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APEL Hill News Leader
Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
AR, NO. 3
Supt. Johnston Reveals
Students Makeup Days
Supt. Joseph Johnston of the Most of these youngsters are go-
— Chapel Hill School district has an- ing to continue in the same type
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
Orange School Finance Studies
Getting Attention Of Boards
School financing received wide and school professional personnel board decided to repair the roof
discussion at Monday’s regular to discuss the report of the Gov- of the old Carrboiro school, report-
meetings of the Board of Com- ernor’s Committee on School Fin- edly badly needing such attention,
missioners and the Board of Edu- ance either on January 22 or 29, reviewed the retirement policy of
cation. depending on when a competent the county school system, and es-
EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE jjQmiced four makeup days for stu- jobs.”
— dents who enjoyed a “holiday” Three new faculty members were
from classes betore Christmas. officially hired by the board. Mrs.
Dr. Johnston told the local school Edith Elliott was engaged as su-
board this week that the days of pervisor of the new cafeteria; Mrs.
Jan. 31, March 21, April 4 and Marian Butler Goff was named to
June 6—^the last day of school— replace Mrs. Bobbie Redding
have been selected.
Students missed a total of five
days in mid-December because
of a crippling -snowstorm. A
bomb threat hoax on Dec. 10 al
so added to the dilemma.
On other school news, the board changes at Northside School, in-
was told that distributive educa- formal bids had been received for
as
librarian at Glenwood School; and
Charles Hardman was named part-
time art instructor for the high
school.
Approved was an appropriation
from local capital outlay funds of
There were two focal points:
aepenamg on wiieii a cuiinjeucm me -- firo
authority can be obtained as speak- tablished a policy of “clearing out” tion students at the high school, $3,287.35 for recommended
(1) Appointment of a county-wide er.
committee to study overall school In
financing in this county, a develop
ment which has received support
of both Orange County and Chapel
Hill school boards since it was
first discussed during budget hear
ings last June.
(2) Discussion of a State - wide
School study report made by a
Gove r nor’s study commission,
which will comie before the legisla
ture next month. This study in
cludes an incentive plan provid-
should bomb scare incidents arise under the direction of E. Y. Janes, the project.
other actions, the school in the future.
Local Board Sanctions
Finance Study Meeting
The Chapel HiU Board of Educa
tion voted this week to meet next
Tuesday at Hillsboro with the Coun
ty Board of Education and the
had earned $8,462 in wages since
the program was inaugurated in
September. Some 25 students have
earned over $350 a piece on the
average, and should the earnings
continue throughout the school
yjear, some $20,000 in wages will
be realized.
“These figures are impressive,”
Kempton Jones urged fellow board Dr. Johnston said, “but let me em-
members not to “turn your backs phasize that the main benefit from
on the county commissiontrs.” this program is the experience.
Weather
REPORTS
Cloudy and cool with occasional
rain today and tonight. Rain end
ing by noon tomorrow. High to
day, 48-S2. Low tonight in the 30’s.
High Low Rainfall
Wednesday 40 13 .00
CHANGEITE OF THE YEAl?—Chapel Hill Chief of Police Bill Blake, seated, Tuesday night was
a plaque as “Exchangeite of the Year" by the local club. Helping inspect the plaque are George
left, newly-installed president of the orgar.ization, and Coy Durham, right, new vice president,
rd goes to the most outstanding member of the club during the past year. Chief Blake served as
News Leader Photo
ing additional financing for local County Commissioners to set up a
schools from a $10 million equali- group to study school financing,
zation fund to counties on the The action came Monday night at
basis of a formula taking into con- the local board’s regular meeting
sideration what the local groups and after considerable discussion,
are doing for themselves. And it appeared that the major un-
These decisions were made: derstandlng reached among mem-
(1) The county commissioners hers was that everyone citizens
called a meeting of the two school and elective officials alike—needs to
boards for next Tuesday evening at know more about school taxes, bud-
8 o’clock at the courthouse to make geting, and finances,
a decision on the composition of The group was notified by Donald
the county study group. The Chap- Stanford, Chapel Hill member of the
el Hill board called for appoint- commissioners, that an invitation
ment of a “citizens” committee, f:.-om the group was forthcoming,
the county hoard suggested a com- The decision was not unanimous,
mittee from the “Citizens Adivsory however. Board Member Henry
committees of the two school sys- Brandis abstained from the voting,
terns,' and some sentiment among charging that the commissioners
Members of the Chapel Hill Com- large room of Morehead Planetar- the commissioners appeared in fa- “want us to come up there and tell
munity Council will come to grips iuni starting at 8 p.ra. Some 68 or- vor of a joint group composed of them we meant what we said” in
icchange Club member of with the many problems of the ex- ganizations are members of the members of the three official g previous letter.
