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th« county by
NEWS of
NUMBER 31
CHAPEL MILL, M. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1954
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SIX PAGES THIS WEEK
t4,
mi . . Up at Highlands
Mk i had the pleasure of
i my acquaintance with
, rolsom, who was Gover
Alabama from 1947
I 1»1- ‘ " ;
)ors of Alabama cannot
themselves 'in office, so
Folsom — at one time
[ is Kissing Jim — laid out
Mrs and came back this
j a bang, downing six op
s in the first Primary.
■has
a cottage at Highlands
scheduled to be there
i August. Of course, he
4 to go through the Elec
Alabama this fall — but
jnts to less than nothing
locratic stronghold.
n't seen Jim since he was
i *t a Democratic rally
its ago. He is still" the
fain's Governor, all right.
| tkat the last time he. was
he had one member of
^jjture on his side. This
i expects to have control
n»’s lawmaking body,
["solid majority of the leg
i votes on his team.'
i keeping a weather eye on
the South’s Number |
tuble spot for more than
now, and if it isn’t'
I up by the time he takes
| Jim Folsom will be in the
of a general laundering
t whole section of Alabama. 1
and
isn’t called Big Jim for
He is upwards of seven
wears 16 Vi shoes, a 17
a 37-inch sleeve length.!
father of six children,
his charming and beauti
who is with him at High
two by his first wife
several years ago.
that in his race for
this year he hud nine
weekly papers fpr him
ist him — a^jgre non-j
knew existed in "XJVT
Big Jim knows them
all the daily papers,
i stations, and the present
ation against him. From
heard and read late
last little opposition rc-\
I to above probably did more
[him in than anything else. |
campaign, he spoke all
— it was speech after
[wherever he could get two
to listen from street
plowed fields, and back
M Folsom says Kerr Scotch*
Md of man. They are just
a renovation job on
Tiior’s Mansion in Ala
i Big Jim says that when
over he is going to open
» to the “plain people"
tote so they can see what
I on which $250,000 has
been spenj, looks., like...
inside.
round of golf participated
®y brother, Spencer Brew
Atlanta, Big Jim Overton
‘tgomety, Big jim, I found
uses only two clubs:
5 iron and a putter.. The
worse than this I have
Joe Crawford of Boone
Play the entire game—
*od one — with a putter.
Don’t be surprised if Big
•Bom uses North Carolina
'•'del for some wholesale1
renovating, * conserving I
Sloping he has in mind
[>ext four years. Will he
“ m November? Well, Ala
tot had a Republican
since 1874.
. Antieipatihg
definitely banning seg
oy the U. S. Supreme
the first two weeks
i r' Southern attorneys
•re trying desperately to
* solid front for segrega
te races.
?*y aren’t sure what
•rolina is going to do a
•W North Carolina does
,0 be sure at this time.
Coleman, Mississippi’s at
lenefai’ was qU0ted as
Atlanta last week: North
. « still undecided, but
j'na is with us. We can
Louisiana and Alabama
Wuted front also.”
Golden says in his recent
i “*e Carolina Israelite,
»°nthly In Charlotte:
•ne asked me to keep
toVNDVP, page 2)
Carrboro, Aycock Principals Hired
^ v
School Board Agrees Homes
Should Be Built For Principals
' The County Board of Education
hired two new principals this week,
j then turned to a plan for the
future — providing homes tor
county principals.
Supt. Carr said he “sowed the
seed” by suggesting that the board
undertake to provide homes for
principals in the near future.
“We lost three good principals
\this spring simply because we
weren’t paying them enougn, ’
Carr said. He pointed out that
many other counties provide such
I homes for their principals and that
this would be a way to supplement
salaries without a school tax sup
plement.
“Actually the board will do noth
ing now but look for suitable sites
for homes. It may be a year before
we are able to take more action
on this. But it is something that
is badly needed,” Carr added.
E. Dale Davis was named prin
cipal of Aycock School and Wil
liam Ramsey was -named principal
of Carrboro School.
Davis, who has been principal
and - a teacher at Fremont School
j in Wayne County Cor the p*st two
I years, replaces John T. Smitn
Smith resigned to take a better
paying position as prihcipal of
Chocowinity Union School in Beau
fort County.
