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By Commissioner Carl Smith... School, >t Commissioner Carl Smith made two points abundantly clear at Monday’s meeting of • the County Board, which was ; otherwise largely routine. ~ ~ ■ Be did not favor the all oca* tion of $68,800 to the County School System to enable the letting of contracts for $271, jOOO to build a new elementary school for Negroes at Hillsbor ough, referred to. in the min utes as the “Stanback” 'School. He does favor establishment of a second ABC store in west Chapel Hill or in Cari&oro. In explanation of the former, he "noted Chairman Donald Stanford never asked lor the nays in the previous meeting •when voting on the extra allo cation for the County System and the minutes had recorded the vote as unanimous.. •He said it would be all right to record his vote as “against.” At the earlier meeting he had questioned County School offi cials as to why the request had not been included in the origi nal budget. On the ABC matter, he has long been critical of the ABC Board’s failure to establish a downtown store. He, along with > % By CHRIS CHANLETT Meeting as the Citizens Advi sory Committee to the Chapel HilliHousing Authority, the Plan-, ning Board held a public forum Tuesday night on the contro versy raging over a preposed North Columbia St. public hous ing. apartment site. Strong opposition was led "by Prof. Clarence Philbrook and rep resented legally by attorney Emery Denny to the Housing Au thority’s plan to put 12 units for low-income families across from Nohle St. Aeting Chairman of the Hous ing Authority while Dr. Sidney Chipman is in Taiwan, Mrs. Rob ert Mace, read a statement by the' Authority clarifying the relation-1 ship of the Authority to the Board of Alderman, giving finan cial figures, and justifying the project. The statement made it clear that the Authority is a .“public corporate entity” and, “neither the Town nor the County has any responsibility for its debts.” The! rents are to be used to pay the operating costs. Loans from the j Federal Housing Administrgtion , would be used to buy the lanch and build the housing. Saw no decline The statement said there is “little objective reason” to ex pect that the project will depress femd values, but “fear and panic could cause a temporary decline.” Special efforts would be made to Save- only “desirable tenants,” and a superior architect has been contracted, it declared. The estimated fetal coat will 4 be cant wavU bn cowered by a 4oan already approved by the Federal Hous ing Administration. The aver ag* monthly rental por unit was givan as $34—including all . utilities. Mr. Philbrook and Mr. Denny attacked the plan in behalf of the Noble Heights Property Owners Association. They hit the finan cial basis and potential property value loss. Mr. Denny, quoting a N. C. law, said the responsibility of the Housing Authority in its projects was slum clearance. -A .petition against the proposal was signed by 102 people. Court fight saan There is a strong possibility that the dispute may ultimately be resolved in court. Mr. Phil brook said after the meeting he would discuss this with Mr. Den ny if the project is pushed on. Profs. Philbrook and Clar ence Hear labeled the Author ity "irresponsible'' in its rela tion to the town and citizens and the former called it a Frankenstein creation." Col. Henry Royall spoke a gainst public housing in general, recounting a trip on which he visited such projects in Kinston, New Bern, and Washington, N C. He closed saying, “King Fed eral is at our threshold. Will we let him in?” Negro leader Hilliard Caldwell favored the project, commenting that he had heard no abjections from the same residents when the nearby Tpwne House Apart ments were developed. Me said that Negro occupation was the opponents’ only real objection, despite their strong denial. -been assessed at $8,260, she not ed. While purchase of the land optioned is under way, no con demnation proceedings have been started, she added. Some condemnations expected ._____ Abernathy housing, site deed won't be ciosed<ttihistimeje Contains purchases proceed A $20,000 purchase option or * controversial public housing THE NEWS OF ORANGE COUNTY Vol. 72, No. $1 August <6, 1064 i Published Every Thursday In The Year 8y The Dtews, Inc. SuhaccipSieo Rates Payable in, Advance: in Orange and Ad joining Counties, $2.50, plus 9% Sales Tax; Otherwise in ff. *8. $4; -Overseas $5.50.! *$kicond Class Postage Paid «t flHlsebrough, N. C. £7*7$, aird i Chapel C;-27544. - -» a h ^ M apartments site near mid town | •hapei (Hill will not be exercised it this time, a spokesman for the j Chapel Hill Housing Authority j said yesterday. Meanwhile, Authority Execu tive Director Mrs. Sarah Rains said, options are being exercis ed for the purchase of land ap praised at about $71,000 in the Gomains Ave. neighborhood w^ere a 48-unit project is envi sioned. Residents ol the N. Columbia St, neighborhood around the 1.0 (Soo HOUSING, Peoe * • >t..; ^ Architect ofr the entire $884, 000 60-unit project is Leif Valand of Raleigh. The local authority is aiwaiting his preliminary draw ings on the Gomains Ave. part of -the project, before passing on it and submitted -these plans to the regional office for approval. Negroes favorable Three Negroes, Edwin Cald well, Jr. and R. D„, Smith, both residents of the area, and Wil liam U'-elliver, supported the pro posal. Mr. Tolliver is a former member of the tHuman Relations Committee and Mr Smith is a present member of the Planning Board, Rabbi Joseph Levine was the only white person, living in the vicinity who spoke for it. other commissioners, Monday praised the ABC