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r. ' Q 3 hooi tSoards At An Impasse On Assigning Of Pupils HAPEL Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas NO. 41 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1958 EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE County Fails To Take Action On Proposal From Chapel Hill 'I’lie Ck)unty and (;ha[)ef Hill School lioards were at a inonientaTy impasse today oser the (juestion of Clari'boro- ^Vilite Clross piijrils atteiidin;^ C.htipel Hill schools-next year. The Chajrel Hill Board snhmitted a formal proposal to the (kninty body over tlie weekend, providing- for individual tuition payments of .Sjjo per child to permit non-district children to attend its schools next yettr. The Chapel Hill Board submitted - ■ 'a formal proDosal to the County proposed that all Carrboro-White body over the weekend, providing Cross, pupils be again re-assigned for individual tuition payments of to Chapel Hill or to the County and $30 per child to permit non-district tliat the problem be submitted to children to attend its schools next the State Board of Education, year. Thursday Meeting However, the County Board didn’t All of this followed an informal answer this request and in return joint meeting of the two Boards here last Thur.sday afternoon. Mean- as we realize the grave decision which faces both the Chapel Hill and County Boards of Education, and whereas we have tried by call ing an election to resolve the situa tion, and whei'eas we are willing to do anything we can to further re solve the situation, and whereas we realize that the citizens of Chapel Hill are demanding a cor rection to the special tax situation as relates to the Carrboro-White Cross students, and whereas we (See SCHOOLS, Page 8) For One Side Or Other Whatever The Outcome It'll Be Unsatisfactory bPLE Brief ARCHITECT'S CONCEPTION - (in the backgiround CHAPEL HILL HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA — rear of gymnasium is outlined) School Cafeteria Contracts Signed Three Named To School Body For Carrboro PS AND UNC AD- ificials are both de- urprised foday with that the first school ilf-dozen has passed ngle “panty raid,” acturnal sorties have n other campuses intry. Just how come ical attitude toward he part of this year’s none of ’em would s been a late spring. )anty raids demand a for real success. CH BOB CULTON, ig the fine work of eat athlete Sammy last year, noted that I more awards than ever coached. The 3r—last in a line of ligh brother athletes I a decade—made his ir in all three major ms to take naval ap ing at Norfolk next he’d be considered for any school with ; athletics. PICKARD, CHAPEL iveling fire engine himself a new means ion yesterday. He was ’ a 1937-model Dodge f prize donated by oug Yates for a draw- exchange Club’s dog r actually, runs, too. HE MORE THAN 50 ips that’ll meet here under aegis of the II be the .Puppeteers I group of about 400 II convene here Aug- "Tlre list of summer ) includes the United s (120), the AFL-CIO, le International Com- tcrature Association 3X IN THE OFFICE 11 High School has ry home for many ly students. Most of i their way back to but a list of the few 3x includes one ear- entification bracelet ingraved on it, three links, one keycase ad Caverns, eight :k, one sweater guard ' WILLIAMS, RISING HHS, has turned sports tor for the coming sea- : last issue of the Pro- ;h school paper, Baldy oilowing predictions for > Wildcat teams. Foot- e win, one loss record; a 13 win, three loss ick, individual improve the best team in the iseball, a five win, five 1, based on the facts am is losing a majority ir’s first string and suf- ching sti’ength will be Contracts for construction of a new cafeteria at Chapel Hill High School have been signed, and the building is expected to be ready for use before the end of 1958. The 5,000-square-foot building wili be constructed adjoining the high school gymnasium, and will utilize the outeide wall of the gym. General contractor, the low bidder of seven, is the C. C. Woods Con struction Co. of Durham. The Chapel Hill School Board' award ed this firm the contract for $71,- 065. Other contracts have beefl signed as follows: Electric — Thomerson Electric Co., Durham, $8,124; plumbing—Ingram’s Inc., Durham, $4,405; and heating—-Alliance Co., Durham—$5,250. Total of the contracts, including the fee for the architectural firm of Harris and Pyne, Durham, comes to $94,493. Board Chairman Grey Culbreth said that funds available through the County-wide voter- approved school bond issue of 1956 were being used for this work. He added that the Board felt the bids received for this project were “quite good.” The one-story building—98-feet long by 58-feet deep—will seat 318 pupils at a time, and is expected to provide facilities for the serving of about 900 meals a day. Little League Ball Set-Up Is Ready; Crowell Little To Be Commissioner C. Crowell Little will be Com missioner of the six-team Chapel Hill-Carrboro