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T Oring* cownry ♦*»♦••** «i N«W« 1 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK KIDD BREWER'1 Me/cffi l&ufjcfcip [SYMPATHY . . . Blpwed jjcial temperament, North ,5 senator Sam Ervin may t stride his duties in the s-x ^tigation team stuping charges against Joseph „.hy, the man wc all R know so well via tele That’s the long distance [ aflection that suits us m icular instance to a tee pt v [or Ervin has our sympathy # has an opportunity to , peat and lasting contribu the general restoration of pidly diminishing prestige was once known as the deliberative . body on Ervin’s appointment to mmittee might cost him J could cost him the nom when he .again faces the j )N . . . Hats off and a toot of the whistle to our Bobo Langston of Char I new president of the N. C understand he is organizing ition tour of the railroad, i long overdue. IKMATES . . . Miss Merle id, only child of Gov. and William B. Ums^ead, is en the cool climate^ of Camp, itee—watch that spelling, r—just out from BooncXThis camp, despite the name, fiu* it one of the beat known in i tdion of the country, ning with Miss Merle—and nkmate — is State Senator Brown’s daughter of Boone. THE LADDER . . . Andy Ik, Surry County boy who be famous with his "What It Was Football,’’ stands to upwards of $50,000 this year, tag to his friend and original l promoter, Orville .. .Campw loti will have an opportunity. ! him again this coming Sat night on Jackie Gleason's non show. Thousands of his irth Carolina friends renewed totances with him when he ail house records at the ition Club out from Greens last week. ■-* new record, “Swan Lake,” to be catching on f“take <“ tton-pirking hands off’n to* and there about the 7- The football record—the talking heard on a record 1919 days of Uncle Josh— * dusted off for another jog it the lot this fall. * • > GUNS , , . You can't get Wy to speak for quotation, Malk around hare last week to the State is getting ready *el its big guns on George *i Lexington milk magnate. 3 Iwts publicly circulated last were to the effect that he '.to Penalized $50,000 for be has paid for milk in lc«olma since the State Milk ■®ion began its operations •year ago. ^ to surprised if the prob *?®t go a great deal deeper Jtot- All is not sweetness r®1 *n the Coble cowptn. T? bf ours who should know w to speaks said: “George * P«k of trouble,” . . ' §*■ Maybe not. But he has * » “peck of trouble” bo "r and all, boys, he is the » toeathed the breath of the Dairy Foundation at College. He is the same * Cpble Who pulled L. L. if ts 3n<^ developed it into really outstanding or ®s of its hind in the na of!ikmoved- on to become to foundations at State r *Ucceeded by another able L’0yd Langdon. COble is, g took-o’-trouble boy who amt m'llc routes into every («. corner of the mountains ^ s?tern North Carolina, tttori The talk now is toFw Co*>to may se*l out .'Weniost Dairies. In many Coble was a pioneer ia .a. d,airy routing, collect "noiesale deliveries, and i. w approaches now ac °f the trade. He’s » Ckling ^Pe. individu al*!;. o when you whip him : 8, you’ve whipped your p ®°^NDUP, page 2) WORK IS WELL UNDERWAY on thi* now, sh ortened link of tho Hillsboro highway. If will bo two milos shorter than the present road via Airport Road to N.C. Highway 10 and Into Hillsboro. The now road will leave the present highway just north of New Hope Church at the junction shown above and join it again at the Farmer's Exchange Livestock Market on N.C. Rt. 10 a mile east of Hillsboro. The State Highway Department is building the road with Ora/ige County work crews. Special Driv§ For Polio Fund v Is Underway Orange County will; cooperate in the nationwide emergency March of Dimes this month. ® E. Carrington Smith, campaign chairman for the county chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, said that contri butions could be sent right away to C. W. Gardner, drive treasure!, Box 70, Chapel Hill. K sMr. Striith noted that th” Cen tral Carolina Convalescent PAio Hospital 4n Greensboro was S100. 