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VOL. 70, NO. 3 HILllSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 18| 1962 20 PAGES
Story on Page 2
STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
■nan T P. Smith and Mann Nor
ris of Hilsboro are credited with
the capture of the robbers on
Monday afternoon who “allegedly
stole six diamond rings from a
Durham jewelry store. Hearing a
radio description of the suspect
ed thieves’ car. the troopers
spotted one like this in the rest
area on Interstate 85 west ol
Hillsboro. As it turned out the
ear was out of gas and one of
the four suspects gone up near
Mebane to get some. He was cap
tured With the others on his re
turn. While they had ample op
portunity to dispose of the booty
after their capture, the four
Charlotte Negroes apparently
couldn’t bear to part with it
The rings were later discovered,
hidden in the patrol car that
took the fugitives to the Durham
Jail.
FRIENDS OF BUD TURNER'S
looked on helplessly last week
end while his good sawmill horse,
" an"1iMsuar wdrk’ahimal,thrash
.v ed around in an ioe-covered pond
on Orange Grove Road and
drowned. Just how the horse gol
into his predicament isn’t known.
Onlookers feared trying to lassc
the horse because of the possi
bility of strangling him,
THE INSTALLATION BAN
Ruet for the Chapel Hill-Carr
boro Merchants Association will
be held in the Carolina Inn on
Monday evening, Feb. 12. At that
_^ time Sion Jennings and othei
1962 officers will formally as
sume their duties. It was report
ed yesterday that Washington
humorist Edmund Harding was
tentatively engaged as speaker
for the occasion. ,
HEARINGS ON ALL EIGHT
cases involved in Duke Power
Company’s Morgan Creek area
land condemnation proceedings
for the new power transmission
line have been continued two
weeks—until Jan. 31. The cases
Were to be heard before appoint
ed commissioners in Hillsboro
yesterday. Earlier the proceed
ings were postponed at the re
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Awards aftermath: proud faces..
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FITCH IS ‘OUTSTANDING’—R. B. Fitch Jr., of Chapel Hill is seen with his
father shortly after the son received the Distinguished Service Award as Chapel Hill's
Outstanding Young Man of 1961 at the Jaycee-sponsored 14th annual awards ban
quet held last Thursday. The 2H-y ear-old civic leader is associated with his family in
running the Fitch Lumber Co. of Carrboro, and hitch Creations. (Story on Page 5,
Sec. II) News Photo
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