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County For quick, proven \ mH, buy, root or got a Job ■ £‘ by uaing tbo clauifiodl act* on pogo 7 of THE NEWS of Orange County. EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE I ESTATE TAXES. ..One days there will be a }e licensing board setup Carolina similar to Irating in most of the tes of the union. I public realized that the* r fax oif' tmr"' will come out'of th.ir and not out of the poc [ that Wal estate agent’ In id be more opposition proposal, than has been far. It* will get more unpopular to buy a sell one if the pro Jof money involved go Itaxes continues to in |EA FESTIVAL ... The Annual Wilmington Azal lal was another success lend despite the freezing ■ the week before which lost of the blossoms. It I to show that people at ls wonderful event for Lpns as well as view S' flowersL ■ieials of the Festival say lizl that they have right Worth Carolina, hundreds I girts who are just as ■ and charming as this lalea Queten, Sara Shane, I flown" in’ fra^tlJqflyr liey also realize that to Inal publicity you must tonal figures, and that is Id can be taken literally Itively. 1 ji Reference to figures, Gov Ither Hodges quipped at [onation Ball, “I won’t ph of your time because bou are ifeore interested [time in-reviewing the pares before urlrert io kn you are in those bud Igures we are struggling Raleigh, and in this feel h you.” (' are on the subject of Mike Souchak, the popu er Duke football player iggling with figures on cou.scj in his efforts to i figure low enough to e high ones. )ONING PROFITS ... ini Babe Bust, the ener l successful operators of Agency, invested a lot y in souvenir balloon; festival. They were out streets , trying to .sell of them to get their ark. a dozen or so of their which were filled with as slipped out’of Henry’s nd sailed into the sky, ihe parade, someone on crnor’s Reviewing Stand rd to say, “There goes brothers’ profits.’’ WHEELS ... I saw a lot >ld time friends in Wil and a lot of friends ■over the state. Grady ' Dixie of Station WBT otte. was on hand as us did a marvelotts job of dng. Harry Wismer, the ;Ports broadcaster, asked he planned to ever run ic office. Grady replied, n going to make mine way.” all of the dignataries j known personalities re-. *no of the saying, “Bless hose men who travel in ctes, for they shall be 1S Big Wheels.” there were a lot of Big n Wilmington last week-! 1 I’m sure they all Aad rtul time. gadget needed ... 5 while riding to and: Islington—Why don’t the lufacturers make an ad buzzer for speedometers i be set at any speed lim 5 the present speed limit Carolina, and when that ROUNDUP, Page 2) Stanford, Carr Get Jobs Again School Board Gets $2,123.99 Bill For Rock Excavations Chairman Charles W. Stanford of the Orange County Board of Education and Superintendent G. ■'r^S'^CiTV . Monday for new two-year terms in ' their respective offices. Stanford’s appointment for a new six-year term on the Board was made by the General Assembly in the passage of the school Omnibus bill last Friday. He has served as chairman for the. past four years. Both appointments were expect ed. Following reorganization for the next biennium, the board faced its first, major .problem, acting on a bill for S2.lJj3.99 presented by the Haynes Construction Company, builders of the nfw Cameron Park School now underway at Hillsboro, for rack excavation for thfc septic tank being installed at the school. A provision of the general con tact provided for the increase in the event rock was struck in -the course of the-excavations. Cost of the excavation had been antici- j pated in the neighborhood of $300.' Architect Archie R. Davis, who was present at the meeting, heard s "ong criticism of this contract provision from Board Member C. D. Jon es, but Davis claimed this type clause was standard for such operations. Re a ppoint m e n t of com mi tree rri eft for the various ^schools rwas delay ed at the suggestion of State Sup erintendent Charles F. Carroll, ostensibly because of pending leg islation in the General Assembly relative to the