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in -Hillsborough this morning ♦ recess called in Wynn The civil rights trespass trial of < a University processor was mysteriously recessed until this morning during presentation of prosecution testimony In Orange CJounty Superior Court on Wed nesday. ■r.Jf ■ . - At the end of a short break in the proceedings at mid-morn ing Judge Raymond Mallard re turned to the bench and an nounced simply that ‘'Due to cir cumstances that have arisen” the trial of Prof. William H. Wynn would be recessed until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Other court and law enforcement officials, said they did pot know the precise reason for the otherwise tia-explaincd break in the proceedings. There was speculation that the reason could have some beaxipg on a pending action in the Mid dle District of N. C. Federal Court. A motion to transfer to that court almost all of the Cha pel Hill civil rights trials sched uled in court here this week is to be heard. However, neither therJudge nor District Solicitor Thomas D. Cooper Jr. would comment on this or any other espeet of the recfess.-— As the court re-ppenCd in Hillsborough Wednesdfy Beam ing an Orange County sheriff’s deputy went back on the stand for further cross-examination on his arrest of the 35-year-old as sistant professor of phychology for refusing to leave the premises of a Chapel Hill restaurant when At breakfast session yesterday . . . „ 'Moore meets Orange wetl-wishers (Democratic gubernatorial can didate Dan Moore greeted Mew thoroughfare body to meet with Sanford The Chapel Hiit-Carirbero Ccmn ornittee for Safe and Improved (Roads, organized from various lo cal government units last week to push for state approval of the local Thoroughfare Plan, will meet with Gov. Sanford to dis cuss this matter next Tuesday. (This was announced Tuesday night at a meeting of the Plan ning Board by Committee Chair man Jack Lasley. 1t:e group will Bitso seek niore fiunis for high way improvements locally. “Our committee is cC the view that in the next 20 years this iWn will have tripled its popu Isfcn,” ,Mr. Lasley said in a V recess report. 'Wo improvements have been tuade on the roads in cur area for the past two years, and we’ve got to do something about it. The people of our community ore in complete accord on the feed to bring tl is matter to the attention of highway officials,” (Mr. Lasley said. 'Fill up the tank today and help swell fund for benefit of police Eleven Chapel Hill service stations wilt donate two cents per gallon Air aft gasoline sold t* the Merit Appreciation Fund fpr the Chapel Hill Police Dept. f Sari Walker, spokesman for the station operators, said the following establishments were participating in the one-day campaign today {March 5)rBar 'ley's Texaco Service, Brink ley's Eastgate Service, Clark's ■44 Service, Crowell Little Esso, Davis' Esso, Gardner's 66 Serv ice, Glen Lennox Service Sta tion, Huff's Sunoco Service, Norwood Bros. Esso Service, Village Texaco, and Walker's ; Gulf Service Station. * The fund which currently to tals about $3 000, is a commun ity-wide drive being staged for contributions in appreciation of the overtime services of the Chapel Hill Police Dept, dur ing recent racial demonstra tions. THE NEWS OF ORANGE COUNTY Vol. 72, No! 10 March 5, 1864 published Every Thursday In < The Year By The -New*. Inc Subscription Rates Payable In* Advanced: tn Orange and Ad ■' Joining Counties, $2 30. plus :2 Sales Tax; Otherwise i-iat U. S. $4: Overseas $$40. Entered As Second Class Mat ' ter In The PostaHices st Hiko , borough and Chapel Hill, N.C I ■■■■« ' i !. i ■ ’ i .mill ' more than 200 well-wishers at a campaign brea.KXast. stop in Hillsborough’s Coicaial Inn yesterday morning. Smiling, confident, and ac companied by i*.iis wife, the for mer superior court judge mov ed easily through the early morning gathering, and invit ed one and *11 to vialt the Moores at the- Governor's4 Man sion in Raleigh after the elec tion tfiiis year. '*-■ His appearance in Hillsbor ough followed a speech on the University campus in Chapel Hill on Tuesday night. THfere an audience of about 350 per sons heard him declare