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. f. It was bootleggers 4ay‘at the courthouse in Hillsboro. Monday. c."A5cttins of the July 22 mass, raids by the ABC: forces, then friends and curiosity seekers filled the ■courtroom‘to ovetdlmvirig throughout the day as trials otitic 6ri defend ants began. c vs Bright spot for them was, the two weeks despite three fourths of them got when their cases were not readied by . closing -time and were continued until "2:30 p.m. Monday Aug. 15. Sixteen were tried, or partially tried* feuueen pled guilty and were'pcptenced, one was judged guilty hut sentence was held in abeyance until the Aug, 15 sitting, while' another, Jehue Edwards, whose booze was alleged to con tain lead ai>d therefore poisonous, was mHQh.ro the record while in absentia hynself. i First case called His was the first case called by, Special Beasectitor. iAi. 41, tSaody i Graham, attorney for the ABC ®oard, to enable the hearing of SBI Chemist William S. Best. Je hoe himself didn’t bother to come "itcT count, but his attorney, James IR. Farkiw, pled him not guilty land the hearing proceeded, j Best, after being qualified an i expert witness under the prod | ding of Defense Attorney. Far j low, said he had found lead in i the sample of Jehue’s liquor, sub : < ndtfed to him and in his opin ^ ion “the lead would be poisonous , 5 and detrimental to the human I system.” , He agreed under cross examina tion he did'not make a “quantita Hive analysis” and' therefore did jnot .know the exact amount of ~ lead included but estimated it was :one or two micrograms per mil liter jd a minimum of several parts 5per million). “Any quantity of ■lead is poisonous,’‘ he said, j Asked oapias -i At the conclusion of this testi jmony^Jifr. Graham asked Judge iL. J. Phipps for a capias and i increased bond for Edwards. He j got no answer until later in the jday when Edwards, still in ab jsentia, was granted * continuance juritiL the Aug. 15 resumption. i withput change of bond. 1 Thereafter the trials continued ?;for guilty pleaders. Negro agents 'testify j! In each case, one of t\W> neatly dressed Negro men, the ABC un dercover agents who made the |purchases, took the stand. ABC j Off icers Burch Compton or Char lies Talbert selected the evidence | Other cases hedrd m cc®#^ license, $25 a&ftfc&te; Nanette Harris, no-%pg^t6r.ijw<feense, $25 and costs; Bernard Gnu Patterson, spee^M MjfmUWC Herbert Johnson, speeding, $15 and coSKK^rpoftd, f&n&tS&Ks pired chawKeur’s license, $25 and .costs ;“16rederit!ir~ 3Wte speeding", $io d?8i cost* GHbeft*-€ampbeMtc^fitiJfng at stop sign, $10 and costs; Jesse Earl tee, speeding, $10 and costs? jf . Ruth Marquis McCracker. speeGk h^jj- flj^nd cc^ts^Joseph Vli^Us^ speeding/ $10 aad~ costs; WiHiarb' costs; 'Shpn Wesley Farrffigttfivn® operator’s^ffcteiBC, -Wiwd coats; Jpnws^dgard.gpust, alloying an unlice^eJr pe4b' W and -mttf-LmnaM' rnmrwbc" ■ /... & ■ . • \ from a table-full of battles and jars neatly labelled, and told about the defendant's record or reputa tion. The witness told when and where he made. tiieT pur-chase and , ho w -mu ch hp paid -for H. ‘Often resentfully’ Defendants except in one or two cases did" hdf’take the static)* most- of them questioned the wit nesses, ’dffeh- ‘pcsewffiu.^ly, 'about details ofthe p ax chase. Early : fertile' proceedings^ ney Dahrn-X Mag -SaUcirfiell of Cedar Grove uuieuejessiu'l'y.'sapght to employ Che «r.^apmer..t. -theory -and asked for a non-suit in the ease against his client. 'EhLr inanenver, if al lowed, would have brought dis missal of most 01- all of‘ the .cases* Judge phipps however ’denied the motioh, found her guilty on two counts and continued* prayed for judgement until September Get suspensions | Five other • defendants were guilty on two counts and each Was fined $75 and costs and given six mcavMis prison sentences which were suspended for two years. They were Freddie Breeze, Cedar Grove, Roscoe Alston, Bill Burn ett. Peggy Clark and Susie Smith of Chapel Hill. gmo defendants (each with only one charge against them, were fined $50 and, -costs', and fldxen six.months sentences sus pended) far. two /ears. They were Jesse Brooks nad John Henry Thompson of Hillsboro. Claudia Hote^t Codar Grave, Elisabeth *■ Foashee, f*rean»on Headen, flra- 4 estlne'LaSSUer aed»J«*M; Blip ; of Chapel 'Hill, ‘ ** Mos«s Snipes of AI*urui>ce4jCbip> ty, whcf.had no ^c#d~-a?xl Jq|l reputation, for whiskey, got'off with, a fine qf $25 and costs with no jail sentence. C The witness said Snipes had