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1^ , with the mwi r the county by E N E WS of i For Quick, proven resuftn sett, buy, rant or got ■ jot by using Hi# classified ok en Page 7 of THE NEWS of Orenge County. EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE KIDD BREWFR'S iffi/e/fd ^l&mdup \ Kj . .'. Talk to a few |aders in Raleigh and |o:i get an idea of the are going generally lunties lying in Eastern j>]ina. Reason for this |r Capital City has be much of a distribution ■the oceanward area of laiesmen roam the east past two weeks they L-c turning to home base |s of a general look-up Everybody is feeling fy say. several reasons for lm. One is that crops, irting because of p wet [jring. are looking very. Rainfall has been there has also been a liine. ores contacted in the ction recently in an brvey reported sales up jseason last year. The pliant seems to be hav giiest. In general, the tv ice stations and appli es are a little “pale gills." In a lot of in ertly new sales ideas past few weeks auto |es have taken on new are working harder. |is to be more solid sell ''deals," less " wheel ing.’’ less unemployment, kcording o the Employ urity Commission, have (consistently in recent Ro, the tobacco season kund the corner. We are ■December State. They blden months. The mere Iwe arc approaching the pon with good prospects hope, new strength, Pfore, better business. AUGUST ... It is an k—and rather disgusting it scores of North Caro bw touring Europe have 1 the time to see the Old |te. . * one reason, undoubted iugust has been dubbed I. G. Travel Council as fth Carolina" month, ate Merchants Associa exxample, is sending out ^es of mail with special as to -the membership |hey can assist with the that it can mean to them the State Is prepared to ps .are cooperating wi.tlt lisplays. . pugh Western North Gar pple know about our krolina coast. They go to peach, Crescent Beach, (ill—down in South Caro -because these bits of ^nd happen to be a few oser to their doorsteps, aess! kt enough of our flat-land »o our mountains. Where 1 go on vacation? To the rhy? Because it is closer than] the mountains and ■ir in I their'parents asd grand' vent, to the ocean on va \ncestors went to the fause hey had no way to |*'e mountains. But now— -is . . . very far. stance: down in the Ahos am$top-Eli*abeth City pen people die—they don't eaven. They go to Nags “ut Wilmingtoner Hugh owns mile-high Grandlath ltain. Smart Hugh. If you st of Greensboro, you uk<“ your family in August 'e trip to New Bern. There derfront streets there— old homes flush against ■walk—which remind you 'ng and pictures you have English villages. 1 would 1 now the Governor Tryon n Now Bern is probably sf in the State. If you live lst- see Old Salem. Delight Bust, forget Europe, S. C.. etc. See N. Carolina! s • ■ . State of N. C. will far spend $375,000 to ad : ROUNDUP, Page 2) High Tributes Paid Chief Sloan several hundred mourners from all walks of life of this and nearby communities turned out for the funeral services Friday afternoon of Chapel Hill Police Chief W. T. Sloan. In a brief statement during the services at the University Meth odist Church, the Rev. Charles Hubbard said of the long-time law enforcement officer: “I don’t sup pose many of us could match his patience. I don’t suppose many of us could do other than admire the dignity he gave the office of Chief •.Honestly, I must look to him as much as to anyone here to give credit for the happy town that we have. He cannot come back where we are. But wa-may go where he is. May God give us the grace in our time to live our lives in the same humility, tolerance, and faith that ‘Chief’ did. And may God bless his memory.” More than half-a-hundred Chap el Hill employees and town of ficials, in addition to Durham policemen anjj Orange County and state law enforcement officers from Raleigh acted as honorary pallbear ers, flanking the coffin as it was boeno to -its-fina[^esting place m Memorial Cemetery. Assisting the Raf'Mr. Hubbard in conducting Mhe rites was the Rev. Mr. Jarrett, pastor of the Methodist Cfijrch in Efland, in which Chief Sloan retained mem bership. Sudden deab’i at 12:35 a m. Thurs day ended the 38-year law enforce ment career of Chapel Hill. Police Chief William Turner Sloan. The 64-year-old officer was the ’minicipality.'s police department head for the past 23 consecutive years, and for eight