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NEWS of
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10 19S3
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1953
W*PE
KIDD BREWER'S
PLEASE. . . .They
siting it from the
ut University of ^lorth
officials are urging
! freshmen not to per
|o have automobiles at
year. While nothing
|ing said about it. they
be happier if upper -
heft their flivvers at
Luther Hodges has
nmmended the Univer
I action regarding fresh
young man, Luther
has sufficient funds
right to buy a car. He
bve one — at the Uni
I representative on the
colleges to keep the
titerested in their work
sity will have Satur
this fall. Officials are
the boys and girls to
nd the campus a little
id all classes possible,
kipate more in college
(unity life.
— One of the ha
prominent Congress
Id he’s from. North Caro
ay find" himself within
few days involved in
difficulties It could
jetty embarrassing and,
ould stifle and perhaps
completely a promis
tal career.
|RINGS — If you see
walking around bet
and frost with a ring,
don’t be surprised.
Dne of the new cures for
j One of the State’s best
hay fever sufferers is
(toss, former director of
irtment of Conservation
Mnpmont. George D.OW
|ittle pill each night be
middle of August —
veed nollep comes a
hnd frost, when it finally
A hay fever sufferer
elf will try almost any
filter business for your
(he latest thing out. Call
leaver’s nasal filter —
filters really — it fits
your nose, a filter for
The filters are Con
the ring which looks
little like those used in
es. Knocks out about 90
of the trouble, too, if
mind being stared at a
ow and then. Then, of
here are 10.000 varieties
and pills, if you want to
I’ve taken most of them
| time or another, tried a
tor a time or two, but
settled to filters.
JCE — We don’t
there she was when she
telegram — her residence
in Raleigh at 1506 Can- j
Road —r but Miss Ronie
wired the Governor the
(art of last week that she
[ a conference with him.
vemor was tied up with
j broadcast and other press
and by Saturday
°n had said neither yea
’ about the requested meet
conversation between
or William B. Umstead and
onie Sheffield, lately head
oen’s Prison, should prove
oteresting. But she didn’t
walking papers from the
»or — or from Mrs J. M.
pton.
the blasting is not over
difficult things at all is to
4own, straight to its lair,
rfh of a rumor.
did it last week. This time
1 easy.
heard that so-and-so want
S®t in touch with so-and-so.
umor, which almost became
conversation, was that
* Williams, head of the Di
of Purchase and Contract,
e*n contacted by Jim Scott
^Ph Scott, brothers of Kerr
re8ard to his setting up and
senatorial headquarters
* former governor. We did
^ it as a rumor> but as a
t*ement. It seemed like hot
and the reporters “ were
l*h»t excited. 1
fects; Charlie, Ralph, and
h*Huach in one of the Ra
They were seen
ant ^lore Bering the re
Thev had .their heads
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MOO ATTEND ANNUAL FARM MEETING - A crowd estimated at 5,000 wm on hand In Raleigh last
week for the 19th annual mooting of the Farmer* Cooperative Exchange and the N. C. Cotton Growers
Assochdion. Part of the throng is shown above as It I inod up for a barbocuo picnic after hearing Son.
Clydo R. Hoey, Gov. W. B. Uinstead. Rap. Harold D. Cooley and Rep. Clifford R. Hop* of Kansas, chair
man Of the Hou^e Committee on Agriculture. Tho delegates came from all sections of North and South
Carolina. - " -
Hillsboro Merchants
Elect Cole President
Beck Vice President
Of Local Association
After Vote By Mail;
Hillsboro — E. Wilson Cole;
manager of the local branch, Dur
ham Bank and Trust Company,
has been elected the new president
of the Hillsboro Merchants Associa
tion.
With a good majority of the
membership casting ballots in the
first mail-election held by the
Merchants’ body here, Cole won
out over C. W. Chance, the se
cond nominee, Xor the. top post. *
B. E. Beck was elected vice pre
sident and M. L. Cates Jr. trea
surer. They were opposed by R.
J. Smith Jr. and Arthur Cole. For
Directors, E. C. Wilkins, Mrs. Sis
Crabtree and Miss Elizabeth Col
lins, were elected. Mrs. W. L.
Smith, JEL C. Mfnnis, Eddie Hines,
and J. H. McAdams were "otter
nominees for tne Board of Direc
tors.
Road To Orange
Bi-Centennial
Pageant Title
Hillsboro — Rehearsals are con- J
tinuing each weekday night for
some phase of the Orange County
Bi-Centennial week pageant,
which this week Chairman L. J.
