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i ange Count? HILLSBORO ANO CHAPEL HILL. N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY IS. 1959 RIGHT PAGES THIS ***H p4 Million Increase pted In Farm Income , Rural Progress mge Is Among > Four Counties Negro Rural Progress Prbgrarft in Orange County las been selected as ftrie of the four top counties in in competition for the $500 first prize awarded an the county making the largest contribution to rural unong Negroes in the State. Hinrement of Orange’s inclusion among the high Lnties for the 1958 Rural Progress Award ca-me to ity Agent Sherman Shel y from G. F. Rankin, A acting chairman of the [ Progres committee as to the to winner' wiil rter the State Committee ge County on January 29 st hand view of the coun- j am, talk to local com- j and make a tour of in Other three counties in the top four are Anson, Robeson and Ber tie. Orange County Negroes won first. Place in Rural Progress in the State in 1953 and was judged in the first five counties the previous year. Last year's State winner was Duplin, the previous year, Person. I ITER WONDERLAND—The beauty of old court square in P was easHy apparent after the third snow of the winter orally fell laat Thursday. Quentin Patterson Photo bit " >i IeW Yesterday rrest Death Ruled •m Natural Causes services were held yes l»r Dr. D. Efland Forrest, hand, a former practicing in Hillsboro, whose body in the back seat of his Ford sedan early Sunday i a ditch of a muddy road tighway 70 bypass, a mile Durham. [rites Were .held from the Presbyterian Church with C. H. Reckard officiating, [assistance of the Rev Wil Smith, pastor of the Eifland Church, ent was In the Efland Pres. [Church cemetery. County Coroner Pr. R. A. id Monday that an autopsy Dr. Forrest had an enlarged congestion of the lungs, was nothing to indicate Coroner Harton said, chhens were taken for toxl studies at Duke Hospital.” Fin« to Sheriff J. M. Man P° wkh- Coroner Hartgn in N the case, Dr. ForrestTjlnd lldham of Efland on Friday [construction worker friend WHkesboro The trip was the physician’s car with | driving. On their return trip Sunday Dr. Forrest and Oldham stopped at a farm pear Efland and picked up R. A. White of Catsburg. In Durham the three men, stop ped a while at the Ice Arena nger ;<led by She 'physician's brother-in law, on Highway 70, just west of the ■city. . The men left the amusement cen ter and headed jfor Catsburg, taking a dirt road which runs north off the bypass. The car skidded in the mud and became stuck in a ditch. Oldham left on foot to get to a telephone and call for a wrecker, leaving White and Dr. Forrest in the car. Dr. For rest appeared to be sleeping on the back seat. After calhng a wrecker service Oldham stopped by the Ice Arena and told Forrest the car was mired up on a dirt road and that he had sent for a wrecker, leaving Dr For rest and White in the car. Meanwhile, White, tired of wait ing for Oldham to return with a wrecker, decided to hitchhike a ride homee to Catsburg. leaving Dr. For rest “sleeping” on the back seat. Turner Forrest and Dr. Forrest's (See FORREST, PaQe 8) General Gains In Most Commodities Recorded In '58 Orange County’s agricul tural income took a healthy three quarters of a million dollar jump in 1958, and to bacco reversed a downward trend to record a $300,000 in-, crease over 1957. This was the highlight of a 34-point general progress summary included in the annual report of the farm and home extension agents, prepared for the Extension Service and the County Commissioners. Total gross cash farm income in 1958 was $5,820,988 compared with $5,065,600 the previous year and live stock and poultry accounted for three million of this total. Last year’s tobacco crop sold for aa estimated $2,355,688 or $300,000 more than 1957 as hot dry weather held the per acre yield to 1450 pounds. The report noted that gross farm income last year was almost $400, 000 more than it was in 1955, de spite almost a million dollar loss in tobacco income since that year as result of acreage cuts. In 1955, community leaders and extension agents projected a five year plan to increease gross farm income by one million dollars. That year tobacco was bringing $3,133,000 with 4671 acres planted. This year it brought only $2,355,688 with 3280 acres harvested. However, dairy, beef cattle and pulpwood income goals have already been reached and prospects are good that by 1960 those for poultry and hogs will be realized. Other major items in the report vm-asrltftom: Dairy farmers sold $1,504,000 worth of milk, or $171,700 more than last year from 9 less dairies. Beef cattle income increased from $121,700 last year to $221,000 this year. The number of feeder calves marketed at the feeder calf sale increased front 345 to 585. 