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I Orange Count* with the newt r th* county hy E iMEWS ol S= Fer Quick, proven result* sett, Wy, rent or pet a fob hy using the classified ads an Page 7 of The HEWS Of Orange County. EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE KIDD BREWER'S ^‘fiwac/up B . . . lliose who plan [lefferson-Jacksou Da^ [ last Saturday evening lives, and the Demo L in this State, proud. L me, the weather out b worst of the yearf Blit It was smooth, well id effective as a rally r0r the out’s in the Par as for the in’s. For a L around the Sir Walter kvas friends. We heard Lots, for you picck up L want to heap* at one ngs. ke Governor Hodges, ten y to speak for him. Scott, it is the same, oil's for Tefry Sanford, hr right much Sanford | good—and. not a little Balien 'earsall, ;dwin Gill. One or two the Dinner was a good .uther Hodges—all the and was a boost for LONG . . . One of our landing philosophers— ke of our best friends— entleman of black com k> works in one of the pildings we visit here He has wisdom, pati ance, and is a deep •istian who always sees side of things, iter in your community ke ours in Raleigh, you h more miserable wea krs. December was bad January was wbrse. r night we went shiver | elevator. We complain Ithe weather. ’"Yes, he ke has been bad! We I added that more rough on the way. Said* bur favorite living J, but we can all take ne thing. It ain’t near spring as It was lasll VENTERS . . . White les may not be taking pie legislative Speaker J-some say he is, others Jc isn't—he boosted Carl ck a few days ago when I Sen. Joe Eagles of Wil peeed the late Brandon Asheville as chairman Study .Commission. vas forced tri resign his h'P of the Advisory Bud Mission because he took [appointment, ck Speaker Candidate as appointed—elected is lord—to head up the im nvisory Budget Commis: pembers name the chair |es will continue to serve dy. JHE METHOPISTS . . ■been accused of writini |in this column about tin Veil, one reason we d | about 50 per cent of al embers in North Care the Baptist faith, here last week of ho\ 11 i s t .denomination ha }it we have also writte new Methodist College prtant fact about the Me that since 1940 their tc ership in the nation ha> 125 per cent. Reader’s Digest in i [rtiele condensed from written by Hartzel IA distinguishing qualitj pis s even today is theii rhich at a great churct |)n is an experience ne ler forgets. The roots oi l°n go back to John Wes [her Charles, who wrote to 6.500 hymns. Until the singing in church was |rgelj» to metrical psalms Te Deinns.” - HIS LEAVE . . . Wher f>er H. Hodges last yeai several members o: Utilities Commission, ii p rumored here that ont I Had promised he woulc Pm Hte post within a shor Er the reappointment, even said? and written ^ody had seen, or heart ROUNDUP, Page 2) 5 Incumbents Seek Reelection Previous predictions that ail elec tive incumbents in the county ad ministration would be efi the battle line when the political lifle-ups are drawn ,this "Spring were borne out this week. Announcement of candidacies were handed out by the following: Edwin M. Lynch, clerk of Su perior Court, in office since 1942 and a member of the Clerk’s staff since 1928. Henry S. Walkerr*copnty commis sioner, completing his first four year term. ■ Dwight M. Ray, county commis sioner. completing his first four year ' term. Donald McDade, county commis sioner, on the board by appointment since September 1957, completing the unexpired term to which Claude T. Pope was named following the resignation of Edwin S. Lanier in December 1956. Edwin S. Lanier, state senator, completing his first term for the 16th District, Orange and Alamance counties. --"v No formal' statements were giv en by any of the candidates other than Lanier and no announced op position has com^jjprwahd to any them, although there has been mild speculation regarding one or two potential candidates. Lynch, a resident of Hillsboro since boyhood has never had op position since his appointment tat 1942 to succeed the late Mr. Ken yon. i Mr. Walker is a poultry and live stock farmer of the St. Mary's com munity and also chairman of the Orange County Board of Public Wel fare on which he has served several terms. Mr. Ray is a hardware mer chant in Carr boro and hah been ac tive in municipal and civic affairs of that community. Mr. Me Dade