segregation issue. The item of $3,000 for Educators Cabinets sink unit for the new school at Hillsboro was restored to the general contract and $250 was au.borwed for a drainage pro ject at the West Hillsboro school grounds, ..presented, by C.omniitteg- „ irtan Sidney Green. Heard Named New Welfare Board Member Alex Heard, professor of political science at the University in ( hapel Hill, has been named a member of the Orange County Board of Public "Welfare to -succeedHenry- S. Ho gan, now chairman. -Ihider' a..new.law..pa-secl ; h A ses sion -of the -General' Assembly.' Heard will not take. office until July 1. Previously he would have taken office April 1. Heard was selected for the post . by the incumbent members of the Board: Mrs. R. E. Hughes of Cedar Grove and-Henry S. Walker of St. Mary’s: Mr. Hogan has-served six years & was not eligible'for reap pointment under state regulations. Heard is the author .of several library works on political .sub jects and has taken an active- in terest in affairs of the Orange County YDC for ..several years. Music Pupils Get Ratings At Festival Five Hillsboro pupils of Mrs W. P. Twaddell received rating at the Capital District Festival sponsored by the N. C. Federate .Music Clubs, at Duke University Twaddell was chairman. There was a total of 31 pian< solo events with four given a rat ing of superior; seven, excellent; 17 very good; two good nd one fair. Carolyn Bivins and Jack Dow dy received ratings of excellent. Knox Jones and Judy Carol Dowdy' received ratings of very good. * Richard Armfield entered the vocal solo event classified as Mu sical Advanced Tenor 1. He won a superior rating with excellen. comments from the judge. Children from Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham, Louisburg, Wake Forest, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Siler City and Hillsboro took part ir j this event. Officer* of tho Hillsboro Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, wf»o ware installed In a public cere mony at the Masonic Temple last Thursday night are, left to right, 'front rdW: Mrs. S. H. Strayhorn, -treasurer; Mrs. Hubert Rite?, Marshal; Miss Juanita Kennedy, Marthej. Mrs Melvin McCullough, Esth er; Mrs. E. H. Kennedy, Conductress; Mrs. Giles Long, Warder, Mrs. 0. f. Riley, Electa; second row, Mrs. Lawson W. Pettit, Conductress; Wallace Borlanl Sentinel; Mrs. Sallie A. Allison, Adah; Mrs. Jeff Roberts, Ruth; Mrs. Gladys Coley, Chaplain. Back row, Mrs. G. G. Bivins, organist; J. G. Goodwin, wor thy patron; Mrs. W, L. Kennedy, worthy matron; Mrs. C. B. Parris, Asqoc. matron; Mrs. J. G. Goodwin, secretary; E. C. Liner, Assoc, patron. - • ~ — — ---—-------*-♦ X Churches Plan Special Even ts; Monday Holiday Easter Monday will be observed generally th.ougho'ut the area as a holiday.* Stores and offices for the most paVt will be closed for the day as will schools and governmental of ftcesCi: irons wiH take the holiday to engage :in visits, redreatronal .pursuits or work in the yards and gardens. Schools will be required to ope rate a full day tomorrow, accord ing to a policy made at Monday’s meeting of the Board of Education. Both the Board of Education and the County Commissioner* ap proved full holidays for Monday. T le religious theme will bo pre valent in chu.ch programs which Degin in many churches tonight, continuing in Varying schSdilleS through Sunday. Sunrise services in several locvalities and special Easter season music is scheduled. Announcements of many of these events are contained below. Early Morning Service* T aditiona! Easter services at the Hi lift 'o Methodist Church will be held at 8 o’clock followed by a social .hour in the Church basement du.ing which coffee, dong .nuts and fruit juices will be »?r -Another service in the Easier theme will be- held at 11 o’clock,., , Easier Sunrise Service ' • There will be an Easter Sun iiise Service, at. the Cb<‘stnu' Ridge Church Cemetery’ this Sun day morning, with a visiting pas te^ conducting the’service. The Rev. Vance A. Lewis is pastor of the church. Everyone is cordially invited to attend: .Ibis -service and also the* meeting at the church tonight at 7:30 o’clock. Easter Egg Hunt The Hillsboro American Legion Post 85, will hold its annual Eas ter Egg Hunt for all children lG'l years of age and under on Sun i day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock weather permitting, otherwise i' will be held on Monday, i An invitation is extended to children of Orange^ County to - at-1 ». tend. Sunday School teachers are ! asked to call attention to this in their classes oh Sunday morning Sunrise At New Hope An Easter Sunrise Sendee for members of the Orange, Union Grove, McDuffie's Mid New Hope Churches will be held on a, hill j side in Camp New Hope at 6 a m | Easter morning: A choir compos ' £>{f of members from the four I churches will sing and the Rev John Ensign of Now Hope will i have the meditation. Breakfast will be served in the camp dining I hall immediately afterwards by the young adults of New Hope. Everyone is invited. Eastor Monday Outing The Young Adult Sunday School j Class of the New. Hope Church ! will sponsor an afternoon of fun and fellowship at Camp New Hope on Easter Monday. The following events have been scheduled; i o’clock—fishing. J o’clock—Easter egg hunt for children a? —■"~ ’ (1 o’clock— enve«*»»t- dish supper at camp dining hall. Mrs. Edgar1 Campbell is teach er of (he class and everyone in the ‘ eorrirnuhlty is urged to affend; Holy Thursday Program r The Last Supper will be served and new members received during the annual Holy Thursday service i at the Hillsboro Presbyterian ; Church tonight at 7:30 o’clock. : C The Chftncel-Choir will present j a special anthetrv “There Is d a i Green Hill Far Away.” Hillsboro Election Picture: « , wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmm Late Filers Assure Contests For Posts A contest for Mayor and the’ Board of Commissioners developed 'iere Monday, the deadline for !7i ing,4 when three incumbents, one 'hallenwr for Miavor and three for commissioner %ad stgH»a-Jei& the. dotted line for the municipal elec tion on May 3 Hubert G. Laws, former county commissioner, filed for Mayor late 'ast week and'&John W. Dickson was added to the field for a seat Qn he b( ird. Just before Monday’s deadline, J. L. Brown Jr. and Frank dner filed for the board as new omers and incumbents R. J. Smith i:., W. M. Chance and F. E. Joy rer added their names to candidate ■ ist to present a solid slate of pres ent officers against the new candi dates. Smith, Chance and Joyner have ill served several terms on the board. Boards Plan ifiiMiSSM At the invitation of the county j Board of Education, the County | Commissioners will join its mem- j hers for a tour of all schools in the i county system on April 20, begin ning at the courthouse at 9 a.m. I ' Schools will be visited in the | following order: Hillsboro, Central, West Hillsboro, EfXand, Efland Colored, Aycock, Cedar Grove, Caldwell, Murphey, Carrboro and I White Cross. Lunch will be served at the Ay cock cafeteria. New Officers Are Installed By Local OES Amid a setting of spring flow ers and lighted tapers, the Offi cers of Hillsboro Chapter, for the ensuing year, were initiated on Thursday night at the Masonic Temple in Hillsboro. Mrs. Sallie dive'r Ligoh'bf Ox ford Orphanage, N. C. served as installing Officer. Her assistants were: Miss Mildred Finley, Mar shal; Mrs. G. L. Kennedy, Con ductress; Mrs. Vance O. Isenhour, Assoc. Conductress; Mrs. J. Ed Lgws, Chaplain; Mrs. Charles M t^aliter Sr., Organist; 'fjr O Bivins, Warder; Mr, Sidney H Strayhorn, Sentinel; Mrs. Charlie Mincey, Soloist; Mrs. Herman WIN son,'Accompanist. The following officers were in stalled: Worthy Matron, Mrs. W L. Kennedy; Worthy Patron, Mr J. G. Goodwin, Sr.; Assoc. Matron Mrs. C. B.' Parris; Assoc. Patron, Mr. E. C. Liner; Secretary, Mrs ~T G: Goodwm, Sr: Treasurer, Mrs S. H. Strayhorn; Conductress, Mrs. E. H. Kennedy; Assoc. Conduc tress, Mrs. I^awson W. Pettit; Chaplain, Mrs. Gladys L. Coley; Marshal,. Mrs. Herbert G. Riley; Organist^, Mrs. Nettie M.' Bivins: Adah, Mrs. Salim A. Allison: ■Ruth. Mrs. Jeff Roberts: Esther. Mrs. Marie McCullough; Martha, Miss Juanita Kennedy; .Electa. Mrs. 0. „ E Hj!