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)f orange County up with the new* ,Ver the county by THE NEWS of1 •* ounty. E 61, NUMBER 48 HILLSBORO AND CHAPBL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER t 1*54 ill St . . . Our trip to the in Miami, Fia., Iasi Day was most enjoy we hope to be there for again on I^ew Year’s i a group in Raleigh and lscussirvg the possibility r-ing a plane from the rham Airport to Miami people could be ao •Those interested in going to Florida and the same day, can coifV for' further details. LINE • . Last Satur Duke-Carolina game, I to one of the radio be interviewed at half* the first time—and prob last time—I will ever be to watch part of a foot e from smack-dab on the n'e. resting experience, to say SfiS . . Now that jither Hodges Is finally Into the regular and ardu |ine of carrying out the Governor of North Caro kt of people are interested |ng what is going to hap krding some of the State fcs stance, some people have fccerned about whether or new Governor has4 any Ir replacing various Urn Jpointees. hing seems certain. Gov. vitl not remove any of the |B. Umstead appointees as is, for the reason that named to their positions predecessor. hanges'which Gov. Luther nay make—if and when he -will be made with the [improving the administra State_ Government. , IN RALEIGH . . . Speak owl games—as who isn’t kys—on December 11, one, rom Saturday, the Appa Ifootball team will be in j to play Newberry "Hi the |wl which will be held in I Stadium here at NC. State game will be played in on with the annual meet the Elks Clubs of North • ; . XJ ta-iergh chapter of the Ap n Club is looking forward alf.ur with a great deal «.t and anticipation An open s planned at - the Brewer Mowing the game. We are ahead to seeing once, lot of our old-time Appa Players and friends, ood triend, J. B. (Shorty) te—one of the all-time greats at State College—is ding the Elks Bowl game, luiries.or requests for tic-' ould be directed to Good f Lawrence in the Raleigh !. Raleigh. TIME . . . Fred Smith, for ch at Methodist Orphanage 'gh, recently made ar. i ti ll .observation regarding his experience as a player at :hian. •‘d: “Coach, do you realize ring the four years I play-' PPalachian, I only saw one Wn scored against Us on me field.” * obtedly, there are very few Players who can make statement. 4§T... zmj&maak* im&rMaJUL Carolina game: “An athe nybody who can watch this nd not care who wins.” . We sat between ^nds of Jim Tatum, the % of Maryland football at the Car6lina-DiA'° gamp °f them was pulling for s Win by a decisive score in ^at the University of j e°ach at Carolina next year. ■ °ther one was pulling fori a to beat Duke in order that • lend Tatum would get a tr'n to the Orange Bowl * Miami. r——~~~ ilNGs . , w Coming out of ^Saturdav^ I picked up an • hut could not find the G ROUNDUP, Page 2) t Carolina would Survey Estimates County Highway Construction Needs At $5,514,900 Highway construction needs of Orange County are listed at $5, 514,000 in the recent, survey of North Carolina highway needs made by a New York engineering firm at a cost of $110,000. The report said there are 77 miles of primary highways in Orange County which needed im provement and that there should" be 20 miles of entirely new con struction. Total costs of this high way construction was $4,422,000, not including $135,000 for right of-way purposes. The report also listed three structures as needing widening, one to be replaced and 11 new ones at a total cost of $525,900. The engineering firm’s report points out that the total cost of improving, extending and main Miss f orresi-Seleaed . for Phi Beta Kappa Initiation - j.Miss Phyllis Forrest, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, R. 0. Forrest of Hillsboro, will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation high est honorary scholastic fraterni ty, at ceremonies to be held to morrow night at the University of North Carolina. Miss Forrest, who was graduated at the University last June, now teaches at Gray High School in Winston-Salem. While a student at the University she earned the de cree of Bachelor .of Arts in Edu cation and recelvedTidf diplOTUft at the University's 160th Cfttu-. mencement. Prior to attending the University, she was a student at Salem College in Winston-Salem. Miss Forrest wilt be one of 47 initiates into the honorary group Those selected were required to maintain a scholastic average of 92.5 for at least eight quarters. /v.ISS PHYLLIS FORRfST .. ■ New Postal Manual Available To Public Postmaster Tom Bivins of Hills boro has called to the attention of mail users major new postal regu lations issued effective December 1 which provides important changes and simplifications- in- the use of the mails. r~TOe--T»^t^eK'l?i?part»nwj?