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orange county 59 No. 34 • i. bmivm result t>uy, rant or got • the etnsified ad* on pas* r j?*' __ , ^. r «J|f||||||l 4 prang* County can ttKh the new* from all ■ounty oy reading THE (Published Weekly) ■■■■" ■ Your Home Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 1893 THE NEWS of Orang* County HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, August 21 I952 Price: $s a Year; 5c Single Copy r.- • Eight Page* This Week i f li %/UE/GH Round-up r V.V " f ’ -,ffS8e*v? "> *. * V ; , • 'J ■ :? - L VriOIN . . . Have takers of the State High Lmission been using their feces for real estate profit ■rts persist some of them [purchased land -through I highways were later built, is so, then we are pretty [ragging -bottom in North a. officialdom. Naturally, L commissioners are the , know where and when ads will be built and where will be straightened and Lise improved. V be surprised if the 1953 rture proibes pretty deeply • matter. A thorough inves i is being planned, le commissioners have used [office for private gain, they. ]od example in so doing. Ra CoUmnist Lynn Nidbet said hek that Kerr Scott has t land where new highways „oing before the general \ knew about the proposed TOO? . . . Chapel Hill for its sandy sidewalks, aint beauty, and its dogs, ors in one (particular see the University town have nplainrng about the noc I rousements being put on by Bin group of cocker spaniels, happen to be the property gan Wilson, academic vice of the University of [ Carolina. ! last Saturday, it looked as an might become the new |ent of the University of Neighbors in Chapel Hill he gets the job, for they like nd want to see him advance. | also want him .to take the vith him. Chances are they want to go, for Chapel Hill nearest thing to dog heav es side of Valhalla. ig TIER JOHN . . . We keep reports from here and about the State that John iad of Chapel Hill, older >r of William and a legisla eteran, is setting the stage running Gover Umstead’s Legislature—'particularly as is the House. was recently .with Democrat (iunee-Bfll-af Nags Head, and other occasion, at Morehead That was enough to set the ailing. have it straight, and believe teat Brother John does Concord’s Gene Bost to i neTxt Speaker otf the House. ■r John is said to be doing can to build up Guilford tys Tommy Turner. • • • Plans may be ?pln,g here to block Gover thal ^TOtt's detenfilnation tc :7^nnTamance Purity gets 0.000 surplus * expected tc accumulated by the end oi r5®1 year, or next June 30 an^J Since ^tt f^ed Dave star'w * has been calling the y tunes pretty well, the i ,*al "uret have the ap on the State Highway Com JJ’* be ^bat injunction prt result in the enth •iSE?* ensnar‘led j «» «• i an lawyers somehow 1 ^®*tent that it will be kick ^ until the General As v- es to town in Januar; January is better tha months away, and that’s run. lon_£e °PP°sing this latei ZT* of Scott can dela ^gment untU the legisla LY® town> they feel the free‘ Couid be, ft Power 1 lo*. ^^wnoniously out th y sca>fINS ‘ * • Aithoi ^av6nJent °f the State bla st jL8t the Governor for t m*®* lneD^ inbreedi J^tam counties apparei e th: 0rst- Wlth most of 1 Political bait S? *S** and ht ** the Primary. With se eral of the mountain counties, the real fight doesn’t come until No vember 4 when they take on the Republicans. It isn’t going to be easy this year. First it was Charles Britt ignoring advice from the various county boards of elections. . The worst thing, up until last week, was the Greensboro Daily News revelation that, percentage7 wise ,more roads have been built in Kerr Scott’s Haw River neigh borhood than anywhere else in the State. The Republicans have had photostatic copies of the news paper article and pictures and are broadcasting throughout the hill country where the vote is close. Now comes the $750,000 item of homemongering. Bitter as gall and wormwood is it to many a good Democrat in Western North Caro lina. Well . . . slightly residential: SAVED PROGtRAM . . •►'Going into the mountains in the spring of 1949, the $225,000,000 road and school bond vote which to put Scott in the category with good Governors was defeated But when the mountains took over, there was no stopping them. In some of mountain counties, the vote was ten to one in favor of the Good Schools and Roads Program. If memory serves cor rectly—as it seldom does—II of these counties saved the day, and to them must go a major portion of he credit for the victory. They could have swung it either way. (Continued on Page 2 ---o_ Exchange Club Receives Award At State Conclave The" -Hillsboro Efxchan|ge Club was awarded second place trophy for the most outstanding projects in the state at the recent State Exchange Club Convention. The first place award went to the Saxapahaw Club for a $20. 