4-H boys and girls exhibited 33 fat steers at Durham Show and won the grand championship. Poultry farmers huilt 19 new houses 'and sold $222,000 more poul try products than last year, for a total gross of $1,359,000. Income from sale of feeder pigs and top hogs increased $56,000 to a total of $217,000, There is a lot of interest in feeder pig production. Meetings, tours, and sales ’ were held, several new farrowing houses were built. The sale of pulpwood decreased from $169,400 last year to $130,000 this year. 240 western ewes were bought by sheep producers, doubling the num ber of sheep in the county. Improved permanent pastures were increased by 500 acres to a to tal of 15,600 acres. • Alfalfa was increased* by 100 acres to 1,200 acres Telephone service has beMi ex tended into Caldwell and Prospect Hill communities. Feed grains increased by 140,000 bushels, mainly because of improved weather conditions and additional use of nitrogen. A county wide TB and Bangs check on cattle found no reactors. Last winter 35 woodland owners planted 220,000 loblolly pines on 300 acres. Orders have been placed for about 600,000 pines to be set on 800 (See INCOME, Page 4) ir»glq Dtvelops a! Area Population Would Jump ain number of persons eon with the expected develop the Research Triangle will V come to live in ‘‘charm ‘Pel Hill, the associate direc e Triangle said here Friday, tipg from a round of meet Ralelgh in which the impor ‘ouncementa of the day were accompanying article), ast-breathless Pearson Stew members of the Community Kwt the effects the new de ^ta would have on the locaJ uity. • X- -■ _~L—_- ' 4n*«0c day.” *»** said. “And it’s not a - ' and how many workers will actual dream any mort ... It Is a real, going concern.” Raleigh and Durham would na turally get the bulk of new person nel coming into the region, he said, "The two cities want the growth and would got it.” But, at the same time, he said. Chapel Hill—which lie described fts “charming” as a residential com munity—would also get some of the expansion. "Actually.” he said, “I Imagine that any growth would probably be to just proportion to their pres ent rises.” yV • Just'bow big will the project be ly be in the triangle project: mr. Stewart said this was hard to pre dict. It only the “best” lands of the RT area were utilized, he said, the number of workers would be en ormous. “It can hold about 60,000 workers,’’ he said. To guide development of the RT j area, he said, the possibility of a three-pQimtv (Durha m. Wake, Orange) planning authority was be ing mentioned and may be presented to the State Legislature. The Triangle area (see map, page 61, is lp miles east of Chapel Hill toward Raleigh-Durham airport. None of the land is in Orange Couft. vd_'.. . . ... % Chapel Hill Tops Hillsboro 'Cats, 52-44 I Hillsboro In sec Chapel Hill defeated High’s Wildcats here with a 52-44 victory. The win puts Chapel ond place in District 1 ings. The Chapel HU1 Wildcats, a 4-1 mark, trail Southern Southern and Chapel Hill meet Chapel HiH tomorrow night. Montie Milner coming off the; bench as substitute made IS points* as did Dave Henry. Chapel Hill’s Subir Roy had an off night, collect-^ ing only 56 points. Joe Barnes and Joe Crawford paced Hillsboro, now with con|erence record. Barnes 13 and Crawford got 11. The Hillsboro girls team whipped; Chapel Hill. Kaye Williams poured! 26 points through the hoop for Hills boro and game high scoring horn ors. wford * The Scoring:, BOYS’ GAME Chapel Hill (52) F Oettinger 9 Bowerman 9 Warren 1 Henry 15 Roy 5 Subs: Chapel a Hillsboro ( Kennedy R Barnes ! Ray If J. Barnes 13 Crawford 11 Hill — Milner 16. Rhinehardt, Blackwet Hillsboro — tier 2. Score at halfitme: Chapel Hill 23, Hillsboro 18. GIRLS’ GAME Chapel Hill (33) F Cuiton 7 Hamm 10 Lloyd 10 Fitch Sturdivant Herring Hillsboro (55) Williams 26 C. Roberts 2 N. Roberts 2 Oakley Miller J. Graham Subs: Chapel Hill—Overman, Ben nett, Hackney 6, Houston, Andrews, Lackey, Harville, Todd, Rideout. Hillsboro—Howerton 8, Almond ?, Forrest, K. Graham, Blackwelder, EfU»nd, F)iekey, Ward, Kenyon. < Score at half: Hillsboro 18, C^lap «i One Is Hurt In Collision On St. Mary/s One person was injured Tuesday morning in a collision on St Mary’s road at the intersection with New Sharon road. , According to investigating officers, Walter Brysn of Tellico Plains, Tenn., headed east on St. Mary’s road in a 1951 Ford sideswiped