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amber in Carrboro asks ABC store for community action seen tied to petition \ • The "Carrboro Chamber of Commerce has urged the county ABC board to establish a/ whiskey package In Courthouse Monday . . First, last meetings of commissioners set ^^‘TWritPiiilttriaHBinhisHH'iera will hold their first and last meet ings in Hillsboro next Monday. It will be the last meeting for Hie old --five-member board, which will be convened at 10 a.m. in the Board Room by Chairman Donald Stanford. They will take up all remaining mat ters dl old business. These are expected to include resolutions of appreciation for the services of the late Commissioner Donald McDade and .one of thanks to tfie County Hanning Board, ap pointed by the .Commissioners two years ago, /Retiring members of the Board are Commissioners Clarence Jones "df-'/Hillsboro and Henry Walker of St. Mary’s. The new .commissioners will Ifaman relations body ptclcs Robert Phillips ".~|>r. Robert Phillips of the Uni versity Department of Psychiatry faculty has been elected Chair man of the newly-organized Ma yor's Commission on Human Re lations in Chapel Hill. The members of the Commis si were recently appointed by MhyOr Sandy McClamroeh on ex piration of the two-year terms <jlf the first Human Relations Commission. At their meeting j Sight before last the 11-member body also elected C. A. Mc Douglt^jis. ^Vice-Chairman and Mrs. Ted Danziger as Secretary. Other members of the group are Mrs: Donald Hayrnan, Mrs. Alex Sessoms, Adolphus Clark. Dr. Donald Irish, William Tol liver, Mrs- Edward Caldwell, Mrs. Thomasine Register, and the Rev, Loren Mead. i 'PEARL' —[ IN TOBACCO 1 - ROAD'—Mary Lindsay Spear 4 man of Chapal Hill will play the k»I* of a beautiful blond* - wife -in a depression-stricken family in the Carolina Play makers Theatre next Wednes day through Sunday evenings i' {Dee. 5-9) with •- Sunday 2:30 p.m* matinee.. The famous fragf-comedy is based an Br skine Caldwell’s best-selling hdweli—ONC photo then be sworn-in by Clerk of Court Edwin M. Lynch. They are Carl Smith and Gordon Cleve land of Chapel Hill. One of the first orders of business the new Board will have before it will be election of a commissioner for a full four-year term as a replacement to Mr. iVJcDade. Officers of the Board itself— a chairman and a vice-chairman (the post now being held by Commissioner Walker)—are to be elected. And the Board is also expected to consider ap pointments to the judgeship and solicitorship of the Orange Coun ty Recorder’s Court. Power lawsuit case expected to go all week Hearing of; testimony in the Duke Power Co.’s land condem nation lawsuit may take the rest of this week. This appeared probable yes terday as. witnesses for the eight Chapel Hill area land owners in volved continued .to present their statements to Judge Ham ilton Hobgood, who is presiding, over a special term of superior court in Hillsboro ior this pur pose. •>. ’ Duke ' has offered about $20, 000 to the land owners for dam ages it feels would foe caused by erection of a 100,000 - volt over head power transmisaioQ ^ine, a cross their properties. Court-ap pointed land- commissioners as sessed the damages at $158,000. And the property owners claim . the project would cause them over $1 million in damages. ■Both sides have appealed the findings of the land commission ers to the court. The line, from near Research Triangle Park to the University’s power plant in Chapel Hill, would foe erected on steel towers up to 120 feet high on a 68-foot right-of-way, traver sing the residential land of the congesting property owners in the vicinity of Morgan Creek south of Chapel Hill. These property owners an Clarence Heer, Kenneth Ness, piltom L. Hunt, Edvrani b. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. James Parker, Turner E. Pardue, and the Morgan Creek Land Go. THE NEWS OF ORANGE COUNTY. 1 Vol. 70, No, 49 Nov. 29, 1962 Published Every Thursday i In The Year By The News, IneJ Subscription Rates (Payable In advance): In NC, $2.50, pins 3% Sale* Tax' OutaUe N€£ $8 Entered As Second Class Mat ter In The Postotticas at Hills boro And Chapel Hill, N. C. e» I Carrboro. Corrboro. Jesse Basqight, Vice Pres ident, in a letter addressed to the ABC board, said the officers and board of direc tors had gone on record as favoring the establishment of such a store. They offered as sistance in obtaining a suitable location and building. Cites general benefit He expressed the opinion of the chamber leaders that an, ABC store in the community, would stimulate business for the “good merchants” of the town | and would be of general benefit to the economy. The letter was received by County ABC Manager Carl Davis last week but has not yet come before the beard in formal session. Next meeting of the board is Monday. The nation of the Carrboro or ganization is the second move ment aeeklng the establishment of a second store in the south ern part of the county. Last year a Chapel Hill merchants group sought the establishment