VOL. 44, NO. 46
county
Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carr bo to—Between and Beyond
N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER PHONE 6445, CHAPEL HILL
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HERE'S THE KIND OF lOO-FOOT AERIAL LADDER FIRE TRUCK THAT THE TOWN
EXPECTS TO HAVE IN USE SHORTLY| f
OF CHAPEL HILL HAS ORDERED AND
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34,336
people will reed this
issue of the NEWS OF
ORANGE COUNTY, el
the national evereae of
4 persons per houso*
hold.
Press Run: 7,834 copies
K, LAMONT WITH AJLL.
tW timely nostalgia of the oc
casion, bemoaned the Russian
ro^ketTSpaShing the moon. -Bart*
yop see what that’s done? ■ The
moon's romance was in its re
moteness .... How can it mean
the same now if its something
within human grasp by rocket
ship?”
SHERIFF'S
DEPUTIES MON
day destroyed a small liquor man
ufacturing plant in Cedar Grove
township on the property of S. J.
Parker. The 2,000 gallon capacity
outfit was idle and had not been
operated for some time. There
were no arrests.
TAR HEEL BEER CONSUMP
tion set a 10-year record in 1958,
according to a press release from
the brewers. The state’s all-time
high beer and wine tax refunds
to municipalities backed up this
statement, too. Which recalls the
odd superlative that hit print sev
eral years ago that Chapel Hill
ranked second in the nation only
to Princeton, N. J., in per capita
beer consumption. Nobody has of
fered to check on these standings
lately.
THE HOME OF FREEMAN
Carver near Hillsboro burned to
the ground last Friday. When the
three-room house was complete
ly enveloped in flames and had
f^Jlen in, according to one fire
man, a hound dog ambled out of
tte flames and walked away.
“Man’s best friend ..... to the
bitter end, etc., etc.” iQatteped
the amazed smoke-eater as he
watched the unbelievable before
his eyes.
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
officers nabbed a Durham man
who admitted he was speeding in
• excess of 12S miles an hour (he
know why) on the bypass
■ay last Friday night. A
short while later they ran down
a 'local youth on the some high
way. He was doing well over 100.
Both are scheduled for local trial
next week.
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higbwa
Orange County’s oldest newspaper today became* its
newest in format and in concept of service to the wide
area it has served for so many years.
Its sprightly tabloid size, so popular in metropolitan
centers, and increased pages, signifying wider coverage of
news, editorial material and advertisements, are readily
apparent. i
., Other changes include a significant expansion of its
priinary circulation area, to provide an attractive all-in
clusive advertising medium for the rapidly growing Chapel Hill
Carrhoro metropolitan area, more intensive area-wide coverage and
Oraiige County becomes the
area’s first “controlled” circulation newspaper in the thickly-popu
lated municipal areas of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and their suburbs,
providing readers and advertisers a saturation, house-to-house de
livery not heretofore available in any news and advertising medium.
Its operations in the Hillsboro and northern Orange section
of the county, where it hes been dominent in its field for mony
years, will net be altered, except to provide subscribers the
wider coverage and greater selectivity of the county-wide view
point.
Edwin J. Hamlin, who 11 years sgo today assumed the dual
role of editor and publisher of the 66-year-old weekly,announces
the appointment of Roland Giduz, veteran Chapel Hill
and member of the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen, as the
editor of the publication and Lawrence Brogan, formerly of Ocean
City, N. J., as the new advertising manager.
Continue As Publisher, Gen. Mgr.
Hamlin will continue as publisher and general manager of
the firm, which has offices in Hillsboro and at 311 E. Main Street,
Carrboro, where printing operations have been carried out since
1953.
'The ranid growth of the University community, the ad
vent of the Research Triangle and the further growth It will
• generate in the area of Southern Orange demands the develop
ment of e newspaper which will serve every segment of the
community's and the County's diverse population,'* Hamlin .
exolained in announcing the new format.
“No other news media, past or present, has offered so wide
a local coverage or so intensified area circulation as will The News
of Orange County in the future. I believe it will be a significant
factor in bringing the County together as a unified whole and in
(See NEWS GAINS, Page 12)
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Wootten-Moulton Photo*
.
Chairman 'off the hook'
School board won falter
milk purchasing policy
Hie recent intensive cam
paign of Durham Dairy Pro
ducts Co. and some of its
farmer - producers 3a Orange
County to wrest a portion at
the school milk business from
monopolizing Long Meadow
Farms ended right where it
began.
No change.
The county school board Mon
day reaffirmed its position in
a resolution, stating, *Tt shall
continue to be die policy at
the Orange County Board at
Education that: school princi
pals hi the couhty school sys
tem shall purchase milk from
whatever milk supplier in the
judgement of each principal
will beat moot his school
needs,” ^
All schools in the county for
many years have elected to
of Dnr
II
ham Dairy fonts for a alum
of the business.
Board Chairmen C. W. Man
fiord, one of the large prodneere
for Long Meadow, had no
cause to vote on the contro
versial Issue since the action
of the other members was