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Sill rway, aroumJ here, if it isn’t "atum, Wake'Forest, Gor iray, and the State College tbail earn, it's the weather | lest wintei here in many a tobacco, cotton. Dr. Trib tefauver, Gov Luther Bod lecision, and segregation. res never a dull moment tse parts. But with all the tog last»-<r:ok, os* t h e ■nor set a path for the fu The rest of us made no~de deciiions—j n s t went on £ 24-hour flu i *». •' , IS IMPROVING?. . .We that Mrs. Ellen Winston, tre, says that the jail situa n North Carolina is improv ♦ ild be—and Mrs. Winston I to know, because her dc icnt is charged with the re tihility of jail inspection, ight here lately two articles made the front pages. ior Court Judge Q. K. Nj s ordered two jails closed ikimbus County. The grand said the jail at Tabor^City 'without toilets and thht nes the jail is withou an a 1,1 to open a cell so a pri ' he taken to the toilet, d s bad enough, you might tot consider the situation in t> whose jail also made the ’ *here- on a .recent Satur- j °'8ht, one of the prisoners t^d of the place, sawed his “ft Since a piece of hack ee was found on the jail ’ there is grave suspicion *as used in the breakout. ,?ite what Mrs. Winston dtcre is still room for im ®ent in these North Caro Jails. * EDITOR dies. . .Raleigh 0nc °f its leading citizens °st analytical thinkers a I* ago in the sudden death dix Grissette. 55 years of age, he seem “ be in perfect health on ‘day. January 26. But early ^ morning, January 27, a 5 heart attack killed him. Jidensian, Felix Grissette ed Capus Waynick as ® Health Publications when became an ambass irtailment of Fed Uds in the states y crippled this project, ^started a weekly four ^totisticai bulletin which'he Facts”, The publication appropriately named, for it „ ways full of facte. We of ;uote<l it here. e“ds of Grissette doubt that *nt“re was ever a financial - but it did a lot of good, Showed how North Caro Hawkins , Takes Seat On Board Three Resolutions Occupy School Board At Monday Meeting The Board of; Education passed three resolutions of major im portance at its regular monthly meting Monday after installing a new member who was attending his first regular session as a board member. The new member, John E. Hawkins of Cedar Grove, took the seat formerly held by Harry P; Breeze of Efland. One resolution formally called upon the Commissioners-to hold a bond election for providing funds for school improvements after citing needs totalling $1,171,832 for carrying out the constitutional requirements to conduct the “six months school term.-’ A second was designed to im plement the provisions of the State Employees’ referendum held last year which authorized parties ipation of teachers and other state employees in the federal Social Security-system. ' The third expressed apprecia tion of the Board for the services of Bueeze during .the past five years. " In other actipris the board ac cepted the resignation of Mr. Hawkins as an Aycock schooP committeeman, discussed the plans for the bond issue election and authorized the payment of $100 to ward the expenses of C. D. Jones as a delegate to the National School Board Association meet-1 ing in Atlantic City February 15 18. \ ' The text of the resolution prais ing Breeze was as follows: “Whereas, Harry P. Breeze was nominated by the voters of Orange C*tntyt the . Orange County ; Board of Education in the Demo cratic-Primary of 1950 and ap pointed by action of the 1951 "ft. .C. General -Assembly as requir ed by law (General Statute^ 1372. Ch. 115, Article 5, Sec, 2). and. has served five years, and | “Whereas, The Said Harry P. Breeze has given freely and un selfishly his time and effort to the duties of his office and rend-^ dereef intelligent...and efficient service, to the cause *of education, and “Whereas. "The said Harry P. Breeze resigned as a member of the Orange County Board of Edu cation effective January .31, 1956, “Now, Be It Resolved, that ..the Orange County Board of I^ffca-, tion, acting through its members, and John E Hawkins, .now take this-opportunity to express to Hairy P. Breeze its sincere ap preciation for his able,- faithful.. and cooperative, service and sound leadership