! lf orange County «M Lt <» -•**,ro” or «■<»"« tHE k'oKAUGE.couNTY '^5T___ four «ome Newspaper Serving Orange County and Its Citizens Since 189J (Published Weekly) mjjBQRO aNd CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1952 -IS N EW8 of Ten Psgees This Week. * Price: $2, a Year; 5c Single Copy I b t(GH - ftmud ti up ^Stx H. POV BA/Lt/ _ IrtTlES . • • Scattered scrub 1 23 miles of rather rough terrain and fields of hroomsedge serve to sepa ild gentle, aristoratic Ra in hustling, bustling, in iweat-stained Durham. : the only thing these two uve i» common is the Ra jrham Airport and love for ;ead. BOARDS . • • These seats of lid Durham counties are rivals in athletics and they ilv vie for the farmery dol 'd that rural trade. A few lago Durham succeeded in a shop-in-Durham billboard i in the middle of Raliegh. ult of this discovery on the Baliegh businessmen was Ising of a Greater Raliegh |Fund of approximately $30, r billboards imploring moto , trade in Raleigh where h’s Friendly Stores Offer Raleigh billboard slogan • Dollars Have More Cents |eigh”. urham comes right back old one-two punch line: if Exciting Stores”, so it goes. TO RALIEGH” ... However, mary 9, Durham will move leigh lock stock and barrel, inauguration of its Wil li, Umstead. An “On to Ra | project is being sponsored i Durham Chamber of Com all civic and fraternal or [tions being requested to send lions to Raleigh for the nber President E. C. Dame j a special call last week said: I is our first opportunity to the inauguration of a go from our home county, I Jthat.the people qf^Durham their presence, let William know that hiss neighbors ; in seeing him take over the [of North Carolina’s govern S. Coman, Durham artist, |ecently presented to the Um family a fine painting of nor-Elect Umstead. It will [in the Executive Mansion. ICE JUNE ... In their regu ar-end stories this time, man; i daily papers will no doub i feature on what Assistan it Director D. S. Coltrane ha: with his time since Ker: requested him to resign las u Will remeber that Coltrane id to resign. So Scott stopped ay- It was strickly a case of gum again hickory” and Dave ad to stick right in there, sa « no salary. He hasn’t drawn le from the State since. -Quite u*l, but we have had such* and 31 goings-on here for about years now. re Scott goes out of office of *y. °a the day Durham moves Raleigh-January (Land that’s 1 the Coltrane salary ($1,000 nonth) gets going again. It may lat the Legislature will restore by special legislation the W-$7,000 the Governor took ' ^r°m him by his midsummer i euver. I The Governor also that Colonel Rosier of Chat County, Motor Vechicles Dept. :anf the first “Ex changite of the Year” award. A; special election was held at the i last Club meeting and the reci-i pient was elected by secret ballot. ! The name of the man selected will remain a secret until announced by president Carl C. Davis at the (Continued On Page 4) HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES PnChriilmit activities are tak ing the stage in Orange County today and this weekend and most citlsens prepare for the tradition al holidays boginning next Thurs day. lit general mdlt citizens will observe a tWo-day holiday but county employees and employees of most of the industrial plants will bo idle the entire weekend. One plant. Belle Vue Manu facturing Co* will remain closed all next week, as will county schools which dose Friday and reopen on Tuesday, December 30. The great increase in mail go ing through the postoffices has already begun-and extra employ ees are already at work in the various postoffices to handle the great volume of Christmas mail. Stores generally will be closed Thursday and Friday and re-open on Saturday. The courthouse will be closed Thursday, Friday and -Saturday^. —'---— •o TB Comauttee Is Sponsoring School Project The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Tuber culosis Committee in Cooperation with The District Health Depart ment and the public school teach ers is sponsoring a series of activ ities for schools as a means of pro moting tuberculosis education with special attention focused on the prevention of the disease. The present activities are a News paper Project and an Art Project. Teachers, health educators and public health nurses are assisting in the project. Reading materials, films, etc., are being furnished by the sponsoring agencies, In order to give evidence of an intelligent study of the subject pre sented, schools will submit uKcom petfint judges original studies in Art or Literature and all schools participating will be given awards for^their work. The schools participating are the Chapel Hill Elementary School, the Carxboro JElementarv School, the White Cross School and the Nortli side School. The schools entering the School Press. Project presented by the National Tuberculosis Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association ,are the Chapel Hill High School, the Lincoln High School and the Northside School. Only schools publishing school pa pers are eligible to this contest “presented in the interests of sound health education and good journal ism.” -o-— Choral Service At Hillsboro Church Sunday Hillsboro - A Christmas Choral Service in a candlelight setting