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Money tet everything. Health and happiness is— oh —two per cent *iirifiiTit»«ir-irtiirii Tirtimrur'' rriiwantMin Volume 41, Number 37 Public Recreation Tax Is Approved In Every Precinct Complete Municipal Program JSoic Assured For Chapel Hill Chapel Hill’s recreation tax won a com fortable victory in yesterday’s municipal elwtions. Voters gave the issue a 207-vote margin, 847-640, ending a six-year impasse for public recreation in the Town, and assuring a continuing reereatiojiNprogram. The tax’s acceptance had been in doubt almost from the moment the Recreation Commission requested ihe ■vote, which called for the levying of a. tax of from 3 Recreation Tax Precinct Yes No Northside 98 j 88 Glenwood 162| 95 Estes Hills 96; “ 45 Westwood 157 j 146 E. Franklin 190 ' 157 Country Club 1441 109 Totals" 847| 640 Rec Chairman Will Resign Chairman Bob Boyce is expect ed to resign tonight when the Recreation Commission meets at 7 30 in the Town Hall. Mr. Boyce revealed his plans last night following news that the Recreation Tax had been passed in the special Town elections. His decision, he said, came as a re sult of the election s outcome. He and two other members oL the Commission reside outside the Town limits, and the adoption of ‘ the tax now makes the Commis sion a strictly municipal body. Commissioners Mrs. John Clark and Morris Mason are also affect ed. “I’m exceedingly pleased that the tax passed,” Mr. Boyce said. "If it had failed, the entire Com mission would have resigned. As it is, I have to resign now.” Mr. Boyce said the Commis sion, as previously constituted, served a recreation area that corresponded to the Community Chest area of support and re sponsibility, with members of the Commission being selected from the entire area. Now that the Commission has assumed new status within the Town government, outside resi dents will no longer be able to participate. The Commission will begin the process of drawing up new bylaws and re-establishing the Commis sion as a municipal body, and planning for the re-activation of recreation facilities in anticipa tion of the summer playground program. A special Commission commit tee appointed to seek donations of land for recreation facilities will report on prospects and plans for making use of such lands. , */• SCENES i . ,':osv.* : Sign in the card catalog room at Louis Round Wilson Library: “Test your intelligence—Replace the correct square tray in the correct square hole”. . . SPERO DORTON waving to a friend during the auction at Michael's Grill last week, acci dentally making a $7 purchase. EL) TENNEY riding around in an open convertible before election day. waving gaily to \otcrs. . . . Two little boys grin ning sheepishly as UNC Presi dent W.LMAM FRIDAY walked up to find them sitting on the stone wall in front of the Presi dent’s mansion, tossing pebbles into the streets. . . . Two Towns men, both former servicemen, saluting one another as they passed on Franklin Street. ‘ Car ry on,” said one. “As you were," sa.d the other. Not another word spokyi. . . . Tidal waves of political talk risutg and falling among a millin'! crowd waiting outside Town Hall In Carrboro for votes to be counted . Driver, riding alone , spinning the toy steering wheel mounted cn his dashboard before making a turn off Rtmaury. to 10 cents per hundred dollars property valuation within the Town. The issue carried in all precincts. In only two was the vote close. Northside precinct, in which the Roberson Street Community Center is located, gave the tax a 03-88 margin; Westwood pre cinct gave it the nod by 157-146. The tax’s largest margin of support - came from Glenwood precinct, which contains Glen Lennox and the Greenwod Roars- Ridgefield Park area. The vote there gave the tax 162, with 05 against. , Estes Hills precinct voted for the tax •96 to 45, followed by Country Club, 144 for, 16!) against; and East Franklin Pre cinct’s 190-157. v The election partially erased effects of a 1957 recreation tax election which called/Jor a more ambitious plan of recreatipn centers and programs. Follow ing defeat of thdt election the (Continued on Page 2) Returns For Board Os Education * v e 8 • • « *«■ ' £ b 3< J I •o w o *2: v: cs o .