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6, NO. 7
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1»S9
HILLSBORO
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•n F*op 7 of THE NEWS of
Or**9« County.
EIGHT FACES THIS ISSUE
I
rrest
icident;
Held
men have been charged
terfering with officers per
, their official duties and a
Presently unidentified, is he
ight on this count,
incident occurred Friday
vhen Deputies C. D. Knight
irch Compton went to Cen
hool while a ball game wa;
ress to arrest David Brooks;
>2 on a Durham County
t charging assault with a
weapon with intent to kill
i the officers tried to take
to custddy outside the gym
he offered resistance and
ompton and Knight attempt
lace handcuffs on him Isaac
nry Ray and a third Negro
pushing, pulling and shov
officers to keep them from
the'arrest. A sizeable crowd
(side and witnessed the dis
■e.
deputies finally succeeded
ring the arrest, brough
to jail, and later went back
;st the Rays who were
1 with interfering with jir
while performing official
The third mpn in the fracu
being sought.
■Year-Old
y Shoots
ther Twice
i-year-old boy pumped two
jets into the stomach of his
at University Station Friday
after the man allegedly
ned to kill the family and
a scuffle with the boy’s
rt Crump, Negro, was taken
;e Hospital where the bul
re removed. 1
ip's wife told officers her
d JOime, home drinking,
* her "t'l-v
and began to assault her.
jpon the boy got out the
omatic and shot his father
ip told officers he got mad
e came home late and found
old food on the table,
harges have been preferred
crtqe Offers
ad Safety
sav Contest
Hubert M. Carter, Lectur
he Orange County Pomona
, announces that a Highway
Essay Contest, sponsored hy
lional Grange and The Auta
Safety Foundation, is op^n
Grange members under 18
if age, and that awards will
vided local, state, regional
tional winners,
national winner will re
i $100 U. S. Savings Bond
i all-expense paid trip to
lual convention of the Na
Grange, to be held in Cali
November 9-17.
contestant will submit an
f not more than 700 words
subject, 4‘A Safe Driving
dr Young Grangers.” The
e for submitting entries is
Carter explains that a pri
ibjective of the Contest is
loo an awgreqess of youth’s
Abilities in promoting safe
on our highways.
Survey Of School Bus System
Brings Re-Examination, Action
The Orange County school system
has launched a program to improve
the county’s student transportation
system after a study by state offi
cials revealed alarming conditions
and brought forth a recommenda
tion for a thorough re-examination
of the entire transportation system.
The action was taken by the Board
of Education Friday on the basis of
a written report analyzing the
transportation system in Orange
County submitted by R. B. Williams
of the Division of Transportation,
State Department of Public Instruc
tion. ..
Chief points in the report cen
tered around excessive maintenance
costs, the worst accident record in
recent years and over $1,600 worth
of vandalism by students incurred
during the current year.
Survey Made By State
As a result of the depletion of
the state budget allotment to Orange
County for repair parts and tires
during the current fiscal year in
PLACE: ST. MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH. TIME: 4:30 PM. FRIDAY
Prayer Day
Observance
Here Friday
The World Day of Prayer will \
be observed at the St. Matthew’s
Episcopal Church tomorrow after
noon at 4:30 o’clock under the
■itonsorslytr of the "churches of
Hillsboro.
Tomorrow, the first Friday of I
Jjent, cormnunitities all over Amer
ica will join in Christian fellow
ship.
Mrs. Lauton Pettitt is chairman
■if the general planning eommit
!ee for the local observance.
The following women will rep
resent their church in the service:
Leaders^ Episeo pa!,- Mrs.- - Sam
Cattis; Methodist, Mrs. S. T. Kirn
rough Jf: Baptist, «Mrs.. Bruce
: 'resson" Presbyterian, Mrs. Will
iam Lynch.
—(Ushers- Presbyterian.—Mrs. C.
Hr Reckard Metho;dist, Mrs. "Vera
Whitaker Baptist-, Mrs: Curtis
Soot! and Episcopal," Mrs. Charles
Blake. .
the Rev. S. T. Kimbrough will
be soloist. ———■ -—
An open invitation is extended
Ito persons in the community to at
tend.
The purpose of World Day of
Prayer is to unite all Christians in
1 in a bond of prayer and to.,give
i individuals an opportunity to share
jin a fellowship of prayer with oth
iers around the world.
Offerings of World Day of
rayer are divided between the Di
visions of Home Missions and of
Foreign Missions of the National
Council of Churches.
The Egyptian church women pre
pared the order of worship to
unite all Christians in a bond of
prayer this year. Each year the
service is prepared in a different
country. Last year it was prepared
by Australian women.
