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Orange County with tho now* the county by : NEWS of For quick, proven multi, «oll, buy, rout or pot a fob by ueing tho cltwWad ab on Ml* 7 of THE NEWS NUMBER 24 '"r . • HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL hSLl. N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 17. 1*54 _ • _, . - v-.. -... .. ... . .. .. . *' EIGHT PAGES THIS WMK ... .... .... _’_ ** KIDD BREWER'S we/frt "fome/up -HINT. • ,iThe Wall Street I in an editorial carried this 27 said that the “Nortl /poll (Ed. note: our May 2! L wiii be the first hint o' [reaction to high court ban.' 'main thing in the Journal i opinion was that if Keri should receive the De: I ■nomination for the U. S lit would indicate that Nortl i was not objecting as seri i the U S. Supreme Court': j as a victory by Alton A might indicate, feditorial said that “a vie Mr. Lennon would be in J as reflecting popular re ;nt aghinst the Court rul |the same token, a Scott tri |would be read to mean that el voters no longer can be up over the race issue,’ Journal. Scott won, but the Tar Heel are neyerthless, “stirred plenty, over the segrega Lost ion. ITERS . . . We haven’t had jortunitv to see them, buf re we get are that Governor m B. Umstead’s mail for the nonth has been fully loaded u Ini f I .tin il it ■- vi ho i ig, education, and experi for generations stand like a in opposition to their send leir children to school with d children. t of these letters come from communities, where Negroes rhites will be forced to ride ime school buses. A lot of the aints are from good, though white people who say they fci funds with which to send •ifsWW* - >.nrjvate .schools »wvot permit them to go' to 1 with Negroes. You have no of the vastness of the prob if you have not lived in the areas of Eastern North ina. ■ * LONG FIGHT . . . Although wnal decisions must come the U S. Supreme Court be white and colored will jpe d by law to attend the same ils, most of us are not yet o to the serious problems fac housands of families— both land black — throughout the ' going to be a long, hard, fight. There will probably be bloodshed here and there, indictments, lawsuits, and ' moving through the. various ^ on this charge and that ge of non-compliance with the and stubborn violations of it. e big change will require a Christian patience, toler and understanding between races. Even then, it ma.y be 25 s before we see full com pi f w*th the law. ^ SOUTH? . . . We speak of ■^ew South. (This move from Ration to nonsegregation of faces will prove just how New are Can we stand the test-’ time will tell. But the im ant ^*ng to remember is that test of the South’s" real "Sth is not something that will n ‘>1 the far distant future. It’s “ally here on us, right now ready for it, individually fam!iy. as a state, as a united W 6f’ the United dates’? "?1P then now—not tomorrow—is 'me to start preparing our s for the Test. That isn’t easy. e first requirement is that "'"at close our eyes to yester EGRo in POLITICS . . . Tum r°m the segregation question e foie of the Negro in South* Politics, the Wall Street Jour feport* that ‘in some areas of the ‘Negro vote*—if it’s cast oything like a block—may ever f the balance of political er between Democratic candi * in intra-party fights, or in ‘ cntial elections as between GP candidate and the Demo nominee. , ' • According 4!o GOP esti 120,000 Tar Heel Negroes *•> . lStt Roundup, page t) Something Approaching Wilmington Situation - a Local Pastor Says Obscene Pictures Are Problem Here Reckard Says Young Minds Being Exposed To Lewd Publications HILLSBORO — The Rev. C. H. Reckard, pastor of the Hillsborp ’resbyterian Church, in a sermon martially prompted by last week’s candal in Wilmington, last Sunday ■ailed upon all Christian people o challenge the suggestive and ■ewd publications which grace mag izine racks here and in other ■learby communities and charged hat something approaching the Wilmington situation is happening here. In a sermon entitled “It’s Your Mind He Needs," Mr.