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of orange county —Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carr boro—Between and Beyond~ VOL. 70, NO. 42 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1962 24 PAGES ' Pealings A HOUSEHOLDER ON CHEEK St. in Carrboro reported finding a number of strips of tinfoil about a foot long and a half inch wide around her front yard late Tuesday. Speculation was that they may have been “chaff” cast out by the Air Force in an attempt to disrupt radar detec tion. Inquiry at the Air Force ftOTC unit in , Chapel Hill brought out that the material may indeed have been “chaff,” could possibly have come from bombers stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. OLD FACES IN NEW PLACES department: Wiley Franklin, who’s been with Riggsbee-Hin son Furniture Co. in Carrboro for the past six years, resigned last weekend to take a new post as salesman for Harriss-Conners Chevrolet in .Chapel Hill. Replac ......... ing him is* Billy Wright of .Carr boro, a sheriff’s deputy for the past 18 months, and whose res ignation from the force became effective on Monday of this week. Wright left Riggsbee-Hin son to take the law enforcement jobi As of yesterday Sheriff Buck. Knight had not hired a replace ~ ment as deputy. ~ THE CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL 'Board is having to replace a few pieces of utility equipment at Northside School which were re moved in error .by the demoli . tion crew which last summer tore down the original wing of the building. The Board is also looking for a supplier of fire re tardant paint, which has been recommended for the ceiling of the school building; Paint sales men who’ve been questioned about it seem to be familiar with the stuff, but none, to date, can supply it. AT TUESDAY NIGHT'S HIGH ly-charged zoning hearing in Hillsboro, Commissioners’ Chair man Donald Stanford ruled with a firm, sure touch. He declined to allow “Dog” Brogden, the an ti-zoners’ hired lawyer from Durham (who usually whips up the faithful with a caustic ton „ gue) to speak except upon intro - aactioTi* by w •orange ’ etwraty citizen whom he was to repre sent... and then only for the single five - minute period al lowed others. When his adher ents sought more time for Brog den’s rousements with the de vice of having five citizens sign a paper saying they wished him to speak for them, the chair man refused to be moved. “Dog” got the bell, figuratively, when his time was up. BROGDEN, INCIDENTALLY, said he’ had spent over 150 hours studying the zoning question and the Orange County ordinance More DEALINGS on Page 12 - Circulation Today 7,568 99 P€T. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY . —Story on Page 2 Merchants body to weigh —Story on Page 2 1Wheels and wheel... POLITICAL CLAN GATHERS - Orange Grove dairy farmer Wiley Perry, seated at the wheel of a farm tractor, confronts political 'wheels’ of the Democratic party caravan as they stopped off at Orange Grove early last Friday afternoon. Left to right, in the background, are U. S. Sen. Sam Ervin, Alamance Democratic Chair man Eugene Gordon» State Insurance Commissioner Ed k win S. Lanier, former County Democratic Chairman Mrs. Charles W. Stanford, Alamance County Democrat ic Sheriff-Nominate John H. Stockard, N. G. Attorney General Wade Bruton, Orange County Chief Deputy Paul Cook, and Democratic District Solicitor-Nominate Dick ' Cooper of Burlington. «,L A A « « n $1,500 Wf.. ir yc *r toll fraud serviceman >Story on Pago 3
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