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I* OrarHP coumf W|th th* new* r th* e»'»n*y ^ NEWS of NUMBER 2» HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C. , ■ . vi . * Mil, boy, nut or f*» m fUt bf tMinv Hw cMfM •* on page 7 ot THE NEWS of Orange County. SIGHT PAMS THIS *: ;rXl . . . Until a few Assistant Attorney verly Lake .was re probably the most lib ,1 jn the State gov hat, if anything, has w up it? a liberal en his father being h'ead hysics department at st College. Dr. Lake’s t Wake Forest Law garded him as being e left of center, corporations have dis Lake for some little is the one official, for who has given South sucfy, a hard time in for. higher rates to ever-increasing oper LAKE . . .Followers Scott for five years pon Dr. Beverly Lake pir-haired boy in thie Its of the ’State. They i to be named attorney succeed the late Har b; When Gov. Luther ree weelfs ago appoint Rodman to this posi | Scott camp was up in ne of them even went J to claim that the Gov |y appointed Scott men |ns of relatively unim fiuence. (the chips were down, [in effect, Luther Hod nted a conservative in* a bright-and-shining . . . The most liberal State officialdom and | who had so ably pre orth Carolina’s case for |>n before the U. S. Su urt last spring advised peedh to The Asheboro ^ery community in^the charter non-stock, non ^aritable corporations in to operate their school Iso that they might be 1 in the event North Car I forced to have Negro [in the same classrooms |tes. ke went on to say that fonal Association for the nent of Colored People emy, not the Negro peo Roundup, Page 2) When the Lake ad I Tuesday night, July 12, ■ted in the newspapers, shocked siifcnfcb'tfn’ the ►r. Lake’s liberal friends. I they just could not be jwhen the assistant at pneral didn’t say any out having been mis (tongnes begin wagging, Sh! If the editorials and ament about the state re laid end-to-end, they ch from here to that ader and back. Every man asking why. Why? - fS YOUR LINE? . . . We peloped thought lines in try. if you are a real, - goodness, all - fired for example, you are ’ to be all-out for TVA, |ar government competi private business, you I integration of the white ped races, etc., etc. 1 are a conservative, you [states’ rights, for lower |r less government spend a balanced budget, and I government competition |vSte business, etc. Now. rfe ia- ■pcwscMpwvijSM I line and don’t think the self-chosen bosses of uo want you to, if you pliow the complete line, Imething is wrong, you Immediate outcast. ne thing is true in the ne—-the liberal line. Now aes Dr. Beverly Lake and I the line and throws ev iato a tizxy. Because he opposed to utilities’ higher rates for their he is supposed to be | big business and because gainst big business, he is Jr to be in favor of white Jlored children going to ogether. Get it? Investigating A Source Of Additional Income 80 Orange County People Travel To Davidson County To See Aromatic Tobacco In Production By ED BARNES Last Wednesday morning ap proximately 80 Oraiige County farm people went to Davidson County to study the possibilities in producing Aromatic tobacco. C*E. Bernhardt,/Davidson County /atm Agent, and R. H. Cjouse, Aromatic Tobacco Specialist from State College. From there they visited the family of Mr. Anderson, wh« is growing tyro acres of the Aromatic tobacco, there the group saw the tobacco being harvested in the field, cured in the barn aiid the process of baling. ' This tobacco was planted in 20 inch rows with the plants being spaced in the rows anywhere be tween 1 and 6 inches. The leaves, from m* ed from Up' stalk' and stuck onto heavy \jitf sticks which appeared to be about 30 inches long. The sticks of tobacco were carried from the field to the wilting shed where they were placed on verti cal laths with about 12 sticks to the lath, and hung in the wilting shed. Here the tobacco remained for approximately 3 days to wilt and yellow. After being wilted the tobacco was then placed in a curing barn, which in this in stance consisted of an' old flue cured tobacco barn that had been |§|g. ^at»«tt :viT feet ground. Openings had been cut ijo the back of this barn and venti lation holes made in