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"T Or«n0* County tfP with tho now* ' r «ht county by the news of County t1 numbok flj SIX PAGIS THIS WMK »? ' - ■ b0L AS • • • They weren’t Lch about it for publica V early last week as Ra jinperatures humidly hov , hundred, several do ts were desperately search some means of bringing air ining into at\Jeast some of bices. i a hard road, for last Fri the first work day this that has seen the mer to more than 100—Gov lliam B. Umstead call id htening of spending so , WOuld be enough money appropriations for this jid the next Legislature uVe to decide whether to [taxes or reduce spending. •fectly apparent,” he t one of these steps must _ed like no air condi | for many an office here ing> while. Meahtiihie’, how is air conditioning in Jvernor’s office—p.ut there [predecessor—and in about other special places on I Square. L’CUMBER . . And, just [the Governor’s office win ing to a good 75 feet above g grass on the neatly l lawn is one of the finest the Square. It iff' k Cu e, is so labeled, is about in diameter at the base, made many a,. Governor i a ditto-t-even before the [of air conditioning. OUT ... We have been r upwards of a million to keep warm in win 'en the right housing, we sll conquered cold weath of years ago. Buf ! been spent right here -and for the most part -in the search for summer . Now, for about $300, you (ve perfect comfort in your 10m or bedroom and thus mone^ you have been I around for a lot of clap i an effort to keep cool. Jther thing: I don’t have air oning in ray car, but I rode recently that does have n’t tell you in a word or : how nice it is, but 1 will : I’d rather have that cool : in my flivver than all ihe Inals, radios, back-up lights, ■ubber cushions, back pil igarette lighters, squirting and seat covers you can t me. >u can see, Fm all-out for ditioning—especially about '■ of year. PA/THY . . . Sam Smith is lief budget offficer for the Highway Commission. He is i' easy-going individual— but Hy wields more influence the rank and file of high “Ployees than anyone else— irobably has more friends than anybody else. iffies past, 1 have gone for s without even thinking Sam. However,, several aS° Sam lost his wife. She % became ill, went to the a' for a checkup, and died 1 thereafter. - Smith and his wife were •levoted to each other. They together almost constantly was not on his Job.” Now isn’t a day that passes that 1 thh/ about Sam and si sympathize with him. When ,ch devoted people no longer each other, nothing else t° make too , much differ Sam now moves around in " Governor Umstead has ex * his sympathy to Sam ^®nd so have hundreds of People, including the great le small. mere words prove ineffect f en Same gofi home each RAY (. .. This is a little Joout little. Ray" Matulewiez, who came out of the mourn !$ Penn®ylvan*a boxed /to Warren at Duke Univei' pfhe middle 30’s. He was Conference champ, in I*17# Class in 1935-36-37. Is*8 SOVNDUP, page 2) >; i. * •• ’ Education Board Trims Request By $18,000 Group Cuts Capital Outby Portion After Board Of County Commissioners Request The Orange County Board of Education, acting under in iL bS/v the Coum>' Commissioners,U<;Kbpped Aho^df by OVer $18,000 in the capital outlay division, made ^92’°00 Was el1 for caP,tal outlay after the cut was Cuts were made in the following places: An original request for Si 1,000 lor new building and. grounds work at the Carrboro I Elementary School site was re duced to $8,000. A request for $35,000 for the C. E. School Building was cut to $25,000. The request for Court House renovations was reduced by $3,000. (The courthouse is being renovat ed to house the Board of Educa tion as the court offices will move into the new court house soon.) An Airman Parks School request was cut by $2,<X)ft Workshop On Leadership To Start July 18 CHAPEL HILL — A Workshop on Leadership Training for Com munity Education will be held at the University of North Carolina July 18-22 it was announced this week by Dwight C. Rhyne, assist ant director, University Extension Division and Workshop Director. The Workshop will be sponsor ed by the North Carolina Woman’s Council and the American Foun dation for Political Education in cooperation with the N. C. State College Home Demonstration Ex tension Service and the UNC Ex tension Division. Participants will attend group ^sessions where public speaking, human relations and program planning will be emphas'zeo. There will also be group sessions, on “Leader Training- in World Pol itics”. “Citizenship Programs" and “Resources for Community Edu cational Programs.” The workshop staff will be com posed of Dr Bernard H. Bovd, James A. Gray Professor of Bib lical Literature, UNC; Miss Thel rrta Brummett, Public Relations Consultant, Chapel- Hll.lL,. . ,Mjss Ruth Current, State Home Dem onstration Agent; Russell M. Gruman, Director, UNC Extension Division; Dr. Guion G. Johnson, President, N C. Woman’s Coun Chapel Hill; Dean Elizabeth Kemble, UNC School of Nurs Prof. Norman W: Maths, 1C English‘department; Dr. D. Monroe, UNC Political Science aartment: Mrs. Carl Plonk, heville, president, North Caro a Division, American Associa n of University Women; Jer e M. Ziegler, director. Eastern gional Office, American Foun ion for' Political - Education, w York, and Mr.’ Rhvne. yr Bovd. Mrs. Plonk *and Dr. nroe will ,frc. thelprinerial -akers at joint sessions to be d each morning from 9 to 9:50 lock. Dr. Boyd will speak on esponsibilities of Leadership Monday and on Tuesday Mrs. ink will discuss “How to Get 1 Keep Members.” Dr. Monroe 1 lecture on “Parliamentary jcedure” at the Wednesday and sday joint sessions, gistration will , begin Sunday, 18, at 3 p.m. in Cobb Dorrn An informal reception will Jn tie Monogram . program will’conclude uith iquet in Lenoir Hall Thurs ight, July 22, at 6:30 o'clock. Three Orange County Women At Workshop Three Orange County 6ome Demonstration Club women at tended the State Music Mmkshop at Catawba College this week. , Ther.women werfe Mrs ' Minnis Jr. from . FauttM. *£■ Paul Browning and M^s ct Mary's- Home Roberts, both of St. Ma . Demonstration Club. Women from throughou the tate are attending the workshop, CaroJina Extension Service ?tThe Workshop deals with rural and cUurch miisic. * Orange County schools came out of the session with a total of $180, 668, with $91,470 for capital outlay and $89,668 for operating ex penses. However, Superintendent C. B. Carr said, “On behalf of the board, I would like to express my ap preciation. You have been very, very nice to us.” Rogers Approved Fred Rogers was approved hj the Board as principal of Eflaii'd white school. Originally from Kelly in Bladen County, Rogers has been a principal in his home county.. He is a graduate of High Point College and has been work ing toward a masters degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Board also approved Har old Webb -as principal fo Cedar Grove Negro School. He has been serving as a science teacher at Central School. No replacement was named for John Smith, who resigned as head of Cedp Grove White School. Switched Hour* The Board changed the office and garage employees to a five day, eight-hour working schedule, with one hour for lunch and no change in salary. After considering six contracts for school jobs, the Board decid ed to study the jobs further and call for other bids. The jobs are outside painting for Hillsboro High School, auditorium cushiontone for Hillsboro High School, lighting for A.vcock, roofing for Efland, cush iontone for Efland, and asphalt tile flooring for Efland Negro. Efland Youth Arrested On Two Charges It looked like another traffic offense this past Monday when Patrolman M C. Parnell handed Swain Allen. 22, of Efland, a ticket for reckless driving. The patrolman""stopped Allen, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs.' Roy Allen, on Highway 70, be tween Eflatid and Mebane, After the ticket -was ’ written, young Allen tore it up. Then he jump ed in the car and drew a knife, according to police. He threat ened to cut the'patrolman. Thinking quickly.' Patrolman Parnell stalled the youth and, meantime, managed to put in a rall*to Patrolman Mann Norris on the car radio. Norris arrived, and the *t\yo patrolmen forced Allen out of his auto, handcuffed him, and took him to jail. - The charge: reckless driving and assaulting an officer. Orange Marks Citizens of Orange County; had H “very, very good weekend’ as far as safety is concerned, Police Chief T. P Smith reported this week. Srrtith said there were no in juries, no fatalities, and no acci dents in the Hillsboro area over the customarily dangerous Fourth of July weekend. However, 34 arrests were made from Friday4hrough Monday. Most of the arrests were for speeding. Also there were some arrests for reckless and drunk driving, and a few stop-light violations were re ported. Thus far this year there has been only one fatality in the coun ty Smith was full of praise for the people of the county. He ex pressed his appreciation for the cooperation that citizens of the county have given the police. --- GEORGE BULLOCK, JR. Bullock Dmignated Airman Of The Month Airman Second Class Luther Bullock Jr. has been named Air man of the Month at Fuchu Air Force Base, Japan. He also re ceived the Good Conduct Medal tor his three years service, two of,, which have been in- Japan. Before being sent overseas he was grad uated from the Air Force Radio SchoQl at Scott Field, Illinois. The son of Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Bullock of Carrboro, he will be returned to this country sometime during the spmmer. Farmers In County Turn 0 To Irrigation Tobacco farmers in this drought stricken county are planning to build more irrigation’ ponds to hedge against recurring dry spells, County Agent Don Matheson