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f s of Ortnfl* County ep up with tho mwi ,1 ovoi tho courtly hy , THE. NEW S ol County. HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. H. C., THU For Quick, proven mouWa soil, buy, rent or «•* « fob Uv ucina tho -«*«- -* - l®0 #ww •" pope 7 of THE NEWS of Oronye County. EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE KIDD BREWER'S LUJKJ 1H® PROGRAM ... opinion is that State Maga (lid a fine thing in naming tton Hodges of Asheville as I, Carolina’s -Man of the Year 93$, He deserved it. other North Carolina govern ai group i if re cent years work s hard—and as earnestly—as Tax Study Commission which 'es ran as chairman.' you have noal seen pne: you Id order ffonft the Tax Re cli Department here in the ■nue Building a free, copy of big report issued just before iksgiving. c recofnmcndgtions are more •oathing than you realize, ivenior Hodges believes the 'constitutes the first com icnsive, over-all. objective re cver to be made on our tax ■lure." Yes, and the first big ige recommended in 25 years, have talked to some of the who prepared the study—anci have had reports from them irding it. What impresses us heir enthusiasm for the tax ;ram they are presenting to ■ 1J57 Legislature. Several mem of the committee—probably of them by now—have made led addresses on the study ate going all-out to sell the ram. ■?' . - . EWS.Virtually every < of life was represented on committee drawing up the re dcstincd to be the big news e.’ in North Carolina within next tour* months. You -have don Maddrey on it. Cordon is icrchant and a farmer. Then e is Frank Daniels of Raleigh, runs the bad items life of the s and Observer. -Representing insurance companies and big ness in general we would say toward Holderness of Greens d, president of Jefferson Stand : J. y Jordan, Asheville bach lawyer, and member of the icral Assembly; W. P. Kemp, icnsboro furniture manufacturer I a member of the General As nbly; Ed O'Herron. Charlotte, tard Drug Co. offieial: Sen. nes M. Poyer, Raleigh attorney j Cameron Village; and former i Grady Rankin, Gastonia,,! tile manufacturer. ' , 1 00 HIGH.. , . A friend of ours 1 back from New. York tells JUI going !q a .show in one of ** fine old -theatres converted >iy years ago into a movie ace. ‘ . | r,'Y,ny to make his dollars r.kii as far as possible, he and collegiate friend bought bal '• scats. Thay> were escorted by usher w j»o marched them up, up adcr ramp, to the top bal level, where he stopped and ulcd upward toward more seats, idling into the blackness. ' luull find a seat up there blew here, This is as far- as 1 ■ Above this level, my nose N»." ■ i 'I’UHIS . . . You folks who at iik'd-the Dixie Classic— sorrie rtfC‘xed io as the Dixie Clas- i -here two weeks ago will be erw#ed in knowing that St. llis and San Francisco, two of j ll>P quints in this or any otheri Jlltrv- have already been issued ! nations to take part in the 1957 l,8y coming up in about 12 >nths. " I 11 Landis on January 23. Wake fabulous Bill Barnes will nonored by a big banquet. Get tuuch with Bill Brown of Lan • you Deacon supporters, if you n to attend. ''ouldn t turn my hand over in 1 ' difference of the Duke, Wake '•‘ci. and State teams this has- j ® Jear- It seems to be most a matter of where they hap " *o be playing . . as witness s victory over State Satur ■v night in Durham. d°MESTIC HELP . . . With heil> costs in North Caro ei[C to $25 and $33 per ( in ®°me sections, many a , s®wife in this State saw in l^bBWilan refugee problem a ?