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Or*"®* up with. ,r th« county hy hE NEWS of tnty. _____ V. / W««V0W '•Hfr • It or «o* a lift 1 _ a_j —— Ear Quick, toll, buy, rant by using Hta an t*H 5 at THE MSWf>f Oranaa Cavnfv - .-. TEN PAGES THIS he top • . • Business throughout North Car g the next our months ed to be about the best ver known them in this » South. the information we get ultural and business ex have made a study of m and arc watching it th keen interest, a prolonged recession— ■ a real old-fashioned -caused suppliers last spring to go slow on icavy stocks. Now they in the goods for Fall should mean that our Is otr cloth mills, our atiories. our synthetic S Will be humming full thing. Our crops have i belter. Tobacco is nd is bringing beaut i The peanut crop is the : our big money plant looking better than it uli ago. Corn, cotton. If - . •••(' groat. what we have on our what we will get in ilina from the Federal t in new and enlarged nps and from the soil oilier subsidies — this d sec real prosperity ight on through Christ advised. that business r wish to get m on it ady be well along in rations to participate are too timid, too fear itious, ipay bc left at is always good to bo the advice we get and is: t you r arrangements usually hetivy consumer n clothing, cars—used ralarly—furniture, awl ie heavier appliances s to have the stuff on the customer calls for e bcavlty what you romote with real cour public relations, and a ENT . . . Oj\e of our f popular Charles S. Kartnvillc. makes the issue of Reader's Di HOOl with this one: itslied basic training at I had no idea what I'd be asigned to— for a licensed funeral dt embaimer in civilian • hat time all sucli work :ted to civilian firms. Army Classification Of through in fine style— ned to the Fort Bragg office!" Harry Horton of Pitts of the late -Mr. and Horton, lias recently 1 heart attacks and we is still in the hospital. was Lt. Gov. and ran T in 1940. sharp young attorney, vratic nominee for the Chatham this time, is only about 38 years friends are shocked at !>'• he is a son-in-law erch, the husband of her son-in-law of the id North Carolina ex 1 the 1957 Legislature. Edward Powe of Dur arried Sybil. s first elected to the in 1954. He did not run Preferring to spend a building up his law OF . . . For $2.25. in Greenville, you can rubber stamp and which says: l«. Hume of Miss North "tPs are being sold by Me Junior Chamber of and the Greenville peo Pe to have every piece >g out of there running City pride and a good ' ou good people who 1 children to college 'VNDUP, Page 2) *f "Appeal" Precedes Request Another Negro Couple "Appeals' Assignment Status In Carrboro Another Carrboro Negro couple has “appealed” from what they ermed "the refusal” of the Orange Coun'y Board, of Education to as sign their three children to the all white Carrboro Elementary School. The appeal was apparently a form letter in which the names of the children had been inserted, while containing exactly the same wording s that recently filed by the Lee Vickers couple several weeks ago. N0 previous request for assign ment has been received by the Board of Education and that body has takeh no specific action rela tive to their children from which the couple could take an appeal. The latest appealers are Darnell and Clara Mae Walden who live on Carr street in Carr boro. They had been sent an aslgnment request form earlier in the Summer but it had not been returned prior to the receipt of the ‘•appeal.” Using the same form letter as the Vickerses, the Waldens said they live "a block from the school,” while Northside Elementary school In Chapel Hill to which they werj^ assigned is a mile away. Carr stree^ however, it may be ascertained, quite a bit farther than a blocji away from the White school. The letter also appeals “from the failure and refusal of the board tj^i operate the Orange County schom system on a non-segrated basis. 