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ity Is Questioned 1 licans, with a few Democrats infiltrating the ranks, '» county convention here last Saturday, over ruled of "certified precinct delegates and took control i organization when former officers and delegates 1 as the new party chairman to succeed Nflrshall was Col. H. L. Robb of Chapel Hill, still an un Republican in this county, whojias /spearheaded a Republican Club in the Chapel Hill area and put oil at least one public Tally m an effort to arouse €K>1* interest in the area. In the party hassle, the convention, attended by a size- i able Chapel Hill contingent, nominated a registered Demo uat for the chairmanship, who declined to serve, but later "as elected a member of the County Executive Committed.! He is Col. Thomas F. Taylor of i88p Gimghoul Road. Wh<|n nominated for the post of temporary chairman, he decline^, protesting lie did not know enough about the jojb* A chefk of registration books revealed he is still registered as a Demo crat in liis Chapel Hill precinct. Tempers flared on several occasions in connection with the meeting and at one point the Sheriffs Office was advised to get to the meeting at once as two women, said to Ire from Chapel Hill, were about to fight. Legality In Doubt The question of the legality of the convention proceed ings was immediately turned over to the State! GOP Cre dentials Committee, said to Ik* in session and studying the j matter Tuesday. M. L. Cates Jr., long-time member of the Orange Counff Flec tions Board and son of the ousted c hairman, declared the Saturday's .proceedings, were in his opinion in violation at the Republican Party’s platvof organization and that partki pat ion of persons not registered as Republicans and pencils registered as Democrats was illegal. He s;cid a check of the registration books revealed CoL Robb was not registered to vote,'that Col. Taylor, Nellie G. Curt, 22 Brandon Rd.. Chapel Hill and Orman Grant Crab KIDD BREWER'S l&undyp IT . . . Remember ►r in scliool when the [ried to persuade a cou-. i-graders to fight each fere would be taunts, khoving. |to no avail. The boys k't fightand about that heccss was over—so that kldcr fry filed into, the key philosophized on the thusly: “One of them |; and the other one was death he was afraid." | could have developed elements of the State Execut ive Commit tee ere last .Saturday to al lcation plans and to plan bvention on May 15. kon no battle developed: jras’ afraid; and the oth ad of it. Then. too. all ther on one point: the . Party is about to ruin Tactions of tire Democra are still disgruntled, is that Saturday’s meet |ttle to smooth-out some ctions—but at least no [developed and an all-out [averted. But what about of county committees?? TRADE . . . Until las seemed to care mucl [he N. Q. Citizens Assc •sen the president o | Electric as its chie kt the annual meeting ti Jcre on March 19. week when GE announc [s dropping fair tradi most of its smaller ap the talk coming at tin Ir to the Citizens assume* kportance. A large crow* tCTION? ... As we mo\ [finitely toward a declir ue to the State. Raleig te inquiring more an here are we going to g< Jey in 1959 to balance tl TGood question kh sales tax collectior [alendar year 1957—relea days ago by the N. ( Department—showed ii kin this source up a *sligl [over 1956, business is o flow in about half the corn he State. Iis.no need to whistle in tli put it. pme, our school populatio by leaps and bounds have a solemn obligation 1933 when we adopted th *—to support at State e: |*r schools: from first grad twelve, for nine month: Mite, Indian, or Smilinj erever situated within tli of North Carolina. Mat about the multi-mi or tax sacrifice we ai this fiscal year—and wi |ext fiscal year—to big ii Jn the hope of keeping th here and getting more [Nek? You hear in Raleig State Highway Fund ma [he greatest danger of ‘1 (Fearful of that, highwa re girding their loins for necessary. They say the [n thing that prompted foi Ighway Commissioner' En |inslow of Perquimans Corn nnounce for the Senate la: his desire to protect th |y Fund. i'00D? Will a sales tax be back on food? This would a fine howdy-do: take mil big industry and put mil n food. Raise the sales tax or five per cent so as to consumer harder? legislative news a year “ow will be money news. 1 why. every tinp you pick '« ROUNDUP. Page 2) t* . . Merger Vote Is Approved With no dissenting comment being aired, the County Board of Education Monday morning passed unanimously a request to the County Commissioners calling for an election in the Carrboro and White Cross School Attendance Areas in the question of join ing the Chapel Hill school district. Later in the day, the members met with the Board of County Commissioners and the Chattel Hill City Board of Trustees and ap praisd’d them of thair decision. The