North Carolina Newspapers

EIGHT PAGE! THIS ISSUE ilSER ... Unlike William ead and like W. Kerr p,v. Luther Hodges is a That is, you never know &d will roU next or what | being groomed for some position. cott’s appointments sur eryone, but—on the other j-ly everybody around Ra I y in advance the men #ead had selected to be V > ntees. it must be admit e:l fr in his balmiest -days an from Haw River come b'^ger shocker than did Iges last week when he that 67-ygar-old Capus |of High Point would be $9 200-per-year adjutant Jr the State. Nearly every ght that Waynlck would Jhing, and most of us had John Hall Manning for weeks ago, but nobody jtne.v thought Capus Way be so militaristic. Jt, of course. Is sarcasm, not a tenth as general ish (Is. Capus Waynkk can able assistant to the Gov narrv ways—and. 'frankly, ht the choice was a good entally, Luther Hodges is *h with surprises. pry . The N. C. Edu Sn. sign which hung neat door down a back hail Kel Sir Walter during the has been taken down teachers' chief lobbyist, ferrell, has spent several lex Hospital here for ob of a possible heart con was prdbably the most | works r among legislators ers have had in 25 years. by and large ' M and left in good humor I THERE . . . Speaking of er doors, the room next Jied by the teachers at [ was the NV C. Association Distributors chief head lill there. r bore and more legislators thtraf"’legislators visiting pn the off-season, it might the N. C. Education As ktained a visitation room pir Walter In addition to tious and dignified layout pcellent building they own In Street just across from Inuc Building and adjacent first Presbyterian Church [ TO N’C . . * With thy ap ot Saw Beard to the lion of public relations the State Highway Com Governor., Hodges last his second ‘man from Ra adio Station WPTF—we [he family—within a mat [few months. her: Edgar Kirk, assistant [of the Department of Con and Development [squirish, pipe-smoking son hg-time Baptist minister, M director for WPTF be p'ng with the State. Nobody employed to take his the station. Phil Ellis, sportsman with the best pice in these parts is in the news, does a good I of the announcing, and Bass Lake, a body of jhieh often does not belie f in the hill country south |Haleigb. hr Beard's appointment, was a surprise. Neverthe <■* expect him to do a Wk Like most of the old WPTF, he is de [op-Hight, has a clear mind, voice, and he will soon ng at you in various easy "take you just love that set up, love its engineer, director, love its roads, |te only a little its most detours. incidentally, is chief [l ‘o Mrs. L. Y. (Stag) Bal [ 'n the N. C. Automobile Asm. ' we are glad to see the nsen like Kirk and Beard, ROUNDUP, Page 2 | Dwight Ray In Hospital \ After Suffering Attack j “ranS© County Commissioner [Dwight M. Ray was seriously ill at* Memorial Hospital yesterday fol lowing several heart attacks. | The Can-boro hardware merchant and civic leader was stricken on 'Monday evening, following several milder heart pains over the week end. He was rushed from his home on the ^joith Level Road to Me morial Hospital about 8:30 p.m. Monday, and reportedly had several more heart pains after being hos pitalized. However, his condition was understood to have eased up some .yesterday. Mr. Ray had never suffered from any heart condition before noticing the first mild palls while-at his cowntown store last Friday. His family reported that during the weekend he had a few more pains, but none serious until Monday. Until recently Mr. Ray was Acting Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners in the absence of Chapel Hill's R. J. M. Hobbs who was convalescing from an illness. At Memorial Hospital yesterday! authorities reported that Mr. Ray; had a good night and Was in “satis-j factory” condition. J^The increased loan rate will< result in a higher average sale price on the 1957 crop,” tobac co authorities predicted yesterday -.following the announcement by* the Department of Agriculture of an average loan rate of 50.8 cents | per pound for the 1957 crop of flue-cured tobacco. - Orange County Farm Agent Don S. Matheson supported the prediction yesterday and added that “the increase -will compen sate. to a degree, for the increased cost of producing the current i crop. I Mafheson also commented that the current crop “is one of the most expensive crops ever grown in the county.” “An increase in the cost of pro duction of flue-cured tobacco re sulted in the raising of the loan rate on