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Chapel Hill voting officials named by elections body full re-registration required > • Election officials 'have been appointed by the County Board of Elections for the newly-desig nated Chapel Hill voting pre cincts. All voters in the Chapel Hill Township will have to re-register :n> the three-week designated period beginning April 28 in or der to be eligible to vote in coun ty,-,. school board, state and na tional elections in the future. An elections board official noted that the last complete re registration ordered by the coun ty was in 1952, and that the State recommends that this be done at least every 10 years. He noted also that the regular registration books for each pre cinct were now almost filled, and that records could be more efficiently kept by ordering the new registration. The boundary lines of 10 of the 12 new precincts in Chapel Hill Township have been chang ed from what they were previ ously. A map drawn for the Elections Board and outlining the precinct voting places and boundary lines is printed in this issue of The. News on Page One, Section Two. It was stressed that even though boundaries of the Coie Store and Patterson Precincts on the north side of Chapel Hill Township have not been ehaaged, the voters there will have to re-register for the reasons stated above. ^ p The registrars will be in the precinct polling places on Satur day, April 28, and for the two succeeding Saturdays for the convenience of new voters and re-registrants. They will also toe available at their homes during daylight hours to acept registra tions during this three - week period, A one year residence in the state and 30 days in the pre cinct is required for voter eligi bility. Following are the newly-ap pointed registrars and desig nated. polling places for the 10 new Chapel Hill area precincts: Estes Hills—Mrs. H- Raymond Andrews, Estes Hills School. (East Franklin—-Mrs. Paul Shearin, Graham Memorial Registration ends Saturday . ■ ■ ' wmn . ..i. ■ ■ Hillsboro Board pushing passage of April 24 town bond referendum Hillsboro registration books will close this Saturday after noon at 5 o’clock for the April 24 town election to authorize a 5190,000 bond issue for construc tion of a sewage disposal plant and extend sewer lines through out the municipality. - --r ; - ** The (-^additional sewage treat ment facilities are required oy the town to'eomply with orders from the State Stream Sanitation Committee, in effect since May 1960, to discontinue as soon as practicable the dumping oFvraw sewage by the town into the Eno j River. The town has operated un der a temporary permit since that | time. ;■ I A site has been selected and plans have been drawn by the town engineers for the disposal olant and the .outfall lines nec essary to reach all areas of the community. The next step is up to the cfli zerisTwfio must vote for bonds! necessary for the financing of the project._ Members of the town adminis fration have been waging a strong campaign to gain public support or the project. Mayor Fred Clay tor in a recent letter to at! citi- j tens, said: "We have Tried to the best of our ability to comply j with the Committee in regard to. their, notice , . . Your favorable vote is essential to the success >f.„this much-needed public im provement.” He noted that the bonds will be retired through water and sewer revenues and approval of the l>ond issue will not require an increase in taxes. He pointed out that the addi tional sewage facilities, in addi tion to being required by State THE NEWS OF ORANGE COUNTY VoJ. 70, No. 15 April 12, 1962 Published Every Thursday Iir The Year By The News, Inc. Subscription Rates (Payable In Advance); In NC, $2.50, plus 3% Sales Tax; Outside NC„ $3. Entered As Second Class Mat ter In The Postoffices at Hills boro And Chapel Hill, N. C. law, will also add to publie com- , fort and convenience, protect hea 1th, raise property values, and < make the community more at- 1 tractive, offer better business op- t portunities and encourage con struction The election will be held on Tuesday* April 24 between the , hours of 6:30 and 6:30 in the High School Gymnasium. Satur day, April 21 has been designat ed Challenge Day. The Town Hoard, in a recent statement, among other things j had