^ sued a final edition of a .history making new Postal Manual which contains these changes in simple - form. The .new manual will bring together in-less than 300 pages public-interest postal regulations formerly stattered through a4„000 pages of dense print, Postmaster Bivins explained, This publication may be obtain Governor Names News Of Orange Tc Safety Councii ",?T5rafl£r;Votin'.y\ 8 paper. The News of Orange Coun v, has been named, as d member of “The Traffic Safely Council.” it ,-.vas announced last week by Gov ernor Ciither H: ttodgest-— The membership of the council includes >itate-wide and regional civic, farm, industry, labor, busi ness, profes&ianal. religious, edu cational. media of public relations.. service and other organisations. The purpose of the- Tranic Safe ty Council will be to promote traf iic safety throughout the Slate by supporting and assisting the ef forts of official agencies to pre eht death, iniuries and 4o.v-.es ■aused^y traffic accidents. ' The first meeting of the new or ganization will be held at - P- m nn Friday. Dec. 3, in the auditor ium of the Highway Building in Raleigh. Edwin Hamlin, general manager of the News, will repre sent the newspaper at the state wide meeting. — The first "annual meeting'“'will discuss and make plans /or. promo ting highway safety. „ , «d at 65 cenids a copy from the Superintendent pf Documents, Washington 25, D. C. And mail users anxious to keep abreast of a)I changes in this material that may be made from time to time may get both the^ pamphlet in .j<Ku*4«af. format and jO&WOSE scription to all sheeXs rriaklhi? changes for a total of $2, also from the Superintendent of Documents, the postmaster noted. The revision of the Postal manual, Postmaster Bivins said, represents what Postmaster Gene ral Arthur E.' Summerfield has described- as the most complete revision nf regulations in the his tory of the U. S. Post Office De partment. The Department on Ocioner 21 issued the first preliminary edi tion and;Postmaster General Sum merfield invited the general pub tie- as well as large niaile.rs and postal emp'loypelT ta con structive revisions for incorpora tion Into the final edition. At rha' *ime. 'he final edition was set for November 20. but, because oT the volume of the many worth while suggestions offered, its pub lication-. da*te was moved up to the present December 1, 'The final regulations have been filed with the Division of the Federal Register in Washington, and will become legally effective on December 1. - Postmaster Bivins noted (hat the new pamphlet and the new $2 package deal give the business men and other large mail users the easiest: most complete method of keeping completely up to date, on postal information that they have ever had. “The new publication is, remark able for its simplicity,” he said. “Not only is it printed in easy-to understand English, but it con tains simple black and white illus • (See POSTAL; pop- .8) I For Home Demonstration Clubs The Orange County Home De monstration Club Achievement^ program will be held next Thurs day afternoon „at 1:30 o'clock at the courthouse in Hillsboro _ A feature of the meeting will be a report from Mrs., Robert E. Hughes concerning her. trip to t e United Nations Home Demon strattort club delegate on ^ .speci ally conducted tour early in Oct ober. .- Jf Awards will be made for: ta* The outstanding club for 1954. (b) Best Scrap Book. (cl Attendance at Achievement program. Cti) -Reading certificates. j Reports will be heard from each of the 16 clubs in the county and the new county council officers will be installed as follows: Mrs. R. E. Hughes. Cedar Grove, presi dent; Sfrs. Henry Walker, Hills boro Route 1, first vice president; Mrs. Bill Dorsett, Efland Route 1. second vice presidertt; Mrs. Gradv ^ Crawford, Chapel Hill Route 1,' secretary: and -Mrs. Aubrey Me. Lennan, Chapel Hill Route 1, treasurer. I Mrs. Clyde Rpberts, president of the county council wiljl preside. ... T taining an adequate system of highways in the state during the next 10 years will be $1,441,800’-.