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Par Quick, provan mwH*
.wil, buy, runt or got a fa*
by using tt»o claaaifio* «b
on Pag* 7 of THE HEWS of
Orango County.
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE
KIDD 8R[Wf-R'S
ffa/e/tj/t
f&undup
SPORTS . . . Their
as difficult as, a Notre
itball player’s. Their
ind like a calf that has
notlier. You can hardly
from back. The mo
hum. They chirp. In
ese cars don't glide.
tvertheless. North Caro
going for these foreign
|C. Department of Motor
•ports that 439 foreign
[tomobiles were sold in
during the past month
July of 1957 the figure
J i24.
|ars ago the figure was
Inothihg. — “—
his is- in the face of the
| Tarheels would not buy
Henry J., would not buy
I and turned down com
(he funny-looking little
[at made its brief appear
lt five years ago.
auto dealers in the
handling no new cars
imports. Order some
i’olkswagon now and you
I deliver/* the first of
North Carolinians
. new automobiles. In
they bought 8.532.
tur’es are not yet avail
[tsold Chevrolet in North
his past July: 1935 to
outsold Chevrolet in
by 3.820 to 2,148. Both
kng radically new cars—
jhe same price and some
mileage—for this fall..
1ST INTERESTING . . .
|tate Library here the
we found that the ten
most interesting’' in
rolina in 1934 were:
Graham, Coi. Fred Olds,
Jamets. R- Hw.p,
ions, W. L. Poteat
I Morrison, Francis Win
art R. Reynolds, and J
linghaus.
pere not listed in thcii
eing interesting. In oth
Ehringhaus, who was
|at the time, was just a
as Frank P. Graham
[head of itlie University
Carolina.
pn, only Dr. Frank anc
olds are still living.
Tarheel now around 4(
fiber Col. Fred Olds as
|al historian and chiei
school children aroum
. in .the 30’s.
ESTATE ... A lot o
have the 'idea tha<
ructors never mak<
iey had their eyebrow:
week when it was fount
Hubert Poteat's widov
‘wo sons—oije an at
reensboro and the oth
leian in Smithfield— ai
,000.
place, Dr. Hubert Po
a department head. «
a speaker most of hi:
He was a frugal man
fai her, Dr. W. L. Po
him. Dr. Hubert Po
a little money, math
it wisely.
Poteat. . Miss Essh
f Marion before mar
erited from her fathe
go estate—and this ac
r the surprise elernen
estate she left,
age college professor ii
°f taxes would be hari
,0 get along on thi
la‘-e, great Dr. Huber
de for many year
g the lead In buildini
holastic foundations o
College.
sted
lest
|.CELL? . . , Our favori
Charlie Craven of tl
and Observer, sa
day that a lawyer frier
over at Central Prist
[ tight visjting a clien
this convict down tl
at the guard: “Git
or give me death.’’
jumped up and shot
| said that?”
Henry,” came the r
[cell you in, Patrick?
WINDUP, Page l)
NEW YDC OFFICERS—Charles B. Hodson, seated left, is new
president of the Orange County Young Democrats Club. Also seated
is Lucius Cheshire, outgoing president. Standing, left to right, are
Jack Lasley, Chapel Hill, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Jim Taylor, Hills
boro, vice-president,' and Allen Watkins, Hillsboro, vice-president.
School Opens Bui Pupil
Enrollment Hike Slight
Tin policemen .n't' once
attain on the streets . .. . and
live oneSv mostly the '’Safety
Patrol, are hack on .alert
crossing guard. ■
corted equal Is dressed-up new
I pupils to their new teac hers,
j Greetings have been exchang
ed. acquainteuances have been
i renewed.
1 School is open again.
Enrollment for the first days of
| school in the Orange County sys
tem totaled 4.547—an increase of
59 over last year's first week in
! the 12 schools.'