Phipps announced Tiad beeii en
titled "The Road to Orange.”
The story is woven around a
single pioneer family with ,$Jier
major characters of various per
iods joining them as the scenes
progress through the decades and
events.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jones
and their children are the origi
nal family, but as the decades
pass these children are played by
older characters.
Other leading roles which have
been assigned by Director Jim
Leonard are “The Trapper,” Wil
liam Mitchell; Edmund Fanning,
who will be played by Ed Hamlin;
The Sheriff, Eldon Matteson; Jes
se and Jessica, a young couple to
lb by Btfxy jutie Hayes and
Paul Carr Jr., two daughters who
are played by Nell Beard and Nel
lie Ruth Lloyd; an elder Jessica
who will be played by Mrs. John
Bell; and a “loud mouth man”
who will be played by Robert
Forrest. Other characters will be
revealed as rehearsals continue.
JUST TOO HEAVY
•Hillsboro — Would-be thieves
broke into the Farmer’s Exchange
sometime Sunday night but the
heavy safe apparently proved too
much for them. It was found lay
ing on the ground outside the
building by a passerby early Mon
day morning still unopened.
The glass was broken0 in the
front door to effect an entrance
but officials don’t know whether
the safe dropped while being
loaded on a truck or whether the
thugs were frightened away.
Four Schools
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Run On Short
* ' j
Time Schedule
Hillsboro—Aycock, Central Ce
dar Grove, and the Efland Negro
school are operating on a five-hour
schedule through September 25 as
result of action by the Board of
Education at its regular meeting
last week.
The short schedule is allowed to
permit students to help with the
tobacco harvest.
At last week’s meeting, the school
board appointed the law firm of
Graham and LeGrand as its legal
adviser, accepted Chapel Hill’s
new Glenwood school from the
builder subject to a few minor
corrections noted by the architect,
and named a list of school trea
surers to lymdle activities funds
at the various schools. This list
included: Idrs. Edna Hunley, Hills
boro; Mrs. Janie Pope, Aycock;
Mrs. Mary R. Mitchell Caldwell;
Mrs. Mary Murray, Efland; Mrs.
Mary W. Browning, Murphey; Miss
Moyle Umstead, - West Hillsboro;
Miss Margaret Stanford White
Cross; Mrs. R. B. Studebaker, Carr
boro; Mrs. Fannie C. Warner,
Central; Miss E. G. Corbett, Cedar
Grove; Mrs. Marjorie Norris, Ef
land.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The Schley . Grange will spon
sor a benefit supper September
26 of chicken and brunswick
stew, to be held at. the Grange
Hall beginning at 6-p.m.
Jack Palance Remembered Here
Broken Nose Starts University
Student Toward Acting Fame
Chapel Hill — A broken nose
while playing Freshman football
at the University here 15 years ago
provided the original impetus
which has skyrocketed Actor Jack
Palance to Hollywood stardom. .
This-was recalled here''- this
week* in the announcement that
the Paramount production, “Shane”
in which he has one of the starr
ing roles, will be shown at the
Carolina Theater this weekend.
It was back in 1938 that the ac
cident which was to change his
whole career occurred. As a mem
ber of the Freshman squad of
that year, Palance collided with
the Tar Heel’s star backfield ace,
George Stimwiess and broke his
nose. After that he joined the
Carolina Playmakers, from which
he migrated to Hollywood and the
movies.
A native ot Pennsylvania, as
were so many of the Tar Heel
gridders of that era, Palance is
remembered by some of the ath
letic staffers here as the biggest
eater at the Old Swain Hall train
ing table.
With a bright future ahead of
him, according to the experts,
the former Playmaker whose life
was changed by a broken nose
has already been selected as one
of the 10 most outstanding actors
of the year, another story of suc
cess which had tts beginning in
Chapel HilL
LOST ARTICLE
Hillsboro—The owntr of •
tin 38 Army Jacket who left it
In a hasty departure from an
Orange County still can claim
it by- applying to Sheriff S. T.
Latta.
Tho jacket was part of the
paraphenalia picked up by She
riff's officers when they captured
a 60-gallon steel drum outfit in'
operation on a branch north of
Cheeks Crossing Monday. ^
A man was seen at the still
while the officers were some
distance away but ran when they
were detected approaching. No
arrests have been made and
Sheriff Latta said he did not
know who owned the land on
which the still was fownd.