{ 000. This estimated cost, of course, includes all the items which are now regularly a part of the budget of the highway fund. The actual improvement and construction costs, leaving out everything else, J amounts to approximately $610, 000,000. Primary Read* Only These figures apply to primary highways wily, the report inferring ! that, as a result of the emphasis which they have received during recent years, the secondary high way system is adequate. The pri mary system consists of about 12, 000 miles of highways, or only about 17 per cent of the total, but these 12,000 miles carry almost two-thirds of the total traffic. The grand total mileage under super vision of . the state is about 68.000 miles. The survey report pointed out that about 86 per cent of the entire primary highway system needed improvement, or a total of 10,202 miles, and that 1.310 ntiles of new construction were needed. The c-Ost involved would total $511. million. In addition to these miles of high way improvement the report fouWi. that more than 40 per cent, of .all structures on the primary system were deficient. There are 2 <74 of these structures—bridges and un derpasses—and 1 074 of them were found to need widening or be com pletely reconstructed. In addition, 740 new structures were said to be needed. The cost of this structural work would be R»R million, thus totaling $610 million. | Revenue Need Eit mated highway fund reve nues over the same 10-year period, based on the assumption that exist ing highway-user tax rates and pol itics would remain unchanged, and assuming that the present rate of Federal aid would continue, would bv SMij.n i.rtlliit4 At first glance this -would indicate that no- m?hr problem of financing was involv ed, because revenues for the 10 year period would be within $22 5 million of the total costs. A deficit of onlv $22 5 million over 10 years to all practicable purposes, is pay: rnc as-vou-go. Unfortunately, the report was ouick to dissipate that pleasant an ticinafion Because the backlog of highway deficiencies was so great, the report said, the bulk of the improvement work should be done during the earlv part of the 10 years, perhaps during the first six v^ars. During this first six-year pe riod; almost three-fourths irf the total would be spent, and during' that period current revenues would be below expenditures by abOUt $150 -_-lS£iL-SmV£X> 81 Biggest Turn-over In County Sheriff-Elect Odell Clayton Names Slate Of Deputies For New Term Sheriftelect Odell H. Clayton, whio will take office Monday, yes terday announced' his complete 'Stale' be sworn .in along with him. X ’• Replaced by new men were two appointees of retiring Sheriff S- T. Latta, while a third officer nfw to the county set-up was named to fill the place formerly held by the late candidate. Deputy Frank Maddry, who lost to Clayton in the second primary last June. *Ikhe new deputies will be Wal terj E. Clark, Jr., Carrboro, Earl Buph, Chape) Hill, and Malone Hall, Cedar Grove. Both youth and experience were accented in the new appointments Senior Deputy and Jailer W. R. Roberts and Deputy C. R. Knight of Sheriff . Latta’* Staff were re tained by (he new Sheriff, how ever. De’putie*- not reappointed were Albert L. Pendergrass who worked in Chapel Hill and Carl Hurley who worked in the HillS boro and West Hillsboro' area as a special deputy, partially paid by Cd|ie Mills Corporation. Both of thdse men were active in the cnrrr» paign for Frank Maddry. . j All three of the new deputies are natives of this county. Clark/ 33, who - attended the . public schools of Chapel Hill anl Carr Don Mathesons Visiting Virgin Islands Again i County Ageift Don Matheson, accompanied by Mrs. Matheson and daughter, Elizabeth, left from Durham-Raleigh airport yesterday for a two weeks trip to the Virgin Islands. For Mr. Matheson, it will be a two-weeks tour of duty for the U S. Department of Agriculture in soecting the argicultural accom plishments of native