Some 2.803 were enrolled in 7
units of the Chapel Hill City ad
ministrative- unit, giving the coun
ty as a whote a total of 7,350 in
the public schools,
j Regular class schedules have
proceeded smoothly throughout
I the first week and slight increases
in attendance have been recorded
since the opglli.ng.
iri the nine white schools of the
county system there were 2,354 en
rolled in the elementary grades
and 54}f enrolled in the two high
schools for a total white school
population of 2;902._ "*
In the three Negro schools, 1,
279 were in elementary grades and
366 in the one high school. Central
at Hillsboro.
Last year's total for all schools
was 4.493 as compared to the 4.
547 this year. White schools' in
crease was five while the Negro
schools' increase was 49.
Following is a breakdown of this
year's opening attendance:
Hillsboro elementary 482, High
School 435; Cameron Park 458;
West Hillsboro 179; Murphey 87;
Efland 326; Aycock elementary
189; High School 113; Carrboro
461; White Cross 80; Caldwell 92;
Centfal elementary 580,. High
School 366; Efland Negro 267 and
Cedar (.rove 432,
Wildcats Win Opener;
Meet Graham . Friday
By HARRY W. LLOYD
After going unrecognized by tlio.se
, vvbo were picking tile top teams
j of the 1958 District HI season, the
i.Hillsboro High School Wildcats gave
! evidence Friday' niglit that they art
going to be one of Hhe strOngei
units in the conference. „.
Playing .1 game which was al
most pertect for an opener, the lo
cals shut out the.Northern High
School eleven on its own Held while
Active Month
Is Reported -
By Sheriff
The Shei'ilfs Department reported
, ! to the Commissioners that one still,
40 gallons of 11011-tax whiskey and
•! J.000 gallons ot mash weie do
. ' itroyed; and three raids and 27 m
. vestigafi(Sits 'were conducted during
the month of August
There were 74 arrests made. M
, civil papers served and 20 sub
; i neenas served ort witnesses before
curt
-uri.
The report noted also that lines
lid to the court and costs assesed
■ainst defendants during August as
'suit of cases originating in the
partment totaled $203.10. A total
two years and „ ten months in
obation sentences and yea"
,d two months to the roads with
,e‘ defendant being sentenced to
nm of natural life as result of
is enforcement activity. '
,207.28 was collected by Sheriffs
apartment for serving civil pa
-rs and .$8.00 resulted in »ale
TlVTollmving trips were listed
,t 6f Orange County: two trips to
aleigh to take prisoners, one trip
Zmnan ... P,—,. "f
,„p, „. |M» lov^WW”
i
piling up 20 markers on their side
of the ledger. . . ' .
Co-Captains Star
Heroes for the Hillsboro cause
were the newly elected co-captains.
Hay.. Janies and Gary Bateman.
Barnes chewed up 5 yards rush
ing. caught one pass for 25 yards,
and scored 7 of the points. Bateman
led the defensive play for £he night
as he continually brought down
enemy runners before they could
get started. Bateman was credited
with eleven individual tackles be
sides setting up tackles for his
tcammtaes. „
* Tomorrow night the Wildcats in
vade the home park of file Gra
ham Red Devib, who have the
largest and probably the strongest
'cam in the conference. Coach fleck
man's totem numbers two starting
linemen and three starting backs
among its fourteen returning let
termen. Last week Graham nipped
defending champ Henderson 14-13
ns Don Guthrie go; all the points.
Hillsboro will have to stop the
flying Guthrie if it hopes to come
home with a win on Friday. But
the Wildcats have proved that they
have the potential of bowling-over
the strongest of the District 111
teams, among which Graham sure
ly numbers; Northern didn't.
Quick Drive
In driving to its first touchdown,
he Wildcats drove 74 yards in only
five plays From his own twenty
six. Kenneth Cook drove for four
yards. Then Reinhardt, the Wildcat
starting quarterback, completed a
pass to Cook that went tor « yards.
