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Orange County with the new* r H»* county by E NEWS of CfOO BREWER'S ^foutu/up )LAI . Despite any you jnay have heard rary, it looks now as rolina Democrats will th Adlai Stevenson at i: i'emoeratic Conven immer. a: nman ..has a lot of ins Stale, hat Sleyeltv raiiVe”s'who -live here time—and during the ■ he has visited in lina quite frequently, t to say that North nnot swing to Harri . But we wish merely t here that it’s going lot of swinging. Our ioukint: back on 1952, anybody could have nhower — but Adlai that sit nation a good fight. He was ocs for words. It may t some of his better will live longer than id by the Republican There is no better lant in the land than nson. • her Hodges made it ther day that he is a nan. SON’S STAND *The Daily News said edi other day that '“the le North Carolinians lelegates to the 1952 National Convention Stevenson for Prose 6, says the Charlotte they were almost tut or Senator Richrd B. Georgia.' The South ‘legates are still for ed if not forward, should be given to or the fact that he is ther candidate, not ir--weather one. Roscoe recounts in his col some of Stevenson’s ised ^im not to en B race when it looked ower would be a sure Stevenson took a dif nd. ‘The important the hieasure of your t the responsibilities imt.es to do what you for your country’, he tul counseling caution, nk. should one run n he thinks he can len one can do some what he-thinks should his judgment.’ iism we are all too it’n in politics. It is i change, to hear the sdom, patriotism and t a bad endorsement oiks, in a daily which o upper right hand ach front page as fol th Carolina’s Finest ... in order to tores of engagements ng these days, Gov. Iges has to resort to > doesn’t bother him d apparently — even lay worry his constit; times... particularly s jet propelled as in ‘n he left the Gover “renee In Chicago to to North Carolina to Connie. re afraid that, sooner e Governor might get lane. t he was. 'ing from Raleigh to > speak to a group of >ple there, the Gover n'd- He cut his left n envelope. his rescue came Col. *1 Guard plane. He le wound, very carcful r he said, “I always paperwork would kill !R SURVEY ... Cham nmerce in North Car done a good job in bring industry here past 20 years. They rful organizations. A amber officials will be next week on a sur ermine if there is a State Chamber of Com !y plan to interview •pie. - le idea may be good, 'UN&VP, Page 2) An estimate of school construc tion .requirements,in Orange Coun ty for the next five years, it is. believed, will total at least $2,’-. present their needs to the County Commissioners on. November 7.‘ Superintendent G. Paul Carr last week furnished a statement of needs of the county units to the White House Conference for North Cai'jlina held in . Raleigh for the next five years which totalled $1,850,000. The County Board of Education will meet in fhe next week in preparation for the November 7th meeting with the Chapel Hill board and the Commissioners, but their final fig ures are not expected to vary much from the recent estimate. The Chapel Hill School Board totalled up its bond needs Tuesday night and arrived at a $1,000,015 total. , ....... . J ■ .... . The money Is needed for the following projects: at Chapel Hill High School a hew gymnasium, an addition tp the shop, and a home e«>nomics building; at Lin coln Hign School a new shop, six i^Mrod.mi^^hdiffh^nditoflum^he’ re novation of Chapel Hill Elfme* tary School and the construction of fire towers; the renovation of Northside School; • a new audiior ium at Glenwood School; and a site and new 12-classroom elemen tary school. *\ The Chapel Hill board will carry its list to Hillsboro jon Nov. 7 when at 2 p.m. it will compare needs with the Orange County School Board. Later in the day the two units are scheduled to present a combined list to the County Board of Commissioners. Purpose of the discussions is to fix 'the size of - a school bond is sue. It will be up to the commiss ioners to determine if a bond elec tion is to be called and how much wilt be asked. _ . . » Earlier this year the Orange County School Board presented the commissioners with a list of needs which included six Class rooms at a new site with office and lunchroom at Carrboro:. six elate* rooms tt Ceikrtl High Sahooi; « lunchroom at Cedar Grove School and four classrooms; a lunchroom at Efland Negro School; a gymnas ium at both Central and Hillsboro High Schools; a new building at Carrboro and for the Eflhnd White School; and the renovation of Hills boro High School and Aycock High School. Both school systems have de scribed their needs as “serious,” but officials of the Orange County unit have been reluctant to plan -for a bond election. Officials have said it "may be the wrong time” because of the integration issue. The