the 1957 crop," Matheson declared. “The 50 8 cents per pound average loan " rare on the 1957 crop represents 90 per cent of parity as of July 14." he said. The increased loan rate is 1.9 cents per pt>und higher than the avuutaee Joan* wda. of 48.9 aents per pound for the 1956 crop. Loans, the Dept, of Agriculture announced, will be made on the basis of official standard grades , at a specified rate for each grade, I with a five-cents per pound dif | ferential between “tied"- and- un J tied” tobacco. ,, Loan rates by grade*, for- "full-, support” varieties range from $76 per 100 pounds for top grades down, to $13 per 100 pound* for certain nondescript grades. - In accordance with the Depart ment's announcement of last Dec ember, t ho 1957 crop of C ker 139. Coker UO and -Dixie Bright 244 flue-cured varieties " will be sup ported at one-half the support rates for comparable grades of other varieties'. - - --• These three varieties have been classified by federal and state scientists as "low to lacking in flavor and aroma, generally of. Ugtol* tibdy and-or currently with1 poor acceptance in.the trade. ’ Paul Cook Is i Appointed Deputy Sheriff Paul Cook, about 27, a native of the Hebron Church section of | Orange County, has been named a deputy sheriff and statione'd in the Chapel Hill area. Announcement of his appoint ment was made Tuesday by Sher-! iff 0. H. Clayton, who said he :wor*M- go to work as soon as he 1 could be released by the Chapel i Hill Fire Department, with which he has been associated for about six1 months. He will be assigned to work with Deputies Junior Clark and Earl Bush in the Southern Or ange area. He has had no previous experience in law enforcement the county. Appointment of an ad ditional full-time deputy was made possible by an appropriation increase in the current budget ^pproved by the commissioners this month. <'• v C .ok, who is married and now resides in Carrboro. is a son-in law. of Mrs. Roy Riggsbee of Carrboro and son of Mrs. Manley Snipes of Orange Grove Hillsboro Girl Polio Victim Hillsboro and Orange County has experienced its first polio case of the current year. The victim „is H-year-ol^, Pa tricia^ Ann Brewer, daughter of fjjglphd.' Mrs W. C. Brewer of Union street, who was admitted to Watts Hospital on Saturday. She had been visiting relatives in Durham prior to being stricken., j Hospital reports indicate the i case is of the “non-paralytic” type j of polio and the condition of Miss! Brewer is described as •good.” She had received the innocidations of Salk vaccine, it was reported. [ New Executive To Suceed Ray B. Frank Yandell will on Aug. 1 succeed J. W, (Bill) Ray as Or ange District Boy Scout Executive. Mr. Ray, at present attending the national Boy Scout -Jamboree in Valley Forge, Pa., has resigned his' post effective next Monday, to be come District Executive of the' Coastal Empire Council in Savan nah, Ga. He succeeded Robert L. Collins as Orange District Execu tive about six months ago, com- i ing here from a similar post in Raleigh. Mr. Yandell, presently serving the Occoneechee Council as Moore District Executive in Southern Pines, has held this post for the past two'years, coming there from the Pee Dee Area Boy Scout Coun- j cil in Florence, S. C. W. J. .Wood all. a Georgia life insurance agent' supervisor, will succeed Mr. yan-j dell in Southern Pines. STUBBORN FIRE — Hillsboro volunteer flfemen found tho bUzo • stubborn on* to find and conquer in this brick duplex house . ,h. corner of Margaret L.n. end Wake street, left Saturday mornino unoccupied et the time, the apartment was damaged to she extent of about $3,000 on the inside. It is ownedl by Mrs. Alice Cates Firemen to be seen in the picture are Chief George Gilmore and Clarence Rosamond, on the roof, and Owan Allison on ladder. Assailant Of Chandler Cates Waives Hearing Wiley Richard Shambley. Dur ham garbage collector, waived preliminary hearing in Recorders Court Monday in the near-fatal Shooting of Chandler Cates, local service station operator. Shambley was chained with as sault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting ser ious and painful injuries. Cates, well • known local man. received" serious wounds which are yet far from healed, and con tinues under strict .medical care. The waiver of the preliminary hearing by Shambley’s attorney, R. Percy Read'e, ‘dean* of th% Durham bar, precluded the necessity for Cates’ appearance in court He re mains at his home here except for his requent return visits to the hospital. Judge L. J. Phipps reduced Shambley's bond from $10,000 to $5,000 for his appearance at the next term of Superior Court. The cold-blooded shooting of Cates by Shambley at close range with a. 12-guage. shotgun occurred on May 7 in the lubrication room of Cates’ Service Station follow ing a disagreement over the sale of a “steam jenny.” 