^Reckard in eferring to the*Wilmington epi ode in. which prominent school of ficials and others were exposed as makers and distributors of lewd photographs, said, “Not only are ob scene and suggestive,.photographs passed about in the student body of our local school,! but perhaps even more serious lewd cartooned booklets depicting the most inti mate relationships between the sexes. i , “Whether or not this is a product of an organized syndicate’ is not known bv those who are awaje pf •his insidious evil, but the danger ‘ is confronting us, the pictures and booklets are here, and the minds of our young folks are being un necessarily exposed to this poison ous material." Following are excerpts from the sermon: A •- V, - “We were shocked to learn 'about the scandalous activities ex I posed this past week in Wilming Sitting peacefully, as we do„ ‘in the pleasant surroundings of Hillsboro, we would hardly susDect that anything remotely approaching these obscene activities could hap pen here. “Well, something approaching this situation is happening here Not only are obscene and suggest ive photographs passed about in the student body of our local school, but perhaps even more ser ious- lewd cartooned booklets de picting the most intimate relation ships between the sexes. All are designed to appeal to the lowest sensual responses of the mind. , "Whether or not this is a prod uct of an organized fsyyndicate’ is not.known by those who are aware cf this insidious evil, but the dan ger is confronting us, the pictures and booklets are here, and the minds of our young folks are beine unnecessarily exposed to this poi sonous material! “It may well be that in the bus iness of living you have not re cently ■ observed th<^ sanctioned publications’which strike St the mind in S similar fashion. I sug gest you make it your burgess to inspect the contents of t|e maga 7jne racks of some of The Hills boro. Chapel Hill, , and Durham stores. Your eyes will be opened: It is not only that daring and sug gestive photographs grace the cov ers nf some magazines, but the article titles in bold lettering there on are enough t- oexcite the most beastly instingt in the human breast. They are designed to sell ^t the expense of the minds of voung and old with utter disregard for the damage which follows. ©5®.i-tlUM. t° ci‘‘fen ■•ight of the indivdual to face real tv and to make his or her choice H is quite another thing as Christ loving people to place a stamp of approval on these lewd publica tions bv failing to challenge them in the light of the moral problems which they raise! am in the good company of 1 when I say there are thoughts thy of the Christian mind, n y brethren, whatsoever things ' true, whatsoever things are est, whatsoever things are just tsoever things are pure, what ■er things are lovely, what^ • .things are of good rcpo^tf ■e be any virtue, and if there any praise, think .on these gj As a Christian people ^ fot afford any longer t0 a,this ng minds to be weaned on this using trash without voicing ac protest!” §_.... CONTOUR FARMING, with tobacco rows arranged by the string row method, protects tho land and provides to re hotter crop on Mr. end Mrs. Knox Wood's HILLCREST FARM, in their Rural Progress program. (Photo by Soil Conservation Service) Contour Farming Gives Farmer Luck-Often Called Foresight The Rural Progress Program is giving Orange County farmers a chtnce at a double benefit from, their contour farming. Besides using summer shower.s as a sort of natural irrigation, con tour farming is one of the pra.c-„ tices that earns a ticket which may be one of the lucky ones at the dewing at the end of the Rural Progress year. But whether the ticket is lucky or not, the framer that has the benefits of the land protection and better crops that result from farm ing on the contour has the luck that is^more properly called fore sight. Every rain of any consequence finds up and down hill rows a track for racing from the. field. Rows on the contour are. a dif ferent story. Then each row fences ’n part of the water, hefping store it for the crop’s later use. And the soil and fertilizer that is thereby, prevented from escaping remains to grow future crops better. With most tobacco farmers mik ing Rural Progress, contour farm ing is carried a step further. There, where water must not be allowed •o stand-, the rows are arranged *o drain slowly from end to end. The string method of laying off the tobacco rows is used to make sure that the water will move slow ly anjd yet not pond. iThis, too, en titles the farmer to a ticket, possi bly good for a Rural Progress Pro tram prize. With the siring row method the See CONTOURS, Page 4 QUESTION, ANSWER Th* age-old question, "May I pay box rant for a year," can now bo answered ^Yos," under certain conditions." The box rent accounting year ends June 30 of future years. The changed regulation allows patrons to rent post office boxes for 12 months when paid June 21 to June 30 inclusive. Store Gets ( New Manager HILLSBORO - A new manager has assumed the management of Pope's 5c to $1 Store, which is undergoing extensive 'renovation preparatory to beginning opera tion as a completely self-service store. - , A new addition has been con structed at the rear of the btiilding and a new front, including display windows, is being rushed to com p'etion at the site on Churton St. here. 