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the county by NEWS of NUMBER 64 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER % 1954 Poe quick, proven rwuta, ■oil, buy, root o» pot o fob by utinp Hie cieecifiecl ob * on pope 7 of THE NEWS of Oronpo County. EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK KIDD BREWER'S ^Ly QUALIFIED ... jl the facts are in regand death of Eleanor Rush at json, and the entire aftyiir i settled, the public can Jed that right has prevail m be sure of it, because jjey, director of prisons for !, has backgrpund and ex which qualify him ideal ly position which he holds, bis master’s degree in so from the University of Carolina. He is a former court judge. Thus he (m to qualify from this iL Looking at him from ^.jtrative.. viewpoint, Di gailey is a former mayor ^ Point, area director of ice of Price Stabilization, charge of Civivian De* for the State, i,a disciplinary viewpoint, Hey seemi? eminently qual ig been- a colonel in the inny p»r Umstead wasn’t mere ling out positions when he on Bill Bailey to be direc prisons ) r the State. No 'the State1 is better quali iandle this extremely dif— Hgnment. ash cannonball < .. Ttmpbell, Chapel Hill erman and printer who ed Deacon Andy Griffith It Was Was Footba|l.” it again. 4 le time Orville had, A about ten million other been hearing Dizzy Dean Jew bars of "Wabash Can daring his game-of-the s. Old D^z has no time for the , song, tff into it during # slack “‘in the teams are -^han^-, the world, the way Dizzy H but it’s not much worse hen Roy Acuff of Tepnes ade it famous oyer the Old Opry and as candidate eemor of his sthte. But it’s ht — particularly when by a baseball announcer in liddle of a game being St nationally. I to make a long story >s they say, Orville went » York to persuade Dizzy jo make a recording of “Wa Cannonball”. Diz wasn’t so « favor of,', it, so Orville *®> handles her husband’s She liked the idea. The *as made under the Colon This is the same label the football record was iy made and gets its name pbell’s printing house, Press. ! Saturday night on the Big an NBC show which outstanding records of Wt. Dean’s “Wabash Can was given a better • of success than an Irving 1 tone sung by Bing Crosby [Perry Como rendition of a ^ the record is starting -to ^ ** ironically,, it is coming |*b the end of the baseball Awith Di^zy leaving the air !®onths within a few weeks. P“t It Was record hit its FT the end of football sea * year. Respite this seasonal bad; predict a great success j . ^ononball thing- Inci F» Orvillp Aiif thb Orville sold out the record to Capital. ‘ This 1 vjjapgtngf ..qn/.no ,'«al<V. ' wnnnftball. WANK ... The death < FWor Burnet R. Mayban P Carolina last week wi “w to the textile industi , as well as to the n ‘a whole. Jj** Was one of the fir -?^®ud to oppose—a Whil T*r three years ago whic L, given preferenti) . to the textile mills i England states. directed that griver Ftlle _l contracts were to _the New England facte unemployment existe °f whether Socthei j^*red lower cost bids., i realized immediate **OUNDUP. page 9) Mystery Farm Of The Week ... H». a ■wys Who Owns This 'Mystery Farin'? ’ Carr you recognize your farm from the-eir? If you livo on th# farm pictured - above, stop at the office of the News of Orange County and tell them about it. They wiirgive you with compliments of Dur ham Bank and Trust Co. a beautifully mounted photo of your farm. Watch for a new "Mystery Farm" every week. The next one might be yours Sewer Disposal Problem Solved At Estimated Cost of $7,000 At an estimated additional cost of $7,000—$8,000, the Count V/ Board of Education worked ,o£it sewage disposal troubles that de layed the projected Ca moron Park Elementary School in, Hillsboro. The problem, repealed for the first time last week, came about when it was discovered that a sewage lirje would have to run several heet above the ground at sorritf frlaces and as deep as 16 to 18 feet below at other#. The unraveling of the problem means that work on the badly needed school can get underway. , Chapel Hill Engineer, John Gove recommended that a septic tank be constructed otv the sehool site. This tank, he said, could