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Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carrboro—Betioeev and Htsyond of orange county * VOL. 72, NO. 33 HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, )964 20 PAGES j ♦ Orange Pealings FIRST THING ON TUESDAY morning the Memphis firm that holds a purchase option on the mid-town Chapel Hill schools tract took out a $700,000 building permit to erect a 247-rocm nine story commercial coed dormitory at the rear of this property. They did this in the wake of the aider men’s Monday night action hold tog that t ie school buildings, for the new owners’ purposes, were temporary structures. This made the immediate construction pos sible under local zoning laws. As soon as the elementary school is vacated they say they'll put a five-story office building on that site, and later, subject to zoning requirements a duplicate dormi tory fnd shopping center. ..... THERE WAS FREE PARKING In much of mid-town Chapel Hill yesterday. And it may continue in spots while town workmen re move and re-locate the parking meters for the curb-side parallel parking that’ll go into effect on Monday. HIS l-EUUW MbMBtKb Of the Lions Club in Caraboro have drawn up a statement in me tnoriam of Richard W. Bone, tragically killed in an auto wreck with other members of his fam ily last Saturday. Citing Dick Bone's many contributions to tie community life over the past dec ade, the Lions expressed heart-1 felt sympathy and gratitude to j his family and relatives. He had \ been, they noted, an active Lion and officer at various times since 1051 and served as Scoutmaster of the Club-sponsored Boy Scout Troop 45 in Carrboro. THAT BIG KENTUCKY FRIEr Chicken bucket that’s being post ed atop tie sign for Pete Rinal di’s Take Home drive-in store being built in Carubcro is more than six feet high an an average of about seven feet in diameter The eager mathematically-mind ed gourmand who is our author ity on such statistics figured out that if it were filled with fried chicken the big bucket would hold 1,480 gallons fin liquid measure). When fully erected the bucket will revolve in an in teresting oflf-center fashion. ONE OF THE MOST DISGUST ing spectacles of disrespect and discourtesy seen in this nominal ly gracious seat of southern hos pitaUty that is Hillsborough, i the photo- of President Lyndon Johnson that has been trained in a toilet seat and hung in the window of a place of business there. The News has its say about * the hanging of photos of our chief executive in public places in an editorial published in this issue. But there is no excuse for such a crude display cf incivility as is exhibited in the Hillsbor ough store front. THE CHAPEL HILL - CARR boro Junior Baseball League is Currently conducting a canvass among businessmen and other citizens who will contribute to the expenses of operating the lo cal Little League and Pony Lea gue baseball programs this past summer. Interested persons are asked to call Jim Heavner. NORTHERN ORANGE COUN ty had quite a rain late Tuesday, causing spotted damage and dis ruption of services. But it was still nothing like the five-ineher that swamped Durham during the same two-hour period. In Chapel Hill the elements dealt much more mildly with the community. Except for ponding up some roads in the Lake forest area, (More DEALINGS, Pag* 8) on civil rights calendar T-Stcry on Page 2 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★. ★ ★ ★ Whose tombstone??.,. mm\\x MIDSUMMER Af YS ! ER Y—Chapel Hill police are holding for undetermined disposition a painl-fleck .ed marble tombstone, and an assortment of highway signs, shown above. They were picked up at a Chapel Hill apartment occupied by I XC summer school stu . .-'fo date no arrests have been made, however :^tnveMigaiion of the source of the signs and tombstone is continuing, \ "
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