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THOSE RUBBER PIPE TRAF
fic barriers set up lor the west-;
bound right - turn lane on E.1
Franklin at Henderson St. in
downtown Chapel Hill have
worked out fine for the first
week. There were no tell-tale
Smudges on the inside of the
curving line of painted poles, in
dicating that no cars have trav
eled over them. On the outside
there are a few marks -showing
that cars in the parallel lane got
a bit too close and brushed up
against ’em. The State tried out
gadgets of this kind at the Glen
Lennox overpass on Highway 54
a couple of winters ago. Drivers
seemed to delight in riding over
them and they didn’t last long,
SOME CHAPEL HILL FIRE
men have had difficulty in re
adjusting to a new style of jump
ing when leaping into the fire
department’s life net — as in
photo on this page. Chief J. S.
Stewart had his crew out prac
ticinguse of the net Monday
night. None of ’em minded the
unique exercise, but Fireman
Hughes Lloyd—a devotee of the
Old Swimmin* Hole clan—could
not break himself from auto
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TRAINING FOR FIREMEN - Members of the Chapel Hill Fire De
partment have been undergoing an intensive program of in-service training
under the tutelage of Chief J. S. Stewart. One of the precautionary exercises
they’ve been engaged in has been jumping into the eight-man life net that’s
standard equipment with the aerial ladder truck. Here they’re seen in jump
drill at the Glen- Lennox Fire Station. ]