<>>_. .Watder, Mrs Giles I.ong: Sentinentol, Mr. Wal lace Boland. * A skit, honoring the newly in (See NEW OFFICERS, Page 8) Blinds On Welfare Offices Arouse Ire Of Board Members ' Welfare spending and secrecy policies, long smouldering issaes before the Board of County Com missioners, erupted into a heater exploSiqp at Monday’s meeting oi -the :>> Charges of deliberate defiance of board policies were made by Commissioner Edwin S. -Lanier to the acting Superintendent of Pub lic Welfare, Mrs. Jane Parker, af ter Venetian blinds were installed on the windows pf the depart ment's quarters on the ground floor of the pew courthouse against the orders of the commis sioners. Speaking heatedly to Mrs. Par kyj^ Commissioner Lanier said: j “W not going to say that this board was defied on.this one rel atively small item; but I do feel strongly that this board in this in stance has been and will continue to be ignored as long as it will be tolerated." Refusing to “go along with the idea that welfare maters should . be handled in fecrecy," Lanier said he-saw in the installation of the blinds a “significant indica tion of a relationship in these matters that*ds not, good.” Commissioner Sim Efland called | the blind installation “a direct disobedience of orders." j v Federal Funds Mrs; Parker said the blinds were bought with $25.60 out of : some Federal money allotted for office equipment, ft was approved by the Welfare Board. Henry Wajker. a member of both boards, ; said he thought the expenditure was legal and all right as long as j it did not eome trom county funds. r i J The welfare superintendent. i obviously shocked by the attack, sought to find out if the board wanted to ,continue to trust, her to administer the program, which I expends around 8240.000 annually in its various phases, hut Chair R J. M. Hobbs stifled all talk in this direction. “It hasn't come to that point yet," he replied to a Parker question. “I. think we’d better go on from this point, j&e under stand each other now. Don't you ‘hink that with something of a reprimand, we might drop it?" This attitude seemed to have the backing of Commissioners Dwight Ray and Henry Walker, although Efland said: “l think the blinds ought to come down " In explanation Mrs. Parker said 3-tm: hatHtrtM^ three times on the matter. - that the blinds were needed to. help in the operation of" a first-class de partment. Money Depleted In another phase of, the con troversy the commissioners were told that the April checks con sumed all money in the Aid to De-^. : ^endepi JdMUfnnt' f j*nd and that all Old ' Age Assistance funds would be used up in May. No ac tion to provide additional funds was taken and Commissioner Ef laid said: “I for one will stick by the original budget." The commissioner went on rec ord as opposing that section of the package bill which places re sponsibility on the Registers of Deeds for collecting the tax on reslty transfers in IIB 217. A number of requests for road improvements were presented to the board including the pavement of a section of Greenwood road to Paul Green’s house near Chapel IU11 and, another road .6 miles in length from GreenswooJ to Old Mill road, to be paid for by the property owners. Others asking petitions for addition of roads to the state system: road from Fau (See WELFARE, Pape 8) Forest Fires Plague County; 2 Incendiary Spring Clean-Up Campaign Underway For Annual Tour All home and property owners a.*e being asked to cooperate with the town and the Hillsboro Gar den Club in making the town of Hillsboro clean and attractive for the many visitors, who will be here the last weekend in April for the Home and Garden Tour. .' “Let as all put our shoulders to the wheel- and give Hillsboro an old-fashioned Spring Clean-’ ing“ ia the request of those in charge. > Minstrel Show Averin Is Being Planned Here The Old Time Minstrel Show is coming to town. Minstrel Show Chairman W. C. Mangum announced today that thf Exchange Club of Hillsboro will 'wes-nt (he Old Time Minstrel Show '-of 1955 tn- 'the- Hillsboro High School Auditorium April 29 and 30. The Old Time Min«trel Show, made up of local-talent, has bc '"’ino an annual event in Hills boro. Max Morris and Mrs. Helen Rich, og Burlington, are directing - the show this year." * — ~; - : Rehearsals are scheduled to be gin. Wednesday -night. April 13. in the High -.School Audiforium. Arrangements for joining the cast can be made with W C Man gum. ' , Mystery Farm Of The Week—No. 33 Who Owns This Mystery Farm? . J—> V.'