4 THE CAROLINA TlEES-SAWKSAT, AUGUST 21. 1882
Dip's" Is The Finest Chapel Hill Restaurant
Is Not Fancy-Just Delicious
By Joseph E. Greea
CHAPEL HILL :
Chapd Hill's finest
restaurant h neither a
fancy French place with,
an imported French'
chtf, nor is it a classy
Italian sitting parlor with
glowing Roman candles.
Chapel Hill's finest
restaurant is "Dip's
Country Kitchen."
. At Dip's you will find
just about everything
that you wanted at the
French place and several
things not found at the
Italian establishment.
The two sisters and
one brother who run the
family-owned business
will serve you everything
from Veal Parmesan to
cornbread and all of it is
good.
"Our mother, Mildred,
Mrs. Mildred Council,'
who is known as 'Dip', is
the real motor behind
this place," said Spring
Council, 25, who helps
her older sister, Elaine,
28, and her brother, Joe,
30, run the place. "We
grew up in the restaurant
business. Our mother us
ed to have a place called
Bill's Barbecue."
Spring, Elaine and Joe
share the work load at
the restaurant which is
located on Rosemary
Street and caters to blue
collar workers, working
professionals and .
students from the
University of North
Carolina.
"We serve just about
everything," said Elaine,
"but we are famous for
our chicken, our chitterl
ings, ' and our
omelettes."
"Students fill the
place during the school
year," said Elaine who
plans to make the
restaurant business her
life work. "Many of
them will come in here
and sit at the tables and
read and study
sometimes."
Dip's has large
wooden tables and com
fortable booths. Posters
. announcing cultural
events and seminars
adorn the walls and a
juke box sits in one cor
ner. It is played q ui te
often.
A fresh aroma is con
stantly coming from the
kitchen and the cooks !
don't talk a lot. They are
busy filling orders for
meals that come like a
constant stream. The on
ly word that one cook .
spoke while this writer;
visited Dip's was '
"order!"
"Our employees take
their work very serious
ly," said Spring, who is
working toward a degree
in business administra
tion: v - at Durham
Technical 4 - :, Institute."
1 "It's like a large, happy
; family here." h .
Dip's has four cooks
and five people who wait
tables. Spring said. She,
her sister and her brother
are constantly on call.
"There is little time to
rest inthis business,? she'
: added. "S' itZllzp.
"Some very nice peo
ple come in and out of
here," said Elaine. "We
i don't have problems out
of our customers.
Besides, our mother
taught us not to stand
for any nonsense. We
treat people fairly and
decently. That's the way
; we were raised.'! -i
"Our: mother raised
nine children," Spring
; said, "and it was hot
easy. Five girls and four
- boys.; Mother js like j
legend in Chapel Hill." ,
, .. "She taught us all how
to cook. If there was
something that she did
.not. know how to make,
she taught herself and
then ? she r- taught : us;
That's been her way. She
believes in passing things
on. That's one of, the'
reasons that we I have
been successful. She
believes in passing things
on."
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Central's Law School Teams
Up To Stop Black Land Loss
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By Joseph E. Green
North Carolina blacks
will be landless by the
year 1990 if they con
tinue losing land at the
same rate, according to
an official with the
North Carolina Associa
tion of Black Lawyers.
The association, which
has been attempting to
help blacks with land in
rural and in urban areas,
is launching a "landloss
prevention program" at
North Carolina Central
University. The program
will be designed to assist
the state's blacks in
holding on to their land,
according to Miss
Angela Bryant, a lawyer
who works for the state
and a member of. the
association.
Miss Bryant said, in
1954, blacks in North
Carolina owned
1,085,706 acres of land.:
In 1978, blacks owned
only 468,701 acres.
"There were 14,123
black farmers in 1954,"
Miss Bryant said, "but
in 1978, there were
5,107."
The landloss preven
tion center project will
be located at Central's
law school. A coor
dinator will be hired who
will, among other things,
make public presenta
tions in 38 eastern coun
ties of the state.
"Black farmers who
cannot afford to pay for
attorneys will be serviced
free," according to Miss
Bryant. "The center will
refer farmers to lawyers
in their areas who will
assist them."
As a part of the pro
gram, Central law
students who enroll in a
seminar course will be
taught the problems of
Carolina, was once own-:
ed by blacks, but was
bought by white land
speculators.
A typical example is
that a white land buyer
will come in and buy a
small share of the pro
perty that is owned by as
many as 35 heirs. Then
they will force a sale of
the property, leaving the
other heirs landless.
Bryant praised Central
Law School Dean
Charles Daye - who
agreed that the project
should be located at the
law school and Universi
ty of North Carolina
DIPPING AT DIP'S Klainc Council (left I and .lot- Council (riihl nork louclher in the kitchen at
Dip s Restaurant in Chapel Hill In prepare one of Ihe outstanding meals this iamil) -owned restaurant Is
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black farmers and how k Law professor, Harry E.
land is taken away from Groves, who is now
them, Miss Bryant add
ed. "For instance, in
Greenville, two teenagers
who inherited some pro
perty from a deceased
relative are being forced
to sell a house that is
worth $40,000 to pay a
$3,000 debt that was left
by their deceased
relative."
Citing another exam
ple, Miss Bryant said
that the land on which
the popular Hilton Head
resort is built in South
president of the North
Carolina Legal Services
Corporation, which has
given the project $47,500
in start up funds.
"There is not a single
law school in the country
that will be addressing
the land loss problem,"
Miss Bryant said. "(Dean
Daye has decided that
the school is going to
make a commitment to
ihB,'ArS ARK 1 OS,N(i I AND Al the rale blacks are losinu land in this stale, farms like this will be a
imng ol (he pasl in a few more years. Shown here are Mrs. Ida Kina. VV. (.illis and I.. Mcl amh workinu
on a (arm on ( ook Road. ,,, ln silas Muy(Md
the project will also be
reversing the landloss concerned with the nlihi
crisis of black people." or urban "blacks who arc
Miss Bryant said thai losing land. "We want lo
help people who find
themselves in situations
such as those who lived
in ' the Hayti area in
Durham," she added,
referring to the former
black-owned and run
business district that was
demolished by Durham's
urban renewal program.
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