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ol orange county —Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, (parrboro—Between and Beyond .w *tory, Sk. U, Pag* 3 AS SIGNIFICANT FROM A financial standpoint as the New Yew's top (photo this page) was in terms of presage, is the last baby born in the old year at Me morial Hospital. In Orange Coun ty it was David Carroll Elliot, a healthy 1959 income tax deduc tion who qualified for this pur pose by being bom on ! New Year’s Eve to Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Elliot of the Tar Heel Trailer Court. He’s a'UNC student from Stony Point. 'MIGHTY SLOW/ SAYS CHAP el Hill Tax Collector Dave Rob erts of the progress of tax list ing at the Chapel Hill Town Hall. Only 160 local residents had made their required annual appear ances as of yesterday Things were going a bit 'livelier at the adjoining desk for Township Tax list Taker L. R. Cheek. AND A COUPLE OP BLOCKS down the street at the AAA of fice Charlie Stancell said busi ness was steady in the purchase of new auto license plates. Just under 1,000 had been sold yes terday. He warned that some wives were forgetting to have husbands sign the reverse sides, of registration cards, however.# The AAA outlet gets $.10 a sale for handling the license business sals in the minds of many of the objectors to the annexation. They feel the debt service cost of the $90,000 municipal building pro ject, in addition to bonding re sulting from the proposed annex ations, could not fail to require a -significant raise in town taxes, an official survey on this matter notwithstanding. THE STATE COLLEGE School of Design Dean, in a full page castigation of outmoded ar chitecture in North Carolina as carried in last Sunday's News and Observer, took some particularly hard pokes at the Williamsburg facades of University buildings in Chapel Hill. .«Somehow he missed out on the latest Wil liamsburg building housing UNC’s most modern facility—the electronic brain in Phillips Hall annex. The new three-story structure has a formally ornate front seldom seen by the public, and facing the old Building De partment at the rear of the building. CHAPEL HILL POLICE CAPT. Coy Durham won double honors at Tuesday night’s Exchange Club installation program. He became President of the Club for 1960— then a few minutes later was an nounced as the Club’s Exchange ite of the Year. Other new offi cers are Roy Cole, Vice-Presi dent; John Jones; Secretary; Nello Clark, Treasurer, and Ju lian Caston, George Pee, aad Wallace Williams, Board of Con trol. (More PEAUNGS on bade page) Leap Year Lass... ORANGE’S NEWEST C1TIZEN Orange CountyN first citizen’of the ’60s is a black-haired baby girl born 22 minutes | after the beginning of Leap Year- Winner of the annual uh-scheduled derby at Me morial Hospital is Nancy Karen Vickers, first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice i Kenneth Vickers Jr., of the Mt. Carmel j community south of Chapel Hill. Dr. | Luther Talbert spanked life into the seven pound-five ounce infant at 12:22 a.m. Jan. 1. Mrs. Vickers, the former Ruth Ellen Hundley of the Mt. Carmel neighborhood -^and alio an ex-employee.at the Hospital —entered the maternity ward about five hours previously. Mom and baby were re ported in fine fettle Tuesday as they left for hone- The Vickers said the birth had been ex pected right around the end of the year—but they hadn’t anticipated the New Year’s Eve count-down. area lines for schools Plan would assure some de-segregation ! —Story on Page 2 ★ ★ ★ 6-3-3 Sch'l plan objective for county Liquor sale for quarter more than $430,000 —Story on Page 2 ★ ★ ★ Press Run This Issue 7,477 99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY Legal objections planned to Carrboro annexations —Story on Page 6 ... . i r* |; Annual farm report for county given —Story on Pftgo 3
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