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t f9tl9 9ft 999 9 ^ MSlo# th9 ci99§ifi94 " 9to 9999 7 99 THE NEWS 99 &T9fto99 C99ftf9 ** -■■■ -.- — —1 - I, 1 IjlN'GTIME ... The whiter 5-57—just .coming to a close, j the Lord—t^as far frtim the I Raleigh has experienced. [■ end, let me assure you it ne of the most miserable.' i wet and dreary and dank1 lark ;or day* on end—for j fiand-runnlng, as tliey used [as a thoroughly despicable . friends, and really ended— [tter what the calendar said lest Frtday, April 19. Tell j lunethlng: it snowdd a little *»re in Raleigh—big heavy fc midst the rain—on S^tur ^Prii 13. But fa Good Friday 1 was laid low by long hours den sunshine . . . and this led for Saturday and Sunday ler Sunday. if you think spring is not then here is other testa from Mount Olive. There, ersday, April 1«, Mrs. Het well dug the first Irish pota eported this year. The offi iiord fat it is “grabble.” 3°well, who has been a flrs fore In this field, or garden, ^d potatoes about the size 1 eggs. '■ »h e some more, Mrs. Powell, Iem, put butter and salt on serve them hot, and you will 1 d sh fit far Presidents, don’t laugh, daughter, when tor mother sgy something Brabbling potatoes. Don’t' “Ob. Muthuh, the >vord is word is not dig. It is grab °m the wood grab—and "to grope; to feel with the And that Ip what you do >'ou go under potato vines >tth Carolina to parly as e ROUmVP, Page 2) MISS HELEN MIDGETT j Helen Midgett Essay Rated 10th In State Helen Laurie Midgett, Hillsboro High School student, daughter of Mi. and Mrj. John Midgett of St. Mary’s Road, was one of four North Carolina students in a four way tie for 10th place in a state wide essay contest conducted by the North . Carolina.- Medical So ciety. The subject of tlie essays were ‘‘The Advantages of the American Free Enterprice Systems" or ‘‘The Advantages of Private Medical Care.” Announcement of the local girl’s placement in the top ten was made to Superintendent G. Paul Carr of the Orange “County Schools who wrote Miss Midgett as follows: "May I offer my sincere congrat- j ulations for the fine record made by you in this contest. To place among the first ten in a state wide contest where hundreds participate is a distinct honor. Your victory reflects honor and credit upon the school and community. We are proud of your victory.” -Of MAKES HONOR ROLL Phyllis Blake, daughter of Mrs. Fred Blake of Hillsboro, attained Honor Roll' Status for her first semester as a member of the Class of 1966 at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina. Carrboro Lions Visit Hillsboro; Take Prize Seven members of the Carrboro Lions Club visited the Hillsboro Lions Club Tuesday night and went home with -the District 31-G Jungle Prowler Award, which has been held by the local club for the past year: “•*. A* award to encourage visitation between Lions Cltfbs in District 31 G, the handsome plaque ban be captured from a club in whose pos session it is held by another club who sends the largest delegation of v'.si.ing Lions the largest number of man-miles in distance to Jhat club. Jt is then held by the capturing club until another Club captures it from them 01 the losing club can failure it back with a similar in asion. V si ing with the Hillsboro Lions uisd:y night were Carrboro Club P esident James Perry, District-31 -» Secretary Bernard Whitfield, Tom Murray, John MfLaughlin. Ralph Cheek, John Boone and John Davis. Pr.ncipal speaker for the occasion was Harold L. Hosley of Green»: lx>ro, superintendent of Guilford In dustries for the Blind, the agency which gives employment to some 50 blind persons from all parts of North Carolina in the manufacture of some 30 different items, some or which are the brooms. Boor mats, and other items mid by local Lions in theic annual “Broom Sales.” S ! ‘ Mr. Hosley appeared in connec tion with the local ilub’s next sale, which, is MfhMtdi^ for the .evening, of May 3, a house-to-house canvass of the community. Mr. Hosley related some of the history of the Industry for the Blind and described the work being car ried on there. The industry, lie k ■»- -j> said, gives the blind people an op portunity to work, earn wages and live useful norma] lives. “You can’t put a price on the value of this work which Is aided no much by the program of ’h* J ' fTube,” he emphasized. He explained that the brooms already ordered by the local club for Its next sale provides 80 man hours or two weeks work Public Drive For Salk Shots Is Started A general campaign to have everyone take the Salk polio vac cine treatment is being started by the Orange County Chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. Crowell Little, Chapter Presi dent, announced the drive today, along with District Health Officer Dr. 0. David Garvin. He noted that free treatments would be given to expectant mothers and