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#f Orange County „p with tl»* r»*w* .wr the county by Sr **"• •» HILLSBORO, ANO CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 195* PAGES THIS ISSUC 1faurr</u I IK CONSIDERED ... One men seriously being con fer the presidency of the 0 University *if North Lj, is James H. Hilton, Cald County native who for some vears now has been presi ! of Iowa State College. |j_bctare going to Iowa le—headed up the School of jcuiture at N O. State Coi ns felt here that Jimmy Hil [ might like to return to North jlioa as head of the Greater liversity- It’s a bigger job—a r-paying position than the the now has—but he likes the test, his wife is from there, flus lived much longer there Ihii the past 30 years than in [native State, so the oommittee j Lying prospects is not yet def tely sure Hilton would accept j place even if it were tender I him. SOWN THE DRAIN-A Ra | housewife found to her dis i last .week that just a lot of :s do not care for goldfish, rite Craven reports it. r~ ;he was moving her apartment her residence—to the other of town and didn’t want to bothered with taking the gold i with her. A lot of things are ier to move than goldfish, for have to keep that bowl bal ed just so—or the water will iter she had told her bridge > of trying to give them away, tout success, on of her friends “What did you do with flushed them”, she said. Serving ...the deadly silence ■ahich-thi* statement fell on Kihe defended herself lilcww^ ^ thftl i fighting chance. FEU WEEKS OFF... Gover f Luther H, Hodges took • mt step nearer to no opposition t week when Dr. Henry Jor “■ head of the State Highway Mission under Gov. W. Kerr 011 s administration, decided finitely that he would not be candidate for Governor of 'rth Carolina thisj year. ljmany, the simple announce !nl came as no surprise.^thers, ll dying to see a hot race for « mansion on Blount Street had done some wishful '"king right down to the last Bute. • Lnless Agriculture Commiss *r h. Y. (Stag) Baflentinc, ® has already served a term lieutenant governor, decides move hjto' the fray, we doubt 1 Loverh'or Hodges will have fn dable opposition. T*° oimiths from.now—March ; |°.be exact—is closing date ' ding for GovernorN.lt may: Jr** somebody out there is ‘ unlit tfiCTsst13 minute to r his-—or her—name into the" hut if this is the case, they ' being very quiet about it. e heard a rumor this past “end that a little clique is ' *orhing to persuade Char ' Insurance Man Waldo Cheek come a candidate. However, said some two weeks before i,n bowed out thatr while he “ hke to see a good, hot r„ heccyuldn’t see fit to take ■overnor Hodges at this time. *),AN AND MONEY ... A Ra lino a0lf.;l‘mer' who “dmUT; to pottle prejudiced in iayor bT™w,v^®Q£. said, last week « 11 woulcT take: A mighty U. - good man and y close to $150,000 to beat « Hodges for Governor.” ® . as yet, Governor Hodges 0 an announced candidate to cTekeed hiAiself. ‘his is ^eks. expected in about two ere SAL^ -We will show ent neX^ Week how car sales i5s ■wl N°rth Carolina during 954^ey were far> ahead °t hanks to better selling ^ore advertising. udb ctlamP*OD buyer of adver ts rSPace in America last year Dd ruQeral Motors, with Ford q Chrysler not being far be A group of Hillsboro* business and professional men Tuesday night took first steps toward the foi mation of a local development corporation and the construction of a modern 26,000 square foot plant to house Reverie Lingerie, Inc., now conducting a pilot operation in the Uzzle building on Highway 70 just north of town. i Chairman R. 0. Forrest of the Industrial Committee of the Or ange County Agricultural and In dustrial Commission told the Hills boro group Tuesday night the firm had dropped its original plans to ] move to Durham and wanted to remain in ' Hillsboro and expand its operations to 250 employees. The expanded payroll would amount to an additional $8,000 to $12,000 per week for the communi ty, it was 'said. The group Tuesday night select-1 ed the _nucleus of an executive committee and authorized them to select five, associates for negotia tion with the Reverie company find formation of fhe development cor poration. / E. Wilson Cold, vice president in Gharge of the Hillsboro branch of, the Durham Bank and .Trust Company, Was- named chairman, New Hope Story To Appear In Saturday Evening Post Tjie building of... the new I New Hope Presbyterian Church will .be featured in a color photo-illustrated story to appear in the Saturday Evening Post ,in late February or early March. The story, centering around architect H. 