
{"id":25,"date":"2007-03-22T12:13:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/03\/22\/nearly-a-century-later-town-gets-name-on-paper\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T20:13:27","slug":"nearly-a-century-later-town-gets-name-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/03\/22\/nearly-a-century-later-town-gets-name-on-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a century later, town gets name on paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You hold in your hands the inaugural edition of The Carrboro Citizen. (You folks reading from afar on the Web, well, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just have to imagine it.)<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first newspaper based in Carrboro. Roland Giduz rang us up the other day to talk newspaper history and remind us that he had a little paper in the early 1950s based out of the building at 306 East Main Street where Surplus Syd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is now located. His paper, the Chapel Hill News Leader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motto was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leading with the news of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Glen Lennox.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The pressman did show up the first day with a zinc plate that said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carrboro News\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on it, Giduz said. But it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t used.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe News Leader, which had a paid circulation of about 3,600, lasted until 1959 and Giduz went on to edit the News of Orange and a few other thousand things, including, recently, his blog \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old codger blogger.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"http:\/\/rolandgiduz.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/rolandgiduz.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/rolandgiduz.wordpress.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to wishing us well, Giduz said it was about time. Carrboro, he said, has come into its own. He recalled how for a long time the talk was that merger between Carrboro and the big city across the tracks was inevitable. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history now, Giduz said, and he reminded us of former alderman Hilliard Caldwell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous remark that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t object to merger with Chapel Hill as long as the merged metropolis was called Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly more obscure publication with the name of our fair town coincided with the founding of Nyle Frank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Invisible University. He produced a mimeographed publication called the Carrboro Centipede. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve yet to see a copy, although author and Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner chef Bill Smith tells us it was a hoot.<br \/>\nOf course, if it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to change its name in 1909 we might have become The Venable Citizen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot nearly as nice a ring to that.<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not the first paper and not the first publication with the word Carrboro atop the front page. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re glad to be here even if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not the first. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re glad to be your newspaper.<br \/>\nSee you next week. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dKirk Ross &amp; Robert Dickson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You hold in your hands the inaugural edition of The Carrboro Citizen. (You folks reading from afar on the Web, well, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just have to imagine it.) This is not the first newspaper based in Carrboro. Roland Giduz rang us up the other day to talk newspaper history and remind us that he had a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}