to the county -schools’ during ^iis five years of service, and wish for him a long, prosper-1 ous, and happy life. “Let a certified copy of this res-1 olutidn, be sent to the said Harryi See BREEZE, Page 6 ' ' V'' ~ j.i i ,. • ~~ ; . • New School Board Member John B. Hawkins of Cedar Grove takes the oath of office from Clerk of Court E M. Lynch at the courthouse Monday, while in the picture below he receives the glad wel come from fellow Board Member Clarence D. Jon >s of Hillsboro while Superintendent G. Paul Carr looks on approvingly, *'*' During 1955, the State Highway Conimi. ;inn accomplished a vast number of road improvements in the Seventh Highway Division. ,Division-wide, the primary high way, system was renovated by pav ing 47.95 miles-OLfelocated high ways;, 46 51 miles of resurfacing, 2.34 miles of paving and construct ion of- concrete curb and gutter. The county ■road system in the Seventh was greatly Improved by 33941 miles of rf.abilization by soil and- stone surfacing, 264.39 of. grading and[ hardsurfacing. ( fn addition, grading, structures, and paving were, finished on 6.81 miles, and 6 05 miles of base and paving wPre ’completed. A total of .5.85 miles, of county roads were resur faced also. JMany county road bridges were widened, rebuilt, or replaced with pipe and fill. The Commission commended the State highway forces in the Scv 'mi tJ Commissioners Endorse 5-Member School Bdard The'Board of Commissioners last Monday endorsed the recent ac tion of the Democratic Executive Committee in recommending the increase of the size of the Board of Education from three to five members, and added a new speci fication of its own. ^n an approval motion by Com missioner- Henry Walker, the board inserted the provision that no more than two members of the board could come from the same township. , . ... In other actions during the routine monthly sessionRhe board: (1) Heard a number of road petitioners, including Clyde Rob erts oLyillsboro, Rt. 2, Mrs."Eltjah Ward^of Efland, Route 1, and G o Rcitzel of Hillsboro, and agreed to- make an inspection (2) Authorized* the Clerk of Court to proceed with efforts obtain a social term of ^urt, but reserving 1 the > use of room on ^ril 9 for a three-coun - M . ■iyj home demonstration district meeting ‘already scheduled; (3) Approved formal resolutions on the forthcoming bond issue for schools and called upon the Board, of Elections to conduct the election. ' <4) Heard reports from County Agent.Don. Matheson and Assist ant Ed Barnes. Sheriff Odell Clay; ton and Clerk ' of Couft t. M. Lynch. *' , (5) Authorized the purchase ot new flags, federal and state, for display in the courtroom. (6) Urged the staff of the Re corders Court take ‘‘positive steps" to collect old accounts .of fines and costs owed th -the county, and authorized publication of a list such accounts in an effort to ob tain public help in-finding some.^f the defendants. *' (,7) Authorized a $200 emergency fund for the Register of Deeds of fice to hire extra help to catch up on indexing, work noSv being dond by Mi's. Mollie Johnson. / . yy: cnth for their fine road accom-< plishmcnts of 1955. Orang* Improvement* In Orange County, a total of 2.2 miles of bituminous plant-mix re surfacing, 22 feet wide, was coni . pleted on US 15 from the Durham ! County line to intersection of US re--A- near-Chapel -H»U— —_ County road improvements in Orange included 2.78 miles of grading and paving from a point or\ NC 86 about 6.5 miles north of i Chapel Hill, north to old No. Ten, 1.5 miles south of Hillsboro. The nrwrfy-fwvttl road- m 24 foot \**de.. A total of 6.81 miles of grading, j paving and structures were cOm j pleted on. the Orange Grove-Cal I vander Road;' the newly-surfaced ! road is 18 feet wide. The work in eluded three structures: one 8x9 ; foot reinforced concrete bo* cul \ vert, one double 7 x 9 foot rein ! forced concrete box culvert, and one triple 10 x 13 foot reinforced concrete box culvert; the job was done under contract. State forces placed a base and paved with a bituminous surface treatment the Allowing Jcounty roads, and thd^ lengths, in Or ange: New Sharon Road from St Mary's Road to New Sharon Chur*eh, 18 feet wide, 1.9 miles; Greenwood Drive near Chapel Hill from end of pavement north 0.25 miles, a soil base for 856 feet long, paved 18 feet wide, and 438 feet long, paved 12 feet wide; Purefoy Road from US 15-A to Mason Farm Road, soil base, 0.6 miles; Orange Church-Calvander Road, soil base,, payed 18 feet wide, 3.3 miles; and Barclay Road from Airport Road to dead end, soil ba .