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of 1 of 1 20 The News and Observer, Saturday, January 7, 1967 Repeaters Drive Deadly Path By BOB LYNCH Fourteen of the drivers volved in Raleigh traftic accidents that took the Ivies of 21 persons last year had traffic records that included five or more violations or a history of accidents. Ten of the drivers involved in fatal accidents had had their licenses suspended a least one time and the licenses of two had been revoked or suspended three times. These figures were revealed Friday in a report by Traffic Capt. J. Herbert Hayes who called on the motoring public to cooperate in a drive to cut down on traffic deaths in the city.

The show that 19 of the 25 involved in 17 figures, fatal accidents had been convicted of one or more traffic violations, and one had as many as eight accidents and 14 convictions for traffic violations. This driver was involved in an accident that took his own life and the life of a passenger. Drunken Driver Repeater One of the drivers who killed an 11-year-old pedestrian had been convicted six times for drunken driving. once for driving after his license had been revoked, once for careless and reckless driving, once for hit and run, and had been involved in five accidents, including three with personal injuries. For Your Family, Business and Group Insurance Needs Contact: GENE KENDALL 2020 Hillsborough St.

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The report does not include the ages of drivers who surthe 17 accidents. Ages of drivers fatally injured, however, ranged from 18 to 87. Driving the wrong way on one-way traffic lanes took the lives of four persons on the Ra-1 leigh beltline. Three persons were killed in one accident a fourth was killed in -another. Hayes said the police department would increase efforts this year toward preventing motorists from "going the wrong way on the "We hope the State will ask safety engineer to do some research on preventing people entering ramps wrong," Hayes said.

"Various cities have erected large signs that state 'No' to people going the wrong way. Clendenin (right) hands gavel to Landt Realtors Board Backs Interest Ceiling Hike By GUY MUNGER The North Carolina Association of Realtors announced Friday its support of an increase to 8 per cent from 6 per cent in the State interest ceiling on home mortgage loans. The association's recommendation to the General Assembly the annual report containemes L. Bichsel, NCAR executive vice president, presented at a directors' meeting here. Bichsel said the stand was approved in a mail vote by the association's 2,000 members conducted in December.

He emphasized that the higher interest ceiling would apply only to home mortgage loans. Real estate men and builders have said they want the higher interest rate to attract more mortgage money into North Carolina. They say investors are, by-passing North Carolina and putting their money in other states which permit a higher yield. Interested in Liquor Laws Directors of the real estate also called on the legislature "to resolve the liquor question as soon as possible," a reference to the "brownbagging" controversy, and recommended changes in the State's real estate licensing law. The changes would require that least" two members of the five-member State licensing board hold real estate licenses.

Present law says that "not more than two" shall be real estate licensees. Presumably, if the change were ap- Gulf Carolina SOLAR heating HEAT ail Quality Products Plus Unexcelled Service RALEIGH 832-6411 CARY INSTANT SERVICE 467-5111 GARNER FROM 4 PLANTS 772-2721 Conveniently KNIGHTDALE Located 266-2732 Near You! WADSWORTH WRECKING COMPANY INCORPORATED Is the ONLY Professional Bonded and Insured DEMOLITION CONTRACTOR Raleigh Has Ever Had! Now don't that just choke you up! "We have discussed hanging red blinkers and are going to ask the police officers to spend more time patroling these danger Hayes offered two other suggestions for reducing traffic accidents in Raleigh: "Reduce speed with public cooperation and more strict enforcement; be more aiert to pedestrians jaywalking, and walking out parked cars." There were 11 persons killed in traffic accidents Raleigh in 1965, or over 60 per cent less than the 1966 total. State Gets Historic Sites Grant A $100,000 grant from the Richardson Foundation of Greensboro to help develop the historic sites program of the State Department of Archives and 1 History was announced Friday by Governor Moore. The grant is the third awarded by the foundation to the program, which received $50,000 in 1960 and $100,000 in 1964. Alexander F.

Schenck of Greensboro, executive vice president of the foundation, said: "A good part of the earlier grants has been utilized to provide challenge funds to restoration groups in such communities as Edenton, Beaufort, Bath, Halifax, Hillsborough, McDowell County and Moore said: "It is anticipated that the (next) funds will be employed largely to continue the restoration of a few significant projects where work is already under way, in order to ready these for public visitation." Moore also announced a grant of $8,000 to the Department of Archives and History from the National Historical Publications Commission. The money will be used to meet part of the expense of editing the papers of James Iredell, a member of the U. S. Supreme Court in the administration of President George Washington. will be Dr.

