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ngo County *h thy now* » county by <EWS ol For Quick, proven rest •off, buy, rent or pot • by using tho classified •• Pa*e, 3 of The W*i or Orattpo County. HILLSBORO AND^HAPEL MILL, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER S 1957 TEN PAGES THIS ISSUE igg KSI ■ -V " 1 : ^V- .ir 0 BREWER'S 1&wc/up {PIECE . . . Nqw , Jay is almost here, [the risk of appear to same people | a little statement littcn by Phillips ad it until about a > good to read or after Christmas: nan who was born tillage, the child of an. He grew' up in village. He work liter shop until he ihen for three bn itinerant preach ivrote a book. He office. He never He never had a ber went to college, lis foot inside a big | traveled two hun thc place where i one of the things Accompanies great-, no credentials but nothing to do with pt the naked power nanhood. While still llie tide of popular against him. His Iway. One of them |e was turned over b. He went through a trial. He was Icross between two oners gambled for | of property, he had ! he was dying. That ! When he was ddfed down and laid in a > ve through the pity p ide centuries have and today he is of the human race br of the column of rithin the mark when [the armies that ever ail the navies that uilt, and all the bat ever sat. and all M ever reigned, put not affected the life | this earth as power fiat One solitary life." ll.VTE OK . . . The pints me is that'those rill be living in the or example, will look ire now living less |ears from the birth being neighbors to space, and spirit. | are not close to Him 57 or 1058, what may 1 our descendants who |far from him—on a and possibly space the year 40,000? fNTINE . . The man ^ollna wtyj appeared candidate for Gov H*k was L. Y. Bal Imissiuner of Agricul I talking like one and |ne. he will have to get f“ ‘he Jielp of Gov. P*. Also, Coqimission and Sen. Kerr Scott cn bosom buddies for fs now. But Ballcn [II the farm vote, the much of the lab<» olored people do not and business is not film. at 38. is a Wake For graduate, a former Dr' former Lieutenant Ind by i960 will have pommlssioner of Agri |‘t titan W. Kerr Scott, he Is a dairyman, is I is a charter member |a> Springs Post of the pcgion. He doesn’t use is a teetotaler. • • ■ Anybody who be t® be different with (,ai'd« In this. busy, dav l°UNDVfi, Page 7) ALONG WITH THE MANY HEARTY WISHES of a Happyholiday given by your friends and own upon the following pages, please accept our own. At this teas on, the News family, is especially mindful of the contributions of a host of people to whatever success the News has enjoyed. Subscribers, ad vertisers, correspondents, subscription solicitors, carrier boys. postal workers—all have helped, to make possible the work of the News staff in giving Oran 7c County people coverage of news and opinion. The merriest Christmas to 'everybody.' Mi-' — County Tax Listing Beains Next Week January is tax listing time by law in North Carolina. .... By virtue of this requirement list ta'kers in each of the seven Orange County townships begin work Jan. 2 in an effort to get all taxable property on the books during' tlie^re mainder of the month. A schedule' of appointnyyjISryn various part^, of their areas 'may be found on anoth er page of this edition. This Fias been set up by the list takers to more conveniently serve the taxpay ers and facilitate* the listing pro gram. January 1 is a holiday, but offices at the courthouse will be open on Jan. 2 and listers will be filling appointments in many of the town ships. Most of the townshfff list'tak ers who do not begin their scheduled visits to centralized listing pplaces until Thursday can be reached at Martin Farrell Stricken Today By Heart Attack Martin Ferrell, middle-aged Carr boro man. died at his home in Carrboro Monday morning. His older br outer, 'i'mk Ferrell, with whom he lived, said that he apparently suffered an attack about 7 a m. The two bachelors live off Barnes St. just outside Carrboro. Tink Ferrell said his brother was dead by the time a doctor ar rived at the^ousc. Orange County Coroner Alien Walker attributed the death to a heart attack. According to information given Deputy Sheriff W. E. Clark Jr., Martin Ferrell arose shortly before 7 a.m. and walked into the front room of the house to smoke a cigarette. Tink Ferrell said that his broth er got back in bed and without ever saying a word gave a low gihsp, stretched his neck, and ap parently died. Recently, his broth er said. Martin had an attack in w'hich he showed somewhat simi lar symptoms. . # The brothers ire natives of Chatham County and have lived here for a number of years. Mar tin Jarrell, partially disabled. Worked Npart-tirtVe as an income fax consultant. ' C ' - ■ '• * ' .-frioa-yv" ' their homes or business places. I Each list taker has already been furnished 6y Tax Supervisor Sam Gattis special books, showing the values of the various automotive ve hicles and farm equipment as well as schedules of valuation of a num- j ber of other types of property. | The tax listers wifi meet at the courthouse Friday, December Vf, with Gattis for final instruction re garding listing and to pick up "the necessary forms and data. Little change has been made this year in schedule of values for per sonal property and livestock.