000 Medical Clinic constructed during the past year. The project which brought the local club this honor was the erec tion of the fence around the. High School Athletic Field plus a large number of small projects. Frank Ray, past president of the local club, was elected to the State Board' of Control during the business session of the Conven tion. Hospital Opening Chapel Hill—A .new era in the history of the University and Orange County will being on Tuesday, September 2. That’s the day when the first patients will be admitted to the University’s 400-toed Teaching Hospital which has just been com pleted. It will be an informal opening and no ceremony is planned. Formal dedication ceremonies, are to be held late this fall or not later than next spring. The original schedule tentative ly called for the formal opening and dedication on October 9-10. But these plans were cancelled because several of the speakers invited were not available then and because landscaping and park ing areas will not toe completed by that time. In preparation for the first pa tients the stafif' will begin a week’s orientation program on August 25. Notification of the opening date and other information relating to the hospital, including members of he staff and rates, has been sent to all physicians in North Carolina by Dean W. Reece Ber ryhill of the School of Medicine, and Dr. Robert R. Cadmus, Dir ector -of the Hospital. The letter said that later on “we anticipate an impressive dedica tion ceremony at which time there will be special programs lor physicians in North Carolina as well as a formal opportunity to see the completely and fully equipped institution.” Meanwhile, the physicians were cordially invited to visit and in spect the Hospital at any time. Provided for in appropriations by the 1947 and .1949 Legislatures, the building has been under con struction for three years. The total cost has been approx imately $5,000,000. To be *exact, thv: build','* l**ed a’ 9&8 and the equipment at $830, 000. _Oh recommendation of the Uni versity Administration, the Trust ees have named the touilding the North Carolina Memorial Hos pital. It is to be a memorial “to those (Continued on Page 2 -o . CARRBORO MAN ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED RAPE Carrboro—A 28-year-old Carr iboro white man has been charged with assault with intent to com mit rape on a 14-year-old Negro girl who he had hired. as. a batoy sitter. [ , Jack Lloyd Was accused earlier this week of making advances to Shirley Reavis after he had gone to her home in his car and picked her up.’ Homecoming New Hope Sunday The congregation of lf4 year old New Hope Presbyterian Church, located between Chapel Hill and Hillsboro, will observe Homecoming Sunday, August 24th with all day services, according to the Rev. John E. Ensign, minister of the Church. The Homecoming celebration will begin at 11 o’clock with a former pastor, Dr. S. W. DuBose of Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia, delivering the morning sermon. The Rev. Carl B. Craig, of Jacksonville and a son of the Church, will deliver the afternoon1 sermon at 2 o’clock on the subject of “Building a New Church, miss Peggy Strayhorn daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Strayhorn, will be soloist for the occasion, T«. “Dinner on the grounds” will be served immediately following the morning service. All friends of the church are invited to attend. — fl .. ■ ■ Maurice Julian Pays $5*000 Fine For Tax Evasion Maurice S. Julian, -Chapel Hill merchant, Monday paid the $6,000 fine imposed on him for income tax evasion in a Rule Day session of District Court Friday. Personnel in the office of clerk of Middle District Court said Julian appeared in person to pre sent a cheek covering the fine. A plea of no contest was enter ed before Judge Johnson J. Hayes on Friday. Judge Hayes sentenced the businessman to one year in j prison, but ordered the term sus pended if Julian paid the fine within 30 days. Now that the fine is paid, Julian will be on probation for three years. | A grand jury in Z .