Don Higginbotham, a Duke Univernow on the sity, graduate, Louisiana State University. Massie Back On Wildlife Commission T. N. Massie of Sylva, a former member of the State Wildlife Resources Commission, is returning to the commission as a replacement for Oscar Ledford of Franklin. Governor Moore announced Friday that Massie has been appointed to serve the remainder of Ledford's term, which expires June 30.

Ledford resigned when he was elected to the Macon Board of County Commissioners, creating a dual office-holding conflict. Massie, a well-known sportsman in Western North Carolina, is 59. He served on the Wildlife Commission from 1958 to 1961. Massie, who operates a retail furniture business, is a former president of the Jackson County Wildlife Club. BYWAYS of the news By Charles Craven THE portrait of the three little boys wearing Little Lord Fauntleroy suits and haircuts--has been identified.

Mrs. Gene Burnette of 2224 Rumson some time ago bought a used chest of drawers and found the picture in one. of the drawers. She made a mental note to try and locate someone connected with the portrait which looked to have been made at least 50 years ago. However, time went along.

When Mrs. Burnette carne across the picture again the other day, she obligingly told us about it. We wrote a piece about the quaint picture from a family's past. On the picture was written only "Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Pearsall, Rocky Point, N. Ed Brown of radio station WPGF in Burgaw, an accommodating gent with a wistful feeling for things out of the past, aired the little story. Sure enough, Mrs. Douglas Jewell, a school teacher of 738 Timber Lane, Wilmington, called Ed and said she was the daughter of one of the "little Mrs. Burnette said Friday that she, too, had heard from the family and was returning the photo.

proved, all five members of the board could hold real estate licenses. Other changes would put into law requirements as to honesty of applicants and would require that "each applicant for a broker's license shall have been actively engaged for six months as a licensed salesman in this State" or furnish proof of equivalent experience. Conviction of certain criminal charges would become grounds for revocation of real estate licenses. A spokesman for real estate association said the board has been unable to enforce a similar rule because it is not spelled out in the statute. Landt Installed In other action at the directors' meeting.

Charles P. Landt of Raleigh, president of Cameron-Brown was installed as president, succeeding Kemp C. Clendenin Jr. of Greensboro. Installed as regional, vice presidents were Touchberry Charlotte, David L.

Godwin of Fayetteville, Carroll V. Singleton Henderson, Leonard Craver of Lexington, Tom Jones of Shelby and Joseph R. Reaves of Wilmington. Ford D. Little Jr.

of Greensboro began his second term as treasurer and Bichsel started his sixth term as executive vice president. MAN, got "Moxie" with a capital Some travelwe, er, too modest to leave his name, thoughtfully left us two bottles of Moxie while we were out. The soft drink is bottled in the Boston area. We took one of the bottles to the Sports Center, our club, and put it in with the beer to get it cold. "What are you doing?" said Howard Strickland.

coming up from one of the billiard (Staff photo by Lou Krasky) Wake Academy's goal is 'quality education' free from 'federalization' School Is Product of Dissa Dissatisfaction By KATE ERWIN When the Raleigh American Legion Post took an American flag out to Wake Academy one day last fall, 60 children, aged six to 12, watched as the flag unfurled on a hilltop in front of a brick house that is now their school. These are the children of parents who have become dissatisfied with the public schools, their "vastness" and their "federalization," in the words of some of those most closely associated with the new private school. They say they want their children to have "quality education" and have inscribed these words on a sign that stands by the dirt road leadup to the colonial-style brick house. They want small classes; they want "teachers to have to they want "more emphasis on and they "don't want the federal government telling us what to do." Opposed to Integration Most of all-though they speak of it only when asked they don't want to send their children to integrated public schools. When Wake Academy opened on September 6, 1966, it had even smaller classes than its founders had hoped for.

The Rev. H. W. Carey, pastor of Neuse Baptist Church and president of the school's board of directors, ascribed the unexpectedly small enrollment to the delay in finding a place to hold the school. He thinks enrollment will double next year.

When plans to erect a school building for this fall did not materialize, the planners rented a home owned by Dr. E. B. Baker of Raleigh and located about a mile off Blue Ridge Road. There, classes that range in size from four to 12 students meet in former bedrooms and dining rooms.

They school was formed by the Wake Citizens' Educational Foundation Inc. Plans for a private school in Wake County were announced nearly two years ago by L. W. Purdy of Raleigh, president of the Wake (white) Citizens' Council and now a member of the school's board of directors. Funds Raised at Banquet In June, 1966, at a banquet in Raleigh, $20,000 was pledged by about 110 persons to go for constructing a building.

