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HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1963
of orange county
Orange
Pealings
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-■■■■; CARR BORO MAYOR CHARLIE
Ellington added a touch of “gra
cious living” to the seventh
inning stretch that the Town
Board of Commissioners tradi
tionally take along about 9:45
p.m. each meeting night. The
monthly session fell on his 58th
birthday this past Tuesday. So
.at the intermission period he
turned the tables in celebration
and passed out a carton Of cig
+ arettes, a box of cigars^ and set
J up the boys to Cokes.
IN THE VERY NEAR Fu
ture, by the way, the Town of
Carrboro Will stage formal' cere
monies for the first official flag
raising on its newly-erected
flagpole in front of the Town
Hall. A flag was recently given
to the Town by the Chamber of
Commerce. Ceremonies are being
planned, replete with a formal
fyeolor guard from the local unit
of the national guard.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW THE
story that goes with the papier
mache boss that was being cart
ed into mid-Chapel Hill last Fri
day afternoon, feet akimbo out
of the trunk of a car? Will hold
presses next week for late flash
from any volunteer neighborhood
correspondent .'' >
TWO TACTFUL PATROLMEN
on the force of “Chapel Hill’s
Finest" drew the plaudits of ha"
less mo orists on the especially
cold mornings recently. Stationed
at the downtown school cross
~ ings, they stopped drivers who
had insufficient: vision because
of frosted windshields -t- then
handed ’em *a king-sited plastic
frost scraper to clean off the
glass.
FIRE CHIEF J. $. STEWART
will burn an old derelict build
••tog on Estes Drive west of the
junior high school building as a
training exercise for Chapel Hill
firemen. The occasion will be a
short course for the firemen ear
ly fiext month. In the meantime
fit’ll be used for smoke mask
training, too, by burning smudge
pots inside it. The two-room
eabin w^s built 10 or 12 years
ago by the late Hubert Atwater
as a little store. ■
HIS COLLEAGUES ON THE
county board of commissioners
did a double take at the sight
of the snappy and classy new
suede cap that County Commis
sioner Donald Stanford wore to
the board meeting Monday morn
ing. It was, he said with sincere
pride and affection, a Christmas
gift from his wife, and a utilitar
ian "bit of gear to protect the
bald spot on his head.
CORRECTION PLEASE, ON
the sentence carried under the
photo on the cover of last week's
issue of The News. Local license
plates are not on sale to the
public at the Chapel Hill Town
Hall this year, as in the past.
They may be purchased along
with state tags at Stancell Motor
Co.
THE POSTMASTER IN
' Cbapel Hill, Hon. J. Paul Cheek,
reports that the stamp window
rush on Monday morning was
worse than at any time during
the recent Yuletide season as
mailers queued up to buy new
postage because of the rate hike
as of that day. Two stamp win
dows were open almost all day,
yet could scarcely handle the
crowd. He noted also that about
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County Museum re-opens...
SPINNING OUT HISTORY OF ORANGE -
One sorrier of the newly - reopened County Histori
cal Museum in the old courthouse ett^Hillsboro, seen
through an antique flax - spinning li'keel, displays
the famous desk top which belongerP'tonZprth Car
olina Governor Thomas Burke (1781) of FfRhboro:
The 18th century base.um given to the MuseuinAry
Mrs. Glenn Auman. Mrs. Marion Roberts (left) arhl
Mrs. Clarence D. Jones — seen beside the manne
quin at the right umked with a number of H.lls
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boro women in-recent months at refurbishing the
• museum.
The case in the foreground contains relics from
the early days of the county courthouse — branding
irons, shackles for prisoners, key to the gaol, exam
r ~ pies of early -hardwarenuch as locks, hinges, can- _ _
teens, powder horns, and a bullet mold. The Muse
um is open on Sundays from 2 till 4 p.m. and by
v special anatigement for visiting parties. ,