‘sb®t opportunity to . help out , get *°od household help at ! ““me time. (See Roundup, page, a FIRST TRAFFIC FATALITY—Inevitably as it must happen each year. Orange County's first traffic death of the new year occurred early Saturday morning when a Hamlet man died in the Crash of hi*' auto along the Piftsboro Highway at the edge of Chapel Hill. Above, 'the demolished '56 convertible Buick is seen after being righted, while investigating the smashup are Policeman Graham Creel and Highway Patrolman Tom Wmbofhe (right). Photo By Giduz County's First 1957 Auto Fatality Occurs Early Saturday Morning Orange County's first traffic* death of 1957 , occurred near Chapel Hill this past weekend ip the fifth day of^th? new year. A Hamlet man. James Nelson ?xlangum JV., 39 died of a broken h e c k. according' to Assistant Coroner George Cannady, in a single automobile crash on the Pittsboro Hoad hill in the pre dawn hours of Saturday morning, ‘“flffertigatmg Highway -Patrol man Tom YYinborne said there were apparently no witnesses to the tragedy. It was- discovered by Riehard Gunter of Chapel Hill, about 2 a.m.. as he was driving home Ih'om ■*- friend’s house. He said he noticed the headlights of of thy auto shining from ,a,-ravine in the ijoQd^ and immediately noti fied local- police. Patrolman Graham Creel came to the .scene and. found the victim hanging from Ins upturned 1956 BuicK edpvertible which was lodged- between two trees a few ert f:f)in the highway. . -Tli-c- M: JI> 1 wrecked ear showed that it was hea-'ol south lint ; t Chapel Hill on the Pittsboro Highway.and swerved charply to the left after rounding the first Curve on the hill above Chase Avc. The car traveled- a short distance on the muddy shoulder of the road and careen ed into the gulley. coming to rest, on its side.? • It was understood that Mr. Mangum had been visiting friends, in Chapel Hill and was returning heme. CHANGE IN JUDGE .Judge J. B. Craven Jr. of Mor g niton has been assigned to preside ta the Jynuarv 21 civil term of Su perior Court in Orange County, at-, cording to notification received by ( !erk E. 'M. bynch from the office (,t state's Chief Just-tee Judge « K. \i mocks' \yu.s, the regularly scheduled judge for this town. Claude Sharpe Retires/ Sells Local Firm To Son CLAUD* W, SHARPE Delegation Urges Action On New Gym A delegation , of nine persons at tended the Board of Education meet ing on Monday requesting "some thing definite" on a new gymnasium i M' Hillsborf) School. The group included Ed Barnes as spokesman. James Freeland. Ira Ward, Glenii Auman. Mrs. MMdied m rinedy. Marvin Hay Reid Ro berta, Mrs. Clyde Roberts and G. A. Brown, principal. in sneaking to the Board. Barnes slated that the hope of,, the Citi zens Committee was "that some 4.VCC GYM, Hoy,- 4) ■ Claude W. Sharpe, wh > c*me to Hiflsboro^some 50 years ago to learn the merchandising trade. tired last weekend soldJhjs business to his son* who' ha»as sisted him in its operation for the past several years. Now at 72 and one of the coun ty’s real veterans in the mer cantile field. Mr. Sharpe says he wants to lay^down the responsi bilities of active business, take it easy, and devote more time" to some of the things he enjoys most such as fishing and visiting his friends. ■ His business. The -Young Men's. Shop, will continue under the same name, having been sold to YVayland C’. Sharpe as of Decem ber 31. 19n6. -Mr, Sharpe say^ he-M .-s 1444. -help out at the store When needed..but for the day-to-day routine it will be Way land, “opening up .and as-, sumrng the responsibilities" •in stead of him. Mr. Sharpe, who was born July 26. 1884 in the New Hope settle ment in Orange County, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sharpe, left the farm in 1907 to work for H. W. and J. C. Webb in their General, Merchandise store in Hillsboro, then the' trading cen ter for a wide area ih central North Carolina He still remem* bers the Webbs as “the finest people in the world to work for” and- from whom he learned much of what he knows about merchan dising. He*,-remainedv.with them until 1925 when the business ,\vps sold to him and his partner. H ,Q„ Coleman. Th? firm of Coleman and (See SHARPE. Pngr 4) At Cedar Grove Meeting Orange Farmers Urged To Grow Darker, Heavier Quality Leaf The need for tobacco growers- here to strive to produce a higher .quali ty of tobacco and a darker grade „f jeaf was emphasized to Orange ■County tobacco growers last week • Get your tobacco planted early, a tobacco expert advised more than S.»f) Orange Count' tobacco farm ers who 'attended a meeting in the A coclt'School last Thursday night. The expert. S. N. Hawks, ex clusion tobacco specialist Hon* College, said 'the man wants Heavier tobacco, and planting beds early will help you. get it^How ever, Hawks cautioned against P.