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G. Paul Carr

Gabriel Paul Carr (born 1907), a Duplin County native and UNC graduate, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1951 to 1969. He led the system through school consolidation and the integration of its pupils, which brought all county children outside the Efland area into the Hillsborough schools.

Source: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), pp. 131-132

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StorylineThe 1956 school bonds and what they built, 1955–19581955–1958 · 14 events · In 1955 commissioners' chairman R. J. M. Hobbs asked the county and Chapel Hill school boards to plan for a large bond election, and the board called a vote on $2 million in school bonds, divided among the county schools, Carrboro and the Chapel Hill unit. At the February 1956 hearing two Hillsboro men objected, citing the uncertainty left by the Supreme Court's school decision; Remus J. Smith Sr. answered that the classrooms would be needed even if segregation ended. Voters approved the bonds on March 27, 1956. The county board put a new Carrboro school first and that fall adopted a $1.17 million building program, and contracts for work from Carrboro to Efland followed through 1958. StorylineThe Pearsall Plan in Orange County, 1956–19611956–1961 · 6 events · In 1956 Chapel Hill's five precincts voted down the Pearsall Plan, apparently the only small community in the state to do so, while Orange County as a whole approved it 3,359 to 1,784. The amendment allowed local votes to close schools and tuition grants for private schools to avoid integration. Former state senator Irving Carlyle attacked it at a University forum, and school board member Clarence D. Jones called the tuition grants unfair, while Representative John W. Umstead backed it, saying it kept the question away from extremists on both sides. In 1961 the Chapel Hill school board recommended a tuition grant for a Carrboro parent's two daughters, which the News called the state's first formal application.

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  1. The county board elects G. Paul Carr superintendent of the Orange County schools Gabriel Paul Carr, principal of Angier High School, became the county's tenth school superintendent in 1951, succeeding Glenn T. Proffit, who left for the Harnett County superintendency. Carr served eighteen years, through the consolidation of schools and the desegregation of the system, and resigned effective June 30, 1969. People: Glenn T. Proffit, G. Paul Carr Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 131 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1951, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1951, p. 1
  2. County commissioners adopt a $524,164 budget and hold the $1 tax rate The commissioners gave final approval to a 1951-52 county budget of $524,164, about 21 percent above the year before, while keeping the tax rate at $1 per $100. Higher property values paid for raises for county workers, $147,000 for school buildings, microfilm equipment for the register of deeds and a larger grant to the Hyconeechee regional library. People: Sim Efland, G. Paul Carr Place: Courthouse, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 9, 1951, p. 1
  3. Most county teachers vote down the Kellogg school evaluation plan Teachers in every white county school except Carrboro and Efland voted against a self-evaluation program planned under the Kellogg Foundation school improvement project, for which Orange was one of ten counties chosen, and West Hillsboro tied. Superintendent G. Paul Carr reported the votes to the board of education, which decided to go ahead only in the Carrboro, Efland and Negro schools; the paper noted no county school was on the Southern Association accredited list. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1951, p. 1
  4. The county builds the classroom building and cafeteria later used by A. L. Stanback School A classroom building and a cafeteria on the Hillsborough campus that became A. L. Stanback School, the grades 6-7 school by 1983, date from 1952 under Superintendent G. Paul Carr. People: G. Paul Carr Place: HillsboroughDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 168
  5. Teachers and parents organize a county unit of the United Forces for Education Laymen and teachers from all parts of the county met at Hillsboro High School and organized the Orange County United Forces for Education, electing Van Kenyon of Hillsboro president, Cooper Compton of Cedar Grove secretary and Mrs. Thomas Beard treasurer. The group backed the statewide program of smaller classes, higher teacher pay, attendance officers, more supplies and state school building money, and Representative John W. Umstead pledged support. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro High School, Hillsborough · Also named: Van Kenyon, Cooper Compton, Mrs. Thomas Beard, John W. UmsteadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 21, 1952, p. 1
  6. The school board lets a $14,960 contract to renovate Caldwell School Bowles Construction Company of Durham was to remove the six classrooms on each side of the old auditorium, put up brick side walls and renovate the auditorium building, one of the last projects in the bond-financed school program apart from the planned Hillsboro and Chapel Hill elementary schools. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Caldwell School, CaldwellThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1952, p. 1
  7. The school board withdraws its choice of a northern route for an all-weather road between Aycock and Caldwell On April 7 the board had recommended paving the 7.1-mile northern route, serving 69 families by Walnut Grove Church and Laws Store, ahead of two shorter routes; when its delegation found Highway Commissioner James H. Barnwell about to pave the southern route from Vincent's Service Station, the board withdrew its letter and asked only that the northern route be improved when possible. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford Place: Between Aycock School, Cedar Grove, and Caldwell · Also named: James H. BarnwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 17, 1952, p. 1
