ot orange county
—Chapel Hill, Hilliboro, Carr boro—Between and Beyond—
VOL. 66, NO. 39
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 19S9
24 PAGES
Orange
Pealtngs
CAMPUS COMPLAINT BY UNC
students last sc’noci year was that
the giant new parking lot by the
Bell Tt.wer was "too far” from,
their dorms and fraternities. This
fah. it serins, ita.-jr
inevitably taken rare of the sit
uation. There’s nowhere else to
park. The Beil Tower lot is jam
adium field,
to be open
med and the Keijan
house parking lot had
ed for dorm student parking.
And yesterday it was announced
that the UNC trustees appproved
the towing away of any vehicles
on the campus which were im
properly parked and blocked oth
er cars.
CHAPEL HILL POLICE RE
ceived a call from a Memor
ial Hospital physician the other
night, regarding a patient in the
emergency room who said he was
sick from drinking white liquor
he bougnf from a couple of local
bootleggers. The doctor checked
the booze and said there was
something out of the ordinary in
it. The guy declined to testify
against his bootlegger friends so
police couldn’t make any arrest
in the case. Hospital attaches
pumped out his stomach and sent
him home.
LAST THURSDAY WAS THE
officially Constitution Day—the
beginning of Constitution Week,
signifying the anniversary of rati
of t h a t 4 document.
fication
Through a dip-up the flags were
late in being posted through
downtown Chapel Hill that day,
so they were left up through Fri
day. Not one person in 10 re
called the occasion for the flag
flying.
’* DOWN AT THE GENERAL DE
livery window in the Chapel Hill
postoffice, Frank Pendergraft,
the Postmaster General’s coup
from Jokers International, defin
itively call a crack-pot a “Psycho
ceramic.” t
THE MONEY WRANGLERS
out at the Ranch House included
an 1862 Civil War North Carolina
dollar bill in their deposit at the
Bank. They got back a notation
that their account had “been de
bited because the attached cur
rency is non-negotiable.” All of
which was reminiscent of Sec. of
State Thad Eure’s’ less formal re
jection of a Yankee’s recent re
quest for redemption of a Tar
Heel two-dollar bill for the same
year.
(Mor* PEALINGS on bock
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ORANGE COUNTY
Big football,
bsg liquor !
day ccircdde
Orange County folks have fig
ured ail along that the first big
football weekend at Chapel Hill
would br^sk t|lJ sales records for
the county’s new ABC system.
They calculated right and last
Saturday was a whopper.
On Saturday alone, the single
Chapel Hill store sold $8,077.10
worth and all three stores in the
county together took in $11,820.
At the rate of 12% profit, which
the board hopes to achieve, that’s
a profit to the county of $1,418
for a single day.
Friday was not a bad day eith
er for the Chapel Hill store, sales
wise. Sales for the pre-game day
amounted to $5,928.28 for that
store. The little No. 3 store up
in Carr nrecinct near the Ala-!
mance line took in $1,241.75 dur
ing its iitst Saturday of opera
tion.
Concert series
first program
to be Oct. 28
The tour-attraction program
of t ha Chapa I Hill Concert
Series sixth saason will apan
hara Oct. H
Tha faatwra on that data
will be the Andre Eglevsky
Petit Ballet with Melissa Hay
den and a company of five.
Other programs will be tha
Ralph Hunter Dramatic Chorus,
Dec. •; Metropolitan opera
singer Clarence Turner, Fab.
10; and tha Pittsburgh Sym
phony Orchestra, conducted by
William Steinburg, April 7.
Saason tickets may be re
served by calling the Series
office in Graham Memorial,
5011, or by mail to the Con
cert Series, Box 30, Chapel
Hill.
Uto Carr b to sit
at two»wsek civil term
Resident Judge Leo Carr will
face a docket of 51 civil cases
when he opens a two-week civil
term of Orange County Super
ior Court in Hillsboro next Man
day.
Hie calendar leads off with
six divorces and 18 cases on the
motion docket There are 27 reg
ular cases set for trial.
Thanks- but how?...
