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OTHERS . . Moreover, othci S.jtc ciivdoyces tnun tec-.tiers ore-in-desperate need of a ten pci ,-„t ni r.Tsr in salary. It is gooc io tafc g&cut getting new industry *aiid fo■make JNdrill Carolina at t, it e to unsettled industries looking for n place to land—bui we must not cm it to the ncglcc 0 tin: just dues of thousands ol fine c-it'4011s who keep our State Government, our great institu tons, and bur far-flung schcxx system iu operation. FURTHER TREATMENT? . it may denied in official qpar tors, but the word we get is tha Upws iu the Pearsall Plan cn ac ted by tlic special session ot tin General Assembly last sunimei Uio becoming apparent. 'I.K> Bcvci 1. Et.kc Plan may b( giyen further consideration. Don iw surpi-.»ed it several wield? varying b.lls on the scgregatioi (iiic-stiim—now sleeping—are tossec into the ht iper. * Excrir ’’braces, w/Liu underpin ning, and a general lightening o the Pearsall Plan may claim quit! a bit of time in the 1957 Legi.sla lure; LAWYERS AGAIN . . . As i: utmost always the case, the 195 Legislature " 111 be run tty at tornevi. There are 50 members o the State Senate. Of this number 16 have never served in the Stall Senate before—and 12 of thesyli Ireshmen are lawyers. Therey ou go. Senator Keri Scott wili be sorry to hear fha 1 licre -will- bp; tessT than a dozer tull-ftedged farmers among the T7I solons who will gather here < month hence. One of them, R03 beat out Farmer Charles Gordor Maddrey, who had served in tht Legislatures of 1919. 61, 53, and 55 As for Newcomer Harlon Hoi conibe of Burnsville, he rniglit by a stretch df (he Imagination lie regarded as a Southern planter of sorts. He is an undertaker. Of 120 members of the House 46 are freshmeh. Clay County's Veruon Martin b a school teacher. One of the blue ribbon fresh men in the House wil be Watts HT11, Jr., of Durham "ho is a banker. “LIKE YOU AND ME . ..All ill .all, we will have- 36 freshmen— lor voting purpose exactly one third— in the R>57 General Assem bly. While a great majority of them are attorneys, they repre sent nearly every walk of life. They are not mental giants; and they are not dunerheads. General •j speaking, they are Just good, average people whom the folks hack, home have confidence in. And, taken year-in-and-year-out. they will measure up to any other State legislative body in the Na tion. They should, ter the N. C. General Assembly—unshackled by veto—is one of the most powerful lawmaking bodies on earth. FIGHT SONG , This little five-year-old Raleigh ’boy came into the house humming the Star Spangled Banner, our national an them. that's the other fight song, Mother,” he said proudly. "Yes, it is our greatest fight s°ng. son,” said his mother. ^ “t like both of them," remarked the modern son, "both fight songs, Mother. The one' that goes With (See ROUNDUP, Page 2) ' \ ■■■-*. " - • '■ i* v, 1. . ' White Bonus Checks Total $124,326.51 White Furniture Company pre sented Christmas checks to its 457 employees in Hillsboro artd . Mebane, excluding executives, totaling $124,326.51. This aver aged $272.05 per man. _1 All employees who have been with the company for a year, re cciyed checks equaling 4.65 per cent of their year’s wages. Those who have been with the company as long as five years received 7,75 per cent of the year’s pay. The '148 employees who have •worked fer the company over 10 years received checks equalling 9 7 per cent of their annual pay. Checks were also mailed to the 17 former employees who arc now retired. I ' ’ j Grange Youth Group Attends Conference Mi. and Mrs. C. "F. Wilkcrsoiv chaperoned a group of Sell I > y young people to the Grange Youtn , Winter Conference held in Elkin, on December. 28 and 29 There were 70 young people irom all- parts of North Carol’ra attending. Those attending from i Schley were: Mr. and Mrs. C. !• ; Wilkerson and daughter, Ann Wil ] kerson, Patsy Latta. Sarah Kenycm ! Billy Latta. Bobby Joe Miller, Paul 1 Wilson, Jim Johnson and Bill.. Mlncey.’ ■ The conference opened in regu lar Gramgc session at which time they conducted the business. A | buffet lunch was served. A panel discussi ;n on Personal Devel'qpmei»$j Faith, Hope, Charily, j and Fidelity was the highlight of | the afternoon. A Banquet and square dancing concluded the firm j tday of the conference. The Wilkes Count)* Grange members furni.'.v cd lodging for the night. The following day consisted of business session and making reso lutions for Youth Grange. Officeis of the State Grange Youth were | elected. This concluded the con | i fercncc and the youth went their [separte ways. They will.meet aga$. | at Grange Youth Camp next sum i mer. i MRS. GILLIN TO SPEAK J Mrs. John £*. Gillin. will’be speaker when the Carrboro Civic Club holds its first regular meet ; tug <»f the .new year next Wedncs 1 ciav-at 3 p.m. in the club room -Mrs. Gillin will'speak on “South America." All members are urged oged to come for this meeting. I Meeting Set I For Tonight On Tobacco | In view of impending tobacco i acreage allotment cuts and a 50% i reduction in support prices on cer tain varieties, tonight’s general meeting of tobacco growers at ■Ayeock school assumes special im j portance. Opening time is 7:3Q p.m. Men from the State College Tobacco Extension Department, the Oxford Experiment Station, and/tHe Tobacco Stabilization Cor poration will be on hand to dis cuss the outlook for 1957, the best varieties to plant, ^the effect of the 50% reduction on certain va rieties and other problems affect ing the industry,* hich is the State’s and this county’s principal agricultural prop:-. A good crowd is expected. It has been estimated by County Agent Don Matheson that the lo s of income from acreage reduction and the support cut for Orange County grower could approximate S700.000. In a recent interview Matheson said he hesitated to advise tobac co growers what to do in the present situation. "I don’t pose as an expert in this very healthy problem." He said he can. see several al terriatives, none of them “very rosy." • “The small farmer with five acres or less of tobacco can put it all in the Soil Bandk and try to get a job in industry. "The large landlord with ten ! ants can got rid of a tenant and ' still have a fair amount of tobac co.’’ He said, however, he expected most leaf producers would "go ahead and try to make another crop." He said he would urge Orange County tobacco growers to add 1 other farm enterprises where 1 >.% possible. • “There seems to be a fair mar ket for eggs." he noted in. this connection, “and for feeder pigs.” Matheson also hesitated to ad vise growers abdut -xshat variety j ef tobacco they should plant next year “Farmers do have a.choice of several disease • resistant va rieties but. all-of them have per tain disadvantages. You can’t even say these disadvantages are universal. Some farmers get bet <thp 1 same variety.” •v 4 Light Interest Noted To Date In Public Recreation Program Little public reaction has been noted to date to the calling of a leferendum this winter-on the set ting up of a public recreation pro gram in the Chapel Hill area ;* I A formal hearing on the matter k to be held before the Count J’ Commissioners tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the court room of, the Chapel mil Town Hall At that time the Board may confirm or re set the boundaries of the District, uncording to those set out in the 1955 General Assembly Enabling Act*Which provided, for the referen dum. The issue to be voted upon will NEW VFW MEETING PLACE The newly organized Carrbcno j VFW post has moved its mecti' a place to the Tillman Store build ing on Highway 54. according to an announcement yesterday. The first meeting in the new location will be tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The group will hold a dance Sat urday night in the Carrboro School I auditorium from 8 until 12 o clock | with the John Simpson String Band | providing the music. SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES j A new series of Sunday evening services to- continue for the first Sunday in each month will begin at the Hillsboro Methodist Church this week, the Rev. William Sea well announced yesterday. The program will include an informal message by the pastor and will begin at 7:30 o’clock. • , . .