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I .and others,, too, i. unuer L;.vwith the number and ue variety facts and figures he 1,5 at his readers each week ,'jiis fine littlflpublication. | A,e same week that Carl j nercli and'B.iil Sharpe came out ID, “What’s Right About North jolina". Grisette listed in his illetin the rank of North Caro-! H on approximately 200 items: kat was his December 31 issue .'and ciippies are still available' you car to write Mr. Grissette I Bos 1769, Raleigh, N. C. 0oe interesting first for this! j, that it consumes ... on a j- capita basis... more soft inks than any other, in the 48. It requires a lot of government keep North Carolina operating , u efficient manner. Maybe iit’swhy we haife been free of andal when other states have, one time or another, been lis ted by it. Je that as it nalry, Head the 48 in thfe number! of jte. employees*’ in ^relationship i our population. We have 177 r each 1,000 people. Reason for this, of course, is ml we arc one of the few states the jvhole country that op ale as statewide, ..state-support l school system, with the teach $ being-regarded as State em- i BjKs Another reason we rank | 1st is. this category is our far- ( mg. State-maintained highway stem. 1 We rank number one in nur til/aim population at .1,380,805 jr better- than- 25 per cent of ftotal population. No "wonder m see TajS Heels up-in-arms hen the agricultural prosperity ft. As intimated above, we are in tst place in tidal number of fbjeay miles unde-^gtate <jon II. Yam, makes for. a more um fm system of roads, with the torer counties being equally wed with the richest. ,,i We can be proud of the fact it we have more 4-H Club embers than any other states Mach of the credit for this as! go to L. R. Harrill, who has - up ,this work in North irnlina for upwards of 30 years d. is known throughout the aited States for his excellent with farm boys and girls. Ranking right along with our H Club activities as one of our ™adest firsts is that we have °re bookmobiles operating than by of the other states. That m that we a:e making liteja 61 UfffiWJe to all our people wherever they may live. Ynil , v nave 10 live .in a Wthy county in North fcaro °\to havc good schools and W teachers. You don’t have to **'n a wealth county to have main, highways and all r secondary roads. You 1 have to live in a wealthy / to have the finest in the books. We bring them to ‘hat’s democracy at'work in ortl> Carolina! Industrially, we have two firsts 'bean millions to our people set •''North Carolina apart *,a:,’s ‘n the nation: We at the top in output value of CC° manufacturing —. and in ?'tare manufacturing. In the . i [. ,(iategory’ the experts used l{da “bout Grand Rapids, Jgan No.w they talk about win t °in1' an(t Statesville, and ickfC °n' and Thomasville, and ....ry' ■an(l Morganton,- and ‘ Ckesbdro—and a score of smaller towns in North lna where the finest in furn 15 manufactured. i “ £,5°ND PLACE . .. North na r“nks second in our tot-1 egro population, a large per 'i-e on the larny In «em!KSt< fn count‘es — from tirnn " west—you seldom see Ostlv V>Ut do'ng farm work. Dali 11 ve in the cities and I th “Wns- But they do -much rn I rand'farmin8 in the east h h1 l0"* °* North Carolina, 'on o/T'rf t0tal Negro Popula e01 t'047,359. ,’e e a^c'; a Prolific State, too. ur f n secidtid in the''size of ‘‘‘Unites, / We have an1'aver nuuduu?; PWe 2) - i. r~.: Property-Owning Welfare Client To Face Fraud Charges In Court —inapei Hut-Negro worn a n ftwho lias used separate names to col lect $4,760 in welfare checks from Orange County since 1947 while owning^ property valued on the tax books at over $7,200 will be in dicted for fraud in the February term of Superior Court. This was confirmed earliej this" week by-i Solicitor William H. Murdock and Mrs. Jang Parker, County welfare superintendent, who-uncovered the unusual case fast July by checking signatures on Welfare checks and other docu ments ^tnd-ctiinparina the-writing with those on deeds and fax ab stracts. Mrs. Parker said -the woman, in her 50’s, used the name of Mabel MeNear in obtaining the payment from the Welfare Department and property was lister in the name j °/ Peggy McNear, but the hand I writing was unmistakably the same person's. ' . . Mrs, Parker presented her find ings—to the Grande Jury at ljast months term of Superior Court and a sealed presentment was made to the court, but no other action was taken. The Solicitor, when- questioned., said the case woutfjbeiiresented for indictment aLthe next term. Thg McNear woman Was said by