Chejfcte
of orange county
—(.hapel i.ill, Hillsboro, Carrbbro—Between and Beyond—,
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1960
VOL. 67, NO. 20
28 PAGES
THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ers have begun their budget de
liberai.il/iis and are having infor
mal meetings with various county
agencies. There’s likelihood of
an increase in the $.95 tax
rate. School capital outlay re
quests alone will be more than
this year's $1.4 million total bud
get. The question to decide is how
big an increase there’s to be in
the rate. A bond issue will likely
figure in the deal.
CHAPEL HILL POLICE CAP
tain Coy Durham already had a
cold when he took off to the Pin
nacles of Meadows of the Dan/
Va„ last Friday at noontime with
47 Boy Scouts, three troop lead
ers and Eddie Cothran, District
Scout Executive. Tenting out in
the mountains may have brought
exposure, or the hiking, but when
Officer Durham returned Sunday
around 1 p.m., he had a light case
of pneumonia. Two days in bed,
and a check by telephone brought
news that the patient was about
recuperated.
FOR A LITTLE WHILE EARLY
yesterday morning it iuoKeu use
the lumber yaw me at Fitch
Luniotr to. wus go.ug to get out
ot naiid. the ciupei Hm police
and me uepartn.ciit teiepiWi.es
we.e jainnieu wmi traauc canets
wno we.e worried aoout the spec
tacular hlaze.
.. The new highway from
Chapel n.a to Kaieign will oe
buiu. within tne next tnree years,
according to word druung over
from the state capital this week.
The road will be completely re
locate to run through tpe cuuer.
of the Research 1 riangie Pari?
just north of the Park campus,
thence skirting the southern tip
of the airport and into the west
ern bypass to be built around Ra
leigh. A norihsouth highway
through the middle of the Triangle
Park is also planned.
THE BOUNDARY OF THE
Carrboro School Attendance Area
was described Monday night, by
School Board Chairman Kemp
Jones as "following the back
house lines on Homestead Road."
He quickly corrected the slip to
state that he meant "the rear
property lines. . .”
WHATEVER THE LONG
awaited report of the cuonty-wide
Citizens School Finance Study
Committee recommends will like
ly bear as much weight as the
School Board requests themselves
will on the county commissioners'
decisions on bonds and/or pay-as
you-go school building policy this
coming year. Committee Chair
man Don Hayman says the report
is awaiting completion6 of one fi
nal section.
IF ALL SCHOOL BOARD MEM
bers had voted last summer as
they did last Monday night on the
coming year’s pupil- assignment
policy the policy might well have
been changed. The de-segregation
vote of Board member Henry
Brandis, before he resigned over
this issue, added to Messrs. Mil
ner and Manley, would havfe tied
the voting. The chairman w’h'’
didn’t vote, would then have had
to cast the deciding ballet.
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BOND REFERENDUM SEEN
FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS
—Story on Page 9
C.H. school board sticks
to present racial policy
—Story on Page 14
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Pick your princess...
PLEASE MR. JUDGE . . .—Among candidates for
the title of Orange County Dairy Princess who appeared
before judges in the county courthouse at Hillsboro
Tuesday afternoon were (left to right) Ann Prince of
Chapel Hill, Geralene Murray of Hillsboro, Carol Pit
tard of Aycock High, and Brenda Jones of Carrboro. F i
nalists for the title will be selected next month at an
other judging in Chapel Hill. The judges pondering the
parade of pulchritude above are Bob Cox (left and Paul
Carr. News Photo
Lumber yard saved in night-time fire;
Man held for burning his own house
—Stories on Page 7
VOTE UP TO 6,000 SEEN
—Story on Page 2