years prior to ’935 had been sheriff of Orange County in Hillsboro. Hospitalized Monday He was admitted ter Memorial Hospital on Monday morning. Cause of his death was not fully establish ed; however, he suffered compli cations of congestion ot the lungs. He had been in declining health lor several -months. Surviving-are his wife, the for mer Annie Mae Richmond of Ef |iand: srx children, William I., W Richmond and Joseph, 6t' Chapof | Hill, Mrs. Robert < Virginia> Pa trick of F>. Pierce, Fla., and Mrs. i Frank . W. i Jeannette! Fearring ton and Mrs. Robert C. t Dorothy i Hogan of Chapel Hill; two sisters. Mrs. Ila Johnson and Mrs Josie ftky of Sanford; and seven grand childre'n. Bern In Lee A native of Lee County, he was born to' F<;b 12. 1894. to the late William J. and Nora Kelly Sloan, both of Lee County. During World War I he was a mounted guard at an ammunition depot near Willamsburg, Va, He and Mrs.' Sioan were married there in 1917. After four years there he returned to Orange Coun ty and for a short while was em ployed at the White Furniture Co. in Mebane. In 1924 he came to Chapel Hill as a member of the three-man po lice force which patrolled all of Chapel Hill and the University cam pus After four years as a patrol | man he was appointed Chief, but in 1928 was elected County Sheriff ,and resigned to move to- Hillsboro for this new- office. In 1935. when their oldest sort, u |lyam. was ready to enter the '(See Sl.O. tY. Paye'K I POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM T. SLOAN I School Leaders Continue Delay In Acceptance Of Stadium Plan The '"henaming and hawing" over the acceptance of the Orange Sigs&ste jMVUJh1) 4 high .school athletic stadium con tinued this week between the local and county school boards. The local school committee ap proved the proposal in principle two months, ago, and asked for con sideration by the county board A County Pet. Over State's In Home TV Orange County fs. above the state av erage m (he- per •cent of homes with TV sets, according lo informa tion released today by the WPMY TV lU-soarch !H pai.inicnt in Greens boro, :1■ , : ~ According to the latest -figures a- affable. Twi/SaV-s Management1* ttioe ' Survey of Buying Power,” the i station reported, 79 1 per cent of [(y-ijige ’County homes have tele vision sets, v.iiife the slate average is 73 4 per cent Of the 9.100 households in Orange County. 7.200 are eqquipped with TV set*. * Leading the state in the percent age of homes with TV is Alexander County, with 94.3 tyer cent of its homes having TV Figures for the -tale, as given by Sales Manage ment. give North Carolina a total gf 804,2Q0_TV homes, with 73.4 per cent of* the state's homes, having -TV - set*:.■.. month and a half ago, the county board, at the urging of a local dele i'gtipn, in^aUng mefl&iv local school district cdnliflkMe. di rected its attorney to draw\ip a proposed lease for the plant which William H. France offered the high school and community for an annual rental of $100 per year for 10 years, while agreeing to kick back to the school up to $9,000 over the period for his use of the track four times a year for races. The local committee met last Wednesday night after a three weeks delay and asked for a meet ing with the' county board when all of them could be there to dis cuss the matter further. Yesterday, Paul Carr, superin. tendent, said he would give the request to the board at its August meeting, lie said he had no* in tention of calling a special meet ing until he was told by Clarence Jones, a board member, to do so. Meanwhile, less than 45 days remain before high school foot ball practice begins on the inade quate playing field which Hills boro- opponents and athletes have threatened1-to boycott unless more conducive conditions are provided for inlerscholastic play. OPEN HOUSE The Yancey Nursing Home on Churton Street will hold Open House tomorrow from 11 a nr to 4 am. Mrs. Dorothy M Yancey ex tends an invitation to all persons interested to come and-iiispect the home.^ County Refuses Chapel HiN Plea For Five-Cent School Tax Increase The Oran. .