The Durham Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 17

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Many people find the aniwen to their aeeda la merchants' newspaper ado Answers Sue Dial providing fto aa-swera for many people who have questions seek informs-tion Have you tried it? 5 ESTABLISHED 1889 PRICE 10c Spends Day Campaigning In City May Tap Hedrick- Department Heads For i 5 Broughton Woos Durham ton as his campaign opens supporters of the Raleigh attorney cover a wide range of political loyalties Included in the people who indicated they will be backing Broughton are some who in Kennon and Birmingham as in the group from which Broughton may select his conuty manager Hendrick was given the edge by those dose to Broughton As indicated by the group working in Durham with Brough i past elections supported Gov Dan Moore Richardson Preyer who unsuccessfully opposed Moore and Lake Lake lent out to Terry Sanford in the 1960 race The activities this early in the race provides a tip on how intense the political activity will develop in the races this year Broughton left Raleigh in time to hold an early-bird session with a group of close supporters at 5 am at tiw Jack Tar At 6:15 he was waiting outside Erwin Mill's main gate greeting workers going on the job at the plant After the inbound influx dwindled he waited for the members of the shift just coming off duty so he could greet than and hand out his cards Then he switched to visiting West Durham cafes where he greeted other early risers As business and office workers reported in for work Broughton started a tour of Ninth Street and downtown business districts At mid-day Broughton paused to assess the results "It has been real in Durham Broughton said adding that he was speaking of the reception not tiw subfreezing winter blasts which kept pushing either a freezing rain or snow on the campaign party is one thing about the weather you find a lot of people in when you visit their Broughton added had a similar day when we visited Greensboro he noted EARLY CAMPAIGNER-The bad weather did not deter Melville Broughton center Democratic gubernatorial candidate from greeting employes of Erwin Mills at today's 6:30 am change of shifts as he began a day-long stay in Durham Erwin employes shown with the Raleigh attorney are Paul Browning left and Vernon James Staff Photo Position Outlined In Parkwood Water Issue i A i i 4 dent of Kavanaugh-Smilh Corp said efforts to obtain water from the City of Durham have been unsuccessful due in part to a cost of approximately $180000 for installing water lines In his letter Hughes stated that several meetings have been held with representatives of Kav-anaugh Smith and that the latest request for a meeting was yesterday The meeting however was postponed due to bad weather Hughes told members of the By CARLTON HARRELL Today's frigid weather in Durham failed to mar the warm re-ception given gubernatorial hopeful Melville Broughton Jr as he made a handshaking tour of the city Broughton on his second visit to Durham since he opened his campaign started greeting voters in the pre-dawn hours and continued making contacts through the day' His main event in the scheduled was the naming of his campaign leadership for Durham County during the late afternoon public reception scheduled at tiw Jack Tar Indications were that James Hedrick Durham attorney would be tapped to be Broughton's county manager However several other county political leaders havfe been working closely with Broughton on his two trips in Durham and may be in the running for the campaign manager's post A1 Kennon Durham attorney and former chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee accompanied Broughton on his visit to Durham Jan 2 One of the group accompanying Broughton on his tour today was George Birmingham Durham contractor who was I Beverly Lake's county campaign manager in 1960 and who tod Smith Bagley's campaign in Durham when the Winston-Salem man unsuccessfully opposed Nick Galifianakis for the Democratic label in tiw Fifth District race for Congress in 1966 While speculation included Democratic Committee Sets Meet The Durham County Democratic Executive Committee will be held at 7:30 pm Monday at the Courthouse Dean chairman said today The session for the 85m ember committee will be held in tiw third floor courtroom Dean said the session will be held to permit the committee members to act on a proposed rotation agreement between Durham Orange and Person counties on the sharing of the two state senators allotted to the three counties which comprise the Uth District Other party matters also will be discussed in preparation for the elections to be held this year Dean added Officers of the county committee are Dean Mrs Una Lee Stout first vice president Cecil Pickett second vice chairman Walker third vice chairman Mrs George Birmingham secretary and Donald Tilley treasurer The 85 members of the committee include two delegates from each of the county's 38 precincts and nine at-large members Bad Weather Cuts Number Listing Taxes The inclement weather has taken its toll on the number of property owners listing their taxes at the courthouse during the past two days Tax Supervisor Bruce Mangum said today Mangum said at least 10000 of the 45000 property owners of the county have listed their taxes since listing began Jan 2 He said this number is lower than normal since around 20000 usually list their taxes during the first two weeks Property owners must list their taxes by Feb 1 in order to avoid a 10 per cent penalty The tax office will be open for business Saturday from 8:30 am until 12 noon and he urged property owners to take advantage of the extra listing period especially in view of the decrease in the number of listers during the inclement weather period this week Tax