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Cowity Pm Quick, proven rnuQk Mil, buy, runt ur #ut i |«k by uclng Hw ilcwHh< Mb mi P>(* 7 of THS NIWS of BIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUI is Been Accomplished il Program's IkCP shared th the cost ot establishing pines in thisarea scrub hardwood. Donald Robeits, ASC Office Manager, one of the new seedlings. Resources Commission provides the District management as well as wildlife planting eij,' Fisheries Investigator, toisons a farm pond -ftopulation of stunted fish tn preparation for ■aeiejsssr me? t f the first fo fend* about a woods fire, theN. C. Forest first on th* scone with the fire control equipment and iant Farm Agent Cyrus Green examines one of the grass ' sods that carpet many Orange County Slopes. : Isboro Approves mchise For Gas ictiore was taken by the Town Board recently in of an /ordinance granting rvice Company of North a fna|nch|ise to provide with natural gas service, ai of the franchise was er the ordinance had third reading, dinance adopted is simi se in force in other areas ' Public Service ction of the ordinance rhis ordinance shall be from arid after its final provided that if the com ::.... ■ -- 'K I . pany shall fail to provide natural gas service for general distribu tion in the Town of Hillsboro on or before December 1, 1963, or shall fail to obtain Certificate of Necessity from the North Caro lina Utilities Commission within five (5) years from the passage of this ordinance, then this franchise shall be void.” Meanwhile, the Utilities Com ntission conducted a hearing in Raleigh Thursday on application by iPublie Service for authority to extend its natural gas. service into a large section- of North Carolina. 'f Yesterday was a kind of birth day. Twenty years ago yesterday, February 18, 1939, Orange County held a referendum and'voted to join in. the organization of the pro posed Neuse River Soil Conserva tion District. “We hope to make a little more of this anniversary before the year is out,” Henry Hogan, who was one of the original District Super visors elected soon after that ref erendum and who served contin uously since then, points out. It was ntft until August 9, 1939 that the program and work plan of the District was completed and the District began operations. . “There has been a lot of accomp lishment in soil and water since that time,”’ Mr, Hogan says. “In those twenty years we have come to the point where not only the ir replaceable soil is the object of our conservation efforts but water, too, in spite of our abundent rain fall, is ja serious concern." Cooperative Effort “That progress has been made is due to the Whole-hearted, co operative effortof the many dif ferent agencies 4pd people help ing in the conservation of our nat ural resources.” The progress of tte District over the twenty years jjfr illustrated, ac cording to Mr. Hogan, by a sum mary of the activities involved in 1958. In the Orange County school system, for instance, seven classes studied a unit on soil and water conservation. This reading and writing about conservation, spell ing conservation words, working arithmetic problems about conser vation, stp dying history and geo graphy as related to soil and water resources, being, intrnduccdito bio fogy, g*oidgy«1,pwyiMir sciences, and field trips and the making of exhibits brpught a new concept of their country to a con siderable number of future citi zens. Several other classes studied conservation in briefer phases. Orange County’s 1988 Rural Program contributed sipnificantlv to conservation. 242 of the fami lies reporting said they had im proved the use and protection of (See ANNIVERSARY, Page 3) Heart Again Leads Orange Death Causes The diseases of the heart and blood vessels were again the lad ing cause of death in 1957, Milton E. Hogan Jr., president of the Dur ham-Orange County Heart Associa tion, announced here today. They exceeded the combined total ^>f deaths from all causes, he pointed out. There were 136 deaths in Orange County due to cardiovascular di seases out of a total of 261 deaths from all causes during 1957. Deaths from heart and blood vessel diseases thus accounted (of 52.4 percent of the total during 1957. The official figures were compiled by the North Carolina State Board of Health, Pub lic Health Statistics Section. The^local annual Heart Fund cam paign under the leadership of Mrs. Don Matheson has been underway throughout the month of February and will be climaxed with a final house-to-house canvass this Sundew, designated Heart .Sunday. The figures clos&y parallel those for the nation as "'a whole during 1957, the latest ye&r for whieh com plete vital statistics are available. In that 12-month period, cardiovas cular deaths for the nation ac counted for 53.62 -percent of the to tal. “Science has made great medical progress by controlling the infecti ous diseases in recent years. Some diseases, such as smallpox, diph theria and typhoid fever, have been practically eliminated. As a result, life expectancy, which was 48 years in 1900, is 70 years'today. More of ' us, therefore, are surviving — or 1 are spared — the diseases that were | formerly fatal, and are living to the 1 ages in which hearf diseases take j their greatest toll.” the Jncal Heart | Association president explained. First Orange High Court Opens Week's Term Monday A one-week term of Superior Coart for the trial of criminal eases Is scheduled to get underway at the courthouse in Hillsboro Monday. Some 115 cases have been dock eted for trial, Including the usual variety of assaults, breaking and’ entering, drunken driving, liquor cases and other violations. The docket includes a murder c^se, two manslaughter cases, four cases of assault with intent to kill or commit rape, one arson case, and four defendants charged with crimes against nature. Judge Henry McKinnon on Lum berton is