th° 1956 Ford being driven by Mrs. Leonard Wagner of Route 1,„ Hills boro, who was also headed east on St. Mary's road and attemfipting tg turn left into the New Sharon Road. Bryson’s car struck the Wagner car on the left, hit a guard wire on an electric polee and went down s fill before coming to a halt. Bry son was carried to Memorial Hos pital for treatment of injuries said to include a broken neck. No oc cupants of the Wagner were hurt Bryson will be charged with Reck less Driving. i he two education boards of the county, with the coun ity commissioners, cleared a roomfu^of pent-up air at the | courthouse Tuesday night in a joint session, often strained, sometimes vitriolic in the repartee passed. Final conclusion: the Board of County Commissioners will appoint as soon as possible a 15-member committee, prin cipally of lay personnel, but possibly containing at least one representative from each of the three boards, to study school ’ financing problems in this county and make recommenda tions to the taxing and budgeting authority. Recommendations of possible appointees will be. EYES RIGHT—All eyes, and ears too, cantor tholr attention on Dean Henry Brandis of the UNC law school and the Chapel Hill school board as he argues the case for a "lay" committee at Tuesday night's joint meeting of the official boards. Recognised, left to right: Supt. Joseph Johnson, C. D. Jones, Grey Culbreth, Ross Porter and Sam Gattisv Jim Jones Photo Plan Jo Be Aired Some 115 leaders of government and education in Orange County have been extended special invita tions to attend a meeting on pro posed School Finance legislation next Thursday and the general pub lic is invited. _——— The meeting, sponsored by the Board of Eduation, will be held at the courthouse at 7:30 p m., Janu ary 22. > Principal speaker will be State Sen ator O. Arthur Kirkman of High Point, chairman of Hie North Caro lina Committee for the Study of School Finance, established by the 1957 General Assembly and^, ap pointed by the Governor. The committee has developed a plan for local school financing, with lo cal incentive features, which Will be proposed to the next legislature. The Board of Education following a preliminary study at its last meet ing deemed the proposals of such New Fairview Minister, Wife Establish Home In Communty me Rev. and Mrs. Robert E. Gray, formerly of Newport News, Va., have now established resi dence in Fairview Community, Route 2, Hillsboro. The Rev. Gray was recently called to the pastor ate of the Fairview Baptist Church. Mrs. Gray, the former Eulene Wilson, received her undergrad ucation at Mars Hill, Carson-New man • and East Tennessee State College. An accomplished pianist, Mrs. Gray, presented sophomore, junior and senior piano recitals at the respective colleges. For the past six years she has taught pri vate lessons in piano. Cray prior to his entrance to Southeastern Seminary at Wake Forest, was pastor of the Clear Branch Baptist Church in Erwin, Tenn. The Grays have been married since August, 1954. They have no children. ... » THE REV. AND MRS. ROBERT E. GRAY importance as to warrant the sched uled meeting to hear complete de tails. Issued special Invitations were the county delegation to the General Assembly, the Board of Commis sioners, county and Chapel Hill City boards of education, members of the county Democratic Executive committee, Orange County Citizens Committee "for Better Schools, prill-, eipals, PTA presidents, District and A d v i s o*r y committeemen of all Orange County Schools. A dutch supper at Colonial Inn to be attended by county officials, legislators, and others with Kirk man the guest of honor will precede the public meeting. Superintendent G. P. Carr, com menting on the plans, said: “After studying the proposal, I think I can say with reasonably assurance that it has thfe potential of bging the most far reaching and important piece of school legislation that has been pro posed in the State legislature in a number of years. Passage of this legislation could be of tremendous importance to Orange County schools.” L Ruritan Club Will Request Pupils' Return A study of Social Security as it c'ffects farmers highlighted the monthly meeting of the Cedar Grove Ruritan Club held at Ay cock High School cafeteria on January 8 at 6 p.m. with Tom Pope, president, presiding. * " ■> A. O. McCrickard, Assistant Man. ager*p’f the District Office, Durham, presented an interesting discussion on the paying m of Social Security and of the benefits derived there' from. Action taken by the Aycock High School district committee asking for a