'H. Haines of Dur ham and his work with small country churches, will stress the advantages of ... the build-it-your self program for churches and what it does for., the congrega- ! tion. Members of the New HgSL Church, in joining to-4}elp build their own building, expect, to save about one-third on their Local Library Chosen To Get Valued Books I • i The Hyconeechee Regional LV. brary has been selected to ledfeive one of the 1,600 sets or /Great Book of the'^estern World be ng distributed -through-. a s''lection committee tfJLhtrAmerican Libra ry Association under a g “ml. from the Qld Dominion Foundation. The celebrated 54 volume Work, including the unique idea-index of ihe Syntopieon. was produced by Encyclopedia Britannica in collab oration ''>with^4+(e 'Univetsity of Chicago. To assure that an ade quate cross-section of universities; colleges and public librarips'pos sessed the set. the OltUmnrinion Foundation advanced a sum suf ficient to distribute 1,600 sets and invited the American Library As sociation to serve as the agency of selection and distribution. To get the project underway, the * ^ O'* 1 *■ to selection Committee mailed'an ap olication questionnaire on Septem ber 1, 1955, to approximately 30. )00 libra. ics in the following cate earies: .public, college and uni versity,'junior college. pubilc-hig)i school. Catholic high school, pri vate high schoolr"as Well as to all state'-library ' agencies. The 1.600 successful applicants were selcct id from aibqng the several thous id libraries'dhatj-eplied. j Great Books ’bf the Western arid is a set of H volumes en^ m passing 443 works bv 7-4 ithors ... spanning W'Xs t e r n ought from Homer and thiNjible the;20th century. Editorial ir^tion of the set- occupied 10fl holars, chiefly engaged on. the mtopicon, for eight years and ist $2,000,000 _ The set contains whole worker >t excerpts, and for 21 of the 74 ithors, at! their works. It rep isents the only publication in ngiish, or the only edition aside om rare or expensive printings, • key works by Aristotle, Hippo ates. Galen, Euclid. Archimedes. :olemy, Copernicus, Gelileo, Har >y Descartes Pascal Newton, ontesquieu, Kant, Lavoisier, aurier, Faraday and -Freud The unique contribution of the t is the Syntopieon. Volumes 2 ,d 3. It comprises an “idea m ;x" through which it is possible trace 102 fundamental.Great leas” and their ^Subordinate ,pices through all the writings m olumes 4 to 54 of the se^ _ i though all'these 443 works had ;en read 2,987 times, each tinje ith a particular topic in .mind. approximately $75,000 'plant, scheduled ta be completed' in .time for the 200th anniversary of the church this summer. A photographer from the Post staff in Philadelphia spent last , weekend at the Church heie and took quite a lot of pictures of the congregation doing various jobs On their “work party” last Sat urday. The story has been writ ten by Booton Herndon, free Jance writer of Charlottesville, ' Virginia, who has visited here twice in* compiling data fpr his story. ... Army Reserve Team Coming This Thursday , An “information service" team from 't it U. S. Army Reserve Ad Gro'pp in Durham will be available in the Chapel Hill Post I Office from 1 to 4 o'clock Thurs j day afternoon. January 19. ,, to [answer questions and I pamphlets dn the new I serve program. ! The team will ^ko be at the [YMCA. bpildinjKfm the University | climpus from 8:30 to 11:30 Tues» day ryprffing. ~ s 1-- — /Army Reserve units meet week ly in Durham, and a number of persons from ChapcI Hill and oth er Orange County areas are already | participating in. their activities. The Defense Department recent ly released a set of figures show ing that most states are, now .tick ing the majority of their draftee^ from the 22-year-old and 23-year old age group. The odds at the present time, according to the ..de partment, arv* tliat seven out " of every nine able-bodied men will --see military service before they -Ifcave the .draft-age category. Men in the 17 to 18'a "age group have an opportunity of enlisting in the Army Reserve, servirig only six months on active duty rather than the usual two years, and re luming to civilian life to com plete their service obligation in the Reserve. They must attend week v meetings and go to summer •amp Until tKey have met their full eight-year obligation. - . ' Under the new Reserve program ^jhtjsed by Congress last year, all persons entering the Army after Aug 9. 