A DEADLINE OF MARCH 1
(today) had been set for resump
tion of picketing the Carolina
Theater in Chapel Hill unless
complete desegregation were
granted. However, at a meeting
of the Committee for Open Mov
ies scheduled after press time
last night it was expected that
the deadline would be moVed up
to March 9 in light of the possi
bility of some concrete action by
that time. Meanwhile the Thea
ter is already in practice almost
totally desegregated via explicit
exceptions granted to its white
only policy — Negro UNC stu
dents. their guests, Negro guests
of white patrons, and Negro
Children accompanied by one
adult.
TRAVELING TED DANZIGER
called home Monday night from
London. He reported a superb
reception to the' N. C. Travel
Mission’s -initial contacts in that
city, first stop-off on their 12-day
blitz of Europe. —A dozen of
Ted’s Democratic party friends
in Chapel Hill trekked to the
Airport at 6:30 a.m. Sunday to
give him a surprise send-off as
the 43-member contingent left
via charter plane. They loaded
him down with all manner of
propaganda, going-away presents,
and trinkets for his interconti
nentai odyssey.
ACIE RIGGSBEE, CARRBORO
youth, is reported to be recover
ing satisfactorily from a gunshot
injury received about 3 a:m. last
Friday. He told officers he was
examining his brand new auto
matic .22 rifle "while waiting to
go out on his newspaper delivery
"job when the gun accidentally
discharged and a bullet hit him
-in the side. He called an ambu
lance and was taken to the hos
pital for treatment.
WHAT EFFECT WILL THE RE
signation last week of N. C. Assis
tant Attorney General Horton
Rountree have on the University’s
protracted defense of Manning
Simons’ anti-fluoridation lawsuit?
The entire matter of handling
the lawsuit is now with the At
torney General’s office as both
client and attorney. It was re
cently announced that Mr. Roun
tree' would argue his demurrer
motion in the 21-months-old case
at a civil term of Orange County
Superior Court this month. Mean
while time—and tooth decay
march on.
FIRE DESTROYED »M RS.
Cleveland Lindsay’s barn behind
her house at 722 N. Greensboro
6t. on the northern edge of
Carrboro about 6 p. m. Monday.
THE CHAP EX HILL ALDER
men were discussing an amend
ment to the zoning ordinance to
permit the charging of fees for
various zone change applications
during a public hearing Monday
night. One petitioner, Ed Blank
stein, seized the occasion to sug
gest that a proof-reading fee be
charged for checking legal adver
tisements that must be published
prior to the zone change hearings.
—In his own case he had to re
ihstitute his procedures in part
because of a proof-reading error
on the part of the newspaper that
.published the legal ad. ^
PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
over-ruled routine- courtesy. This
was the explanation of Faculty
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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1942
24 PAGES
Mission: Better schools
• • •
IN AYCOCK SPIRIT-Gov. Terry Sanford stands in his office at the capital in Ra
leigh beneath portrait of the “father of North Carolina’s public schools,’’ the late Gov.
Charles B. Aycock, with the tivo Orange County persons he recently named to the
statewide Citizens Committee for Better Schools, Airs. Jesse West of Carr boro and
Donald Ale Dade of Cedar Grove. Occasion for the meeting was the organizational ses
sion of the Committee in Raleigh last Thursday,
School board action sets
cut in teachers, salaries
—See story on Page 3