VOL. M, NO. 41
HTNING-MADE KINDLING — A freak bolt of lightning
completely denuded a towering oak that stood at tha
^ Oranga Methodist Church cemetery on Highway
, of Chapel Hill. While huge branches and flakes of
r« Masted off tha tree, tha church itself and tha grave
trt not damaged. Above, a small boy is dwarfed among
ii of the tree and the 20-foot stomp — a pile of natural
>erior Court Docket
This Week Listed
Its handed down during
s criminal term of Or
ity Superior Court in
as recorded through yes
luded the following:
) Wright, pleaded guil
ding 70 mph in 55 mph
rl Hayden, driving un
ice, second offense. Con
:ommon jail of Orange
work the roads for 12
ispended on payment of
DO and costs and good
two years.
returned by grand
ix. Wiley Jones, Clay
James Jasper Spen
Alonza Overman and
ance Allen, Kenneth
of sentence of not Ibss
or more than three years
’risorf imposed in Meek
ounty May 5 on charge
'ox, escape. State prison
months at expiration of
imposed in Guilford
December 8, 1958 on
embezflement wherein
id not less than two nor
i five years.
Jasper Spencer, escape,
s in State Prison to be
piratlon of sentence im
iailford County, Sept. 22,
large of forgery wherein
*d not less than five nor
o seven years in State
cane Deese, escape. 12
1 the County jail of Or
ity to begin at expiration
cc imposed in Cabarrus
Pril 25, 1959 on charge
ones, escape, 12 months
Tison to begin at expira
mtence imposed in May
; from Wilson Co., where
bed sentence of not less
nor more than seven
late Prison for the charge
His, escape, nine months
ison, to begin at expira
ntence imposed in Dur
ty May Criminal Term,
e*n he received not less
! nor more than fiv°
charge of forgery.
Alonza Overman, es
months at State Prison,
d expiration of the sen
lsed April, 1959, in Ran
Pty, where he received
® years on charge of
mtering and larceny and
-receiving.
Richard T. Satterwhite, arson,
housebreaking, continued.
Odis Davis, called and failed,
judgment N1 Sci Si Fa, Instanta
Capias.
Jackie A. Edwards, called and
failed, judgment Ni Sci Si Fa, In
stanta Capias.
Gales Andrew, called and failed, j
| judgment Ni Sci Si Fa, Instanta Ca- ■
pias.
Bill Farrington, speeding and
reckless driving, innocent.
Fred Bishop, pleaded not guilty i
to reckless driving; guilty, $50 and ;
costs.
Walter N. Yount, Jr., speeding.
$25 and costs.
True Bills—Isaac Williams, Har
j old Dean JMoody,' Isaac Williams,
j Roland Hobgood and Roy Brown,
jfcli% Roy Vlfeebb. Frank KiUtanand
'George Andrew Killian, Bobby
Nelson Leonard and Ernest Lyle
Lassister.
William Benson Partin, by his
next friend W. Benson Partin was
awarded the sum of $2,600 in full
settlement and compromise of all
claims and demands of the plain
tiff for all damages, past, present,
and prospective including medical
and hospital expenses heretofore
I incurred and which may hereafter
j be incurred by the plaintiff. Or
dered that out of the amount re
covered the clerk pay to Charles
B. Hodson, legal services.
Lacy Ballentine. no driver’s lic
ense, public drunkenness, 45 days
roads sentence.
" » ■ calamity, i oon'T know
|wtt how wall work it owt. But
wo'll hava to follow tho policy
wo pravloutly adopted."
TKom war# tha word* of Coun
ty School Board Chairman Char
lo* W. Stanford Tuoaday nipht
return* war* in and qfrawad th*
dafaat of th* Whit* C*M*Ch*r
•I Hill tcHo*l area npp ‘
mdwn.
fla.Ailt w
9lW VfWMrVf •
th* Whit* Crew ar*% W**
a 4
passago of tho issue. Ho hM ho
' *•« turprisod of tho outcome.
'"I guess wo'tl havo to arrange
for our board to moot with tho
Chapot Hill Board and too what
wo can work out, ho said.
Inhnainn anfl
«ivivpn (fvfiiwiwii ana vwwiny
$«nHi»twdtnt Paul Carr worn
bath attending tha atato moating
of school superintendents In
Mara Hill through tomorrow, and
wara thus unavailable to com*
•mm on m aitamma.
