Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAY $1, 1962
Orange
Pealings
THE BOYS AROUND AT THE
ATO hduse on E. Franklin St.
in Chapel Hill made public their
good wishes to President JFK on
Tuesday. A banner erected oyer
the front door proclaimed “Hap
py 45th Jack.” Then came the
hooker on the lower line: “Re
member 1929!”
DURHAM INDUSTRIAL HUNT
ers are reportedly irked over the
failure of the management of the
new Hillsboro Mills, Inc., to give
Duke Power Co. credit for locat
ing that new industry in Hills
boro. The Durham folk contend
that Duke, and not the North
Carolina C and D Department,
■presented" the plant to Hills
boro after it was found suitable
arrangements couldn’t be made
to locate in Durham. Thus the
Durham-ites allegedly felt “shun
ned" after what they felt was a
good will gesture.
ASKED TO PLACE HIS HAND
on the Bible for the voter regis
tration ritual, one ruggedly in
dividualistic Chapel Hillian re
belled. Then he acquiesed to the
registrar’s request to the extent!
of gingerly placing two fingers j
on the good book. When it came j
to the “So help me, God,” end
ing, however, lie was adamant
refused to say it. —At that junc
ture the registrar tore the reg
istrant’s registration card in half,
handed him one piece, shook her
head and turned to the next per
son in line.
- SOME EYEBROWS WERE
raised Monday night during a
public hearing on a requested re
duction in Chapel Hill off-street
parking requirements for new
fraternity construction when a
spokesman said that only six out
of 20 members of the Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity had cars.
A subsequent check with UNC
officials shows that of the ap
proximately 8,500 students en
rolled about 3?800, or 45 per
cent, have University-issued per
mits for cars. A further break
down shows that there are 326
cars among the 24 social frater
nities, or an average of 16 per
brotherhood.' Thus Lambda. Chi’s
claim of only* six is below, aver
age from both a percentage and
actual numerical standpoint.
IT IS FOREGONE THAT THE
County tax rate of $1.00 wilt be
raised between five and 10 cents
for the new fiscal year, tot, cover
repayments on the $1.5 million
school bond issue approved by
the voters last year. —Timely,
thus, in light of the rejection by
Chapel Hill voters last Saturday
of the school tax increase pro
posal, is the probability for the
Town of Chapel Hill. There it
appears probable that the- $1.10
tax rate won’t be hiked for ’62
’63, although the Town Board
has not yet started consideration
of the new budget.
ELECTRIC SERVICE WAS
disrupted for up to two hours in
two sections covering about 20
per cent of the Chapel Hill area
last Thursday night. The power
failure occurred during the high
winds that preceded the bluster
ing rainstorm. Trees and tree
limbs were blown across lines
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Analysis of voting shows
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Hotel for Chapel Hill...
PROPOSED FOR *DtQWNTO WN—The architect’s
conception of the proposed $1.5 million Royal Carolini
an Hotel, to be built between the two service stations in
the first block of W. Franklin St., is shown as it might
be seen by a person standing in front of the Chapel Hill
Junior High School building across, the street from the
site. Designed- by City Planning and Architectural Asso
dates, the five-story contemporary architecture building
will have a parking garage on a basement level with di
rect access on Rosemary St., which is loioer than Frank
lin. The U-shape structure also features an open terrace
beneath a portion of the street level, and a garden in
the center. Construction of the •jd-room hotel is sched
uled by a group of local investors this year.
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