Chamber pledges $2,000 ..
All citizens of the Chapel Hill
CprKboro community have been
dsked to join in giving to a
“Merit Appreciation Fund” for i
the Chapel Hill police force in}
Ught of its extensive overtime^
duty in recent racial strife lo
yally.
The campaign was announcer:
formally : yesterday in a joint
statement from Mayor Sandy Me
Clamroch of Chapel Hill and
-Mayer C. T. Ellington of Carr
boro. The directors of the Cha
pel Hill-Carrboro Chamber 01
Commerce initiated the projeci
Race activities continue;
7" •' ,.I .. _• - i r y
picket ruling protests
Racial protests in Chapel Hill
this week branched out into mil
itant reaction against the town’s
amending, restrictions on its
- fcnr-year-old picket regulations
ordinance. *
Minutes after the Town Board
failed Monday night to heed a
••etiewed request to pass a pub
lic accommodations ordinance 50
(members of the local “Freedom
Committee” sat in Ise main in
tersection downtown and were
promptly arrested, while this
was going on the aldermen were
passing a motion restricting pick
eting to the- hours of 7 to 7, as
requested by Chief of Police W.
!T), Blake. On the following night!
(about three dozen local citizens
paraded silently to the police
station in protest against passave
jjpf the new picketing regulation.
The Board’s action was taken
•nrter Cl Xef Blake detailed to it
the extreme harassment and near
' violence that occurred last Sat
urday night when some local cit
i irens picketed a W. Flanklm St.
[beer parlor, asking, persons who
! entered it not to do so because
the establishment offered un
equal service to Negro customers.
Dining Sbtamfay afternoon 100
arrests were made as the Free
dom Committee staged sit-dawns
in the streets and highways, in
and around Town.
In tf:*r local Recorder’s Court
on Tuesday 82 cases of civil
rights defendants were bound
over to superior court for jury
trial, bringing to more than 600
the total of these arrests. On
Tue'sd-y night 26 more arrests
were made. as Freedom Commit
tee members staged a sdt-down,
blocking the entrance to Brady’s
Re'ojaurant on Durham Rd.
are being offered
* '* ' ■" ' ' : '
through Saturday
Chapel Hill-Canlx*m merchants — members of the
Merchants Association — will, hold their semiannual
j Dollar Days today, Friday and Saturday.
Besides many items priced at exactly $>t,. many will
-J put special prices on higtieg^agtd1 o wer priceditems.
Mast of the participating merchants have been
4 preparing for the sales event tor many weeks, search
ing, the markets for specially priced goods.
iShopjsers will find extra sales clerks, extra1
wrappers and extra parking lot attendants on duty
during the three-day.selling event. Dollar Days have
become one of the outstanding sales of members of
the Merchants Association. * ■ -
Participating stores will be designated by sign&r
, and streamers distributed through the association.
While business is expected to be brisk all day
today, most merchants believe--that Friday’s volume
will be much larger. The stores will be closed at their
usual times today, but most will be open until t)
o’clock Friday night, as is their custom.
at a called meeting Monday, ai
which they pledged $2,000 to the
drive. ,
The donations will be turned
over to Police Chief W. D. Blake
for distribution to members of
his 24-man force as he sees fit.
The Mayors asked that contribu
tions be sent to the “Town of
Chapel Hill” for the “Merit Ap
’ precision Fund,” Town Hall,
Chape lHili. Various policemen
have had to work as much as 50
per cent over-time without addi
tional pay during each of the
.eight.weeks since intensive civil
rights activities began here last
Dec. 13.
Note uniTy on ponce
In . their joint statement the
Mayors called attention to the
feeling of community unity they
sensed irf*“deep appreciation for
the competence, dedication to
duty, patience and personal sac
rifice for the welfare of all of
us that has been shown by the
Chapel Hill police.”
4, "In recent days various citi
zens have discussed how they
might show their gratitude to
the policemen tor their good
work and sacrifices," they de
clared. "These citizens hope to'
repay the policemen, so far is
possible, for -the real financial
hardships they have suffered.^
, Our policemen have suffered
financially through hours of ov
ertime duty which forced many
I to quit part-time jobs held dur
ing off-duty hours. They have
J suffered financially through out
| of-pocket expenses which the
Town can at this time only par
tially cover.”
Help for last summer
The mayors noted that last
summer many citizens gave to
a police recreation fund, with
which money the Department has
started construction at its fam
| ily recreation site north of town.
| In* December a token payment
! was made by the Town for over
1 See FUND, Fage H
Sessions to open week from Monday, Feb. 24 . « .
4 week terms of high court
set for trial of race cases
At the request of the Orange
County "Commissioners, following
a special meeting Monday morn
ing, Chief Justice Emery Den
ny of the State Supreme Court
has ordered three additional
weeks of Superior Court for the
County to follow a regular town
beginnigg Monday, Feb. 24.