J« YEARS AFFILIATION with the Western Auto organua
V Clarence 0. Jones was5 recognized this week with the pre
i«i o» a placque to the local dealer by George Gardner of
‘here, right, wholesale sales representative. Western Auto is
•*w»i it* 50th anniverstary this year. -
Wildcats Lose Game,
4th Place To Graham
Graham won possession of fourth
place in District III standings here
Tuesday night with a victory over
Hillsboro’s Wildcats.
The Wildcats, who had been, twd
with Graham for fourth place in
the conference, dropped to fifth
with a 7 6 loop record and 9-6 over
all. Graham has an 8-6 conference
MAJOR CHARLES SPEED
Major Speed
Will Address
Hillsboro PTA .
Major Charles A. Speed, direc
tor of safety activities for the
North Carolina State Highway Pa
trol, will be the guest speaker at
the Hillsboro P.T.A. meeting Tues
day night, Feb. 17, at 7:30.
Major Speed has had a long and
active career in law enforcement
beginning in 1935, only six years
after the highway patrol was or
ganized. He will bring to the meet
ing an intimate knowledge of the
problems of traffic and safety on
the highways of North Carolina.
Midgett To Head
Local Duke Drive
John B. Midgett of Hillsboro is
among 256 persons named to serve
as area chairmen of Duke Univers
ity’s 1958-59 Loyalty Fund cam
paign.
Appointments were announced
today by Charles A. Dukes, direc
tor of Alumni Affairs at Duke.
Those named will play important
parts in efforts to achieve the goals
of $300,000. and 11,500 donors by
June 30.
All area campaigns are scheduled
to begin on Feb. 12. Committees
will seek to contact personally all
Duke alumni in their respective
areas on behalf of the^rogram of
annual ‘giving.
record and stands 9-6 for all games.
The Red Devils, led by Don Guth
rie and Ray Fogleman, were held
to a oiie-point lead, 11-10 at the
end of -#ie tint quarter. Inf the
second quarter, Guthrie hit for 9
points as Graham surged to a 27
18 halftime advantage.
The Red Devils built their lead
to 19 points in the third quarter
and almost turned the game into
a rout. But the Wildcats started
pressing to cut the lead to 7 points
with 5 minutes to go.
Graham then started hitting
from the foul line to put the game
out of- reach.
In the girls' preliminary game,
Kaye Williams bagged 44 points
to lead Hillsboro to a 65-61 victory.
Jean Swanner led Graham with 27
points.
BOYS GAME
Graham (59
F Hante.r,' 10—
F Guthrie, 19
C Cates, 9
G Bason, 7
G Fogleman, 13
Hillsboro (49)
J. Barnes,' 14'
'R. Barnes, 10
Kennedy, 5
Reinhardt, 6
Crawford, 11
Subs: Graham—Johnson,!, Ray
field. Hillsboro-Dickey, S. Ray 1,
Blackwelder 2.
Score at half: Graham 27, Hills
boro 18.
GIRLS GAME
Graham (61)
F J. Swanner, 27
F Andrews, 11
F Hudson, 23
G K. Swanner
G Pulliam
G Roddy
Hillsboro (65)
Williams 44
N. Roberts, 4
C. Roberts
Miller
J. Graham
L. Efland
Subs: Graham—Bowers, Correil.
Hillsboro—Auman 11, Ho.werton 6,
Ward.
Score at half: Hillsboro 40, Grah
am 32.
.December and the spending of an
additional 20 percent by February
1. the State sent Williams and an
assistant here to study the county's
transportation system.
A three-day survey revealed: .
(1) An allotment of $12,785 had
been spent and further funds were
necessary.
(2) The accident record of nine
reported accidents in the first five
months is the worst record in re
cent years and is equal to the to
tal accidents last year.
(S) Over $1,600 worth of vandalism
by students to buses has been re
ported, consisting chiefly of cut
seats, broken glasses, destroyed
first aid supplies and discharged
fire extinguishers.
Re-Examination
As a result of the facts revealed
in this survey, the. State Division
recommended a thorough re-examin
ation of the entire transportation
system.
“In a letter to principals and
teachers, Superintendent G. P. Carr
said, “This condition of the bus
transportation is not the fault of
any one person or agency. It is a
problem which must be faced by
all of ufT From Ihe county superin
tendent and mechanics down to the
principals, teachers, bus drivers,
bus students and their parents. No
single individual can correct this
situation. It will require team work
of all of us.”
Included with the letter to prin
cipals and teachers was a list of
activities involving principals, teach
ers, bus drivers and students de
signed to make school bus opera
tion more safe, efficient and econ
omical. Generally, the regulations
call for more rigid supervision at
ail levels, a comprehensive bus
drivers, agreement, student rules ot(
conduct, etc.