farmers of. that If. S. noss'ession which have been initiated in the past year. A year ago. the county agent i went to the Virgin Islands for a month on special, assignment for the Department to study the agri cultural setup and make recom mendations for imnrnvem“n* .lines of This country’s agricultural extension program. , boro, has Served on both Chapel Hill and Carrboro police forces. Is no employed as a police guard at -I*e»drua. Hospital. Bush. 27, is a graduate of Chapel ' Hill High School and attended the Universi ty of North Carolina. He is a for tier Chapel Hill policeman and fugitive officer with the State Prison Department. Long, 2b, has had no Uw enforcement ^pei ien?c, pre^Jously has help* father. Coy Long, operate a near Cedar Grove. > w store 1 County To Lose 245 Acres Tobacco Acreage Cut Five Per Cent For 55 | The five per cent reduction in the 1955 flue-cured tobacco allot ment announced by the U. S. De partment of Agriculture will mean Orange will have 245 less acres to plant to the county’s No. 1 cash income crop, next year. ' The national allotmcnfrfor 1955 has'been set at 1,009,600 acres for flue-cured typo tobacco, which this year .was allotted 1,053,000 acres under the production control pro gram. A. K. McAdams, Orange office manager of the Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation pro gram, reported that the Orange County allotment in 1954 was 4, 907:4 acres. This ailolmtmt-willbe reduced .to approximately 3,662 acres next year. The agriculture department has explained that the announced cut will jpean that the flue-cured allot ments for most farmers will be ap proximately five per cent smaller n 1955 than in 1954. The# department estimated that 1,039,000 qf flup cured tobac co, were actually planted this, year. The carryover supply of flue, cured tobacco was reported at 1, 915 million pounds. Domestic us® age in the past marketing year to taled 778 million pounds, down six per cent from the previous year. Exports were reported at 431 mil lion pounds, said to be a “little” above the previous .year. The department said Jthe 1955 flue-cured allotment should pro-! diice 1,270 million pounds compar. ed with this year's indicated crop of 1,328 million pounds. The 1955 allotments will be ac companied by rigid marketing quotas^ designed to limit sales to that-grown on alloted acres. Grow ers approved quotas in a 1953 ref erendum for a three-year period. The department also announced a 1955 burly type tobacco acreage Orange Mystery T'rm Of The Week—No. 15 Who Owns This Mystery Farm? » IDENTIFY THIS "MYSTERY FARM" first and y*u w i receive a free subscription to The News of Orange County. A number of people are calling u J» week with thair identifications. Often they are right, sometimes they are wrong. So, join the ge me. Read page 8 of today's issue for the identifica tion of last week s 'Mystery Farm." The owner o f the farm pictured above is asked to come by The Mews as soon as possible and receive a beautiful m ounted photo of the picture above, courtesy of the Durham Bank and Trust Company and this nowspa per. , allotment of 32,000 acres, com | pared with an allotment of 397,000 acres this year. I C. W. Stanford Is Nominated ~ For Soil Pdst C W. Stanford, Rt. 1, Chapel Hill, hqa beep nominated for re eleclion as Supervisor of the N6use River' Soil Conservation District, Secretary James Compton announced this week. L The; election will be held during the “week of December 6 to 10. Other candidates may be voted for by writing their names in the blanks provided on the ballots. Ba|lot boxes for the election will be located at Long’s Store, Ce dar Grove; Compton’s Store, Carr, Farmer's Mutual Exchange, Carr iwra; Murray’s Store, Caldweli; Farmers Mutual Exchange, Hills bon^pd the ASC Office, Hill* boro.. — Election to the three man Ojr ange County Board of Supervisors is for a three year term beginning January 1. One new supervisor is elected each year. The Supervisors of Orange Coun ty together with the supervisors of the other four counties in the District comprise the governing body of the Neuse River Soil Con-[ servation District. The Neuse River Soil Conserva tion District was organized by far mers of Orange, Durham, and I Wake counties in 1939 to provide them with a legally