i ^Hillsborough’s new seven-digit
1 All-Number-Calling system will
'Jbe formally put into effect at
12:01 a.m. this coining Sunday,!
, following an open house at the
renovated Morris Telephone Co.
plant oh Saturday- night.
•-*** Walter Murray, District Man
ager for the Company in Rox
boro, said yesterday that he hop
ed Hillsborough Mayor Fred Clay
tor would actually throw the
switch just after midnight, chang
ing the present four-number
dialing system to require seven
digits. The general .public was
invited to inspect the $123,000
renovation program in the new
ly-enlarged exchange building on
E. King St. between 8 p.m. and
will be served.
Mr. Murray said that pres
ent 600-line exchange would- he
enlarged to 900 lines and that
terminals had! been • installed to
Public housing progress noted
.Some progress toward acquir
purcbase options .lor a 60
uhiit $900,000 public housing pro
f in Chapel Hill has been re
by Housing Authority
, Chairman Or. Sidney S. Chipman.
-Within two months, Or. Chip
man said yesterday, the actual
acquisition of the necessary land
either in a single site or sev
eral separate areas—is expected
-'th get under way. The availabil
ity of land will determine whe
ther all 60 units will be in,one
place or not, he said. Estimated
total area of the project is nine
acres.
Since it’s not yet established
when the land purchase can be
completed, the construction
schedule is yet indefinite, ac
cording to the Chairman. To date
no final, decision has been made
on buying any single piece of
land, he explained, although the
availability of some tracts has
been established. _
enlarge it to 2,500 lines when
needed. ^Mre i* a 50-line ex
change for Cedar Grove and Ef
land in Efland, and which is
wired through the Hillsborough
exchange.
All telephone numbers are be
ing changed for the switch-over
, and Iwill, h«et ther prefix “732.”
New telephone dfceetoijes, were
distributed, ye*te*day, ,§dr. 'Mur
ray sadd, and- tabs carrying the
new numbers were mailed out to*
customers on Monday, to be af
fjxed to the telephone instru
ments as of this coming Sunday.
As many as 10,000 lines can be
pu| on the single “732” series of
numbers, he noted.
“We hope we won’t tun into
too many ‘bugs’ in making thif
switch and that we ll be able to
give the people the kind of serv
ice they want,” said Mr. Mur
ray. He added that at some time
in the future additional equip
ment would be installed so that
Hillshorough subscribers would,
be hooked in to the Direct Dis
tance Dialing system for inter
city telephone calls.
'Miss Orange CountyVgvan» torocwia^ njght.
■1Bea
(Miss Ellen Vann, daughter, of ,
attorney and Mrs. Arthur Vann/
of Durham will appear lor ape*
eiial entertainment at toe “Miss
Orange Gnunly” pageant in Me-.
tutorial Hail, UJNjC., tomorrow!
(night at 8 o’clock.
EWen, a rising senior at Dur
UiiMn High School, will present a
jazz-acrobatic dance to the Over
ture from the “West side Story”
ifyr special entertainment. Though
tihe’s ibeen asked to dance at a
(pageant, she has performed at
Atshion shows, recitals, oonven
. t.ions, and banquets all over the
(State.
Ellen has taken eight years of
•toe and ballet, and acrobatics,
but this is not the extent of
this young lady's talents. She is
a member of the National Honor
Society and editor of the Hi
iKocket, Durham High School
newspaper.
Jim Beatty, /world - /famous
track star, will be master of,
ceremonies for ithe pageant,
■which is sponsored by the Hills
borough - Chapel Hill - Can boro
Jaycees. Tickets can be pur-,
chased from any Jtaycee for $1.€0
advance and $1.25 at the door.
(Nine entrants frcm the Chapel
Mill and HLUeborough areas, will
vie ior the title to succeeds Ann
Clayton as Miss Grange County.
Bad*, will give ■ talent, swim suit,
and evening gown appearances.
'Entrants lor the pageant are
Barbara Johnson, Joyce Raboa,
Sharyn Ann Rasmussen, Ann
Sikes, Linda Uipcaureii, and Ly
dia Ann Cheek of Chapel Hill,
end Sarah Louise Bell, Gayle
Sims, Frances Laws, and Mary
Lee Smith oi ‘HliidijQrough. ^
Judges will be Bbb Saunders -
of the Charlotte News; Barbara
Hauser, Fayetteville writer; Mrs.
Ethel Casey, singer from Ra
leigh; and Raymond Stone, Pres
.
imwm
r ELLEN7 VANN
idem, cl cne eamrouroxy cwwse
ia SmUmn Pines.
