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VOL 69, NO. 34
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1961
—Story on Page 2
THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON
tomorrow night will afford an
unusually good opportunity to
see the year-old Echo satellite at
the same time. Echo will be vis
ible in the northern sky, around
77 degrees high above the hori
zon and moving to the southeast
at about 8:22 p.m. At that same
time the moon will be low in the
eastern sky in the early stages
of the eclipse.
WHICH USE IS THE HIGHER
from the standpoint of zoning
use classification: —Drive-in mo
vie theater, or mobile home sales
lot? This is the question posed
to local zoning officials in al
lowing a 120-day use extension
for the trailer sales lot that’s
been set up on the Valley Drive
In Theater property east of Chap
el Hill. The theater was already
a non-conforming use in a resi
dential zone. One interpretation
of the zoning law is that a non
conforming use may be changed
and continued if it’s for a higher
(more generally desirable) clas
sification of use. The question
then: Is trailer sales use higher
or lower than drive-in theater?
UNOFFICIAL WORD IS THAT
if the new Sperry-Rand motor
plant in Carrboro works out as
hoped that the operation will be
upped to 100 or more employees
in a few years. However, it’s a
new field for the manufacturer,
and a highly-competitive one.
SEVERAL ORANGE COUNTY
persons are planning to attend
the N. C. Council on National
Strategy seminar at Ft. Bragg
this weekend, including Chapel
Hill Mayor Sandy McClamroch,
Whid Powell, and G. Paul Carr.
Bob Cox of Chapel Hill is on the
executive committee for the ses
sion.
RUMORS ARE RIFE OVER
Bob Cox’ resignation this week
as Executive Secretary of the N.
C. Youth Fitness Commission.
Reason publicly given was to de
vote more time to his business—
Town and Campus clothing store
—and to enter “civic” activities.
Translation some observers give
this is: To make a local start in
politics.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE
new transmitting tower for Sta
tion WCHL will begin any day
now on the site for the new
broadcasting studios across from
the present building. The build
ing’s being rushed to completion
under the gun of the mid-Octo
ber deadline in the station’s Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion’s permit.
THE CHAPEL HILL POLICE
Department, going metropolitan
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Dig this crazy sand, pile man\\...
NO CHILD'S PLAY!—The youngster in the foreground might simply pick up
the pay loader and dump truck in his sand pile, so the optical illusion above would
indicate. More likely he’s one Of hundreds of sidewalk superintendents who’ve been
interested spectators at the big diggings on the downtown Chapel Hill corner for
the new $200,000 home of Orange Savings and Loan- The tot scoops with his hands as
the giant earth moving machine finshes off 700 cubic-yard excavation for the
basement of the new two-story colonial arc^^tecture brick building. It’s scheduled
for completion next March. News photo
Zoning, thoroughfare plan