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L^H th« M*n ■ •NT b* ITHE news •# LflSM Although a pri Koll might "-have indicated Cst of them thought Presi V Eisenhower might rujn ■ the Democrats who gather Ifo_all 700* of them—for Jefferson - Jackson Dinner Jay night seemed very, very [tic about their party’s L to elect a President and Jie their control of the ■ ' "X ... ■OWD . If memory fail lt, this was the diggest I on rccort for the dinner. Ld $32,000 for the Demo [battlcs during 1956, with L coming up with $8,150 [amount and Mecklenburg at ,$1.825. Wake County iird with $1,550, and For iurth with $1,200. money came in on a basis per plate. the 100 counties partici with more than a fourth I going over their quotas. ISUAL ... Saturday was beautiful day in Raleigh— North Carolina, for that There were wind and rain i from the mountains to last—and so some of us that the bad weather cut attendance. ... * * it didn’t—not in the least, d familiar faees were here, cores of -new‘ones, ernor Luther Hodges did a thing—and a smart thing, igh State offices, and most here, are closed on Satur e kept the Governor’s df pen Saturday morning for od Democrats here for the < to come by for a chat, tit unusual, perhaps, but | itful on the Governor’s: and deeply appreciated by | >f Democrats who can’t get eigh very often; fELOPMENTS ... The din me of the best Hotel Sir r has come up with for one es« affairs, sparkled with sting conversation, fever, it developed not a amount of news. Three prior to its beginning, Ben as of Charlotte filed for ess against Incumbent is Raper Jonas in the Tenth it. ? a time it had looked as if would npt have much, if pposition. When it was fin Srced by the Democrats in enburg—-led by Chairman McConnell—that an oppon 'uld be found', the nod went •uglas, charlotte business former mayor, and until a e<*s ago head of the State tment of Conservation and opment. candidiTcy attracted some •oil, “put a little fire in to.a which offers little Demo-1 excitement as far as State s ere concerned, and gen added strength to the ’n8- It made Democrats, 'defeat by Jonas In 1952 urts, feel a whole lot bet , v • • * 11 Larkins, as State Dem e chairman, alto saw the ls a challenge. He said: “I like the opportunity -to he Democrats .redeem that its! s uius decided to stay in pitching as chairman for 'cfflocratic Party in North na rather than to run for lna°t Governor. That was news, for a lot of people d to think that John might y the Jefferson • Jackson r as an appropriate place ^oiince^ his. candidacy for J---:-«rr. - ^r— -■■ V «___ 1 GOVERNOR in ’60? >■.. >t immediately after LarK scislon got around, talk be at he most certainly would candidate for Governor in. ■- V. ee North Carolina has not ' * Governor from east of m 24 years—4. C. B, Eh* *Us of Elisabeth City1 was . one> in 1932—-this rum lde a lot of sense. ' he has been one of “^ Prominent men in the 18ti£ Party Jiy this State See KOUNPUP, Paqe 2) TOPPING A NEW CHURCH—Workmen place'the 18-foot steeple atop the new New Hope Presbyterian Church into place as one-pf the final touches toward completion of ^be'imilding, Final services in the ofd church will be held this coming Sunday and the first servicer in'the new building-/the following Sunday, March 11. The bell from the old church has been placed under the steeple in tne new building. Given by the Rbv. Irving Craig, native of the New Hope community,,, it was placed in the old building 40 years ago as a gift, from the Rev. Mr. Craig's First Presbyterian Church in Reidsville. Distance from the tip of the four-foot Cross atop the steeple to the ground is 57 feet. The new church and two-story educational building is of mod ern-colonial brick construction. .ast Service In Old Building j i - ^ New Hope Cornerstone Wilt Be Laid Sunday The New Hope Presbyterian Church, now- observing its 200th anniversary, will hold its final service in its old building, 5th in the church’s history, next Su.i day morning at 11:15 o’eloc'.. A cornerstone laying ceremony for the new church will take blace immediately following this last ser vice .in the ojd church. During the constructidh of the ’ church Red Cross Fund Drive Is Underway ‘•‘Join Sad serve”' became the word as the Orange County Chap ter's 1956, Red Cross Campaign for members and funds got under way this morning “This is the time to join and