Originally from Wendell, Davis
is a graduate of Wake Forest and
is dQing graduate work at the Uni
versity. His previous school -is a
14-teacher one. Davis is 24 yhars
old, married, and has two child
ren. —
A native, of Lincolnton, Ramsey
has been teaching at Asbury Ele
mentary School in Lincoln Couiuy
for the past five years. His ap
pointment as Carrboro orincipa!
j is his first post as a secondary’
school principal. Ramsey replaces
Thomas S. Turbyfill. who has ac
cepted the principalship of Odell
School in Cabarrus County.
The bear'd this Week also ap
proved the school calendar for On
coming academic year: School
opening is Sept. 8; Thanksgiving
holidays, Nov. 25 and 26; Christ
mas holidays, Dec. 23-31: Easter
M®nday, April 11. School ends ori
June 9th.
Chapel Hill schools will open on
the same days as county schools
A plan to divide the Carrboro
White Cross school 'district into
two separate districts, District 4A
— Carrboro — and District 4B —
White Cross—was approved unani
mously by ihe board and submit
ted to the State Board of Educa
tion. The state board will consider
the motion at its meeting^ today
(Thursday). |
Reason given for dividing, thb
district was “the difference in
background and occupation of the
two , sections.” But it is under
stood, that White Cross was suffer
ing because it was in the district
with Carrboro. White Cross has
four teachers and 102 pupils, wh.’e
Carrboro has 12 teachers and 374 j
Second Orange
'54 Polio Case
I
1 Is Reported
The 23-year-old wife of a Uni-,
versify Of North Carolina stu
dent this week became Orange
County’s second polio case this
^The victim. Mrs. Helen Wil
kinson, was reported as “recov
ering from a mild case of polio
without paralysis" by Dr. 9- Oa
vid Garvin, district health offi
cer. She is receiving treatment
at Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill*
This year’s first polio victim,
Edward Lee Mitchell, a senior
at UNC from Goldsboro, ha
t>een released by Memori.1I Hos
pital and has returned home,
according to Dr. E. M.
PPDr Garvin said he was en- -
couraged by the mildness of
Mrs. Wilkinson’s lease. He ae
dared that molt adults who are
stricken by peUo usual^ have
more serious masses than chi
“It indicates,” he said, that
olio lit this area this year wil
robably" not be too senop -^
Last year there were no polio,
ported In Or»«e C.«»
ty.
pupils. White Cross has been los
ing pupils to the Carrboro School,
and a division of the district will
channel students back to White
j Cross.
Carr said that the county needed
two new classrooms at Hillsboro
in which two new elementary
teachers ate supposed to teach.
“We don’t have any place to put
them until Cameron School is
built,” he declared.
! The new $225,000 school won’t
be completed before a year from
this September.
Carr told the board that he has
been unable to rent space for the
two classrooms in the home of
Miss Rebecca Liner, who lives next
to the school.
“It looks like we’re going to
have to hold those classes in U»e
hallways and lunchroom. I don’t
know where else we could put
them,” Carr added.
(The board moved that an inspec
tion of the sills under the portli
of Efland School be made, ns they
have been reported to need
replacing. ...
A plan to send a news-letter to
school parents was considered.
The proposed pamphlet would deal
chiefly with the financial affstfs
of school and would be sent >ut
annually. The board agreed to
obtain some price estimates or
the news-letter.
Next meeting of the board will
be September 7, the Tuesday
after Labor Day.
$1,250 Check Is Received Here
To Assist Local Polio Victims
Evidence of the gravity of the
national polio situaiton arrived- im
Orange" County in the form of a
Training Held
For Leaders
Of Recreation
Two Home Demonstration
schools for recreation leaders
were held in the county last week,|
and both were successful, accord
ing to Home Demonstration Ag
ent Ruth Thompson.
Those wno attended the con
ference at the Methodist Church
in Chapel Hill were Mrs. Homer
Tapp and Mrs. Roland Dur
ham of New Hop*,
Mrs. Grady Crawford .and Mrs.
Walter Lloyd of Bethleliem, Mrs.;
Jeter Lloyd, Mrs. Weston Lloyd
and Miss Martha Lloyd of Anti
och Road, Miss Bernice Ward of
While Cross, .and Mrs. John Wil
liams of Mt. Carmel.
Attending the conference' at
Schley Grange Hall were Mrs.
Harvey Ray and Mrs. Ralph Web
ster of Gravelly Hill, Mrs. R. E.
Hughes, Mrs. R. D. Hughes and
Mrs. Jack Wells of Aycock, Mrs.
