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/ Grange Count? 4URSDAY, JULY 16, 1*» # For Quick, mK, boy, rant or |rt • |Q « by uoing tho clutHM Mb mi Rag* 7 of tM* NEWS •# Oranga CooflCy. EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE J»jcco Vital To Community Welfare gation Is Focal Point Progress At Cedar Grove ■ By CHARLtS N. LANGSTON i Chairman, Cadar Grova Advisory Committaa Ie ever-growing need for rural progress has been a col oncern of the 200-odd farm families of the Cedar rea for many years. This idea is made appaient after iort time to those who have visited among the people ventured to travel through the community. well-kept churql^es, the fine school, and many at farmsteads speak well for the collective efforts and dual initiative of the l0 occupy this section of Orange County. ea of rural progress is o these people, and cer ;9 is no exception, even set to a ‘ squeezing” farm and set-backs from dry recently experienced in h of June. Tobacco corn major source of income rea. and it is with this in seme measure of credit awarded to the fortitude ressive thinking of The iy Agricultural Advisory e. when meeting this uary chose to devote ma isis to tobacco production as one of the four main al needs of the farm or the year. areas chosen by this farm leaders includes Soil ■r Conservation, Housing ne Beautification, and id Supply. In each case, a e of selected leaders were ; task of exploring the he area to be emphasized mmunity and to help set a plan whereby the most Id be forthcoming to the y as a whole. riganon Advance* espect to tobacco, L the iploring committee felt [ation had proven its the tobacco farmer and e further developed in i«d future plans for in farmers. especially since (institutes so vital a part unity welfare. With this n mind, local and county icultural leaders mapped r an early educational cn tobacco production with irrigation to take ight of exploration. One ost prominent specialists : lines of irrigation, Mr. is of Raleigh was brought 'ene to offer the best as available to any who d it feasible to introduce essful production practice' respectvie farm. Many in eresting facts were presented at his meeting including the main ine; that with an average addition il income to be enjoyed from to lacoo through irrigation of in ex ess of $200.00 per acre, only 34 armers were using this new prac ice on their farm in 1958 in the t i 1' * Cedar Grove area. Spark Ignited The meeting on tobacco has been evaluated highly by some of us “sideliners” because it seemed to ignite a spark that set in mo tion many things. Some of these in clude the gradual increased appear ance of irrigation rows in tobac co fields, new pond sites began to be selected, bulldozers again be gan to crawl, new irrigation pumps and pipes started to move into the area well ahead of the month long dry weather in June. It is now es timated that approximately 15 com plete new irrigation systems have been brought into the area making (See IRRIGATION Page 8) Meeting Of Presbytery Here Today The 380th Stated Meeting of Orange Preebytery will convene at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church today at 9:30 a.m. Some 150 niinistei^ and ruling elders from churches in Rocking ham, Guilford, Caswell, Randolph, Alamance, Chatham, and Orange Counties will be in attendance. Orange Plresbytery meets at least once each quarter of the year to transact the business of the Church and to hear reports on the various phases of the work of the Ohdrch. The Women of the Church of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church will provide the noon meal for mem bers of the Presbytery in the re cently constructed Stnxkrick Hall. C. D. Jones, ruling elder and Clerk of the Session of the' local church (See PRESBYTERY, Page 8) . IRRIGATION SYSTEM AT WORK ON HOWARD PITTARD FARM IT BEGINS HERE WITH PUMP AND A LAKE ...... ON ZEB BURTON FARM LAYING THE PIPELINE IS. NEXT VITAL FUNCTION jwtic Pipe And Small Motor rmers Find New Irrigation Method Ration becoming so vital mt to tobacco (armers and ange County economy, Sent Don S. Matheson is % impressed with the lly of a new irrigation used successfully by ers°n and Orange County 10 economical and relative e system which employs the flow method of irrigation ■ use of inexpensive equip st six Person County tobac-: ers and one Orange County have purchased inexpensive flow irrigation outfits dur Past few days. The Orange a Jim Hawkins. -...?