serve," Membership and Fund Chairman Joe Hughes, ppiht|pu|,, "The tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods of last year have just about exhausted, pur Red Cross re sources. , ' - “The next f°w months are nor mafly the ones that bring -rnoost, of our-disasters. We: must be pre pared Tor them.' “We must also think of the many other services Tor which, vye .are dependent upon the Red Cross, the Home Service that links our service meii and their homes, the Safety Services of | First Aid, Water safety, and ac cident prevention, the Gray ladies who help in the local veterans hospilal, the Blood Program,,and others.” . . . Some of the peopto working with Joe Hughes in providing an opportunity for everyone to join hr.d serve whereveFTTelp rsmeed ed this coming year are: ’Business. Division -^Charlie James, Chairman..—..— __ , Schools Division - Mrs. Irene Pendef, Chairman 1 \"<* Efland Mill Billie Mae Andrews Aycock; - Mrs. Katherine McDade / ' , . Caldwell -: Mrs. Mary Mitche 11 . Murphy - Mrs. N«i«r McKee West HiHsboro - Kfrs' Mar" caret-Phelps . . Hillsboro - Mrs. Mary Leigh Webb; Mr?. Evelyn Patterson ' (See RED CROSS, page 8.) last Fall the cornerstone was left out so as to be able to install, the new stone ih the nevF bUll'ding with the following iijcription: 'New Hope- Presbyterian Church; Organized 1756. Fifth Building 1556." ‘ The first service in the new building will" be held the following Sunday.’March 11, at. which .time, Dr. James. Carr, secretary- of- the Iiiwii and- Country Church depart ment, Presbyterian Church U. S. will be the guest minister, Men of the.-ehurcb are now put tingMli(''finishing touches bn the new church with work at night and on Saturdays bn a voluntary basis. The new santuary. will be ready for use on March 11. Women of the church will serve dinn,C£~»in the new social hall immediately, afterrDr~ Carr's sermon, • .la! Is Slated Organizational Meeting March 16 ; At the Courthouse t Former Assistant State Attorn ey General I. Beverly Lake will speak at an organizational meet ing for an Orange County Unit of the Patriots of North Caro lina in Hillsboro, it' was an nounced here today. The meeting, open to the pub lic, is to be held in the County Courthouse on March 16. Plans for it a c still being made, ac cording to Prof. W. C. George, President of the statewide pro segregation body. The University Ufedical School faculty member said there seem ed to be considerable interest in the formation of the Orange uhit, but that at this time there was no way of knowing how many persons were already mem bers of the state o ganization on an individual basis. He added that a number of persons here had joined thjuugh him and the PatViotS movement, other local persons interested in Winds Damage Great; Lattas Thank Helpers Many Orange County residents thought Hurricane Hazel had come back to the area for a return en gagement last Saturday afternoon as strong winds with gusts esti mated at 75 railes-per-hour raced across the county, ripping down trees, raising shingles and twist ing television antennas. The wind caused major damage at scores of places on the Piedmont Electric Membership and Duke Power Company lines and power Was out on some Hues until after 9 o'clock Saturday night. A bout TOO feet 6f a 200-foot long chicken house on the farm of Lan tham Latta, north of Hillsboro, was' picked up and blown some distance and the remaining 100 feet of tin building was flattened. The build ing contained some 2,400 chickens about two months old and about 100 of them were lost. ' One local insurance firm esti mated it had heceived about 25 damage claims early this week, and it is assumed that other agencies had similar damage reports. Friends pitched in an helped the Lattas rebuild their chicken house and take care of the shel Tet)ess chickens. In a statement the Lattas expressed their appre • •- • r~' • , -r COUNTY'S FIRST—Orange County recorded its first two traf fic deaths of the year on the 57th day of the year Sunday morning as two Carrboro men, Jo* Baldwin and Clem Atwater, perished in their car as it smashed through the Neville's Creek bridge on the Uni versity Lake Road two miles west of town. Above, officers inspect the wreck as it is hauled up on the creek bank prior to removal of the bodies. Amataur photographer Paul Sparrow Jr.,Fi*ld Representa tive of the University's Bureau of Visual Education, snapped this photo as officers inspected the wreck after it was hauled up on the creek bank prior to removal of the bodies. First In Orange For '56. . . Crash Kills Two Two Carrboro men- became Orange County’s first traffic death statistics for 1956 Sunday morn ing as their car ploughed through ’bridge and landed upside down in Neville’s Creek tht-ee miles west of town. Dead were Joseph Baldwin. 