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Of 0>Mi«« c*unty up with th« ovtr fh» e*wnty by tHf W«W$- of “ ‘ ~ lw«ty- - — 62 NUMBKR 17 ... As you have prob iticed if you have done eading or radio-listening the past two' weeks, the » up-in-arms over a pro o make three-pojnt-tWo t beer legal in areas the' stronger content has |wsi • £■/* ;«&:- people/ talcs of the dry cause want'to knotv just how "dry”. icr words, it’s not "How n", but rather "How Dry S ... Now that the Leg is heading for the last , -you will hear within t few days about love ad all that. t all sweetness and light, ks definitely as though re going to be some evere political scars left of what the Legislature i who winds up paying isUtive sessions, of .the. have this time—where rces of revenue must be ad old sources revamp feelings are frequently ible. i)ME! ... The other day of one of our State de ls in Raleigh was dis the Legislature,' length !s:sion, and items of that ; the course of the con 1,' he was heard to’ re out as follows: I been looking forward y months with a great leasure to the time when, islature would be here tl enjoy seeing and visit old friends again. But ish they would go home o home mad—just go IT UP ... The statement • the department head, made casually and with sat deal of deep thought, lit sums up the general t around here.. brother—dont’s think for the legislators don’t do just that—get going soon as possible' T' ish should come to pass re around the middle of " 'H OF SESSIONS .. .: Jssjons of the N. C.} Assembly which have down into May include 031 when the State was ! for new revenue—as tuation this time. s Highway Commission i Sandy Graham told nance Committee Chair- ■ B. Rodman publicly > :: J£ the legislators who this time think they ubles, they just don’t J'thing. 31 session went to May argument- was over the t—and those opposing von out. rears later, with the * terrible financial posi ; session adopted the • but stayed in Raleigh ' 15. nd Willie Lee Lumpkin to remove the sales tax ^as put on as an "emer Pasure”—the Legislature ialeigh until May 11. 'ears ago, with money no problem, the Legis ound to a stop on April years ago the session d around the middle of ER ... We farmers gath wn at Farmville last ay and had ourselves KOVNPVF, Page 2) Teacher Action Set Monday The Orange. County Board of Education is expected to take ac tion at next Monday's meeting U terminate the contracts of aj, school teachers in the system in order to implement the provision. of the North Carolina law en acted a week ago as a weapon in Supreme Court. New school committees will also oo appointed. As result of the act, the boan is expected to approve a mimeo graphed letter giving each teachei and principal notice of the termi nation of their contracts and en closing a form on which they ma; file their application for reern ploymenf. . Upon the receipt of the new applications, teachers and princi tftls may be elected for the'hext school year within the limitation set for in the law. Under the law no teacher can be reelected un it he has subscribed to the agree ment set forth in the new con tract and under the act no con tract is valid except the one to be furnished by the State Super intendent of Public Instruction. . Section 2. of the act on teacher contracts provides as follows: “ “Any teacher or principal de siring election as teacher or prin cipal^ in a particular administra tive unit shall filtr his or her ap plication in writing'with the coun ty ‘or city superintendent of such unit. The application shall state the name and number of the cer tificate hey., when the' certificate 'xpires, J^perience in teaching* if ny, and the administrative unit in which the applicant last taught. It shall be the duty of all county and city boards of education to cause written contracts on forms to be furnished by the State Sup erintendent of Public Instruction to be executed by all teachers and principals before any tgfqrr vouchers shall be paid. The con tracts of..teachers and principals shall be made for the next suc ceeding school year or for the un expired part of a current schoo1 year. No county or city board of education shall enter into a con tract for the employment of more teachers, , including v.ocaliona’ j teachers, than, are allotted to that ! particular administrative unit b.' j (he State Board of Education un- j less provision has been made fo’ j payment of the salaries of such | teach-rs from local funds. All con- | tracts shall hr subject to the con- 1 ditinn that when the position for j which: any principat or teacher is ~mr>loved is terminated the"con tract is • likewise terminated.’’-. Law On Water ^representative.-. John Umstead ' last week introduced requested, legislation to .permit the County Commissioners, upon authorization i of the people, to issue bonds to I extend water and sewage Hnes^to I communities and industries. The act is designed to permit the county to provide facilities to j a proposed new industry as re quested by Chapel Hill and Carr boro groups. 