__ system* ot the type which most Orange County growers who have them have installed cost in the neighborhood of $3,000. The new outfits cost from $325 to $600 depending upon the size of the mo tor and the length- ol the plastic ; hose. •'The gravity-flow irrigation j equipment consists of a small Briggs-Stratton motor, 2 V* to 8 horsepower with 1-ts inch diame ter plastic hose in 100 feet lengths, which may be coupled together, and about 1,000 feet or more the pond, creek or water hole to the field of tobacco," Matheson ex ■ plained. Hester Cates of Route 2, Hurdle Mills, likes his' grafity-flow irriga tion outtft. His equipment consists of a 2-Vi horsepower motor and 1.000 teet 01 i-‘n men- iJiaoi.v - The plastic hose was 20 cents per foot ami the motor was priced at $125 00 making the complete outfit tost inly 4325 00.. Cates can irrigate 50 rows of tobacco at one time, with his 2-'j horsepower motor pumping 100 gallons of water to the field fn in the pond each minute. Wallace and Reade Foushee, of R(,ute 3. Roxboro have an 3 horse power motor with 1100 feet of 1-H inch plastic hose, which will deliver from 400 to 500 gallons of water to the field per minute. Tht'y can ir rigate about 70 rows of tobacco at one time. “The water runs down between the tobacco rows and wets the to bacco roots deep in the row, accord (See NEW METHOD, Page 8J High School Band To Give Sunday Concert The Hillsboro High School sum mer band, now in the midst of a six week course of instruction un der the direction of Director Rob ert B. Haas, will present a lawn concert this Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Hillsboro Recreation Park. Twenty-four local school students have been enrolled in the band course this summer, receiving in struction four hours daily, five days per week. In the event of rain the Sunday afternoon concert will be held in the high school auditorium. The program will include a var- j iety of selections from classical tc j popular music, along with marches and folk tunes, as follows: Eagl< Scout March, America, Scouts on Parade March, Poet & Peasant Waltz, Moonlight and Roses, Sail ing, Blue Danube Waltz, a March, Day Dreams, Shortnin’ Bread, Bar carolle from Tales of Hoffman, Minuet in G, Graduation Day Over ture. Aura Lee, Hark the Sound, Faith of Our Fathers and a final march. Members of the band are: Flutes, Deloris Hatley, Judy Dowdy, Eliza beth Pettit, Julia Brown; Clarinets, Bobby Gerdeman, Johnny Cox, Jim my Ferrell, Josephine Barbour, Richard Breeze, Sandra Collins; Cornets, Robert Jones, Gordon Cole, Tate Latta, Tim Teer, Lucy Rein hardt, Bob Ward, Michael Cates; Trombones, Joe Hughes, Mark Gor don, Joel Knight; Percussion in struments, Bruce Collins, Leroy Franklin, William Smith and Johnny DR. SOLOMON C. PAYNE Payne Is First Central Grad To Become M.D. Dr. Solomon C. Payne, son of Mr, and Mrs. David Payne Jr., re cetffly has become the first gradu ate; of Central High School to re eive the M. D. Degree. He was graduated from the medi cateehool of University Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, earl ier this month. He graduated from Central High School here in 1945. Dr. Payne received his .pre-medi cal training at Virginia State Col lege where he was graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science De gree in Biology. While there he was active in many student organiza tions, an honor student, and served fis president of the Beta Gamma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra ternity. He received the Master of Science Degree in Physiology from the Uni versity of Illinois in 1954. He did study toward the Ph.O Degree in Physiology afterwards at the Uni versity de Loussane, Loussane, Switzerland. Dr. Payne will intern at Wom en's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He is married to the former Miss Jeanne Allen of Winston Salem. They have three children: Solomon, Jr., ti; Deon, A; and David, 2. Davis Child Jdurt In Foil T; r/rjri • h ■ * ^ Frorh Auto Little Kenny Davis, 3M> -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis of the Fairview Community, re ceived lacerations to his head and bruises over his body Saturday evening around 5:30 o’clock when he fell from a car he was riding in onto the hard surface of the Fau cette Mill Road, approximately a quarter mile from Highway 70. His father said. he looked back and Kenny was seated in the cen ter of the .back seat of the four door car. and it seemed the next minute he felt air on his back and looking around he found the child had fallen out. Mr. Davis rushed the child to Walker’s iFuneral Home where he was taken by ambulance to Watts Hospital where he underwent sur gery. It is reported that Kenny may be able to return home this weekend. MERCHANTS MEETING The Hillsboro Merchants Associa tion will meet today for a luncheon meeting at 1 o’clock in the Colonial Inn. All merchants are urged to at tend. First Six On. Priority List Slated The highway department Monday presented and the county-commissioners approv ed the proposed plan for sec ondary road construction in Orange County for the fiscal year from now until next July. Division Engineer T. A. fturtoii and County Supervisor C. I. Walters bqth described the tentative program one of the most ambitious yet attempted. $219,473 was allocated for new construc tion projects. The program includes 10.95 miles of grading, drainage and paving work on secondary roads during the next year, 2.3 miles of grading, drainage and base, and 8.3 miles of stabilisation. In addition $5,000 was set up for participating pro jects, in which the propenty own ers would pay for part of the pav ing, and $4,000 was set for main taining additions to the system. $206,000 was set up as the coun ty’s appropriation for roadway maintenance during the currenj year. All work will be done by the county highway forces under the supervision of Mr. Walters. Included in .the paving program are the first six roads on the pri ority list, and tj)e seventh priority road will receive grading, drainage and base applications in . prepara tion for first paving allocation af ter next July 1. Following in the order «of thefir priority are the paving, projects, their tehgth and -eattnwlaft^tost; Estes l-Titts read, frthrt N. Or Sf to Chapel Hill city limits, if) mile, $6,200; Halls Mill road, from US 70-A to Old Hills’bqro /road, 1.4 miles, $18,000; Charles/*ope road, lium im-i/auc iv *1. v. ~~ » Marshall Ward & Pittard road, from N. C 49 to MeDade, 3.2 miles, $53,000; Palmer’s Grove road, from US 70 to Lawrence road, 1.65 miles, $27,400; and Antioch Church road, from N. C. 54 to Pineville Carrboro road, 1.9 miles, $19,100. Total for paving is $153,000. The No 7th priority road, the New Sharon road, from New Shar on Churevh to Sim’s Crossroads, 2.3 miles, is scheduled for'grading, drainage and base at a cost of $24, 473. The stabilization work, which in eludes grading, drainage and light base, will be applied to 8.3 miles, including the following: Oak Grove Church road, 1.5 miles, $6,000; High Rock road, 2,6 miles, from Tom Ward road to Alamance coun ty, $11,000; the Johnnie Phelps road, 1.3 miies, from Person Coun ty line to Monk road, $3,000; Rob ert Breeze road ,19 miles, from Walnut Grove road to John Brown road, $8,000; Dr. Lloyd road, 1 mile, from N. C. 54 to Old N. C 86, $5,000, - Duke Power Celebrates With New Facilities TOP BRASS . . . Pras. W. P. McGuira, Mayor Ban Johnston TOWN WELCOME . A. W. Crabtree, Pre*. McGuire end lr« uf' ■ OLD HAND . . . Fred Boone, center, with Paul Lucas, Pres. McGuire APOLOGY FOR CROSSINGS Seventh Highway Division En gineer T. A. Burton Monday apologised for the condition of crossings of the new super high way. south of Hillsboro and prom ised the trouble will be elimi nated "If we have to do it our selves." Although bridges have been completed tor 8 or 10 months, the contractor has delayed com pleting the approaches and the travelling public has had to put up with makeshift detours or broken road sections for this period. Orange 4-H Youth To Attend And Compete In Events Of 4-H Club Week At N. C. State Seven Orange County 4-H boys and girls will attend State 4-H Club Week at North Carolina State Col lege next week. The Orange delegation will help swell total attendance at State 4-H Week to an expected 1,400, accord ing to Katherine Miller,' assistant county Home Demonstrator agent. The boys and girls will be cele brating 50 years of 4-H dub work in North Carolina at the event this year. It was on July i, 1909 that club work with rural youth was formalized. North Carolina was the first state to sign an agreement with the U. S. Department of Agri culture^ get the work under way on an official basis. Special Events Faye Dickey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Dickey of Route 2, Hills boro, will represent the Northwest ern District in the Vegetable and Fruit Production Contest. She will be competing ”in the state1 finals on Tuesday afternoon of" 4-H Club Week, with 4-H winners from 5 oth er districts. The topic for her dem - V. v . oastration is "The Strawberry Scoop” and she shows and tells how to select, plant, and care for straw berries in the home garden. This is the 17-year-old Miss Dick ey’s seventh year as a 4-H Club member and she has taken the gar MISS FAYE DICKEY den project for four years Ann Wilkerson, County Health 1m provement Queen, will participate in the State Health Pageant on Thursday evening at 7 30 p ni in the Coliseum. The Health Pageant (See 4-H WEEK. Vaye 8) MISS ANN WIlZKERSON 1,200 Attend * Duke Power's Open House Approximately 1,200 people at tended Duke Power Company’s open house last Thursday, in observance oi' the opening of their recently re modelled offices in Hillsboro. Among the guests for the occasion were Duke Power's President W. P McGuire of Charlotte and other lop officials from Charlotte, Dur ham and Burlington. Prior to the open house, the com pany was host to a number of local business men and town officials at a luncheon at Colonial Inn, during which McGuire expressed his coo fidenee in the continued growth of the local area He referred briefly to DukeS experience* here, pointing out that'the office was serving 600 customers and there was only one water heater on the lines when Duke tuok over in 1936, as com pared to the 4 000 it now serves. We think the opening of the new facilities has a Tgnifieance in the l future of Hillsboro.'' he concluded. .Winner- of door prizes given by the company in recognition oi its ' opening were: Mrs Ollie Mae Purs* ley of Hillsboro, first prize, an elec tric range: C. J Gentry, Route 3, second prize, a mix master; and FTT B. Roberts. Hiiisboro, third prize, an electric fry pan. IN CATTLE BODY’ Homer R Tapp. Chapel Hill, Rt 2, was one at 1.310 new members admitted to The Holstein-Friesian Association »f 'America by recent action of the Board of Directors. Membership in the national Hol stein organization now totals 30,813 and is believed to be without pre- „ i cedent in livestock history. * Y —4
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