Winner joft., the event will re
ceive at $050 scholarship check,
a $250 wardrobe, and will rep
resent Orange in the Miss North
Carolina pageant at Raleigh this
summer.
Robbers get .
good haukat
EflandfPO
Thieves broke into the Eflami
PoetaSfice and mmde ofif with a
right sutootantial haul early Sat
urday morning.
The Sheriff’s Department in
vestigators said entry was made
by breaking through the door
artS+dhen ripping off "the safe
dost in (which money, stamps
and money order forms ware
stored.
(Missing, according to the re
port, were $232 in cash, $375 in
stamps and $509 in blgnk money!
orders. The control startup for the
money order was taken = away by
the robbers, to enable the inval
idation of the money order forms.
No dues to the identity were re
vealed by the officers. <
Planners recommendations upheld
tiAJl recommendations of the
strict Planning Board were
animously upheld as the Chap
el HiH aldermen unanimously re
jected several requests for re
THE NEWS
OF ORANGE COUNTY
Vol. 72, No. 19 May 14, 1964
Published Every Thursday In
The Year By The News, Inc.
Subscription Rates Payable In
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joining Counties, $2-50, plus
3% Sales Tax; Otherwise IS
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Entered As Second Claw Mat
tar In The Postoffices at HiUa
” borough and Chapel Hill, N.C
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zoning to business use several
tracts on major highways leading
into Chapel Hill.
At tiie same time the aider
men were told by the planners
that the planners were immedi
ately undertaking a study of pos
sible revisions in toe Limited
Business Zone. These require
ments might be re'-axed, a plan
ners’ spokesman indicated, and a
recommendation made that such
a- zone toe set up on part df Che
Durham Bead area where the
present business re&onings were,
rejected. » *£*>-*£
In upholding the planners at
their Monday meeting, the aider
men denied re-zoning to Region
al Commercial as requested by
W. B. Upchurch, and Bruce Mar
tindale and J. R. Weaver on Dur
ham Road, and by Sam Sparrow
on Airport Road. Extensions of
time for further consideration
was granted for C. M. Mayse’s
business re-zoning request for
his Durham Road property.
Additional time was also grant
ed at the petitioner’s request for
consideration of H. B. Williams
plea that his establishment, The
Patio, be zoned Suburban Com
mercial. jerry Hudson’s request
for'a apec&L. uee permit to fcfuild
a 15-unit' apartment on Raleigh
Road was also deferred on a tech
nicality.
Precinct Circuit...
. , . Neighborhood political trends and gossip . . .
INTRA-PARTY WATERS CALM . . .
Despite the wide factional divergence of Orange Coun
ty Democrats on the issue of their favorite nominee for
Governor, the intra-party waters were quite calm, though
interest was high, at last weekend’s bienhial convention
of. the party.
There was some talk pfcpmpetition intheaxecu
tive committee for various elective posts, but If didn't
develop. However, the same will not necessarily hold
true for next Tuesday night's caucus meeting of state
convention delegates at which various committee mem
bership posts will be elected.
G.O.P. GROWING ...
Republican workers across the county bespeak op
timism on the prospers for their cause in every conver- •
sation they have, about politics. Significant figures are not .
yet available on how the registration of new Republicans
and converts is coming along, since the voting books won’t
close until this Saturday. But the registration drive has
been the real focus of the county Republican organization
through the winter months.
Also, the party's ward haolars note that they've
rounded out the organization a good bit since the hold
ing of their County convention in February, at which
time Oniy about half the precinct committae posts *
were filled.
WILL THE EUR FLY? ——-——
The first tiny tufts of fur have begun to fly this past
week as various candidates for local offices began taking
modest pokes at one another or incumbent office holders.
UI« past years some hotly-contested races have been bitter
personality end neme-calling clashes, and some have not.
The nature of the campaign generally develops and snow
balls in the last two weeks of May—like from now on!
Seasoned observers expect the political stumping to get
right warm henceforth.
MNMMMPMMMMM&hts ....
\ As.aiw*ys»inttha«iw?el Hill community, a great many
v people will be out of town for the scheduled party primary
election day on Saturday, May 30. For this reason some
of ’em have paasedup appeals to register for voting.
—Why trouble,., they reason even regretfully, when they
won’t be able to vote on primary day?
—But what many of these folks are forgetting is
that' therefH: probably be a second primary election
sometime in June—not only on the state, but perhaps
even on the ceunt>/ level. And many citizens out of
town for the Memorial'Daytweekend will. be beck heme
for the second primary voting day. But they won't
be ablo to register botween the two primaries!
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