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of Orange Tounty up with the newt o<hr the county toy THE NEWS of NO. 4 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957 - .v-i For Quick, proven result*, sell, buy, rent or get * ioh by using the classified atfs on page 7 ef THE NEWS of Orange County. 5 * TEN PAGES THIS ISSUE KIDD BREWER'S ■ _VGE . . . There is a atmosphere hanging over lislative halls in Raleigh lys—and where it will lead, I knows. the Governor Is keeping i tenor of his way, leader - ■ the Legislature has not yet |—or to be more medical |.s culinary, has not coagu bne* fhifig. mctiibers of tfie jure are getting plenty of out on them by the teach of them said rather plain est Friday:. “You know, I ale to go home this week I know they are going to *r me. Every time I turn 1 there is the telephoned ring Itcacher coming to see me. friend of a teacher wanting ENOUGH . , • WgU, there |ty of time for leadership . After all, the session has |n operation'’less than a The freshman members going to school on parlia procedure under Teacher Cure. Ranges are planned on the al and tax fronts. Because members of the Appropria ponimittee are being gently Those members who are Finance Committee—and |»(|y is* on Appropriations or e—are also getting an edu I on tlie finer points, of the |udv Commission Report, we have had little time to I trend To lower tHxes or to i appropriations. But H does jery definitely that teachers Lular State employees have Isupport for big pay raises fas evident three weeks ago. ^YERDp If ■ ■ ■ hi-the |tod-intenHoned school teach ve overplayed their hand on bbying. contact business. Ai lime, tlie law of diminishing bjets in. This simply means oil can slap a man on his Jer a fpw times and it feels [But keep on with it and he cs irritated. After you pass lie might haul off and it, kick you ill the shin and r become your enemy, fpr N ABOUT . .‘The great Friend of the school people. • “ a,!i: > ’ mt's called (he Nuisance Ih'i gently chided ediloiial 01 her day teachers regard (he merit and testing t»usi a well written little piece painted out that the very who spend so much time and giving tests. • leaning on them In promoting and ng the pupil for life, now heir backs solidly on any f examination which might •cir merit. just as we could not follow the aptitude tests and long (,f ah kinds of silly examina whjch teachers would face a merit system, so, too, the teachers—when testing | ■hildreh in the classroom— nto consideration the human es of the child, his heredity, nment, his sweet personality. nitum. ■tiier words, teachers should Ito others axJhey would ex to be done^^rtfieir sal and their future as teachers fled upon tests. We agree t'eartedly with the News and l’er. So say we all—including udonts. „ ', rKR . . . One of the great players of the South 25 a«o was A. P. (Tom) Phil bo played for Wake Forest He was a sharp, agile, mean center. A nephew of rn District Federal Judge j J. Hayes, Tom Phillips at Campbell before going ake. f # ( Jgl* he didn't plajfr in the be often ppt .on passing ;e ROUNDUP; Pane 2) 1 on \ I »no< uverlookinq $1,250 To u«j/tucua in a small, well lighted North Carolina town when I a gang of bold thieves break into and ransack 13 business firms and I offices, virtually in earshot of the town police department, and make off without a trace except scattered • i.ebris, broken files and mfesing money? In Hillsboro, Orange County, XiSpiiC .Carol in* “dM. here’ last Frtday. night and the net results' thus far have been jokes, Jlways jibes, and incredible won der that the thing really occurred ! Late vesterdey, serious-minded 'Sheriff O. H. Clayton, whose office was also one of the ransacked, had found little on which to push his investigation.. No arrests had been made. The F.B.I. and the S B.I. had come and gone. The tragic and ludicrous aspects of the affair had been hashed and '■ te-hasiied bv all and sundry. Some of the wags said it was the worst sacking Hillsboro has suffei ed sinie Fanning's in Colonial days Nobody could recall a similar in-1 cident when a courthouse had been hr ken into in a special flaunting ef the tew which led the culprits to , leave their crowbar on the