1 In essence the bill will “autho-, rize the board of county commiss-j ioners of Orange County, in its discretion, to submit to the quali- j fied electors of said county the question as to whether or not j bonds of .said county shall be is sued ior.the purpose of extending dustries in said county.” (As title j indicates: commissioners’ bond or-, (Sie NEW LAW, page 7) Sewer Lines Is Introduced EVANGELISTIC SERIES Next Sunday morning the first of a series of Evangelistic meetings will begin at the. First Baptist Church of Hillsboro with the Rev. Charles B. Howard, head of the Bible Department at Campbell College., at Buies Creek, being the preacher. The meetings will continue through Wednesday night, J^ay 11, with the services being held at 7:45 o’clock each evening. The pub lic is invited to attend. This historic community open its doors again this weekeud t ;he influx of visitors attendin ,he Historic Homes and Gardei Tour. A selected Ust of homes, gar dens and public buildings will b« Spen during the two-day event Saturday 9:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Headquarter for the Tour this .yoac usua} will he at Uve Ste onic Lodge. There visitors will be register 'd and assigned guides if they are lesired. Guides will include Boy ScButs, 7th and 8th grade girls, who acted as guides last year* ind volunteers from the snonsor ng Hillsboro Garden Club. Claiming the Interest of the visitors will be 17 homes, gardens; and public buildings, eieh having its|peculiar-, qualities .to CLEAN UP Thi* weekend Hillsboro turn* its face to the incoming crowd in March of the beauty and tra dition of an old community. It should turn its best face. For Mveral weeks a commit tee of the sponsoring Hillsboro Gerdep Club has urged citizen* to participate in a general .^leen-up. beauty, tradition and unusua' achievement. t A complete description - of ih * places on'tour may be found on page 3 of this edition and most ot them are familiar to residents of the immediate area through locai contacts and past pilgrimages." A new addition on the tour, however, not generally familiar. will be the Faucette Mill House, the home of the J, L. Conners, north of Hillsboro. Once used as a stage stop where passengers were ac commodated if the river was too high to ford, the present living room was the "ordinary” room and the kitchen was then the tap room. A similar house on the oth er side of the river is no longer standing, but the river must still be forded at this point to be crossed. . _ 1 Another, showplacc being open, HISTORIC HILLSBORO HOME { GARDEN JOUR 1955 l> Air Defense Test Planned For Sunday . A 12-hour" A-, Defense test will be conducted here Sunday by the local Ground Observer post, ac cording to information received this week by Supervisor J. L. drown Jr. The local alert during the hours of 9 a m. to 9 p m. wjll be a part of the operation “Skytrain III,' involving 250 observation posts in 57 North Carolina counties in the Durham Air- Defense Filter Center area and others in this and sev eral other southeastern states. Purpose of the test/ it was said ] is to serve as a training-exercise) to increase efficiency test i communications facilities and to develop interest in civil defense Brown said the public is invited to come by the observation post in the former highway patrol build ing on Court Square to observe the operation anytime during Sunday. Four or five volunteers j will work each four hour shoft. Planes of- the Air Force, Air | National Guard, commercial air- ; li neK servation posts. The ground ob-'l servers will report the presence! of planes to the Filter Center on j Morris Street. The test will be conducted by the Eastern Air Defense Force,' with headquarters in Newburgh,] U. Y. I Throughout the test area, ob servers will report to filter centeis, where a track will be established and followed on a grid map. The filter centers will forward the in formation on to an air defense di rection center, where action will be taken to intercept the “hostile planes. _ ___ PERENNIAL STARS of Hi* Old Tim* Minstrel show sponsored by th* Exchange club in Hillsboro are Curtis Brown, left, and Clar ence Mangum, who ar* warming up their routine, above; in recent « rehearsals for the two-night stand which opens tomorrow night at Hillsboro high school. 2-Night Stand Here Tomorrow The first performance of the Old T;me Minstrel Show of 1955 will be presented tomorrow even ins at 8 o’clock in the Hillsboro Higs School auditorium, Wilson Cole, president of the sponsoring Exchange Club, announced today. With.a cast of fifty, the Minstrel includes entertainment ranging roin songs filled with the ever ,-oung enchantment of moonlight and roses to the lusty vigor, of ‘Black Bottom", from the antics and dialogue of blackface comed ians to skits of old plantation life. *Orte’ of the features, of the prog ram is a show-within-a-show when ; local models will portray special versions of the months of the year, j The Old Time Minstrel Show of 1955 is the fourth annual show sponsored by the Hillsboro Ex change Club. Plans are being made to use the proceeds fo the show this year for a recreation park. The need of a recreational area has long been rec ognized J>y the Evchange Club, and the Minstrel Show this year is the (See MINSTREL, page 7) ! Board Increases Welfar^Budget —* The Bfoard^pf sionors in a special called moot ing held at-Chapel Hill Tuesday afternoon amended the current year’s budget to provide an addi tional $2,106.10 to carry on the Aid to Dependent Children pro gram of the County Welfare De partment. This" appropriation froln the. ■county’s general emergency fund and from an additional allotment received from the State some weeks ago will enable the county to" receive $14,291 90' additional from State and Federal funds for operations through the current fiscal year ending jttne 30.:« Action by the commissioners came following a 3 to 1 split -voter with Commissioner Sim Kfland of Efland continuing to maintain the position he has held during the past several months of debate on the subject, “to stand by the origi nal budget.” Mrs. Jane Parker, welfare sup erintendent. was r.'ot present at the Chapel Hill meeting, having apprised the Commissioners of tjhe impending depiction of county -bjm .