1955, must participate in .tiie.awtive Reserve for a minimum of three years following discharge. It tijey fail to -attend Reserve meetings,, they may be recalled to active duty for 45 - day periods. This is similar to the legal-‘‘teeth’’ given to the- National Gjuard to se cure regular attendance at its meet ings. ' ■/ ! ♦ -_ pass our A:rpy Re , NO X-RAY CLINIC I [he District Health Department announces-that there will -be no £hest X-Ray Clinic in Hillsboro on January 24 as scheduled. 1_Meanwhile, free chest X-Rays 1 niay be obtained St4He Health De partment in Chapel Hill every Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. I The next Hillsboro X-Ray Clinic will be announced at a later date. Clarence D. Jones, vice chairman, and Dr. N. L. Mauroner, secretary. The group was shown architect’s plans for a proposed building which with land and improvements is expected to cost in the neighbor hood of $150,000, which had tfeen proposed by the Reverie company. It is a permanent type brick struc ture with air conditioning which might be used for many types of manufacturing operations. Tentative plans call for the for mation of a corporation to acquire the land and build the building for lease to the parent company of Reverie, which although not Two Arrested % For Car Theft By Deputies Two Goldsboro men are under $3,000 bonds each for interstate car theft as- result of the alert j work of Sheriff's Deputies D. M. Long and Burch Compton early last Saturday morning. They are Alfred Woodrow_Cor bitt and Henry Harold Person, who allegedly stole a 1956 Ford Fairlane, valued at $3,000, from the streets of. Danville after tam pering with the ignition wires to start the vehicle. The deputies spotted the stolen car, driven bv. Corbitt following closely a 1951 Chevrolet driven by Person Whfen they stopped the rear car, Corbitt jumped out and started to run. His accomplice was apprehended further down the, road. The pair was turned over, to the FBI for further investigation be cause 4)f the interstate character of the crime and bond was set following k preliminary hearing ‘before l). S. ..Commissioner Henry i Banc of LKirham. ^ • Bank Of Chapel Hill Reports Good Year One of the best years in the history of the Bank of Chapel Hill was reported to the institu tion's -stockholddi<r at their annual meeting. • Executive Vice-President W. E. | Thompson made particular hdtb Of the 4act that during 1955 the Bank’s assets went over the $10, 000,000 mark. On December 31, he reported, the total was $10,015,753,-j as compared wiih%- $9,481,262 at j the pievious; year's end. identified, was described as^a^Tep usfible firm doing business total ling a million dollars a year and assets valued at $230,000 " e company, according' to For rest and Don Matheson, chairman of the County Agricultural and In dustrial Development Commission, who have been negotiating with the Reverie company, have request ed: (1)A 20-year-lease with the privelege of buying at any time at the depreciated value. $2) That the community provide a ijte. _■ - (3) That the community furnish an adequate water supply. (Pljm*. for the building include both 3 sprinkler system and hir condition 41 The site graded and gravelled for dequate parking facilities. chinery from old building to new. Spokesmen Quoted an official of the Department of Conservation and Development as saying there were 200 communities in North , Carolina which now have or would build buildings fqr this type of operation. Sidney Eller, president of Reve rie, said h s company is pleased ing.) (5) Help in moving present ma ■with -their reception in Hillsboro and with the type and quantity of labor which is available. Some 60 employees are now wonking there making lingerie for..a number* of national accounts: Among some of these mentioned were Montgomery Ward, National Bellas Hess, Roses and ofiiers - Present at Tuesday night’s meet ing were, in addition to, Cole, Jones, Mauroner, Forrest and Math eson, R. J. Smith Sr., J. L. Brown Jr., Dr. Robert Murphy , Fred Cate$, Coland J. Riley, James Freeland, Bobby R. Roberts, Mi- L Cates Jr., Dr. H. W. Moore and