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Upwards of 7,500 persons are expected to go to the polls in the Orange County Democratic primary election this Saturday. In addition a total of 1,353 Republicans will be eli gible'to vote in the District Congressional and U. 5. Sen atorial pritnary election. An extraordinarily high propor tien of< the »,895 persons ehginie to vote to the Chapel Hill School District tax increase referendum are expected ~o cast ballots on this hotly - contested issue. Some sources have predicted this to tal would run well above the 5, ,000. mark, since an all-new reg istration' was necessary for this referendum; as .well as for all voters' in the new 12 - precinct set-up for Chapel Hill Township. The pells in all 25 precincts of Orange County will be open from 0:30 a. m. until 6:30 p. m. as usual. -Elections Board Chairman Sam Latta issued the customary appeal' for voters to go to the polls early in order to prevent the possibility of late - hour con fusion. Major interest in the balloting •will center on the two elections which will 'be on the county Democratic Primary Ballot. Or.e ■is between Dick Cooper of Burl ington and Roy Cole of Chafpel Hill for nomination as District 10 A Solicitor. In the other, the six candidates for nomination to four year terms as county commis sioner are Carl Smith, Clarence D. Jones, Donald McDade, Gor Human relations body discusses rec staff The Chapel Hill Human Rela tions Commission discussed the pending reduction of the staff at the Negro Community Center during its meeting Tuesday night. Previously Center Director •Miss Lucille Caldwell has had a staff assistant during the sum-' mer. Dr. William Joyner, Com mission Chairman, was asked to contact the Chapel Hill Recrea tion Commission to find out why this person wasn’t being retained this coming summer. The Commission also discuss ed a Tuesday afternoon traffic accident on S. Merrttt Mill Rd. in Carrboro and the hazardous conditions existing on this 'road, so heavily traveled by Lincoln School pupils. There was also a discussion of the need to have an overgrown lot adjoining the Negro Community Center cleared off. THE NEWS -OP ORANGE COUNTY Vol. 70, No. 21 May 24, 1962 Published Every Thursday In 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. f l~~-. ............ don Cleveland, fleniy S. Walker, and Lee Kennedy. AH have been campaigning vig orously throaghout the county via handshaking, speaking, and advertising. Democratic party and election officials alike declined to speculate on the chances of the candidates, except to state that they felt the commissioner' races would be dose. They said the same concerning the pros pects for authorization of an in crease in the Chapel Hill School District supplementary tax elec tion. The only other election to be held Saturday will be f a Democratic primary nomina tion contest for Chapel Hill ! Township Constable in which in-1 cumbent Vernon Burch is being challenged by Carriboro service station operator Jan Martin Pin ney. There are a total of 12,589 vo ters presently registered in the County — 11,076 Democrats, 1, 353 Republicans, and 170 inde pendents. In the last county-wide i Democratic primary — that of May, 1968 — there were 12,712 Democrats registered, out of whieh 4,716 voted.1 The new figures Show 6,208 voters in Chapel Hill Township Housing body y adopts bylaws, picks officers The permanent organization of the Chapel Hill Public Housing Authority was approved by that group on Monday. In adopting a set of by-laws theT five-member Authority voted to meet monthly the first Mom day at 8 p.m. in the Chapel Mill Town Hall. Dr SidneyChipman Was elected Vice-Chairman and Mrs. Robert Mace,- Temporary Secretary. William- Cherry was appointed Chairman; by -klayor Sandy McClamroch who named the members of the group. A fall-time Executive Secretary who would hot be * voting member of the body Would replace Mrs. Mace after the Authority gets its projects started. - v During the meeting various public housing, programs were discussed. Hie members decided to file an applkation for prelim inary planning funds with the federal government, ami ask per sons from the Federal Housing Authority to come to present their prgorams. ,<■ Next Tuesday the Authority; will make an informal inspec-l tibn visit of the Durham public housing projects. ' where the^complete re-registra tion has just been held and 6,381 in the other 13 precincts of the County. Within these totals there are 5,320 Democrats registered in Chapel Hill Township and 5, 756 in the rest of the County. i Call The News for the results ... In keeping with its es tablished custom The News office m Garrboro will be open this Satur day night to receive and give out election returns by telephone. Persons who wish this information may call The News office, 968-4444 any time after 7 p. m. until the final returns are in. Precinct registrars are asked to have, the results of various contests tele• phoned to" The News im mediately as they are tab ulated. In northern Or ange County the results should be called in to the sheriff's office, 2675 Hills . boro. _ Orange County voter registration totals Chapel HiU Township North Carr boro South Carrboro Country Club Dogwood Acres Blast Franklin Estes Hills Glenwood.—'— Kings Mill Northside Westwood 0)le’s Store Patterson SUBTOTAL Caldwell Carr CedaV Grove Cheeks Efland Hillsboro Cameron Park Hillsboro West Hillsboro Orange Grove St. Mary’s Tolar's vhrite Cross University _ I SUB-TOTAL -GRANDTOTAL | School | Demo-1 District| |Tatfc | Rapub. jc 517 I 425 ] 83 | 742 | 627 j 102 | 506 f 540 1 | 303 | 257 | 630 j 561 | 569 f 465 [ 585 |.509 |lnd. A {Precinct jNoporj Totals | 9 { 517 t 1 15 I 6 I 2 1 375 | 311 806 f 730 644 1 567 127 54 52 64 82 1- 104 \ 5 [ 618 I 63 744 605 316 641 569 | 21 { 107 I 5,895 | 181 5.320 1 341 I 213 ! 