Tuesday night. As he took panding Chapel Hill-Carrboro area council, and invitations are being boards, rather than an unoffkal jtg meeting on Dee. 15, the
ireath to deliver his ac- in a general meeting Jan. 28. sent to all club presidents. body. board voted to join with county edu-
speech, an American flag Mrs. Earl Wynn, president of Specifically, Mrs. Wynn said, the (2) The Board of Education cation board and ask the commis-
of him fell from its the council, said the effects of four council will discuss the effects of agreed to set up a meeting of coun- sioners to appoint a citizen’s com-
and crashed to the floor, growth factors will be ddscused un- (1)—^^Chapel Hill and Carrborid in- ty officials, school committeemen mittee to study the school problem.
that explains my feelings, der the general theme, “Focus on dustrial growth; (2)—Physical ex- ^^ ^ jyjr. Sanford said the commission-
ad,” he said. Anyway, it the Future in Chapel Hill Growth.’’ pansion of the University; (Si
an old 48-star flag. The meeting will be held in the the District Planning Board pro-
TER RABB, BASEBALL gram for meeting expansion; and
(4)—the growth of the Research
t during 1958.
EOPLE
1 Brief
OF POLICE BILL BLAKE
t to accept the plaque
General Meeting Is Set
For Community Council
the University, is the new
of the College Baseball
of America. He received
honor at a meeting in
ti this week.
BIKES WERE REPORTED
is week to Chapel Hill
'he losers were 'Vernon
at Cobb Dorm and 0. W.
R Davie Hall.
1 THE LOCAL PLANNING
et Tuesday night to con-
anges to zoning laws for
use requirements, there
doubt that planning is
on the sketchboard. John
n, advisor to the board,
; a “preliminary prelimi-
ift.”
TUTION OF A NEW
home in Chapel Hill has
Special Act
Sought For
Court Clerk
'ri'iangle.
•Four panelists and a morera-
. tor, experienced in the field, will
lead the discussion.
Mrs. Emil Chanlett is heading a
committee making plans for the
general meeting. Others on the
group include Mrs. Clifton Krepps,
Mrs. Richmond Bond, Whid Powell
The Board of County Commiss- and Walter Baucom.
ioners Monday approved a request
from Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch Underway Here
for preparatiO'n of a local enabling •
act to permit the appointment of On Franklin St. Building
an assistant Clerk of Court whose Work has started on renovation
exclusive duties would be com- of a building at the corner of Co-
mitting the insane and inebriates lumbia and Franklin Sts. It is un
to Memorial Hospital and the open- derstood that the building will
ing of lock boxes of deceased per- houise two businesses, including a
sons in Chapel Hill. branch office of the University
Such an appointee would be National Bank,
isidered. A man from Dur- jjy established fee only for The building was formerly oc-
inquired about zoning re- performance of these specific cupied by several automobile com-
nts for such a residence lo- and doubtless would be a panies. It is understood that a va-
i the Durham bypass road, j-gsi^ent of Chapel Hill. riety store will also occupy the
le reportedly would accom- under present law, the Clerk of premises. The building is handled
six or eight persons. Zon- jg required to perform these by J. B. Johns Realty Co. of Ashe-
tions have arisen, however, ^gjjes and must travel to Chapel boro,
thing is .sort of at an iui- jg each instance when such
service is required. The Clerk of TRASH FIRE QUELLED
Court of this county is the com- Carrboro firemen were called to
mitting officer for all insane and Main St. yesterday about 3 p.m. to
inebriate patients who are brought put out a trash fire. They said the
Area Road
Meeting Set
For Jan. 14
A public meeting to discuss road
service in the Seventh Higljway Di
vision will be held on January 14
urrently there is one nurs-
e here—located in Weaver
off Airport Rd.
