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(Published Weekly Since HILLSBORO AND CHARRL HILL. N. C, THURSDAY JULY 9 1953 bis Eons, Nobody knows better William B. Umstead the administration will g the next two years _js meet with appropria ted by the 1953 General right in line, and a little with what the State ex take in from this past _ jugh June 30, 1955. (he past ten days he has least three steps designed income high and to cur bing. He has sent word that departments should sharp eye on money it for publicity writers, bulletins, etc. and led for an examination -State trips taken by vari te employees. "These long imetimes -to the West into real money. Since must, in advance, be ap the Budget Bureau, iltrane can be of real as keeping the budget As for publications, the waste paper containers local post office now and id you will find thrown various State news magazines, intally, the best, most read most helpful publica ling out from State depart - Raleigh come from: the hway. Department, Dept, ir Vehicles, and the State if Health in about that or le highway folks’ Girl Fri ■garet Burke is definitely ball as are Bill Crowell t vehicles and that old by in [and I in I Willie Richardson, with the [people. ''f:-~~ 1 , [third step taken by the or to keep money up with was the reappointment nc Shaw as head of the D^fertment.*Too**shy liuch above a whisper, Shaw vertheless, one of the top revenue commissioners in hole country and is so ri led. If the taxes are out thbr 1 get them. Look for one 9rtwo other very soon jibw to check ng W ABOUT JESSE? In our Jesse Helms, young fellow | got his first journalistic ng under the late Roland ey in his hometown of Mon near the top of ,11st in on administrative ass is - A double for Ichabod Crane effervescent as fizz water, had the late Senator M colum running in more 1150 North Carolina papers as ne 15. The Smith-Hoey week |dio discussions were on 67 nediately before going to ngton, Helms was on Raleigh Ion W'RAL with two .news pro a day. He Was also program Stor for the station. Since his at Monroe and, later, at Forest, When he stayed in & much of the time check* broofs for the News and Ob T Jesse has been in news and radio work. A ball ol jif there ever was one, he was ge of most of those radio tions which dinned into *ars the virtues of Willis during that campaign of his two years in Washington, e Helms has made friends *«Mtors and representatives the lot mostly in right 1 °f course so he can stay up * if he wishes but here's hop e continues1 as an assistant °rth Carolina’s junior senator, we fellow who kept the ball rg while Gov, Umstead has P Marching for an appointee [ the Senatorial vacancy. ®HRDterm: Immediately after . !atl* of Willis Smith, when Sa'frkins’ name was first put ,ri , ** a worthy successor, our L93»ri^Cd bSCk to late winter to to a winter evening in Martin’s basement on Fair sia-T’ no man had ever been ‘e th °f tbe ^nited States for „ jT?® two consecutive terms, o been fixed so that no ee ttoVNDUP, Page 2 Board Denies Parent Request On Attendance Hillsboro - The Orange County Board of Education this Week re fused to approve the request of a number of parents of the Mur phy School district that their children be allowed to attend the Hillsboro School. In their petition these parents had alleged the facilities at Murphy were inferior to those at Hillsboro. The Board issued the following statement in this matter: “The Board finds, after careful investi gation, that the facilities at Hills boro School will not permit us to admit any additional children from Murphy or any other school for the year 1953-54. "Plans are being developed by the Board to collaborate with the people served by the Murphy school to decide the most feasible solution to ttyis problem. In other actions, the school board heard an explanation of the advantages of school insurance by private firms by A. H. A. Williams II of Service Insurance and Realty Com pany, speaking for all the private insurers in the county, and then voted to hear, the case for the State Insurance plan from Direc tor Thomas B. Winbome of the Division of Insurance of the State Department of Education at an early meeting. Orange County for the past few years has carried its insurance with the State spon sored program. Announcement was made of the sale of the abandoned Harmony School property to Elijah Poole for $375. Mt. Bolus Folk File Petition Against