resides in the Cedar tfrove com munity. is a tobacco farmer, a combat veteran of World War II, and has been actvie in church, school and civic affairs in his com munity. Lanier is a University <m (See CANDIDATES, Page 31 mm HENRY S. WALKER . . . county commissioner 4 DWIGHT M. RAY . county commissioner DONALD Me DADE *" . . . county commissioner County Poultry Princess To Be Chosen Here March has been designated as National Egg Month. One of the features in connection with this pro. gram will be the selection of a poul try princess for North Carolina. ■ The Orange County Poultj-y Pro ! dtieers Association is sponsoring the i program locally. « I The contest to select the princess i will be held by Ihe Vocational Home ! Economics Departments and the Home Demonstration Agents of Orange.. County. Any girl living on la farm 17-24 years of age. high school graduate or rising senior, who. likes poultry and eggs, is will ing to represent the industry in . various parts of the stare, is single and not previously married, is not j profesional model is eligible to enter Ihe contest. Judges will 'base •their decision oh beauty, poise, personality, and speakijig ability. The contest to select the county princess will be held in the Home Economics Dc oarthrieht of the Hillsboro High School Thursday afternoon, Febru ary 13th. at 3:30 p.m. The county winner will be formally crowned at a supper meeting of the Orange bounty Poultry Producers Assoeia ion which wilf^be held at a later late. §he will represent Orange County in the area contest to be leld later during the month It is suggested that any young adies interested f in this contest hould discuss it with the Home Economics teacher in their com nuhity or with the Home Demon stration Agents. EDWIN M. LYNCH . . . clerk of court EDWIN $ LANIER . . . state senator Survey Of Retarded Children Will Be Held In Orange County I The Orange County Association j for Retarded Children. will this* week begin a county-wide survey i of all retarded children through the age of 17 years, The survey will be carried out by sending inquiries through key [ persons and agencies throughout the county who have agreed to participate. Roy Hall, President of the As sociation, said the reason for its existence is to work for the es tablishment of community services for all retarded children of Orange County. These community services^ may be classes for the trainabl£ i child, a kindergarten for pre school children, a day care center and sheltered workshops. "We are trying -to determine the need for ■ Orange County by locating all re tarded children. We have already located some of these children but we do not want even one child left out,” said Mr. Hail. ■, Perhaps “sofne of the parents in the rural areas of Orange Coun ty are not aware that, j» class for the educable white child has been' recently esablished in Hillsboro, making a total of three educable classes in the county. We believe there is still a great need left un filled, mainly for the trainable child of public school age and 'for pre-school children, both white and colored. The Association was formed on October 1, 1957 in Chapel Hill and has been holding meetings once a month alternately In Hillsboro and ^bapel Hill. Highlight of the meet ings is the program which Is always arranged to bring information to the group about what is being done in the State about this problem and what needs to be done There have been interesting discussions con cerning the different aspects of men tal retardation with the whole group participating in a question and an (See SURVEY, Page 3) Crime Prevention Observance Set Bv Exchange Club, Mayor Sunday, February 9. will mark .he oeginning“of the Uth annual observance of National Crime In vention Week in Hillsboro and throughout/the United States As a branch of The National Ex change Club, the Exchange Club o Hillsboro will sponsor the even locally. , * „ Opening day of the 7-day obser vance calendar'has been-designat ed as Go-To-Church Sunday. In an appeal 'for record church-attend ance that day .by Hillsboro res, dents, Crime Prevention Week Chairman U W. Petti, of the. local cliil}, emphasized the importa regular church attendance as a deterrent to crime and juvem e delinquency. h “The church, along wit! home and .the school, is one of the three major bulwarks against the encroachments of crime on