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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. mm Oiang« County Hi* news, county by NEWS of Per quick. : sell, buy, by using on page 9 of Orange County. EIGHT Ip Jjc THE FORT. . .1 am, Ine else would be, flat It some of my friends Jtacted me to determine 1st, if any, in being en appointment to the U them have wanted to j he Governor in my be lted that this, not be done, ointed out that having ee years on Capitol Hill Jt, Senator Baily and then (b. Umstead, that, theo jl jvould be able to step jiit too much indoctrina ted that if I could be the Governor or. to the o Party by going to |on to help “hold the [il the Governor ond the committee had time to the person to.be placed democratic ticket for the |r election, I wbuld be do so. However, it would the understanding that it jily be until someone elsft chosen, as I have no desire at this time to live Sngton. riity and I have been much these last few years since Washington and we ares On the other hand, there dreds of good, able men [rilling and eager to go. 1 this to Governor Um |t week. The Governor and nds, 1 giff sure, under position in the matter. riD PRIMARY?. . .With biennial voting day in Carolina just around the [folks jvho three weeks ago little interest now open eet corner conversations you think there i second TPrirri'***** f tcond Primary”, they mean between Senator Lennon leading opponent, Kerr Haw River. In without the pain and ex p. a second Primary, Sen anon must receive at leas” fe vote than the combined the candidates who think do a better job of look er North Carolina’s inter Washington than pan Al unon. IS HE?. When a cam •s underway, the quest inn s to “who is so-an-so??. . . card of him”. Well, those tes you never heard of are rs who become important last laborious breaths of e. They bring on the run and become exceedingly j with the two top men in tort, hurried days between ular voting and the final ice in a while you find a rt the barrel, but as a gen ng they are good, substan tizens — and sometimes mre on the ball than the ho are better known. Re r Sandy Graham in that fought, three -cornered bat i Clyde R. Hoey and Dr. McDonald in 1936? He lost 1 was the also-ran. ust be admitted that the j hing smelled to high hea tcDonald supporters, and rere one or two of them, 5lit, as it turned out, Clyde y became the most popu- j Pernor we ever had. Hoey went on to the U. S.'Seri luldering Bob Reynolds out ■e rather unceremoniously 1 our daughter, Olivia Lin- j is born 12 years ago last | one of the announcements j hirth went to Clyde R. Ho- i that time, 1942, he was i governor nor senator, from him gt his home in 1 came this little silver cup 1 ed to Olivia Linney Brewer ,J 'lyde R. Hoey; - - —dJ 'irst role as a delegate to a * ratio National Convention 1 the third term thing in 0 in 1940. I rode up with ‘ dpb McDonald, rode back ^ lyde R. Hoey. I was consid-j ^ te ROVNDVP, page 2) i W*r£ ««mNh?li>ATES ASSEMfLEoDu - Th* P*opl« for whom Orange County citizen, will cast their votes In the May 29th primary election HmL.T J r '"i.T! 9;ouf* by iPh°to9raph»r Roland Cldui at last w,ek's Candidates' Meeting in Chapel Hill. Representative John W. M „ .an. . al? ' 8 e ®r °"stab e John Rogers, who are unopposed in the primary, were also present and are pictured with the group f *Um £*d.jS°Tr fr'eft seat,d and Ro*«r* i# Ending second from left. The other candidates pictured from left to right are: sea ed) Donald M. Stanford, R. J M. Hobbs, Miss Betty Juno Hayes, Fred T. Reitiol, Archie G. Williams, G. P. Sykes, and H. Broadwell; (standing) Edwin S. Lanier, Willie Laws, Charles Johnston, Odell H. Clayton. N Bryant Berry, hfenry S. Walker, Hugh Wilson, Sim L Eflanci and Lloyd T. Hopkins. * - Zoning Hearing Set June 1 At Carrboro ■ A public hearing on tire pro posed zoping. ordinapee for the Town , of Carrboro has been or dered for June 7. The town commissioners passed J a resolution calling for the hear ing at their last meeting. It will be held in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. on this date. The six man zoning commission, headed by Lloyd Senter. passed recom mend at ions for land use restrt *•' tions following a public hearing before their group about two months ago. At that time there was almost no public opposition to the idea. Since then, Recording to sev eiy! town officials, -there has been only a little opposition, ’and it has been based on the recommended boundary lines of some of the proposed three dis tricts that have recommended in the ordinance. These districts have been tentatively designated as Tesidential, business, and in dustrial. The commissioners plan to thke up the (own budger at then regular meeting next month. Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson, also announced the hiring recently, of Walter-Clark Jr. as a member of the town police force, replac ing the late E. C. Parnell. Mr Clark i<r-a native of the com munity, and has three and one half years experic nee as a pa t rol man on the Chapel Hill police force. He has recently been err ployed as a salesman for -Colon ial Motors. Democrats Of Orange Carl Durham Speaks 4 Af County Meeting Robert 0. Forrest* of Hillsboro was returned to the chairmanship < 1 -the Democratic Party in Orange County last Saturday afternoon at | the first meeting of fhe newl l elected county Executive Coinmi tee held in connection with tlie biennial convention Forrest served as party chair “*’<>0 for a number of terms prior te 1952 when, as a result of his candidacy for the Board of County Commissioners, he declined to of fer himself for the party position. Mrs, Mary Stanford of White Cross has served as party chairman for the past two years. Elected -to serve with Forrest for the next two years were Mis Harriet Herring of Chapel Hill, vice chairman, and William Geer of Chapel Hill, secretary. Keynote speaker of fhe day was he veteran Chapel Hill Congress man, Carl T Durham, who himself • was the recipient of the conven t ion’s plaudits in a formal reso lution expressing the -party’s ap preciation for his 16 years’ service in Congress. Durham predicted that the Dem ocrats would be returned, to con trol of the House of Represents- i tives in the general election next Fall He described this prosoect! a§ “pretty definite” and said the overall picture for the party "this fall “looks very, very promising.” He praised the record of the Dem ocrats in his short address to'the home audience anti took a slap at j the present "fiasco” in Washing ton. the McCarthy-Army hearing. We are proud that we have sent' iSet FORREST, page 8) » Candidates Get Stitt Grilling From Audience At Chapel Hill By Doris Hi ns , Bat is Both patheiit and rousing were brought out 1 Burs ' lav evenino when the annual < andidates' meeting was held in ‘ ° .. V- .. ■ rilitipnt W’flM-' Jl. nvi.raii. pi imary ,C"" KHP The meeting ..as under ill.-, anspiees ,il l ie Chapel Hill en„„e ,.l Women Voiers. Un. VI Oe-meratli. newly eleeted .resident of the local l.eaKuo. welenmed .he eapaory erowd. \,r. |oh„ Cilill o n,'I av modenaliir,. Mr., (..Ilin-gave .he tudience some background by stat-j ng that letters had previously ieen sent to the Democratic cand dates, stating specific areas m. ihich they would be asked to e\ ress themselves. The first candidates called were or the four-year term of Regis er of Deeds. Runing for this office re tfetty June'Hay^, Hd oro, and Archie G Williams. IfTaricf.- “ ..— The Register of Deeds serves i custodian of official papersfex opt ’court'records), and as clerk or the county commissioners. Can-, idates were asked .to discuss th j roblem of efficiency and economy Both candidates .were ask.d whether or not a Kegister snouia carry on other business during of fice hours; both replied they would conduct only regular business dur-*! ing office hours if elected. Miss Hayes attended the Regis ter of Deeds convention sponsored by the Institute of Government in 1953. Mr. Williams* said he,would be willing to attend such sessions Ask Commissioners The largest number of questions and controversies arose during examination of the twelve candi-. dates for County Commissioner, from whom five will be elected on May 29, The three with the high (See CANDIDATES, page 4) ' Elect Forrest Chairman Executive Committee R O. FORREST Reckard To Be