the assigned jurist. School Board Goes As Body To Convention^ -The entire Orange County Board of Education, accompanied iy the county superintendent and .he school architect for most of the recent construction, has been on a convention junket to Atlantic City this week. The party left last Friday morn ing in the Board’s automobile to attend the sessions of the School Board Association and the Atneri-, can Association of School Admin-' istrators. It is the first time the entire membership of the ftear£ has attended such meetings as a'; (jroup. Funds for attendance .of a, representative have annually btWh included in the school budget for many years. Making the trip were Chairman C. W. Stanford, Members John Hawkins and Ross Porter, Super intendent G. P. Carr and Architect Archie Royal Davis.' A. H. Graham, Ran son Firm Is Dissolved The partnership in the Hillsboro legal firm of Graham and Ranson has been dissolved, effective the first of this month._ A. H. Graham, the former State Highway Commission chairman, who serves as coUnty attorney, said he had no plans for forming a new partnership. ~- ■ . • ■--— Paul Ranson, who became asso ciated with Mr. Graham in practice here while the latter was in Ra leigh and continued after his re tirement from the highway post, has obtained office space in the quarters of the Cheshire Insurance Agency in the Cole Building. DUDLEY D. CARROLL REMUS J. SMITH SR. GILES ML LONG Hillsboro Precinct Will Be Divided Decision has been made to divide the large Hillsboro verting -precinct prior to the next election. The Orange County Board of Elec tions at its recent meeting held in connection with the canvassing of the special ABC election voted to establish an undetermined number of new-polling places to relieve the congestion and the heavy burden on registrars and judges which have characterized voting in Hillsboro for several years. Chairman S, T. Latta confirmed this week that the decision to split ;the precinct had been made but said board members ^wished to con leifi political leaders of the com munity before deciding the number of precincts and their boundaries. The one precinct in Hillsboro has covered the entire township and is Ynore than twice the size of any other in the county, probably with 2,700 or more registrants on the book. Votes of over 1,300 in elec tions have not been too unusual in recent years, increasing the task of countingr-elc,-..____ Members of the Board in addi tion to Latta are Clyde C. Carter of Chapel Hill, secretary, and, M. L. Cates Jr., Republican member.. Hunt Sets Town Tag Deadline Chief George Hunt announces, this week is the last to purchase town tags. Town tags may be purchased at the Mayor’s Office, will be given to persons failing to comply. ling next week citations Uinstead Sees Many Disappointments In Governors Budget By JOHN W. UMSTEAD On Monday night of last week Governor Hodges delivered his Budget message. Naturally it dealt in generalities but was ably pre , sen ted. At the same session the Finance and Appropriation Bills were presented, together with all detailed information in regard to the whole budget. It was not until the members of the Assembly had the opportunity to look at the details of the var ious Budget items that they could express their opinions about the Budget in general and certain items in particular. After they had taken a look at the entire Budget there were many disappointments among the various State agencies and institutions. The difference of opinion among the membership was greatest in regard to the witholding tax pro posed as a means of giving us a balanced budget. The tax pro posed would have witholding be gin January 1, 1960, which would mean that the tax payer would be compelled to pay during a six months period all of his 1959 in come tax and one-half of the 1960 tax. This plan was most popular with those members who wished to leave the Budget a$ it is and who were willing to take a chance that the “windfall” would net more than $27,000,000.00. There were others who favor the witholding tax who think that the plan should start July 1, 1960, after the taxpayer has taken care of his 1959 taxes. In addition there are other members who are op posed to the whole witholding idea; their argument being that it will be to much -troable • for the small employers of the State and that it would hot yield the returns . predicted by the Budget Commiss ion. ... To start witholding on July 1, 1960, or to fail to pass the with (See UMSTEAD. Pkge 2) JOHN O. LARKINS JR. John Larkins ‘ Will Address Cancer Group John D. Larkins, Jr. will address a meeting of the board of directors of the Orange County Unit of the American Cancer Society at the Courthouse in Hillsboro next Mon day, February 23. Mr. Larkins is honorary vice president of the North Carolina Division of .the American Cancer Soc t ty, 'a member of the board of trustees of the University and a Democratic national committee man. He has long been active in the American Cancer Society, having held numerous positions in the North Carolina division and sever al with the national organization. It was announced-that the meet ing is open to anyone who wishes to attend. It will start at 8 o’clock. The Orange County Unit board of directors is composed of repre sentatives of all towns and rural areas in Orange County, with a number of the members from Chapel Hill. Orange County Rabies Clinics Begin Monday Orange County’s dog clinics for rabies vaccinations will begin Monday, February 23, and continue through May 1, Dog Warden Cashe Boggs announced today. A schedule of vaccination clinics will be held each day from Mon day until May 11. This schedule may be found on another page of This newspaper.