Sheriff's desk and wipe their feel on a Deputy’s uniform topcoat. ! But. it is no joke to County Ac countant Sanf Gatfis from whose1 tesk the thieves got over $1,000 of ihe County's cash. A new 1,500 pound safe is being delivered this reck. It is no joke to Policeman D.' T Heberts, who says lie "shook doors" all night and whose pawnee with the jokers has now grown (hip. And it is no joke to the 19 busi uess and professional folks and Public officials whose offices were disrupted, locks, files and safes smashed, and money and other arti cles stolen. Largest losers outside he courthouse were Dr. Robert Murphy, $225, and Citizens In surance Agency, $22. The thieves literally ransacked the town using crowbars and a gain entry ; into .13 offices and business establishments. The tax office, and all other of fices in the Orange County Court house. had to close while officers sought clues Jto the crime tvave., The thieves, who attempted to en . .. , ter four other places, went through downtown stores and offices, scat tering files and talcing small Amounts of cash, a radio, shoes, cuff links, candy and similar items. They passed up stamps and checks in the Orange County Courthouse, which appeared to have been their final stop. Two crowbars and a screwdriver were found in the court £tO!!s£ V-:v. ‘V.& ?.acSwfcpoai!aa^sr. ~ >7 £. ’’,‘.Vr*. Impressions at wjyidows and doors left little doubt thaf the tools were those used to gain entry to the es tablishments. Just where the thievery began was not knoyn. Local police, the Sign Of The Red Cross, 'Drive Plans Meets Held Rural Division Chairmen of the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross’s 1957 Fund and Membership Drive, arc meeting with their staffs this week to com plete’plans and receive final in structions, Campaign Chairman C. j Keckard announced .today . Chairmen A. 15 l.ntta. North Ko.-k Division. The Reverend W. I. Con way, SouIF West Division: and Ro- \ Uert Stray horn. South’ East Division, j met with ' their divisional, staffs I arlier this week. . I Everett keunedy and the North West Division stall will meet in the Cedar Grove Methodist.,.Church ; onght, Thursday. February 28. to complete their chans and receive their last minute instructions and materials. The. Rural ’ Divisions, the Hills boro Residential Division. Mrs. G. C. McBane and Mrs. Ira Ward, ! Co-Chairmen, the Colored Division, i A. L. Stanback Chairman. Efland. | the Reverend Roland St ubhins. Chairman, and School. Mrs Irene Pender. Chairman, will begin their drive Saturday, March 2nd. The Business Division. C D. Jones. • Chairman; Industrial. ’ W. j (See RED CROSS, hille d) \ *rY: hr_ Facilities In Good Shape Praise for law enforcement of ficers, slower 195S tax collections, and a clean bill-of-health for penal facilities in the county were fea tures of the Grand Jury report submitted in Superior Court Tues day. ■'■According.to the jurors: "The- State Highway Prison camp is being operated in an effieent • 11tanner, All buildings-and -grounds w ore found to be dean ami in good { condition-: ' A new solitary- confine-1 merit unit of two cells has been opened. The camp was found com pletely equipped with sanitary faci lities, bed. and hot and cold water. The administration of the camp is constantly seeking ways to improve j I he camp. , *jr The county jail has been recent- j ly repainted and found to be kept in clean and orderly state. Facili-j tie's were found to be in good shape. J --ln the jail in Chapel Hill where j prisoners under both the Chapel Hill and CarrboVo jurisdictions are housed, one lavatory should be re- j placed. All blankets have been re- j cently cleaned, new bunk pads in stalled and everything is in a clean and sanitary condition." The committee examined a report Merchants Sponsoring Dollar Days This Week Tomorrow and Saturday various merchants of Hillsboro are spon soring a Dollar Days" Sale. Plans were made last Thursday t the luncheon meeting ot the Hillsboro Merchants Association for those desiring to have the , sale to go together on it. It was announced by the presi dent, John Couch, that there are around $300 siiMue on the Christ mas lights. Mrs. Clarence D. Jones. £ hair man