Instead of enlarging present-one . . .
Uptown ABC store
asked in Chapel Hill
285 sign a petition
A strong movement to se
cure the establishment of
an ABC store within the
business area of Chapel Hill
was launched this week.
Bernice Ward and Carl
ton Byrd, leaders among the
merchants group of the commu
nity, presented a 285-name peti
tion to the Orange County Alcoh
olic Beverage Control board at
its meeting in Hillsboro Monday
morning.
The board agreed to investi
gate the feasibility of the pro
posed fifth store for the County
and later in the day went to
Chapel Hill to look over a num
ber of possible sites for a loca
tion.
Eastgate plan cited
Impetus for the movement
came from the announcement
last week that the Board was con
sidering plans for enlarging the
store at Eastgate shopping cen
ter. The petitions originated
among the merchants, employees
and others throughout the down
town areas.
Location of a store in the bus
iness area of Chapel Hitl has
long been favored by many of
the downtown business inter
ests, bv residents of the wide
area west and south of Chapel
Hill who find the Eastgate
store inconvenient and inacces
sible, and by law enforcement
officers who favor location of
a store nearer the low-income
Negro residential section as a
bootlegging deterrent.
Two members of the Board,
have favored such a location but
have not forced the issue in de
ference to the Chapel Hill mem
her, former Dean D. D. Carroll,
who has been adamant against
the uptown location.
The text of the petition was as
follows: “We, the undersigned
interested citizens of Chapel Hill,
request and urge this honorable
board to locate within the estab
lished business area or its im'
mediate environs an Alcoholic
Beverage Control Store. ——
Want uptown site
“We have given consideration
to this question of location in the
Chapel Hill area, and we believe
that a second store should be
opened rather than the present
store enlarged, and that this sec
ond unit should be located with
in the uptown area of Chapel
Hill, and so situated as to be rea
sonably accessible to the wester
ly portion or fringe area of the i
established business district.
“We ask your favorable consi-j
deration at your forthcoming!
Board meeting on Monday March j
20, 1961, or at your earliest con
venience.”
WOMEN VOTERS
ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of the
Chapef Hill League of Women
Voters will be held next Wed
nesday at 8 p.m. in the library
assembly room. Business -for
the evening will include pre
sentation of the 1961-62 bud
get, consideration of the pro
gram for the coming year, dis
cussion of continuing responsi- 1
bilities and the election of of
ficers.
Swimming pool group to start
construction of bath house e
The Chapel Hill Carrboro Swim
ming Pool Corp. at its meeting on
Monday night agreed to start con
struction on the bath house im
mediately, with less than $3,000
on hand.
June 1 has been set aside for
1he opening date for the pool,
therefore we must start construc
tion at once'1 said Adolphus Clark.
Chairman of the Corporation.
Mr. Clark added: "Some people
have given their most loyal sup
port, others have waited on the
side lines, we now feel it necs
sary for all to shoulder the re
sponsibility. Unless we move now,
if is likely to be a failure, so let
us get in and push, play your part
in helping to provide for Chapel
Hill’s citizens some of the bare
necessities for wholesome living ••
Edwin Caldwell has secured a
console television set to be given
away May 1 to the holder of the
lucky ticket. The Set is on dis
play in the window of the S and
W. tailor shop on W. Franklin St.
Tickets are neing soM by Mr.
Caldwell at $1.00 each.
The Elks Ledge will give a bene
fit plate dinner Saturday April 1.
at the Community Center.
Halving of year residency law
is being sought by Carrboro
Enabling legislation reducing
the residence requirement for
candidates in municipal elections
from one year to six Months will
be sought from the General As
sembly by the Town of Carrboro.
The Board passed a resolution
to this effect Tuesday night on
recommendation of Town Attor
ney L. J. Phipps, who noted that
most other municipalities only
required a six months residency.
If approved by the General As
sembly in time, the bill will en
able one challenger for a seat
on the Board to slay in the race.
He is realtor J. Gordon Fisher,
who will have lived in the town
only 11 months by the time of
c&sdf.
the May 2 elections. Though he |
has been in business in Carrboro
tor two years, he previousl.v ,
lived outside the town limits. ■
The commissioners also dis
cussed the pending annexation of
a large northside suburban tract.
Study of the cost of sewer and
water line service to the area1
is being continued.
A half-acre plot adjoining some
present town property off N.
Greensboro St. was purchased by
the town in connection with its;
extension of sewer line service to!
Hillcrest St. The commissioners i
agreed to try to obtain right-of
way for a sidewalk on the nort!
side of W. Foplar St.
Voters approve school bond issue
by margin of almost two-to-one
Voters of Orange County last
.Saturday approved the $1-5 mil
lion school construction bond is
sue by a margin* of almost two
; to-one. i
There were 2.836 ballots for the
issue and 1.513 against. The poll
total of 4.349 represented approxi
mately 28 per cent of the 15.498
registered voters.