\\ paved dual 12-foot lanes. ^ State forces completed grading, 30 to 35 feet wide, the following roads, and their lengths, in Or ange: Hawkins Road from NC 86 to Walnut Grove (jThurch. 3.6 mile* (a new 36-foot long bridge was built); MeDade-Carr Road from Mc ^Dade to county road No. 529, 2 2 miles; Law’s Store Road from Wal nut Grove Road to NC 157H 3.3 -mllesy-King’s Pond-Carr Road from Pentecost to Carr, 2.1 miles. State Road oil forces placed, new bitum inous surface treatment.. on 6.6 1 miles of roads. J See IMPROVEMENTS, Page 8 '—r~“—~ ~ Falcon Flies Low, Caught By Mann -The Falcon, the slick nugyjLf detective who thrilled the heart* of million* who viewed hi* he roic* on film a few year* back, failed to impress Orange Court - : ty'* Highway Patrolman Mann Norris Jr. back here on March 5 to ant war charge* of speeding 80 miles per hour on highway 70 last Thursday night. A $50 bond may not insure his presence before J Judge L. J. Phipps but it will insure that the county and school fund will receive the fine and cost* t)4 which they would be en titled as result of hit misdeed. Patrolman Norris said he ar rested John Calvert, 44, near Doc Griffin's Service Station. He said the aetpr was enroute to New York from Charlotte where he t ad just inked a new $45,000 con* tract, for more screen detecting. Mule On Road Causes Mishop The car of Mr. and Mrs. W-. R. Blackwelder of Ruffin Avenue was wrecked and a mule hurt so badly th'at he had to be killed Tuesday "iborning around 8:30 o’clock on Highway 70-X, one mile, east of Hillsboro near White’s Furniture at. . . • Mrs.-fi lack welder was enroufe ,to work when the mule, which had broken out of the Hillsboro Deliv ery Stable approximately two hours earlier and was being chased, darted in front, of the car. Mrs. Blackwelder tried to dodge the animal and'in so doing lo§t con trql of,the car which went into the embankment Damage to the car was set at $400. Mrs. Black ^bld^^as taken to I Memorial Hospital and w^:-,dis charged with minor bruises. , * * —."', > 1 r* . .*» i Y •' . . [ Board Names New Facility At Hillsboro Hillsboro’s new $50,000 dam was officially named “T^e Ben John ston Dam” at a meeting of town Iloard of Commissioners Tuesday night.' ~ The commissioners thus Unan imously recognized and paid tri bute to the man generally conced ed to be the father o: the town of Hillsboro’s municipal water sys tem, who is serving his 12th term as Mayor. Older citizens recall it was shortly after his election as May brjin 1933 that Mayor Johnston be gan. work toward a town water system which was finely- approved, in rOSS Prior to that time ati water in the town Was provided by wells. Now the system-, extends to all sections throughout the in cofpofhted town and far beyond its limits, with more' water custome. s living outside the limits than within. The Mayor likewise 3led the drive to secure approval of a-bond issue to build the new dam which was completed last fall. In its action officially naming the dam, the town board directed that a bronze placquc be erected on the dam containing its desig nated name and other appropriate data such as officials' names, build ers and engineers in charge, dates, etc. • - - . ; Mayor Johnston, a nativeof Ala mance County, has„iesided in Hillsboro for most of his adult life, is married to the former Miss Thelma Rosemntid and the father of two'children, Mrs. Jack Snipes of Greensboro, and Mrs. Kay Wine cuff of Hillsboro. Meeting Of VFW Planned ' — u-"-~ . * . ; ‘ The newly.organized VFW post for Orange County will meet at the. old courthouse in Hillsboro .February 16 at 8 p m An invitation is extended to all veterans 4it the county with over seas service to attend this meet ing and to join the local post/ An active program lirbeihg planned- of benefit.kr-all. The new post last Sunday was awarded an attendance plaeque at