It ; Russell in the South. It fool not at all. or's leaders remembered i Senator Richard Russell had for the very Taft-Hartley ’ he was now condemning. Had only voted for it, but had vot override President Truman’s of the law. (Russell’s advisors fooling nobody, atanents like this made under *1 pressure have less than palue. Leaders of labor are tough taskmasters. They the records of the Senators [ the Congressmen. Ninly-eight tt is not good enough for *• It’s the whole hog or noth ^abor demands blind, un loyalty. (Russell’s record Senate, with the exception Ms law, has been on the side He * even, to the dis °f many of his Southern ts, went down the line with on the court-packing plan of M7. STEVENSON .... is (being written during the tend; and by the time you read democratic National Con ton will be well along the way adjournment. ' °f last Saturday, reports ved that Adlai Stevenson had pulled into the forefront. It [ a*i over the Conrad Hilton Ho he would release a state saying he was a candidate |™e nomination. The statement exPected on Sunday evening. ^spite *he talk that Presi _ Truman was cooling a little itevenson. and file Democrats have «at they stand little chance _ over Eisenhower un Stevenson is the nominee. °f them, nevertheless, were still clinging to Kefauver. As a whole, though, the Kefauver peo ple have been, the amateurs so far in the days preceding the conven tion. Two or three of the North Car olina met Mrs. Stevenson the other evening on a radio broadcast. They like her husband a lot bet ter. STEVENSON AND SPARK MAN , ..., As of last Saturday, it looked as if Stevenson would be the nominee with Senator John Sparkman of Alabama as the run ning mate. Since Stevenson and Russell are cousins, the Illinois Governor could muster plenty of support in Dixie. Whether this would .be suf ficient to defeat Eisenhower* fti the South was the question in Chi Senator Sparkman is no Bilbo, cago. no Tom Heflin, no Huey Long. He is more like the Bankhead’s of Alabama, Ibut more liberal. Labor In the steel mills of Birmingham like John Sparkman.- — FRIDAY MORNING? Last week end the situation in Chicago was still pretty fluid. Anything could happen. North Carolina folks were ex pecting the convention to end on Friday, July 25. Room rent of one delegate—an average delegate eco nomically, you might say—was costing him nine dollars a day. “I can’t stand much of this. Show me a good candidate for us this fall, and I’ll vote for him in a.hurry and get on home.” MRS. EVERETT . . . Mrs. B. B. Everett of Palmyra, in Halifax County, is a leading Farm Bureau woman She has also worked in 'the headquarters of several candi dates of State political offices. Mrs. Everett knows her way around' in, Democra ! - rh,eV'« She isn’t as young and vigorous as Mrs. Beatrice Cobb, probabjv,. but should make a find Democratic National Committeewcmnn if giv en the job. Governor Scott has said he favors Mrs. O. Max Gard ner. The place has been in Mor ganton a good while. Maybe it should go east. (Continued cn Page 2 •O Six From Orange At 4-H Conclave "Serving m.. Ln> 11 • Citi7'^ through 4-JT is tftc; themeof the tnrouign *-in 1952 State 4-H Oub Week be ing held at State College in Ra leigh during this week. Six Orange County 4-H .mem bers are attending. The purpose of club week is to give inspiration to the 4-tH mem bers and to provide information and training in subject matter, re creaion and leadership to the club delegates in such form that they will be able to carry the inspira tion and training back to their clubs and committees, and there by assist with the (program of 4-H The (program during the week is varied^ and packed full. Denv onstratiohs will 'be presented each morning by 4-H members. Those demonstrations (being given are. (1) “4-H in Action” by Edgecombe Countv; (2) “Citizenship” by (Pams lico County;; (3) “Everyday Cour tesies” by Randolph County ana (4) “(Music Appreciation”. Other demonstrations will be given .each afternoon by the specialists at the college and the 4^1 members will be able to choose the class of his *st special class in recreation ership will be taught for a ted number of 4-Hers. Polly erts will attend this class i Orange County, ichel Thompson from me Del Hill Club will represent age County in the State Dress ue on Thursday 'night ther special activities will be 4_H talent show, the friendship v the special box supper, sthroughthe carpdtol and Gov t’s Mansion, and the Friday t candlelighting ceremony to g to a close a good week, itsy Martin of the Hillsboro or Club will be an usher at Thursday night asserhb y er members attending from e County are: Betty Jane rs, and