of orange county
FOUR-COLOS
Orange County, Chape;
Hill, Carrboro and Hillsboro -
and includixlf tbe numbers of all
secondary roads in the county
have been received by a numbei
of local business firms that or
dered them last winter. The spe
cially-prepaced fourby-five-fooi
map’ is the most comprehensive
and readable diagram of its type
ever prepared for use here. A
commercial for the Champion
Map Corp., Box 17435, Charlotte,
is well-deserved.
FOR THE SPRING PILGRIM
age in Hillsborough next week
oad (April 27 & 28, that is) the
downtown business firms are
setting up window displays oi
merchandise in the colonial era,
in keeping with the spirit of the
occasion. For instance, Orange
Farm Equipment Co. will display
antique hardware; Forrest Fash
ions; dress of the colonial pe
riod; and Summey’s Shoe Shop,
old-fashioned shoes.
IN THE LINE OF OLB-PASH
ioned articles, Chapel HOI’S first
fire truck, tbe ohl 1R14 medel-T
purchased from Bruce Strowd’a
Ford agency, is now in several
hundred pieces spread over the
Glen Lennox Fire Station. Under
the loving care of Chief J. $.
Stewart and former Chief J. S.
Boone it’s been dis-aaaembled
completely for a total dean-up
and tune-up.. Their objective: To
make it the finest show-piece an
tique fire truck in the state.
FRANK PENDERGRAFT, GE
nius-Ln-the-rough at the Chapel
Hill postoffice has a brainstorm
on a practical use for all the old
automobile tires in the world:
Traffic control barriers. Mount
’em verticiflly on flanges fasten
ed with bolts into edge of the
highway or shoulders of the
road. In appearance they’d be
relatively symmetrical, would be
subject to less wear and tear
than less flexible barriers, and
would cost almost nothing. The
invention is not patented, nor is
the idea copyrighted yet, says
public-spirited Frank.
POLICE IN CHAPEL HILL
yesterday were still on the look
out for Roy Lee Merritt, 21, a
CarrbOro painter who escaped
from custody after being arrest
ed last Thursday afternoon for
an attempted assault on one of
the picketers in front of the Col
lege Cafe. Chief W. D. Blake
said that Police Lt. C. E. King
saw Merritt walk up to the pick
et, Paul Hutzler, and swing at
him. The blow missed its mark
but hit the picketer’s sign. Mer
ritt escaped from Lt. King as he
was being taken to the police
station and has not been seen by
officers here since.
[ JOHN UMSTEAD HAS BEEN
a patient in Memorial Hospital
again recently, and was " reported
to be in only “fair" cohdition
earlier; this week. Visitors at that
timer «ere restricted to his im
mediate family.;
f MEMBERS OF THE CHAPEL
Hill police force started a unique
in-service training program this
week — an 18-hour course in
pursuit driving. Eight policemen
are currently enrolled for the
three-hour daily sessions, taught
in their off-duty morning hours.
< As one feature they have to ne
gotiate an intricate course laid
out on the Bam Varsity parking
let behind Kenan Stadium in 90
seconds. Next month an 18-bour
course in firearms techniques is
scheduled.
COMING TOWARD CHAPEL
Hill on the Durham boulevard
near the Orange County line
drivers note that the white line
oh the edge of the highway
swerves neatly into an access
road exit at the new Amoco
station-_ All of -which on
one of these foggy nights is cal
culated to lead some motorist
suddenly and surprisingly into a
gas station. *
DIRECTORS OF THE FORTH
coming Spring Pilgrimage to
Historic Hillsborough very wise,
ly are urging prospective wom
en visitors to wear flat-heeled
shoes when they visit the old
houses on April 27-28, taking
cognizance of a recent article in
a journal on historic preserva
tion. Said the article: women
wearing needlepoint heels or
"glamour daggers,” as it pre
fers to call them, can make
beautiful old pine floors look
as though someone had pepper
ed them -With buckshot hnd Or
iental rugs take on a shredded
wheat appearance. A IDS pound
woman wearing needlepoints ex
erts a pressure of 2,000 pounds
per square inch when her heels
strike the floors — Exactly e
quivalent to an elephant walk
ing on the same floor. So - o - o!
Ladies, take heed.
Near tragedy here...
3h
WHERE THEY FELL — Tkirtee n-year-old Buddy Ellis of Carrboro was
an early arrival Monday at the scene of the near - tragedy on the Bolm
Creek trestle over Bolin Creek north of Carrboro. Above, he points to the
place where one of the seven persons who had to jump to avoid an oncom
ing train was lying when he got there. The g^oup of Calvary Missionary Bap
tist Church youths were returning -fro m an Easter Monday picnic a short
ways up the track when they became trapped on the track. Several were ser
iously injured. (Story on Page $►.)
Seek first 'Miss Orange' 'title...
ers of the first title of County’ are sev■
en HiHsbora £uUt show* opmi «* the courthouse
steps. - Left to right am Amn Ctoytm/ Andrea Bey,
Judy NottiSj Sylvia Wenseifc Gayle Sims; and (kneel
ing behind) Peggy Byrd and Marie Minnis. The lo- ~
cal eliminations for the Miss America Pageant utill
be held m Chapel HM on Friday evening, May 3,
under sponsorship of the Chapel HUl Jaycaes.
(Story on Page *) ,