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ITH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 19SS Par Quick, proven rwuS^ - Mil, buy, ront or pot • job by using the cIhsHM ado on Pago 7 of THC NEWS of Orango County. SIGHT PAGES THIS 1SSUR I . . Iredell County finds Hp middle of one of the for the State Sen H# lid State has seen foi mumcui wai w. a. f Statesville, judge ol ourt in Statesville, an the Senate seat held by C. V. Henkel Jr., n charges and coun i on both sides from without the county, vhlle columnist wrote tin Raleigh to the ef JTJclge W inberry should tel, that he would be ' being appointed a Su t Jiid'i'e by the Gov not a statement of fact foundation. , injustice to Judge Win »judiciary of the State, Governor. And every deserves an apology action and this is it. FACTJS.. . . Raleigh -th? boat by being one ar state capitals not > be served by the Fed egional highway sys n to this, just last year ut to Durham when through the city was hope of any real sub irovenvent for Highway : future, the owners of s, service stations, and businesses in the hre feeling the pinch are staggering under of less business and and little hope- for E . . . A typical ex problem is the posi court operators who ntrated on the north leigh now find them With the above facts them, they are faced lie definite possibility ure Highway No, 1 Ra —Iff and when it comes off farther north of Ra had been previously r business will be left le. ‘REST1GE . Just to lorable Kemp Doughton Doughton clan of that niueiit in political mat tion is to give one new raocracy. everybody is delighted tar this former Speaker se hijs finally decide^ to sleigh for one mare ses : Legislature He won't iitton in Alleghany Coon >u are likely to see him tan ,»! otto ot I ‘It k.-\ » in the House come g in the Legislature will stige, stability, and dig rill all be glad to have L VOLGER . The only . C. Food Dealers man. Vogler, has (ailed to aleigh when he tried to about five years ago decided to run for the ne of the real veterans se, but somehow he has ng to get over on the of the capitol and so once again—he has de un for the State Senate, te he will be taking on icer Bfejl, the man who the way to judicial im s in North Carolina. Al doubtedly able. Bell is a in politics. He did not ie State Senate Seat he JS7, but was named by Kratic Executive Com Mecklcnburg to fill a nning with Vogler and tck Love, who served a the House in 1957. This ove to be a most inter ce—with a runoff indi ween Bell and Jim Vog . ; . Walter Davenport, u wiU remember as the dttor of Liberty and then Roundup page 2) COPPER COILS FROM STILL FRAME SHERIFF'S OFFICERS . L R: Deputies Rainey .Roberts, W. E. Clark Jr., Sneak Long, and Sheriff Odell Clayton Roland Giduz Photo it Was Not Eggs They Hunted On This Sunny Day Easter Catch By Sheriffs Department Another Chapter tn Liquor-Making Saga By ROLAND GIDUZ Easter Sunday, 1958. provided a i traditional activity scarcely akin to an Easter Egg hunt for Orange 1 County Sheriff Odell Clayton and his deputies. As the first traces of greenery be • can to appear on the trees the ; Sheriff knew the illegal liquor-mak ing business in the Comity would soon pick up. Natural cover from leaves provides ideal camouflage from the air, and also makes de tection on the ground more diffi cult. Two days before on Good Friday while the trees were still bare. County officers had made a tho rough search by air of the northern half of Orange, seeking out illicit stills.* Flying in an ABC officers' chartered plane the deputies criss crossed Orange for five hours but spotted only the wreckage of a for mer still. r' Two Miles Farmae*'-*— Had they ventured two miles be low Hillsboro—the County seat squarely in the center of Orange— STILL LIFE SCENE . . . »ocn to b< 90"* f<Wfv«r they might have sighted their quar ry. Kor there, a scant half-mile off busy- U S Highway: 70, hard by.-a wooded stream, was a beautiful new 24-box still easily visible from the air through scant natural cover ; More than 7,000 gallons of mash were then fermenting, well on the | way io becoming., half-gallon Jari ! of white liquor, While legally dry Orange Coun ty soaks up a good deal of' this RAY BARNES JAMIE mONK United Nations Orators Chosen In Contests At Local Schools Miss Jamie Monk of Aycock High School and Ra^ Barnes of Hills boro High School last week were chosen winners in their respective schools in th? annual United Na tions oratory contest. Miss Monk is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Monk of Hurdle Mills. Barnes is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P- Barnes of Hillsboro. Both are active in the extra cur ricular activities of their schools. Contestants spoke on the sub ject “The United Nations and Th"'Search for World Peace.” A handsome medal was presented to each winner. In addition, Miss Monk, with her instructor, will be given a trip W New York under the sponsorship of the Ruritan Club to visit t e United Nations. Miss Monk won over three oth er orators in the contest at Ay cock. They were Carolyn Rebecca Wilson. Sandra Wrenn. and Hoyt Competing in the contest at Hillsboro other than the winner A were Catherine Roberts, Ann | Hawkins, Brenda White and Em-! ma Ashley. ^^SPEEcI^ONTEiT WINNER _Delia Ann Burnette, senior of Central His*1 School, was de clarod winner in the speaking contest held at Central High School, Tuesday, April 8, 1958. ■ She discussed the subject: "The : United Nations in Search for | World Peace." She wins as a prize, a trip to New York and a visit to the United Nations. Mrs. Ira Ward Heads Cancer Fund Campaign Mrs. Ira Ward has accepted the chairmanship of the 1958 Hills boro Cancer Drive, which gets un derway tomorrow afternoon and continues all next week. A town-wide house-to-house can vass will be conducted with the' following ladies having been named as Captains for the various sectors of the community: Mrs. Kay Winecoff, Mrs. Harry Breeze, Mrs, Bob Strickland, Mrs. Odell Clayton, Mrs. Bojaby Knight, \lrs. Allen Latta and Mrs. Harry Wal do. Others will be named later, to complete the organisation. A kickoff meeting is scheduled for Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Colonial Inn. Mrs. Ward said “the goal , of the cancer drivebeing held here as well as throughout the nation is to spread life-saving education al facts widely and to raise at least $30 million for the fight against cancer. 'No- goal has yet been set for Hillsboro. ‘'Forty per cent of the funds raised here will remain in the county to help cancer victims. The rest will be used for research and other purposes.” ON HONOR GUARD Harvey Reinhardt tof Troop 438 Hillsboro has been selected by the Scout Exposition Committee to be one of the six Scouts to the Honor Guard for the. .Governor on thj^nignt of April 12, during the Eagle Cere mony, product it would be unfair not to admit that a large portion of the powerful alcoholic beverage doesn’t go across geographic lines into neighboring counties—which have their share of stills, too. Hut on this Easter Sunday inorn ; Ing Sheriff Clayton didn't need an aid -search to find his sought-after still The local me t ame in theforw ot a t%^-as most still discoveries do. Deputy Rainey Roberts—a vet eran law officer who can practical ly sniff out ta still—received word abopt suspicious activities going on in tku^ woods a short ways from town. Taking Deputy -Malone Long with hign he headed out Highway 70-A old N. C. No 10 phst Occonecchee Speedway and tujncd on to a woods traih freshly coated .with Chapel Hill gravel. Following down a half mile in the woods they walked up on one of the neatest whiskey works they’d;-seen in quite a speH. jBThree Neat Rows — Laid oii^ in the morning sunlight were three neat rows of pine boxes —each containing 300 gallons of creamy, bubbling mash. Along each row- was a nvuunrh ho.te for pump ing the mash up to tlih boiler by Hie creek bank. Empty sugcr and corn meal, sacks Uttered the aisles between the boxes. Bags of coke were stacked under a lean-to beside the (See STILL. 1‘age 6) J Commissioners Name Election Officials, Places Following; through on pre vious tentative discussion, the . Hoard ol Commissioners yes ■terday completed legal tjta* t hinery and set May-20 as the t* date for ■ the election on the " merger of the Chirboro and White Cross school districts with the Chapel Hill special school tax district. In its third attempt to set the legal boundaries of the proposed areas to be merged, the board finally approved the required formal resolution containing the boundary description in metes and bounds to satisfy previous objec tions as to the legality of earlier descriptions submitted with the -ap-, provaf of both boards'of education. - Orange County and Chapel Hill. The resolution set up two voting ! precincts, with their respective pol ] ling places, and named the election j officials to conduct this special elec- ■ tion. A complete new registration of eligible voters in the two school districts was ordered . Registrars will be Mrs. Luther Sturdivant for Carrboro and Mrs Thomas Y. Teer for White Cross. Named a judges of election were Ashwell Harward and Bruce Riggs bee for the Carrboro precinct and Grady Crawford and Miss Martha Lloyd for the White Cross precinct. Polling places will be the Towtl Hall In Carrboro and the Grange Hall at White Cross. The new registration books will1 be open from 9 o'clock until sunset I from Saturday April 28 through (* Way*!* for je^tMiLiion of voters and 1 Saturday Mayl7 wilt be Challenge Day. Registrars wRl be at the polling places on the Saturdays. The complete resolution including the description of the areas to be merged may be found on another page of this edition. WILL'THIS BE (ABANDONEE)f—Hillsboro's new postotfee bwild ing, being constructed by Fred Cates Jr. under a laase agreement with the federal government, is moving rapidly toward completion a% shown in the "progress" picture above. However, Tuesday Hilfsber<| . was listed by-Postmaster General Summerfield as being considered — for the construction of a new pestiffice if Congress raises postal rates on out-of-town letters to 5*. n School Merger Area No Action Taken Qn Committeemen Faced with a 475-name petition irging their re-appointment and en lorsement of others for the posts, he Board of Education yesterday teclined to act on the re-appoint nent of two Ojarrboro district School committeemen whose terms expired \pril 1. Likewise, no action was taken on he re-appointment of C. P. Jones Koute 1. Mebane. a White Crass committeeman, whose term like hose of Chairman Carl Ellington ind Ernest T. Hearn of Carrboru las expired. All other incumocnt district school committee members whose terms expired were re-appointed at yes 13 Orange Scout Units Going To Weekend Raleigh Exposition ‘-Thirteen Cub and Boy Scout units front the Orange District are ex pected Jo participate in Saturday's < Occoneochee CowncH-'Beout Kxposi tion at Reynolds Coliseum in Ra leigh The Rotary-sponsort;d affair is ex- , peeled to be seen by about 25,000 persons between the hours of 1 and fl.30 p.