persons under the age of 20 at the Health office in Chapel Hill on Thursdays and Fridays from 1 • 4 p.m.' The same Services is available at the Hillsboro office of the Depart ment on Tuesdays, 1 to 4 p.m. All private physicians also have an adequate supply of vaccine, said Dr. Garvin. Dr. Garvin aaid he was “very much encouraged” by the number of persons who have taken the shots to date. Already this year the Department staff has given 8, 000 vaccinations, as compared with 9,000 during all of 1906. He as sured that It was perfectly safe to take the shots at this season of the year. Mr. Little pointed out that the National Foundation is urging everyone under the age of 40 to take the Salk treatment and he noted that the death rate from infantile paralysis is five times as great in adults as for children. In 1956 a total of 70,000.000 doses of vaccine were given in the na tion. There has not been a single case in which infantile paralysis has been linked to the vaccine treatment. Mr. Little said. COOPERATIVE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT—The town of Hillsboro owns a 41 acre tract .•round its water plant just west of town on Old Highway No. 10. Recently the Future Farmers of America Chapter and Vocational Agriculture Department at Hillsboro High School under the supervision of Teacher Clyde Erwin Jr. took as a long-range project the Improvement of the property in cooperation with the mwncipal ity and other agricultural agencies operating in the community. The project involve* sell conservation and prevision of wildlife cover for the area with a fourfold goal of buiMing the soil, beg certification, increasing the value through the addition of trees, and furnishing wildlife cover. This year already the students have planted 1,500 multiflora roses on the border alongside the highway and on both sides of the plant, 4,000 bicolor lespedesa for wildlife feeding, and 30 pounds . of sarlcea lespedesa seed for soil building and wildlife feeding purposes. All ma (•rials ware obtained free from the State Wildlife Resources Commission and are available to all farmers in the same manner. ' ' Next year tha students will plant 5,000 yellew poplars and ijOHoWdly ptneSL ; •,... the pictures above depict the work in progress. At left. Mayor Ben Johnston and Commissioner* R, J. Smith and V. M. Forrest discuss the project with Glenn Collins, F. F. A. president and soma of the other mem bers. Left to right are Harold Parker, Arthur Creech, Pete Oakley, Paul Creech, Glenn Collins, Commissioners Forrest and Smith and Mayor Johnston. At cantor, a group of students continue the planting operations, while at right, with the water plant visible in the background, another group plants the multiflera rose. This group, left to right, are Tony Bateman, Kenneth Roberts, Danny Ray Melton, Chartos Mincey, Glenn Collins and Tommy Adcock. Mrs. Parker Resumes Duties Mrs. Jane Parker has resumed her duties as superintendent of Pub lic Welfare in Orange County, ef fective last Monday . ,Mrs. Parker thus returns to the post she held prior to her resigna tion last Fall to join the staff of a Durham family service agency. Mrs. Frances Cruciani. who has !***» art teg ,tu«ad department for the past several 'month*, revert ed to case wbrk assistant. There were no other changes In staff assignment. a Community Moves Forward . * New Spirit Of Progress At Caldwell Under the Farm and Home Blue Ribbon Prograjn a community or ganization vtfas set up and an Ad visory Board of twenty-four men and w6men leaders Were elected to plan and execute various meetings to be held and pojeets to be car ried out during the year. This Advisory Board planned and held its first community meet ing in February at* which time John Harris, noted landscape .specialist for State College Exten sion Service, presented a program on home and "community improve ment. Following the meeting the first, action taken was to secure funds to help beautify the grounds of the Community Building. Two very successful- scrap ^drives were held which netted nearly two hun dred dollars for this purpose. On the first work day planned on the grounds seven tractors with the neertsary implements and about 40 -people were on hand and worked until nearly lunch time—then it rained. The next work day almost the same number Came and worked until nearly ltmch time—it rained again. The only redeeming feature in the two days was the excellent lunches served in the Community Build ing by the community ladies, T e third work day the lawn was seed ed and most of the cedar posts outlining the drives and parking area were set: They plan to grave the parking area shortl^^Ppa‘" the interior of- the building, and plant foundation shrubbery this fall The Advisory Board expects to plan and carry out additional community meetings during he year. They have also