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. ■■;,: ^' ,i _ _ _*_”z2L I r * * J1 ’ • -- MEMBER* ... We his minister w ho an- I the end of his long ■ there would be a j the board in the Men’s Immediately after hands at the door, the room . there He was a lit k plained was a meeting said they we^e J the others there right | . . This ,boy. about the road — sharply and pass hill yesterday after M lay think you and perhaps you to keep most of your “skill ie due to other motor can whip along the «*■ and carelessly as Boln*. There’s no trick e new cars are loaded r and pickup—and per bcbiae,.J’m afraid, ■nember that R was MY th*t prevented an aoci yours. And j SCENE—Seen a few moments after law enforcement officers captured it. in Cheek* Township is this submarine-type still, the coals fresh ly raked out from beneath the 350-gallon oblong boiler. To the lett may be seen the condensing barrel and (behind) the fermenting eats. Two of throo operators of the still, who were just beginning to run through a batch of liquor were caught at th* scene. : A 'Submarine'—Well Filled . . . ---- . 7 Fifth Still In Month Is Destroyed The Orange County Sheriff's De ♦ payment has cut down its fifth it-1. licit liqhor still in the past month. More than T800IfaHons ofmashT all ready for distilling, were poured out when the submarine type' still was smashed in the Sour- j wood section of Cheeks Township, j according to Sheriff Odell H. Clay ! ton. He said that a fire had been built under, the^ 450-gallon oblong boiler and a run of booze was be ing started when the daybreak raid l was staged Friday. Tlj£t;c deputies from Alamance County joined, the Sheriff, and Deputies Burch- Compton and Ma lone Long. They surprised three, operators -at the site, two of. whom were captured as they fled through the w'oods. These were Claude Haith, ,45-year-old Negro of Meb- i ane. Route Three; and Herman Lee Griffith. 26. of Durham, An other Negr+> escaped. . 1 In addition to a large amount : of distilling equipment at the site, the officers also captured and t confiscated a 1,946 Ford contain ing 18 cases of halt-gallon jars tor , bottling the 'whiskey Annual REA Meeting In Roxboro Saturday Invitations' anti official notice have just been mailed the more than 5300 member consumers of the Piedmont Electric Membership Cor poration, Hillsboro electric eoopera j\e, aptitying them of their l#th Annual Meinebrjp Meeting to l* held Saturday. June 15, 1957 at the R ox - x it) High School at 1:00 P.M. Mr Harry B Caldwell. Master of he N. ( State Grange will be the principal speaker. F - E. Joyner. General Manager. >f the Cooperative. stated that the program would be most interesting o all members and would cover he vearlv reports of the President, secretary. Treasurer nad General j Manager. In addition nine directors ire slated tor etection from the 18 nembers nominated. An open For- , inr will be conducted iri which all 1 nembers 'may participate On the Reporters Are Now Checking Leaf Acreage; Penalty Is 39d Orange County's regular perform ance reporters are in the field now for the purpose of "ricterminfhg the planted acreage of flue-cured- to bacco for each -farm. -Jtenald \ Roberts. manager of the Agricul tural Stabilization & Conservation office here disclosed today. 'These reporters.'' said Huberts, "will check air fields on the farm; and determine what is planted in each field.'' “Failure on the operator's part to show the performance reporter, all fields in which tobacco is. planted ( will constitute a false' acreage re- j port," he warned “The penalty ior flue-cured to* ; baceo for the 1937 crop is 39 cents Carolyn Louisa Strayhorn, ] daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Strayhorn received the Bachelor of Arts Degree in the graduating exercises held at Meredith Col lege on Monday, June 3. ; •: ' >' . .7 •: - per pound on all ex-cess, he re minds. •Roberts also remirfds local farm ers that they have until This Sat urday to . place requests at the I County ASC Office for cosUshar ing, to cairy -sit needed conserva tion practiceso.on their farms dur- j ing the Fall program of ACP in Onttge G6tfflty> — • AU requests for cost-sharing re ceived during this sign-up period, .the remainder of this week), will be given first consideration toward tlie expendi^tre of the county’s ACP funds for the remainder of this