Louise Graham of land Club and Ann Mclver, ■1 Hill Cldb. ___ Pinuag Tobacco Gets Into Full Swing This Week The long tiring task of taking in tobacco is expected to get into full swing in the county this week. An estimated 50 (percent of the county’s tobacco farmers began the 1952 priming season on a small scale last week, and several barns were reportedly pulled the week "before: . A majority of farmers in the county are expected to be greas ing their slides this week, to be gin the hesitant walk to their to - bacco fields. There they will be gin the back-breaking job of pull ing bottom primings. At the present time indications point to a slight decrease in yield over that of a year ago. Recent “dry spells” have caused tobacco in several sections of the county to button out lower than is common, but there are still hopes of a good crop. It has been reported that tobac co has “really ripened up in the last day or two/1 due to Lack of moisture in the land and hot temp eratures. The-need for rain has been keenly felt in every section of the country, and unless it rains in the next. few.days, the crop is sure to be damaged. “There is a lot of come-cjit in tobacco, though,” see cording, to growers. “A rain in ttfk next few days could put an entirely dif ferent slant on this year’s pros pects.’’ : In general this year’s crop seems to be even with or slightly ahead of last year’s 'but prospects i were looking much better at this ! time last year. - ^ Guilford Man Exonerated Here Of Manslaughter Hillsboro—Judge L. J. Phipps, in ruling no probable cause in Re corder’s Court Monday, complete ly exonerated Henry Arthur Goins, Guilford County man, of a ^large .'of mrnslr'ighter in ] riection witp {Tie death ot a j8 ! year-old Yanceyville man. Sy*l ! t ester .Oln'CI near here on July 12. Patrolman 5\ P. Smith who in vestigated told the court a trailer hooked to Goins’ ear became de tached and swerved into the .path of the dead man. He quoted Goins as saying a cotter pin had been in the coupling unit as a safety measure when he had last looked at it'. Daniel Oakley, guilty of forcible trespass into the home of the Rev. Robert Frazier of West Hillsboro, | was ordered to pay a fine of $25 and costs and stay out of Orange County for three years unter , terms of a suspended 12 months jail sentence. In another action, J. E. Hatton, a Burlington man, was told fol lowing a. long drawn-out hearing to pay 25 percent of his gross monthly earnings to his wife, Mr*. Louise Wright Hatton, to support his^fwo children. He was also found guilty of trespassing on the property of Arthur Wright, his father-in-law. Prayer for judg ment was continued in both cases to insure compliance. Other judgments were as fol lows: Luther Yates, no operators license, $25 and costs; Floyd Byrd, public drunkenness, $10 and costs; Hobert B. Cook, following too close, $10 and costs; James Stan ley, no operators license, $25 and costs; Calvin Waller, speeding, $5 and costs; Roland Bryant Ayers, speeding, $5 and costs; James P. Hunt, speeding, $6 and costs; An drew Arthur Best, speeding, $20 and costs; Clarence David Mor ris, speeding, $5 and i^sts; John Allen •Morrow, speeding, $10 and costs; Paul H. Pounds, reckless driving and no operators license, 60 days on roads; Walter Colon Corner, illegal use of Ted light, costs; R. Llody, speeding, prayer for judgment continued far six months; George Ed McIntosh, improper equipment, $10 and oosts; James Edward Cline, exceeding axle weight lim it, $10 and costs; Henry Rogers, no operators lioense, $25 and costs; James Sidney Stanfield, failing to yield right of way, $10 and costs; George Herman Norman, speed ing, $5 and costs; Gaither Giles Simpson, improper lights, $10 and costs; Anthony J. Katopolis, speeding, $15 and costs. -—o COMMISSIONERS MEETING Hillsboro—The Board of County Commissioners is scheduled to meet here Monday morning to £ive final approval to the tenta tive budget and tax rate for the 1952-63 fiscal year Baptists Plan j Building Sunday Hillsboro - On Sunday after noon July 27, at 5:30 the congrega tion of the First Baptist Church of Hillsboro will formally launch the building of a new Educational wing to their church. The Church will be celebrating its centennial next year. It was organized iNov. 3, 1852. The new education wing will be two stories high and will be mod em in every respect. There will be a department and class rooms fo.r a modem grade and Sunday Schoo.l together with social rooms and kitchen. The architect is B. R, Markley of Durham, and Roy Craw ford will do the brick work, and Currie {Roberts will have personal oversight of the building. The exercises