  8. County civil defense chairman R. L. Mohler names his deputy directors At a Home Demonstration Council program on women's part in civil defense in Gerrard Hall, Mohler announced welfare superintendent Annie Strowd as deputy for emergency relief and welfare, school superintendent G. Paul Carr for air raid services, home agent Kathryn Hamrick for public information and tax supervisor Ira Ward for personnel and records. People: Annie Strowd, G. Paul Carr, Ira Ward, Robert L. Mohler Place: Gerrard Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Kathryn HamrickSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1952, p. 1
  9. The school board retires Hillsboro teacher Rebecca Liner after 37 years under its age rule Miss Liner, 65, who had taught thousands of primary pupils in Hillsboro, asked to keep teaching, but the local committee and the county board held to their retirement age policy and instead passed a resolution of thanks for her 37 years in the schools of Hillsboro and North Carolina. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford Place: Hillsboro school, Hillsborough · Also named: Rebecca LinerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 29, 1952, p. 1
  10. The county school board puts off opening the schools a week for the late tobacco harvest At a special meeting on August 25, 1952, the Orange County Board of Education moved the opening of the county schools from September 2 to September 9 after Aycock district patrons said the rains that ended the drought had pushed the tobacco harvest weeks late, and it let Aycock run short days for a time so children could help. When the schools opened they enrolled 3,625 pupils on the first day, 179 fewer than a year before, which the superintendent blamed on the late crop. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schools (Aycock School district)Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 28, 1952, p. 1
  11. Carrboro School is placed on the state's list of accredited elementary schools In early September 1952 the State Department of Public Instruction told Superintendent G. Paul Carr that Carrboro School had been added to its list of accredited elementary schools, making it the second in the county system after West Hillsboro. Principal Thomas S. Turbyfill and his teachers had worked with elementary supervisor Irene Pender to meet the standards. Place: Carrboro School, Carrboro · Also named: Thomas S. Turbyfill, Irene PenderSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 11, 1952, p. 1
  12. Orange County schools join a four-year UNC and Kellogg Foundation improvement program Orange was one of eight North Carolina counties chosen in 1952 for a four-year school improvement and leadership program run by the UNC School of Education on a $45,000 Kellogg Foundation grant, and by September the county board of education had named two advisory committees, one for the white schools and one for the Black schools. The committees, drawn from teachers, parents, churches, business, labor and the farm agencies, began meeting late that month to recommend improvements, starting with instruction. People: G. Paul Carr, A. L. Stanback Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 11, 1952, p. 1
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  1. Clarence D. Jones joins the county Board of Education in place of Kemp Cate Hillsboro merchant Clarence D. Jones, nominated in the 1952 Democratic primary and appointed by the General Assembly, took the oath as a member of the Orange County Board of Education, succeeding former chairman Kemp Cate of Chapel Hill. At its meeting that night the board reelected Superintendent G. Paul Carr to a new two-year term. People: G. Paul Carr, Kemp S. Cate Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Clarence D. Jones, Kemp CateSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 16, 1953, p. 1
  2. Hillsboro parents organize a Parent Traffic Safety Club after teenage traffic deaths About 100 people became charter members at a mass meeting in the Hillsboro school auditorium, called after a series of fatal accidents involving teenagers in the area, and elected G. Paul Carr president. The club adopted a card system for reporting dangerous driving and parent-child safety pledges, and endorsed Principal G. A. Brown's request that parents forbid students to drive to school. People: G. Paul Carr, John P. Ballard, Grady A. Brown Place: Hillsboro school auditorium, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 3, 1953, p. 1
  3. County schools open with the largest first-grade increase in their history When the county system opened on September 9, enrollment was 295 above the year before, and first grades had 153 more pupils, which Superintendent G. Paul Carr called the biggest first-grade increase in county history. Hillsboro School, already crowded while it waited on a new elementary building, nearly doubled its first grade from 69 to 133, and opening enrollment stood at 2,532 in the white schools and 1,388 in the Black schools. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schools · Also mentions: Hillsboro SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 17, 1953, p. 1
  4. The two school superintendents lay $2.4 million in building needs before the commissioners At a joint meeting of the two school boards and the county commissioners, Superintendents G. Paul Carr and Charles W. Davis presented five-year building lists totaling $1,233,000 for the county schools and $1,175,000 for the Chapel Hill schools. Carr's first need was 16 classrooms at Hillsboro Elementary, where three teachers were holding classes in hallways, while the Chapel Hill board put a gymtorium at Lincoln and a gymnasium at Chapel Hill High first. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Charles W. Davis · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 26, 1953, p. 1