Thursday, Jan. 8
i.m. — Basketball, UNC vs.
ore^st, Woollen Gym.
Friday, Jan. 9
.m.—Community Club meet-
irson Stewart, speaker, Phar-
uilding.
Sunday, Jan. 11
1. — Chapel Hill Country
nily supper, Clubhouse.
to MemoriaH Hospital from any
part of the state and this requires
considerable time and inconven
ience on the part of the Clerk,
not commensurate to its import
ance to Orange County.
In other actions, the commiss
ioners approved a 50c fee for meat
inspections by the County Meat
Inspector; and at its request en
dorsed a resolution of the Chapel
Hill Junior Service League asking
for legislation permitting the en
actment of an ordinance prohib
iting the maintenace of a swim
ming pool without a surrounding
fence.
fire was discovered in.
yard of Mr. Jones. No
damage was reported.
ers were requesting the Hillsboro
meeting to explore the possibEity
of creating another committee, com
posed of members of tlie two educa
tion boards and the commissioners,
or to create a committee compased,
of the town and county citizen’s
comimittees.
Mr. Brandis said he favored the
original suggestion for the appoint
ment of a citizen’s group but didn’t
in the Council Chamber of the City favo]- “tying together’’ a citizen’s
Hall in High Point, T. A. Burton -
Division Engineer of the Seventh -
announced today.
The conference wiill be held on
Wednesday between the hours of
1:30 and 4:30 p.m. During this time,
county and civic officials from the
ive Piedmont Counties - Alamance,
Caswell, Orange, Guilford and Rock
ingham - of the Seventh Highway
Division have been invited to attend
and discuss road matters. In addi
tion to Burton, the Highway Com
mission will be represented by the
Assistant Division Engineer, Paul
L. Welch, and the two District Eng
ineers, Layton H. Gunter and W. W.
White.
It is the policy of the Highway
Commission to arrange from time
to time, special public meetings
with the various Boards of County
Conxmissioners when road service
within the respective counties of the
Seventh Division can be discussed
WORK PROGRESS—Shown above is the dining section of Chapel Hill High School's new tafeteria,
which is scheduled to be completed within two weeks. When the picture was taken, workmen were water
ing and cleaning the tile floor. The kitchen of the cafeteria is to the right of the picture.
News Leader Photo
unit and one from the elective offi
cers.
“If I were a citizen,” he said,
“this move would .make me suspi
cious and unhappy.”
Mr. Sanford said it was the com
missioners’ thought that “elective
people need to be informed, too,
about school financing.” He em
phasized that the meeting would con
sider only the formation of a com-
mittee or committee.s to study school
financing, and no actual budget
discussion would be involved.
Board Chairman Grey Culbreth
said he favored the meeting and
Opening Of Cafeteria Expected In Two Weeks
The long-deferred opening of
Chapel Hill High School’s new
cafeteria is stiU two weeks away.
The town board of education was
told at its monthly meeting Mon
day night of the delay. Origin
ally, it had been scheduled for
opening on Monday.
Planning Board Studies
Changes In Zoning Laws
The District Planning Board Tues
day night began what promises to
be lengthy discussion on a recom-
said that two groups for study “may mendation for an amendment to
be the answer.” town zoning laws establishing spe-
“After all,’’ he said, “we have cial use features,
two major problems to solve. The The planners discussed at some
first is to convince citizens that length original provisions of a pre-
a area development, at least three
liousing units be included.
The long discussion ahnost pre
empted discussion on other matters
on the business agenda. It will con
tinue to undergo study.
It was revealed at the meeting
that only one letter has been re-
Even then, Supt. Joseph John
ston said, some painting and waU
cleaning will have to wait imtil
summer.
In connection with the opening,
the board decided that all children
must eat lunch in the new cafe
teria when it is completed, even
if they decide to bring their meal
to school.
