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...Place has no church, no chapel, no cinema, no football field. About all it does have are three streets of red brick houses, 259 inhabitants who mostly work in the local Beamish Mary coalpit, and a hearty dislike for Durham County authorities. For No Place learned last week that Durham's planners had condemned it to slow extinction...
Trouble was that nobody much had moved in recent years to No Place-a name it got back in the days when it was only two cottages jammed between two big estates and considered too small to have a proper name. (In Durham, the authorities had changed its name on their map to "Cooperative Villas," but No Place paid no attention to that.) The county planners decided that "a loss of population is expected" and pronounced No Place "a bad financial risk." That meant that the county would neither replace houses that fell into decay nor build new ones...
...Yardling five seeks its sixth straight win at the expense of the New Hampshire freshmen, at Durham, N.H., tonight...
DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM...
...DURHAM S. TAYLOR Chattanooga...