27, and €lem Atwater. 35. both next door neighbors on Davie Road in Carrboro. . 1 The wreck occurred a mile past the University Lake Road’s inter section with the new GrctSisbOro highway. In the five years the new highway has been open, officers recalled today, there have been, 10 traffic deaths within a one^tnile ra dius of the cut-off point ^ of the ! new highway from the Lake Road. Cause of Sunday’s accident was not definitely' known, according to Highway Patrolmen T. B. Win borne and E. S. Robinson. There were, no brake marks on the paved road, though’the tire tracks show-! ed signs of skidding along the right shoulder about 50 feet be Mystery Farm Of The Week :. _ - -■■ v'iirr. aes.-gr-ar-t-gg.ae , ,. • : - _ - _ ^ ^ Owns This Mystery Farm? Can you identify thi* "Mystery Farm?" If you can, yep will receivg a free subscription to The News of Orange County, provided you are the first to correctly identify it. Last week's farm was no puzzler to many of eur readers. The first to call wis Donald Walker, who correctly identified if as being the home of Mr. and Mrs. PaNter Hall, northwest of Hillsboro at Cedar Grove crossroads. It is known as the P*v C B. Hall place. Other early identifiers were: Scott Cates, A. K. McAdams, R. O. Reitzel, Mrs. Mildred Thompson, Earl Walker, Wat er Reitzel, Marvin .Phgps, Helen Miller. Pat Clay* ton, Mrs. Lizzie Long and Howard McAdahw. fore hurtling into the wooden bridge railing. - The main spar of the 50-foot .span went completely through the front grill of the car and cam* out the trunk, the ear traveling about halfway across the bridge before plunging 10 feet. / Coroner, George Cantiady said Baldwin died of multiple fractures and Atwater, owner and believed the driver of the vehicle, was drowned after sustaining a possi ble broken neck. The 1946 Ford was pulled from the muddy waters after being almost completely sub merged upside down Tor around » half-hour. There were'no known eye-wrt nifsses to the wreck, which ap parently occurred about 9:45 a m The pair was last seen around 8 am. when they left the home of Atwater's brother in Carrboro, bound for a farm owned by Bald win in Chatham County , ’ NAMED TO COMMITTEE Clarence D. Jones has' been ap pointed a member of . the legis lative committee of the State School Hoard imvi»tisn by Dr. Charles E. Jordan, state president. Jones currently Js chairman of District 7 of the state association. Duly of the committee‘is to, pre sent the cause of education to the. citizens of the state and to keep members of the legislature informd as to its needs. ■ . / j SNIPES BOY ..IMPROVES Lloyd Snipes, 5-year-old son of Mr- and Mrs. Alfred Snipes Jr., who ^suffered a broken leg and other injuries when struck by an automobije driven" by George Gilmore on W. King Street last Wednesday afternoon, con tinues to* improve at Duke Hos pital. The child reportedly fell from another * vehicle into the path of Mr. Gilmore who was un able to avoid the accident. Hubbard to speak 7 • '■ •' i 7 ~— On Bonds Tonight . The Rev. Charles Hubbard* of Chapel Hill will speak tonight at 8 o'clock at the St. Mary's Grange on the forthcoming School Bond Issue. This meeting is open to the public and all are extended a cordial invitation to attend. The regular monthly mooting of the Grange will begin at 7:90 o'clock. ' ■■ ' s’ Sees Present Plans Adequate For 25 Years Hillsboro and Orange County folks got a mild shock last week end in dally press announcements that plans were afoot to have two 4-lane highways passing by Hills boro, one to the north and the other to the south, with the two connecting at-Eno River and Dur ham county line. ■ The reaction generally might be described as amazement. The bubble, which nohgdy lo cally had taken seriously any way, was scratched by Highway Commissioner A. H. (Sandy) Gra ham who said that it will be a long time before there will be anything like two 4-lane highways’ going around