Henry Walker. Mrs. Mildred Wal
ker and Mrs. Reid Roberts, of St.
Mary’s, Mrs. Allan Latta and Mrs.
E. H. Kennedy of Schley, Mrs. A.
H. Davis of New Hope, Mrs. B. F.
Spenser and Mrs. R. F. Paschall
of Homemakers, Mrs. Hurdle Mil
ler, Mrs. Erskjne Parker and Mrs.
Feed Mangum of Caldwell. -
check for $1,250 frohi the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
last Wednesday. -v -
“This financial help is not
enough to cover all of the local
chapter’s outstanding bills but is
part of a national foundation ar
rangement to provide needy chap
ters: with immediate emergency
aid,” according to Col. F. C. Shepi
ard, chairman.of the local national
foundation chapter. This money
will be used & help pay for tifeat
ment already provided to polio
patients here, he said.
Col. Shepard explained that even
the Record March of Dimes fund
raised nationally last January is
almost exhausted, with chapters
in many parts of the country draw
ing heavily on fast dwindling na
tional resobrces. This unprece
dented drain is in addition to the
costs of polio prevention, the foun
dation’s newest program.
Polio prevention calls for great
ly increasing the supply of gamma
globulin and conducting the field
study of a trial vaccine" against
polio. This program alone is cost
ing approximately $26,500,000.
“We have in Orange County,”
said Col. Shepard,- “a good example
of how the local chapter and na
tional headquarters have al#ays
worked together. In the past, if we
ran in the red, the national fdWula
tion sent us whatever sum was
needed to pull us out.”
‘However, in spite of the record
nationwide March of Dimes last
January, we wound up $20,000,000
short of our actual need.
I ' M "
DR. GENE L. REESE
, Doctor Ref se
Opens Office
In Hillsboro
, Dr Gene L. Reese this week an
nounced the opening of his office
if» the Hillsboro Clinic building for
the general practice of dentistry.
Dr Reese is a graduate of the
first class of tne' University of
North Carolina School of Dentistry
this past June and has been.a resi
dent of Hillsboro while a s/turtcn,*
at Chapel, Hill.
A native of Boone in Watauga
County, Dr. Reese completed his
undergraduate studies at Appa
lachian State Teachers College ' re
ceiving a Bachelor of Science de
gree in mathematics and science,
and taught four years in the
schools of Watauga County • and
Shalotte. He served in the Navy
during 1945-46.
His family here consists of ins
wife, who has taught in the Hills
boro School for the past two years,
and two small children.
Dr. Reese said that entrance to
his office may be made directly at
the rear of the clinic building,
which is also occupied by Drs N. L
Mauroner and F. E. Happen, gen
eral practicioners.
Hawkins Of Cedar Grove
Promoted To Sergeant
. 2ND DIVISION, Korea—Kenneth
T. Hawkins, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. •
Walter Hawkins, Route 1, Cedar!
Orove, was recently promoted to
sergeant while serving with the
2nd Infantry Division in Korea. \
The “Indianhcad” division, which 1
captured Heartbreak Ridge ano
Old Baldy, is now undergoing in
tensive-training as-fart of- the U S;
security force on the peninsula.
\ Sergeant Hawkins, who is as
signed to a 57 mm recoilless rifle j
section in the 23rd Regiment’s
Company L, joined the unit last
September. He entered the Army)
i in December, 1952. i
Commissioners Want Voice
In Selecting Welfare Head
The Board of County Com- *
missioners this week declared
that it should have more voice
in picking the superintendent
of Welfare.^
Both Sim Efland of Efland
and R. J. H. Hobbs of Chapel
Hill expressed this view while
discussing the selection of a
new Welfare superintendent
■^tvith Miss Annie Strowd, who is
retiring.
Efland this week called on
retiring Supt. Annie Strowd to
help the Board of County Com
missioners pick her successor.
After praising her for doing a
good job. Efland told Miss
Strowd that other counties have
had trouble with their welfare
superintendents. He cited the
squabble in Alamance County
between Commissioner- J. B.
Long and Welfare Superintend
ent Gerald Anderson.
Mias Strowd reminded Efland
that Alamance’s trouble* seemed
to be caused by "one person
(Long) doing' the criticizing.”
“The reason I’m bringing that
out,” Efland'explaincd in reply,
“is that weVc had good relations
with our welfare superintend
ent and want smother good one.”
