HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL MILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY i3, 1954
Oronga County
„ up with tho now*
T,v#r tho county by
, THE NEWS of
County.
NUMBER 19
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•oil. buy, ront or got a fob
by min* tho cImIIM o4*
on pago 9 of THE NEWS
of Orango County. *
TEN RAGES THIS WEEK
KIDD BRFWFR 5
fa/e/qA
flounc/up
[races. . .Although Char
of Rutherford has been
as State Insurance Com
er only a. short time, he
in there long enough for
| come to bat several times
brtant issues. On each oe
Lso far—he has been in
Batting on the side of the
we have nothing against
sition, it seems doubtful
|is particular fighf will
ery interesting. Gold made
If friends about the State
was assistant to Con
Ln ’A. L. Bulwinkle and,
|s a member of the State
^ntally, Insurance Corn
ier Gold is a first cousin
Gold, great WF halfback
early 30’s, former chief of
In Winston - Salem, fo a
|ine State director of pris
now city manager of the
Ity.
Ite the fact that Joshua
nfaking a lot of smoke
campaign against Treasur
In Gill, he doesn’t seem to
ling much headway other
certainly not much of a
|m, Gill has, nevertheless,
hefty following among the
and there is nothing in
rhich leads one to think
has much chance against
nes will get a good vote,
sufficiently, good — and
j Scott should go'to the U.
|e -—you might find James
for Governor two years
as to the Congressional
|from here it looks as if
umbents will win out.
(FACTS, , ,As we said here
he time Lennon and Scott
tot swigging many .weeks
le people are entitled tn
the facts about the ability,
and honesty of the cand
|and what the candidates
pr. Once they have this in
on, . their decision will in
[lability be the proper one.
although it was fine for
Stevenson, and Eisenhower
al their income tax state
to the people — and we
their honesty and forth
for so doing — the bus
letting the folks in on
larnings has suddenly bc
bld-fashioned. Why?
[short years ago it was all
i'hy was it not a “smoke
then but is a snioxe
now?
not kid ourselves. Let’s
lets. The cause of all this
pout personal income and
tax statements originated
| campaign due to very se
|nd ugly rumors reflecting
| honesty of W. Kerr Scott.
difficult to imagine that
P are as bad as the rumors,
cott, however, has certainly
tnel to Hie flame by' refus
make pubjic his financial
Ms and his income tax re
por the past five years. If
fs not do this before May
voters will have to go to
Us and cast their votes with
v'ng all the facts.
|main issue in this campaig
acter. The meat in the c
s: did Keri^Scott — as tt
have it—use the office <
r ioe eo&stderable parsa
and, if so is it reflect!
income- tax returns?
tainly do not know — and
Propose to insinuate thal
the case—but the rumon
Ue- In fairness to both Mr
[and to the public, it is tc
*Ped that Mr. Scott will set
[furnish thp public with th«
[requested — namely, tht
ation of his State and Fed
come tax returns for th<
five years. - . »
this personal finance mal
not a recent thing. It ha
I the key in this campaigi
[the beginning. It does loo!
[hef6*|s though if Mr. Scol
’'his tax returns, and i
that the ugly rumor
[See ROUNDUP, page 2)
Community
Leaders In
Drive Told
Rural Progress
Program For 1954
Well Underway
HILLSBORO — Scores of white
and Negro community leaders
have been appointed to lead the
1954 Orange County Rural Prog
ress Program and this year’s drive
is well underway, agricultural
authorities reported this week.
A more elaborate list of prizes
has been contributed for this
year’s program in an effort to
stimulate still more achievements
than were generated last year in
the successful effort which won
for the county the coveted “Coun
ty of the Year” award in Rural
Progress.
The community leaders are al
ready active, giving out the bro
chures on the program, contact
ing their neighbors and explain
ing the various phases and ad
vantages of the program'.
The leaders in the. various com
munities are:
1954 COMMUNITY LEADERS
Bethlehem: Mrs;'--Wiley Perry,
Mrs. Raymond Thompson, Mrs.
James Bradshaw, Mrs. John Ap
pie, Mrs. S. I. McPherson, Mrs.
Wilbur Lloyd.
Buckhorn: Ollie F. Jones, Har
vey Ray, W. A. Moore, M. M. Can
ter.
Caldwell: Henry Miller, J. G.
Berry, G, C. Tillman, Samuel Mc
Kee, Mrs. Louis Blaylock, Jesse
Porterfield, C. B. Taylor, Clifton
Parker, Irvin Roberson.
Carr’s Store: Mrs. Knox Woods,
Howard Compton, Marvin RogerS,
Mrs. Draughn Rountree, Mrs.