Hillsboro. - -The eurrent route that serves .as a link in the new interstate ex pressway between the Durham County line and Efland,_and which is to be widened to four lanes, will be adequate to carry the traf fic “for 25 years to come," he stat ed. Misunderstanding Claimed «... .j Graham, at tithes irritated over questions about the two four lane highways reportedly sched uled to go around Hillsboro, said his program was generally un derstood. "It’s the people around Greens boro who don't bother to under stand,” he said. , - - Efforts have been made to get Grahaoi,to ^provide funds for mak ing the interstate. freeway be tween Greensboro and Efland a dual two-lane highway, as is much of the rest of the Hlt*wsy.' Graham said that a primary highway norjh of Hillsboro would not meet the federal interstate re quirements, "but it Wasn't -neces sary. federal Requirements “Under the federal requirements, one of the major factors is lim ited access. Another is stringent right-of-way provisions. - According to Graham, a number of sections along the highway, in (See HIGHWAY, page 8 ) | ■LECTIONS CHAIRMAN — »> Former Sheriff S. T. Lelte it the - new chairman of the Orange County Board of Election*. He wat elected by the two other , member* of the beard at a redbnt meeting following- lyit appoint mnf by the State Board of Elec tion* to tucceedT E. J. TOmtln. who had served for the patt tix ypara. X • , YDC Planning .Meet Tonight At Inn Here There is to be a general meeting of the Young Democratic Club to morrow at the Colonial Inn in Hills boro. ! . The purpose at thi* meeting is to plan the rally" and to kick off an Orange County membership drive. • . • Miai Betty June Hayes, arrange ^menl-i.caojmittfe Chairman, jgK. nounces that those wishing to have dinner with other YDC members should come at 6:30 p.m. Then cof fee will be -served to all members at 7:15 and the general meeting will begin at 7.30 p.m At a February 20th meeting the following committees were appoint ed by Mr. Alexander: Membership committee, ~ Harold Edwards and Odell Clayton; Rally Chairman, Don Stanford; Publicity Chairman, Roy Cole; Arrangements Committee, C. B. Hodson. .;- • -»■- - ■ Seeking Redaction ' • Congressman Durham Announces Formally congressman carl T. Durham, who has represented the 0th Dis trict since J938 and currently | heads the joint congressional At omic |jncrgy Commission today formally announced his candidacy for reelection. State Senator Ralph Scott of Alamance County has previously indicated his intention to oppose Mr. Durham. • T ‘. j The Chapel Hill representative Jis generally conceded to be One ui the best informed men in Con* gross or out on the national Atom ic Energy Program. He is a former Orange County commissioner and a native of the county. His statement: 1 “l have today mailed, my filing fee to the State Board of Elect ions and now announce my can didacy for the Democratic Party nomination to serve as Represen tative of the Sixth North Caro lina Congressional District in the 85th Congress. "In seeking re-election to the position I have been privileged to hold for the past seventeen years, it is my purpose to try to serve all the people of the District to the -beat of my ability. In the past I have endeavored to represent all of the people of the District without .regard to any , special groups or interests. This will be tpy policy in the future if it is the will of the constituency to return me’to Congress. . v “The work-1 am presently car rying in, connection with import ant Committee assignments in the ' Congress is very heavy, but I fck- ’ ■V ;■■■ ,/■ /./ pect tp wage, a vigorous can* \ There will-be manf import ant legislative measures in the i House . of Representatives' in the «veeks* preceding the Democratic0 Primary which ^yill necessarily In quire my close attention and my , presence in Washington. Despite I this /act, I wrll use whatever spare | time is available to me in renew ! ing my contacts-with the people of. the Sixth District, who have placed confidence "in me and in ■my efforts in the past and who. [ 1 trust, will see fit t» extend that i confidence in the coming elect ions. "1 believe my icyord in Con gress speaks for itself 1 will con tinue to try to do what 1 believe to be the right thing." CARL T. DURHAM . . ’ ‘ '«,.v ‘ j ■
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