HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL,
VOL. 70, NO. 31
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—Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carr boro—Between and Beyond—
n7 C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1962 20 PAGES
Orange
Peelings
“YE OLDE CONTEMPOR
ary.” That was the best in-a«line
description Architect Don Stew
art could come up with for the
proposed Chapel Hill central
fire station when the reporter
inquired about it. The building,
a recommended sketch of which
was shown on the front page of
The News last week, is envis
ioned by its designer as func
tional, but embodying both tra
ditional and modern elements:
Traditional features such as a
hip roof, copper flanges, .local
stone walls, and stucco panels;
and modern design in -simple
lines and aluminum window
frames.
VANDALS, BELIEVED TO
be brethem from another fra
ternity, broke into the Sigma
Nu house one wiid night recent
ly.^ They entered by heaving a
decorative cement ball through
the French doors, After ran
sacking the basement, they
turned over a piano, then capp
ed it off by running a garden hose
into the front parlor and turn
ing it on. When it was all dis
covered the next day the base
ment was inches deep in water,
and the carpeting, practically
floating.____
TRAVEL AGENCY ENTRE
preneur Jimmy Wallace was re
duced to foot padding on the
Dare beaches recently when his
car was stolen in Nag’s Head.
Mr. Wallace- reported it to all
law enforcement authorities, and
they assured him of their vig
ilance in searching for it. Six
days later a woman living two
blocks from the sheriff’s office
in nearby Manteo called to tell
him a strange car had been
parked in front of her house
for the last five days. . Yup, it
was Jimmy’s vehicle, quite in
tact, and with keys yet in igni
tion.
ALL OF THE REPAIR WORK
out on the Raleigh Road at the
base of Blake Hill was necessi
tated when the Gas Company,
running a main . beneath the
highway to Watts 'Hill’s new
homesite, shoved a two - inch
steel boring pipe clean through
art eight - inch water main. The
asphalt surface literally ripped
for the next 45 minutes until the
flow could be closed off. Pres
sure on the water line coming
down the hill mounts up to
about 150 pounds an inch. The
gas folks thought they were bor
ing extra deep to avoid other
pipes. But the water folks had
laid the pipe six feet deep for
. the same reason!
ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL
records from the University,
there were 62 Negroes enrolled
for the first session of Summer
School—an all-time record for
Negro pupils at UNC. The total
student enrollment for the first
term was 4,643. Most of the Ne
groes were in graduate school,
many were public school teach
ers,, and the division of men to
women was understood to be
fairly even. During the regular
,.’61-62 school year there were 40
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Bossy on the block-- big Orange sale...
UNDER THE BIG TOP—One of the tersest cettle dispersal
sales in the adoa was reeled off yesterday at the Don Mathesons’
Berry's Mill Farm on St. Mary’s Road, near Hillsboro. Carnival
atmosphere pervaded the premises as several hundred prospec
tive buyers crowded the tent-covered arena for the auction of
92 head of registered and grade Holsteins and a large quantity
of farm machinery. Orange County buyers weie prominent
among the bidders, who came from all parts of North Carolina
and some nttgMwiiing states. A former speaker of the House
in the General Assembly was among the group. Food was served
by members of the St. Mary's Home Demonstration Club. Left,
above, an auction scene as Shorty, New Berrys Mill 4303897,
sired by Pabst Repride Glen, was knocked down for $280. At
right, an apparent casual spectator keeping a tally on the prices,
Don S. Matheson, the ownert, seated with his daughter, Sweet
Briar student, Elizabeth.
The private war of Bill Windham..
...Hell tell Terry tomorrow
TO FILL OR NOT TO FILL — THE QUESTION — Bill Windham of Efland
illustrates his dilemma as he’ll present it to Gov. Sanford in Raleigh tomorrow.
His iB-acre home-met is hemmed in on the Efland side by the Southern Railroad,
and on the opposite side by the limited access dual-lane U. S. Highway 70. Con
tinuously since last winter Windham has covered.up ditches and cut* down a fence
built at the highway so that he could have auto-access to his plate. State highway
authorities have warned him about filing in their ditch, dug to prevent him en
tering the highway by this route. Windhum is adamant that -the highway folks
should cprwide him an auto entrance to his property. ^