re ported this week. He said that farmers all over Orange County are talking up the idea of ponds and irrigation e quipment as the second drought in two years continues to take its toll in leaf. “There’s just no comparison be tween the tobacco which hps been getting water from irrigation sys tems and that which hasn’t,” the county agent reported. “Most of the county is pretty badly hit.” Matheson added that farmers are “seeing it for themselves” that the irrigation systems are paying off and “there is a great interest growing here in building more ponds. They’re expensive but not as expensive as droughts.” However, he reported that one of the seven irrigation ponds in the county has gone dry. “I just don't know how much longer the rest will hold out. We’ve got to have ain soon.” __ He said Orange County escaped the devastating storm that hit two nearby counties Monday, “We were lucky on that score, but a bout everything that can happen has happened to this year’s tobac co crop.” Matheson said if rain comes and continues — for a * while tobacco farmers here would get by with a 20 per cent loss. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t say what the outcome will be.” He said that about the same thing holds true for the corn crop. The wheat crop is almost harvested. On the streets here, talk cen ters on the weather. “I’ve been looking up at them clouds all day—hoping and pray ing it would rain,” one overalled farmer said. “Looked like yester day it was going to rain for sure. Now look at them dark clouds up yonder. Bet it won’t It didn’t. r Commissioners Set Give New Budget 1 1 62 Percent Of Budget Marked For Schools; I $37,500 Interim Appropriation Is Granted J HILLSBORO — The Board of Qbunty Commissioners this week *t a tentative tax rate at 62 cents per $100 property evaluation and decided to adopt its proposed bud- j get on July 26. .Meantime, the county will oper ate on an interim appVopriation oC $37,500 which was made at the request of County Account ant Sam Gattis. The money will serve county needs until the pro ] posed $806,095 budget is adopted. The 62 cent tax rate went to the limit set * by the commissioners, who had been considering a rate between 57 and 62 cents. /Last year the county tax rate vf»s $1 per $100 evaluation, but s^icc that time a revaluation of property has fceeen made for tV purpose of equalizing the tax lead, according to the board. On the basis of the previous evaluation, it would have taken a $1.16 rate to raise the fuH amount. Commissioner Sim £fland sug gested that the rate be cut to 60 cents, but Chairman R. O. For rst said that every penny reduc tion under the 62 cent level would mean a $7,000 cut in funds. “I personally think,” he said, ‘‘that we cannot kfford' to cut it. 1 will have to go along with the 62 cents,” Forrest said that dver 62 per cept of the budget is now going to the schools. He said that it is the “highest they have ever got ten.” Last year the schools re ceived 52 percent of the budge*. Last year's tax budget was S^dO. 609. while this year’s budget is $397,902. This represents an in creased tax budget of $30,000. Schools last year got $114,000 for current expenses and $116 000 for capital outlay. This coming year the budget provides (or $121, 000 current expense and $138,000 capital outlay.* County Accountant Gattis ex plained that last year's $116,000 for capital outlay was not really $116,000 but $91,000, in effect, since $25,000 had been carried over from the previous year's obliga tions. Last year’s total budget was $782,000 as compared to this year’s total budget of $806,095. The board .also discussed, with out taking any definite action, a blanket bond plan for county em ployees not covered by statutory bonds. Gattis told the board that the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill had suggested the blanket plan as protection for both the bonded person and Kis agent. Gattis pointed out that county officials are often held financially responsible for acts of their ag ents aiid that this plan would pro tect them as well as the county. “I don’t think we should use taxpayers’ money to protect any body except the county,” Commis sioner R .J. M. Hobbs said. Commissioner Efland agreed with Hobbs. Final action on the matter yas referred to a later meeting to make time for considering the Chapel Hill school budget. The board trimmed the Chapel Hill school supplement to a 12 cent per $100 rate, despite a drive by Chapel Hill school people for retaining the full 20c rate. The supplement will give Chapel Hill $34,600 on the 12-cent basis, most of which is used to supplement teachers’ salaries. tarrbo.ro Zoning Ordinance Finally Enacted Into Law Carrboro’s zoning ordinance, carefully considered for many months, went into effect July 1.1 The town commissioners praised the three-zone law the night be fore enacting a sort of compro mise measure on the only contro