meeting of the two boards on Nov. 7 was arranged by R.J.M. Hobbs, chairman of the county commissioners, who urgently re quested action. Forrest Burton Will Head Development Unit Divisions R. 0. Forrest of Hillsboro and Zeb C. Burton -of Cedar Grove yes terday__wefe appointed to head the Industrial and Agricultural di visions respectively of the newly functioning Orange County Agri cultural and Industrial Develop men Commission. With the announcement of these appointments, Chairman Don Ma Xmas Mailing For Overseas Rules Listed The period October 15 to No vember 15 has been designated as the period for mailing Christmas mail to the Armed Forces over seas and the Hillsboro Post office has announced the following dates to insure the mail arriving at their destination on time. Parcels Tor, Navy and Marine' C^rps personnel fn remote places should be- mailed by-October 15th. if possible. Parcels destined for Korea, Jjupan and Pacific Islands, should be in*the mail by Novcth-j ber 1 and all others by November’ 15.. I Air mail ca,n be used until De cember 1 with' expectation that parcel will reach their destination by Christinas. ,. | For surface parcels the weight limit in most instances is 70 pounds. Two pounds is the limit: tor air mail parcels. Parcels should be packed , in strong boxes and securely wrapped to insure safe delivery. It is sug gested that the address be writ- ] ten with typewriter or ink and1 directly 0n the wrapper instead of being put on a mailing sticker. i It is suggested that foodsUtffs, not be sent because of spoilage and .breakage they are l.kely to reach overseas destinations un it for use. Local Midgets Play Tonight n, sporting a perfeef 3-0 1, will meet the Elks Club of lington tonight at 8 o clock, on ‘Hillsboro high school field, he Midgets were very impres . in'their first three games. ;ting Haw River September 17, r won 13-6. Swainey and Cates -ed for die’ locals, the second ie was not quite as easy, .but sbOr0 came but on top over Burlington Club; 7-6, wit rterback Rickard < Blackwelder ring and Marvin Teer adding PAT on and end-around. n the third game, a second -lington ‘ bowed to Hillsboro by 25-0 score. Touchdowns were Je by Clayton Cates, Black der and Teer. , thcson said the entire membership' of the 28-member county wide com mission; had been divided between these two major groups for special ized work. Second meeting of the Commis sion will be held next Thursday night, October 27th, at 7:30 o'clock at the courthouse and according to Chairman Matheson a number of 'interesting” projects will be presented to the group as a whole. He declined to elaborate pending presentation to the full Commis sion* He said a report from the Executive Board appointed at the organizational meeting would be heard. This group has already held one meeting, he said. The division of the members be tween the two areas of endeavor— agricultural and industrialf-was announced by Matheson as follows: The industrial division, headed by Forrest, will be composed of the following: Raymond Andrews, Collier Cobb Jr., Sidney Green, Tom Ellis'. M. P. Efland. Jr., Ber nlce Ward, G. C. Truesdale, Louis Kennedy* Thomas Kale, McB- T. M. Andrews, and Robert Murray. The Agricultural -dmilbto;' Wad ed by Burton, will be composed as follows: C. W. Stanford, Bryant Berry, Manley Snipes. Reid Ro berts, Mrs. Clyde Walker, Mrs. Clyde Roberts, Walter Lloyd, Mrs. Carl Walker, Wiley Perry, Claude Pope, Robert Nichols, Bill Dorsett, and W. L. Miller. . ►—-;-: Food, Fishing In New Hope Program Plan The $iew Hope Community is planning a program for next Wednesday afternoon, which in cludes a * fishing rodeo,, a bruns wick stew supper and i speaker on Wildlife Conservation, for its second Farm and Home Efficiency program. At 4:30 o’clock a Fishing Rodeo for children under 15 years of age will bo held at the lake at New Hope Camp. Yes, there are plenty of fish in the lake, and prizes will be given for the largest and smallest fish caught. Bring your pole if you have one and your favorite bait. ’ • At 6 o’clock a brunswici^ stew supper will be served at the camp dining balf.The charge for supper will be only 75c for adults and 30c for children over S years. . A short .meeting . with Donald Hankla, Nursery Superintendent for Wildlife Resources Commiss ion of Chapel Hill, will speak on Wildlife Conservation, at 8 o’clock; The door prizes will be drawn at the end of the meeting. Maybe ygu will win your Thanksgiving turkey. Roxbord Wins 19-13: Wildcats Sutler First Defeatf Meet Henderson Tomorrow — Roxboro continued its winning ways last Friday night in an im portant District 11 game, by com ing from behind to defeat a fight ing-Hillsboro eleven 19-13, on the local field. Roxboro, a solid three touch down favorite found its hands full with a determined Wildcat team which scored twice in the second