Baccalaureate Speaker Here HILLSBORO — The Rev.' C. H. Reckard of the Hillsboro Presby terian Church will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday May 3?). Music will be, provided bv the eighth grade AnnoUljfcetTfent of Mr. Reckard V selection was made by Bobby For rest; chairman of the Senior com mittee in charge. ITie Senior Class night will, be held on June 2. The committee; Everelte Rost;-, monel, chairman. MaryE. Kenyon and Glenda Riley under the di rection of Mrs. Campbell have ar ranged a theme of the “The Ap paritibncel Recapture of the Sen ior." The final night of graduation will be held on June 3, at 8:00 o’ clock. The speaker for the night will be Amos Abrams,, editor of North Carolina Educational Mag- . azine. The class is hoping to have Paul Goodwin as soloist. Mr. hi^tjor diplomas and Mrs. Van Kenyon will present them with Bibles. NEW SIZE Today's edition of The News is the first as a standard sire eight column newspaper, the form in which it will be published in the future. The larger size newspaper is made possible by the Model E Duplex automatic press which the company has just recently installed in itr'printing plant at Carrboro. I The new size will enable us to provide more news and adver tising space in fewer pages end should eliminate the necessity of leaving out important news be- 't • cause of space limitations. ■■on Nearly 100 Going To Raleigh Today Riileigh is the focal point today for Hose to a hundred Chapel Hill ahd Orange County Democrats, who last Saturday were elected delegates and alternates to the bi ennial State Convention of the ■party. t Their selection came at the 1 forty's county convention held at sme courthouse in Hillsboro upon the recommendation of the conven fion’s Committee on Delegates com posed of L. J. Phipps and John l mstcad of Chapel Hill, Edwin M I-vnch of Hillsboro and G. C. Trugsdale of University. t Delegates and alternates^ were! apportioned among the grccinc* on the basis of the county’s vote lor Governor in the 19.52 General Election. (5.369 votes were cast in this county in the Governor’s race, thus entitling the county to 42 dele- j urtes and their alternates on the | basis of one delegate for each ’50 votes cast. (The .convention was scheduled. *n convene at nnnn Prior to the J < onvention sess.ioTrycajr hasHweiT his.j < ustom, for a number of year*;, Heo John Umstead entertained the delegates from this county at n luffet luncheon at the Carolina j Hotel. i The delegates and th?ir alter- j nates for each of the county’s ]9 , precincts* are as Tollowsr*^"" Hillsboro:' K. 0. Forrest, O. S. Robertson, S. M. Gattis, E. R Dffwdy. Mrs.. C. D, Jones, Mrs. Don S. Matheson . and Mrs Virginia Cates; alternates, Jerry R. Stone. If.- Broadwell, Mrs. B. S. Carr, E. J. Hamlin; MU’ Marion Robert’s. Ev lit. (See DELEGATES. pa»e 4) Jury Decides Student Death Was Suicide CHAPEL HILL — A University i of North Carolina senior student shot two of his fraternity brothers early last Saturday morning and hen killed himself. A coroner’s jury yesterday rul ••d that the death of Putnam Da vis, Jr., was a suicide. The two he shot, Allen Long, student from Chevy Chase, Md.. and William Joyner of Summit, N. J.. both told officers that Davis fired at them point blank after they’d all been sitting and listening to records in their (Joyner's and Long’s) third- 1 floor room at the Phi Delta “Theta ! fraternity for several, hours very j early Saturday morning. * ] No motive for Davis’ shooting them ha'been found, although it appeared from police invest iga , lions-that Davis contemplated his ( acts for several hours before the 7 a.m. time of the crime. Orange J County Coroner Allen H! Walker impaneled a jury of six men to rule on the death early Saturday mornfirg. They were Charlie Stan cel), Art Bennett. Bernice Ward, Lester Foley, Obie Davis, and W. i N, Tyler, all of CHapel Hill. The1 sjx- viewed the body fn the third floor room of the house, and then adjourned until yesterday morn ing when they reconvened tl> hear more testimony and render j their verdict. , The jurors went to Memorial Hospital to interview Long and i Joyner, both of whom recalled 1 their associations with Davis dur- 1 ing the four hours before tho j shooting.'They told the jurors that I all throe of them were sitting in 1 the room, listening to jecords. j talking .quietly about the music, and drinking cans of beer, which ' they'd purchased earlier for a Ho- I gun’s Lake party the next day They said Davis came in about It ’ a. m. At no time did he say any thing to indicate his plans, al- '• though he-several times left the ‘ room, Davis arid Joyner testified. 