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of Oranf* County , up with tho now* over th# county by fHE NEWS of County. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL «»1.L. N. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 21. 1*54 •oil, buy, rent'or go* i fob noioijf Ota a —I—- -M m Jm Wtlfli lira CIHfnMia Ml on peg* 7 of TH* NKWS of Or «ngo County. I EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK LOW-UP . • • The State In e Dept, has notified the ia Motor Club that they are ation of the State Insurance a providing free insurance ast collect for the insuran.ce lS of memberships it lu. state officials. is one benefit that has re from the little investigation id its beginning right hbre little old column, to be hoped that more bene 11 follow. kg to wonaer u vne lw River really is going to [gainst Alton Lennon. And [few of his most ardent ad L are beginning to cool off in enthusiasm for him to run. not that they don’t love him Lfe. And . . . it’s not that [wouldn’t like to see him In jl. S. Senate. fty’ve begun to think a bit t a subject that Kerr Scott has thinking about for a long his health. matter what you may hear, ind, what’s more—as we have pled out before—Miss Mary t hankering for Husband Kerr ;et into any more dogfights, 'hat’s why a great many peo who are so sure Kerr Scott [ announce his candidacy come sruary 10 might just get fooled. kUMBLINGS. . .It may be hard detect, but there’s more than a ke discontent about the selec h of Florida’s Senator Spessard 'Holland as this year’s keynote Jackson laker for the Jefferson -. y Dinner in Raleigh. Ind the rumbling (or imbling?) is coming from those o lean towards the ultra-liberal (See ROUNDUP, page 2) KIDD BREWER'S i&L Story Of Continued Growth Told • Hillsboro—A story , of continued owth was related to stockholders the Hillsboro Building and Loan sociation at their annual meet g held Tuesday night at the of :es of the association. All officers and directors tyere elected for nfew terms by unani ous vote. They included: W. John ayton, president, B. S. Carr, vice •esident, Ira A. Ward, Secretary - easurer, along with the other dir iors Bonner D. Sawyer, W. If. ^ . T-. urray, R. T. Taylor and C. Scott ates. Total resources of the associa on*gained 28 percent during the ast year, Secretary Ward, told the ockholders in' his report in which e used colored bar graphs to il istrate the general increases. To il assets at the close of 1953 were 1,397,342.59. Savings in the association in “eased about 25 percent or about quarter of a million dollars dur ig the year. fTwo hundred a.. wenty three loans totalling half a million dollars were made during 953 for new -home construction, ome purchases, improvements and epairs. A tenfold growth for the past 10 rears was noted along with the urrently sound financial ’ struc ure of the association. UaK Ridge On Wheels1 Atomic Exhibit Is Openinglln Chapel Hill Today s.''' ''' as -<■vSataacfMMM———i—o——11—i— D ! M E f K PE A 0 I A lasswato* ATOMtC FOOTPRINTS—Above it illustrated one of tho most spectacular and realistic exhibits in the entire atomic energy exhibit open to the public in Cbapel Hill today through Sunday, A 250,000-volt Van de Graaff generator creates artificial lightning, and a Wilson cloud chamber shows "atomic footprints." Both instruments arc museum-size working models of giant research tools. " f MAKES MONEY RADIOACTIVE—The atomic energy exhibit at Chapol Hill today through Sunday provides this free service for attendants. It's explained this way: One part of the exhibit demonstrates the production of radioisotopas by mak ing some of the silver in a dime radioactive. The dime is then encased in a plastic and lucite container and returned to its owner as a souvenir. ____♦-----r Uvic Groups Sponsor Show For The Public CHAPEL HIIiL — The nation’s most complete atomic energy show, now on tour in „the State, will be shown in the Morehead Building at the University today through Sunday, under the auspices of the National University Extension As sociation, Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club, Chapel Hill Rotary Club'; Morehead Planetarium, and the University Extension Division. The public may view the exhib it without charge from 9: a. m. to 12:30 p. m., from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. and from 7:30 to 10 p. m. on Thursday and Friday; from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. and from 7:30 to 10 p. m. on Saturday; and from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m. on Sunday. The show will be on display in three exhibit-rooms on the ground, floor of the Morehead Building. Russell M. Grumman, director of the University Extension Divi sion, is in charge of local arrange ments for the show. During the same period visitors may see the current Morehead Planetarium show, “The Heavens Tonight,” which will be shown at 11 a. m , 2 p. m., and 8:30 p. m. on Thursday; at 2 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. on Friday; at 3 and 8:30 p. m. on Saturday; and at 3, 4, and 8:30 p. m. on Sunday. The atomic energy show is being provided by the American Museum of Atomic Energy at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Museum, only, one of its kind in the world, is operated for the United States Atomic Ener gy Commission by the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. The Institute is a non-profit ed ucational corporation comprised of 30 Southern universities, includ ing