of a store in the western section of Chapel Hill, but strongs oppo sition in t h e f o r m of petitions led the board to re* ject the proposal. Action tied to petition ABC Chairman R. J. Smith, apprised of the Carrboro letter, expressed the opinion no action would be taken by his board on the matter unless petitions bear ing the names of more than 50 \ per cent of the registered voters in Carrboro were presented in support of a store. * Inasmuch as Carrboro voted a gainst the stores in the county wide ABC election, he said the State ABC board would not ap WATER, that is! ... The Sigma Chi brethren don't drink that much! rne noys at tne sigma fraternity house in Chapel Hill—never noted for drink ing an unusual amount of water—have finally stopped a water pipe leak which resulted in their having an astronomi cal water bill. — 1 j The situation came to light this week when their advisor, Dr. Charles <Gus) Johnston, was given some relief from town sewer charges that were based on a water consumption shown to be “almost three times that of our competitors.” —Dr Johnston explained he was referring to the water bills of other fraternities on UNC j -frat row. His presentation of figures showed that the brethren’s average monthly consumption of about 50,000 gallons of water suddenly began shooting up in January, I960. It went to zuu,uw a muuvn, iu 000, and finally ,before the leak was .discovered, to an all time high of 339,000 gallons in one peak month. The brethren began suspect ing a leak in the pipes when they were renovating the base ment floor of the house and water kept seeping through the walls. “We must have been floating in a sea of mud,” ad visor Johnston recalled. “I checked the water bills and saw how much they were us ing and I knew the Sigma Chis weren’t that clean,” he chuckled. After a bit of discussion the Town Board agreed to re compute the fraternity’s sewer rental bill for 1961, using av erage monthly water U3e fig ures to date for 1962. This, as it turned out, was a compara tively thirsty 52,000 gallons a month. Public meeting is to be held by citizens fluoridation body The Chapel Ml Citizens Fluor idation Committee will hear a progress report’ on its local cam paign for fluoridation of tike pub lic water supply at a public meeting next Wednesday. The meeting at 8 p. m. in the Town Hall courtroom is open to all interested citizens, it was an nounced. The recently - formed citizens group has joined as an amicus curiae with-the "Univer sity in defense of the 29-months old civil lawsuit that is holding up fluoridation for Chapel Hill. A spokesman for the Commit tee said that a report would be heard by its attorney, Robert Cooper, who is preparing a brief to present the court in behalf of the defendant University. In ad dition the latest word front the prove the establishment of a store in that precinct. N. C. Attorney General's office, which has a demurrer to the case pending, is expected to be presented and discussed. Committee Chairman Roland Giduz appealed for persons who have expressed interest in the drive to contribute money for the legal — expenses involved. "There is a great deal of work tc be done. We need contribu tions in any amount for this pur pose, and we need them now,”' he said. Contributions may i$e. made out in the name of -the commit tee and given to any of the steering committee members — Chairman Giduz, Treasurer Dr. E. R. Bums, Dr. Theodore Old enburg, Dr. Floy Oldham, Dr. William Creighton, or Dr. Willi am Straughn; or mailed to the treasurer, 410 Airport Rd., Cha pel Hill. James Odell Howard of Hills* bora has been charged with as sault with a deadly weapon with intent- to kill for pumping five bullets into the “wrong” house hi a shooting spree last Sunday. Mr. Howard was to be com mitted to a mental institution yesterday. ! Resident of the W. King St. ' house, E. S. Hopper, received a ' facial cut from flying glass. No one else was injured. Howard, a 48-year-old cotton mill worker, went to the Orange County sheriff’s office • im mediately after the shooting and gave himself up. Whoa questioned by authori ties, Howard said he realised af ter the shooting that he had been at the ‘"■wrong” house. Ev idently he intended to go. to a house about a block away from Hopper’s home. A man who dat ed Howard’s wife before the couple’s marriage lives at the other house. Hopper told the officers that Howard came to his home Sun day evening and asked to be let in. Hopper, a jewelry salesman, 'became suspicious and told Howard that he could not get the door open because a key was jammed Wibe lack. - About that time, Hopper said, he saw Howard's .22 caliber pis tol. Hopper said he dived to the floor just as Howard fired the five shots through the front) <Jodr.‘ Orange County authorities ‘said j Howard's (family had Instituted ! commitment proceedings against Howard and that he was sched uled to be sent to a mental in stitution Wednesday. They said Howard has previously been in a mental ins'ftution.
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