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Local Hams Active On Airwaves
During ^Connie^ Preparations
bulletins.
All Intact
hovering along the Notrh Carolina' As of last night, regular means
coast last night, a Chapel Hill ham of communication were still in
radio operator was keeping his tact along the Atlantic coast, and
NEW HIGHWAY OPEN—It's two miles shorter to Hillsboro now over the newiy-openod stretch of
highway that runs through the woods from New Hope Church to thi f-
on old N. C. 10. Shown above is the bridge on the new road that crosses the
near the northern end of the road.
j's. C-r -On t.ivostock f.iarkef
outhern Railroad tracks
ears trained on his set.
Both Billy Jefferson, of 711
Greenwood Road, and F'ritz Thurs_
tone, of 400 Laurel Hill Road,
spent a few hours last night listen
ing to .broadcasts on a specially-
s’et-up short wave band — CEN
(Coastal Emergency Network).
CEN, explained Mr. Jefferson,
was put together by ham operators
throughout the Eastern Seaboard
when Hurricane Connie threaten
ed to imitate last year’s treacher
ous Hurricane Hazel. Last night
the network was. handling Red
Cross, Civil Defense and other
messages, along with weather re
ports and official Weather Bureau
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TAX INSTITUTE
The University’s institute of
Government will offer a five day
course of instruction in basic law
and practice of collecting county,
city and town license and property
taxes. Rogi.stration was hold in the
Irslitute Building this morning
Cubs Trounm
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The Carrboro C u bs, after
thumping Lowes Grove 9-1 Tues
day night, will advance into Dur
ham Semi-Pro Baseball playoffs
opposite Hragtown.
Carrboro and Braglown will
meet in a two-out-of-three game
series to decide the championship.
Time and place have not been
decided, hut a spokesman for the
Cubs said the teams might play in
Durham Sunday afternoon. Either
Durham Athletic Park or Erwin
Field, in West Dui'ham, may be
the playing field, the spokesman
said.
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By unanimous vote the hoard! microphone.
the ham operato'rs were supple
menting standard broadcast mes
sages, But, if the hurricane starts
knocking down radio towers and
disrupting other communications,
the emergency network will go
into real operatioa, handling most
of the coast’s communication with
the outside world.
If and when the hurricane de
cides to come inland, he said,
“ccmmunications between Florida
and Maine can be sent through in
a matter of minutes.”
Mr. Jefferson, 16-year-old 'feon
of Mrs. C. B. Jefferson, admitting
officer at Memorial Hospital,
doesn’t have his “general” ham
operator’s license yet. While still
classed as “novice,” he can send
messages by telegraph key. He has
taken a test for a license which
will allow him to operate with
Firemen
one at the Coker place, was four
feet in - diameter and maybe 100
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had struck nearby and her house
was filled with smoke. There was
no damage except that her phone
was knocked out of commission.
Bynum House Hit
At 5:45 the firemen went to
Robert Bynum’s house on Short
Street to put a tarpaulin over a
feet tall. Firemen extended 300'
feet of hydrant hose to play water i
on the tree for over an hour before
finally dousing the flames.
TO TRAIN PATROLMEN
Sixty N. C. Highway Patrol re
cruits will- register at the Uni-,
four-foot gash in his roof where versLy on Sunday to begin a 12-
lightning had struck the house, week basic ti aining school, to be
While the firemen were there conducted by members of the UNC
George Poe went to his house Institute of Government staff and
nearby to get a hammer and nails , personnel of the State Highway
and found his residence filled with Patrol.
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smoke, the refrigerator motor hav
ing been knocked out, by lightning.
At 6:20 the department was
called to the Coker residence on
North Street where a huge old
hollow oak tree, struck by a bolt
earlier
AT LLOYD REUNION
About 100 members of the Cad
Wallender Lloyd family of Hills
boro met for their annual reunion
was burning up on the | last Sunday noon at the W. I. Suitt
inside. The tree, about the largest | home on Route Three, Hillsboro.
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Thursday, August 11
8:30 p.m.; '“Macbeth,” summer
film series, Carroll Hall. Free.
8 p.m. Experimental plays. Play-
makers Theatre.
Friday, August 12
8 p.m. Experimental Plays, Play,
makers J'hcatre.
