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School bus routes to be streamlined The Orange County Board of Education, in an ap p parent agonizing decision for some of its members, de i, ckiod Thursday to cut out■ the*- “taxi service” its <70 feuss i es are providing for many ©range County, school children. i The action was another step ifr the program to put t'he county’s school bus transportation system on an ef fidienily * oper ating basis, in com pliance with State regulations and financial ultimatum from th«'j€tatei*#oafd ■•of’ Education. ,-i~ Last year, an inspection by Jttat^'VaftthoritieiS „.f pur.d th?ar*fe Cooniy’e school bus fleet in a dcptdrable condition of repair, with expenses running consider ablely greater fen the funds presided by the- Skate for trans portation. operations. * • State to the rescue The State agreed to bail the county out of , its financial hols to the tune of $10,237.05 in extra expenditures and recommended it hire an experienced mainten ance supervisor in the person of J. E. Latta, a man with many years experience in North Caro-, lina school bus transportation work. The county board agreed and pledged its support to the new program and its manager. ••— Tuesday night Superintend-' ent <5. Paul Carr, with Latte end Cameroti PaHc Principal Ted Shoaf iri ’attends nee j told the Bci-trd the County can re duce its sdKoet bus Wavel routes by one fourth and still furnish the *mn*|Mrt*tlen re quired by law. 'Latta then proceeded to cite example after example of un necessary loop routings, overlap ping routes, and dead - end trips, pointing out that he has jusTbe gun to check out each route in detail...Time-after- time he not ed how a 'bus, by cutting off this loop; "of -"this dead end, could save 2.4 miles, 3.2 miles, etc-. ■ per day; . Could work out “The whole system could be worked out and cut down, and then run as it should be,” he s*rid. He sdld thfit if each bus route could be cut by 4 miles per day, it would save the coun ty 50,400 miles. "These often are the worst" roads and cause the most dam age to busses," he said. "Bus ses are running so many miles down deocfend and overlap ping roads that they have to leave much earlier *thannecet> sarip; Whenyou reduce mile age you reduce time on the > bus and all children benefit,” he continued. first bus route changes have produced repercussions far the. principals, explained Shod! He said he had had two and three hour conferences with some par ents who don’t want the route changes. Some parents are threatening removal of children from school, enrolling them in Durham, etc., it was explained. '3 or 4 choices’ Carr put the problem to the Board this way; “We have three or four choices; We can do like <S*er SCHOOL, page 10) V A public -meeting, of citizens interested in promoting action tew&rd fluoridation of the Chap el Hill public water supply wHl be held next Monday evening at ■ 8 o’clock- in the Chapel Hill Town Hall, Purpose of the meeting will be t«r-consider .what courses the citizens dan , best pursud individ ually } and.-collectively to bring about the installation 04 the,, fluoridation process by the Uni versity Service Plants in its treatment of the water. Roland Giduz, Editor of The News, said he had arranged for. the meet ing to be held after talking with several interested citizens in Chapel Hill who hoped to more actively bring the 11-year cam paign for fluoridation to a suc cessful conclusion. No definite plait now 4‘We do not have a definite State bid captures insurance for schools The Orange County Board of Education Tuesday night again awarded the schools’ insurance coverage to the State Board of Education’s insurance division at an annual rate of $3,710.51. Collier Cobb and Associates, Chapel Hill, the only other bid ders, submitted a bid $285.49 higher, for the specified 100 per ‘centr filter' lightning and extend ed coverage Total value of buildings in the eountysystem was Hsted at $2, 683,400 and contents $358,000. John P. Ballard, Hillsboro, submitted no specific bidy but proposed that the county adopt a new insurance program known as" “Public and institutional Property Plan Coverage^’ and offered to obtain costs if the i'ioard expressed interest in a new program. street; rtraffic projects okayed The Town of Chapel Hit! has joined rts^Pubiifr Housing Au-i fhority in seeking a $35,000 loan from the federal government for [Planning of * 200-unit public ~housfngproj'eot"here. This action by the town alder men on Monday Wight made* final the local request for tbe-icmis, which would teepnebafet' out oi rental receipt* ifu the project were built. If it'Isrtft the'loan would not ha9o t>» be p repaid Town Manager >Dd6 feck: explai^ The alderman also endorsed on to the StaBe Highways Coni' MP itfi } mission a plan Jtor a imajor provement St whereby it will be widened bj about one-third' and curbed, addition, new sewer lines w be laid under this state-mair. tained thoroughfare. To relieve downtown conge? t.ion the Board' reduced parkin on the west sidb of the firs block of South Columbia! St. THE NEWS OF ORANGE COUNTY ’ Vol. 70, Mo. 37, Sept. 13, 1962 Published Every Thursday In The Year By The Uews. Inc Subscription Rates tPayable In Advance): In NC, $2.50, plus 3% Sales Tax; Outside NC„ $3 ' Sintered As Second Class Mat t# in The Postoffices at Hills boro And Chapel Hill, N C s^irri»»iiiigggaBirr~' ~ P~ 8i§fi§ makittg it pbwible to set up am other southbound lane . moy^ ing traffic. . r The aldermen also set up a 'spfccilF-Bieetlag ^iih' tiii district olannirig bhaird on • Wednesday of > next week fo- .discuss priori tl« for projects included hi Cue »mmntuaity's - 3ong*nmge -thor olighfareplan. » &■'otheiematters of business, the- aldermerr remove# from-the t<.