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Orange County p with the new tr the county by HE NEWS o * 3 NUMBER 43 r A N D ELECT? ... jlcnty of talk around to that the Board of of the University of roll na will accept Gor s resignation as presi n they meet here in weeks. -jevecstty alurp.ni Say that the Trustees will leeepl the Gray resigria will name a president (T-'.iy "t North Car concensus seems to be . an acting president >r recommending a per >ad will be assigned to pecial committee. r .. The Charlotte Ob [hile reaching out and [iltto■ its1 fold some of heuspapcr talent in the [fthin the past two or tk ~ has lost at least two H men. - :7 T" ['to Bob: Tage, who has [bsexvcr to go with,, John tom Watkins and their I North Carolina State Be Association. Page [editor, of the Observer, [worked at one* time for | Advance in Elizabeth | other papers, and has State background. [ be outdone, Coleman Inc! fid Pickard reached [observer and made off l Pitts to-handle public lor their Carolina Motor er .the title of Director A; fairs. Keep an eye peeled for rnrharp changes in at tuple of other big North [dailies-. B GOAL,... Your -tnern ■iot go back that far, but Bi to remember that our Bis Stale Fair, which last Bracfed ‘ a Jialf - miHiou Bventy years ‘’ago .was B< That was'in ,1935: and ■ leasing it out for What I get out of it. ■this. year, our Fair w,as litlf those of Ohio and ■mong the top ten in the Bintry. If we are not. mis ■c of Kerr Scott’s planks ■atform when he ran for ■ re Commissioner in 1936 I the State should take Bn., the operation Of the |r and place it on a pay Iwhat happened shortly Pccame huad of the State I re De^ar.tmehtr leached over into Shelby is manager of the Fair a Ban who had to get out iract-ice 1 because he bc,: irgie to animal dust and liliar type of dandruff I a part o fhorscs, mules. B hogs. Dr. J. S. Dorton I man. lay as manager of the. jir is now about $8,000. |n t know for many weeks I how much t the Stale I’er deducting the ex [premium money and all [operating fhe Fair this in our gross income. But |r since Dr. Dorton took [ have seemed to do a Iter. [ren t saying much about pficials of the State Agri pepartment—now led so kntly by L. Y. Ballon ht there is an outside pc .profit may reach well that magic goal of $lO0. pen chiefly responsible pecess are Seg. W. Kerr [griculture Commissioner allentine. Manager J. S. and Assistant Manager |TH .. . This week is Powand draggy for Gov.*« lodges . in comparison fy he has passed since he jlrn in as Governor last lt‘t' He covered the west-. |>ation until Wednesday, Waynesville for the fall leeting of the Department pervation and Develop *e was accompanied by [dges on this trip, made weeks ago—his ! Pretty well scheduled lan a month in advance— | him-and Mrk. Hodggs to >o Raleigh from Ashe ■&OUNDVP, Page 2) ■ Scouts In Orange Gold Rush Earn $60 In Prizes - scouts of Orange District j carn^d about S60 for themselves or their troop treasuries in Sat Urday's second annual Gold Rush : Tiold. day event. Eighty-three Scouts participate in the all-day scoutcraft contest, neld nea'r the old iron mines two miles north of town. The members of the 15 competihg teams were, given imitation, nuggets, redeem able at $.10 apiece, depending on their proficiency in performihg assignments at each of the nine ■ stations on the Gold Rush, mt Arthur Bennett, chairman of the event for the sponsoring KrWanis t lub, presented the participating award, a large nugget trophy, to Robert L. Hawkins, Scoutmaster of the Baptist-sponsored Troop 826, for his troop’s having had 83 per cent of its members entered in the Rush. x The individual team prizes were awarded as follows by Mr. Bennett: First.place, earning 44 out of 45 possible nuggets, team led by Mike 39, '.ttftoiMl, tegnt. received sheath knife prizes; sec ' ond place, team led by Chips Weaver, Troop 39, flashlight prizes; third place, team leader Terry Stapleton, Troop 9, small flash light awards; and fourth place, I Harvey Reinhardt, Hillsboro, team leader, waterproof match case prizes. Tae five-man teams were made up on the basis of the scout** ranks so that each team would be more evenly matched. Scoring : rnged from 32 up to 44 pointsa. | .judges for the event were C^u>, •les Napier, Jim Watson, Howard :j_ Culbreth ,Bob Hawkins, Ed John son, J. c. Johnson, Floyd Hatcher, John Fox, Ralph Howard, Joe Gal loway, Ed Steytler, Bill Hamnett, Wayne Raver, Don Dewey, W. H., Branch, Harold Weaver, Charles Hubbard. Ray Barnes, and Andy Shearer. Mr. Bennett expressed his ap preciation to the Kiwanis, Rotary, and- Carrboro and Hillsboro Lions Clubs for providing the prizes and to Long Meadow Farms and Knight Cmpbell Hardware for assistance inproviding the awards and „-r«* freShments. * , WINNERS IN 'GOLD RUSH'—First place team in Satufday's Orange District Boy Scouts' Gold Rush field day event, held at the old iron mines near the airport, stand ready to receive their first place awards of sheath knives from' the Rev. Charles