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nine-cent tax rate increase Budget requfchts totalling $176,744 more than ' the current year’s spending au thorization have been sub mitted to ther Board of1 bounty Commissioners and are under consideration hf preliminary hearings being held this week. ’ A A,i*a* *i<te-( o^>$«iij| per t$<ioo valuation, ,, f)c more ifltan this 1 year's .$,1.10, Will f be - required to. 1 •meet * die ‘requests. « The .Ehapftl HiHBo&rd of'Edu cat ion an# the Soil' Conservation ^Service presented their requests Monday nigh , the Orange Coun ty School Boa d and the Board of Public Welfare made their ap pearances Tuesday night and oth er county agencies in the Gen eflft >Pund budget submitted tJlelr ajifteals in person '.dast ; bight; Chapel Hill Library trustees, the county museum. Regional . Li brary and the Farm Agency spokesmen arc scheduled lor rp poarances tonight. ' ' Spending rtqtieSts ilfeady ’ sub mitted to give the commissioners | a chance to study them before the formal--J»e«fog»'rfcoUll $2,365, [’<89 for the nexi fiscal year. This is in compiarteoitf Wl:.$2,188.06£: authorized this year. County Accountant SnmjjGat ti*r in preparation for Mtab !ti«Wntf th» new^tax i*to,isub ■ m ihatUiilal i piwrv1 *T h valuation o? $109>tOO;OCO; or an cum# dfi lah ttlHMoo, over-dast year. Most'4ge*lcies are showing small increases In their requests, 'reflecting lit most'eases" addition al services to the people and the lequirements of increased popu lation. As in all recent years, school requirements constitute the bulk oMbfringwawter anttprovide. thg greatest pressures* ort -the board tor greater'appropriations. ' Nota welfare tnceaase d . In the urelfara programs, Chair man Ale.t McMahon and Saper« intendent James Wight recom mended' an overallihcrease of $8,435 in couny spending in a total welfare budget amounting, to $577,283 for the next tear. The -"county's share would-- be 1 $10f$d» as compared # $98,476 | last year. In the major programs of Old Age Assistance, Aid to Fam ilies with Dependent Children and Aid to the Permanently ^ and Totally Disabled, the de ! partmeftf-tecWmttenced budg et based on sightly inetiasM monthly appropriations fit re cipients 8s foilows: OAA 175 persons at $63 aver age (last year 170 at 859); AFDC 650 persons at $24 (last yea'f 020 at $231;,AFTD 136 persons at $67 per grant (last year -115 it *'$68). Other inareases wire requested n Aid to the Blind, ga Boarding Homes Care for Children and in i Administration,i in 'which catei gory a $16,223.50 increase In pay roll is asked, to cover salary in creases and three additional staff members required by a new training program for which the couny will be reimbursed. • V A plea tot* an increase of $1*68^42 in1 budgeted Idhds for tihe next fiscal - year was pSaeiNtnted to the1 tom ntissionerS by the county’s two school boards on ' Mon day and Tuesday nigh ts. Total funds hsked by the two units for next year is $ 1 >344,5597 as compared to $1,174,155 last year. ■■ School funds constitute 91 per cent of t'hp entire' cdtmty budget. Funds requested by the two units were; $401,197 for current expenses, ^ $633,200 for capital outlay and $•108,006 for debt service. Current expense funds are divided by taw on a per capita basis and the new- bud-, gets figure Out at about $4s per pupil, based on 8,797 pdpils, 47G8i for the county system and 41116 fof Chap el Hill. Based o« this division Chapel Hill Would get $178,247, the eottoltjr $200,676. The Chapel Hill unit asked, for* $234,093 in capital funds and thrf county $399,107. Bond payments will require $308,000 for all school indebted ness. Growing pains Chapel Hill's In a ‘OteiiiriiTiaty sthtetnent filed with the board, the Chap el Hill board noted “the dilem ma facing the Chapel HiU School System is that of tre mendous growing pains." 400 additional pupils have been added during the past year. No neW major construction is plan ned* included in the request was iSmm THE NEWS "OF ORANGE COUNTY Vol. 71, No. 25 June 2d, 1963 Published Every Thursday In The Year By The News; Inf Subscription Rates Payable 1$ Advance): In Orange an# Afi-. joining Counties, $2.50, plus 3% Sales Tax; Otherwise in U. S. $4; Ov<_ Entered As Second tar In boro And Chapel mmm $63,187 ' granted earlier for 4 lunchroom at the Guy B. Phil-' lips School and all funds re-N quested for new buildings was* for equipping this school. Other major capital items included enlargement of the library at Glenwood and construction of a new library wing and providing a dish washer for Lincoln High School Increases in current expenses are required by the operation! of the new Guy B. PhilHps Jun Re-aS8igmtH>nt of 5120 T>upilS to schools bther than^ those desig* nated earlier for them to at tend' next year has been grant ed by Chapel Hill Superintend ent of Schools Howard Thomp son. He said that this -meant that only 19 requests w«$0 turned down As of the deadline for re assignment requests last Satur day. To have granted these 19 requests, all of them by Negro assign# ttf Ofnham and l^brthside Schools, Pif have croftcted '‘^lassroSns in the schools they sought to Witer and left rooms at their ffchttolS under-pupiled —• possi bly creating the loss of a teach er, he said. Of the- total transfer requests granted, 