Little League base ball organization here this sum mer. The local civic leader and auto dealer succeeds George Barclay. Other officers of the League Will be Dick Jamerson, Assistant Com missioner and Secretary, and Ver non Crook, Treasurer. Boys who played in the local league last year will try Out for the teams today, and new aspirants —ages 10 through 12—^wili try out tomorrow and Wednesday. The try outs will be held at 5 p.m. on Emerson Field. Team Managers Following are the team mana gers: Dodgers, Col. Frank Swann and Lyman Ripperton; Indians, Ralph Cheek and Harold Dark; Giants, Don Hrabak and Dallas Durham; Tigers, Marvin Allen; Yankees, James Perry and Coy Durham; and Cubs, Raymond Per ry and Joe Augustine. Finance Committee Chairman- will again be Dr. Fred Patterson and Howard Pendergraph will be in charge of the grounds. Funds donated by local civic groups will be used to maintain the grounds and buy new equip ment and caps. Mr. Little said that plans are being made tentatively to sponsor a Pony League team for older teen-age boys. A Minor League for boys not selected to play on the six regidar teams has not yet for mulated but is being considered, it was explained. See 60 Returnees Altogether about 90 boys will be involved in the League activi ty—15 on a team. Out of these about 60 are expected to be re turnees from last year. The team managers will se lect the new players on a rota ting basis, with the Cubs, cellar team in last year's play, having first choice, and the Tigers hav ing last choice. Boys who play- Tennis Club Defeats Sou. Pines-Sanford The Chapel Hill Tennis Club defeated a team from Southern Pines and Sanford, 7-2, here yes terday in an Eastern Carolina Ten nis Association league match. The summaries; Singles — Malcolm Clark, San ford-Southern Pines, defeated Mel Jordan, 9-7, 9-11. 6-3; Richard Make peace, Sandord - Southern Pines, defeated Henry Clarke, 4-6, 9-7, 7-5; John Tapley, Chapel Hill, defeat ed Perry Holland, 6-0, 6-0; Ted Shai'pless, Chapel Hill, defeated Walter Temple, 6-2, 6-3; H. S. Mc- Ginity, Chapel Hill, defeated Har ry Watson, 6-0, 6-0; Herbert Reich ert, Chapel Hill, defeated Lindy Mace, 6-2, 6-1. Doubles: McGinty and Sharpless, Chapel Hill, defeated Holland and Temple, 6-1, 6-0; Reichert and Wil- fried Braia, Chapel Hill, defeated Charles Lane arid Charles Mace, 6-4, 6-2; A. M. Jordan .Jr. and A. M. Jordan Sr., Chapel Hill, defeated Neil Cole and Harry Watson, 6-0, 6-2. ed last year will have the privi- ledge of returning to their same teams. Each squad will play the other one twice, with the first game starting June 9 and the season continuing five weeks. All games will be played on the field at Carrboro Elementary School. One game will be scheduled daily on Monday, Tuesday' and Thursday, and a double-header on Wednes day. , The strife-ridden Carrboro District School committee, its membership dwindled to two by term expirations and a resigna tion, got three new members this f week. The Orange County Board of Education announced the ap pointment of Ashwell Harward. Thomas Murray, and John Mar tin. Th^y were named to posts formerly held by Carl M. Elling ton, who is a candidate for the Board of Education; Ernest T. Hearn, and Raymond Andrews. The terms of Ellington : and Hearn expired April 1. Andrews resigned. The three new members join hold-over members, Lloyd M. Senter and Mrs. Jesse West to compose the new committee, which will elect its own chair man. Carl Durham Gets Honorary In Hiah Point 8 Monday, May 26 p.m. — League of Women Voters Candidates Meeting, Chapel Hill Elementary School auditorium 8 p.m. — Reception honoring Mrs. l.ampley, Northside School Tuesday, May 27 , 12^30 p.m. — Junior Service League luncheon, Hope Valley Coun try Club 8 p.m. — American Legion Auxil iary, Legion clubhouse Wednesday, May 28 8 p.m. — Baptist Study Group, Donald Freemans' Thursday, May 29 4 p.m. — Chapel Hill-Carrboro Ministers Association picnic, the Rev. Clarence Parker’s 8 p.m. — Lincoln High School Commencement, LHS g,ymtorium Sixth District Congressman Carl Durham of Chapel Hill yes terday became an honorary Doc tor of Laws by conferring of High Point College. His degree was one of three conferred by the Methodist in stitution at its annual commen cement exercises. The others, went to Eric Johnston of the U. S. Information Service and L. Stacy Weaver of Fayetteville. It was the first such honor Rep. Durham has. receievd, though he once stood in for President Truman who was giv en an honorary degree by Elon College. The citation read before the purple hood was draped over the Congressman’s shoulder’s re ferred to him as “Mr. Atom” in outlining his Atomic Energy Committee work. Next Monday he’ll be honored again when his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, also presents him an honorary degree. Mr. Durham left his pharmacy studies at the Univer sity here in 1917 to join the Army. while the Chapel Hill Board is press ing for settlement of the problem