the walls of the building near the ground lev el. An automatic oil-heated cur er, which looked very much like a miniature hay dryer, had been in stalled on the outside of the barn with the over-head duets going into the barn. A constant temper ature of 100° in the barn was maintained for a period of 67 days. At this timet the tobacco was cured out and was ready to he (jacked down or baled. The bales In addition, after seeing these op erations performed, many of the group also saw the especially de signed mechanical planter’ owned by Mr. Anderson. Many questions were asked by the group concerning the pro (See AROMATIC, page 8) An aromatic tobacco expert makes his point..:. . Interested Oinnge crowd at the en-q of the rows. Antique Car Caravan Hits Town Friday Seventy-one antique automo bijcs, all more than a quarter oeptury old, are scheduled to ar rive here tomorrow morning at 10:40 a’cloqjc and will stop over briefly. Several of the town official will meet them at the intersection of Highway 86 and 70 and the; will escort them to town when they will stop over for about 20 minutes and visit' the old form House. The Merchants" Association and the Hillsboro- Garden Club will serve them refreshments. The occasion is the 4th annual tour of the Horseless Carriage Club of N. C. It is to be a quarter mile procession, which will keep in line, maintaining the pace of the [slowest car. One of the caps in the .procession is 52. years, old A repair truck will follow, the 1— W.«— proeessron. ■ „ . .. Members ■ Will wear costumes typical of the year of their cgrs. After leaving Hillsboro, the _(See CARAVAN, page $)__ Clyde Erwin Jr. Named Teacher Of Agriculture Clyde A. Erwin Jr., son of the late State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction, has been appointed vocational agriculture' teadjer in the Hillsboro High ScnonTT 'suc ceeding Elmer R. Dowdy, whovre sigried several weeks ago to enter private business. Erwin and his family, consisting of Mrs. Erwin and a small daught er, were scheduled to move to Hillsboro yesterday and occupy the Dr. Efland Forrest home on iCing Street. Erwin, who is 26 years of age, thus returns to the school in which he accomplished his practice teaching here in 1951 as a protege of Mr. Dowdy. Following his grad uation from N. C. State College in 1951, he served for the next two years in the Army, arid' for tire; past two ygars was agriculture teacher ^"Kemersyille, 1»' addi tion to the high school'Vocational' agriculture program, Erwin will als0 be in charge of the Veterans Agriculture Training program. Mrs. Erwin is the former Miss Emily Burden CasteWoe of Aai jander, a heice of M* s. G. C. Me Bane of "'Hillsboro. She is a grad Smifh Visits Mammoth GE Appliance Park Remus J. Smith Sr., Hillsboro furniture dealer, last week along with a number of GE appliance dealers of North Carolina,. Was flown to Louisville, Ky. to inspect the mammoth Appliance Park, the new manufacturing center of the General Electric Corporation. Mr. Smith was greatly impress ed by this giant industrial opera tion which concentrates the man ufacturing processes for GE “ap pliances formerly centered ih 7 .<»tS«K &{ahs 4&oughoiii Ujel coUn^, try.. This big industrial pheno mena, according to Mr. Smith, turns out a major appliance very ' Mystery Farm Of The Week—Klo. 48 Who Owns This Mystery Farm? ImiHiantt BgftCSfKMfa m _—uticy this "Mystery Farm?" If you can, you will receive a free subscription to ■ CAN YOU IDE Dr0vided you are the first to identify it. A number of people called in The News of Orange 0 ' ca,, was John Webb of Carrboro, who correctly identified it as last week to identify •• L(jng on the Smith Level Road. Other early identifiers were: Mr. belonging to Mr. an • ■ station Mrs. Maggie Canada, Mrs. Annie Mae Wilson, Rt. 3, Chapel Crabtree at ObieOav Thomas Pendergraph- The owner of the farm pictured above is asked Hill, Mrs. R.fftce as soon as possible ami receive a beautiful mounted photo of the picture to come byt,TI*p News ,;/• above, courtesy of this paper.. Second Salk - fj .Vaccinations Wednesday Qr O. David Garvin, district health officer, announces that the Saiii anti-polio vaccine will be avafdfole, to