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Orango County with tho nofcu r tho county by IE NEWS of HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 77, 1955 Por Mil. buy, by win* tho on Ml* 7 of THE NEWS of Oraftyo County. EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE KIDD BREWER'S ffa/e/ipA f&uncfap STRANGE ... You of unusual things when | to. and travel around, dions of old Tarhellia. ler day, for instance, we |e side of the road east Joint a sign which read Iph Co We had noticed kn„passing and this time p investigate. Nothing ,Jy: A Man named Tsjv there and he- did furni llstcring. In trotting around'over Volina more years than hcs Hke to remember, [something brand new jhariotte Sunday a week man driving a Highway didn’t investigate that ft have time to, but I enough look to know it nan, all right. The only I . figure it out was that I the mistake of using fend’s patrol car to go Best visit the-neighbors, ling. du ever «en a female iighway Patrol vehicle? Albermarle and Char aeek I saw on the high fen reading as follows: tubes repaired.” fe only kind of picture dw are those connected [ision sets—and I didn’t could be repaired. I hey always had to be Ilf this man can really lure-tubes, he may have v, of course, that the feway Commission is the |sign-company in North The hurricanes of < the have brought tremcn to many a sign out EXT .. One of the big events of the year off in Raleigh oh Sep icheon to be held here Governor Luther H. will present special six outstanding merch >r of the Distinguished ) Retailing awards is Merchants Association «-ho will receive the f 1-ouis Lipinsky. Ashe Ivey, Charlotte; Fiank Winston-Salem; T. B iderson; J. H. Blount. : and Arthcr Tyler ot unt. 'e all big men—not on: bants, but otherwise. MI’ ... It was so dry hree seasons prior to that 1 finally said 1 cr let another summer tout installing one. imp people I know -aid t'areh service they sub forcast for 1955 the mer in ten years. That h for me, so I got my inected it with Crab h- Well, sir. it rained that night that I had and struggle to pull > out of the creek to >m being washed away, ve had Connie and • etc., and in short the if in Raleigh of any , 1908. Folks hereabouts the excess rain in part irehase of that irriga- J EMPLOYEES ... At t convention of the loyees Association held le. the delegates elect Carawan as president anization. ntirely logical for the loyees to elect a wo ad the association — i' rge percentage of the;' ^■lo^osod, mmm humble opinion, Miss ustell made one of the ost appropriate talks cars have ever heard ’■ accepted the position y treasurer of the State Association, anization is composed hie people who do not he headlines, but with the State would have time operating. lent heads come and go, people continue on the sample, Julia Smith has etary to four different oundup, Page 7.)- * NfcW HILLSBORO DAM IN -FINAL STAGES—Thty btgan pouring concrete yastarday in th# final section of the new dam being constructed on the Eno River for the Town of Hillsboro. Yesterday's pouring was a five foot depth of one haif of the final section. Next, the flow of water will be rerouted and another section will be added to the copcrete structure which is expected*to provide the community sufficient water storage facilities for many'years to'come. The picture above shows two sections of the dam reaching to the southern bank of the Eno and the site of final section to be constructed. Bond Hearing Held Without Protest; Gattis Reappointed A public hearing on the County Commissioners' proposal to issue $34,000 in bonds for. school build^ ings passed Monday without 'in cident. No citizen or group representa tive appeared before the board cither in favor or against the is suance and the Cpwimissi’wjprs proceeded with the second, step in the legal operation necessary to issue the bonds without a vote Of the people. Following the 'formal Rearing on the bonds, the commissioners un animously reelected Sam M. Cattis ■as tax supervisor for a new two year term t*mlmg ,hnie .30,-4357 ~— In ordet to gel the newly created Oraitge County Agriciitural and Industrial Deyplupment Commis sion to work, the commissioners voted iunanunousiy to ask Don S. Matheson, one of-the 28 appointees from the seven townships, to call