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I Orango County yp with tt»a mw ,tr Hi* county h> rHE NEWS of XILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, C.t THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, ltS5 that happened re kcs it all the harder an additional tax dollar e pocket of John Q. ederal Government, un surpltis property pro over to the State of arolina thousands of •orth—$39,000,000 worth he last eight years—of nt and materials each in turn, passes this property to the schooLs, and other State insti many long years of the taxpayer real break, because the was bought by ufh Federal taxes in the ce—is put to good utili nstead of merely being way for junk. ----- H imes, when the State is e at work, it finds itself with the State. AGAINST STATE . . , taxes is—as everyone 'specially the members gislature, very unnnn. w that the money is ttfUjfehtly* ’Sptvt, taxe? unpopular. The taxpay to know that all eco ssible are being effect he is hit for additional ING INCIDENT. ago, the State of. rolina was given, amongj ngs. a large truck, or i a State employee was n 4o"the Marine base, the coast to bring the to Raleigh, where it will be given to one of the titutions, schools, or hos or any use they care to f it in their day-to-day JOS**, i Ms way to Raleigh the ‘as arrested by a Stale patrolman because the not have proper clear >»ts for the sibe of truck ened to be. ‘It had been the Marine base, and tlreafo has been, or used by some. State in whete the special light* 3YEE VS. EMPLOYEE hertheless, one State em I'vas. cited to court by an imate employee for a vio [>I the law while simply out the duties assigned I the point is, that—in the |>f a fine—the State would gated to pay the’fine and would be gained, for cial loss would be that [State and riot that of the The eventual loss, of would be that of the tax fCTLY CORRECT . . . Now fiderstandable that the pa was correct in carrying letter of the Jaw. As a of fact, he performed his when. the situation was to , the attention of the attitude was: “It is innately, the local judge whom the case went when headquarters refused to Pre was a man of good ent. He simply threw the Put of court, which saved xpayer the cost of the fine.1 E OF MANY . . . This lack isideration and reasonable >n the part of those charg ‘th the responsibility of ay law enforcement is just sr of many, many cases havd“ mushroomed to the UOVNDUPt page V Scene* On Two Orange County Roads In Fast Weak High speed" brought c'.>ath again to Orange County highway* thir week. Part of the final outcome of two accidents are shown •bove. The vehicle at left was the death car of Warran Miles, Ala mance County man, who crashed Friday night on Highway 49 in Northern Orange. He died Monday in Memorial Hospital In Chapel Hill. Patrolman Mann Norris, who suppliad the pictures, said Miles ran off the road 315 feet, snapped a telephone pole, ran through a pasture fence, winding up nearly back on Hi# highway after travailing 257 more faat. The layout at Hie right involved three vehicle* on Highway 86 Friday morning. Bernice Dodson, driving the 1954 Chevrolet, according to Norris, ran a State truck driven by Clarence Young off the road and then hit the left front and ran under an other truck own’sd by Paul Roberts lUid driven by Brack Harris, Ne gro, before winding up in the ditch. The State truck was turned over. Citizenshi p Contest Wi n n ers Announced In DAR Events * . PEGGY BERRY MARIE JOBE irrteSMF JANE WELLS um * HAYWOOD FITCH "Best Citizens" Miss Peggy Berry of Hillsboro i High School and Miss Marie * o of AycbcK "High School have been selected as the “best citizens" rh their respective' senior classes to compete in the state DAR’s Good Citizen Contest. These Orange County girls will enter the State contest "under the sponsorship of- the Davie Poplar chapter of the \ C 'Soeietjr'bf* the Daughters of the American Revolution of which Mrs.. Charles Stanford of Chapel Hill is Regent and Mrs. R. W. Isley of Cedar Grove, chairman of Good Citizen Committee. Scrapbooks depicting w’nat each onleal-u. h., done dicing fed? font ycuu'ie in •high; school are the principal basi^'lnr* jndginf. - Miss Berry is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. \V. \V. Berry of Hillsboro. She is a senior at Hills boro High and secretary this year in the Hillsboro Chapter, Future Homemakers of America of which die I fas been a member for two rears. She has served as assistant typing editor for one year and