of orange county
Chapel Hill. Hillsboro. Carrboro—Between and Beyond
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1962
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AUTO OWNERS WERE QUtTE
eager to buy new tags, accord
mg .to first day sales totals at
Stancell Motor Co., the Chapel
Hill office of the Carolina Motor
Club. There were 633 motor ve
hide state licenses purchased. Of
these there were 353 sales of
Chapel Hijl town tags. Buyer?
both in and out of town were
buying the new one-dollar Caro
lina blue-and-white local plates,
inscribed “Chapel Hill — Home
of UNC.” In anticipation of sales
based on college pride 3.500 lo
cal plates have been stocked this
year, as compared to 2,200 last
year
PROPERTY CONDEMNATION
hearings in connection tyith the
proposed Duke Power transmis
sion line in the Morgan Creek
area south of Chapel Hill have
been- continued from scheduled
times next week until Jan. 17 by
mutual consent. The hearings
will, be held before commission
ers appointed by the clerk of
court to ihspect the property,!
hear evidence,- and assess. the
damage that would be dofte by
running the power line through
the condemned land.
NOTING THAT HALF OF ALL
reports made by the .Hillsboro
Merchants Association were for
out, of town inquiries, the Mer
chants Association bulletin asks
this question of its membership:
Does this mean . , . that 50 per
cent of our potential customers
are going to other towns to shop?
Good question!
DISTRICT SOLICITOR IKE
Andrews, yesterday announced a
finding in the UNO student cya
nide deaths that nothing indi
cated a third person was involv
ed, but that a number of facts
and circumstances indicated the
two died “as a result of the act
of one or both” of the dead
youths. He said he did not plan
to elaborate any further—an ap
parent reference to an earlier
story indicating he felt William!
Johnson may have administered
poison to James Michael Barham
in some manner before taking
his own fife. The solicitor com
mended the work of Chapel Hill
police on the case and said that
legally the investigation would
remain open.
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ORANGE COUNTY
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county board
DLEC^S _ Donald M.
Stanfoi vi (second from
left) was on Tuesday re
elected Chairman of the
Orange County Board of
Commissioners for the
year 1962 at the cotmnts
sioners' initial meeting o
the new year. Other mem
bers <>T the Board, al
shown above, are Donaki
McDade of Cedar Grove
(left). Henry Walker
(third) of St. Mary's Com
numit\, elected Viet
Chairman of the Board
Harvey Behnett <>! Chape
Hill: and Clarence Jones
(second 'from right 1 of
Hillsboro. At the right i'
Conn ty -Tax S u pervisor—-—
Sam Cattis.
Serene in the snow...
NATURE ABETS COLONIAL CHA RAl—A - light
covering of snow acitjss Orange County Tuesday
morning enhanced the beauty of one of historic Hills
boro's oldest and most beautiful homes, the Nash
Hooper-Graham house on West Tryon St., purchased
" several years ago by its present occupants, Prof, and
Airs. Alfred G. Engsirom. The stately two-story resi
(tence was built in 1772 by General Francis Nash for
his home place. From 1782 until 1789 it"was the home
of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of In
dependence. And during the 18605 it was the home of ,
William A. Graham, grandfather of Hillsboro's A. H.
(Sandy) Graham, and Governor, U. S. Senator, and 1
Secretary of the Navy.
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County unit given $100,000
for new school construction
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