Sunday after noon will consist of songs, scrip ture reading, and prayer by the pastor, Charles E. iMaddry, and brief addresses by the leaders of the various church activities. Mrs. Har^y S. Brown will speak for Woman’s Missionary Society, Mrs. G. C. MeBane for the women of the church, Mr. Fred Blake' chairman of the Building Com mittee will speak for the commit tee. Mr. W. H. Walker will re present the board of'deacons, and Rev. James C. Rittenhouse, Di rector of Young Peoples’ Work, will speak for the youth. ■o Presbyterians Get Notice From Birdseye Hilllboro—Notice was given to the congregation- of the Presby terian Church here this last Sun day of a special meeting of the Congregation to be held on Sun day, July 27, immediately after the service of worship, i The notice stated the reason for the meeting as “taking action on the requst of the tpastor to dis solve.his pastoral relationship wlthrthls church’-’/ The --congrega tion it was said .mayor may not concur with the pastor in his re quest but the final action must be taken by he Presbytery of Orange which will hear both the request of the pastor and the action of the Congregation before makiiv its decision. .. . A meeting of ihe Presbytery has been called for Tuesday, July 29, at 3:00 pm. at the First Pres byterian Church, Burlington. The pastor, Irving E. Birdseye, has received the call of the Chap el Hill Presbyterian Church to be come its Associate Minister. -o ' METHODI8T SPEAKER The (Rev. J. F. -Minnis, returned missionary from India, will be truest speaker Sunday, July 27, at 11 a.m. at the Hillsboro Metho dists church. The Rev. Mr. Minnis is a native of Orange county and brother to Robert C. Minnis Sr. He has been a missionary for 25 years, and af ter he returns to India after this furlough, he will serve 7 years 'He is now building a home on the old homeplace, and will retire there when he returns to the stat Hay Crops Make Up 30 Percent Of Orange Harvest Increases in acreage of tobacco, cotton, and soy beans and decreas es in acreage of com, wheat, oats and all other small grains and hay crops harvested in 1951 over the preceding year were reported in the 1952 County Commissioners Farm Census Summary for Orange County,-i_ The census summary, consisting of information contributed by farmers to the county commis sioners through their farm census supervisors and township listers during January, contains data on Change County farm items such as crops, livestock and population. Information on crops is for ttie year lpSl while livestock and pop ulation items are inventories as of January, 1952. Tobacco was harvested from 5, 101 acreas an increase of about 725 over the 1950 harvest. 175 acres of cotton was harvested over 171 the preceding year. Corn ac reage dropped from 1-3,1 111 in 1950 to 112,866 in 1951, a decrease of 245 acreas. According to the census 213, 196 acreas of land are devoted to Orange County farms. Crops were harvested last year from 41,228 acres. In addition the summary indicated 17,943 acres of idle crop land 10,207 acres of improved pas tureland and 11,827 acres of other pasture. “ About 132,000 acres of Orange county farmland is wooded, home sites or waste, the report shows. Figures representing crop dis tribution listed hay crops as pav ing 30 percent of all harvested crops employed in its behalf. Corn with 29 percent of the acre age was second and tobacco with 12 percent came third and oats and wheat were tied for fourth place with 10 percent each. Other crops took up 9 percent. -Population on Orange County farms increased from 11,849 to 11,927 during 1951 people the cen sus reports. v Commercial fertilizers increas ed from 7282 tons to 8,000 tons in the last year. The number of sows and gilts ^considered from December to (' ■ (Continued on Page 8) , Orange Tobacco Folks Show 99.2 Preference For marketing Quotas Oraage Vets Get $90,000 Moathly In Federal Benefits Hillsboro - Veterans in Orange County received approximately $90,000 in monthly benefits last year. County Service Officer Walter G. Wrenn stated that 1087 Orange County veterans were receiving benefits. New awards for last year reached $$123, 792.00. This does not Include any awards that were made before July 1961 and carried over. Wrenn pointed out that total benefits received by Orange County veterans last year were over $800,000 in valuation. Most of the expenditures went i to veterans for compensations, /pensions, medical treatment, and training. In non-monetary bene fits ,the service officer reported interviewing. field trips and Handling correspondence, (which covers the search for documentary evidence). Arranging hospital