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To dedde next month . . . splitting, merging precincts _ Splitting and consolidation of several Orange County voting preyinets is being considered by the County Board of Elections. Board Secretary Clyde Carter said yesterday that the three-member body would probably meet and act on this matter during the first week of February. In each case a completely new registration of all voters would be required. .- The- Board itself has final authority in the matter of set mg precinct boundary lines and ordering new registrations. In the case of the pending re buff ling of boundaries, the new •egistration would be held be fore the Democratic primary election in May. The Board is probably going o split up the Carrboro, Chapel Till Three and Chapel* Hill Five Precincts, Mr. Carter said, -and consolidate the Cole Store and Patterson and the Cedar Grove and Tolar’s Precincts This would give Orange a total of 22 local voting areas, as com pared to the present 21. The elections body is also consider ing the spitting at a later date of the other three Chapel Hill precincts—One, Two, and Four. In each case mentioned here the objective is to bring the voting districts as near as pos sible to a registration of 500 to 800 persons, so that all can vote on a given election day without congestion, according to the election official. Political leaders okay voting area changers (Political party leaders of the Ooimty generally, support the . oreeinct divisions and mergers envisioned by the County Board of Elections. The political effect of the changes will be considerable, once representation on the Coun ty Executive Committees of J I both the "Republican - and Demo cratic Parties is based on one member per precinct, the pres ent membership being composed jf the precinct chairmen. Just as representation in the state legislature is proportionate ly greater from the less popu ous eastern counties, so do the rural precincts of Orange have greater representation in' com parison to voter totals on the county committees of both par - • - — ■■ * —; As the new set-up now stands ■-here are five Chapel Hill com mittee members for the five Chapel Hill precincts—-though their five precincts cast a ma jority of the county’s ballots in almost all elections. With the proposed changes—splitting three Chapel Hill precincts and merg ing two rural ones—Chapel Hill (inluding the two Carrboro pre cincts) would have nine commit tee ?members and the rural areas, 12. ■ >;) Democratic Committee Chair man L. J. Phipps said he hadn’t studied in detail the Elections Board’s proposals, but under stood that the proposed divisions were subtantiaHy the same as he recommended last fall. As to the mergers 'he said he could see “no reason at all why this shouldn’t 'be done because of our modem transportation system” and the decreasing electorate in these areas. The Republicans’ County Chair man, Col. H. L. Robb, agreed that he, too, thought the precinct changes were “pretty good,” not ing that the Republican member of the Elections Board, Prof. C. David Jenkins of Chapel Hill, •had concurred in preposing most of them with Mr. Carter. “It doesn’t seem to me there are any particular partisan im plications in the changes,” said Col. Robb. “Some of the precincts are pretty diriky and some are getting mighty big.” Kiwanians hear county officials Orange County officials and department heads presented a resume of the county government over the past eight years to Chap el Hill Kiwanians Tuesday eve ning at the Carolina Inn. Donald M. Stanford, Chairman of Orange County Board of Com missioners introduced the various department heads, each of whom spoke of the growing services provided by their department, with resulting higher operating costs. Those taking part on the pro gram were: C. D. (Buck) Knight, Sheriff; Miss Betty June Hayes,. Register of Deeds; Edwin Lynch., Clerk of Superior Court; Jim Wite, Welfare Superintendent: and Sam Gattis, County Account ant. Miss Hayes provided an in teresting aspect of her work when she illustrated ihiow much the register of deeds could come to knew about a resident of Orange simply through the various legal documents recorded by her de partment. Sam Gattis, County Account ant, presented charts which gra phically portrayed_the ever. increasing amount of the tax dol lar which is being spent for the support of the. schools. Robert N. Simms, Jr. of Ra leigh Fifth District Lieutenant Governor, was a special guest of the Club. - • 'I. “We’re very much interested in the reaction of the people to these plans,” said Mr. Carter. “Of course we can't please everybody, but we’re going to listen to the people first and j then decide.” Here are the changes pro posed: dBpUk •■Ciairrboiifr. .«• -Er.ed.nctj (the county’s biggest—1.800 reg-j istrants) using N. C. Highway 54 as the dividing line; Carrboro School as polling place for voters on the north side and Carrboro Town Hall for the south side. / (2) Split Chapel Hill Precinct Three—polling place now at Woollen Gym, registration 1,564 —using N. C. Highway 54 (Ra leigh Road) as dividing line, with Woollen Gym as the south side polling place, and Graham Memorial, polling place for the north side. (3) Split Chapel Hill Precinct Five, 1,383 registrants, how at Glen wood School, again using Raleigh Road as dividing line, j and Church of the Holy Family Education Building for the south-side polling place and Glenwood School for the north side, (4) Consolidate Cole Store (264) and Patterson (333) Pre cincts with the new combined precinct polling place at Black wood Station (Tapp’s Store) on (5> Consolidate Cedar Grove (335) and Tolar’s (282) Precincts with the new polling. place at Aycock School Both consolidations proposed! are of necessity within-single townships, since election of township constables is still per mitted under state law, and boundary lines providing for this would have to be observed At a later date the Elections Board proposes the division of j the other three Chapel Hill pre j cincts as follows: Number One (1,165 registra tion)—Solit north and south with Bolin Creek the center boundary and polling places in the Umstead Park area recrea tion building for the north and the Town Hall for the south Numher