drgamzaTToTT in accordance -with the May 2 resolution setting the hmty- up. • • -: ' ■■ ■■ --* '' Former Local Man, Wife In Narrow Escape A Hillsboro native and his Wife recently escaped cicflth or serious injury when a Tennessee ■ Sta.c Highway Department road crew sprayed the ear in-which they were •id in 3 with tar which had bevn heater* to 210 degrees. He was E. W. Snipes. son of Mr. and .Mrs A. J. Snipes of Hillsboro, a ho is president of a casket com pany in Knoxville. _ “Our car ha"d air-cflnditioning and we had all the windows up or. wo of us would have been blinded ir killed,” said .Mr. Snipes in com-, rienting upon the narrow escape. Mr. and Mrs. Snipes and Dr. and Mrs. L. f Reed were enroute to istol for the summer Shrine ten the accident oc ghway 11W just north of Rog sville whcn.it happened, he ;d. “They flagged us on and just we got beside the tar truck, e operator apparently pulle^ the •ong lever, shooting-The hot tar I over th ccar,” Snipes stated. •■•They used 55 gallons of gaso 1C just to clean the windows so B could see to go on to Bristol, ’ . added. Snipes is aide to the itentate of Kerbela Temple, and r. Reed is past potentate, of the Local Business & Professional Women Honor Miss Sue Hayes I he Business anil Professional ; Women's Cl fib of Hillsboro select,-, i ed Miss Sw liases as the local" Business Women of the Year at its ■ last meeting. I Miss Sue, as she is widely known .to 'everyone through out the com ! mounily, is not a member of the t club. A native of Hillsboro, she work ecf, with her father, one of the pi< ncer druggists of the area, in i the Hayes Drug Store which was I'firsf located a few > ards from the | corner on which the present Corn- \ cr Drug Store now stands. At his I death, she took over the business! and run it with the help of licensed pharmacists for over 30 years. , --She- sold- the drug, business to B. B. "Jake" Forrest nine years agoj but still handles the rental of her ' bnshtess^property in downtown j-Hillsboro. ^-a-i Local B & P Wo men To Be District Hosts The Hillsboro Business and Pro-., fessional Women's Club will .start off National Business Women’s Week here, by-being host to the Fourth District of the North' Carolina State Federation of Busi ness and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc: on Saturday evening, wilh a dinner to be held at the First Baptist Church beginnTflg at 6 o’clock. - j About one hundred women are expected from. the following towns: Greensboro, High Point, Burlington, Asheboro, Draper, Gibsonville. Leaksville-Spray ,Pitts boro, Randlemari, Roxboro and* Siler City. 13111 State Officers and special guests will be present for this meeting. BISHOP TO BE HERE The Right Reverend Richard jl. Baker, D.D., Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of North Carolina will be the guest preacher at the eleven o'clock service Sunday morning in Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church. | The public is cordially invited to! participate in the worship service! and to honor the visitation of one of the prominent leaders of the Church. ►——‘-- —------ -—. TricrWcrives^ Hearing In Murder Case Three Durham youths charged wiffii ”iHfir(]cr in connection with the mysterious drowning o fa wo man Mrs. Alva Matthews Tew, in Clearwater lake near Chapel Hill lust month waived . preliminary hearings in Orange - County Re corder’s CoHrt Monday. TVd evidence”was presented by the State. Bond was reduced to $5,000 by Judge , I., .1 Phipps for Donald If ugh Hargis. 18, and. Kenneth Le roy—King. 17. and they Were re leased following the hearing Otis Donald Wad-ford, 19, had previous ly been free under the $7,500 bond I originally-set /or the trio. >— Beautification Of Cedar Grove School Planned The Cedar Grove Parents and Teachers Association in its final .project of the. ScliaoPs campus ■under the direction of the Cedar Grove Farm and Efficieny Group. Landscape plans were drawn by T. R. Flowers, horticultural speci alist. of the Agricultural Exten sion Service. The plan calls for seeding', of the front lawn with year-round green grass which is pl-.rri<?d to n^t^ today. A ftPId day hns boCrf pfanned for Saturday, Oct. 22, at which time shrubbery will he planted around the building and the campus outs lined in native cedar