  5. The State Board of Education splits the Carrboro-White Cross school district in two At the county board's request the State Board of Education divided the district into District 4-A, Carrboro, and District 4-B, White Cross, ending the old district committee. The stated reason was the difference in background and occupation of the two sections; White Cross, with four teachers and 102 pupils against Carrboro's 12 and 374, had been losing pupils to Carrboro. The county board named a committee for each new district on September 7. Place: Carrboro and White CrossSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 12, 1954, p. 1
  6. The state accredits the Aycock and Efland elementary schools The State Department of Public Instruction placed the Aycock and Efland elementary schools on its accredited list, making them the third and fourth county elementary schools to qualify, after West Hillsboro in 1950 and Carrboro in 1952. Both had first been accredited in 1927 and had lost and regained it, and no county elementary school had been accredited in 1949-50. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Aycock School, Cedar Grove, and Efland SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 19, 1954, p. 1
  7. Hillsboro declares a water emergency as the Eno runs low With the supply behind the Eno mill dam down to an estimated eight to ten days, the town board unanimously declared an emergency, asked the schools to run mornings only, told the mayor to seek federal emergency pipe to bring water from Edgar Bivins's lake on the Orange Grove road over Eno Mountain, agreed to rebuild the old Dimmock's Mill dam, and asked every user to stop washing cars and sprinkling lawns. The county school board approved the shortened school day the next day. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro · Also mentions: Eno MountainSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 9, 1954, p. 1
  8. The county school board receives an NAACP letter asking for an end to school segregation Superintendent G. Paul Carr passed to board members a form letter from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People calling for an end to school segregation, of the kind other North Carolina counties had received. The board, whose policy set earlier in the summer was to keep separate schools for the coming year, did not discuss it in open session; Carr asked members for written comments and declined to talk to a reporter, saying the board wanted no publicity. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Board of Education, HillsboroThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 9, 1954, p. 1
  9. The drought and Hillsboro's water shortage keep county schools on short days With the drought draining the town's Eno River storage, four county schools ran on part-time days from the September opening. Wells on the Hillsboro school grounds put the white school back on full days, but the Black school in Hillsboro was still on a short schedule in mid-October; all schools returned to normal days the week after Hurricane Hazel's rains. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro and Central schools, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Eno River, Hillsboro schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 21, 1954, p. 1
  10. Orange County schools begin selling extra milk under the new federal program Under an agreement Superintendent G. Paul Carr signed with the State Department of Public Instruction, the county schools joined the federal special milk program, offering extra half-pints before school, at recess and after classes at a reduced price, with the government reimbursing the schools for milk drunk above their spring average and the milk bought from local dairies. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 14, 1954, p. 1
  11. Bids are opened for Hillsboro's new Cameron Park School A record 22 firms sought the general contract when bids were opened in the old courthouse; Charles C. Hayes Construction Company of Durham was low at $187,740, and the four low bids came to $255,999 against $235,000 on hand, a gap officials expected to close by dropping items. Architect Archie R. Davis said the school, the last to be built from the 1949 bond issue, could be finished by the next September. People: Archie Royal Davis, G. Paul Carr Place: Old Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 16, 1954, p. 1
  12. The county school superintendent's office moves into the old courthouse Superintendent G. P. Carr and his staff finished moving into the first floor of the 1845 courthouse, which had been renovated after the other county offices left for the new building in October. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Old Orange County Courthouse, 104 East King Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 23, 1954, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 8, 1954, p. 1
  13. Work begins on the Cameron Park Elementary School in Hillsborough Excavation for the new Cameron Park Elementary School began after school officials signed about $235,000 in contracts, with Charles C. Haynes Construction Company as general contractor and Archie R. Davis as architect. The plan called for fourteen classrooms and a lunchroom in a building 350 feet long, set 100 feet back from St. Mary's Road. The school board had already trimmed the specifications and asked for $65,000 in state school building money for the job. People: Archie Royal Davis, G. Paul Carr Place: St. Mary's Road, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 20, 1955, p. 1
  14. Hillsboro High holds its first Career Day About 135 juniors and seniors of Hillsboro High spent the day at the First Baptist Church hearing local speakers on careers they had chosen, after an opening address by Roy Armstrong on planning for careers. The program was put on by the high school service committee of the Hillsboro PTA, and the students asked that it be held every year. People: G. Paul Carr Place: First Baptist Church, Hillsborough · Also named: Roy ArmstrongSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 17, 1955, p. 8
