Reicf Roberts is re-elected Neuse officer Reid Roberts of Route One, Hillsboro, has been re-elected as a supervisor of the- Neuse River &>il and Water Conservation Dis trict, Henry S. Hogan, Chairman Of Orange County’s supervisors, announced today. * As a District Supervisor, it will be Roberts’ responsibility to help carry out the District’s duties as signed to it by the North Caro lina General Assembly. Among these are entering into ... agreements with landowners to furnish help in carrying out ero sion control and prevention; to ... make available to land occupiers materials or equipment as will assist in carrying out conserva tion practices; to develop annual goals and plans for reaching these goals for soil conservation work; to request agencies whose duties are such as to render as sistance in soil afid water con servation to set forth the assist ance available; to develop com prehensive plans for the District and bring such plans to the at: tention of the landowners, and to conduct surveys and investiga tions relating to soil and water conservation. The Neuse River Soil and Wa ter Conservation District was or ganized in 1939. Of the 37 in the state, only six were chartered earlier. . The District Governing board is made up of three supervisors from each of the five counties composing the District, Orange, Durham, Wake, Wilson, and Johnston. The supervisors are Letters to the Editor COHEAD IS THANKED Mr. George L. Coxhead, Chairman Chapel Hill Community Chest Drive, Chfpel Hill, N C. r Dear Mr. Coxhead: I am writing at the direction of and on the behalf of the Com munity Council of Chapel Hill to express officially and publicly what we have previously told you concerning our indebtedness to you for your conduct of the 1961 Community Chest Campaign Drive in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro . • area. -- - In preparing for and conduct * Ing this campaign you displayed the highest qualities of leader ship and organizing ability as Well as setting an example of good citizenship which we would all do well to emulate. While the campaign did not fully reach its goal in the amount of funds to be raised the amount pledged ex ceeds by a considerable margin anything that has previously been attempted td Chapel Hill and Community Council consid ers the results a great success. Without your enthusiasm and drive and your willingness to de — vote long and arduous- hours to this purely voluntary undertak ing the campaign would never have reached the fine results that it did. I realize also that the sup port of the many fine people who volunteered to help you was essential to your success and I hope you will extend to each of them the thanks of the Commu nity Council and of the people of Chapel Hill whom we endeav or to represent,-,™.; .* Again let me say that we wish SEASONS GREETIMS TO O'UR COOD FRIENDS) LEE'S SANDWICH SHOP CARRBORO WMm to extend to you and to your helpers the heartfelt thanks and commendation of the Community Council for the fine 1961 Com munity Chest Campaign. Sincerely, Holland L. Robb Chairman, Chapel Hill Community Council, 1961-62 thanks on chest To Hie Editor: Let me take this opportunity, to thank your paper for its fine cooperation in publicizing the 1962 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Com monty Chest Drive. You have been very patient and generous with your space and it has meant a great deal to the success of the large amount raised this year. Also, let me thank the more than 500 volunteer workers who helped to raise approximately $48,500 which is considerably more money J:han has been raised by any single drive in Chapel Hill in the past. To these conscienti ousand diligent workers go the credit for the success of this drive. Sincerely yours, ........ Gearge.LCoxhead ... Chairman, Chapel Hill Community Chest * SERVICE CHRISTMAS MORNING The Christmas story will be read and Christmas hymns sung in a service at 10:30 a.m. Christ mas morning at the Chapel Hill Community Church on Purefoy Road. There will be no sermon and the service will be no longer than children can enjoy. Anyone in the community wish ing to join others in a joyous expression of thankfulness is invited. E. M. ADAMS TO SERVE E. M. Adams, professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University, will serve as a member of the executive committee at the an nual meeting of the American Philosophical Association: East ern Division, to be held Dec. 27-29 in Atlantic City, N. J. Faculty members also attending the meeting will be Associate Prof. Mason L. Saunders and Assistant Professors Eugene C. Luschei, John P, Dreher, and Richard A. Smyth. WILBUR CURRIE . . . When Wilbur H. Currie last served in the Senate in 1959 he led the fight for more substantial welfare ap propriations for the aged. Gov .ernor Sanford has named him to a Welfare-Study Committee- and he is a good man for the place. elected for three year terms, one supervisor in each county being elected each year. C. W. Stanford and Henry Ho* gan are the other two supervisors from Orange County. Rudolph Howell, of Smithfield, is Chairman of the Neuse River Soil and Water Conservation Dis trict. Extra shows planned for the Planetarium There will be no perform ances of “Star of Bethelehem” at the Morehead Planetarium here on either Christmas Day or Tuesday following, but the Planetarium will be open on Christmas Eve, Sunday, Dec. 24. Four shows will be given that day at 2, 3, and "4 and 8:30 p.m. After » the two-day Christmas holiday, the inspiring pageant will be resumed on Wednesday, Dec. 27. Program for the remainder of Christmas week, Dec. 27-31, will be at 8:30 nightly, and at matinees on Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday at 1 and 3 p.m., on Saturday at 11 a.m.,j3 and. 4 p.m., and on Sunday at 2, 3 and 4 p.m. The 13th annual presentation of “Star of Bethlehem” will end Jan. 8. MERRY CHRISTMAS -' At this season of the year, it is our sincere wish that happiness and prosperity find their way into the homes of all our friends, and remain with them through out the year. WENTWORTH & SLOAN E. FRANKLIN ST. CHAPEL HILL **** ? you- M»y <*» Christmas bethemer f S“d yo!?? and ^ «» New Year bring you every ££3^3=^ thing you* heart desires, — MAIN ST. Departm e nt Store i CARRBORO

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