of orange county
■Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1960
VOL. 67. NO. 7
28 PACES
Todd to resign as mayor,
become Carrboro town clerk
f —Story on Pago 2
Ablaze - and helpless..
WHEN THE CHAPEL. HILL
town limits were officially ex
panded as of Monday to include
the 48-acre Northside School
area, local officials weren't able
to pick up the town sign and set
it out at the new boundary line.
There never had been a sign
posted at the old limits in the
low section on Church St. How
ever, it's expected that the state
highway department will soon
put up a sign on Clark Rd. near
Longview — the new northern
extremity.
HERE'S A PREDICTION:
Proposals for conversion of
Chapel Hill residential areas to
fraternity rones will be laid to
rest for a spell following the
still-birth next Monday night of
a Planning Board recommenda
tion to change a Pittsboro-Mc
Cauley St. block to RA-10-A
(fraternity). The Board of Aider
men has set a legal hearing on
this and two rezonings from res
idential to suburban commercial
for 7:30 p.m, next Monday.
IF ATTORNEY GEN. MAL
eolm Seawell becomes a candi
date for governor it’ll give
Chapel Hill and Orange County
an additional home folks rela
tionship to the Democratic pri
mary campaign. Mr. Seawell’s
mother. Mrs. A. A. F. Seawell.
a sister, Miss Elizabeth Seawell,
and a brother, Ashley Seawell,
are all from Chapel Hill. — John
Larkins’ daughter is a Hillsboro
resident. And Terry Sanford is
a former Chapel Hillian.
^ w the ninja—
el Hill ABC Stores experi
about a 20 per cent spurt
last week following the
stories published on ABC
officers discovering poison white
liquor in hootch confiscated from
a Bingham Township bootlegger.
Add revenue intelligence: Dur
ham County’s ABC sales are
down around 20 per cent on the
average since the opening last
year of Orange County’s ABC
stores. But across the state the
average ABC store sales are re
ported to be up around 15 pet.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC
ist Clarence Whitefield utilized
the medium of a press release
this week to announce the birth,
on Valentine’s Day of Robert
Clifton Whitefield — at 2:15
a.m., Duke Hospital. The sug
gested headline on the mimeo
graphed hand-out: “Mrs. Jane
Whitefield presents husband
with 1960’s nicest Valentine day
gift.” (Mrs. Whitefield is Secre
tary of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Merchants Association.
FRATERNITY STUDENTS
tossing snowballs at passing cars
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many with rural acana i* ahawn in tfcaaa phatoa by Mira. Fouahaa.
HOME HOLOCAUST — AFTER THREE HOURS — Thro*
hour* after tha flame* war* first discovered Sunday afternoon,
the newly-completed two-bedroom frame hem* of Mr. and Mr*.
Bill Stepp in University Heights east of Chapel Hill still burns
furiously. Sub-fraerfng weather hampered the efforts ef neigh
bon who triad in vain to qoaneh tho blaxa. Sine* tho araa was
bayond tho jurisdiction of ail fira dapartmants tha housa bum
ad down whilo naighbort and tha ownars could only stand by
and watch. News Photo
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