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Bags neighborhood foul marauder . . Orange schoolboy kills wildcat Seventeen-year-old Jerry Wil kerson, who ordinarily drives a school bus when not pursuing his studies in the 11th grade at j Hillsboro High School, turned to wild animal hunting this week and killed the first wiki “bobcat" reported in this area. Jerry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Wilkerson, who live on Davis Road, a few miles south of Hillsboro. . Recently, strange wild ani mal cries have been heard fre quently in the neighborhood and a number of chickens have been killed. When the cries be gan Sunday night, Jerry picked up his 12-gauge shotgun and went out to await the marau-. ders. When a couple of the ’cats appeared, Jerry fired and got. one. Game Protector Bob Logan later identified the member of the “wildcat” family and esti mated the weight as about 12 pounds. It had all the claws I. and teeth of the ferocious cats of yore. Jerry thinks there might be eight or 10 in the pack be lieved in the neighborhood and he hopes to get some more of them. With hunting as an ac tive hobby, killing the wildcat was one of thfe biggest thrills for Jerry and his faxnilv Some 50 people trekked to the Wilkerson home the toilowv ing day, Monday, to view the prize. f i* JERRY WIUCERSON & HIS BOBCAT Labor commissioner says Orange better off than mtjch of state in its level of income “Orange County is far better off than many parts of the State in the income and general level of living of her citizens,” accord ing to Commissioner of Labor •Frank Crane who spoke to the Hrllsboro Lions> Club Tuesday night. lie said Orange ranked • 54th! among the 100'counties in per capita income in 1958, the latest year for which, county figures ere available/ He said this was $1, 102 or about 78 per cent of thei state’s $1,420 lor that year. By 19G0 the State’s per capita figure had risen to $1,581. 71 pet. rural “Because 71 per cent of the Orange County's nearly 43.000 people live in rural areas and the amount of business and industry is relatively small,” he said, “your county *per capita income in recent years has run well be low the State figure. *„4. ; "This situation prevails i#»j j spite of the fact that more than | $9,133,000 in wasps were paid j during 1959 to 3,265Orange ! County workers covered by the Employment Security Law. Em ployed in 230nle«tablisiunents, these workers averaged $53.80 per week. (UI«C workers neir included unden this, law). (*« }{i “Slightly more, than a,third of, them were employed in manufac turing industries; another third in wholesale and' retail trade: and the remaining third1 in con Mac Smith to speak on civil rights group McNeil S mit lawyer of Greensboro, will talk about the work of- the North Carolina. Ad visory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights at R p.m> irr St. Paul's A.M.E. Church* at, Chapel Hill. Smith is Chairman of .the Com mittee. The meeting, sponsored by the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration, is open to the public. A native of Rowland, N.' C., Smith graduated from the Uni versity of North Carolina in 1938 and obtained his law degree at Columbia University in 1941. A member of both the North Caro lina and the New York Bar, he has practiced in New York City and in Greensboro, where he is m* member of- Smith, Moore, Smith, Soliell and Hunter. struction, transportation, finance, service industries, and other, non agricultural business” Shows typical need He said the situation in Orange “in many respects, is typical of much of the State in showing what has to be done in North Carolina to advance our level of living. We must have more and higher paying industry, more commerce, better schools, im proved education and training. . a higher development of both physical facilities and the intel ligence, working skills, aptitudes and attitudes needed for living in our age.” Crane noted that 30 Orange employers and registered to train young people on the job in the apprentice training pro gram, but only 11 young people are in training at present. Human relations group hears movies report Richard P. Calhoon and the Rev. Charles Jones, representing the steering foody of the Chapel Hill Committee for Open Movies, reported on the recent aeffontW of their group before the Chapel Hill Mayor’s, Corn mil te on Human Relations Tuesdav. night. Among :other, developments in the current campaign they told the human relations committee members that a poll of 1,800 UNC students showed 87 per cent of them either in favor of or having no .objection,to de-segregation of the local theaters. The Committee indicated it would continue to study, the si tuation. He discussed in general the history and the current functions of the Department of Labor. N. C. recreation exec recommends Chapel Hill buy land, hire director The acquisition of playground areas and hiring of a director for all public recreation activi ties in Chapel Hill was recom mended to the local Recreation Planning Committee at its Tues day night meeting. The group heard from Jim Stevens, Assistant Director of the N. C. Recreation Commission. He compared the current public re creation programs of other mun I icipalities of comparable size in ! North Carolina and stressed that long-range planning for a total j program was the key to an ef fective Chapei Hill recreation set-up. ' ! Mr. Stevens urged the plan ning body to seek a director of recreation for Chapel Hill who would be an administrator of fi nances. a policy executor, and a program and facility supervisor. The acquiring of land for fu ture deevlopment and expansion of the present minimum program were also recommended by Stev ens. i DRt DOBSON RECEIVES GRANT i Richard L. Dobson, M.D., as sistant professoy of medicine at the University has been awarded I. a grant of about $145.000,by the National Institutes of Health? The i five year grant will extend.from [Jtilv 