Hubbard. Left to right, members of the team are Mike Culbreth, team leader v from Troop 39, Bill Graham, David Radford, Chariot Lloyd, and Minor Davit. Shown bohind tha Rev. Mr. Hubbard, other adult leader* for the event are Arthur Bennett (partially hidden and I Charlet Milner. gjgjjggPORK- HIGH 1,\ GOLD RUSH-—tegro. teadtbyHaryey Reinhardt (second from Itftl of Hills boro won a runm-i up awS3 in last Saturday Vsec-ond’-annual Orange Boy Scout District field day * scoutcraft event at the iron mines site north of Chapel Hill. Above, while his fellow team members look on, Reinhardt signals via a hand wigwag Morse code the answer to a problem given his Uam’ at one of ■ the nine stations on’the Gold Rush. Tcft to right are Larry Lee, Chapel Hill; Reinhardt. Morris VVil lianis. Hillsboro; and Donald Neville of Carrboro. The team members were awarded waterproof match holders- as a token prize. .V . , . ’ Local Merchants Plan Yule Lights, Xmas Event Lions Begin Drive To Sell Light Bulbs Hiltsbo.ro Lions. Club members yesterday began their campaign* to. sell a light bulb assortment to householders and business firms throughout the community.. ' Members received allotments of 20 bags each of the bulbs for sale tLnheic/noigWi own. wvii »»»•"•- , ,, , iprtment of "nine Sylvama bulbs at price-'of "51.95 The assortment I as been picked as suitable in izes for the average household , ise, four bulbs 60 watts, two 75 i-tts. two 100 watts and one 150 ratts. .. , ! Persons desiring to purchase the lulbs are urged Jo call a Lion if hey are not solicited, At Tuesdiv nighf s meeting the dons hegrd E, S ^Kapcr of Duke lospital, who is president of the )urham Cerebral Palse.v Founda-j ion describe .the work, of the oundaiion. the Cerebral Palsey. Ids pi fill on Erwin Road in Dur am, and the annual iuike-Carolina ■e.bman game, on .Thanksgiving. A Christmas program, at which tkw-Ahc^Christmas light WiH be turned on and Santa Claus, is plan ed to make his appearance, Is be-, ing planned for around the first, Friday night in December, the ex act . date to be announced later, was decided by The Hillsboro ‘Merchants Association last Thurs day at the.Colonial Inn. The G. G. Grocery and Paul Shelton's Gulf Service were wet1 corned as new members into the association. Marshall Cates, president,-recog nized the new officers for the coming year: Re-elected president, Marshall Cates, vice - president;. Clarence D Jones; secretary, Wil son Cole, Board of directors, Miss Elizabeth Collins, Ed Herring, Charles Walker, and Jimmy Man gum. He also expressed apprecia tion to the former officers for the wdrk they had done the past year, j It was vbted to present an en- i graved watch from the Associa tion to the senior student with the, highest grades in the commcrical class of the Hillsboro High School in the spring. It was announced that the Christmas lights., have arrived. These will be paid for by money raised by^donStions of the people. Some donations have already bej See MERCHANTS—Page 4 . Fruit Cake Sale Planned By Civic Club “Operation.Fruitcake”, a sale of fruitcakes- by the Hillsboro Ex change Club for the purpose of raising funds for further develop ment of the Recreation Park, will get under way soon. Club Presi dent Wilson Cole announced to day. ''. ' ' ' i II G. Coleman., Jr., 'CJiairman <jf he Projects Committee, will be io charge of tht> sale. He will be as-. sisted by toiler committee mem bers W. C. Mangum, John Couch, ■ nd Bill Kennedy and the other i.nembej.s oi tiled 14 b. Further details of the sale will be announced next w^pk. The cakes*, for safe were chosen after a sample had been given a “taste test” by members of the club who unanimously declared heartily j0 favor of them. The sale will be continued until everyone has an opportunity to stock up for the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. The cakes . are of three pound, and five pound sizes. Work on the Park by the Ex change Club i§ continuing. A pic nic area recently seeded will be ready for use at the opening of the picnic seson next spring. Falling School Ceiling Injures Carrboro Girl An 8-yoaj-rfifli girl received 10 Stitches ifi tlj^/»orefrepd Tuesday after a oortSWof "f(«*|itliing~fe]l. in at- the elementary school in Carrboro. Cynthia Ri^gsbee was rushed to Memorial Hospital when cut by ratting plaster in the 3rd grade classroom of Miss Agnes Andrews. The accident happened about 12:30 o’clock, shortly after the children returned front lunch. Miss Andrews said she looked up arid saw part of the ceiling fall. “Run," jshe screamed. The children rushed from the room as a large section of the plaster" suddenly gave way. Sever al were hit but only Cynthia suf fered serious damage: Mi ss A n drews sustained a sprained ankle' in trying to get out of the way. She was recovering from a broken leg seffered earlier and was on crutches. < The children have been moved into the library while all the plas ter is removed from the ceiling and replaced with beaverboard. MEETING