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"g-—<-r of orange county —Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond— HILLSBORO A HD CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31,4?63 24 PAGES Orange Pealinas THE NINE ASTRONAUTS J gave as good an accounting of themselvesat their press con ference in Chapel Hill yesterday as their predecssors have in out: er space. All were candid yet diplomatic, unassuming yet sin •erely confident, and while quite able to express themselves in dividually, never forgetting an over-riding > team spirit. —Thgt oft-quoted line about the press conference being the only thing they've been afraid Of to date was a quip proposed in jest by Planetarium Director Tony Jen nano, incidentally, rather than by one of the nine fliers. THE OUTER SPACE Busi ness is really a lot of fun, as tronaut Frank Borman declared, calling it “more or less a hobby —not a job.” All of them are professional test pilots, and some • yet do a .bit of recreational fly ing in conventional small air craft, just for kicks, they noted, j DILIGENT INVESTIGATION ( has still failed to uncover the cause of a Are that destroyed a section of the building tele phone exchange in South Build ing on the UNC campus last Saturday morning. One possible clue suggested is that it might have had a link to the surge of electricity thats injected into the automatic clock-setting sys tem in the same box at 8 a.m. daily, since the fire alarm was shortly after that time. But that — charge of juice is only 72 volts. CONTRACT FOR THE .SMILE dual-laning job on the bypass highway alongside Eastgate will be given to low-bidder William Muirheid Of Durham. The $60, 600 job Will include flared-out turning lanes in the various in tersections along this congested and treacherous stretch of road. HAD CIRCUMSTANCES BEEN only a little different there might have been a need for a hearse, or at least several am bulances instead of just one at the freak Raleigh Road wreck last Saturday night. Ambulance driver Curtis Woodleaf tried ev ery possible maneuver of driv ing to gain some traction while his Cadillac ambulance slid down the icy hill. In retrospect later he said he was at least glad that his vehicle Mt the parked police car behind the pile-up, if it had to hit any cars, rather than ploughing into the cluster of people and autos a few feet farther on. BUSINESS FIRMS THAT have not yet removed their ad vertising signs from the public sidewalk in downtown Chapel. Hill may expect to be summoned Into Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court any day now, if their vio lations continue, Town officials warned this week. The main trespassing holdouts continue to{ be the major gasoline com panies. •. SPEAKING OF TRAFFIC AND highways, ■ the long-range' thor oughfare plan for Chapel Hill, 10 years in the making to date - i^ore PEALINGS, Page 12 A - \ - - • r--"r . . - - • Anatomy of accidents... SATURDAY NIGHT SCENE-The banked curve of the Raleigh Road hill onjthe east side of Chapel Hill proved the downfall op a dozen motorists dur ing a few treacherous minutes last Saturday night. A heavy mist-like rain freezing on the asphalt surf ace made the roadway a solid sheet of ice, scuttling cars into each other like howling balls. —For a chronology of the freak pile-up see Page 3. ASTRONAUTS HERE - Three of the nine astronauts in Chapel Hill for celestial navigation studies at Morehead Planetarium this week, seen with a sphere of the mock galaxies surrounding a A ,A A 1 A globe of the earth, are (left to right) Neil Arm- j strong, James Lovell, and Elliott See. (.Another pho- j to on Page 6.) • t A A A A
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