constituted or ganization to help’ solve, their, grbwmg. problems . land damage and loss due to erosion. In 1940 the farmers of Wilson and Johnson counties petitioned to be included in the District, and , after an election showed majority i j approval, the District was enlarg j ed to include them. i At present, about 2500 local soil conservation districts are working for the preservation of the ‘ pro ductive capacity of their land ' in [ the United, States and possessions, f Orange County Supervisors, fil ling unexpired terms, are J. . $; Cohipton, Cedar Grove, and Henry | Hogan, Chapel Hill? Rt. 2. , I •- ORANGE COUNTY HOGS FLY TO HAITI Thra** Gilts and a Boar ba- | j longing to Mr. J. E. Latta qf Hillsboro, Rout# 1, wars rscant ly flown from tha Ralaigh-Our ham Airport to Haiti. Those purebred Spotted Po land Chinas Were part of a ship ment qf breeding animals sent to that country to improve tha qiiality of their livestock. the Christian Rural Overseas Program, under thelbirectton of Rev. Carl Keys of Durham. Gattis Car Stolen The State Highway Patrol is still seeking the 1948 Pontiac automo bile of County Tax Supervisor Sam Gattis, which was stolen from his driveway Monday night. “T The county official says he still has the keys in his pocket and has ho idea how the vehicle was start ed. Taking the loss in good humor, Gattis says he has serious doubts , about the judgment of the thief who swped his car with late model numbers parked in drives all over town. " Hobbs Is Seen Likely Choice | For Chairman A political turn-over of pro -portions unprecedented in Orange : m duled for this historic county seal 1 on Monday. Two of the three major elective county offices will change hands and a new five-man Board of County Commissioners will take over, including a 3-2 majority of ( members new to the county gov ernment. / A new chairman of the Board of County Commissioners will be elected to, succeed Rqbcrt O. For-" rest, the present chairman who did not seek reelection. Although the two holdover member-son the Commission were elected to two-year terms and the three new members were chosen lor four-year tenures, the new chairman Is expected to come from the ranks of the former. Commissioner R. J. M. Hobbs is generally conceded to be the most likely choice for the tdp job. Commissioner Sim Efland of Ef land has the longest tenure on the board Monday will be a busy day for the new officers with swearing-in ceremonies and appointments the general order of the day Edwin M. Lynch, incumbent, clerk of court, the only majoir df-~ fice holder to be reelected," will take the oath of office from a local magistrate to open the day®* proceedings. He will then be in positiotT to swear in the other elected officials and the county commissioners. The new deputies, some appointive officials, and a group of. Justices of the Peace elected in the General 'Election, will also be on hand for oath* taking rite's. Betty June Haywtf will become the first woman reg ister of deeds of the county and Odell H. Clayton will take office as the first new sheriff since S. T. Latta took over in 1935 On the agenda for Commission ers after. they are sworn in wilt be the election of a chairman, followed b y consideration o l several appointments, among them Tax. Supervisor Sam Gattis, Judge L. J. Phipps, Solicitor John Q. LeGrand, and the county attorney -ship, held by the firm of Graham & Ransom. Tax Listers for next year must be appointed at this* - meeting. The commissioners must also set bond for three constables elected last month and administer their oaths. No major changes in the line-up of appointive officers, other than among Deputy Sheriffs, is ex pected. R. J. M. HQBBS * GARDEN CLUB CALENDARS ARRIVE Mrs. G. Paul Carr, treasurer of the Hillsboro Garden Club, an nounces that the 1955 Garden Club calendars have come. These calendars will be on sale to all members at the regular meeting of the club on next Thursday afternoon, at 3:30 o' clock at the American Legion Hit All extra calendars will be offered for sale to the public during Hie “Christmas Idea Open House”, to be held at the hut on Decern be£'43 9 from 7 until 10 p.m. and on Fri day. December 10, from 10 a. m. until 10 p. m. . * ‘
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