listing is held in the basement of the courthouse each Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 5 pm and each Saturday from 8:30 am until 12 o'clock noon during this month To Bring Them Up To Levels In Other Giles The City Council today approved higher monthly salary ranges for nine department heads over and above the 5 per cent pay across-the-board increases they and other city employes will receive beginning Feb 1 The higher ranges were recommended by the Finance Committee and were proposed in order to bring them in line with their individual counterparts in other large cities in the state study of department head salaries in five Piedmont cities shows that our department heads' salaries fall considerably below those paid for equivalent positions of other the committee said in a formal report to the Council The committee then recommended new ranges that are in addition to the across-the-board increase previously scheduled in the 1967-68 budget The new salary ranges are: Johnson public works director: from $1244-11588 to $137141750 Hugh Pickett city engineer from $1075-11371 to $1 185-11512 Paul Brooks planning director from $1075-11371 to $11291440 Rudy Griffin traffic director from $1 07541-371 to Wade Brown water resources director from $107541371 to $112941440 Pleasants police chief from $97541244 to $107541371 Cosmo Cox fire chief from to $97541244 Roger Brown recreation director from $88441129 to $92841185 and James Fiench personnel director from $80241024 to $842 to $1075 In an allied matter the Council gave approval to a change in file semimonthly pay schedule to provide a biweekly pay schedule effective Monday April 1 This will mean that city employes will be paid every other Friday and will receive the same annual salary in 26 checks instead of the present schedule of 24 checks The change was recommended because the semimonthly schedule has resulted in unequal pay periods because employes have been paid on the day before the last banking day prior to the 15th of the month if the 15th falls on a nonworking day A recommendation for establishment of a cable television antenna system ordinance was approved with the ordinance to be drawn up by the city attorney and other officials At Eastertime Youngsters To Make Up MissedDays Durham city and county school children might have enjoyed the holiday today but it means that their Easter vacation will be cut short school officials said Those attending Durham County schools who missed school both yesterday and today will now have only Good Friday and Easter Monday off for the spring holiday according to Charles Chewning superintendent of County Schools Chewning said that originally the vacation had been planned to include Thursday through Tuesday as a vacation for the youngsters and teachers If it is necessary to keep county schools closed for another day the period will be made up at the end of the school year he said Durham city schools will only lose the Thursday before Easter if weather permits them to return to classes tomorrow a source in the city office said Lee Man Beaten Jesse Odell Whitaker of Sanford reported to police at 4:19 am today that he was beaten by two men who picked him up while hitchhiking on US 15-501 and took him to the Hillandale Road exit on Interstate 85 and put him out Officers Cooper and Hamlet said Whitaker told than that the two men asked him to get out of the car at tiw intersection and after he got out they jumped out and beat him on the head and chest with their hands and feet Nursing Head A NCC Nominated For Award Durham City Manager Harding Hughes today spelled out the position on proposals to provide water to residents of Parkwood In a letter to the mayor and members of the City Council Hughes listed dates of communication between his office and representatives of Kavanagh-Smith Corp whith builds and sells houses in Parkwood through its subsidiary Equitable Construction Co Hughes also cited four general pants under which the city may provide water to the residential subdivision south of Durham near the Research Triangle Park They are: Any preliminary agreement or understanding with Parkwood developers would be tentative and would be entirely subject to final decision by City Council The administration believes that water should be made available to the Parkwood community The administration does not believe that water should be made available to the Park-wood community at the expense of the people of Durham Any water mains constructed to serve Parkwood should be of proper size and at proper location to constitute a permanent part of the long range water system of the City of Durham Hughes noted his office has received inquiries concerning the city's position in providing water to Parkwood both from the State Board of Health and Mrs Victor Jiminez of Park-wood who initiated a petition to the Stale Utilities Commission last month complaining of color taste and odor of water supplied to residents in the community The utilities commission this week set March as the deadline for Mid-Atlantic Utility Co which provides water in Park-wood to produce proposals for improving conditions of water in the development The order was issued following tests by the Stale Health Department which showed water in Parkwood was not dangerous but contains too much iron and manganese to comply with state chemical standards The stale health agency has given verbal authority to the utility company to build a water treatment plant in Parkwood to replace one in use now which was approved on a temporary basis last year Water is pumped through the treatment plant to supplement deep wells regarded by the developers as the primary source of water in Parkwood O'Sullivan vice presi Council that in earlier meetings he assured Havana ugh-Smith officials that he is ready to recommend