Two (1.100 registra tion)—Relit north and south with Bolin Creek the dividing line and Estes Hills School the north-side polling place and a site to be selected yet for the south-side. Number Four (1,211 registra tion)—Split north and south with the southwest bypass high way from the Pittsboro Highway to Smith Level Road as the di viding line and a north precinct colling place at /Chapel Hill High School and the southern head quarters at a site to be selected Parking meter revenue and parking violations decreased slightly during 1961, according 1# the annual report of the Chapel Hill Police Department. The figures released by Chief William D. Blake showed $34, 286 paid into the Traffic Bureau in one-dollar civil parking fines and $26,240 in parking meter revenue; The total of $60,526 is about $2,000 below the previous year. Opening of a new Off-street parking lot at the Belk-Leggett Horton store downtown and Deminatifln_of:' some curb-side parking places accounted for the decrease, the Chief said. His report also showed that the 25-member police force log ged up 221,534 miles in patrol duty—an 11,000 - mile increase lover the previous year, brought about by annexation of new ter ritory to the town. Other figures and comparisons in the report showed: $22,324 in stolen property recovered as compared to $13,892 in 1960; 209 accidents as compared to 193 in 1960; one traffic fatality alongside none in 1960; 48 per sonal injuries, 35 In I960; and $67,257 in property damage — a $2,400 increase over 1960. In addition the Department made 1,613 arrests, 3,408 inves tigations, and gave out 32.367 parking tickets. The latter did not include several thousand tickets handed out by University campus police. Jurors drawn for court The names of 60 persons have been drawn for jury duty in the one week civil term of Orange County Superior Court that will open in Hillsboro next Monday By townships the potential ju rors are: Chapel Hill — Walter T Smith, Shelton Merritt, Mrs Charles E. Rush, W. J. Smith. James M. ■ Heldman, Arthur E Voss, Mrs. W. T. Sloan, George S. Welsh, C. L Whitley, Benja min , C. Hedgpeth, George M Harper, Raymond Riggsbee, S. ,T. $1,000 bond allowed Hillsboro area man who admits break-ins y wiifiafo" v«reA-”2sr Two, Hillsboro, was released from the county jail on $1,000 bond Tuesday pending trial for three recent byeak-ins at busi ness places across Orange Coun ty Sheriff C. D. Knight said the Negro man confessed last Satur day night to breaking’ and en tering at Fitch Lumber Co. in Carrboro on Jan. 5 and attempt ing a safe robbery there. Tate also reportedly confessed a similar entry last Friday night at Mebane Lumber Co. He was spotted there by Mebane police .cruisiifg in the area but eluded them. However, the police got p description of the truck Tate was allegedly using. Deputies Robert McCulloch and C. W. Riley, on a routine as signment of serving: warrants spotted the truck Saturdav night and brought Tate to Hillsboro for questioning Tate later con fessed the series, Knight said. Knight said Tate admitted ? break-in attempt Thursday night at Ray Motor Co. here but said he was scared off. Knight said Tate claimed he had no accomplices. Hinges were cut off the safe at the Fitch Lumber Co but en try was not gained, although some six dollars was taken from a cash register. Sparrow, Henry G Hartzog, III, Alexander Edwards, John A® Harrison, Alice T. Paine, Edward J. Owens, Priscilla M. Van Note, Robert G. Brame, D. L. Tripp, Grade Rogers. James H, Ingram, C F. Bane, John S. Freeland Jr., William Miles, Bruce H. Riggsbee, Mary L. B. Wheeler, E. G. Merritt, Henry Jones, * H. B. Williams, Mrs. Lillian Sweet, A. T. Melton, H. Sheldon White, C. Ritchie Bell. Peter Poulos, Patrick H. Burns Jr , .James O. Durham, an;d W. S. Kufg. Cheeks—W. Warren Hawkins, Joseph W. Holeman, John F, Daniel, Ada L. Hooper. Hillsboro — Robert I. Miller, William M. Mitchell, Fred Lee Durham, G. P. 'Sykres; John F. Terry, Scott Stone, Jasper Med lin, Clarence Mayo, Leonard H. Wagner, John L. Webb, W. Man ley Snipes, J. J. Gates, Thomas Medlin. , . Cedar Grove—John M. Terrell. Ene—O. H. Cook, Jeanette Goebel. * J_L $63,800 in federal aid is granted hospital The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare on Tuesday notified Sixth District Rep. Horace Kornegay of appro val of a grant to Memorial Hospi tal in Chapel Hill under the Hill Burton aid program. The government is to pay $63,800. he said, out of $116,000" for a 1000-bed additional unit at the Hospital. *5? cases calendared for civil court terrr* A calendar of 52 cases is scheduled for the one-week civil term of Orange County Superior Court which will open in Hillsboro next Mon day morning. Judge William Y. Bickett of Raleigh will preside over the conn There are nine motions_ | to be heard at the top of the! . • calendar, sit divorces, and 37 regular civil cases. Dogs ordered destroyed by court .Disposal of four dogs that al legedly bit several Chapel Hill persons was ordered by the Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Garibaldi of 308 McCauley St. pleaded net guilty to the charge of allowing vicious dogs to run at largef^ She" was found guilty and prayer for judg ment was continued on condition the four mongrel canines — ? mother and three poppies — be -destroyed. ..*■r 1 The names of a half-dozen wit* nesses, most of them McCauley St. neighbors, were attached tc the warrant in the unusual charge that was brought late Monday by Police Capt. Coy Dur ham. He said that at least four per _8pps, including, a:: young child had been bitten by the dogs dur- j mg the last few days, none of the attacks having occurred in Miss Garibaldi’s yard. Dr. Fran i cis Harper, who lives across the I street, told the court he kept sticks handy -on his porch to ward off the dogs when they made their attacks The police captain said Miss Garibaldi had frequently been warned about her animals. Miss Garibaldi, who had the mother dog in court with her, said the hadn’t interfered re cently when she saw the dogs attack a person because, she said, they, would be more protective toward her .if she entered the situation. She denied also, that she 'had been asked to keep the dogs confined. .
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