Transfer requests to be accepted through July 30 ...
New Chapel Hill pupil assignment
reputations are published today
' ? Pupil assignments for the
oming school year were legally
published in the Chapel Hill
newspapers today.
They appear in full on Page
10, Section II, of this issue of
The News. In substance the new
policy, as adopted by the Board
h July 9, continues the previ
ous assignment policies with two
exceptions:
(1) AH pupils through grade
.ix are assigned on the basis of
iieographical attendance areas:
md (21 the borders of these
areas are considerably changed
"ToRthe coming year with the
pening of the new Frank Gra
i»am School.
Outlines of the territories cov
red by each school are inelud
ed in the published statement of
; the Board’s regulations. A map
! showing these five attendance
i areas is posted in the office of
| Superintendent of Schools How
ard Thompson in the Chapel
! Hill High School.
Parents who wish to seek re
assignment for their children
from those made by virtue of
the publication today of these
regulations may do so any time
during the next 10 days, or
through Monday, July 30. Appli
cation forms for such re-assign
ments are available in the su
i perintendent’s' office,
j The only grounds upon which
: such requests will be granted,
; according to the adopted regu
; lations, are: (1) when a child
Action on demurrer is seen
in anti-fluoridation lawsuit
; -
State Assistant Attorney Gen
eral James Bullock said in Ra
leigh this week that he is pro
; reeding toward action in the eiv
versity from fluoridating the
Chapel Hill public water supply.
•1 lawsuit to prevent the Uni
r . A demurrer motion in the two
Silly Arthur
opening store
here today
Billy Arthur today opened his
hobby, crafts, and selected toy
-enter in Eastgate Shopping Cen
ter, Chapel Hill.
Operating under the name of
Hilly Arthur, Inc., the store fea
tures ‘‘over 1,000 hobby and
-raft items for all ages," accord
ing to Mr. Arthur, the diminu
„ tive and peppery proprietor.
- Free gifts offered for the
grand opening event include ex
otic fish “as long as they last,
) by the pair, to adults”; gliders
nd other gifts for children; and
•< registration for drawing of
more than two-dozen prizes.
The store is billed as the larg
.j cst and most complete hobby
arid craft center in the south. In
the stock are models, decorator
| projects, artists’ ceramics and
I sculpture materials for all levels
| of skiM, exotic tropical fish, coj
'octor Rems, science games and
projects, and raceways/and rac
ing sets.
The 2,500-square-foot store is
; owned and operated by Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur.-He has -been- pu-b
i heity director for the Morehead
j Planetarium.
On the staff are David Neville,
Susan Patterson, and Wilbur
! Todd. As time permits, Miss
i Sarah Umstead will also work
; with the new store, Mr. Arthur
Haid.
| ' , " . " ' ... • " " ’• r
! The firm is a member of the
: Hobby Industry Association of
America. Demonstrations and in
struction classes as well as con
tests for all ages will begin soon,
he said. IfjJ&jL ’ ...
“We’re not a toy store as such
but we do have a good line of
selected educational toys," said
•Mr. Arthur. “We have made a
■sincere effort to make this es
tablishment one of which Chapel
Hill and all North Carolina will
*■ -ue proud.”
. year-old la wsuit brought by
; Manning Simons of Chapel Hill i
was filed by the University late
last year. Mr. Bullock said he |
was preparing the University’s!
case for a hearing on the de
murrer.
However, he said he could not
state whether or not his case cm
this motion would toe ready for
a hearing at the civil term of
Orange County Superior Court in
September. If the demurrer
were sustained it would close!
the case, pending a probable ap
peal by the complainant. If it
were not granted the next like
ly step would be for the Uni
versity to file an answer to the
57 main charges in the case and
to proceed with the trial.
Earlier this month the Exec-!
utive Commictee of the UNC i
Board of Trustees gave unani- j
mous approval to the University j
administration’s previous deci
sion to proceed with fluorida
tioB. Mr. Bullock said this was
, done to answer one of the char
ges brought by Simons in his
lawsuit.
would be required to attend a
school where a majority of the
pupils were of another race; (2)
when a child would have to at
tend a school which previously
served principally children of
another race; or (3) when the
pupil would be attending a
school different from the one
other members of his family
had been assigned for the com
ing school year.
The new attendance area
boundaries will automatically de
segregate both white and Ne
gro pupils. School officials have
estimated that about 80 Negro
pupils are in this manner as
signed to dominantly whi e
schools, and an un-designated
number of white pupils to the
two dominantly Negro schools—
Northside and Frank Graham.
Last year 12 white children
were similarly assigned to the
Northside School. Under similar
re-assignment regulations at that
time the Board granted transfer
requests in behalf of all of them
to dominantly white schools.
County to get
bids Monday
on revaluation
Orange: County’s tentatively-a
dopted $2,188,000 budget for 19
62-63 is scheduled for final a
doption by the county commis
sioners in a special meeting next
Tuesday.
To date no significant changes
are planned in the schedule of
appropriations -and revenue as
earlier adopted, according to
commissioners chairman Don
ald Stanford.
Also at their meeting next
Tuesday the commissioners will
open bids on tax mapping of
the Chapel Hill zoning district
and on the complete re-apprais
al of all county property for
tax purposes, which is to be car
ried out next year.
