New hearing asked by town
as Raleigh Rd. project OK'd
—Story on Pago 12
of orange county
—Chapel Hill, Hillsboro: Carrboro—Between and Beyond—
VOtl 47 NO. 52 HILLSBORO AND JCHAPEL HILL, N. C , THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1*40 ' '"" 20 PAGES
IT* WAS STRICTLY UN-OFFI
cial but downtown Christmas
shoppers had the advantage of the
police department’s Yuletide spirit
in Chapel Hill last weekend. Park
ing meter regulations weren’t en
forced except in extreme 'viola
tion cases on Friday and Satur
day. Nobody, it seems, sent
through formal order .for the me
ter holiday. Patrolmen simply
played Santa Claus in their own
way. However, next Monday. Jan.
i. 'wiH be a meter holiday,. since
Jan. -4. legally designated as a
free-parking day, falls on Sunday
this time.
THE SWITCH-OVER TO THE
new radio system for all Chapel
Hill, Carrboro, and county, law
enforcement vehicles has brought
about a change in the call num
bers for patrol cars, too. At pres
ent there are 13 cars on the
hook-up: Five for the sheriff’s
department, five for Chapel Hill,
two for the ABC officers, and one
for Carrboro. To provide for fu
ture expansion the sheriffs' have
call numbers one to 10 reserved
for their cars, 10 to 19 are for
the ABC units, and from 20 up
wards, Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
INTERESTING FACTS GLEAN
ed from the inside cover ad in
the new Chapel Hill telephone di-!
rectory. During the last decade
the Chapel Hill Township pcpula- j
tion has grown 32 per cent—from !
18.222 to 23,987. During this same
time the number of telephones on
the Ctfhpel Hill exchange has in
creased almost 400 per cent—
from. 2.905 Jo 11,451. 'The Town
ship includes almost all of the
area served by the ‘phone ex
change.)
THE SIX-YEAR-OLD IN THE
Newsman’s household joined right j
in the spirit of things Christmas 1
morning. —Telephoned Jy Boyd
at WCHL to tell him on the
“beeper” line what he got for
Christmas. Then he asked Ty
what Santa brought him. Genial
ly the announcer and proud father
replied “Well, we got a new baby
before Christmas this year and
we think Santa Claus had some
thing to do with that.” "What?”
asked the fascinated youngster. Ty
quickly switched the subject. —It
all sounded great on the airwaves.
SOME RESIDENTIAL AREAS I
of Chapel Hill are in a question-1
ably safe situation from the
standpoint of fire protection. Un
der the town’s Class Six fire safe
ty rating every home is supposed
to be within 1,000 feet of a hy
drant. All of ’em are, too, count
ing distance as the crow flies.
But on several streets, particul
arly the Circles such as Highland
Woods. Dogwood Drive, and Ten
ney Circle, it’s more than this
distance to a number of homes
via the street route. For the
alarm at the George Barclays on
Tenney Circle last Sunday the
firemen had to reel out 900 feet
from hydrant to house. Each
truck carries 1,000 feet. It’s dif
ficult to haul hydrant hcse by
hand. And the water pressure is
greatly reduced by friction if
more than 1,000 feet are hooked
in , a single length.
Circulation Today
7,141
W fCT. DISTRIBUTED IN
ORANGE COUNTY
Bond vote seen on March 18
annexes
acres
—Stories on Pages 2 and 3
Chief to Chief...
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‘FRIENDLY NATIVES’—Gov.-elect Ferry Sanford raises his left hand in the
traditional ‘how’ of the friendly Indian greeting, standing beside the traditional
cigar-store statue in the Ranch House at Chapel Hill. Next Thursday he’ll raise
his other hand to take the oath of office as North Carolina’s chief executive for the
next four years. _
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