VOL. 70, NO.
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL,
of orange county
—Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carr boro—Between and, Beyond—
N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1962 32 PAGES TODAY
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Mltaasawtu mkkchainI'S As
sociation and Chamber of Com
merce President H. C. Coleman
Jr: presided Iasi night at a com-!
munity-wide get-together in th3 j
County Courthouse. Purpose cf
(the session was to stimulate in
terest in industrial development
in that end of the county. Rep
resentatives of Duke Power Co.
and the Orange Industrial De
velopment Commission were also
on hand for the occasion. At an
other community-wide meeting
held in the courthouse las: Fri
day night a large crowd turned
out for the initial session of the
new Hillsborough Historical So
ciety, at which Mrs. Ernest Ives
of Pinehurst was the speaker.
THE REV. B. J. (PREACHER)
Howard, Chapel Hill Recorder’s
Court Clerk, seemed in signifi
cantly improved shape at Me
morial Hospital yesterday. Ha
went there las: Saturday for
treatment of pneumonia and. al
lied ailments: appeared yesterday
to be more concerned for the wel
fare of the court in his absence
than for his own condition.
THERE WAS 1 HEATED POLI
ticking for the eight seats on the
board of directors of the Chapel
Hill Jaycees at the club’s elec
tions session last Thursday night.
After the speechifying was over
and immediately before the bal
loting, Elections Chairman Walt
Baucom read through the list of
15—candidates. With deliberate
care as to pronunciation he read
out the name of Magdi El Kam
rnash, Egyptian economics teach
er whose been a member of the
group for the past two years.
Magdi smiled approvingly, then
Chirped in a loud voice—“Tell
’em how to spell it, too!”—Need
less to say, he was one of those
elected!
“FOR HEAVENS SAKE, DON’T
prohibit them from selling flow
ers on the sidewalk downtown.”
appealed UNC arboretum direc
tor C. Ritchie Bell, “People steal
too many flowers from the ar
boretum as it is.” Occasion was
the Chapel Hill aldermen’s dis
cussion of the status of down
town curbside peddling dt their
meeting Monday night. (See
story,, Page eight.) •
THE DRUGSTORE ALMANAC
agrees with local history in its
prediction for fair weather next
Tuesday, April 17. That is, in
more years than not, the day that
spring suddenly busts out all over
in Chapel Hill—when the green
foliage suddenly unfolds in a
grandiose panorama of spring. If
.anything, what with the super
saturation of rain recently, a
'bright day or two before then
will bring on the. eruption earlier.
SHE ADMITTED ON HER RE
turn that she was a bit concern
ed beforehand about the possible
high etiquette of the occasion.
But Mrs. Emil Cbanlett reported
on her return that the White
House dinner she attended last
week was nothing stuffy. (See
“Precinct Circuit,” this issue.) It
happened that she was given a
seat beside State Department
Protocol Officer Anthony Biddle
Duke. First off when they sat
down he curiously turned the
service plate over to peek and to
see where it was made. And Mrs.
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Apropos of April
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LET IT POUR—A sunny smile from Ann Cleaveland will counteract the momen
tary overcast, of a spring shoiver. The ij-y ear-old rising senior at Chapel Hill High
School U all decked out for the traditional elements of April. She’s the daughter of
ProL and Mrs. Frederic Cleaveland-and is incidentally a candidate for vice-president
of the student body in next Wednesday's annual school elections. ——
K W K
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Hillsboro board gives boost
to April 24 town bond vote
—Story on Page 2