of orange county
VOL. 71 NO. 14
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 4. 1943
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Ag Building opened...
OLD AMD NEW — Don S.
Matheson (left). Orange County
Form Agent for the pest 34
years, will retire this June.
He's aeon above with his re
cently-named successor. Assist
ant Agent Id P. Barnes, In
front of the new $82,500 Or
ange County Agriculture Build
ing in Hillsboro.
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THE HOME, OF A CHAPEL
Hill woman with four young
grandchildren was destroyed in
a fire last Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Flossie Henderson was on
her job at the One-Hour Martin
izing Cleaners when flames com
pletely gutted her home at 322
Brooks St., destroying all their
belongings and clothing. Fire
men believe the blaze was acci
dentally started by youngsters
playing with matches.
SEVERAL FIRES IN THE
Chapel Hill area destroyed size-]
able stands of timber and under
brush this week, too. About 40
acres of open space was burned
over in Strowd’s Lowgrounds off
the Durham Road on Monday
morning when a controlled fire
for clearing the area got out of
hand. That afternoon several
more acres of underbrush in the
woods below Hillcrest Circle was
burned before firemen quelled
the blaze with hydrant lines.
NEARLY 200 ORANGE COUN
ty Boy Scouts and leaders — the
largest group ever for this trip
made the annual camping-hiking
trip to the^ Puinaclj^-of-the-Dan
hi Virgin!# Iasi wee€en3f. Of this
group 162 successfully made the
arduous 12-mile bike over the
mountainous pinnacle.
PLANS FOR A SECOND
‘panty raid’ on the UNC campus
was scotched by quick work of
cajnpus police on Monday night.
The balmy spring evening of the
night before brought out student
demonstrators for several hours
of noisy marching around the co
ed dormitory area. The Monday
night show began — and practi
cally ended — with the setting
off beginning about 10 p.m. of a
several-hour sequence of time
fused firecrackers on Emerson
Field.
ONE OF THE STERNEST LEC
tures court attaches can remem
ber in Orange County Superior
Court in recent years was direct
ed yesterday to Mrs. Ann T.
Mayo- of 171 Hamilton Rd.
Chapel Hill, an attractive red
headed teacher, who failed to
come to court in -answer to a
jury summons. Judge James Lat
ham said he “was tempted” ■ to
find her in contempt and charg
ed her ‘.‘supervisor” .who advised
her to notify the judge she
couldn’t be present “has a very
peculiar Idea of the law."
' ft WAS THANK YOU DAY
for Chairman Donald Stanford of
thi County Commissioners Mon
day. He found it appropriate to
make speeches of appreciation to
Walter Wrenn for his long serv
ice as Veterans Service Officer,
to A. H. Graham for his con
stant willingness to be of help to
the county in time of need, and
to L. J. Phipps for his long serv
ice to the county as Judge.
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New judge—and his best friend
• • •
SMITH IS NAMED - IV. Marshall Smith of
Chapel Hill was this week appointed Judge of the
Orange County Recorder’s Court, to fill out the un
expired two - year term of recently - resigned L. J.
Phipps. The 42 - year - old blind attorney is seen in
his office with ‘Lola’ his two - ye~r - old German
Shepherd guide dog. He is scheduled to assume his
new duties on the bench beginning next week.
Chapel HiN sets conditions
for consolidating schools
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