our society,” he said "Our na tion's stand against the criminal element is \greatly dependent on the combined strength if all i three. Every church-goer* helps to strengthen and assure the con tinued beneficent influence the church brings to bear on the prob lem.” Mayor's Proclamation Mayor Ben Johnston added his support witlj, a proclamation en dorsing the observance as* follows: Whereas, It is increasingly nec essary to alert the people to the danger of crime in eacfK communi ty throughout this Ration; and ' Whereas, The 'National Exchange Club has wholeheartedly sponsor ed National Crime Prevention I Week for 10 previous years in or der to make the people conscious of the ever increasing threat of : lawlessness; and S Whereas, crime is still a most [ formidable enemy everywhere in " the Nation, affecting persons of | all ages, and in' all stations of life, , bringing misery, degradation, and ; financial loss to law abiding citi zens; Now Therefore, I, Ben G. John ston, Mayor of Hillsboro, do here by proclaim the week of February 9 through 15, to foe a NATIONAL | CRIME PREVENTION WEEK, and do hereby entreat eyery citizen of this community to cooperate there <#ith, in order to fight the scourge of crime and protect our citizens [ and their homes. ——- - ; ; ; :;g* Citizens Group Vs. Committee On Area Merger "Is 341 Names On Petition Filed For Merger %' . ; ; - I * A Garrboro citizens com anittee delegation appeared diefore the County Board of Education in Hillsboro Mon pay morning and presented a rsignature petition for an flection oh the issue of merg ing the Carrboro School Attendance area and the Chapel Hill Special School Tax District. Bitter words were heard toward the Carrboro .School Advisory Committee—which has been seek ing a special tax district for the Carrboro School area alone. No action was taken on the request by the County Board. In informal statement* in the past the Chapel Hill Board has said it would not abject to the merger idea. uaemDers or tne citizens ooay said that the School Advisory Com mittee supposed t«r meet them at the Board meeting Monday, but did not show up. The petition was directed the Board of Education with the re quest that it ask the County Com missioners to call the election “as soon as possible.’’ Members of the citiiens delega tion in Hillsboro Monday were H. Dobson Jr., George Odell Barham, Mrs. Bruce Riggsbee, Earl Settle mire, John E. Martin Jr„ and Mrs. Edith P, Kaylor. I Following is the petition they j turned in to the Board, with 341 local signatures alxixed to it: “We the undersigned resident*, of the Carrboro School District, strong ly feel that Carrboro should seri ously consider the many advan taged of being in one large ad ministrative school unit with Chapel Hill, and respectfully pe tition the County Board of Edu cation to request the County Com missioners to call an election as soon as possible to give the people a chance to vote on this.,issue." ^Spokesmen for the citizens dele gation said that a majority of the people in the Carrboro- School At tendance Area wanted to have their school in the Chapel Hill District, whereby they would be taken out of the .County Adminis (See PETITION, . Page 3) 1 County To Build Principal's Home School patrons of the Aycock School, Cedar Grove, will get their Principal's Home this year and with county appropriations. In a surprise move, the Board of Commissioners voted unanimous ly a resolution allowing the Board of Education to divert $12,000 in funds budgeted for other purposes to build a Principal’s home on pro perty owned by the county across the road from the school, which was purchased several years ago from the present County Commissioner Donald McDade. ' • . Previously both boards bad indi cated to the petitioning Cedar Grove delegation that ail funds in this year's budget had been allotted for other purposes. Monday when the delegation put In «apnother ap pearance to press their case, the Board of Education, with little dis cussion and without formal action on the proposal, took the matter again tb the commissioners, who qulkkly provided on Okay for the action. < A meeting is planned with the Board of Education here Saturday night to approve final plans for the building. Members of the delegation at Mon day's meeting included Winfred Phelps, Bill Dorsett Jr., L, J. Rog ers and David L. Wells. Farm Bureau Pushes Leaf Control Changes Fifty members of Orange County Farm Bureau under the leadership of County President William Dor sett, Monday discussed proposed state-wide resolutions to the State Farm Bureau Convention and added a few of their own. , The most significant one was di rected to the U. 