HOWARD THOMPSON
Special meeting is set
for local school board
The Chapel Hill School Board
will have a special get-ac
quainted session with new Su- j
perintendent Howard 'Thompson
next Monday evening at 7:30 in
the high school building.
Although he has met with the 1
' Board several times previously,'
Dr. Thompson formally assumed
his duties only on Monday of
this week. At the same time j
Monday the Board- will also dis-_j
cuss progress of several build- j
tng projects. Among these will
be the junior high school now
under construction beside Estes
Hills School; the nearly com
plete Frank Graham Elemen-1
tary School; the pending addi
tion of - 12 classrooms at Estes '
Hills School; and renovations at j
Northside and Lincoln Schools. I
In addition some discussion is J
expec.ed on a proposed auction
of the downtown school proper-1
ty. The Chapel Hill Board of1
Realtors has offered its servi
ces free in working out arrange-1
ments for such a sale. The real-:
tors and school board members (
Late try to disqualify Chapel Hill
entry at beauty pageant revealed
A last - minute back - stage
attempt was made last Saturday
night to disqualify Miss Chapel
Hill, first runner-up for the ti
tle of Miss North Carolina in j
the statewide beauty pageant at j
Charlotte.
The situation, now well -known
in several - -garbled- versions
: cross the state by members of
the sponsoring Jaycee organiza
tion, came about after a
termer Miss Chapel Hill, Joanne
Aldridge, went to pageant of
ficials and made 3 number of
allegations about Oorcas Elena
Henley, who won the local beau
i ty title last spring.
| Miss Aldridge, now a field di
| rector for the N. C. Heart Asso
ciation, was Miss Chapel Hill of
1957 when she was a graduate
student and teacher at the Uni
versity. ■ - .■■■
Asked about the matter last
night, Miss Aldridge said she
went to the pageant chairman in
Charlotte last Saturday and sug
gested he “check into the cre
dentials and some other perti
j nent things” about, the current
'Miss Chapel Hill.
Local persons accompanying
Miss Henley to the week-long
beauty pageant in Charlotte said
they were told by pageant offi
cials that the charges included
allegations-that Miss Henley did
not comply with local residence
requirements for the pageant
and - additional - statemm tr tha t
reflected on her- character.
They said they were told
that the charges had been dis
proves and that the allegations
would not affect their judge
ment of Miss Henley in the pa
geant.
However, the circumstances
surrounding the very peculiar
transmitting of the charges to
the judges, and the matter of
their being aired only at a late
hour during the pageant are yet
the subject of considerable con
troversy here. It has been al-,
leged, too, that the state- j
ments made to the judges were;
slanderous as such.
The News has learned that:
there is a serious,, possibility of
legal action in connection with
these allegations.
The first that any of the
Chapel Hill persons at the pa-;
geant learned of the situa ion
was Just prior to selection of the !
finalists,, in the judging late last '
Sa urday night. Charles Willi
ams, Chapel Hill Jaycees’ escort
for Miss Henley, -.was summoned j
*****58? - to. the... pageant -eh*ir-4
rnan, told of the charges, and I
brought before the judges to dis
cuss them.
> ^Williams in turn went back in
to the audienee and brought an
other local person before the
judges. After the d; cussiun both
were told that the then-refuted
charges against Miss Henley
would, not affect her chances in
the judging. I
The entrant herself did not
learn of the situation until after
the pageant was over.
Last night she told The News
“I have been informed of these
allegations and they are abso
lutely absurd, ridiculous, and
untrue.” She added that the pag- j
eant officials in Charlotte had
been asked to give a full state
ment of precisely what was said
about her, by whom, and when
will meet for luncheon on Tues
day to discuss this matter.
Northern bypass link
meeting rescheduled
before school board
The previously - scheduled Ju
ly 23 meeting in Carrboro on
construction of a northside by
pass link will be held with the
Chapel Hill School Board at its
meeting ’Monday nigh!. '"". ~
That meeting will be held at
7:30 in the Chapel Hill High
School Library. Carrboro Town
Clerk R. B. Todd said the meet
ing was changed from Carrboro
so that the school board offi
cials could meet with interested
Chapel Hill and Carrboro citi
zens and officials.
The Carrboro Town Board has
been seeking an improved access
to the Chapel Hill Junior High
School, now being constructed on
Estes Drive. Such a roadway is
proposed on the tentatively-a
doped Chapei Hill Thorough
fare Plan, linking Pleasant Drive *
in CaTrbcro to the Umstead
Drive - Elkin High area.
W. Hill man |
shoots self
in shoulder
A West Hillsboro man shot
himself in the left shoulder a
bout midnight Monday in an al
leged suicide attempt: .“■*~~
Kenneth Conklin, about 40, an
employee of a Durham drug
store, was carried to Watts Hos
pital where his condition has
been described as ‘"not serious.”
According to Sheriff’s Depu
tes who investigated the inci
dent, a 22 caliber rifle was us
ed in the attempt. They quoted
Conklin’s wife as saying he had
been in a depressed condition
recently.
THE NEWS
OF ORANGE COUNTY
Vol. 70, No. 29, July 19, 1962
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