will be held in the Presbyterian Church here on Sunday afternoon, Decem ber 21, at 5 o’clock, according to an announcement today. The Chancel Choir of the local church augmented by a newly or ganized Junior Choir of twenty voices will present- a program of traditional Christmas music under the direction of Mrs. C. D, Jones with Mrs. Harry Lake Brown, orga-1 nist. The program will include “Silent j Night” sung by the Junior Choir; ! “Hosanna”, a traditional Moravian > Christmas antiphonal chant; “Let j All Mortal Flesh” by Holst, With Nazareth followed by jfcwo cirols { Mrs, T. P. Smith as soloist; Gounod’s “The First Noel” and the Appala chian carol, “I wonder as I wan der” with Mrs. Oliver Clayton, so prano, and the choir singing the latter. Gervaert’s “Joyous Christ mas Song” will be followed by Stairs, “Virgin’s Lullaby” with Mrs. J. W. Dickson, alto, and the choir performing again this lullaby that has been part of the program for the past two years. An unusual arrangement of Handel’s “Joy to the World” and Blow’s setting for the Nunc Dimittis will conclude the choirs portion of the program. J. Dumont Eskridge will read portions of the Christmas story from the Gospels would be sought from the next Gen eral Assembly to give rural resi dents: 1. Equal representation on the planning board, enlarged, increas ing that board’s membership to five Chapel Hillians named by the Al dermen and five rural residents named by the County Commission ers. 2. Equal representation on the board of adjustment, making that body also a 5-5 board, appointed in the same manner as the planning board. In addition it was proposed that all restrictions be removed from territory proposed to be zoned as “agricultural,” if this would be constitutional. This would remove much of the objection that has been previously raised by rural residents. ^ . A formal ‘ meeting to consider final action on the proposal was set for January 12. In order to as sure that the equalizing amend ments to the act would be includ ed, it is likely that adoption at that time would be tentative only, ef fective at some subsequent date if and when the amendments are passed by the legislature . Four public hearings have al ready been held on the bill, first proposed by the Town Planning Board over a year ago. The aider men have the power, given them by an enabling act of the 1951 Gen eral Assembly, to zone the territory for a four-mile radius around Chap el Hill, exclusive of Carrboro. Town attorney John Q. LeGrand was directed to secure a ruling on the measure’s constitutionality. ^Al though the comprehensive 45-page ordinance was drawn after consul tation with the Institute of Govern ment, a number of its opponents have challenged its legality. Al most all of the opposition to its enactment has been from farmers, although the Calvander Grange — representing 65 farm families—-re cently endorsed it. About 90 per cent of the area out side"corporate toned into largely unrestricted ag ricultural territory under the bill’s provisions, However there would still be some restrictions on the locations of new buildings, anj a requirement that building permits be secured from the town’s build ing inspector for new construction. Monday night the aldermen gen erally appeared favorable to taking off all restrictions in the proposed agricultural districts—if the mea sure would still be constitutional. In earlier hearings on the ordinance some zoning commission members and they didn’t think it would be legal to have “spot zoning”, or re strictions on only a part of the to tal area. The main restrictions as the law now stands, would be on strips along highways leading out of town, since the measure was hi- - , - itially intended primarily to restrict commercialization of the new Dur ham-Chapel Hill Boulevard. The aldermen and the zoning commission jointly agreed to ask the General Assembly to increase rural membership op the commis sion from three to five persons. The five planning board members in ad dition to three rural members now constitute the zoning group. Also, under the new proposal, the total 10-man body would have jurisdic tion over matters inside corporate Chapel Hill, which are now the function of the planning board alone. , During the meeting the aldermen also considered an overall plan to Remedy traffic congestion along Pittsboro highway in the vicinity of the University Medical Center. This provides for a regular four way traffic light at the Victory Vil lage intersection, a series of three traffic signal lights at the “triangle” intersection of Raleigh Road, a 20 mile speed limit throughout the zone, and a “no parking” area on the highway between the hospital entrances. The plqp was to be tak en up today with a committee rep resenting Memorial Hospital. Among other matters of business last night the Board appointed Dr. Gordon Blackwell and Richard L. Jamerson to the Recreation Com mission succeeding * Dr. Harold Meyer and Roy Barham. -o—--— CUB SCOUT PACK MEETS Pack 438, Cub Scouts, will mee Friday evening at the Presbyteri* Church at 7:30. An informal Christ ma§ program is being planned. Ar friends of Scouting are cordially vited and especially cub Boys between the ages of ten who are interested »■ are more than their parents r