versial part of the bill. - Residents of West Main Street wanted this area zoned as fesiden-1 600 In State Killed Each Year In Homes The proclamantion by the Pres ident of the United States setting aside the week of July 25 as Farm Safety Week has particular inter est for North Carolinians where more than 600 persons are killed; each year in hotne and farm acci dents, it was pointed out here today by a safety spokesman of the North Carolina State Board of Health. Dr. Charles M. Cameron Jr., chief of the health department’s Accident Prevention Section, in announcing the special Farm Safety Week, "called . attention to farm machinery and equipment,, fire, livestock, pesticides, and other chemicals as accident haz ards found on most of the state’s farms. “The Insect and Rodent-Control Section of the State Board of tial* properly, while businessmen there wanted it to be a business zone As the ordinance was enact ed the business zone — which runs about 100 feet on both sides of Main Street along its entire length up to Cates’ service sta tion — was extended on out to the Highway 86 54 junction. This iPi'i ^nmeThonses on the Hillsboro Road out of the area that had earlier been proposed as a bus iness zone. Parts of the business district on Greenshoro Street have also been zoned as business property and the- area—around the railroad tracks is zoned as industrial prop erty. Everything else has been des ignated as residential property, with 7,^00-square-foot lot restrict tion. 2;000 Large Moutl] Bass Put In Eno River *• Bob Logan reports that a ship ment of large mouth bass, ap-, proximately 2,000, has b e e n brought from the Table Rock Hatchery in Morganton and re leased in the Eno River above Hillsboro and (he New Hope Creek. This is done once or twice a year. They are paid for with the revenue paid by the fishermen themselv'es with the money paid for their fishing license. Mr. Logan reported that fishing has geen extra good this past week at University Lake in Chap ‘‘1 Who Picked The Pastels? New Courthouse Pink & Careen ¥ , Even the County Commission ers had to take off a few min utes to walk through the new courthouse in Hillsboro this week; This building is a curio vis com bination of modem and tradi tional designing * and featured 1 pink and green pastel walls inside: « Standing in the big new court room the other day, one of the commissioners remarked, “Best looking court room I’ve ever been in.” The others with | him agreed. Decorated id pink — and green, the court room has six large, old-fashioned chande liers in gold. The hallways of the buildiu.; have asphalt tile flooring of many colors—gray, green, pink and so on down the spectrum. Upstairs there are three main offices, a pink one, an aqua one, and a green one. A large picture window looks down onto4' the cottrt-v,room from the upstairs section^ The new court house is topped with one of the things of the past a, bell tower. Looking at r the new court house while stand ing in front of the old one, you can see the doorway of the new pastel-decorated one framed in the doorway of the old one, which the Board of Education will take over. It wop’t be long now, about August or September, before the new court house is complete, and judges will sit in a pastel court room to hear the casts of the county. j ' Who dipt the decocrating? No one seems to know. Appar ently, it was done by the con tractor, Archie Davis of Durham * \ /, 62-Cent Tax Rate, tentative Approval Speaking for the board, Forrest said he didn’t think the Chapel Hill Board should supplement the salaries. Oringe County’s School Board eafii^ out with a total of $180,608, with $01,470 for capital outlay and >88,6$8 for operating expenses. The grange County unit had to trim $18,000 from its capital out lay budget. Funds proposed for the Carr boro Elementary School site were cut from $11,000 to $8,000 and the building fund dropped from $35,000 to $25,000. The money pro posed lor renovating the old county courhouse, which, will house the education offices, was cut from $11,000 to $7,000. For Chapel Hill i School Tax Supplement Cut From 204 To 124 HILLSBORO—“This board doesn't want to tell the Chapel Hill School Board where to cut, but I will say we are unanimously opposed to an increase in supplementary pay to teachers." That was the way County Commissioners’ Chairman R. O. Forreet told Chapel Hill school folks— Culbreth Grey and C. W. Davis— that the 20c school tax supplement on present property values would be cut to 12c. Under the 12c tax levy Chapel Hill schools will receive $34,600 rather than $57,800 which a 20c levy would have brought. The schools will receive a total of $112,261, which will include $46, 000 for capital outlay expenses, $32,000 on a per capita student basis, and the $34,600 from the supplementary tax levy. Orange County schools came out of the session with a total of $180,068, with $91,470 for capital