'The new, manager is John Nor ris, who with Mrs. Norris, has come here from Pittsboro where they have been employed by one of the Pope stores there. Both are natives of Radford, Va. Mrs. H. E. Gulick, who has been store manager for a number of years, is convalescing after her recent attack of pneumonia. She will continue to d>e associated with the store when she is able to re turn to work-, .. ... t;.. - Chapel Hill Girl Wins College Fiction Contest CHAPEL HILL — Louise Harde mUn, Chapel Hill, a 1954 University of North Carolina graduate, has been named winner of the Made moiselle College Fiction Contest. She is the second Consolidated University student to win the hon or-in two consecutive years. Mrs. Doris Betts, wife of a Uni versity law student in Chapel Hill, won the contest last year while she was a student at Woman’s Col lege in Greensboro. Miss Hardeman’s short story, “The Lost Beach,” is a poetic story about childhood which she wrote fbr Dr. Hugh Holman’s creative writing class in the English De partment here last "semester. The story will be published in Mademoiselle’s college issue this summer and Miss Hardeman will receive a $500 cash prize. '‘The Lost Beach” -also won the' annual - fjction contest sponsored by the Carolina Quarterly, campus literary magazine, this spring. Paul Green and James Street, well known Chapel Hill-authors, judged the story best of the group submit led by students. It was published in the Quarterly’s spring issue and the winner received a $50 prize. Miss Hardeman is the daughter of Mrs. Julia S. Hardeman of Chap el Hill. She was a practice teacher in the Chapel Hill High School' during the spring term Club Women Entertain Student From China Fang Wang, Chinese student at the University of North Caro lina, recently spent the weekend in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hughes at Cedar Grove. While there he was entertained by the Fairfield Home Demon stration Club and also .the women from Schley. Crippled Children's Camp Set At *New Hope CHAPEL HILL-— Final plans for a camping program for crippled children have been completed by he North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults, Dr. r. D. Messick, Greenville, presi dent, announced at the Socety’s headquarters here. “Happy, lasting friendships and ^elf-reliance are quickly built up during a camping experience—and that’s why 60 North Carolina crip cled children will return home next fall with a never-to-be-forgot ten camping period behind them,” President Messick said. , One .two-week period between the Oralis m»byt«*y owned Camp New Hope near Chap el Hill for victims oi cerebral pal sy, polio, multiple sclerosis, acci dents, muscular dystrophy and oth er crippling conditions. Any orth npedically disabled child from 6 to 15 years of age is eligible to at tend. Children must be ambulatory, toilet trained, and able to dress gpd feed themselves. Albin Pikutis, executive director of the Society, said that campers will be selected chiefly on rec ommendations of county Easter geal Societies, physicians, nurses, and social workers. “A well-trained staff will provide for the personal care of the camp ers and camp activities,” he added. -(There will be a registered nurse in camp at all times, with a camp physician available on call. The services of « physical therapist will be available to children requiring periodic treatment throughout the camping period.'A camp director, counselors and other •trained per sonnel will plan all camp activi ties. Picnics, overnight in the woods, swimming, games, craft work, trips through the forests are all part of the program.” He said that a fee of forty dol lars will be charged for the two week period “This is about half of the cost: the remainder will be paid by the Society from Easter Seal contributions,” he explained. Camperships will be available through Easter Seal units, clubs ar.d individuals.” Crippled children who can ben (•fit from this-experience should be referred to the Society or to the local Easter Seal unit or to some individual or club willing to ar range details and" help finance the trip." Children attending should arrive cl Camp New Hope between 2 and 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 15, for their physical check-up and assign ment to quarters, Pikutis said. The camping activities will begin on Monday, August 16. CAMP FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — A typical scene at Canip New Hope, tha grange Presbytery camp naar Chapal Hill, which will ba used August 15-79 by tha North Carolina Sociaty for Cripplad Cfaildran