the VFW district meeting in Ox ford for having the largest per .. . -- mmam^ Si D Sheriff Odell Clayton lest a deputy and a few years growth, from fright last Saturday- night. In the Efland area to arrest a woman charged with pub I ft drunkenness, the sheriff and De puties W. R. Roberts and Buck Knight made the arrest and then prepared to return to the jail. Clayton end Roberts got into the front soot and Deputy Knight ushered the drunken woman into the beck seat. The driving Sheriff heard the back door shut and drove off. Unfortunately, OaRUtyJCnight had only closed tha doer on the woman's side and was walking around the. back of tha c*r to ■ot in on tho other side when the Shariff drove off. He hitched a ride back to town in another car which happened to be in the area a few minutes later. If took the Sheriff some time ta shake off the Shock of finding • the deputy missing when he got back to town and it's taken him still longer to find an answer to the kidding his friends at the Mayor's office have sent his way since the incident occurred. Hearing Feb. A loriyaj older auihon/mg the issuance ol $2.000.oou in bond* foralie. impniveirtei 11 of Orange County schools was passed by the Board of' Coun ty Commissioners here last Monday. A liea'i iiig’oil the issue, to be subject to approval of the County’s voters .in a referendum on March 2,7, will be held at a special meeting of the Board here on February 20. Resolutions ask ing for the money to build new schools and improve’present build ings had been approved a^frlier by the County’s two school Boards. The Commissioners filed a formal notice of intentioo ttCapply for permission to issue the bonds last month. * In the.order the Chapel Hill Board asked for*$828,068 and the Comity Board. $1,171, 932—the ap proximate sums each had agreed upon earliei when the decision to seek a voter-approved bond issue was reached. It was directed in the oidfer that" a record of the Countys financial debt be -placed on file with the Clerk of .Court, to be available for public inspec tion pending the February 20 hear: j»ng. At this hearing any citizen may protest the pyiposed issuance • of the bonds. Before adjourning their meeting 1 for the noon recess Monday the Commissioners d.iscussed in de tail the report of delinquencies ► . —:r———— Committees, For Election Are Named F’orty - two additional Orange citizens this week were napied as members of four working com mittees promoting the forthcoming two million dollar school ’hdnd' is sue scheduled for March 27. Announcement fo these groups wav made tfy Co-chairmen WiUiara S. Stewart and R. J. Smith Sr., who are lending !he drive for pass age of the bonds. Named as co-chairmen for-the cppimittees were: Speakers Com mittee. fir. Roma Cheeh-and Mrs. Beth Roberts; Finance, A K. Kink'; Precinct (registration and voting) ft, O- Fd'resl and frank Umstead; Publicity, Orville Campbell'. Other personnel ' of tne. com: mitiee roster ,»re - ! - Spe&krrS/ .Rev Charles Hub-, bard, Rev J. K. Manley, Hubert Robinson;. Walter Clark.. Leslie Van Kenyon/Jr.,. Bonner Sawyer, A. L- St ah bark. . Fihance Marshall Cates Jr , Joe Hughes. Roosevelt Warner. . P ecmci: Alex Heard, ATrsTTltyv mond Andrews, Sirs.''Wallace Bac-. on, Clem Cheek, Luther Corbett, Hurley Green. Mrs. Dewey Guess, C. P. Jones. Mrs Glenn Kennedy, See COMMITTEES, Page - Mystery Farm Of, The Week F—— Who Owns This Mystery Farffl? ■ ' ■r'l.'aL.'..-_ w ' - \ Orange County's agricultural workers held a monopoly on mystery farm identification last week. Soil Conservationist Quentin Patterson said last weak's mystery farm belonged to John Arch Terrell who.lives northwest of Efland on the High Rock road. Ha was the first caller, followed by James W. . Simpson of the local F.H.A. offiea who addad that the second house In the picture belonged to Terrell's son-in-law, Ellis Bradshaw. The owner can receive a beautifully mounted picture of the farm free by calling at the News office as^tan the owner of this week’s farm pictured above. First cellar to correctly .identify the mystery farm each week receives a free year's subscription to this newspaper. ■ ■ F ■. ' -s' ' .. • . '■ . ' '
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