of the museum committee of the Hillsboro Garden Club, told the Association about the interview held b,v tjv committee with Dr C G.»Crittenden, of the Department .0 Archives aud ^story of North Carolina***® tmhiesday in Ra leigh. Mrs. Jones said that the establish ment of a museum is too large an undertaking and responsibility for one organization. The Garden Club is hoping to have the support of other civic organizations, in Hills Loro in starting ,the museum. ^ "Tile first need is for glass show lases" said Mrs.' Jones, "as we must have a place-to keep arid protect the collections " She asked if anyone knowing where sut-h cases ;ould be obtaihed please notify her or any member of the Garden Club. The club is also interested in of fers of „ histatic relic of^ Orgnge County fo^ the museum. of Patrolmen Mann Norris Jr. ahd T. B. Winborne on the school bu.ses and drivers, in which the .patrol men reported , they found only minor repairs needed which were made on the spot under their supervision. The report shov.;^ the drivers of these buses to be competent and careful. It found reports from the tax of fice have been regularly present e'* to the County Commissioners.. The total amount of tax charges (See Grand JURY, Page 6) FORESTRY FIELD DAY A big Forestry Field day fea turing a free barbecue lunch pro vided by Halifax Paper Com pany will be held tomorrow under the sponsorship of the Farm Ex tension Servlee on the farms of Paul McKee nad Douglas one mile north of the Duke Pow er Company's Eno Steam Station just off Highway 70, beginning at 10 am * All landowners in a two-county area are invited to attend for ihe forestry demonstrations. In the event of rain, it will take place the following day, Satur day March Z. sheriff and his deputies- and SBI agents spent the day visiting each place that had been on the thieves’ 1’St. .i - S:.._ The FBI also was brought into the case,' since one of the offices entered was that of the draft board. A filing cabinet had been broken open; but nothing w^s reported 'missing. . A1» fhe eonrt%>*ise, l ehecfe -. fthd documents In both the county tax collector’s office and the county tax supervisor’s office were scattered .about the floor. Also in the courthouse, they ram sacked‘the office of Sheriff Odell Clayton and entered offices of the Clerk of Court, Register of Deeds and* Welfare Department. Courthouse Closed The front door of the courthouse Saturday morning bore a hand written sign: '’Courthouse Closed Fir Business Today Due to Break .n ’ The courthouse normally remains i^cn until noon each Saturday.. Standing on the front steps. Tax Collector Carl Davis turned away wjtfnfywresidents who came to pay their taxes, “I’ve been here 22 >«ars. and this is the first lime I've sAnt anyone away without taking life money.” he said. Hillsboro High School also was catered. Sheriff Clayton said a small amount of cAsh was Uiken from the principal's office. The thieves i}c>-lfe a lock on a freezer but did not take anything, he said. 1-htcred in addition to the court house/' the high school, the draft bperd and the insurance-company, were the ’following: ” (Set BREAK-INS. Page 6) __ . T^ro Named development Body Members A. L. Galbraith cf Eno Town shop and Turner Forrest of Ef land, Cheeks township, have been appointed to the membership of the Orange County Agricultural and Industrial Commission.. They were named Id fill vac ancies caused by resignation of original members.of the develop ment body. Mr. Galbraith is vice president af Wrighl.Alaclii.ncr.> Corporation of Durham, a subsidiary of Sperry Hand Corporation and resides’ two .miles north of the Eno ..Power Plant. He succeeds Mrs. Clarence Link, Mr. Forrest is an owner of For rest & .Forrest.,, general merchants and farm machinery dealers,' ’Of Efland. He succeeds Thomas Kale. The commission’s first’ meeting of the year will lx* held tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the courthouse to discuss recent activities of the board and elect officers for the new year. Discussion is planned on a sug gestion that a special Research Tri angle Development Committee be set dip in the Chape! Hill area to push this phase of the overall promotion and to