-mting before-the cold weathei is gone, and saief^nst work toward; he earl' part of the season. Hawks wus one of three speak ers at the meeting Thursday who discussed the 19*7 tobaceo crop with county farmers. Others were !l. E. ,Scott. extension entomologist of state College, and Harpld Wheel i r, a representative of the Stabili 7.-ition Corp. County Agent Don U.ithesofl presided over the meet !llg. Hawks, the first speaker, urged . rowers to try to produce a darker, heavier bodied, more aromatic type ul tobacco in 1957 to match the trend in the demand for this type oJ tobaco on the market. He de cJared that the 'siiift from regular cigarettes to the filler tip cigar Jtes Imd changed the demand to the darker tobaccos. *»■ Declaring that one-third of all flue-cured tobacco grown was be ing sold to foreign countries.Hawks emphasized that the foreign market was built on through the years with lull flavored, aromatic leaf and stated that the foreign market might be jeopardized if. the trend in pro-' dining tobacco lacking in flavor ar.d aroma is continued. Speaking of the 673 million pounds i or flue-cured tobacco now in the j hands of the Stabilization Corpora- i tion. Hawks declared 'tfffs surplus tobacco, has been built up over a 'period of several years because the acreage j'ields* have increased fast* (See TOBACCO. Page 4/ Is Considered In Lieu Of ; Carrboro Vote1 \ A meeting has been called by the Orange County Board of Edu cation for tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock at its offices for a study of the proposed county-wide tax! supplement for schools. Invited to attend are all princi pals of the administrative unit, district committeemen and PTA presidents, * Much recent discussion has; centered around the calling of a county-wide vote on a school sup- | plement because of complications ' which would arise from such aj vote in the Carrboro District alone. A request for .a vote on a': supplement in its district has come previously*'*from the Carrboro Dis trict Committee. The Orange County board of ed ucation on, Monday approved plans of the Architects. Croft and Ham mond. for the new Carrboro School and sot February 21 as the day for opening the bids on the pro ject. Jack Croft and Clyde Dorsett of the Ashcboro firm of architects presented the finished plans to the board. In other actions the board ap- I pointed D. C. Clayton of Route 2,1 Hofigemont to the Caldwell School committee to fill out'the nnexpir pd term of Lacy Tilley, deceased! An allottment of $300 was made to the Hillsboro school' from the current budget for instructional supplies, which with other funds will finance the school’s band-pro gram Th? board took under advise ment a report from Mrs. Lois Blalock, principal of the Caldwell School, that ap Aycock School bus was being routed into the Caldwell School District to pick up the children, of Sam Cates, No action was taken pending . investi gation. , Approval was given fori the borrowing of; funds necessary - trr ^complete the purchase of a Cen tral School activities bus for $4. JSfi’L.lBalance due above funds a I ready raised by the school, and •JTS'patrsm- is si.800. ... " . . -’*• • * 1 ' . Recreation Decision Postponed Jr dc< ision on iltr sctiiu” ol tfu- bound.tries ol ihe.Cliap el Hill - ('an Imho Renealion District.. as well as (lie dale lor the elet I ion, u as .post - polled I»\ the (immjy I'.oiii missioneis in Hillsboro'' Iasi SloiKjay. iri-tlie late ol op posite stands on the issue-taken by the Town Board ami Schi>tl Committee and a number »f: cio . zens' repre.vntatlvesv ' . . .