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HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1964 Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carrboro—Between and Beyond of orange county *■ ■.•sEsw’w;:■ PART OP LOOT FROM THEFTS IN FOUR COUNTIES ctr —Story on Page 12 Orange Pealings THE VIRGIL MANHS OF Chapel Hill were particularly worried over the tragic Alaskan earthquake last Friday, sinee they have spent the last seven summers there — much of the time in hard-hit Anchorage. Yes terday Winnie Lou Mann receiv ed a letter from one of her many young friends and neighbors in Anchorage—a girl, who said she had just gone out to pick up the afternoon paper when “it looked like the. earth was coming to an end the way it shook.'’ Her bro ther*was in mid-town getting a haircut, she wrote, and had \o run outside as all the glass in the place began to break up. COUNTY AGENT ED BARftES ^ report* that despite the extra-, •ordinarily low seasonal tempera tures early this week he’s had no reports yet of crop damage , hm..th*. l ami -al Orange yp in «. Cedar Grove a reading di 18 was noted one'morning, but it is be lieved that the especially vulner able tobacco plant beds general ly pulled through the freeze all right. There was concern for pos sible damage to alfalfa and small grains, but they didn’t seem to be hurt. THOUGH EASTER MONDAY has been traditionally the forest ranger’s “nightmare,” and was so chronicled in last week’s edi tion of-The News, County For ester John Harris said that fear , didn’t hold true this year. Seven foresters stood by at the Forest Service Warehouse all during blustery Monday, but didn’t have to go out on any fires. There were two small blazes- on the weekend, but little damage from either. The Joe Jacksons’ home on Weaver Dairy Rd. near Cha pel Hill was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning, and a nearby dwelling narrowly escaped de struction. FRIENDLY COMPETITION will feign* within the banking family of Cherry in Chapel Hill ere long, as Bill Cherry, long an executive mainstay at N. C. Na tional, will see his uncle, Robert Cherry, become Senior Vice President of the local branch of Central Carolina. THE BUDDING "COMMUNITY Action” organization in Chapel Hill will make its approach for endorsement and coopesation Of its planned activities to the coun ty commissioners and the Chapel Hill School Board at their sched uled meetings next week. In the immediate future similar con tacts are planned with the Mer chants Association and Carrboro Town Board, according to the . group’s temporary chairman, E. _ Maynard Adams. Rushing the season • • • SOFTBALL BEGINS—The lingering chill on the first day of April failed to deter eager Elkin Hill neighborhood youngsters from their seasonal clptnge oi'er from basketball to softball yesterday afternoon. Above, Chapel Hill Recreation Dept, worker Sidney 1 Stafford, in the pile hen 's box, puls out' across the plate and into a dean hit into left field for the fourth grader at bat. Youngsters all over tou n-dike the one in fore ground above, will be awaiting their turn at bat, also, as the weather catches up to the season. T K ^ K » * Plans, models to be used a rti1 School new
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