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w County N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954 - - - •s* . \ ■ Mil. M*r, nm Mr fat • Mt ly mini dn {ImHM Mb m m* i if tmi nkws M Or MR* suly. SIX RAMS THIS WKKK — K1DU B&fWLB'6 wetqn %urt(/up GENCY? . ■ . The thing jhirbs people most when ?to Washington these day 3 irticularly if they have an jty to dip below the fur fnormal governmental ac the lack of confidence , the future peace of the In other words, the .ition seems to be girding so to speak, for an alV j economy. Ileir little hints here and ___ make one uneasy. A [ours has just returned Washington. He says there 1 be a strange nervousness We seem to be uncertain ; move to make. Our relations—our gen «ch—seem to move us (forward, two steps side then three steps back • gets the impression that around in circles., ftnown fact that, the Office j Mobilization has set up 1 for controls. They may it, but in the National the Senate Office 1 the various depart ing the House Office ou can get pretty full to the effect that 1 recently set up a rathef I plan for price, wage, and 1 controls in. the event of ncy.” - on seems to be: .What gency? wanting controls attempts to hold down I as constituting an emer We all saw last week how I despite talk of declines in else, are likely to go [bights. [ ieCm to be getting ready ^ ng in Washington. You , but you cent, put your ^ifc 9* months ago -ft1 I to be depression. Now it r war, all-out inflatiuh, bination of each. iJT . .. Glad to report that ihall, administrative as ptiye assistant to Gov. W. and now vice president s of personnel of J. A. Construction Company, !, has become a deacon in he leading Baptist churches (teenrCity:-—— I0TTION ... An interesting in connection with ®mons’ appointment to ths loard of Conservation and Went is worth repealing: “boro’s three young mus °i the Young Democrats, toe last to get a major ap !]•. Don Gilliam Jr., had N. C. Burial Commis Fountain had been Superior Court judge. 'W months Simmon; was Weistant to C&D Directoi waiting on him hand As they say in the old every wish was ^HMSand. ——— this job "was completed, praise, certificates of *te., from the Governor Simmons returned to his business. Gene last week Wnted to the Board, suc Rodgers of Scotland '° is now executive assist director. Gene flew in tobacco market in Geor »e swearing in. ®*t him upon his arrival, •“ting for his luggage 'dy asked former boss questions; ft: ®s,” he asked, “when irn in and what will ^t°ld him would be **t day arid “your du to tell me wh*t to do. w*re to carry out the in the Board.” ed eyebrows and a Sion, Gene said: “Do nP°agUs, that I am 1 ihat was correct. ue creased the coun 1 Gene Simmons as he *n a voice you could to the smokehouse: ba*gage add put it ^t’s. go to the hotel, i»w si By LOUIS KRAAR Ten Orange County farmers are leading the way in the fight against that old dilemma — drought — by using modern ir rigation methods. After three' dry, profitless years, the county has seven to bacco farmers and three grow ers of other crops switched to what seems to be man’s answer to dry seasons: But scientists predict the county will have many more dry years in a row, more years of poor crops, in other words. That’s why agricul ture officials, want to see many more irrigation units in opera tion in Orange County. * Is it worth the money and the trouble to -buy an irrigation unit? That’s, what Orange Coun ty farmers are thinking. If one goes out to' the Cedar Grove section — the tobacco-growing heajt of the county — the irri gation-users will answer all these questions themselves. Weal’s more, they’ll stop -work long enough to tell you the val ue of irrigation. Take J. L. Phelps, for inst ance. The irrigation equipment for his 20-acre tobacco fields cost him $3,500—or about $175 per acre. If you look out into the fields you will see a full, • quality leaf.. He’s had two pick ings already, and his land will yield about 2,000 pounds of to bacco per acre. “I think the outfit will pay for itself this year,” Jack Phelps declared this week. “A great deal depends on the season from here on out. “We’ll have a better quality tobacco than last year " Sucli is the farm of J. L. Phelps, who installed irrigation this past spring. Still, the ‘’drought * breaking rains of two weeks ago were important, to Irrigation Of Pastures Pays Off In State Being prepared to supply ad ditional water when it is,need ed may prove to be good insur ance against pasture losses dur ing the hot, .dry months of sum mer and fall. Howard Ellis, in charge of agricultural engineering for the State College Extension Ser vice, says Tar Heel tobacco farm ers are pretty well aware of the importance of irrigation. But the dairy and beef cattle farmer may' not be so sure. EJllis says that .during dry ' summers,, such as North Carolina has experienced during the last three or four years, the grazing capacity of pastures can be . in creased 50 per cent with irri gated- -water—. — .