All 13 rural precincts voted
against the proposal. However
eight of the nine urban boxes—
including all of Chapel Hill and
Hillsboro, supported it. Carrboro
went against the bonds — 253 to
198. "
More than half the votes w»re
cast in Chapel Hill’s five pre
cincts where the margin of sup
port was better than eighl-to-one.
There 2,057 votes were marked
“yes” and 263. “no '—and 88 per
cent favorable rates.
The decision of the voters gives
the county commissioners author- j
ity to issue bonds providing $840.-;
000 for construction in the Chapel
Hill School System and $660,000
in the County System, as previ- \
ously agreed between the two
school boards.
It’s expected to bring a 10-cent
increase in the current tax rate
of $.99 per $100 valuation. The
$1.5 million issue is the first step j
in a projected $5.1 million im-;
provements program for the next j
decade. The plan calls for ap
propriating the remainder out of
annual budgets at $200,000 a year.
Carr explains
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school plans
County Superintendent of
Education G. Paul Carr yester
day issued the following state- '
ment concerning last Satur- 1
day’s county-wide school bond
referendum:
“I am very pleased that the
bond election passed.
“I am particularly pleased •
tlyat the three precincts in
Hillsboro approved it and re
gret that some of the other
county precincts did not have a
favorable majority.
“Many people have asked
since the bond election when
the building will be started. We
are in the process of develop
ing a curriculum for the new
high school. As soon as'that is i
completed, we will ask our ed
ucational consultants to develop :
educational specifications for
the building to fit the curricu
lum.
“The architect will drawi
plans based on these educa
tional specifications. It will be }
at least six months, before we
can start work on the new
building.’’
Nine Orange pupils
on UNC dean's list
Students of Orange County
named to the Dean's list of the
University are as follows:
Miss Evelyn Pauline Lloyd.
Hillsboro; William Roger Bower
man. Gail Fanibrough Thomas
Franklin Henley. Thomas Kelly
Jr.. Ann Curtis Spencer. William
R Straughn III. and Herman
Thompson Jr., all of Chapel Hill
and Jesse Ronald Oakley of Me
bane.
Dean Cecil Johnson has an
nounced the names of the above i
smcng 140 freshmen and sopho
more university students who
have received grades of “B" or
higher and were enrolled for a
minimum of 15 semester hours.
PRcCINCT
Nov. I
Registered Total
SCHOOL BOND VOT£
For Agamsf Vot.ng
No. 2
C. H. No. 3
1,827 ] 1,500
513
31
C. H. No. 4
| 1.211 1 1,023
389
59
C. H. No. 5
1.365 1,235
466
544
448
522
Cheeks
759
499
10
59
70
Cole Store
Efland
264
184
26
698
444
30
58
115
Hillsboro
Orange Gr.
Patterson
St. Mary's
Tolar’s
589
527
106
90
University
W. Hillsboro
White Cr.
Totals
360
333
196
282
~ "474'
1.075
412
15,498
258
225
157
203
398
8 !
22
23
47
59
20
43
906
307
12,515
85
25 !
64
"68nr
67~r
96 (
196
55
~ 81
~ 61
84
111
152
121
2,837 | 1,512 | 4,349
Dewey King hired
for surplus food job
The Orange County commis
sioners have formally agreed to
participate in the state's program
for distribution of federal gov
ernment surplus foods
Dewey King. Chapel Hill real
estate agent, has been appointed
commodity dirctor in charge of
distribution of the food stocks in
this County. It is hoped that the
program will get under way with
in two or three * weeks, accord
ing to Commissioners Chairman
Donald M. Stanford.
The supervisory job is expect
ed to be a part-time proposition
for Mr. King, according to the
intention of the commissioners,
who approved a $150 monthly
salary* for the post.
County Welfare Superinten
dent Mrs. Creighton Bunn went
to Raleigh on Tuesday to work
out procedures for the program
with the State Department of
Agriculture’s commodity direc
tor. She noted that the approxi
mately 400 Orange County fam
ilies. now getting welfare bene
i fits, and which include 946 per
sons, would be eligible to receive
the monthly food parcels upon
the filing of an application
The current public assistance
recipients will We sent an ex
planatory letter concerning the
new program and may apply for
it by return mail. Other persons
desiring to get on the surplus
food distribution list have been
asked to apply at the Welfare
Department in Hillsboro on Tues
days or Thursdays beginning
next week.
BINGO AT CALDWE1J
The Caldwell conununty,
through the local steering com
mittee of the North Central Area
Development Program. » 1 n _
Sponsor a hi*go party in the
community center next Wednes
day at 7:30 p.m. Priir* to he
awarded winners of games will
include a huge home-baked
pound cake as a gram! prixe.
fifth
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