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CHAPEL HILL, AND HILLSBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 19$« For Quick,- proven ro»uff% Mil, buy, rent or pot a job by u»lny the classified Mb on Pape 5 of THS NEWS of Orange County. ft r u/rn'p SIX PAGES THIS ISSUE KIDU BKtWt-KO t; first time in several rill have women—and singular—in the N. C. Js. mbly. At one time, Tnis time will have In. Dr. Rachel Darden Liston and Grace Tay |,iugh of Walrn.t Cove, school teacher who Irvjng her fourth con ;m. Davis won in the 1st we have had several |> dative members, but serves correctly Dr. I be the first of her sex of Greensboro. She leteran Thomas White, |,-,nly got out of the season to rebuild his IE PRESS . . . Current riirday Review, now he re vigorous magazine, ^client picture of News ifver Editor Jonathan the front cover. His Prince of Carpetbag The K & O. ever the (.‘signed one of its crack |c Cabarrus County, for ot votes between Tied black and Even-Steph kost. He has given day M S. I Ncwstand operators in tive been notified that weekly pholumag, will Id from 25 cents to 15 copy immediately . . . fling battle with Sateve pne of the biggest trade now printed in the J'ted by Garland Porter, -W. Salem native who Jto-s ago was head of the tvs Bureau now irtanag |Parker. We The People, N. C. ■ soeiation monthly iabel he-people-against-the-peo Isr^eech by the late Kerr |o es its current issue to tourist industry. Capa by Former Education Bd .iule Warren, mag is 15th year. |W ASH1NGTON we heard k.ne last week that the is expected to ease out [ Adams bv September 1. date. GOP leaders in never felt very close Id New' Englander, fme “Sherm" may now term ... in a vieuniary Til END John Gordon, one pen who built the Prog farmer to what it is to vcry deeply touched ar M ago when Clarence Poe |son, William. o’clock one morning last lordon was called from Id notified his son, third I the )et tanker, had been I fathers would agiee their Id serving their country, J agriculture and from a I heart attack on a plane K from Alabama . . the la Jet plane heading across niic. ilOAL NOTES . . John t’who beat out big money fhc of Raleigh's biggest I 10 win the State Senate fm<ve than 2,000 votes last . is executive sec l*f the N. C. Wliolesalers ■ which needs strength in of big-store competition, minutes after the count him the victor, Iredell rambunctious Hodges foe. I Henkel, was on the tele F° lute up Jordan in Heli ports to be president pro th£ State Senate . . but |rd Sunday Jordan not yet ■nnntied to Henkel . .??? ither man running for the Since a year ago: Robert | Morgan, Hodges friend of a#d a son-in-law of Robe hnty's Cutlar Moore ... full- name, incidentally. Brutz Cutlar Moore . . ■ ot his Ithrce children is D» brut* Cutlar, Jr 'S'as such an ardent Hod 's smooth and energetic, to the revamped State ay Commission ... recent le ROUNDUP, Page 2) New School Merger Election Set Aug. 5 i.ixmci cieruon on the joining of the Carr boro School Attendance Area and the Chapel Hill School- District will he held on Aug. rv I he call for the new vote was approved .by the County Commissioners at their meet Beards Leave For Scientific Meets Abroad Dr. Joseph W. oearu of Rt. 3. Hillsboro, professor of surgery and associate professor of virology ai U.e Duke University Medical Cen ter. will be a program participant 1'or the Seventh International Cancer ongress in London, July 6-12. Known fo>- his studies of viruses as a possible causative agent in . aL:nan. leukemia. Dr Beard will p: .sent a paper dealing with this subject. He lias been invited also to particip le in . a discussion aes s'on at the congrms, which will t}e u tended* by 5,000 cancer research specialists. ;.nd others from through out the world. Di. B.eard left for Europe yester day, traveling under provisions of a grant from the American Cancer Society Before going to London, he will visit the Institut de R^cherches sur to Cancer in Paris, "He will rtT~ iurn to Duk“ around July 12. Later this summer, the Duke sci entist will be an invited speaker at tlve It ternational Congress of Bio chemistry i.i Vienna, Austria, Sept 1-6. He will lake part in a svmposi -uni on "Bioeiiemistry of Viruses." Dr. Beard will be accompanied on his European trip by his wife. Mrs. Dorothy Beard, who is. an as sociate in surgery at Duke. In addi tion to attending the Vienna meet ing. they will visit universities in Austria. Germany and Switzerland. Dr. McMullen' In Local Pulpit Next Sunday Dr. R. J. McMullen will be the guest minister at: the_ Hillsboro Presbyterian Church