‘Cfcingham brought the original charges on March 2. Julian was charged with failing to file a tax return for 1948 and with making false returns for 1949 and 1950. Internal Revenue Department agents “said the mer chant reported income of $4,938.12 and' $4,936.55 for the two latter years. His actual earnings were alleged to be $24,277.56 for 1948, $18,091.61 for 1949, and $19,154.37 for 1950. Taxes and penalities for all four years amounted to $23,141.96. Had Julian paid the tax on tirpe, it would have totaled only $14,189.71, agents said. . ~y.: •; , • - The Chaipei Hill merchant paid both the tax and the penalty be fore he was sentenced last Friday. The revenue department received $15,000 from him on June 2 and the rest last week. Plan Pageant, As Bi-centennial Negro Mother Is Acquitted On Murder Charge Here Hillsboro—The Superior Court whittled away this week at one of the heaviest dockets in Orange County’s long history, well over 100 cases, and appeared yester day to be making steady progress. Judge William I. Halstead, a special Superior Court judge, is presiding with Solicitor William B. Murdock prosecuting. In one of two capital cases on the doekett, Mattie Lee Whitley, young Negro mother of the Dod son’s Cross Roads section, yester day was found not guilty of mur dering her husfband about a year ago in a directed verdl&t by Judge Halstead. At the close of the State’s case, a motion for non suit by the defense was allowed. State’s testimony tended to show that the girl fired in self defense. Heaviest sentence during the first two days of the session went to Thomas John Johnston for breaking into Long Meadow Farms plant and stealing $408. He •-o Grand Jury Finds ‘Clever’ Officials Ready To Help Hillsboro — It was “right smart of a compliment” the. Grand Jury paid Orange County officials this week for some sort of cooperation which enabled1 it to wind .up its affairs in a matter of hours. Said the jury in its report filed Monday afternoon: “All county officials have been more than clever and cooperative in helping the Grand Jury in the performance of its duties. The Solicitor and tifc> Jwdge .by thetr kindness and cooperation have en abled the Grand Jury to dispense its duties in short order.” Otherwise, the report was large ly routine insofar as it pertained to the inspection of county facili ties. A true bill of indictment was returned in a ^capital case in which a Chapel Hill Negro, Ru dolph Cotton, was charged with carnal knowledge of Josephine Farrington, a* female under 12 years of age. One half of the grand jury was sworn in at this term and Leroy Hall took the oath as foreman. Other new jurors for a siy months term were: John Lee Riley, How ard M. iPendergraph, Julian S Gill, B. F. Pollard, Worth Haith cock, James C. Marshall, Qieste' Gates and Calvin Y. Squires. was sentenced to three to four years on the roads. One of the oldest cases on. the docket, continued for six or eight terms of court, a drunken driv ing charge against Jesse Lee Jon es, finally got to the }ury and a not guilty verdict was the result. __ Willie G. Atwater, .also facing a drunken driving court drew the standard $100 fine and costs; while John H. Williams was fin ed $200 and costs on two cases of driving after bis license had been revoked. Golden Hearten and Floyd Head en, following presentation of the case for the State, pled guilty to illegal possession of whiskey, and were each given six months sen tences suspended on payment of $50 fine and comply with proba tion terms for * two years. Jack Roberson, upon on appeal of two cases of public drunkenness, got two consecutive 30 day jail sen tences. On seven charges of breaking and entering, Morris Lee Harris from Alamance County was sen tenced to two to three years on the roads, to be served at the con clusion of a term he Is now serv ing. Robert Williams was direct ed to pay a fine of $25 and. costs on an appeal from a public drunk enness count and Thomas C. Mc Laurin drew a one year sentence suspended on a forgery charge. Six defendants who had failed to list taxes, but who had all sub sequently paid them after war rants had been drawn, were or dered to pay the costs of court for which the county might be li able. They were Walter Carroll, James A. Wade, C. T. Lashley Sr., Eddie Jones, W. C. Best, and lloyd sidwa rdis. lommy Clark, another