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THURSDAY ISSUE Next Issue Monday Vol. 36, No. 58 9 Commissioners OK 13-Cent Raise In County Tax Rate The Board of County Commis sioners approved a 13-cent in crease in the county tax rate Monday night to help a pressing need for more school class rooms in Chapel Hill. In addition to raising the tax rate from 82 cents to 95 cents, the board also authorized the issuance of $50,120 in bond anti cipation notes The bond issue plus an estimated revenue of S6B - from the tax increase and another $40,000 the county now has in a surplus fund will be primarily to build six classrooms at Glenwood School and to purchase land tor a pro posed new school in Chapel Hill. The two projects will cost an estimated $125,000 However, the new tax rate also provides increased appropria tions for the operating budgets (l.apel 11,11 CHAFF ' By Joe Jones ~ Bob Varley didn’t, seem his usual buoyant self when he ran into a friend Friday evening in front of the post office. “What's the matter?” his friend asked. “Are you mad at somebody ?” “Yes, I am,” Mr. Varley said. “I’m mad at people who park in front of mail boxes. 1 was going to mail this letter without getting out of my car. But look at] that. I had to drive on down the street and park and get out and walk back up here. It’s happened to mu more than once.” The friend looked across the street at the drive-up mail box beside Franklin Street next to the Univer sity campus. A small black car had it neatly blocked. As far as serving its intended; purpose was concerned, the box was useless. The car was parked squarely alongside a stretch of yellow curbing that was supposed to keep a space clear for people who wanted to mail letters from their cars. Bob Varley isn’t one to hold malice against any body. He offered an excuse for the driver who had made him park and walk back. “It’s that white line that fools them,” he said. “At least, they pretend it fools them. That car’s parked on the yellow, all right, but if you’ll go over there and take a look you’ll see that the white fine marking the out-j side edge of the parking lane runs right on up past the yellow curbing to the ped estrians’ crosswalk, H§ man’s hard-pressed for a (Contiaued On Page 21 | Rosemary Property Wanted For Parking of both the County Board o Education and the Chapel Mil- Board of Education The County Board of Educa tion was granted a total 1959-60 budget of $260,738, including $138,177 for current expenses and $122,569 for capital outlay These are the amounts requested by the county board Last year the county school budget tutaled $230,060 The Chapel Hill board was granted a total budget ot $93,101. a capital outlay ap propriation of $99,235, plus tiie $125,000 for the six classrooms and the land purchase. If the six-classroom addition at Glenwood should cost less than the SIOO,OOO provided for the construction, it is likely the re mainder will revert to the coun ty The $93,101 appropriated for operating the Chape! Hill school system is $18,375 less than the Joseph Johnston Congratulates Commissioners On Budget Action Chapel Hill School Superinten dent Joseph M Johnston said Wednesday that member.- ot the Board of County Commissioners are to be congratulated on their budget action Monday night "The adoption of this budget.' he said, is clear evidence ttiai the commissioners are aware ot the educational needs of Chapel Hill and Orange County An appropriation for $317,336 the hoard granted to the Chapel Hill school system tor current expenses and capital outlay is only SIB,OOO less than ttie Chapel iiill Board of Education had requested, and it is the higtiest appropriation ever received tor Chapel Hill schools. "Although the amount approp riated to us for current expenses was not all that we requested," Mr. Johnston said, "this budget will enable us to continue our program of improvement in many areas “Our current expense budget will have to be revised to in clude the reduction of SIB,OOO. More Help Recommetded Walters Quits As ABC Store Manager; Fouse To Get Post Harold W Walters, manager of the Chapel Hill ABC store, sub mitted his resignation Wednes day to ABC Board Chairman Remus J. Smith Sr. Mr. Walters will be replaced as store manager by Donald M Fouse, who has been a member of the store staff Mr Fouse I will become manager July 31, when Mr. Walters' resignation becomes effective. In his letter of resignation, Mr Walters said he is resigning primarily because of his health There are other factors, he said, but he did not enumerate them. Mr. Walters also asked the ABC Board to consider adding another clerk to the stall at the Chapel Hill store. “I (eel strongly that another clerk should be added at once,” he