  15. The county school board puts off naming school committees while the legislature acts on segregation Reorganizing for a new two-year term, the Orange County Board of Education re-elected Charles W. Stanford chairman and G. Paul Carr superintendent. At the suggestion of State Superintendent Charles F. Carroll it delayed reappointing the committeemen for the county's schools because of segregation bills pending in the General Assembly. The board also took up a $2,123.99 bill for rock excavation at the new Cameron Park School then going up in Hillsboro. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsborough · Also named: Charles F. Carroll · Also mentions: Cameron Park SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1955, p. 1
  16. Rep. Umstead introduces a bill to let the Chapel Hill school district vote its own school building bonds Rep. John W. Umstead introduced an enabling act under which the county commissioners would call a bond election for school buildings in the Chapel Hill school district whenever 15 per cent of the district's voters petitioned for one. He said a new census showed the district's schools would need more room if no money came from a state or countywide bond issue. County officials said they had not been consulted, and observers read it as a way for Chapel Hill to act if the rest of the county would not vote bonds. People: G. Paul Carr Place: General Assembly, Raleigh (for the Chapel Hill school district) · Also named: John W. Umstead · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school districtSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1955, p. 1
  17. The county school board adopts the state's school bus rules as its own After the 1955 General Assembly handed control of school bus transportation to the counties, the Orange County Board of Education resolved to keep the laws, rules and interpretations the state had applied in 1954-55 and to ask the state's transportation division to settle disputes. Superintendent G. Paul Carr said the county would run its buses as before and that he had nothing in mind about integration when the resolution was drawn. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County Board of Education, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1955, p. 1
  18. Chapel Hill schools agree to take about 425 county pupils for 1955-56 without tuition After a three-hour joint meeting of the county and Chapel Hill school boards on August 17 failed to settle who should pay for some 425 Carrboro and White Cross children attending Chapel Hill schools outside the special tax district, the Chapel Hill board agreed to take them for the coming year without tuition. The county board called a meeting of the two districts' committeemen to seek a vote of the people. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Old courthouse, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schools, Chapel Hill schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1955, p. 1
  19. Ground is broken for a new classroom at West Hillsboro School The superintendent reported that ground had been broken for a classroom at West Hillsboro School, and that the Cameron Park school under construction would be ready after the Christmas holidays. People: G. Paul Carr Place: West Hillsboro School, West Hillsborough · Also mentions: Cameron ParkSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1955, p. 1
  20. Orange County schools open on a segregated basis without incident The county schools opened with crowded rolls and record numbers of visiting parents, and every pupil attended the school to which he or she had been assigned, with no incident over segregation. The board had already ruled that the county schools would run on a segregated basis for 1955-56. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schoolsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1955, p. 1
  21. Carrboro school committee asks the county board for a modern new school Carrboro school committeemen asked the Orange County Board of Education to commit to a modern building like a new school in Asheboro, saying it would win Carrboro votes for the coming bond issue. The board would not pledge a design but said Carrboro could expect about $311,000 from the bonds plus $65,000 in state money. People: G. Paul Carr, Lloyd M. Senter Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsboro · Also mentions: Carrboro schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1956, p. 6
  22. County school board names its first projects under the new bond issue The Orange County Board of Education gave first priority to a new 16-room Carrboro school, allotted $376,000, a lunchroom, library and commercial department at Aycock School, and renovation of Hillsboro High School. It kept Archie Royal Davis as architect for the county projects except Carrboro. People: G. Paul Carr, Archie Royal Davis Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsboro · Also mentions: Aycock School, Carrboro school, Hillsboro High SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1956, p. 1
  23. County school board picks an Asheboro firm to design the new Carrboro school The Orange County Board of Education chose an Asheboro architectural firm over three others to design the new elementary school at Carrboro, the first project of the bond program. Carrboro's school committee had recommended Chapel Hill architect James M. Webb. People: James M. Webb, G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County Board of Education, HillsboroThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 26, 1956, p. 1