(> County Commission ers have turned down the Chapel Hill School Board's plea lor a five cent supplementary tax increase in its district to the allowable maxi mum of $ 20 per $100 valuation. Local Board Chairman Grey Cul bieth said this morning "This means we'll, have to restrict the services we planned to offer next school year. We don-t yet know just what will hi' cut. „ Would Vet $18,000 More TWe» five-ctut.hike^would have boosted the district tax take by ,bout $18,000 10 a new total of $72, N,0 With the money the Chapel till System manned to Pay a jun or high school principal and U ■rarian —nei'hcr of which are pro ved by the state, and to provide. Diner instnic'ional services. An obvious factor in the Conv missioners' refusal to grant the tax rate Increase was the Carr horo school area merger situation. With a v<v.\ difficult situation lacing tli- County School System ii the \ug. 5 referendum on join ing this area to the Chapel Hill School District doesn’t pass, th{ I einmissionets didn t seem in clined to lake any action" that would endanger prospects of the success of this second election llicy atrthoi-i/ed. J II wasn't so said in just this ;nanv 'words, either^ i^ut the seni^ ment of lie County Board also seemed to be that the schools' cur rent expense revenue picture for flood for the coming year. And iC ('range didn't look so ba(J as it was brought cut thait the existing ‘3.1a tax in Chapel Hill would yield more than budgeted in this coming year on the basis of increasing pro perty valuations in the area. Felt Double Responsibility One source close to the commis sioners summed up their thinking this way: They felt just as much rt sponsibility to the County System a.- to the Chapel Hill System. That's why they wouldn't .raise the rate.” Cha'pel Hill Schoojs Superinten dent Joseph Johnston was out of tDWa this week, so it could lfot- be immediately established just ‘wnat alternative steps would have to be taken in financing the new junior high school set-up;' w hich ho has -pearheaded. Bill Blake Named Chief At Chapel Hill The Board of Aldermen Monday night named William D. Blake Chief of Police, succeeding the late W. T. Sloan. Sgt. Coy Durham was also pro moted. to the rank of Police Cap tain. C. E. King and C. L. Mer ritt were elevated to the rank of lieutenant, and promoted to ser geants were Graham Creel, Her man Stone and W. F. Hester. Chief Blake started his law en forcement career 19 years ago as ft campus policeman for the Uni versity. following in the footsteps W? his father, who was campus po liceman for 34 years. He joined the Chapel Hill Police Department as k patrolman in September. 1941. In August, 1946, Chief Blake was appointed Assistant Chief and then was given the rank of Captain in August, 1948, Chief Blake is a member of the North Carolina Law Enforcement pticers Association and has attend ed several Institute of Government •fclMHtls. ineluding a General Law iEnforcement School. Fingerprint .School, War Traffic Schol and In vestigating School. u j- A native of Chatham County,, [Chief Blake moved to Chapel Hill [when lie was 13 years old. A grad-, pete of Chapel Hill High School, he >ts married and has one son, Bill f The Chief is also a member of L the University-Baptist Church and I'is president ol the Chapel H1U £ Exchange Club, There is no law enforcement of flcet in Orange County who com mands more respect,”*a spokesman hat the Board meeting Monday said [of Chief Blake. "Appointing him [your Chief of Police will add statue i to. a fine police force." CHIEF BILL BLAKE Durham Pastor In Presbyterian Pulpit Sunday Announcement has been made that Dr. William C. Bennett, min ister of the Trinity Avenue Pres byterian Church in Durham, will be the guest minister this Sunday at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bennett was recently the re cipient of the degree of 'Doctor of Philosophy from Duke University. Prior to coming to Durham he served as the assistant minister of the St. Andrews-Covenant Presby terian Church in Wilmington, N.C. The public .. is cardialiy invited to attend thii service. LIGHTNING .