NUMBER 8
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL MILL.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1954
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~ EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
bT AGAIN. . .It develops
fone reason many people are
lg they are for Kerr Scott for
S. Senate is that they want
with a winner and at this
figtire he is the surest thing
a shoo-in we have had in this
in many a year.
let that critter get by me
» said a Western North Car
oldtimer this past weekend,
J this time around Km latching
jarly and riding him clean to
barn.
tat he meant was as follows:
had the opportunity on two
lions to support Scott or one
fis candidates. 2 He failed to
le light. 3. He now sees the
and 4. Will follow the gleam
through the night.
Illows of this ilk aren’t worth
powder it would take to blow
j up, as a usual thing, but now
[then you do find a real stal
| citizen who sincerely believes
laying the game that way.
fOUGH. . .1 know of a coun
|nd perhaps you do, too, that
for Fountain in 1932, for Dr.
McDonald in 1936, for Wil
P. Horton in 1949, and for
Dnald again in 1944.
1948, having suffered, bled
died, they cried out, “Boys,
had enough. We’re tired of
Ding aholt of the dirty end of
stick. This time we are going
lay.dt right.” - •„ . I
]>u guessed it. They went
?ht down the line for Charlie
(son playing it right. They say
le votes rolled in from across
(State the night, of the runoff,
ilf-dozen of them half-threatenl
shoot themselves, two dozen
had nervous breakdowns;
three of the leaders nearly
to death on tobacco juice
anson conceded defeat,
lasr**; there a wave of suicides
everal Republican states when
lan took Dewey in 1948? And
know H. V. Kaltenborn has
er been the same. “My-son
le” is doing most of the talk
1 these days. ,
FHY THEY COME.. .We had
[Democrats from all sections of
| State her? for the Jefferson
bon Day Dinner this past
kend. A nice amount of cash
[raised for the Democratic Par
pd a good time was had by all.
evertheless and howsomeever,
b’cratic coffers could have
enriched without the dinner
[ith_everybody staying at home
of highway perils, getting a
night’s rest, and being up
|ht and early for Sunday School
church on Sunday morning'
no, they had to come to Ra
• Question is, why did they?
came to see and to be seen,
^’ine, to dine, to lie a little, to
politics a lot, and to “find out
It’s going on”.
lost of them found that, like
pything else, the anticipation
greater than the realization,
-in a way—they enjoyed it.
SNNON FIRST. . .They found |
non first in the hearts of their
itrymen. This caused little sur-1
for it was that way with
nson at the dinners in darly
He lost. So they returned
fe addleheaded.
nnnon picked up some band
an-type strength at the .Jeffer
fackson Day Dinner. That was
pe expected, for Kerr Scott has
Bn boys with him.
kR AFIELD. . .It is a strange
indeed, but undeniably true,
the foundation Strength of
Scott frequently lies far a
from the foundation strength
[he Democratic Party in North
nlina.
other words, the vast majori
[of the party workers in the
nties, the fellows whom the
nocrats look to in general elec
ts to carry them to victory—
chairmen, the members of the
cutive committtts, the haulers,
Poll-holders, the county organ
iions, are in the main not Scott
Iple. They may be this time, but
|en’t been in the past.
*hy is this? Well, principally,
ause Scott is the lone wolf type,
one-man show. He’s not just
(See ROUNDUP, page 2)
Elections
Nominees
Selected
Democratic Committee
Selects Truesdale
As Vice Chairman
HILLSBORO — Reappointment
of the two Democratic members
of the Orange County Board of E
lections is virtually assured as the
result of the action taken by the
I County Democratic Executive
, Committee in session here Monday
afternoon.
j Committee members in a brief
and harmonious meeting voted u
nanimously to recommend Elec
tions Board Chairman E. J. Ham
|lin of Hillsboro and Secretary C.
A. Kirkpatrick of Chapel Hill for
the two board positions.
In compliance with the request
of the State Democratic Execu
tive Committee that three names
be submitted, the county commit
tee added the name of Cooper
Compton of Cedar Grove township.