year,” Roberts points out. • » Carr Receives Key Of F.H.A. At the last HiUsljoro High School Chapel. Virginia Young, president ol the Future Homemakers of Amcr- ; ica. presented C. P Carr, Orange County Superintendent, an honorary membership in the Hillsboro chap- ; ter of the F, H. A and presented,] him with a key which bears the emblem of the organization. Miss Young said in presenting the key, "Honorary membership is awarded only, to Chose who have helped to advance the homemaking program or who have rendered out standing service to the organiza tion. Because of your * interest and services that have helped to ad vance the homemaking program, we are heippy to present you with this key of the Future Honruanak t.rs of America and the symbol of, honorary membership." 1 light side there will be entertainment by Gus Bums and his " Rambler - Orchestra" 'and a drawing lor m number of prizes, donated toy friends ol the Cooperative, will conclude the program. * Olliers ,-who have accepted Iavltjfc (ions lo attend flic appear on die program include: A. H. Graham. Chairman of fcjje Stab- Highway Commission, Gwyn B. Price, Chair man N. C. Rural Kloctnficatjbn Au thority, Hon T. B. Woody, Jr., , Mayor of Roxboro, Rev L. G. El- | liott, pastor of the Roxboro Bap- j list Church,- William T. Crisp. Gen- j eral Manager of the Tarheel Electric Membership Association, Mr. Jolin W. Uimstead, Jr.. Member House of Representatives from North Car olina and others not yet heard from The Cooperative is a private en terprise business, borrowing its con stiHH tiou funds from, the Federal - It E A, and .serving more than 5300 members w ith electric service over a net work of 1370 miles of line in j Orange. Person, Caswell, Ai^piancts i Granville and Durham counties, in 1956’the Cooperative delivered more | than 12 million K. W, H. of electri city U* its members for an average use of" 2700 K.W.H. The members I now have invested in their system i over a half million dollars and will eventually own the Cooperative debt free. ’■ * - ■? F.H.A. Group Attends Camp Joy Cmrr. Mildred Ferrell, Mary Elizabeth RUey. Virginia Young an<l Faye Miller with their advisor, Mrs Glenn Amman, have just returned Irom Future Homemakers of Amen- . ca Camp at White Lake. They were -a part of .450 sfudenis and teachers from all over the Slate attending. They shared a cabin with three other schools. Beaufort, Chap [ e! Hill and Mountain Park. Joy Carr of Hillsboro was elected to represent the cabin on the Camp Council. Each day every camper attended a 45 minute class on some -phase ol FHA work. Mary Elizabeth Riley was given a free* trip to camp .by the Hills boro FHA because she was elected President of the Chaper for (he school year 1957-58. NO LIVE WIRE! A section of regular electric .pow< i line wire several hundred feet lon^ fell off power company truck from another town late Thursday after noon and unraveled akmg Main St in Carrboro. Passersby thought it j. might have been a live wire downed during the heavy rainstorm. How ever, a local utilities employe quickly rolled jip the loose wire and carried it away, « v':. -v. - . ft..- .' * .. - '»: W. ■ . ‘ •K , w- ” % Contracts Awarded For Gymnasium; Completion Target Is January 1 f-:-=-^ -- : -=»- -..**-—-7-;---♦ Paul Carr Elected Governor Of Lions District: Club's First I..—1-.r---- 4 Alf Weaver Prives Into Lake; Suicide Alf C. Weaver. Canrboro cafe own er. and bondaman, drowned in a ipond near Chapel Hill early yester day, morning U» what law enforce ment officers-said was an obvious suicide . - --1 ~ Tire tracks along the top of the dam at the head of the two-acre pond indicated that Weaver ap parently gunned his auto and drove diking the dam lor a short distance before heading into the water. He was pulled out of the submerged •vehicle about 9:15 by volunteer res cue workers. ; Weaver, about 45, had been seri ously ill recently, but gave no ad vance indication of any intent to take his life. He left his home on Highway 86, near the pond, which is back of the Weaver Village Motor Court, shortly «-after 8 o'clock, say ing that he 'was going swimming ' Friends of the victim’s said that he frequently did this In the early mdrhTngr; ; r:-i 1 The 1957 model sedan was in rl2 feet of muddy water, ifs windows open. Divers found the Tar after a search oi about 15 min utes. and Weaver's 'body was taken but after it had been submerged jriim 45 minutes to an hour. A farmer in a nearby field said he looked up from his plowing to see the car »a~the water before u -A-.1 J< Wh-w (lie xg .