ization and out ^patient treatment were the major services afforded by his department. Of the expenditures, training education led the list. There were 325 receiving on the job training and 750 registered for institution al training. Some of these were registered before July 11961 and are not included In this years quotas. The next highest exipend I itures were tor compensations or pensions. There were 350 veterans in the county who received, com pensations or pensions. Other benefits listed included the 350 dependents of deceased servicemen who are now re ceiving aid. , The services rendered by the Veterans Service Officer included receiving 500 letters and sending opt 473 letters concerning veterans, , The officer also had 1000 inter \ views during the year,. Ten French Editors To Visit Connty Tomorrow To Obser ve HD Activities Ten Frenchmen, who are tap level representatives of the Agri cultural Press of France, will be on tour in Orange. County tomor row to observe home demonstra tion activities. Silvain Andre Gorse of Paris is group leader and, wilt be accompanied by two .in terpreters. The purpose of their visit is to study the role of the Home Dem onstration Agent—how they work with farmers and farm families; how they inspire interest and con fidence; how they carry out plans and program? of the extension sea-vice, including home economics and youth activities; their rela tionship with other State and Fed eral programs. So that this information may be received first hand, a tour has 1 been arranged by Mrs. Kathryn H. Hamrick, Home Agent. The tour will include a visit to Schley Grange Hall where Mrs. Charlie Minccy will discuss brief ly the Rural Church Music School and developments in the music program. Ladies of the Little Riv er and Mai's Hill Churches will^be completing robes for their choirs. The tour will continue-lo Oraoge Grove' Church' where the dub members are enthusiasticly furn ishing the Sunday School room for the children. Them to the home of Martha Lloyd to observe Club Market activities and the many convenient features of her home. The Prendhinen will be in North Carolina July 24-July 26th. They arrived in the United States July ] 7th for five weeks of study. They have previously visited US. De partment pf Agriculture, and have been to Illinois, Wisconsin, and Clemson, South Carolina. Their travels will take th«n to Pennsyl vania, New York and Delew are. Over 500 In Orange Area To Receive Higher Benefits From Social Security Under New Law, Says Manager Over 500 people in the Orange County area will receive higher social security payments as a re sult of the social security amend ments which Pro ident Truman signed into law last Friday. The first increased 'hecks will be for the month of September, deliver ed early in October. Mrs. Nina Matthews, manager at the Durham social security of fice, emphasized that no one needs to apply for the increased pay ments. “The Social Security Ad ministration is already changing the amounts,” she pointed out. “We- expect to get then changed in time to have them in the mail October 3, the regular delivery date, tout if in a few cases we don’t meet that schedule we’ll send the regular check and make up the difference in a later check.” Mrs. Matthews pointed out that although nearly every family re ceiving payments would receive an 1 Increase, the additional amount would not always be divided among all the members of the family receiving monthly checks. In some cases the entire Increase will go to the retired; worker. Uuder "the terms of the law, most families will get an increase of about $6.00 monthly; some will get less, some will get more. A most of those payable in the fu few benefits now being paid, and ture, will be based on earnings af ter 1050 instead of after 1036. The amended law provides a new for mula for determining the amount of the payments In these cases. Under it, a retired worker’s mon thly benefit would .be 55 percent of the first $100 of his average monthly earnings plus 15 percent of the remainder up to $300. Beginning September 1, the new larw increased to $75 a month in stead of $50 the amount of money a beneficiary may earn and still receive the monthly benefits. Self-employed people entitled to old-age and survivors insurance benefits may receive the payments for each month of the year if their net earnings during the entire year are not over $900. The amended law contains a provision of special importance to self-employed people who have retired of plan to retire during 1992. Before the passage of the amendments their earnings for the year in which an application was made could not be used to figure