Stand Residents of the Mt. Bolus de velopment off the Airport Road just North _ of Chapel Hill have petitioned the Board of County Commissioners in opposition to the granting of licenses for the operation of “what they under stand is a proposed combination sandwich and beer stand” at the entrance to their development on Airport Road. » * V. J. IVfoody was mentioned as the prospective operator of the establishment in a . discarded bus body which the petitioners allege would “create an unhealthy atjno sphere and environment for our children.” % The petitioners alleged that the operation would, inevitably result in'a nuisance by noise and trash which would be next to impossible to prevent, that its presence would constitute an eyesore and would result in decreased valuation of homes 4nd loss of revenue to the county and to the owners. ' -The Commissioners, denying that the matter was within their jurisdiction, declined to act on the petition. CHURCH SALE Carr boro - ^The new Methodist Church in CarrMro is nearing completion and the old church property is to be sold ht auction on Friday of 1jjiis,week. The property is located on Carr boro.’s Main Street near the heart of the village. The ladies of the church . will conduct a Bake Sale during the sale of the property, and will sell home cooked foods on Saturday afternoon and even ing from the Church Hut. Proceeds will go to buy a new carpet for the new church. The sale of property is under the di rection of Geddy Fields well known auctioneer of Chapel Hill. Sale will start at 2:30 Friday after noon. ROAD ALLOTMENT Orange County has been given in allotment of 7.26 miles for ad iition to the State Highway sys tem during the next year, the State Highway and Public Works Commissioner advised the Board. >f Commissioners *this week. Last year’s allotment was 4.96 niles, -all of which was used by. he Comihissioners in their re commendations to the State. ■ : ; '"T Winner Min Jor*tn CtHt,rKmt Ay cock High School griduilo won tho $50.00 scholarship offered annually by tho Aycock Homo Domonstation Club. Sho was voted tho most out standing Homo Economics stu - dont and tho host oil round son ior. Sho will uso tho monoy to further hor education. Tho a ward was presented at tho school Commencement by Mrs. R. E. Hughes, President of Ay cock Homo Demonstration Club. 16 Draftees Leave Tuesday For Induction Hillsboro - Sixteen boys left here Tuesday to be inducted at RaleigJjr after which they will oe sent "to Ft. Jackson, S. C. /"Those leaving were: Dick Kenion and Bobby. Mayes of Hills boro; Hal Ray Johnson of Rt. 3, Me bane; Robert Y. Vaughn/Jr. of Cedar Grove; Sterling Richards of Efland; John Clayton, Mebane; Dan Dollar, Henry W. Andrews, Clayton Brewer, Edward Battle, Darrell Dawson, Grady Sturdivant, William A. Olsen Jr., Thomas B. Gardner, Raymond Pendergrass and Roosevelt Weeks Jr. all of Chapel Hill. The next call will be July 22 for thirty for pre-induction, Mrs. Gloria Cox of the Local Board said. The number of draftees being called for the summer months have decreased, she said, because of the number of enlistments. NO POLIO THIS YEAR No cases of polio have been re ported in Orange County during the current year, Commissioners Apply Axe To Budget Requests, Keep Same Tax Rate Of $1 Chest Clinic Set For Monday At Hillsboro Hillsboro—Or. O. David Garvin, grange • Person • Chatham - Lae. District Health Officer, will con duct a free chest x-ray clinic ait the health department in Hills boro Monday, July IS from 1:00 p. m. to 3:00 p. m. All persons in the Hillsboro ar ea who are 1 years of age or older and have not had a chest x-ray during the year are urged to attend. In limiting free cheat x-rays to persona 16 years of age or older, Dr. Garvin pointed out that child ren of school age are adequately covered by school health exami nations. However, ell persons, re gardless of age, who have been in direct contact with a known case of tuberculosis are eligible and urged to report for a free chest x-ray. 1 Bie Orange County Agricultur al Workers Council are cooperat ing with the District' Health De partment in publicising the clinic. Mr. Don Matheson, farm agent, and Miss Ruth Thompson, home demonstration agent join Dr. Gar vin in urging all families partici pating in the 16-point rural prog ress program to take advantage of the free chest i>x-ray. These families are reminded that a chest x-ray for all family , mem