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after 86 years
A cardboard sign with the handwrit
ten word "Closed" hangs outside the
door to Top of the Hill.
Inside the window, stenciled letters
on another sign spell out "Sorry, we're
closed and more pieces of cardboard
cover the gasoline tanks.
Top of the Hill, an 86-year fixture on
the corner of East Franklin and South
Columbia streets, ended regular operat
ing hours May 16 and will close com
pletely once all merchandise has been
sold. The store will be replaced by a
three-story, 30,000 square-foot retail,
office and restaurant complex.
Although the store had been sched
uled for destruction for several months,
both employees and customers were
saddened when the end finally came to
the store that had been a Chapel Hill
institution.
"Everybody's upset about it," said
John Thomas, an employee of the con
venience store. "I guess when you leave
something in the same place for 86
years, it gets familiar.
Although the plan to build the new
shopping complex received strong sup
port from the Chapel Hill Town Coun
cil at a public hearing in November,
some questions were raised about pos
sible violations of the Chapel Hill De
velopment Ordinance.
The complex, owned by Joe Riddle
of Fayetteville, will violate three stan
dards of the ordinance for parking, floor
area and height limits.
But the town council waived the stan
dards for the development and mem
bers said they were enthusiastic about
the development possibilities the com
plex presented to the downtown area,
Public hearing quiet
on Chapel Hill budget
Residents addressing the Chapel Hill
Town Council at a public hearing Tues
day night had few concerns about the
proposed budget.
Only five residents signed up to ad
dress the council at the meeting about
the proposed budget, which will not
increase taxes in the upcoming fiscal
year.
, Francis DiGiano, a representative of
Cleanscapes, Inc., which organizes
G'Litter Days in Orange County, asked
the council to reconsider placing his
group's request for $254 in the budget.
The Cleanscapes, Inc., money was
not included in the preliminary budget
plan proposed by the town manager.
Council member Julie Andresen said
the company's work with various local
groups made it worthy of receiving the
town funding it requested, even though
it may not be included in this year's
budget.
"Some sort of symbolic support of
this project is important," she said.
Josh Busby, a representative of the
University's Greek recycling program
and the Student Environmental Action
Coalition, told the council that the Greek
system had three main concerns
curbside tin and plastic pickup, card
board pickup behind fraternity and so
rority houses, and permanent drop-off
sites to be used by fraternities.
"We are asking that expanded recy
cling projects be extended (to fraterni
ties and sororities)," he said.
Both the Chapel Hill Town Council
and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen
currently are in the process of review
ing budget proposals for 1992-93. The
Orange County budget was released
after press time Wednesday.
Medical school holds
awareness programs
In an effort to raise awareness about
the dangers of anxiety and tension, the
UNC School of Medicine department
of psychiatry will co-sponsor a month
long program entitled "Handling Anxi
ety" with five other Orange County
agencies.
The program will consist of three
free public lectures.
All presentations will be held at the
Chapel Hill Senior Center, 400 Elliott
Road, from 7:15-9:15 p.m. Also, two
videos, "Faces of Anxiety" and 'The
Panic Prison," will be shown through
out June on local cable channel 13.
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By Peter Wallsten
Editor
University and local officials want to
employ the help of an out-of-town con
sulting firm in negotiations to relocate
Horace Williams Airport, according to
a report released this week to a commit
tee of town and University leaders.
"I think it will be absolutely marvel
ous for anyone with interests in this to
bring concerns to an outside political
body without any political accountabil
ity," UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin said.
The Coordination and Consultation
Committee, which consists of leaders
from UNC, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and
Orange County, agreed at a meeting
Monday to recommend an organized
public effort to relocate the University
owned airport. The plan now must be
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Changes downtown leave questions
about future of small businesses
By Richard Dean
Staff Writer
The opening of The Gap on East
Franklin Street last week drew an en
thusiastic reception, but some residents
say recent changes on Franklin Street
signal continuing difficulties for "mom
and pop" businesses.
Joy Underwood, the store manager,
snipped a ceremonial ribbon to open the
store in front of a small crowd of Gap
employees and town officials. Ken Jack
son, a member of the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Downtown Commission, said
The Gap would be a great addition to
the downtown area.
Underwood said many local mer
chants had stopped by to wish the new
business well, and Spanky s. Squid's,
University Florist and 411 West sent
congratulatory floral arrangements. Bill
Metcalfe, manager of Barr-ee Station,
said: "They did a great job remodeling,
and we think it will bring more people
downtown."
Kari Hardarson, a graduate student
in Computer Science, said he likes the
store's Chapel Hill location. "There's a
big difference between driving to
Northgate or South Square and stop
ping on Franklin Street after lunch,"
Hardarson said.
The Gap is located in the building
that used to house the Carolina Blue and
White Theater, which closed in Sep
Planned Parenthood to treat men in Chapel Hill, Durham clinics;
By Laura Ehrhardt
Staff Writer
Some men needing exams or medi
cal assistance for sexually transmitted
diseases can find help at Planned Par
enthood clinics in Chapel Hill and
Durham beginning next month.
