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SP'™* For Quick, prwvoa results. Mil, buy, rent or get a M* by using the classified ads on page 7 of THE NEWS of Orange County. cir.uT Dtr.ci tuic ictiis ..a view of the Eiw plant of Cone Milk, established im' y. local institution by lHIUboro residents in 1896. ne Corporation To Honor Local Long-Time Workers Bbomas Doherty hf.rs. Nelia Belle Faucette * William HanryDixon boro youths are un Ids today for shoot phmd man’s car fol laffray at a square EH and Schoof-^SS n<T, 17, son of Mr. | Wagner. Silas. 1.7, son of Mr. nk Douglas. |,s. 16, son of Mr. | Br Roberts. I'vford, about 25. son. Sarrr Crawford, [charging malicious personal property by Sheriff Odell leharges have been pinst those involved ■ in . week -» reckless driving in I Is boro School. Rob ped in the dynamit nierican Legion Hut Ibert Craig home last p'rd has also been in return from service jiorees a few months 1 Sheriff Clayton, the with a dispute over phe dance between a jLsboro boys and Ef and Bun b were on the out-1 Ped in and succeeded PP the fight and dis-' lerowd. Don Collins, 1 and John Efland Jr. p Participants in the Bance, the quartet of pglas, Roberts and ht „to the home of one of the officials land when he arrived 1 ensued. Young pro pnn from his car and to leave, according If He said they left Jirhed at which time from the car win [ tint.es, eight of them | in the Young car. Special Recognition For Three Employees The three employees of Fno Plant of Gone Mills Corporation who will be honored next Saturday night for 50 years or more service have" ~a-—combined- record of- 156 years with the coinpsrt.v. They will f&mve: special W.aytfe JtWn Qme Of,these- three the one with the longest service J'ecordj\ Mrs., NeJ is Belie Faucettc She came to Fno an November 15. 1901 •Allen 1 nomas Doherty began bis em ploy mpjit. ,ut the -plant on ..August 15. 1903: William Henry Dixon started to Work at Fno on done 15. 1005 • . Mrs. Faueelte, the former Nelia King, was born in Person County in 1883. She is in the Fno Spinning Department- where she has pet formed many different jobs. She married James G. Faucette on July 1. 1911 in Hillsboro which has been their home ever since! -They - have t wo children,,-I fhnra. Faucette Green, who Incs.near Ka ieicle and James .M. .Faucette head • • ' ' *> . - ,t> of r hty < f;<l Department--trt «m) riant. Airs. Faucette is a member of (lie Kuo Methodist Church, She is a'good cook and likes to work with flowers m her garden. ‘ Mrs Doherty was born in Cald "wdt."Orangc Co uni y bn Sept eiti ber 3. 1893 He is also employed in the “Kno'T’! a fit Spin riliTg Department, i He married Miss-Bessie Chisen hall of West Hillsboro in 1017 and they had. three children. Allen, Jr., See KKCOGM 1’ION. Page* 8' id wards Speaks At Farm Bureau 'Kickoff' Tonight At Cedar Grove Alonzo C. Edwards Chairman oi :hV House AgriculUral Committee, ,\i11 bo tho featured-speaker .at^ the annual ."kickoff" meeting ot be Qraage-CtiujdA’- Fafffl Bureau to 3e held - at the Aycook sehop rhursday night, at 7:30.; o'clock it ,va.s announced .today _ by coun y | president, Wyatt Phelp-* . - -\V|. are fortunate ■:■ Phelps, Ability to bring us- a nt.e-ss.agc" II. ,ur annual outing." In addition to , king a member of theCeneral \s5embl/, Phfelps said. Edu aids is , jj-obably the only member of the governor's Advisory. Budge - "'n * nittee who really tmdeitstmds the ! rue picture* of today's farm, prob ems. A native, of Green CopntJ. Edwards has long been a .< a | North Car/oliiia «AgtimrlUu al-cir. lies. • . » »■ mran:effort to istrengthen^e membership of the county organi X Phelps said ihat pme; ivould be awarded ti>c uc ' lolders of those who !«*«.£ lew their membership m tlu m fanization prior to or dtM rhursday night meeTin,. “And, while we are relatively iinall here in Orange County from [i numerical standpoint,” Phelps -aid. "our farming progress through [he Earnj Bureau, is limited only to jur imagination and aggressive ness. I -strongly urge that every farmer in Orange County attend ns meeting.” ALQNZA C. EDWARDS Sixty-five employees of Cone ' Mills Corporation's Eno Plant will be honored at a dinner on Saturday night. November 19 for having completed 25’ years or more service with the, company. Three who have achieved half a century or more service- will receive special honors. Herman Cone. President of Cone Milis Corporation, will be the speaker for the event which will take place at West Hillsboro Grad ed School at 6:30 p.m. Those to be honored for 50 years of service are Mrs. Nelia Belle Faucette, who came to Eno in 1901; Allen Thomas Doherty, 1903. and 'YiiJiam l)i1 on lf»05t President Cline Will present them’ with spec ial awards. • * Blue and gold Cone Mills 25-yeat Service Pins will be presented by James Webb, a