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For returns in the Carrboro ^^ffice: elections today and the Chapel ,li,in street, Cari boro hapel ill ews eader C H N L Hill elections tomorrow phone the News Leader, 8-444, after 8 p.m. Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas Five Cents The Copy CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1955 $4.50 The Year By Mail EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE Connmissioners Drop Record Vote Likely Sewer, Water Act Drive MARY COTTEN DAVEN- At Polls Tomorrow (1)0 was 'to make a secona Feel Existent Bill [ince on the “Two for the Turnout Of Up To 1,200 Is Seen Possible 1 television show Saturday Will P(ermit Action failed to , get off from Chap For Biennial Elections In Chapel Hill as expected owing to a mrs- The Orange County Com A tuinoiit of up to 1,200 lolers is expected in Chapel tanding as to plane reser- missioners this morning voted Hill tomorrow for the biennial numicipal elections. i She said today: “I didn’t to drop their recpiest for a This could he a record vote for the town, which saw 1,041 ihem),|hey didn’t, and here special enabling icrt in the ballots cast during the 1953 elections. Increased interest has yith a bit of explaining to (general Assembly to allow account of her first sp oeen evidenced in this year’s ♦ — — —- “ them to use tax money to ex- in a J’lew York TV studio campaign since two members of posed by the board of aldermen. le editorial page of this is- tend sewer and water lines in- the district school board are being Registrar R. ti. Vaughn will to the county. elected for the first time. Though keep the polls in the fire station al On the basis of a question URPRISE CAMPAIGN TO ?vlayqr O. K. Cornwell is unopposed the Town Hall open from 6:30 a.m. us to the constitutionality of I WebbjEvans for mayor of Nine/y-three persons had vo until 6:30 p.m. Results of the elec this bill, which has already passed “b developed via telephone ted in the Carrboro town elec tion can be obtained as they are the House in Raleigh, the commis {earned during the evening by Srboro last night, with the tions today by noon-tinoe. Reg sioners decided to proceed on the telephoning the News Leader of 'that a considerably heavier istrar G. C. Brookbank will keep authority of an existent statewide fice, 8-444. This newspaper will bt tpectei fClectorate is turn- the polls in the Town Hall open bill which permits a county to use in contact with the judges of the sf to the polls today. Mr. until 6:30 p.m. The total vote non-tax funds for this same pur election as they count the ballots ran agajpst incumbent May- is expected to be from 250 to Sullivan Gibson two years pose. and will be glad to pass on the re 300—slightly heavier than had sults to callers. t announced several months GET ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The basic question involved, of course, is giving the county the pow'- been anticipated. For judge of the recorder’s courl would [not seek the office —The N. C. Division of the er to build water and sewer lines Cor re-election in his own right incumbent William S. Stewart is im, leaving R. B. Todd un American Cancer Society, rep to serve industry which might de there are six persons seeking the being opposed by attorney Roy M I on the regular ballot. !t’s resented by its President, Wil cide to locate in the Chapel Hill- three seats at stake on the board Cole. In the aldermen’s race are lood Mr. Evans’ name is liam C. Friday of Chapel Hill, Carrboro area, or perhaps else of aldermen and a spirited con incumbents Obie Davis and Rog Written pn the blank space received a special plaque from where in the county. The Carr .SSS5- test is in progress for the judge- ers Wade, and Grady Pritchard fodd’s {on many ballots to- Fred Learned (right). Society boro Industry Group is currently HEAVY HAUL—Patrolmen of the Chapel Hill police department examine their record haul in ship of the recorder’s court. Charles Stancell, Gene Strowd, and press chief, for the national or working through the Stale DeparU taxpaid liquor, confiscated at a local residence on Saturday evening. Left to right are Patrolmen Da Bond Issue Should Pass William M. Alexander. CHAPEL HILL FIREMEN ganization, in the state group's ment of Conservation and Devel vid Caldwell, Charles Byrd, James Council, Charlie Edmonds, and Herman Stone. Also to be voted on are six In the School