*1-:—. Ip tests recently conducted by ^ the Tennessee Dairy Experiment Station, returns from pastures that were irrigated averaged about $100 more per acre than non-irrigated pastures — after cost of irrigation and other costs were deducted. The tests compared irrigated orchard grass, alfalfa, and La dino clover pasture with non irrigated. It was fhund that the irrigated plots provided 257 cow days of grazing- per acre, com Damd with 176 days for the non- - irrigated .plots. N BIDS TODAY e Board of County Comrais irs will meet today at 2 o’ : to open bids on the comple of the basement section of new courthouse. $18,000 has set aside for this work. ER SPEAKS TO LIONS •les Milner of the Univer lepartment of Education Mo the Kd 11s boro Club Tuesday .night and 1 slides on Iran,-to which S assigned by the State De ,nt in an educational ca last year. . .. IRRIGATION ON THE FARtM OF T. G. PHELPS Note' Sprinklers in Background usssi ' 6 him, lor his water supply had been consumed just the day before the rains came.'. It you move on down the road -too JpweT AHen’s farm, you’ll' • see another example of irrigation that's paying off. Allen hpd de cided this spring to install an irrigation system next seson*. “I’ve had a couple seasons in a row now during which I’ve jdst broken even.’ he explained. “After I saw how dry this season was going to be. 1 figured why wait another year.” Allen’s irrigation outfit cost him $4,600 for his farm of almost y.15 acrgs.. Hig irrigation unit was perhaps the most costly because of the great^distance, of his fields from his water source. That’s the problem," he explained, “getting the source near the fields.” -v " 7 .. Jewel Allen has some advice for prospective irrigation users: “If I was starting out all over again to buy an irrigation sys tem, the first- thing I’d do is contact a farm conservation man and two different irrigation salesmen. Then I’d get them all out here at the same time. . f "Sure, it’s some trouble moving the pipes around.” (It’s nec essary to shift the pipes, because only several acres at a time can be sprayed.) -- “But once,you. get your irrigation system set up when it’s dry, you know it’s worth' all the work.” Next year Allen plans to build two or three more ponds. This j is an effective vstay-of getting the water source closer to the-f»eW». Alien shares his irrigation unit with his tennants. They pay . for hall the cost of irrigation and, of course, pitch in to help move the pipes. The 21 sprinklers that he has can water about two acres in a single ■‘setting. For an inch of water per week, his pump runs approximately three hours and 15 minutes. *• Over at Bob and Jesse Henley’s‘place, irrigation means use your ingenuity and save' money. The fields are- near the water source on the Hensley farm. That means the amount of expensive piping which carries the water to the fields is cut down greatly. Actually, it's this piping that causes the cost of irrigation ta vary so much. The Hensleys rigged up an old saw mill tractor with a pump. This bit of ingenuity, along with being dose to a water source, mea~nrThTt"i't cost theffTtcSs than $1,700 for their entire irrigation unit. ... Bob and Jesse Hensley have only, a little over six acres of to bacco. proving that a*smaller farm can benefit as much as larger ones from irrigation. That’s the story of irrigation on tobacco farms in the county, whether it’s Jewel Allen’s place, or Bob and Jesse Hensley’s, or J. L. Phelps’ farm;— ——-“ What it takes to install, an irrigation system is a water source —usually ponds, a pump, and enough pipe to get the water from the- ponds to the rows of tobacco. Add some sprinklers, the num ber:-depending Jinthe size farm, and you’ve got a man-made answer to nature s stillest sentence to tobacco -drought. •Over Ujty Orange County farmers took time out last week to * lo6k at irrigation in operation in a tour jointly sponsored by the Soil Conservation Service and the Vocational Education Depart ment okCcdar Grove: County farmers who saw irrigation were im pressed- Their Biggest-problem now .is finances. With three or four "poor years in a row, the financial outlook for many is serious, * ... •ftowevf'f: Larr-G-ibson.