for tha banafit af crippled children. Operation of tha camp is made possible through funds conlrlbutedto the Eaatar Seal campaign. Welfare Pay Increase, New Workerl Request Are Denied 1,500 RCA Members Expected For Annual Meeting Saturday HILLSBORO — At least 1.500 of the 5.000 member consumers of the Piedmont Electric Member ship Corporation are expected to converge on Hillsboro, Saturday, to attend their 15th Annual Mem bers Meeting. * F. E. Joyner, manayer of the cooperative, stated that prepara tions were being made for mem bers from Orange, Durham* Gran ville, Person, Caswell and Ala mance counties. The Cooperative serves rural electric service to a bout 5,000 members in six coun ties over a net work of more than 1200 miles of line. I*oan funds from the National REA makes construction of these lives possible. Payments, with interest, are made on the loans quarterly. Saturday's profram Calls for an nual reports from the officials and management, nine directors will be elected from a slate of 181 candidates and any other business that might come before the meet ing. , •; Refreshments and a program of entertainment are planned for later in the program with a draw ing for many valuable prizes, in cluding an electric refrigerator. . William T Crisp, .Executive Manager and General Council of the Tarheel Electric Membership Association, will be the principal speaker. Mr. Crisp with headquar WILLIAM T. CRISP ters in Raleigh heads the-organi zatien representing all. the elec tric Membership Corporation 'in North Carolina. The Treasurer's report will show that of the $2,156,200.00 bor rowed from the REA almost $300, 000.00 in principal payments have been made, a sizeable amount be ing paid in advance of due date. The Manager and Directors urge all members of the Cooper ative to attend . the meeting which will be held at the Hillsboro High School, starting promptly at 1:00 o’clock P. M. 14 Hillsboro People Man Posts During Nationwide Defense Test The Hillsboro Ground 'Observer Post was on a twenty-four hour alert this week in conjunction with the nationwide civil defense test, "Operation Alert." ■ The IoqbI post in the fire-tower southwest of Hillsboro was manned and in operation from JO o'clock Monday. morning until 10 o’clock Tuesday morning Fourteen mem bers of the local post worked |r» shifts of two t<o four hours, with two-observers to each shift. Nine calls were made to the Durham filter center reporting planes seen from the post. Infor mation was given as to the type of planes, number of planes, direc-1 ■tion and distance from post, and | •direction plane was heading. This information is plotted on aj ^nap in the filter ,center and with re ports from other posts makes a track of plane movements. Members of the Hillsboro post on duty for the period were: ,,Ray Barnes, Kay Wirrecoff, Jack Reek 'afd. Harry Neat Brown, .1 <; Good* [win Sr., Curtis Brown, Pjiul Cari'j Jr.,.ljTed Smith, Joe Rosemond, Wal-! | ter Wrenn, B. P. Gordon Jr., Mac-1 kie McBane, Wallace Robinson, ' and J. L. Blown Jr. < 1 The Ground Observer post is Open lor volunteers.,'Anyoni in terested, is ur&ed to contact one of the following: J. L. Brown Jr., supervisor; 1 ed Smith, chief ob-; server, or B P. Gordon Jr., assist ant chief observer. Many n.ore volunteers are needed to carry out the work of the post. | FISH FRY AT SCHLEY GRANGE The annual fish fry of the Schley , Grange will be held on Saturday, i July 3. instead of July 4 Hillsboro PO Job Exams Announced The U. S. Civil Service Commis sion, Atlanta, Ga., has announced an open competitive examination for indefinite or permanent ap pointment to the positions of sub stitute clerk in the Hillsboro Post Office. . Applications.will be accepted from persons who j-eside within the delivery of the post f office named or who are bona fide pat tons of such office.' Persons em ployed in the post office will b< considered hona fide patrons of the office “The beginning basic rate of pa; for substitute clerks is $1,615 pe hour. Applicants must h a v d reached their eighteenth birt-hdaj but must not have passed theii fiftieth birthday on the date o filing applications. These age lim its do not apply to persons en titlede to veterans’ preference. Necessary forms and further in formation may (be obtained frorr i the local postmaster at the Hills boro Post Office or from the Fifth U. S. Civil Service Region Office 5 Forsyth Street, N.W., Atlanta Georgia) Family Night Events Planned OnSummer Recreation Program The Exchange Club this week announced their plans for the sum mer recreation program. Tfee tennis court, which is lo cated “'Dehind the . Presbyterten Manse will be open for free ten nis