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of orange county Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carr boro—Between and Beyond VOL, 72, NO. 48 -,---:__ '; •'__._ ' - HILLSBOROUGH AND CHAPEL iHILL, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1W4 28 PAGSj Orange Pealings CHAPEL HILL'S HARVEY D. (Bennett, senior elected member _ of the Board of County Commis-. sioners, appears -certain succes sor to Representative-elect Don ald Stanford as the new County (Board Chairman when the new commissioners take office at the courthouse next Monday. Ben nett has served a full four-year term and will begin another when the board officially organizes. Commissioner Henry Walker, a veteran of several earlier terms, is completing the term of the late Donald McDade as an ap pointee of the other members, 'while Commissioners Carl Smith and Gordon Cleveland each have two year tenures. Newly-elected Commissioner Bill Ray will take office for the first time. ORANGE COUNTY RECORD ERS Court abounded with domes ticity during one interval of its weekly session yesterday. A hus band and wife each with an in fant in lap took the witness stand in a family tiff. In grimmer days, the wife had charged the hus band with non-support and as sault. The non-support charge didn’t stand up under the judicial spotlight but Judge Marshall Smith said the defendant, Gene Rogers Hayes of Hillsborough, would have to pay the court costs for the assault even though the marital relations had been re sumed. While papa and his 16 months*old cooed on the mourn er’s bench, mama and her six months-old went out for the “costs” money. Reunited, the family—at least half of the mem bers oblivious to the circum stances—departed together. THE FEAT OF THE CHAPEL • Hill High School football Wild cats in advancing to the western *’ division finale for the state cham pionship last week marks up the best record locally since about 1920-23, If the memory af local man runneth not to the contrary. Back then a squad of stalwarts including Henry Hogan and Grady Pritchard won the State Class “A” championship. Since then Chapel Hill has occasionally won the district title, but har \ never gone so far as it did this season. Carl Durham was invited to cere monies in the office of Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall in Washington yesterday. Occasion was the 22nd anniversary of the completion of the first success ful experiment.in achieving a self-supporting nuclear chain re action on Dec. 2, 1942, under the aegis of Dr. Enrico Farmi and associates in a University of Chi cago laboratory. This was the beginning, of course, of the atom ic age, in which the Chapel Hill Congressman figured prominent ly as a key member for many years on the Joint Atomic Energy Committee. Mr. Durham was un able to attend the rites, as it turned out MRS. CLARENCE D. JONES, Chairman of the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsbor ough has announced that Miss Annie Cameron's new booklet, Hillsborough and the Regula tors,” published by the museum, is now available. The 36 page illustrated booklet is priced at 75c in the museum or $1.00 by mail. Address “Regulators,” Hillsborough, N. C. (More PEALINGS, Page 2)' Lite future Chapel Hill Senior High... PRELIMINARY PLANS APPROVED - The Chapel Hill School Board this week approved prelim inary plans for a new 1,200-pupil $1.3 million senior high school, to be built on a 120-acre site two miles north of mid town. The building will be a near copy of the two-year-old Ben L. Smith Senior High School in Greensboro, architect’s conception of which is shown above. In the front will be a 32-classroom two story structure, to include administrative offices and a library. The rear building will house a gymnasium auditorium facility, home economics lab, music room, i cafeteria, and industrial arts shop. Construction is ex pected to start next spring and the building is sched- . uled for occupancy by September, 1966. CHRISTMAS PARADE SCENE-The hoopla of the Dunn clowns abetted th# traditional scene of Santa Claus in his reindeer-drawn sleigh at the end of the Chapel Hill Christmas parade on Tuesday night. Sev eral thousand chilly spectators lined the streets as the Merchants Association * sponsored parade moved through downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The clowns—members of the Shrine organization in Dunn t —have been favorite attractions in the local parade for . , several years.
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