Tha Cowjpr Schapl NMl
chairman agprawad particular
•urpriaa on ijw whMM of tha
vota aa ha naiad that 304 par
aana in that araa sippa^ tha pe
tition calling tot thi* aacand
their support at the Inm The
vdt wm cal 1*4 ilmHI M scan
a* podbk tinea the Carrbara
Attendance Araa btcawit a pact
of the Chapel Hill Metric* offic
ially only ah Jpty 1, Law re
quire* mocpec votes ta be far
adioininp areas.
"I han't knew haw nwM
owe Hillsboro schools will be
■jjbnAi »L-itnilnilb w
wrlisl TnVvV PQyiflwfiPl alwllPilFa#
noted Mr. Stanford. "it'll d*
pand on how many wans to pay
Chapel Hill tuition and ire ad
antSdftpknt tlum I Imnn mt* mmwl
^wppa^^wod. ^^^Wde^Mo b a^^^^P^w ol^w
'am all ripht in HHIsbaro. Wall
have to now."
Man Answers? Hang Up
—Can Happen To You!
“If a man answers, hang up!"
This ok) chestnut has been given
a literal meaning in Chapel Hill.
The 'phone company installed an
automatic device to cut in when a
customer dials the wrong digits on
certain number series.
A male voice with a pleasantly
formal southern accent interrupts
the dialing process and blandly
slates: "This is a recorded mes
sage in Chapel Hill, North Caro
lina. You have reached a wrong
exchange. Please consult your in
formation operator or radial.’’
The 10-second explanation ends
with a well-modulated "Thank
you.” —And it’ll keep right on re
peating as long as you want to lis
ten to it.
The gadget is equipped to handle
up to five different types of inter
ception messages. But to date the
mechanical man gives out only with
wrong number spiel.
A Real Whodunit . . .
New Dectective
Seeks Culprit
In Congrats
In the mail to newly-appointed
Chapel Hill Police Detective How
ard Pendergraph the other day
came a case he's having a tough
time cracking.
The big manila envelope was
fx iuMoktngly addressed in printed
crayon letters; and bore no return
listing. Inside, pasted on a half
dozen stapled canary legal pad
sheets was an endearing message
of congratulations to the new "pub
lic eye.”
It consisted of sentences made
up of magazine titles and excerpts
from ads, all pasted on the lined
paper to form a bit of satiric co
herency. Lines like: Congratula
tions ... MR. DETECTIVE (big
red letters from a pulp magazine
title page* ... A Dream come true
iauto advertisement) ... It’H be a
better LIFE for you ...
"The man who thinks for him
(See DETECTIVE, Page 3)
Draw Top Honor* Al Purnt, . . '>
Orange Scouts Camp Record Praised
Dr. Willie Demerritt, Orange
District Camping Chatman, has
just announced a banner summer
for the Boy Scout troops of Or*
ange County.
The regular long-term camping
season of the Occoneechae Council
camps has just ended. During it
Scouts of Orange County have
made an enviable record compared
with the other 12 counties of the
Council.
Almost half of the registered
Scouts of Orange County spent at
least one week at Camp Durant.
This figure does not include the
some 28 Scouts from the troops
in Chapel Hill who stayed an ad
ditional week or more.
One-third of the Scouts in the
Negro troops spent at least one
wpek at Camp Whispering Pines.
Troop 116 of Hillsboro had the die
tinction of having the largest at
tendance of any troop in the Coun
cil at Whispering Pines. Eight
Scouts from Chapel Hill spent a
week at W. D. Campbell Base, and
two Scouts attended Philmont
Scout Ranch in New Mexico.
In addition to this outstanding
record for the District the Troops
in Chapel Hill set an outstanding
record at Camp Durant. £ach week
there is one troop which is picked
as the Honor Troop of the Week.
This award was earned four of the
eight wefeks by each of the four
troops feom Chapel Hill. This was
out of some 169 troops which at
tended camp from a 12-county
area.
Dr. Demerritt stressed that this
record wgs made possible by the
devotion; of the members of each
Troop committee and the excellent
leaders trhich accompanied the
Troops when they were* in Camp,
the people in each community who
support the Scouting program fin
ancially to their independant cam
paigns, and in Chapel, Hill through
their contributions to the Chanel
Hill Community Chest.”