said, “as almost each week The Chapel Hfll Weekly 5 cents a Copy Board of Education haJ reque-t --ed. But the figure was set auto matically because of a provision that school operating iund.s shall he distributed on a per capital , enrollment basis Crider this j arrangement, the county schools receive 55 per cent of the ap propriations tor operating ex . penses and Chapel Hill schools j receive 45 per cent. The new tax rate of 95 cents on the SIOO property valuation also includes a one-cent levy which will be set aside to pay for a property revaluation throughout the county beginning in 1963 In addition to increasing the county tax rate, the board also authorized an increase o! five cents in the Chapel Hill school tax supplement. The school tax will he raised from the present 15 cents on the SIOO property valua tion in Chapel Hill to the maxi (Continued on Page 7' bit we hope to be aisle to do tics without interfering too much wth essentia! educational ser v ces Mr Johnston also expressed hs appreciation lor the public sipport rendered the local school b*ard in its efforts to obtain the expropriations "1 should like to thank all iio-e in Chapel Hill—parents, (itizens. members of the bus ness community, members of tie University community. Par ■nt Teacher groups, civic clubs .net others—who gave us their upi>ort and cooperation during tie period when the budget was icing considered," he said Mr Johnston added that "spec al thanks must go to the memb ers of the board of education vho spent many long hours in lonsidering this budget and who save unstintingly of their time ind effort in presenting the facts jf this budget and the need for jur schools to the county com missioners and to other indi viduals and groups " business shows an increase over the preceding one, even during this vacation period ” He said the hiring of an ad ditional clerk would allow the manager time for the extensive records and reports that he rs | Weather Report Continued warm and humid with scattered showers. High Low Monday 87 72 Tuesday 83 71 Wednesday 89 71 Now la the season of ticks, abundant this year. A Hillsboro hoy Is seriously ill la Um hospital with tick lever. Don’t roaaove a tick forcibly. Douse bias with kereocae or insect rcpeiloat and bo will looses kto grip. Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 192,1 CHAPEL HILL, N, C., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1959 Rosemary Street Property Sought For A New Municipal Parking Lot Parking Association To Offer Proposal To Town Board Soon A plan for the development of a 17$-car municipal parking lot on the property between the Post Office and the Bank of Chapel Hill property along Rosemary Street has been drawn up by the Chapel Hill Parking Association. The proposal will be submitted to the Town Board of Aldermen “within the next few days,” according to Carl M. Smith, who is chairman of the committee which County Workers •/ Get Pay Raises w Salary increases of S2O a month for all the county's depu ty sheriffs and raises of $7 to $lO a month for about two doz en other county employes were authorized Monday night by the Board of County Commissioners The additional S2O a month authorized for deputy sheriffs will raise all the present depu ties to a salary of $290 a month. Sheriff C. D (Buck) Knight also is expected to receive a salary increase, but the com missioners postponed considera tion of the salaries of elected officials until Friday night when the board resumes its budget deliberations. The small salary raises for other county employes approved h' - the board V mday inclur'--? the county dog warden, the delinquent tax collector and clerks and stenographers in the courthouse Shaffer Wins Two More Net Titles Voung Charlie Shaffer was a double winner this week in the junior division of the 37th an nual North Carolina Open Tennis Championships at the Biltmore Forest Country Club at Asheville He took the singles crown by defeating Jack Hepting of Ashe ville, 7-9. 61, 61. and then paired with Stanley Cocke ol Asheville lo defeat Hepting anil David Morgan ill ol Asheville in the doubles title match The finals of the junior div ision were played Monday. The day before, Shalfer had played in the final singles round ol ttoe open state championship for mea and had lost to Col Torn Bonner ol Atlanta, Ga , 6-3, 6 4, 6-2 Earlier this summer Shaffer had won the North Carolina sin gles title in the annual slate championships tournament spun sored by the Jaycees He will play in the national junior cham pionship next month in Phoenix, Arizona This is the second con secutive year he has won the junior singles title in the Jaycee sponsored tournament responsible for, and that the manager then would need