Included in the report, was a de
scription of ^ench of the nine bus
accidents this year and their costs.
Damage from these paid by the
county totalled $1,870.74, paid by
other vehicles involved $1,072.46,
Also included was a summary of
the vandalism of students which cost
$809 in materials alone. They in
cluded 144 cut seats, 90 broken
glasses, 18 fire extinguishers empty
or mission and 21 first aid kits em
pty or tampered with.. .
Mrs. Walker
Passes At 78
Mrs. Sudie “Aunt Sudie” Damcr
on Walker, 78, of Hillsboro died in
a Durham hospital Monday morn
ing after an extended illness. She
was the ■widow of the late Ed Walk
er.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. J. L. Rosemond and Mrs.
Marvin Phelps of Hillsboro; one
son, Harold Walker of Cedar
Grove; 10 grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
from the Mars Hill Baptist Church
by the Rev. Clyde P. Pearson, the
ReV. Bruce Cresson and Dr. Charles
Maddry. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Pall bearers were William Allen
McKee, Herman Strayhorn, Claude
Dickey, Ernest Laws, Ray Edwards
and Woodrow Wilson.
ABC Board Choice
May Come Tonight
PROCLAMATION—Mayor Btn Johnston, sign* his proclamation
for Hillsboro's pbsorvanco of Crimo Prevention W*«k while Chair
man John W. Dickson of the Exchange Club committee and the
Rev. John Terrell look on. \
Local Crime
Prevention
Week Noted
The Hillsboro Exchange Club
this week is again observing Na
tional Crime Prevention Week with
local activities.
John W. Dickson is serving as
general chairman for the club pro
gram and be'*g assisted by John
Terrell.
Programs will be conducted in
schools and organizations and
members will attend church next
Sunday in a body.
Mayor Ben G. Johnston has is
sued a proclamation in. support of
'the program, as follows:
PROCLAMATION
“WHEREAS. It is increasingly
necessary to alert the people to
the danger of crime in each com
munity throughout this Nation;
and
“WHEREAS, The National Ex
change Club has wholeheartedly
sponsored National Crime Preven
tion Week for 11 previous years
in order to make the people con
scious, of the ever-increasing threat
of-lawlessness; and
- “WHEREAS, crime is still a
most formidable enemy everywhere
in the Nation, affecting persons of
all ages, -and in all stations of
life, bringing misery, degradation,
and financial loss to law abiding
citizens;
“NOW THEREFORE, I, Ben G.
Johnston, Mayor of Hillsboro, N.C.;
do hereby proclaim the week of
February 8 through 14, to be a
National Crime Prevention Week,
and do hereby entreat every citi
zen of this community to cooperate
therewith, in order to fight the
scourge of crime and protect our
citizens and their homes.
BEN G. JOHNSTON (Signed)
Mayor of Hillsboro, N. C.
NOMINATED
Miss Maude T. Brown, acting post
master for several years, has been
nominated by President Eisenhow
er to the Senate for permanent ap
pointment as Postmaster for Hills
boro.
Better Balanced Lunches Assured
$15,024 Received By Lunchrooms
In Surplus Food Through Feb. 5
Orange County school lunchrooms
received more than $15,000 in sur
plus commodities from the federal
government during the first five
months of this school year, accord
ing for figures released today.
County School Supt. G. P. Carr
said these food commodities are in
addition to other federal help the
lunchrooms receive, totalling ap
proximately $10,000 during this pe
riod, and enable the schools to
give free' lunches that would not
have been given otherwise, as well
as provide paying students with
more food and “better balanced
lunches," */
In all, a total of $15,024.20 in
commodities was received through
Feb. 5 of this year. Broken down
on an individual basis, this means
that each of the county's 2532 child
ren served daily received $5.93 worth
of surplus food during the 5 months
period.
Carr said the food commodities
represent a supplement to the regu
lar food supply, and enable lunch
rooms to serve approximately 83
free lunches daily. The surplus food
is distributed on a pro rata basis.