l> ping editor of the school paper ['or one year. Miss Berry has been (See CITIZENSHIP, p. 7) 1 Best In History Jane Wells and Haywood Fitch v' sc' he bekt Ameri can History students of Aycock School in the '‘Junior .American Citizenship Clubs,” sponsored by the Davie Poplar Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo lution in Chapel Hill, of which Mrs. I. G. Greer is chairman. Jane is the daughier of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wells of . Cedar Grove and’a student in the fifth grade. Havwbod is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Fitch of Cedar Grove and is a seventh grade student UmsteadBacks Tougher Safety Laws, ^S^BBSSSmSSSmimmi '2:i^===^gj-*^;,,r,v--^v * ■>-»..,- -.-, „*»*,l|illBl.L ; t . ^. Sees Solution To By JOHN UMSTEAD R«p., Orange County Ijurfng the past week nothing oi outstanding .importance happened in connection withtiiediuly-iiigc.l ings of the Senate and House and the committees of these bodies Speaker Moore appointed several more of the House committees anu expects to complete his committee assignments during the presen. week. I was named as chairman of, the Committee on Mental Institutions and named as a member of the fol owing committees: Appropria ions, Education, Public Heal.h Public Welfare. Penal Institutions, insurance and Propositions and Grievances. I had asked for only iix appointments as a representa ive simply cannot give proper at ention to committee work if he s placed on too many committees. ■ High way Safety Bills .gmee we reached Raleigh a lucecL that have to do with’ safety in the* highways. Some of these, neasures would make for greatei afety while some of them would lefinitely hamper the highway pa- j ro! in their attempts to make the , tighways safer. Some of the representatives and enators have a feeling that any- : hing other than following a car ty a patrolman that is used to de- j ect speeding • is a so-called, speed trap.” There are others, nd I happen to be a member ol his group, who think that any nd all legitimate measures to urb speeding on all our highways re justified. If we are to stop, filings on our roads we will have to stop the speeding: tnat is tin main cause of these fatalities. University Cuts .. -ia. mattf»r «f concern to all th< people in Orange County is~ the University appropriation recoin mended by the Budget C omm is; sion. The requested appropriation were cut by these recommends lions and on Tuesday tlie.Univers ity- 'authorities wifi appear»befor< the Committee on Appropriation and discuss the effects of thesf cuts. This Legislature is not going t he able to give to any institutior or agency all they requested bu‘ it is honed that they will try t< find funds so that all institution' and agencies can operate on a sat isafetory basis I have a feclin^ that in the end this will be done. • ' For a number of years there has been abroad in our state the opin ion on the part of manv that the ___ might while in Raleigh. If anv of my readers have this opinion I 'vnnirt like to have them come to Raleigh some dav and see jus* what constitutes the usual day of a member of the legislature. Some committee meetings start ■>* q o’clock and never ‘later than ):30 unless it be a committee that is called to meet after some other -ommittee has finished with its j business and adjourned. Th°s« meetings continue until 12 o’clock when both the house and senate -onvene. These meetings during the early part of the session last j anlv 30 or 40 minutes. Later thev will ,last to 1:30 and sometimes 2, -clock. AVZ-aclyiyK Wic joint com mittee on finance and appropria tions meet and usuaily during th( first six weeks they are in session always past 4 o'clock and some times they- are in session after 5 This is the schedule for three lays of each wegk while the. aft ernoon meetings arc not held or Fridays in-order US allow members to get off for home over the wee! •nd. It may be' that we could stay ■later on Fridays and come back for an afternoon session on Mon lays but from the statement above ou can see that while we are hen 'uring the week we are quite busy. Vs -to Fn'dav afternoons and Mon days it should be said that a larg' number of the members of thr 'egislature are busy men and they are making a sacrifice to servf heir counties and s‘a‘e and i* ’vouM s»cm that this time off t> Handle their business _aXfairs is-no"; oo much to ask. I ■- ■ ‘ ‘ .