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County awards contracts
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—Story on Page 2
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VOL. 70, NO. 32 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1962 *> PAGES
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Orange
Peaiings
THE FANTASTIC FLOOD
that swept the bottom of W.
Franklin St. in Chapel Hill early
Monday afternoon caught one au
toist in his car — with water
swirling almost up to the door
handles. The water line was even
with the bed of a nearby pick
up truck. It swept down from W.
Rosemary St. into the back of
Fowler’s Food Store and met an
other tide coming in from the
front, causing considerable dam
age to the store’s stock. The
basement of a house on Oakwood
Drive was also flooded and pow
er was disrupted for up to an
.hour in several sections of town!
by lightning striking transform
ers and fuses.
HERE ARE CAPSULE STA
tistics on the Consolidated Uni
versity of North Carolina as pro
vided this week by President
Friday (see story on Page 2):
Enrollment last fall — 19,800;
staff — 9,000; annual payroll —
$50 million; plant valued at over
$150 million; program function
ing in 30 locations across the
state; and student body growing
at 1,200 to 1,500 a year.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
oft-leveled criticism of the ad
mission of out-of-state students
to the space-shy University, Pres
ident Friday pointed out that
back in 1859 the out-of-staters
constituted 49 per cent of the
student body — as compared to
the 15 per cent quota now. And,
he noted, the Tar Heel univer
sity’s otit-of-state enrollment per
centage is the lowest of state
universities in the 41-member
American Association of Univer
sities. . - ■
HIGHWAY FORCES ARE AT
work this -week spreading a new
layer of crushed rock over the
tar-slick N. C. Highway 86 north
of Chapel Hill — scene of sev
eral serious auto accidents in
the recent rainy weather. How
ever another bad auto wreck oc
curred this week, too, at the
treacherous and congested curve
two miles north of town by the
trailer park and Marlowe’s Gro
cery.
CHARLIE LEE ATWATER,.
charged" in superior court this
week with the sale of bootleg
liquor, faced his accuser, a State
ABC undercover agent on the
witness stand. The defendant ad
mitted having made whiskey on
some occasions, but denied hav
ing ever seen the agent who
claimed to have bought and con
sumed booze at his place. “I
wish I could talk to him some
time,” said Atwater ruefully
The judge asked .what he d like
to say to the agent. “Well, I’d
just like to sit down and talk to
him,” replied Atwater. — The
defendant received a year’s roads
sentence (concurrent) in three
separate and similar charges.
WHY DOESN'T THE NEWS
paper save Chapel Hill school
parents a lot of trouble and re
produce the elementary school
attendance area map, asks a pos
tal writer? ’Tis a good idea, of
course. Beason is that the five
attendance areas are shown in
different colors on the map in
the superintendet’s office, and
would be quite hard to effective
More PEALtNGS on Page 8
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ORANGE COUNTY
STRIKE—A youngster scarcely big enough to hoist his
own bowling ball squats transfixed—even unto his finger
tips—as he watches his shot spin down the tune toward
the pins. The summer-time scene of air-conditioned, re
laxation was snapped on a recent evening in Chapel
Hill’s All-Star Lanes at East gate. *"/•
Friday airs enrollment crisis
in North Carolina colleges
—Story on Pago 2
CRY COURTROOM COOLING!
-Story on Pago 4
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