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VOL. 66 NO. of orange county Carrboro—Between and Beyond— THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1959 20 PAGES HOW’S THIS FOR A SATURDAY morning reveille? An Apex, Route Three, man told police he ran out of gas about hali-way down tne Pittsboro Rd. hill below Merritt's Service Station in Chapel Hill at 4.30 am. last Saturday. That's why he honked his horn for a half-hour. When he told it to the judge in court the reply was $10 and costs for public drunkenness. ALL ORANGE COUNTY LAW enforcement officers and their wives were guests at a Christmas party Tuesday evening in the Carrboro Lions Clubhouse, cour tesy of the Carrboro police. Carr boro merchants donated the turkey dinner, which was cooked by Red McBane —Some of the boys scarce ly recognized each other out ot uniform. RECALLING THE TAR HEEL industry junket to Europe during his talk before the University Fac- j ulty Club on Tuesday, Gov, Hodges noted he’d received calls that j morning from the states of Ohio | and Nebraska, both of which were planning similar-type trips to South America. “Both of 'em wanted to know what we did on our trip, but I didn’t tell ’em,” •quipped the Governor. THE COUNTY’S NEW ABC LAW enforcement unit is off to a fast start. In their first week on the job officers Burch Compton and Charles Talbert have cut a good sized- stHi inCedar Grove Town ship and a smaller submarine Brtce Forest in Chapel Hrg Township. R ISN’T THE SICE OF THE (Mnimmitgr, but the equipment in Rs talephoni exchan. ' that win necessitate three se, > ex Chengre far the can. when it becomm part of Uk >*ut>n» wide direct-distance-dialing set-up in Mil, according te the explana tion of ’phone company officials. While mrtrnpdRwn Charlotte, with iOiom. is <ndy a one-exchange bang, tiny Chapel Hill is designat ed as a three-exchanger—Wind sor, WArwick" and YOrktown. f THE PRE-DUKE GAME FES tttKim were wound up in Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court Tkieeday as a UNC student, Thomas Barrie, paid $10 and costs after pleading nolo contendere to illegal use of a mask. He was nabbed by police for being an “agitator,” wearing a handkerchief over his face, dur ing a “panty raid” two weeks ago. And five Duke students paid $5 and costs each for littering the streets. Specifically, two night be fore the big game, local police saw them tossing dozens of empty beer cans out of a car window as they sped through the campus. MOST OF THE SEVEN-ACRE tract on Airport Rd. where Ted Danziger plans a new shopping center has been graded off by a tractor. The developer said this was necessary to get a better idea of how the building sites are to be laid out. However, the entire project is planned to take seven years construction time. (More PEAL1NGS aa back page) 16 FROM ORANGE AT W. C. A report from the Woman’s College in Greensboro shows that 16 of the 2,641 students currently j enrolled there are from Orange County. In 1953 there were 20 from Orange, in 1957, 26, and last ysari « State officials cite benefits, unqualified endorsement Campaign for fluoridation of Hillsboro water supply carried to town board "Fluoridation of municipal water supplies has been prov ed over and over again to be an inexpensive and completely safe means ol preventing 60 per cent of dental decay. "Its beneficial effects have been proved, re-proved and at tested throughout the world. j These statements, iiji essence, sum up the remarks of Dr. E. A. I Pearson Jr., director of the Di-1 vision of Oral Hygiene,' North Carolina State Board of Health, 1 in appearances Tuesday night be- i fore the Lions Club of Hillsboro and the Town Board of Commis sioners. Launch campaign Dr. Pearson’s talks to the two groups launched the club’s cam paign, planned several weeks ago, to secure the fluoridation of the i town’s water supply. Accompanying Dr. Pearson and speaking to the two groups on engineering aspects of the fluoridation process was W. J. Stevens of the Division of Sani- j tary Engineering, State Board ! of Health. Describing the widespread pre valence of tooth decay as one of the major health problems. Dr. Pearson described fluoridation as “simply restoring to water a nat urally occurring and nutritionaMy necessary element which, through soil erosion and other abuses, has become unevenly distributed . . Double decay rate cited Pointing out that approximately 750,000 North Carolinians live in1 municipalities which pow have fluoridation, he displayed a graph chart showing that - the average number of “decayed, missing, or I Med" teeth per child between the ages of six and 12 in Hillsboro and Chapel Hill (based