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Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carrboro—Betwcen and Beyond
HILLSBOROUGH AMO CHAPEL HILL. N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 21. 19*4
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VOL. 72. NO. 21
IT IS STRICTLY IN THE TEN
tative and speculative stages
right now, but the possibility
exists that if a. new postoffice
could be built for Chapel Hill,
the town dould acquire title to
the present postoffice property
and convert this imposing and
comparatively spacious building
into a municipal public library,
r.it is ■& pleasant dream, anyway.
'A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT' WAS
the fond observation of Hillsbor
ough's Town Engineer, Thomas
B. Hose, as he watched the first
muddy waterfall of sewage spill
out of the outfall line and into
~’r the big aeration basin when the
Town’s new sewer plant was put
' -inter operation Tuesday afternoon.
'Within a few minutes the hue
of the fluid changed to a more
conventional greenish gray as the
4,500 foot pijheS became flushed
-. out end the regular flow of sew
age began coming into the 400,
OOQ-gaOon shnken circular pool.
Engineers, it is the reporter's
observation, can get downright
lyrical in their fondness for the
mundane utilitarian structures
they design and build.
THE NEW MISS ORANGE
County, Ann Sikes of Chapel Hill,
gave succinct answers in response
to a question she drew in the in
terview portion of the beauty
pageant last Friday. Master of
ceremonies Jim Beatty asked
what she’d do if she was home
with a date and her special boy
friend called to talk to her. ‘Td
lust act like it was ‘an old friend’
.I was real glad to hear from,”
replied the dimpled brunette.
AND THE RETIRING BEAUTY
queen, Hillsborough’s Ann Clay
ton, reminiseed on various ex
periences she’s had during the
past year. High point of her of
ficial reign, she said, was the.
“Ann Clayton Day” send-off to
the state beauty pageant that
Hillsborough staged for her last
summer; During the year she en
joyed handing out ribbons for a
boss show, modeling for a cos
metologists’ meeting, talking to
civic clubs, and posing in a bag
gy football uniform, she said.
R. C. 'JACK' ANDREWS, WHO
died in Chapel Hill this week,
will be fondly remembered as a
plain-spoken but genial fellow
whose business career in mid
town covered many years. He
was a devoted member of the
Masonic lodge locally, three times
its master, and for many years
its secretary. Until the mid-thir
ties he operated the “M-System”
grocery store on the main cor
ner where Sloan’s Drugstore is
now located. Then he was in the
dry goods business with Shel
Henninger in the store that still
bears his name. In recent years
he’s been with Walker’s Funeral
Home.
COUNTY COURT WAS IN RE
cess at Hillsborough yesterday
“ ' beeattse of-the injury recently
sustained by Judge Marshall
Smith who suffered broken ribs
and a head injury in a fall down
some steps at his home. The
county court is currently with
out a vice recorder following the
resignation of Judge L. J. Phipps
to become presiding jurist over
•the Chapel Hill municipal court.
JAMES NICHOLS' STORE AT
the intersection of Highways 57
and 86, north of Hillsborough,
was entered by thieves Tuesday
night. Entrance was made by
breaking the front door lock. No
estimate of the merchandise tak
- ' en was available.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY
Commissioners has called a spe
ciar meeting for tonight at 8
(More PEALINGS, Page 12)
STAND FOR MRS. KENNEDY-Dignitaries on T
the speakers’ stand joined the audience of 18,000 in
Kenan Stadium in a statiding ovation as Mrs. Rose
Kennedy, mother of the late President, stepped to the
rostrum to accept North Carolina’s $230,000 gift to
the Kennedy Memorial Library. Others shown on the
front row are Gov. Sanford, turning to speak to master
of ceremonies Arthur Smith, and (right) the Rev,
Billy Graham, who delivered the tribute messaged
—Stories on Page 2
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OPEN NEW HILI.SBORO SEWERAGE-Mayor
Fred Claytor pulls the lever that actually starts the
floiv of sewage into the Town of Hillsborough’s new
Jy-cornpietedk'$240,000 extended aeration sewage dis
posal plant: The 400,000 gallons per day plant on the
Eno River a mite east of Town can serve 4,000 people •
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gsiwdfor/bleJthepresent population. There are about five
miles of lines frresently hooked \t& the system. ' The
sewage is treated in a basin (background) 90 feet in
diameter and i2l/£ feet deep. Others shown are (sec
ond) Town Engineer Thomas D. Rose, and Commis
siuners Robert Murphy and Frank Walker.
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