that he felt that enactment of the “gag" law had been unneees , sary but that be felt Conmra nisits should not be permitted t to make speeches in behalf of (SMMOtftB, Page 6) Durham Rd. business rezoning not recommended by planners The District Planning Board bias- recommended against re-zon ing of three Durham Road tracts fcr business use at this time. nUe split-vote recommendation came after lengthy discussion of the con trover sial issue at the ©oand’s Tuesday night meeting, end will be submitted to the Chapel Hill aldermen for action at their meeting next Monday. I&y a vote of five-to-two with Chairman Ross Scroggs abstain ing, the planners piassed a recom menda'tdoin against the petitions asking re-zcning of three resi dential tracts to suburban earn mercial — generally un-limited business use. The property is owned by W. B. Upci urch, c. L. and Eiruce Marti nd ale, and J. Ralph Weaver. Most of it ad-, joins existing ^ubiirfean eommfer cial-zoned property. The Board voted unanimously against re-zoning from residen tial to suburban commercial- the 'property of C. M. Mayse adjoin* inig the Chwpel Hill Memorial Ce metery on the Durham Boule vard, noting that Ids land -was surrounded by residentially-zon ed property. - t On toe othefjspe-roning matters the Board majority opinion was that additional commercial re zoning si culd noct be done at this time on the Durham ftoad ipecding a decision on four-la rung of the road, and until greater use is made of property in this area that is already zoned re gional commercial — a more re strictive business use. The gen eral Jeeting was that suburban commercial was an inadequate1 zone for this reason. In other matters the planners recommended approval qf pre liminary sketches for the Colony 1 Woods, Farrington Hills, and Kiggsbee Estates subdivisions, Cf :e latter < being subject to a re-; view by the Town Manager. I asked to do so on the night of Jan. 3. Deputy W. E. Clark Jr., said he warned the defendant that he’d "be arrested for trespass if he didn’t leave after restaurant owner Austin Watts pointed him, out and asked him to do so. Wynn and 10 others were all ar rested as they sat mute, block ing the front door of Watts’ Grill, and refused to leave, the officer testified. Watts himself was sworn in as the trial began late Tuesday, but has not yet testified. He’s expected to be,called when the trial resumes this morning. Cha pel Hill Police Detective' Sgt. Howard Pendergraph also took j the stand on Wednesday to cor-1 roborate Deputy Clark’s test!- j many.. * . Wynn’s two Negro attorneys are presenting his case before a jury of four white women, six white men, and two Negroes — one of them a professed mem ber of the NAACP. The jury also includes two of Wynn's collea gues on the U.N.C. faculty amU a Duke instructor. But all jury men said in reply to questioning that they did not feel a person could deliberately break the law, in the name of civil rights and go un-punished. On the jury are L. A. Dixon Jr. of Hebron community; Otha Thompson, north of Hillsborough; UNC art Prof. J. Robert Bernard, Walter Coble of Cheeks, Mrs. Ed na Clark of Chapel Hill, Howard Hall of Caldwell, Dr. Aubrey G Tolley of’the UNC medical fac ulty, Murphey Sykes of Orange Grove, Mrs. Martha Rice of Cha pel Hill, Mrs. W. L. Sloan of ' Chapel Hill, David P. Schorr of Chapel Hill, and Mrs. John T. . Brittain of Chapel Hill. A ■ Duke University professer has appealed a 60-days roads sen tence received here last week in a companion case to Wynn’s Four other Duke professors are awaiting similar trials here, prob ably this week, too. Rate of special term of court pending >inotion: in U.S. court The fate cif Orange County's current three-week special crim inal term of superior court called ■for the trial of nearly 1,000 cases in connection with the Ohapel Hill civil rights campaign is de pendent on possible action pend ing before the U. S. MfckHb Dis trict Federal Court. ; • Shortly after the term was con vened by Judge Raymond Mal lard on Monday morning a mo tion to trfMier 932 oases — a’i but five then before tt’.e court — was tiled with the Clerk of Court. The motion filed by de fense attorneys C. C. Malone, Mieses Burt Jr., and F. H. Me Kissick charged that their clients could not Obtain a fair trial in any of the courts of North Car olina. .'A...