Weed Acreage
Adjustment
Very Slight
approved an ordinance prohibiting
the riding or leaing of bicycles un
attended on the sidewalks of East
Franklin Stret betwen Columbia
and Henderson Streets (main
business block), violations to be
punishable by a $1.00 fine. An
exception to the bill is that bi
cycles may be parked in stands for
tl-iat pu:^ose within three feet
from the curbing.
The board formally approved
Last night he was receiving CEN
messages from Charleston, Nor
folk, Miami, Wilmington, Myrtle
Beach, Savannah and Jacksonville.
For a while, a ham operator in
Wilmington was acting as clear
ing station for Coastal Emergency
Messages. Later ,a fellow named
“Mac” at station W41PA in Nor
folk took over the network.
The network, explained Mr.
the appointments to the District I Jefferson, is based on cooperation.
Planning Board of Benjamin F.! Through the CEN system, he said,
Potter to succeed S. H. Hobbs and I “emergency communioatoin can
Roy Cole to fill out the unexpired get through to all points” in the
The acreage for adjustment of
the 1956 tobacco allotment will be
one tenth of 1% of the total 1956
Tobacco Allotment, according to
If the team.s play, Ken Keller ^mnouncement by A. K. McAdams,
will be expected to pitch. Keller j office manager of the local ASC
pitched a three-hitter in Carr-
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Gateway to Uie West...
Deoiway to tbe Devil!
boro’.s victory over I.owc.s Grove
Tue.sday night, and the Cubs’ Feno
McGinty racked up four hit.s. Jack
Maultshy was catcher for the
Carrboro team.
Carrboro’s record in the Durham
league now stands at two wins,
one lost. The Cubs dropped the
first game of the .series to Lowes
Grove.
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HOLLEMANS IN GREENVILLE
Staff Sergeant Bill Ilolleman
and his wife, the former Jean
Farrow of Dui'ham and their eigh.
tecn-monlhs-oid son Dong, have
gone to Mr. Holleman’s new sta
tion at Donaldson Air Force Base
near Greenville, South Carolina.
They wore here for 30 days until
last weekend following Sergeant
Holleman’s return from 15 months
duly with a motor squadron at a
refueling base 700 miles south of
Tokyo, Japan. He will be dis
charged next April at the end of
his four-year hitch.
Office.
“This means that about 10 acres
will available to adjust to 1956 al
lotments in Orange County”, Mc
Adams stated.
Tobacco allotments for 1956 will
be computed to the nearest 100th
of an acre rather than the usual
tenth of an acre.
The 1956 allotments will be is
sued around the middle of De
cember, 1955.
Requirement for new growers al
lotments are rather strict this year
also, McAdams pointed out. New
growers must bo owners and ope
rators of fai'ms and must live on
the farm on which he gets new
grower allotment. He cannot own
any other farm with allotment
and get a new growers allotment.
If any producer files or aides
in filing any false report with re
spect to acreage tobacco grown on
farm in 1955, the allotment .for
next year will be reduced. !
term of Gene* Strowd.
Policemen of Chapel Hill were
given benefits of the newly -form- rescue workers,
ed Police Benefit Association, a
mutual life insurance pool recent-
Ty set up in the state,' the local
cost of which has been estimated
at $400 a year. It aws noted that
the firemen now have a similar or
ganization, in addition to social
security benefits and that law en
forcement officers will probably
get social security in the next Con
gress.
John Riebel was appointed as
Chairman of the community’s ob
servance of United Nations Day,
to be held in October. He has pre
viously served in this same capaci
ty.
After some little discussion the
aldermen voted on motion of G.
Obie Davis to continue in definite
ly their summer-time practice of
holding regular meetings only on
the second Monday of each month,
instead of twice a month as has
been the previous practice. Mayor
Pre-Tem Obie Davis noted that
for the first 12 years he was on the
board the aldermen found it
necessarily to meet only monthly.
Mayor O. K. Cornwel reminded his
board that if necesary he could
easily call special meetings.
In other matters of business the
board heard the Mayor report that
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of the new Ridgefield develop
ment, annexation of which has
been reiiested, had asked their re
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Refe'rred to the finance com
mittee a petition from John M.
Foushee, representing the fire dis
trict, a request for the board to
study if and how the town might
provide fire protection in the dis
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