1 Suddenly, as Long re-entered the 1 room-ff«m the adjacent bathroom H about 7 a. m he saw Davis shoot J' Joyner, and felt a bullet strike him as he jerked open the door^ ' to leave. Joyner said “his back was turned at thf- time,'and that he 1 had no warning of the shot. Davis 1 apparently turned the 22 cal pis 1 i ol ’on hfmscJT ’TEiirTOrtl'atrly ' after • shooting, his, two fraternity, broth ers. He died from a close-range shot in the left temple. Chapel Hill Police Chief W. T Sloan said yesterday the case was ■ closed as far as he w;iis eoneernetfc ' Carrboro Offers Fire Fighting Service To Rural Areas Nearby . ■ " I The Town of Carrboro this week completed a plan to make fir^Tuiht f ing services available to the rural area lor several miles arooprf'Hs l<»va limits. ^ , An ordinance passed by the town commissioners edicts up a plan whereby ^fayor as an agent for the town, can enter into contract agreements with per sons living in a designated, rural area to have the town volunteer fire department answer calls to their homes, if the equipment is available at that time. A fan-shaped district of about a two miles radius is included. It extends southward from Carrboro cn the Flat Bridge Road to the Chatham County line, thence in a northward radius, striking just west of University Lake. Wilson's .Service Station, Calvander, and arognd to the railroad tracks on the-on the GrangfcChu"ch*Catvan der road. Also included is a triange including Dogwood, Acres to the south. Chapel Hill and its immedi ate suburbs are excluded from thi eligible district Of course the de call* for help from Strifef fowii ! and to public properlio outside the C'arrboro limits . Drawn by Town Attorney I J 1 htpps, the bill sets, up ih< follow j ing schedule of annual fees for i this service For properties of $5.- r 000 assessed valuation or les> 510 for each additional $1,000 \alua 5 tion, fcl The town assumes n r Ita , bdity in fighting the fires and does , rot “guarantee what equipment—H ( will send. . f^-Tb be eligible for this son ice lesidents must live on a hard sur- * faced or improved road over wh ch the town's two fire truck• e.m eas - tty travel The - errnuai peeooum will fall due on duly 1 of each " year bijft contracts .are now avaib* 3 able at-the town hall jnd mav be * signed to become immediately et fective through July 1 of nest year % ______ Speaks Tonight Reverend Henry B Anderson of "Durham, President of the Baptist State Board of Missions, will speak at the Baptist Church at Chapel Hill on Thursday, May 20. 0 30 P M., following -a Family Night church dinner. - Mr, .Anderson will use as his topic, "The Mission Work of Bap tists in North Carolina". He is pastor of the Grace Baptist Church in Durham. Carrbo.ro PTA Plans Forum For Candidates The Carrboro P. T, A. will meet in the final session of the school year, Tuesday evening, May 25 at 7:30 in the school auditorium. The meeting will begin at 7:30 because of the lengthy pregram planned. There will be repoils of the past year, installation ot officers for the 1954-1055 school \ear The Installation will be conducted by Vlr ,1 K Adahvs. Past President of-the Grange Council P T A \ piano solo will he rendered by Kav Nell Maddrv, a piano student ot Mrs Cleveland Gardner. All the candidates for County Commissioner and Board of Kdu ration have been invite I I i parti cipate in a forum on “View • and PI ms for the Orange “ County School. Program .Walter < Jr. will- act as ( Kaifman yu thfs forum. County Sup* nhtendi • ’ Paul Carr, the County- Board ■ 1 Education and John I'ms'ead, Jr have also been invited to attend this meeting. The public is cor dially. invited to attend Ullman To Speak At Latin Banquet Or B L JL'llman hi the Dejiart meiil "i Latin at tha? * Uni varsity of North Carolina vviif he the Jfue&t ifieaker^at .