'S. Department of Agriculture asking that a change in I tobacco control laws be made to permit small tobficco farmers hav ing iess than a three acre allotment to rent this allotment annually to other tobacco farmers within the county. The reasons behind this re solution were (1) that many allot i ments, because of reduction in re cent years, have become so low that they are impractical to plant <2» that the existing rule for confis cating the allotment on a farm which does not plant tobacco within three years, works a hardship on Piedmont farmers because the un planted allotment is placed in a state «ool and divided among all counties according to their total amount, of tobacco allotment. East ern North Carolina with by far the larger acreage allotment gets a : disproportionate share of these un 20 Orange Scouts Get Awards At District Court Of Honor Awards were presented to 20 Change District Boy Scouts in a Court of Honor held in the County Courthouse at Hillsboro January 26. District Advancement Chairman William S. Stewart presided over the court, for Which Troop 438 of Hillsboro was the host organiza tion. Clarence Jones, representing the hosts, gave a message of wel come and the Rev. Jack Reckard of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church delivered the invocation. One advancement in rank was presented. Bill Freeman awarded ‘o Grove Burnett of Troop 39, Chap el Hill, the Second Class badge. Mack Efland of Efland gavej^lOO hours civic duty bars to Jock Lau terer and Johnny AUeott, both of Troop 39. Merit badges, presented by Jim Wadsworth, went to Bill Aycock, Troop 39, for Safety, Nature, and Fireirianship; Vance Barron, Troop 39, for Basketry, Personal Fitness, Safety, Firemanship, Citizenship in Home, Nature, and Public Health; and to the following Scouts from GET SAFETY AWARDS C. H. Scott, J. H. Workman and Sam Ray of Orange County’s stajte highway maintenance force were among the 22 workers from the 7th Highway Division, First District re ceiving 10-year safety pins at a meeting in Graham last month. A i total of 137 safety awards were pre j sented to employees of Orange, i Alamance and Caswell counties, but a list of those obtaining them could not be obtained. Troop 438 for Beef Production Billy Lynch, Jack Knight, Gene Knight. Jimmy flarsley, Harvey Reinhardt, Craig Allison* Dupree Jones, Joe Eskridge., Johnny Mid gett, Jimmy Strayhorn, Charles Crawford, and Kenneth Bobbitt. used acres. Prior to the Soil Bank Acreage Reserve pian Orange Coun ty was losing as much as 100 acres of tobacco annually and only get ting back from the state pool for adjustments about 10 acres. ^Voting delegates to the Farm Bu reau Convention next week will be Linwood Rogers, Route 3, Mebane. and Clarence Sharpe. Efland 60 Citizens Get February Jury Duty Sixty Orange County persons have drawn jury duty for a term of Criminal term in Hillsboro Febru ary 24. The Jury list is as follows: Hillsboro—Charles W. Rainey Jr , Viola Burnette, Clayton Haithcock. William H. Smith, Ruth B. Taylor, West Hillsboro. C. E. McAdams. Odie W. Wagner, West Hillsboro. W. W. Tew and Airs. Louise Rhine Rt. 3. Chapel Hill—H. C.' Jieeson. Wil Ham P Matthews, LeRoy Bowersox Max J. Preslar, Arthur Lee Fou shee, Audrey Edwards, Mrs.- Gor don C. Cowell, Carolyn A Wallace. Margaret Chapman, V. .L Pender graR, Hazel B. Vaughan. Samuel Boyd, Mary G. Gobbel, P. H. Quin lan, Jr., Betty R. Lineberger, Mar eia H. Pendleton, Fred M. Hoffman Jr., Barbara B. Fordeham, Robert T. Whitlock, John Boone, Chalmers Bumphass. Willis Knight. William I. Powell, Rachel E. Long. Eugene MeMillian, Arthur Markham, Henry (See JURY. Page 3) AAUN Ends First Year; Elects Laslev Chairman Chapel Hill attorney Jack Las ley has ben elected Chairman of the Orange County Chapter of the American Association for the United Nations. The Acting Chairman of this group during recent months, he succeeds Prof. D. D. Carroll, who was named as first leader of the group upon its organization a year ago. Other officers elected for the coming year at the Chapter's re cent meeting were Don S Ma theson of Hillsboro, Vice-Chair man; Mrs. Carl Davis of Hillsboro, Secretary; Edward * G. Danziger, Chapel Hill, Finance Committee Chairman; and Dwight Rhyne, Chapel Hill, Program Committee Chairmpn. The ^Chapter’s annual finance drive will be started soon, accord ing to Chairman Lasley. He also noted that the annual world peace speaking contest, sponsor ed each year by the AAUN in all of the County’s high schools, was already under way again.