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Burnside site envisioned . . . Plans, scale models would aid Hillsborough in arts school bid - - * - Historic Hillsborough hopes to have the-benefit of a ready-made set of tentative plans and model buildings as an asset in its favor when‘local residents make their bid later this month fob location of the proposed North Carolina School of the Performing.Arts. The newly-appointed 10-mem ber advisory committee for the institution will begin several days of touring the state in con sideration of possible sites on . April. 27. Members of. the Hills borough Historical Society and the Historic Hillsborough Com mission feel that the county seat of Orange will merit much con sideration from' the committee. They cite its natural assets and also a set of site plans now be ing drawn for the Hillsborough location by fourth-year design students of arehiteet Harwell Hr Harris at N. C. State in Raleigh. Dr. Robert J. Murphy, Chairman of the Commission, said he hoped the students would finish their proposed designs in time to sub mifcthem to the Committee when ~. it comes to Hillsborough. Dd.> Murphy said > that he' and Mrs. A.AG. Erigstrom had. talked with others in Hillsborough and fotiad' the^ couid obtain an op tion * on the Bitrnside1 property; a tract Of about SOOi acres just east off'the.*vlBti(gei: The ‘design stu dents are drawing their plans to fit > into this. * wooded' site, which is knap# as a part of Cameron ••'fiHPI* is crowned by* « knoil sloping off to the. Eno River on — the;’East.'* - — ■« A part of the * students’ plans involve a civic-tourist center that would: link? school to the town; This bulMh«g> would be in t-he block immediately west of the campus and bounded by Mar garet Lane, Cameron, Churton and King Streets. Where to get the several mil lion dollars that would be neces- | sary to put up the performing arts school buildings and the tourist building is the big ques tion. The Hillsborough backers of this project admit that it will not be possible to raise that kind of money locally, but believe they could secure it from philan thropic foundations on the basis of specific .plans drawns to suit a place .with Hillsborough’s, nat ural qualifications. The high school level 400-pupil regional institution for concen-: t'rated. "training in their fields of j dance, drama, and music, has a | $325,000 grant' from the 1963 | General Assembly and pledges of ; maintenance funds for five years | from private foundations. John Ehle of Chapel HiH, Gov. San ford’s special assistant for cul tural and educational affairs, has been spearheading the Betting up of this school. As> for the Hills borough site: he stated “I’m stilt not altogether certain that Hills borough is big enoughs blit1 be cause it ten* whele town could ^be ide^ifldd 'i with' the school. It’tt wa» interesting prob-1| leer in the development bf the* arts.'^ Under' the plan-for- a Hillsbor ough site the pupils would live* in * private homes and attend reg-; ula* classes at Orange High School, takidg only their special arts training: at the state-sponsor ed school. If located' on the Burn side traetv as envisioned by the student planners^ the campus would consist of three buildings —one each for dance* drama, and over results from grass seed An Orange C:unty farmer, who alleged he infested his fields wi.h Johnson grass and o,her cbnox ious weeds and grasses when p.e planted gnai»anteed> "pure strain lespedeza” seed - purchased from a iRandoiph' seed firm, lost his case ip Orange SutHKfee' Count —-— fol- recorders court Orange County {Recorder’s Court will convene next Wednes day for' the first session in six I weeks. _~v. - It »'.ua§ been recessed because of the scheduling of four weeks of criminal and two weeks of civil court in the county, primarily to handle the cases growing out of racial disturbance. Plans of Judge (Marshall Smith are to atpUhr eowrt te session for three days, Wednesday, Thursday and (Friday, if required to dispose of pending cases. IKE NBW» • Of ORANQE COWNTV Vol. 72, No. l4 April 2, 1964 Published Avery Thursday In Tl»a Year Dy The News. Inc. Subscription Rate* Payable la Advance): in Oumge vtnd Ad joining Counties, $2.50, plus 3% Sal«s Tax; Otherwise in U. S. 94: Overseas JUI. Entered As Second Class Mat In The Posteificas at Hills borough and Chapel MU N C. last week. i Attorney* for ®. H. McCulIock cl Orange County gave notice of appeal foltciidflg the jury verdict in the ease brought by him against Melvin Nunn, trading. as liberty Farm- -and Carden Sufr» piy. McCulloch sought damages of $3;300<4h the unusual case, Thet juay answered “NO" to the first issue submitted to it,. “Did the defendant warrant tite seed?’’ thus obviating the necessity for anu.verirg other; issues. on dam ages. I'” MciCullock alleged in his com plaint that the defendant guaran teed the seed to be pure strain lespedeza and be (bought 3.0C5 pounds for $483’, teat after plant ing he discovered “a large ma jority of the seed consisted of Johnson grass and .rough button seed. Mm further, alleged that since the planting he had been unable to kilt out the obno.rious weeds |ind grasses. The defendant de nied the seeds were guaranteed end claimed the selling price was much lower than would have been for pure strain seed. It was the first case of its kind recalled in the 'local courts. Three other cases heard dur ing the last days of .last week and Tuesday ended in non-suit In onediroree action Monday, Mrs. Shelvy Head Vickers was granted a decree from Boy Har old Vickers. music. Each would include an indoor theater or auditorium, studios, rehearsal rooms, anti classrooms, and would probably be built around an’ outdoor am phitheater. Mr. Harris became interested in the Hillsborough possibility when he happened to stop off here briefly last fall while bound for Winston-Salem „to look at a proposed site for this same in stitution there. He said he was fascinated by the natural attrac tiveness and cotonial atmosphere of Hillsborough. Make-up demands tap So successful and popular was last Saturday’s .