000 in debt»now and would not be able to meet its payroll next month unless this emergency diive is successful. | In an appeal to all jteonlc of the county , to help the fdunda tion pull out of its present critical financial plight,'Mr: Smith pointed wilt that-Worttr^arolhio ha- bf*i# fitted tremendously from the gen erosity of this organization. The Chapel Hill drive will be conducted through the Javrees, who are planning'a house-to-house campaign. , Chapter funds are used (almost exclusively to aid patients, Smith pointed out. This primary obli gation also constitutes the largest financial load of the National Foundation headquarters; perhaps «s mueb-as $33,500.000 may be needed for patient care this year, he said. Uhe vaccine ncra irramn^Tw-^ greatly expanded'gamma giphuiin program will take up to $26,500, 000 by tj>e ynd of the year. Added i to all this'r'Smith noted, continued; research, training of doctors, nur ses, physical therapists and other professional workers, improved treatment techniques, medical a id community services, and - admin istrative costs of operating 3.10u chapters, state offices and national headquarters will take $19,800,000 ‘The ,1954 March of Dimes, raised $55,QOO.OOO—yet this fall at least $20;000,000>"short of mooting the minimum needs of the .current year for polio prevention arid pa tient care,” Smith said. Polio in cidence throughout the nation is disturbingly high. In the firs, half of 1954, it was one-third highei than the average for the same ^ period during the las't five jears. ^ Gradual Opening Set For Tobacco Auctions A new policy of opening the tQ: bacco marketing season gradually on, the Eastern, Middle, and Old Belts was adopted this week by the Bright Belt Warehouse Assn. The association’s Board of Gov ernors charted the new course in allowing the following relatively early opening dates for the flue cured belts: , North Carolina Eastern to open Aug. 16; North Carolina Middle, Aug. 24; and North Carolina-Vir ginia Old Beit, Sept. 2. However to assure Georgia-Flor ida tobaccomen that they would Winston Of Chapel Hill Takes Part In 'Seafair' Fifty-five ship Task Force 12 ■will give the residents of the Puget area an impressive anu spectacular view "of U. S. naval might upon their arrival in tne i Pacific Northwest Saturday, July1 >31, to take part in the annual Sc-| attle “Seafair” and-^yisits to Se attle, Tacoma, Everett;,and Bell ingham, Wash ’ ; Taking part in the “Seafair” fes tivities and visiting Seattle aboarJ 'the destroyer USS Orleck is Keu >ben A. Winston, steward first class, USN, of Chapel Hill. have .sufficient buyers to clean up fheir sales, the governors decreed that: Eastern Belt sales during the first week would be limited to 60 percent of the piles permitted to be sold during a regular season sales day. Middle and Old Belts were limited to a 50 percent basis until their respective opening dates of last, year, Last year the Middle began sales Sept 8 and the old on Sept. 21. The association’s Sales Com mittee was given leeway to de clare 100 percent basis on the Eastern Belt on the fifth sales day if conditions warrant. The association's ; new gradual opening policy was meant to serve a dual purpose. It wa* meant to satisfy Georgia-Florida Belt Grow ers who complained of the drain of bjtxers from their markets when the more northern started their sales. In previous years there was no gradual beginning ,of sales— they started full blast. Secondly, the northern growers have become more insistent on having earlier opening 4ate$ tor their marketings. By limiting opening sales on the Eastern, Middle, and Old Belts, the association in effect keeps buyers on the more southerly belts from moving north. -” — * * —- ———— — a —;—Jsm Fired Catawba Professors Lose First Round Of Legal Battle Two fired professors who are | suing Catawba College Tost the' first round of their legal fight this week at; a hearing before Superior Cqurt Clerk Edwin Lynch. launch ruled that>"the .'fortwer. professors; Mr. and’ Mrs. Chrisib pfier J. Thomas, were not entitled to a long list of college document.,' which they say are necessary in the suit.' Lynch, ruling... .in favor of Catawba College lawyers. said that only four of the pape>s re quested ' by the teachers had to Tje granted. The Thomases’ attorrtiys, W. R. t Dalton and Barney Jones of Burl ington, filed notice of appeal to Superior Court Judge Leo Carr. The hearing date has not been set. MR. AND MRS. CHRISTOPHER J. THOMAS The Thomases are suing Catawba College for what they call an un fair dismissal. They ' were dis missed in 1952 for what the college administration called “disloyalty ' to the administration. ~ Despite the lack of audience, at torneys for both sides of this case seemed bent upon sharp orations, which rose in volume as the case progressed. . In presenting the Thomases’ side of the