Wednesday. April 24. 1963
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"Daddy, where are we
now1' the little boy asks.
"Chapel Hill, son" the
driver answers.
"No dear" his wife in
terrupts. "That sign we just
passed said 'Carrboro. "
"Carrboro! Why, I could
have sworn we were in Chapel
Hill."
That driver wasn't the first
to mistake Carrboro for Chapel
Hill and he won't be the last.
Carrboro can be found on few
road maps and you can search
in vain for it on automoative
club road guides.'
But it's there right next to
nationally known Chapel Hill,
home of one of the most
distinguished univerisities in
the South. No countryside
separates Chapel Hill and Carr
boro. Only a small and in
conspicuous sign informs you
that you are leaving one and
entering another.
Why? Why Carrboro and
why Chapel Hill? Why have
they chosen separate ways?
Will they ever merge?
Chapel Hill, of course, is
a much older town and grew
up with the University. It was
laid out in 1793 at the same
time the University founders
laid the cornerstone of Old
East.
Carrboro's history begins
almost a hundred years later
In 1882 with the extension of
the railroad or more precisely
a 10 mile spur of the railroad,
from University Station to a
point about a mile west of
the University.
Dr. Paul W. Wager, for 35
years UNC professor of
political science and co-editor
of "Orange County 1752-1952,"
says Chapel Hillians insisted
that the railroad be well
removed from their little
village.
"They wanted to preserve
the peaceful academic village
setting," Wager said, "and
were afraid the smoke, grime
and noise of the trains would
disrupt everything.
Professor Wager said that
Carrboro's real growth into a
town began when Tom Lloyd
built his cotton mill in 1898.
The little settlement clustered
around the depot Professor
Wager said, and grew steadily.
It was named Venable, for
Francis P. Venable, president
of the University. When Julian
S. Carr bought the Lloyd cot
ton mill the name was changed
to Carrboro.
R. B. Todd who recently
retired from the office of Car
rboro town clerk, a position
he held for almost 10 years,
says there has been little com
munication between the two
towns.
"For years" Todd said, "the
only connection Carrboro had
with Chapel Hill was the fact
that students got off the train
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WAS KEATS THE BOB DYLAN
OF HIS DAY?
Who was the greatest of the English Romantic Poets
Byron, Shelley or Keats? This question has given rise to
many lively campus discussions and not a few stabbings.
Let us today try to find an answer.
First, Keats (or The Louisville Slugger, as he is com
monly called.) Keats' talent bloomed early. While still a
schoolboy at St. Swithin's he wrote his epic lines :
If I am good I get an apple,
So I don't whistle in the chapel.
From this distinguished beginning he went on to write
another 40 million poems, an achievement all the more re
markable when you consider that he was only five feet
tall! I mention this fact only to show that physical prol ,v
lems never keep the true artist from creating. Byron, for
example, was lame. Shelley suffered from prickly heat all
winter long. Nonetheless, these three titans of literature
never stopped writing poetry for one day.
Nor did they neglect their personal lives. Byron, a devil
with the ladies, was expelled from Oxford for dipping
Nell G Wynne's pigtails in an inkwell. (This later became
known as Guy Fawkes Day.) He left England to fight in
the Greek war of independence. He fought bravely and
well, but women were never far from his mind, as evi
denced by these immortal lines :
H ow splendid it is to fight for the Greek,
But I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to
cheek.
While Byron fought in Greece, Shelley stayed in Eng
land, where he became razor sharpener to the Duke of
Gloucester. Shelley was happy in his work, as we know
from his classic poem, Hail to thee, blithe strop, but no
matter how he tried he was never able to get a proper edge
on the Duke's razor, and he was soon banished to
Coventry. (This later became known as The Industrial
Revolution.)
One wonders how Shelley's life and the course of Eng
lish poetry-would have differed if Personna Super Stain
less Steel Blades had been invented 200 years earlier. For
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But I digress. Byron, I say, was in Greece and Shelley
in England. Meanwhile Keats went to Rome to try to
grow. Who does not remember his wistful lyric:
Although I am only five feet high,
Someday I will look in an elephant's eye.
But Keats did not grow. His friends, Shelley and Byron,
touched to the heart, rushed to Rome to stretch him. This
too failed. Then Byron, ever the ladies man, took up with
Lucrezia Borgia, Catherine of Aragon, and Annie Oakley.
. Shelley, a more domestic type, stayed home with his wife
Mary and wrote his famous poem :
' , love to stay home with the missus and write,
And hug her and kiss her and give her a bite.
in Carrboro.
"Carrboro was a mill town.
Its people thought like mill
people and many of them still
do. Chapel Hill was an
academic town. The two had
absolutey nothing in common
and it was logical that they
should grow up apart."
While Chapel Hill citizens
have always been liberal, Todd
noted, Carrboro people have
been rather conservative.
"That fact would probably
still quash any merger move
ment" Todd said. "Chapel Hill
citizens can be very liberal
for improvements. Its 1967
estimated population was over
18,000, while Carrboro's was
under 30000. Chapel Hill
boasts North Carolina's highest
annual median family income
$7547. Most Carrboro residents are
naturally against any merger
movement, Todd said, because
they know their taxes would
increase and they would have
to assume Chapel Hill's
debts.
Calvin Burch. Carrboro
building, and plumbing in
spector and Chapel Hill-Car-rboro
resident for 62 years,
believes many Carrboro citi
zens have a deep-seated feel
ing that they are looked down
on by Chapel Hill people.
board setup make us believe
only that if a merger ever .
did happen Chapel Hill would
run over us and we would lose
all identity" he said.
Burch recalled an unofficial
merger movement that oc
curred a few years ago."