In addition to action on the E
lections Board, the Democratic
leaders selected G. C. Truesdale
04, University Station as vice chair
man to succeed the late J. Dhmont
Eskridge.
Mrs. Charles W. Stanford, coun
ty chairman, said the names of
Hamlin, Kirkpatrick and Comp
ton would be submitted to the
State committee in that order. It
is customary for the State Com
mittee to submit the names in the
same order tb the State Board of
Elections which almost always ap
points the first two members to
the County Board of Elections.
The third member of the Board
is always a' Republican. Chairman
M. L. Cates Sr. has not announced
his party’s nominees for the post
now held by his. son, M- L. Cates
Jr.
Observer Unit
Seeking Help
HILLSBORO — The Hillsboro
Post of the Ground Observer Corp
is in need of vbltSnteers to help
carry on this important phase of
civil defense. This is the work of
spotting aircraft and reporting
them to the filter center in Dur
ham. There they are traced and
if they are not supposed to be in
this territory interceptor planes
from Army bases go out to check
on them.
The- post observation point is
now in the fire tower southwest
of Hillsboro. The post was manned
Sunday on a four hour alert by
five members. Six planes were re
ported (luring the four hours.
Anyone desiring to volunteer or
information please contact, one of
the following; Walt Wrenn, B. P.
Gordon Jr. or Lucius Brown,
THURMAN TO SPEAK
HILLSBORO — The Reverend
W. R. Thurman of Chapel Hill will
speak at the morning worship on
February 21, at tffi Hillsboro Pres
byterian Church This' -service
Drings to an end a week of empha
sis on the mission work of the
church.
Mr. Thurman’s sermon will be
m ’’The King's Command.”
Betsy Forrest
likes people
Hillsboro Girl Salem College's
'Miss Student Teacher Of 1954'
Betsy Forrest of Hfllsboro, who
wafits to be a teacher "because I
like people," last week was named
Salem College’s Miss Student
Teacher for 1954.
Miss Forrest, a senior, will com
Declares Town
Case Against
Groves Mistrial
HILLSBORO — A "juror was
withdrawn and a mistrial was de
clared by Judge Susie Sharpe in
Superior Court this week in the
case of The Town of Chapel Hill
against Mrs. E. R. Groves for al
leged violation of the town zoning
ordinance.
•Town officials and Mrs, Groves
have been in a legal battle for
some time over the question of
Mrs. Groves’ conversion of proper
ty for rental purposes in what they
say is a violation of the zoning
code. *
At the hearing this week, the
town’s case broke down over thp
admissibility of evidence of the,
Zoning Ordinance’s validity. Chap
el Hill has had some kind of zon
ing ordinance in effect since 1928
and a new ordinance replaced it
in 1949. Copies of the two ordin
ances were' not_admitted as valid
evidence after objections by de
fense attorneys and witnesses for
the town were unable to prove in
clusion of the ordinances in the
official minute records of the two
wars.
In declaring it a mistrial" the
judge automatically pieced ihei
Chapel Hill case on the calendar
[or next term.
In other- actions, Marion H.
Higgs was granted a divorce from
Wade B. Higgs and a jury award
ed nothing to J. Lawrence Sprunt,
A-hose father owns Orton Planta
:ion in South Carolina, for dam
ages to his station wagon he al
leged were caused by James A.'
spivey.
pete next month with represents
lives of other North Carolina col:‘
leges for the title of Miss North
Carolina Studentj Teacher. The con
test will be held during the state
convention of Future Teachers of
America in Raleigh.
Miss Forrest won the Salem hon
or in competition with six other
students who were nominated by
a committee of the college’s Fu
ture Teachers of America chapter.
From the seven, five were selected
by the chapter membership for
presentation lo the student body,
which ii\ turn selected three of
th^m to anoepr before the judging
committee.