-iixaisl iL ran to a teleplwme to call for help. VFW Again Planning Square Dance Series The Veterans of Foreign Wars are making plans to have square fiances again each Saturday night this summer Arrangements are already being made to begin on June 22 at the. Hillsboro High School Gym, with free door prizes being given away on opening night. Proceeds from this dance will gii tithe building innd and finish pay-. iag far the Junior High football, uni-. forms... » PRESBYTERIAN PICNIC The Presbyterian Church will hold a picnic at New-Hope Presbyterian Camtf Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. There will be swimming, games and -picnicking. —— ’ 6. PAUL CA&R ... nnr Lions’ Gooeniur Scholarship Goes To HD Music Leader Mrs. L. R. CCheek Route 1. Chapel MUI, County Home Demon nt rat km Minor fihaimwuuUus ixren. awarded a Julie F. Cuyler Music Scholarship to the 4th Annual State Music Workship at East Carolina College, prcenville, N. C. June 23-28. - In 1B53 Dr. W. Kenneth Cuyler of Durham gave the initial fund which eats Wished the scholarships. Named i honor of Mr*. Cuyler, the first 2 were awarded on a com petitive hauls to leaders for 'ludy J the p. Tk'ld t« tp# low ha, Salisbury Since then the number bus stead ily grown and thlk year will see 31 persons attending the Workshop on scholarships made posrble by the contributions of Home Demonstra tion Clubs throughout the entire State. The workshop will bo under the direction of Dr. Arnold E. Hoffman. Director Music, N. C. Public Schools, and his staff. The- workshop offers an opportun ity in North Carolina for real and potential rural* .music leaders to study vvitly professional music edu cators This five' day”intensified' school provide* training for the be ginner. is *a refresher course and this \ear will give advanced work in some subjects While Ixisio skills and techniques will lx' taught, the big wide world of rmisic apprecia tion wTlT Be* exphired ‘again' and again. G. Paul Carr, superintendent of Orange County schools, was elect-1 od governor of District 31G of the Lions Clubs of North Carolina at their annual convention in Ashe ville Tuesday, j Carr, wtyo has been a 'deputy district Jjprtfcrnor during the past year.' w«! fflectetf by acclamation following a spirited campaign at j the State convention which saw* his opponent in the race. W. V. Didawk\k of Millbrook, withdraw in the fast ft^ hburs prior to th? voting, thus paving the way for the unanimous vote. ' Carr succeeds Governor Lloyd Senter of Carrboro to the top Lions' office in the 10-countv 3d 1 club district. It is '■-believed the. first time on record that the gov ernorship, which is the top active administrative office below the In ternational level, has come tftj clubs in the same county two, years in succession. Several members of the Hilla boro and Carrboro clubs were in attendance and in active roles at the convention. Senter, as outgoing district gov ernor, was ^presiding officer at a number of general meetings and on behalf of his district was the recipient of a loving cup for the highest per capfta contribution to the White Cane campaign, the Lions’ major fund raising effort for its work with the Blind. Dis trict 31-G Cabinet Secretary Ber nard Whitfield of Carrboro had a major role in the registration and certification of delegates. At the •conclusion of the -session Senter vjas presented a gill of luggage and White fie Iff' a^andSohne watcV1 fn appreciation of their service* for the past year In attendance at the Ashevile convention in addition to Carr. Senter and Whitfield were R. O. Forrest. Dr. H. W Moore and E. J. Hamlin, members of the Hillsboro Lions Club; James Perry, Jack McDade and Mark Williams, mem bers of the Carrboro club. The Carrboro club was warded trophies for 100'! attendance, was runner up in the Point Contest for activities und recipient of the Jungle Prowler’s award for reg ion L Club Seirelanes Vance. enhour of Hillsboro and Mack -Watts at Carrboro were awarded trophies in the 100'! Secretary's Award contest. The new district governor has served as Tail Twister, vie? presi dent, program chairman. President (kiVe CARR. page 8> a i ' , Catholics, To Bring