“TRIKES BARN Sunday afternoon a bolt of light ning set fire to a feed barn on the Cain Roberts farm in the St. Mary’s Communiy. This fafm is owned by Vance Martin and is operated by Victor and Julian Garrard.' The fire was well underway bej fore being discovered. Three milk cows and their calves were lost in the fire. Also .about 1500 bales of hay was burned. A tractor and some other heavy machinery was removed to safety. The Hillsboro Rural Fire De partment answered the call and helped prevent the fire from spreading to other nearby build* inKs . MERCHANTS MEETING The Hillsboro Merchants Asso ciation will meet at a luncheon meeting today at 1 o’clock in. the picnic area of Holiday Pary oil i Highway TO. - • Today is moving day at the Hillsboro Post Office. Tomorrow mail for Hillsboro patrons must be claimed in the shiny new air-condition ed Oates building on the banks of the F.no at the southern town limits, built for lease to the government as a postal facility. Miss Maside Brown, postmaster, said she did not know the exact moving schedule, but operations of the day will probably begin at the old site and wind up at nightfall in the new building. "When the old building is locked," said Miss Brown, "patrons will know to Registrations Running 'Normal' For Referendum In Carrboro A total of 185 Carrboro voters registered last -Saturday for the Carrboro School attendance area merger election, according to Mrs. Henry Hogan, the registrar. 192 registered during the first day of the last election held on May 20. This total "seemed about nor mal" for the first day of registra tion. Mrs. Hogan said. A total of 1.213 voters in the Carrboro area cast ballots in the last merger ref erendum held on May 20. when the issue was deefated 723 to 490. Assuming a"' similar number of voters will turn out for the new referendum, to be held August 5. a switch of 117 votes will be necessary to carry the measure. Qualified voters will be given the opportunity to register again this Saturday and on July,26 in the auditorium of the old Carr boro School building. Voters are re minded again that no previous reg istrations will count for this ref erendum. Persons must have lived in the Carrboro School Attendance Area for 30 days and in the state for one year to be eligible to reg ister now. Mrs. Hogan said that the books will be open for registrations on the next two Saturdays from 0 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., or on other days at her home on Hogan's Lake Road. Higher Postal Rates Are Effective August Higher postal rates will go into< effect Friday, August 1. There will be increases in the cost of sending first-class letters, post cards, post' al cards, airmail letters and air mail post cards and postal carda, and third-class mail. — First-class letters will cost four cent* an ounce or part of an ounce instead of the three cents charged i now. PoSt cards and postal tfirds (postal cards are the government i printed card sold at post offices) will have a three cent rate. Here- i tofore they have cost two cents. Airmail letters not exceeding eight \ ounces will cost seven cents per ounce or fraction of an ounce in contrast with the persent six cents. To send a post or postal card by airmail will cost five cents. Third-class mail will cost three, cents for the first two ounces and one and a half.cents for.each ad ditional ounce. However, any pack age that weights over 15 ounces must be sent by. parcel post (now no package weighing over eight ounces may be mailed as third class mail). .Eastbound mail leaves Chapel HiU at 6:30 a.m. and 7 p in. Mail is sent westward at 7:30 each morn ing ' North, south and west bound ; mail leaves Chapel Hill at 12:30 p.m. and again at 5:30 p.m. Eastbound mail is dispatched J from Hillsboro on the Highway Postoffice at 6 30 a m. and 1:301 p.m daily. Westbound departure times are 6:30 a.m., 3:30 and 7 (See HATES, Huge H) F. KOSS PORTER Porter Named To New Post At Duke Univ. F . Ross Porter of Hillsboro, who has’ been superintendent of Duke Hospital since 1949, has been as signed new duties. ....... Announcement was made Satur day by President A Hollis Edens i of Duke University that Porter will now devote his efforts to the study and organization of a foundation for the Duke Medical Center The (See PORTER. Pape St '.'ome to mo new post uince lor their mail.’