  24. Representative John W. Umstead Jr. backs Governor Hodges's school plan As the special session opened, Orange County's veteran legislator said he would support the Pearsall Committee's program of education expense grants and local option to close schools because it took school decisions away from 'extremists on both sides,' though he was not sure it was the answer and opposed dropping compulsory attendance. A week earlier Superintendent G. Paul Carr had endorsed the plan, while school board member Clarence D. Jones called the tuition grants unfair. People: G. Paul Carr, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Orange County · Also named: Clarence D. JonesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 26, 1956, p. 1
  25. The county and Chapel Hill school boards meet the Carrboro school committee over school taxes In what the News called the first such joint meeting in many years, the two boards and the Carrboro District School Committee took up the unequal burden of about 400 Carrboro and White Cross pupils attending Chapel Hill schools without paying its 15-cent supplementary tax. The Carrboro committee, chaired by Carl Ellington, agreed to sound out its district on voting a supplementary tax or joining the Chapel Hill special school district, but wanted work started on a new 36-classroom Carrboro school first and suggested a vote in spring 1958. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Chapel Hill School Library, Chapel Hill · Also named: Carl Ellington · Also mentions: Carrboro school, Chapel Hill schoolsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1956, p. 1
  26. The county school board puts the new Carrboro school first in a $1.17 million building program The board approved a building program and timetable through 1960 totaling $1,171,704 from county school bonds and state bond money, and Superintendent G. Paul Carr presented it to the State Review Panel. All $199,772 of the state money went to the new Carrboro school, first on the list at an estimated $376,202, with the Central School addition next at $283,730. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Carrboro school, Central SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 18, 1956, p. 1
  27. Hillsborough dedicates the new Cameron Park School The county dedicated Cameron Park School on St. Mary's Road, then in its third month of use, with an address by Charles Milner of the UNC Extension Division and the passing of keys from school board chairman C. W. Stanford to local committee chairman Bonner D. Sawyer to principal Fred W. Rogers. The newly formed Cameron Park Parent-Teacher Association sponsored the program and installed Harry P. Breeze as its president. People: G. Paul Carr, Bonner D. Sawyer, Charles W. Stanford Place: Cameron Park School, St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough · Also named: Charles Milner, Fred W. Rogers, Harry P. Breeze · Also mentions: UNC Extension Division, St. Mary's RoadThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 29, 1956, p. 1
  28. The school board fixes sites for new gyms at Hillsboro High and Central School The county Board of Education placed Hillsboro High's new 85-by-110-foot gymnasium behind the bus parking lot west of the school, beside new Hazel Street, and told the architect to begin drawings; at Central School it turned down the state consultants' two sites and chose to build the gymtorium behind the cafeteria as fast as possible. It also endorsed the State Board of Education's legislative program, including teacher pay raises. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro High School and Central School, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Central SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1957, p. 1
  29. Thirteen men organize the Hillsboro Investment Club Thirteen Hillsborough men met in the board room of the old courthouse and organized the Hillsboro Investment Club, an affiliate of the National Association of Investment Clubs, to study investing and invest surplus funds together, electing Ira Ward president, G. P. Carr vice president, John P. Ballard secretary and Ted Smith treasurer. People: Ira Ward, G. Paul Carr, John P. Ballard Place: Old Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Ted SmithSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1957, p. 1
  30. The county school board turns down a Carrboro-only school tax vote The Orange County Board of Education refused to call a supplementary school tax election in the Carrboro district alone, telling the Carrboro committee its only sound choices were a county-wide supplement or joining the Chapel Hill city unit. Because the Carrboro committee would not back a county-wide 15-cent tax, the board called no election at all, and talks were still deadlocked in mid-May. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford Place: Orange County Board of Education, HillsboroughThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 4, 1957, p. 1
  31. Hillsboro marks June Dairy Day with a milking contest on the courthouse lawn Mayor Ben Johnston proclaimed June 22 Dairy Day in Hillsboro and challenged Superintendent G. Paul Carr and Sheriff O. H. Clayton to a milking contest on the old courthouse lawn. Water superintendent Myron Lloyd, milking for the mayor, won before a small crowd, and the county's dairy princess received gifts from local merchants. People: G. Paul Carr, Odell H. Clayton Place: Old Orange County Courthouse lawn, Hillsborough · Also named: Ben Johnston, Myron LloydSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 27, 1957, p. 1
  32. Orange County's twelve schools enroll 4,494 pupils in the first week First-week enrollment in the county school system reached 4,494, up 141 from the year before: 2,897 in the nine white schools and 1,597 in the three Black schools, 372 of them at Central, the system's one high school for Black pupils. The schools had opened September 4 with 151 principals and teachers. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 12, 1957, p. 1