Staggered schedules wUJ. be em
ployed for participating students,
the board decided. It was noted
that most other schools with cafe
terias require students to eat their
meals in their facilities. All other
local school cafeterias have such
regulations.
taxes are needed to support the liminary draft and particularly cen- ceived from residents on Rosemary
the back
extensive "’hh the State’s highway engineers,
according to Burton.
school program, and convince them tered their attention on how fra-
to pay it, and the second is to con- ternity and sorority zoning should
vince the commissioners of the be handled.
justification of levying taxes.”
The vote finally came after Dr.
je And Sloan Will Direct
al Trade Promotions Group
m Byrd, incumbent president Mr. Sloan has been owner of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer- jewelry store tor 11 years. He is a
Assn today announced the native of Chapel Hill and a grad-
ment’of two Franklin St. uate of the University. Mr. Page
smen both natives of Chap- has been manager of Ledbetter-Pick-
to head the association’s ard for 11 years. He is also a native
int Trade Promotions Com-and attended the University,
during the coming year. Mr. Page is also president of the
noiid Sloan, owner of the Chapel Hill Athletic Club. Both men
irth and Sloan Jewelry Store, have previously served on the com-
>seph D Page, manager of mittee.
■er-Pickard will direct oper- Other committee appointments will
of the unit’ which is charged be announced later. Installation of
omoting and public re-the club’s officers will be held Mon
day night at Brady’s.
The heart of this discussion
seemed to- center on whether it is
more desirable to have fraternity
and sorority housing in specified,
grouped “court” areas or to ex
amine each individual application
on the basis of .selected lots and
on environmental factors.
St. who are in a fraternity zone
classification. An area from tlie
telephone exchange to the Betty
Smith residence are in the classifica
tion and the board asked them for
letters to indicate whether they de
sired to keep the classification or
be classified as residential.
The only reply came froau owner
Jess Bennett, who said he wanted
the zoning of his property to remain
It was tentatively agreed that in the same.
ade pro
FULL SPEED AHEAD—Construction of Chapel Hill's new Amity Methodist Church is pushing
full speed ahead with a volunteer labor force. Shown working on the church roof are Burnice Sparrow,
Donald Sparrow, Howard Stewart, Dallas Durham, Herman Greene and Floyd Brockwell.
Photo by Town and Country Studio
Assignment Argument
Ends In Agreement
The Orange County Board of Edu- quickly after the advent of new
cation has acceded to the demands member Ross Porter to the Orange
of its counterpart in Person County Board, succeeding HiUsboro’s Clar-
snd about a dozen students of Ay- ence D. Jones. Jones and John Haw-
cock School, the center of con- kins of Cedar Grove of the three-
trover'sy between the two boards man board adamently opposed re-
since September, will be reassigned quiring the children to return to
to Person County at mid-term, Jan- Person when the issue came up in
uary 30. September. Porter expressed his in-
This agreement was made Mon- ierest in such an agreement prior
day afternoon in Roxboro as the to taking office. State law gives
two boards met, amid an atmos- original assignment jurisdiction to
phere of “sweetness and Igiht,” the board in whose district the chil-
after a four months stalemate dur- dren reside.
ing which the Person board threat- The pupils in question are res
cued to bring suit unless the stu- idents of Person County who live
dents were returned to that county along the Orange County line. They
for schooling. have been attending the Orange
The assignment agreement be- County school because it was nearer
tween the two boards followed (See ASSIGNMENT, Page 8)
Registration
For ABC Vote
Open Saturday
Registration for the special ABC
election to be held in Orange Coun
ty Feb. 3 wiil begin Saturday.
Eiection officials point out that
only those voters who were not
registered for the general elec
tion last November need register.
Registration for the general elec
tion will remain valid for the li
quor referendum.
Registration polls will be open
from 9 a.m. to sunset on the Sat
urdays of Jan. 10, Jan. 17 and
Jan. 24. Challenge Day will be
Jan. 31, when polls will be open
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Meanwhile, pro- and anti-ABC
forces apparently are gathering
forces for the showdown. Neil
Clark of Chapel Hill, who dis
counted one rumor that his group
was about to disband, said a meet
ing of “dry” forces will probably
be held early next week.
And it was learned that forces
hacking the ABC stores planned a
strategy meeting later tliis week.