HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL. N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 29, 1963
A SHORT-LEGGED DOG BE
trayed some teen-age vandals
this week. Local police, called to
the Town House Apartments con
struction site to investigate van
dalism, found a Dachshund in
side the -building in a place his
short legs could not have taken
him under his own power. The
officers recalled a report having
been filed at their station for
a missing dog meeting its de
scription. Checking out the re
port they re-united dog with
owners and vandals with the
Jong arm of justice.
A LOCAL SKY-DIVING GROUP
has been sailing out of the skies
over C. N. Pickell’s Field north
of Chapel Hill on recent Sunday
mornings. The planes take off
from Horace Williams Airport
and the divers jump out to try
and hit a target at Pickell’s near
by private airstrip. An unusual
complaint was lodged at Horace
Williahs Airport following the
jumping last Sunday. A private
flier said he was cruising in the
regular westbound airways at
3,000 feet althude near Chapel
Hill when a parachute suddenly
billowed out right in front of him.
A CITIZEN ATTENDING THE
Chapel Hill aldermen’s meeting
Tuesday night said he’d telephon
ed the State Attorney General’s
office. that day to ask about the
legal status of the anti-fluorida
tion lawsuit. After some checking
around, he said he was told that
the matter was then with the
Town Attorney in Chapel Hill.
Asked, about the matter. Chapel
HilL Town Attorney Jae,k LeGrand
allowed it was the first he’d
heard of it. The -confusion was
cleared up yesterday, it was'
learned, and the Attorney Gen
eral’s office sent word that it
did indeed have the fluoridation
matter in its files. (See story,
this page)
YEOMEN OF THE HOUR IN
the moving of Station WCHL to
its new quarters this week were
Mack Preslar and his crew of
technicians. The FCC allowed the
Station only one day off the air
to accomplish the move. Mr.
Preslar and company worked all
Sunday night, Monday, and Mon
day night until 5:45 a.m. Tues
day to complete the job—15 min
utes before sign-on time.
A NEW 1,000-CAR PARKING
lot is being rushed to completion
in time for the April 12 grand
opening of the W. T. Grant store
in Eastgate Shopping Center. The
roof of the store will cover slight
ly over a half-acre of merchan:
dise and sales space. In addition
there’ll be a 50 by 75-foot garden
shop in the rear of the building.
Other data: 60 employees and a
40-seat luncheonette. Manager is'
Charles F. Alexander who came
to Chapel Hill from his post as
merchandise manager of Grant’s
downtown store in Norfolk.
THE SUSPENSE IN SELEC
tion of the new Miss Chapel Hill
built up by the minute last Fri
day night as the audience await
ed the judges’ decision with logi
cal impatience. Finally pageant
chairman Joe Lynn handed ent
cbe Billy Arthur some slips of
paper with the winners’ names
on ’em. Billy looked at the in
formation," seemed puzzled, then
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ORANGE COUNTY
Town sparks new campaign
for fluoridation of water
The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen has re-entered
the campaign for fluoridation of the local public water
supply with a two-pait resolution prodding University
authorities to this end.. ^
For the third time in the last to years the aldermen
unanimously endorsed the fluoride treatment of the
water supply and appealed fo University authorities to
carry this out. The second part of the resolution passed
by the Board on Monday night directs the Town Manager
Bob Peck and Town Attorney J. Q. LeGrand to confer
with University authorities and with the State Attorney
General on this matter.
It further asks them to urge the University “to take
immediate steps that will work toward the goal of bring
ing about its (the University's) stated intentions to flu
oridate the Chapel Hill public water supply; and to keep
in touch continuously with the proper authorities in work
ing toward this goal.”
Report back at intervals
Finally the town manager was requested, in the resolu
tion, to report hack to the Town Board-at intervals in the
future as to the progress being made on this matter.
The passage of the resolution followed the presenta
tion to the Board of a formal endorsement of fluorida
tion by pharmacist George Harms, President of the Dur
ham-Orange Drug Club, in behalf of that group.
In the spring of r®66 the University announced plans
to fluoridate the local water supply following a postal poll
of water-customers which showed that 2,200 out’of g,3©o
“ballots” turned in favored this process. In June of 19'io
Manning Simons of Chapel Hill filed a civil lawsuit
against the University to prevent this action. Without any
further public announcement the University halted plans
for installation of the fluoridatiyn machine.
Now 21-moyitha-old —f ]
The lawsuit now 22-nionths-old, is currently in Orange
County Superior Court awaiting a hearing on a> demurrer
filed by the University’s legal counsel, the state attorney
general. After this- motion is settled the University will
have to file an answer before the case itself can be heard.
The demurrer was filed five months ago and .no attempt
has been made yet to have it heard.
In ar statement' of rev iew preceding his introduction
of the resolution passed by the Town Board on Monday,
Alderman Roland (iiduz declared that the Town had “an
obligation to try to the utmost within our limited authori
ty to bring into being that which we say we stand for.
The people of Chapel Hill have spoken very strongly on.
this. As their elected representatives we have an obliga
tion to try to see that their wishes are carried out.”
The aldermen then accused the University of not
practicing what it preaches—noting that its dental, public
health, and medical faculty members overwhelmingly sup
ported the fluoridation.
Not primary mission '
He added: “I fully realize that the University’s primary
mission is not that of running a public water works. The
University through its good office maintains the utilities
system for this communty, and I for one very much ap
preciate its fine service in this respect. But the University
is in the utilities business in a big way and has a big
^obligation to 25,000 local citizen-consumers.
He charged that the plaintiff in the anti-fludridation
lawsuit was winning his cause by default through “. . .
failure of the University to live up to its personally
proclaimed obligation.”
The Town should offer its services to the University
“to stop the hypocrisy and farce that exists while it
preaches fluoridation but laggardly declines to take steps
to put this into practice,” he said.
‘Where is Chapel Hill?’
“VVe continue to sit by while historic Hillsboro installs
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housing body
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Board
—Story on Page 3
Beauty's duty ~
A NEW QUEEN-Brunette: Dorcas Henley, Chapel
Hill resident, for the past six months as a voice student
of Dr. Walter Golde, receives the crown of Miss Chapel.
Hill from her predecessor, UNC coed Mary Ann Hender
son, at the nth annual Aiiss Chapel Hill pageant staged
by the Chapel Hill Jaycefs in Memorial Hall last Friday.
— At the right, first runner-up Judy Flanders, UNC
freshman nursing student from Arlington, Va.
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