Cone Mills vice1 "president, assisted by Eno Plant) Superintendent Joseph P. Hughes. Sydney* Green. Eno Plant- Mana- I gef. will be master of ceremonies.' Entertainment will be by the King Sisters Trio. I The 65 employees who havcTiad 25 years or more service at Eno join i'.500 other employees in Cone plants in North Carolina who are wearers of the company’s service emblem. The three Eno 50-year employees join 20'others who have served Cone- Mills for half a ceil-. ...._ Herman Cone i ■ tury. Of the 17,500mow working ini the entire Cone organization, ap- - prozimately 500 are at the Hills bwo 'plant. Eno Colton Mills Company was! established by members of the Ruffin and Webb families in 1896. Thomas H. Webb was the first i manager. In 1904, James H. Webb was elected secretary' and treasur er. Operation of the mill was in his charge until his death in 1927. until 1932, a close association with the Cone Export and Commission Company (now Cone Mills Inc.) as Eno’s selling agent had been up until then one of 20 years duration. In 1952 it became Eno Plant of Cone Mills'Corporation. Eno started out as a 10,000 spin dle yarn m,ill and later progressed from plaids to broadcloth to cord uroy. Cone corduroy made at End has won -the acclaim of top de signers of apparel and home fur nishings. i The first looms were installed i at Eno in 1904-05, and although . there were only 200 at that time, today there are 668. There are now 1 30,176 spindles in the plant. -rtAr County's Gain frojjrtttlon faster than 95 other spunties of North Carolina, three | an# half times as fast as the State ts-Va whole, and twice as fast as the nation. ! • These facts, previously unreal ized apparently by local citizens tr county officials, were obtained - yesterday by The News from the N'erth Carolina Research Institute, headed -by Felix Grisette of. -R% leigh. who edits the institute's ceekly publication. North Carolina -'acts In ils bulletin of, November 5. Mr. Grisette reported that Orange 1 County had gained 14 2'; in pop- ! illation between 1950 and 1054, ; switch v-f.s the fourth highest rate >f gain among Hve North Caro- J inn counties. Only three counties, ill with military installations, had* higher -rates of population gain luring this period. * They were: Onslow with 24.37';, Cumberland with 16.24*7: and Cra ,-en with 15.26*7 . . - j Next in order behind Orange ivc’re New Hanover with 10.30*. . Mecklenburg wfth 9.76' . . Gaston, Carteret, Lee, Wake, Guilford, and \laniance. The latter in eleventh place gained 8.23*7. > • Mr. Grisette said that Orange' County made its population bain i at \he expense of other court ties | and other areas of the country. iiCrglilecn North Carolina coun R|s actually lost, he said, 'flic a* a whole, he said, did not gain as -fast as the nation or as fast u- the South during the four \ ear period. North Carolina’s pop ulation gain was 4'; in 1950-54, :he nation's 7*7 c ____t_._i Mr, Grisette explained that Orange County is “a beneficiary of the very high migration rate over the country" and said that Hie hospitals at Chape! Hill and Orange County's attractiveness as a place for living were ail factors n the trenicndpus increase. Orange County’s population in 1950, according to the census, was 34.435, its 1964. population 39. 263 Average Orange County is growing in Keckard Will Speak , At Union Services Wednesday Night The Annual Union Thanksgiving service for the town, oi. Hill-boro viII be held Wednesday night, No i ember 23. at 7:30 p.m. in Saint . Matthew's Episcopal Church. ■ - j The Reverend, C. H. Reckard of he First Preslmerian Church will ).e the guest preather for this pecial service. The Reverend Dr. > Charles E. Maddry and the Kever ■nd A. M. Williams with participate • n the conduct of the worship sen- j ice. It is hopedi by the sponsors hat everyone will make a special Tfort to attend “this service of fhanksgiving and honor God for ill the blessings of this life. Mem >ers of the several church choirs ire invited to lead the congrega ional singing. ‘ Formal Organization Of VFW Post Planned At Courthouse Tonight j A charter will be presented for he organization of a Hillsboro lost of the .Veterans of- Foreign at^^hiek, in The.;■ ild Hillsboro Courthouse. John E. Couch, temporary chair nan. announces that election ol ifficers is planned and all eligi lie veterans are being urged to I ittend this meeting. '): Joe Pridgen, ad.iutaot of . the 1 iixth District of the state VFW ] irganization and Commander Ralph | fiddick of Durham will be pres- i MERCHANTS MEETING The Hillsboro Merchants Asso-1 j •iation will make final plans for he Christmas Opening to be held ) fee, 2; when.they meet today, for .j uncheon at 1 U’clock in the Co- s onial Inn. All merchants arc-urged o attend.. AS LEGIONNAIRES HONOR FOOTBALLERS—The Hillsboro American Legion Post honored the Hillsboro High School Football team Tuesday night at a chicken barbecue supper and presented a trophy to Quarterback Ronald Gattis, chosen by his teammates as the yoar'j most valuable player. Above,. Post Commander Kay Winecoff presents t .