of orange county
Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carr boro—Between and Beyond
VOL. 72, NO. 35
HILLSBOROUGH ANO CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964
24 PAGES
Three local industries announce
general wage hike for employees
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—Stories on Page 2
IN HIS INFORMAL TALK BE
fcre the Chapel Hill Rotary Club
last night, State Republican
Chairman Herman Saxon gave
general support to Gov. San
ford’s emphasis on education.
“But there’s been too much em
phasis on education overhead and
not enough in the head,” he said,
adding that he meant the empha
sis had been too much on build
ings. He did not elaborate. As
for Sen. Strom Thurmond’s
switch to Goldwater, he welcom
ed him, said Thurmond had been
a good Republican for 20 years
,—like Sens. Sam Ervin and Har
,ry Byrd.
DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATOR
ial nominee Dan Moore will hit
Orange County on his current
100-county tour at breakfast time
next Tuesday. He’ll arrive in
Hillsborough at 9:00 a.m., and be
met by County Democratic work
ers and the general public. He’s
coming from Raleigh, will stay
in Hillsborough 45 minutes, then
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ANOTHER POLITICAL NOTE;
Democrats in Chapel Hill will
formally open a campaign office
rfext week. Mrs. George Nicholson
will be office manager, as she
was in the 1960 general election
campaign. Republicans are also
understood to be planning a cam
paign office operation with par
ticular emphasis on the Candi
dacy of Chapel Hill attorney Bob
Page, candidate for County Board
of Education.
MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES IN
Carrboro marshaled their strate
gy and a broom brigade the oth
er day to corner a big rat that’d
been menacing the building. They
flushed him out and chased the
rodent down the hall. A spdcta
.. tor out front said he saw R. B,
Todd turn the corner in the lead,
headed for his office, running so
fast he couldn’t make the door
and scooted on through the main
entrance. Twas a ’dead heat be
tween the Town Clerk and the
rat, he reported, with the squir
rel-size rodent running the T.M.
right out of the building.
WITH SCARCELY ANY PUB
lic notice another big apartment
project is under way in Chapel
Hill. University Garden Apart
ments, a ,99-unit $450,000 propo
sition, is being built on the hill
- -side at the end oGPritchard-Ave;
Extension, Owners are - Holt
Blair, Jack Carlisle, and JlSmes
(Hinkle. Thay’ll be small apart
ments in 10 buildings of nine
units each. One entrance will be
from Pritchard, and another from
a bridge across Umstead Drive in
to Bolin Creek.
YET ANOTHER POLITICAL
pote still; Ballots for the general
election have just come off the
press. There’ll be three. Smallest
is the $100 million public school
veferendum, to be decided by
checks in a box for er against.
Next is the presidential ballot,
with circles marked for Democra
tic or Republican preference. On
the state ballot are Democratic
end Republican slates for Govern
(Mere PEALINGS, Page 6)
CHHS goes cosmopolitan . .
FROM AROUND THF WORLD - TO THE
‘HILL'—A number of students from foreign countries
are giving Chapel Hill Senior High School a cosmo
politan flavor this year. Seen above are (left to right)
Tonko Suzuki, senior, an American Field Service Ex
change student from Tokyo, Japan, who is staying
with the Fred Ellis family; Linda Steivart‘ nth grader,
from near London, England, here for the year with
her family white -her father, Dr. Gordon Stewart is a a
visiting professor of epidemiology (ft the University;
‘sisters’ to the Japanese visiting student, Marybeth and
Francis Ellis, daughter of Dr, and Mrs. Fred Ellis; and j
Ylva Eriksson, sophomore, from Stockholm, Sweden,
in Chapel Hill for the year with her family while her
■father, Prof. Franco Munari Eriksson is a visiting pro- ,
fessor of classics at U.N.C.
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