Board race the Towniof Carrboro coope- "vigorous fight to preserve its opment to get a large electronics News Leader Photo municipal improvements bond is following five are seeking the two festerday afternoon to ex- independent educational and seats to be elected on the six-man firm to put a plant here. Savs 'Come On In, Bo’^s' , . sues totalling $190,000. As there a burning brush pile on fund-raising crusade." "Now Have Authority" has been no publicly announced op board: James L. Godfrey, Richard l|0semary Street. The fire “It appears we now liave the position to these, all six votes are E. Jamerson, Fred Edwards, ' mvhen (wind blew down a authority under Senate Bill 176 expected to be approved as pro Charles F. Milner, and Jack Lasley. behind Ogburn’s Furni- O',, Over 15,000 to do what we want to,’’ said Com rket and downed electric missioners Chairman R. J. M. Police Make Biggest Liquor Haul fparks from which ignited SAMPLE BALLOT Hobbs. “So it seems best to let “Come on in, boys!” j Cull pints of ABC store liqiior, gin, ’ $ .50 a shot. ^sh. To save Chapel Hill the present local act die.” This That the genial way Lucille Far i and vodka—eight brands in all. I The Farrow woman was charged inrolling a long hose line At Opening morning's action by the commis row, Basnight Lane resident, greet It w'as the biggest haul of store- j with illegal possession of whiskey Town of Chapel Hill, N. C. ; nearest fire hydrant the sioners was taken after W. E. ed police early Saturday evening bought liquor the police had net [ for the purpose of sale and re- Carlmro loaned its new Easterling of the Local Govern when they appeared at her door, ted locally in many months and on j leased on $100 bond. Participating Municipal Election by*pon'flusher tank truck for Of Belk Store ment Commission in Raleigh and search warant in hand, to cheek Die basis that the stuff is general ! in the raid were Patrolmen Her- *™lsion, and doused the flames Upwards of 15,000 persons are the Institute of Government in the premises for liquor. In previous ly bootlegged hereabouts it would j man Stone, Charlie Edmonds, May 3, 1955 believed to have attended the Chapel Hill both gave an opinion visits to her residence the law of j bring the seller up to $100, since I Charlie Byrd, David Caldwell, and CLUB CATTLE JUDG- ‘ h'.ee-day grand opening of the that the proposed Orange County ficers had uncovered only small nuch of it is commonly sold at ^ James Council. INSTRUCTIONS Chapel Hill came in a Belk-Leggett-Horton store here over act was unconstitutional. Mr. East quantities of booze, though they al second "'best at the Fat the w'eekend. erling stated he did not believe ways suspected much more was 1. To vote for a candidate make a cross (X) mark in the square Bond Issues 5 & 6 . to the left of the name. Show jin Durham Thurs- Store Manager Carlton Byrd, that bonds floated on the basis of cached somewhere in the house. bning.^he Exchange Club this local act would sell until the vho termed the event “most suc- The Negro woman volunteered 2. If you tear, deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it ^sting of Red Tyler (who act had been tested in a court suit., that all she had on hand was two and get another. yearHwinner). Bill Blake, essful,’’ was unable to ^estimate and found to be constitutional. Am pints in the 'refrigerator, noting fire, Motor Equipment cr Foley, v.'ere runners-up ;he crowd accurately, in that it Institute spokesman noted that fhm that it was election day in Durham 3. Mark only with pencil or pen and ink. Among the other “also urpassed the' store officials’ en- N. C. Consitiition prevent.s thel •ind the ABC stores had been the competition were the lectations so completely. But passage of any local public health closed. The police looked in the who' entered a threc- since the store was practically bills. dining room, where two men were Needed By Municipality FOR MAYOR mposed of C. W. Davis, oacked during nearly all of the Orange County currently re sitting casually at a table, then in (Note: Here is the final article of a series in explanation of the (Vote for one (1)) arcy.and Dick Jamerson. hree days of the opening, the ceives between $35,000 and $40,- the kitchen where another woman $190,000 bond issue to be voted nnon in Chapel Hill toynon'ow.) -t istimate of 15,000 seemed relative- ROBBINS HAS GIVEN THE 000 yearly from non-tax revenue, was baking a pie.