77 -were for pupils as signed to Negro schools next r“yea** end who asked to toe re assigned to dominantly white Schools. V e&ft: The School Board's assign ment policy for die coming year provides for appeal if desired, frem the 'assignments direct to •tH#%hooI Board; meeting t of which is scheduled July 8. ioP High School and the add! tionai wing at Estes Hills. Tr.e budget requested funds for an Industrial Cooperative Training Coordinator, a new program, five days sick leave for teach ers and other items required by the increased State appropria :Ions. A breakdown of the propos ed spending of the $112,168 from the distfict tax in Chapel Hill was presented,’ showing the bulk of it, >188.868, Will go for tebch er-princtpal - supplements and supplies. County asking - 19 teachers —f on locdr funds In its presentation, the coun ty spokesmen asked for $13;600 increase for an assistant super intendent, a position already authorized for retiring Principal Grady Brown, and for an at tendance officer. The county is asking for Instead of bypass t^a . ^ . on Hillsboro access The ' ^&-*ffc3d Signal* has i been raised on the proposed i «ew access road and bridge j into Hillsboro from Interstate ! I | .' This was the word from ! highway personnel this week, * who revealed that bids for •-the-project wiH be "opened in August. .Property owner*'from whom aright of way had been purch v. ased and those with whom he ■ gotiations were in progress fe ceived personal notification from the department that the project had been reinstated last week. The oction followed vigorous protests' over the postponement hied with’ the governor by of hctal bodies, groups and pri vate citizens after it waa an nounced the federal construc tion project had been postpon ed at the instigation of inter ests interested in the historic*! restoration of Hillsboro. Official- notice of-the change of plane*came-from Director df Highways William F. Babcock who wrote Meyer Fred T. Clap Ion his department was now "prepared to move on this mat ter" and requested the town commissioners to come, to an agreement concerning the shar ing of- right of'way costs with ' General Statutes require the TbWrt to assume 20 per cent of the tight of way costs in proj ee’S Of this' nature, in this in stance $2,300. Babcock noted t6tat Costs df 'Sechring right of way in town would amount to $1T,500. * Copies of his communication went fa 'Dd'ifcrnor * Satiferd and Chairman Merrill leans of the Highway Commission. transition noted in annexations A smoc h transition of extend ing services to newly-annexed territories of Chapel Hill was re ported from Town Hall this week as the municipal borders were extended by annexations to the north and east. Town Manager Bob Feck and Mayor Sandy McClamroch dis* patched a letter id the estimated 1,500 residents of the areas which were formally annexed to the funds to hire 15 additional teach ers from county funds rather than the 14 of last year. In ad dition salaries are figured to in clude the state Increases of $15 per month and five days sick leave per teacher per year. An increase of $2,500 was ask s' ed by the county board for plant . operation, to provide a janitor for the new high school. Additional funds lor insurance and social security are also asked. The county’s total current ex pense budget reflects an in crease of $28,694. In the field of capital outlay, the board said a considerable a mount would be needed to com plete the new Orange High School. It asked $20,000 for site development, $25,000 for dress ing rooms and showers in the basement and $30,000 for wa ter and sewer lines. The sum of r $ft»jfloo was requested for siti and conMrtiction of a hew elementary school for Negroes at a site still to be selected north of Highway--TO. 1 Town on Monday. The letter out lined the services of the munic ipality, and the projected sched ule for their installation, as ex plained in the annexation ordi nance adopted last month. It also explained that taxpay ers in the new area will be on par with the rest of the town in paying their 1963 town taxes. Bills for the' 1963 fiscal year cov I ering July 1, 1963 to June; 30, 1964, will be sent out in Ocober. Ihus the residents of the new a*ea are actually receiving ‘Tree” municipal services during the 13 days prior to July 1. The Town Manager said that twice weekly garbage collections were started in the 700-acre north and east-side area on Monday, and that police patrolling began there at midnight Sunday. Two new policemen have been hired and another one will be added soon. The new men, now undergoing a 25-day training pe riod, are Thomas Snipes, 22,j of Cairborp, who .formerly worked with a merchants delivery serv ice; and Robert Yow, 26, former ly of Bynum, who was in the military police in the Army. In the letter to the annexed residents, it was explained that street lights and fire hydrants were currently being installed and that the survey for sewer lineg would be undertaken very soon. The town would take oyer - ! maintenance of the streets as soon as streets that meet local standards are released by the State Highway Commission, | it was explained. r—--a l ...■_ Two=Bay- Service Station ★ GOOD LOCATION * REASONABLE SENT KENAN OIL
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