Efland added, “I understand
that it’s quite an ordeal getting
rid of an unsatisfactory one."
Miss Strowd pointed ou* that
it was up to the Welfare Board
to pick a new superintendent
She said that only those persons
who have .certain qualifications
set up bv the State merit system
were eligible to apply. f
"When you go off to Commis
sioner conventions, you always
hear people talking about ‘that
old merit system.’ It seems like
the commissioners should have
more voice in it. How can we get
rid of one that unsatisfactory?”
said Efland.
Miss Strowd told Efland that
if it can be shown that a welfare
superintendent is unsatisfac
tory, one can be dismissed. ‘Usu
ally a hearing is held,” said Miss
Strowd.
“Have you ever heard of o>;e
being dismissed like that?’ asked
Efland tersely.
Commissioner Hobbs declared',
“We should have some say-so in
picking a superintendent. After
all, we’re putting the monev out.’’
Miss Strowd said that in sev
eral counties; there is a com
missioner on the Welfare Board.
-The commissioners approved a
monthly increase -/fF’d-ic—
Welfare Department’s expendi
tures, .,...■..
In other action, the board ac
cepted a petition from P L Mil
ler for road work on the Cole
- {See WELFARE, Page 6)
OCCONEECHEE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS — Scaling tha high
mountians of New Mexico-during the 10-day hike at the famovi
Philmont Boy Scout ranch proved no problem to six Orange County
Boy Seouts who were among a group of 20 from the Occoneechee
C0U*Al!' of them made the long and arduous trak and recently
arrived back home none-the-worse for Wear. Rare is it, say those of
experience, that a group as l*/ge as Occoneechee'* can make the
hazardous hike without mishap or some members falling by the
W*y*Th«e boys from Efland and two from Hillsboro were in the
eroup led by Richard ©avis, an Efland teacher, who made the trip
by chartered bus to the 120,000-acre ranch owned by the Boy Scouts
of America. They included Lindsey Efland, standing fourth from
right/ Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Efland Jr.; Vernon Petty, third from
right, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Petty Jr. of Hillsboro; Mason Sykes,
standing far right, son of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Sykes, Efland; Kenneth
Farrar, kneeling first, from left, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Farrar,
Efland; Richard Davis, seated second from left, Efland teacher and
leader of the group; and Bruce Richmond, seated middle row right,
junior leader, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Richmond of Hillsboro.
While on the hike the boys walked from four to 1^ miles each
day between the various camp sites in the mountainous terrain,
some places so rough and steep eveh a burro cannot travel, carrying
wit! them their own bedirig/^tothmg. sheiter and enough Jood to
reach the next camp. -_ -__■
Unopened Bid Bringt Ditcutttoft
Technicality May Have Cost
County Taxpayers $3,275
A technicality over an-"in
formality" may have cost Or
ange County taxpayers over
$3.000—but the County Com
missioners just won’t say for
sure.
M. S. Howerton, Hillsboro
contractor, told the Board this
week that his low bid on
the construction "of offices in the
new courthouse basement»was re
turned unopened. Howerton’s bid
wa/ for. $18,915, or $3,275 cheap
er than the next highest bid. Del
ta Construction Co. got the job at
$22,190.
However, there was still a pos
sibility that the commissioners
would call for new bids on the
basement. The contract which wtos
awarded the Delta Construction
•Company has not been signed. The
commissioners could recall it and
ask for new bids.
Howertin submitted his bid to
Commissioners Sim Efland of Ef
land and R. J. M. Hobbs> of Chap
el Hill, and they both registered
great surprise. Chairman R. 0.
Forrest was not present at the
meeting. Both Efland and Hobbs
declared they hadn’t seen the bid
and did not know it had been re
turned to Howerton after a July
26 commissioners meeting when
the bids were considered.
Howerton said that he had not
exactly followed the instructions
for filing a bid, since he did not
include his contractor's license
number on the outside. However,
he contended that Archie Davis of
Durham, architect for the court
house, had returned it due to a
technicality.
Efland read part of the legal
notice which requested the bids
noting a passage which says, “The
Board of County Commissioners
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids and to waive any infor
malities in the bids reived.”
Efland called the failure to in
clude the license number an “in
formality.”
However, another section of the
legal notice says that "considera
tion will be given only to bids of
contractors who submit evidence
showing that they are licensedri
Howerton said that he hadn’t
renewed his. contractor's license
this year because he ‘‘didn’t need
one” to fulfill his obligations to
the company for which he now
works. The Hillsboro contractor
said that he could get a license
and the necessary bonds, but the
Commissioners-told him the con
tract had already been let.