caje, Dalton declared, “fThese folks were discharged on the pretext of spreading rumors In the first place, they were not guilty of spreading rumors, and in the second place, if they did tnc rumors were true.” Dalton continued, “We plan to show that this college was being robbed to the hilt. These folks were fired because they (the college adminstration) didn’t want to bring out these financial irregularities.” Stahle Lynn took the position that the request for all but the it represents nothing but venom and ill will and an effort to destroy the institution ” Dalton contended that the col lege had charged Mr. Thomas with slander when he reported student protests that a faculty member under him made homosexual ad vances. “That’s what the trustees called slandering. He didn’t slan der. He reported to the president what students had told him.” Dalton explained that he wanted financial records to show that a college engineer, a man called Selfridge, stole .“and effected the basic standards of the college. “We want to show that even after Selfridge embezzled funds from the college, he was promised (See CATAWBA, Page 4) Unopened Bid Controversy Settled By Commissioners At Reqy»t Of Orange County Carr boro, White Cross School District Divided Into Two Units By State Board Of Education Can-boro and White Cross will be separated into two school “dis tricts, the State Board of EduCif tion ruled last week. The state board acted at the re-j quest of the Orange County Board of Education, In a letter to Carrboro and White Cross District and Advisory Committeemen, Supt G. P.- Carr said, “As you probably know, the new district division will cause the County Board of Education to terminate your appointments as I . committeemen because the district for which you .were appointed committeemen no longer exists. Two new district committees, one for each of the two new districis, | will have to be appointed. We will not use advisory committees for those districts.” | Supt. Carr also called on the for mer committeemen to suggest “dt sirable persons” for the two com mittees. 1 Th^ reason given for desiring a division of the school districts 1 ' ' " .'■■■" 1 " ■ 1 1 > ■ 1 $25 Accepted By County's Rural Firemen Officials of the volunteer Or ange County Rural Fire Depart ntent thia week acknowledged re ceipt of a $25 gift from a grate ful recipient of aid and coupled tlj|i with a reminder to rural res Meats in the Hillsboro area who may have built new homes fn the past two years and are ndt famil |iar.'with the department’s services. I The rural fire truck was pur chased over two years ago through voluntary ririembership and other i subscriptions and Is manned by voluntary firemen in Hillsboro. It 1 serves an area within a 10-mile radius of Hillsboro. No assess ments to members other than the original subscription has ever been made, but maintenance funds recently have become quite low. The department answers calls from members without charge but makes a charge, for calls to non-members. Membership fees are $20 for residences and $30 for farms. - The $25 check came as result of the department in saving prop erty in a recent fire on the farm of Carl, Martha and W. Y. Walk er. Their gratitude was expressed in a letter to Chief George Gil more and other members of the volunteer Hillsboro group: “We wish to express our sincere appreciation to everyone of you lor your quick and efficient help on July, 31, when fire destroyed, a portion of our property. Had you not been here, we feel we would have lost everything we own. “We as an Orange County farm er are more than proud to be a subscriber in the Rural Fire De partment and are proud to know each of you are our friends and ready to help in time of need. “Enclosed you will find our check for twenty - five dollars, which' we feel is small, but hope the department can use it for gas, repairs etc. 'Thanks Grading Tips j i Given Growers Flue-cured tobacco growers would do well to follow the on-the farm grading practices bei:.g 1 stressed by Tobacco Associates and jot her agricultural leaders in ar. 'effort to correct the unfavorable position their tobacco is now being faced with overseas. This is the generally-held opin ion of a group of men who should know—leaf leaders, who buy for the export trade. .To help keep growers informed cn the current complaints being' (Set GRADING TIPS, Page 8) 4V^the difference in background anjf -Occupation in the two see TWrft."