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as compared A comparatively mild elec tion contest is in prospect for the May 7 municipal elections in Chapel Hill, as contrasted to that in Carrboro. With tee passage of the fil ing -deadline for Chapel Hill I candidates this week, HrsUerm faiaynr Sandy McClamroch is tm j (opposed for re-election to a new 4 two - year term. Judge William \ S. Stewart also drew no opposi « tion in his hid for a sixth two year term on the bench of the Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court, j 5 For the three four-year terms at stake on the six - member Board of. Aldermen there are four seekers: Challenger Joe S. Nagelschmidt and incumbents Gene Strcwd, Joe Page, and Ro land Giduz. Two other votes Also to be decided in the Cha !pel Hill elections are a $650,600 i Isewer bond issue and another' 'referendum on the levying of a: e public recreation tax. I t In contrast to His' Chapel | Hill scene there are four can didates for mayor and tO can- 1 didates for tho three seats to ! be filled on the si*-member —- Hoard- of Coiwnisstonera In Carrboro. The filing deadline i You may think you'ra registered but ytou* just might not be1' ,: Municipal officials in Chapel —r-' Hill arid Carrboro yesterday pre dicted that many persons will go to the polls on May 7 only to find they are in-eligible to vote —unless they take action by the close of the registration period th s Saturday. In both Chapel Hill and Carr .boro, they noted, there are large areas that have been brought in to th& municipality since |he*fswt town elections i&, 1681. Every v""* single potentially-cjualified voter in these areas will have to reg v ister with their precinct regis . ;trars in order to be eligible to vo*e in the municipal* elections, they cautioned. . Several preempt registrarjs so pointed, out that a good ftftim ber of persons w>o are register s. •ed on the county erection books are not registered mi the munici pal voting books, and as required by state law will act be allowed to vote in the town •elections un . .less they do register properly In Chapel Hill the registration period is continuing through this Saturday, April 27. Precinct reg istrars will be in the polling places all day Saturday to accept new registrations. j In Carrboro the registrar will he in the Town Hall for "this same purpose from B a.m. until 5 p.m. today and Friday and from 9 ahn. uifttl 9 p.m. on Saturday, the final day for registration. Registration for the Chapel •Hill Softool -Board election, which covers an area including and ^larger than both Chapel Hill and Carrboro, will also close this Sat urday. s . aaaaaaaBagasr THE NEWS Of orange county Vol. 71, No. 17 Ap.r 25, 1963 Published Every Thursday In The Year By The ‘News, Inc. Subscription Rates Payable In ■ Advance): In Onwage and Ad joining Counties, $2.50, plus 3% Sales Tax; Otherwise In U. & $4; Overseas $5.30. Entered As Second «lanMlfat»j ter In The Postoffices at Hills boro And Chapel Hill, N. C. for the Carrboro election, Hm to he held May 7, is fiSk Fri day, April 26. A N^gro woman, Mrs. Lee* Vickers, is the latest to file for j one of the 'tour - year cwmBiS'' sionerships and has fcecome the * first of her race to seek mam cipal offiee in Carffcoro. An ac- j five civic and chureh worker, in her community, Mrs. Vickers j attended North Carolina College; and has keen a Chapel H U school traffic guard. Filed school suit Her son, Stanley Vickees, «ow; a ninth grader in Chapel Hill Junior High School, was admit ted to previously - white schoo.s j here in 1960 following a federal court lawsuit for (desegregation. Mrs. Vickers said she was The terested in the future growth of Carrboro and If elected would work for all residents, regard less of race. . The other candidates for cobi missionsr ere Mrs. Ben Willi ams, Gordon Fisher, Bryaat Hackney, T. W. Hoenig, Leon Ivey. Robert Butner, Bynie Riggsbee, Hughes Lloyd, Offie Durham, and Ralph Morgan. Running tor Mayor are incum bent C. T. Ellington, Claybeuma Green hill, J. A. Williams, and E. N. Shelton. Enabling legislation to permit the re-joining of the Chapel Hill and Carrboro zoning district# by mutual consent will he free- j stented to the General Assemb ly at the request of the Chapel Hill aldermen. , The Chapel Hill Board gave .jits general approval to the terms of a bill drawn sip by Phillip P. Green dr., staff zon ing law expert for the Institute of Government The Chapel Hill and Carrboro zoning areas were recently divided at the request of the Carrboro Town Board. * The proposed legislation would simply make <tt possRrie tq. re join the two areas, includtoj'Hbe Town of Carrboro, if the town governments of both municipal ities so desired at any tbnfe hi the -future'. *, Among other matters of busi ness ai**fr Tuesday evening meeting, the aldermen agreed to seek bids on a 1,000-foot sew. er Hue extension in the Colonial Heights