-» AMO CHAW. HILL, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH X I960
24 RAMS
ORANGE COUNTY GAINED
three near ciozens on Monday
who'll have quadriennial birthdays.
The Feb. 29 Leap Year babies at
Memorial Hospital were Timo.hy
Gv«nt Hiskey, born at 6:Z3 a.m.
to Prof, and Mrs. Richard G. His
key of 589 Pittsboro Rd., Chapel
Hill; Thomas Walter Robinson
10 pounds and six ounces of boy
born to Highway Patrolman and
Mrs. Edward S. Robinson of the
Durham Road at 8:30 p.m.; and
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rus
sell of HiLsboro at 1:31 p.m. In
cidentally, it was a short trip to.
the delivery room for Mis. His
key. She lives immediately across
the street from the Hospital.
DID THE FAST-FLYING SNOW
yesterday afternoon take care for
the time being of the restaurant
“sit-down” movement in Chapel
Hffl? Answer was^/not known at
this writing. One wag feared the
pickets might start tossing snow
balls to while away the weather
enforced vacation from school.
PUPILS AT THE CARHBORO
School won only a brief respite
from classes last Friday morning
after the Fire Department was
called to the building to check
on an overheated boiler. All <70
children filed outdoors in orderly
fashion and looked on from a re
spectful distance while the fire
men checked on the trouble.
THE ONE THAT OLD TIMERS
still calV'tbe big snow” around
Orange County happened, so coin
cidence has it, exactly 33 years
ago yesterday. As the years pass
the snow gets deeper and deeper
CALVIN BUBCH, CITING THE
need for an active Chamber of
Commerce in Carrboro at Monday
bight's meeting of businessmen,
told how an unidentified eight
million dollar plant had recently
considered location in this area,
but finally decided to go else
where. He ventured the opinion
an active Chamber of Commerce,
armed with proper data, might
have been successful in obtaining
it for Carrboro] Yesterday, fol
lowing announcement that an
eight-million dollar starch manu
facturing-plant had selected Ply
mouth for its new plant site, he
identified it as the one to which
-.= he had earlier referred.
THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE
were grinding slowly on major
cases for trial in Superior Court
this week. True bills of indictment
were returned against Mack Pat
terson, Chatham Negro in Jail on
an axe-slaying murder charge;
and against Jessie Jones, charged
in the January shooting of two
Chapel Hill police. Nobody knew
what the status of the perennially
put off Herbert Andrews exam
stealing case was.
OUR MINUTE EDITORIAL FOR
this issue: It’s come out during
the current controversy on restau
rant “sit-downs” in Chapel Hill
that one of the main complaints
of Negro shoppers in the mid
town business district is the lack
of toilet facilities. The nearest
Negro rest room is in the base
ment of the Town Hall.
APOLOGIES ARE IN ORDER
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Chamber of commerce
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Try tree transfer..
’DOZER, SAFE THAT TREE-Earth
moving machine operators edge their
scoops around a $o-foot-high maple tree
in front of the University Methodist
Church in downtown Chapel Hill, trying
to nitdge it from its earth-bound lodging
to a freslily-dug hole a few feel away.
Town and University forces cooperated
this past week in lowering the sidewalk to
curb level. A major part of the operation
was digging up and moving four trees to
nearby locations. News Photo
Sit-down in Chapel Hill at impasse
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