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—anapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1962 28 PAGES comic strip ue of Boy’s THE HEROISM OF BILLY Cotten. Tyler, son of Mr. Red Tyler of Chapel Hill, ..... a full-color T March issue of ScOUt iiiag ull-page fea ture, 'True story of Scouts in Ac tion,” will tell how on March 16, 1959, 13-year-old Billy Cotten Ty ler saved his younger sister when her clothing caught fire from a D:”v smothered the flames l first aid for bums er awarded a certifi u by the Scouts' Na Honor. WELL THERE BE A CITIZENS advisory committee for the soon-: to-be-appointed Public Housing Authority in Chapel Hill? The estion was put to Mayor Mc unroch at Monday night’s Boad Aldermen meeting. His honor great for citizens advisory corn replied dead-pan “This town’s mittees but I don’t know if we’ll need one for the (housing au thority yet. (Federal law provides that a five-member authority be appointed.) BONANZA ON THE UPCOM ing live entertainment fare in Chapel Hill will include folk sing er Gdetta on Tuesday night Feb. 27 in Memorial Hall, and the U.S. Navy Band on Tuesday night, March 6. / SCHOOL BQ&RD MEMBERS and PTA leaders in Chapel Hill will be watching very closely the fund campaign for relief of the local schools’ financial pinch. If ~"*™ the response seems strong enough --they’ll- likely plumps for a stqp plementary tax increase referen dum this spring rather than next fall as earlier planned. If re sponse is less than overwhelming they will likely lay the ground work more carefully and shoot for the fall election. If the legal machinery were put into action by April it would give barely enough time to get the referen dum held before the end of this fiscal year. .-/■ A FIRE THAT STARTED FROM a defective chimney caused mod-, est damage at th£ home of Mrs. Mildred Council on N. Merritt Mill Rd. in Chapel Hill early Tuesday afternoon. Fitem a n Mar vin Morrow sustained a minor injury. About 5:30 p.m. Monday the Department was called to the building site of Cradge Dor mitory where a loaded dump truck owned by Elmer Pender graft was destroyed by flames. Driver Bill Campbell said the fire started when a spark from a battery ignited a five-gallon can of gas in the cab of the truck. Fire Chief J. S. Boone put out the flames using a water fog (from a booster hose line. TO DATE THERE HAVE BEEN two speeding arrests made on the basis of the newly-purchased radar speed-detecting “whammy” lately purchased by the Chapel Hill Police Department. In both cases, it is reported, the offend ing drivers readily admitted their guilt. TTS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE, the irate Lake Forest neighbor hood housewife declared. She telephoned the office yesterday to call attention to what she said More READINGS, Page 8 Circulation Today 7,267 99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY for suburban area zoning Cobb chosen... 'MERCHANT OF THE YEAR' IN CHAPEL HILL—First an nual recipient of the 'Merchant of the Year’ award presented by tho Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association in Chapel Hill is Collier Cobb Jrshown above in front of his downtown in surance and bonds firm. A Chapel Hill native, former University A A trustee, civic leader and ex-chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, Mr. Cobb headed a special study committee dur ing 1961 which made recommendations for re-deveiopment of the downtown area of Chapel Hill. —News Photo. i A A ~~ 7 7* . w% ^ ^ Public library location to be .consid ered by town —Story on Page 2
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