Board’s report but said it was clearly indica tive -that it was a mistake not to have opened another store “in ray end of the county.” In other action, the commis sioners named Journalism Prof. Stuart Sechriest a member of the Chapel Hill zoning area’s Board of Adjustment to replace Ted Tillman, who resigned; drew three sets of jurors for service in fall terms of Supe nor court; aumorizea Betty June Hayes to submit an ac count of her expenses at next week’s meeting of the National Register of Deeds Association in Washington—she is an offi cer of the National group; and received two- petitions for road improvements in the county, extension of SR 1T13 near Mur phy School fox state mainten ance and for stabilization of SR 1560, off Crawford Road near Hillsborough, for stabilization. Non-racial assignment to be pondered by boar d at meeting Friday night The Orange -County Board of Education will meet at 8 o’clock tomorrow night to consider steps to be taken in connection with a petition calling for opera tion of all county schools “with out regard to race.” Meeting with tihe Board will be Superintendent Thomas Whitley of Caswell County, whose schools have been opera ing under court-ordered inte gration for three years, and Col. (ieorge Levings, the County At torney. The Board will be briefed on legal implications of the 1954 decision as well as the recently enacted civil rights law and the With about 140 new members . . . Chamber drive ends Tiie current member&ih'p drive for the Chapel 4iiU-Carrboro ChairJber cf Commerce ended yesterday at noon with upwards; of 140 new persons having joined the group. Membership Campaign Co Chairman Sandy McClamroch and George tCoxhead started the final phase of the drive Tues day morning^jwith a breakfast for 35 committee members in the Carolina Inn. Their cam paign brought the current mem bersh’p of the Chamber to near ly 400 in this, its initial year on' existence. Ch’umber President Charlie Shaffer cited Dr. Roy Lindahl for tap honors in the member ship contest in signing uip 25 new members. The Committee was divided into two teams by random assignment. The winning team in new members signed up will treat the losers to a steak ■dinner on' Monday night at The Pines. visiting superintendent will cite some of his experiences with the •counts in connection with school integration. No formal action on the mat ter is contemplated at this time. G. HP. Gam Orange County Superintendent, told the Board at its meeting last Monday that tiie County receives about $100, 000 in federal aid funds a year, which could be withheld “if we don’t comply with the law.” He quoted advice from U. S. Commissioner 'Francis Keppel to the superintendents’ confer ence at Mars Hill last week to the effect that a county would be advised to consult a lawyer and create a desegregation plan when faced with the problem cl bringing a school system in to compliance with the civil rights Taw. In other action as Monday’s meeting the Board approved the amended budget for the new C cal year as recently passed by the Board of Commissioners, set up the school calehdar for the naw year, and approved the appointment of two teachers for vacancies at Hillsborough Junior High School. Mrs. Angela Y. Miller is a hew -7£h grade teacher at the Junior High and Miss Susan Pollard will teach music. Year's ABC profits increase to $239,316; sales sina inception almost $10 million' Orange County’s ABC stores, first opened to the public on Ap ril 5, ■ lt>59, havefrad sales total ling almost $10 million in the five and one-fourth years thr.ough the fiscal year which closed this past Jwinc 30th. .. Profits have amounted to $1,-| 176,651.11, of which $782,200 has i been turned over to the county i for schools and other general: funds operations. The remainder as of the i.scal year’s end was contained in the $515,873 in as sets listed by the Board. These facts were contained in a repor-t te the County Commis sioners by ABC Chairman R. /. Smith Sr. The commissioners took the occasion individually to commend Mr. Smith and ten col leagues on the ABC Board, Dr. D. D. Carroll and (Giles M. Long, for their operation of the ABC system onoe Hs inception. The report indicated the ABC Bound had turned jfcyer to the county #232,000 in the year just past, $250,000 in 1963, $200,000 in 1P62, $100,000 in 1961 and $10,003 in I960. The state, accord ing to Smith, has received almost as much in tax as the county in profitv its sales.. tax. take has to TaTTed $1;059,1S5:52, onlTie Total sales of $9,564,414.45. Kor the past fiscal year,.Smith told the Commissioners, total sales were $1,948,583.70, a reduc tion in sales of $10,400 from the previous year. This resulted in a net profit of $239,316.27, howev er, which was $4,193.87 greater than the previous year. The larg er profit resulted from a change in the method of computing state hales taxes approved -by the last General Assembly. The state re ceived $220(576.75 in sales ta*es, lb the past year’# operations, only the Chapel Hill Mare record ed a -gain in sales and pamflts. Store No. 2 at Eastgate Shopping Center increased sales by $51,96? over the previous year while the ■faHowing losses in sales were noted Jay the other stores in com parison with 1063: Hillsborough, down $2,077.50; Highway 49 store, down $41,000; and 1-85 ... ™._,,....... ” A‘*toiar'of $i7373.13 was spent store near .Durham line, down ‘ n law enforcement program and $4,653.57 was spent on the alco holic education work. BEAT-UP OLD l SHELf-FILLING SET* At Teeny-Weeny Prices THE INTIMATE BOOKSHOP ' ■ r « - . , -'r:.-... • 119 £aat Franklin St. Open Evenings
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