1 The Board of Education no doom will consider this “appeal’’ along with that of the Vickers appeal 4t Its next meeting on September L County Officials Learn About Plans' For Organization Of Civil Defense Orange County public officials met in Chapel Hill last week to hear civil defense plans for the area as >ltlined by Col. John A. Crawford, member of the State s Survival *lan staff for ^Ivil defense in Ha letgh. " , ‘ ’ County Civil EVefense Director Walter Wrcnn of Hillsboro called ogethcr all elected officials, law enforcement executives, civil de euse appointees, and public health officials for the meeting. Role Of Oraage Col. Crawford explained the role of Orange in the event of an air laid warning, which, he said, would give citizens of the County a max imum df three hours notice. Inas much as Orange is Within the 20 mile radius of Durham, which has been designated as a blast target area, all citizens of the County would be evacuated either to Chat Orange Boy Scouts Set Record For Council Camp Attendance A total of 82 Boy Scouts of the Orange District attended Cam p Durant this summer and thereby set an attendance record for the district. Reporting to the District Execu tive Committee at its monthly din ner meeting last week, W. N. "Red” Tyler, District Camping Chairman, stated that twice as many Boy Scouts from Orartge County “attended the camp this summer as compared with last year. The Orange District rated third place among all districts of the Occoncechee Council's 13-county area in number of boys in attend ance and fourth place in the num ber of troops represented in camp. Frank Yandefcl. Jr., Scout Execu tive for the Orange District, served as Program Director of Camp Du rant during the seven Weeks of the camp’s recent operation. He reported tnat a total of 1. 483 Boy Scouts attended Durant this season, an increase of nearly 50 per cent over last summer’s attendance. After reviewing summer camp ing activities the Executive Com mittee projected plans ,for the Scouting season about to begin. It was announced that the fall cam porec will be held in, October, the date and place of the week-end outing to be determined shortly. Plans for adults in Scouting in clude a basic training epurse for Cub Scout leaders and parents to take place on the three days of Sept. 18-23-25. There will be a workshop for Den Mothers and Cub Masters on Oct. 21. The sessions will be held at the Lions <Club in Durham and will be directed by Henry Hen ning. expert in iiandicrafts whose visit is sponsored by the Boy Scouts' national headquarters. Judge L. J. Phipps, District Chairman, announced the appoint ment of the following cortimittee to nominate officers for the new Scouting year: Roy Armstrong, Chairman: W. W. Tyler, Chancellor W. B.Aycock, James E. Wadsworth, all of Chapel Hill; and Ira Ward of Hillsboro. The District Executive Commit tee will meet again ,on Sept. 8. Many local S<|outers will attend a dinner meeting of the Occoneechec Council in Raleigh on Sept. 11. ---’ > Judge Does His Bit At Spreading Gospel Of Highway Safety You can’t say Judge L. J. Phipps of the Orange Csasty Recorders Court doesn’t believe in spreading the gospel of high way safety. * When a Negro peracher from Winston-Salem, the Kev.Metvln Witherspoon, plead guilty to reck less driving in his court this week, the judge continued prayer for judgment for six months on con dition the - minister operate his car within .the motor vehicle laws and talk to his congregation for «al least five minutes before at least six services on the subject “Highway Safely." Witherspoon, according to his testimony, went to sleep while driving back from Morehead City and ran Into a culvert near the weighing station on Highway 70. ham County or Virginia via Person County. Details of this plan are now being worked out, he said. Chapel Hill Defense Director A. Victor Masket recommended that County and town officials approp riate matching funds to the fed eral government for the purchase of radio equipment. This would go toward setting up eight two way radio communlcaflen points across the country in existing licensed “ham" stations. Purpose of these would he to aid la the raid warning and evacaatiou movements, he. said. At this time the eight-station plan ha.' been forwarded to the CD agen cy in Raleigh for approval. Follow ing subsequent approval by the Federal Civil Defense office and the Federal Communications Com mission. the money will be sought to buy this equipment, according to Prof. MaSket. Col. Crawford also emphasized the danger of atomic fallout as be ing of equal or greater concern to civil defense authorities as is act ual blast danger. Early this fall the |loy Scouts of the County are to distribute to all households aiu piopriate literature on civil defense j and fallout precautions. It wps an'- | nounced. "Civil defense is nothing more ! than existing government perform ing its business under emergency | conditions. But you must have the1 help of citizens of the