before the end of this wegk so that pupils can notify their parents of plans for the next year before the current school term ends. Questioned about tne situation this morning. Chapel Hill Board Chairman Grey Culbreth said “It seems to me our remedies are exhausted.” As to the plan to submit the problem to the State Board, he said “I can see no pos sible reason for this since the situation is clearly within juris diction of the Chapel Hill Boai'd to settle maiiers of assignmenis within its boundaries—as it is with any other school board.” But Mr. Culbreth added “We will certainly not refuse to negotiate, evn though it wa.s clearly estab lished at our meeting Thursday with the County Board that we must have their agreement if their chil dren are to come here.” The Coun ty Board’s proposal, Mr. Culbreth said, “neithr answers our proposal or sets up another one.” Meet I'omoiTow He said the local Board would have another special meeting to morrow night to consider theymat- ter. “We want to get this matter settled this week so as to send in structions home with the non-dis trict pupils in our schools.” Following is the text of the re solution passed unanimously by the County Board' at its Saturday night meeting: ■'Vh,-i.,.s \"e deplore die situa tion which now exists with relation to the assignment of students from tlie Carrboro-White Cross area to the Chapel Hill Schools and w'here- CANDIDATES SESSION TONIGHT The public forum for all can didates in this weekend’s primary and the forthcoming general elec tion will be held this evening at 8 o’clock in the Chapel Hill Ele mentary School auditorium under sponsorship of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters. The floor will be opened for ques tions following statements from each candidate who is present and desires to speak. At least 13 hav signified they’d be present. CARRBORO GRADUATION Preston H. Epps, professor ip the University Department of Classics, will be the featured speaker at the Carrboro Elemen tary School graduation exercises Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Some 48 children will graduate during the program, to be held in the school auditorium. Whatever the outcome of the knotty, long-standing controversy over the non tax-supported pre sence of out-of-district pupils in the Chapel Hill Schools, the situa tion will undoubtedly be quite un satisfactory to one side on the other for at least the coming year. While the County School Board presses for further time to settle the matter, the Chapel Hill Board — citing several years of previous mutual considerations of it — is hoping to decide the situation for the coming year by the end of this week. Speak Frankly Members of the two Boards spoke quite frankly to each other in an informal meeting on the mat ter last Thursday. Noting that an agreement must by law be signed between the two Boards before out-of-district pupils can attend lo cal schools next year. Chapel Hill Board Chairman Grey Culbreth said flatly, “We’re (the Chapel Hill Board) going to make the terms — that’s the size of it. And the only terms to be settled are the application deadline and the amount of tuition per pupil.” All of the County Board mem bers indicated a preference for leaving the 458 pupils currently in question in the Chapel Hill Schools, and admitted there were no facilities now set up for them in the County System. County Board Chairman C. W. Stanford — thinking out loud — suggested a friendly suit, with the idea of submitting the matter to “12 good men” for settlement. In reply. Chapel Hill Principal Joseph Johnston stated — “It was settled last Tuesday in the election — 915 to 565.”' 'Equal,' Not 'Punitive' The tuition proposed to be charged v.'as termed by Chapel Hill Board members as “equal” rather than “punitive.” It was in this frame that figures from $27 to $35 per pupil were mentioned by Board member Dick Jamerson. Now — with the suggestion submitted by the County Board — it appears that several things could happen — none of them mutually satisfactory. The Chapel Hill Board could agree to con tinue as it has in the past and admit the non-district pupils without tuition — albeit in ing- noring state law requiring a written agreement. Or the County Board, under tha pressure brought by the Chapel Hill Board which runs the only school now available for the edu cation of the children, could agree to the terms proposed*. An interestin'g sidelight to the matter is the spectre of integra tion. Some local observers suggest that the State Board of Education would under no-circumstances en ter the situation, since the Pear sall Plan, providing for such an agreement as proposed by Chapel Hill to the County, was set up to obviate the state from being re sponsible in the event of integra tion pleas. Citizens School Council Chooses Dr. Cromartie Father's Day, Yule Decorations Plans Outlined By Merchants Dr. William J. Cromartie of the University’s medical faculty has been elected Chairman of the Citizens’ School Council for the coming year. He succeeds Orville Campbell, Chairman of this body for its init ial two years of organization. The 27-member advisory group is in tended to consider all types of lo cal school problems and make recommendations to the School Board. Dr. Cromartie, a local resident for the past seven years, has been a Council member for the past year. He is an Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Medicine, and Director of the Bacteriological and Serological Laboratories here. Other new officers are Prof. Virgil I. Mann, Vice-Chairman: Mrs. Ross Scroggs, Secretary; and at-large Execi\tive Committee mem bers, The Rev. J. R. Manley, Fred Conner, and J. Alex McMahon. At its Thursday evening meet ing the Council passed a motion to write a letter of commendation Planning for Father’s Day and Christmas activities is being caU ried out by the Merchants Asso ciation Trade Promotions Com mittee here. Chairman M. H. Jennings Jr., of the Father’s Day promotion said that 10 local fathers would be selected on nomination of mem bers of their families and would be given a week-end fishing trip to Harker’s Island some time after the June 15 Father’s Day. Ncmin,ation blanks will be left in Association member stores this week. On them are to be listed the father’s name, address and telephone number, and the nomi nator’s name. The Committee’s Christmas Ac tivities co-chairmen Whid Powell and Sandy McClamroch met this past weekend to consider decora tions for the business district this Yuletide. All new ornaments will be needed, they were told, be cause of the poor condition of the illuminated candles that have been used for several years. Estimated costs of this project is $3,000. Con tributions are to be sought from- the Town and University as well as non-member merchants in the bus iness district, they saM. ifantry Outfit's Aircraft Encamped Here tizens have gotten an exercise. eludes about 10 helicopters, a doz- j’efull of a new type of The 150-man group may stay en-odd light airplanes, and several lere during the past here through the middle of this dozen vehicles. The local activi- in • looking over the week. Its activities are being co- ties also include extensive air ,ompany of the First Di- grdinated with other Army air training for the pilots of the dif- n Ft. Riley, Kansas, en- .u , , ^ units over the state that are parts lerent craft. Their functions are the University s Horace ^ Airport as a part of the Infantry units. primarily for “reconnaissance and Cumberl.and Hills field TIk- Ft. Riley niitfil here in- liai.son with Ihe .ground troops. CHECKING A 'CHOPPER'—First Lt. Timothy W-,ahoney of the Aviation Co. of the First Division, Ft. Riley, Kansas, explains the workings of his H-13 two-man helicopter to Wayne Bland of Chapel Hill, one of hundreds of local persons who went out to the local airport over the weekend to look over the infantry reconnaisance and liason outfi,t which is encamped there on a field exercise. News Leader Photo LOGAI. CONTEST MINNEKS Joe Straley, son of Mr. and Mrs. .1. VV. Straley, won first pri-/e in the slate-wide Latin I contest sponsored bv the UNC Ex tension Division. Martha Adams, daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. ,1. E. Adams, was iourth in the state wide Fieiieh competition and Pe ter Wilson, was seventli in the iirst-year group. to the Chapel Hill School Board for its action In seeking tuition payments for, White Cross and Carrboro pupils as a result of the defeat in this area of an election,, to join these sectors to the Chap el Hill District. Credit Group To Be Set Up Thursday Night A local branch of the National Credit Association is to be organ ized here Thursday evening under sponsorship of the local Merchants Association and Credit Bureau. Speaker for the occasion will be Hhnry Alexander of Charlotte. Credit Manager of Belk Brothers Cp., of Charlotte since 1935 and former international President of the National Retail Credit Asso ciation. Mr. Alexander is a well- known public speaker and is at present on the Executive Commit tee of the National Retail Credit .As.sociation, in addition to being active in Charlotte civic affairs. ,The program will begin at 8 p.m. and is to be held in the Mon ogram Club. Local businessmen and their credit personnel were especially urged to attend by the sponsors of this affair. At the same time the Merchants Association announced that Pay- Up Month would be observed in Chapel Hill and Carrboro during the month of June. A special com mittee has been set up w'ithin the Credit Bureau to sponsor this pro gram. All members have been provided with special literature on “Pay-Up Month” to be enclosed w'ith month ly bills to be sent out this week. Scattered showers or thunder showers today and tomoiTow, with little change in temperature. Low tonight mid-(!0’s. High Low Rainfall Thursday 81 47 .00 Friday 82 61 .00 Saturday 89 62 ..34 Sunday 76 62 .00
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