of orange county
Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Cnrrborb—Between and Beyond
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VOL. 72, NO. 32
HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST**, 1964
24 PAGES
Rinaldi re-arrested
GOIXG TO COURTHOUSE-Frank Joseph Ri
naldi is seeii atrdvF/is he left the4 county jail on Wed
nesday morning in the custody of Sheriff's Deputy—
Johnny Horner. In court his attorneys were granted a
continuance until next week of their request for a
heafingTn behalf: iff 'their rtremt;nrv=mrre$ted--on Tues-—
day for the Christmas Eve slaying of his wife.—Story
on Rage Two.
is being re-sold
lor big dorm site
—Story on Page 2
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Orange
Pealings
BOTH TEMPERS AND TEM
per a tu res seemed quite cool this
week in the big Orange Countj
Superior Courtroom. There was
good reasonr The newly-installed
$40,000 central air-conditioning
system was put into use. Judge
'Raymond Mallard, who has swel
■tered many an hour under the
•black robes of his judicial sta
tion, was able to preside over the
court in comfort. In the past he’s
made several tart remarks from
the bench about the County’s fail
ure to have artificial cooling in
the courtroom.
JUDGE JIM PATTON OF DUR
ham. one of the most eloquent
extemporaneous speakers ever to
grace the bar of justice, took the
court aback yesterday morning
as he spoke of his client. “This
man is not a recidivist,” he told
Judge Mallard. His honor had to
ask that the attorney repeat, spell,
Treasure Days
sales event
starts today
"Treasure Days" In Chapel
Hill-Carrboro — three big days
of August clean-up sales — will
be held today through Saturday
under sponsorship of the
Chapel Hill-Cafrboro Merchants
Association. __■
Bargain hunters are invited
to check special Treasury Days,
promotional ads in this issue of
- -The News. This summer, sales,
event replaces the semi-annual
Dollar Days which has in the
past been held at this time of
year.
Participating stores are dis
playing window banners for
Treasure Days and cooperating
in the distribution of Treasure
Chest keys. Every customer
^making a purchase will be giv
en a key, which he may use to
try to unlock the guarded sil
ver doliar-laden Treasure Chest
at the comer of Franklin and
Columbia Streets.
Merchants Association Di
rector Joe Augustine said that
pirate-attired hostesses would
be on the downtown streets to
direct bargain hunters Mid give
parking a
■ . -v
| and explain the word, which he’d
never heard before. Lawyer Pat
ton said, in short, that a recidi
vist was a man who in his gen
eral attitude was anti-society. A
-check with Webster shows a rec
idivist to be one .who falls back
into prior criminal hafeits, espe
cially after punishment.
HIS FRIENDS IN CHAPEL
Hill reported yesterday that
Chapel Hill racial demonstration
leader Pat Cusick was paroled
from Burke County Prison Camp
on Tuesday and has gone to Bos
ton to take a job. Miss Rosemary
Ezra and John Dunne, also prin
cipals in Chapel Hill Freedom
Committee activities last winter,
have been paroled too, on com
pletion of one-fourth of their one
year sentences, Dunne is report
ed in Connecticut at this .time.
Miss Ezra has been in Chapel
Hill. All were convicted of mis
demeanors in civil rights-inspired
offenses.
COL. HARLAND SANDERS
himself, the famous octogenarian
who started the fried chicken
chain franchise organization, was
seen Monday at the site of one of
the soon-to-be built places that
will bear his name in Carrboro.
pete Rinaldi, owner of “Kentucky
Fried’’ eateries in Durham and
Raleigh, will build another one
right away on the vacant lot be
side Riiggsbee-Hinson^ Furniture
Store on E. Main St. in Carrboro.
The "Colonel’’ has been a rice
diet patientin Durteafli recently.
ANOTHER NEW BUSINESS
coming to Chapel Hill is The
New York Times, U1NC student
Christopher Wright hung up the
famous Gothic-lettered sign in a
store-front beside Kemp’s on E.
Franklin St. this week. It will be
a subscription office for home de
livery in the Chapel Hill area, to
begin Sept. 28. Currently about
650 persons subscribe daily, but
they receive it a day late. The
new plan is for current day car
rier delivery by lunch-time daily
for eight cents a day, $ 50 on
Sundays. Wright believes the
Chapel HIM operation will offer
“the best sendee south of Wash
ington.”
Lawsuit started
to bar housing
at Abernethy site
—Story on Page 2
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100-candles for grandpa...
TOWN’S SENIOR ClTl/.EN-Mary Helen Davis, 11,0/ Durham, fifth genera
tion direct line descendant of Chapel Hill’ s oldest citizen, Eugene Davis, shows him
his birthday Take, replete with 100 candles, on the occasion of his reaching the century
mark last Saturday at his home on Durham Rd. Yet in good health, but with poor eye
sight, Mr. Davis greeted friends and neigh bobs at a party on Sunday. An only child
himself, he had 11 children, eight of whom are still living. He received a card of hap
py birthday wishes from President Johnson on the anniversaiy occasion. A