-of. the Farmer’s Home Administration, had some hope for the financially distressed .farmer? this week, according , to Assistant County Agent E. P. Barnes. By fall, it ap pears, the government may be able to make some aid available to build ponds’ and buy irrigation equipment—if other credit is not available. Barnes and other agriculture officials look to next year, when I hey hope to see 25 to'50 irrigation units in operation throughout the county. And as other farmers view this modern agriculture technique, they know it won’t be long before they—like J. L. and Garland Phelps, Jewel Allen, Bob and Jess Hensley and Munn Al len—are using irrigation.. farmers INSPECT WATER PUMP ' Jewel Allen Shows' Them .How ft Works Police Launch Statewide Hunt For 2 Bandits Two unshaven young men walked into the Carrboro Branch of the Blnk of Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon and walked out with be tween $12,000 and $15,000 which they took at gunpoint. 'Police officer W. L. Hester de scribed the robbery a few minutes after it had occurred: The two robbers, believed to be it their early thirties, entered the bank at approximately 1:25, a few 'minutes before closing time. One of them asked for change for a dol lar bill. When the teller, Mrs. James Sturdivant, turned to give ; him the change, one of the bandits walked toward the back. The robbers told the teller to hand them the money, then they asked for the money in the vault. Both then were armed. The two men told the teller, Mrs. Sturdivant, and Hubert N* .ville, branch manager of the bank —the only persons present —to lie down on the floor behind the counter. They did as they were told. - Aftej; the men had'gathered to gether the money, they asked Mr. Neville if he and his teller would smother in the vault. Mr., Neville Uold the robbers that they would. The robbers warned Mrs. Sturdi vant and Mr. Neville not to move. They - picked up Mrs. Sturdivant and carried her in the back of the bank. —r—-J-J-L—.... The robbers were believed to Have left in a black car. A state wide alarm went out for :the two men who were described I by police as follows: One is abovil 1165 pounds, with black hair, and (was wearing a green shirt. Th.1 other had brown hair, weighed about 150 or 160 pounds and wore a light grey shirt “like a soft drink salesman.’' 4»t > • Bias For Courthouse Furniture Are Opened; No Decision Yet Partnership Of Graham And LeGrand Ends The law firm of Graham S Grand in Hillsboro has been dis solved, effective the first ol this month. ' The firm headed by A. H. Sandy Graham, present chairman of tnc State Highway and Public Works Commission, was formed one year ago following the death of Mr. Graham’s long-time partner, J. Dumont Eskridge. Although his law office here will remain open, Mr. Graham said h^ has no announcement at this time relative to a future partner ship. Mr. LeGrand, who serves as codnty court prosecutor and to\y n attorney for the Town of Chapel Hill, has returned to a full-time schedule in his office Chapel Hill. The firm of Graham and Le Grand has held the appointment as County Attorney for Orange and the County Commissioners have taken no action yet to bring the appointment up to date. Mr. Gra ham or the firm headed by him has acted as County Attorney since prior to World War I. ►-----— ► The "Board rff County Commis sioners Monday night opened bids 'for equipment of the new court house. including office furniture and benches for the courtroom. I No decisions were made follow I ing the opening, pending a check | with the low bidder who failed to, follow specifications on furai ture and a decision on the type of bench to be bought from a mong several presented, S. T. Wyrick & Co. of Greens boro was low bidder on the furni ture, $5,092.67 after discounts, but offered the Hanes desk rather than the Myrtle Desk, or better, which was specified by the coun ty, Other equipment