DUKE ROLLED Durham’s most hyped college football game in years ends with 62-13 ‘Bama win
TAR HEELS FALL TO 0-2 Undermanned UNC drops ACC conference game to Georgia Tech STORIES, PAGE 1B AP photo
The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: LEE REGIONAL FAIR
CAROLINA
CRAWLING TO GLORY Diaper Derby, 4-H Dog Show big draws on penultimate day By ALEXA MILAN amilan@sanfordherald.com
LILLINGTON WOMAN STILL A TEACHER, EVEN AT AGE 93
SANFORD — With the number 40 on his back, he moved swiftly through the race’s short course and flew across the finish line, effortlessly besting his competition. Not bad for his first race, especially given that he can’t walk yet. Ten-month-old Oakley Poteet took the top prize at Saturday’s Diaper Derby, an annual event at the Lee County Fair. When asked how it felt to win, Oakley just stared and smiled, but luckily his parents were around to translate. “He’s hungry and wants a bottle, but I think he had a good time,” dad Alan Poteet said.
Now 93, May Marshbanks has devoted her life to teaching the young and improving the quality of life for the elderly. After 31 years as an educator, she went on to direct Harnett County’s Department on Aging. Full Story, page 1C
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THE HERALD REVIEWS ‘CHICAGO’ If you missed it in Saturday’s Herald, read Editor Billy Liggett’s positive review of Temple Theatre’s first show of the 20102011 season, “Chicago.”
Mimi takes home first place as a true “weiner dog” in the costume division at the Lee Regional Fair Saturday.
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OUR STATE DERBY, SHOW VIDEOS
TEENS ACCUSED OF MURDER IN NEW HILL SHOW NO EMOTION Two of the four teens accused of having a hand in the death of Matthew Silliman were emotionally flat as they revealed details of the bizarre circumstances to police officers.
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Michael Owens and his son Michael Owens Jr., 8 months, prepare for the final heat of the “Diaper Derby” at the Lee Regional Fair Saturday afternoon.
More than 5,000 visitors this week can’t be wrong — The Herald’s Fair Blog is a hit. See videos from Saturday’s Dog Show and Diaper Derby and read about Alexa Milan’s fear of clowns by clicking the blue ribbon at our website, www. sanfordherald.com.
Full Story, Page 9A
OUR NATION
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
BP WELL IS NEARLY DEAD, BUT THE DISASTER ISN’T
55 years later, UNC celebrates integration
The impending death of BP’s blown-out oil will bring one piece of the catastrophe that began five months ago to an anticlimactic end — after all, the gusher was capped in July. This, though, is an important milestone for the still-weary residents of the Gulf Coast: an assurance that not so much as a trickle of oil will ever seep from the well that already has ruined so much since the catastrophe first started. The disaster began April 20, when an explosion killed 11 workers, sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Full Story, Page 12A
Vol. 80, No. 219 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
By TOM BREEN Associated Press Writer
CHAPEL HILL — Three distinguished University of North Carolina alumni were looking forward to doing something Saturday that they never could when they were students: watching the Tar Heels play football in the company of people of all races. When John Brandon and the brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier became the first three black undergraduates at Cha-
HAPPENING TODAY Temple Theatre’s production of “Chicago” starts at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling the Temple Box Office at (919) 774-4155, or you may purchase tickets online at www. templeshows.com. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
pel Hill, football games were still segregated by race, as were most public places in North Carolina. Now, 55 years after a federal court allowed them to register for classes by overturning the university’s racist admissions policy, the three are returning to be celebrated as pioneers by a UNC where the most famous alumnus is Michael Jordan and which has more black students enrolled than any other major
See UNC, Page 5A
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Ralph Frasier, left, John Lewis Brandon, center, and LeRoy Frasier, were the first black undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the 1950’s.
High: 94 Low: 62
INDEX
More Weather, Page 14A
OBITUARIES
BILLY LIGGETT
Sanford: Billie Economy, 95, Mary Gilmore, 76
Whether it’s sports, politics or something else, we’re always playing favorites ...
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 8B Business .......................... 9B Classifieds ..................... 11B Sunday Crossword ............ 7C Community calendar .......... 2A Horoscope ........................ 8B Obituaries......................... 8A Opinion ..........................6-7A Scoreboard ....................... 4B