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— TTT^rr 24 PACES Herald AS IT 1URNS OUT SAM BAR ' bee didn’t o*« any land on Mit chell Lane near Chapel Hill after ell. Wjrk on improvement of the smuuis dirt trail leading north from Chapel Hill was held up aeariy two years, ia part because Barbee wouldn’t sign a right-of way ± agreement. Recently the State Highway Commission w»<*. ahead with the work anyhow. — Then the real owner, Clarence Merritt, came into the- Chapel HS Town Hall and wanted to know how come tractors were tearing up his land without asking. He owned the zront of the Barbee lot, unbeknown to public offieails. Bre’r Sam, he jes'lay low and didn't say nothin’. POLICE, TOWN, AND UTILITY officials don’t know where it hit or of any damage that it caused, but people all over the Chapel Hill community were jotted about 7:50 pan. Monday by a tremendous double thunderclap that seemed to center around mid-town. TRAVELING TROOP 835 OF the Boy Scouts in Chapel Hill is off again, this time on a bus trip to naval installations in Norfolk. Scoutmaster Paul Trembley and his boys will be housed by the Navy, tour Oceania Naval Air Base, and go through an aircraft carrier and submarine during their jaunt to Virginia this week end. Last year the troop went to the wilds of Canada and several times, before that to the N. C. mountains. Many of the boys re turned only last month from the jamoree in Colo. A w-YEAR-OLD CHAPEL HILL —was given a _six bre&i-ins last Saturday night ft Ogburn’s Furniture Market arid automatic laundry cn N. Graham St. Sgt. Charles Edmonds assisted by Patrolmen Earl Allison and Lindy Pendergrass cracked the case on Sunday, arresting Gaston Sanford, employe Of Ogburn’s. The youth admitted entering the furniture store via a roof trap door and getting the laundromat coin box key. Over $30 was miss ing from the coin boxes. Identifica tion of a rare half-dollar coin tok en from Ogburn’s desk cinched the case. 1 AS NOTED IN PEALINGS LAST week, the Chapel Hill Masonic Lodge cornerstone was placed in a different location after the Grand Lodge rites on Aug. 15. But the action constituted an ex „ ercise of the Grand Master’s pre rogative to have the stone placed in the right-hand front corner, rather than the northeast comer as called for in the Masonic code book. No error involved. HOLDERS OF FOUR-DIGIT telephone numbers in Chapel Hill may get an idea of the type of charges that’ll be wrought in the - switch-over to the seven-digit all number dialing system-next Jan. 15 through the new number de signated for The News as of that date: Now 8-444, it’ll then become 968 1111 THE EXCELLENT CREDIT rating of the Town of Carrboro is shown in the low interest mto i won on a $35,000 five-months note sold by the Local Government More PEALINGS on page 12 — .—V —— " t::;:_I Stories on Pages 2 and 3 * r".^ 1' 1 ' .f GRID PRACTICE OPENS-The first signs of fall weather across Orange County this week ivere marked by the opening of high school football practice. Await ing the center’s snap at Chapel Hill High are (left to right) Skippy Snyder, left half; Ronnie Pendergrass, quarter and fullback; George Cannefax, quarteiback; and Co-Captain Terry Stapleton, right half. School board must pare in ,'■1' * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Two sheriffs deputies resign posts —Story on Page 2 The Orange County Board Of Education, acting on a re quest -of Principal A. I lions'of the State Board o* |fccation, this week in creased the requirements |or IP >8 units in county high scnoois. The new^requirements will go into effect with the pre* i eat ftaetankaa and Sophomore will be required to have M twit* to graduate, the **** »**> tf* See COUNTY SCHOOL p. *
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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