County to ' plan for the emergency and to be ! able to-do effective work during it. | The lives of the people of Orange County are involved in this.M Pre-School Sessions * Are Set For Teachers Preparatory meetings leading to tiYropening of school on SeptembeY 8 are underway in the Orange Coun ty School system. Principals, four of whom agp new to the system this year, met with Superintendent C. P. Carr for in structions last Monday. Teachers in the White schools will hold meetings at their respective schools on Friday September 3 at 10 a.m. A general county-wide teachers i meeting for teachers in the Negro schools will be held oq the same day at Central School in Hillsboro at 1 p.m. ..MK NURSING GRADUATE — Miss Dolly Strayhern of Hillsboro, hav ing completed her course of train tag at the Watts Hospital School of Nursing, received her diploma as a Registered Nurse at the Commencement exercises held last Friday evening at the Yates Bap tist Church in Durham. Nominating Group Named By Merchants A slate of officers for the Hills boro Merchants Association for the' coming year will be presented by a nominating committee at the Sep tember meeting announced W. C. brewer, president, last Thursday at a picnic style luncheon -meeting held at the Hillsboro Recreational Park. Appointed to the nominating com mittee by Brewer were; C. M Walker Jr., John Cjmfh and Vj -Q Coleman Jr. C. D. Jones reported there were around 2U0 persons to attend the : dedication of (he new Hillsboro Post Office, which was sponsored by the Association. Ira Ward, chairman of (he Board of Directors in his report stated that part of the money for the town Christmas lights was being sent. McDade Child Hurt By Aut.o On Churton Beverly Jean McDade, six-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. \V. McDade. W. Queen St., ran in to the side of a car last Thursday evening around 6:30 o’clock on Churton Street \n front of her fath er's Shop. Beverly, not looking,’ darted to cross the street and ran into the car ot G. O. Reitzel. She was taken to Watts Hospital where she was a patient for two days undergoing X-Rays. It was found she has a fractured pelvis bone. She also re ceived bruises and scratches, and is reported to be doing nicely at hotne now. 1 Monday Will Be Observed As Holiday Throughout The County Nexxt Monday, Labor Day, will be observed as a holiday general ly. throughout Ornage County. Stores will be closed in Hills boro, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, government offices will take a holiday, and textile plants will be observing the long weekend. The County Boards of Commis sioners and Education, ' Usually scheduled for their first-Monday meetings, have postponed their sessions until the following day at 10 a.m. . . Few activities are scheduled as most citizens will either use the day for rest or to return from a long weekend trip. One scheduled event not to be postponed Is the annual sale of property for delinquent 1957 taxrs to be held at the courthouse door at noon Monday. Death and taxes rarely take a holiday is the old adage known to all aad this Labor Day. 1951, will be no exception at least insofar as the latter la concerned. Drive carefully to forego the former. Deputies Capture Still; Paths Lead To Liquor Hiding Places -Sheriff's Deputies discovered a still in Cedar Grove township Tues day afternoon and two well-worn paths in different directions led to the ' alleged operators, who were later arrested. Substantial caches of white liquor were found at the end of the trail in each case. Arrested wei-e Tommy H.WjJbom. white man, tenant on the Jim Mc Adams farm, and. Charlie Andrew Johnson, Negro, tenant on a Mar tin Crabtree owned farm. The still was found by Deputies W. R. Roberts and Dallas Malone Long near Lynch’s store off the High Rock Road in northern Orange. About 3.000 gallons of mash was fermenting at the submarine type still which apparently had been in operation for some time. T>yenty-one gallons of white whis key were found in tile smokehouse of Johnson alottg with eight cases of empty half gallon jars. Eighteen gallons were taken from the garden Orange Folks Buy 83 Percent Of Bond Quota Series E and H Savings Bonds i purchases during the first seven months of 1958 were $28,658,789, I he United States Say i ngs Bonds Division in North Carolina an nounced today. LJpmpared with the January July period* last year, sales were up 2.4 per cent. Combined sales' of "Series E and H Bonds in Orange County for the month of July were $40,027. Cumulative sales for the year in . this county were $316,008, which is 83 8 per cent of the 1958 quota of $377,300. W. E. Thompson of Chapel Hill, County Volunteer Chairman, point ed out that the Bond program had > attained 58.5 per cent of its 1958 sales goal of $49 million in both series E and H Savings Bonds. j in th£ back yard at the WiHytrn house. Both were charged with il legal possession of non-tax paid li quor and ^manufacturing whiskey. Johnson had been released under $300 bond yesterday while Wilburn was still in jail in default of $.