"Just when the movement
was building up steam" he
said. "Chapel Hill elected a
school board and town board
with very liberal views. That
killed the merger movement."
But Burch believes the towns
are becoming more and more
alike and that they will even
tually merge.
The business leaders of the
two towns know the value of
working together. The
Merchants' Association and the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber
of Commerce represent both
municipalities.
J. F. Augustine, executive
director of the Chamber of
Commerce, thinks the two will
merge eventually.
"Both stand to lose a great
deal if they stay separate,"
he said. "So much more can
he accomplished by working
together."
Chapel Hill Mayor Sandy
McClamroch, Jr. agrees with
Augustine.
"It would be to the best
interests oi doui xowns it a
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"It's probably half true and merger could be realized."
half false," Burch said, "but said. "Carrboro's land values
nevertheless the feeling's would spring up and citizens
there and it would prevent Df each town would
a merger today.
"At the same time" he
noted, Carrboro has a lot of
town pride. We don't want to
lose our identity."
The Chapel Hill and Carr
boro school systems merged
about 10 years ago, Burch said,
and since then Carrboro has
been unable to elect even
one school board member.
"Situations like the school
more benefits. It's ridiculous
to continue maintaining
separate services and
departments."
McClamroch sees no reason
why Carrboro would lose its
identity if it merged with
Chapel Hill.
"If Carrboro merges with
us" the mayor smiled, "it
can still call itself 'Carr
boro.' "
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once you get your easy-to-repay
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MEMBER F.D.I.C.
A computer system t o
monitor the conditions of six
acutely ill patients will be set
up at N.C. Memorial Hospital
here under a three-year
$700-000 grant from the Na
tional Institutes of Health.
The new grant will make
it possibla to develop and in
stall a computer-oriented
system to obtain and handle
information which will help
doctors determine the exact
condition of actuely ill pa
tients. Each of six beds in a special
unit of the hospital here will
be equipped with measuring
instruments to provide 18 in
formation items on each pa
trocardiogram blood pressure,
heart output breathing rate
oxygen usage body tem
pgrature and blood
chemistry.
From these 18 "primary"
information items, about 75
"secondary" items will be
derived by the computer
system.
Ultimately the system is ex
pected to provide information
to enable a doctor to predict
the onset of a crisis in a
patient, so he can take steps
to prevent emergency situa
tions from arising.
Dr. Ralph W. Stacy pro
fessor of bioengineering and
biomathematics.in surgery at
The University of North
Carolina School of Medicine
.is director of the research project-
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Dr. Richard M. Peters
surgeon and director of UNC's
Division of Cardiovascular and
Thoracic Surgery,
Biomathematic is the clinical
director for the project.
Doctors today are so flooded
with information obtained from
critically ill patients that it
is almost impossible for them
to get a clear picture of their
patients' exact conditions,
i With the proposed system
? here all of this information
will be gathered and assembl
ed by the computer system,
. predigested by the system and
4 then fed to the doctors.
A large part of the research
here will be spent in working
out the best communications
between the computer and the
doctors.
The proposed system ac
tually will have four com
puters. One medium-size computer
will do the major job of in
formation assembly and will
generate the messages to the
doctors.
Three small computers will
each be assigned to a single
group of measurement tasks.
This information will be fed
into the larger computer.
The "task-oriented" system
will be designed to carry out
all the required measurements
on a patient while providing
backup support in case one
computer should fail.
The research aspects of this
project will be conducted in
a special trailer building to
be erected. The trailer will
house electron laboratories
computer rooms, systems
analysts and computer programmers.
Rocks near Albemarle
North Carolina, have been
found to be 500 million years
old. . . which makes them 200
million years older than the
Appalachians.
The formations were thought
to have been formed by the
same mount ain-building
system as the Appalachians.
The "error" has been detected
by Prof. James R. Butler,
University of North Carolina
geology department and Prof.
Allen Hills of Yale University
formerly also University of
North Carolina.
Their surprising find was
revealed in a study presented
by Prof. Hills at the annual
meeting of the southeastern
section of the Geological Socie
ty of America (April 4).
The meeting attended by
some 500 geologists was held
in Durham.
Interest in the Albemarle
area had long been lacking
Prof. Hills said because no
tossiles were found. But five
years ago two fossiles were
found and geologists mapped
the area.
Then the two scientists col
lected rock samples which pro
ved to be 500 million years
old placing them at the end
of the Cambrian period when
there were only very simple:
forms of life in existence.
The oldest formations to be
found in the VS. are in the
rocky mountains and date back
as much as 3 billion years.
University of North Carolina
faculty members and
graduates were authors or co
authors of 19 of the papers.
Village
Selects
Aldermen
Eleven residents were
elected to the Odum-Victory
Village Board of Aldermen in
the April election..
The new aldermen are:
Lynwood Benson, Pamela
Bochinski, John Dees, David
Mitchell, Lou Mitchell, George
Nevius, Kim Nevius, Monroe
Ridenhour, Regina Rodrigues,
William Stephenson, and
Robert Trudeau:
One vacancy remains on the
Board. Any interested resident
may contact the incumbent
aldermen.
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Mary Shelley finally got so tired of being bitten that
she went into another room and wrote Frankenstein.
Upon reading the manuscript, Shelley and Byron got so
scared they immediately booked passage home to Eng
land. Keats tried to go too, but he was so small that the
clerk at the steamship office couldn't see him over the top
of the counter. So Keats remained in Rome and died of
shortness.
Byron and Shelley cried a lot and then together com
posed this immortal epitaph :
Good old Keats, he might have been short,
But he was a great American and a heck of a good sport.
D 1968. Max Shulman
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