“make-up” ses sion for persons wishing to take the Sabin oral polio vaccine in Chapel Hill that the sponsors had to- dip into supplies they planned to use for the second mass dos age on May 17. Dr. Robert Senior, chairman at the project for the sponsoring Durham-Orange Medical Founda tion,^ announced last week that 400 previously-thawed doses left over from the county-wide vac cination program oif March 22. would be available to any takers who missed out previously at the University Infirmary on Saturday afternoon! In the scheduled two hours of this make-up elinic a total of i$2£ doses were passed out. To meet the demand, he explained, it 'Was necessary to thaw out a small quantity of the frozen serum that was scheduled tp be given out on May 17 as the seeond dose for the more than 25,00® 0range County residents who took the I initial serum-laden sugar cubes on Marsh 22. This second and final dose will be administered at the same eight school buildings across the county that the “feeding sta tions” were earlier set up in. Dr. Senior noted that persons who have recently received one 01 these three-strand doses of vac cine from their private physician or through last Saturday’s make up session may take their second dose at the regularly-scheduled public “feeding” on May 17. Air Carrboro residential rezonings Two major residential re-zon ing projects were presented at formal public hearings before the Carrboro commissioners and Planning Board night before last. In accordance with local ordi Hamlin hits pay hike idea iot legislators Opposition to a payraise sug gestion lor members of the Gen eral Assembly has been express ed by- Orange County Rep. Ed Hamlin. His statement, made public this week, came on the heels of a proposal for the pay increase made before the State Democrat ic Platform Committee by Nation al Committeewoman Mrs. Herbert McKay of Chapel Hill when the platform group opened its de liberations in Raleigh last week. Gordon Cleveland of Chapel Hill, candidate for the House seat for Orange County along with incum bent Hamlin and Donald Stan ford of Chapel Hill, also appear ed before the Platform Commit tee. He made proposals on liber alizing voter registration laws and passage of the state’s lieu-of taxes payments to local govern ments. 'Rep> Hamlin’s statement against the legislators! pay raise idea follows: “Asa Demoo rati* candidate for the House, sever*) other mat' tecs calling fof money interest me much more. “I refer particularly to free textbooks for public school chil dren, adult drivers for school buses, and reduced teacher'loads, among other things. “The 1963 sessions of the Leg* islature cost North Carolina tax payers $1,044,653.15, of which $672,928.65 was paid directly to members in salaries and subsist ence. This appears to me to have been quite adequate, otherwise they might have been shortened considerably from the 146 days to which they were extended. The 1963 session began with no sig nificant money problems before it, but consumed 104 days before the principal appropriations bill could be completed. " “Also, there appears to be no dearth of ‘patriots,’ in this Coun ty, pr any other, who are willing to offer their services at the ex isting pay. " - - “A quarter of a million dol lars, which would be the prob able cost of a $10 per day pay raise, would go a long way to ward some other essential or de sirable expenditure.” nance each proposal was refer* red to the planners for a recom mendation back to the commis sioners for action. Some objections were raised by neighbors in the southern area of Smith Level Road to the peti tion of Bobby Roberts for the Roberts Construction Co. to re zone from Agricultural to RA-15 the 20a-cre portion that is within the zoning district of a 186-acre tract he recently purchased from George Cole. . ;1___ The neighbors said in their public statement that their resi dential properties were develop ed to conform to RA-20 (20,000 square-feet lot size) standards, and they felt the Roberts prop erty should be re-zoned to this category—the next higher zone than the RA-15 requested. Mr. Roberts said he planned to build houses in a $12-15,000 sale price range on the property, intended to have the local water supply extended to the develop ment and curbing and paving in stalled. In the other matter before the hearing, C. J. W. Simpson asked that his 45-acre tract above'Tlan-' tation Acres be re-zoned from Ag ricultural Jio RA-20. No opposi tion was expressed to the pro posal. However the Town Board agreed to write to the State High -way Department to try. to learn . the location of a proposed north side bypass road that would touch the top side oif. iiis develop ment. Mr. Simpson agreed to lay out his subdivision in keeping with such a road if its location eould be .established. Every tomorrow has two han dles. We can take hold of it witfi the handle otf anxiety or the han dle of faith.—Henry W. (Beecher liMilMr - - ' mmm KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 88 PROW 4/5 QUART 6 YEARS OLD f'fl.VCflKD
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