  33. The county school board asks for a vote on joining Carrboro and White Cross to the Chapel Hill district Without dissent the Orange County Board of Education asked the county commissioners to call an election in the Carrboro and White Cross school attendance areas on joining the Chapel Hill special school tax district. The Chapel Hill school board had already endorsed the vote by polling its members, and a delegation from Carrboro's Citizens Committee for Schools pressed for an early date. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford Place: Board of Education, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school board, White Cross schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1958, p. 1
  34. Caldwell School opens a central library built by its PTA Caldwell School turned a classroom that had held old desks for five years into a central library of 900 books. The PTA bought the materials, fathers built shelves and refinished the room at night, mothers helped process and catalog the books, and principal Lois Blalock, who also teaches the fifth and sixth grades, serves as librarian. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Caldwell School, Caldwell community · Also named: Lois BlalockSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 13, 1958, p. 4
  35. The county school board leaves the Carrboro school committee seats unfilled during the merger fight Faced with a 475-name petition, signed by all of Carrboro's town officials except the mayor, to reappoint Carrboro school committee chairman Carl Ellington and Ernest T. Hearn, the Board of Education took no action on the Carrboro and White Cross committee seats while reappointing committeemen elsewhere. Members said any action could look like taking sides in the merger fight, which left the Carrboro committee's standing in doubt. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Board of Education, Hillsborough · Also named: Carl Ellington, Ernest T. Hearn · Also mentions: Carrboro schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1958, p. 1
  36. Superintendent Carr names new principals for Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools Superintendent G. Paul Carr announced three new principals: Maude McCauley, a teacher in the county schools for 31 years, at Murphey School; Perry W. Harrison, a graduate student at UNC, at Efland Elementary in place of John Black; and Mrs. Leona M. Snider of Salisbury at West Hillsboro, succeeding Mrs. Gladys Harris after her twelve years there. Place: Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools, Orange County · Also named: Maude McCauley, Perry W. Harrison, Leona M. Snider · Also mentions: Murphey SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 12, 1958, p. 1
  37. Chapel Hill accepts the county's terms for Carrboro and White Cross pupils at $30 tuition The Chapel Hill school board approved terms the county board had proposed on June 4, ending a long deadlock after the failed merger vote: the white high school pupils and all the Black pupils of the Carrboro and White Cross areas could stay in Chapel Hill schools for 1958-59 at $30 tuition each. The Chapel Hill board's mass assignment kept existing assignments and so kept its schools segregated, and the News noted that many families, a large share of them Black, now faced tuition bills of several hundred dollars. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 12, 1958, p. 1
  38. Black Carrboro parents apply to send their child to the new white Carrboro school Thomas Lee and Lattice Vickers of Carrboro, whose children attended Northside, Chapel Hill's school for Black pupils, applied to have a child assigned to the new Carrboro Elementary School, built for white pupils. The county board had put off their June request for assignment forms on June 30, and on July 29 Superintendent G. Paul Carr told the board the application had come in and would be heard August 11; he refused to tell a reporter how many he had received. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Carrboro Elementary School, Carrboro · Also named: Thomas Lee Vickers, Lattice Vickers, Thomas LeeThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 31, 1958, p. 1
  39. Hillsboro High School dedicates its new gymnasium Hillsboro High dedicated its new gymnasium between games of its basketball opener against Aycock, which the Wildcats won 72 to 21. Coaches Fred Claytor and Glenn Auman, former school board member Clarence D. Jones and Superintendent Paul Carr spoke, and the Rev. Lauton Pettit gave the dedicatory prayer. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro High School gymnasium, 300 West Tryon Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Fred Claytor, Glenn Auman, Clarence D. Jones, Lauton PettitSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 11, 1958, p. 8
  40. Two snowfalls leave nine inches and close the Orange County schools Snow that began on a Thursday morning and fell again on Sunday left about nine inches, the county's heaviest in several years, halting the December term of Superior Court and closing the county schools until December 29; the Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools reopened December 16. Tire chains sold out, and the telephone company asked people to limit their calls. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Chapel Hill and Carrboro schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 18, 1958, p. 1
  41. Cameron Park School in Hillsborough gets its first addition Three years after it opened, the county enlarged Cameron Park School with a second section of building, raised under Superintendent G. Paul Carr to plans by the architect Archie Royal Davis. People: Archie Royal Davis, G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Cameron Park SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 165
  42. County school board moves to overhaul its school bus system after a state survey Acting on a report by the state Division of Transportation, the Orange County Board of Education began a program to improve its bus service after the survey found the year's repair allotment of $12,785 used up, nine bus accidents in five months, the worst record in recent years, and more than $1,600 in student vandalism, including 144 cut seats and 90 broken windows. Superintendent G. P. Carr sent principals and teachers new rules for drivers and riders. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 12, 1959, p. 1
