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Hie Slate Highway Commis sion’s 1361-02 secondary road plan for Orange County failed to please , the County Commissioners whfcvt it ! was presented at Hillsboro Mbn ; day, but little indication was givfeh | First results of the new Orange County tax data processing sys tem, adopted for the first tittle this yeaf, will he evident to tax payers when they receive their tax bills on next Monday, Oc WBef 2 i A major change Will he Ole Hjtanftef Of ta^Tsills to be ffecrfV ed by some taxpayers of Orange County. Untfer the new system, in which bilk are processed fram punch card ifecdfris by The Inde pendent Datt l^ocesslhg -COs idf Raleigh,, owners of real property will get a separate bill for each tract of land owned,, in contrast] to the slttgle bills received in the j past. The idea of governmental units, ] such as a county or town, lising: the facilities of data processing; firms, was originally fostered by Gordon Bell of the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill and is now being employed by 14 such units in the State, including Grange. The new system; adppted this j year by the Commissioners at the suggestion of Tax Supervisor Sam Gattis, enables considerably greater efficiency and costs less than the salary on one employee, according to Gattis. This year’s edge as the first will be $bo»it 000 ahd hereafter an eSnntite bf $2,200 been given. Cards have been Set up for each place of lahd an<) each individual. Aiso ah accounts rdeelyabfe fedgter hds been set up ftWaScJl ta*ptyef bjt enable immediate records of all back taxes owed. Gattis said the largest number Of bills he Has found yet that any one taxpayer will get is 31. but all may be paid with one check. Ifext year’s listing Will be speeded up because listers will have abstracts in advance for list ing a person’s property. During the billing season, tax employees and extra help are tied up for several months to accomplish the 18,000 billing load. Eflartd sues kin, church for destroying fence Three elders of the Efland Pres byterian Church have been made a party defendant in a civil action brought by Sim L .Efland in con nection with a property dispute. The order was entered by Judg^ Clawson Williams Tuesday as a two weeks civil term of Superior Court got underway at Hillsboro after an opening day delay, result ing from a death in the Judge’s family. Seven divorces were grant ed on grounds of two years separa tion. They were: Katherine B. Nuckolls from Richard G. Nuck olls. Colcen P. Wall from Johnnie W. Wall; Annie Mae Currie Cear nal from Oddie Ceamal; Ruby Jaequelirte W. Hicks from Jimmie Wayne Hicks. Robert G. Jones from Mary Leu McPherson Jones: Mearlene Crabtree Rudder from Leo Spencer Rudder and Robert Pendergraft from Laura E. Pen der graft. The Efland suit arose from a property line dispute in which Sim Efland alleged the defend ants, his cousins, John L. Efland Jr. and C. M. Wilson Efland, as executors of the estate of Annie T. Jordan, and Roibert and Wil liam Efland destroyed a fence on his property and asked for $4,000 in damages to fences and cattle. In their answer, the defendants claim the property in question was left by late Annie T. Jordan to the Efland Presbyterian ChUTch and the fence was ordered re moved by the Elders of the church, among whom whom in addition to the Eflands above are E. F. McAdams, Howard Mc \dattis, and Wilson Efland. ! Thereupon, the judge ordered these i hree made Oarfies to the suit University National to merge? with Durham Batik; new name to go into use next Monday The Durham Bank and Trust Go. will merge with University National Bank of Chapel Hill, and j Will take the new name, Central Carolina Bank and Trust Conv j pany, next Monday, Oct. 2. Announcement of the merger j and name change was made joint ly by Paul Wright Jr„ President of Durham Bank, and Dr. Oliver ft. Cornwell, President of Univer sity National. Total assets of the new bank! Will be approximately $50 million j dollars, and capital funds will be over $4 million. O. Gordon Perry, who has been Executive Vice President of Uni vefsity National Bank, has been elected a Vice President of Cen tral Carolina Bank, and will be manager of the Chapel Hill of j fices. Members of the Board of Di j rectors of University National j have nominated for the Board of Central Caroling Bank, Cormvel and Bernice L. Ward of Chapel Hill. It is expected that their formal election will take place at the Board’s regular meeting i* December. Central Carolina Bank will have nine offices in Durham and 12 offices of the bank in neighbor ing communities in the central Carolina area. In Chapel Hill, Un-! iversity National’s offices on! West Franklin, and at Franklin ! and Columbia Streets will carry! the name of the new bank. Pro-! vision for regular trust consulta that immediate changes would tw forthcoming. Staid Highway Commissioner James McClamroc indicated addi tional funds might be available from a special “windfall” allo cated for this year by Governor Sanford, but the implication Was that mbst requests might have to wait for next year’s allocation. The Couhty Commissioners prin cipal complaint was the large amount of the secondary alloca tibh, about $85,(WO, being devoted to new road locations and straight ening out existing ones. The total construction allocation Mr the fiscal Jnear Wa* lifted as $234,540, With all unallocated bal ance from last year of $25,671.