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Drive sta >■ .:.v Km persons joining in Four-Cs Chest campaign r ty SH»Ri.«Y WOODELL > According to Mayor San dy McClarnroch, Chairman of a the 1963 Community ; Cfjest, a total of nearly 500 | residents of Chapel Hill a :d Caj-rboro will tike part in : the drive that is scheduled to itart on Friday. The total quota, somewhat low er jthan last year’s, is slightly in excess of $43,000. The pro ceeds will benefit rtine local ehar itable organizations. ~ r| A luncheon launching the drive will be held tomorrow ) (Friday) at 1 p.m. at the Caro linfc Inn for campaign leaders. The luncheon sponsored by Home Savings and Loan and Orange Savings and Loan, Cen tral Carolina Bank and North Carolina National Bank, will f end promptly at 2. Special j guests will include UNC Presi dent William Friday, Chaneel Almost 100% success cited in cHamberdiive Nearly 100 per cent success was reported yesterday in the charter membership campaign for the new Chapel Hill-Carr bore Chamber ef Commerce. Joe Augustine Executive Di rector of the sponsoring Cha pel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association, said he expected the drive would he completed this week, and that as many as 130 initial members might be enrolled. The group will hold its in itial elections meeting about a month from now, he said. Un der its bylaws it will elect 10 members to its board of direc tors, which will have five more persons as automatic members by virtue of civic and public offices they hold. A slate of nominees is expected to be pre sented by the 20-member or ganizing committee for the Chamber. Mr. Augustine noted that some persons who’ had not ev en been solicited for member ship 'had come to tho Associa tion office during the last few days to sign up- The solicitation is being carried on throughout the University, business, and rural communities of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. IQT w • Mayer C. T. Ellington, and . (See CHEST, Page 12) , Where Community Chest Dollar Goes Girl Scouts . $5,000 Boy Scouts . -—._7T $9,000 Chapel Hill Recreation Commission -- _ $4,000 Carolinas United .... $2 000 American Red Cross . $11,860 Association for the .Aging ...$100 Animal Protection Society, - $1,000 Holmes Day Numery $54100 Y-Teens - $2,207 Total_$43,012 Annexation of a nine-acre pro-] posed public housing site tract] to, the Town of Chapel Hill has! been proposed by the Chapel Hill Housing Authority. A public hearing on the an nexation has been set for Nov. 25 by resolution of the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen. They acted Tuesday night on the re quest of the housing group for required annexation of the ter ritory adjoining the northwest corner of town in the vicinity of Sykes St. and Gomains Ave. Bringing it into corporate Chapel Hill would give the municipality a total area of about 3,275 acres. Town Manager Robert H. Peck, in a formal survey of the pro posed. annexation area, noted that it contained 39 dwellings, had a population of 137, and could be served by the municipality through this fiscal year without1 any necessary alteration of thej current budget as previously ap proved. To qualify under certain parts of federal laws on the public housing program, housing areas musd be inside an incorporated ^ municipality and must receive all regular "municipal services, , hence the request from the Hous ing Authority. HONOR FOR HAAS Robert B. Haas, Director of Bands in the Orange County Schools was named Vice-Presi dent of the North Carolina Edu cation Association's East Central. Music Division at the annual N.C.E.A. district meeting held last Friday in Durham. He pres ently serves on the. State Music Selection Committee and also as Chairman of the Allstate Band Auditions. Haas, who is just com pleting two years as Orange County Representative to the N.C.E.A. Music Division, will as sume his district duties immedi ately. Appropriation approved for police; off- street parking law is passed An appropriation of $100 a piece has been authorised by the Town Board for the 81 Chapel Hill policemen on the local po lice force during periods of ra cial strife in the community last spring and summer. Police Chief Bill Blake earlier R.B., Fitch Jr. elected president of merchants group in Chapel Hill R. B. Fitch Jr. will succeed T. I" L. Kemp as President of the Cha pel Hill-Carrboro Me. chants As sociation for 1894. He and other newly-elected officers will be formally installed at a banquet to be held early in January. All were elected by the general membership on the ba sis of a slate of nominees pre " sen ted by the Association’s exec utive committee at the annual business meeting held Monday night. Fitch, a Chapel Hill native, is associated with his family in the operation of Fitch C eations and Fitch Lumber Co. in Carrboro. He has been active for several years in local civic affairs, hav ing been President of the Chapel Hill Jaycees, Young-Man-of-the Year, and • Presbyterian layman. Otter officers elected for the coming year are