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'Published Weekly Since 1893) HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1953 Price: $2 a Year; Sc Single Copg KIDD BREWER’S tfa/e/q/t flowe/up TO STOP . Since have been full of it two or three days, you ily read that the Leg iy not get away from the latter part of [ature is like a lumber or a rumbling trailer ,at it can’t come to a Fact is, if it started [ay, it would run on ree more weeks, run lewhere around May 1. ient Senate, prodded by ither Hodges, is pretty ith Its business. The behind in its calendar in find itself in session o hours per day, in usual one, and for an hours each evening, le Bost can drive, too, itermined his hands will the short rows by the if next week, also the matter of com tting the bills referred ipective groups cleaned approved, or put to > through tabling. At the committees label Wednesday as “Execu isday”. It promised to two FOR DELAY . . . Why, ^as there been a delay rent ^wbeilr- everybody two weeks ago that iro'uld spell finis to this [ion of the General As oney, or the lack of it, ver. Anticipated income lext biennium—July 1, igh June 30, 1955—is 40 million dollars short Is set up for various in [ departments, and agen eneral Fund. •Mg- funds, rajs blina are the Highway [the General Fund. Vir thing except highway (ce and construction must oney from the General ghway Fund’s dollars gasoline taxes and the ense plates. Main contri the General Fund are ^idual and corporate in and sales taxes. But at least a dozen other uping money into the md. Now the Highway protect itself all right, aoney as it gets it. But ged with setting up ap is and anticipating in |more than two years in are, in reality, dipping iture far as human eye ►nd too often a little fur sat. Itaxes, paid on March 15 )ar, were off about three bllars. Sales tax returns appreciably. Income to is looking downward, the wide disparity be t>ected income and pro [recommendations, made, lature must within the weeks decide on one of rses: 1. Raise taxes. 2. Jpriations. 3. Appropriate to recommendations of lory Budget Commission frnor’s wishes with the that income may some | sufficient to meet ap is, leaving it with the | to cut appropriations if insufficient to meet PRIATE . . . Off-the-rec Irsation among the legis [that the Appropriation will go ahead and full; jte, giving Governor Wil instead about everythin) 1 But here is the situatioi Fre has been much quib 1 it. so let’s face the issue egislature wants to g< ^h the Governor. At thi b, however, it must b< Nd that not one of th< |thereof ran on a platforn ed taxes. We doubt thi will increase taxes can the Governor ge etary requests? In thi: I Legislature can vote th< ^d hope that business wil at it will come in as tin needs it. ROUNDUP, Pag* 2) -■i —Bi——1—WWWWlcWWi68ag8WBWWWa8WW—WimiiiLMWHllllUUlWWWwwBWWWwoaUUi—— ; Mrs. Charlotte Cole, Hillsboro’s town clerk, portrays above one of the roles m the forthcoming “Ole Time Minstrels of 1953” to be presented here next week by the Hillsboro Exchange Club. Exchange Club Minstrel Show April 17-18 Hillsboro — The Hillsboro Ex change Club will present “Ole Time Minstrels of 1953” Friday and Saturday nights, April 17th and A8th at the Hillsboro High School, auditorium. The show will begin at 8 p.m. Marion Allison will be interlo cutor for the show. Endmen will be Leonard. Rosemand, Clarence Mangum, Curtis Brown, James Chestnut, George Teer, and Jim Norris. Other features will include a father-son tap dance team com posed oL Jim Norris and his son, Perry and a chorus of about fifty voices. Soloist will be Myrna How erton, T V star, Richard Armfield, Paul Goodwin, Betty June Hayes, and Mrs. Foy Cole. The show following the lines of old fashioned minstrel shows will be directed by Max Morris of Bur lington. Morris has had 30 years experience directing minstrels. Mrs. Helen Fowler Ritch of Bur lington who has also had wide and varied experience in putting on minstrels will be musical director. Advance tickets are on sale at James Pharmacy The Corner Drug Store, and Hillsboro Sundry. Re served seats are $1. and ot er tickets are 78c for adults and 35c for children. Tobacco Row Demonstration Set Tuesday llsboro—A demonstration on ing tobacco rows by tne ng method” will be held on. farm of “Bo” Wells, Tuesday, 1 14, 1:30 p.m. 1 iis demonstration was planned \Dril 7 but was rained out. tPhese string-row-method dem rations rows are run between ices so that each row acts as tie terrace in taking the wa terrace, or other out-let ms s good drainage, and at tne e time the water flows suf -ntly slow that it . * imum amount of soil off the agricultural agencies of the 6 __n«ttin0 on agricuiuiiai - . , are assisting in putting on ( •monstration. $ r School Board Defers Official Appointments Hillsboro—The Board of Educa tion deferred until a later meet ing the formality of naming Super intendent G. Paul Carr to his post for another two year term. The election of the superinten dent has been scheduled for Tues day’s meeting, but advice was re ceived that the election of a super intendent and committeemen leg ally could not be held until passage of the school Omnibus Bill by the General Assembly. The board agreed to meet in special session the Monday night following the passage of the Omnibus Bill at 7:30 o’clock. The board approved offering the White Oak School to B. C. Corbitt for $1,500.00. If he declines, the county attorney is to re-advertise this property for sale. A delegation from the Efland Negro School composed of Walter McDade and H. L. Green appeared before the board. Walter McDade was spokesman. They repeated the request that the 8th grade be transferred from Central back to the Efland Negro School for next year. Considerable discussion fol lowed. The secretary was directed to secure all available information regarding the teacher allotment to the Efland Negro School in