^ Taxpayers throughout the county are urged to list their taxes early curing the month to avoid the last minute rush tliat always develops toward the end of the month. Chapel Hill township taxpayers especially were reminded of the new listing place which has been desig nated for that township, necessitated bj the crowded conditions at City Hall. The new listing place is -the Yatgs Motor Company showroom on W. Franklin St. All real estate and personal prop erty is required to be listed for taxes and all male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to list polls during the same time. In connection with the listing farm owners or tenants are required to furnish facts about farms which is for information only and is not used for tax purposes. For instance, the tax lister must be informed the acreage of each crop-harvested dur ing the Calendar year 1957. The number of cows, sows and hens on a fartfi January. 1957.-must be re ported, as well as the number of people living on the farm on January 1. 1958. All of the information is con fidential but is needed in making up various agricultural reports for the counties in the state. This year, as is the year past, dog owners will be given a county dog license when the dog is listed and 'wearing of the tag received from the tax luster is mandatory at all times. ; WALKER REUNION The W. Y. Walker family Reunion will be held Dec. 29 at the Pleasant Green Community House. ! -All members of the family and ' friends are invited to attend and | bring a picnic luhch. \ Next S & L • • x. . . * Dividend Is Biggest The directors,; of the Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association have declared the institution's largest dividend in its 44-year history ail'd distribution checks will go out next week. •Secretary Ira Ward said the div idends to stockholders of record as ot December 31 will to^al $43,775 for the six months period now ending. These payments on earnings will bring to $36,290.24 the amount whiOh will be paid to stockholders of the institution this year, on the basis of a 3'* per cent rale. The total of earnings in 1956 was $75,573.13. COLEMAN AT EVANSVILLE Alonzo B. Coleman. Jr. son pf Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo B. Coleman. Sr., Hillsboro, has enrolled at Evans ville College for the winter quarter. Ml No Change b Soil Bank For Spring General provisions of the Soil Rank's Acreage Reserve Program for |»38 spring-planted crops are the sani& as were announced this lajl for the 1958-crop winter wheat, W M. Snipes. Chairman of the Orange County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, an : ounccd today. The Acreage Reserve is the part ot the Soil Bank under which fnfm riV'Tfgrco to reduce their ctfrrent year’s acreage of ‘basic” crops oi upland cotton, corn, wheat, rice, and tobacco below their established acreage allotments, the chairman explained. In return, growers earn payments which maintain net in come for the land put in the pro gram. For 1958. the per-acre payment rates for • allotment" land pot in : the 1858 Acreage Reserve are some what higher for most crops than the rate* which were in effect for 1957. I Compared with 1957. the national i average payment rates per acre for 1958 are Wheat, $20.88 and $20.04; cotton. $58.95 and $54.15;: corn. $44.48 and $42.68; and tobacco, flue cured $255.42 and 4255.42; Burley $295.74 and $293.74 ^Changes in the 1968 national, average per-acre ; i'ft! * , are dtf* to adjustments be i of trejichl in crop yields. Mr. Stupes explained* * A ' _*»: Per-acre rate* for the individual farm will be determined from* the | county av^age figure, according to iBet relative productivity of the farmland. Farmers who took part ir. the 1957 Acreage Reserve will be paid a 10 percent premium above the 1958 compensation rate set for , their farms if they put the identical 1 land in the 1958 program.-- • ' i The signup period /or" the 1958 ‘Acreage Reserve will open on .lan- \ nary 13 and close March 7. Chair-I man Snipes urges farmers who want to take part in the program*.to visit the county ASC office at an early date, and to bring along records of t|jp farm acreage of each, crop (See SOIL BANK, Page 7) ! ; •’ • ■ Jz.._t___ ' ! West Hillsboro PO Branch Being Renovated j The branch postoffice at West ' Hillsboro is being, renovated and modernized and will be completed 1 about January 15. according to Fred Cates Jr., who leases the quarters. 1 The floor area is being enlarged, -a modern front constructed and the entire structure air conditioned lor 1 comfort and convenience of patrons and workers, he said. H. Cn COLEMAN JR: JOE COLEMAN | i J, - .A : Colemans Buy Orange Farm Equipment Jinn H. G. Coleman Jr* and Joe Cole-1 man, members of a family long ac tive in the farm equipment field in Orange County, have purchased and assumed active management of the Orange Farm Equipment Company of Hillsboro. ' • v' The Internationa] Harvester deal ership located in the Webb building on Churton street in Hillsboro was formerly Coleman-Laws Co., Inc. for many years prior to Its purchase about two years ago by Charles Lowndes If. 