The change will take place June 1,
said Carolyn Miller, director of clinical
services in Chapel Hill for Planned Par
enthood. "It's always been in the plan
ning stages, she said.
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approved by the Orange County Com
missioners, the Carrboro Board of Al
dermen and theChapelHillTown Coun
cil. Complaints in recent years about
noise and safety by neighbors of the
airport, local school officials and other
town residents have prompted local of
ficials to search for a new airport site.
Despite attempts in 1980 and 1987,
UNC, municipal and county leaders
have been unable to find an alternative
site.
UNC officials, determined that the
Horace Williams site is better suited for
other purposes such as student fam
ily housing or faculty apartments
want to relocate the airport as long as
suitable facilities are found for the Area
Health Education Center (AHEC),
UNC's medical air program, Hardin
tember 1990. A new theater with 350
seats is tentatively scheduled to open in
the rear of the same building next fall.
The owner of the building, Joe Riddle
of Fayetteville, also purchased Top of
the Hill next door and plans to replace
the convenience store with a building
that will hold offices and shops.
Top of the Hill permanently closed
this week.
Other changes have taken place on
Franklin Street between the time of
Carolina Theater's closing and The
Gap's opening. Fowler's Food Store
has been replaced with a shopping com
plex. Huggins Hardware and Baskin
Robbins are gone, and Milton's Cloth
ing Cupboard, which has been on
Franklin Street for 41 years, will relo
cate to Durham's Northgate Mall at the
end of July.
While most merchants, students, and
town residents are pleased that The Gap
has arrived, not everyone is as happy
with the general trend toward change
downtown.
Town resident J.T. Garner, who
stopped to look in The Gap Friday,
thinks that downtown Franklin Street
has deteriorated in the five years he has
lived in Chapel Hill.
"There are too many t-shirt shops
and stores selling cheap merchandise,"
he said, adding that The Gap will help
reverse this trend.
Although Milton Julian, the owner of
Miller said the decision to treat men
will not change the focus of the clinics,
which historically have concentrated
on women's health issues.
"By treating the male partners of
females, we are doing our female pa
tients a service," she said.
Because Planned Parenthood is tra
ditionally a place where women go to be
seen by women, male clinicians will be
hired "for males to have a choice,"
Miller said.
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The 22-page report compiled by
Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal Horton,
UNC Vice Chancellor for Business and
Finance Ben Tuchi, Carrboro Town
Manager Bob Morgan and Orange
County Manager John Link recom
mends employing the Institute for En
vironmental Negotiation, a consulting
firm based in Charlottesville, Va., to
study the possibilities for relocation.
Horton said the process would cost
$15,000 to be split between UNC,
Carrboro, Orange County and Chapel
Hill. The group did not agree how to
divide the cost, but discussed having
each entity pay an amount relative to its
budget.
The Institute, founded in 1981 to
provide non-biased assistance to gov
ernments, businesses and residents, is
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Milton's Clothing Cupboard, said he
was glad to have a retailer like The Gap
downtown, he also thinks it has become
difficult for small businesses to succeed
on Franklin Street.
"It's sort of a shame that it's hard for
a mom-and-pop business to open up
here now," Julian said.
Sarah Hammond, co-owner of Uni
versity Printery, said problems with
delivery forced her business to relocate
from Amber Alley on East Franklin
Street to Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro.
Hammond said there is not enough
space on Franklin Street for delivery
trucks to park, and rear access to her
building was cut off when construction
began last fall on the Rosemary Street
parking deck.
Frank! i n street is becom ing more like
a shopping mall, she said. "It's mostly
just eating places and clothing shops
now," Hammond said. "After 98 years
on Franklin Street, no consideration was
made for us, so we're celebrating our
100th anniversary in Carrboro."
But Jackson cautioned against see
ing any trends in the changes on Franklin
street. He maintained that each business
changes for different reasons and that
downtown Chapel Hill is moving in the
right direction.
Julian agreed that the downtown is
economically healthy. "Even working
overtime, you couldn't kill Franklin
Street," he said.
concerns of being seen alongside men
in the clinics, Miller said, "In Chapel
Hill we're not planning on doing male
services at the same time (as female
services) because of the layout of the
clinic."
Miller also said that because theclinic
in Durham is bigger, men and women
can be seen during the same hours, but
on separate sides of the clinic.
Although Miller could not predict
the number of men who will seek help at
Planned Parenthood, she said it would
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part of the University of Virginia School
of Architecture. Its employees would
work to gather facts from all sides in the
airport dispute.
'The notion here is to begin a process
of collecting information and to get an
assessment from the Institute as to
whether it is possible togetasolutionof
finding a site with proximity to Chapel
Hill," Horton said. "We do think this
notion of working together with dispar
ate groups is of great value."
The Institute would work with other
groups who have a stake in the airport
relocation, Horton said. Representatives
from Citizens for Airport Planning, the
Chapel Hill Flying Club, AHEC and
Stop the County Regional Airport Plan
will take part in the process.
Meanwhile, the CCC discussed the
possibility of studying an airport site in
Employees prepare
for new Press offices
By Josh Boyer
Staff Writer
Grass grew up through the rusted
pipes and charred wood inside Brooks
Hall, the home of the UNC Press before
it burned down in December 1990.
