jeiletas of (©range Cou*$? THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, lWt SECTION ONE, RAM S ----»—» • Attention—Chapel Hill driver* . . Pay parking time is to be moved up to 9 o'clock start Motorists in Chapel Hill will be given an extra hour’s grat e in the mornings from the downtown parking meters. The Board of Aldermen has agreed to the drawing of an ordinance changing the daily starting hour for metered parking from 8 until 9 a.m. TJie change is to take effect after new informational tabs are affixed on the 400-odd* meters subsequent to formal passage of the amended ordi nance. No Need Soon The Chapel Hill Parking Asso ciation sought the roll-back of the pay-for-parking hours on the j grounds that less than half of the 92 metered parking spaces on the; main downtown business block were occupied before 9 a.m. dur ing a month-long check. # In addition, the Association asked the elimination of eight 12 minute meters in the middle of this block. The aldermen, at their Monday evening meeting, deferr-' 12 minutes to clip! Is 12 minutes really long enough for a customer to do any business? This is the question to which the Chapel Hill aldermen are seeking an answer in determin ing whether or not the 12-min ute meters in the mMdle of the downtown business block should be Oliminated as requested by the Chapel Hill Parking As sociation. "They're just traps," said an Association spokes man. Police agreed that *ev era! times as many overtime parking tickets are handed out for the short-tanners than for the one-hour meters nearby. "I like 'em" said Mayor O. K. Cornwell, rubbing his bald dome. "I can get a haircut in 12 minutes all right." ed this matter for further study. Mayor O. K. Cornwell said *pub uc opinion ana me views oi uie Merchants Association would be sought on this. The meters were installed in the business district about a year ago. Town Manager Thom as 0. Rose said that $12,449 of the $22,200 cost for them, had already been paid out of 50 per cent of the receipts from them, and that the remaining $9,700 would likely be paid before the end of this fiscal year. Foreign pupils to be honored in UN week For United Nations Week, be ginning this Sunday, the follow ing programs have been planned as entertainment for all foreign students in the Chapel Hill area: Friday afternoon, Oct. 23, 4 to 5:30 p.m., a reception at Graham Memorial; Friday evening, stu dents to be guests for dinner in various homes in Chapel Hill; Saturday atfernoon, Oct. 24, Unit ed Natidns Day—students to be taken on a tour of the points of interest in and around Chapel Hill. Saturday evening, 6 p.m. picnic, sponsored by the Chapel Hill Jay cees, at the Presbyterian Fellow ship Hail, and at 7:30 p.m. a program by the United Nations Committee. For quick results—-to sell or buy in a hurry—for bargains in housing, real estate, autos, jobs, services, and other items — use Classified Ads. Capture 'didn't occur to him'.. . Accommodating 'legger walks up to still site Conviction in federal court ie Denison of of the most* _ . .. gers in Orange County history. Denison, along with Wesley Browning, also <ft Route 1, Durham, was arrested at the site of a still operating in Eno Tonwship, Orange County, near the Durham line Monday after noon by Sheriff’s Deputies and federal ATU agents. According to the local of ficers, Denison walked up to the still site with a case of fruit jars on his shoulder while the officers were in the process of destroying the 180-gallon ca pacity -outfit and pouring out Complete line •f Famous GUNS •STEVENS * Hunting Coats, Pants, Caps and Socks * Ammunition * Buckshot & Slugs E 'vrrErt .. Hillsboro Hmm Owned by Clarence D. Jenee the 1,200 gallons of mash ready to be run. Officers quoted the Two Hillsboro and-nine Chapel Hill High School seniors have qualified as semifinaiists in the. National Merit Scholarship com petition. They are among 10,000 of She ; highest scores on the nation ! wide qualifying test given in i over 14,500 high schools last spring. The semi-finalists will be given a three-hour examination in testing centers across the country on Dec. 5. Those who re peat. -their high scores on this test will become finalists. At Hillsboro, Principal G. A. Brown announced that Harry Lloyd and Nicky Kenyon had qualified as semifinalists. Of the 117 Juniors who took the test at Chapel Hill High School laat spring. Principal Miss Marabbanks announced the following semi-finalists: Roger White, Joe StraTey Jr., David Henry, Barbee Alexander, Bill Straughn Jr., Bill Bowerman. Anne Prince, Sue Wallace, and man as saying he heard the noise but it didn’t occur to liim that the still had been captured. :«■ Both Browning and Denison were charged with manufact uring and haring equipment for the manufacture of whis key. ■ ;-r Keith-Lucas. - Last year the year before there were semi-finalists in in Chapel Today'A Friday, 7 A f pm "Stranger in My Arms" Jaff Chandlar — Jana Allboa Saturday — 2. 7 A • pm "The Hangman" Rabort Taylor Tina Lade Sunday A Monday "Auntie Marne" { Rosalind Rossalt - 1 —COMING— t "WaHock" "Woman Obsessed" "Thunder, in the Sun" —A—■■ 1 III! II « — A OIL mm ARE STILL IN EFFECT BUT THE END IS NEAR You Can Sava Money By Letting Us Fill Your Tanks Now And Leaving A Standing Order ' HiSi . 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