of orange county
Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond—
HILLSBORO,AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1961
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-I-- TOE LOCAL WARD HEELERS
are realizing that the geographi-:
% cal political dice are “loaded”!
in the county commissioners elec-!
tion next spring. All three of the
northern Orange commissioners, I
Henry Walker, Clarence Jones,
and Donald McDade, will he up
for election, while Commissioners
Harvey Bennett and Donald Stan
ford of Chapel Hill will be hold
overs. Since Cnapel Hill precincts
have a majority of the votes in
the county, the down-south voters
will wield an extraordinary power ,
this go-round. No outward word
yet oi a Chapel Hillian running
for commissioner this time, but
the rumblings still rumble.
THE DISTRICT FIRE TRUCK
in Chapel Hill answered a call
yesterday-to a smoke-filled resi
dence on Branch St. The house
wile's Thanksgiving ham had got
ten over-heated in the oven and
K the grease caught fire. Since it
was wrapped securely in foil the
firemen extinguished the flames
with a non-poisonous chemical
powder, and the holiday meat went
on to the dinner table, none the
worse, it was, the firemen allow
ed, a salacious smelling fire.
THANKSGIVING MEANS A
two-day holiday for all public
echocl pupils in Orange County.
Classes in secondary and higher
education will resume, ou Mon
day. Banks, postoffices, and gov
ernment offices will observe the
holiday today only.
the: wake forest boys
who stole Rameses from the Ho
gan farm on Monday had him back
before Bob Hogan, *ne of the
family keepers, knew anything
about, it. Bob and several others
left for the Butner deer hunt at
4:30 a.m. and found the golden
horned ram safely back at the
£ar,m when they returned that eve
ning. His gilded horns will be ,re
—^ painted Carolina blue for- the
Wake game this Saturday, it is
assured. The ram was to have
been put under closer security
later this week. But a theft at
tempt hadn’t been calculated so
soon after the Duke debacle.
INCIDENTALLY, BILL BAS
nigbt, who was in the hunting
party with Boh Hogan, felled a
125-pound spike buck deer with
two shots during the Bufner hunt
~ on Monday. His was the only kill
made by the pasty of six. And it
was reported to be a very fine
Shot as tile deer was fleeing ahead
of chasing hounds.
CHAPEL HILL POLICE WERE
particularly warmed by a letter
received this week and posted on
the department bulletin board.
Addressed to Chief Slake, it read
in part, "Dear Bill, I would like
to . . . thank you and the entire
force for all the many kindnesses
Shown me and our squad during
my nine years there. Being a
policeman’s son, I felt very dose
to you since the first day I arrived
there.” The letter on Philadel
phia Warriors’ stationery was
signed, "Frank J. McGuire.”
ABOUT THE MOST SERIOUS
disorder around the Carolina
campus on the night before the
Duke game were two multiple
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early in the evening. Oliver J.
Murphy, student driver of one
vehicle involve®, was Charged
with reckless driving after al
legedly passing 12 cars and end
ing up in a three-car collision at
the busy comer of Cameron Ave,
and Ralegh St.
IT IS APPROPRIATELY POINT
ed out amidst the controversy
over the power transmission line
proposed through the Morgan
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HE MEANS BUSINESS — Seven-year-aid Tommy
Lockhart, son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Lockhart of
the New Hope Community, takes the round-up of
Thanksgiving' table fare seriously as he helps his par
ents on their 2,000-bird turkey farm. Averaging 15
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pounds apiectf dressed, the five and six-months-old
gobblers have each consumed over 80 pounds of feed
in their short life spans before the holiday seasons |
annually. < News Photo
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Alternate route yet sought
for new Duke power line
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