the first an^L second gtaders who received their first polio shot back in April, next Wednesday,' July 27, at* 9 o'clock at the District Health Department in Hillsboro. First and second graders in the Chapel Hill, Can boro * and White Cross schools who got their first shots may. receive their second at the Health Department in Chapel Hill between 2 and 4 p.m. today, tomorrow or next Thursday. G. Paul Carr, superintendent of Schools, is cooperating with the health department by sending school buses out to all schools, ex. cept ftillgboro and Central, at 9 o*ctpck—and—writ transport—the ehildrp* to the health department and back to the school. The child ren ‘from Hillsboro' anil Central Schools, wh0 live in rural areas, will d>o to the nearest school and get on a bus. will be announced later. This day will be the last time" it will be available to those who received their first shots in April. (hat for those who fail to get their shot on Wednesday they may get it in about two weelts. The date. Fred S. Cates Held Friday One of Hillsboro’s most success ul business'' men, * probably its largest owner* of real property, both business and residential, died last week at his home here. Hp was Frederick ’ Strudwick Cates Sr., 66, whc> died Thursday following an illness of several Virginia Riley Cates; two daugh ters, Mrs. David H. Beard of Cherry Point and Mrs. W. R. Bar tow of Boston, Mass.; two sons, F. S. Cates Jr. of Hillsboro and John Allen Cates of Chapel Hill; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Claude of Burlington and Currie of Spencer. ' Mr. Cates retired in 1954 as a conductor for the Southern Rail way after more than 47 years service. He was a member of Hillsboro Presbyterian *Church where funer al services were conducted at 4 (See CATES, page S) Tobacco Growers Set For Vote Saturday Matheson Says Large Turnout Very Desirable Orange’ County tobacco grow ers are reminded of the Flue Cured Tobacco Referendum'to be. held Saturday, with the polls opened from 8 a.m. to 7 pjn., at various community polling places. “Any person who has an Inter est in the 1958-crop ot flue cured tobacco "'is eligible to vote. You can vote for quotas for 3 years, 1956, 1957, and 1958; for quotas for 1 year only; or you can vote against quotas,” stated Don S. Matheson, chairman for the refer endum. N Any person who shares in a flue-cured tobacco crop this year either as owner, operator, share cropper or tenant is entitled, to vite. If marketing quotas are approv ed, they will be in effect for all ilue-cured growers. Excess pro jection will be subject tg mar keting quota penalties, and price support will be available at 90 per. cent of parity. If more , than two-thirds of U»e vote in the referendum is against marketing quotas, they" will not be in effect and there will be no price support^/ "Voters mustjdpcide for them selves” the futffriT of the govern ment’s ' tobacco 'Cbtltrol program on July 23, Doit Matheson, the chainnanvof the “Big Three” ref erendum said yesterday. “Regardless of whether quotas are voted in or out in the refer endum this month,” he said, “we can’t afford to be indifferent about •'them,- and a large turnout at the poB is the best way 1 know to in sure a proper governmental re lationship with farm programs." The marketing quota referen dum which Matheson mentioned is being conducted jointly for voting convenience with the Tobacco As sociates and the North Carolina Peanut Growers Association ref erendums this month. —---— The two organizations are farm (See ELECTION, page 8) In Phone Probe Merchants Told Delay Necessary The Hillsboro Merchants Asso £OUQty. town .qfftciUs have been' notified by the State Utilities Commission that Morris Telephone Company has been ap praised of «the complaint recently filed with the commission against the company by the local asso ciation, with the endorsement of County Commissioners and the Hillsboro Town Board. V, W. Chase, telephone engineer for the Utilities commission, wrote local officials that before an in vestigation is made he believed "it tfyprtAe to,submit^ re^u^t to the telephone eoaapany to ism what plans, if any they have to correct the situation.” t He indicated it would