Rainey Foushee, Mrs. Paul Long,
Lewis Dunn, Mrs. L. J. Rogers.
Calvander: Lonnie Hogan, Mrs.
GFeiih Whitfield, Mrs. Curtis Ho
gan, Mrs. W. D. Neville, Jack Long,
John H. Cate, Walter Everett.
Cedar Grove: R. C. Compton,
Wade Carruthers, Mrs. R. E.
Hughes, Mrs. Ruby McDade, Don
ald McDade, Mrs. Jack Wills.
Chandler’s: Mr. & Mrs. Jule Al
len, John Hawkins, Wilfred
Phelps, Mrs. Zeb Burton, Mrs. Wy
att Phelps.
Crabtree’s Store: Mrs. N. N.
Jordan. Mrs.. W. L. Horner, Mrs.
^ (See LEADERS, page 4)
Dedication
Rites Sunday
At Cane Creek
Dedication services for the n£W j
church will.be held at Cane Creek
Baptist Church, in the Orange
Grove community, on the annual ■
homecoming day, Sunday, May 1C. j
Dr. I. G. Greer will- conduct the
dedicatory sermon in the morning :
at 11 o’clock. Memorial services
and .recognition of former pastors
will be held in' the afternoon.
Dinner will be on the grounds. All
friends are invited to attend.
un Here
GARAGE MAN CALVIN RAY and Mayor Ran J ohnston of Hillsboro art in the picture above as the
Mayor's car receives one of the green safety stick >rs after a safety inspection.
Free Check
Is Offered
By Garage
In cooperation with the Carolina
Safety League and state officials,
including Governor Umstead and ,
Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed
Scheidt whft have end- rsed the
program, local officials and Ray
O’Neal Motors in Hillsboro this
week launched a voluntary car
safety inspection program for the
benefit of Orange County automo
bile owners.
The Carolina Safety League is
a non-profit organization formed
to combat the dangers of mechan
ically unsafe motor....vehicles. It
was formed by various individuals,
business firms and organizations
interested in safety. It'' program,
already launched on a ;t"$te wide
basis, includes the voluntary ve
hicle safety check, designed to ac
complish on a voluntary, basis the
same results -as\ were attempted !
in this state* in the 1!H9. legisla
1 ive. program,'which w;u later re
pealed.
Hundreds ol. garages through
out the State have bon signed'
up as official inspection stations,
'offering ~-fpee-——i ns pec lions-of
brakes; glazing, steering, lights,
(See SAFETY, page 3)
New Newspaper In Chapel Hill
Area To Publishi Next Week
CHAPEL HILL — A new ncws:
paper to be called the Chapel Hill
News Leader, will have its maug
ural edition nexV Thursday,--Ma}
20, according to an announcement
by the publishers today.
Formal incorporation papers wil
be filed in the office of Secretary
of State Thad Eure in Raleigh
tomorrow.
The incorporators, who will use
the firm nairfe of The News Lead
er Company, Inc., are:
Phillips Russell, president, ano
editor of the paper; L. M. Polland
er vi^e-prcsident and advertising
director; Roland Giduz, secretary
and news director; and Edwin J
Hamlin, treasurer and business
manager. . , Q
"The News Leader will be 01 a
standard size, eight cplumns by 21
and a quarter inches and will have
its offices for the present time in
the office of (The News, Incorpo
rated, on Main Street in' Carrbo.ro,
whete it will also be printed. It
will be published oji Mondays and
Thursday and home-delivered by
carrier boys'on those days.
versity, has been on its,Journalism
faculty for 23 years. He has run a
weekly newspaper in this state and
I has worked on newspapers in New j
-York, Philadelphia and London.j
| Pollander, advertising teacher at
| the University School of Journal-j
j ism, has been on the advertisUr)
! staff of The Raleigh Times, the
; Richmond Times-Dispatch, and as
| sistant advertising director of the
j Herald-Sun papers in Durham.
| Giduz is a graduate of Chapel
Hill High School and the Univer
sity of North Carolina and has
been on the staff of the Chapel
'Hill We'ekly since January, 1B53.
Hamlin resides in Hillsboro and
| is editor and publisher pf The
1-News of Orange County and The
( Alamance News, both of which are
j prinfed at his plant in Carrboro.
Speed Watch Program, Politics
Ban Credited In Safety Record.
HILLSBORQ—"In three q?onths<
after the speed check' program
had been launched on North Car
olina highways, the average speed
of both cars and trucks had dropp
ed 10 miles per hour”.
Thus spoke Lieutenant William
Hunt of the Fayetteville division
of the North Carolina Highway,
Patrol in an address to the Hills
boro Lions club Tuesday night in
which he described the various
devices being employed in the
psychological fight being waged
on accidents on the highways by
the State Highway Patrol. He was
introduced by Patrolman T. P.
