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VOL. 70, NO. 16 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1962 24 PAGES
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At community get-together ...
Friends present tribute to Umsteads
From the august halls of the
j state capital, the ivy-ebvered:
reaches of the Greater Univer
sity, the streets of old Chapel
' H5U and the verdant pastures
of Orange County, they came
la; t -night to honor John lim
stead.
Governor Terry Sanford,
zr.i Mr. Umstead’s college
rcom-mate and best man at
h:9 wedding, Frank Porter
Graham, led the contingent.
They were followed by Con
solidated University President
William Friday, House Speak
er Joe Hunt, UNC Secretary
Fred Weaver, Jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Co. Presi
dent Howard Holderness,
County Commissioners Chair
man Donald Stanford, and
Mayor Sandy McCTamroCh.
Each briefly lionized the vet
eran legislator.
The occasion was the Chapel
Hill community get-together, a
public banquet attended by
about 40C persons last night
in the University’s Lenoir
Hall. University Chancellor
W. B. Aycock was master of
ceremonies for the occasion.
Mrs. Umstead was co-recip
ient of honors for the occa
sion. She was specially sin
gled out for recognition by
Gov. Sanford during his re
marks. She was presented a
wrapped gift by Mayor Mc
ClamroCh, in the name of the
assembled guests, and Mr. Uin
stead was given a large color
TV set.
The principal honoree ap
peared deeply moved by - the
outpouring in his behalf. He
smiled heartily in shaking the
hands of well-wishers who
greeted him at the head table
following the program.
At the climax of the occa
sion Mr. Weaver, speaking for
those at the head table, pre
sented a 250-word framed trib
ute to Mr. Umstead as **. . .
the essential democrat . . . the
man of ceaseless work, unfail
ing courage, and imperishable
spirit . , .”
CHARGED WITH PUBLIC
drunkenness, defendant Joe Lew
is Eurnett approached the bench
in Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court
Tuesday. He showed the judge
teeth marks on his arm where,
he alleged, Patrolman A. L. Pen
dergrass allegedly bit him while
taking him into custody on April
8. The matter rested there until
Solicitor Roy Cole, in his final
argument, called the court’s at
tention to the fact that Patrob
man Pendergrass hadn't had any
teeth since 1945. —The defend
ant nonetheless appealed a 30
l day toads sentence. I
ORANGE HAD MORE SCOUTS
present for the annual Occonee
chee Council Circus at Reynolds
Coliseum in Raleigh last Satur
day night than any other of the
16 counties in the district, ex
cept for Wake. District Exec Ed
die Cothran said more than 600
loea. Scouts participated in the
circus. At the end of the 90-min
ute show the spotlights picked
out the 30-foot* signal tower
erected by Troop 39 and the big
flag-bedecked pole put up by
Trpop 835 — both Chapel Hill
units.
BACKGROUND MUSIC EN
tertains callers to the Vine Ani
mal Hospital in Chapel Hill ;f
the Hospital phone is switched
fo “hold” to await the availabil
. ity of the called person. For
some peculiar reason, it seems,
the broadcasts from WCHL go
through the phone mechanism to
greet the waiting caller until the
receiver there takes the call off
of “hold.”
EDWARD G, (PAPA "D”)
Danziger is reported to be up and
around in fine fettle. Actually^he
felt fine all the time, he says.
But he went to, Memorial Hospi
......-jjgT“fqr'1'a"'precautionary cfyeck-up
edrly this week- after a peculiar
home mishap; Clamped down too
hard on an oral thermometer and
swallowed a few degrees worth
of the mercury stick.
A NEIGHBORHOOD CORRI
spondent calls in to chronicle
dedicated devotion to duty of a
crowd of McCauley St. young
sters. They spent Tuesday after
noon rescuing a dog-bedeviled
day-old kitten out of. a deep
brush pile in the old railroad cut
behind the George Nicholsons.
The eoal black kitten was, pulled
out by Decatur Jones, Tommy
Pfouts, Andy and Mike Vahldieck,
Steve Honeycutt, and David Cog
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Imperishable spirit'
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UMSTEADS—AT HOME—In front of their attractive home at the bend, of E. Frank
lin St. in Chapel HUl are Mr. and Mrs. John W. Umstead Jr. Rep. Umstead, dean of
the North Carolina General Assembly, University trustee and benefactor, and father
of North Carolina’s mental institutional program, unis honored last night at a special
Chapel Hill-University cornmunity get-tagethex^. .J~. —arMeuif Photo,
Hillsboro to vote Tuesday
on $190 000 sewer bonds
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