—Despite militants' protests . . .
Long-range community plan
in race relations adopted
Despite carping protests from public accommodations law, the
citizens pusUing Dor action oh a Chapel Hill aldermen have unei*
Mediation body
issues statement
Chapel Hill Mayor Sandy Mc
Clamroeh on Monday delivered
an* official communication from
ihis racial discrimination mediat
ing committee to the Board of
Aldermen, which authorized its
organization on Jan. 13.
• Following is the bask text of
the Committee’s statement:
“We have made an effort to
contact those who have respon
sibility fof policy in these es
tablishments. In seme instances
our representatives have been re
ceived with courtesy. In other
instances we have been inform
ed that tire management did not'
wish to discuss the matter with
our Committee. In still other in
stances we have received no re
ply to our requests tot we be
given an opportunity to meet
with the management: for a dis
cussion. /
“In those instances where dis
cussions have been held, toe
management has usually express
cd Various reasons why it does
not consider a change in policy
to be in its best interests. In
several instances there has been
expressed a willingness to change
the policy; and. this w.as contin
gent upon other businesses in the
same category changing their pol
icy. It is highly probable- that
•the management of these places
will continue Ms present policy
as long as it remains economi
cally profitable to &o 80. T.iis
is indicated by one proprietor
who said, in effect, that as long
as has present policy seemed- to
suet his customers he saw no rea%.
son why he should change it.
Several others expressed a simi.
lar viewpoint.
Aldermen withhold action . . .
Restriction of picketing
is left in abeyance
Restriction of picketing in
Ciiapel Hill was lef t in abeyance
this week as the Town aldermen
failed to take furJier action on
an earlier amendment limiting
/picketing to the hours af 7 a.m.
7 pm
The amendment, enacted Feb.
10 by a 4-3 vote on the basis of
Mayor Sandy MeClamroch’s tip
tweaking decision, was , subse
quently realized to be invalid for
not having gained the statutory
necessary two-thirds majority of
Che six-member Board.
On the agenda at Monday
night’s Board meeting Town
Manager Bob Peck simply noted:
“Picketing' has been carried on
for nearly two weeks with little
or no trouble. At ti'is time it
B/ppears to be un-necessary tc
take further action on the amend
ment to the picketing ordinance
. proposed. af the last meeting.”
To legally enact this bill another
/passage of it will be necessary.
In other matters ' of business
the aldermen heard a plea frcnn
Mrs. William Hargraves speak
ing for Caldiwell St. residents and
seeking action on their curbing
petition. Mayor McClamrcdh said
the project would be done soon
after next July 1 when funds
would become available.
ttlie Colony Woods subdivision
was re-zoned from agricultural to
KAJ10 and RA-15 as unanimous
ly recommended by the District
Planning Board.
Action on revision of the
Town’s fire insurance protection |
program was carried over to the |
next meeting.
imously endorsed the Mayor s
Homan Relations Committee’s
long-range declaration of equal
righto and opportunities for the
community.
Hie general program was re
ferred back to the Committee for
further recommendations and
further endorsement by other lo
cal governmental agencies here.
When presented for foe Human
Relations Committee by a spe
cially-appointed subcommittee to
the aldermen oh Monday night,
the four-page statement imme
diately drew criticism from local
integrationisto in the audience.
They protested the failure of
the plan to carry a specific state
ment favoring < enactment of a
public accommodations ordi
nance,and made ■ further allega
tions of racial, discrimination on
the part of the municipal gov
ernment. Mayor Sandy McClam
roch re-emphasized has carter
declaration that the plan would
not be generally acceptable to
the public if a public aeoanune
dations proposal were made »
part of it initially, ft is possible
at some date in the future that
such an idea might be embodied
in it, he said, but declared that
this should not be done at this
'time, for the sake of the long
range potential effectiveness of
the program.
Drawn up under the chairman
ship of University philosophy
professor E. Maynard Adams, the
statement documents progress in
the elimination of racial discrim
inOticfi locally in recent years,
notes the need for continued ef
forts toward fois goal, and pro
poses that this be accomplished
through three steps:
(d) Establishment of a local
community-wide agency with a
Cull-time staff and governing
board; (2) continuous study of
the local need for action in the
See LOiNG-RANGE, Page 10
Precinct Circuit...
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING' r. .
—Surest way to go dead wrong in assessing public
opinion is to go by what you understand “they say.” Fact
is that “they” is a mythical party invented by would-be
political experts to bolster their private hopes and/ opin
ions.
--But if anybody asked “Precinct Circuit” what it is
that “they’re saying” along the ward heelers’ trails this
week he’d have a few pat answers: That the basie field
of major Democratic candidates for the State House and
Senate races is pretty well settled; (2) That likewise is
true of the four seekers for the two Democratic nomina
tions to the County Board of Commissioners; and (3) That
these races are aU pretty wide open—with one exception.
“They say” that incumbent Harvey Bennett, ticket leader
when he ran four year? ago, will be re-elected handily,
whoever else -may turn main the field. ..:. ■■
It is purely coincidental, the Den Moore campaign
ers in the Land of Orange say: tt is purely coincidental
that they're staging a similar breakfast rally on the
sen- / day end during the same hours, exactly two weeks
later, as etas put on in behaff of Richardson Prayer at
New Hope last week. Actually, the Moore mentors as
sure, thoy had their shindig planned long eg#—before
the Prayer affair was ever announced. —Of such is the
greatest one-upmanship game of politics!
