■ of orange county
Chabel Hill, Hillsborough, Currboro—Between and Beyond
VOL. 71, NO. 45
HILLSBOROUGH ANO CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 31, 1963
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Pealings
TEN YEARS AGO, ALMOST
to toe month, thieves broke into
Compton’s Store at Carr, blasted
" open the safe and succeasfuly
got away with a substantial haul.
A week ago .toe store was enter
ed again ai&’tois time toe safe
was battered open with an axe
and other tools taken from inside
the store. About $90* was taken,
according to Sheriff C D Knight,
Tuesday night in the same com
and no arrests have been made.
ANOTHER THEFT OCCURRED
munity when some.400 pounds of
tobacco was stolen from the Coy
Kimbro farm. Two Burlington
Negroes hare been arrested on
suspicion of implication in the
theft. Larceny charges have been
preferred against one of them.
HISTORIC Hli&SPMtOUGH IS
now without a commercial thea
ter, since the closing of the Os
bunn by operator Wayne McDade
last Saturday night. McDade said
he was told by the Chance family,
owners of toe property, the build
__ ing would be remodeled and leas
ed to a discount house for oper
ation as a retail outlet. Another
„ sign of the times, it would seem.
"THERE MUST BE SOME IN
dians working on your newspa
per staff,” wagged an observant
reader earlier this week. Asked
to elucidate he said this must be
true because he saw so many
“ugbs” on ‘Hillsboro” as it has
come lately to be spelled in The
News. Reader is of course right, i
The News is attempting to revert
to the colonial spelling of Hills
borough as evidence of coopera
tion with current efforts to re
store Historic Hillsboro—rather,
Hillsborough.
A CHAPEL HILL POLICEMAN
was last week given just one
hour to appear in superior court
at Hillsborough to explain why
he tailed to answer when his
name was called as a juror. Hie
sheriff contacted him at his off
duty place of employment, learn
ed that the patrolman had some
how failed to receive the cus
tomary mail notice of jury serv
ice. The judge was so informed,
and held off any further wrath
of the law until the unwitting
delinquent could drive to Hils
borough, make his appearance,
and" be excused. *
ANOTHER CHAPEL HILL PO
iceman, Sgt. C. L. Edmonds, left
Tuesday morning for a four-day
course in first aid, transporta
tion and treatment of the in
jured,. being given at the Ameri
can College of Surgeons in Chi
cago. A qualified first aid in
structor, he’ll be a specialist in
this field for the Department on
his return.
WOMAN WHO WANTED TO
telephone the fire department in
Chapel Hill last Sunday evening
to sound an alarm to a blaze in
her store building (separate story
in this issue) was held up for sev
eral costly minutes because per
sons using her eight-party line
refused to gel off and allow her
to make her emergency call.
Damage in the blaze was estimat
ed at $2,500. While refusal tp
relinquish a telephone line for
fire alarm purposes is a crime,
officials said they did not have
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AT CHAMBER B^NQUET-Cbarter members of
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce are
seen at Monday nighfs banquet of the newly-formed or
ganization, at which a 16-member board of directors was
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elected. The meeting was attended by about 80 persons
in the neivly-built addition to The Ranch House in
Chapel Hill. UNC Chancellor W. B. Aycock was the
keynote speaker for the occasion.
School board plans to push
Boy Scouts' 'best friencf
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OP LEApER—Paul Tremblay, Scout
Hill Boy Scwtt Troop 835 since it was
in »955> presented a special award
istrict’s Outstanding Scoutmaster from
nt at the annual pot-luck supper, staged
imrents last 1 hursday evenmsr. He was
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scputers)
presented a replica of Norman Rockwell's painting of
“The Scoutmaster” in token of the District Committee's
appreciation of his services. Seen with him are three
scouts in his troop—Bryan Mansfield, Tommy Cleveland;,
and Walter Carter. , ' .; iV *