^Ht)wevcr, it is, understood that White Cross was suffering because it was in the district with Carr boro. White Cross has four teachers and 102 pupils, while Carrboro has 12 teachers and 374 pupils. White Cros has been los ing pupils to the Carrboro School and a division of the«diatrict will channel students back to White Cross. Here are descriptions of the new districts: District 4-A, Carrboro: Begin ning at Glenn Neville's house'at the northeast corner of the,White Cross School District and running in an easterly direction to1 Eu banks; thence with the tracks of the Southern Railway (State Uni versity Railway) in a southerly direction to Main Street in the town of Carrboro; thence south 4° 21’ east along the eastern boun dary of the property of the Carr boro Woolen Mills to the town limits; thence with town limits in a westernly direction to^the inter section of the town limits and county highway 558; thence in a southerly direction following the back of the property lines on the left side of the county highway 558 to the Chatham County line; thence in a westerly direction with the Chatham County line to the southeast corner of the White Cross District; thence in a norther l.v direction by the old Claude Ne ville place, Gates Service Station, and Bethel Church to the Glenn Neville home which is the point Hillsboro's Walker Completes Army Course Pvt. Allen H. Walker, Jr. of Hillsboro will graduate this week from the Teletypewriter Opera tion Course, onp of the many courses offered at The Southeast ern Signal School, Camp Gordon, Georgia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Walker Sr. The Teletypewriter Operation Course, which is 8- -weeks in length, trains' selected enlisted men to operate .teletypewriter e quipment for transmitting and re ceiving messages over militaVy communicatoins systems. During his training, Pvt. Wal ker received a technical educa tion worth thousands of dollars. He will now be reassigned to an active unit of the United States Army. The Southeastern Signal School is i component of the Signal Corps Training Center, a mam mouth communications college, which supplies trained signal technicians to Army units all over the, world. of origin.Q 1 | District 4-B, White Cross: Begin ning at the Glenn Neville house and running in a southerly direc tion by Bethel Church, Gates Ser vice Station, and the old Claude Neville place to the Chatham County line; thence in a westerly direction along the Chatham Coun ty line to the Alamance County line; thence in a northerly direc tion along the Alamance County | line to the farm of George Lasley; thence in an easterly direction lo Dodson’s Cross Roads, following an unnamed county road from Dod son’s Cross Roads in an easterly direction to Glenn Neville.’s, which is the point of origin. International Bankers' Visit Set Thursday The entourage of foreign bank ers who have been studying farm finances in this country for sev-; eral weeks Under the wing of the Department of Agriculture will i | turn their attention to the Coun-, ty of the Year in Rural Progress I with an all-day visit next Thurs-1 day. - • The visit to Orange, according j to State officials, is to give the group an opportunity for learning the type of extension organization and program being carried on at the local level. Generally, the vis itors are studying agricultural credit policies and financing meth ods in the United States, includ ing all private, cooperative and government financing of farmers. The foreign visitors, all of whom are either bankers or connected with government farm finance op erations, come from Boliva, Brit ish Guiana, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Nationalist China, Pana ma, Trinidad and Nicaragua. The group Will go first to -Sell ley Grange, the county’s ..main farm assembly point, at 10 a m. where a panel of farm officials will explain the farm setup in Or-1 -ange. These will include County l Agent' Don S. Matheson ind As sistant Ed Barnes; Miss Ruth i Thompson, home demonstration agent; Quentin Patterson, soil con servationist; and Lacy Gibson, Farm Credit Administration local i representative. I Following lunch. .the group. Will visit some of the diversified farms of the area, representing the poul try and dairy development of the county, including the farms of Larry..