be connected with the Eno River in such a way that most of the pipeline would be on school pro perty. Total cost of the additional sewage equipment is expected to run between five and six thous and dollars, and the T.,250 sewer lines, involved should be built Hbr~~approximately $1-50 per loot, or about $1,87?. • The Board moved on to a' dis cussion of -the Hillsboro area's Water shortage, eventually decid ing _to_, del ay_ action for awhile-. (Tuesday night £He . Hillsboro "Open House' Scheduled For New Courthouse ~ An “open house" ot enable Orange County citizens to view their' new courthouse has been scheduled for Monday 0< tuber. 4. . „ . ' • . The Board of Commissioners decided Monday to hold formal . opening Ceremonies in the new building in the afternoon of the first session of Superior Court to be .held in the new building on October 4. Judge Leo Carr, resident judge of the 10th ju dicial district, has requested as signment to the bench for this historic session in the new tuilding. The Commissioners, although tiev have not Worked out de - " event, ten diVeiV plan™-.™,™ • .slice Barnhill of the Supreme nurt President Gordon Gray.; id ’Chancellor 'Robert House ■ the University, former C hair an of the Board of Commis oners Collier Cobb Jr., and a imber of other Orange County gnitaries, along with officials om nearby counties. The entire citizenship of Or ige County is invited to m ,ect the new building, which s been termed the most •autiful courth^se ever con ructed in this State. Light re eshments, will likely be serv . in the Home -Demonstrat on ub lahpratory following the irentonies. ' . t. Moving from the old court >use will begin von September ,“h J-t ***** 0b' ;en in the new building, on jptember 27. .... . Cpriimissioners asked that the three schools in the area would operate only during hours). Supt. G. P Carr passed around to board members only, a form letter from the National Assn, for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple It is understood that 'his is the usual form letter that other .counties in the state have been receiving. The letter calls for an end to school segregation. [ The BoardV policy on ro gation, - decided ealier this sum mer, is . to maintain separate ; schools for the coming year. Supt. Carr said that board would not discuss the letter, but he asked for their written-comments on the 'envelope of the lettert' He de clined to discuss the matter with a reporter, saying the board wish ed no "publicity" on it. Supt. Carr reported on summer repairs in the county schools, which amounted to a total of over $30,000. School repairs.Included $7,895.73 work in Hillsboro; asphalt tile,for Efland Negro school, $1,475; floor retinishing,.. new chalkboards and "painting for Aycock School, $1 557.44: roof, painting and Celotex at , Efland School, $8,236.31; rdomroom work and rool paint at Carrboro School, $1,100; and ter mite ‘ ‘Bailment ' at -White--Cross. School, $170. Total labor cost for all painting done was an additional $4,319.8'Z, and furniture and shades in the schools cost $7,992.70''" The Board approved the dis trict committees for the newly divided Carrboro and White White Grass school 'districts... For (vrrboro district committeemen are Raymond Andrews, Andrew Cooler, K. B- Todd, Walter Clark and Car). Ellington. White Cross Committeemen are C. P. Jones. Edmond. Strowd, and Bernard Durham. A Herman Nelson heating sys tem and a 6-inch steel .waterline pipe were approved for the pro jected CameroiV Park School. West Hillsboro's PTA Leaders Hold Meeting The Executive Committee of the West Hillsboro Parent and Teachers-Association,.beld its first Sch ioi .Tuesday. August i Mrs. J. M. Harris, parliamen tarian, presided over the meet ing. Devotional was held by the Rev. Frank Kernodle, after which refreshments were served by-Mrs. J. I. Peede, president. The appointments of the com mittee chairmen for th<? various committees were announced. Pro posed plans for the new year were discussed by the following newly appointed committee chairmen. Program Committee, Mrs. Devyey Guess; historian, Mrs. Hurley Dicke/; Parliamentarian, Mrs- J. M. Harris; Budget and