Fullback Ray Barnes bulled for
four. Jim# Ray, the left end, baffled
the defense by coming around the
right side to gain seven. Reinhardt
took advantage of this lapse, and
called the same play to the opposite
side From 13 yards out, right end
(See WILDCATS, Page 7)
►-*—---——
Cutting Brawl
Send Local Pair
To Hospital
A West Hillsboro man is still to
Serious condition at Watts Hos
pital as result of a fight near tt|e
railroad depot Sunday, morning
about 7:30.
Victim of a severe cutting admin
istered by Jafk Moore, about 36.
West Hillsboro, was Wayne■■ Wagner.
24, also of West Hillsboro. A total
of 127 stitches were 'requited to
i close the knife wounds received
- by Wagner around the neek= e*d
back. He has now been removed
from the “cVitlcai” list, but is still
regarded as in serious condition
after several transfusions.
! Witnesses told Sheriff O. H. Clay
ton the men got into an argument
I while drunk, began to fight and
' Wagner cut 'Moore in the head and
1 face with a broken bottle. Moore
then caught up with Wagner a few
| yards away near the depot and be
gan wielding the knife.
Moore was treated at Memorial
Hospital and returned to county
; jail, where he remained until re
! leased Monday night under $500
i bond.
Denied After Board Hearing
Plagued By Assignment Problems
School Board Hits Back
At Neighboring Counties
It’s assignment troubles on all sides as far as the Orange
County Board of, Education is concerned.
The board 'learned Monday night that ti pupils, mem
bers of the Kirby families, who live in Orange County in the
Aycock district! had entered school at Prospect Hill in Cas
well County, at tlse urging of the Caswell school folks.
Board Members John F .Hawkins, stung by the refusal
of Person County s board to per
mit 13 Person border-line pupils to
attend Aycock’as they had been do
I ing for many years, moved that
Orange County “demand the return
of the children or credit for their
attendance,’* and the board voted
1 with him unanimously. Aycoek
stands to lose another teacher un
less the cuts are restored,
The board then, in apparent re
Mrs. Forrest
Named Leader
I For U.N. Week
Mrs. R. O. Forrest has been
named chairman of the United Na
tions committee for Hillsboro,
j Her appointment was announced
' yesterday by Mayor Ben O. Johns
ton.
United Nations Week will be ob
served in North Carolina by pro^
clamation of Governor Luther H.
Hodges during the week of Octo
! ber 19-25. During this period one
day will be observed as U. N. Day.
Jack Lasley of Chapel Hill is
State chairman of this years U. N
observance and Mrs. Raymond
Adams has been named the^ U. N.
Day chairman for Chapel Hill by*
I Mayor O. K. Cornwell.
taliation for Person County’s re
fusal to permit the 13 White stu
dents from across the line to at
tend A.vcock School, voted to re
assign some 19 or 20 Negro stu-1
dents from Person and Caswell
counties, who were enrolled at the
Cedar Grove Negro Elementary
School, back to their respective
counties. They noted that return
would probably cost a teacher at
the school next year and possibly
save the construction of another
new classroom which had already
-been requested.
Chairman Charles Stanford, wor
ried about the dwindling attend
ance at White Cross, demanded the
return- of the A. O. Crawford chib
dren, who had enrolled at Hills
boro but who reside in the White
Cross district.
On the motion of Clarence
Jones, the board acted favorably on
the application of a child resid
ing on Highway 70 in the Murphey
district to attend schpol at Cameron
Park, furnishing his own trans
portation.
Other assignment incidents noted
on the first day i;«c Unit'd re<tw*st*
from West Hillsboro residents to
attend Cameron Park and an at
tempt of some Hillsboro district
students to enroll at Efland, both
of which were denied.
JUSTIFIABLY PROUD — Three officials con>-;Ciea with the
opening of the New Cerrboro Elementary School are shown Friday
night during an open house sponsored by the School Committee
and the Parent-Teachers Association. Left tfr right are Robert Hogan,
newly-appointed member of the School Committee; K. K. K. Box,
school principal; and Charlie Stanford, chairman of the Orange
County Board of Education.