Mooting Set
On Irrigation
Hillsboro—A meeting on irriga
tion .wiH be held at the agricul
tural department of the Aycock
High School next Wednesday after
noon at 3 o’clock.
Many farmers, especially to
bacco farmers in this section, have
suffered heavily during the past
three summers because of the
dry weather. Proper methods of
irrigation have been tried by the
Experiment Station and individual
farmers for the past several years
and in many instances t$e cost
of irrigation equipment his been
paid by increased value of the
crop in two seasons of irrigation.
This meeting is a cooperative
undertaking of the Aycock Voca
tional Department, the Soli Con
servation Service, and the Exten
sion Service. It will be a. ‘‘down
to earth" discussion of spine of
the problems involved in irrigation,
All interested farmers are in
vited to attend.
Mrs. Joe Howard Named Acting
Accountant And Tax Supervisor
Hillsboro—The Board of Coun
ty Commissioners this week named
Mrs. Joe Howard of Efland as act
ing County Accountant and Tax
Supervisor until the dual post
filled permanently, probably some
time next month.
Mrs. Howard has been serving as
assistant to Ira Ward, who severed
his connection with the county at
the close Of business on Tuesday
and yesterday assumed his duties
as secretary-treasurer of the
Hillsboro Building and Loan As
sociation.
In .the meantime, the commis
sioners have set the evening of
September 28 as the date for in
terviews with four applicants who
have filed for the post thus far
and for any others who might be
received prior to that time.
The commissioners voted to re
ward Mrs. Howard with a $100
per month pay increase above her
present salary to compensate for
the additional' responsibility. __
In another action,0 the board
gave preliminary approval to the
formal order authorizing the is
suance of $80,000 in bonds to
complete the courthouse and set
the time for holding a public
hearing on the -bonds at 10 a.m.
oh October 8. - - -—-—
Further discussion of the possi
bility of issuing bond anticipation
notes instead of the actual bonds
and paying them off on a short
term basis was held, but final de
cision was not made. The same
publication and hearing proce
dure “Is required whether the
bonds are finally issued or not.
Church School
Planned Again
At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill—The sixth Orange
County Christian Education Insti
tute for the training of church
school teachers of all dominations
will be held at the Chapel of The
Cross from Monday September 28
to Friday October 2.
" The program commences each
night at 7:50 p.m. with a short
worship period led by different
local ministers. At 8:00 p.m. Dr.
William A. Kale, who is in charge
of Christian Education courses at
Duke Divinity School, will speak
on “The Family And Christian
Education,” and offer to answer
questions in this field. At 8:50
there will be an intermission dur
ing which those attending may
look over the exhibit of religious
books for adults and chihjren. —
From 9:00 to 9:50 there will be a
choice of three different courses
for those teaching different age
groups. “Nursery and Kinder
garden” will be led by Miss Amote,
who heads that department -in the
First Baptist church of Durham,
and others. “Teaching Juniors” will
be led by Miss Barnett Spratt,
who is a nationally known teacher
Church school publications. “The
and write for the Methodist
Bible For Adults And Youth” will
be taught by the Rev. Maurice X.
Kidder, who' has had eight years
experience teaching the Bible to
college and correspondence stu
dents of all ages. " i ■
Mrs. J. A. Warren, known locally
and throughout the state for her
devotion to Christian Education is
Director of The Institute. Mrs. J.
Edison Adams, John Riebel and
the Rev. Richard L. Jackson are
members of a committee appointed
by the Chapel Hill Council of
Churches to plan the Institute
program.
Because Miss Spratt will be liv
ing in the community for the en
tire week, there will be opportuni
ties for afternoon discussions with
parents and teachers. It is hoped
that teachers of ‘Trimary” child
ren will, take advantage of this
valuable chance for help,
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w. l. McMillan
State Legion
Here Sunday
Hillsboro—State American Le
gion Commander W. L. McMillan of
Rocky Mount will-be the speaker
here Sunday night ftt a meeting of
the 17th District, the Amii lean
Legion, to be held at the Legion
Hut at 7 o’clock.
The event .will include a dutch
chicken barbecue dinner to which
all members of the eight posts in
Orange and Durham Counties,
which comprise the district, are
invited. ,
Kay Winecoff is commander of
the host organization, Post No. 85,
and Carl Riddle of Durham is
commander of the district. Among
the purposes of the district af
fair is to boost membership dur
ing the annual drive now in pro
gress.