  43. The General Assembly enlarges the Orange County Board of Education to five members A bill introduced by Representative John W. Umstead Jr. passed the House on March 25 and the Senate on March 26, raising the county school board from three members to five and naming Charles M. Walker Jr., Gordon B. Cleveland and F. Ross Porter to terms beginning in April. The three took the oath on April 6, when the enlarged board reelected Charles W. Stanford chairman and G. Paul Carr superintendent. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Orange County · Also named: Charles M. Walker Jr., Gordon B. Cleveland, F. Ross PorterSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 2, 1959, p. 4
  44. The Orange County school board authorizes a suit against Caswell County over Orange pupils in Caswell schools After hearing a Caswell board member and Caswell's superintendent, the Orange board told Superintendent G. Paul Carr to put before the county attorney a suit charging that Caswell had enrolled Orange pupils from the Aycock district without agreement, contrary to the 1955 Pupil Assignment Act. Orange had yielded the autumn before when Person County sued to keep 13 Person pupils out of Orange schools, and on June 1 the board voted to assign the pupils back to Orange and seek a restraining order if Caswell enrolled them. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County Board of Education, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 21, 1959, p. 1
  45. White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district a third time Voters in the White Cross school area turned down merger with the Chapel Hill district for the third time, about three to two, with 301 votes against and 507 of 538 registered voters taking part. The area stayed in the county system, so its pupils could attend Chapel Hill schools only by paying tuition, without bus service. People: G. Paul Carr Place: White Cross Community Center, White Cross · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schools, White Cross schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 21, 1960, p. 3
  46. The Orange County ABC Board sets up a Council on Alcoholism The county ABC Board created a ten-member Council on Alcoholism, headed by the Rev. W. C. Porter, with a first-year budget of $8,000 for education and rehabilitation. Its members included school superintendents G. Paul Carr and Joseph M. Johnston and welfare superintendent Jane Parker. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County · Also named: W. C. Porter, Joseph M. Johnston, Jane ParkerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 13, 1960, p. 11
  47. The county school board hires Archie Royal Davis to design the new Orange high school By a four-to-one vote the Orange County Board of Education chose Durham architect Archie Royal Davis for the planned $750,000 high school on the 100-acre site north of Hillsboro, after weeks of objections from Hillsboro citizens unhappy with schools he had designed. Board member Delmar Brown voted against him. People: Archie Royal Davis, G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro · Also named: Delmar BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1961, p. 8
  48. County school board reorganizes bus maintenance after a state inspection After state inspectors reported Orange County's school buses in 'very poor mechanical condition', with dozens needing exhaust, wheel bearing, steering and tire repairs and some apparently ungreased since fall, the County Board of Education ordered the bus garage reorganized under a new mechanic foreman recommended by the state. The longtime foreman was kept on as a mechanic at the same pay, and the county paid $2,809 in overdue parts bills. People: G. Paul Carr Place: County school bus garage, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1962, p. 12
  49. County commissioners let the school board plan a 16-classroom junior high beside Central High The county Board of Education won the commissioners' go-ahead to build a 16-classroom junior high next to Central High School, Hillsboro's school for Black pupils, at an estimated $200,000 to $225,000, aiming for fall 1964. Superintendent G. Paul Carr called the need very urgent, saying some teachers allotted by enrollment had no rooms. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Central High School, HillsboroThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 15, 1962, p. 22
  50. Aycock School patrons protest the high school consolidation at a county hearing About 150 people came to a hearing at the Aycock school in Cedar Grove on merging the county's high schools at Hillsboro, and spokesmen said they had been led to believe they would not be forced to consolidate. Attorney Lee Settle, hired by Aycock patrons, argued they should decide for themselves; earlier hearings at Hillsboro and Efland drew 15 to 20 people and no opposition. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Aycock School, Cedar Grove · Also named: Lee SettleThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 28, 1963, p. 11
  51. The county school board enlarges the Aycock and West Hillsboro school districts Keeping promises made during the consolidation fight, the Orange County Board of Education extended the Aycock elementary district eastward, adding 29 pupils from the abolished Caldwell district, and added 14 pupils to West Hillsboro School. The board also took a $5,450 bid for a sewer line tying Central School into the Hillsboro system. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Central School, West Hillsboro SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 9, 1963, p. 12
  52. Charles M. Walker Jr. resigns from the Orange County Board of Education Walker, who had moved to Rocky Mount after closing Walker Milling Co., resigned the board seat he had held since about 1958. His letter listed the closing of three small schools, the change to a 6-3-3 grade plan, the new Orange High School and the 'very orderly racial integration' of the county schools. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsboro · Also named: Charles M. Walker Jr. · Also mentions: Orange High SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 26, 1963, p. 3
