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Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Catrboro—Between and, beyond ___-J,-— HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964 VOL. 72, NO. 38 24 PAGES School land jale construction started on site —Story on Page 2 THERE WAS A TOTALLY UN ,planned fire drill at Guy B. Phil lips Junior High School early Tuesday afternoon. The impromp tu drill went off in quite an or derly fashion, nonetheless and the almost 900 pupils filed out in ■good time to their proper sta tions outside the building. Just before the end of the day Prin cipal Clydet Pressley announced on the P.A. system that the exer cise hadn’t been planned. It just came about when his little girl happened to pick' up the pretty red telephone instrument in his office, thus activating the auto matic drill alarm. State law re quires at least one fire drill a month for all schools anyhow. CHARLES TALBERT, FOR merly of Chapel Hill, is return ing to Orange County to join the County ABC police force on Oct. 15. Talbert was an original ap pointee to the ABC force, resign ing a year ago to accept a posi tion in Georgia. He will succeed Billy Dunnagan who has resign ed. THE UNIVERSITY COMMUN ity’s second big football weekend of the new season passed with almost no emergencies. As close to it as anything was a fair-grade fire beside the Beta cabin behind the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house on S. Columbia St. about 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Nobody knows how the blaze started. A big stack of old mattresses and assorted junk was burning. CONSTRUCTION ON THE ^ long-postponed motor hotel in mid-town Chapel Hill was actual ly started this week (or so it ap pears, anyhow) by Little Con struction Co. of Charlptte. A building permit for the five-story | 129-room structure was taken out! over 13 months ago. The project j _ has been in limbo pending a de-! cision on just who’H operate the i hostelry. This has not yet been! made public by its preent owners, a firm called Intei^rtate Investors. According to one source the con struction will be pushed, with oc cupancy scheduled by spring.' And according to another source only the main floor will be roughed in at this time, with fur ther work being geared to the de cision of the eventual entrepre ■ neur. THE CHAPEL HILL JAYCEES reported excellent response to their bi-monthly collection of scrap paper last Sunday. More than JO tons pus loaded into the trig box car on the siding at Carr borb. There was a good collection of toys, too, for the Junior Ser vice League’s Christma$House, project. Persons who stinbave toys to give may call Mrs. Ar! thur S. DeBerry, who will be glack. to arrange for special pick-up of them. r (More PEALINGS, Page 12) Thrice gutted by night flames . . . FIREMEN RATTLE •PRACTICE’ BLAZE - Timely for next week’s observance of Notional fire Prevention Week, Chapel Hill and Carr boro firemen battled and extinguished a fiercely burning blaze in an old dwelling off Sunset Drive three different times Tuesday night and again last night. The fire was de * M. M liberalety set. each lime, with the aid of kerosene, for the benefit of a training session for the two fire depart ments, under an instructional program from the ,State Department of Insurance. The direlict du’clling, con demned by the building inspector, was finally burned to the ground under firemen's supervision. n * * * ★ ★ ★ Democrats p
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