Douglas Powell, /ice-President; and Directors thfee-year terms) Collier Cobb [II, Bob Harriss George Harris, and John Wettach. Mr. Wettach was chosen to serve out the re maining two year director term of Mr. Powell, who was elevated to the vice-presidency. The hold over members of the nine-mem ber board of directors are Ace Robbins, Bob Simpson, John Foushee, Bernard Whitefieid, and Dale Evarts. In his annua] report on Asso ciation activities during the cur rent year, Executive Director Joe Augustine called attention to the group’s activation of the local chamber of commerce, its role in averting racial strife, sponsorship of trade promotion activities, raising of over $2,500 for the Policeman’s Fund, and R. ft. FITCH JR. beginning of plans for an an nual fall festival. School boarckterm is set for Marshall Roger Marshall, newly-elected member of the frve><nember Countly School Board, will serve until the next regular session of the General Assembly in 1965. This was revealed yesterday by < THE NEWS OP ORANGE COUNTY Vol, 71, No. 42 Oct. SI, 1963 Published Every Thursday la The Year By The News. tec. Subscription Rates Payable In Advance): In Orange and Ad joining Counties, $2.50, plus 3% Sales Tax; Otherwise in U. S. $4; Overseas $5.90. Entered A* Second Class Mai tar SB Dm Poatofficea at SR* bora Art Cha*eH»Sr-lf.- fc —r :l - 1 1 'J' . ^ Orange County Democratic Chair man L. J. Phipps on the 'basis of an opinion from the office of the State Attorney General in Ra: leigh. Mr. Phipps suggested to County Board of {Education Chairman Charles W. Stanford *hat Mr. Marshall he sworn in to Serve until April 1, 1935 and until His successor is qualified. By that date in April the As sembly will likely have passed its omnibus bill appointing local school board members around the state, and an appointment will have been made to fill out the remaining portion of the six year tgm? l9*7> re was chosen by the Democratic Committee to fill the vacancy created by his resignation. Under legislation enacted by this year’s General Assembly the members of the County Board of Education will be purely elect ed by voters of Orange County as the terms of the present mem bers expire. Previously, as tn the case of Mr. Walker, they wafe nominated in party primaries apd appointed on the basis of the®fe nominations in the direction of the Legislative*. The question as to the length of Mr. Marshals turn arose be gaftrjgygjMg enacted. reported that members of his force had put in more than 1,500 hours of overtime duty at various racial demonstrations during the late spring and early summer. The appropriation approved by E. W. Speers death is held to be suicide The body of Elmer Walker Speers, 68 was found at his home on the Old Lystra Road, Route Three, Chapel Hill, about 10 a.m. Wednesday Assistant Orange County Cor oner Fred Long ruled the death a suicide by a single pistol shot in Mr. Speers’ head. He said no note had been left, but that he understood from members of the victim’s family that’he had been feeling depressed recently. The body will be forwarded to Las Vegas, Nevada, for burial. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bruce Sutton, of Las Vegas; three sons, Dr. Rex W. Speers of the University Medical Center faculty in Chapel Hill; Elmer C. Speers of Salt Late City, Utah; and Maj. R. W. Speers El Paso, Tex.; his step-father, W.'F. Speers two half-brothers; nine grand of Los Angeles; four half-sisters; children; and four great grand children. the aldermen on Tuesday night was recommended by Town Man ager. A resolution approving the drawing of an ordinance to make the appropriation from the con tingency fund of the 1933-64 budget was unanimously passed by the Board. The aldermen also passed a comprehensive ordinance requir ing off-street- parking for new constiuction in the central, busi ness district of the town. Mayor Sandy MicClamroch noted that I town' officials had discussed the proposal at length with repre sentatives, of the Merchants As sociation, and thgt the Merchants Association endorsed the ordin ance. Under its terms a stipulated number of off-street parking spaces, subject to the use of the property involved, would be re quired within 1,000 feet of. the business property. Variances from terms of the requirement could be granted in hardship cases by the Board of Adjust ment. Earlier a 600-foot distance limit had been proposed for the parking spaces. This was in creased to 1,000 feet, the mayor reported, as a “compromise” in conference with downtown busi- . nessmen. In other matters of business i the Board discussed but with held for further study an ordin (See ALDERMEN, Page 6) SPIRITUS Religious Art Center Sponsored by the Women's Guild, Chapel of St. Themes Store 7 o bring together the contemporary artist and the church • Christmas Cards t. p ftnligiou* Pictures knd Statues ;i e Crucifixes ■.*#. RelSgieus greeting cents and books till fcso pjn. daily,. (Except Sunday) , ISm E. Franklin St. (Over Sutton's Drugstore) - Chapel Hill*w
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