to Ire at the cash regster only at peak periods. Both Mr. Smith and County ABC Manager Carl C. Davis were away on a fishing trip and could not be reached for com ment. However, an advertise ment in today's edition of ttie Weekly invites applications tor employment as store clerk i'i the Chapel Hill store Mr Davis placed the ad earlier this week Mr Walters said a third cash register also will become a nec essity at the ABC store here when the fail school term begins and the football season opens. “It is not unreasonable to •xpcct that the present volume of nearly $12,060 weekly will increase M to 75 per cent or pos sibly double,” Mr. Walters eaid. BY DWAYNE W \LLS ► drew up the plan, The proposed plan asks that the Town of Chapel Hill purchase the property and develop it as a municipally owned facility on a self-liquidating basis. To put the project into opera tion. the Town Board of Aider men will be asked to issue $-37,500 in revenue bonds, which is the approximate amount the Parking Association committee estimates will be required to purchase the five tracts of land and to develop them The plan already has been sub mitted to Town Manager Tom Rose for rev lew of the proposed financing and operation Mr Smith's committee will submit it later to the street committee of the Board of Aldermen, and it is likely the full board will receive the proposal at the board's next regular meeting Aug 10. The property being considered extends 3-40 feet along the south side of Rosemary Street behind the Franklin Street shopping district. It is owned by Mrs fFamon Brooks, Mrs. P. B Burks. Dale Hanson, Walter Creech and Mrs. Frederic E Coenen. Both the Brooks property and the Burks properly are for sale, and Mr. Ranson has offered his property to the town repeatedly for development of such a park ing lot. There has been no indi cation whether the Creech and Coenen tracts are available. As envisioned by the Parking Association committee, the area '• would be cleared and paved; j and parking meters would be j installed in order lo repay the i loan the town would borrow to ! develop the lot The municipal lot would not j immediately replace the present i parking lot operated by the I Parking Association at Rose i mary and Columbia Street.-. However, the association's lease on the present parking lot will expire next year, and it is con ceivable that the municipal lot would replace it eventually Mr. Smith said his committee is looking toward the long range [larking problems of the town and the expected business de velopment of Rosemary Street Other members of Mr Smith s committee are John Foushee. Joe Page and Collier Cobb 111 Deputy Cook Quits To Take ABC Job Deputy Sheriff W Paul Cook of Carrboro resigned this week to join the State ABC Board as a beer and wine inspector for the Orange Durham County area Mr. Cook's resignation will become effective July 31 How ever. he will continue to live in Carrboro after assuming his new duties. Mr. Cook joined the sheriff's department in August of 1937 and has achieved a commend able reputation as the deputy assigned to the Chapel Hill area When Mr. Cook's resignation was announced to the Board of County Commissioners this week Board Chairman R J M Hobbs told Sheriff C L> Knight that he was sorry to learn of the resigna tion because he had heard of Mr. Cook's work WINS 4-H Cl.I B HONOR Miss Mary Ross Henley, 18, of Rt. 3, Chapel Hill, won first place Wednesday in the Stile 4-H dress revue during 4-H Club Week at N. C. State College Miss Henley, who modeled a grey wool suit she made, won the right to represent North Carolina in competition at the National 441 Club Congress in Chicafa this fall. vMMttflL 918 flhfejT jtflE _ v•> WIKKX.Y PHOTO BILL PHOUTY VICTORY BALL—Celebrating their fourth championship since the Little League was established here in 1936 are these picnicing Tigers who have just clinched the pennant with a 9-0 win over the Cubs at Emerson Field Wednesday afternoon. The picnic for the happy youngsters and their fami lies was given by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Blackburn of Rogerson Drive. The vie Tigers Take Title In Little League Two wins in the final week of play gave the Tigers a near perfect record and the Little l.eague championship last week In beating the Cubs 9-0 last Wednesday Tiger pitcher Glenn Blackburn struck out 16 Cub batters and then collected three hits tor four times at hat. in cluding a home run The next day he got another homer to help the Tigers beat the Dod gers 2 I In other games last week the Giants wan their only victory of the season in beating the Cubs 8 I Pitcher Mike Fox struck out seven Cub batters and collected two hits for three times at hat Billy Watson got a home