• ^permit the County Commissioners , to levy a tax of up to $.10 per $100 I in the District for maintenance of a public recreation program, and to sell up to $250,000 in bonds for construction of recreation facilities. v II * — ■ ■ 1 ■■ . ' tlRST IN 57—Orange County)* first baby of tho new year, made "hit entrance five ho^trt and f i'»e ' minute* after the infant year «*,jr en Mm teens TH b»hy 1 ry, as yet unnamed, »wa< bofi^nine day* early to Mr*. Paul Lee, the former Betty Ray, of Orange Grove Road, Hillsboro, at Memorial Hospital January 1 at 5:05 a.m. Mrs. Lee hat four other children, Skippy 14, Larry 13, Nancy 11 and Danny, 18 month*. Roland GiduzT’holo Meeting Set For Poultry Organization An effprt will be made to or ganize a Central Carolina Poul try Association at a meeting to be Held at'the Chatham County Ag riculture Building in PittsBo'ro to day at 2 p.m. County Agents have been asked ■V»< 'tWIt# • itftliwkt&l* Mttfos. ers in ‘the following counties: Wake. Orange. Lee. Harnett. Moore, Alamance. Randolph. Dur 1 ham; Person, Granville, Union and Chatham. j Chatham Farm Agent J. B. Snipes said. “We r,ink that such an organization would do much to further the interest of-the poultry industry in this section of the state. We are hopeful that a poul try organization will be set tip and officers elected at this meet ing". .. . r ;_■_: __ _ ;./■, Cross Burner Exposed; Faces Charge Monday ,A 25 - year - old Hillsboro man was arrested Monday -for burning a • cross in the y ard of a local home in which Dr. Frank Graham was nsTGng.’ .. . W! I Inin* -Mo)k;..V Hilb." <' beshafc 'former serviceman, now a Univefs i tv o^-North "Carolina studeift. son Of Mr and Mrs. .lames Cheshire ly. told officers" he did it: as a prank to let Dr Graham know how he felt about him. The “prank" will gain Cheshire the notoriety of becoming the first person to be tried 'under > 1953 law designed/'to curb the Kijf Klux Klan. 'fhe law. a result of the Klan excesses in Columbus County, makes it a crime to burn or cause to be burned a cross on property of another person with out the consent of the person who “Barbed Wire Preacher". • -4n.*■*-■*-*■^ I ———i * Bill Rittenhouse Story Set For TV (Editor’s Note: The Rev. Bill Rittenhouse is a former resi dent of Hillsboro. His sister is Mrs. HaroUl Culbreth who lives at Occoncechee Farm here.) By KAY McLEOD In The Atlanta Constitution As a youngster. Bill Rittenhouse resented being “a preacher’s kid.” He had decided that he was going to be a doctor and had even done his pre-med work at Stetson University. But. along came World War II and a bombing raid that exploded into a nightmare with Bill waking up in a German prison camp in Romania with both legs broken Thus, began an era in Bill’s life that he can now look back on ob jectively ..but then the only: thought in the minds of Bill and his buddies $as survival. Djiring the fight for survival. Bill made a far-reaching,, decision ,and as a result he iji the Her. Bilf Rittenhouse. pastor of the Sylvan k ... ; -■ Hills Baptist Church, today. Choice For TV "This prison camp period of his life has been chosen by the ABC TV program ‘Crossroads' as the subject of one of its half-hour filmed shows which deal with ministers who have ‘served over and above the call of duty." In the Nazi prison during 1944. Bill’s decision to become a preach er wasn’t relegated to the far-off future. He started preaching right then to his prison mates. Bill has the distinction of be ing one of the few men who ever broke out of one prison only to break into another. During those bleak days. Bill many times left Stalag Two to “break into” Stalag Tree so he could act as chaplain to the American# imprisoned there—1 After the war. Bill came back to the United States and began his trajjHijg for the ministry.