Scouts Already Signing Up
For 1960 Trip To Jamboree
Twenty-one scouts from Chapel
Hill are already registered for the
biggest event to take place in
Scouting in the year 1960.
Prank Yandell, District Scout
Executive for Orange County, an
nounced that this number have al
ready registered to go to the Jubi
lee Jamboree to be held next July
in Colorado Springs, Colo., with
some 200 Scouts from the Occonee
chee Council. This is the most en
thusiastic interest ever demonstra
ted by the Scouts in an activity
which is at such a distant date, he
said. This being the 50th birthday
oUht Boy ScouU-of America there
will be some 53:000 Scouts from
all over the country attending this
National event.
The Occoneechee Council trip
will include travel through 13
states, spend five days at Philmont
Scout Ranch in New Mexico, and
10 days at the Jamboree site in
Colorado Springs. The only quali
fications are the Scout must be
12 years of age by January 1, 1960
and must be a Second Class Scout
by the time he leaves for the trip.
There are 18 Scouts registered
from Troop 835, Congregational
Christian Church; two from Troop
39, University Methodist Church;
and one from Troop Nine, Chapel
of the Cross Episcopal.
Though the Orange District quo
ta as been more than filled for
this event, the Scouts who register
now will be put on the Council
waiting list and as places become
available they will be the first in
Unefcr the trip, said ,¥andell.
Milton Julian, Activities Chair
man, encouraged every Scout in
Orange/ County who would like to
make’This trip and who has not
yet serit in his $25 registration fet
to the Council office to do so im
mediately so that he will be high
oin the list as places become avail
able.
Town Wants Fewer Pool Halls
The Town of Chapel Hill
wishes the University wouldn’t
okay so many pool halls there.
Under ‘ the provisions of an
old blue law imposed by the
State, the President of the Uni
! Street, Sewer Bids Called ror . .
Carrboro Annexation Progressing;
Special Meeting Set For Next Week
The prospect of Carrboro extend
ing its town limits—possibly to
double the present municipal area
—gained steam this week. .
A special meeting of the Town
Board of Commissioners has been
set for next Thursday to consider
the matter. Mayor R. B. Todd and
the Board, seeming to generally
favor the idea, noted that the pro
ject won’t be possible during the
current fiscal year.
Night before last the Board dis
cussed the matter with representa
tives from the Plantation Acres.
Westview, Weaver Road, and Pine,
Cheek, and High St. neighborhoods.
Various methods of effecting the
annexing were brought out by
Town Attorney L. J. Fnipps.
Mayor Todd said'the next step
would be for the Town to make a
thorough survey of the area as to
the most advisable boundaries for
the annexation, the property valua
tion involved, and necessary im
provements that would have to be
made in the territory. (
“If we’fe going to take in this
area we certainly want to do it
during the 1960 census year, so
we’ll get credit for this new terri
tory,’” said Mayor Todd.
At their meeting the commis
sioners also called for bids on ap
proximately $10,000 in sewer line
projects and about $14,000 in
street improvements. All of the
work was previously authorized.
md Jury Commends County Jails
Unmans..:__ . „ ._ nr^iaht r.iilick. and changes and no irregularities to
L —AVI U1C puu
Orange Coupty has been
®e grand jury.
®* t0. J“dge Leo Carr of
wring the current crim
°f the Superior Court,
T° n<>ted that the Coun
ections showed a slight
*nt over last year.
„ of the jury were: C. W.
f®man, Milton E. Black
M Perry Jr> Walter G.
_• J Q Berry, Milton Lat
d Walker, John L.EH
e“r«e W. Sykes, W. S.
*ncis L. Johnson, John
• J- C. Dodson, E. Mar
BdB> M Timmons, H. L.
I
Lois B. Parris.
Portions of the jury's report fol
low: - ,
“A committee of the grand jury
visited the bounty Jail and found
it cleaner and in better general
order with some painting done and
still more to be done. A light
switch noted on the last inspection
has been repaired.
•‘A committee visited the Coun
ty Prison Camp and found the
grounds and building «» v‘*y
good condition and very clean. The
food served was very good in both
quality and quantity. There are
no recommendations «s to anj
report.
“The Chapel Hill Jail was in
spected and found to be in ex.cli
ent condition.
“The County Accountant report
ed that as of last June 30 tax col
lections totalled $668,603 out of a
total levy of $799,900. This repre
sents 83.59 per cent collection of
the J958 levy. This compares with
83.54 per cent collection at the
same date last year and in 1957."