E. J. Hamlin. j.. I 40-Member Steering Group Appointed For Bond Drive Three Arrested; Still Is Cut Sheriff 0. H. Clayton and depu-< ties destroyed a still and arrested , three white men who were said to; be operating it in the' northern1 edge ■ of- Hillsboro township last j week. The arrested were: Herman Riley and JameS R. Walker, who live in, the vicinity in which the still was found in ^ wooded area on a creek between Highway 86 and 57, apd Erskine Parker of the Catdvyefl comnium - ' All three arc Tree under $300 bonds ior their appearanee for '‘epf tvjrrnfy (ftarjrrrWr’s Court on January 30. They are chaiged with manufacturing whis key -illegilly and possession of equipment for the manufacture of whiskey. The 7t ill 'wasTrT operation' at "the time of the raid, ft was described as a 75-gallon steam bdi!6r type with two copper worms. About 600 gallons oi mash in work wore pour ed out and the equipment destroy ed. O.E.S TO MEET The Hillsboro Chapter No. 180 Order of the Eastern Star will honor '"Esther" and- observe ■ Friendship Evening” tonight at 7 30 o’clock at the Masonic Tem ple on West King St. All local Eastern Stars are. cordially welcomed: Dimes L)riv6 ' Being Pushed In This Area x'The March of Dimes campaign for the National Foundation FTir] Infantile Paralysis is tvell under way in the Northern Orange area.] according, to Sheriff 0. H. Clayton,' campaign chairman for the fund, drive. . Appeal letters to citizens 'hrov heawgi pufc in t ie mail today and a number of fund raising events.are being plan ned. A Cake Auction Sale for the ben efit of-the March of Dimes will be -held—bx-litc women of the Carr Community at Compton's Store this - coming Saturday at .2 p.m. Last Sunday Post 85 of the American Legion ^conducted a road block in Hillsboro and col-, lofted over $130 rfor the drive. Chairman".Clayton urged every family who gets a letter to return 11eir contribu11 on in the specia 1 return, envelope as *en4s possi- j ble and persons who do not rc should contribute tetter by mailing it.dTircctl5rlo,''0t^~chair»| man at box-371, Hillsboro, or com tribute otherwise to this worthy causcj through their club or in one , tfie coin containers placed of throughout tfic area --J-—L I Mystery Farm Of The Week 11 ------- * Who Owns This Mystery Farm?; I ' _i_____• Guess the correct identity of the farm above fif*t and you will receive a f-,-* year's subcrip ♦ion to The News of Orange County, provided you are the first to call. The owner will receive a , mounted aerial photo of the farm by calling the News Office in Hillsboro and verifying the correct | identity- Last week's Mystery -Farm was named by Ronald Kennedy as belonging to Mrs. W. S. Hunt Sr. and is located 7</2 miles from Hillsboro and 3 miles east of Schley. The farm consists of 163 | acres and general farming is done there. Other correct identifiers wqre: Mrs Jessie ^Martin, War* ran Walker, Mrs. Lindsey ^\££iapds, Mrs. Roy Wilk >rson, Miss Annie Wilkerson, Mrs. Cly/ie Walker and j Mrs. Bill Miller. , . f l ' i . ■ " * ■" - ..., All Sections ;Represented The county's two school boards representing the Orange cbunty and Chapel Hill admitjiistjativc units yesterday announced a 40 member steering coinmittjee jo di rect the campaign (or pjjtss^ge o£. the two million dollar bond issue election scheduled for Mardh 20. Co-Chairmen will be darned shortly by the two administrative i units. to lead overall committee tand its activities. The committee is composed of ItMMNto from all section bf the county. Additional members may also be announced later. All have acceptedappointment. First' meeting of thej s jeering group- is scheduled for Jjlonday might at 7:30 p. m. at the neW court house in Hillsboro, when TirsT con crete plans for the expected inten sive campaign to secure thje bond Issue passage will be drafted. The bond ispue was called two months ago by the Board ojf Coun ty Commissioners following Ipresen, tation of a list of needs totalling* close MCthreh million. I" The steering committee (selected i by the schools boards1- presented j herewith in alphabetical brder is hRs follows: ~ I Mrs. Marvin Allen. Mtjs Ray-1 mond Andrews, Mrs. Wallace Ba! con, Mrs. Bernard Boyd, Orville I Campbell, Marshall Cates, ,[K, Clem | Chir'k, Mrs. Roma Cheek Walter1 . Clark. Jr., Luther Corbett, Bob j 1 Cox. Mrs. Mack Paul Kfland. R. O. Forrest, Hurley Green, Mrs. I Dewey Guess, Alex-Hearjl. i Ed Hamlin, Rev Charles Hub bard. Joe Hughes.