tax evader Who had not listed for seven years, was order ed to pay $3 for each year, the regular $2 .poll tax and $1 per year penalty, plus the costs of court. Pete Farrington,* the eighth man facing this charge, failed to appear for trial. , William B. Lassister was charg ed in two cases with driving with out an. operator’s license and fin ed $25 and costs in each. Willie Jenkins pled guilty to assaulting Ingram with a deadly weapon and received a sentence °f 18 months to two years .sus pended on payment of the costs, including $300 to Ingram for Lin coln Hospital bills. Thirteen cases were continued or the term at the beginning of he session Monday. I Rural Progress Report Ao- 4 ifVA Hf'r-C Tenant Fanners To Earn More, Achieve Greater Stability With Leas Program The Farmers Home Administra tion is cooperating with other ag ricultural agencies, farm groups, civic groups, religious organiza tions and farm men and women in sponsoring the rural progress pro gram in Orange Coupty One of the goals is to increase farm in come by $1,000 per family sized farm in 1952. _The Farmers Home Administra tion Supervisor in working with FTHA families urged them to par ticipate in the rural progress pro gram. The ways of increasing farm, income was discussed with the families. It was pointed out to them that approximately 88 per cent of their farm income last year was from crops and about 86 per cent was from tobacco alone. Since tobacco is under acreage controls, it was readily seen that if they were going to improve their farm economy, they must seek other sources of farm income. It has been definitely proven that combination livestock and crop farming is sound agriculture, and is safer than crop farming alone. Available resources show ed that livestock could be added to the present farm set-up of prac tically every farm in the area. Therefore a livestock enterpns was suggested as a means of in creasing the income on mosto* the farms in the county. The FHA worked out plans with all of ds present borrowers and provided the funds when necessary to es tablish an enterprise which would increase the income of its “nul-, Les Mitchell Burnett, Rt. 1, hi through the FH1A this year, land, farm ownership borrower, purchased four beef heifers of good type and quality as founda tion stock for a beef herd. Others added hogs, dairy cattle, sheep or poultry as additional income. In order to assist farmers in carrying on a successful farming operation and to make needed ad justments, operating loans were made available by the Farmers Home Administration to help eli gible operators of family-type farms get ahead through better ... • farming. I These loins are based on farm ! and home plans developed with each family to provide for the best use of land, labor, livestock and equipment. To help (borrowers carry out their .plans and increase their earnings, the supervisor makes farm visits, as necessary, to advise and assist them in mak ing planned adjutments in their fanning operations and in adopt ing improved farm and home prac tices. A number of Orange Coun ty farmers applied for assistance John Henry Van Hook, Willie Day and Eugene Long tenants on fhe Banks Wilson farm of Rt. 1, Cedar Grove were three farmers who applied this year and were eligible for a loan. They added hog enterprises to increase their income. Mr. Wilson wanted to work out a program on his farm which would make his tenants more stable. After discussing this matter with the County Agent, it was decided to work out a pro gram which included livestock as well as tobacco for the tenants. The landlord agreed to furnish the pasture and fencing and the ten John Henry Van Hook look* over hts sow — Farmers’ Home Administration. , l'"'; ants to furnish their hogs. So this past fall permanent pastures were seeded on each of the three farms and the fencing was erected this past spring. Then the tenants step came next, they were to fur nish their animals and will re ceive all the income from them. The F!H1A Supervisor was con tacted to see if a loan could be arranged for a program of this kind to purchase the necessary breeding stock. Farm and home plans were worked out with each of the tenant farmers on the Wil son farm and funds were made available. | John Henry2 Van Hook purchas- 1 ©d four bred gilts of good type 1 which he put on the farm acres 1 of ladino clover and orchard grass pasture provided for him. Each