McMillan is a veteran of World
War n and having been elected
unanimously at the 1953 Depart
ment convention in Wilmington
in June for a one year term. As I
North Carolina department com
mander, McMillan heads the larg
est veterans organization in the
State with a membership of 56,000
in 416 local posts.
Chapel Hillians
^Approve Street
Bonds, 14 To 1
Chapel Hill—A bare 12 per cent
of this town’s 1,305 registered vot
ers Tuesday approved a $60,000
municipal bond issue by an over
whelming 14 to 1 margin
Registrar Hugo Giduz reported
there was little interest pro or con
in the election for which only three
new voters were signed up. There
has been no openly expressed op
position to the proposal which has
carried .the unanimous support of
Mayor £dwin S. I-amer sgtdv.Ahe
Board of Aldermen.
The measure which carried by a
vote of 140 to to, will allow the
town to issue bonds for the instal
lation of curb and gutter facilities
on a number of local streets in an
amount not more than $60,000.
This sum is to be repaid in regu
lar assessments by the property
owners on these streets.
Work Requested
A majority of the property own
ers asked these improvements in
formal petitions earlier this sum
mer. Since only these persons are1
concerned in the payments, the
town tax rate of $1:43 per $100
valuation will not be affected by
t ine issue.--— -———1-;——
Bids for the work will be called
for this week. Most of the improve
ments will be in two recently an
nexed Strowd Hill and Westwood
sections of town.
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First Graders Total
153 More Than Year
• Ago, Says G. P. Carr
Hillsboro—A heavy increase en
rollment, including the biggest
first grade increase in county
history, was announced for the
county school system by Superin
tendent G. Paul Carr this week.
The first day of school brought
295 more pupils to school in the
11 units than a year ago, while
the first grades alone showed an
increase of 153 pupils over the ^
figures of a year ago.
The Hillsboro school, already -
bulging and overcrowded with
students as officials await the
outcome of the State School Bond
election before proceeding with
plans for the promised new ele
mentary school in that community,
showed the greatest increase .of alL
In fact its first grade total was
almost double last years, 133 new
ones this year as compared to 69
last year. Most of the first grades
showed a slight increase with the
exception of the White' Cross
and Cedar Grove Negro School.
In total school enrollments, how
ever, four schools showed de
creases, West Hillsboro 3, Murphey
2, Efland 12 and White Cross 2.
Hillsboro total enrollment was in
creased 132, Aycock 19, Carrboro
23 and Caldwell 4.
Total enrollment at the first of
school was 2,532 in the white
schools and 1,388.
Substantial enrollment increases
were also announced last week by
the Chapel Hill City Administra
tive units.
School Board
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Sets Rules For
Activity Buses
Hillsboro—The Board of Edu
cation at its meeting last week
set up detailed conditions under
which individual schools may pur- - -
chase activity buses for use on
athletic or recreational trips.
Requests for such busses have
been filled by Efland and Aycock
Scholls.
Among the provisions are that
the buses must be registered in
the name of the County School
Board, that local authorities as
sume responsibility for upkeep,
and operations, reimburse the
county for adequate insurance,
and others. The full resolution
passed on this matter was as
follows:
WHEREAS, The General Assem
bly of North Carolina, Session of
1953, amended Chapter 115 of the
General Statutes of North Caro
lina by adding a Section numbered
GS 115-45.1 to, allow ' County
Boards of Education and Boards
of Trustees of city administrative
units to take title tq activity school
buses and to waive their govern
mental immunity only to the ex
tent of liability insurance carried
on said buses, and
WHEREAS, The County Board
of Education of Orange County
has been requested by the school
authorities of .the Efland and Ay
cock Public School Districts to
take title to activity buses pur
chased for the use of these schools
by funds raised by the Efland and
Aycock School communitiees and
used ^ transportat/on ofpwatu,
of the Efland and Aycock School
Districts to and from athletic con.
tests or recreational or other legiti
mate school events,
NOW, THEREFORE, Be it re
solved by the Board of Education
of Orange County that title to the
said activity buses be taken, and
that the title to similar buses in
the future be taken by the Board
of Education of Orange County
upon request of the local school
authorities, provided the follow
mg conditions be complied with:
1. That the local school authori
ty purchase the bus and have
it registered in the name of
the Orange County Board of
Education without any cost
to the County Board.
Z. That the local school authori
ties assume full
ty for uokeeo i
(Set BOARD,