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
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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.