>00 bond. Account File Lost In Long Store Break-In Two robberies were reported from the Cedar Grove area Monday night. Biggest loss was at tire Giles M. Long store on Highway 86 where thieves gained entrance by boring a hoi* in the back door and stole tHe foun t, entire file of charge ac counts. about $60 in silver and 15 cartons of cigarettes. The other entrance was at the Ay cock School vocational agricul tural building where a number of tools were stolen. Entrance here was made by raising an unlocked window. ... County-Wide YDC Meeting Set For Friday The annual business meeting of the Orange County Young Demo erati<‘ Club will be held Friday night at 8 o’clock at the.Towtj Hall in Chapel Hill, President Lucius Cheshire announced thus week. Principal items of business will be the election of new officers for the coming year and making plans for attendance at the State YDC convention in Greensboro in Oc tober. -Present officers in addition to Cheshire are: Mrs. Louise R. Clay ton. first vice president, James Taylor, second vice president, and Roy M. Cole, secretary-treasurer. 220 Sign Petitions Favoring Issue ... White Cross Apparently For Merger Vote Residents o! tlie White Cross community have appai ently changed their mind, as a whole, to.favor annexation of their School Attendance Area to the Chapel Hill Special School District. If the 220 or more nanus on petitions asking a newvote on this question and favoring the issue are convincing enough to the Chapel Hill School Board the tuition requirement for pupils from this area may be dropped for the com ing year. Meet Last Week White Cross citizens met Tuesday of last week in a spectal r ed by the White Cross School PTA. At that time the sentiment of the group seemed overwhelmingly in favor of the merger idea-which was rejected in the referendum last May 20- by better than two to one-lf to 75. County School Board Chairman Charles W. Stanford, a resident of this District and a proponent of the merger idea as a solution to Uie area'* school attendance dilemma, said be received the pe titions bearing at least 220 names at the Tuesday night meeting. This petitions asks (1) that a new election on the Joining of White Cross to the Chapel Hill School Dis trict be called at the^ first opportuni ty; <2' says that the signers would vote far this proposal if the Chapel Hill Board would allow White Qross pupils to attend Chapel Hill Schools Chapel Hill Board To Consider Status Of Pupils A special meeting of the Chapel Hill School Board will be held in the next few days to discuss the status of White Cross area pupib who want to attend Chapel Hill schools this coming year. County School Board Chairman Charles W. Stanford said he was “very much encouraged” by the apparent support in favor of the White Cross Area voting for a merger with the Chapel Hill School District. - To Prosont Petitions He said he would present to the Chapel Hill Board, petitions ask ing for -a new vote on the issue, and also asking for admission of White Cross pupils tuition-free to Chapel Hill schools this year, on the basis of new sentiment expressed, for th.e merger on tuitions circulated in the rural community. . * In informal oxprossions of opinion on the matter this week members of the Chapel Hill Board seemed to feel that White Cross was naturally i part of ths greater Chapel Hill community and should join this school district., While the tax valuation of the White Cross area is low contrasted to the urban areas, its supplementary tax yield per student capita would likely be higher, since land holdings in the area are large and only a comparitive few pupils are involved. Whito Cross School Involved Involved in the feelings of White Cross citizens on this matter, too, is the three-teacher White Cross School with less than 100 pupils. Opinion varies as to whether this school would