of orange county
—Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carr boro—Between and Beyond—
VOL. 70. NO. 21
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1962
24 PAGES
To locate in Belle Vue plant...
A new textile industry to occupy the now - closed
Belle Vue Manufacturing plant in Hillsboro was an
nounced here yesterday.
Hillsboro Mills, Inc., a newly-formed subsidiary of a
Holyoke, Mass., textile corporation, is scheduled for acti
vauon snoruy alter June l witn
the arrival of the first shipment
of new machinery with which
the plant will be equipped. It
will be in “pretty good opera
Orange
Pealings
JOE AUGUSTINE, COMMAND.
er of the Chapel Hill Squadron
of the Civil Air Patrol, was also
over-all commander of the search
for the test pilot who was killed
in the plane crash east of Chap
el Hill on Monday. The body was
found Iby a squad headed by
Chapel Hill CAP member John
Mann. The searchers plotted the
path of the plane — which was
off course — and plotted where
the body theoretically should be
found. It was found very close
to this spot.
AMIDST THE PILE OF TWO
automobile radiators and six
children’s bicycles outside the
Chapel Hill police station there
is also a standard size chrome
plated- grocery shopping cart.
The desk sergeant reports that
this four-wheeled vehicle was
picked up by police at the end
of Senlac Road about 5 p.m. last
Saturday, ffc-ocer-owner may re
claim by identifying and wheel
ing it back to the store, police
say.
AN ALL-TIME RECORD FOR
electric current use was set in
Chapel Hill on Monday, when
the University power plant de
divered 310,000 kilowatt hours.
Officials reported, though, that
this heavy load still did not tax
the immediate capacity of the
plant, including the current it
receives via Duke Power Co The
heavy usage was attributed to
the increasing number of elec
trically-operated cooling devices
in use- on this hot day.
A WATER USAGE RECORD
was also set in Chapel Hill re
cently— last Saturday, May 19,
to be precise. The consumers
used 4,187,000 gallons this day.
The 10-day average prior to and
including that day was 3.8 mil
lion gallons a day, while the
daily average last year was only
2.4 million gallons a day. The
filter plant can only treat three
million gallons a day but It can
store an additional 1.26 million
gallons of treated water under
ground at the plant and 1.25
million gallons in the two over
head tanks. The plant capacity
will soon be increased to five
million gallons.
ROUGH CALCULATIONS AS
to the possible unit cost of the
off-street parking lot proposed
for construction behind the
stores in downtown Chapel Hill
show that the tab would be about
$1,500 a parking space . . . O
(See PEALINGS, Page 10)
Circulation Today
7,325 .
99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN
ORANGE COUNTY
tion by July 1,” according to the
owners.
The firm, whose principal own
ers are the Schepps brothers,
third generation owners of the
Lynn Textile Mills of Holyoke
and another subsidiary, will pro
duce fancy yarn - dyed cotton
goods. In addition to the weav
ing operation, cloth will also be
dyed in the local plant. Opera
tion will he on three shifts from
the beginning.
Announcement of the new firm
and its establishment was made I
by J. Lew Sehepps, President,!
who with his brother. E. Schepps,1
Vice-President, and Archie Gould,
who will be plant manager, were
here yesterday to make final
arrangements for the arrival of
machinery and refurbishing of
the buildings which will be oc
cupied.
The firm will occupy two
1 (See NEW INDUSTRY. Page 1011
L. E. Beard (left), with operator* ef new textile plant in Hill**
boro. E. Schepps, Archie Gould, and J. Lew Schepps.
Chops for dinner!
AT CAMPOREE — It was literally “chops" for dinner at the, Orange District
Boy Scout Camporee last weekend. The 150 campers from every troop in the county
had to forage for their firewood and cook their own meals — as shown above with
two members of Chapel Hill Troop Nine's Flaming Arrow Patrol. Cranford Stoude
mire has the skillet at the campfire, whil e Ross Scroggs Jr. waits, plate in hand, for
chow. - ..v., - News Photo '
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