this Sunday. Dr. McMullen, presently retired from active service, served for a number of years irr the work of •the Church in China where he was instrumental in establishing edu cational institutions. He was at one time president of Centre Col lege in Kentucky. The service begins at 11:00 o’ clock and the public is invited to attend. " ’ AYCOCK CLASS OF 1948 TO HOLD REUNION Members of the Aycock High School Class of 1948 are planning a class reunion August 9 at the School All members and "their families are urged to make plafi'- to attend and bring a picnic supper, accord ing to President, Ralph ( ompton. i S in Hillsboro Monday morning, i | in approving an official resolution ! from the County and Chapel Hill Hoards of Education which sought he election. The forthcoming referendum will i>e identical t0 the one held in the Carrboro-Whae Cross area on May 41, when the issue was defeated 916 to 565. In the Carrboro area the vite was 723 against to 490 for. Thus a switch of 117 votes for the proposal in Carrboro could carry l lie new election, assuming a similar turnout. , Not Same Area Since election laws prohibit a re votc on the same issue in the same 'erritory witnin six months, the new referendum has been ordered for the Carrboro sector only. The Aug. 5 date is the earliest possible Tues day on whicn it could be set. since I he date must be no sooner than m) days after legal advertisement of the election call This is to be ad rertised On Thursday, July 3. There was no opposition to the proposal or the part of County I'oard members. An all-new reg istration ot voters will be re cuired for the referendum. Regis tration will begin on July 12 and continue through July 19 and 26. Saturday, Aug. 2. will be chal lenge day, Mrs. Henry S. ' Lillian Gattis) j Hogan has been ashed to serve as —cffis rar find Wiley Franklin and ’nice Riggsbee as Judges. The pol-1 ling place is to be in the old Carr- I noro School auditorium building. Area Description The Carrboro Area in which the election will be held runs from the I Chapel Hill Township line at the Chatham County line northward to a point near Dodson's Crossroads. ther.ee southeasterly to Calvander, ; thence northward about a mile on i to Highway 86. and east to Ihe railroad—th» Chapel Hill District line. Nothing concerning payment of the election was included in the < fficial resolution. But attorney Harold Edwards, representing a i.ew “middle-of-the-road" group in Carrboro. told the commissioners that the estimated cost of $750 for it could be secured and put in escrow when needed. The Chapel Hill School Board is lequirrd by law to pay this cost. » — 4 Mr. EdwnHs asked that the elec tion be set as soon as possible with tlie idea that if it failed again, ijn- i othti .referendum might be called j in a still dnferent subdivision. . A Long Silence When the -all for the motion was t | issued this morning by Board Chairman. R. J. M, Hobbs there Was a long silence When neither Com^ inissioner Donald Stanford ol Chap el Hill or Dwight Ray ol Carrboro v.ould make the motion, Commis sioner of Henry Walker finally pro posed it and Commissioner Donald McDade seconded it Monday the County Board of Ed ucation also considered the appli cations about two dozen Carr boro area pupils for release to Teacher, Principal Appointments Approved; Klay Box To Carrboro A new principal has been nam-, ed for the new Carrboro Elemen tary-Sohool, succeeding Reid Sugg.| who resigned to join the Chapel Hill system. He is Klay K. K Box. a native of Matthews, who has taught a Hawthorne Junior High in Char lotte for the past several years. This summer he is working on his Ph. D. degree at the Universi ty of Nortl%Carolina and lives in Victory Village. Chapel Hill. He is a 1949 Duke University graduate and has done graduate work at both Duke and UNC. His appointment was approve along with those of 16 other teach ers' some of them new to the system and others ^transferring from one school to another, by the Board of Education at Mon day's meeting. There- are 3 vacan cies still to be filled. The appoint ments and transfers approved Mon day were as follows. Snider, *Rt. 4,,Banbury, principal. Hillsboro: Mrs. Alpha Howard, Johnson gity. Term' English: and Mrs. Margaret /Allison, Hillsboro, 5th grade. Cameron Park: Mrs. Maxine Stewart, Morganton, 4th grade; Miss Carols- Sink, Rt. 2. Roanoke, Va.. 4th grade"; and Mrs. Dorothy Cole, Hillsboro, 3rd grade. West Hillsboro: Mrs. Lenora M. Murphey: Miss Maude McCauley, Rt 1, Durham, principal; Miss Moyle Umstead, Rt. 2, Durham, grades 1 and 2 Aycock: Mrs. Patricia Davis, Rt. 2, Matthews, commercial; Mrs. Nancy S. Collins, Cedar Grove, grades 5 and 6; Mrs. Miriam H. Berry, Chapel Hill, science. Carrboro: Mrs. Haze! M Box, Wilmington, 8th grade; Mrs. Mar J garet M. Umphlett, Chapel' Hill, grades 6 and 7; Miss Mary Miller Herman, Statesville, 5th grade. Cedar Grove: Miss Mary Alice Vanhooke, Rt. 2, Hillsboro; arid Miss Naomi Graham, Laurinburg, j 2nd grade. i attend Chap<! Hill schools next year. The County Board also on Mon day reached a tentative agreement with State Highway Commission of ficials for secondary road work in the County this coming year. September 8 Opening Set For School Year The Board of Education set the school time schedule (or the com inp year at its meeting Monday. Opening day will be September 8 and closing will be on May 28. Holidays were set (or Thaaks K'ving. Christmas. New Year's Day and Easter Monday. The usual two-day holiday was granted .(or Thanksgiving, November Christmas vacation will one week only, schools closing December IS and resuming December 29. s § ? ? Requests Would Up Tax Rate 25 Cents Some increase in the Orange County lax rate appears certain on the basis of the new fiscal-year budget up for tentative adoptioti, probably at next Monday's regular meeting. But the exact point between the 72c (per $100 valuation) rate held for the past two years and the 97c rate which would be required if all departmental requests for increases are filled is yet to be determined. Among the vital decisions ^till to be settled is the important schools segment of the budget which accounts for well over half of the total levy. A meeting was scheduled last night with the Chapel Mill school forces and Welfare LOCAL MEN ON IOWA FAfcW ToUK — Assistant County Agent Ed lifim-«iwl Fimwri !»■ : change Livestock Market Manager Robert Nichols were members of the 1958 Farm Opportunities and Marketing Caravan which toured Iowa last week to observe farm operations in ^hat state. The tour was sponsored by Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., State College and the Department of Agriculture in an effort to help North Carolinians increase farm income. In the picture above, first row left to right, are id Foil, County Agent, Reidsville; Tom Haislip, Assistant County Agent, Graham; R. W. Shoff ner. Assistant Director, Agricultural Extension Service, North Carolina State College, Raleigh; and Nichols. Second row, left to right, Wayne A Corpening, Vice President and Manager, Agricultural ; Department, Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Winston-Salem; Bill Glidewell, Wachovia Bank and Tru»t Company, Winston-Salem; Barnes; Miss Connie Hobby, New Bern, North Carolina Dairy Princess; and S. M. Bason, President, Bank Of.Yanceyville, Yanceyville. Barnes' story of the tour may be found on Page 1 of this >di*‘'*'n. \ Independance Day Observance Holiday, Long Weekend For Many Tomorrow will be a holiday for practically everybody in Orange County, and for many it will extend throughout the week end. Virtually all business and oth er public activities come to a standstill as the county joins in the celebration of the 4th of July annual holiday. Stores and industry ginerally will be closed, as will all gov ernmental o(fices, banks and postofficey-in/Observance of the 4egal holiday. Aaeparture from customZ/inds the banks and Hillsboro Savings 4, Loan aso ciation taking a two-day holiday. remaining closed both Friday and Saturday. Mills will be idle for the holi day. White's Furniture plant has been closed all this week for em ployee vacations, but Con*'* Eno plant employees get their an nual weekdong vacation later this month Carrboro Mills was closed for vacation last week. Hundreds of OVange County residents on vacation this week are already at the beaches or other vacation haunts and oth ers are on the roads today on route for the weekend. Golf courses and swimming facilities will be overflowing tomorrow Pupil Transfer Action Is Deferred By Board The Orange County Board of Educaton has again deferred ac tion on the request of 26 Carr boro and White Cross parents for their elementary school children to transfer to the Chapel Hill schools. Lumped in with' the transfer requests and likewise deferred was a single application for an as signment blank from a Carrboro Negro couple for Transfer of chil dren from a Chapel Hill school to the new Carrboro school. The postcard request was signed by ‘‘Mr. and Mrs. Lee Vickers." Deferment action came on mo tion of C. D. Jones ‘‘that the re quests for transfers from White Cross and Carrboro to Chapel Hill Schools and from Chapel Hill to Carrboro Schools be deferred pending the results of the election in the Carrboro District On August 5. 