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of orange county Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carrboro— Between and Beyond VOL. 71, NO. 3 HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1964 # ~ 20 PAGES Orange Pealings STEPPING UP TO THE LEC tern-at last week’s Chapel Hill Rotary Club meeting, the speaker for the evening,. North* Carolina Fund Executive Director George Esser, announced that he had specially written up a speech ' that afternoon just for delivery - * to that august body. —And, upon? ■T" completion of the creative chore,, }ie noted, he forthwith walked out oLJris office and left the text o r his desk. His off-the-cuff talk jiahetheless went off without a verbal hitch. CHAPEL HILL POLICE HAVE been holding for the past four days a first-class letter dispatch ed from Winston-Salem . to one “Kenneth Williams,” and sent in care of the “Chapel Hill Jail, . Chapel Hill, N. C.” Alongside the address were the" directions, “Hold for Arrival.” Nobody in the .Police Department had heard of Mr. Williams, nor could spec ulate under what conditions he might “arrive” at the local jail. FOUR CORE MEMBERS WERE still sitting-io at the Chapel Hill courtroom in5 the Town Hall late yesterday. They were the ves tiges of a group of 35 that de clined To leave the room on Mon day night following the alder - men’s meeting, at which a public accommodations ordinance was, , at least for the moment, side tracked. They were identified as Mrs. Rosemary Ezra, Robert _Thompson. Walter Mitchell, and a youth with the last name of Atwater. The leader of a CORE ! group that abandoned a chilly City Hall steps “lie-down” iabout 2:30 a.m. Tuesday expresstjd ex treme ‘displeasure to police that they had nqt been arrested. One reason they wergn!t. it was ex plained, was that nobody com plained gbout their presence, and persons entering and leaving the building did so by three other doors rather than disturb the prostrate bodies at the front % door. . A STOP LIGHT WILL LIKELY be erected by the State at the entrance to Eastgate Shopping Center on Durham Road, accord ing to word received in town this week- In the inimitable official jargon of bureaucracy, a State Highway Department report de clared that an -investigation' of the traffic situation “tends to in dicate that a signal is warrant-' ed . . _ and we have drawn up plans, now being reviewed by other departments, based upon that premise.” N. C. AMERICAN LEGION Department Commander L. J. Phipps is making four speeches and one additional official ap pearance in this capacity this week. Tuesday noon he spoke on ‘‘Americanism 1964” to the Dur: ham Sertomans; Tuesday night to the Chapel Hill Sertomans on the issues involved in the “little federal” plan referendum that day (“It was too late for the elec tion, but they wanted to know the issues involved anyhow,” he explained). Tonight he will speak to the Washington (N. C.) Rotary Club on the speaker ban law, which he has vigorously defend ed, and tomorrow he and Mrs. Phipps will attend a ladies night program sponsored by the Le gionnaires in Shelby. Circulation Today 99 PCX. DISTRIBUTED IN n ^ Democratic group to confer Hell monitor the meters... TO USE MANUAL METERS - Chapel Hill’s parking violations patrolman, Don Collier, displays' the new manual-type parking meters that will be placed on the parking lot now under construction directly behind him on East Rosemary St. in mid toxvn. The 70-car off-street parking lot is due to be A A A A A A A A ready for use in about a month. Users loill have to turn' the Trank to activate the manual meters—unlike the automatic meters (righp) now used for on-street metered parking. Up tp 10 hours parking will be per mitted through coin-in-slot deposits on the manual meters. K K K W
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