Mrs. Parker to have rental property and in addition pays the taxes on property in the name of Sank Mackf, now dead. A widow, she gbt her first check from Ortmge County welfare for aid to dependent children in December 1947 when she~listed four children. When her payments were termi naed by Mrs. Parkpr last July up on discovery of the alleged fraud. she was receiving thj" payments on the basis ot t\$o children,' still minors. When questioned by Wel fare workers under previous su perintendentsT the woman, accord ing to Mrs. Parker, has consistent ly said that Peggy was her daught er and that it was she who owned all the property and resides in California. W. T. Mattox was wel afie superintendent when the pay ments began. The woman lives at 125 S. Grah am St. in Chapel Hill and alleged ly owns two other houses and a vacant lot besides. Mrs, .Parker said she had received ADC pay ments in Roberson County prior to coming to Orange. The- S.B.I. was called into the case' following its discovery and its detailed report was turned over to Solicitor Murdock. In Northern Orange Area > Patrolmen Nab 1,394 For Traffic Violations During Past Year * Three State Highway Patrolmen* assigned to the Hillsboro^' anti Northern Orange County area made 1,394 arrests .which produced hnes., and court co.vs totalling $37. 530. 80 during the past year. Tliis information was. contained in a report pf patroj activities pre pared by th^ local office this week, indicating a total of 127 accidents were investigated in the local area in which 8 persons were killed. 57 injured and property damaged to the extent of $62,535. "T. P. Smith, senior patrolman at the Hillsboro ’station, in releas ing the report, expressed apprecia tion for the interest' erf.civic and PTA groups in highway safety dur ing the pa..-, year and appealed lor continued cooperation with the 'patrorsmyork in 1856.' Other pertinent information in cluded a breakdown of cause's for the arrests and disposition of the cases;■ ~y—|-P"' _ i Speeding, 877a driving <T: i> lk. 50; hit and run. j5; reckless—driv ing. 66: stop sijgn viola'rm; 54;e • public drunk. 3d; following .too close, 14; improper brakes, 7; im proper lights. 51 passing on hill 9*. no operator license 67; driving aftef license revoked. 18: num ber guilty. 1329: not guilty or nol pros 71: cases pending 7K driving on wrong sTltcof road 6; prison sentences 42 months. Goodwin Says Not Too Late For TBCh^cks J G. Goodwin, chairman oTTTTr* TB Christmas Soap Sa'tfTyesterday issued the follovving statement in connection with fhc drive: "The T B. ComnuUee extends to the many frienils. who have con tributed to the .current T B. Drive, their heartiest*thanks There is no way to measure the good that your, contribution will do toward helpj, ing patients who-jwe nbw afflicted and furthering the research to pre vent the spread of this dread djisi fet§T - . ;---- -.-- -1—r “Some* of you have overlooked sending on your contribution 1 know it isn't that, you are'no’t in-, terestedr for -t.us' -disease could easily Strike in any pf our fam ilies. It .isn't too late to .help stajnp outTthjivs*-deadly killer^ II you have mislaid'the envelope..; that, came with your Christmas. Seals, J-just j di op your -“contribution in an cn- j velope and 'maH it to Mrs. Jolin Neighbors, RO. Box 91. or hand it i to J. G. Goodwin, chairman of the * current drive, and you will be do ing a service to yourself and man |kind in general. Don't forget— these contributions, aye dcdiuti, e from votir income taxes.•" '■ “Just a big “heave-ho” and “Hills hero will be over the foprijg* |H' .1 winner again this. year. ’ teacher resigns Mrs. Marion L. Crawford, a teacher in the Murphdy School, has resigned. She will move with her husband tb1 lexis. • i. _' .: _ “K, - . -V ', p Judge Urgesv^ Two Special Court Terms -Jorge Leo Carr has renmmend eu that Orange County Commis sioners ask the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to designate two special sessions of Superior Court in this county in the next six months to clear up a heavy backlog of criminal cases. In a letter to Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs, the resident jurist -said he luil talked to the Chief Justice regarding me heavy docket of old cases', Jiere: lie recommended that the county hire a special prose eytoc/from among Oronge County attorneys to work during the two weeks because Solicitor Murdock^ would be,tied up with his regular U'riii> - ——7-;-— -4——^ ■ Tax Listing Speedier But Not Enough Tax listing is proceeding at a somewhat faster pace this year than last, Tax