city board had already acted on the mstter by polling its members, thus making It mandatory that the Commissioners order the election. ' ' . . -V. . Official action will be taken'by the commissioners next Mon day when the formal resolution, including the legal description of the area to be included in the annexation proposal to be «ub mitted to the people, will be submitted to them. Date and other details of the election will be fixed at that time. A delegation of Carrboro residents representing the town's Citizens Committee for Schools pressed for the holding of the vote as soon as possible, in order that the. matter be settled before the beginning of the next fiscal year. If approved the proposal would extend the Chapel Hill Special School Tax District to include the Carrboro area and the residents of tf|e latter sector^wouid pay the same school tax now imposed in the Chapel Hill District. Mrs. Jesse West, a member of both the Citizens Committee and the Carrboro School Advisory Committee, was spokesman for the , local group at the Board of Education meeting this mornintf. Board member John Hawkins3 moved and Clarence Jones seconded the motion "Hi at they ask the commissioners to call the election. Chair man Charles W. Stanford expressed his endorsement of the idea, too. Both the County Commissioners and the Board of education received today a letter from Chapel Hill School Beard Chairman Gray Cutbreth stating that e poll of the Chapel Hill Boa J Jiiwai it to be in favor of the holding of the election. Its endorsement is required by state law In other actions, the Board of Education: Approved preliminary plans for the new building at Central School, after voting to reduce the allotted funds for this building to $206,000 Let contracts for approximately $200,000 in construction pro jects for three schools, Cedar Grove, Efland, and Efland-Cheeks, after deleting approximately $6,000 from the contracts. Successful bidders were W. L. Jewell & Sons, Sanford, general contract; W. M. Hunt Plumbing & Heating Co., Durham, plumbing; Ingram's Inc., Durham, heating; and Barton Electric Construction Co., Dur ham, electricaL ■ - Awarded a contract to Odis Johnson for $11,600 to build the new principal's home *at Aycock School, Cedar Grove Rejected all bids fr salvaging'the iron, brick, etc. at-the burn ed-out Central School and voted to turn the matter over to the State Insurance Division to handle the sale and removal. THE NEW METHODIST PARSONAGE . . . Dedication Rite* Scheduled Sunday At 3 * REPUBLICANS ELECT — Orange Canty's Republicans mat at i the County Courthouse on Saturday morning to choose officer* for the coming year. Left to right are E. A. Brown, Treacurer; J. L. Brown If., Secretary} Louit W. Sparrow, State Comtrtftfeeman; Cot;: Holland Robb, Chairman; and Mrs. Gaddi* Fields Jr., Assistant Secre tary. Absent are Mrs. H. H. Brown and Mrs. C. T. McAdams, Vice Chairwomen. Photo by Herb Gupton Red Cross Divisional Chiefs Named Divisional Chairmen of the Orange County Chapter's 19511 Ked Cross Fund and Membership campaign met at tire Presbyterian Church in Hillsboro Tuesday night and planned their annual drive. W. C. Mangum. ' Chapter Fund Chairman, outlined plarptMinti diatri i buted campaign materials to the , Division heads. ; Division Chairmen are: Rural Southeast — —Mrs. W. E. iSirayhorn; Southwest — Mrs.1 Cecil i Thompson; Northeast — Mrs: Clyde Roberts -and Northwest — GerdoTi | Liner. ; Schools - Mrs, Irene Pender; Colored — A L. Stanback; Efland —Mrs. John Forrest: Special-Carl Davis; Industrial John Terrell; Business — Charles Walker, Jr. and i Hillsboro Residenti<jl~not announced. The Reverend C. H. Reckard gave an inspirational fattC to the' group, pointing out that the work or the campaign .workers was essen tially one of love and mercy. The film "Neighbor to Neighbor” i was shown, and was followed by a (discussion period and the comple tion of Divisional plans. Student Orator In State Finals Miss Ann Hawkins. Hillsboro High School student, has advanced to the Stale Finals in the American Legion Oratorical contest on the "Constitu tion of the United States." She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hawkins of Hillsboro Route 2. She will compete as one of four district winners tomorrow at Smith field for the State title and advance ment along the path to the National competition. . After winning the county event and the area competition later at SCHOOL ON SATURDAYS Orange Countv schools will oper ate on two Saturdays. March K and 29’ arid continue until May 31st, to make up for the time lost during the recent snow, the Board of Education decided Mon day. * Central School will have to make up eight days by Saturday opera tions throughout March and April to enable them to get out on May 31 also. Students begun occupancy of the new 12-room building