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VOL. 70, NO. 18 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1962 24 PAGES IT WAS NECESSARY TO WAIT until the highway widening job on Raleigh Road was completed before the sidewalk could be torn up again to install underground telephone cables. Jt was neces sary, we are informed, because the highway project was a fed eral job . . . and the contractor didn't dare vary a jot or tittle from orders. , Now University Service Plant crews are laying an 1,818-pair duct of wires under ground for 6,000 feet eastward to Glen Lennox from the Insti tute of Government. Weight is the determining factor in put ting such cables underground. A cable of this size weighs five pounds to the foot—and is too heavy to be strung overhead. SKUNKS WILL EAT JUST about anything that is digestible. This intelligence is passed on by bona fide owners of a pet skunk — the Charles Hubbard family. (See story, page 12 this issue). Furthermore, it is reported, the skunk likes to be petted, dislikes being handled, and has sharp teeth to endorse his dislikes. Young Tim Hubbard got a fine squirt of skunk odor in captur ing the baby animal in his native habitat of the N. C. mountains last sumftier; has since had him deskunked. A BRUSH FIRE IN THE woods behind Brady’s on Dur ham Road caused right much con cern early Tuesday night. A sud den squall of winds blew the flames up to more serious pro portion and enveloped the con gested Durham, Road area in murky smoke. The district fire truck was called to the scene and the flames were soon extinguish ed after burning over about an § acre. IT IS RELIABLY REPORTED that the directors of the Mer chants Association in Chapel Hill are just about settled on the hir ing of a new executive secretary. The decision was almost finally made this week after interview ing applicants from places as far away as Seattle. A CLOSED-DOOR CONFER «‘nce.J8f about- 70 student leaders • from nearly a dozen states was held in Chapel Hill last weekend. - The group, composed of youths who had been “freedom riders” and active workers in de-segre gation campaigns, heard an ap peal to “move from moral pro test to direct political participa tion in our society.” It was an w* nounced that the press was bar red from the session “to allow free and open discussion of all ' relevant topics.” . QUESTION WAS RAISED IN the county commissioners meet ing Monday about oral contra ceptives allegedly getting into the hands of teen-age girls. This was implied as a possibility at the recent parents meeting on teen-age matters in Chapel Hill. Welfare Superintendent James Wight said" the' extent of the County’s involvement was to screen certain welfare aid recip ients and to recommend them to the District Health Department. That agency in turn refers some to the UNC Medical School where Dr. Charles Flowers is doing some research testing of oral con traceptives. Circulation Today 7,325 99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN , ORANGE COUNTY Big hands across Orange THEY WANT YOU!!—Outstretched hands of the six Democratic candidates for three county commissionerships are looking for shakers all across Orange this month. Left to right are Donald McDade, Carl Smith, Clarence Jones, Henry Walker, Lee Kennedy, and Gordon Cleveland. ' News Photo In Chapel Hill Township ... —Story on Page 6 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sprightly sidewalk scene PRETTY PICTURE—UNC graduate student Robert Roberts, wife, and baby, make a fetching picture themselves as they peruse the paintings set up in the downtown Chapel Hill Sidewalk Art Show last Sunday afternoon. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Gone/ - but really! —See story on Trio/ Page 12— ★ ★ ★ District sanitarian warns
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