distributed Blue Ribbon Farm and Home pam phlets to families living in the community. A subordinate Grange has been organized in the CaldwelUCom munity this year. This brings the number to seven Granges now m operation in the coupty, Although Caldwell is the youngest, it holds promise of doing its share to pro mote the things that build a bet ter community and- county. ( Other things have been going on in the greater Caldwell area. The Berry’s Grove Bapjist Church has done much to improve ■ the church building, as well as the surroundings. They have redone, the interior ot the church, put in new pews, memorial windows, and placed a new painting in the bap tistry. They have brick veneered a portion of the church building and are planning to plant shrub bery this fall: The New* Bethel Methodist Church is in the middle of a pro ject of grading and grassing a large area between the church and the highway. They have laid off and graveled a drive and a parking area. They have shrubbed off and cleaned up some land ad jacent to the church property. They have other projects in mind to carry out later, These' projects being carried out by the two churches add much beauty and at tractiveness to the setting for theip worship services. There is a new spirit of pro gress in the Caldwell* Communi ty. There is a spirit of unselfish ness and willingness to work for. the, benefij. Of others. There is a sense of community responsibility. There is a pride ih what has been accomplished in the hom&t on the farm, and in the community. These things sped progress fh any com* munity.; . Working on tho grounds of tho Community Building. ‘ Scrap paid off in money far landscape job. - Carrboro Mayor Todd Changes Plans; Files To Run For Second Term In Office L -v a.- . rr ‘ - - Toothache Inadvisable In Next Few Weeks . . . Dentist Is Away v If yoo’re planning a toothache in tho near future, better give up the idea for a couple of weeks anyway. Dr. H. W. Moore, Hillsboro and North Orange's only practicing dentist, with Mrs. Moore, left earlier this week for a two weeks vacation till Florida. The 101st annual session of the North Carolina Dental Society convenes in Pinehurst from May 5 through May 8,'and Dr. Moore will likely attend this upon his return, although this could not be confirmed by his office yester day. Anyway: According to a dispatch from *• the North Carolina Dental Society.' however, "your "first-woek-in May” toothache may be a painful , one but the w$jt_ will be well j rewarding, especially for your dentist who should return from ' Pinehurst more related and bet ter prepared to take care of your tooth or other dental problems." j‘ ' -T —-—— Pair Charged With Break-In,. Theft In County . The Sheriff’s department announc ed the arrest of two Cedar Grove youths Saturday in connection with two robberies in lids county and several in Person County. •. They are: doe Henry-Homer and David Horner. They were charged with stealing gas with a pump and siphon from Newby Jordan’s scrv I ice station in Northern Orange and tires and wheels from Lacy Smith’s automobile, i The pair Is in jail at Roxboro awaiting trial for several service station break-ins there. Merchants Urged To Get Credentials From Solicitors Last Thursday each member of the Hillsboro Merchants Associa tion was requested to ask all solici tors to show a letter from the Mer chants’ office before making a con tribution or buying. Lube Brown of the legislative com mittee gave reports on bills which have passed or are still before the legislature concerning merchants. Merchants were asked to keep their dues up-to-date as expenses make it advisable to have them in each month. *». ► Carrboro Mayor R. IV Todd has reversed .an earlier de cision not" to seek a second two-year term in office, sub ject to the May 6 town elec tions. In a formal statement is sued Monday Mayor TodU «*id that at “the re<tu«st of many local citizens he had agreed to re-con sider his Irian td retire at the end of his term next month. Last Wed nesday Grover C. Brookbank, re tired contractor of N. Greensboro St. also announced his candidacy for Mayor and filed for office. Hardee Also Files This past weekend One of the three town commissioners whose four-year term Is expiring also filed to succeed hlmaelf. He was E. O. •‘Bill” Hardee. 45-year-old grocer and a local resident -for the past 38 years. Mr. Hardee, served on the board . from 1939 to 1947, was ap pointed to -succeed Dwight Ray in 1952, and then won election to 'a regular four-year term in 1953. He has* been Chairman, of the Board’s Streets Committee. Harold Dark, 38-year-old Univer sity employee, is the only other Board candidate to date. Other-com rnissioner.s whose terms are.expir ing arc Tele Lloyd and Gene "Sturd ivant, V The registration period for new voters opened Saturday In the I Town Hall and will continue through this romtng Saturday. ; Registrar Ms. 