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; i- .* PAGES THIS ISSUE HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL t«v. Cheater AUuiultr . Career Day Speaker Schools' reer Day ins Made hundred and seventy-five ce, junior, and senior; stu Hilisboro and Aytock Hig,. will spend the better part larch 18th school day giv nis consideration to their of life vocations, iportunity for such consid las been annually provide the efforts of'1 the Hills >h School Pa-ent-Teacher; ion since the initial Career held in 1856. The program rest have grown so rapidlv year twenty-two seminars ons will be offered. D. Jones, who has serve;' man of the Career Da ee since its inception, led, “We can now confirm reer Day is bearing the r which it exists. Our stu e displaying a very serious in the opportunities this [d^V^e know of numerous i in which information I them has led to concrete i for the future, both in ' of higher education and ional selections immediate ving high school gradua r efforts are maturing!” teverend Chester Alexan tor of the First Presbytc ireh of Burlington, will be ciplal speaker for the stu ;mbly at fc45 o’clock which he day of activities. Dr. cr will speak on the topic, Will You Do With Your ing the assembly'the $tii II retire to seminars devol utions in which they have d interest. Each student nd two such seminars be lunch hour, a feature pro or broader consideration, uninars will be conducted and women of the various *1 areas involved and give their time and service to ram. Included are the fol vocations: doctor, religion, textiles, beauty culture, 9w, dental technician, oon ■ secretary, nurse, mc sngineerlng, airplane hos io and television, mathe id scientific opportunities, m, laboratory technician, personnel, switchboard , business, trucking, corn art, and highway patrol. *ng lunch at 1:15 o’clock resumes with Mr. Edward Assistant Director of Ad at UlfC, speaking on, g A College and Training Mr. French will introduce hasis for the last half of which will conclude with interviews with represen from twenty universities, and training schools ut the two-state area of irolina and Virginia. >rs of the Career Day Com ' addition to the chairman ly Brown, Mrs. B. P. Gor . Mrs. Herbert Howard, irlton McKee, Mrs. Van Mrs. Glenn Kennedy, Mrs y. and C. H. Reckard. Contributions f Total of $737 >utions to the Hillsboro art Fund drive rose to a $737.83 With Efland - re donationa of $102.00, re ^ Matheson, Heart lirmin'; . i ro and other surrounding eluding Efland, reported j “day donations of $635.83. Lloyd-Ray Co., Carrboro Firm For 37 Years, Sold By Owners vne of .Carrboro’s oldest firms, a business landmark spanning more than a generation, has been sold. IJoyd-Ray Company, Carrboro hardware and furniture store, has been sold by the partners, Dwight M. Ray and Seaton E. Lloyd, to Robert B. Tilden of Wilmington. Mr. Tilden assume^ the manage ment last week and'with his fam ily has moved into the home at 811 N. Lindsay Street. Mr. Tilden is a merchant of long experience, having been with the Sears-Roebuck organization for 20 years. He and Mrs. Tilden have one son, 6. This week saw the beginning of an extensive modernization pro gram on the building’s exterior and interior to make it one of the most modern establishments in the area. Ownership of the building was retained by Mr. Ray. The I.loyd-Ray_ Company- was minded in 1922 37 years ago next month bv Dwight Ray’s father ‘he late Samuel L. Ray. and Mr. ^eaton Movd The present Mr. Ray bo«an work Ihnre with his father at the age of 20 and several vears j 'iter assumed his father's interest! n the partnership with Mr. Llcyd.j Both the Ray and Lloyd families were natives of the Antioch Church ! . . . Busin*** landmark to g*t naw fac* ■ section near White Cross school, and attended the early schools of that area. Mr. Ray now lives- on Smith Level road and Mr. Lloyd on Durham road. Both Mr. Ray and Lloyd have been active in the affairs of the community and the county. Mr. Ray retired from active service as a member of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners last December, climaxing a 35-year period of com munity service in municipal, church and political affairs. ROBERT B. TILDEN Interest Shown In Producing Manufacturing Milk' In County About twenty farmers attended a meeting on the production and marketing of “manufacturing milk” Jt the courthouse in Hillsboro, March 5th. Willard A. Patterson, Field Hepresentative for tl»e White house Milk Company of South Bos; <1^, told the group that tMIe ittant needed 100,000 pounds of milk daily to be used in the production of evaporated milk. He explained that the price paid to the produc ers would have to bo in line with the price level throughout the United States, because the finished product is sold in competition with similar products produced in Wis consin and other dairy centers. He further pointed out that there are no restrictions in the production ot “manufacturing milk” and the equipment necessary is very inex pensive. Many producers on these routes with ten cows are receiving a gross check of $140 per month. An abun dance of pasture and home-grown feed is the first essential in the production Qtth&t type Ifc Mr. Patterson is coming