-.. This automatically took the cases out of superior court pend ing a ruling by the federal court cm whelier or not the cases could in fact be transferred to that court. Presiding Superior Court Judge Raymond Mallard termed the 1,500-word . petition “a false and scurrilous attack” 1 on the courts of this state. Aiiter detailed routine ques tioning of ail the defendants in volved be then permitted the so licitor to call the other cases re maining on the docket. That of William H. Wynn, UNC psychol ogy professor, bad been inadvert ently klit off the petition through clerical error, the defense attor ney stated, after Wynn was call ed forth. His trial then proceed , ed. : Hillsborough sewer to be half of water A sewage fee.of 50 per centf^ • The Orange 0runty Beard off Education accepted the Orange fflftgi School building from the contractor. lia&day, subject to compldticn and adjustment of a number c5f miner kerns i>n a checklist, and voted to wij-feeCd $10,000 in paynaeK*, to the.:eon ■tWWtar, L. R. Wilson, until all specifieatm-js are met: " Architect Archie R. Da vis rec ommended the action and later presented the Board with pre liminary plans for the new ele mentary school to be constructed near the Central School in Hills borough. tin cOher decisions, li e Board: denied a roquet of a Hitts-f borough Ministerial Association to hold an Easter sunrise service sit Orange High School on basis of,, the constitutional provisions ctf separation of church and 'state. ‘ Granted permission for a per formance the Cooper Pour, local singers, in the Cefttifal High gym uhder the sponsorJ:. op oi The Beard of education Monday named Willi* Blue, i; member ef the Central Bihftot faculty, as acting prin cipal in the place of A. L StjilWack, who suffereda eejtiehrjd attack last week. Stanback has been prin eip*{;.of the local school for Wfllifr and was hold In high regard by school officials and the general public throughout the county. Supt. G. P. Carr and mem; bars of the board expressed regret at the veteran princi pal's illness. He is partially paralyzed and under 'treat ment at Duke Hospital in Durham, where his condition has been described as critical. the schchl- agriculture depart 'meirtpptwided the sponsors ip«y a fee of $30 or 10 per cent af the net proceeds, whichever is greater, and not give away an aultamabile. Denied a request c# Mrs. James Hogan of Route Two, Mebane, for release of her daughter to IMebane Schools. Hogan had indicated grounds for her re quest i:<se tfoucight - that her daUIgh ter would get better instruction alt Methane. Approved a release for Lyn wood Clayton, a senior, to attend Helena School in Person-County. Denied a request for a pay sup p/ement for an industrial arts teacher. - ;£ (Reaffirmed its policy of per mating no solicitations in schools c<f the system, including a re w queued one for the Red Cross Asked for more informetioB and a definite proposal ~ Greensboro man cortcemiag sale of the White Cross .property tor industrial uses; • ■of the water bill will go into effect for all residents of Hills borough and a small -number outside of the town limits who ' .rave access to the.town’s now nearly completed sewer system immediately the treatment plant is placed into operation. This action was taken Mon day night by the Town Board of Commissioners. The charge will be made whether or not foe water cus tomer is connected to the town sewer system, the board ruled Completion date- previously bad been set at March 15. In other „ actions the board accepted the resignation of Of ficer Larry Talbert and ap pointed former Patrolman T. P. Smith to succeed him on tide /three man force. It also named Edwin McKee, a native of the county, who now lives at Orlando, Fla., as operator of the new sewage disposal plant. He will begin jrt a salary of $270 per month. The 1941 graduate of Hills* borough High School won fhe job over thgee e'lier apphoaate toe^mse ot.-his experience and : training in the position with i the City of Orlando Sewage
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