£2 o o Crandell ’ 27 30| 25! 2TI 30!_ 2tj 6! 5| 111 12!' 200 McMahan 101 125 107 124 128 145| 71 21|~'69|~84'i~975 Ben Perry i73| 133| 1271 1901,175 j lA6| 52| Bgj~T76lie3j 1393 J. L. Perry_ 776 49 43 41 73; 41| 29| _ 56J J294j 216 i 918 Reichert 128 j j62|_2o2| 1531 179| 206| lQg|~T4| 9| 40[~1195 Tenney 169|_169 182| 191|_127| 69| 60| 176| ~lßo| 1512 Total Number Voting 382|'3'47j 354;*397| 409] 348| 1701 128 4121~376j“3323* Ellington In A Romp; New Blood On Carrboro ’s Board A record turnout of voters yes terday landslid C. T. Ellington into re-election as Mayor of Oarrboro and added new blood to the Board of Carrboro Com missioners. T. Hughes Lloyd and H. Bryant Hackney, waging surprise cam paigns in the race for three seats on the Board of Commis sioners, ran first and second re spectively in an unusually wide field of 11 candidates. Incumbent Commissioner Ralph Morgan ran third. A total of 625 people voted yes terday in Carrboro's single Town precinct. Town Clerk R. B. Todd said the vote was the largest in the history of the town. Only 220 people voted in Carrboro’s last municipal election in 1961, he said. Mayor Ellington 471 Greenhill_ 25 Shelton 9 Williams 107 Commissioner Butner Durham 169 Fisher 190 Hackney_ 255 Hoenig 76 Ivey 32 Lloyd 355 Morgan , 222 Riggsbee 191 V ickers 66 Williams 101 TbUl No. Voting " 625 The Chapel Hill Weekly Serving) te Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 5 Cents a Copy CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1963 ED TENNEY Tenney, B. Perry On School Board Edwin M. Tenney and Ben Per ry led a field of six candidates for two vacancies on the Chapel Hill School Board to win by un expectedly large margins. Mr. Tenney, the first candidate to file for the School Board race, led the ticket with a total of 1,512 votes from the Chapel Hill School District. Mr, Perry was second with a total of 1,393. The total vote in the Chapel Hill School District, including Chapel Hill, Carrboro and sur rounding area, ran to slightly bet ter than 50 per cent of the 6,006- plus registrants eligible to vote. A vote of almost 4,000 had been predicted. Trailing Mr. Tenney and Mr. Perry were Dr. Herbert Reichert, University professor of German and chairman of the Chapel Hill School Curriculum Study, with 1.195 votes; Dr. Elizabeth Mc- Mahan. professor in the School pf Public Health. 975 votes: Carr, boro resident James L. ("Pep si") Perry, 918 votes: and Dr. The surprisingly heavy vote was attributed to the wide choice of candidates and to an electorate fattened considerably by recent annexations in Carrboro. The Town’s total registration had doubled during the one-week reg istration period before the elec tion. i In addition to the turnout at the ■ft. _, . i .|l # ip " VOTER William l4e, left, voted from an ambulance in tion, asaisted by Mrs. Poe and election j*. T I f v mmmmk \ i BEN PERRY Clifton Crandell, professor in the School of Dentistry, 200 votes. Mr. Tenney had campaigned perhaps hardest of any of the can didates in the race, running on a platform that emphasized Im provements to technical-vocation al training programs in the schools. He is a Chapel Hill na tive, 40 years of age, a Univer sity graduate. He is a publish er’s representative for school textbooks, and has held numer ous positions as teacher and ad ministrator in education. Mr. Perry, also a Chapel Hill native and local businessman, holds a master’s degree in educa tion from the University; he has taught in State public schools and coached athletics for a number of years. He is currently presi dent of the Junior High School PTA. He had also campaigned strongly on vocational - technical training for Chapel Hill schools. In beating the field. Mr. Ten ney piled up substantial votes in (Continued on Page 2) polls, evidence of Carrboro’s un usual interest in its municipal elec tion was a crowd of about 200 voters and candidates who wait ed for two or three hours outside Carrboro Town Hall last night while the votes were be ing counted. An unofficial halfway report to (Continued on Page 2) judge P. R. Perry, center. The am bulance was provided by Walker’s Fun eral Home- Giduz Leads Ticket All Chapel Hill Incumbent v . .'