The other two finalists were
Anny Moye of Tarboro and Doris
McMillan of Galax, Va. They each
gave brief talks on their philos
ophies of education to the com
mittee yesterday afternoon.
Miss Forrest is president of the
Salem Future Teachers of Ameri
ca chapter, vice president of the
student body, vice chairman of
the May Day committee, business
manager of Sights and Insights,
the college annual, a member of
Pierettes, dramatic group, and the
home economics club.
A daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D.
E. Forrest of Hillsboro, she at
first planned to study for a career
in merchandising but decided on
a teaching career just before be
ginning her junior year at Salem.
She has done practice teaching
during this school year at Kerners
ville and at Gray High School.
APPEAL POR BIRDS
The Hillsboro Garden Club this
week issued an appeal to local cit
izens, especially parents of boys
with air rifles, to prevent the kill
ing of birds in the community.
The killing of any birds within
the town limits of Hillsboro is a
misdemeanor by virtue of the fact i
that the town was declared a Bird’j
Sanctuary by the legislature in
1950.
Schools Push Improvement Of Reading
The Orange County Schools are
naking an intensive effort to im
prove the reading of children at
In order to understand individ
ial differences in reading and
>ther school subjects a compre
lensive testing program has been
:arried out in all schools.
Mrs. Mary Downing, a reading
:onsultant, demonstrated the lat
>st methods in the teaching of
•eading in the White Cross, Efland,
lillsboro and Aycock Schools last
rhursday and Friday.
Fifty elementary teachers from
he county schools observed the
lemonstration lessons.
Mrs. Downing worked with child
•en from the second, third, fourth
ind fifth grades.
P T. A. Grade Mothers served(
is substitute teachers while regu
ar teachers went to visit the
schools having the demonstrations.
The Supervisor, Mrs. Ireng Pen
ler, arranged for this service to
the teachers, which comes irom
the /Ginn Publishing Company,
New York.
: -^The^ survey reveals .th&tuSWPy
children can be helped to read
better by adopting individual in
structional materials to the* pres
ent reading level, learning ability,
and interests of the pupil.
G. P. Carr, Superintendent of
Schools, and Mrs. Irene Pender,
Supervisor of Instruction, planned
the program with the principals of
all schools. Mrs. Pender has been
responsible for the psychological
testing program and has directed
the teachers in the administration
of the tests of school achievement.
Conferences have been held in
each school to assist in planning
new techniques and materials for
improving school achievement. In
this part of the program the
schools have been assisted by Dr.
Thelma Gwinn Thurstone Gwinn
of the School of Education of the
University of North Carolina. She
nas met wiui icu u* icaui
ers and two parent groups.
Dr. Thurstone points out that
JL.
_ .OQftjO,})
of bringing their grade averages
in line with norms on standardiz
ed reading tests, but that many
bright children who should be do
ing superior work are achieving
less than their expectancy as in
dicated by their capacity. As a re
sult of the conferences the teach
ers have a better understanding of
each child’s capacity and are now
planning new materials to devel
op each child’s special capacities.
Following the meetings on the
testing program, University facul
■ ty members will assist the cshools
! in curriculufh development and
| methods to improve reading.
These studies will be a part of
the program sponsored by the Kel
log Foundation of U. N. C. Orange
County is one of the seven coun
; ties in North Carolina selected to
participate in the Kellog studies.
Hobbs Is Seeking
County Board Job
Incumbent Member Is
First To File For New
4-Year Term Of Board
, County Commissioner R. J. M.
fjobbs of Chapel Hill this week
"became the first candidate to file
for a seat on the new 5-man Board
of County Commissioners which
will be elected this year.
Hobbs, the only incumbent to
enter the race thus far, paid 'his
ilin;4 fee and announced he would
<eek the four-year term. In this
’year’s election three men will be
.dented for four-year terms and
\ wo wiil be ^elected for two-year
terms. Hereafter all terms will be
for four years.
Mr. Hobbs Is serving his first
term as Commissioner, having pre
viously served for a long period
as an Alderman and Mayor Pro
reem of the Town of Chapel Hill.