* Winning pupils and their teachers in each school will be given a study trip to the United Nations. JACK LASLE1 In a report on the first year’s actitivities, it was brought out that the group had operated oft a $600 budget, using a major part of this sum in sending the con test -winners on the United Na ions trip. Speakers on the United Nations appeared for the Chapter before groups all over the Coun ty, movies on the UN were shown, and hundreds of pieces of litera ture were distributed. District 'Fuss' Erupts Before County Board The turmoil between the two school, factions in Carr boro .erupted into the open again Tuesday; night at a meeting of the County Board of Kducation, and following the meeting sentiment on the boar d appeared virtually unanimous in favor of calF ing an election to permit Carr boro and White Cross voters to express their preference on joining the Chapel Hill City administrative unit and spec ial tax district. A meeting with the White Cross district school committee has been called by-, the Board of Education for Saturday night, and an ex ploratory meeting with the Chapel Hilt Board of Trustees to obtain formally Its view is being request ed at the earliest pme convenient to both boards. Tuesday night’s meeting with the £oard of Education was re : quested by the Canrboro District committee, Carl Ellington, chair man. for 7 o'clock. Awaiting the session were a dozen or so mem bers of pro Chapel Hill annexa tion group, including the group which the previous day had pre sented a 341-name petition calling ; for an election to determine popu 1 lar sentiment toward the proposal 1 for Carrboro to enter the Chapel Hill district. With the opposition group wait s ing in the Board room of the old courthouse, members of the Carr boro committee, Chairman Elling ton and Ernest Hearn,' haggled with the hoard in the Superinten dent’s office and alternately arg ued among themselves, principally , with Mrs. Ruth West, who repre sents the "opposition” within the I district committee, over whether the meeting should go on. Hearn : at one point got his coat and start ed toward the door, saying he wanted nothing else to do with the affair, but was prevailed upon to at least go into the meeting. Tt\p Board of Education and the Carrboro committeemen present, Ellington, Hearn, Mrs. West and Raymond Andrews (Member Lloyd Senter was not present) finally entered the board room 30 minutes late; about 7:30 Chairman Ellington remained rigidly silent throughout the sess ion and the committee never stated why it had sought the meeting with the County Board. Following the call to order by Chairman C. W. Stanford, and following a brief period of silence. Mrs. West began the discussion by stating she had reached the conclusion it would be in the best interest of the children to vote into the Chap el Hill special tax district. An drews said he thought there ought to be a supplementary tax vote in Carrboro, but if the Board didn't want to do that, he thought there ought to be a vote on something to resolve the situation. Mrs. West asked the Chairman directly what the Board of Education planned to do about the request.* to be in formed that no action, had been taken. Some members of the op position delegation entered the discussion relative to the academic phase of the problem and wheUvzr it would be better for Carrboro to be with Chapel Hill or the coun ty. Linder the 1937 amendments to the school law. such an election to (See MERGER, Page 3) Mrs. Williams New Secretary Of Merchants Mrs. LaVerne Williams has ac-w4 cepted the position as Executive Secretary of the Hillsboro Merch ants Association effective Feb. 1. She is a former, employee of Piedmint Electric Membership * ■ Corp.r the' Orange County Tax Ot- , fice and G k G Grocery. Mrs. Edna Dawkins resigned January 31 due to ill health. # *
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