Mon day at Central. Durham. Miss Hawkins competed last week in the District Contest at Selma and was declared the winner in competition with contestants from 13 other counties. Fire Destroys Reitzel Home The honje of Mr and Mrs. W .1 Reitzel. north of Kfland. was com pletely destroyed by Arc Tuesday, morning. Mr. Reitzel suffered second and third degree burns on the "back: .Tit iiis hands, when he. almost became trapped in the burning structure and had to "crawl from the* house, feeling his .way with his hands along the scortched baseboards. Mrs. Reitzel was not at home and 1 Mr. Reitzel was some distance from the home when the fire began, ap parently in the kltclien, where two gas units were in.use. Origin of the fire was not determined The home was burned to the ground before the Rural Fire Truck at Hillsboro could reach the scene. Rabies Clinic i Vaccinations Going Slowly l>og vaccination clinics for Oran#*1 ' County are now being held and County Doij Warden Caslte Boggs | says that in some areas dog owners are not attending the clinics. A schedule of -vAec-inations clinics in the various communities is pub lished in -each issue of The News and Boggs urges dog owners to refer to this schedule and meet him at t lit- most convenient place. The tee Jor yaccintaion is 75 cents l>er animal at the clinics and if the warden litis ' to go to the owner's l.ome to vaccinate the dog $150 et ch. Owners who fail to get their dogs vaccinated during the Clinics which end J\1ay 1, will be charged $1.00 for each dog vaccinated later and will be also Ik- subject to penalties prescribed by law. The law says: "fn any county in which a dog warden is appointed pursuant to this act, it shall be unlawful for any person who owns or has cus tody of a dog to allow such dog to be off the premises of such owner or custodian unless such dog is (See DOG CLINICS. Page 6) 1Economy Measure‘... Carrboro Police Told To Cut Down Mileage (’.an l)oi<> s pulin' have l>ct*n ordered t<> halve ihe monthly mileage on t lie it" patiol tai iti an-tHrOtu>ilu.-ineayire 01 tier ed by the Town's" lioard of Commissioners. * Main poinr in the new reg ulations was to hawe the two member police department spend more time in the downtown district. But (lie orders have for all practical purposes eliminated rou tine patrolling and checking around the town—a duty generally con sidering important and necessary to police duties. The new ruling came about alter a check of the Police Department’s $9,000 annual budget, showed that two-thirds of this amount had been spent as of Dec. 31-the mark m the year. This was he only section of the’town s regular budget of $114,000 which was much over the 50 per cent marie at mis point, according to Mayor K. B. Todd .Averaged 2.345 Monthly % Whereas during the first six 1 months of the fiscal year the pa trol car averaged 2.345 miles a month, it Mas ordered that this fig . ure be halved—to 1.172 miles a month, or about 39 miles for each 18-hour day tttfet the police are on I duty, proportionately Carrboro puts about eight per cent of its budget into the Police Department. By way of comparison. Chapel Hill police patrol cars, during the same daily 18 hours that Carr boro police are on duty, average about 150 miles. The Town of Chapel Hill puts $80,000. or about 23 per cent of its $338,000 budget into the Police Department. An authority on jiolice administra ■ noli, eonsuHt’u un uus m«uci, mm ed that he felt the Chapel Hill ex 1 penditures and patrol car mileage j averages were, if anything, not at ill too high. ' i Departments Cooperate The Chapel Hill and Carrboro Po lice Departments have always cooperated closely in carrying out | law enforcement duties in the two adjoining municipalities. Each De partment customarily aids the other on any calls as requested or neces sary, and the Carrboro patrol car is on the Chapel Hill radio network. Kor this service, and for the use ; of the Chapel Hill jail, the Town of i Carrboro pays a monthly fee. Officals of the two police de partments have stated that they do not plan for the new Carrboro patrolling policy to affect their cooperative work. But a Chapel Hill official has reported that the curbing of the patrol cars—placing them out of touch via radio—has caused “an inconvenience'’ in con tacting the CarrborA patrolman on duty. “Calls for the Carrboro Police Department have to come through out station." he explained. “Since the ear is now usually parked down town we have to telephone to stores up and down Main St in order to reach the patrolman on duty, and this generally delays getting the message through. Parking. Traffic. Problems Mayor Todd explained the new ruling this way: “We felt we need ed the police more in the business and school sections, rather than on patrol around town—and sometimes even outside of town. Our downtown traffic problem is