more likely be closed remaining in the County system or merged in the Chapel Hill system. On the other hand, Carrboro area citizens — and Chapel Hill resi dents, too —'might have mixed feelings if White Cross area pupils were admitted" tuition free to Chapel Hill schools this year, while agree ment to admit Carrboro pupils has been made only" after the area agreed to merfe as of next July 1. I. tuition-free this year; and <3> asks that these pupils be allowed to at tend Chapel Hill schools this cant ing year tuition-free—just as Carr boro pupils will be doing. Hear Carr, Stanford Mrs. Jasper Ward, White Cross PTA President, opened the discuss ion and introduced County Superin tendent of Schools Paul Carr and Mr Stanford, both of whom spoke on this matter. The petitions were gotten up at the encouragement of the County Hoard and with the support of the White Cross School Advisory Com mittee, members of which aiy Idmund Strowu. Bernard Durham and C. T. Jones. The immediate question to be settled is where and on what basis will the White Cross _ pupils who would normally attend Chapel Hlil »choa|s go tp school this coming >car. About 75 pupils are involved. Release Of Employees Continuing Orderly close-down of Carrborp Mills is continuing, with the last operations probably to cease around the middle of October, it was , re ported this week by John Davis, Acting Superintendent of the Mills. Earlier it was thought that the mills would be closed by Sept«p» | ber. •Most of the approximately 199 employees remaining will be re leased as work runs out in various departments between now and Octo ber. “tlr. Davis estimated that almost three-fourths of those released so far have been able to find other employment. The mill management is actively assisting employees in finding oth er Jobs, and continues to work closely with State Employment of fices in the Durham and Raleigh areas as well as. in Chapel. HUI. Contact with other employers in ilte area is being maintained, apd a number of former- Carrboro em ployee;; has been placed in o^gcr plants r>t the Company. Mr. Davis expressed appreciation for cooperation given by Carrboro l and Chapel Hill leaders in finding employment for those affected by the mill closing, and said every ef fort would be made to assist in f»lflcement of those still looking for Jobs and those who will* be released in the near future. He asked that employe!'* needing help contact F t m Durham, Personnel Supervisor hi Carrboro Mills * Active efforts to obtain a new industry for th*> mill properties are underway by local groups, the State Department of Conservation and Development, and others. JU is un derstood that quite a large number of inquiries has been received. Sign-Up Plans For Soil Banjc Announced „ The sign-up in Orange County for the 1959 Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank will open at the Cotfnty Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office in Hills boro on September 15, The first step ip the signup is for the fanner who-is interested in the program to come to the county office and request that annual rental payment rates be establish ed for his farm. At the same time the farmer should bring with him information to be used by the County ASC Committee in establishing rates for his farm. The chief facts need ed are acreages and yields of the three principal crops on the farm for the, past two years and acre ages for other land use on the farm. The Conservation Reserve is |he only Soil Bank Program avail able for 1959. Under the program, farmers retire land from general crops for up to 10 years and de vote the reserve acreage to land, water or wildlife conservation practices. The Government makes an annual rental payment for the the land and will also share in the cost of establishing the conserva tion practices The average rental payment rate for the Conservation Reserve land in Orange County in the 1958 program is $15,00 per acre per year. Maximum rates will be high er for the most productive farms. For farmers who request it. the County Committee will figure two sets of maximum annual rates. One will apply if only part of the eligible land on the farm is placed in the Reserve, a no the? rate, 10% higher, will be available if all eli gible land 6n the farm is put ip the Reserve for at le.ast 5 years. After maximum rates have been determined' for a farm the farmer (See SOIL BASK, Page 6)
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