1, 1961 to July. 1966. Precinct Circuit:.. Sii ictly unofficial—County political trends As expected and noted in lids column earlier, Chapel Hill Mayor 0. K. Cornwell this week announced his re tirement. First term Alderman Sandy MaClamroch, is now admittedly seriously considering running for the post in May. Will there be a lady-like challenge at the ballot box from Alderman Adelaide Walters? Some say definitely not, some say quite likely yes. It’ll be a dandy race. —Best way to find out from either potential is to ask ’em. Mayor Cornwell, incidentally, is recovering quite satisfactorily at home from a mild heart attack last month. Now to straighten out a foul-up in information that was "Circuited" last week: Mayor Pro-Tem Gene Strowd, along with Aldermen McClaimroch and Roland Giduz, won't be up for re-election this spring. Their four-year terms run to 1963. Aldermen Paul Wager, Walters-, and Hubert Robinson will be up for election. Robinson’s a sure bet to stand for a third term. Wager may retire but is being strongly urged to stand for elec tion again. If one of the aldermen is elected Mayor the re-, maining and new Board m'unVrs will elect a successor to serve until the 1963 town elections. Toss th*>=e names in the aldermanic rumor mill in Chap el Hill: WTiid Powell, insuranceman-realtor. Andy Shearer, local contractor and engineer: and Fred Cleaveland. UNC faculty member and former Secretary of the Planning Board. For Chapel Hill School Board these names have eroo ped ud: Dr. Syd Alexander, Asst. Administrator of the UNC Division of Health Affairs; Jimmy Wallace, UNC teacher and owner of the travel agency; — a pretty certain challenger—Dr. Dick Peters of citizens committee fame; and political scientist Earle Wallace. Guard again exonerated in death of prisoner An Orange County grand jury has declined a renewed appeal; to indict a prison camp guard in connection with the death last summer of a prisoner. The jury for the second time unanimously ruled that guard James A. Caulder Jr., fired his shotgun in the line of duty when he shot Walter F. Kincaid last July 27. The prisoner died almost instantly from the wound. Caul der said at the time that he shouted at Kincaid to halt as he i ran away from a road work gang j and shot only after the prisoner j failed to heed the warning. i The move to re-examine tV) case came last fall after Kincaid’s i family in High Point prsented a I letter signed by eight fellow pri- j soners alleging that he had mere-! ly stepped to the side of the road with other prisoner^ to pick some plums when he was snot. District Solicitor William Mur dock presented this evidence as well as the findings of the State Bureau of Investigation to the grand jury. The jury’s report on their renewed consideration of the case this week declared “After studying previous reports and evidence and hearing addi tional testimony, the members of the grand jury were again utr animous in their conviction that the prisoner, Walter Kincaid, was breaking, .prison regulations and that the guard, James A. Caut der Jr., fired in line of duty. Therefore the grand jury defi nitely does not recommend that a' bill of indictment be drawn. . ” 4 youths admit 11 robberies Orange County Sheriff’s de puties have arrested four youths and in so doing solved at least 11 •robberies on two sides of the comity* Timothy S. Burns, 17, of Chap el Hill and -Curtis Creed, 22, of Carrboro faee two charges of breaking, entering and larceny in connection with break-ins at Mel lett’s, store in Dogwood Acres on Feb. 18 and Harktness Store on Farrington road last Saturday j night. During the investigation they admitted two other break ins over the line in Chatham county. Richard B. Maxton, 18, and lames W. AJlen, 16, both of Met hane, were arrested Thursday on charges of larceny, damage to property and forcible trespass after they allegedly broke open Pepsi-Cola and eandy'^coacker coin machines and stole $50 to $60? Under questioning they admitted six other break-ins in the Me* bane area. After drunk charge is nol prossed . . . IPo[ice. sued for $15., 000 *on false1 arrest Two patrolmen and the Chapel Hill police chief have been sued for $15,000 for the alleged false arrest on public drunkenness charges of a middle-aged handy1 man. The civil action in Orange County Superior Court was brought by Sam Maynor against Chief W. D. Blake, Sgt. W. F. Hester, and Patrolman John Nes bitt. Maynor, who has a record of drunkenness-coavictktts, was giv en a not pros with- leave in Chap el Hill Recorder’s Court following his Oct. 5, 1930, arrest. Ihe lengthy complaint filed by Carrbono attorney E. L. Shelton charged that Maynor was walk ing home from Memorial Hospi tal where he'd been under treat ment for a back injury received ir his employment, and that when he reached downtown he was ‘‘abruptly and gruppily (sic* ar rested." by. Nesbitt. ‘Tears in his eyes’ Maynor alleged that he pleach ed he* was not drunk, showed" the medicine prescribed by his doctor, and “with tears in his eyes” asked the police to call the hos pital to check on this, but was taken to jail for the night. The following morning he was noticed in jail when "happily a Good Samaratan (sic), from the sheriff's office and (seems to have been God-sent) . . . said he would stand bond for his appearance in court,” the complaint states. It further alleged that but for .“said Good Samaratan” the plaintiff would have “no doubt stayed in jail indefinitely.” Fc.l lowing the Oct. 11 trial- Maynor was granted a- nol pros with leave to reopen the case. His lawsuit now alleges that he was falsely arrested — an act he terms "wanton, malicious, and without a prr.hable cause and not in good, faith” and in a "wanton and inhumane man ner.” For “mental and bodily anguish" the complinant seeks $5,000 dam ages severally and from each of the defendants, and $10,000 puni tive damages similarly. '4
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