The; additional terms were or
dered- to deal with the unprece
dented congestion brought., about
by the racial situation in Chapel
Hill, which has led to over 600
arrests in the past few months,
and no appreciable alleviation
by the courts.
. Four defendants among the ra
cial militants were tried during
the December term but hundreds
of arrests have been made in
demonstrations since that time.
RMOfflmtndtd by btr
Attorney Gordon Battle told
the commissioners the County
Bar Association, at a meeting Fri
day night, recommended the ad
ditional terms with the- “feeling
something must be done or maiiy
of the cases,might never be tried
under the present situation.”
Contact was mad* imtnadi
ataly with District Solicitor
Thomas D. Coopar Jr., who in
dicated he would- bo able to
handle the four weeks himself.
Earlier, it was suggested that
the County seek assignment of
a Spacial State- Prosecutor from
the Attorney General. A call
by Chairman Donald Stanford
: to that office brought the re
ply that such authorization
would have to come from the
Governor, who was out of the
State at that time.
Commissioner Carl Smith su’g
gested the County should get
help from the State in prosecut
ing the cases, calling it “a state
problem as much as local.” Battle
advised the Board the State had
employed special prosecutors in
other eases, notably the Burch
Brewer trials recently.
- Also in April
Last week, the commissioners
had requested additional, court
terms for the weeks of April 13
and 20, which would be followed
See COURT, Page 12
Orange County Commissioner
Gordon B. Cleveland test night
joined his Beard Chairman and
fellow townsman, Donald M.
Stanford of Chapel Hall, in an
nouncing his candidacy for the
State House of Representatives.
A member of tee University
political science faculty, he was
elected to the five-member Coun
ty Board in 1960 after serving on
the County School Board- The
47-year-old teacher is a gradu
ate of Davidson College and r£
etlived his PhJD. degree at the
University here in 1953. He has
been actiVe in PTA and Boy
Scout activities, is‘ a Presbyter
ian deacon, and has been Secre
tory of tee County Democratic
Committee.
“As one with ei agricultural
and business family, background,
a personal. background in busi
ness, military service and col
lege teaching in the field of gov
ernment and politics, 1 believe I
can fairly represent the various
interests of the County,” said
Mr. Cleveland.
—, «a»;PKl&TS .-4.
, r I?:?®®®®?.-- -factions ln^ Gui Iford
County Republican politics will
debate their dispute at 7:39 this
evening in the cbm>m>u>n*jty room
of Orange Savipgs and Lo:n As
oi>ciatiion at Chapel Hill.
j THE NEWS.
OF ORANGE COUNTY
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: Entered A* Second Claes Mai.
tef I* The Postoffices at Hilt*
borough and Chape^ftill, N.C
with Preyer next Wednesday
Richardson Preyer, Democrat
ic candidate for Gpverrior, comes !
to Orange County next Wedneis- ■
day on hk 100-county tear of t
North Carolina. ' V]
‘Elaborate plans for welcoming
him are now being formulated
by his supporters and §n-invita
tion to meet Preyer at breakfast
is Extended txr air citizens of the
county.^' . ■
Site for the. Grange .
ca*pj*ygn .- fcicknff ^wifi ' be the
Lodge at Camp New Hope, where
the candidate will be from 8 un
til 9:30 a.m. Coffee, juice and
doughnuts will ‘be served all
eomers.
' According to the press an
nouncement. “he will make Ms
appearance at 8 ant. to meet Ms
supporters and discuss informal
ly With tt:e citizens 40f Orange
County his platform for the gov
ernorship.”
fFnis will be the fourth week of
■the Prdyer tour. From here he
will go to Durham, where he’ll
■speak at 1&3G -ted from tfcare to
Raleigh for a talk at 2 PJP
L ’Gordon Battle of Crthpel Kill
is chairman of arrangements for
the Feb,'-19 event, while Dr.
Kemp Jones of Chapel Hill and
Bob Satterfield of Hillgborongh
| are co-chairmen for the county
campaign. 'Sirs. (Mary Frdihjr o,
rh’s chairman, Is in charge
of invitations and >irs. W...E.
Strayhorh is in ctoarge t>T fee
frelshments. Handling publicity
is a committee heeded by Mrs.
Gcail Fble and composed of Bill
dKgir, Roilie Tillman and Leon
King.
In a lengthy f orr^jil statement
of his platform, Mr Cleveland
pledged to continue at the state
level the polities and programs
•he has advocated as a member
of the Board of Commissioners
and School Board, and to try to
See CLEVELAND, Page 12
GORDON CLEVELAND
I DONALD STANFORD