lessons from 9 to 10:15 o’i clock every morning. The wading pool, located in the back of the Methodist Church will be open from 3 to 4:45 every afternoon. Free swimming lessons will be given from 10:30 to"Tl:30 in the morning for children not (knowing how to swim. Age for the swimming pool is all children t up to 10 years.of age., j Thgre will be no soft ball league this year, but Family Night held cm the athletic* field every Tuesday and Friday nights from 7:30 to 9:45 o’clock. Activi ties for this will be badminton, volley ball, horse shoes, table tennis, basketball and there will be a sliding board for the young er children. Everyone is invited #to come prepared to play the various games. All suggestions for other activities will be appreciated and considered. There will . be no charge. - \ Glenn Auman again- ^serving as director of the^ summer program". Commissioners Study Retention of 20-Cent School Tax Supplement HILLSBORO — (The Board of Commissioners for the second con secutive meeting Tuesday night withstood a strong appeal from the Welfare Department for pay in creases and additional supervisory personnel in next year's budget, and last night took on another thorny problem involving increased appropriations and increased taxes. Continuing their budget study sessions, the commissioners last night heard the Chapel Hill school administration's request for re tention of the 20c school district tax supplement and $75,000 for capital outlay funds. While the New* went to fpress a.« the session got underway, no formal action was expected last night on the Chapel Kill request In preliminary discussions of the problem, the c6fhmissioners served notice that they intended to scrat iniie carefully each item of the proposed current expense budget, which the Chapel Hill Board of' Trustees wants increased by dose to $50,000 for the forthcoming year Approval of the current ex pense budget in the past has been a routine matter with the commis sioners, accepting the Chapel Hill per capita figure without studying the- needffor each item. With the uuestioij: of levying the'supplement • fin tjhe recently increased property valuation involved this year along with the pressure being applied by school leaders to retain the 20c supplement and thua double the revenue to be received, they have promised that each item will have to be justified to iheir satisfaction before the proposed bdbget is ep- m Main items in the capital outlay request were for six classrooms at the Glen wood school and a new high school gymnasium. Main questions involved in Tues day night’s discussion with Miss Annie Strowd, welfare superin tendent and members of her board. Henry' Hogan, H S, Walker and Mrs Robert E. Hughes, were a $10 per month play increase for all welfare workers and the addi tion of a new case worker super visor to the staff to help the su perintendent with her work load. The proposed budget presented by the department had set up $3. 480 for the new worker, plus addi tional for travel. proved. - Members of the Board of Com- ' missioners were unanimous in their incision to hold the line on the welfare program. Commissioner 'L J M Hobbs sounded the key note of the board’s thinking when he said "We would like somebody *o put the brakes on this mounting welfare .problem.” The corn missioners previously. ad approved small increase*'in a number of the assisance programs •erried on in cooperation with the ederal and state funds, but turned humbs-down "on the increases in he administrative costs. Following is. a breakdown of the ounty’s portion of the budget that be board finally approved Tuesday tight: Old Age Assistance. $13,000; Aid • To Dependent Children, $9, .’86: Aid to the Total and Perma ently Disabled, $2,600; Aid to the Hind, $2,004; Administration. $14, ’25: Boarding Homes (ehildrV), *3,400: Boarding Homes (adults) SI,400: Hospitalization. $8,000; Gvi ral Assistance, $1,800; pauper bur ials, $150. Total $55,865. Later, the commissioners heard a . proposal from Miss Elizabeth Col- — ''is: TTvcal rrrsO‘bkneev'*’hd "bending***.* •pent, and E. Joseph Edwards, a epresentative of the United States fidelity and Guaranty Company, for bonding all employees of the county under a blanket honesty bond. No action was taken. Recently nominated members Ed w in S Lanier and Henry S. Walker meet with the board to familiarize themselves with the budget prob lems. ; ' BIBLE SCHOOL ; The New ‘Sharon Methodist i Church will hold its Bible School from June 2) to June 25 from 9 until 11 o’clock in the morn ing All children Are « invited to jrttend. Without Mrs. C any children (dense call
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