into the county Thursday of this week and is going with the County Agent to visit twelve farmers who are in terested in the production of “man ufacturing milk.” At present, two milk routes touch the northern part of the county, but if a sufficient number of pro ducers in other parts of the coun ty indicate a willingness to sell a few cans of milk, these routes can be extended to take care of them. It was suggested that farmers 1 interested in converting their grass Speed Restrictions Established At Request Of Local Group Signs have been erected desig nating Highway 70-A as a 35 MPH zone from its western junction "with the Highway 70 bypass to Churton Street in the town of Hillsboro, a distance of .8 of a mile. The action was taken by the State Highway Commission as re sult of a petition'*submitted to it by the Hillsboro Improvement As sociation, which also sought sim ilar restriction on Highway 70. The request for a speed zone on High way 70 bypass was denied because “there is not sufficient roadside development between the truck weight station and the junction with N. C. 86 to warrant a restric tion,” said the highway spokes man. The petition for speed restric tions in the area was advanced by the Improvement Association for the “safety and welfare” of the school children who cross the high ways twice daily. The fatal acci dent involving a Negro school child in the area and the fact that children cross the highways in large numbers daily were cited in the argument for the zoning. Ed Nash Faucette served as chairman of the special committee which sought the change in the speed limit for this section. In his report on the study of the special zone request, Robert A. Burch, State Highway Commission traffic engineer, speaking of the Highway 70 bypass, said: “This road was built to high design standards and sight distance is very good on this section. A re duced speed zone along this sec tion would impose an undue re striction on motorists and would command little or no respect and compliance.” . Burch recommended in nis re port that 35 m.p.m. advisory safe speed signs be erected beneath the crossroad symbol signs on both sides of these two crosroads on U. S. 70. It was recommended that oversize advisory sate speed signs be used. He saicT that the Commission is in sympathy with parents of the children who have to' cross this road. He felt that enactment of an unwarranted speed restriction would do'diltlc or no good towards affording protection for these crossings. The Improvement Association will bring the recommendation that a uniformed person or the school patrol assist children across US 70 to the attention of the Board of County Commission ers. and surplus feed into milk dollars should contact the County Agri cultural Agents. funds For On Five County Roads £et Up The State Highway Commission has approved and set up funds for retreating five roads in the coun ty. This work involves mat and drag seal retreatment on the following roads: 3 81 miles of Old Pittsboro Hoad; 3.40 miles of Cedar Grove Ayeock School Road; 1.50 miles of Efland-Cedar Grove Road; four miles of NC 157 from NC 57 to the Person County line; and five miles of NC 57 from Caldwell Co the Per son County line. !_ It is anticipated that work on these roads will be completed on or before August 1 of this year at a combined, estimated cost of $01, 518.00. 2 Once funds have been approved for similar projects, the money is encumbered until such tfbie as the work is completed. FISH FRY The Buckhorn Grange is spon soring a Fish Fry at the Orange Hall Friday night, March 13, from 5 to 8:00 p.m. Plates will be $1.00. Proceeds from the fish fry will be used for the Building Fund. The public is invited. Employee Pay, Requirements Established More details on the employment policies of the Orange County ABC board were revealed this week in an announcement calling for appli cations from prospective employees. In an advertisement entitled “Store Managers and Clerks Want ed," County M$jiager Carl C. Davis said that openings exist for both Jobs and listed the following require ments: <1) high school graduate or ability to written test indicating Equivalent ability; (2) residency in county; 13) minimum age of 21; (4) good character; and (5) ability to pass a physical examinatidh, al though certain handicapped persons will be acceptable. The notice said clerks will receive a starting salary of $2S0 per month with automatic pay increases of $10 per month at the end of the first six months and at the end of one year. Additional increases would be qn the basis of merit. Managers will be paid a starting1 salary of from $285 to $300 per month with automatic pay increases of $15 per month at the end of six months and one year, with addi tional increases on the basis of merit. Managers will be hired for the Hillsboro and Chapel HiH stores. Wq*k week will be approximately 40 hours with alterning shifts in ef fect, Sick leave and vacation wilt; other county employees. •ifAU persons . filing applications must come to Hi Us boro High School Mareh 19 at 7 p.m. to take written tests lasting about 1M> hours and on iy persons satisfactorily completing these teats will be considered for employment. Application blanks may