317 | 612 { '651 ! 564 | 562 11,035 | 258 I 172 | 267 | 326 | 428 5,756 { 89 { 82 I 21 ! 14 f 810 ! 46 \ ■ 14 I 9 | 152 f 25 f* 1 7 4 1 78 5 7 4 16 | 375 | 826 j 653 { 148 | 196 | 6,208 | 392 1 234 j 330 | 780 1 f 677 TT 21 53 64 26 12 57 47 4 |.585 583 11 11 4 5 19 5 1,099 333 202 284 402 480 543 | 92 1 6,381 11,076 | U53 1170 {12,589 It was SRO at the courthouse .. . - -.i--—— Big crowd hears zoning proposal blasted at antis' last meeting '1 here was no b.tt.O. sign in evidence, nut “standing room only" was tne situation at the courthouse Monday ' night when tne Orange County zoning oppo sition committee, held its final public meeting of a series aimed at defeatng a proposed county wide zoning act now under con sideration. Some 275 to 300 people crowd ed- into the 250-seat courtroom to hear Max* Kennedy, the com mittee chairmani' explain the purpose of the meeting and the background of the opposition committee’s efforts. They heard Durham lawyer Blackwell “Dog*’ Brogden in a stinging indictment of the aoning ordinance as pro posed in Orange' County and as it has operated in Durham. The meeting followed the ’ same pat tern' as- those held previously in other parts of the county. Brogden charged that "‘zoning is Milling Durham” and said the Only purpose for zoning in Or ange County was' “to grab for more control;*’ He advised his listeners they had two alterna tives to* kill the toning proposal: Exerting pressure on the County Commissioners, and/or having their legislator passr legislation exempting the County from the School Board okays Estes Hills wing plans me vmapei nui ocnooi Boara on Monday night approved the' rough plans for a 12-classroom i $150,000 Addition to the Estes i Hills Elementary School. Board Chairman Dr. J. Kemp ton Jones/said he hoped a con tract for the project could be let by July ! and the job completed by the end of this year. The plans were drawn by City Plan mng and Architectural Associ ates of Chapel Hill to generally conform to the style of the exist ing 12-classroom building. The addition will include six primary grade classrooms on the same level as the existing build ing and six upper grade class rooms on the lower level play ground to the rear of the builds ing, thus taking advantage of the terrain and eliminating the need for excavation. A teachers lounge will be included in the construction. On Monday night the Board also approved preliminary plans for renovations to be carried out at Northside School this sum mer. application of the state-wide act. ! Kennedy In his remarks said bis group would not oppose ap- j plication of an alternate N. C. law whieh permits communities to zone on petition where there! is as many as 10 landowners', fwith 640 acres of land and a tax Valuation of 6100,000 or more. Following a question and air* swer period commissioner candi dates present were encouraged to state theif positions on the mat (ter. County Commissioner candi ■ date Carl -Smith issued a strong endorsement <rf the anti-zoning] efforts and said his opposition to j the zoning proposal pre-dated the formation of the committee op position. Incumbent Commission er Clarence D. Jones, also a can didate, explained that the County Commissioners had set the plan ning machinery in motion fol lowing petitions froip the Grange organization in Grange County. Fellow incumbent and candidate Henry Walker in later remarks tended to confirm this, citing minutes of the County Board. Candidates Donald McDade and Mrs. Josephine Barbour were also present bat did not speak. Check shows Smith didn't vote; he again declares that he did — n ucuier or noi county eom missioner candidate Carl Smith voted in last fail’s $62 million statewide bond referendum has become a controversial issue in his campaign. A citizen has cited voting rec ords to challenge Mr. Smith’s statement that 'he voted and vot ed for the issues in the referen dum. The News yesterday check ed the official records and these showed that he did not. Questioned about the matter again by The News last night. Mr. Smith stated simply that he could not dispute the records, but that he did indeed vpte in the referendum. The difference occurred dur ing a question period at the League of Women Voters candi dates meeting earlier this month in Chapel Hill. -All commissioner candidates were asked if they voted and how they voted on the state-wide bond referendum last fall. Mr. Smith stated that he voted for the issues. A woman stood up and challenged him on this statement;' “The -record shows y you did not vote in that elec* I tion,” she declared. In reply Mr. Smith Said “The record is wrong. I did vote. If you have-any argument with the registrar this is not the time and place to take it up.” Inasmuch as there was a dis agreement1 on a matter of fact i in this instance. The News check the registration and poll books for the old Chapel Hill Precinct No. Four for the state-wide bond referendum, held last Nov. 7 to see what they showed. I In that election as in all elec tions under jurisdiction of the County Board of Elections, it was necessary for a voter’s name first to be checked by the reg istrar in the precinct registra tion book. The registration book shows that Mr. Smith voted in almost Continued on Page! 10
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