this to say; “The position I the Town will be in if we do not j pass , this bond issue is most dis- ! couraging. There will be ever in-! creasing pressure on the Town j of Hillsboro tb construct the nec- j essary sewage disposal facilities ____. X ' | Exchange Club minstrel set this weekend A Hillsboro tradition, the Ex change Club’s “Ole Time Min strel Show,’’ will raise the cur tain tomorrow night on another excursion into the past of soiig. humor and dance. An outstanding cast of talent has been assembled again by vet- \ eran director, W. Clarence Man gum, and the show promises to be one of the best in the 11 ydar history of the series. Funds derived from the two| performances, shows Friday and Saturday nights beginning at,0 p.m., will be appropriated to the High School Band and to the Exchange Club Park project. Among the soloists, assisted by a chorus of 50, are Alma An drews, Myrna Micol, Rachel: Mayo, Doris Ray, Avis Lloyd. Frances Vick, Jo Ann Norton, j lhurman Head, tyglone Long. Ricky Lloyd, Jimmy, Hayes, Mon roe Knight, Sandy j Whittington. I Donna Freeland, Fred Howerton, j Rooney Mangum, Linda Spoon. I Pat Clayton, Bobby Wrenn, Ter-: ry Forrest, Curtis Brown, Jean) Winstead. Jimmy Mangum and i Betty June Hayes. Ed Hamlin is j interlocutor, " •OfLwsLYKiU forfeit all chance of 'ederal assistance. Publicity of a iefeated bond issue would hinder is in our search for new indus ry to expand our local economy, let’s avoid this happening' to our own. Now is the time for pro gressive faction.” - - In revamped set-up . . . J.E. Latta Jr. is hired as mechanic- foreman of school bus garage A new mechanic-foreman, rec ommended by State officials has taken over management of the revamped Orange County school bus garage. Superintendent G. P. Carr said J. E. Latta Jr., 38, a native of Roxboro, more recently shop foreman in the Mecklenburg County school bus garage, as sumed his /duties on Monday. His salary is being paid by the State. The new head of the school maintenance setup was hired as result of a report from State in spectors last week that the Or ange school bus .fleet is “in very poor mechanical condition,’’ with many “reaching a point at which they become unsafe to operate.’ The report recommended and the Building. r == Country Club—Mrs. C. S. Logs don, Woollen Gym. Glenwood—Mrs. Lindsay Ne ville, Glenwood School. King’s Mill—Mrs. Ralph L. Blackwood Sr., garage of Gerald Barrett home, corner of King’s Mill and Laurel Hill Roads. Dogwood Acres—Mrs. John S. Kose, Mellott’s Store. Westwood — Mrs. Russell Graves-, - Chapel Hill -High School Auditorium. Northside—Mrs. W. H. Fogle man. Chapel Hill Town Hall. North Carrboro—Mrs. A. B, (Mac) Poole, Carrboro School; South Carrboro, — John Mc Laughlin, Carrboro Town Hall. county board in formal action vested, the new mechanic-fore i man with “the authority to re organize bus maintenance and | the responsibility to get the job | done.” The new mechanic-foreman, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Latta, were originally from Orange County before moving to Roxboro many years ago, first became interested in mechanics in I Diversified Occupations courses : at Roxboro High School. He was ! a school bus driver, has worked as a mechanic in the school bus [ garages of Person and .Wake ! Counties before becoming shop | foreman . in the Mecklenburg County School Bu6 Garage, which operates one of the most suc cessful maintenance steups in the State. He was recommended for the Orange County job by Roy Williams, Equipment Engineer of the State Department of Public Instruction, one of the inspectors who reported on the Orange sit uation. In order to help bring the Or ange school bus fleet up to par, Mr. Carr said, the State has add j ed Lattas salary to the Orange appropriation, has allotted the - eounty' a TiewHPteku p track; tWJr new bus replacements which have been on order, ‘ and has | promised to make available im mediately four others from next year’s allotment. It has also au thorized an additional appropria- 'j tion for parts and tires. ~ ( Yes, YOUR OWN PRICE, however low it may be, could be the purchase price of an OK USED CAR . to be sold to the HIGHEST BIDDER during this sales period—Monday, April 16 through Friday, April 23. 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