-.; Coleman; - Ted Coleman, I Henry Johnson and Will Crabtree. n.D. Crockford Is Appointed j Director Of New Navy School Commander H. D. Crockford of Chapel Hill has been named t*ie director of the new Naval Reserve Officers’ School in the Durham Raleigh area, | The announcement was made by Captain D. W. Olney, USN, Director of Training for the Sixth Naval new duties immediately. The new school will open the third week in September. Misoion of the school will be to provide Naval Reserve officers in the area an opportunity to complete their annual requirements for promotion and for retirement credit. Born in Philadelphia, Cdr. Cro;k ford graduated from N. C. State College in 1920. He also holds a master’s degree and a doctor’s degree from the University of North Carolina. Cdr. Grockford is a member of the University of North Carolina faculty in the Department of Chemistry, a job he has held since 1926, Commissioned in the Navy in 1936, he served on active daty during World War II Irom 1942 to COR. CRAWFORD 1945. From 1946 until recently he was Training Officer for the Naval Re serve Surface Battalion 6-9 in Durham. . Cdr. Crockford is married La the former Helen Delamar. They have two married daughters. Board Moved Correctly, Says A. H. Graham The rhubarb over what to do about M. S. Howerton’s irregularly submitted low bid to. complete the basement section of the new Orange County courthouse dropped with a resounding thud on the ad vice of the county attorney at' a meeting of the commissioners on Tuesday night. A. H. "Sandy" Graham, who handles millions in bids every year as chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, had a ready answer for the dilemma tu ■which the commissioners found themselves after the local carpen-, ter sent in a sealed bid some $3,000 below the accepted one, J hut failed to get it opened when / he did not comply with specific instructions in the specifications to bidders. The formal resolution of the board accepting the .low bids sub mitted on July 29, Graham told the Commissioners, “completed the contract between Orange County and these successful bidders.” He said they would be open to suit if this were broken. The-attorney’s ruling completely vindicated the action of Aichitect Archie Royal Davis and Chairman R. O. Forrest in refusing to open the Howerton bid when it did not contain a contractor’s license as re quired by the specifications. Davis told the commissioners he would have been subject to a fine of $800 and Howerton another $5^0 under state statutes if ho had openafl Howerton’s bid and it had exceeded $20,000 All previous estimates and all bids opened prior to Howerton’s were above the $20, 000 mark. Said Davis: “Legally we couldn’t open it, legally he couldn’t even bid.” Howerton had neither a con-* tractor’s license from the Licensiug board or the $100 priv^ege license which the State of -North Carolina requires of all bidders on jobs as high as $10,000, This later, difi ciency was soon rectified by *he State Department of Revenue fol iowing publication of the bid-, the • commissioners were told. Graham said it was incumbent upon Howerton, knowing that his. bid was under $20,000 and knov^ ing that a contractor’s license was required above that, to have been present at the letting and advised Vi the commissioners, who could then have opened the bid in safety. Howerton first bid slightly over $17,000 and then raised it about • $2,006 to $18,915 between the-time * it was returned to him and his re submision on August 2, after other bids were published. In another action at Tuesday's meeting, the board agreed to ae cept the forfeit check of Paschal TV Brothers and allow that firm to withdraw from the heating con? tract awarded it in the July 29 letting. Paschal failed to take into account heating of the storage room in the nothern end of the base ment and subsequently raised his price $1,000. The architect was in structed to call for new bids on August 19 for the heating contract Mrs. Cheshire Of Efiand Wins National Contest land won $25 for herself and $20 for her grocer, B. S. Carr, in a national contest sponsored by the Sauer Company last wsek. Mrs. Cheshire sent in three rhymes concerning products of the sponsors of the contest. FARM BRIEFING Orange County farm officials will be in Greensboro today for a briefing on new phases of the Agricultural Conservation Program and the Nickels-For-Know Hjw election to be held in mid-October Those attending include Don S. Matheson, county agent; Quentin Patterson, soil conservationist, and A K. McAdams, secretary of the ASC.
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