case such a transfer should take place, and to report this, informa tion at the next meeting of the board. The recommendations adopted by the county-wide meeting of committeemen on March 10 were presented to the board. There was considerable discussion but action was deferred until the next meet ing. The board expressed the de sire to be guided by the wishes of the local boards in making changes. The secretary reported that the budget for fuel had been overspent and that the budget for power was about spent. Both items will need to be increased next year. The secretary reported that the number of supplementary readers had doubled in the past two years and that the number of library books had increased 3908, or 20% during the same period. Dog Warden To Hold Rabies Clinics; ftoard Trims Fees Sinking Fund Ab6w Sunk County's Costliest Venture In Financing Is Nearing End Hillsboro—Orange County’s cost liest lesson in public financing has just been completed and only a few minor transactions yet re main to wrap up the entire trans action. The Board of County Commis sioners this week continued the ap pointment of S. A. Johnson as trustee of the Highway Improve ment Bonds Sinking Fund to pay off the few remaining bonds still outstanding. The proposition started back in 1913 when the county issued $244, 000 in highway improvement bonds to pay an annual interest rate of five percent and mature 40 years later—on April 1, 1953. Since their issuance, the county has been mak ing annual installments to a Sink ing Fund, which were subsequent ly invested, for the purpose of meeting this obligation when it became due. Mr. Johnson, who has been trus tee of the fund for many years, told the Commissioners Monday that all the bonds except just a few, all with consecutive serial numbers, had been returned by the owners to him and been paid off. Since they no longer draw interest since April 1 he expects those to be in very shortly. What have these bonds cast the citizens of Orange County? A lit tle quick multiplication shows the county has paid in interest over the past 40 years exactly double the amount of the original princi pal, or $488,qog,, Tbps for ^yerv dollar the oouoty sorrowed bauk in 1913 it paid back three. To the credit of the Fund’s trustees throughout the years, it may be said that no money has ever been lost in investments of the funds except a few U.S. Gov ernment bonds which had to be sold, through no fault of the trus tee, at less than par a few weeks ago. Prior to the passage of the Local Government Act about 1927, the trustee had sole discretion in the investment of the funds en trusted to him. Since that time, however, the type of investments have been specified by the Local Government Commission. E How much money has been made on investments during the 40 year period? No one can say. Such' funds have gone into the regular county income channels during the Fears and the county has no fiscal records of \tny consequence prior to 1929. Mr. Johnson says he will have about $2,000 left over when all the bonds still outstanding are paid off. Tuesday he told the Comm is Uinstead Discusses Milk And Egg Control Bills, Appropriations Affecting Farms By John W. Umsteed Representative, General Assembly The past week has seen much legislation considered in which the people of Orange County should be interested. We have had the Milk Control Bill, the Egg Control Bill and the bill that has to do with the feed ing of taw garbage to hogs. This feeding of raw garbage has caused the outbreak of a disease that at one time was mo$t serious. It looked like it would result in the quarantine of all the hog markets in the state. The swine industry amounts to more than sixty mil lion dollars a year to the farmers of the state in so far as the com mercial problem was concerned. In addition there.was the problem of the home supply of pork and its by-products. Immediately after the question was presented to the legislature there was a bill for an emergency appropriation to take care of the present situation as well as a to take care of the problem dur i ing the next biennium. Due to the ! quick work of the state veterinary | department it seems that we have the present situation under control | but we must take steps to see that this emergency situation does not [ occur again and I am sure that the legislature will make the nec essary appropriations to take care of this problem should it arise again. The egg control measure aroused so much opposition that this bill was killed in committee after a public hearing. The bill was pre sented for a two-fold purpose. In the first place it was intended to protect the public from buying eggs that were without label as to their freshness. In the past the purchasers of eggs were not pro tected. Under this bill all eggs would have to carry a label for their protection. In the second place this bill was intended, to pro mote the home production of more of the eggs that our people buy during each year. It is a well known fact that North Carolina im ports each year millions of dozen eggs produced outside the state. It was thought that this bill would promote the expansion of egg pro duction in the state and thus give our people the opportunity to buy fresh home produced eggs. It is to be hoped that during the next two years our citizens will give this question some thought to the end that we may have legislation that will give us fresh eggs produced at home. The milk control bill is still be fore the senate knd it is the desire of those who have given this bill due consideration that it will be enacted into law. The dairy in dustry has grown by leaps and bounds during the past ten years. This expansion means that thou sands of North Carolinians have been provided with fresh home produced milk. Despite this in crease in home produced milk we still have thousands of gallons of milk shipped into the