— WHtTK ELEPHANT RUMMAGE SALE The Weslvan Service Guild of 'he Methodist Churah is sponsor ing a White Elephant and Rum mag0 Sale at the Eno Chevrolet on Saturday, Feb. .19. /- proceeds from the sale are used for various Guild projects during the year. Anyone wishing to con tribute old clothes or other items which they cannot use is asked to contact Mrs. C. H. Cates, Mrs. Ow en Allison, Mrs. N. L. Mauroner. Mrs. C, H. Miller or any other Guild member. Allison Picks Leaders For... Fund. Drive Mafiori Allison, Chairman of the Qrange County Chapter of the American Red -Cross Fund and Membership Drive for 1954, today announced Division Chairman as follows: Industrial Co-chairmen: Sam Gattis and Joe Hughes Hillsboro Residential: Mr*. Wil son Cole and Mrs, Ed Barnes "Business Co-chairmon: Alton Williams and George Cannady Rural Chairman: Hubert McAd ams Efland Chairman: Mr*. John ; #Y>rre.st , ° ' School Chairman: Mrs. Irene Pender a 1 Colored Chairman: Harold Webb Special Chairman: Odell Clayton In announcing (he Chairmen of the Campaign organization Mr. Al lison said, “Our quota for the Or ange County Chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross for 1955 is $2200.00. As indicative of the past, I feel confident that again our quota will be met. The national quota of 85 million dollars is the minimum amount to maintain essential Red Cross Services. This will require all Chapters, regardless of how 'mail their quota may be, to sue eeed-.--—-— -_______ “In a nation Whose people con . r.'Me.four and one-half billion dollars >early br reliuvr'thr suf Vrings of their fellow men, 85 million dollars for the Red- Cross is surely a conservative amount. (Sec ALLISON, p PTA Liquor Election Bid Reaction Varied Petition been Likely Method To Get Election to isMwk's tnWf‘ ttiSt tMir - PTA.J seeking sources of . revenue for school building needs, wifi ask the County Commissioners to call for a county-wide referendum on the establishment of ABC whiskey store in Orange County has been as varied as its citizenship is di verse. Comment on the proposal, at least in official circles, has been generally cool end cautious. No commissioner contacted gave any indication that he would .vote for holding a referendum unless a petition is presented, making the action mandatory This, most, ob servers believe, will he the course the proposition will eventually take t’ The PTA motion, passed at the group's'meeting Iasi week, merely asks the commissioner's to hold such art election, but as it was'sug ges-ed in connection with potential sources bt revenue for much-need ed capital outlay money for local schools, an endorsement of ABC stores is thus implied to that ex tent. Ninety percent of all profits from the state-owned whisky stores are supposed to be appro priated by the coilnty commission er* for school purposes, the other 10 percent going to Jaw enforce ment. „ An -ABC store vote in Orange failed in the summer of 1938 in the face of strong rural and northern county voters' opposi tion. CAN ORDER VOTE The commissioners have the right to order such an election but if they choose not to dp s<^ it may then be mandatorily held 6n petition to the county board of 15 per cent of the voters in the last general election. It's understood ttiat such a petition is intended in the event the commissioners don’t call for the election on their own initia tive arid a move fs diready Wi der way to secure the support of other civic groups for this possi ble alternative. Since such an election cannot be held within 60 days of another election, it will be late summer or fall . before a county referen dum on ABC stores can be held because' the biennial municipal eleiliiin.s. ni Chapel. Hill and rwWftirri 'iril.l .-be held Mav 2, 3. CARRIED BY 3-2 The'ITA vote seeking the elec- , TSee PETITION- p, - 7 >-•j R. B. Todd Is Candidate For Mayor Of Carr boro R. B. TODD Murphy Heads Heart Sunday Solicitation I)r Robert Murphy Jr, has been appointed Chairman for (he Hills boro area for the Heart Sunday Fund Drive oh Fob. 20. by Orville Campbell, Chapel Hill. Chairman for Orange County. Mrs. Isaac Harris is chiarman for Durham County. Volunteers will call on their neighbors, Sunday afternoon be tween t and 5 o'clock to pick up the voluntary contributions This drive wifi only be held at this time. - ■ - . If you wish to volunteer to call on your neighbors, please contact Dr. Murphy. In addition to the Heart Sun-; day solicitation, contributions may | be made through the coin collect" tors placed throughout the. com-! munily Another planned activity to fo- 1 