-' > phD After a^iving-his -Ph D. de gree from Duke Divinity School, he accepted the pastorate of the Southside Baptist Church of Mi ami. But, he wasn’t through with lus brushes 'with danger and he still found himself acting over and above the call of duty. He can recall a two-and-a halt hour conversation with a hian threatening suicide. A gun in his hand testified to the fact that the suicide threat wasn't a bluff. The., conversation ended when Bill took the gun from the man Bill reports that this man, is now studying for the ministry. Bill and his wife. Nell, and three daughters left this week for Cali fornia where the story of his ex periences in the prison camp is being filmed. > The'story .which has been titled Barbed Wire Preacher " will star Scptt Brady. A definite play-date has not jfef*'n established,, but the story will be shown over W1AV-A here. , ' . _. •owns or lives on the .property. The penalty is left to the disrVr tioii of the trial judge. 'm jjic (p-Qss-lmrning louk^ place at . ting honk' ol Mrs - Cheshire We'Bb, _Ht*. • 'Uraham s .sister in-law. in ljiitsboro between 2:30 ami 3 a.in. last Friday- The volunteer fn*e, de partment and most of the Webb -mdu.s telephone calls. Dr. Tirafiam, special United Nations representa tive arid former president of the University of North Carolina, slept through it all. Orange County Sheriff Odell Clayton and- Director James Pow ell of the .Slate Bureau of In vestigation indicated Cheshiie bungled things so badly that he easily was traced.. He-.poured so much kerosene on the cross that it dripped. Sher iff Clayton said lie wits able to •follow the drip marks from the Webb home in. the direction of 'and to a point near the nearby residence td Lucius M. Cheshire, .in whose home, (lie- Sheriff saw. the accused has' been staying. He failed to rig the cross to burn completely.. Some of the old bed sheets in which it was wrapped were only partly con sumed. Officers, inspecting the remains, found laundry marks with the initials “LMC". Confronted with evidence in the ease. Sheriff Clayton said'Cheshire admitted constructing. The cross in the basement of the Lucius Ches hire home, carrying it-lot tin Webb yard and then making the tele phone calls, which led to its dis covery. He said other members of the family were asleep and knew nothing of the affair. The Cheshire and Webb families have had close family ties for several generations. ^Cheshire's grandmother wa,s an aunt of the late Cheshire Webb -Both are leading membeflC of the nCTriiv St. Matthews Episcopal Church in Hillsboro and \ uiuig Cheshire’s late grandfatheru-was. a Bishop-in the’M C. . Diocese " (See CROSS BURNER.- .Pape 3) ' * •*/ Favorable Weather Gets Credit For Bringing Big Share Of Gain Farm income in Orange Coun-< ty was increased about $872,000 during the past year, according to information prepared recently by; the County Agent's office for presentation to the county Agii cultural -and Industrial Develop ment Commission, Favorable xyeather conditions were given major credit for the substantial increase. Gains were reported in seven out of 13 fartti categories: dairy $100,000. poultry (eggs) $200,000 flue cured tobacco $250,000, a.-o matic tobacco (an. experiment) $1. 500. feed grains $300,000. sheep $2,500. an alfalfa hay $18,000. No gains, were reported in hqgs. beef eat tie, home food supply, vegetables, forestry and jespedo/a ■need. '"7, The quarter million dollar gain in income from tobacco came des pite a 12 per cent cut in allotments this year and was attributed to “efficient management, increased use of the 139 variety, closer spar ing. heavier fertilization, more ir rigation, control of suckers, and normal rainfall." Average pounds per acre were increased from 1. 270 to 1.574). with 3.853 acres bringing $3,175,995 gross income. Dairy farmers sold 13 per cent more milk than last year bringing a total gross return tor the year of one million dollars. “Efficiency has been ' the key . . . with the same Dumber of cows and less lab or. according to the report Stat<* | herd records show that the aver age dairyman in Orange Cpunty ; produces S9t pounds of milk per cow more than ^ average for the state, 7 "_. Poultry farmers during the I year have built 35 new -laying I houses and five new broiler houses during tile year. These ad ditional chickens are expected 1" add $200,000 to bur gross return and bring the total gross from poultry “to -'around a million dol Mars. A good growing shasorr has in | creased feed grains .bv 300.00(1 ! bushels from tbe-dry year of tO'.