Smith of the Hillsboro office who
complimented ‘the Citizenry.and
the etvie groups of Orange County J
for their cooperation which has
brought improvement, in the acci
dent situation locally.
In describing the various phas '
es of the scientific approach to
the accident problem, Hunt said
that '‘only ‘after Ed Scheidt came
in were we allowed to do what we
had wanted to do for years. That's
the whole story in a nutshell. He
has'fiilT eonfrol and politic^ has
been eliminated from the patrol .”
He told- lioftytotal arrests were
high immediately after the inaug
uration of the speed-watch pro
gram while arrests last month
were down to 10 per cent of what
they were in the first month of
the device’s use. Other phases of
the psychological approach in
clude the use of the whammy, the
use of the special type camera
to record violations, sajtuation
coverage of a certain area by pa
trolmen to make it appear they
w more numerous than actually.
(ary. safety check program' now
underway locally and throughout
(he Stale and poinled out that
during the period of enforced in
spection, North Carolina for the
first time dropped below the na
tional average in accidents. After
that year of ^inspection the State
rate began to climb and climbed
continuously until October 1953
when the Schiedt program went
into effect and they began to de
crease.. ■’
TALENT SHOW _
^ The West Hillsboro Parent
Tcschpr^ Association is sponsoring
1 a talent show on Saturday night,
May 15, at 7:30 o’clock in the
1 school auditorium.
Voters To Hear
Candidates At
Event Tonight
CHAPEL HILL Orange Coun
ty voters will have a chance to
night to hear candidates ftfor
county offices who are affected by
the May 20 primary when the
Chapel Hill League of Women
Voters holds its biennial candi
date’s meeting.
Tonight’s meeting will be held"
at 8 o'clock at the Chapel Hill
Elementary School auditorium ta
accommodate the large crowd ex
pected to attend.
Candidates will he given a
chance to discuss various questions
and the audience will he given a
question .and answer period to ask
questions of the candidates.
Ano-her candidate meeting is
planned next Fall when voters will
hear candidates of both the Demo
cratic' and Republican parties.
Suits Brought
By Thompson
Heirs Settled
HILLSBORO — Compromise
settlements have been made in
three suits brought by, heirs of the
late Will Ed Thompson of 'Efland
against the executor of the estate,
Attorney Clarence Ross of Gra
ham.
No settlement has yet been
reached between another plaintiff
and the executor. Attorney Victor
S. Bryant of Durham in a docu
ment filed with the Clerk of Court
on March 9, also made himself a
party to the litigation, which had
as its purpose obtaining funds
from the estate for services ren
dered the deceased eccentric prior
to his death. Bryant served as his
attorney for many years, and in a
previous will was a major bene
; ficiary of the estate.
The three plaintiffs who took
voluntary non suits were nieces
and a nephew of Mr. Thompson.
•All reside in the Efland area. Set
tlements agreed lo'by the execu
tor and the court according to or
ders signed by Clerk of Court E.
M. Lynch were $975 for Bertie C. j
Moore, $2150 each for Pattye C. j
Stanford and James Crptchfield.
New Leaders
Are Elected
At Precincts
Chairmen and other precinct
officials were elected at meetings
held last Saturday in the various
voting precincts.
In HHJsboro, R. O. Forrest was
elected chairman of that precinct,
Mrs. Lucille Ray was named vicc
chairmdn and S. M! Gattls was
made secretary. Elected as pre
cinct committeemen wei^c O. S.
Robertson, Ed Hamlin, Elmer
Dowdy, Jerry B. Stone and George
Smith.
In five Chapel Hill pHecincts,
the newly-elected chairmen are
'T b. Creel, Precinct No. 1; Charles
Kodson, Precinct No. 2; Sandy Me
Ciamroch, Precinct No. 3; L. J.
Phipps, Precinct No. 4; and Wik
liam Geer,, precinct No. 5.
Names of other officers 'elected
iF theTive~ Chapel Hill precincts
or officials elected* at other places
: throughout the county were not
immediately available. « -
fFhe chairmen will all be mem
bers of the Orange Counjy Demo
cratic Executive Committee which
will meet in connection with the
County Democratic convention Sat
I urday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
I courthouse in Hillsboro and elect
the county chairman, other party
officials-afhd delegates to the State
Democratic Convention in Raleigh
' May 20, - ■; -
It's Typical May Story
... .* . "
Patrolman Finally Gets Driver
Stopped, But It Wasn't Easy
HILLSBORO—students of the
accident picture have no explana
tion for it, but each year the acci
dent rate takes at big jump during
j 111,, .n
” The picture
ir Orange County
Highway patrolmen reported
yesterday hiat seven persons were
arrested in the Hilsboro area
last week for drunken driving
and there was an upswing also
in other road offenses. One was
caught after a race at 85 miles per
hour, another after a race at 75
miles per hour.