The jury also aprpoved reports
from three justices of the peace,
with a minor reservation on one of
these- Noting it had ?? ? ? ?
NEW GAS LINE COMING
A new six-inch fas Une is be
ing laid to the Jeffeine Com
pany’s Can-boro mill by the Pub
lic Service Co. of N. C. The pipe
wiU extend over two miles from
the bypass south of Chapel Hill,
through the town, and up E. Main
Si. A gas company spokesman
said the installation would make
possible expanded natural gas
customer service in the commu
nity, too.
Hillsboro Scouts Win
Honors At Camp Durant
Hillsboro Boy Scout Troop 438
received high awards at Camp
Durant when 11 Scouts of the
troop attended camp during the
week of July 26.
Walton Moore Was" acting Scout
master. Boys attending were: Gene
and Jack Knight, Dupre Jones,
Jimmy Parsley, Graham Broadwell,
Jimmy Allred, Forrest Porter,
Johnny Turner, Johnny Hicks,
Nicky Drowns and Jimmy Stray
horn. Tom Bivins and C. D. ‘Buck’
Knight spent a portion of the time
there with the troop.
Among the awards won by th?
troop wereu Archery, Gene Knight;
Shooting Match. Jack Knight; Ca
noeing, Jack and Gene Knight;
Swimming relays, Dupre Jones
and Johnny Turner and Graham
Broadwell, Johnny Hicks and Jack
Knight. 1
versity must-give his approval
before anybody can open up a
pool' hall within five miles of
the campus. _
(For many years there’d been
no applicants for the privilege.
Now, iir~t1re last few weeks,
three different entrepreneurs
have come to the local municipal
bodies, fortified with the re
quired University approval, seek
ing permission to go into the
billiard business.
On hearing of the latest re
quest, which also carried a
Jjeer permit application, the
Town Board balked. Pending
police endorsement of the pro
position they took no action, on
it. ' 4
Meanwhile they authorized an
ordinance to prohibit the sale
of beer in pool halls and to re
strict persons under the age of
IB from patronizing them. “I
think we’ve got all the pool halls
we need,” said Alderman Hubert
Robinson. “I hope the Universi
ty doesn’t approve any more of
’em.”
Dalton Loftin
Now In Firm
Of B. D. Sawyer
HILLSBORO—Attorney Bonner D.
Sawyer has announced that Dalton
Loftin is now associated with his
legal firm here.
Sawyer also noted that -he has
bought the building next door to
his present offices on Churton St.,
and is planning to move his office
into the second floor of the new
quarters over the News, Inc., of
fices.
Loftin, a native of Trenton, was
graduated from the University of
North Carolina Law School last
spring, and admitted to the State
Bar last week. For the past sev
eral years he served part-time as
assistant to Chapel Hill Recorder's
Clerk B. J. Howard. His wife, the
former Emma Sue Larkins, taught
in Hillsboro High School several
years ago. The Loftins recently
moved from Chapel Hill to Hillsboro.
Sawyer opened his practice of
law here in 1930 with A. H. Gra
ham, but has been practicing by
himself since 1935.
Barbecue, Discussion
Planned3 By Scouters
Orange County District Scouters
and their wives will hold a Dis
trict meeting and roundtable Mon
day night at New Hope Presby
terian Church, at 6:30 o’clock.
Sandy McClamroch, District
Chairman, announces this will be
a barbecue ‘ supper and ladies’
night. Reports of summer activities
and eoming^events will be given.
Persons planning to attend are
asked to let the chairman know if
they wilt attend.
White Cross Rejects
Merger By Slim Margin
A whopping voter turn-out in the
White Cross community on Tues
day rejected a proposed merger of
their school attendance area with
the Chapel Hill School District by
the glim six-vote margin of 116 to
no.
This means that approximately
120 White Cross area children who
would have attended Chapel Hill
Systenfschools this fall will be as
signed to the Orange County School
System institutions, since they re
side in the County district. Also,
citizens of this sqpthwestern Orange
rural sector won’t he subject to the
$.20 supplementary school tax rate
paid in the Chapel Hill District.