■ Coach Glenn Auman for the school a plaque on which will be inscribed this and future winners of this honor in all sports. Approximately ’50 play* ers and legionnaires attended the event to hear Gattis lauded as a fine leader Loth on and off the gridiron. He was the leading . scorer during the p is, season. Below are sonie of the legionnaires who put on the feed, left to right, John Simpson, Wal er Wren, Foy Cole, Clarence Rosemond, F.red C’ay tci Rolanrl Scott and Kay Winecoff. The News' a iateur photographer who covered the event drew a blank on his,picture of the presentation of the t ■’phy to~Ga!*io for />hich apologia* are offered. Lions Setting Thcmks jiving Game Tickets Th(*^Slllsboro Lions Club ■ihis veek began the sale of tickets to irrolr: Thtt v ^t^rotrri a •’reshman football game at .Chapel Hill ■ for --the—benefit - of -the Cere* Jral Palsy Foundation t<i which ill funds are donated. This annual .affair which ads he Cerebral Palsy Hospital„pru nam at the Durham hospital has lecome the* “big.. game of the day" n t lest parts. The ..JoeyI Lions Jhih is htui.dU'Kf i community project and derives io benefit from the proceeds. Tic cels are Si each. ft (). Forrest is in charge of ieket saies for the club arid they nay be obtained by calling me^n 3er.-, of the club. Post Office Inspector Promises 2 Probe Of Advertising firm r-v ivi»i--vnic m rratigqtnpi w iitv local-operations of a Durham ad vertising firm to ascertain if mail fraud is involved has been prom ised by the pustofXice inspector lor this district. ... 1 :.-riiis__mfprnja.tioji _w%s received yesterday, from M. L. Cates Jr., | president of the Hillsboro Merch • ants Association, who contacted the postofi'ice department following complaints, from local merchants and private citizens. “I will make a'full-scale investiga tion of ~tftis comoanv and its ac tivities.” Inspector H. F. Beam of Haleigh, resident postal inspector, said in a communication with Cates, i Materials used by the company, the Alleghany Advertising Agency, and information regarding its'ac tivities, subsequently, have been sent to Atlanta lor further study uinci»is; -aceoraing ce —« Beam's report. —The company rented' offices in Hill-boro and began calling local . (■ill/eiis olferin# a - ''$65 value" etnrpon book for $3.95 COD. the, book xo'iitinning an assortment of coupons good for certain .services arid materials at various'. Durham firms. : • • Cates, .said, lie contacted the Post-office department . because ! many merchants and citizens were 'dissatisfied and felt that the mails might- ha> p been irsed illegally. Cates* said" he cited instances in which the COD notice had been sent to people who had not re quested it and other cases in which people had received the coupon boohs and "felt it had been misrep resented to them. 1 litr* |M>.ssiJ)ilit\ ola \i»j<• oil lie meager bl the Canlioro met White Cross School Dis til ts with Chapel Mill auel a >roposed distriet-w ide tax sup dement of i ;,i loomed largei oda\ .is restih ol last. Iridax tight’smceting of* the two district onimitfees and interested citizens iith the Orange: County Board of, Education. ] Sentiment expressed by commit-1 eemen Friday night indicated a' u eponderanee nimv -m--'favi>r-of I ubmitting'-* the - question to the I niopic tor their decision. Mechan-i :s of- the election,-howcv er, seemed •' to be a major hurdle to overcome-! An attorney general opinion and recommendations from the Insti tute of Government are being sought prior to another meeting j of the groups scheduled for Wed- 1 nesday nigh“t, at which time a! definite decision may come: ... Two Questions . Discussion last Friday night cen tered around two pivotal questions: (1) Whether or not a vole can be called to decide two issues at. the same time, i.e., joining Chapel Will with its 20c limit supplemen tary tax, or staying in the county system with a proposed 15c tax supplement. - (2) Whether or not the two dis tricts, Carr boro and White Cross, could vote simultaneously, or would have to vote separately. ... On motion of Raymond Andrews, seconded by Ernest Hearn of the Carfhorjai group, the committees voted for the- Superintendent of Schools to query the Attorney General- for answers to,the legal aspects of the questions and con sult the-Institute of Government for advice as to their practicality. A meeting was set for Wednesday flight "t o' hear the results. T*— At Friday’s meeting the White, Cross committee reported' results See MERGER, Page 8
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