the University of North Caro lina and Duke University. It con ducts a broad program of research, training and education in the nu clear sciences through a contract with the AEC. The exhibit will-be brought to Chapel Hill in a large truck-trail er fitted out to haul the show. HOW ELECTRICITY may someday be generated through the use of a nuclear furnace will be shown in the atomic energy exhibit which opens in the Morehead Building tomorrow, and continues through Sunday. The traveling exhibit, a part of which is s iown here, is jointly sponsored by the UNC Exten sion Division, National University Extension Associ Hon. the Atomic Energy Commission, the American Museum of Atomic Energy, and Chapel Hill civic g oups. U instead Announces For 10th Term As Assembly Member Aid Sought For Fire Victim An appeal is being made for j clothing and household articles ! to aid the family of Lewis Dixon, who lost everything in a fire which destroyed the Eno mill house they occupied on Monday night The cause of the fire is un known. The father was at Work and the mother was in Durham visiting her father. The family consists Of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, two boys ages 14 and 12, and a girl, age 11. Mr. Dixon wears shirt size 15, sleeve length about 33, pants size 33 by 33 and shoes size 7%. Mrs. Dixon wears dress size 20Vfe Chapel Hill To New Hope Road pspa To >e mmf Hillsboro—An extension of the Chapel Hill to New Hope road on into Hillsboro to provide a safer and more direct means of travel between these two Orange County centers is in the offing, possioly this year. Surveyors of the State Highway commission are currently making their third survey of the proposed road from New Hope to a poin just East of Farmer’s Exchange stock market east of Hillsboro to obtain a route on which voluntary right-of-way can' be obtained. Pre vimis surveys which placed ® -road across property of Duke 111 versity encountered right-of-way difficulties from officials fo ® institution and changes are c^ug which would by-pass this property. Chairman A. H. Graham of the Highway Commission said money for the project had been set aside and grading and paving work will be done by the county mainten ance forces. It is expected that this work will begin in early Spring. A contract will be let, possibly in the Summer, for construction of an overhead bridge over the railroad tracks at one point on the propos ed road. As much as two miles may be saved bv the more direct rou'e to| Chapel Hill, it. is believed, and ten- j tative plans are to designate the j new road as Highway 86 when it. is, completed. « I and shoes 7E. The boys are about the same size and wear, pants, 14, shirt 12 and shoes 5. The 'girl wears dress size 10 and shoes, size 1. - ----- : • -. If you have anything this needy family could use, please contact Mrs. Edna Ellis or Mrs. Louise Clayton, Phone 2724, dur ing the day or at their homes after. 5:00 p. m. and arrange ments will be made to have the , articles picked up. SCOTT A CANDIDATE At least one member of the Alamance County Scott family apparently is definite about his intentions to seek public office in the forthcoming Democratic primary. Senator Ralph Scott of the Or attge&iaTnamo-'-'SifcneferiiL .<Jis-**, trict told Columnist Lynn Nes bit in Raleigh last week he would seek his third term this Spring, despite reports some time back in the News and Observer's Under the Dome column and la ter in Nisbitt's own State-circu lated column that the seat re verted to Orange this year. The News prepared an article a? the time correcting the false impression but it was crowded out of that edition and lost its timeliness. By agreement, Ala mance supplies the senator for the district three consecutive terms and Orange two. If the is continued Orange will next supply a sen ator for the 1957 term. Legislator Promises To Support Anti-Secrecy Bill At First Session Representative John W. Um stead Jr. of Chapel Hill yesterday announced his candidacy for Or ange County’s seat in the House of Representatives. ■’ The term for which he announc ed will be his eighth in the Gen eral Assembly’s lower house. He has also served two terms in the Senate. ' In length of service, the colorful Orange legislator is one of the real veterans of the Assembly. During the last term he served as chair man of the House committee on Mental Institutions and as member of the Education, Appropriations, Conservation and Development, j Health, Penal Institutions, ‘Retire ment and UNC Trustee committee. In factt during his tenure of office, Mr. Umstead has served on every important committee with the ex ception of the Judiciary. In his formal announcement of camfitlffcy; "$t: TMsitfeM at the re* cutest of The News included a statement of his position on the • controversial Secrecy Issue, which i has. been the subject of widespread. liseu'sion since the 1953 term. He j said if elected he would join with I others in introducing an appeal measure at the first meeting of the House, and added he thought the first act of the 1955 session would he to strike it from the Statutes. Mr. Umstead is the first local candidate to announce for political office subject to the Democratic; orimary in Orange County this Spring. His announcement was as fol lows; “After discussing the matter ? {See UMSTEAD, page, 8) . r\ , ' ■ . ' : -sr-'"': .: Voting Precinct Changes To Be Given Study Chapel Hill—A committee to study revision of the voting pre cincts in the