Finance, Mrs. Frank, Kernodle; HospitMity; Mrs. George Smith; Membership, Mrs. Lynwood Brown, Magazine, Mrs. Garland Rippey; Publicity, Mrs. Clyde Gregory with Mrs. Roseoe Riley, co - chairman;. Devotion, Rev. F”ank kernodle: Ways and Meats, (See fast Hillsboro, Page 8) r Shown above is No. 3 in the series of aerial farm pictures being presented in The News of Orange County each week in Jhe feature entitled. “Mystery Farm of the Week.” . D„q you know who owns or operates this farm? If you do you might win a free year's subscrip j tion to this newspaper by bcingi the first to correctly identify it. Phone your identification to Thu I News office as soon as possible. _ Last week’s mystery farm was identified as.that of Mr. and Mrs. I. \y. Bishop of R{>ufe 2. Chapel Hill, which is located just off High way 86 in the New Hope area. Mr. Bishop, who is a hailTer rrt Walker, Milling Company in Hillsboro, I raises beef cattle of the white face Hereford breed and has owned the ! farm since 1919. The farm was first settled about the time, of the Civil war by Rich ard Kirkland, member of one of the county’s pioneer families, who began building the home “Which graces the 50-acre tract. The next owner was Labon Andrews, who also continued work on the farm house but did not complete it. .This achievement "was reserved for the present owner who completed I construction of. the home after; he before the "roar ing twenties." Major crops grown on the Bishop farm are lcspedcza. and soybean hay. In addition to their grazing^, j however, Mr. Bishop says he feeds his Herefords on his own feed mix ture which he calls “super duoer ” a combination of corn, cottonseed meal, oats and .molasses hulls, w’ilh which he gets exceiient results. Mr. Bishop’s wife is the former Octavia Huffman He has a sen, Alton Brshof), who. resides ire Duly ham County. The owner or operaCor’.of each farm published .will he giyen free a nice-5 x 7 mounted photo of his farm by coming to The News oL (See Mystery Farm, Page 8) >» -*———* Pond Grants Now Available Irv Orange Farmers in Orrnge County can now receive a helping financial hand from the Government to build irrigation ponds. 4 A maximum of $200 per farmer --about iJO percent of average pond costs—will be set aside to help irrigation planners in the county. To receive aid, farmer' mud have the ponds approved by the local soil conservationist. An additional grant of $15,000, by; the State, will make the pond program* possible. The pond grants’ will be available as long as the wads last.' Total funds available will be the new $15,000 grant plus whatever amount is now left fpom m ’ al. grant of $30,000. Rate of payment foh the ponds will be ten cents per cubic yard of dirt. fa rmers who want ’.to obtain a pond grant may apply at once at the’ County ACP Office in Hills boro A K. McAdams, county ACP secretary, will handls requests. ’ County Agent Don S. Matheson pointed out this week, that the grants will be administered on a first come, first served basis. This new aid for county farmers is expected to increase the number pi irrigation units ’ greatly. Although the grant only covers a smsll part of the unit, the sueces of file dozens or so irrigation units already in operation throughout ,the. county seem to indicate that Mirth1 will be used. Farmers who used irrigation, particularly for tobacco, had ex cellent results this dry season. About 50 farmers in the county went on a tour recently to see ex isting irrigation in action. Reaction among those on the tour was gf*her ally favorable toward this method. *' betters have been mailed to countv growers explaining th" new pond grants. Weaver Wins Oats Contest Raymond Weaver of St. Mgry’s Community i.s the winner of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club’s third .annual oats contest__.I Weaver’s winning yield was 92 bushels per acre in this competi tion designed to increase the yield of oats in Orange County^_ -Second nlaoe winner is Walter Reitzel of the Fairfield Commun ity with a yield of 89 bushels per acre. John H, Cate .of Calvar.der Community with a . yield, of 79 bushels per acre' was- third. " With the severe drought for the past Tew years in the summer and fall, oats