'Coleman. Sr., Who' operated the business at \hsrf time, will be associated with hi* sons in the current operation and other present members of the Orange Farm Equipment staff, other than Mr. Lowndes, will corttinue in their same capacitieTr““ H. G. Coleman Jr., now associated with Christian Printing Company in Durham, .will return to Hillsboro* within the next few weeks to assume the administrative phases of the business management. Joe Coleman .will handle sales and outside promo tion. Both men were associated for many years in the; Coleman-Laws operation and are experienced in the field. The firm name of Orange Farm Equipment Company will not be changed but merchandise lines will be expanded. MIDNIGHT SERVICE A Christmas Eve midnight serv^ ice Will be held at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church' under the auspices of the Senior High Fellow ship. This service, which will begin a! 11:30 o’clock, is provided for the people of the community, the youth groups of other churches, and va cationing college students and serv ice men. The jBCrvice will end at the midnight hour with the ringing in of Chrlslmas Day. This Is The True Spirit Of Christmas GP/g/T. ' Man Appeals 18 Months Term; Gets 15 Years A man who appealed an 18 months sentence from the Orange County Recorder's Court is' now ser ving a 15-year term as .a result of a Superior Court re-hearing of his case; Elbert Lee F utter ^us charged with assault with intent to commit rape as a result of an alleged at tack on a Route Three. Chapel Hill woman, last summer.' In the Coun ty Recorder's Court he offered to plead to charges of assault on a | female, which charge was' accepted . by the state, and Judge L. J. Phipps sentenced- him to 18 months on the * roads'. Later Fuller appealed this judg ment, and was given a trial on both the intctvt to commit rape and as-' •vault o.n a female charges in the December term of .Superior Court. ! He pleaded not guilty to both charges, but a' Jury convicted him on the two counts. , Then Judge Clawson Williams sen- ! tenecd him to a strafgfit la years! ^ I Road Workers Get Shorter Work Week Beginning orr January 1, State highway maintenance employees in Orange County will have a shorter work week according to a directive issued today to Division and District Engineers. * Directs* i f Highways W. F. Bab cock announced the reduced work v.eek on a trial basis. Heretofore, maintenance forces throughout the State have worked >0 hours per week. After January 1, this work week will be reduced t' 45: In addition the regu'ar work day of 10 hours will be reduced to 9 hours. In explaining the shorter work week. Director Babcock said, “a study has indicated that mainten ance oDerations on North Caro lina’s highways can be carried on with the same effectiveness and efficiency while, at the same time, bringing the maintenance work week more in line with oth*r. De nartments of the State Highway Commission.” ONLY $10 SHORT “Only. $10.is still needed to" finish*’ Paying for the Hillsboro Christmas lights,- according to an announce ment by W, C. Brewer, president of the Hillsboro Merchants Association. Merchants who have made dona uons.and nof listed, iij last week's peper are Mary’s Shop, City Amoco Service,-‘ Hillsboro Manufacturing Cj>C., anddlait^'s^ikdio and. ’Ey 2-Day Holiday To Be Observed For Most Part ’ Orange County merchants have rtpo. ieu heavy L-ims.mas buying as citizens this week made last mn^iie p*ans for me Christmas n. I mays. Christmas spirits has appeared abundantly througneut the county as residents have decorated and lighted their trees and nome dec orations. * * in general the county and the various communities witi observe a two-day holiday period. Schools in the,county closed last Friday at noolt “lo open again January gnd. The traditional enrisunas parties, programs and the exchange ot gifts mgnlignted uie school holiday closing.. ' . -Stores “in Hiils'aoro will be closed both‘Wednesday and Thurs day. County offices in both the bid and-new courthouses will be closed three days. Tuesday through Thursday. ^ Cone Mills Corporation will be closed Monday through Wednes day of this week and will resume operations at 7 o'clock Thursday morning. They wilt also be closed New Year's Day. Officers at Cone Mills announced that the employ ees' Christmas Savigs Club there ees' Christmas Savings Club there Belle Vue Mfg. Co. plant of the William L. Barrell Co. is closed all this week, resuming on Mon thly. VYillteTr Furifitu.^ fcu.:is closed this week St >res anti business ,, districts have been decorated in the Christ mas theme for the past several weeks. Postmasters throughout the county rjifaort that the increase ftf voJuf^ks/in mail was heavy. Hie stamp sales have been heavier than usual and extra help has been added through the holiday period." Many churches and Sunday Schools held special services feat uring traditional Christmas music, last Sunday. . With Christmas Day on Wednes day this year, most merchants in Hillsboro have announced that their stores will be closed Wed nesday and Thursday to extend the holiday for emolovees. Stores will also b« closed next Wednesday for New Years. Aside fr m 6le Santa Claus, who ot course is the busiest man in town at this*time of year, the 4 housewife certainly rates second place. The weary housewives have been busy Completing their final plans for rast minute decorating and wrapping of the family gifts, and last but not least—the buying md preparing of the annual Christmas dinner. T"*‘ Andrews Hone b Destroyed In Fire Here Last Thursday morning around 11:15 o’clock the home of Mjt. and Mrs. Dallas Andrews of Wist 5 Hillsboro was completely destroy ed by fire. The home was too far gone when the Hillsboro fire truck ar rived. and the firemen had quite a time keeping the blaze from spreading to the houses on each side of the Dallas home, which is located on Horse Shoe Drive in West Hillsboro, f Andrews, who has been unable • to work for aronnd a year due to bad health, was lighting a stove when It reportedly blew up in his face, severely burning it and also his left hand- It was believed that he would, lose the sight of Ilia left eye. but It is reported he will Mrs. Apdrews is an employee of Kno Mills. They, have five chU dren: Bennie, 8 years old; Richard. 1» years Of age; Priscilla, U: M: and Harold* ja Thn A nflttaia.a r_O': the Andrews familv 'hgnk.everyone who hi 1 hum lnwn, j . T . ’.f
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