their old-age benefit pay ments. Now, those self-employed people who orginally applied for benefits in 1952 may re-apply at the close of the, taxable year and | have their 1952 earnings used in figuring their monthly benefit payments. In general, this will in crease the monthly benefit pay ment to the self-employed per sons. Another amendment allows beneficiaries aged 75 or over al- 1 ready on the rolls to take advan- 1 tage of the higher benefit pay ments provided under the new | formula, if,. they have at least a year and a half of covered work after 1950. > ’ - • i The amended law allows social security wage credits*of $100 for! each month of active military or 1 uaval service after July 24, 1047. j This provision is simply an ex- ji tension of the one which already ] gives social security wage credits J’ to servicemen of .World War II. 1 It applies to service in the armed j forces up to January .1, 1994. J A record number of Orange County farmers stormed to the polls Saturday to express an overwhelming preference that the Federal Government continue marketing quotas for the next three years. . Out of a total of 1,649 county farmers voting in Saturday’s flue cured tobacco referendum, 1,821 voted to continue the present to bacco allotment system far a three-year period. Fourteen farm ers voted to retain the quota sys tem on a one-year basis, and only 14 voted -against marketing quo tas. A. K. McAdams; secretary of the county Production and Mar keting Administration, stated that Saturday’s vote was the largest ever cast in this county during a tobacco referendum. The 99.2 per cent preference for the quota sys tem also represented a new record. _ In general, voting was rather heavy all over the flue-cured to bacco belt. In North Carolina, 181,859 farmers voted for three year extension, 1,612 for one year-extension and 1,761 against any extension. Total votes cast in the six-state referendum showed 249,963 farm ers in favor of a three-year ex tension, 2 582 in favor of one-year extension, and 3,107 against any extension. Approval of marketing quotas •automatically carries with it a government price support program operative through a loan program in which the tobacco is put up as security. The loan on the 1952 crop aver ages 50.6 cents per pound, and if the oncoming flue-cured crop fails to bring that amount at auctions— which began Monday in Georgia and Florida, the grower can make use of the loan price support plan. The amount of the loan is deter mined ,by the Secretary of Agri culture on the basis of supplyaand demand and outlook for the forth coming crop. On the question of the 10c an acre assessment to support the foreign promotion program of To baooo Associates, Inc., 1,610 cast_ ballots favoring the assessment '■ j and 22 were opposed. Voting in the various commun ity polling places in the county was as follows: (First , figure is those favoring three-year exten sion, second figure is those favor ing one year extension and the third figure those who would abandon quotas) Caldwell, 278, 1, 2; Carr, 320, 6,0; Ca rrboro, 59, 0. 0; Efiand, 144 ,3, 0; Hillsboro, 78, 0, 0;. Cedar Grove, 584, 2, 4; Orange Grove, il, 0, 0; New Hope, 43» 0 2; JSt. Mary’s S&, 0, 0; White , Cross, 57. 2, 6. Returns on'the question of con tinuing Tobacoo Associates for an other three years were as follows: (First figure is for, second against) Caldwell, 277, 1; Carr, 320, 6, Carr boro, 59, 0; Efiand, 145, 1; Hills boro, 75, 0; Cedar Grove, 573, 8; Orange Grove, 1, 0; New Hope, 45, 0; St. Mary’s, 59, 0; White Cross, 57, O. —1 ■ '■ /V.— _ State Officer Agrees To Arraage SckNtSanrqr Hillsboro — John L. Cameron, director of the Division of School Planning of the State Department of Education, has advised County Superintendent G. Paul Carr that he will arrange for a committee of experts to survey the school needs of Hillsboro in accordance with a request of the Orange County Board of Eduction at its meeting earlier this month. The board called for the study before proceeding jvith action to obtain new school facilities with the expenditure of $106,000 allot ted to Hillsboro under the bond issue program. The board request ed that a committee composed of men from the State school office, Duke and the University of North Carolina be requested to conduct the proposed survey which would determine whether a high school x elementary school building is most needed and the type of site most suitable. —-o -. IN BEAUTY COMPETITION Chaipei—'Miss Iris Merrit, Chap d Hill’s entry in the North Caro ina ‘tMias America Pageant” it Vinston-Salem, will compete there weekend is the three day *o*nun sponsored by the State