40 & 8 Installs New Officers; Fetes Ladies The members of Orange Coun ty’s Forty and Bight Voiture 12$f> honored their wives at a ladies night on last Saturday. The af fair, held at Watts Restaurant in Chapel Hill, was also the occasion of the installation of officers to serve during the 1957-58 year Grande Chef de Gar* Frank P. Fields of MooresvHle installed Herman Lloyd of Chapel Hill as Chef *de Hare of the local chapter of the American Legion’s honor organization. In a preliminary speech,- Grande Chef de Gare Fields charged all local Voyageiirs to help carry out the program of the Grande VoitUre of North 'Car olina. The State organization is this year stressing ^the Worses training program, child welfare and state Magazine subscriptions; Grande Aumonier Roy E Mills of China Grove was guest of the Voiture and opened the meeting with remarks and invocation prior to the supper. Other officers serving with Chef de Ga«« Lloyd during the year -will be Chef de Train Kay Winc coff of Hillsboro, Correspondant and Commissaire Intendant Frank Umstead of Chapel Hill, Conduct eur Clarence Rosemond of Hills boro. Lampiste Warren Hall of Hillsboro, Gaurde de la Porte Le roy Hall of Hillsboro, Aumonier Paul H. Robertson of Chape! Hill. Publicise J. Frank Ray of Hills boro, and members of,the Chem inot Locale Sim "EflancT of Efland, I). M. Horner, Sr‘ of Chapel Hill, and L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill. --- Recapturing Glory Of Yester-Year Pair Of Local F ami lies ToM ake Horseless Carriage Club s Tour Two Orange County families and their ancient horseless carriages will be in the proud group making Hie North Carolina Horseless Car-! riage Club's 1957 tour next week I They are: \ ' 1 Mr and Mrs. James Freeland of | Hillsboro 1ft Tour Car No. 57, drlv- j ing their dapper .1919 Hoick touring car. and Mrs. Christine Hughes and her children, Bobby and Carolyn, of Ce dar Grove, who will be sporting their 1924 Model T Ford, in Tour Car No. 66. Both families ' will. *he/wearing costumes of the" era, one' cf the strict requirements of thg exclusive club, which the general public in Hillsboro and .Chapel Hill will remember fondly for the stops which were made in the local towns by the members of the Horseless Car . the costumed Freelands, reedy for tour 30% Of Orange Farms In Excess Of Allotment Approximtaely 30 percent of the farms measured in Orange County have been determined to be 1ST excess of the tobacco allotment. No. ticcs have beep mailed to producers in excess of their allotment. Producers receiving excess no tices have 10 days from date of such notice to notify the County Office as to whether the.v want a remeasure ment or to dispose of the excess acre age. Failure on the part of the farm operator to advise the County Of fice of his.intentions within 10 dajA; will result in. the entire farm being ineligible for government price sup port. All tobacco produced on the farm will be identified with a zero penalty exoes marketing card, even though the excess acreage is dis oosed of to avoid loayment of the marketing quota penalty. STSM. CAPTURED . The Sheriff’s department captured a still in operation in Little River township yesterday morning, but the1’ erstwhile operators .were no where to be found Abodt five gallons had been made when the officers arrived at the site on a small branch on or near the old Torain .place one mile east of Caldwell School. About 500 gal lons of .beer was in process for production in the 180-gallon steam outfit. Deci<dosi^He^*^Sub»ioct^Foi^^Stujd^" Prison Trusty Takes Brief Leave With All Ingredients Charles M. York, one-time hon or grade prisoner at the Hillsboro Prison Camp on old Highway 8G. has been relegated to “solitary" and given the State's new “mono tony" diet (or recalcitrants You see, Charlie was the "office boy” for Superintendent Brack Craig until Monday afternoon when he saw his chance to pick up close to $400 stashed in the Su perintendent’s office, a 32 cali ber autamtaic pistol, keys and one of the camp's cage-tv.pe truck in which to make his bid for freedom. When prison officials sounded