of the gilts have now far rowed. He has 31 young pigs ! which- he plans to grow out to \ market weight on feed produced E last year. He will kill four of . these for his home meat supply and plans to sell the other 27 on the local market. Van Hook plans \ *or his sows to farrow another litter this fall which he will grow out and sell next spring Most of the feed used for growing’out the pigs is grown on the -farm Willie Day and Eugene Long the other tenants on the farm are following the same program. At present there are 42 farm families in Orange County receiv ing assistance through operating loans and have added various en terprises to improve their farm | economy. , The steering committee named by the Board of County Commis sioners to plan a program for the observance of Orange County’s 200th Anniversary has tentative ly set October 15 as the day for the event. Bough plans for the bicenten nial observance were drafted at a meeting of the committee during the past week but many details still have to be worked out, ac cording to Chairman L. J. Phipps. (Main features of the tentative plan are a public speaking, if pos sible in connection with the corn erstone laying of the new court house, an historical pageant de picting outstanding phases of the county’s early' history, including the founding of the University, exhibits in the oldcourthouse and tours .of other historic sites in the vicinity. 7T The entire observance will be wrapped up in a one-day affair. The program would begin, ac cording to the tentative plan, in the morning with the public speaking and cornerstone laying. People of not only this county but also of >tbe area comprising the original grant would be invited to bring picnic lunches. A guide would be prepared showing the historic sites and an effort would be made to have many of these open for ^visitors. In the afternoon the historical pageant, with as many schools as possible participating in the prep aration of different scenes, would be held. Possible site for the pageant will be the Occonneechee Race Track plant a mile East of Hills jboro and the event may be held in evening if lighting can be ar ranged. The tentative program will be presented to the Board of Com missioners probably on September 2. No decision has yet been made as to a possible budget or a coun ty appropriation for the observ ance. ,..r - if ,.r*. R. B. Studebaker of Carrfboro has been named a member of the steering committee replacing an original appointee, Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant, who was unable to serve. Other members in addition to the chairman, Phipps, are S. Strudwick and Edwin M. Lynch of Hillsboro, Hugh Lefler of Chap el Hill, Clem Cheek of Orange Orove, Mrs. Mack Paul Efland Jr. of Efland, Mrs. Robert Earl Hugh es of .Cedar Grove, and Mrs. Clyde Roberts of St. Mary’s community. —-o Donald Stanford New President Of Connty YDC Hillsboro—Donald M. Stanford' of White Cross was elected presi dent by acclamation as the Orange County Young Democrats Club1 met here Monday night at the courthouse to prepare for the State Convention and ' the Fall campaign. Stanford who had previously served as vice-president succeed ed James R. Parlow, Chapel Kill attorney. Named on the siate with Stan ford were Judge William Steward of Chapel Hill, first vice presi dent, Mrs. Mary Susan Robertson Gattis, Hillsboro, second vice president, and James Cheshire Jr., i Dfland, secretary and treasurer. The club made plans for a large delegation to attend the State Convention in Greensboro, Sept ember 4-5-6 and to vote as a unit j -i there after a caucus of those in ’ attendance. All Orange County members attending will be offi cial delegates. The club took preliminary ac tion also to plan a rally for the Fall campaign and directed the president to contact Gubernator ial Nominee William B. Umstead as a possible speaker. o EXCHANGE CLUB SOFTBALL DINNER The Hillsboro Exchange ChJ» will sponsor The Annual Softball dinner Thursday night August W*th at 7 pjn. High School will be he site of this affair that honors he winning softball teams in both he boys and girls league. Awards wll also be prresened to the boy ind girl showing most outstand ing sportsmanship during l« -Vi-~ it*y- A program is being < ind will feature an mn 'Peaker. Tickets to cover ,the * the meal are now on “ everyone is invited.
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