• j Following a number of .slue mens in lavor of leaving the-Can | boro area in the District as propo ' ed, Acting County Board f'hairnuuv1 Dwrighi Ray read Idlers in op position to this from the Carrboro , District School Committee and fiom the Town Board of Coinmis sinners, Special Meetings Both -.lalements were adopted al sp/feciaT meetings since Thursday evening's legal hearing on the mai ler before the Commissioners, and | both Cited :thr possible advera j affect tiiat the issue might have or.1 the passage of the forthcoming* Carrboro District school tax cH'i -, tion as the reason for opposing 'he recreation plan. * Mr. Ray also re read a letter from the Carrboro Lions Club, written in April, 1955, in whicn 1 the civic club ask«4 that Carr boro bo excluded from tho dis trict, and than road a letter in favor of leaving the District o | proposed from Dr. and, Mrs. Claude Baker of Carrboro. .■>, *j (See Ri:CRE4TlON. Page 4j I Needs More Time For Writing Dr. Charles Maddry Resigns Pastorate At Baatwt Church DR. CHARLES E. MADDRY, VITH MRS MADDRY “The Good Circle .. > lndoubtedly. that It iciul <>l so niarty. l)r. (iharlie Maddiy. deserves Ijis seyond. leliteiuetu in "die good circle ol a good lilt- which has been im.\\ c. like hun diecls ol others ol his neighbors. hope it will lie spent in the < omlnrtahje In t< k house w ith the gre«i blinds oil St. Mary's Rcrad. As we Itvined ol the decision which lie announced to his congu’gaiion StmdaW harked ajgtm u» thy Jut'' *• tribute jMii>1i»ied '.by I he News y Oliscrver wfieii he iv ' hinted to liiUsboro in i«(i htr the second teiHire now * (oik hiding. We jsynnld like to make it onis.dso in a'p~ preeialioi.i ol.oue. ol Orange Counts s giciiiV'i sons: “Mol 11101/</ iii&n (IV. given either rife’wisdom or the chance to round out then lues m shell seieice- and satsijactiwt as that which lies before Dr. Cuarles T Muddry, great elder statesman of the Baptist denomination. “Other able men after loigi. active and eminent careers have' politely declined to grow dusty m dignity on any-shelf no 'matter. Iioie highly eleixiled ai.ui rein-rated. Indeed., in reTiunievt Dr. IHaditry has irorl.Vd-ut- Ins .u r/l/ng with a steady energy surpass tug that ol many .yoiuigi r inch, lyen such labors, him ei-er. seam ed a “loafing’iin life-andi; service .to a nnm who had not (inly, served hu ye chit ( In s iu xep,ei\:!'-stales. Ini', as erf'cnjjve s'etctnj# ....,ol.Jhe .S.W.CJW .Mission, Hus id id ike. ■S^nf-ticni Bairtist < 'cni-v?mimw had gone to’every mission he'd oj hi denom imho i ,-i.e, y ■ part of the world, The d'ingers mol e.redeiio-ilTs'.hi snrh service per Imps came to its tdirnax when- Dr. MtuClry's mission- hm fight hi at to Hawaii at tlo- time -odfen the Japs hoa.bed I’eurl Hat bo i. .“Snch a man a a.i firl it l(;d to rest as age caught up 'with his , labors. And to -give Dr. Mndijiy credit for an attempt at roidorm ily. In- tried it'. IDs writings piove, htr" ever, that Ire tried such rest eery restlessly-. It the cit/<-nduj“ counted his years,, it could not measure his continuing eagerness' to be of service still. Mon 1 in an almost miraculous closing of tin- good circle ot a good life, he goes bud in age to become the pe.rnianeiil pa ft or ed the chinch in Hillsboro where hr began Ins ministry while stJI:~a sin-lint, and almost■ a boy. ''. 4 f ■ • “One well known North Caroliniun oner -unite a great novel called "Yon Can't, do Home Again.” A ouiii; he suggested, raiinot. . hope to go hail, to the old places and Ins youth in them. Dr. Mod dry knows- belt, r. in his ggf lie I. nows that, there ean'be no better' place to scree at Lltsi J-hgn p lierv he,.sought with young eagerness to serve first. He goes in deiiinuxtrat niu that the best old'age is not ail■ utironeliri'f/.blip a wlidlem-s-s. lie goes bach after- a career . as wide as the World to' a Just. Which seemed (mly as big as a '.'fint-H church in' o' little tiuhi. ’dt takes smite tune tor <i nuin Hi * redlC.eklhul theC(,ll-.ge- iMisdiioJ, eoufa'ihs 0 tin- jf'grldr and the , •world cam-lie,fee In- greater in a* .wkuili’wye la .a flood iniin tiran the spiritual needs of a few people UitlPiu the walls of u small church,. “‘Dr. Maddnj's loafing is ended if it (ti-e.r began His first" church will provide tliLr"bcneclietion of Ids last years. The small church "will be -blessed, tom in the discovery that it deserves the concern Qf a minister anil a -gc if tie man whose pastorale not long I -.ago was the whoU wide" world.'' Development Group Reappointed By Board Members of the Orange Count) Axriculturf1i'Trnd