upon results of a recent Board of Health ami nation) was twice the rate children in the community Dunn, which has fluoridated water for the past five years. Mr. Stevens told the Tm Beard and water department of ficials that equipment aad lab oratory materials far fluoridat ing Hillsboro's water mppty would coot approximately $1,50# aad that the maximum caste of (Saa FLUORIDATION, Papa 2) 10-Year school needs shown Pupil enrollment of 5,576 seen in Chapel Hill by 1970 Ninety-nine additional classrooms will bo noodad to houso an octimatod Chapel Hill public school enrollment of 547* in 1970, according to the ostimato of tho Suporintondont of Schools Joseph Johnston. i«hd 10 years into tho fwtwro, Suporintondont Johnston foresaw on increase of 7,146 pupils over tho current year's total of 1430. Tho figures wore presented in tables drown up for tho Chepei HM School Board. !| The Suporintondont also laid out a rough P*an os to how tho! additional pupils couM bo housed through potential construction estimated to coot $3,030,000. Tho osuon schools now In tho uyofotn have 116 classrooms. Estimated need for 1970-71 is 1S1 rooms. Thirty-four existing clasarooms aro sub-standard and need to bo CjgMABigkSwMrlnm* ^aIaJ rvpiBhvuf riw dvptnniffiaffiT noiN. Johnston sot down the following as a possible construction program to accommodate tho growing school population. Ho em phasised that this program had not been adopted, but merely rep resented a potential plan. school population increased $3 per cent from a starting total of 1446 in tho present 3,430. Greatest piefc-up was noted in tho first to sixth grades of the white schools, where the population rose 139 per cent. An enrollment projection table prepared by tho Institute for Research in Social Science showed a total school population of 5,936 for the year 1975-76—4427 white pupils and 1,300 Negro. In a survey of tho school population for the poet decade, pre * Eight-room addition, Glen wood School * Eight-room addition, Estes Hills School * 20-room elementary school * 12-room elementary school ‘ 14-room addition to high school * 35-room junior high school * Six-room addition, junior-senior high * School sites ' Administration building * Equipment * Major renovations $ 150,000 $ 150,000 , $ 500,000 $ 500400 $ 275400 $1400400 $ 130400 $ 75400 $ 50400 $ 250400 S 150400 Total $3430400 During tho decade since 1949-50 tho over-all Chapel Hill Carrboro surveys A detailed study of passible areas for TowB^jjfjCatrboro has been presented to ihe T< missioners. The comprehensive survey of the financial potential north tod west-side annexations coven cmc areas totalling 371 The present boundaries of tin rectangular square mile and one baV municipality have remained unchanged since its 59 years ago. mission * (Want At the meeting of the Town Board night before last the com missioners received the report Warren J. Wicker, an as Director of the Institute of Government, who prepared It with the help of University law student William BoUford. 83 per cent napavei — are to Total paving coot to at $37,00*. T# provide water and service to the entire would coot 1*0400 for ahont six miles of water tees and $17*, Th rough bond financing necessary improvements could made in all areas surveyed * in county school tyifm ... 85 pupil annual growth noted Orange County System public schools have been growing at an average rate of 85 pupils a year chiring the 1960s, according to a study of enrollment figures for this period. This was brought out in a ta ble presented to the County School Board by Superintendent of Schools G. Paul Carr. The Board, at its Monday meeting, also discussed future enrollment expectations. , Three mar* ttadwn annually During the current decade the growth has necessitated an aver age of three more teachers, a year. Increase in the white schools has averaged 49 pu&ils annually, and the Negro schools, 40. For the current year the 10 white schools have an enroll ment of 2,546. and the four Ne gro schools, 1,834. The Beard discussed with Central High School Principal A. t. SHnktck and afrkui »ure teacher J. M. Wtarfraa I ^ ^ — O l^at 6^g pW®li® FOi ®ii IWHIW* ini at Hm teh—I. Architect Archie Davis of Durham was authorised to pnyan triam for this buildin#. The Walton Heating and Roof ing Co. was given a $2,600 con tract to transfer heating units from Efland - Cheefa School to the Efland Gymnasium and the Hillsboro Agriculture Depart Town's don't annex to make a profit, survey declares In a statement at the con clusion of Us study, ' citing reasons 'for annexation, the surveyors noted “Ottos rad r „, tk' v -v
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