trees. Bar becue and drinks will be served the workers on this day. The following agencies are Cft operatirfg ■ in this project: The Ag ricultural Extension Service, The Vocational Home Economics and Agriculture Department of Cen tral High School and The ‘Cedar Grove School P. T. A. SUPPER, SQUARE DANCE The Schley' American Legion tit barbecue and • bruuwiek -stew supper Saturday night in the Grange Hall There..wiU_ be - lively string -music for the square dance -Id bp held following the supper,, which wilt be'served from 6:30 to 8:30 o’clock. Tickets may be. secured from post ‘ members-' or bought at the loor. Large plates $1.25-and small I plates.. 75c.- . . • . I Property Valuation Increases 4 Percent Hillsboro Merchants Nominate Officers The Hillsboro Merchants Asso elation nominated a slate of of ■fice» 3oj®^2,' Scar'.'W Thursday, when it *met “at the Colonial Inn. - * Ballots have been sent to each member of the Association and they are to be turned in no later than tomorrow, in order for them to be counted. Those on the ballot and the of fici they were nominated for are as follows: president, Marshall Cales Jr.; Vice-president — Dr. N. L. Mauroner, Mrs. N. D. Crab tiec and Clarence Jones; Secre taiy-^WUgwr Cole.; Board of Direc tors, of which they Will elect four —Charles Walker. John Couch, Ed Herring, Jim Bhfsford, Jimmy Mar. gum. Miss Elizabeth Collins and 'Mrs.' W. L. Smith. The merchants ^ approved the committee's selection of Christmas decorations for this year which will be somewhat different from Iasi year. It was also voted to add five more lines than Were used last year. These lines will be used in W. King Street. Merchants and citizen-- who wish to take part in helping to sponsor the decorations arc asked to contact Mrs. Odell Dawkins, secretary Of the associa tion. «. - - ■ -*-■ - - . Bank In Front Of Library^ Is Improved HillsborW'residents, who are ad miring the results of the woMc being done on the formerly un ««£feUy bonk abound- the- --Ctmfed crate Memorial Library, will be interested to know that this is a project of the Hillsboro Garden Club. The Civic committee of the Club which is directing the work, is composed of Mrs. Ben Johnston, Mrs. Robert Forrest and Mrs. GeorgC Gilmore. Grading is being done by the State Highway Maintaince Dept, under the direction of C. I. Wai ters and working in cooperation with the Garden Club are the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Hillsboro and Mayor, Ben Jojjti.ston. f E.- Rice, loc'al nurseymart, js doing the sodding anti .planting of the bank,—W__ ' . _ Already .Hillsboro . citizens are commenting ph the improvement shown, in the first stages of the work. . ...,. . •---^. i Tributes Paid K Trio For Long REA Service County Agent Don S. Mathcson cited the tremendous strides made ■ by rural electrification in Orange ' County last Saturday when he pre sented gold watches to three long | time-directors of Piedmont Elec j trie Membership Corporation at I tbe.ahmtal barbecue of officers, employees, thcr wives and guests last Saturday afternoon. The. recipients who have dach t served 15 years or more on the Board of Directors without pay were W. F. Shaw, the’ president, J. G. Jobe and Clyde Roberts. Prior to the presentation Mathe son reminisced about the early struggles of the small group which founded tlje local cooperative and pointed to the fact that there were 28 miles of rural electric lines in Orange.County in 1932. In 1937, he said, there were only 140 and 130 more were added by the REA dur ing its first year of operation. The now totals around 600 miles. . . A feature of the social event was (he presentation of sa'fe driving awards to seven employees and safe worker awards to 18 others for varying periods ©f-aon-acci dent working time. Presented by Patrolman Mann Norris with words of congratulation, the safe driving awards went to J. E. Ter rell aiyl F. E- Jeyncr, 12 years; ■ Vance Martin, nine years; Gladys J Dixon eight years; C. H. Purycar, ! four, years; J. Frank Gentry, two j years and Kid L. Green. The safe ! worker awards were handed to | Johnny Sheets, Warren T. Peace, Doc Wagner, Vance Sigmon, height man Lane, C. II. Purycar, J. E. Terrell, F. E. , Joyner, James ' Filey, J. Frank Gentry, Gladys i Dixon, Vance Martin, Ora Chance, | Alice Rhctv, Shirley Joyner, Ruth I’riveltc, Mary B. CTaytor, and ; Sadie Strayhorn. Everette Forrest j Victim Of Eye Mishap 4 p- Everette Forrest' suffered a j severe eye injury while at work on a Durham job yesterday and is’ confined to. McPherson Hospital. |~; The exact nature of the damage could not be learned immediately, according to a spokesman who said he was working at an electri ■ cal receptacle when an object flew l out and struck the eye the damag | ing blow.