have been increasingly i important both as a grain crop j and hay and silage crop. This pictures graphically illustrates Hillsboro's critical wator sup* ply, which resulted in tha adoption of emergency measures by the municipality's only public water source, has dwindled* to a three inch stream a few hundred yirds abovethe water plint wrest df town.! I The pip*, shown above, eight inches in diameter, was improvised by | received. POLAROID PHOTO BY BILL MJTCHELL - Commissioners, Welfare Dept. j Argue Over Financial Question The Board of County Commis sioners and the county Welfure De partment locked horns again this week oyer the issue of more conn ty money for three major assist ance programs. v . Miss Annie Strowd, making her final regular monthly appearance before the Commissioners relin quishing the superenterrdcncy to Mrs. Jane Parker on September 15, told the commissioners that her department while operating under the policies of the State and Feder al security programs was over spending the county appropriation eaeh month onk three programs: 0)4 Age Assis^nce. Aid to De pendent Children, and Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disable I. At the rate of current spending on these programs, she explained, the welfare department will incur a deficit of $3,737 under 'he present fiscal year budget. Spend ing at the current rate, the depart ment will need $13,668 for 0A\, $11,307 for ADC, and $3,648 for APTD. The slims of $13,000. $9, 286, and $2,600 were set up for the operation of these programs re spectively. —Itttss -Strowd"sgidr — ’ “We have studied the policies and done every thing we could to keep expenses ■dOWK aifd-iteep Within. the ’eligib ility requirements.” She reiterat ed a previous request that the com missioners reconsider their previ ous budget allotments in these pro grams, and referred to cbrrespofld ence between the county end It. Eugene Brown of the State De partment of Public Welfare, rela fiv^W-increasing' cutunry’s'shiire of the state-county jointly financed programs. Both‘Miss Stowd and Mrs. Parker requested _the ’ commissioners to hold ’s meeting with the of . fjeial, Brown, to' iron out the dif ficulties, . | The commissioners, with Cha;r-( man R. O. Forrest as spokesman | but with others apparently back ing him in complete agreement, ex pressed the view that nothing could be gained by talking with. Brown, but later consented to a moving which was arranged for September 14, at 8 p.m. at the courthouse. “The tax rate has been set. the budget has been adopted. There is absolutely no place for the money to come from,” said Forrest. Mrs. Parker in advocating the meeting said: “Let’s know what sort of hot water we are getting in." She explained individual budgets must be mdde in accord ance with the State manual. “If j we cantt live within the budget, is lit not,, the responsibility of the county to provide means of operat ing within the Federal security law?,” she asked. Farm Bureau " ■ I Dubs Hawkins For Campaign —CED A rTTTROVE—' zrcrTTurtbn oi. Cedar. Grove, president of the Grange county Farm Bureau, an nounced today that J. M. Hawki.e. also of Cedar Grove, has been named chairman of this year’s county membership caoipaign, fol lowing a meeting of the Stroup at Ayeock school Saturday. : President Burton said the group has accepted the county quota of 400 members this year which will go to make up- the state Farm Bureau quota of 70,000. Burton said the group.- has set September 25, as the “kickoff” meeting, at which time all workeftr will be ‘assembled for final; instruc tions. “We plan to leave no stone unturned ,.in . carrying..our Kami Bureau program to the people and (See FARM BUREAU, Page 5) AN HISTORIC MOMENT—Participants in the courtroom scene in Hillsboro last Friday paused briefly to reflect oyer the last 109 yjars as the last Superior Coprf case to be called in the old county * courthouse was brought up for trial. When the next term of court is /j called late in the fall ifwill be in the new $250,000 courthouse across’ the square. Shown above, during the case of W. T. McAdams vs. Mrs., Louise Jefferson are (loft to right) J. 0. LeGrand, Mrs Jefferson's 7 