TONIGHT The Orange County Agricultural and Industrial Development Com mission is scheduled to hold its second meeting tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the courthouse. DESPITE WORK ON SUPERHIGHWAY; 7 th Division Highway Program Is Balanced The Sevenyi Highway division has carried on a balanced road building program despite the huge paving program embraced in a single highway, the Highway 70 m 'sugcVh'ighway wjMch e*t*nded in the district from near Guil ford’s wester border to Efland in Orange County,, > Figures just released in a sum mary of the division’s projects during an jSrmonths period end ing July 1 show that around $9, 000,000 ias spent in construction (including engineering fees, con tingencies and right of way costs.) Chief Engineer W. H. Rogers Jr. said the Seventh's program has been a balanced one and larg er than the programs of the di-, visions generally because of fed eral funds for the interstate sys temof highways. Major paving contracts during the period other fliam the costly Highway 70 project in Orange County included these: Roadway and structures on 2.78 miles of Calvander road $148,274. Roadway and structures on 2.8 miles on N.C, 86-A between New Hope Church and Hflbboro, $111, 480. Maintenance crews in Division Seven hve been on routine main tenance wo (it during September and October, conditioning unpaved roads for the winter season, main taining shoulders, and opening sid ditches on paved sections for protection during the winter months, the State Highway Com mission repotted. This fall, the road oil depart ment has completed 28 miles of drag seal retreatment and 18.1 miles o( mat and drag seat retreat ment on roads in the Seventh* Re cently, 2.52 .miles of new pavement prime, mat. and (teal have been completed j&j$£.Jdighwey for The Sijjn Department has paint ed 270.5 miles of white lines and 206.25 milijis of yellow traffic lines in the Sevfnth. In addition, route markers anifl signs have been plac ed on new US 29 & 70 which runs from Eflaiii through Alamance and Guilford, counties to the Thom asviile bypass in Davidsoh "Coun ty- New US ^9 & 70 was officially opened to traffic October 7 from See RpADS—Page 4 TEACHbRSf AVOR JOINING SOCIAL SECURITY Teachers in the Orange Coun ty system voted 134 to 10 in favor of the coerdinetion of the Teachers end State Employ ees Retirement System with the Old Age andSurvivors Insurance provisions of tho Federal Social Security Act in balloting which took placo yosterday. Compilation of ballots cast by employees ef the State Highway and Public Works Commission, the University and the Chapel Hill school administrative unit, other major groups of eligible state employees, was not expect-,, ed until last night as this news paper went to press. - - Man In Jail After 3®iSwgStj fr> 'Jr Earl Edward Thrower. 23, is being held in county jail in Hills boro for the early Sunday morning robbery of the University Ix>dge Motor Court. Thrower surrendered Monday morning to Laurinburg police. '■ • . . h . . _ __i| His bail has not been set, pending a preliminary hearing on a charge of highway robbery Monday. Thrower stole $20 when he awakened night clerk Stephen Hardy, a UNC student, at 1:46 a.m. Sunday and under the guise of0* pros pective room occupant, he pulled a gun on the cleric, said police. The clerk handed, over the money and then was forced into the vacant room, where the thief attempted to lock Hardy up. How ever, Hlrdy caught a glimpse of the thie’s car heading towards Ra leigh.- ' Hardy phoned Charles Nottingham, owner of the motel, who called the police. Deputy Sheriff Walter Clark brought Thrower back from Laurin burg after he surrendered at 11 a.m. Monday. Thrower used the name of James Martin of Charlotte in regis tering at th'e motel prior to pulling a gun <fn the clerk, said police. Hardy said he was quite scared, but that he did not realizfe just how scared ho was until after the robbery was over. "I didn’t think anything tike that would ever happen to me,” he said. ^ . ThrOWct- wfll probably appear for trial when Superior Court next convenes. * Mote Anti-Polio Vaccine Offered At Health Dept. Polomyelitis vaccine is now available in the Orange County Health Department, in limited amounts, under the Federal vac cine program. This is the beginning of a new program and a new shipment of vacdne. The first program, under the Na ttwjei' FiTflndaUoh of InfantflfePa j^ly^is. was closed October 1 and an vaccine unused was returned Orange County’s allotment is 881 cc’s or enough to take care of 445 persons, including pregnant wo men end ehildra*. The priority age group has been broadened to include the five to nine years age group, the birth through four years age group, and pregnant women. Parental request blanks for the five to nine year group are not being required. There arc no charges for the vaccine given by the Health De partment. The anti-polic shots may be ob tained at the HillsbpCo office in the Courthouse from 2 to 4 p m, and