—-.+ CURB MARKET OFFICERS—New and old officers of the Wo men's Homo Demonstration Curb Market in Chapel Hill, shown above •f. the annual membership meeting of the market sellers last Sat orday, are (left to right) Mrs. Allen Latte of Schley, assistant secre tary and treasurer; Mrs. Curtis W. Hogan pf Orange Church,, outgoing president; Mrs. Jeter Lleyd of Antioch, outgoing secretary-treasurer; Mrs, Amick Borland of Elm Grove, president; Miss Martha Lloyd of Antioch, vice-president; and Mrs. Nellie Lloyd of Antioch, secre tary - treasurer, ■1 Chapel Hill Has Two-Thirds An increase of almost four per cent 4a .the Grange County pro perty valuation for MSTWy the previous year was revealed yes Gattis. According to the final tabula tions just recently completed, the total valuation went up from $71, 116,099 to $73,907,767 in this year s listing, reflecting the steady con struction which has been in .pro gress throughout the county. Two thirds of the increased val uation came from the populous Chapel Hill ^Township. Of the $2, 791,668 total increase. Chapel Mill recorded $1,872,289. following is the breakdown for eaph township listed in the fol lowing order: real property, per sonal property and total: Chapel Hill: $33,068,620; $6, 202,885; 537,389,216. . Hillsboro: $8,151,247; $3,952,539; $12,154,291. Bingham: $2,928,850; $638,411; $3,467,061. Little River: $2,014,633; $333, 825; $2,349,958. Cedar Grove: $4,492,404; $962, 134; $5,454,538 , Cheeks: $3,501,295; $1,138,636; S4.639,9ifc~- A . — Eno: $3,985,170; $558,695; $4, 543,865. |~ Corporate excess: $2,866,238. Of Increase Supervisor S. M. Record Crowd Attends First PTA Meeting . New teachers, of the Hillsboro School aad Ib^f. Aiwibftnda, rntfam, intt reduced at the Parents ‘ and Teachers Association meeting Tuesday night, in the school audi torium, in a “Get - Acquainted" meeting, with a record-breaking attendance. •»> The Rev. Bruce Cresson, of the First Baptist Church gave the In vocation. Mrs. Van Kenyon, presi dent, presided over the meeting. ; G. A. Brown, principal, intro duced the following-new teachers for Hillsboro School: Mrs. Anyce McKee .English and Guidance; Fred Ciajtor, History and Physi cal Education; Clyde Edwin, Agri culture: Mrs. Margaret Richmond, 6ih grade; Mrs. Cainie.Ruth Cooke^ Jst grade; Mrs. Jane Byrd; 7th grade; Airs. Jean Dew Howell and Airs. Bettv Si Cresson. both 2nd grade teachers. .Mrs. Quentin Patterson, secre tary read the minutes for the last meeting of the previous year, and they were approved. Alls. Fred Blake gave the treasurer's report. Mrs. Kenyon introduced the va rious committee chairmen to the parents and teachers. Several re ports were given from these com mittees. Mr. Brown explained to the group how the new rule for not allowing the children to leave the school during school hours works. He said that there has only?^been one child who has violated the rule so far this year, and interest seems to have increased in studies by the pupils. The plan works as fol lows: First offense, the parents are asked to come to the school and a conference is held with them. Second offense, the pupil is sent home for one week Third of fense, the offender is sent home, or expelled from school for the re .ttye 4$hpol.„, have this in force. Mrs. Lora L. Bradshaw's second grade received the attendance award for having the most parents presented. ' After the close of the business meeting all present were invited to go to the school cafeteria were they were received by Mr. and Mrs. G. Paul Carr, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Brown, Mrs. Van Kenyon, Mrs. Fred Blake, Airs. Quentin Patterson and all the new teachers and their husbands. Refreshments of punch, cookies and peanuts were served.
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