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; ■ Grange eatings BIDS ON THE NEW 1,000 seat addition to Woollen Gym nasium at the University will be taken next month, it was learn ed this week. The coliseum-type facility, however, will probably not be ready for use during bas ketball season next year; more likely will be completed in mid 1965, according to current esti mates. A RIGHT UNUSUAL FIRE call was answered by the Chapel Hill Fire Dept, several days ago. > Occurred at a residence on Sun set Drive, where the householder had stoked a wood heater with coal. The coal burned to a much finer ash than wood, fell through the grating, and burned a hole in the floor beneath the heater. WHETHER OR NOT A LARGE convention-oriented banquet hall will be constructed atop the new hotel now under construction by . Interstate Investors in downtown Chapel Hill has not yet been de- ' cided. This would be an added floor above the currently-plan- ■ ned five floors, a spokesman said this week. However, the recent ly-poured footings for the 125 unit structure have been laid out so as to accommodate another floor, if the builders decide to put it on, he said. The job is .. currently held up because of bad. weather, it was understood. RENOWN FOLK SINGER Burl Ives was spotted at supper in The Ranch House last Friday evening by7 the alert Billy Ar thur children. They trotted over to his table and asked him for his autograph, to which he gra? ciously acceded. In Durham to prepare for a rice diet treatment for his heart condition, the port 2. ly minstrel was apparently feast ing (on a sUak Chateaubriand) before his deliberate famine. ' SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES SPOT ted a man they’d been looking for during the past several months during, the racial dem onstrators’ parade through mid town Chapel Hill last Saturday noon. They stopped him during the march and served their war rant for a worthless check, re turnable in a local JP. court. The defendant subsequently fin ished the march and paid off the charge, officers reported. He had not been seen in town for a number of weeks prior to last Saturday. 15 MARGARET ANN PEACOCK, daughter of Chapel Hill Senior High School Librarian Mrs. W. H. Peacock aad Prof. Peacock, was the first borrower registered in the Chapel Hill Public Library when it was officially opened five years ago yesterday. She observed the occasion with an anniversary visit yesterday after noon. Tae book she first borrow ed, incidentally, was “How to Hide a Hippopotamus,” part of a collection given to the library by Mr. and Mrs. Wyncie King. QUITE A PROBLEM IN FIRE protection is involved in the pop ulous neighborhood around Lin coln High School near Chapel Hill. The area is outside the cor porate limits of both Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and under existing state law cannot be taken into the suburban fire district, since (Mm rEALINGS, pa** 12) Circulation Today 7,651 9f PCT. DISTRIBUTED IN ORANGE county of orange county THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1963 VOL. -71, - - 28 PAGES Swimming pool, teen center being given in Chapel Hill —Story on Page 8 TERCENTENARY SCENE — Elegant ISth century coffee urn and 17th eantury candelabra from Chapel Hill'* famous Whitehall Shop contributed to the precious living atmosphere at last Friday night's Orange County celebration of Carolina Charter Tercentenary In Strudwick Hall of Hillsborough's ven erable Presbyterian Church. 175 persons from Hillsborough, Chapel Hill; the county and Durham attended the unique pro gram patterned after similar avtnings ol 300 years age as they must have been held in celenial hemes and taverns. Mrs. James H. Coman Jr., seated, and Mrs. Dalton Loftln presided at the coffee hour in 1#th century costumes. Interested onlookers are Mr. Coman, right, who was general chairman of the tercenten ary event and Mr. Loftln. ★ ★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Board re-affirms action —Story on Pag«P2
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