Supervisor Sam Call's said yesterday, but there will still be congestion and long waiting lines at many plagds in the last week of the montjl unless the pace picks up considerably. "A’ 10% penalty will definitely be applied to the tax bill of every citiiiyns who ‘does not list during January." Gattfs warned. This will -7 See LISTING. Page * *' DR. A. E. SHERRON High Pointer Will Install Echangeites Dr. A.. . E Sherron, vice presi-. dent of State Exchange Club and pienilher of the High Point club, will rinxtall the new Exchange Club officers tonight at its Regular %iccting in the Colonial Inn, at 7:.10 o!clock. --- New officers to be installed: W. C. Mangtihi, president; H. G. Coleman" Jr.,' vice president; Quen tin Patterson, secretary; Ed Laws, treasurer. a New Board of Control members are: Joe Rosemond, Luke Brown and Norman Mauroner. Baucom To Speak s To Hillsboro PTA F. S. Baucom. Safety Director of North Carolina Industrial Com mission in Raleigi and former member of the -Hillsboro School faculty, will be the guest speaker next Tuesday night to the Hills boro Parents and Teachers Assoc iation‘when they meet in the school" auditorium at 7:30 o’clock. ; Press Of Work Said Reason For Resigning Harry P. Breeie of iEfland, a member of the Orange County Board of Education for the past five years, has submitted his res ignation to the board, - effective January 31. I*':.; ...^ _____- ■ He said the press of his regular work made it impossible for him to adequately serve in the capaci ty of board member |or the re mainder of his term, which ex tends to the Spring of next year. A replacement for .Breeze who will serve for the remainder of the term will lie chosen by the County -Democratic Executive Committee, headed by Chairman R O. For rest, who said a fdtonimendation from the Board of Education would be considered by the Execu tive Tonunittee in choosing a suc cessor. No time has been an nounced' for the meeting of the party executive committee. I Superintendent- G. Paul Carr in .lanoimcing the receipt of Breeze's, I resignation, which had been antioi I paJed tor some months, comment led ax follows: | “Mr Breeze has been an excel lent hoard member. His judge ment has been good, his decisions impartial. He has conti ibuted much to the progress of education in Orange County during the past five wars™ ^.Breeze was nominated for the Board\of Education in the Demo cratic Prinhat^' of 1950 He is ein ; ployed .-as an industrial engineer j Western Electric at Burling j ton and formeily taught iff the ‘Hillsboro and Carrboro schools. I— V . His letter of resignation read as follows: )“It is with regret that I respect fully submit my resignation as a member of the Orange County Board of Education effective Jan uary 31, 1956. Because of the press of my tegular work, it has become impossible for me to adequately serve ill .this Capacity-. I am in debted pi the people of Orange ..Liujfliy for giving me the oppor tunity to assist in their'-school program and for. the interest and support they have shown during the five years f have been a part of the Board of Education. I would like to express my appreciation for the many courtesies, extended to me by the secretary and remaining members of the Board. I shall al ways be intensely interested in the schopls* of Orange County and •wd-l! continue to work for their - -v progress.” 77.77 * % - ♦ “T" -—— ~—*—— —r—■; -rr— -**-! Farm Progress Report I More Last Year Than In 1954 The Orange County tobacco ci*op | brought about a million dollars j more to farmers of the county in 1955 than ^n the previous year, according to a report issued by County Agents Don S. Matheson and Edwin P. Barnes. This was one of the highlights of a general summary of the farm • officials’ annual narrative report prepared for the Extension Service and the County Commissioners. The tobacco yield was estimated oh the basi.* of average per acre production of 1,350 pounds, sell ing for 53.5c per pound. The report presented figures from the five-year federal census indicating increased gross income in most of the commodities which make up the Orange County farm economy. One interesting feature of the! report is the figure on the ex- j tension of electricity to farms, | which advises that 1,902 out of a, tola! of 1,039 farms now have electricity, leaving only 37 in the entire county without. The summary of the report as prepared by Matheson and Barnes ] is as follows: ' ' ' .- '] REPORT The 1955 tobacco crop will bring approximately $3,133,000., or about one million dollars more than last years' This estimate, is based on an average production of 1350 lbs. per acre selling for 53.5 cents per* pound. Twenty tobacco funner..