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—Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond
VOL. 70. NO. 8
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1962
24 PAGES
BOOSTS TO FLUORIDATION OF
the Chapel Hill water supply have
come from two quarters during
the , past week. The Durham
Orange County Medical Societj
re-affirmed a strong stand taker
five years ago in favor of water
fluoridatiop. And the Durham
Orange Drug Club adopted a reso
Ition unanimously endorsing this
treatment. In addition the phar
macists group plans to send a
spokesman to the Durham and
Chapel Hill ruling boards to state
their case.
“IT’S NOTHING BUT A BEER
can boulevard” That’s what the
woman said, and she meant it,
too. She telephoned the office to
complain about the unsightly
rubbish-strewn condition of ' the
newly-widened Raleigh Road
boulevard, leading into Chapel
Hill. Her kindred spirit has sev
eral times called tbfe News in the
same vein about Durham Road.
Suggestion from both sources:
Arrest a few people for violating
the state anti-littering law and
it would likely keep the scene a
bit more sightly.
SERIOUS DAMAGE WAS CAUS
ed to James Gattis* house at 702
Church St. where firemen an
swered an alarm yesterday morn
ing. The blaze was caused by a
defective chimney, according to
Fire Chief-J. S. Boone. Owner
Wilson Caldwell."
SERIOUS DAMAGE WAS
closely averted, however, in a
mid-town auto wreck at the con
gested Town Hall intersection ift
Chapel Hill at the noon hour last
Friday. A left-turning truck driv
en toy -John Wesley Kirk of Route
One struck a car driven toy Von
nie Bryan Smith and knocked it
into the corner street marker, ac
cording to the investigating
policemen. The truck driver was
charged with failure to yield the
right-of-way. l_____
A NEW SERVICE STATION,
now being erected by entrepre
neur Janies Freeland, will be the
first business establishment di
rectly on the newly-completed
section of Interstate Highway 85
in Orange County. The station
is being built-at the overpass of
N. C. Highway 86 a. mile south of
Hillsboro. -
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
Carolina % figuratively orbited
proudly with Astronaut John H.
Glenn Jr. Saturday. Glenn and
the other six Mercury Astronauts
received training in celestial rec
ognition on the campus here at
various times in the past two
years.
Anthony F. Jenzano, director
of the Morehead Planetarium
where Glenn studied, said yester
day that “we are happy with his
success and to have contributed
in some small way to the space
program.” *
In a taped interview during
his first studies here in February
1960, Glenn said, “The More
head Planetarium was selected
for this phase of the training
program, because it had the
highest qualifications of any
available, and we could not get
the information anywhere else.”
As principal spokesman for the
Astronauts, Glenn praised both
the cooperation and benefit of
the Planetarium.
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given
Private purchase offer
considered for school!
—Story on Page 2
A look at the land of Orange...
‘YOUNG FARMER’ AND YOUNGER FARMER
—Robert Nichols Jr., %$-year-old-Cedar Grove com
munity farmer, looks over his dairy pasture land with
seven-year-old son Sammy. Mr. Nichols is Orange
County nominee in the nationwide *Outstanding
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Young Farmer’ selection sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. His 640-acre dairy and beef
cattle farm was last week given a second place award
in the statewide competition for the most-efficiently
operated dairy farm. News Photo
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Damages of $158,250 seen
to land owners in Duke case
—Story on Page 2
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