Meanwhile, political' speculation
continued.
Much talk has centered, around
the Scott-Lennon senatorial cam
paign since the former opened
his formal drive for votes in Chap
el Hill last week and named a
Orange County woman his wom
an’s division chairman. He. took
he Chapel Hill appearance to aa
nouhce the appointment Of Mrs.
C. W. Stanford tQ this jppst in a
move which completely surprised
the appointee. Later he announced
that Durham reporter Bill Whit
ley, who lives in Chapel Hill,
R. J. M. Hobbs . . . files for board
would serve his headquarters as
pflblicity man. *
Talk on the many-sided race for
Orange County Sheriff has con
tinued. One day a rumor that J.
Hubert MsAdams, Farmer’s Ex
change Manager, was running for
Sheriff spread like wildfire
throughout the county "but Mr.
McAdams, who had been away for
a period, nailed it a» a false rumor
upon his return. ■
Odell Clayton for Sheriff, Mr.
Hobbs for the County Board and
John, W. Umstead for the Legislat
ure are the only official filters
thus far.
30 Taxpayers Checking Property
Values Daily In County Office
HILLSBORO — Tax -Supervisor^
Sam Gattis told the Board of Coun
ty Commissioneers Tuesday night
that 70 persons had filed corn
plants »with J|is office regarding
the new values on their real prop
erty and ttrt approximately MO
taxpayers were cpmingjtq his of
fice each day to talk about their
values or check lip on comparable
property.
The commissioners met in spec
ial session to discuss some of the
values and- procedures -used in
arriving at them with Adolph Pbll,
head of the group working in this
county for the J. M. £leminshuw
'Company, and Henry Lewis of the
fnstitute of Government, who has
consulted with the Board in an ad
visory capacity o several occasions
in eonnection/wiht the revalua
tion.
consumed in discussion of values
placed on machinery in the conn
ty’s various industrial cstablish
•*>
nients.
On advice of Pell and Lewis the |
Board turned down a suggestion
that the new values of all parcels
of real property in the county be
advertised in county newspapers
in order to enable the public to
compare values and to aid tln'm in
deciding if equalization had been
achieved. This ’suggestion had
been made to board members by a
number of persons throughout the
county. - -
EXECUTIVE OFFICER—Navy
Col. William S. V.',so'.i,en recent
ly became Executive Officer of
Fleet Airborne Electronics
Training Unit, U S. Naval Air
Station at Norfolk, Va.-The son
of Mrs. Bessie Woollen of Hoop
e.‘ iaruz, Chapel Hill, Cdr. Wool
len attended the University of
North Carolina. He previously
served at Quonset Point, R I.,
ar officer in charge of the Na
val Aircraft Torpedo Unit, U.S.
Naval Air Station.
i
EXCITEMENT REIGNS
►
Hillsboro—An orchid colored
Cad'Uc and a long shock of cur
ly blond hah? on a make torso skt
the girls at the courthouse agog
one day last week.
It all came about when the
wrestling behemoth with the
feminine affectation. Gorgeous
George, rode through the "wham
my'' being operated by highway
patrolmen on Highway 70, and
his manager, the driver, was
booked by Patrolman T. P. Smith
for speeding 65 miles per hour.
The "gorgeous" one came with
his manager into the courthouse
to pay the $10 fine and costs
before proceeding on their way.
Drive Leaders
For Red Cross
Are Revealed
f ■■
Quentin Patterson, 1954 Cam
paign -Chairman ef-the- Orange
Jounty Chapter of The American
Red Cross, announced leaders to
day that are to conduct the Red*
ross Drive for funds this year.
The drive will begin with a
kickoff meeting on March 1st.
Leaders for this drive are . as
follows: Business: Bart O’Neal; In
dustrial: W. V. Fryer and Vernon
Truesdale; Hillsboro Residential
Mrs. Ted Smith; Efland; Mrs. John
Forrest; School: Mrs. Irene Pen
Tier; Special Division: Mrs. E. E
Patterson.