Outlay and $89,668 for operating expenses, Later Forrest said he “personal ly” would like eventually to see a vote on the school tax. He stressed the fact that the recent land re*! valuation was “not a tax raising program” but a “tax equalizing propjun.” The School Board requested that the commissioners, who hold the tax levying authority, keep the full 20c supplement although property values have more than doubled as a result of the revalu ation. Davis, C-hapel Hill superintend-' ent, put his case for the full 20c tax this way: “I d like to have the best school I can. I can have a better school with more money.” The superintendent sharply crit State Troopers Give Report On Violations RALEIGH — For the first six months of the year state troopers arrested 21,745 Tar Heels for, speeding, the Motor Vehicles De partment reported today. Fast driving led by far the haif year report of moving traffic vio lations. Simple speeding, doe's not require revocation of driving priv ileges for the first offense, the department said. Other violations reported for the period included driving without an operator's permit, 4,825; reckless driving, 3,500; faulty equipment, 3,508; failing to stop for a stop sigh, 4,234; improper passing. 1,931; following too closely, 1,092; and driving .on wrong side of road, 1,198. The report showed a total of 45,998 Tar Heels found guilty of moving violations through June 30. Liquor—whether transported or imbibedw«o8t •.thegreatest.juuubyr of Tar Heel drivers -their driving privileges for the first six months of the year. In June 688 drivers were re quired to surrender their drivers’ license, bringing the half-year'* total of DD offenders to 4.557: Speeding was in second place with 3.852 convictions, most of them the result of speeding over 70 mph in an automobile. j DriWig after license revoked resulted in additional penalties foi 308 motorists during the first hall and two offenses of reckless driv ing got 179 more. The six months’ report showed miscellaneous violations and sub sequent convictions as • follows: habitual violators, 318; larceny of auto, 71; improper use of driver's license, 47; and unsatisfied judg ment, 267. ■ J‘ r • *s kited * newspaper story that stated Chapel Hill had closed its year with a $24,000 surplus. "That money,” explained Davis, “is being spent this summer for items which were included in* last year's bud get . . . The reason it is being ' spent now instead of during the last fiscal year is that most of the work which the money is paying for can be done more convenient ly when school is out.” On the other hand, Forrest-put the Board of Commissioners' posi tion like this: ‘We are not con vinced that the people want more school taxes. I would like to 'see you people in Chapel Hill conduct a ballot on the issue before next year's budget is considered.” Forrest said that he had heard too much opposition to raising school taxes and that the board did not believe the people would go along with the increeae which would result from the maximum levy fTill HplilptmiT —‘ixi1^ »o make. Commissioner R. J. U. Hobbs of Chapel Hill told Chapel Hill school official* that he favored at least a 15c levy. He declared that he couldn’t "go along with my brothers here" on. the reduction to 12c (Hobbs is acting dean of the University's School of Business Administration.) Chapel Hill School Board mem ber Grey Culbreth said that he hadn't heard any opposition to the 1 full levy but admitted most of | his contacts are wtih citizens who -upport school measures. Davis, after the board had an ; nounced its decision on the tax, de clared, -I -just don't seew how folks are going to meet school needs the way the population has increased, particularly in the Chapel Hill area. And Davis added, “We could solve all our school problems ilwe just had the money." One of the commissioners asked, "How about Segregation?” That, too.'’ answered Davis. w “How?" asked Commissioner Hobbs. I “I'd like to go back over tue last hundred years and show you " replied Davis. Then Chairman For rest reminded Davis and Hobbs that they were digressing. Although the commissioners mentioned opponents of the full 20c tax levyi at no point were any names of such opponents men tioned. If the full 20c levy had been retained, revenue from the tax would have been doubled since property values were doubled iq. the revaluation program. The com missioners called the 12c rate one which allowed for a "normal increase.” Orange Draft Board Searching For Three Mrs. Gloria Cox of the Orange County, Draft Board Office reports that the Board is> searching for three men. The Board has been 1 unsuccessful in all attempts to lo cate these men and has made the ollowing request: “If anyone 'cnows the whereabouts of these men. please call or stop by the Draft Board Office.” Following Searched ’ iddress ?her Ja, Bradsher,
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