Items of food received from the
government included:
Process Cheese ............ $2,640.00
Creamery Butter .. .•— 4,386.00
"Flour ...... ...—' 350.00
Dry Milk ..... 493.00
Rice ■... 322.00
Corn Meal... 180.00
Frozen Turkeys . 1,913.75
Peanut Butter . 360.00
Canned
Green Peas ...:.. 422.30
Blackberries.157.50
Green Beans ...;. „ 433.50
Peaches ... 911.25
Corn.V.rf... 292.50
Tomato Paste .- 345.00
Applesauce . 442.00
Apples' . 534.60
Grapefruit Sections. ^36$.30
MISS FAYE WEBSTER
^ ‘ '-•i ■}.- . "
Faye Webster
Wins Legion
Speech Event
Miss Faye Webster, Hillsbo*'
high school senior, was Chosen win,
ner Monday in the American Leg
•ion -sponsored oratory contest on
the U. S. Constitution. -
The competition took place in.
the presence of the high school
student body. She was awarded a
$7.50 check by Post 85. : ”
.Donald Coleman won second
prize, of . $5 and Jjllss Brenda White
-won-third prize of $3.__^
The contestants were judged on'
the basis of presence, poise, per
sonality, composition, accuracy, ef
fectiveness and power to convince.
They spoke both prepared orations
and extemporaneously.
Leaf Average
1,559 Pounds
Per Acre Here
during 1958. produced an average
yied of 1559 pounds of leaf per
acre, D. V. Roberts, manager of
the local ASC office, said today.
From a total of 2,663.19 harvested
acres farmers in the county pro
duced and marketed 4,152,094 pounds
of .tobacco,
Roberts said this amounts to an
average of 1,559 pounds per acre.
Roberts said that 920 f,armers~re
ceived allotments, but that 269 to
bacco producers put 520.85 acres in
the Soil Bank Acreage Reserve.
These farmers received $114,851.23
in Soil Bank payments.
BREAK-IN
Thieves broke into Brown’s ser
vice station on Highway 70-A west
of Efland Sunday night and got
away with a quantity of cigarettes,
a small amount of money and 11
case's of beer.
N AWARD
^Johnny Harrison was awarded^ a
perfect attendance pin for^his
firs year of perfect attendance at
Sunday School at the Pilgrim Holi-.
ness Church. - . -
Orange County tobacco farmers
Joint Meeting
Of Appointing
Bodies Planned
First steps leading to the>
establishment of ABC stores
in Orange County since the
approval of the voters on Feb*
Hilary 3 is scheduled for to
night at the courthouse.
The Board of County Com
missioners and the Orange
County Board of Education meet
jointly at 8 consider the appoint'
ment of a 3-member Alcohol Bev
erage Control board to establish
and administer liquor control
stores.
The law provides that the ABC
board shall be selected by die
County Boards of Commissioner*,
Education and Health, meeting
jointly and with each member
having one vote. Inasmuch as this
county has no Board of Health per
se, it being a part of a health dis
trict, and the Chairman of the
Commissioners being its represent
ative on the District Board, it ha*
been ruled that the appointments
should properly be made by the
two former boards.
The county board of alcoholic
control will consist of a chairman
and two members, the chairman to
be appointed for three years and
the two members for one and two
years respectively.
Qualifications
Only qualifications listed in the
law for ABC board members are
that they “shall be well known for
their character, ability rad busi
ness acument.”
ABC board members, the law
states, may ife removed by - net
jority vote of the composite board
which appoints them. Their Sal
aries shall be fixed by the joint
meeting of the boards which ap
point them and "shall be fixed
with the view of securing the very
best members available, but with
due regard for the fact that such
salaries shall be adequate com
pensation, but shall not be large
enough to make said positions un
duly attractive or the objects of
political aspirations.”
Persons disqualified under the
law for ABC board membership
‘are stockholders or owners of dis
tilleries and breweries and per
sons interested directly or indirect
ly in other enterprise which pro
duces, mixes, bottles or sells alco
holic beverages.
Considerable speculation has
existed relative to possible ap
pointees for^the new board but
members officially have given no
indication wlffem they are consider
ing.
Speculation, likewise, nas cen
tered around possible store loca
tions. This is a function of the
county ABC board, with authority
for approval or disapproval vested
in the State ABC board, except
that a county in which the voters
approve liquor control stores is en
titled to operate at least one store
at the county seat or some other
location selected by the county
board.
The law provides that “due con
sideration shall be given to com
munities and towns in which a ma
jority of the votes were cast
against control, but nothing here
in contained shall be construed so
as to abridge any of the provisions
elsewhere contained relative to the
opening, closing or locating such
stores.” • ■■ «
Mrs. Knight
Is Promoted
At S&L
Mrs. Eleanor W. Knight has been
promoted to assistant treasurer of
the Hillsboro Savings and Loan As
sociation from the capacity of
stenographer-teller.
Other officers of the Associa
tion are: W. John Clayton, Presi
dent; B. S. Carr, Vice-President*
Ira A^,Ward, Executive Vice Presi
dent and Secretary-Treasurer; Bon
ner D. Sawyer, attorney; and Mrs.
Louise, R. Clayton, Assistant Sec
retary. /* ,