bers 16 years of age or older*wifi" entitle them to one point _n the ruihl progress contest ?end a chance to win one of the valuable prizes being awarded to lucky ticket holders at the, close of the program sometime in November. Dr. Blackwell It Elected To Town's School Board Dr. Gordon Blackwell and Carl Smith were elected to six-year terms On the Chapel Hill school board at Monday evening’s joint meeting of the aldermen and the school board. Mr. Smith succeeds himself, and Dr. Blackwell re places Dr. Ed Hedgpeth, who re cently resigned. Dr. Blackwell is director of the University’s institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Two Killed In Holiday Weekend Accidents; five Mishaps In Area Two latai accidents, one involv ing an Orange County Girl who met death in Virginia and the other involving a Durham man who failed to make a curve on Highway 86 Horth of HUlsbofo; were the major tragedies in a Fourth of July weekend in this area. Miss Peggy Lou Strayhorn, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney H. Strayhorn of University Station was killed about midnight Sun day night near Eagle Rock, Va., about 40 miles from Roanoke wken the car in which she was riding left the highway and struck a culvert. Bob Kirk of Greensboro, driver of the car, was taken to a Virginia hospital for treatment of injuries, A graduate of Hillsboro High School, Miss Strayhorn had attend ed Woman’s College in Greensboro for'two years. Thomas W. Carrigan, 31, Of 807 Second St., Durham was killed in stantly Sunday at 1 p.m. on high way 86 five miles north of Hills boro when the car he was driving failed to make a curve and| turned over several times: ^ ... Mrs. Eva Carrigan, the victim’s mother, received a crushed leg in the wreck and was taken to Duke Hospital where her condition was described as “serious". Highway Patrolman M. C. Par nell,.,, who investigate^ the acci dent, said Carrigan apparently was driving at a high rate, of spefed when the car left the road and overturned. Both of the oc cupants were thrown from the 1 »• ' - car. Daniel Durham, 17, of Hillsboro, Route S, suffered a fractured neck and skull and brain concussion when the car he was driving turn ed over on Highway 86 -Saturday morning three miles south of Hillsboro. He was taken to Duke Hospital where he was reported to be conscious and slightly im proved. He was driving alone at the time of the accident. In all there were five wrecks in the local area during “the week end, but there were no other serious injuries. A child was struck by an automobile North of Hillsboro, a drunken driver ran off the road and four cars were involved in a minor collision mis hap on.Highway 70 near' Doc Grif fin’S. Sfrvice Station. Last Rites Tuesday For Miss Strayhorn Hillsboro — Funeral * services were held Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Hillsboro for Miss Peggy Lou Strayhorn, 20, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney H. Strayhorn of University Sta tion, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident near Ea- ; gle Rock, Va. Sunday bright . I, The Rev. Charles Maddry and the Rev. John Ensign were offici ating ministers. Burial was in New. Hope Presbyterian Church cemetery. In addition to her parents, she is survived by a sister, Sylvia, of the home, and her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Walker of Hillsboro. ■ \ r ' ;V; *uu.nwm - a tin iivuvi vi v.ajuu i.y Commissioners held out doggedly against a higher tax rate and cut/ to the bone a number of agpro-s priations requests, notably for' capital outlay improvements in schools, here Monday before it, approved a tentative budget call ing for expenditures totalling over three quarters of a million dollars during the fiscal year which began July J,---__ The new budget total amounted to $782,068,30, as compared to last year’s budget of $701,887.00, and is the largest in the county’s history. i - . ■ While last year’s budget includ ed substantial raises for practi New Budget Totalling $702,068.30 It Given Tentative Approval I. •>» cally all county employees, both elective and appointive, such was not the case this year as the Com missioners applied the squeeze where ever possible to make ends meet and retain tke'fl'tax rate for another year. The Board, how ever, stuck by the 10% precedent recently set by the State for its employees and made sure that employees generally received this