Motor Chapel Here For Two Weeks A Motor Chapel dedicated to the memory of the Mother of Jesus will visit here for a two-week program every evening at eight o’clock from Monday. June 17th. through Sunday. June 30th It will be located west of the Colonial Inn on King St. The nightly programs will be under the direction of ' the Rev. William CJ. Welfein and the Rev. Michael Mulkern. Besides giving informational talk about the Cath olic Church the Priests will also answer any questions on Religion as(ced by members of- the audience. A • popular feature of this type of outdoor service is that people can come and sit in their care to see and hear the program. Free He ligious Movies will be shown each evening. It is the hope of the Priests conducting1 the Motor Miss iori 'that many, will take this op portunitv to become acquainted with the teachings and practices of the Catholic Faith through two of Her. official and authentic rep resentatives. The public is cord ially invited to attend. . . The Catholic*' Motor Chapol . . . Delay Entrance Remodeling To Augment Funds The Board of Education has ac cepted th? low bids and awarded contracts for the construction of the new Hilsboro High School gymnasium. At a meeting last Friday night, the board adopted a resolution paving the way for the construc tion. Decision was made' to delay the rehudeliiig. ot the front Mr*:, trance to the High School building and by thus using the funds allo cated thereto^ proceed with the' construction of the gymnasium. School officials and the archi tect have set about January I as the targ-t date for completion of 'r the long needed facilities. Asked 4 for a comment on this the general contractor last week moved the date up to Thanksgiving, however, and local school folks generally said if would indeed be a day ef thanksgiving when completed and in use. -—. Low bids for trie new building totalled $178,834 and architects* fees $10,730. making a total of $189,504 $176,000 bad been thought available for the job, leae- * ing a balance of $13,564 to be made up rrom other sources. The low bids and bidders were as follows: general contract. T. W. Poe and Sons of Durham. $143. 597; plumbing -contract_R. A. _ Suggs & Son of Durham $8,677; Heating. Alliance Company of Dur ham $18,693; electrical, the Peele Electric Company of Burlington. $7,865. 4-H Group At New Hope Despite rainy weather last week. 121 4-H Club'members from Durham and Orange Counties enjoyed 4-H Camp at the New Hope Presby terian Cainp from June 3-ft Family Night, which was a high light of the week, was held on Wcd iH-sday night Many parents visited and eujoved a talent program giv n by Hk- campers. The talent in i'! ikied Kinging, aerobatics, and selec tions on the pinno and trumpet. Alter ising at (i:45 A M. and com pleting their* canip i utics which in •luded dining halt dutv _ami-*l«an ing the camp ground*. tin? campers - .(Leaded 3 classes each morning. The subject? taught were recreation. »wt mini tig. itad elm ti icily. Hecrea- ' ioii was taught by Alls Nancy Walk. n\ daughter of M. L. Walker of fcuilc 1: HlUshofo. Representatives from the Duke Power Company .auglit electricity. Recreation was featured in the afternoon. This included softball, volley hail, and badminton and 'the lumpers favorite, swimming, which liegait at 3:43 PM. and Lusted till > 00 P M Square dancing amt movies were he entertainment during the even ng trem . 7:30 • 9:30 P.M. Vespers •nded the canip day. Nancy Roberts, a senior 4-H Club iiember of' HUtsboro and daughter >f Mr. and Mrs. Retd Roberts, and •tarry Neal Brown, son Pf Mr and Mrs Harry Lake Brown and • ris ug senior at Hillsboro High School, •erved as counselors irum Orange bounty during 4-H Camtv Jr New Skating Rink Opens Here Friday Skaleland, the new skating enter prise on Highway 70 northeast of Hillsboro, will hold its grand open ing tomorrow .night at 7:30 o'clock with the tody wonder skater. Addle Ea ans. appearing there. the brand now building costing (13.000 has a capacity tor 300 per -jus. It will be open every night. except SdiKtrvs TBere trill'be free insUuaion all next week and it Is guaranteed you will be able to skate after fWe straight nights. All girls will toe-admitted free peiiipj night. The loftncas ouivhased from Hof Crawford and is located on Higk way 70.
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