men present at the Opening said the Hanes desk lists for about $10 cheaper than the Myrtle, therefore could not be better. Other bidders, all offering the Myrtfe desk, were Southeastern Equipment Co. of Siler City S5.412.83; Durham Of fice Supply- $5,260.44 and . Alfred Williams and Co. of Raleigh. $5, 29.1.11.. .' . The benches bids were offered by Southern Desk Co. of Hickory and Carriker Church Furniture Co. of Monroe. Southern’ lowest bid was $3,958.42 and Carriker’s $3,354, _ both for selected Appa lachian’red oak. JSO.OOO was budgeted for office equipment and $4,050 for court room benches. Charge Of 'Discrimination' Hurled At Commissioners The Board of County Commis sioners gave formal approval* Men day night to the $806,095.50 bud get, the largest yet in the county's history, which it 4iad approved tentatively three weeks ago. The action came, however, only after a heated session in which charges of “discrimination" were hurled at the Commissioners by a county employee. The protest led to the temporary holding in abey ance of salary increases to two clerical workers, but no change for the protester. Mrs. Faye Patterson, an assist ant in the office of the Register of Deeds, heatedly told the Com missioners her office was being discriminated against with in creased work load without in creased compensation, while other employees were faring better on the salary scale with less tenure. The whole question, she charged, boiled down to which officer had the most “pull” with the commis sioners. One of the big issues involved was who was to do the microfilm ing work. Mi's. Patterson recently has done the bulk of this work for both her office and the • Clerk of the Court’s. When Miss Jackie Bur ton, stenographer for the . clerk with less than a year’s tenure; re ceived a pay increase to $2,244 per year, the same salary Mrs, Patterson has been receiving as second assistant .to the-Register of Deeds, she saw red. At one point in the argument, Mrs. Patterson served notice that she was doing no more microfilming for the Clerk’s office. At several prints Register of Deeds J. Ed Laws joined in the argument in support of his employee. Mrs. Patterson in the new bud get had been scheduled to move ^up into the first assistant's pay TOUR LOOKS AT PiNER TOBACCO CROP < Jrngation Makes The Diff erence Mrs. Patterson Protests Increased Work Without More Pay; Two Reises Are Delayed bracket next December when Betty I June Hayes becomes the county's first elected woman Register of Deeds. At that tirtie she will re ceive the same salary as other top clerical' assistants in the various | year. No change for her other county departments, $2,640 per than that already included in tne budget was approved. During the | discussion it was attempted to show that first assistant to the Register of Deeds should receive comparable pay to Assistant Clerk of Court, whose salary went up from $3,200 to $3,400 per year, but the commissioners held that the difficulty of the two jobs was not comparable. Following the salary protest, the commissioner* reiterated their pre viously discussed policy of having uniform pay scale* for clerical help in all office* and not allow ing any raiaea until after at least one year’s tenure. The budget adopted by the Co® mission ers Monday night was the same in all respects as was tenta tively approved on July 6. In addi tion to formal adoption of the budget resolution, the board form ally act the 82c tax rate for the county as a whole, ant the Chapel Hill School District supplementary , tax at 12c per hundred dollar val uation, and approved* the same Schedule B and dog tax schedules of last year. To Guard Againtt Hr> t Grim# Merchants Patrol To Aid Police In Checks On Business Firms I If you happen to see one or more uniformed men riding about Hillsboro and its outskirts or walk , ing about the streets checking door entrances after Sunday, Au gust 1, it will not mean necessarily they are police officers. I They may be employees of the new Merchants Patrol which will begin operations here Sunday as a branch of the well-established Dur ham Merchants Patrol. This announcement was made here yesterday by V. fT. Craddock, president and manager of the con cern, who indicated seme 28 busi ness firms in the area had ex pressed a willingness to partici pate in the service. | The patrol, according to Crad