Industrial Corn mission were reappointed for a new t wo.'’ear fernctm- Monday JO), the c'ounty cpmmissiotfers and tlien banded a new; job on a project which apparent!) .could have.far reaching effect on tll^ county's future. ; Nq changes were made in the 28-«*embecr oup Hour front etoch to\v'nsbipvt which was set up in May of i»53. The new terms ex pire December 31 1958. The new job given the Com mission was to act as thi* county's liaison with the Cape Fear Basin Development^ group in connection j w ith , the activities pleading to the I proposed large dam on the Maw i River just I) low the entrance of New Mope Creek. _ The coflnty has been requested to supply a vast amount of. (lata in connection with the project and to participate in‘the hearing on the project which'is scheduled fPT February 8-at Fayetteville. The Commissioner^ entered, itr (See <'OM MISSION, t‘aye 4) Dr. Charles E. Maddry. often termed the greet elder statesman cf the Baptist denomination, last Sunday resigned his pastorate at Hillsboro's First Baptist Church, ef fective April 10th, his 81st birth «>“>' ' • * “The. fellowship of the church restored hnd its people now' in harmony.” Dr. Charlie, as he is af fcyHpnuteiy known by a great many people here, said he had completed v■:i:.t he. hud set out to do six years ago and thought the church now needed a younger man. In addition In restoring the harmony of the chiireh, he has found time to lead h' congregation in the construction and dedication of a large education al building addition to the historic sanctuary in which Ire served his lirst pastorate 55 years ago. _ Writing Two Kook* I'r. Yladdry^xaid also he is “In the niidsf of w riling two more books and he needs more time in order to complete tliejn. One is “The History 01 the Foreign Min* si on Hoard, Sou them Hkptfst Con vention." an organization which he served as secretary for -13. years, while tile other is “The Life j(P Slutbaei Stearues “ a biography of the man He considers the fouhder of all Baptist work in pii ihffionf North Carolina. Slearnes organized tile first Baptist Assoc ialic*'i in the 'S-Ult'c 4 ov Maddry is already the author ot an autobiography -and other works m (lie religions field. He «ai la>rn in'Orange County a few miles north of Chapel Hill. I)r. Maddry began his first past orate here January 1902 serving lor lwo > ctp*. and nine months. At Hie same lime lie served as pastor ni four other churches in the coun ty . acted as county superintendent, and was a senior at the University oi North Carolina. Other churches i tan llillsbniu which lie served at iirtt lime were Mat-'.Hill. Ivbenezer, llcrryv-firove ittrii Mi- -Ada. Furegin Service lie went to the Seminary at Louis \, tc.’ Kt Tram here and -after that •ior',23* year's served different pas torates in Kentucky, North Caro lina and Texas. The next 23 years were spenl as a Missions Secretary, • 12 .-years as Secretary of. North ( a nil in;l Baptist Convention and 13 > • ar.s as 'Executive Secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board, which look him uito every pan of ' - (See MADDRY. I'aye 4) Cheshire Case Is Continued In Court Here I’hc trial of William. Polk "Bil ly" Tlii'shire in the test of life .state's new cross-burning law was continued on Monday fqr two weeks. The request for delay was filed by the attorney for the University of North Carolina student. Ches hire's attorney. R. P,. Keade of Durham, asked for the delay t«^ permit him to attend the current , session1'Of Durham. Cou-ntv Su perior Court. Cheshire's hearing is scheduled in Recorder's Court Orange County authorities and State Bureau of Investigation agents said Cheshire admitted burning a crdsjf’m the yard of Mrs. Cheshire Webb where form*, er University President Frank C. Crahyni was an overnight guest 1 in the home of his sister-in-law. ■ Cheshire said he fired the cross "as a prank1' ' The law under which Cheshire was charged was -written in the date's crackdown on the Ku Klux Klan. It prohibits anyone from hunting a cross onp'rivate prop erty' without thu owner's permiss
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