getting terrific and parking is also gutting to be a problem. “So we've had to cut down on just driving and riding. If the po lice age called'on hi an emergency, of course we expect them to goj. They keep a record of a^tiieir travels on a daily log. Mayor Todd emphasized that the new policy means "no criticism of our police. They are doing a good job We're just running a little tight on our Police Department account. If this doesn't work out. it's no ihing that can't be corrected. Next year we-may need to put more ill our Police Department.'' The New Orders Following is the complete directive to the police in this situation: "l—1That the police car not be driven more than one-half the num ber. hf miles per month th«$t it has been driven in the past * The aver jige mileage per month for the past six months has been 2.345 miles "That each police officer spend more Him patrolling jq. the busi ness section of town on foof'lhan they have in the past, and take calls front the police telephone on the street. When the police car is parked the motor -hall be cut_off at all times. In cases where either polite is called out of town to assist Chapel Hill police or any other officers or for any other business a record shall be made in the daily police report stating who'called, what for. and how long” thfry stayed out of town. 'These rules and regulations to be attached to and made a part of the’ rulrf and regulations that you now-have." * tree. Hillsboro, all of whom are registered as Democrats, were participant' at the coo ven tiihi which voted out tb<e 17, who came as “certified** precinct delegates. He said 40 deleptts were authorized un der the party plan of organiza tion. The plan of organization of the Republican Party of North Carolina, its recorded in The North Carolina Manual, in j eludes this provision as Arti <*te XI: “Participation in Pairs ty Actions -r- All reference herein to voters, delegates, al ternates, rhainneti. vice-chair men, and otlier precinct, coun ts and state officials shall in all cases lie construed to mean persons identified ahd regist ered wii' tlie Republican Par-. W S N*w I; Named as the party after 'f were Col. H. L. man; Mrs. H. chairman: Mt. ’Adams, second vSBS' fhSirift#tt; J. I„ Brown |r.. sccretgr^; Mrs. (ieddie Fields. |r.. as sistant secretary: and E. A. Brown. treasurer. The following were named amm bers of the Executive Committee: Claude A. Gray. J. S. Dark. Thom as K. Taylor, L. W. Sparrow. C. W. Brown, Mrs. G. W. Trindal. Iks. Marion Crossen. W. G. Fialialjr., J. M Pendergrass, M. J Walker, R. M Hill. M L Cates Jr.. & &. Cheek, A. G. Crawford Jr„ Hptl rick Dodson. C. G. Cates, and C *. McAdams. All of the new officers weir* nominated and elected from the floor after thr Chairman aad "certified” delegates walked Mt of the meeting. Identify of those making the nominations could 90* be ascertained-, Calf Par Cradasstlals Following the call to order by Chairman Cates. a call was issued for the presentation of credentials from the precincts. When .these were turned in. motion was made by Louis Sparrow of Chapel Hill, long-time Republican leader in that area and a member of the State GOP Committee, that all creden tials be disregarded and nomina tions be made from the floor. When this motion carried, the Chairman warned such action was illegal un der the party plan of organization and a motion was made to ap point a' temporary chairman. K H. Ba>night of CtUpelTUll was the-first nominee but he'(In clined on the basis of health. CeL Taylor was then nominated and he declined, pleading lack of knowl edge of correct procedure. Col. Robb, the third nominee, accepted on condition tliat Louis Sparrow assist him. At this point, the chairman, kis supporters, and the “certified” delegates walked out of the meet ing. Col. Robb, who has been regist ered in the Republican Party in another State, had not been a rev ident of the State for the requir ed 12 months when books were last open in October, 1956. Clem Strudwick Local Artist, 57, Succumbs Clement Read Strudwick, 37. Hillsboro artist, died at his IwM ..here Wednesday evening, Feb. H, after an extended illness. -Me:■■>Strudwick was one of the State's best known portrait pl>inters and his work on many occasions has received wide recognition. Likewise, ho served as teacher and mentor to many young artists in this had other nearby communities. He was the son of Sheppard and Susan Read Strudwick of Hillsboro. Other survivors include two broth ers. Sheppard Strudwick Jr. of Cos cob. Conn., and Edmund Strud wick ni of Hillsboro; and one nephew, Sheppard II of Coscob, Conn. .Funeral services were conducted Saturday morning at 11:30 o’clock at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church by the Rev. C. H. Reckard. pastor. Burial was in the • Mltta
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