The school's promoters had planned a building costing $190,000 for this year but Carey says "there wasn't time" to build it. They now plan to build a school costing from $75,000 to $100,000 to open next fall. The school opened this fall with an operating budget composed of donations and tuition fees that amount to $320 a year per student. Roland D. Heath, headmaster, said the school is trying to meet all standards for State approval of non-public schools.

He said State officials have told him he has "nothing to worry about." The teachers follow the prescribed courses of the public schools, he said, and use textbooks on approved State lists. The school's seven teachers all have certificates for teaching in public schools and all have taught in public schools, Heath said. He was a public school principal in Johnston County for 11 years. Miss Emma Jones, first grade teacher, said she taught in Wake County schools last year but resigned because of the working conditions. "I like to teach and that's all," she said.

"Teachers had to do too many other things in the public schools. I read about Wake Academy in the newspaper and decided to Mrs. Virginia Johnson, seventh grade teacher, said she preferred a private school because "public school teachers are required to do SO much, besides teach. And classes are SO large you can't have quality education." "I'm also concerned with this business of freedom," she said. "We ought to have the choice in our country to select the school where we want to send our children.

My husband and put our children in private school." "I wouldn't say definitely that integration determined my opinion," she said in answer to a reporter's question. Carey said, "We hope the school will be known for its quality education, But it would be false if I said integration didn't enter into it." "Federalization would cover the whole of it (the school's reason for being)," Carey said. "Integration isn't the only area here. There's school prayer, too. And the federal government is getting into textbooks." "We have no opposition from the he added.

"Dr. Charles Carroll (State superintendent of public instruction) is on our side." To Seek State Funds There are indications that the private school group, will push for State funds to help them out with their financial burdens. L. W. Purdy, says he will push for legislation in the 1967 General Assembly to allow State tuition grants of perhaps $200 to students in private schools.

State tuition grants set up in 1955 in the wake of the U. S. Supreme Court's decision to knock down racial barriers in schools have been ruled unconstitutional. But Purdy says around the city WOMEN of Meadowbrook Country Club will hold a "Wig Demonstration" Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the club.

The coordinator is Mrs. Mary Whitley Raleigh. THE BILTMORE Hills-Rochester Heights Organization will meet Sunday at 4 p.m. at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church.

M. R. Peebles is president. THE GENERAL aviation safety meeting scheduled for Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Raleigh-Durham Aviation has been canceled and will be re-scheduled in late January.

VETERANS of World War barracks 690, and the ladies auxiliary will meet Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the City Arts and Crafts building in Pullen Park. RALEIGH residents have purchased 10,109 city automobile tags for 1967 since they went on sale Dec. 1. The city purchased 50,000 tags this year.

They are on sale for $1 each at the Municipal Building or may be bought for $1.10 each by mail. Feb. 15 is the deadline for displaying the tags on cars. TREWAX I WITH CARNAUBA Save Rewaxing Time and Trouble The Finest Wax You Will Ever Use HOUSE LAWN CENTER Ridgewood Shopping Center 828-2733 Fuel Chief FUEL OIL HEATING OIL 24 Hour Burner Service Radio Dispatched Trucks Degree Day Delivery MODERNOILCO. another type of grant program might be set up to bale out private schools.

The school's officials say their biggest problem will keeping up with teachers' salaries. A higher salary was one item cited by Miss Jones as needing improvement at the school. Officials would not give the salary of their teachers but said it was somewhat lower than the $4,600 salary of a beginning teacher in public schools. Heath said the private school can't hope to keep up with salaries if the State increases them by 20 or 30 per cent. Carey is confident that Wake Academy will move into its new quarters next fall.

The school will have 12 rooms, he said, and will be built on a 10-acre site three miles south of Raleigh on Highway 401. The land was donated by William Buf- MASONIC NOTICE There will be an emergent communication of Garner Lodge No. 701 A.F. A.M. Saturday, January 7, 1967, at 7:30 P.M.

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TO 5 P.M. (Gulf SOLAR HEAT heating ail 834-1635 tables with the rack around his neck. "I want to get this Moxie cold," I said. "What it?" Howard asked. "It's a drink that gives you zip, glow and a "Now you know the ABC laws," said Howard, alarmed.

I reassured him that "brown-bagging" was not involved. "It's merely a tonic," I said. So when the Moxie got cold, I opened it and Howard and I poured slugs in paper cups. We tasted with the taste of professional tasters. "A little like root said Howard.

That was it. A little like root beer, but not as sweet. "It won't sell in here," said Howard. Moxie.