the alarm of the escape to Sheriff O. H. Clayton, the latter had just seen without suapfciin the same truck headed west past the court house. Highway patrolmen and other agencies were alerted. A short time later. York was spotted by Durham cops and there follow ed a merry chase through city streets until he abandoned the truck on the East Campus of Duke University at the Trinity Avenue entrance and hot-footed it across campus until he hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take him to Greensboro. Chapel Hill Patrol man Ed Robinson caught him in the taxi on Highway 54 headed for home .... Greensboro, where he had been sentenced in 1953 to eight to l« years for forgery, later paroled, and returned again when See ESCAPE. Page 8 Approximately 5 percent of the farms that have been forwarded ex cess notices have failed to notify the County Office of their intentions within the 10 day period. 15 Should it become necessary for a grower to begin harvesting before an ASC representative can visit the farm, for the purpose of remeasur ing or certifying disposition the grower should leave unharvested an acreage equal to the declared excess acreage until the matter has been * Remcasurement and disposition ol excess acreage is being done cur rently. If you are one of those producers, who are in excess of your allotment, you are advised to con tact the ASC Ofice immediately after receiving an excess notice. Failure to file application for re measurement or ..disposition within the 10 day period will deprive the producer--of price support. rtageTour two years ago. Both families have been enthusi asts of the "horseless carriages” for some time, but this sixth annua) tour is the first” in which they have participated. They hone to return with a trophy or ribbon If po&dMe as well as with memories of an en joyable and heart-warming experi ence. t M Entered Sixty-six cars are entered in this year's tour, June 24-27. which will be from Rocky Mount to Elisabeth I City, through Tarboro. Wilson. 1 Goldsboro, Kinston, Ay den, Green ville. Washington. Willlamston. Windsor, Edenton and other smaller places alm.g the route. Exhibits and shows sponsored by ' the Jaycees and the Veterans of foreign Wars are scheuuled at ■ Rocky Mount, Greenville and Elizn i beth City and a round of special aeti I vitles, entertainment, and other ! events, will be climaxed by the Awards Banquet and dance, at Eli zabeth City Saturday night. Fred bong, long-time horseless carriage enthusiast of Itoxboro, is the tour chairman. All gas and oil 1 for the tour is furnished free by Esso on special courtesy cards. All cars entered must meet rigid ! specifications which include, (11 j manufacture prior to IMS, (2) good condition with respect to paint and exterior, <3> no eomroerical ad vertising, (4) ample insurance, and 15> paaengers In authentic costumes 1 of tM* period'. Trophies Trophies and ribbons will be awarded for such attributes as best and second best restorations of this year-and for-prior wears, most In teresting and most unusual ears, best Model T restoration:' ete. The oldest car Ob the 1957 tour, according to the scheciule. is a 1904 Reo and the list of entrants in clude such presently strange, but w-ell-remembered by many, names of’ the early auto industry as the following: Maxwell. Empire, Na tional, Franklin. Lafayette. Marrpan. Case; Overland. Essex. Regal, and Pierce Arrow; gWBSWMMgjSMwfijSSoi As originally stated, the purpose of the Ilorscles Carriage Club, which is spotlighted iu North Caro lina each year by the annual tour, is “the preservation ol the old-time automobiles together with their ac cessories, archives and romantic lore." --- -- • i: The participation of '- local folks brings rienewetf* ii Xtn csual sport. Aid Programs Are 20 Years Old County Pays Only Small Part Of Aid Programs The 20th anniversary of the pub lic 'assistance program in* Xorth Carolina will be observed this month, according to Edwin S. Preston of the State Board of Public Welfare in Raleigh, and Orange County bene fit* are shown in figures released here. Provided for under the Federal Social Security Act, the program began in the state in 1937 -with provisions lor financial aid to two groups; needy old people through old age assistance (AA», and de pendent children through aid to dependent children (ADO. In 1951 the original program added another category; aid to the permanently and totally disabled (APTDi. Thus the' three programs now jJhjvide