orange county
etween and Beyond—
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VOL; 71,
Orange
Readings
Ji* PHIPPS, SOM OF THE
wilds of White Cross, proved
himself a peerless cosmopolitan
master of odd - North Carolina
geography recently. He won a
contest staged by State Maga
zine to give the present day
names of 45 cities and towns in
the state that were listed by now
abandoned names. His $25 first
prize-winning entry had only
seven wrong ones. (Included in
the list was “Venable,” the orig
inal .name for Carrboro.) Histor
ian Hugh Lefler, also of Chapel
Hill,, missed only seven also,
but liis entry was received after
that of Judge Phipps.
THEN THERE WAS A DOC
tor at Memorial Hospital who
this past week telephoned the
town sewer plant to ask ’em to
be on the look-out for a bit of
.organic tissue he was using in
a study—and which accidentally
slid down the drainpipe. Em
ployees watched the filter screen
in the plant, but never discovered
the missing specimen. It was esti
mated that it would take about
two hours for the water borne
sewage to flow from Memorial
Hospital through the piping,
about three miles eastward to
the treatment plant.
THE CHAPEL HILL ALDER
men adjourned their regular
meeting Monday night exactly on
the Eastern Standard Tjme
witching hour of midnight—lat
est quitting time in several re
gimes, and four and one - half
hours after the opening gavel
was sounded. Reason for the
Jengthy session was the Duke
Power controversy (two hours),
an’’’ earlier zoning hearing (one
hotfr), and a heavy agenda as a
resiilt of A Christmas holiday
scheduled meeting that was not
held. Ten years ago midnight
and 1 a.m. meetings by the al
dermen were " not unusual,
though.
THAT MYSTERIOUS PAPIER
maehe hoss we inquired about
last week wasn’t a hoss* but a
camel. And it was being bauled
through Chaipel Hill from Ra
leigh (where it was manufactur
ed as a fourth grade class proj
ect) to the* Warren Barretts’
Storybrook Farm on Old Cedar
Grove Road for the play school
children there to enjoy; Thanks
to neighborhood correspondent
who called in this tad of human
animal interest.
BOOKS WITH A TOTAL VAL
ue of about $3,000 have been re
ported missing from the Univer
sity Undergraduate Library since
June of last year. Authorities
note that many of them are mod
ern civilization reference books,
not allowed out oh regular loan.
An announcement of the pilfer
age yesterday Carried a warning
that student government action
through the Men’s Council would
be taken to recover books not
turned to. "
GOVERNOR SANFORD WARN
ed his Faculty Club audience here
last week that he was about to
get revenge on some of the profs
who put him to sleep during
their classroom lectures some
years before. —His quip stem
med freon Club President John
Kunstmann’s jocular remark in
introduction that the Governor
wasn’t given an opportunity to
speak when he was given an
honorary doctorate at UNC two
years ago.
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FINAL DRAWING FOR FIRE STATION - A
casual glance at the, finally-adopted architect’s drawing
for the new downtown Chapel Hill Fire Station has
caused some viewers to compare it to the new $7 million
Legislative Assembly building in Raleigh because of the
metal-finned flat-roof domes that cap both buildings.
Chapel Hill officials are currently paring specifications
for the fire station to bring contractors’ low bids totall
ing $92,000 closer to the approximately $78,000 in bond
funds available for the job, The structure is scheduled
for immediate construction and completion within six
months. „
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Grim reminder...
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BYPASS SCENE — Grim reminders of a fatal traf
fic accident at that spot, and another one a short dist
ance southward down the Highway in the background
were contained in two unauthorized signs that were
posted underneath the Durham Road bridge across the\
Chapel Hill bypass highwayl, east of Town last Saturday
night. Bids on dual-laning a ,%-milc stretch of the high
way alongside Ep§tegate (right, background) are to be
opened Jan. *g. Meanwhile local citizens are pushing for
further traffic safety steps in the area.