-m Climax- of the event- will , be tiie presentation at 8:30 of thei tiO Boy Scouts in the 12-county Coun- ' cil who have attained the Eagle Scout rank in the last year They will be honored by Gov. Luther Hodges. .A total of 160 demonstrations and jooths will be erected on the •oilsenm floor, featuring Scout dis mays on crafts. ijj».ture.-lore. sports, lobbies, cooking. pioneering, and it her subjects taken up in the Boy trout hundbook. Orange County units that will pui' icipate in the Exposition, accord m: to District Executive Frank Van loll, are Troops St W, 826. 1&7. tind (35 of Chapel Hill. Troop H0:t ot iVliite Cross. Troop 430 of Kfland Creep 116 of Hillsboro. Troop 845 of 'arrboro. and Cub Hacks 107. 421. , md 830 ol Chapel Hill, 845 of Carr \ loro, and 438 of Hillsboro. f Wilson Files For C ounty board; Ray Sustains Mild Attack' Bingham I owusliip dairy larmer Hugh M. Wilson lias become "lie‘first oil ice-seeker other than incumbents in the May 1 Denhx ralh |>! imary election. |N officially tiling lot the ('anility Boat'll of Commission ers this past weekend Mr. Wilson became the fourth candi date lor the three seats at stake. Already announced are in cumbents Donald McDade, Uemy Walker, and Bwtgh| Ray, McDade and Walker filed yester* day. The political scene took a Sew twist over the weekend as Mr. Ray, a Carrboro hardwarenian, went to Memorial Hospital with what was described by friends as a "mild stroke.” He suffered a heart attack a number of mouths ago. but has been in apparent good health for a good while since then. Entered Wednesday Mr. Ray. who was elected County Commissioner in 1054, entered the Hospital last Wednesday, but was reported in excellent condition yesterday at his home. In filing for Commissioner, Mr. Wilson is seeking this post for the third tAne. having run in both the 1056 and 1954 primaries. He is a t\. n. griiaumr wir vnr verslty of North Carolina, mem ber of the Grange. Farm Bureau ! and of New Hope Presbyterian Church. In addition he is Secre tary-Treasurer of the North Caro lina Ayrshire Breeders Associa tion and on the Advisory Commit tee of the Carolina Milk Producers j Association. His formal statement in connec- j tion with his candidacy follows: "The desired results of a good education are the acquisiton of use- . ful knowledge, mental discipline, j and the basic foundation tools of learning, which can help our young i people attain mental adulthood and economic effectiveness. These re sults are not being sufficiently achieved here. HUGH M. WILSON Wootten-Moulton Phoio "Our school population grows fast »r, daily, classrooms become crowd* ?d, teacher loads are heavy, and eacher pay is lower here than in liany counties; pi)ysiceccssity " ’ ('Sec’wiisfvr.-pw'sr-— terday's meeting of the Orange County Board of Education. A petition hearing 475 name*, in cluding all town officials of the Town of Carrboro. with the exception of Mayor R B. Todd, virtually all of the "qualified" i meaning eligible t* vote) business owners of the com munity, was presented to the Board of Education in support of the r% appointment of Ellington and Hearn. The cover letter to the petition, signed by Mack Williams, Carrboro insurance man. termed it vital to the welfare of the school that the two long-time school leaders be re appointment. Earlier, a Carrboro citizens" group favoring merger of the Carrboro and chapel Mill school districts had sug gested a number of other persona considered suitable to be appointed to the committee posts. This list has not been disclosed. The failure of the board to re-ap point Ellington and Hearn leaves ihc status of the Carrboro commit tee in. doubt Members of the Board and Superintendent G Paul Carr in dicated they did not know whether tlje Carrboro committee should he considered a three-member group with tile three hold-over members constituting the lull committee or wlhHJier Ellington and Hearn might . Ik- considered as still in office until successors are chosen Under the terms of the formal motion on thg matter offered by John Hawkins qf Cedar Grove the board re-appointed all incumbent school committeemen whose terms expire this year ex cept those of Carrboro and White Cross. Thus, in effect the board took (See VO ACTION, Pape 8) Farm Housing Loan Program Is Expanded * An expanded farm housing loan program designed to speed up farm building construction and improve ment as well as act as an additional anti recession measure was announc ed today by^Lacy A. Gibson. Farm ers Home Administration county su pervisor for Orange County. Now an owner of a farm in agri cultural production and on which thy operator plans to produce at least $400 worth of farm commodi ties for sale or home use may qual ify for the 4 per cent long-term housing loan provided that he meets other standard eligibility require ments. Formerly, an eligible applicant had to own a (arm that produced a more substantial pan of the oper ator's annual cash income. %. Borrowers may use loan funds to build, improve, or repair farm houses or other essential farm build ings, aud to prov ide water for farm stead and hqusehold uses. Mr. Gib (Sec Lt>.tN5-Pttpe »>.— -"i
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