of orange county
Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond
HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1963
VOL. 71, NO. 32
32 PA«€S
Orange
Pealings
THE HOMING PIGEONS
pictured is last week’s issue of
The News made their flight
from Chapel Hill to their native
loft on Long Island, New York,
quite satisfactorily. They were
released here at 6:15 a. m. by
pigeon fancier Bob Logan, and
one of the birds was home by
dusk — just under 12 hours la
ter — 550 miles northward. The
others came in the next morn
ing. Mr. Logan is currently
training 17 homing pigeons of
his own, taking ’em out for
gradually longer flights home,
beginning with a half • mile.
WHILE THERE’S SPIRITED
political jockeying for the Or
ange County Democratic seat in
the General Assembly — to be
decided on Sept. 3 — there are
several “patriots” who'd like
the job, but for various reasons
can’t run until the primary
campaign of next spring.
’T’wouJdn’t be political cricket
to publicly bandy their names
in print now, except for one of
the more obvious: Ex-Rep. Jim
Phipps, who’ll be free from his
American Legion commitment,
and may quite likely seek the
legislative post in his own right.
Some additional candidate tim
ber is tied up in other elective
offices for the nonce, too.
SOME OF ms FRIENDS ARE
touting retired Chapel Hill Su
perintendent of Schools C. W.
Davis—now of the Union Grove
Church community — , for ap.
pointment — to the County
Board of Education when the
inevitable resignation of Charl
ie Walker is filed. Mr. Walker
has accepted employment in
Edgecomb County and will soon
move there. The County Demo
cratic Executive Committee will
recommend his successor. Oth
er names around the cracker
barrel are Remus Smith Jr. and
Clarence Jones. An additional
half - dozen were noted by “J.
C,” in his Hillsborough Observ
er column last week.
DR. BOB MURPHY, NEWLY
appointed chairman of *the 29:
. member- Hillsborough Historical
Commission, plans an organiza
tional meeting of that group at
Colonial Inn in Hillsborough one
weekend this month. He said
he’s currently contacting the
membership in an effort to de
termine the most advantageous
date for the meeting.
CHAPEL HULL POLICE PA
trolman Jimmy Farrell tells
this stranger - than - fiction
tale for real. He was seated in
his patrol car downtown early
one Sunday morning a couple
of weeks ago, reading a News
and Observer feature story a
bout the vicious attack training
of German Police dogs by state
prison authorities in Raleigh.
Suddenly he heard a noise be
hind him, and turned in stark
shock to see that a huge Ger
man Police dog had leaped
through the open rear - door
window of his car onto the
back seat. The policeman,
though quite "shook,” simply
opened the door and the dog
quietly hopped cut. —A fantas
More PEALINGS, Page 8
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Democrats to meet Sept. 3
to pick Orange legislator
—Story on Pogo'2
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Salary increases granted
for all county employees;
wage scale plan adopted
____ —Story on Page 2
1Tourists see farm...
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ON AREA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -
Visitors from Orange, Durham, and Person County
climaxed their afternoon tour of the Chapel Hill
area yesterday at the Hogan brothers dairy farm
north of Carrboro. Above, Bob Hogan (second from
left), is seen with three of the ‘tourists’ — Southern
High ' School agriculture teacher Johnny Evans
(third) of Durham, and Marion Clark and Everette
Kennedy of Hillsboro. The moppet on the horse is
one of the Hogans’ family visitors — Christy Reyn
olds of Miami, Fla., sitting astride ‘Champ,’ one of
the Hogans’ riding horses.