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HILLSBOROUGH ANlD CHAPEL HILL,
illsborough, Carrboro—Between and Beyond
U.N.C. STUDENTS WHO
stayed at the John Umsteads’
home in Chapel Hill for the past
35 years—many of them as guests
—have been invited hack for a
unique reunion in Chapel Hill
at commencement time .this
spring. George Spransy of Cha
pel Hill, who is organizing” the
get-together, estimated there
were upwards of 200 such alum
ni since the Umsteads moved in
their East Franklin St. home
stead in 1920. Since there are no
formal records of this mixed bag
of scholars, all who fall in these
ranks are being asked to write
their fellow “room-mates” to urge
them to come back for the oc
casioif. ~v'.
IT WAS ALMOST A QUARTER
of a century to the day since
he’d left that L. J. Phipps this
week resumed his seat on the
bench of the Chapel Hill Becord
~ er> Court. Upon being sworn in
day before yesterday the Chapel
Hill attorney recalled that it was
early in the month of May dur
ing 1939 that he retired as Judge
of the local court. When he suc
ceeded the late C. P. Hinshaw
in 1933 the court was held in the
old Pickwick Theater .building,
now the location of J. B. Robbins
store. In 1938 it was moved into
the new Town Hall building and
the courtroom that was this
“ ~ spring re-modeled-. ———
MISS MARY GILSON Con
valescing at home from a pain
ful knee injury, attended the
Committee of Concerned Citizens
meeting in Chapel Hill night be
fore last—her first evening out
from her bedside in two and one
half years. True to expectations
Miss Gilson asked several point
questions of speaker D. S.
Coltrane, executive of the N. C.
Good Neighbor Council. She also
put in a plug for “women’s
rights.’’
FIRST WORD THE GENERAL
public had that the new prison
unit was being set up near Chap
el Hill (story, page two) came out
accidentally last Sunday when
members of local Bird Club were
making their spring bird count
out in the Morgan Creek lowlands
of UNC’s Mason Farm property.
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They walked into the newly-cre
ated rehabilitation set-up ait the
wildlife warehouses and learned
abruptly that the nature preserve
had a new tenant
THE JAYCEES OF CHAPEL.
Hill and Hillsborough quite ad
visedly ruled out non-Orange
County coed entries in the local
competition for Miss America.
Though national beauty pageant
rules permit such entries in col
lege localities, the Jayeee spon
sors feel they have better home
town support and better local
entrants if the coeds are thus
ruled out There was quite a rhu
barb over the announcement this
week that coed Sandi Pickett had
not been permitted to enter.
THE ; LOCAL BOARD OF
Realtors has given 57 American
flags — the 50-star variety, ob
tained through the cooperation of
Sen. Everett Jordan — to Chapel
Hill-Carrboro scout school, and
youth organizations in the past
two years. In this line, the local
American Legion post, which '
conducted the original solicita
tion for the downtown street-side
Slags, is planning to replace
these banners where necessary,
n the near future.
Shower for mom..
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HONOR FOUR MOTHERS—Almost up to th air neck in 'loot/ four outstanding Chapel Hiil —
mothers wort honored and showered with gift s from local businessmen at a banquet sponsored
by the Merchants Association in the Carolina In n ballroom on Monday morning. Seated are Mrs.
.Robert C. Hogan and Mrs. David McGowan; and (standing), Association Executive Director Joe Aug
ustine, Mrs. Robert Lloyd Davis, and Mrs. Hubert S. Robinson Sr.
Open new HQ.
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PLUG FOR PREYER—Chap*I Hill headquarters for Prayer for Governor were formally opened
upstairs over the Intimate Bookshop in mid-town with an open house social last Saturday after
Left to right are Mrs, Charles Shaffer (serving), office manager Mrs. S. B. Alexander, and
OMia Connor,
AGAIN A JUDGE—Chapel Hill attorney L. S. Phipps re
ceived the oath of office as Chapel Hill Recorder's Court Judge
just prior to opening court on Tuesday morning. At ..the center.
Clerk of Court the Rev. B. J. Howard, and administering the
oath, Mrs. Clarence Oldham, notary public. In the foreground
is Solicitor Roy Cole. Judge of the court from 1933 to 1939,
Phipps was last week named by the Chapel Hill aldermen to
succeed W. S. Stewart who quit in mid-term.