-' ’ Lut wick's "mystiry farm" was, identified as the J. H. Merritt home on Chapel Hill route 3 by a number of callers, Harold Cheek being the first identifier, followed by Mrs. Phillip Sparrow. Other ferine mentioned were the Walter D. Creech farm on Highway 54 by Mrs. H. H. Ivey and the L. Bun Farrington farm on the Pittsboro road by Mrs. Chrles Stanford. The owner can receive a mounted photo of the tariff by coming to the News office. The first to call in the correct identification of the "mystery farm" each week receives a free year's subscription to the News of Orange County. *' Relief rrom forest fires that ! have plagued Orange County far the past week came yesterday in the fonn of light rains. ! County Forester Buck Tate said the outbreak of fires hereabouts bao_been more serious during the Inst few days than since file For est Service office was set up here over two years ago. The dry weath er brought, cancelling of ail burn ing permits, but this is expected to bo rescinded with the first gen eral rain in the area. The recent siege of fires also brought with it the first definite '■ases of forest fires deliberately set by incendiaries, according to f Mr. Tate. About 95 acres was burn ed over in the St. Mary's Commun ! ity last Sunday, he said; in four different blaz»s, all of which were traceable to fires started in slab piles. As one was put out the flames would appear in another part of H»i* area.'the forester said. The 900-acre tract, located eight : miles northeast of Hillsboro, - is j known as the Strickland property -arid da owned by a person now in Texas. Mr. Tate said the only rea I ■S('n he could deduce the blazes having been set might have been to eliminate fox dens located in the piles. Another incendiary blaze, this one near Chapel Hill, was also brought under control on Monday, j A burning sawdust-pile on A. C. Green's property near the Airport spread to the nearby woods and burned about an acre and one-half. The pile was believed to have been sot ablaze last Halloween, but was brought under control then and had been smoldering beneath ttw. -urface since then. .. Last Thursday and Friday the Service meri were-kept busy bv a blaze *out on Edwards Moun- , tain off the Farrington Mill Road soutlTof C hapel Hill. XTSSTwaT !';ik<‘d around the fjre by Friday, however it was still smoldering-be fore the rains yesterday. Bruct Strowd's property on Col lins Creek below the White Cross community was the scene of a ser ious fire on Sunday, and about 40 acres of timber was burned over, causing a loss estimated at several thousand dollars. Also over the weekend there was a small bush fire near Highway 70 at the Durham County line, though little, damage was sustained. An other small fire was put out in northern Orange yesterday, ac cording to the Forest Service here. Area Presbyterian Ministers To Preach In Virginia Synod i Four Presbyterian ministers from Orange County are among 27 from Orange Presbytery who will partici pate i n an evangelistic program in Virginia ministers conducted ser- ~^r vices here and in other North Carolina churches was recently concluded. « Orange County ministers partici pating in the program and the “ Virginian churches in which they will serve are as follows: Rev. J. T. Donnell, Cross Roads ChUiCh to Falling Waters, W. Va.; Rev. John Ensign of New Hope Presbyterian Church to Severn, Va.; Rev. K. Meisenhimer of Ced ar Grove to Wardensville, W. Va.; and Rev. C. H. Reckard of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church to IVarick, Va.
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