-CrP. J(lnes, Mrs, Glenn Kennedy, l„e slid- ,Van Kenyon, Jr., A. K. King.Jjjhn Linkd Rev. J. R. Manley, Mrs. Marvin Ray, Mrs. Bruce Riggsbee. Hubert i Robinson. Mrs. George Sihith. Du- ! pree Smith. A. L. Stanbalek. Mrs. Bill'Sloan, Edmond Strowd, Roland Taylbiv Bill To lor, Frank llmstead, Mrs Bernice wjard. Roos evelt Warnttr, Dr .Rear White, Carter White. 400 Persons Expected For Scouters Banquet About 400 Scouters and their guests from 12 counties of the Occoneecbee Boy Scout Council will rruet at Chapel Hjill this evening for the annual rec ognition banquet, scheduled for 7 o’clock in Lenior Hall Feature of the evening will be the presentation to six Scout ers of the Silver Beaver Awards, the highest honor that a local Council may bestow for Service in its area. The Rev. Charles Hubbard of Chapel Hill vtfi-ll award "Round up” bariners and neckerchiefs t»- unit leaders according to . Scout mfemberehip increases in their areas last year. MERCHANTS MEET TODAY The~<HUlsboro Merchants * will meet at the Colonial Inn at 1 o’cloclc tqt its January meeting. Ah members are urged to attend Hawkins Is j * . +'4 Nominated For Board County School Board Recommends Cedar Grove Man for Post John -Hawkins, prominent farm er of the Cedijr Grove community, has been recommended by the Orange County Board ef Education to fill the vacancy on that board left by the resignation last week of Harry P. Breeze of Efland. Appointment! of Mr Hawking to fill Breeze's unexpired term will be made by the Orange County Democratic Executive Committee. The party committee is expected to follow the education board's rccommendatioln. A meeting of thig body, it is understood, will be hdul next Tuesday. Mr. Hawking has been active in school affairs arjd'has served as chairman of the Aycock school committee for many years. The term to which he will be appoint will continue until the Spring ot 1957 when hisj successor for a six year term will be named by the North Carolina General Assembly following hif; nomination in the Democratic primary of the county next May. It is assumed that Mr. Hawkins will seek a full term as,a candidate in the Primary this Spring, by vir tue of his agreement to fill out the unexpiredterm Negro Leaders Form Group To Aid Youths Negro Agricultural Workers, Community Leaders, and School Leaders of grange County have fornvvJ an orgaitMwtkri lor the purpose of making incentive awards to deserving farm youths of the county. t This organization is an out growth of the Challenge Program which has been sponsored id this county for the past several years, as well as-of most pf North Caro lina. F i—^ v At the- fjirst meeting held on January t2th, at Central High School, ^he group elected Oattis Russell, president; ivfrs. 'Flossie Wells, vice president; Mrs! Ella Trice', secretary and Mrs. Corina Villines, treasurer. the next meeting of this group is set for January 28th at Centra! High School at- which time a Board of Directors is to be elect ed; ways and iheans of making awards, and general rules and reg ulations for the operation of the organization will be worked out. A goal of $500'has been set for this year, it is expected that the bulk of this money will come from the abpve groups and other in dividuals who will be connected with the .organization. Paper-Loaded Truck Collides With Car, Burns* A one-and-a-half ton truck load ed with paper cups and paper plates collided with a passenger car, turned Over two or three times -and burned Tuesday after noon on Highway 70 east of Hills boro at the intersection with-St Mary’s road. Both vehicles were from Dan ville. Va., and a] scratch on the ' forehead 'was the only injury jo the three occupants. * Damage to the truck was esti- * mated at $2,000 to the' 1949 Old* mobile $800. Accoiding to Investigating Pa trolman T. P. Smith, Mrs. Ruby . Yonker Migginson of 433 Old May field Road, Danville, was follow-, ing two cars headed west on 70^ when the front car,( -stopped to make a left turn into St. Mary’a Road. Mrs. Migginson then pull— ed out of the line of traffic, col liding with the truck going East. Driver of the truck owned by the . Diamond Paper Co. wijs Irving W. ) Lewis of Danville. Mrs. Migginson was indicted for driving on the wrong side of the road and will face Inal on January 30.
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