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of orange county -Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond VOL. 71, NO. 38 HILLSBORO AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1963 24 PAGES Orange Peaiings MRS. ANNIE FULLER OF EF. land reports a bonanza of blooms on her Night-Blooming Cereus this season. One night recently there were 17 blooms open, where previously only three or four have been open at a time. To have this many blooming on one plant in a single night is consid ered quite unusual for this type aof plant. THE FLAGS HAVE BEEN flying on the downtown streets j of Chapel Hill this week—in case you had wondered—in recogni tion of the nationwide observance of Constitution Week, being spon sored locally by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Davie Poplar Chapter. ODD DUPLEX HOUSE-MATES at Carolina this year are Richard Jonas, third-year student from Lincolnton, and son of Rep. Charles R. Jonas, and Daniel Moore Jr., a graduate student, and son of the Democratic guber natorial candidate from Canton. They’re upstairs-downstairs resi dents of a duplex on Durham Rd. Both of these figures in the potential miniature of next year’s general election for the govern orship are brothers in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, too. WILLIAM RAND KENAN, JR 90-year-old donor of the stadium that bears his name and long time University benefactor, may be in Chapel Hill for the Caro lina-State football game on Oct. 19. A business commitment re portedly has prevented his com ing to see the results this Satur day of his million-dollar-plus gift for enlargement of Kenan Stadi us. Built 37 years ago with his $375,000 gift for a 24,000-seat lay-out, it lias now been enlarged to 42,000 permanent seats. Con struction work oh the enlarge ment is scheduled to be finally completed by the time of the State game here. HAPLESS MOTORIST CALLED in to the Chapel Hill office this week to report that he suffered a flat while driving on the sur face of loose, freshly-laid crushed rock on Jones Ferry Rd, on Mon day night. Before he could stop the car he heard a rock bouncing around inside his tire—a fact verified when the ribbon-slashed tire was subsequently removed. The Chapel Hill aldermen have appealed to the State Highway Commission to re-surface streets with plant mix instead of by the treacherous crushed rock and tar treatment. SERIOUS INJURY WAS BAR ely avoided in a smash-up at the peak morning traffic hour on the bottleneck of S. Columbia St. near the “triangle” yesterday morning. According to police re ports Lavern Moses, driving a pick-up truck loaded with saw dust, was unable to avoid hitting a car in front of him when it stopped to turn. left. Moses fell out of his vehicle in the colli sion, was taken to the hospital for X-raying, but promptly re leased. He was charged by Pa trolman Albert Brinkley with having faulty brakes on his truck. A FAR MORE SENSATIONAL scene was a wide open chase at speeds reported in excess of 100 miles an hour on the Durham Boulevard about 3 p.m. Tuesday. Patrolman Jim Farrell was cbaa Circulation Today 7,651 99 PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE COUNTY W>'. : ■ - •» ing a University student, Michael Flannagan of Kinston, as the lat ter careened along the crowded highway northward, running sev eral cars off the road. The fugi tive ran off the road at the N. C. Hwy. 751 entrance to Duke Uni versity, where Durham police were waiting for him. He was un-in jured and the-car was not damaged. But he was charged by Durham police with drunken I driving, and is to be charged inj Chapel Hill with speeding and. reckless driving. AN ANONYMOUS NOTE writer to The News last week challenged the recent award of a 21-year pedestrian safety plaque to The Town of Chapel Hill, citing the death of a man in 1837 in.an accident at the cor ner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets. Hie latter, however, in no way involved pedestrians. The victim's car smashed into a util ity pole. 'School's out scene... ' BUSES LOAD AT ORANGE' HIGH—Almost 400 of the 460 pupils currently enrolled 'In the nem< Orange High School north of Hillsboro travel to and from the school by buses. Above, some of the 23 buses that transport the prills ere seen being loaded. The two classroom wings of the 29-clas*v room building (including library, shop, and science Isb), are seen above. The basement of the wing; at the left, not yet finished inside^ will be used as a dressing room for athletic activities and for school activities. Construction on the milliorvdollar building will be almost entirely finished^ wiihjn two more weeks, according to County Superintendent of Schools G. Paul Carr. Top toes—typical topic. . . GET A KICK OUT Of FOOTBALL - Miss Orange County, Ann Clayton of Hillsboro, end Bill Edwards, e leading candidate for punting chores for UNC’s Tar Heels, symbolize the opening of-tkar 1963 college football season hereabouts in a kicking pose before the neudyonlmged double-tiered Kenan Stadium. Kick-off time far the UNC-Virginia classic, utilt be 1:30 p.m. this Satmdp*
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