-'3?.tKmq.< trtrr.fiv.dh* held by the HilKhuro School Lai in students, trfidoi the direction, of Mr1- Edgaf T Campbell/ on l-'i day night May 24 at tto clink at the Si !ili > (irati^i Or 1 liman is Jhe author ol the State accented latin text books. Mr Frank Ora ham stated that Or l liman is the top Latin scholar of America Students will b< n Roman cos turrres. the proverbial togas and sandaf- Homan t<>.«.t will be sen He ell.11 •• d ,, , Approximately fifty are planning; to attend students EXi HANUE CL I B S WHITE ELEPHANT SALE TO BE MELD JIM 5 The annual Exchange ('tub White Elephant Auction Sale will tie held on Saturday, June S, at 1:80 pm On auction will be.an tiques. furniture, lawn mowers, tables picnic benches, electric stoves chairs etc. ” Drawing for free prt/es will be given at -the' sale:'— " ' *' Anyone caring to'give J 'Rations are asked to call ,Mii|sh >ro 3505 Ide,.(if if!!.. Emteaw. member* will" pick them up, The place of the atut ieif wid he. xmiounced later. V Carr Thinks Orange Adjustment May Be Easier Than Some Orange County education*] leaJfl crs yesterday indicated ft will toe business as usual*’ in the opera tn«n nf the local school system for the time being despite the Su preme Court decision outlawing segregation, but they were .in agreement-that a lot of new study, planning and adjustment are ahead j nl them. That was the gist of statements issued by the Board and person ally by some of those connected with it at a meeting held yester day to elect teachers for next year phd study the budget. ^ School loaders gerorally regard ed the decision as disturbing but ithc attitude generally tons one of i "wait and see" what interpreta tions would be put on the ruling by the State and what further in- j struct ions would be laid down by the high court at its next meeting | I in October Public comment has j been varied. . At the conclusion of their meet ing, the board authorised the fol lowing statement of its altitude: , "Since the Supreme Court has not decided when and und^r what con 'Idions segregation would be elim inated in our schools, we will go ■dead .with the elections of tr—i I ( rs. the'study of the budget, uii I continue the. operation of the -diools as in the past. We are re appraising our long-range educa tional program in the light of the recent Supreme Court decision. The course of whatever action this board may take in regard to seg regation in the schools of Orange j County will tie drfe nuvvi by tN j interpretation of tin ruling oy me ; federal Supreme Court and the de jus.ions of the State Board of E<fs j cation ” County Superintendent G. Paul i ;.rr had this to say: “Our people I'1 Orange County will adjust to the change .more readily than most 1 counties in this state We will await ' ,h«- interpretation of the eourt as t" how Ihe ruling will b*» put into I " dh interest and will be Niching the matter in the mean time" ■“ pSPt I hope the people of Orange •( Will not get unduly upset about this matter A calm ,nd cau ' • " . (-roach will be Sw-M.” he ; t.().lled __- ' ■ ' ~ I . B»agT v.‘ n;tw-r Clarence P._ i s',,‘l The Supreme Court's decli !-M"» •'! -"'at concern to mo, a ' P certainly puts the school of iia!- in a very serious position However, according to the news H • - fiV.m Washington, the rul mg dot, not end segregation tot this - Fall to decide ho# i i when to end the practice of I bus. a lengthy delay ; I k' !' before the court decisioe 1B effrrrcTf out.1* 1 . --——r ~ j At the beginning of the - Mr. Carr revealed ti r.nc rn-mctpal. B A. Witt of r.-d.,r lifine School, had mb.... Iu> resignation for the clone of yi ar w hat other changes b-- Tittle to the county school ‘ .t-!.-*■ was not available at ■ time - - Sh« his (-tllt'eS_ j at the Hillsboro , iog an announce. by Postmaster Tom Khevv will till mtlr he reatei jwiii of Mrs. Cora l.yi effect <n August 31. iwnt was tfoctive Mrs Lynda pending her final g the. postal ■l -t\ ic»>. durtjjjfe period she set was seHH '» . * " ;„'i <*»r*. ice st'creta Khew, ac
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