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Orange Pealings
WATER BILLS WILL BE
' larger in Hillsborough this
month iand late in arriving, ac
cording to Mayor Fred Claytor
who said broken mains and icing
conditions had prevented read
ings at .the usual time. While
this makes the bills larger this
month, they should . be corre
spondingly lower two months
from now at the next billing, he
explained in an effort to fore-,
stall the rash of complaints
which might be expected from
the increased billings.
PATRIOTIC AND CIVIC
minded souls grudgingly willing
to sacrifice themselves on the
.alter of. public service will begin
crawling out of the hustings next
week following the constitution
al amendment referendum.
There’ll be a representative to
elect, possibly a senator, and the
biennial primary elections for
the county, all in the offing just
four months away.
— TOLITtCAL SPOTLIGHT WILL
be shared, however, by the cam- j
paign for governor. Both the j
Preyer and Moore forces are off j
on the sawdust trail seeking
ward-heelers to help snare the!
voters. More than a few eye-;
brows were quizically lifted i
Tuesday ' night when Fred Cates, {
chief drum beater for Dan Moore
in the Land of Orange, showed
1 up at the Preyer meeting in the j
courthouse. Cates joshed that he
understood it was a public meet-;
mg, then magnanimously retired j
to the seriff’s office a few mo- j
ments later. t
SIXTH DISTRICT CONGRESS
man Horace Kornegay will be the
speaker for the installation ban*
quet of the Orange County Young j
Democrats Club, to be held on '
• Saturday evening, Jan. 25, at a I
place to be announced. At that j
time ChajSel Hill attorney Robert.
Cooper will Succeed Cates as ;
President of the group.
A MEETING OF THE SPECIAL
committee appointed to draw up
Orange County’s appeal to the
North Carolina Fund has been,
called for next Thursday by its
chairman, County Commissioner j
Don Cleveland. He said that pro
fessional people from Chatham
and Person would likely be call
ed, too, to discuss a three-coun
ty project. While not yet fully
formulated, he said, it will be
centered on children "with the
idea of eliminating problems be
fore they start, rather than try
ing to patch ’em up after they
occur.”
ORANGE COUNTY'S NGMI
nee for the top Tar Heel turkey,
shown on the cover photo of the
Dec. 22 issue of The,News, was
10 pounds shy of the 53-pound
winner that the Department • of
Conservation and Development
sent to the national competition
in Louisville this week. “Tar
Heel Tom,” raised by a Duplin
County grower, apparently suf
fered air sickness, though. He
weighed but 50 pounds on arri
val in the Blue Grass state. John
Lockhart of Oranjje County said
that the pride of his flock was
a record 43 pounds. The national
winner, a California gobbler,
claimed 63 pounds.
PASSERSBY WHO WONDER
, how the big new dental research
Circulation Today
building will be squeezed in be
tween the highway and the front
of the School of Dentistry build
ing in Chapel Hiii may have ov
erlooked the fact that the hig]t_
way is due to be eliminated there
at some time in the future. Thus
there'll be no problem of Set
back. Long-range thoroughfare
plans call for the business route
of the Pittsboro highway to pro
ceed down Pittsboro St., and for
South Columbia St. to be ended
in a cul-de-sac a few yards north
of the medical hill area.
A NEW CROSS-STREET BE
tween West Franklin and West
Rosemary in Chapel Hill might
be provided in the near future,
subject to the possibility that
Hospital Saving Asociation might
provide right-of-way to the Town
for this purpose along the east
side of its new parking lot on
the grounds formerly occupied
by the recently-razed Scarbor
ough Building. The street would
hit West Rosemary in a near in
tersection with Mitchell Lane,
providing access to the town’s
main business block at a stra
tegic place. Two other small
tracts of land, other than those
owned by HSA, are also involved.
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boro Merchants Association office, holds up a timely reminder that it’s high time
for -auto owners to purchase their new state and local auto tags. To date—as of yes
terday—about 1,700 persons, out of the mb. re than 10,000 that will do so locally during
this year, had done so already. |
of orange county
Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carrboro—Between and Beyond
VOL. 71, NO. 2 j HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1964
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v $5o MILLION IN LISTINGS-More than $50
million in properly valuation will be received and
appropriately recorded Lay the list takers in Chapel
Hill Township during the annual month-long ritual
of property listing currently. Above, busy with pencils
their job in the. Carr bom Town flail, are Mrs.
James Hearn, Mrs. Henry Hogan
Blake. L. JR. Cheek, head list taker Jo
said ‘business’ has been compargieOel
and urged all property ow
listing as soon as possible.
and Mrs. Marie
>r the Toiunship,
ly slow recently,
to come in to do their