state. Some of this milk can be classed as grade A milk while most of it is definitely not of this class. The (Continued on page 5) fiioners he would propose it to be used for a party for all hands, if he were not afraid it would send them all to jail. Sounds like a good idea anyway—the party part, that is. ■ ----T" Steel Begins Arriving For Building Courthouse Hillsboro—Long awaited ac tion toward beginning construc tion of the new Orange County courthouse is expected within the next day or so. One carload of steel has been delivered to the site and an other had arrivefl at the railroad station Tuesday. — Contrane and Graham, the High Point construction firm which has the general contract, advised it as their understand ing that once the Bristol Steel Company started fabricating the steel for this job it would con tinue until it was completed. The company advised it was or dering out a carload of cement In preparation for starting brick work as soon as possible. S. F. Pugh of near Greens boro is foreman on the job and took over the supervision of the local operation this week. <9 Bloodmobile Appointments Still Sought The Reel Cross Bloodmobile will be in Hillsboro on April 14 to col lect blood to be used for the Kor ean wounded and polio victims. The goal for the blood program has ben set at 20 pints, and per sons wishing to donate blood are requested to phone 3262 for ap pointments. Mrs/H. W. Moore iS serving as Chairman of nurses, Mrs. C. D. Knight, chairman of registrars, and Mrs. Mildred Keiinedy as Canteen Chairman. Ungrounded fears have kept many persons from giving blood in other campaigns and therefore Hillsboro has never me'; the 200 pint goal. All necessary precau tions for the donor’s safety are taken and if for any reason the nurses feel that it would harm the donor in any way to give blood, his blood will not be taken. * Any person from 21 through 59 who’s in good health and weighs 110 pounds or more may give blood. Persons from 18, through 20 may give blood provided they have parental consentv No person is allowed to give blood more often than once in a period of 8 weeks or five times a year. Mrs. George Gilmore, chairman of the local blood drive, has urg ed that donors be cautioned against eating heavy, fatty foods for a per iod of 4 hours before giving blood. Such foods require a greater than usual amount of blood for diges tion and donating blood | at such time can upset the body’s balance of blood distribution, and blood taken from such donors is difficult to process for use. ' County1* Now Dog Pound Is Completed - Hillsboro—Orange County's new dog control program, which came into being with the passage of a special legislative act several weeks ago, will move into high gear next Wednesday, April 19 with the beginning of the annual campaign to vaccinate all dogs against rabies prior to June 1. The Board of County Commis sioners set a fee of 50c per dog innoculation for the current year and recommended that the district health officer, Dr. O. D. Garvin, appoint Dog Warden R. Hume Claytor and all licensed veterinar ians serving Orange County resi dents as Rabies Inspectors to car ry out the anti-rabies campaign. Heretofore, the charge was $1. A schedule of vaccination clinics will be held by Claytor each day from April 15 until June 1 in every section of the county. This schedule may be found on another page of this newspaper. Meanwhile, it was anounced that the new County Dog Pound locat ed on the county school garage lot is being completed and is ready for occupancy this week. In his announcement of ., the persons knowing of stray or unde sirable dogs report them or bring them to the dog warden at any of ; the vaccination clinics for his dis position in accordance with the new law. State law requires all dog own ers to have their dogs vaccinated each year during the period April 1 to June 1 and provides penalties lor those who fail to comply. Both members of the Boar<| of County Comml.'loners |nd tb/.idag maiden urged all citizens to cooperate in this control program designed for the benefit and protection of all. In accordance with the commis sioners’ action last Tuesday, it is expected that Claytor will carry the major share of responsibility for the vaccination program. Persons who desire their dogs vaccinated by a veterinarian, however, may still continue to do so during the period provided by law since all licensed vets are being designated as rabies inspectors. Commissioners Name Ira Ward For New Term Hillsboro—The Board of County Commissioners Tuesday reappoint ed Ira Ward as county accountant for a two year term and approved a tentative budget for the opera ■ tion of the Aid to the Blind pro : gram in this county for the next fiscal year. Ward’s was the only appointment | coming before the commissioners at this time. He had previously I visor in December along with other county appointive officers but the terms of the two offices do not coincide. The tentative budget called for expenditures of $2,049 on the part ' of the county, an increase of $72.50 from last year. Of the total $12,750 budget $8,874 will come from the Federal government and $1,827 from the State. Arthur Crabtree Is Only New Candidate For Hillsboro Board Hillsboro—The mayor and all in cumbent members of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Hillsboro have filed for reelection, except one. Dr. H. W. Moore. I The period for filing for can didates in the municipal election of May 5 closed at noon Monday. The lone candidate other than the incumbents filing is Arthur Ills Crabtree. v Mayor Ben Johnston will be seeking his 11th consecutive term, having served continuously since . Commissioner V. M. Forrest has served continuously since except for a period durtag war when he was in service. Commissioner W. M. Chance has served intermittently since 1983.
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