Town of Chapel Hill has been appointed and its first meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 o’clock at the Town Hall. t Recommendations of the com mittee, which was appointed with equal representation from the two existing precincts by the respec tive Tldhocrafkr '•part^ ehafcrmen, will be presented to the Orange County Board of Elections, which has final jurisdiction in this mat ter. Members of the committee are L. J. Phipps, Paul W. Wager, W. E. Thompson. R. C. Andrews and Mrs. George Nirholson of South pre cinct, and T. B. Creel, John W. Umstead Jr., W .E. Merritt, Wil liam • S...Stewart and. Mrs. Evelyn Rush of North precinct. County Elections Board Chairman E. J. Hamlin will meet with the group in an ex officio capacity. Agitation for splitting of the present two voting precincts has been noted here since the heated Graham-Smith election in 1050 when prospective voters had to stand in line at grca.t length to vote. S SIGNS OF THE TIMES Hillsboro—One-man stills seem to be the latest development in the illegal whiskey manufacturing trade in Orange County. Sheriff’s deputies Tuesday cap tured a 10 to 15 gallon copper unit in the attic of a Wtest Hillsboro ihome and said a similar one had been found several weeks ago in another part of the county. Both oinitsr they said could be operated by one man. Ike Pugh was charged with il legal possession of materials for manufacturing whiskey. Reports and indications at the scene w.ere that Pugh’s'outfit had last oper ated last Thursday. Research Data To Be Given Here Four-Day Meeting Is Scheduled In Hillsboro To Present Information New research results that deal with farming enterprises common to Orange County will be presents ed at a four-day series of fanner meetings in the courthouse at Hillsboro February 0, 10, 11 and 12. County Agent Don S. Matheson declared the meetings are part of an extensive new program of the State College Extension Service. “The Extension Service is taking advantage of the winter months to speed the flow of practical new information to farmers,” he said. It is sending 70 specialists in such fields as tractor maintenance, irrigation, tobacco, pastures, field crops, animal husbandry, dairying, farm management and marketing, poultry, insect control, forestry, horticulture, and plant disease con* trol to virtually every county in the state. The specialists will re main in each extension district for one week, except in the west, .where they will remain two weekly alternating between counties; Fifteen of these specialists will bring the latest information on poultry, horticulture, forestry, live- ' stock, feed production and hous ing to Orange farmers. One of the major problems to* be discussed in most schoQlc be the economical use of iani. * idle by cuts in acreage allotment* according to Matheson. The specialists will also discuss enterprises in which you may not now be engaged, but which may be ideaUy suited for yy«r farm. Matheson cited* ^ieep as. such an enterprise. They require little la bor and most always return a nice ■ profit. More., efficient use of fertilizers will also be discussed. Matheson | said the need for this is acute. In corn, for example, the average use of nitrogen is 40 pounds per acre, but it is highly profitable to use up to 100 pounds. Farmers-will also become ac quainted with new, cheap sources of nitrogen. New crop varieties, suen as Wade snapbean that has commanded a premium on the market since its introduction, and other crops with disease resistance will be dis cussed, according to Matheson. _ I Caldwells To Present Travelogue To Grange HILLSBORO — North Carolina State Grange Master Harry B. Caldwell and Mrs .Caldwell will . j he guests of the Orange County Pomona Grange on Monday, Janu ary 25th. ~X . The Caldwells will present a J travelogue of their trip to Italy I last sumnfer, where they partici pated „in the International Agri cultural Conference. . -• The Pomona Grange will meet n open session at 8:00 p.m. The public is cordially invited to at tend. ~ Chapel Hill Aldermen Lauded For Enforcing Frat Fire Law | The Board of Aldermen has re-; Insurance Department for its ac tion in condemning local fratern ity and sorority houses until ade quate fire escapes had been installed;—rE:— - I Referring to the recent Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house fire, which came a year and a day after the houses had been condemned, Kern Church, engineer and deputy fire ■ marshal of, the State Insurance Department, wrote Town Manager Thomas D. Rose as follows: ; “I shudder when I think what might have happened in this fire, or in a fire in ofte of the other fraternities or sororities, had the ) fire escapes not been installed and had the students cot been aware of the hazardous condition of these buildings. The action tak 9n December triwwi*1 fraternities and sororities were condemned until fire escapes, etc., were installed, brought public at tention to this hazard. “I personally think the city officials deserve a lot of praise for their perseverence in taking the necessary action to make the fraternities and sororities in Chapel Hill safer.” Since the fraternity house foe last month, University Dean of Students Fred Weaver has asked all fraternities and sororities to have fire drills and also to have their wiring and heating systems inspected. Rose has asked the fire department to assist in carrying out these precauEons.
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