• r *y: Aldermen-Score Solid Wins Turnout Is About 60 Pet. All three incumbents were re elected to the Town Board of Al dermen yesterday, with about 60 per cent of Chapel Hill’s regis tered voters turning out for the municipal elections. The Winners: Roland Giduz, editor of the News of Orange County and the Triangle Pointer, elected to his third term. Joe Page, proprietor of Ledbet ter-Pickard stationery store, elect ed to his first full term. Mr. Page was defeated in his first race for the Town Board two years ago. He was appointed to the Board to fill the vacancy created when Sandy McClamroch became May or. Gene Strowd, co-owner of John son-Strowd-Ward Furniture Com pany, elected to a third term. The/Wser: Joe Nagelschmidt, public rela tions director for Hospital Saving Association, making his" first bid for public office. He was the only challenger in the race. Sandy McClamroch, seeking a second term as Mayor, and Wil liam S. Stewart, seeking a sev enth term as Judge of Recorder's Court, were unopposed. Both were elected as a matter of course, al though the Mayor’s wife received a write-in ote at Estes Hills pre cinct. * A total of 1,519 voters cast bal lots in the Town election. The total number of registered voters is about 2,500. Roland Giduz led the ticket for Alderman with 1,119, followed by Mr. Page with 1,074, Mr. Strowd 931, and Mr. Nagelschmidt 817. Mr. Giduz led in three of the Town’s six precincts—Glenwood, Estes Hills, and Country Club— and had strong support in the other three. Mr. Page, with a surprising show of strength, ran first in Northside, Westwood and East Franklin precincts. The Negro vote apparently was (Continued on Page 2) , Weather Report Fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. High Low Free. Sunday 85 43 Monday , 83 50 Tuesday 77 54 .01 The rest of the week, according to Weekly weather observer Tom West, will be warmer than usual and without a drop of rain. Not ably cheerful weather for win ning candidates. KT H ’ JP jHP ROLAND GIDUZ Board Os Aldermen Returns jn ~ i,23 £ -3 ’8 2 1 2 ° -3 :£ £ «. £ 2 •£ « o « .« § B U O W U O H Giduz 116; 206 1 106 2.19; 2711 201 1119 Nagelschmidt 102| I6B| 1011 1391 162 150 817 Pago —l23| 180} 74| 236 f 278 188 1074 Strowd 'lll| 138! 72| 223| 242! 145| 931 Total Voters 200! 262 j 141| 314! 348! 254 1519 Sewer Bond Issue Given Wide Margin A $650,000 municipal bond issue for improvement of local sewer service received an emphatic four-to-one ypte of approval from Chapel HilFvoters in yesterday’s elections, j The issue, on which hinged an nexation of over 450 acres to Chapel Hill, carried all precincts by healthy margins. Only in Northside precinct, which in cludes an area that will benefit most directly from the issue, was the margin less than 50 votes. Northside voted 107-71 for the is sue. East Franklin Precinct, which will also be affected by the im provements, came through with s a 205-vote margin, 273-68. Other precincts: Country Club 219-33; Glenwood. 202-57; Westwood 217- 77; Estes Hills 114-25. No organized opposition to the issue had materialized, however some observers had felt that an unfavorabfiNvote for the recrea tion tax might possibly tumble the bond issue aiong with it. Indirect opposition to the bonds had come from residents of Clark Hills, who objected to the running of a sewer outfall line to service Lake Forest-Esatgate up to the gorge of Booker Creek. A num ber of Lake Forest residents had objected to annexation, however none of these was eligible to vote in Ihe Town elections. The bonds will mean expansion of the Town’s Morgan -Creek Sew age Treatment Plant to give suf ficient capacity to meet local needs for an estimated 15 years and relieve over-capacity on the old Bolin Creek plant. The Uni versity is paying half the esti mated $700,000 cost of the expan sion. the Town the other half. Other projects the bonds will support include sewer installation in Lake Forest-Clark Hills an<J an outfall line up Booker Creek to serve the surrounding areas. SIOO,OOO will go toward providing the exclusive residential areas the necessary collector lines, and another SIOO,OOO will go for the outfall line. Both amounts will t - Sewer Bond Prjscinct Yes No Northside 107| 71 Glenwood 202! 