work in conjunc tion with the county group. Contract For School Is Signed C'.a rrboro school children may be attending classes in a new modernistic t (i-t lassroom building as f ine as any school plant in the state before the end of the next scIhmiI year. Contracts totalling approxi mately $395,000 for the long-awaited one-story structure have been let V- ‘-he- Orange County School Board to low bidders on the project and construction is expected to begin Within a few days; -MO Working Days -.District School Committee Chair man Carl Ellington said that the general contractor has stated the building would be ready for oc cupancy after 240 working days and that he Veit this would be well be fore the end of the coming school .• ear...... The Dickerson Co., Inc., of Mon roe,' tow bidder oot of to - con tractors who sought the general contract, will build the new school on Ashe St. for $294,900. This same linn recently won the general contract to build the fourth of three men’s dormitories for the University above Navy Field, tither .contracts were awarded, to low -bidders as follows; Plumbing. Center Plumbing and Keating Co.. VSheboro. $22,220; heating. John.G. Davis Plumbing and Heating Co., High Point. $28,243; and electrical. Dicks. Electric Co.. Wilson. $33.31)21 Building architect is the firm of Croft and Hammond of Asheboro. In. addition to the eight primary and eight elementary classrooms, !fie .School will have a.. 250-seat lunchroom, a 500-seat auditorium, an 80-seat library, a large play ■oom. administrative suite of the principal’s office, health room, teacher s loung^. work and storage ■ com, and an audio visual room'. Fire Destroys Two Homes In Past Weekend Two homes in the Hillsboro area were completely destroyed'in fires last Saturday night and Sunday morning. The home of T. A. ' Cheek" Wat kins. a 7-room frame structure four miles from Hillsboro on the New Sharon road, caught fire and" burned to the ground about 4 a.hi. Sunday morning. Mr Watkins, his son Alex, daughter Laura, and stepson.’ Jesse Jordan, just barely escaped without injury. Although the ori gin is unknown, it was reported they heard an explosion in the kitchen just before the. fire broke out The rural fire department was able to keep the blaze from spead ing to adjacent barns and chicken houses. The home of George Pherribo was burned about 7 o'clock Sat urday night on Hillsboro avenue. The origin here was also undeterm-. in'etl and the house was a total loss. The family was aw'ay from home at the,outbreak, it was said. Museum Drive Meeting Is Set For Next Thursday The drive to establish a museum* in Hillsboro gained momentum I this week. Last week, members of the j Hillsboro Garden Club museum committee discussed plans with members of the State Department of Archives nd History in Raleigh and scheduled a further planning meeting here nex^ week -with Dr. C. C Crittenden, siate arcfifvfet, as principal speaker. Dr. Crittenden will be guest ! st*eaker to the Hillsboro Garden Club nest Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and will speak on .crtablishing historical museums, with, the meeting being held in the upstairs of the old courthouse. The old courthouse is one of the proposed sites for the museum. Representatives from all civic groups have been asked to attend this meeting and an invitation to ail interested Orange County resi dent* is cordially extended. . Dr. Crittenden s staff has guided the establishment of such museums in Salisbury. Greensboro and Wins ton-Salem. Mrs. Clarence D. J;>^es is chair man of the club’s museum commit tee. _ WoHd War I Veterans Plan Area Meet Here Arrangements have been com pleted here in Hillsboro -for a rally of all'World War'l veterans in Orange and surrounding coun ties Sunday afternoon, at 2:30 o' clock in the Orange County Court house. J. Mak Rogers of Durham, Com mander of tty Durham Bar*,*** No. 707. Veter ills of World War l. will be the chief speaker. The Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Tnc.. was founded about five years ago. and since that time have expanded their op erations into 46 states and terri tories with more than 800 local Barracks. Headquarters of the national organization