be ob tained from Mr. Davis at the court house or at the Chapel Hill twon hall. Fred Cates First To File For Mayor Fred Cates Jr. has been the first to file his candidacy for election in the forthcoming Hillsboro municipal election to be held on May 5. Cates followed through on his announced intention of a year ago to file for the post of Mayor in the election this Spring. He promised a vigorous campaign in the final weeks and offers the first threat to. Mayor Ben Johnston's long tenure in office in more than a decade. The deadline for filing notices of candidacy for Mayor or any of the five seats on the Board of Commis sioners is April 6, the first Monday in April at noon. Registration books will be open from April 18 through April 25, with the latter date as Challenge Day. . . . Hillsboro ABC Sbn Moors Completion —w*,-- --••«•-. • • -, a,-_ • -V. Dems Name New School Board Nominees Mar. 21 L. J. Phipps, Chairman of the Orange County Democratic Execu tive Committee, has called a meet ing of the Committee for 8:00 p m on Monday, March 23 at the Court House in Hillsboro. The principal item of business will be the nomination of two members of the Orange County Board of Education as provided by a bill to be introduced in the Gen eral Assembly to raise the member ship of this board from three to five. One member will be named for a term of two years and one will be named for <a term of four years. . . V , 'Comedy7 Game As PTA Benefit 5»*A®morrow . Tomorrow night starting at 8 *’ clock there will be “Comedy Bas ketball” and serious basketb&ll games held in the Hillsboro High School gym under the sponsorship of the Cameron Park Parents and Teachers Association, with! local persons participating. The comedy teams consist of: • W. C. Mangum, coach; member? —Bobby Knight, Sneak Long. Glenn Auman, Ted Shoaf, Hugh Burch, Marion Allison, Dave Baird, Fred Cates, Charlie Forrest, Lacy Lloyd, Ed Hamlin and Jack Reckard. Joe Reinhardt, coach; members —Ira Ward, Clarence Rosemond. JR. J. Smith Jr.r Ear) Bason, Harold CulbretH, Steve Kimbrough, Alton Williams,. Foy Cole, Allen Lloyd, Scott Cates,' G. Paul Carr and Wal ter Teer. Efforts are being made to secure a drill “Out-of-Step team to denvj onstrate between games. A serious game of basketball will be played between the Hillsboro Town Team — Frank Frederick, Bobby Riley, Scott Roberts, Glen Collins, Kenneth Roberts, Donald Roberts, Oscar Compton and John Couch vs. the regular Hillsboro High School team. Admission will be 15c and 50c The proceeds will be used to com plete paying for the music teach er at the Cameron Park School The public is invited to attend. legislative Report J Umstead Hears No Opposition To School Board Membership Increase; Supports Home Rule Idea By JOHN W. UMSTEAD When the people of N. C. adopt ed the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the passage of certain local legislation it was thought that the problem of purely local Bills had been solved. It turned out, however, that this was only wishful thinking. For a number of years the Legislature has been called upon to deal with matters prohibited by the Constitution and in many cases absolutely unnecess ary simply because the Representa tive from a certain county had some campaign pledge that he had made that he wished to carry out. The result has been that each ses sion of the General Assembly takes so much va 1 uable time with these local Bills when there is no necess ity for doing so. Prior to 1953 it was customary for all Legislators to introduce Rills whenever the County Com missioners want tl to increase ’ the salary of a county officer or when ever the Sheriff wanted a new deputy, or other county officers wanted assistance in carrying, out their duties. In 1953 I introduced a Bill giving the Orange County Commissioners the right to fix salaries and in their judgment set up additional help for county of ficials. Several such Bills were in troduced. They were sent to the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns and from that Committee came a statewide measure known as the “Home Rule Bill.” Before the Bill was finally passed, how ever, and the Orange County Com missioners, as well as the Com missioners of other counties, have had Home Rule* insofar as many matters were concerned that were formerly taken up with the Legis lature. In 1955 and again in 1957, a numbjer of counties asked to come I under the Act and at the present time some 45 or 50 are under it. Last week a joint'meeting of the counties, Cities and Towns and the Committee on Local Government was held in an effort to curb un necessary and useless lobal legis lation. Alex McMahon, the newly named Executive Secretary of the County Commissioners Association gave the joiht Committee meeting some interesting and revealing facts. More than one-fourth of the Bills submitted to the Assembly during the 1957 session were lo cal Bills. They were some 650 in number. Of these 20 bills were un constitutional; 90 were already a part of the lav/ and more than 300 could have been handled by the County Colfimissioners back home, had the county been under the “Home Rule Act.’’ The Chairman of the two committees named above were asked by the members of these Committees to attempt to work out some plan whereby there would be less local legislation that is not necessary. It is to be hoped that much good will come from this joint meeting. The Appropriations Cdmmittee held only one meetig last week due to the fact that on Wednesday the Assembly took a trip to Char lotte and on Thursday so many members of the Committee were going to attend the basketball game it was felt useless to hold a meet ing of the Committee. The trip to Charlotte was a very pleasant oc casion as reported by those who went As for the writer however, I did not g£ since I am opposed to these trips that break into legis lative procedure unless - there is, some special occasion that will "justify such trips. I might say in passing that both Representatives (See UMSTEAD, Page 2) v ■■•j .i ihh ii . CATHERINE AUMAN NITA SrfcNtER Misses Auman, Spencer Win Talent Event Catherine Auman and Nita Spen cer won top honors in the 4-H talent event at Schley this past Friday evening. —Nita, daughter—of- Mu—and Mrs. Frank Spencer, tap-danced into top position while Catherine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Auman, played a piano selection Both girls are active second year 4-H mem bers. They will represent Grange ^County at 4-11 District Demonstra tion Day in June. The judges presented blue ribbons to Carolyn Farrar and Elaine Blake ly from Efland and Avis Lloyd from the Hitlsbtro Jr. I Club for out standing talent. Larry Roberts, vice president of the 4-H Council, introduced Bernice Laws, 4-H speaking winner in the boys division, at the beginnng of the talent event. Bernice is a first year club member and told about his 4-H project plans for this year. He is trying to do a better job Of rais ing a pig than his father. Other 4-H members Taking partTfn j the talent program were: Nancy Wright, Aycock; Judy Strowd, Dick ey Jones. Joe Thompson. Carrboro; Hal Winters, Chapel ’Hill'; Taylor Blakely, Efland; Elaine Phelps, El len Bacon. Hillsboro Jr. II; Evelyn Perryr-HtHsboro Senior; Arlene Al-; lison, Jean Johnson, West Hillsboro; Stacy Plummer, and Sammy Craw ford, White Cross. ' C - ' ■ ' Nbw Shopping Center Offer Is Accepted A site for location of the first ABC store in the Chapel Bill area was approved yesterday by the county board. It will be located in the proposed Eastgate Shopping Center near the intersection of Highway 15-501 By pass and the Chapel HiU-Durbam boulevard. Agreement, including the rental figure, was reached yesterday be tween the Board and the owners of Die new shopping center. The ABC store will be housed h» a 25 x 75’ building to be located on the eastern side of the shopping center and apart from other build ings in the shopping area to provide additional and adequate parking areas in addition to that to be sot up for the center as a whole. The building, according to die pro posal submitted to the board by An drew M. Karres, representing him self and the other three owners of the development, Lewis Bibb of Charlotte, and David Royster Sr. and David Royster Jr. of Shelby, will be of Early American design and is promised to be ready in M to 90 days. The owners in their presentation to the Board listed the easy accsssi -iiity of the area and the forthfcom mg location of State’s second larf I est A k P store in the same ship there. They said the ceftter would initially have 12 stores and 81,000 square feet of floor space, and later have 22 individual stores covering 111,000 square feet. Local Band Booster Club To Organize An organizational meeting oi the Hillsboro Band Boosters Club will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock in the Hillsboro High School Auditorium, it was an nounced b>- Robert B. Haas. Direc tor of Bands on Monday. Calvin R. Huber, Assistant Di rector of Bands and head of brass instruction at the University of North- Carolina, will address the PTA on this same evening and will speak to the Boosters Club about the necessity and functions of a hand boosters Club in a high school program. Huber, the former Director of Bands at Carson Newman College, is an applicant for his Ph. D. de cree iu music at UNC Haas, in his announcement of the meeting, said: "Mr. Huber is an extremely cap able and well-known musician and I personally feel sure that he will present us with infromation, ideas and ins-piration which will be of great use to us in bur efforts ttP make Hillsboro bands known and respected throughout our sec tion of North Carolina.” BAD WORD tdrst draft of tho ABC board's advertisement for employ##* said appointees would work on "staggorod” shifts of about 40 hours ooch. This language was too risky for touchy county officials to buy, however. Out cam# word from* headquarters: tho termin ology should bo changod to "al ternating." So, that's the way our ABC shifts will bo whan tho stgraa aro opened. "Alternating," not "staggorod." WIFE SHOOTS HUSBAND Matthew Jones, HiHsboro, was shot through the upper part of his right leg Tuesday night with a 22 caliber rifle and his wife. Elisabeth, has been jailed on a charge of as sault with a deadly weapon. _ The Sherff's department said that shooting occurred during a fight between the two, after which the woman called for the officers to come and take her tojail.