  53. Black parents petition the county school board over the site of a new elementary school in Hillsboro A delegation led by the Rev. B. A. Mack, a Black PTA president, presented a petition signed by 185 people asking that the planned elementary school for Black pupils be built no closer than a mile to Central Junior-Senior High School, to make sure it had a separate administration. The board, which held an option on part of a site across the street from Central, again put off choosing a site. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsboro · Also named: B. A. MackThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 7, 1963, p. 10
  54. The county school board calls off the sale of the closed Caldwell School The Board of Education had voted on September 7 to auction the seven-acre Caldwell School property in Little River Township, but in November the superintendent reported the sale called off because the board could not give clear title. All-American Apparel, which had shown interest in the building, had also withdrawn. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Caldwell School, Hillsboro-Rougemont Road, Little River TownshipThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 7, 1963, p. 10
  55. County schools add distributive education, manual arts and diversified occupations departments On February 3 the Orange County Board of Education voted to set up departments of distributive education, manual arts and diversified occupations at Orange High, Orange Junior High and Central High, at about $16,000 a year. Part of the money would come from not replacing Assistant Superintendent Grady Brown when he retired that year. People: G. Paul Carr, Grady A. Brown Place: Orange High, Orange Junior High and Central High schools, Hillsborough · Also named: Grady BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 6, 1964, p. 6
  56. The county school board drops driver education as a requirement for graduation On February 3 the Orange County Board of Education stopped requiring students to pass driver education to graduate, after the Attorney General's office advised that the law made the course voluntary and noncredit. A parent had refused to let his daughter take it; the board had made the course compulsory beginning in 1960. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange County schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 6, 1964, p. 6
  57. The new Orange High School at Hillsborough is dedicated Dedication ceremonies were held for the $1 million Orange High School, with Prof. John Otts of Chapel Hill giving the address and Superintendent G. Paul Carr, Principal Charles Yelverton and school board members taking part. The school's first graduating class, 86 seniors, was to receive diplomas there on June 5. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange High School, Hillsborough · Also named: Charles H. Yelverton, John OttsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 28, 1964, p. 1
  58. The county school board lets contracts for a new elementary school for Black pupils near Central After the commissioners added $68,800 to the $200,000 set aside a year earlier, the Orange County Board of Education let $271,415.63 in contracts for a ten-classroom elementary school for Black pupils across the road from Central School. Bids opened July 2 had run about $80,000 over the money on hand; the News recounted that the school had been delayed a year while a site acceptable to an integration-minded Black group was sought. People: G. Paul Carr, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Archie Royal Davis Place: across from Central School, West HillsboroughThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 30, 1964, p. 12
  59. Stanford Junior High School is built near Hillsborough with two classroom buildings and a gymnasium Under Superintendent G. Paul Carr the county finished Stanford Junior High, a main classroom building for about 800 pupils, a second for about 225 and a gymnasium, on the 100-acre tract it shares with Orange High. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Orange HighDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 169
  60. George F. Williams becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools After G. Paul Carr resigned, the board called George F. Williams, superintendent of the Brunswick County schools, to lead the Orange County system in 1969. He served eight years as the county's eleventh superintendent. People: G. Paul Carr, George F. Williams Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 144
  61. Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration For 1969-70 the county put all its pupils outside the Efland area into Hillsborough schools, each serving set grades: kindergarten at Central Elementary, grades 1-2 at Cameron Park, 3-4 at Central, 5-6 at the old Orange Junior High, 7-9 at a new Orange Junior High and 10-12 at Orange High. Efland-Cheeks took kindergarten through third grade and Efland Elementary grades 4-6, and Aycock, Cedar Grove and West Hillsborough dropped out as separate schools. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Cameron Park, Orange HighDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 139
  62. Superintendent Carr's final report recommends studying a merger of the county and Chapel Hill school units In his closing report to the State Superintendent in 1969, G. Paul Carr asked the board to have outside educators study combining the county and Chapel Hill units. He also urged a supplementary school tax, written board policies, kindergartens for all children, a return to six-grade elementary schools and special education at the high school. People: G. Paul Carr Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 142

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