One of the alleged drunken driv
ers wound up in an accident after
trying to outrun Patrolman Mann
Norris Jr.' from the Eno PoWer
Plant to Efland on Highway 70 at
speeds from 90 to 95 miles per
hour A few other charges such as
hit and run. speeding and reckless
i driving were tossed in with the
• drunken driving for good measure
I alter the. Patrolman had to run
him off the road to stop him.
Ephrian Elijah Mack, 28, of Mc
Cain was released under $1,000
bond and his three months old
baby, tJfeonly, othgjoccupaiit of
—UmIIflK
when the driver was finally
.stopped, was turned over to the
I Welfare Department case workers
fpr safe keeping until the mother
cculd come up from Pinchurst to.
get him.
Before he was finally stopped,
according to Norris, Mack hit the
car of W. B. Holt Sr. of Durham
and then glanced into a 1953 Trac
tor-Trailer being driven by Fred
O. Latta of Durham, and w'ent 2.2
miles after a blowout and whef.
caught was driving at th'e rafe of
60 miles per hour on the rim.
He, along with others in the two
weeks roundup., frill be tried m
Recorders Court Monday morning,
j But for the Highway Patrol, it’s
May in Orange County whether the
'temperature says it. is or not.
Physician Reports
Candidate's Progress
Is Still Satisfactory
CHAPEL HILL — Deputy Sher
iff Prank Maddry, who suffered
a series of heart attacks on Mon
day and Tuesday of last week, will
definitely continue in the race
for Sheriff, it was learned here
yesterday, campaigning if possible
from his bed at Watts Hospital. *
Since "Maddry’s illness there had
been widespread speculation that
he would withdraw from the rape
but this possibility was discount
ed by both Mrs. Maddry and Dr.
Isaac Manning of Durham, the
candidate's physician.
Dr. Manning said Maddry
might leave the hospital in two
or three weeks. He called . Mad
dry's progress since the attack as
“quite satisfactory.” Continuing
the discussion of the candidate’s
future. Dr. Manning said three
months is usually required follow
ing such an attack for the patient
to resume “moderate activities.”
He added: “I believe he will be
in qutte satisfactory condition to
carry out the duties ©f a law en
forcement officer.” , r
Maddry is one of four candi
dates in the race for Sheriff. Oth
ers are Odell H. . Clayton, Hills
boro, Charles Johnston, Chapel
Hill, and Willie Laws of Hillsboro
Route 3.
Seniors Offer
'7 Chances1
Wednesday
HILLSBORO—The Senior Claas
of the Hillsboro High School will
preseat “?even Chances 1 «’Sam
uel French production, on Wed
nesday night, May 19 at 8 o’clock
promptly. •
This is described as a racy conv-._
edy with plenty of action and In
terest. It is a story In which Jim
my Shannon, played by Bobby
Forest, has Inherited twelve mil
lion dollars, but he must bp mir
ried by -his next birthday or he
won’t get a c^nt. Now this starts
almost a panic, because withiB a
limited time Shannon has to pro
pose to seven different girls in
seven different ways.
By the help of his pal, played
by Everette Rosemond, Shannon
works the events up into a ciltnaa
of suspense and hilarity. Things
take place quickly and with what
surprises and.complications!
The entire cast of characters
are: Van Kenybrt*, Bruce Rich
mond, Douglas Woods. Paul Ca*r.
\fav Enquire, Evere’fe R-srmond
Bobby Forrest, Jean kfinrev T^>ls
Prive'Ue,, Yvonne' McDade Edna
Lloyd. Dathpne Snmmev .Tan Oak
ley, Dorothy Moore. Varv El'za
beth Kenyon, and Harry Wheeley,
I soloist.
Managers: Jimmy Dunn and
| Richard Rigsbee.
Ticket committee: Jimmy apd ‘
Johnny Reeves.
General committee: Helen Wjid
and Betty Rose Crabtree.
Registration
Books Close
On Saturday
Next Saturday.
May 15, will be
ration prior
two weeks later.
It will be the last chance for new
residents and for new voters who
will become 21 years of age before
the General Election in November
or have become of voting age since
the last election, to get their names
on the books before the Primary.
By law the registration period
| closes at sunset. The following Sat
I urday. May 22, will be Challenge
Day. -
Reports from a number of pre
cincts indicate that new registra
tions have been relatively light
during the two previous weeke.
Precincts In Chapel ffitl reported
variously from 20 to 60 new reg
istrants thus far. Some 64 had
registered in Hillsboro by Tues
day of this week.