to the City Council that water be made available to Parkwood under the specified terms and that he stands prepared to reopen discussion at any time if this recommendation was no longer acceptable to Parkwood As far as the administration is concerned Hughes said the City of door is still wide open to Parkwood ity in nursing education standards Under her guidance the program at North Carolina College has received national accreditation from the National League for Nursing 1 Her efforts in upgrading the quality of nursing education and in integration of nursing education and service date from the early days of her career She was the first Negro to be named coordinator of in-service education for nurses of the Fulton County Health Department in Georgia in 1939 In 1949 and 1950 as area supervisor in maternal and child health for Georgia Alabama South Carolina and Florida she taught white and Negro nurses In 1953 under her leadership as public health coordinator of the School of Nursing at Florida AfcM University Negro students were accepted for the first time for clinical experience in local health departments The Mary Mahoney Award for which Mrs Miller is nominated is named for Mary Eliza Mahoney the first Negro graduate nurse in the United States The award honors her active participation in nursing organizations and her efforts to raise the status of the Negro nurse in professional life LIKE THAT "He's like one of the family Which one?" ICY DOINGS IN For many youngsters in Durham today it was sledding time on the Ice-packed streets Doing just that in the top photo are left to right Biddy Brian and Caitie McManus all of 1408 Oakland Ave Brian examines a healthy crop of icicles in the next to top photo Roxboro Road at Knox Street third from top presented this barren scene this morning in a change from the usual heavy auto traffic found on the thoroughfare Out for an early morning stroll in the bottom picture are left to right Ava Rogers Sharon Goodwin and Sue Jessup Staff Photos by Thornton and Sparks 5 Mrs Helen Miller chairman of the Department of Nursing at North Carolina College has been nominated by the North Carolina State Association for one of the highest honors of the professional nursing organization in this country Mrs Miller is a nominee for' the Mary Mahoney Award presented biennially by the American Nurses' Association for significant contribution to integration within the nursing profession The 1968 award will be made at the ANA Convention in May in Dallas Tex The nomination originated with faculty member of the Department of Public Health Nursing School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Endorsements of the nomination have been made by District Eleven Nurses' Association of which Mrs Miller is a member representatives of the North Carolina Board of Nursing Durham Veterans Administration Hospital nursing service North Carolina League for Nursing Durham County Chapter of American Red Cross Durham County Tuberculosis and Health Association Public Health Nursing Service of the North Carolina State Board of Health associates in nursing education in several colleges and universities and students The nomination of Mrs Miller for this national award cites her accomplishments in integration of a nursing education program in a predominantly Negro institution Since she joined the faculty of North Carolina College in 1956 integration has risen steadily in both faculty and students of the Department of Nursing There are now two white faculty members and 17 while students currently enrolled About one-third of the 150 students who have received degrees from this department have been white Mrs Miller is also cited for her consistent emphasis on qual wood Avenue and continuing through the intersection of Englewood: and out to Club Boulevard Sater Street from Benjamin Street to the dead end in the East Durham Community Center area Benning Street from Fiske Street through Landon Street in the Wellons Village area -Hart Street from Driver Street to Maple Street With the intersection -of Roberson Street blocked off on one side Pershing Street from Oakland Avenue to Carolina Street Maynard Avenue from Casca-dilla Street -to the dead end with Holbrook Street blocked off Kimberly Drive in Hope Valley Originally on the list bid deleted at the request of the traffic department was Murray Avenue from the east side of the Children's Museum to Elgin Street for informal group activities by youngsters 1 Streets designated for sledding are: Knox Street from Washington to Ruffin in the vicinity of Duke Street Marion Avenue from Sevier Road and Pinecrest Road near Duke Forest off NC 751 Dunbar Street from Fayetteville Street to Lincoln Strok in the vicinity of North Carolina College Dunbar Street from Fayetteville Street to Lincoln Street in the vicinity of North Carolina College i 1 Plum Street from Cooper Street to the dead end near McDougald Terrace' Gurley Street from Primitive Street to Canal Street with Mallard Aveue blocked in both directions near East End Perk Onslow Street beginning between Knox Street and Engle Sections of 12 city streets were closed to traffic today to permit their use for 'sledding City recreation officials said the areas designated for sledding earlier would be closed to traffic for 38 hours 1 Alex Gilleskie1 assistant director of the Durham Recreation Department said all the streets have been approved by the Police Fire and City Traffic Departments Policy calls- for no street to be blocked off longer than 36 hours Gilleskie said all scheduled Recreation Department events for the day were cancelled but said two at the old Smith School and Erwin Auditorium-will be open for informal basketball games through 7 o'clock this-evening weather permitting The A Grady Mickle and Hill Recreation Centers also were opened today 4.