at the Chapel Hill office Thursday afternoons at the same hours. DECIDE SCHOOL NEEDS The Orange County- Board of Education met last night to com plete their study' of. school con struction needs in the epunty in preparation for their meeting with the Chapel Hill district school board and the Board of County Commissioners on November 7 in connection with a proposed bond issue election for schools. In Sunday Afternoon Beating. . . . Three Orange Women Arrested On Assault, Kidnappina Charaes Kidnapping and assault charges , have been filed against' three! Orange County women in con-! netftion with tk.4 beating of an Orange Grove woman Sunday. Dairy farmer Hugh M. Wilson! Sunday sw«cn oui y«urwTsts...aJ-. fegirig the felony and misdemean or against Mrs. Sally (George) Atkinson and her two daughters, Mrs. Cora (Stanley) Be.iester and Mrs. Al^ce Ince. According to in formation given Sheriff’s Deputies! Earl Bush and W. E. Clark Jr., I the trio allegedly enticed Mr. Wil- j son’s wife to leave her home by i a fraudulent reason and then held; her by force in their auto, taking 1 lujr to the Atkinson home where llfey whipped her. Mrs. Wilson is now in the University Infirmary recovering from shock and minor injuries from having been beaten, j The cases were scheduled for J trial in Orange Qounty Recorder’s 1 Court at Hillsboro Monday morning, j However they were continued for two weeks so that Mrs. Wilson could/be present. . Arrested By All three*were arrested by the deputies Sunday evening and taken to.:... tfae,i€hapRl,iHyi poUee ; station Where they were charged and Wbld. Soon thereafter W. I. Suitt, farmer of near Orange Grove, signed $1,500 bond for each wo man and they were released. According to the officers the trio admitted that MrS\ Wilson was taken by them in Mrs. At kinson’s car early Sunday after noon and was subsequently* beat en. The deputies said , the three women charged Mrs. Wilson with having an affair with Mr. Atkin son — an allegation which both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson emphatically denied, to day.. - * Mr. Wilson reported to the of ficers that Mrs. Bejester came to their home soon after they re turned from morning church ser vices and asked his wife, a reg | istered nurse, to come to the At j kinson home, a mile away near Union Grove Church, to assist Mr. Atkinson who was ill. Mrs. Wilson left with her* bufc»as9;tfee car arrived at the road the other two women jumped in the car ! and then all three began assailing Mrs. Wilson and threatening to beat her, which they did after ar | riving at * the Atkinson house, Mr. Wilson reported. Found At Atkinsons He said he went to the Atkin sons shortly thereafter "to see what was wrong with George” and met his wife,' in the company of the three women, coming up to the house from the tobacco barn. After he left with his wife, Mr. Wilson told authorities, she un ! folded to him the tale ctf the beat Achievements In 4-H Program To Be Cited 4-H members, parents, and lead ers representing all sections of Orange County are expected to attend the 4-H Achievement pro gram tonight in the new court house here In Hillsboro. The pro gram begins at 7:30 P.M. Benny Bradshcr, 4-H Council President and son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bradsher. will preside at the meeting. The meeting will be opened with Linda Paschall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Pas shall, and Larry Roberts,, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Roberts, lead ing the Pledge of Allegiance and 4-H Pledge. Club members will be recognized for their achievements during this past year- County winners will be named and will receive awards. Those county winners who have taken part in the district 4-H con tests will attend District 4-H Re cognition Day which will be heid in the College Union Ballroom on the Womans College Campus in Greesboro on Saturday, October29. A movie, “4-H Headlines,’’ will be shown and also a film of this past year’s Farm Youth Festival. The climax of the program will be the presentation of the. attend ance trophy to the club with the attending and the Champion Ban ner to the niost outstanding club of the year. ^ , Punch and cookies will bp setv- . ed after the program by the fol lowing committee: Nancy Robers, Chairman; Ann Wilkerson, Carol Pittard, Sandra Wrenn, Joan Fox, Joyce Wright, .Marie Minnis, and Margaret Wil son. Hubbard To Conduct Evangelism Week Services Here The Rev. Charles S- Hubbard, pastor of the University Methodist Church of Chapel Hill," and former pastor of Hillsboro Methodist Church, wilT be the visiting min ister for the Week of Evangelism beginning on Sunday, ‘October 30, and continuing through Friday, November 4, at the Hillsboro Methodist Church. Services will begin at 7:30 o’ clock each evening. The Rev. A. M. Williams, pastor of the church, extends a cordial invitation to everyone, in the community to attend these services. ”
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