't. 41. £tundJvant said only seven new registrat’nns . were received on the initial day. ; She will be in the Town Hall for | this purpose from 9 to 5 dally through Friday and 9 to 9 this Saturday. - The formal statement by Mayo : ■" ■ -■ -■■■■ ’■e y-,%. ■— Todd follows: Mr. Todd’s Statement „ “At the request of many of the Carrboro citizens. I have decided to reconsider my recent statement re garding running for a second term as Mayor of the Town of Carrboro. j Barber. I felt that my personal situation would not allow me to con-! tinue as your Mayor. “I want to say to the people of , Carrboro that I would like to serve as your Mayor, subject to ymir approval In the May I muni ripal election*. “For the past two years I have enjoyed my work as your govern mental servant and have triad to serve a* your Mayor tn a right way: being Interested and concern ed about the needa of the Town and >e"% community, trying to carry out good town government nt all time*. Thank* To All CUiaens “I want to thank all the cttfaMns of Carr boro for their cooperation. I can truthfully say it has been (See Mayor. Page 8) : ; ..... - • . . Carr boro To Control Zoning In Its Area The Town Boards of Chapel Hill afPd Carrborif have met joint ly with the District Planning Board to set up the proposed Gen eral Assembly enabling act which wilJ give the Carrboro Bbard .final, jurisdiction over all Planning Board mrftterS in the Carrboro su burban area. Mayor R. B. Todd of Carrboro said that complete understanding | was. reached between the three | boards - concerned at their Tues day evening meeting in the Carr - , boro Town Hall. As a result of the i session the Carrboro Commission i ers will ask for the- passage of the local bill by the Legislature in I the near future, according to Muy ' or Totfci. , Whereas under the present zon ing set-up all matters in the en tire Greater Chapel Hill Zoning District are under the final juris diction of the Chapel, IJjlT aider-a • men. jf)K new bill so that the Carrboro Board, wilt receive recommendations from the Planning Board for final action on all matters in the district area from Smith Level road westward anrl northward around Carrboro to- the railroad tracks. Bids will be opened May 3 by , the Carrboro commissioners'on an automatic packer ? type garbage truck—similar to tW type of ve hicles ,in use in Chapel Hill for several years. Estimated cost of the chassis and body together is $6,500. It will replace the present open body dump truck for garbage col lection purposes A Carrboro official said that on a Cial run M;ith* a packer-type truck one day last week the town’s workers were able to collect eight times as much as the open track customarily holds before having to make a run to the town dump to dispose df the load. . .. ■ ' f John Urmtead Says . . . Facts On Proposed Salary Hike Plan: ‘ ‘ ' • , ' - > <a .. a Show It Provides Greater Benefits .... By REP. J. W. UMSTEAD JR. Since the proposed salary in creases and the way such increases are to be paid seems to be a mat ter of importance to a large num ber of people in Orange County 1 have decided to discuss this mat ter first. The confusion caused by misrepresentations is greater than that concerning any other question since I have been a member of the Assembly. • • "" — To show you just how far the con fusion has gone I was handed a peti tion signed by more than 500 per sons. I had "these person’ salary situation under the Personnel Coua ’ cil plan looked into.and to my sur t prise I found 166 names on the I petition who would Ret more salary i under the Personnel Council plan than they would have received un-' der the across the board plan. Must Be Confused People must be confused when they sign a petlt^m to have their prospective salary decreased in stead of increased. There were an other 103 persons who are part time or< piece-work employees in the Laundry who would not come under the increased salary proposed no,piatter which plan was eventual^ ly .adopted. —r~ More Uian*J-»0 more of the signers of the petition had not been clasUfird and could not have known which plan Would pay them ■ - * » * ' . r" the larger salary. -** 1 feel that confusion can be les sened if certain known facts are known. These facts are as follows; 111 No state employee will have his or her salary cut as a result of classification; (2» Each employee who feels that his or her classifica tion is incorrect may appeal to his or her department or division head and such classification will be re viewed with the idea of correct ing aiiy mistake that may have been made;- ' " /'• Some* Ta Be llafreae* (3* A large majority of those who * seem to be “frozen" will, when the personnel increase in added to their (Se? UMSTEAD. Page $J ■m
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