ALONG THE CIRCUIT ...
Wisdom wafted in on fh« political winds of the week:
That Fred Cates, erstwhile YDC president And erstwhile
candidate for various political offices, will lay low in his
own behalf this go-round. Cates said this week he was tied
up with business commitments in his North Hills Shopping
Center in Hillsfeorough, wouldn’t run for the State Senate,
or anything else ... A prominent northern Orange Coun
ty farmer will shortly be appointed to a state-wide F/ m
ers-fon-atoone Committee.
Mrs. Glenn (Henrietta) Aomen of Hillsborough is r
****** of Frank Castlobury, Raleigh real estate agent
who ijs challenging Orange County's Ed Lanier for re
election as State Commissioner of Insurance.... . See
"Hillsborough Observer" column this issue for follow
up word to last week's Precinct Circuit forecast that
Gary Sykes would announce his candidacy for the
State Senate. —
Defendants claim indigency,
claim right to free counsel
Several defendants in Orange
County Superior Court this week I
'have taken advantage of their
legal right to claim indigency
and be assigned court-appointed
attorneys.
Judge C. W. Ball sentenced
Eugene Wamble to seven to 10
years in prison for escape, lar
8-room Carrboro school wing to be sought;
decision stHI pending on other projects
Construction of an eight-class
room addition on the 16-class
rocm Carrboro Elementary School
will be sougut by the Chapel Hill
School Board.
By unanimous vote on recom
mendation Gif a study commit
tee of its own membership, tire
Board agreed to seek an appro
priation from the county com
missioners to carry out the proj
ect, estimated to cost $150,000.
Otis action letft open for a
future decision several other
■building plans that had been un
j der consideration by the Board.
Chief among these are a possible
i eight-classroom addition to the
currently all-Negro Frank Gra
ham Elementary School, con
struction of an elementary school
on a, 20-acre site in the Morgan
Creek vicinity south of town, and
whether to sell the midtown high
school property and build in the
outskirts, or improve the two
nhdfcawn school buildings.
The decision on the Carrboro
School was made by the Board
Monday night on recommenda
tion cf its study committee, com
posed of Chairman Ben Perry
and members Dr. Fred Ellis and
the Rev. J. R. Manley.
At the*-same time the Board
formally rejected L. J. Phipps’
$150,000 bid for the-10-acre mM
t<*mi school property, Offered st
legal auction last week. This
put the Board in position to ne
gotiate privately for possible sale
«f the property, estimated value
of which is doser to $1 million.
Also on the matter of school
construction, the Board heard an
appeal from Marshall D. Smith,
school patron of~»5ffi~ Chapel
Hill, for construction of a new
elementary school on its proper-,
ty in that general vicinity.
ceny and receiving, assault with
a deadly weapon, and breaking
and entering. Attorney Robert J.
Page of Chapel HOI was assigned
to defend Womlble and was or
dered paid a fee of $75 for his
services.
lawyer Robert Satterfield cf
Hillsborough was similarly as- <
signed to defend Harry Fuquay,
charged with assault witih intent
to kill, kidnapping, and assault
with a deadly weapon. Hie case
had not been settled yesterday.
Hillsborough - attorney Dalton
Lolfibin was under the same cir
cumstances assigned to defend
WijlJiaim !L. Campbell, charged
with escape, and attorney Benner
D. Sawyer, to defend Nathan
Asbwell, charged with larceny of
an auto and escape. Ashwei
cb-ew an 18 months term.
Bruce A. Wethington sentenc
ed to 18 montfo® for escape and
larceny of an auto, received the
services of Hillsborough attorney
George Levangs.
Other judgments of the court
to date this week: Joe Royster,
assault on a female, nine months:
See DEFENDANTS, Page 10
aapputfwca ax two leaders of
the Lincoln High Sdbcol pcpil
(boycott last week has been up
held by the Chapel Hill School
(Board in recognition of their
“contempt for education," in
the words of the local Super
intendent of Schools.
All cithers among the more
than 30 pupils who stayed
away at the peak of the pro
test movement have been re
admitted if they wanted to be,
^cectdimg to Superintendent of
Schools Fwward Thompson.
Ti e exceptions ate Henry San
ford and Jamies Brittain, Lin
coln. seniors who had leading
roles in the boycott sponsored
by the Chapel HUl Freedom
Cimmittee. Both have been ac
tive in other activities of the
Committee during the past two
jiwwSShs, particifpa.dng in dvil
disobedience law violations.
In commenting yesterday on
:<* School Board’s Monday
night action that upheld his
expulsion of the two, Super
intendent Thompson said they
#ere not expelled for their
ftirticitjation in the boycott,
'but for their “actual contempt
fcr education.” In this, the
admin&tra<bor explained, they
stayed away from school them
eelwes then came onto the
school grounds for the purpose
tif enticing others to join them
in the boycott. He added that
Brittain, 10, and Sanford, 20,
had been making marginal
grades in school. ^ -
"These were clearly admin
istjsBtiSe na* tiers of pupil dis
cipline,” declared the Super
| intendent. “The Board laired
me to take care of such mat
ters!”
At Monday night’s Board
- meeting Mrs. Gloria Williams,
declaring she represented par
ents of the boycotting students,
asked that all ct? them be re
admatitej. Following a motion
that would permit this, Super
intendent Thompson said that
if Brittain and Sanford were
readmitted he would resign,
Tlie motion was afcparfMd
any funiher.