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of orange county
—Chain! Hill. Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond—
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SMART GAL WHO WON LONG
Meadow Farms Chapel Hill and
Orange County census guessing
contest is JaDe Whitefield, Secre
tary of the Merchants Association.
She predicted the head-count
would show 13,918—a tad over the
actual figure of 12,823. Her prog
nosticatory prowess won her 100
half-gallons of ice cream. It’s
enough to give a spoon-full to ev
. ery i960 census-counted citizen in
Chapel Hill .she figures, or to feed
her four young children for about
90 days.
AND THE CLOSEST PREDIC
tion on the county population was
made by a guy who certainly ought
tc> know a lot about counties. Alex
McMahon, Executive Secretary of
the N. C. Association of County
Commissioners (and incidentally
an Orange County Welfare Board
member) guessed that the census
would give Orange population of
41,255, whereas the actual total
was a close 42,934.
CHAPEL HILL FIRE CHIEF J.
S. Boone and a number of local
firemen took the Town’s 1,200-gal
lon flusher truck to Mebane early
Tuesday morning to help out in
the devastating downtown busi
ngs district fire; Unit* also ahnt
in response to the Mebane Depart
meat's call from Carrboro and
Hillsboro. Chapel HiU wouldn’t
likely suffer a fire-fighting water
shortage if the power were dis
rupted—as happened in Mebane.
The overhead storage tank holds
1.5 million gallons, while the four
fire trucks can pump only orne
tenth of this amount an hour
THREE ORANGE COUNTY UE
mocratic candidates for county
commissioner filed modest state
ments in their preliminary ex
pense account reports: Donald
Stanford noted expenses of $18.03
and no contributions; Harvey Ben
nett expenses of $87 and no con
tributions, and Phil Schinhan, ex
penses of $84 and contributions of
$84.
AND UNSUCCESSFUL COUNTY
commissioner candidate Hugh Wil
son appeared in Chapel Hill Tues
day afternoon with a pistol in hol
ster strapped to his side. Refer
ring to his fourth-place showing
in the Chapel Hill, last Saturday,
Wilson jokingly suggested he need
ed the sidearm since he appar
ently had so few friends in those
precincts.
THE AMATEUR X-RAY TECH
nicians in the ranks of the Chapel
Hill Jaycees scored a 100 per cent
success in their volunteer opera
tion of the unit last weekend, ac
cording to Health Officer Dr. O.
David Garvin. The machine work
ed perfectly and no X-rays were
lost by faulty operation, he said.
The films showed up a few posi
tive reports in which cases the
subjects - were asked to come in
to the Health Department for a
further check.
Orange farms on tour...
FARMER SHOWS HIS LIFE-Gedar Grover farra
(right,, above) stvo^y# ajyia^BaL.
plastic greenhouses in which tie s raising over
niato plants, during last week’s first area development
farm tour in Northern Orange County. The two build
ings, covering 6,000 feet of space, cost about $1,000 and
the total investment represents about $1 a plant. Below,
farmers Bill Ray and Robert Nichols Jr. (left) show off
to farm tour spectators Turner Forrest of Efland (third)
•wid Donald Stanford of Chapel ffilT some of the mach
inery they wse on their 470-acre dairy farm. The total
retail cost of all their pieces of machinery, displayed apd
tagged at original price, was over $45,000.
News Photos
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County school system asks big boost
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Plan for sewage disposal,
Hillsboro, plants are told
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