57 Estes Hill? 114! 25 Westwood 2171 77 E. Franklin 273| 68 Country Club 219| 33 Totals 1132; 3SI Published Every Sunday and Wednesday JOE PAGE be recovered through tap-on fees from users and from acreage charges of $125 per acre for new areassubdivrded in the area which the outfall line would log ically be expected to serve. Passage of the issue also makes possible the annexation of Lake Forest, Clark Hills, the Eastgate area and strips of land along both sides of the Durham Road to its intersection with U. S. 15-501 By pass at Eastgate. The annexation statutes of the State require that a municipality be able to provide city services within a reasonable period of time after the annexa tion. Approximately 462 acres will be added to Chapel Hill, increasing its size by 25 per cent. Annexa tion of another 200 acres north of Town would not have been af fectcd by the issue. However, SIOO,OOO of the issue will go toward a new outfall line down Bolin Creek, supplementing a presently inadequate line which now serves all northern Chapel Hill. Coining This Sunday BERT BENNETT, CHAIRMAN of the State Dem ocratic Party, is generally considered to be the front-runner for the 1964 gubernatorial nom ination. He is next in the Weekly’s series by W. 11. Scarborough on North Carolina guber natorial prospects. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ DACE RANSON, MHO conceived and developed fitness running and is the dean of Atlantic Coast Conference track coaches, is the talked in one of J. A. C. Dunn’s talk pieces. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ IN HIS WEEKLY REMINISCENCES Chancellor Robert House writes about Dr. Eben Alexander, the first dean ever appointed in the University who was also minister to Greece. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ They’ll lie in this coming Sunday’s issue of The Chapel Hill Weekly, along with Billy Arthur, Bill Prouty, and the latest news of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. Have a look. WEDNESDAY ISSUE GENE STROWD Chapel Hill CHAFF By LOLLS GRAVES There were six typographical errors in the first 15 lines of the report of the Kentucky Der by in Sunday's New York Times, but they did not spoil in the least degree the splendid story by doe Nichols. And of course they were not his fault. I suppose that corrections were made in a later edition of tire Times. Anyway the errors are a small price far readers in Chapel Hill to pay for hav ing the Times dispatched from New York Saturday night early enough to reach us by the next noon. What a wonderfully sat isfying sound is the heavy thump on the porch that <1 sit listening for on Sunday! As I pick up the paper I see the faithful messen ger of the Sunday Carrier Serv ice disappearing rapidly through the hedge on his way to some body else on his subscription list. I am reminded of the time, 60 years ago—a little while be fore the New York Times mov ed from Park Row uptown to 42nd Street and had Longacre Square renamed Times Square— when the managing editor used to assign one of us reporters to hours of "bug hunting.” That meant going through the day s issue of the paper and looking for misspelled words <especial ly worejs » specially people's names', omitted punctuation marks, and other errors. Some times persons whose names were spelled wrong were so in dignant about it that they call ed on the telephone to rake the Times over the coals, and we (Continued on Page 2)
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