-t jtl was estimated (hat,we will ! make 37 bushels Of corn. 50 bush cl. ol oats and 25 bushels »>t I wheat per acre average." It was I stated tBat-200 more acres have more in improved pastures. * in i creased use of hybrid corn and | more nitrogen)' ertilizer are two reasons for the increase in grains, it was noted. |7. . f SCHOOL TIME TABLE The Architects, Croft and Ham Lippiid, have set the following te\i iative time schedule for the sub Ttission of theii: plans for the new Carrboro Elementary School * January 7. presentation to ‘h« county hoard; January 15. comply lion of linal drawings; February 7^ presentation to State Itoard ol i Education for approval: Kcbroa y | 21v opening of bids . ►---,—.—.—— Child Killed By Playmate - With Shotgun Ben Franklin Roark. 7.'of West Hillsboro died instantly of a gun shot wound around noon on Sun day He and another child. Johnny Hicks. 8, son of Pete Hicks, were playing with a 20-gauge shotgun when it accidently discharged, the load striking the child in the face. The loaded^gun had been left on the couch in the living room. ^ Assistant Coroner t* A.-'Canon dy ruled the death accidental and said no inquest will be held Funeral services were held at the Fairview Baptist Church Tues day afternoon with the Rev. L*u Barnes and the Rev. John Ter rell 'conducting Interment was in the Hillsboro Cemetery. Surviving are the parents. Mr. and Mrs Cecil Roark: two sisters. Pat and Debra. Kay of the home; the maternal grandfather.- W .-C. Hicks of Hillsboro: and the pu ternal grandparents, Mr and Mr»A Will Roark of Creensboro. | Heavy Loss, ~ | In Accidents In December ^;—-— -—— -;—-s* Northern Orange, County'* 12 TiigKw’try accidents * during the 1 month of December resulted in lour death* 15 persons injured and SI 1.252 in property damage. Patrolman- M(uui Norris, who • . compiled the monthly summary, said it was the "worst" month ever recalled !ocall> tram the stand point o! highw;i\ safety ' It sent the statistics*- .for the year IBOO soaring above the prev ious year's, he said. Summaries for previous months Were not im ' mediately available, tor., - son. ^ ^4 rWt Slated At CP PTA -*' 1 , . • dk Tonight there u II be a panel discussion at the Cameron Park , Parents. Association at 7:30 o’ i clock in the school cafeteria. This will be the first really „ ; business meeting • of the PTA. since it has been organized All parents are urged to attend and take part m the discussion of • What We Want To Accomplish In Our PTA * ' ' ■ The panel, composed of Harry -M P Breeze. Mias.Annie Cameron. Mrs. C H Re ok ard Dr X. L. MauroheT and David Baird will discuss What Do’TOC Want Yp«r PTA To Do ' .. ' r March Of Dimes Quota [For County Is $10,000 ! Orange County's quote for the March of Dime* campaign, to be ; conducted till this month, will lx | $10 000 1 E. Carrington Smith, perennial I chairman , of the drive for loud' a combat infantile paralysis, said the campaign:, will open here this morning Last year's drive for j $10,000 was surpassed by about 51 000. he noted, and every quota in j the past has been met Despite this. Orange County ha* ! always received more money from the National foundation tor In * untile- Paralysis than it has contri buted in the fund drives, according to Mr. Smith. ~ He pointed out that this pant year three new eases af poll# | occurred in Orange County, and i ' '• . th««l funds frtm the forthcoming drive would {to toward the cart »l these cases Appeal letters with return en velopes will be sent out to about g ooo persons m Chapel Hill and C-rrboio Miss Sarah Cinstead and girls In the Kec Club are already 1 assembling . and stamping these let ters. <6 In Carrburo-the drive will be con d.K'ted tinder the leadership of Mrs Jesse West, and m northern Orange Countv. Sheriff Odell Clayton will again be campaign Chairman Mr Simth said that several spe cial drives would be staged within the campaign, including the road Tiiocit soltc'tafi,,n by the Jaycoes . i nd a benefit basketbaU game. - ! V ' • / ” '■ * •'v* -
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