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.JI 13 . 1 A PAIR-SIZED contingent of Orange folk is going to Wil son this Saturday night for the state-wide Outstanding Young Farmer awards banquet. The award will be presented by Gov. Sanford, and the Orange nomi nee, Bobby Nichols of Cedar drove, is known td be in the fop 10 for the final judging.' —It could be three-iri-a-row for Or ange. Bill Dorsett of Efland was first runner-up year before last and Bunn Pope of Cedar Grove was state winner in the Jaycee sponsored competition, last year. STATE HIGHWAY PATEOL man Tom Winbor^e of Chapel Hill is understood to be recover ing quite well from a serious operation he underwent recently, and is expected to be back be hind the wheel on his southern Orange County rounds in the very near future. APPROPRIATE TO HIGHWAY matters, The News notes in a tabulation from the State De partment of Motor Vehicles this week that there were in Orange during 1961 503 traffic accidents of all types, 264 personal injur ies, and 10 deaths. A MAN WHO CALLED THE News office the other day cited the need for a clearly-drawn map showing the new precinct boun daries in Chapel Hill and Carr boro. He bespoke a crying need. Indeed. It is hoped that some al truistic civic group — or candi date — Will heed the appeal for the convenience of Chapel Hill voters, all of whom will have to re-register 'next month: • A STREET CORNER PREACH er — a comparative rarity nowa daya—has, been holding forth with complete aplomb on the main corner in downtown Hillsboro re cently. The leather-lunged mid dle-aged man comes over from Durham and takes his stand by the Corner Drug Store for a 20 BO minute sermon almost weekly, waving a testament vigorously while he literally bellows the 'gQspffc-., ,~W-— ANOTHER MAJOR A0ART ment is imminently proposed for Chapel Hill. Architect J. Hyatt Hammond of Asheboro this week turned in. to Town Manager Bob peck detailed plans for a 96-unit garden apartment project to be built on a 10-acre site behind Taylor Greene’s house along Bo lin Creek a half-mile north of town (off Airport Rd.). The mod"-’ ernistic two and three-story buildings will be made of pre stressed concrete — somewhat; similar to the Carrboro School,: which Hammond’s firm also de-j signed. MAJOR DOWNTOWN Busi ness construction is also in the! offing. A second floor will soon be added to the Belk-Leggett Horton Department * store. , The building, constructed in 1954, was designed with this in mind. Remodeling of the store fronts— about which manager Carlton Byrd conferred with the Chapel Hill aldermen this week—is al$o part of the project; THEY AREN’T COMPLAINING about it, but Chapel Hill and county officials are fully aware that the $150,000 property valu ation reduction last week grant See Pealipgs on Page 8 Circulation Today 99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY INDUSTR ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ —Story on Page 3 ★ ★ ^ Chapel Hill moving ahead on new building project —Story on Pagp 8 Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Bctxoeen and Beyond— HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1962 20 PAGES Republican and Democrat seeking county offices -- —Story on Page 2 "★ ★ ★ r: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Can Spring be far behind... TWItLLERS—Five-year-old Karen Lloyd has the idea, too, as she watches her fifth grade sister, Louinga, prac ticing the fine art of baton twirling in the newly-organ ized class being taught under auspices of the Chapel Hill Recreation, Department by Jo Taylor, head majorette at Carolina and a student in, recreation administration. The girls are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lloyd of Carrhoro. More than two-dozen girls are enrolled in the weekly twirling course recently started in the recreation program... . .■ ____ ^ : : \ No school tax referendum seen before next autumn —Story on Page 6
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