Jielp to persons too old to work, too young to work, or too disabled to work. ? j Funds for the public assistance grants are paid Jointly by the Fe deral government, state and county with the smallest portion coming: from the county. Approximately three-tourtfa of the current cost is paid by the Federal government, over one-eighth by the state and one-tenlh by U»e counties' according to Or. Klleu Wkiston, commissioner of the State Board </f Public Welfare. As an exan>|>le of the costs of one,of the programs on tin- county level, a total of $9,332 was paid to 2f3 old age assistance recipients in Orange County during May 1957. Yet of this figure. Orange County’s part amounted to only $1,230.9H Under all three of the programs, 858 people in Orange County re ceived $21,018.00 in financial as sistance during that month. Orange County’s part of the total spent was $2,501,3?. Since its origin in 1937, the num ber of persons receiving aid under the program has increased greatly.' In 1938. the first full calendar year ot operation, approximately 32.000 neecy persons 65 years of age or older received old age assistance. In April of this year the number of recipients was 51,700. Nearly 13,000 needy children re ceived aid to dependent children during thta year. This figure has jumped to 84,000 as of April 1857. “ *| Courthouse Is To Be Hearing Scene At 1:30 A public hearing on the projK»sed const ruction of the new dual-lane seciion of High- ^ way 70 through Orange Coun ty as a part of the NationaJ In terstate Highway System is «• sthedulcd here tonmrros^af tertwm at the courthouse at. i:jop.m. AnTTOtincrmem of the pub lic hearing was made this week by the Highway Commission: According to the notice, ail in terested persons will he given an opportunity to be heard concern ing their views of the penposed construction of the interstate high way. which it is comtenfplated will by-pass .the towns of Efland and Hillsboro and the village of Uni versity Station. The citiaens, ac- . -cording to the announcement, .will be heard particularly with refer ence to the economic effect of this location. Decision was made almost a year ago to locate the big duai-lane, limited access interstate road South of Hillsboro rather than at tempt- to secure rights-of-way for a second lane and limited access along the northern by-pass of the Orange County seat. Most of the funds for the pro ject come from North Carotins’* share of the allottment in the na tional highway hill. Specifications for the super-highways call for the highest engineering standards for safety, traffic capacity, easy grades, wide pavements and straight alignments The new high way will have “limited access" attt , fy>t right-offway, a Sh-feot di riding strip separating the 24 foot wide one-way paved traffic lanes. ASC Identifying Discounted Leaf Varieties Now In-accordance with regulations is- *' sued by the tle.oartmcnt of Agricui ■ure ihnl varieties of tobacco 139, 140, and Dixie Bright 244 will, bd st:".ported at one-half- price support, 'in iW. personnel <* tw^’.wnty ASC Office are now in the- field for this identiflctafon. County Office Man l-acer. Donald V. Roebrts reported to-' day. "The personnel which will be do ing this identification work has been trained bv tobacco plant identifica tion specialists to be able to iden tify varieties,of tobacco by growth ;< hafaH^rtstics or combinations of„ growth characteristics." he said. In accordance with regulations is sued bv the department of Agricul lure. farms which are found to have planted one of the discounted vari t.es, will Ik> issued a discounted variety (Blue* tobacco marketing card which will cause the farm operator to .Deceive one-ha^* price support lor tobacco sold from the farm. In connection with issuance of Discounted Variety marketing cards, in case a farmer has planted one of the Discounted varieties of to bacco, ou anv one farm operated by him. he will be issued one dis counted variiies' marketing card to sell tobacco grown, by him on all farms on which he is the opera 'or Virus-Type Flu Now Epidemic Dr. R. J. Murphy said yesterday the virus-type flu which has been reported as widespread in other sections of the State has reached epidemic proportions in the Hills boro area. He said he saw at least 50 pa tients with the ailment on Tuesday and the incidence locally has been heavy and rising since mid-last week.' Although generally mild, he said entire families in some in stances were stricken with the disease.