* There, it is anticipated, a cer tain amount of confusion will be prevalent for a day or so as patrons become acclimated to the new sur roundings. - For instance, all present holders of boxes 1 through 149 will have the same box numbers, but they’ll still have to call by the counter for a new combination. All other bcxholders will have to calFby the general delivery counter for a new number assignment and new com bination. There were 509 boxes in the old building, there are 650 in the new' Vernon Reed, the postal divi sion's expert on setting up the new offices, arrived Monday to set up the new equipment and prepare for the move. He has had the as sistance of local P.O. employees and hired carpenters. The new counters are all new, modernistic and painted a light grey. The small amount of old equipment being moved from the old building is being painted to conform. The south end of the lobby which covers The entire front of the building is devoted to the boxes. The nothern half ol the lobby has a single open counts er from which all postal business, general delivery, parcel post, stamp and money order sales will b« con ducted There are no divisional windows for the conduct of specif ic business From Uie, counter. a general view of the working space 1 fhr cnrrwr^ xml mat! Vi^rki may be obtained. The entire northern half of the lobby is closed off from the southern half by double doors to permit the ' boxes" section to be' left open when the so-called "window" section is closed. The new post office was con structed by..Fred t’ates at an esti mated cost «f about $25,000 after he was awarded a 10-year lease and construction contract over the strenuous objection of the Rills boro Mayor and Board of Com missioners. who opposed, the loca ’tion.' SUNDAY MUSEUM HOURS ", The Orange COunty Museum is now open eat h Sunday from 2 un til 4 p..m Instead of 3 to 5 as here tofore. ' TWO VEH1CIF. FIRES The rural fire department has atr-wored two motor vehicle, alarms - (lUi jig the past week Snipes Oil Company's truck caught afire white delivering oil off Highway 7U-A east of town and a Huick sedan owned by James Free land caught fire- at Holiday Park Tuesday nigh*. 90 Farms, 6 Communities Give Finer Farms Accomplishments Ninety layns in Bucjchorn, Jor dam strove Midway, Orange Grove,; Schley, and St. Mary’s have sub mitted reports of their work in soil and water conservation in the Finer Farms Program of the Car-, olina Power and Light Company.*' Reports prepared by each of the communities were mailed Monday to the company for judging in the 1957-58 contest. The Orange County supervisors of the Neuse River Soil Conserva ■ tion District sponsored the various communities. Henry Hogan spon sored Midway and Buckhorn; Charles Stanford sponsored Orange Grove, and Jordan Grove, and Reid Roberts St. Mary’s and Schley. 13.800 acres of farm land were involved in the combined reports. Total accomplishments reported bv the six communities were: 2 miles of new terraces built and 108 miles maintained; 8 acres of sod waterways were developed andN 20.5 acres maintained; 7,750 feet of open drains were establish ed, aiid 13,139 feet maintained^ j>‘' '■ One sprinkler irrigation system was installed. ———•*- . ... 1,955 aeres of qontour farming was reported. 270 acres strip cropped, 2,362 protected and im proved with conservation crop ro tations and 1.713 with crop resi due utilization. 311 acres of permanent pasture were planted during the program year and 2.007 acres maintained. 225 acres of perennial legumes and grasses (other than pasture) "were seeded, and 237 acres main tained. 43 acres of timber was-reported cut with seed trees left fur natural, reseeding. 50 acres of loblolly pines were set out. and 165 acres of standing pines thinned to a spacing providing the fastest growth of the remaining trees. i1'* miles of firebreaks were con-, structed, and miles maintained., 18 acres of wildlife plantings were established, and 19 ponds were improved by- fertilization, stocking or restocking, or weed control. The Finer Farms contest area includes 63 counties in North and South Catalina., _ First prize to the winning com munity is $350 Second priAp is $250, and third prize $150, There are also 21 “Superior Results" prizes of $50 each for the other communities showing the most progress. In addition to the prizes for the communities, there are three prizes of $250, $150. and $100 for the county boards of District' -Super visors showing the best results. "We appreciate the Jine partici pation and cooperation of the communities entered in the pro gram this year Henry Hogan, chairman of the Orange Countjv supervisors said “The chairmen" and their committees did a lot of fine work in promoting the pro gram. collecting the information, and assembling it into a good re port. Whether" the communities-' win any of the prize money or not,"— they will be- ahead with the better soil and water resources they. Ifave as a result of their conservation work."
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