Arrest Of Youths Clears Up
Thefts At Aycock; Long's Store
The robbery of G. M Long’s
store on highway 86, north of Hills
boro, on August 25, and two break
ins at Aycock school have been
solved by the Sheriff’s department
| with the arrest of a Cedar Grove
area boy and three Durham youths.
I The county resident, who appa
rently master-minded the series of
i break-ins, was identified as Bobby
I Murray, 17, who last year was
elected as vice president of Aycock
High School’s student body by his
fellow students. Also charged with
the crimes were Sidney Pruitt, 17,
Robert Moses, another teen-ager,
' and a juvenile, name withheld, all
"I of Durham.
Major loss in the robberies, the
accounts file of Mr. Long contain
ing the only record of hundreds of
accounts involving thousands of
dollars, was recovered virtually in
tact in weeds on the river bank
between Cedar Grove and Efland
where it had been thrown, along
with all of the tools taken from
the school agricultural department.
Part of the approximately $75 stol
en was also recovered.
Murray and Moses were given 3
to-5 years in prison in Durham Su
perior Court last week for thefts
of the auto which brought them to
Cedar Grove for the break-ins. and
others, and will be brought to
Orange County for trial on break
ing and entering charges when
they are released from that sen
tence. Pruitt has waived prelimin
ary hearing, in Orange Recorder’s
court and was bound over to high
er court.
1
'Lights Out'
Finally Halts
Flow At School
They had ,o turn the lights
out Friday night at the new
Carrboro Elementary School to
stop the flow of school patrons
wanting to see the sparkling
$400,000 structure. -> «
Officials of the sponsoring
Parent-Teachfi^ Association to*
day estimated that around 1.000
persons flowed through the new
structure during an open house.
'1'ime of the open house, which
began at 7:30 p.m.. had to be
extended 30 minutes past the !
scheduled closing time of 9 p.m.
to accommodate the stream of in
terested persons. -
Mrs. Ralph Cheek, publicity
chairman of the PTA group —
which co-sponsored the event
with the School Committee —
said that “ it was one of- the best
turnouts we have had for any
thing around here in a long
time.”
She said that school. officials
finally simply turned lights off ;
In the building at 930 to stop'!
the crowds.
A ‘
DR. J. GLENN BLACKBURN
Churches Here
Plan Religious
Emphasis Week
The week of October 12-17 has
been designated as Religious Em
phasis Week .- by four sponsoring
churches of Hillsboro.
Tile Reverend C. 'H. Reckard. 1
spokesman for the churches, lias an
nounced that the First Baptist, St.
Matthews Episcopal. Hillsboro Meth
odist, and Hillsboro Presbyterian
Churches, will join in this union
program. A similar effort held in
October lti56 met with marked suc
cess and the general public reflect
ed appreciation and support then.
Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn, minister
of tire Wake Forest Baptist Church .
located on the campus of Wake
Forest College, will be ike prla- ■
clpal speaker for 4|e nightly serv- !
ices which will be lield at the Hills
boro Presbyterian Church. Wed
nesday night, October 15, has been f
set aside as Civic Night, and tiie 1
civic clubs of Hillsboro are being ,
invited to a'.tend and to sit by clubs
Thursday ijight of that week will r
be devoted to tlie youth of Hills
boro.
Each day at noon. Monday
through Friday, a halt-hour prayer
.service will he held at the Presby
terian Church, in making the an
iiut^it i incut Mr. Keckard com
mented, "The leaders of the IttSfr
Religious Emphasis Week, minis
terial and lay, were firmly con
vinced that the success of that week
rested on the Unusual support giv
en by lljp people of Hillsboro !<r
tile noon-day prayer services. There
was an unnhstakeable air of unity
in purpose fused with the spiritual
blessings of the Lord. Our convic
tion for the week is that the
-ante will again be true."
The theme for the week will be
' The Church." Further announce
ments concerning tlie program'will
be made as the October dates draw
near.