- irrigated all or a part of their crop: Sixty farm? ponds Were built dur ing the year, many of them for I irrigation purposes next year. j Dairy farmers have increased their milk sales from $630,000. to.l $1,006,000:'in a 5-year period. j The '6-year Federal Census fig - uros indicate that farmenTIn the county' have increased their gross income by more than one million dollars. -However, increased costs-, of production during .the.« five years ,haprevented the net or j “take "home’'’ income from going up. V~._ Dairymen have a new artificial breeding technician, and the num ber of- cows bred by this method to proven sires has almost doubled. Poultry production has made faster gains than ahy other-farm enterprise. In 1949 poultry farmers sold $444,000. worth of poultry products. In 1954 their total sales were $884,000. Several new poultry houses were built\during the year. Live,'lock farmers increased their gross income in- the five year per iod by $106,000. At the Feeder :p-~- --—- / .. ■;* . j • . . . „ 'If The Yruck Wo>Vt_Go— Tfiev Don'/Know How Come, But It Sure Happened! —frg-HOLAND GipUZ Oratfge County law enforcement oTTiwrr haven’t figurecj this one out v(|f, but. thhy’ll be mightly careful) with, their culprit if they . C alled to Charles W„ Stanford’s farrT) out in the Bethlehem com munitv about 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Sheriff O.dell Clayton wun confronted by an extraordi nary sequence of events, according to the following story by Mr. Stan ford and his neighbors. A short while before, they said,, a blue jean-clad man drove a Cary licciwd , pickup truck up into C harlie Teer’s driveway, and got it' stuck across the roadway with a1 blown-out tire while in the act of whipping aroupd m a wide U-turn. Apparently infuriated when he couldn’t free his vehicle he smash ed all"the glass in tie instrument panel. windshield, and side win dows then buried an ax in the jreod of the stalled truck, after bashing,in the fenders. Some hunters, noticing him from a distance, next saw the mysterious invader set a field afire", and' head | down the road to the Stanford: property, where he set another fire | N ’ '*+ . 4 ■ v .. ■ ■ * \ • . - ' ONE PICK UP TRUCK—MURDERED , | - ' . ".'■.' i;V"V" Mr. Stanford, driving by, thought the man was trying to put out the fire and stopped to help htfi^. The man vanished into'the woods buFcame out a little farther up the road and set another blaze*— All told about four acres of fit^ld was burped over before neighbors, and passersby "put~but the fires. Next seen, the man caught a ride a.-, a hitch hiker in a west bound car that picked him up on Highway 54 at the Cane Creek bridge,.A warmng phoned ahead to Alamance County officers failed to net..any- results. ' \ The investigators-later found but that the man had apparently tried to set /ire to the inside of the car. They '‘conjectured that his -smashing it up was either because he couldn't get this fire started, or because of his being stuck. The truck, understood to have been stolen in Greensboro, was at , a (ocal garage today, th,e ax still buried deep in the hood No'further clues were reported on the case this, morning. Said one witness to some of the events: “I’d never believe a story like this if I hadn't seen it happen, -rlt sure Leals •tile. ’ '-f :f v.. , ■ V " \ _ . Calf Sale in Hillsboro 146 beef calves sold for $19.06 per hundred pounds, which was the second highest sale in the state. i Twelve 4-H Clubs were active with an enrollment of 335 boys, 4-H members exhibited 32 steers and 76 hogs at the Durham Fat Stock Show. One member'won the Grand Champion prize for the best hog. ’ ...• Forty-.\x club members attended camp for a week at New Hope. A new swimming pool is being added to this camp, anti will be available next summer. I Good crops of grain were har vested. The acreage of oats was increased over lajst year by 1900 acres. The corn \ crop was good, but hurricane damage prevented machine harvesters from saving a lot of it. Three hundred acres were plant ed to milo, the/ grain soi^hum which some people are u.