«ble where it was - placed a£ their previous’ meeting a pro posed radial road on the thor oughfare plan' that extended Southward across the residential area of Morgan Creek. Further action on this was postponed to find out the University’s stand on-* thw < ’ proposed' - road, * which would -originate on its property. plan in fnind at this?' time,’’ said Giduz, “but there are a few of us who • want to talk . over this matter very seriousljr together and see what practical steps we can take toward this' go-al. ■ "It may b* the* we will le gally petition tot enter < into ther r^n-nmt civil #iw»«it to prevent fluoridationaa# on ally of University She defend ant in tfiia . case. A focal at torney is now checking into this. Certainly we are anxious to help faring the- -defense of - this case to a successful con clusion." . If this course is decided upon, he said that he and -several oth er persons -were,prepared to put up private contributions to fi nance the legal aid, >A number of i local dentists and other pro fessional persons in medical, dental, and public health fields have indicated they’d be quite willing to contribute such cause, the newspaperman said. “■Whether there are no more than several of us, or a large number of citizens, we are sin cerely interested in taking prac tical and progressive action in tMr matier " he said. “We shall welcome all other persons who aie-TO fficrrpa, foo, to join With' ~ us.” •: Trustees' permission lor focar fluoridation tied to court idecision Action by the University of North Carolina toward fluorida tion of the CHap'el Hill public -water supply cannot now be taken until the pending lawsuit to prevent this treatment is suc cessfully settled. This was made clear this week in a communication from Uni versity. Business Manager J. A. Branch to Chapel Hill Town Manager Robert Peck. The Uni yfersity official cited a July 9 resolution by the Executive Committee of the University trustees. It formally approved the University administration’s 1960 decision to fluoridate the Approval qualified However, this resolution ap proved the earlier action to pro ceed with fluoridation “subject to the decision of the North Carolina courts in the pending action of Simons vs. the Univer sity of North Carolina. Thu* the University is now prevented by the trustees' ac tion from proceeding with the fluoride project until the two ywn-ow civil lawsuit Ti set tled, even though no tempor ary injunction has been asked by the plaintiff in the lawsuit to pifevont this at this time. Hie University has filed a mo tion for" a demurrer against the lawsuit that was initiated bv Mannings Simons of Chapel HiC The Attorney General of North Carolina,: acting as legal coun sel for the University, filed the i The* opening of : fall term classes fti* ttoe! Chapdl 'Hill schools has baen carried out '’relatively smoothly” despite a 10 per cent increase in en rollment, Superintendent of Schools Howard Thompson said' yesterday. * As of the "latest count on Tuesday, he said there were .128 pupils present in the eight Chapel Hill system schools—an increase of 313 over the 3,815 over the close of school last spring. Total en rollment has already pushed the number over 4;20Q, he not ed ,{—--:-Th» ■ i^pOTtiftagalgBir~~iagStr i’that it had not been necessary, as ’earlier feared, to double I drift primary grades in the Gleowood and Ca r r b o r o sehools although it was neces sary to place 34 pupils in some Estes Hills School classrooms last year. At the 12-classroom Estes Hills School there were 54$ pupils enrollecj^on Tuesday Double - shift sessions werein force for the first, second, and fMrd grades, there being abou' 150 pupils in each shift—from 8 to 12, and 12 to 4 p.m. Following are the Tuesday pupil s totals for other focal i schools: Carrboro—463; Glen * wood—708; Chapel Hill Junior High — 703; Northside—421; Frank Graham — 392; Lincoln High — 378; and Chapel Hill High—502. Grading work on construc tion of a 12-classroom wing at Estes Hills School started this week. Superintendent Thomp son reiterated that he hoped the building would be ready for occupancy during the school year. The newly-con - stri'.cted Frank Graham School is now fully-occupied, he add ed, except that work in tfee -cafeteria will not be.complet ed until the end of this week. demurrer last winter. However, the Attorney General has not to date, in reply to inquiries about — -this, been able to say when he would seek a hearing on this motion. Tells of conference Town Manager Peck told the : Chapel HilL aldermen this week that he had a conference with University Chancellor W. B. Ay cock and Business-.Manager Branch on the fluoridation sit ua ion. He said that they assumed him they wanted to proceed as quickly as they could on it, sub ject to the limitation of the trus tt was understood that this resolution was asked for by the attorney general's oth'ice to meet an allegation by the complainant in the lawsuit that permission to fluoridate had not been granted by the trustees. Thus the granting of’this per mission appears to satisfactorily answer this point in the com plaint; But tying' this permission to the decision of the court in that lawsuit also prevents action on the fluoridation matter at this time, too. Orouge teams face-Durham Continuing their round-robin series of pre-conference encoun ters, the football “Wildcats” of Hillsboro and Chapel Hill meet teams of Northern and Southern Durham tomorrow night. Both games will be played away as far as the home teams rre concerned, but good crowds ire expected to follow both teams. “ “ Last Friday Hillsboro showed considerable opening night pro mise in tromping a larger Cha pel Hill team 19-7 under the Orange Speedway lights before one of the largest crowds in the history of the ancient series; At the same time Northern was rolling over Southern for a con vincing victory, thus setting the stage for the battles of the win ners.and. the losers Friday in [this unique opening series.
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