is lqcated.'in Washington. I). C.. while the state unit is located at Salisbury. (See VETERANS. Page ’ ► Receives Only 1 Light Terms ' Brady Ray Robbins. Fairvie* area resident, who., teamed with * Ht bf SaVenifes to Weak. ewer and rob three Orange County busi year, could serve as little as lour months for his crimes, ’ ' . . Judge W. H. S. Burywyn sent Bobbins to the roads for’six months in one case and gave him another six months in a -second case to run concurrently. With gqpd be havior, he could be out aj^in in (our months. In the third case, he was given a three to five year term suspended on condition he remain sober, of good behavior, tpiefnliy and gainfully employed. Another break in a Mist, Johnnie Wall, charged in three brealt-in cases, received a year each in two of them and the Solicitor no! pres sed the third. He broke in the Post Office and Tip Top Grocery at West Hillsboro. Other cases: Charles B. Wood. Jr.p escape, six i^onths to be served at the ex piration of sentence he irnow serv :"g, Eugene Wombles, escape, six months *o be started at the expira tion of sentence he is now serving; Ed Tow. escape, six months, to be gin at expiration date of sentence he is now serving; Bobby Taylor, escape. 12 months to .sthrl at . the. expiration of sen-, lence he is nqv serving; Richard (See COURT. Page 6) SOIL BANK DEADLINE Tomorrow io the deadline for in the Acreage Reserve, phase of the Soil Bank program. Office Manager Donald Roberts remind ed yesterday. For tobacco. 197 agreements, in volving :WW.0:1 acres, and premis ing $73,639.90 have been .signed, in this rnjunt.v. Approximately $1$, (100 of the eount.v's original allott ment still remains unclaimed. In the voluntary 'Conservation Reserve phase of the bank, the . sign-up deadline remains April 15. Mrs. Parker To Return To Wei fare Department Mrs. Jane Parker of Chapel Hill. Executive Secretary of the Family Service Agency ln l>ur^iam. will re ttirn l<> the Stiperinlenduncy of Pub lie Welfare in Orange County, a post she lefl four months ago. Mrs. Parker has accepted the request ol the County Welfare Board that .she return to the position she ■neld for two years until lust fall. She said she was giving two months notice to the Board of the Family Service Agency—the same notice as she gave the County Board in Orange last fall—so that her suc cessor might lie hired before her departure. Tentatively May 1 has been set for her resuming .her wel fare tluiii" The County Cpinniisswoers at their last week's “meeting paved the way for .Mrs. Parker's return 1jy agreeing' to give her, an annual • alary of $3.280--a S1.3iR) increase over the $3.Put) a year .she formerly received The Welfare Board for the past six months has Jbeeu unable to secure a replacement‘for the Su leriHlenden' s job and all appli cants have sought virtually the a me salary as that offered Mrs.’ Parker, but had less experience. Ay cock Boys Win Conference Tourney For Fourth Year Of i DWIGHT COMPTON STANLEY POPE LOCKET ASHLEY JERRY WREMN RONALD WILKERSON CARROLL HAWKINS BOBBY HUGHES The Aycock High School boy's leam won the North Piedmont sCon ferenee Basketball Tournament for 'he fourth consecutive year last Saturday night in the Helena Jrtigh Uymnasfum. , * .Aycock defeated' Cobb Memorial. 44-28 after winning. over Anderson High in a Thursday night semi-final 54-53. The tournament win climaxed a terrific stretch drive which saw the "Chflgijis". .win their last eight panics qfter ■•josing' sewn of their lirst sixteen games. The boys won the Conference Season trophy with a' record of eleven wins, one loss. Jerry Wrenn. Ayeoeks leading scorer, was selected for the Ail Ct&ferenee'team, as was Geraldine Talley, guard for the Adcock .Girls* The Aycock Girls were eliminated by Cobb Memorial in the opening round of turnament, play. In posting their season record of !7 vvituj, 7 losses; the "Champs" relied mainly, upon seven seniors. Their Scoring averages were: YVrenn 19.6; Hawkins 9 8: Pope 7.S; Compton 6.6: Wilkerson 4.6: Hughes 5.0;' Ashley 4,3. Ayeoek will represent Orange poftgCv in the District 111. Class A Slate Tournament in Rocky Mount. | March 7. 8.-9
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