§8. Two projects questioned by the commissioner^, in view of the large proportion allocated to the. re alignment projects, .were the im provements Slated for tflfc foafl west of Chapel Hill called the “football road” by the Highway Department and a new route ex tending from Highway 57, north Of Hillsboro, heroes the northern part of the dmihty connecting With illghway 49 north of Mebane. $50,000 is set up for the former and $35,000 for the latter. The Football road, more com monly called the new Greensboro road, will be revised at its inter section with Jones Ferry road, will be straightened at Lloyd’s dairy and several curves will be widen ed, and danger spots extended. The new road north of Hillsboro will leave 57 in a westerly direc tion. connect with 86 at the Old Cedar Grove Road, continue to Faucette’s Mill, bridge the creek and connect with the old County Home road. uelegaoons appeared at the Highway hearing for alternate routes for paving the Union Grove Church road and County Com missioner Harvey Bennett and a delegation from the Damascus Church area asked for improve ments on that road. The list of roads to be improved under the 1961-62 plan with cost allocations, is as follows: Paving — Supper Club Road from US 70A to SR 1306, $7. 750; Mason Farm Road from US 15 to beginning pavement, $3,725; Graham Street in Mebane from SR 1304 to SR 1306, $5,025; Murphy School Road from SR 1710 to SR 1716, $10 500; Cartee Road from SR 1710 to SR 17t6, $15,500; Old NC 10 from SR 1147 to Eno River Bridge, $12,750; Old Hillsboro--Ce dat Grove Rbad from NC 86 to SR 1734, $24,600; ,, Grading — Weaver Dairy Road from NC 86 to SR 1734, $18,500; ^fttress Factory Road from SR 1303 to SR 1114, $15,000: Briggs Road from SR 1306 to improve ment, $10,572; Cooper’s Store Road from SR 1115 to SR 1118, $10il47; Charles Nichols Road from NC 57 to NC 157, $22,400; Bridge Work—Bridge No. 82 cn Union Grove Church Road to be replaced by a large pipe $5,542.98; Revisions in Alignment — SR 1005 intersection with Jones Fer ry Road, $25,500; SR 1005, widen ing of curves, $3,000; SR 1005, See Board, Page 7 tian in the West Franklin Street office will make trust services more readily available to resi dents of the Chapel Hill area. Central Carolina Bank, with a staff of 220 persons, and share holders numbering approximately 500, will be North Carolina’s sev enth largest banking institution. .. \ j • Regional commercial zoning is re - referred to the planning board Further consideration Of the re cently-passed highly-restrictive re gional commercial zoning classi fication has been asked of the iocal Planning Board by the Chap el Hill aldermen. The Town Board also requested the planners to give further con sideration to their controversial recommendation to re-zone a busi ness site oil tWfe Chapbl Hill-Dur hattl Boulevard owned by Sion Jennings into this category. Authorization For this re-2dhing was approved by the aldermen recently on a four-to-two vote, however final passage or the ac tual re-zdftlflg ordinance would re quire at ieaift a five-to-one vote beOUase of the formally-registered objections of the property owners. The ie-i«ferral was made by the aldermen ■without any dis senting votes at thfeir meeting On Tuesday night after the Board was urged to do this by attorney Emery B. Deftly, an attorney privately retained in the matter. • Intent cf the re-referral of both matters was specifically intended, according to makers of both mo tions. to effect the drawing of commercial land use restrictions that would be more acceptable to the full Board of Aldermen. The Board was also informed that a scheduled Oct. 9 hearing on amending the zoning ordinance to provide for issuance of special use permits to erect power trans mission line towers cbitld not be held on that date because legal advertising requirements could not be met prior to this date. As a result the hearing was re-set for the Board’s regular meeting on Oct. 24. Duke Power Go. is cur rently facing court opposition from sortie south Chapel Hill land own ers to its plan to take a rtfeW power line across their property. The utility firm also opposes Hie local regulatory proposal. cilultctt PlCNtC SIT The Community Church is hold ing a picnic next Sunday, October 1, at 4:30 p.m. for all members and frietfds with international stu dents as special guests. Bring a main dish and salad or dessert, enough for your owii family arm ome guests. There Will be a folk sing after the meal. In ease of rain the picnic will be held in the church ’bliildmg. Court cracks doWn on parking tickets r Many defendants cited to the | Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court for ignoring parking tickets will henceforth have to pay fines in addition to the one I dollar per ticket charges plus j costs of court. An order providing for the crack-down has been issued by Judge William S. Stewart. It provides that in cases involv ing parking violations origi nating with the Police Depart ment Traffic Clerk the Clerk I of the Recorder’s Court is au thorized to accept guilty pleas .-- --- -... and payments according to the following schedule: One to three tickets—court , costs and SI.00 per ticket; four to six tickets—fine of $3.00, court costs, and $1.00 per ticket; and seven to nine tickets, fine of $9.00, court costs, and $1.00 per ticket. Cases involving defendants cited for failure to pay 10 or i more of the $1.00 civil offense tickets will have to be settled ; in open court, the Judge de clared. COMING YOUR WAY ‘Wa£gA&eK Clgency RHYME ITEM AT ns DEMUR EVERYDAY MICE IP ADD I CENT AND GET 7 teefi
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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