merely bought some boTjae fpm?. self for a party while ^sjtmg ifn Orange County and agreed to selT the ui^leisovMranair fr .pmt.ifJh menftcnapf^snfrctp^ient 1 at this point. * ■‘ 27 pints and 5 fifths —also 30 cans of beer 'all for wedding party' . Henry Whitted, said to be the operator of a , Hillsboro spot known as the Key Club, was in volved in one of the contested cases of the day. Officers testified they Went to ' the club, with a search warrant : «nd found 27 pint and five,fifth •ti bottles, almost all with unbroken - seals, in bags, along with 30 cans | of beer. They quoted Whitted .as telling them it belonged to ether 1 folks and had been purchased * for a wedding party at the Club. | . Attorney James R. Patton, un successfully sought to quash the • evidence on grounds the search warrant was improper. But in ■ the end WhittcJ was found guil ty of illegal possession e>to sen- 1 tence was left open until the Aug. 15 resumption, of trials. 1 \ y • ' ,a:;';, 'AMQ'Baard flT*?- X&r?'~"ft* jr~/>'•*• ' .* --a grants raises to entire skiff Th«forang« &aorttjr ABC. Board Monday granted salary increases to all personnel, following sim ilar actiut taken by the County last week. • COunty Manager Carl C. Davis was raised from $6,000 per year ! to $5,500. Chief ABC Enforcement Offi cer Burch Compton was raised $35 per month and his assistant Charles Talbert $15 ‘per month. Previously they were paid $350 and $340 respectively. \ Store managers were increas ed by $15 per month and all other employees got $10 per month raises. The scale for managers now begin# at $300. per month with $15 per month increases after six months and one year's serv ice. Thus, a manager who has » been in the job a year rtow gets $345 per month, I » • JjlPo . ,» I U St$re ^efks begin at $250 and are raised $10-per month at tjte end of^six months and one year’s .service: Under the new scale, L. "therefore, clerks who have had a year’s tenure, are now paid $280 per month. k__:_... .. •< drunk, $5 and costs; Helen Gordon Wes?, speeding,; $10 and costs; Fred Amer Boone Jr., speeding, $15 and costs; James Edward HaH, "stop sign, $10 and "costs; Ziimond Irvin Stroder, fol lowing too closely, $10 and costs; iDuiher Roger Brown, improper equipment, costs; John Nicho’s Beard, ppeeding, $10 and costs; ‘Jessie Frank Payne, public drunk, $5 and costs; Henry Bryant bank rford, exceeding safe speed, costs; Ronald W. Terrell, Stop sign, $10 as®! costs; 5 ■*/' J-4.. ;. , VClj&k Owen Johnson, no open !%’s license, 125 and «os% Wil-j !!liSn -PHMhp Perry, passing on hosts; Ira bong, pub* He d^nk. $5 and co&&; -Carr Vlb iipes, «ublic drunk, $5 and costs; Thomas ^aeford English, speed*; ing, $10 and costs. • | ». "H' . ^ News Classified Ads get results, Hnist phone 8-MS4. * “*’ * * - - ' • • .“ LAW TEAM fOR ORANGE—Newly-appointed Chief Deputy for the Orange County Sheriff's Department is Edgar Sykes (left), ,.37,' shown above with Sheriff Buck JCnight, A former Mebagne, Burlington.; and Alamance County law enforcement off iter, Sykes has been with the Orange department for the past six months. He will specialize in criminal investigation and act in the piece of the sheriff in the letter's absence. (News Photo) 271 in eligible ■ . ■ Carrhoro Annex The annexation of a 275 acre area to the north and west of the rectangular-* h a p e d Carrhoro town limits will hf» decided In a special referen dum for suburbanites next Tuesday. Registrar Calvin Burch said that 271 persons' registered for ♦he election—three more than the total- that were eligible to vote March 22 whgpt the re ferendum was defeated 133 to 126. The pells wilt bp open in Mr Burch’s woodworking shop on the Old HWsb«r» Highway from 6:30 e.m. unti| 6:30 p.m. Assisting Mr. Buf*b in con ducting tho election will be judges Shelton Sparrow and Benson Ray. Carr boro municipal officials j yesterday expresed confidence i *het the. proposal would pass this time, noting that tha mevo for the second roforeodjum sprung spontaneously from residents of the area, several days after the fi ist election failed. However, considerable indi vidual sentiment is known to remain against the annexation. There has bean no organised opposition as, there was in the March vote. The Town Com missioners, who authorized the referendum, have taken no of ficial stand op. it this time. The area proposed far an nexation is almost the same as that tor the previous vote, except for a tiny sector- off Weaver ltd., that was left off.
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