Efland and Hobbs agreed that
had Howerton’s bid been opened
-there was a chance that it would
have been accepted. Efland said
that he knew -Howerton’s work
and reputation because Howerton
had done some work for him. .
Just who was present when the
-bid ww returned, no one seemed
to know. Both Hobbs and Efland
said they had arrived late at the
meeting when the bids were let.
However, it is known that Da
vis opened the bids in the pres
ence of only one commissioner—
Forrest—who wu not present at
this week’s meeting.
Asked® by the News, if failure to
affix the license number to the
sealed bid could be termed an ‘in- —^5
formality,” Commissioner Hobbs
said that “it could ai^d it could
n’t.” He added, upon further ques
tioning, that “it was up to the
Commissioners” and that he was- 4,
n’t present when Howerton’s bid
was returned. Efland said at the
meeting that ommission of the li
cense number could be considered
an “informality."
Hobbs charged, during a tele
phone interview, that the news- ' * %,
papers were “just trying to get
' something bad on the Commission
jers." He questioned whether “you
I want the facts"or do you just-want
E to cook up something against us.”
Hobbs contended - that since
j Howerton did not meet the condi
! tions prescribed for submitting a
j bid that there was no question a
j bout the situation. He emphasized
' that the contract had already been
I let. -
At the meeting Commissioner
j Hobbs pointed out that the $18,
913 figure was written in the bid x
resubmitted by Howerton this
week and that a $17,000 figure
had been crossed out Howerton
I said that he had raised his bid '
after it was returned because a
| linoleum estimate was late com
jing in.
Raleigh Office,
i To Serve In
Farm Census
Preliminary plans for the first
| North Carolina agricultural cen
| sus since 1944 were released hflre
| this week.
| More thaa 1,500 persons will ’,e
employed for periods of from two
1 and one-half to four months in
gathering the census data.
The actual census-taking won t
start until jQctober, but key per- _
sonnel in five field offices estab
lished^ over the state will begin
work August 30.
The offices will be set up >n Ra
leigh, Charlotte, Fayettevlile, Roc
ky Mount and Salisbury. The Ka
leigh office will serve Orange
County and other counties in the
Fourth Congressional District, as
well as counties in hte fif*h and
sixth districts. . -
.Each field jdUssl. will have a
supervisor, assistant, and two
■clerks Ninety-four crew leaders
and about 1,400 enumerators will
do the actual census-taking.
Applications for * jobs as- crew
leaders and enumerators will be
(accepted after field offices are _
opened. The count is expected to
take about two months after the
enumerators take the field
Three Orange Farms Damaged
By Fires Caused By Lightning
Three Orange County farms this
week suffered heavy fire damages
caused by electrical storms.
^ Over $3,000 damage was done
at "Will: and Cart Walta*vs fattn
n the St. Mary’s community near
Hillsboro. Damages estimated at
$6,250 were suffered at Shelton
Merritt’s farm in the Smith Level
community near Chapel Hill. At
Joe Dickey’s place on Rt. 2, Hills
boro, near the Cedar Grove com
munity, two cows were lost.
Lightning—which hit a large tree
next to the Walker’s feed barti,
'umped from there to the barn,
then to a clothes line which con
nected to the smokehouse, and
then to the home where it burned
out an electrical water heater and
knocked out the telephone—re
sulted ih the loss of 300 bales of
straw, 75 bushels of wheat and
considerable corn. Also destroyed
by the fire were a four-year-old
tractor and Some tractor equip
ment which were in a feed barn
.'.
that burned.
Mrs. Carl Walker yesterday ex
oressed her thanks to volunteer
She said that a new truck and
a new manure spreader were sav>
ed due to the firemen’s efforts.
Lightning knocked a hole in the
slate lining of the smokehouse
where Mrs. Walker had stored her
canned goods, but it—as well as
a larger barn, the home, and other
nearby buildings—was saved.
Shelton Merritt lost a barn, 4,
000 bales of hay and two cows in
'a fire caused by lightning Monday
night. The'lightning struck at 5:
30 p m. and at 10 o’docfc Merritt
and his neighbors were still stand
ing by, with a garden hose to wet
down the adjoining buildings
threatened by the blase.
" Dairyman Joe I
cows when lighta
fence and jumped