226 Go To Polls
Registrar Mrs. Thomas Teer said
that 226 out of the 258 registered
voters came to the polls. The mar
gin of defeat was considerably
closer than the two-to-one rejection
Notice To Parents
County Superintendent of Schools
G. Paul Carr yesterday sent word
from Man Hill, where he’s at
tending a conference, emphasis
ing that White Cross Area parents
who want to apply to the Chapel
H1U School Board for transfer of
their children to Chapel Hill Dis
trict Schools this fall must have
their applications, accompanied
by |30 tuition pyment. In the Chap
el Hill School Superintendent's of
fice li£ a deadline of next Thurs
day, August 20.
by.which White Cross beat the sam*
proposal in a referendum on May
20, 1968
Leaders of the commanity yes
terday reported there was as high
ly organised sentiment on either
aide of the Issue. Bat more per
sons seemed vocal in the gripsa
ents* camp, which petitioned far
the holding of this second refer
endum.
Both the Chapel Hill and County
School Boards earlier adopted a
joint policy to take effect which
ever way the question was decided
yesterday. Aocarding to this po
licy all pupils who would have at
tended Chapel Hill district schools
this faU will not be assigned to
Hillsboro.
To Take Applications
But the Chapel Hill School Board
will accept applications for reas
signment to their schools from
White Cross pupils up through Au
gust 20, provided their applications
are accompanied by a tuition pay
ment not yet set. Last year this
figure was set at 630, however, the
fee was not charged.
If the applications for transfer
aren't granted the tuition money is
to be refunded, by the terms of
this policy.
Chapel Hill School Board Chair
man Dr. J. Kempton Jones had no
comment on the election outcome
last night. But he said that the lo
cal schral adrri -Mratwo pro
ceed accvrdhie to the prcvi»edy>
adopted policy.
Third ABC Store Is Set
To Open Within Month
Work is progressing well on
the construction of Orange
County’s third ABC Store—
scheduled to be opened with
in a month near the Alamance
County line. _ ■
Located on Mutt Byrd's prop
erty about 200 yards from the
County’s western boundary along
the Roxboro-Burlington highway,
the block structure will be about
22 x 60 feet. It’s to be complet
ed around the first of Septem
ber, according to ABC Board
Chairman Remus Smith. And
within about two weeks after
that it should be in operation.
No additional funds wilt have
to be borrowed to set up the new
store, He said. It’s to have two
clerks—one of whom may be
transferred from the Hillsboro
store.
After it’s opened the ABC :
Board may find it necessary to i
buy its own delivery truck,
Smith said. At the present time
the Chapel Hill delivery is made
by a contract carrier.
But with the heavy expected
business from the new store in
Carr’s Precinct, it may be more
feasible to buy a truck, Smith
explained.
The Board decided last week
to set up the store in the Carr’s
Precinct right after voters of
Gibsonville turned down an ABC
referendum. Almost all of its
business is expected to come
from dry Alamance County—
which can’t have another refer
endum on the ABC issue until
February of 1961 according to
state law.
The new store will be a couple
of miles closer to Burlington
than the Caswell County store,
and thus is expected to sap off
a good hit of its business.
Business Efficiency Of ABC Set-Up Cited;
Annual Sales Of Over A Million Expected
was set up by approval of the Coun
ty's voters, the Orange County ABC
administrators now take considera
of their organization.
Sale* of about $2,300 a day in the
two liquor stores currently in oper
HILLSBORO STORE MANAGER LEON BULLARD WITH COUNTY A.B.C.
BOARD CHAIRMAN REMUS SMITH (RIGHT)
Mi V * Uiiiuiig ui H * UIV. nvw
above three-quarters of a million
dollars a year. And with the open
ing of a third store on the Alamaned
County line in prospect within a
month, it's seen likely that safes
will top a million dollars annually.
See Over $100,000 Profit
The official audit for the fiscal
year ending last July 1 has been
made and is expected to be avail
able publicly any day. But con
servative estimates on the basis of
present sales indicate that the ex
pected margin of 11 per cent profit
will yield about $100,000 profit to
the Coupty—which will compensate
for about 12 cents on the property
tax rate.
Members of the three-man ABC
Board say they're intent on rai
ning a really businesslike oper
ation. “We Intend to make the
most money that we can for tho
County. If we didn’t, we wouldn't
be doing our job.’’ said Board
member D. D. Carroll of Chapel
HU1.
The Chairman of the Board. Hills
. (See ABC SYSTEM, Page 3)