"We appreciate getting the News on our door
step every Thursday morning" said a woman tele
: phone caller to the office yesterday. "How can we
show our appreciationf”
Since the News is distributed by carrier to each
of the more than 4,650 Chapel Hill and CarrbJoro
households ei>ery Thursday morning, we had to pon
der her question. We thanked her for calling and ask
ed her in turn to thank the local businessmen, inas
much as this operation of the newspaper* is supported
largely by advertising revenue. i ; ,
If you have any suggestions or questions we
hope you’ll do the same ... If you like it, tell your
local merchantl The advertising service he will re
‘ceive will make it’s continued improvement possible.
\ Covers first three months...
First audit of abc accounts
shows profits over $8,000
The first audit report of Or- j
ange County’s ABC system, cov
ering the first three months of
operations ending June 30, re
vealed a net profit of $8,426.35
for this period.
W. M. Russ and Co., certified
public accountants, which audits
the County’s books, submitted
the report recently to the ABC
board. The Hillsboro store open
ed April 12 and the Chapel Hill
store opened June 5.
The report showed sales of
liquor during this period to be
$109,361.55 ($70,062 70 at Hills- ,
boro and $39,298.85 at Chapel
Hill) and wine $409.25, for a
grand total of sales $109,770 80.
Coot of sales was listed at $77,
848.91, leaving a grass profit sa
sales of $31,981.89, or 29.08 per
cent. Store expenses aad sales
tax totalled $18,822.78, leaving
an operating profit on sales of
$13£99.U
Office aad warehouse expenses
then took another bite of $4,
426.11. This, wkh the 5 percent
reserve set aside for law en
forcement left the net profit to
the Orange County general fund
of 18,42935, or 7.0 percent of
sales.
The balance sheet listed assets
and liabilities at *196,291 .OJ.
Among the liabilities, the ac
counts payable showed $157,*
804.94 as owed to distilleries, li
quor aoid wine investories as of
the audit date totalled *131,
509.30 and the cash balance was
$47,151.40.
Forewards 'fruitful' forecast...
Properly prepared persimmons
puckerless- Petes predictions
A sure harbinger of the fall sea
son is the annual issuance of the
persimmon edict by Chapel Hill’s
Pete Ivey.
The University j
mhnjUfH twyrf mrio of persimmon |
lire, tad looked over thi
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*
there’ll be “a very good crop" at
the puckery fruit hereabouts
Despite the de-bunk ed tale that
persimmons must be frostbitten
to be edible, Mr. Ivey notes there
are already some very nice ripe
ones on a large tree behind Cald
well Hall on the UNC campus
hard by* his office.
Plans persimmon podding
He’s planning to go oat and
scoop up a pan AiH of ’em any
day now and take them home
to whip up a persimmon pudding.
“It’s the only thing I’m able to
make in the kitchen, except for
frying eggs,” he allowed.
There’s
(See PERSIMMONS, Flops 3)
Passing car
hits officer
Sheriffs Deputy Avery C. Mad
dry almost drew back a nub as
he started to cross the street to
the Chapel Hill Police Station
Monday afternoon.
A west-bound car crashing
through a red light bote down
on him, according to witnessea
As he pulled back his left band
swung around and be flashed
the palm deeply on the mirror
mount of the passing auto.
Tbs ear slowed down, then
drove so off.
Com Slandering Fire Chief 3.
S. Bocae’s car, Lt Graham Creel
pursued it, end picked up the
driver, Alma L. Redden, a UNC
student, in Carrboro. Several
charges are pending In die case.
The deputy's hand had to fee
sewed with several doaen stitch
es and balled up in a solid band
'SIMMON TIME—Chapel Hill's P*t* lv*y, * l*«din* persim
mon-phi I*, chacks up on a limb full d rip* prafrost fruit in a
ty y «»-Un*»rMty campus__
s S&L
drive-in for
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SmiiMMhi.
Hillsboro Strings A Loss As
sociation, which bad its begin
nings in 1913 tn the took of a
drag store at West Hillsboro, will
be moving downtown sometime In
the not too distant future.
The 46-year-old local institu
tion, one of the most respected of
the state's smaller associations,
Tuesday purchased a lot on Chur
tan street, south of the A. H.
Graham office building, and will