cus attention on the campaign will | be a fashion show to bo held to-' night in the Crystal Ballroom ol 4he~VMashim>ton Duke Hotel under I the sponsorship of the Durham Ornagc Heart Association to which «mted - -Models fern a Durham" store will present a showing of briual and Spring at-' tire. No solicitation or contribu-1 tions-are expected, at .this'event? J Mystery Farm Of The Week—No. 26 1 Who Owns This AAysf<Bl;y firm?! Orange County's mystery farm pitot veered across the county line last week and even picked up one in Chatham County. This didn't stop our alert readers, however, who identified it anyway as the farm of Benjamin F. Shropshire, who lives on the northern edge of that county, nine miles from Pitts boro, three fourths of a mile from Highway S7. The old building north of the home and shown in the picture was abandoned as a school building abbut 45 years ago. We hope you will join many of your friends and neighbors and try to identify this Week's mystery farm shown above. The first to call our offfbe will receive a free “year's subscription to the News and the owner will receive a beautiful mount ed pfcotoyraph of his farm. * R B Todd, manager of the local plant of Long Meadow Farms, this week ahnourjcFti bis candidacy for Mayor of Carrboro in {he May 2 biertnial toWn elections. Last week incumbent Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson ueclared he would retire at the end of his second _ two-year term this spring. Mr. Todd, a 43-year-old civic leader in the community, will be seeking — his first public office. A native of Wendell in Wake County, he move<) to Orange 12 years ago to work with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration under the County Farm Agent in HiHsboro. He moved here in 1051 to become, manager of Long Meadow's local operation. A past President of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants, he is al so chairman of the board of dea cons of the Carrboro Baptist Church, and a member of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club and the Carrboro District School Commit tee. He and Mrs:, fodd and their three children. Robert Jr., 18, Charles, 18, and Terry 11. live on the Greensboro highway near thfc western edge *of town. Formal Statement In announcing for mayor Mr. Todd issued the following formal statement: “I would like to try to serve as your Mayor,'subject io the May 2 municipal election. This desire is based solely on the fact that 1 would like to work with and for my neighbors and to participate in my community's ing good municipal government, and 1 would like to do all I can toward the continuation of good town government for Carrboro. "If this meets with your approv al andvl am elected, I will do my utmost at all times Urbe a careful, . useful, impartial representative of' all residents of Carrboro. It would be my policy to listen closely to any citizen expression of opin ion: to try to get all the facts when problems arise and proposals are made before making decisions; and to cooperate and woHc with our tow n commissioners and town clerk — all of which would be done faithfully in a desire to hitflp civic efforts. We are now enjoy vote.” Dimes Drive Is Just Short' Of Its Goal A half dozen or so citizens bear-, ing $10 bills nr double that num ber with S5 bill j will send the March of Dimes campaign iBTffii ; Hillsboro area over the top. A final appeal is being Issued* this week to enable the $1,200 goal for the Northern? Orange di vision of. the drive, exclusive of schools; to be achieved. By late yesterday $1,122 53 had ~ been received with results of the Exchange Club sponsored dance ind a half dozen coin containers still to be counted. Late contribu tions will bo accepted addressed *o Box 10, Hillsboro, or handed to E. J. Hamlin, chairman of the drive for the Hillsboro Lions Club. Contributions toward the $12. JOO county goal have been brought to almost S3100 by the Hillsboro drive and the county school so lications; Superintendent G. Paul rhis was S339 more than last vear’s contributions from this source. Hillsboro and "Can-boro schools both went over-the $500 mark.... Carrboro leading with $515.84 and Hillsboro having $500.03. Other schools raised the follow ing: West Hillsboro $150: Efland Eiementarv _$187.50; Aveock. 5135.34: Caldwell $5666: Efland Negro $22.56: Cedar Grove $56.20; Central High School $128.34: Mur jhy $100; White Cross $115.10; & Miscellaneous $2
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