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24 PAMS of orange county AN UNUSUAL SERIES OF daytime robberies plagued rural Orange and surrounding counties ? several weeks back. Officers ask ed that stories be withheld at the time in the hopes the rob bers might be trapped, in most cases two or three white men would go to a house seeking work in topping trees. They'd in quire about neighbors, till the ascertained which ones weren’t home during the day, then would go loot the food freezers on their porches, or enter the house to steal other things. Most of the rural populace has been alerted to the ruse for some time now. THE CRUCIAL COLLIER Cobb corner of Boundary and E. * Franklin St. in Chapel Hill caught another lick from an in bound auto last Friday night. This time the fire hydrant was snapped off dean with the ground. The wrecked driver (on ly slightly injured) said another car forced him to lose control. Through the years the hydrant has been battered several times, the utility pole sheared off, and the Cobbs’ shrubbery torn up on various occasions as automobiles failed to complete the final in coming curve before the straight away of E. Franklin St. B. C. HEDGEPETH, MAN A ger of the Rathskeller in Chapel Hill until he took over a Wrights •ville Beach restaurant recently, was back in town last week, re plete with toupee purchased With Chapel Hill contributions. Nobody, but nobody at all recog nized him at first with the new fringes on top. —B. C. told (for real) how a fellow came into his waterfront restaurant one eve ning recently and ordered crab cakes. Since they were momen tarily out of crab B. C. sent a resourceful waiter out the back door with a strip of bacon. Short while later the fresh-cooked crab dish was served to the waiting diner. JOE AUGUSTINE, NEWLY ensconced as executive director of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro Merchants Association, this week sent out a memo to the membership to squelch talk that he was resigning to take a store keeping job with the University. He noted that while such a move had been considered by him he had definitely decided to stay. Noting that the unknown quan tity of the merchants post was "a great challenge,” he added that he had been '‘favorably im pressed with the determination and spirit” of the group’s lead ers to date. A THE HILLSBORO HISTQRI cal Commission bill introduced Monday night by Rep. Phipps provides for appointment of a body of at least 15 members on or before April 1 with the aim of restoring .and preserving old Hillsborough and its area as "a living, functioning, education and historical exhibit to North Carolina’s life and time. The Mayor of Hillsboro, Chair man of the County Commission ers, and a representative of the State Department of Archives and History would be automatic members. Circulation Today 7,590 99 PCT, DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY 9 file for Hillsboro board; ---1... _: _;..... ,_- _ » > Cates, Claytor for mayor —■Story on Pago 2 In the 'halo box.. -ANGELIC AIR’ r- The halo over the head of Mrs. Jim Phipps is actually the chandelier in the rotunda of the Legislative Building in Raleigh. The photo of the new ‘honorable’ from Orange County and his lady wasr-taken adjacent to his of fice, overlooking the red carpet stairway in the Statehouse after he was installed on Monday nighty One of Rep. Phipps favorite stones, apropos of ' the coincidence in the above photo, is about the fellow who was discussing the specifications for his new house with the contractor. 'I, wants you to put a halo box in it,’ the owner said. The puzzled con tractor asked ‘What in the world is a halo boxT Oh, you knows what I mean,’ came the reply. ‘Its one of those little boxes you puts on the wall and pick up the handle and say ‘hay-lot
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