dock, will provide local homes, merchants and industry with, a pro tection service by uniformed, trained patrolmen on a regular fee basis. Charles Smith of Hillsboro, who has had experience with the firm in other cities ai well as other experience as a watchman and guard, will be in charge of the operation here. “We will cooperate 100 per cent with the Police Department and other law enforcement authori Credit Court?. It might be hard to make the accusation stick* that Orange County justice is heavily weight ed in faver of the people with money. | In fact; a cursory examination of the records will indicete ths J exact opposite te be true. , . „ As "of last weak* a total of Jl,* ; 491.65 is being carried on the books of tho Orange County Re corder's Court in unpaid costs, finoa and forfeitures, soma of it — dating as far.back as 1959. The' amounts owad by. delinquent de I fane ants Who have boon granted leniency by Judge L. J. Phipps range from 95c to $420.t7. ties,” he stated. In addition to local stores, ser vice stations and other business establishments, the Merchants Pa : trol will service industrial con cerns, churches and even private homes—both within the city and in outlying areas—Craddock said. He emphasised that the service is designed to supplement the city’s regular police protection of business and industry. Other North Carolina cities which have mer chants’ patrol services are Char lotto, Asheville, Greensboro, High Point, Thomasville, Winston-Salem, Burlington and Durham. Cnddock cited newspaper items from some of these cities report ing that police had apprehended criminals, and firemen had prompt ly extinguished fires in business property as a result of tips from merchant patrolmen. .Each member of the patrol will . be in constant contact with his headquarters, and can summon , help from the patrol, police or firemen, he said. Watchmen’s clock “key sta tions” will be located at frequent strategic points on each patrol man’s route, and he will be re quired to punch the clock at stip-x ulated periods on each of his rounds. . .— The patrol will place signs on each building subscribing to the service, warning everyone con cerned that the building is pro tected by the Merchants Patrol, and offering a reward for the ap-. prehension of anyone stealing or damaging, property of the business; At the beginning of. the patrol man's tour of duty each night, he will place a gummed tape “seal” across entrances to each building on his route. If, on his second round, .he finds the seal has been broken, he will suspect immedi ately that the establishment has been entered -add^ will call police ... (See PATROL, Page 5) I i College Denies Allegations In Suit With Discharged Profs Catawba College attorneys this | week denied that the two former professors who arc suing the col lege were discharged wrongfully. Appearing before Superior . Coiyt Clet6k . E, , M) kyij£h for. Jl Scheduled hearing Tuesday, attor neys on both sides of the case a greed to wait until Aug. 10 for the hearing. Catawba College at torneys requested the continuance because they said an additional lawyer who was out of town — Bonner Sawyer of Hillsboro—was goinjg to be brought in on the case. The husband and wife profes sor team, Mr. and Mrs. Christo pher J. Thomas, are bringing suit against the college for which they worked over eight years for what they call a “tortuous, malicious, and fradulent” discharge. They were dismissed from Catawba Col lege two years ago for alleged dis loyalty to. th«. administration. _ | Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, both mu sic professors, gained the backing j of the American Association of University Professors this spring 'after an investigation that started ordered to {bring certain papers and docu ments to the hearing. Some at these documents, if produced, would indicate financial irregular ities and homosexual practices at the collgge. Catawba attorneys, Linn and Linn of Salisbury, charg ed this week that the application for these papers “is not made In good faith.” They contended that it was “for the purpose of haras sing and oppressing” the defend ants. The papers requested, said the college’s attorneys, “other those in the possession of the plaintiffs and an nit pertinent to the merits of the plaintiffs proposed action.”
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