be im possible for an investigation to bo made by the commission for “at least a few weeks.” The Merchants complaint list ed a number of deficiences which they said were needed to pro vide adequate service to the lo caL area. 3 Welfare Department Workers Resign Posts two caseworkers with the Orange County Welfare depart ment have submitted their resig nations, effective on August 1. Mrs. Jane barker, welfare su perintendent, said Bdth worker* would receive higher salaries plus car depreciation allowances in th.e Durham county posts to which they are going. No successors have yet been obtained. Another employee of the de PASSING PARADE The Burmuda shorts fad has struck the staid old community of Hillsboro, where middle-aged business men thus clad are a common sight nowadays in the evening hours in their downtoum haunts. Monday night a wetl hnott-n trio, sporting the neu> attire con verged on the Corner Drug Stoi e, ran smack into their min ister. , ' Asked for some words of wis dom regarding his fririshioners' appearance, he opined: “Yon might expect thus from Ross Porter and John Ballard, but I'd have thought George Gil ■more would, have known better”. A hasty, red-faced retreat urns the next order of business. partmeftt, Miss Joan Carroll, a secretary for the past three years, has resigned also to assume a po sition with the University in Chapel Hill. Mrs- Gertude Boone of Chapel Hill, who has served the Orange County department as case worker for three different periods dur ing the past three years.'will join the Durham Welfare department , as a supervisor. Miss Mery Joan Williamson of Chapel JHU, child welfare worker, will take a similar post in Durham. She has beep connected with the Orange department for the past— five years. The Welfare Department re quested salary increases and tha car depreciation allowance! for its worker^-; cently tentatively adopted by tlfd^ County Commissioners, but these were denied. 212 seconds; ' •' MERCHANTS MEETING The Hillsboro Merchants Asso ciation will hold its * monthly meeting today in the Colonial Inn at ll o’clock. All . members are urged to attend, as plans wilLbe made for the coming sales event. ) ' 201 Hear UNC Department Head At Meeting Health: Buckhorn Keynote .. "jOue mental attitudes have. a great" <1 gal To ‘do with ottr health;’’ Dr Roger W. Howell, H.ead tff the Department of Mental Health; University of North Carolina, told a large gathering at Buekhorn Friday evening. Dr. Howell was guest -speaker at the secofiJ of Buckhorn s com munity meetings in Orange Coun ty’s 1955 Barm and Home Effici ency program. The meeting was held in the grove at the Buekhorn Crossroads. In line with one of the project' decided upon . by the Buckhorr Advisory Board, health was the keynote of the meeting. The evening’s activities began with the arrival of the Mobile Uni’ of the Stale Department of Pub lic Health at five o’clock Unti1 eight o’clock personnel of the unit were busjK making’* X-Ray? and' giving typhoid innoculations under the direction of Dr. David Garvin. p i| Recreation during the evening was provided by the Buckhom Riverside’ softball game. \ ■ At seven o’clock, homemade ice cream, provided by the Buekhorn f***. .s&r. ,,Y. ing the meeting. In the feature of the evening. Dr. Howell described the import ance of at^ituijes toward health, citing evidenee gathered from sur veys in various cities and counties of small proportions of families and individuals furnishing a ma jority of the medical problems 201 people attended the meet-, jpg. giving Buekhorn. a total of 3.800 points for attendance in the two community wide meetings held so far this vear in the Farm and Home Efficiency program compe- j tition. Mrs. Pattye Stanford is chair man of the Buekhorn Community organization; Sponsored by the BuckhwivGrange. Other' members of the Advisory Board are Mrs. Warren Holmes,- Mrs. Walter Shanklin, Mrs. Henry Heath, Mrs. Quentin Patterson,. Merritt Kirk;, Wiley Perry,. Tom Hawkins, Ifc J.« Pennington, J. G. Pender, C. £. Comber, Winfred Shambley, James Crutchfield, and Hubert Carter. wmam and typhoid vaccinations also at'BuckhQvn event, 'V, < ■
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