1958." This motion was second ed by J. E. Hawkins and notifica tion of the deferment of the re quests was directed sent to the parents Involved. By previous action, the county £pgrd had directed a blanket as-' signment of all white High School students and Negro elementary and high school students in the Carrboro and White Cross attend ance areas to the Chapel Hill schools subject to the payment of $30 per year tuition required by the Chapel Hill School Board At the June 30 deadline for ac ceptance of applications from White Cross and Carrboro students to at tend Chapel Hill schools, subject to tuition, only about 130 had been received. Some 438 of these out of-district students attended in Chapel Hill last year. Still left un done by the Orange County board at adjournment time were Items 3 and 4 under Old Business on the Agenda for the June 30 meeting as follows: “(3). Make plans for Carrboro if election fails. (4) Make plans for students at White Cross who do not accept Chapel Hill assignment with tuition.” .... . -*>_ and baseball games will attract others. Picnics and other social activities will enliven the week end from the local standpoint. The annual community fish fry, a 4th of July tradition at Schley for the past SO years, will be held as usual. Farmers Can „ Now Get Gas Tax Refunds One of those pleasant periods in which Unde Sam pays back a share 'il taxes collected has arrived for the farmer. y— - Beginning Tuesday and continuing through Sept. 30. farmers may file u simple form on which they re quest a refund of the thiye cents per gallon federal tax paid on gaso line during the fiscal year 1957-58 The only gimmick is that the gas | must have Ireen used for strictly agricultural purposes, and that doesn’t include transportation which was nonbusiiuyss or personal or gas oline used in processing or paekag iny operations_ ___ Kotins Available Farmers . who filed req^t-sts for refunds last year should have re cnyd in tin- mail forms which cov er ilieir requests this year, but oth er farmers, or those who haven't received their mailed forms, may obtain thorn irom offices of county agents or from the district director ill Internal ftevenue here. Claims should be filed between June 30 and midnight Sept. 30 ol this year Hillsboro S & L Pays Largest Dividend Yet The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association has completed the pay ment of dividend payments . total ling $45,133.69, the largest in the association’s"45 year history. In addition to the record earn ings for the. six months '■ period ending June 30th, the association's board of directors appropriated additions to the Reserve funds of the business, bringing the total of such funds to $229,753.45 and add ing to the safety and stability of the locally-owned association. Approximately 1,500 sharehold-. ers participated in the dividend payment. ... The December 31st, 1957 divi dend was $43tffl7. Last June 30th j payment was $42,515 24. Board to determine the cut wtucn« might be feasible in their request^ which as it now stands would ac count for 24 cents increase in the rate. Certain to be deleted, in view of the tight money situation. it seems apparent, ia the request of the Chapel Hill School Board for an additional $100,000 to be set aside in capital outlay funds for a new school expected to be needed three years hence. This in effect is a bid for funds to bring the county near er a “pay-as-you-go” system of school financing. A total of $178, 627 has been requested by the Chapel Hill school administration for- capital outlay. Last year’s ap propriation was $58,811. The county school system got $106,648 last year for current ex penses* it has asked for $117,020 this year. Its capital outlay request | Ls $116,006. Last years’ appropria tion was $104,734. School bonded indebtedness last year cost $133.- j 560; the request for the coming year is $160,049. Following are the tax rate in creases which will be required if the present requests are granted in the budget: school debt service 3.45c; school current expense* 3.20c; school capital outlay l5.37e; wel fare programs, 1.94c; firm program .09 c; health department 07c; gen eral fund 1.43c Only fund noting a decrease is the general bond fund in which required payments Will enable a drop of 17c. Followng are the tentative re quests ak' they stood prior to last night's meeting, reflecting in some j instances modificatons already de cided upon by the board: the first I figure is the request for 1958-59. the second the amount appropriat ed in last year's budget: Bond, $42,190, $43,375 School Debt Service. $169,050 $133,560. ... 