attorney; James R. Farlow, attorney for Mr. McAdams; Sheriff Sam Latta; the 12 members of the jury; Superior Court Clerk Edwin ! Lynch; Assistant £lerk Lucius Cheshire; and Judge Clifton Moore of Burgcw. On the jury were A. H. Poe, Joseph A. Halguera, C. O. Wil-~ son, Jr.., Luther Atwater, H. A. Snipes, V. L. Pendergraft, B. G. Green berg, R. H. Marks, Charlie H. Ford, £ecil Jones, and Gattis Cates. The present courthouse was built for $8,000 in 1845. —News Leader ■'■photo..' . Hillsboro Asks Federal Aid For Pipeline . The Hillsboro Board of Com missioners moved swiftly this week to combat • shortage in the Town's water supply which sev eral commissioners termed ‘criti cal” and “dangerous to the future welfare of the town”, - - The actions were unprecedented locally and as late as a year ago when other towns were suffering water shortages in the second severe drought year in a row their prediction would have been branded as ridiculous. As late as Tuesday afternoon Mayor Hbn Johnston refused to see the short- . age as scridus. ,, t At the meeting of the board a few hours later, however, his col ! leagues, voting unanimously, took the following actions: 1 Declared the existence of an emergency condition m the conv niunity a.nd called upon the Boards of Education to reduce school ope ration in the city's three schools to the morning hours only. Super intendent G. Paul Carr move^ im mediately to put the requested re strictions, school operation from 8 to 12:00 a. m., into operation to day. 2j Directed . the Mayor to pro ceed with plans to obtain emer Tha County Board of Educa tion yestorday approved the re quest of the Hillsboro Commis sioners for a shortened school day. The request was made In view of the water shortage in she Hillsboro area. . County schools, with tho'owoplfion of Cerrboro and Whit# l we, will* operate on an I to ft basis in the morn ings only until tho emergency is ever. gency pipe from the federal gov ernment in order to connect ^the town's water plant with Edgar Bivins^ lake on the Orange Grove road, two miles away over Etjd Mountain. 3 Agreed to proceed with the rebuilding of the dam at the old D'mmock's Mill site to provide adequate water storage facilities ior the town's needs. .. 4. Directed the immediate. di<- . patch of a letter to all water users asking for • voluntary con- = ivrvatim. measures to conserve the rapidly diminishing supply. Most officials agreed that the gommunity had an eiglft-to-10 day supply of water at' the present tirhe behind the shallow dam owned bf the Eno Mills In tti West Hillsboro (village, but West of the water plant, Eno Rivers, which officials had thought would .always provide a.never - ending ample-supply of water, but ail agreed more*, water was being used than was coming in. The en tire river, at. this point, “poured" through; measuring . pipe at »n estimated ohe-thifd to one-half capacity. At the dam. the water level,,, was six to eight inches below the top, and below the dam there was only such water in the river as trickled through small leaks. Meanwhile further down the ' river, the town continued to pour its sewage from several outfalls into the river bed with only its own sewer, water to carry it off. If the emergency pipe is ob tained from the government, a measure which was used by Rox boro, Raleigh and Burlington in last year's drought, it would be laid through the now dry Sandy Branch from the Bivins Lake to - ..- . ... *i0 to 90 day supply might be available from this kiurce. , Sidney Green, top local official at the Cone-owned Eno plant, ap peared before the board to stress the critical nature of the water situation and agreed to contact the home office of the corporation for possible help to the town in restoring the Dim mock's dam which washed away several years 3gO"-tmd-~we»~ never replaced, ft— provided a large backlog upon which the town could draw in lime of need. Mayor Johnston scheduled a neeting with Town Manager IY>m Rose of Chapel 'Hill > ester iay morning to seek the engi neer’s advice on lam..■* In the appeal to water users, he Commissioners urged ases such as ail See Emergency Measures. '
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