-ing in stead of corn. * See REPOF T. Page 8 , Reid Roberts Apoi I- . ' . Deputy For Orange And Durham State Grange Master Harry Cald-< well recently announced;^ the ap ! pointment of Reid Roberts promi | nent poultry tanner of Route 1, , Hillsboro, tp serve as Grange T)ep: uty for Durham and Orange coun ties. For many years, he has been ac tively associated with Grange wofk, land is exceptionally well qualified I to serve as Grange Deputy for the two counties. He is, at present time, Master of the Orange Coun ty Pomona Grange, and has been Past Master of the St. Marys Sub ordinant Grange. Mr Roberts hds attended several • of the State Grange Conventions ! and has served on the State Grange Committee for. poultry and live j stock, and has been Chairman of the Poultiy Committee during the past year. He is also a member of I the State Poultry Committee, and helped to secure the Egg Market ting Law enacted by the last Leg | islatdre Mr. Roberts will work in both counties to strengthen all the exiit ; ing Granges and to help organize new Grange units in the area. He . sineureily believes that there is a very definite need to secure qno maintain stiong farm organizatiopst' ; and is quick to point out tbaf'the | farm situation is becoming more critical, and’ that farm organiza tion offers the best hope of get; 1 ting the legislation necessary to improve the situation. Mr. Roberts urges any group in terested in establishing a Grange unit to get in touch with him. . —,— Presbyterians Will Ordain New Deacon Edwin J. Hamlin will be ordjin ed.ia_UJ,c office of deacon at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church next Sunday morning at the eleven o'clock hour of worship. Mr. Hamlin was elected by unan imous action of the membership at a recent congregational meeting. The Rev. C. H Reckard, pastor, in announcing the ordination ser vice said; “One oMJtje highest hon ors- bestowed by the Church, this office dates back to the earliest Christian fellowship in Jerusalem and was. conceived out of love and concern fdrf the needs of the first Christians.! In subsequent years the deacons have become identified with the temporal program of the Church in addition to the historic assignment Those selected foe. the office must be of the highest" order of chaiacter and devotion to i the work .of the Church.” | The public is invited to attend! this sendee, ' NO SLEEPING ALLOWED "’"^Jesse Bority of West Hillsboro will have to fihd another sleeping /place, it seems. Twice in the past week he has been arrested for sleeping in the Belle Vue Manufacturing Co. plant and charged with trespass. He is under b°nd of $50 for appearance in county (court. School Board Fills Advisory Committee [I'm.ilil It iHtDld, of Cedar Groye and Ashwell B. Harward of Carrboro. hav$ been appointed by the County Board of Education to ■ fill out vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Education. Both McDadc and Harward have been act ve in schoonactivities in their respective communities. These appointments completes the formation of the advisory body which was set irp‘ to study arid deal with the school segregation problem in the local communities. Meanwhile a clarification of the recent directive from the State Advisory Committee which caller},,,, for cessation of local commuters^''' activities has been received from W W. Taylor Jr, thc executive -secretary. ~ - Mr. Taylor., explained that the suspension'of local activities was recommended as a , temporary -measure while advisory sugges tions and recommendations are being drafted by the State body to implement the pupil assignment legislation pissed by the last leg islature to deal with the segrega tion problem. The Taylor statement»assured., officials and the advisory commit tees that no recommendation was — made that the local groups should dishand but only to consider post poning actiyities until the state staff can get proposed suggestions to them. — School Leaders Meet Jointly To Plan Drive ' The Orange Coutjfy Board of Education and the Chapel Hill District board of trustees will meet in joint session, af Chapel Hill.tonight to draft plans for pro moting interest in the forthcom ing $2,000,000 school bond issue election ' __ The ..election has been, called for March 20. To-date no leader or steering committee has been named to, di rect the drive for suppoit; although the county school superintendent and board,members have appeared at a number of PTA meetings in the- past few weeks to prevent in formation in connection With the election. A letter urging action on the matter was presented from the Carrboro Citizens Committee at last week's meeting of the county boa id. ' , POMONA GRANGE MEETING The Orange [County Pomona Grange will hold its regular meet ing Monday night at 8 o’cldck witfi the White Cross Grange. All mem bers uf the Grange are urged to | attend. [ / ~ ' " " [ f- .:
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