Blackened books and computer termi
nals lay scattered across the floor. Rain
and sunlight had poured in for a year
and a half without the interference of a
roof.
Lewis Bateman, an executive editor
at the University Press, came out of the
wreckage Tuesday with a handful of
papers. His co-workers laughed as he
looked through the form letters and
sales receipts. "We knew they were
indestructible," he said.
About 30 staff members of the UNC
Press gathered Tuesday morning to cel
ebrate the reconstruction of their build
ing, which began later that day. The
devastating fire severely gutted the up
per and lower levels of the building,
destroying hundreds of thousands of
dollars in manuscripts, books and equip
ment. Howard Williams, of Bordeaux Con
struction Co. in Durham, said the first
Elimination of breakfast
at Chase Hall may cause
pay cut for some workers'
By Donna van der Dljs
Staff Writer
The elimination of breakfast on
weekdays at Chase Hall next year will
have little effect on students employed
there, although some full-time em
ployees will lose a few hours, said
Chris Derby, director of Carolina Din
ing Services.
Most student employees work dur
ing lunch or dinner, so they generally
will not be affected by the elimination
of breakfast hours, Derby said. Marriott
employs 220 students, about 45 of
whom work at Chase.
Full-time employees who worked
at Chase during the breakfast hours
will be reassigned to Lenoir Hall or
Union Station, Derby said. Hours will
be redistributed on the basis of senior
ity, he said.
Due to low sales during breakfast
hours, the Food Services Advisory
Committee decided in April to stop
serving breakfast at Chase next year.
Chase will be closed during the sum
mer. Although 3,000 students live on
South Campus during the school year,
only about 200 people, including fac
ulty and staff members, ate breakfast
each morning at Chase last year, Derby
depend on how they advertised the clin
ics. She said the organization will not
advertise as a male clinic, but will con
tinue only to see the male partners of
their female patients.
The clinics will offer diagnosis and
treatments of sexually transmitted dis
eases, in addition to overall physical
exams. Miller was unsure as to whether
the number of male patients would im
mediately increase. "If we advertise as
an STD clinic in Durham, we would
probably see a lot (of men)," she said.
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northern Chatham County.
' The report contains little about any
possible sites outside of Orange County,
but Horton, who prepared the report,
said a northern Chatham site was a
definite possibility.
Tuchi, attending his last CCC meet
ing before starting his new job next
month as the University of Pittsburgh's
chief financial officer, said it would
have been unfair to discuss any Chatham
site in detail.
"The reason you see almost no men
tion of Chatham County (in the report)
is because we thought it would be pre
sumptuous to do so before they were
notified," Tuchi said.
Hardin, also a member of the CCC,
encouraged committee Chairman Moses
Carey to inform Chatham County offi
cials of the possibility.
week would be spent clearing the sight.
Construction should be complete in
about 10 months, he said.
Kate Torrey, director designate of
the UNC Press, said the original design
of Brooks Hall would be kept with the
addition of two advantages the destroyed
building did not have a sprinkler
system and fire walls. ';
The new building also will include ;a
deck and a back area, which will prq
vide an additional 2,000 square feet qf
space to the building's original 10.70Q-square-foot
design. ;
Rebuilding Brooks Hall will cost the
UNC Press and the N.C. State Property
Fire Insurance Fund about $900,000.;
On Tuesday, staff members strolled
around the remnants of the building to
look at their old offices.
"My office is about a foot high," said
Judy Bergman, assistant director and
controller. "We were kidding around
that when the debris people clean up,
they could put our offices in a box." ;
Bergman said she wondered about a
cast iron device her office used to cer
tify documents. "I have a funny feeling
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"I rarely take advantage of Chase,!;
said Larry Wilker, a graduate student;
in Latin American history from Fort;
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empty." '
Pavan Bhojwani, a rising senior1
business major from Surinam, said th
closing did not matterbecause, "I don 'fr
eat breakfast.
ErikaGantt, a rising senior pre-med
student from Charlotte, said the clos
ing of Chase might get in the way of
her schedule.
"It will be an inconvenience for
those times when you want to get a
quick and complete breakfast," Gantt
said. T
: South Campus residents wanting to'
get a quick breakfast before heading to
class will be able to go to the snack
. bars in Ehringhaus and Hinton Jamei
residence halls, Derby said, J
Breakfast carts in the snack bar
wi 11 offer items such as donuts, bagels?.
fresh fruit and beverages. Derby said!
Chase would continue to offer week,
end brunch.
The decision to close Chase for
breakfast came after the Food Advii
sory Committee agreed that most stu-
dents ate breakfast in Lenoir Hall o
Union Station.
Miller said that men already occa
sionally seek treatment at Planned Par
enthood for the sexually transmitted
diseases chlamydia and trich, but mu$
sign a consent form before they are seep
Chapel Hill resident Susan Switzif
said she thinks the move was a positive
one, although she expressed hope thflt
Planned Parenthood would maintain it?
emphasis on female issues.
"It's good for both partners' she
said. "They shouldn't lose the focus dp
women." '.;
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