quarterto lead 13-0 at half time. Four fumbles, and an intercepts ped a good Roxboro the' - game nut nf t& fire in the list half. Hillsboro’s first touchdown came suddenly, early in the second quarter, when Ronald Gattis hit end, Garland Spangler, with /k 43 yd. touchdown pass. Late in the second quarter Hillsboro drove 35 yds. for another tally with twelve. Gattis taking a lateral from Collins scored the extra point. Roxkoro received the second half kickoff and “drove 64 yds. for its first touchdown aided by a questionable pass interference play against Hillsboro. Roxboros second touchdown came early in the fourth quarter on a score by mvernpm^ Green, Clayton ran for the extra point and the score was tied 13-13. Roxboro recovered a Hillsboro • umble on the Hillsboro 35 and with the aid of another pass inter ference play drove for its third touchdown. Jerry Clayton scored after two Hillsboro. jtaqKlers**a4, him trapped behind the line of scrimage. For Hillsboro the running of Collins and Combs was outstand ing, while Blackwelder, Spangler, Tony Sateman apdRonaM Gattis. were standouts on defense. Lack of adaqiiate reserves show ed up badly against Hillsboro as the game progressed, with twelve men having to play almost the en tire game. * FridayHillsboro goes to Hen derson for another tough confer ence battle. STATISTICS «. Gattis, 3 "carries, 2 yards; pass ing -7 attempts and 3 completed, 56 yards. Combs, 12 carries, 67 yards. Collins, 12 carries, 7,4 yards. Bateman, 5 carries, 1 yard. Oakley, 1 carry, 2 yards; pass ing- one attempted and completed with 30 yards. ' • ' ' ~ ASC Election Voting Light; Groups Named Results of ASC committee were •vailable from six townships yes terday, following Tuesday’s county wide election in which only 146 farmers cast ballots out of a po tential vote of about 1,400, The committee administers the acreage allotment programs for tobacco, cotton and wheat and the Agricultural Conservation Program which this year will distribute some $41,000 in this county. Similarly, light votes were^noted in other counties in the area, ac cording to district officials. From 10 nominess in each town ship the following were selected. Hillsboro township: Marvin Phel ps, chairman, Leroy Hall. Sr. vice chairman, Dupree Smith. Bingham township: G. T. Dur ham, chairman, Edmond Stroud, vice chairman. Walter Lloyd. Eno township: W. A. Crabtree, chairman. Wallace Bacon, vice chairman, H. S. Walker. ' Cheeks township: A. C. Wright, chairman, «W. B. Sh^mbley, vice chairman, J. Sam Nelson. Cedar. Grove township: Milton Ward, chairman. Donald McDade, vice chairman, Marvin Rogers. ~‘ Chapel Hill Township: Clyde I Bowden, chairman,.John Cates, and Aubrey McLennon, I The chairman of each township committee will meet in Hillsboro as delagates to the county con vention to select the overall coun ty committee. “ To Make Final Plans For Girl Scout Drive A kickoff meeting for the Girl Scout Fund Drive of October 24— October 26 will "be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the scout room of hd>e library. k All division captains and team captains will attend to get final instructions for the drive and re ceive pledge cards for their teafits. The following have been select i ed as division captains: Mrs. Har 1 old Bivins, Mrs. Charlie Vincent, Mrs. John W. Dickson, Mrs. Gar land Rippy, Mrs. Archie Graham, W. L. Smith and Joe Rosemond. Wilson Cole is serving as treasur er of the drive. Division captains have selected team captains and solicitors in their area, j An all-out effort will be made ! to complete the drive during the j week of October 24 through 29. I and hopes are high that the goal of $116800 'will be reached in'the Hillsboro, West Hillsboro, Efland j area. [ Orange Youth To Get Tryout, With Chisox Staff Sergeant A. J: Johnson Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Johnson of Route Three, Criapcl Hill, has been drafted to try out for thfe Chicago Whit Sox baseball team next spring His parents said here today that the big league team had been scouting Johnson for several sea sons during his playing with the service team of the Suffolk Coum ty Air Force Base on'Lhng Island where he has been stationed as an air force mechanic. This past year he was awar&d a trophy for hav ing the top batting average on the team. He played at both catcher and in i the outfield'during his days as a lcttetinan dinner on the team at Chapel Hill High School, from which he was graduated in 1952, and hits continued in these same Native African Talks At Central Samuel Adejunmobi of Nigeria West Africa spoke to the Central high school assembly group on Friday of last week. Adejunmobi, a senior at Vriginia Union Univer sity, discussed the ways of living of the native Africans. The 27 year-old African, attired in his native costume, danced informally for the students after his