run for the Giants Mike Beil got three hits for four times at hat and Bruce Mans field got two hits tor tour times at the plate The Indians moved into a final second place in the stand ings with three wins last week laid by the hitting of Danny Leigh. Gerald Barrett, Stan Ber ry and Chips Sizemore, the In dians heat the Yankees 7-3 and then beat the Dodgers 12 7 A final game between [he Indians and the Giants was tied 4 4 at the top of the ninth inning when Danny Leigh knock ed a home run for the Indians to give his team a 5-4 victory The Yankees ended the sea It Happened Five Years Ago This Month A Bank Robbery Is Recalled BY J. A. C. DUNN “Two gentlemanly but unshaven bank robbers, choosing the quietest afternoon ,of the week, calmly walked into the Carrboro branch of the Bunk of Chapel Hill day before yesterday, collected $9,865.06, and strolled dut the door three minutes later to make a clean getaway.” So reads the lead of the Weekly’s report of Chapel Hill’s Bank Robbery, which occurred five years ago the 38th of this month. Mr. Hubert Neville, at that time Manager of the Carrboro branch, and Bookkeeper Mrs. James Sturdivant were the only two employees in the bank at the time of the hold up. In the Weekly's story, Mr. Neville described how a man in a green shirt and A man in a gray shirt walked into the bank, forced himself and Mrs. Stur- $4 a Year in County; other rates on page 1 torious Tigers are (kneeling 1. to r.) Tom West, Craig Barton, Philip Walk er, Robbie Hooker, Chris Chanlett, Johnny Oakley and Gerald Ambrosio; standing (second row, 1. to r.) Freddie Young, Steve Sparrow, Herb Watson, Philip Partin, Jamie Gutierrez, Scott Lindsay, Glenn Blackburn; (standing, third row, 1. to r.), Coaches Lyman Ripperton and Dan Okun. son in third place after beat ing the Dodgers 9-1 last Friday. Yankee batters Donnie Clark and Barry Ellington got three hits each, and Graham Burch, Scott Wallace and Jim Morgan got two hits each The final standings: W L ( Tigers 9 l Indians a 2 Yankees 7 3 Cubs 3 7 Dodgers 3 7 Giants i a i - . j JC’s To Collect Paper On Sunday The Chapel Hill Jaycees will conduct their July paper drive Sunday throughout the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area R B Fitch, chairman of the drive, said this is the first time the Jaycees have included the larrboro area in their regular paper pick-ups. Mr. Fitch said about 30 Jay cees will begin picking up the paper at 130 pm. Sunday. Chapel Hill-Carrboro residents who wish to contribute their waste paper should leave the bundles near the street n. front of their homes. t tmnk'A't.i-V <M».>,*>■■■ 1 divant to lie on the floor at gunpoint, took the money from the front teller's cutfe, and then, politely helping Mrs. Sturdivant to her feet, made Mr. Neville unlock the vault, where they took a SSOO pack of old one-dollar bills. The robbers then shut Mr. Neville and Mrs. Sturdi vant in the back room and left, Last week Mr. Neville, now the teller in the Bank of Chapel Hill’s drive-up window on East Rosemary Street, told of the sequel to the robbery. ‘‘You see, the bank was robbed on a Wednesday,” he said, "and the FBI knew that the robbers left Durham Friday and went to Virginia Beach. Then they went to Carolina Beach and the FBI knew that, too. So the FBI rent* ed a cottage opposite the robbers’ at Carolina Beach and the seat Wednesday I went down there. I got there at 7 in (Contlnuod oa page T) n —"Y SeHtaie, the aaflgMri a« nli crtly, is to getdns the town Meat chapel hill Scenes Shod in red rain boots, ES TIjLLJ£ LAWSON vigorously mowing her lawn neath heavy black clouds . . . How many young girls were passengers recently in ESTHER HUNT ER'S small foreign car—six, seven, eight? . . . Newcomers to Chapel Hill under the impres sion that TV BOYD'S name is TY PHD ID BILLIE CUR TIS and DOT BRANCH lunch ing at X C. Cafeteria . . . SION JENNINGS busy moving part of his business to Carrboro . . . On west Franklin Street, store occupied several years ago by Colonial Drug now a pool hall Splashing vigorously in natatorium; young ladies in the intermediate swimming class On Franklin Street, in front of the Planetarium, a line of cars waiting for a mid-street squirrel to make up his mind He did, finally, scurrying back whence he had come and nar rowly missing instant death after all that trouble . . . What they're talking about: increase in county tax, the unsightly shoulders of roads coming into Chapel Hill from all directions, the weather, the passing of Shields' grocery store . . . Fast est thing in town: MILTON JUL IAN en route to post office . . . Whatever happened to the shopping center that was to be built around the ABC store?
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