of orange county
Hillsboro, Carr boro—Between and Beyond
VOL.
24 PAG IS
Pealings
AT THEIR MEETING MON
day night, Mayor Sandy McClam
roch gave the Chapel' Hill alder
men an informal report on the
7,000-mile trip through six Eu
ropean countries that he and
County Commissioner Carl Smith?
returned from with other N. C.
.public, officials last Thursday.
'Recalling their meeting with the
City Council in Moscow, the May
or noted that the honorables
there were chosen in “free dem
ocratic elections” after the “up
per echelons of the party deter
mined who’d be the best person
for the job and put that one
^hahie on the ballot.” Onetrf the
aldermen recalling McClamroch’s
un-opposed election this year,
picked up the bait and quickly
interjected — “Sure, that’s just
the way it is here, too!”
DESPITE THE APPARENT
easing up on the Cold War at
mosphere they found in the Iron
Curtain countries, Commissioner
Smith noted that while they may
be making progress “to me when
people are regimented, the incen
tive is gone.” The Mayor sug
gested that America is going to
have to abandon its rol£'of “big
brother” for the European coun
tries, treat them as equals, and
try to compete effectively with
them.
MISS SALLIE PLEASANTS,
beloved second grade teacher in
the Chapel Hill public schools
for more than three decades, en
tered Memorial Hospital late last
week, and is in Room 609. Offi
cial report yesterday was that
she had a “good” day and a
“good” night.
CHAPEL HILL POLICBI WpT
Bill Blake is seeking to fill im
mediately two vacancies in the
department’s corps of women
school guards. No experience Is
required for the job, which pays
$63 a month, and requires school
crossing duty both before and
after school each week day.
TAX VALUATION TOTAL
for Chapel Hill, as compiled from
bills mailed out this past week,
is $38.1 million—about $1.1 mil
lion more than calculated in the
municipal budget for the current
year. Town Manager Bob Peck
estimated this would bring in
about $9,000 more than had pre
viously been figured on from this
source.
FOUR ORANGE COUNTY Ex
hibitors had been announced as
prize-winners in State Fair com
petition as of yesterday. Mrs.
V. C. Walters of Efland took a
third place in clothing for ai cot
ton suit she put in the judging.
S. C. Squires of Chapel Hill won
a first, third, and fourth prize
among honey, beeswax, and ob
servation hive exhibitors. And
Mrs. Warren Holmes and Mrs.
James Bradshaw of Efland both
won first place ribbons for their
cooking. Mrs. Warren entered a
baked fruit cake and Mrs. Brad
shaw, a plain cake. t>
CHAPEL HILL HOUSEWIFE,
hemmed in by the machinery of
•“civilized” contemporary living,
complains about the 12-minute
parking meters at the Chapel Hill
Postoffice. Because of the. non
automated set-up of window serv
ice in the postoffice, she wails,
she incurs one-dollar parking
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To preserve Hillsborough's heritage...
HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSIONERS—Seen in front
of the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough at their first
meeting last Saturday the members of the newly-appointed His
toric Hillsborough Commission are (front, left to right) Miss Betty
June Hayes, Hillsborough; Mrs. A. B. Stoney, Morganton; Miss
Mary Henderson, Chapel Hill; Mrs. Alfred Engstrom, Hillsborough;
Mrs. Lyman Cotten, Chape! Hill. Mrs. L. Richardson Prayer,
Greensboro; Mrs. John Labouisse, Durham; Miss Mary B. Forrest,
Hillsborough; Mrs. St. rierre OuBose, Chapel Hill; Mrs. S. R.
Prince, Reidsville; Mrs. J. C. Webb, Hillsborough; (back row) Voit
Gilmore, Southern Pine>i; William S. Powell, Chapel Hill; Ralph
Scott, Burlington; C. W. Stanford Jr., Raleigh; John Kellenberger, -. -
Greensboro; A. H. Graham, Hillsborough; Jamcts Webb, Greens
boro; Dr. H. W. Moore, Hillsborough. L. J. Phipps, Chapel Hill;
James G. W. Mac Lam roc, Greensboro; Commission Chairman Dr.
R. J. Murphy, Hillsborough; Dr. Christopher Crittenden, Raleigh;
Edwin J. Hamlin, Hillsborough; E. Wilson Cole, Hillsborough; and
Prof. Richard Walser, Raleigh. Members absent are Victor Bry
ant, Durham; James M. Johnston, Washington; and Mangum
Weeks,, Alexandria, Va.
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Hi Ilians in Moscow
A? — Orange County’s
rj tour taken this month
Jorth Carolina are seen
use in Moscow. Left to
idy McClamroch, N. C.
by various local ^facials fr<
above in front of the Open
right mie Chapel Hill Mayc
Association of County Commissioners General Counsel
Alex McMahon of Chapel Hill, and Orange County Com
missioner Carl Smith of Chapel Hill. 7 he three-weeks
tour covered 14,000. miles thtough six European coun*
tries.