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k' r ONE OF THE WELL-KNOWN bOoJe^drs >ir.eslei in Chapel Hill last Friday u’Jhi is a guy who doesn’t have a car and has to take the bus out t*/ :be ABC store, for his merchandise. Sat urday, after pcs-iag bond and be ing released peoJng trial next Monday, he made not cue. but three bus trips to the stv.e ou. on the Durham Road Bypass. — Commented one cynical observer —“He’s gotta stay in business now to get the dough to pay his bonds man and court fines." ANOTHER PERSON WHO travels far end efficiently is Chap el HiU Superintendent of Schools Joe Johnston. He taught a sum mer school class at Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone unit 2 pjn. on Wednesday of las. week, drove 170 miles to Hillsboro to meet with the ooun.y commis sioners ou the school budget, that scooted directly hack to Boone to be on class early the next day. ANYBODY WHO HAS A PONY end cart could greatly endear him Betf to several dozen crippled children at Camp Sycamore in Umstead Park. The N. C. Society for Crippled Children and Adults, sponsoring the annual summer camp, is seeking the loan of a P thy cart to help haul some of the « ore seriously limited children Hit! headquarters. Poteoiiai ber.e factors ate asked to call the fk>-’ cie*y office. AS THE GILBERT AND SUL livan song goes, “A policeman's life is not an ’appy lot." Al.hough Carrboro now has 2*hour police protection, the three police are' on permanent fhffis—Chief Wil liams in the a.m.. Patrolman A. L. Pendergrass on the second turn of duty, and newly-hired Bynie Riggsbee en the graveyard trick. The patrolmen have to dou ble up on 16 hours straight duty whenever the Giber two have a day off. MISS CHAPEL HILL, NANCY Wills, won the $200 special talent award at die Miss N. C. Beauty Pageant in Charlotte last week end with the khtat-a-movie skit she staged in capturing the local crown. But the real talent she exhibited went un-heralded: She made her fluffy, exaggerated child’s costume herself, needle and thread-like. Another Orange County gal who stood in good beauty stead last weekend is Caldwell’s Jamie Monk—a final ist in the Miss Baseball selection at Roxboro. "Far tougher than any college quizzes,” say Bill and Jesse Basnight and Sandy Hoft of the rodent exams that gamed them official recognition as arch itectural hardware consultants. Ex ample of the exam questions: fake the pfemr for a cmtAeto psychiatric hospital, • regular victim of ruse in the hen house • v Whoever or whatever it was that’d been stealing eggs out of his hen house for the past Robert Meyo Sister-in-law warns, men shoots tiYirtfow .Robert Mayo or HUmooro re ceived serious shotgun wounds in the leg on FViday night July 15, as he tvrced his way iato the home of his brother, and sister in-taw, Mr-and Mis. George Mayo on Orange Grove road. Sheriff’s deputies reported. Mayo, who has been involved in numerous scrapes with the law and previously served a pri son sentence, had been ordered away from the Mayo home earli er io the day when be had ap peared in a drunken condition and threatened members ef the family, including his mother. When he appeared again that night, according to the deputies, still threatening and forced his way through the screen door aft er being told to leave, his sister in-law fired a 410-guage shotgun at his legs as he advanced into the room, and called the Sheriff's office. Mayo is still in the hospital and no charges are expected sending further investigation. hospital, a Go'tric church, a school, and a residence, and ape dfy the builders hardware tor Uwm The mote task three to two weeks, Newton Johnson intended to catch ’em. The resident of old Highway 86 on Route Three, Hillsboro, checked the nest before he and his wife left for the Cross roads Baptist Church on Sun day morning. * hen was sit ting on her freshly-lairi egg. Mr. Johnson left it there. And he left his save set for the thief, as be had for the past two weeks while the egg -ob ber had been working his elusive wiles. When be returned from church several hours lster the egg yeggman was caught. There he lay—all 87 inches of him—a sad - looking chicken snake, stretched out listlessly on the henhouse hoor beside the nest The unharmed egg was still in the nest Mr. and Mm. Ralph'l^Black wood Jr., hare moved to Vero Beach, Fla., where be has become personnel director tor the Piper Aircraft Co. Mr. Blackwood is the son of Mr. and Mrs., Blackwood of Route Three, Chapel HHL He was graduated from N. C. State Col lege last month. robber had finally fallen Mr, Johnson’s way. The un-dis criminating reptile had chosen to swallow a quarter-pound porcelain and iron-nubbed door knob that’d been left in the nest beside the egg. Pre viously he’d had the hide to always choose an egg instead of the fatal decoy. This time the interloper had managed to gulp down the egg-surfaced door knob. But there it lodged, six inches down his throat in a big indi gestible bulge. Mr. Johnson put the deceiv ed serpent out of his misery. PAPER, TOY DRIVE SUNDAY The Chapel Hill Jaycees bi monthly collection of scrap paper and toys will be staged throughout the Chapel Hill es Williams asked «H hones holders to have their paper securely tied in bundles at the curb by 1 p.m. Parsons whose paper Is missed may call him at Stevens'Shepherd store, Mr. Williams said. Profits from the prelect are scheduled to go toward construction of a chib dren’s museum. 1 Get a Bigger Slice of tivmg... Open a Savings Account with Us! Slice your income Sny way you want . . . but put one slice, regularly, in a savings account with us. Here your savings bring you an extra serving ... in excellent earnings. 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