1 School Current Expense, $173. 605, $153,030. School Capital Outlay $285,533 $163,545. Welfare general, $76,875, $61. 767. Welfare, Old Age Asset:, $ll9. 340, $119,880. Welfare, Aid Dependent Chil dren, $104,880. $99,792 Welfare, Aid totally disabled,) $4^,560, $44,640. Farm'Program, $22,521. $21,677 Health Dept , $27,500. $25,000. Recorders Court, $8,185. $7,520 (no tax money) „ General Fund, $177,247, $165,695 POST OFFICE READY The Post Office department be gan paying rent Tuesday on thi Hillsboro's shiny new Post Office ' building constructed on S Churton Street by Fred Cates. The exact date of local occupan cy is still unknown, according 4o Postmaster Maude Brown. Being awaited is the arrival of the man to install the now post office furnt ture and equipment with which the new building will be equipped No Action Yet On Proposal For Stadium Local school officials continue to drag their feet on the offer of the owners of Orange Speedway for use of their property as a high school athletic stadium to relieve the inadequate situation at Hills boro High. The proposition, although osten sibly approved in general form and principle by both the Hillsboro Dis trict School committee and the Orange County Board of Education, continued bogged down in admin istrative detail today, while less than two months remain for get- - ing the property *n shape for use. The Board of Education approv ed the proposition in general form about four weeks ago and direct ed its attorney, A-,H Graham, to draw up a proposed lease between the owners and the Board and a proposed operating agreement be tween the local committee and the Board The proposed agreements have been in the hands of Chair man Bonner Sawyer of the Dis trict Committee for three weeks awaiting his call of a meeting ta obtain committee approval. Assum ing they are approved by the dis trict group. they must then be ap proved by the County Board and Bill France at Daytona Beach, Fla Meanwhile time grows perilous ly short for grading tha field, get ting a stand of grass and moving the lights in time for use shortly after September 1 Dress Plant In Operation; 16 Employed Operations are well underway at he Southern Garment plant jn the Bobby Roberts building west of \fland. ., ■ ■ ■ The plant is now fully equipped for the dress manufacturing oper ation being conducted and some 13 io 20 ladies are at work learning the work in preparation for full time production Others are being hired almost daily to.gradually in crease the work force. The Southern Garment Co., Inc. was chartered by the Secretary of State as a North Carolina corpora tion this week with original incor porators listed as O R Alexander, Hillsboro, William Friedman and' Dorothy Friedman, both of Maple wood. N J Alexander is to be gen eral manager of the firm. Authoriz ed capital stock was listed as $50. 000. subscribed to begin business, 35,000 REELECTED Henry S Walker, St. Mary's, was reelected chairman and John Alex ander McMahon of Chapel Hill was reelected a member of the Orange County Welfare Board at an or ganizations! meeting last week. McMahon was elected for a full term by the other two members Several Pastoral Changes Made In Methodist Churches Of Area At the Methodist Conference in Wilson last Thursday the follow ing pastoral charges were made in the local area: The Rev. W. A. Seawell has been assigned to the Grace-Longhurst charge and will reside in Long hurst. He leaves the' Hillsboro Methodist and New Sharon churches. ——~ The Rev. S. T Kimbrough Jr. of Alabama has been assigned to the Hillsboro Methodist Church. The Rev,- L. R. Schmitz from Mississippi will have his first N. C. charge at the Ne\y Sharon Church. Replacing the Rev. O V Elkins, who has been transferred to Bran son Met hods t Church in Durham, will be the Rev. R. H. Peterson at the Cedar Grove Methodist Church. At the Carrboro Methodist Church, the Rev J; Paul Edwards was assigned to Troy and the Rev. A S Parker of Henderson trans ferred to Carrboro. In the Pleasant Green Methodist Church, the Rev.^W. P Weaver has been assigned. Weaver, son of Stacy Weaver, superintendent of the Methodist College at Fayette ville has just come, out of the Army. This will be his first charge. The Rev. Mickey Fisher, a stu dent at Duke University, has been assigned to the new Chapel Hill Amity Church. ■„
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