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of orange county Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro—Between and Beyond VOL. 71. NO. 43 HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1963’ 24 PAGES Orange Peaiings THE CHAPEL HILL FIREMEN are, needless to say, delighted with their sumptuous new fire house “Hilton.” But they cautioa visitors against some of the un usual features of the new station house: Such as the floor-to-ceil ing glass that flanks the second floor door to a cement terrace over the hose drying room, A woman visitor came up the stairs the other day, made a sharp right turn, and walked smack into the glass. The floor-to-ceiling win dows were deemed a hazard to the modesty of the firemen in their dormitory room, too. So the bottom third of the glass was frosted over by sandblasting OF 74 NAMES DRAWN BY the county commissioners for jury duty in next month’s crimi hal term of Orange County Su perior Court, 46 are from Chapel Hill Township. This is about 63 per cent of the list—or slightly more than the proportion of the Township’s 25,000 population to the entire County (43,000). In terestingly, perhaps, nary a resi dent of Bingham Township has drawn jury duty for the civil term this month or the criminal term next month. LMAPEL HILL POLICE SAY they haven’t been contacted by local resident James M. Mangum in connection with his offering of a $2,500 reward for informa tion leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits who robbed and assaulted him and his son, at their home in Green wood on Sept. 30 1962. Though they’re still conducting the in vestigation into the mysterious crime, they say that all they know about Mr. Mangum’s offer is what was printed in the Dur ham Morning Herald on Monday morning, wherein Mr. Mangum’s attorney reported by letter to the newspaper that he held his cli ent’s $2,500 cashier’s check for this purpose. ONLY DELEGATE FROM THE Orange County Young Democrats Club to the state YDC convention in Charlotte last weekend was at torney Charles Hodson of Chapel Hill. The convention adopted a strong statement of opposition to the “gag” law, also to the “little federal” re-apportionment plan to be voted upon in the Jan. 14 statewide referendum, and re stricted the voting age of its members to 40. The latter rule will affect a number of long-time members of the Orange County YDC. ONE STOLEN. CAR WAS De posited and another taken in its place in an unusual bit of lar ceny in Chapel Hill last Sunday. The incident occurred at. the Town and Country Service Sta tion, where burglars broke in, stole some money and small items, and picked up the keys to the car of a Durham man which had been left there for repairs. They left in its place a car stolen the day before in Durham, then later abandoned the car taken from Town and Country, un-dam aged and out of gas on the Dur ham Boulevard. New neighbors for Buddy... rowvinu in—eignr-yoar-om Buddy Koe looks over his now neighbors in Chapel Hill, the local Fire Department, and swings out from the 100-foot extension ladder truck as it's backed up into the town’s new central fire station on North Columbia St. The son of Dr. and Mrs. William B. Poe, Buddy and other neigh borhood youngster* have watched with interest while the $80,000 contemporary design structure was erected as the first building of a projected municipal center. The building was formally ac cepted from the contractor by the Town this week. Chest drive passes~20 pet figures said 'encouraging' —Story on Page 2 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Their efforts won first place... Ve 1 FIRST IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT—Oringi County’* St. Mary’s Community, heart of Its thriving poultry and livostosk industry this week has bean named winner in the 1963 Community Development Prog aim; A* such it is this county’s entry in the North Central Aroa Development Association contest-for the No. 1 winner in the three county area of Orange, Person and Durham counties. To win ths-coveted award, a wide variety *f activities benefiting homos, farms and the community were carried out by the 91 families living in the community. Among them was the beautification of Now Sharon Church and cemetery. A closely knit community in which dose co operation among the- tanilies is a way of life, Sf. Mary's folks gathorod often on the church ground* in working clothe* and with tools to prune shrubbery, as shown ahevg and carry on other commu nity work. Richard Roberts, right, was chairman, Mrs. Henry S. Walker, second from left, served as secretary. Others in the work force above are Mrs. Carl Walker left, Mrs. W. Y. Walker, Mrs. | PPiWI Miller, Miss Laura Watkins and Mrs. Clyde Roberts. **
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