VOL 68 NO. 19 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1961
24 PAGES
THIRSTY BOYS BOUND FOR
a weekend beach parts are sus
pected as the culprits who broke
into the Ranch Rouse at Chapel
Rill sometime after midnight
last Thursday and made off with
pink champagne, a keg of draft
beer, five cases of, bottled beer,
and a few magnums of sparkling
burgundy, in all about $290 worth
of intoxicants. -
"I'VE HAD TROUBLE SAYING
the right things on previous occa
sions, but I ve never before had
trouble just getting the sound
out,” declared an obviously
‘shook’ Ty Boyd. The occasion
was the surprise tribute dinner
in the Carolina Inn Monday night
for WCHL’s announcer-salesman.
Ty left Tuesday after five years
to take over announcer Grady
Cole’s morning show slot at WBT
in Charlotte. .
WHILE THERE WERE MANY
. sincere and fitting tributes paid
to Ty, there were some gags, too.
Carolina Theater Manager E. C.
Smith rose to ask , if Ty was posi
tive he was leaving. Assured that
he was, Smith thereupon present ;
ed a life-time pass to his movie
house. Another kindred bestowal j
was a permanent parking plac !
in the merchants’ downtown
parking lot. :.ext day’s onomato
poetic query among the WCHI
staff: “Who’ll fill in the Boyd
void?”
CHARGED-WITH LARCENY—
to wit cleaning out his host’s, re
frigerator—a defendant in Chap
el Hill Recorder’s Court was giv
en a 11 months roads sentence
on Ttggsday. Charles Brockwell
- depted,Jthe offense, and appealed
.finding to;- superior -eour£s.
Charlie Merritt told the court
that he, Brockwell, arid two oth
er fellows had had a chicker
stew and drnnk somg moonshine
liquor at his house. After the
party, while he ,was in the livinr
room and Brockwell and another
ehar> ip the kitchen, he said he
heard the two leave. When hr
went to the kitchen to check, he:
testified, his cooler cupboard was )
bare
THE NEWS OR ORANGE
County’s veteran cloakroom cor
respondent over in Raleigh has :
filed a communique. “Smart}
talk” in the Legislature this
week he reports, is that the three
per cent “food tax” revenue bili
will be passed with at least these
modifications: (1) Prescription
drugs will continue to be exempt
ed; and (2) the controversial $80
limit for sales tax payments on
autos, busses, trucks, etc., will
be “modified.” (See Page 2, Sec.
II, for The News’ special feature
on the “food tax ”)
THE SIDEWALK ARTIST
shown in the accompanying pho
to this issue, Miss- Anne Ogden
of Chapel Hill, is professionally
a medical illustrator, having been
on the *taff of a New York hos
pital prior to moving to Chapel |
Hill. A painter in the realist;
school she captu’-ed the literal
life of the downtown scene in'
her sketch—even rnfo a h'-walk j
er crossing the street and passer
by on the sidewalk. Scmetim* ' j
when new cars moved into the ■
metered spaces at the curb near
by she’d repaint to use them if
she liked their color aiflt stvie.
better than those previously
parked in their places. _^ j
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SIDEWALK STUDIO — Downtown Chapel Hill, oft-criticized as being un-attractive, held beauty in the
eyes of local artist Anne Ogden who set up her canvas I his. week for several balmy spring mornings of oil paint
sketching. Her sidewalk vantage point encompassed a bright panorama of vari-colored cars, the Methodist Church,
and the campus side of Franklin St. y News Photo
Wave of thievery is solved
in court trials at Hillsboro
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