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Chapel Hitt, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between arid of orange county .;. ■.| HILLSBORRO AMD CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1961 24 PAGES zoning, paid administrator for new law Stories on Page n i ORANGE COUNTY REP. JOHN U instead explained this week that he reluctantly voted for the food tax in the General Assembly appropriations bill. He did so, he said, after checking with the Tax Research Dept, and ascertaining that no other revenue1 source could be expected to increase in proportion to the ne,eds of the school programs they would fi nance. THE ACTION OF THE CHAP el Hill aldermen in approving suburban commercial re-zoning for the old Whipple Service Sia • tion property on Old Durham'. Road may not be valid. A provi sion in the local zoning ordinance was overlooked when the resolu tion for re-zoning was passed at the Board’s June i2 meeting. Tt ' provides that if the owners of as much as 20 per cent of the ad* joining or included property ob ject that any re-zoning decisions must be by a 75 pet. vote of the board. Thus the four-to-two de cision of the aldermen may not be binding, since an adjoining property owner did strongly ob ject.—P.S.: This same rule could be the deciding factor in the pending up-zoning of the Towne - House apartments area. - SHERIFF'S DEPUTY -; EARL BU& will hang up his badge and gun thig Saturday after 12. years '% in law enforcement work as a Chapel 'Hill pbSedman, deputy, and fugitive officer for the state. He’s taking a job with Uncle Sam as a substitute carrier-clerk in the Chapel Hill Postoffice. THE CALLING OF THE SPE cial meeting - of the Chapel Hill School Board that was held Mon day night was a long time in the works. Superintendent Jdsaph Johnston had been fencing with Board members’ vacation sched ules for a couple of weeks in try ing to find a quorum of four in town or available for the session. When members R. E. Jamerson and Charles Milner returned home Monday the Superintendent nabbed -'em to fill out the num ber needed for a quorum and the meeting was called. ANOTHER TEST CASE SIT-IN of integrationists from Durham (More PEALINGS, Page 12) Circulation Today DISTRIBUTED IN 'OtftNGE COUNTY Hard luck story.. • • HARD-LUCK STORY—It was a balmy late spring Sunday afternoon—getting on toioard dusk. Nice time to take a gal friend out for a ride around the countryside. So it was that that late model red and white Ford with the gold trim eased to a stop alongside the tran quil waters of Clearwater Lake. Pulling off onto the shoulder of the road the young couple sat and looked. As the sun dipped below the hills to the west two youngsters fishing on the bridge pulled in their lines and walked down the road. Another couple strolled up fxpm the lakeside and drove off. An evening bird call pierced the silence across the water. The couple in the car sat for another long mo ment, then got out and walked slowly back toward the dam, hand in hand. , Silently the car inched forward. It eased over the hump of the shoulder and bounc ed. lightly as it Struck the water, splashing only loud enough for the startled Couple who’d just left it to turn and see it disappear b&rteath the light green water. —Bubbles and the crown of a white hard-top con 1 vertible above the surface• ... And a borrowed car in the drink. j The hapless couple hitched a* ride to town. Then the boy arranged for a wrecker to come from his home in Creedrqoor. In the dark the chilly waters repelled his attempts to hook on a towing cable. He returned home for the night. *j Early last Monday morning Charlie Blackwood, heading toward the fields with his mule, spied the white top of a car 40 feet out in the lake. Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Maddry, called to the scene, in turn sent for a wrecker. . Only after hauling the soggy vehicle up on shore did the salvage crew ascertain that nobody had perished inside. The car was towed back to Stancell Motor Co. in Chapel Hill, while the owner was traced by the li cense number. —Within minutes a pick-up truck pulled into the ! filling station, a rowboat in the truck bed. ",. . Hey, did you fellows drag « car out of the lak&j this morning?” ' ■ ./ ■ < •*.„us. -
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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