speech. I His future plans arc to be an Ambassador for his country or to teach in one of the public schools? County Adopts Job, Pay Plan For Staff i . ' Two Hillsboro Couples Win Free Nassau Trip Lions To Hold Sale Of Light Bulbs In Town The Hillsboro Lions cfttb will hold a townjpide sale of electric light bulbs, beginning next ^Tues day night. ' Funds derived will, be applied on various club projects including its Aid-To-The-Blind work, its ma jor project. A bag containing an assortment of nine Sylvania light bulhs espec ially selected for the $eeds of the average home will be sold f6r $1.95 by the Lions. Each member of the club will be issued a quota of bags for sale in his neighborhood, downtown^ or at his place of business. Farm Credit Is Expanded By Land Bank Credit services of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia have been broadened by legislation enacted by Congress and signed by Presi dent Eisenhower on August 11, according to information received by M.T. Lamm, president of the Henderson National Farm Loan association, which serves (Jtrange County from Bank officials. ~ Mr. Lamm said the new legisla tion increases the bank’s individ ual loan limit from $100,000 to $200,000; expands the purpose of loans; broadens the base on which loans may be made on part-time farms; and permits the extension of credit to family type corpora tions primarily engaged in farm ing operations. 300 Will Help In Cedar Grove Oscar Beasley, president of the CedM ficove. P»rm .^nd , Home Suf ficiency Program, announced*today that a crowd of over 300 is ex pected to participate in the school beautification project scheduled for Saturday, October 22 at 8 a.m. Beasley’s estimate is based on a preliminary report submitted by his community leaders on Tuesday night when they met.,^it Cedar Grove School to make final plans for the project; At that meeting eighteen of his twenty leaders had registered 268 persons. By the • Friday registration deadline the number is certain to go over the 300 mark. The school and committee have already purchased $250 worth of shrabtjsry fpom the Lindley Nurs ery. This ‘shrubbery wilt be de livered today and covered with sawdust until Saturday. The order is composed of 10B pieces of ever green. Immediately following .the set ting of the shrubbery the group will he served a barbecue dinner.. Dock Beasley and Mrs. Corina Villines, eo-chairmen of the food committee have already selected their co-workers and have made their final plans for serving this large crowd. The entire program in the Cedar Grove area is under the direction of Mrs. B. P. McAl ister and J. M. Murfree.' Carrboro To Erect Stoplight At Dangerous Intersection Installaton of a signal stoplighl at the bottleneck intersection of Main and Rosemary Streets has been approved by the Town Board of Commissioners in Carrboro. * In discussion on the measure Tuesday evening it was stated that long as 10 minutes before being able to gain clear entry to-JVIain Street near thlis corner1 as tille situation now stands. The corner has been the scene of numerous accidents and collisions in recent months. ^ The commissioners also voted to have lane markings painted on the pavement of the five-way inter section of Main and Franklin Streets at the Chapel Hill town line, on a basis -to be worked out with Ohaepl Hill. The board also decided to open the west sidewalk on the curve of East Main Street and have it graveled for pedest rian use. , - Lloyd Gardner appeared before the board to ask that Moody’s Service Station, now non-conform ing property in a residential zone, be re zoned as business terrritory in order that a large oil company might buy the property and put up an attractive service station on rvifa.. a bearing ©» the Matter was ' set for October 25 and it was in the meantime referred to the Town Zoning Commission. Representatives of the Carolina Constructors and Realty Company also came before'the board to ask that sewer and water lines be es tended to their tract off Old Greensboro Highway about 2,000' feet noijth of town on which they planned to erect about 25 small homes for sale. As an alternative the group suggested this area be annexed to the town. A special committee consisting of Tete Lloyd as Chairman and Bill Hardee and Gene Sturdivant as members was asked to study the matter and bring in a recommendation as soon as possible. Two Sillsbord coupled won all;: expcnses-paid trips to the world famous luxury resort, Nassau in the Bahama Islands, this week, and two other local couples became near-winners when they were drawn as alternates. It was all a part of the Oil Pro gress Week promotion of the petro leum companies in the Durham tank area. The winning number was drawn by Mayor E. J. Evans of Durham on WTVD television Tuesday af ternoon and field by Ladis Dixori, assistant engineer at