special session of the Orange County Board of Education, in which a request will be made of the Board to take necessary action to reassign certain pupijs to Aycock Who are ndw ■ "attending Propectrmtf'Higtr School in Caswell County- w-as en dorsed A special commute inelud ing the Rev. Clark Porter, Clyde Roberts, Jule Allen, Marvin Rogers and Frank McDade will appear Jointly with the Aycock School Dis strict Committee before the Board. ( Frederick New Tax Collector; Richmond Quits J. W. Richmond submitted his re signation as Orange County delin quent tax collector Tuesday after serving in the post a day and a half. The county-commissioners in ses sion Tuesday night immediately named Frank Frederick* Hillsboro insurance man, to fill the vacancy. Re had been one of the nine who submitted applications for the post when it first became vacant several months ago. Frederick attended the Hillsboro ’schools, Is married and the father of. three children. Richmond in his letter gave the board’s delay in making, the ap pointment as the reason for his early resignation, noting that he. had made other employment ar rangements 'in the interim. PTA To Hear Health Expert II-,’ H*. ,-Wtlittste- of Ihe Department of Health Education School, Public Health of the University of North Carolina, will speak to the Hillsboro Pafbnts and Teachers Association Tuesday evening at 7:30 i’clock in the Hillsboro High Schoorauditorium on the subject * “School Selected Health Records.” „ Walker has been at the Hillsboro School this week checking the health records. All parents and teachers are urged to -attend. ' ' oy uie two sctoool boards, bat the Commwioners will make the final choices sad possibly throw la soma names of their own. The committee will be ■shod' to make same sort of report by budget time next Summer. The cosautitfee controversy *p-. pearod to be Just one more phase at - the continuing struggle for the larg est division of the tax dollar going for schools. The Chapel Hill board, led by Chairman Grey Culbreth, with oth er member:' pressing the same point, made it clear they did not feel Chapel Hill schools had been getting the appropriations they de served or which the taxpayers were demanding. Focal point of -the discusrton at the outset was a letter Cram the Orange County Board transmitting a request to the Commissioners from its own Citizens Committee for the appointment of a study group from members of the citizens commit tees of the two administrative units, plus “any others” the commission ers might want. This ^ew on pa- ’ per was endorsed by the Chapel Hill board. The county board, however, its committee being composed of both, lay and prsfimjiiial school folk*, preponderantly the latter, bad hi mind more of a Joint group p| tfcfg been expressed among the Commis sioners for an “official” study group composed of members of the three board* only. The Chapel Hill board had a "lay” group in mind, and therein lay the seeds of the controversy -———__ Ross Porter of Hillsboro first pro posed a committee of one member each from the two citizens’ groups and one each from the three official boards. This brought attach from_ each member of the Chapel Hill board and Dean Henry Brandis of Chapel Hill immediately charged that “somebody has reason for not having a Citizens Committee.” ,^.i w During the argument, Culbretb and Brandis both rehashed last year'? budget bearings when tba Chapel Hill board presented a re quest for a supplementary tax in crease, which was denied by th* Commissioners. Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs of the Commissioners said the Chapel Hill board had not made out a good case for the increase, said, “We were not convinced.” Cot breth said he thought they had al ways presented the views of the tax paying public but “We’ve been con fronted with the opposite point of view when we get to the Commis sioners.” When Brandis pressed tbs argument with cutting sarcasm. Chairman Hobbs said he didn't , "propose to be drawn into any cos troversy on the matter ” The division continued to the en^ even on the size of the committee. Culbreth reasoning, "You can’t bn convincing with the small commit tee; Superintendent Paul Carr coun tering with, “You can’t be efficient (See STUDY, Page 4) NEW TERM FOR ROBERTS—Reid Retort* of St. ftory't mi Hillsboro too tho oath of office from Clerk E. M. Lynch lest week < for e new form as Neuse Riser Soil Conservation pktrict Soros* h visor. Other Orange County members, C. Wr Stanford, seated left. | and Henry S. Hogan, right look on. <
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