area in order to elimi nate a pumping station now used there. The approximate >5,080 cost of the project would come out of a saving of nearly f10000 realized in two other wewer projects this year, Town Manager Robert Pet* explain ed. ■ The Board gave its unanimous approval to a statement to be drawn up by the Town Manag er and Alderman Mrs. Harold Walters urging general Assem bly passage of a bill whereby the state would re-imburee lo cal governments in lieu of tax payments. A formal statement of support for passage of the $390,000 municipal sewer bond referendum on May 7 was also adopted by the aldermen. Solving thefts in fivfc counties A trail Jai rural roblmries by alleged “tree surgeons” extend ing over five counties and sev eral months in duration came to an end Friday with the arrest of two cohorts in Wilmington and -Durham. j Sheriffs departments in the i five counties and the S.BX col laborated to apprehend the pair, who will be charged in nine cases of larceny and one of breaking and entering in Orange, 13 in Chatham, seven in Person, one in Alamance and two in .Durham. Arrested in Wilmington on lo cally-obtained information was Haymnpri Scott Johnson, 22, of Durham, and his partner, Joseph Raymond Brwebois of Canada, who has been visiting in Durham. The pattern of operation of the pair was to knock oh the door <tf a rural home and if anyone an swered to ask about topping their trees orto seek information about the family up the rqad. If nobody answered the summons, *tH> pair proceeded to ransack the premises, concentrating for the most part on chain saws, shotguns and hams. ! Places entered in Orange Coun | ty included those of T. W. Sykes, Buckhorn; Dr. C. T. Kaylor, I Chapel Hill; Jim itawkins, Cedar ! Grove; Don Childress, St. Mary’s; j Bill Parker and Bruce Wagner, j Caldwell; Van Kenyon, Hills 1 boro; and Luther Tilley, Hurdle ! Mills. Fugitive has short freedom A Carrboro youth who ran away from the State probation offk%r as he was being taken from the county jail Monday for a revocation hearing en joyed short-lived freedom. Chief .Deputy Paul Cook and Deputy Frank Maddry traced Ac.e Bryant Riggsbee, 18, to the Eno River area near the edge of town ai d captured him about 10 minuces after he broke away' from Probation Officer Robert Bodenheimer. Riggsbee whs sentenced to a year last Wednesday for an assault at White Cross. Bod enheimer had removed him from the county jail to bring him before Judge William Sttwart who previously had 'given him a year’s suspended sentence and probation for A cnaestion A number of questions, but no outright opposition, cropped up at a legal public hearing ntgbt of a before last on annexatfMNM 700-acre north*and easteide ares io the Town of Chapel Hill. According to present plans the aldermen arill toko action to in corporate the suburban area representing about 27 per cent of the existini i^Otoere munici pality 4- some time ahortlyvii>e fore the end Of the current fiscal year on JurtiT 30." However', an nexation of the 500-acre Lake Forest-Eastgate territory is con-j tingent on passage of a $650,000 sewer bond referendum in the May 7 town elections, officials said. Funds from this bond issue would be used for construction of sewer -Mnes to and through this area, however the money' be repaid by property owners through regular assessments, they rated. - Some residents of the Clark Mills area adjoining the Lake rarest development appeared at the Tterfrfng to ask that the pro posed sewer line rat be laid | along Booker Creek so as to mar| the natural beauty of this area, bad not been decided upon and cutting ladies’ pants on clothes lines in Victory Village, CANDIDATES MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY The general public is invit ed to attend the public forum for all candidates in the May 7 Chapel Hill town and school board elections, to be held ■ eat Wednesday evening ■ May 1, at 8 p. m. In the Chat pel Hill High School Auditor ium. Mrs. Andrew . Scott will be moderator of the non-part isan meeting, -a traditional', pre * election affair sponsor ed by the Chapel Hill League of Women i Veters. She noted that all candidates in the forthcoming election had ao cepted invitations atp appear at | the meeting, and would be a* | vailrWe for open questioning from the audience following j their leur-tmnute talks. | They were told that the route 1 that if feasible this area would ! be left undisturbed. j j Dr. Robert Zeppa, spokesman | (See Annexation, Page 12) RIALTO THEATRE, DURHAM . Joseph E. Levine's : "7 CAPITAL SINS" "It's lusty, lively, audacious and wild" » . —Bosley Crowther, N. Y. Timet "Heads my list for Best Movie of 1963—completely delightful! and pleasure yourself!" —Judith Crist, N. Y. Herald-Tribune Cartoon Short, "History of the Cinema." Complete Showings at 12:52, 2:52, 4:54, 6:58 and 9:02 p.m. r HOT DOGS!
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