the local Pied mont Electric Membership Cor poration. The service station opera tor Paul Shelton, Highway 70 & St. Mary’s Road, from whom he purchased the gasoline and receiv ed the winning ticket also was aw arded the free trip for himself and his wife. Drawn as second alternates for the grand prize were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chance, who purchased their gasoline from Melvin Dixon of this county, who operates his station in Durham and whose wife is em ployed as office manager of Morris. Telephone Co. in Hillsboro. In the event t,he first drawn winner did not contact the. TV stg-. tion Within 24 hours, the trip for two could have gone to the alter nates, in which case Hillsboro folks might still have been the eventual recipients had not Dixon claimed his prize. The trip is valued, according to the winner, Dixon, at $518. The re cipients will fly from the Florida mainland apd spend a week *t the famous Royal Victoria Hotfet %at Nassau. MERCHANTS MEETING The Hillsboro Merchants Asso ciation will meet today at 1 o’clock at the Colonial Inn. New officers for the coming year will be recog nized at this time. Several Groups Are Excluded; Raises Granted ■ Employees of Orange County 4,^ witti certain exeeptiiMif ttjli -week went under a civil-service type Job classification'and' pay plan which the Commissioners adopted* at a special meeting Monday night at the courthouse. Pay raises were included for all employees covered and were retro active to July 1, 1955 when the Board voted to ask the Institute of Government to prepare such a plan and withheld all considera tion of pay increases pending its adoption. * Excluded from the plan as orig- — - inally adopted were all elective officials and department heads, members of the staffs of the Ex tension service, the Welfare and Health departments, all of whom are 'paid partially from State or Federal funds and some of whom are included under the State Merit system. ! *' Three members of the Welfare Staff were granted raises Monday night, to be effective November 1. These included the two clerical workers, and one case worker. The new system not only set up pay scales but sets down for the first time written county policy on working hours, vacations, sick leave, holidays, etc. , > The commissioners a re expetted to act on salary increases for other county officials who may be in line for them at their November meeting, now that the classifies- ~ tion system has been set up and increases granted to the other em ployees. Action on the pay plan was by . unanimous vote of the four com missioners attending. As in put •ecfcnt n* otings, ! Coimiissloner Sim Etlarui was not in attendance and other commissioners said they had had no notice from him that he would be absent or when he would return. All employees were interviewed in the course of preparation and classified according to the kind of work, the difficulty of the work and the responsibility of the work. The various classifications were given the same descriptive title, the same recruitment standards and allocated the same pay grade. Organizational charts for every permanent position were prepar .ed and a description pf the duties of each job was included. No at tempt was made to determine how -well art employee performs his du ties. ; \ Jobs are classified into six grades as follows: 1—janitor; 2—stenog rapher clerk 1 and typist clerk 1; U—stenographer clerk 2, tax clerk, and typist clerk 2; 4— accounting clerk, assistant register; of deeds, Deputy Clerk of Recorder’s Court and veterans service officer; 5— deputy sheriff and dog warden; ^—Assistant Clerk of S uperior Court. All salary increases are retroac tive to July 1, 1955. Estimated cost this budget year was placed °at $1,872. Eighteen employees will benefit immediately with salary increases ranging from $25 to $232 annually. Salary increases for department heads will be considered by the commissioners at a later date. Purpose of the pay plan was said to be “to further the econom ical use of county funds by Im proving employee morale and ef ficiency.” The plan provides fdr a minimum salafy with automatic increases after the first six and 12 months. Employees may also be started -as “trainee*” with,» salary -,. below the minimum. HEADS FIRE DISTRICT The newly- organized Greater Chapel Hill Fire District Commiss ion has held its organizational meeting in preparation to provid ing fire protection for the tax-sup ported suburban fire district here. In their initial meeting late last week the thr$$-man group, ap pointed by the Orange County com missioners, elected Prof. E. A. Cameron of Laurel Hill Road as their chairman. Other members of the group are William T. Hobbs of Flemington Hoad in Glen Len nox neighborhood and Eben Mer ritt of the PittsboEo Rpad.
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