The rural areas have been di
vided into sections with Charles
Langston overall rural leader. As
sisting Langs|on will be Eld Barnes.
Frank Spencer and Hubert Carter.
£^||d|Lujdwk^ will^head the drive
State Of University
Conclave Opens Today
Chapel Hill — Some 200 faculty
members from the three units of
the Consolidated University of
North Carolina will open a two
day State of the University Con
ference in Chapel Hill this morn
ing.
The Conference theme will be
“How Can the Consolidated Uni
versity of North Carolina More
Nearly Meet its Full Responsibility
in the Areas of Instruction and
Research.” The subject will be
considered as it relates to students
through the sophomore year/ as
it relates to students above the
sophomore year, and as it relates
to continuation and extension.
Progress
Gifts Come
Next Week
Poe, Mann To Make
- Presentation Of Top
TP
Rural Progress Prizes
HILLSBORO — Orange County
farm leaders who directed the pro
gram which led to the county’s
designation as the State’s first in
Rural Progress in both White and
Negro divisions will receive their
reward next Thursday night
And at least a part of the pre
sentation will com.e. from the man
who originated the contest and do
nates the major portion of the ov
erall prize money, Dr. Clarence
Poe, the veteran editor of the
Progressive Farmer.
Presentation of the $1,000
“County of the Year in Rural
Progress” Award will be made
here at a meeting to be held at
the Courthouse Thursday night,
February 25 at 7:30 o'clock by Dr.
Ppe, while the $500 State award
for the county making the most
progress in the Negro division will
be presented by M. G. Mann, head
of the Farmers Cooperative Ex
change, also one of the donors to
the- contest Jund.
Expected to attend wili be the
farm . neighborhood .leaders from
throughout the county who direct
ed the program, - extension, con
servation and vocational agricul
tural personnel, county officials
and business interests. The public
is given a cordial invitation to be
present.
In addition to the presentation,
announcement is expected as to
the use to which the prize money
will be put.
Hillsboro PTA
Hears Address
By Armstrong
HILLSBORO — Roy Armstrong,
director of Admissions ol’ the Uni
versity of North Carolina, was the
guest speaker of the Hillsboro
Parent Teacher Association on
Tuesday night. ' :
Ijl.e said .the greatest . challenge
of today is Adult Leadership,
stressing the need of a closer re
lationship of parents with child
ren, especially with the older
children who need guidance. Child
ren need an education for prepa
ration for making a living. We are
faced with one of the greatest
problems of education, according
to statistics given by Mr. Arm
strong, in the increased number
of children in school and the great
shortage of teachers and crowded
conditions already existing.
Mr. Armstrong stated how the
P. T A. could help these condi
tions. He advised the parents to
become school conscious and
through school surveys learn the
"needs of the school and cooperate
with the school, but not try to run
the school.
He expressed appreciation to Or
ange County as a- member of the
Occoneechee. Council of Region
Six in winning an award for the
best job of Boy Scouting in A
merica.
Mrs. Clyde Ray’s fifth grade had
charge of the devotional exercise
and won the attendance award.
NEW CHURCH
Chapel Hill—The sponsorship of
a new Mission Baptist Church • in
the Glen Lennox-Greenwood area
of Chapel Hill will be disoussed at
ning, February 18, at 6:30 o’clock
at the Baptist Church of Chapel
Hill.
Guest speakers representing the
Missions Committee of the Mt.
Zion Association will be presented
by the pastor, Dr. Samuel Tilden
Habel. They will be Dr. Clyde
Chapman of Swepsonville, Rev. E.
C. Chamblee and Rev. E. C. Wilkie
of Burlington.
The public is invited.
FIRE AT COURTHOUSE
Fire threatened the new county
courthouse Monday afternoon
when a pile of excelsior caught
fire and spread rapidly on the
porch of the building. The fire de
partment was called and damage
was confined to scorching of the :
brick and window sill.
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