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County W W X X receipts school sale VOL. *7. NO. TO 24 PAGES 4 PROUDEST FELLOW IN TOWN •arty yesterday morning was the motorist who'd forgotten to take off his tine chains from the previ ous Wednesday's weekly snow. A t «r Entering to ’em dank and slap on the fenders for several days he scooted smoothly and easily by the tireepinning oars of eve.y body else in town. Actual counl of cars awaiting retaliation of chains in front of a mid-tawn service station at S:10 a.m.: 27. SAM MITCHELL, HILLSBORO colored naan who perished in flames that leveled his dwelling ca Hghway 70 last Friday night, needn’t have died. It’s understood that the fire started around 10 pan. after a portable oil heater in s bedroom was knocked over. Mitchell, it's understood, led oih er occupants to safety, then le tumed to fight the flames. His exiit was Mocked and he was un able to escape later. CHAPEL HILL ATTORNEY Bob Cooper, who lives at Char les Mangum's home on E. Franklin St. is the artist who sculpted the striking snow statue of Venus de Milo in the front yard of the Man gum heme last weekend. To the passerby in an auto it was qut« a proportionate likeness. Cooper, alao started construction or a u I que igloo, using symetrically-cu. cruat {Tom the top of the snow. DESPITE DELAYS CAUSED by the snow, classes in the Chap-! el Hill unit public schools will end ' Tuesday, June 7, according to the present plans of school officials. —This will be the case, they say, IF there are enough Saturdays left between now and then to make up all the lost days. For the County unit it's likely the closing day will be Thursday, June 2. for pupils. Thq last three days wi 1 be make-ups. And it appears prob- j able the other lost days will be made up on Saturdays. THERE ARE YET SOME UN fathomed circumstances surround ing the death last Friday morn ing of Rossie Brewer, 68. of Route One, Chapel Hill. He was found dead in the yard of his Greens boro highway cabin a short whi e after having been seen by neigh bors—alive and apparently all right except for two black eyes. The latter were sustained, accord ing to police information, in a fight on Wednesday night. An au (Mor* PEALINGS on pa«o 12) Press Run This issue 7,460 99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY Good things happen when you give © I960 Vi RED CROSS RESCUE SCENE-Jimmy ‘J. C.’ Me Dafis, guest of the Clyde Jones’ in Catr horo, grabbed his camera Sunday after noon as he raced to edge of a pond in front of the Jones’ to help rescue two lads ivlio’d fallen through the icy crust on the pond. He snapped the above photo, show ing Bynie Riggsbee, 11, still in the water i as Jones and jimmy Andrews, their res cuers, pull in younger brother, Seal, sev en. At the shore are Jackie F.llis, and her older sister, Betsy Fay. Jackie ran to her nearby home to obtain help from An drews, a friend of,her sister. —Story on Page 2 Work set as bonds pass —Story on Page 3 New commerce chamber ok j —Sfory on Page 2
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