—* In his announcement of. the clin ics, Boggs requested that any per sons knowing of stray or undesir able dogs report them or bring them to any of the vaccination clinics for his disposition in ac cordance with the law. State law requires all dog own ers to have their dogs vaccinated each year, and provides penalties for those who fail to comply. All citizens are urged to cooperate in this control program designed for the benefit and protection of all. Faye Webster Wins District Oratory Test Faye Webster of Hillsboro High School was the winner of the Dis trict 16 American Legion oratori cal contest held Tuesday nighL at the Legion Hut in Durham. Miss Webster will enter in the Division 3 contest which will be held at Liberty High School Feb. 25. Willie Lou Lynn of Southern High School was second. Local Native Named Garner Honor Teache^ Mrs. Noel Bryan, daughter of Mrs. A. T. Lloyd of S. Wake Street, Hillsbofo, has been named Garn er’s teacher of the year by the Garner Junior Woman's Club and is its nominee for North Carolina’s teacher of the year, which is spon sored by the North Carolina’s Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. Bryan, who is a first grade teacher, has taught school for 22 years, 10 of them in Garner. She has taught in Cleveland, Calypso and Lexington. *>.' . DollV. whose real name is Eve-* lyn, is busy in her after-school time. She does work in the East ern Star, the Woman’s Club, the Auyiliary to the Garner Fire De partment, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Parent Teachers As sociation, the Delta Kappa Gam ma Teacher's Society and the Garn er Methodist Church. Her main job in her church is directing the choir. Being a lover of muiyc has added much to her teaching ability. She and the chil dren work weeks getting a pro gram ready to perform. Often they are called upon to perform for PTA meetings and sometimes they even perform on television. Mrs. Bryan plans to keep right on teaching, at least until she has finished 25 years as a teacher. Since she’ll be nowhere near 65 years old then and thoroughly en joys her chijdren, chances are she j will keep right on teaching. Smith, Long Carroll Named On New Board Events leading toward the early establishment of Alco holic Beverage Control stores in Orange County have oc curred in rapid-fire order this week since the selection of an ABC board last Thursday night.--— Named to the Board by the combined Boards of Commiss ioners and Education were: Dudley D. Carroll of Chape! Hill, the aging (he is 78) former dean of the UNC Commerce School, now retired, who was, in the hospital at the time of his appointment, as chairman for a three-year term; Remus J. Smith Sr., Hillsboro furniture dealer and civic leader, who led the pre-election campaign for establishment of the stores; and .— Giles M. Long, Cedar Grove township merchant_ Shortly after their appointment, Smith and Long met with Dr, Car rail in his hospital room and the latter immediately named Smith acting chairman, pending his re covery, and gave his blessing to the other members’ proceeding with necessary activities leading te early establishment of a store, of fice and warehouse facilities in Hillsboro. First Store Tentative decision was then made to establish the first store on m site just east of the inter section of Highways 70 and 06 tf> JtheOnorthern outskirts qf HQte boro, on the south side of High way 70, on land owned by FTed Cates, who began grading the pro posed site Tuesday to construct the 24’ x 65’ structure, which will be air-conditioned, and situated with ample parking space sur rounding. The former dairy building on E. King St. in Hillsboro was select ed tentatively for use as an office and warehouse. A formal agree ment, minor alterations and equip ping are expected to be competed soon.—i Applications are being sdught from persons interested in the positions of secretary and county manager for the ABC setup and ap plication blanks are in the hands of the Acting Chairman. These jobs will be filled fairly soon, ac cording to Mr. Smith, but there is no hurry in the selection of other personnel. Plans for establishing “stores in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area have been held in abeyance pending the recovery of Dr. Carroll but sentiment seems to be building up strongly in favor of locating the first store in the new shopping center area being established on the by-pass at Chapel Hill’s en trance to the Durham boulevard. Board Members Smith and Long have visited the ABC setups jn Greensboro and Caswell County to (See ABC, Page 8) OuUOf-State Farm Tour Being Planned < laud die Ufillg Mil up 10 pro vide Orange County people an op portunity to make an out-of-state farm tour early this summer. Many counties have had these tours during past years and have found them to be enjoyable and educational, especially from the standpoint of getting new ideas. These trips are usually made by chartered bus and vary in length from five to seven days.'They in clude numerous stops at outstand ing farms, several scenic and his torical stops, and usually a visit to some of our larger cities. These tours generally cost from $75 to $100 per person including ali transportation, lodging, etc. County Extension workers are; making preliminary plans to hold! a tour of this kind during the lat-1 ter part of June. With this purpose1 in mma, a meeting has been ar ranged for the night of March 3rd in the county courthouse in Hills boro, at 7:30 o’clock. C. R. Weath ers, of the Farm Management staff at State College, will be on hand to outline tentative routes, costs, etc. It is hoped that a large num ber of farm people, business and professional men will be interested enough to come out and hear this discussion., If there seems to be sufficient interest in the tour, then further plans will be made. MERCHANTS MEETING A luncheon meeting of the Hills boro Merchants Association will be held today at 1 o’clock in the Co lonial Inn. a •• All merchants are urged to at tend. ' ™- -
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