percentage increase based on their County's Part Of $271,044 Welfare Budget (5nly $55,600 Hillsboro — The Welfare De partment budget, approved this week by the> Board of County Commissioners, calls for expendi tures totalling $271,044.00 for the various aid programs and admin istration during- the current year. Of this amount the county pays a total of $55,600. While this year's total budget is some $50,000 higher than last year’s, the county’s portion of the increase is only $745.85. r The breakdown of proposed ex penditures for the various pro grams and administration is as follows: | Old age assistance $108,000 (county’s part $13,500); aid to de pendent children $88,700 (coun ty’s part $8,676); Aid to perman ently and totally disabled $18,600 (county’s part $2,400); aid to blind $12,750 (county’s part $2, 049); Boarding home for children $6,034. (county’s part $3,400); ad ministration $27,550 (county's part $14,225). The following programs are totally financed by the coun ty; general assistance $1,800, pau per burials $150, hospitalization $8,000, and board home for adults $1,400. Ray, O'Neal Form New Firm, Take Over Ford Franchise Entrance Age For 1st Grade Is Extended The school entrance age for 1st grade students in North Carolina has been reduced, effective with the opening of the new school year, Superintendent G. Paul Can announced this week. »h , i By act of the lest legislature, the effective cut-off date for children entering the first grade was moved from October 1 to October 15. Thus, by virtue of the ruling of the Attorney General, later up held by the Supreme Court, any child born on October 10 would become six years of age on Octo ber 15 and therefore eligible to enter school in the first grade this, year. Parents Group Seeks - New Members To Aid Mentally Retarded Hillsboro - A membership drive is underway to gain new members in the North Carolina Association of Parents and Friends of Mental ly Retarded Children, it was an nounced here this week by Karl M. Andrews, 6th District Chair man of the Association. ■' ' ' , - A ■■ ■ The object of the organization is to promote the general welfare of mentally retarded children of all ages: in tie Caa-welP Training School and' other State Institu tions, at home, in the communi ties, and in public, private and religious schools which have special classes. This association is a non profit and non political organization. Any adult citizen of this state who is interested in the objectives which this association is organized 4 eligible for membership in it. 1 [he annual dues are $1.00 per person. ^ District six includes Orange, Durham, Person, Granville, Vance, Warren and Franklin Counties. Anyone in these counties who would like further information should contact Karl M. Andrews, 1025 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, ». C. » •rs • ► Hillsboro — Calvin Ray, local garage operator, and Bart O'Neal, a newcomer to this community, yesterday announced the forma tion of a new partnership, Ray O’Neal Motors, and its selection as the new Ford dealer for Hills boro and the surrounding area. The new firm succeeds the Rich mond Motor Company, operated by Mr_ and Mrs. J. W. Richmond, which has held the Ford fran chise here for the past 21 years. Mrs. Richmond in commenting upon the franchise transfer said that future plans for the opera tion of Richmond Motor Company are indefinite at this time, but that an announcement in this con nection may be forthcoming later. She expressed the firm’s deep ap preciation for patronage received during its 21 years of wrvice to the people of this area. Any bus iness of the firm to be carried on in the immediate future will be at the home, Mrs. Richmond said. O’Neal, a native of Wake For est, has been associateed with Thomas Motor Co. in Kingstree, S. C. for the past year, prior to then being connected with Sand ers Motor Co. in Raleigh. Mrs. O’Neal and their two children, a boy 11 and a girl 3, are expected to join him here in about two weeks. They will reside In the former home of Dr. M. B. Roberts on King Street. JONES HEARING The matter of the Rev. Charles M. Jones* duster as pastor of the. Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church will receive its next airing Thurs day, July 16, when Orange Presby tery meeta at Camp New Hope. Jones reportedly has asked for a hearing In a letter to Presby tery. JUNE DOG REPORT A total of 379 dogs were vac cinated against rabies, 151 im pounded, 12 shot, 12 placed In homes and 137 gassed in accord ance with the county dog law dur ing the month of. June, County Dog garden Hume Claytor told the 'Board of County Commission ers Monday. Since the program started in April, 1,654 have been vaccinated, 236 impounded, 26 shot, 31 placed in homes and 188 gassed. PIANO RECITAL TONIGHT* Chapel Hill — Dr. William S. Newman, professor of piano in the University Music Department, will give a recital in Hill Hall here tonight at 9:30 p. m. June ivaz wanes, wnere emp loyees were not up to this figure in the matter of raises, they were adjusted, but with three excep tions these amounted to token payments only. Schools took the heaviest cuts on the basis of the requests for capital outlay appropriations made by the two administrative units and for the first time, the Com missioners employed thp student per Capita .yardstick to determine these appropriations to the two units. Current expense appropria tion have always been apportioned on this basis as reguired by law, except for certain minor revenue items in which the Chapel Hill oh this basis as required by law. The county unit had requested $108,000 for capital outlay and the Chapel Hill administrative unit $72,000 for the current year. Granting these requests alone would have raised the rate .24 per hundred dollar valuation. On the per capital apportionment Chapel Hill got $30,511 and the county-' $61,059, of which $35,000 had al ready been earmarked for the addition to the Cedar Grove Negro School for which $25,000 had been carried over from last year. Tho cuts Imthe School budget brought some sharp exchanges between members of the Board of Commissioners and Beard of Edu cation sitting together' during the early part of the session. Board member Clarence Jones told the Commissioners in protest that “people are getting up in arms about the school situation” and expressed the belief that “people in the county are ready for their schools to catch up with other counties." ’Chairman R. O. Forrest, however, said he would not “under any condition vote to increase taxes this year.” His two fellow - commissioners expressed similar j sentiments. rart oi tnis years squeeze on funds was necessitated by the ap propriation for the revaluation of property now underway. $23,000 roughly had to be added to about $21,000 set aside last year to pay for this re valuation work by the J M. Cleminshaw Company. Forrest voiced the opinion that citizens would object to paying a higher tax rate for the revaluation. Members of the Board of Edu cation at one point also objected to ths Commissioners1 refusal to go along with proposed salary hikes for some of the school ad ministrative personnel. Board ~ Member Harry Breeze saying he considered that the Commissioners were “usurping authority of the Board of Education in this action.” The Commissioners, however, held they were keeping such salaries in line with the general county policy. Also cut from the school request was $5,000 which had been includ ed for the employment of a truant officer to enforce attendance laws. With this year’s valuation the approved $1 tax rate is expected to yiold $360,670.07, appropriated -* into the following major funds: General $88,538.70; Farm Program $13,400; Health $15,365.66 (up $2,200 ovet last year hut- still ' $2,000 short’of Dr. O. D. Garvin’s request to ;bring this county’s contribution to the district depart ment on an equal per capita basis with the other counties); r Salary $0,000; Welfare $15,129.37; Old Age Assistance $13,500; Aid to Dependent Children $8,686; Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled $2,400; Bonds $26,839.31; School Current Expense $52,382.44; Capital Outlay $81,892.70; and School Dept. Service $63,425.89. Sources other than ad valonam taxes, State Federal contributions go to make up the remainder of the total budget. Of course the - largest portion of these outside amounts goes for operation of the schools and the Welfare programs, in which the State and Federal governments participate heavily. A summary and analysis of the new budget tentatively approved by the Commissioners Monday and the tax rate may be found on another page of this edition and the complete budget statement is on file in the office of Register of Deeds J. Ed I«aws for 20 days before final approval.
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