■ of the board In raising the welfare appro-? priation. the commissioners brought the welfare budget to. correspond with the original re quest made by the department, then led by Miss Annie Strowd. last June, based upon its estimate of need. The commissioners cut the budget at that time, and then last December agreed to meet each djeficit as it came up. Prior to Tuesday afternoon’s hike, the ^tntaP1 county welfare budget for 1954-55 stood at $264, 451 78 with the county providing $57,841 of this amount. According to figures supplied yesterday by. Mrs. Parker, Or ange County** stands 26th among North Carolina counties in aver- • age payments for Old Age Assis tance; 4701 in average % iynicnts for Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled; and 32nd in av-j. erage payments per family in Aid to Dependent Children. During the past nine months the following ' are the average pay ments and case load*in the three major programs: OAA, 266 pr. month at an average of"$31.93 APTD, 60 per month at an aver age of $35.71; ADC, 130, familie: at an average family payment of $63.61, or 457 individuals with an average payment of $17.36 per month. CLASSROOM REQUEST . The Hillsboro District school -ommittee has requested permiss ion to open next year's school i term with two classes in the audi torium of the old Courthouse building. Two additional teachers «veryptmitel«,$yJa«srt-om4s*at«wdy at the school. Consideration will be given the natter by the County School Board Monday. Some temporary al teration will have to be made to accomodate the two classes. OPEN MEETINGS 0;ange County has been includ ed in a new law passed by the North Carolina General Assembly ast week providing that meetings of the Board of Commissioners j shall be open to the public; This has-been the practice in the county heretofore ed for the first time wil! be Maple Kill, a charming tountrysitf^/ home, especially noted for its^ beamed ceiling and panelling. During the restoration by Mr. and Mrs. D. E. HolJandsworth during the past few years, a hole in one of the upstairs windows was dis covered which had probably been used as an Indian lookout in the house's infancy. ..Other.private homes and.aublic ON TV TODAY Ssvsn people will appear on WTVD, channel II this after noon at 2:45 and tfhcuu the Hicteric . Hillsboro Home* and Garden Tour, appearing in cos tume. The following will be on the program: Mrs. T. E. Lloyd, Mrs. Helen Hanna, Mrs, Pawl Ho dwl, Mrs. Charles Crawford, Mrs. 'Virginia Gattis, Mrs. C. D. Jones and Sam Kirkland. buildings have been perennial stops on previous pilgrimages and are well known to -local citizens. Mrs Glenn Auman, tour chair man. has announced that some, of the .hostess®* at each of the homes — will wear colonial costumes and lhat special hates will Sc givert ' groups of Students supervised by teachers “ * ' Sheriff Gets Still, Captures Three At Work Sheriff Odell Clayton and dep uties dealt whiskey making in Orange County another blow la^^ Saturday afternoon, . when they captured a 100-gallon still in full operatimf Wtd ehprtfred the three operators red-handed. The,trio was sentenced Monday morning, in Judge L. J. Phipps' county recorder’s court. Located on the Old Taylor place near the Mars Hill Church in Orange, the deputies were able to surround the still undetected. When Sheriff Clayton arrived on I be scene in a frontal approach, the three scurried into the depu ties’ waiting arms. Arrested were Wayne Clay Mil ler, a 21 year old white man, and ames and .Ernest^Mack, negroes, times' -Mack, already under two years suspended sentence and pro bation in Superior Court and 'JI2 rears in-Fecleral court-on- whiskey •barges, was sentenced to two more additional years.’ Miller and Ernest Mack Were -each ' atkswed , to pay 5200 fines and costs and given 12 months suspended terms Eighty four gallons already in . jars were destroyed and along with • s«veral tubs full' unbottled “ and 1.000 gallons of mash Heavier Vote Is Expected At Hillsboro With over 100 new registrants on the books this year, Hillsboro31 itizens ate expectedto cast their heaviest vote in many years dur ing the biennial town elections next Tuesday. In addition to two candidates for Mayor and nine for the board of commissioners, the voters will be asked to decide on a proposed bond isstie of $50,000 for building 3 dam to provide storage facilities berg.i .. *-, t •• A until 6:30 p.rh. Saturday is chal lenge day before Registrar Kay ; W'inecoff. Mayor Ben Johnston is being opposed for his 12th term by II. G. Laws, former county com missioner. who served as town policeman for a short period after resigning from the county board. Incumbent commissioners seek' ing reeleetion are V. M. Forrest. F. E. Joyner, R. J. Sqiith Sr., W. M Chance and Arthur Crabtree. Also seeking seats on the board are J. W. Dickson, J L. Brown Jr„ Chandler Cates and Frank Liner.
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