RAKBECIK AFIRE
.Fiieinen answered a call to .lack s
Shack, drive-in at the intersection
ol Highways 70 and Hti Tuesday
miming, where pigs being barbe
cued burst into flames which spread
up the outside of the chimney in
the kitchen area.. The fire was
quickly extinguished with little dam
age. Several similar blazes have
occurred in this "manner at the
same place over the past tew
months.
Next Appeal
Hearing Set
For Tuesday
The Orange County Board
of Education Monday night,
following an exhaustive hear
ing, denied the ap|>eal of the
Carrlroro Negro couple seek
ing to reverse the previous de
cision assigning their child to
Chapel Hill's Northside ele
mentary school.
The parents, I.ee and lat
tice Vickers, had protested the
assignment of their child to the
Negro school and sought a trans
fer to the all-White Carrboro Ele
mentary School. Their original re
quest for transfer had been denied
and Monday’s meeting was in the
nature of a hearing as provided
in the machinery of the so-called
Pearsall Plan.
In their appeal the Vickers
couple contended that the board's
assignment of their child to the
Negro school was “discrimination
.based upon .race and.our child in..
entitled to go to the school in the
district in which he lives, not
withstanding his race.” Their ap
peal notice further requested that
“you cease operating the school
system on h racial, discriminatory
basis.”
In examining Vickers, who was
accompanied by C. O. Pierson,
Negro attorney of Durham who
has been involved in most of the
segregation cases in this area as
attorney for the NAACP and oth
er groups, members of the board
noted that the additional expense
and * .neon, enivnee of ttttemifhg
the more distant sehool had been
largely mitigated by the provision
ol free school bus transportation
ior the child. They then asked
Vickers what benefits he thought
would accrue to his child by as
signment to the Carrboro school.
Vickers answered he thought it-,
was a "better school."
Member-elect Boss Porter, ques
tionin'.* Vickers at this time, said,
We have every reason to assume
the opposite." And Superintendent
G. Paul Carr described the extra
financial support received by the
C hapel-Hill schools in the ^form of
supplementary taxes which en
ables an “enriched academic pro
gram" which is not provided in
the county system.
Pressed further tor elaboration,
Vickers, who is houseman at Sig
ma N'u fraternity, said he meant
it was a "better building,"
No indication was given by
Vickers or his attorney u> to wheth
er they would now prixeed to
court litigation. At the conclusion
af the hearing Pierson filed notices
of appeal on behalf of the four
children of Darnell and Clara
Halden, another Carrboro couple
who are seeking to have their
children transfered to the new
W hite school, and the school board
>et Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. as the tiipe '
or a hearing on this appeal.
Present for the hearing Monday •
light in addition to Vickers, the
Walden couple and their attorneys
Pierson and C. O. Pierson Jr., were
dary ivjies, D. A. Okun and Pres
on Weaver of Chapel Hill and Carl
Jraden of Louisville, Ky„ field
secretary of the Southern Con
erence Educational Fund, Inc.
Plans For Boy Scout Fund Drive
Underway Here; Leaders Named
Mans are beginning to take
shape for the annual Boy Beout
fund drive in Hillsboro, which is
scheduled for October 7. simultan
eously with other communities
throughout the Occoneec.nee Coun
cil.
E. J. Hamlin, who for the second
year is serving as community drive
chairman. announced yesterday
that the following, had accepted
top assignments in the forthcom-1
ing campaign which annually has
been among the most successful
in the community.
Serving as Majors in the cam
paign organization tgil! be Odeil
H. Clayton, H. G. Coleman Jr. and
Fred S. Cates. Ira A. Ward is chair
man of Advance Gifts, E. Wilson
Cole again heads the Audit phase
of the drive and G. Paul Carr is
Breakfast Arrangements chairman.
''A group of 75 or more men and
women of the, community will be
recruited .to attend a Kick-off
Brea'kfast on October 7 and carry
out the one-day blitz type of drive
which has been so succesful in
the past.
Other appointments and plans
are expected to, be announced in
the next few weeks preceding the
campaign.