of orange county
—Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between
VOL. 71. NO. IS
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILII; N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1962
Orange
Peaimgs
MAY DAY BROUGHT JOHN
Umstead out on the town for a
while yesterday morning, look
ing and talking right chipper af
ter almost a month in the hos
pital. He spent about an hour
in his office, stopped and chat
ted with several friends on the
street, and said he felt better
than he had since he stepped
down from the General Assem
bly last winter.
IN FAVORABLE RESPONSE
to the Historical Society’s appeal
last week, almost no women
wore spiked heels in trapsing a
raund the old homes on the
Spring Pilgrimage last weekend.
However, some few walked
barefooted through the old
Moorefields homes... .One of the
more interesting exhibits were
the old - fashioned hearse and
the man - shaped coffin at Wal
ker’s Funeral Home in Hills
boro.
UNC POLICE ARE SEEKING
vondals who wrought at least
$400 destruction to light posts
and other equipment around
campus buildings in the pre
dawn hours of last Saturday
morning. Torn up were a four
by-four light post in front of
the Kappa Sig house, a stop
sign at the campus entrance, a
light post at Carolina Inn, and
the windshield of a UNC truck,
a water cooler in Bingham Hall,
and the windows of another car
near Winston Dormitory.
PIEDMONT MINERALS COM
pany in Greensboro is giving
heavy advertising in the ceram
ics trade! press to its mine on
Oceoneechee Mountain near
Hillsboro. Under a large aerial
photo of the pyrophyllite and
andalusite mine the Company
claims that its Hillsboro opera
tion offers “what is probably
the nation’s foremost source of
these exceptional products,” es
timated to exceed a 50-year sup
ply at double the current pro
duction.
A TELEPHONE CALLER CON
cerned over the near-tragedy at
the Bolin Creek trestle of the
Southern Railroad near Carr boro
suggests that the children who
jumped might have been spared
(More Pealings, Page 12)
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elections, The News of
fice in Carrboro will be
©pen next Tuesday even
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of tabulation and results
of the Chapel Hitt, Catr
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any’ time beginning at
7 p. m.
Precinct registrars, or
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to call in the results for
all elections as soon as
these are available.
Field of candidates primed
for local elections Tuesday
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JOAN ARCHER
PEGGY BYRD
ANN CLAYTON
JUDY HOLLIS
BEVERLY LENG ..
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MARIE MINNIS
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ANDREA RAY
DELORES SCOTT
GAYLE SIMS
SYLVIA WORRELL
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