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Vol. 73
Fire Ravages Building Second Time
Kemp Blaze
Adds Heat
To Hot July
By BRIAN RAY
The sign in the window said
"Fire Sale," and for a while
it looked like they were giving
it away.
Thick, black smoke belched
from behind the old, blue-grey,
two-story building last Mon
day afternoon. Within mo
ments students and citizens
swarmed onto E. Franklin St.
Kemp's was on fire again, and
it promise to be exiciting.
A bright red fire truck
moved through the scattered
people and stooped abruotly in
front of the blazing structure.
A tall, white-haired old man
leaped from the truck and
began pointing and shouting.
Two hoses snaked from the
truck men tugging at their
ends. Another fire engine was
right behind.
Like iron filings to a mag
net the people walked and ran
to the pcene. Some of them
ran to the aid of the firemen,
grasping the hoses, gritting
their teeth, and yanking. Oth
ers stood back pointing here
and there, their eves phining
with discovery, talking quickly
and brokenly.
"How did it start," on stu
dent asked another rapidly?
"Spontaneous combustion,"
the other responded. "That
place is s fire trail already
condemned."
"I heard it" had lust gotten
a ten-day extension from being
torn down." the first said. It
was a 30-day extension.
A few people ran down the
side street to the back of the
building. A student tried vain
ly to block the back alley's
entrance.
"Stay back! Don't nobody go
back there!" he whined.
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Kemp's, afire for the second
Coupon Plan To Be
UNC Food Services Direct
or George Prillaman said
yesterday that he will "seri
ously study" a meal coupon
book plan to be used next fall.
Prillaman said that under
the plan the student would
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buy a $10 coupon book for $9.
This book could be used at
Chase Hall, Lenoir Hall, the
Pine Room or the Monogram
Club at any time.
"This plan would give the
student a 10 per cent savings,"
Prillaman said. "The student
could use it to purchase the
60-cent-special, bringing its
price down to 54 cents."
Summer School Board Rep
resentative Don Wilson sug
gested the coupon plan in a
45 - minute meeting with Pril
laman last Friday.
Prillaman and Wilson
agreed that the possibility of a
50 - cent, limited - selection
special would not be "popular
with the students."
Prillaman felt "Students
would rather have a selection
in the buying of the student
special."
Prillaman said that he and
Wilson also discussed the in
stalling of non-carbonated cold
drink machines in Lenoir
Hall.
"We hope to have them rea
dy for next fall semster," Pril
laman said.
Prillaman showed Don Wil
son the results of a poll, tak
en in the form of a question
naire, that was taken during
spring semester exams.
1966
Week's Second Fire Starts
In Debris Of Old School
By ED FREAKLEY
Tar Heel Co - Editor
Monday's fire, which gutted
the H. H. Patterson Building
for the second time in 10
weeks, brought a promise that
the remains of the building
would be torn down by this
weekend.
Following the first fire the
building was condemned and
was supposed to have been
torn down before Tuesday. But
an extension had been granted
until Aug. 10.
Another fire started last
night about 9:30 in the ruins
of the old Chapel Hill Ele
mentary School. The flames
were just getting started
when fire . fighting equip
ment arrived.
The building is being torn
down and the lot cleared.
People gathered quickly,
but the excitment only last
ed a few minutes. One fire
man muttered, "This one
sure didn't start by itself."
Town Manager Robert Peck
said earlier this week that ei
ther the building's owner or
the town would tear down and
remove what is left of this
"dangerous hazard."
Investigation into the cause
of the fire is continuing. Offi
cials have speculated that the
blaze was started by spontan
eous combustion or by an ar
sonist. Studied
"It is not a realistic poll,
since only 200 or 300 students
filled out the questionnaires,"
Prillaman said, "but we will'
continue them next year in or
der to gauge what the stud
ents want."
The poll showed, said Wil
son, that only 6 per cent of
the students thought the qual
ity of the meats as "good."
Furthermore, 17 per cent said
the selection of meats was
"good."
Wilson said, "The most im
portant improvement is t h e
institution of the coupon plan.
"This plan seems entirely
possible. We don't intend to
let it drop. It means an across
the board 10 per cent savings
for students."
Wilson added, "I don't see
any possibility of returning to
the old 50 cent student spe
cial. You can't fight rising
costs.
"And I really don't see the
possibility of a 50 cent special
with a limited selection. I
think most of the students
would rather pay 10 cents and
have a choice."
The student special price in
creased from 50 to 60 cents
at the opening of summer
school. This was the second
price hike within one year.
No. 6
Police are looking for two
12 or 13-year-old boys, who
were reportedly seen in the
back of the building shortly
before the fire began at 4:30
p.m.
The amount of damage is
undetermined. The fire blister
ed the paint on the front of
the Presbyterian Church,
cracked the east wall of the
Dairy Bar, destroyed an air
conditioning unit on the Dairy
Bar roof, singed power lines
and the basement of the Dairy
Bar suffered water damage.
The May 6, fire which caus
ed an estimated damage of
several hundred thousand dol
lars is also still undetermined.
That blaze gutted the rear of
Chez Kemp Ltd. and Courts
Drug Company which were lo
cated in the Patterson Build
ing owned by Milton Aberne
thy of New York City.
Chapel Hill Fire Chief G. S.
Baldwin praised University
students and townspeople who
aided his department in bring
ing the fire under control. He
estimated that 20 to 25 per
sons took an active part in
fighting the blaze for the hour
an half it took to bring it
under control.
"We want to thank all the
people who helped us," Bald
win said. "Many of them
stayed the whole time and
worked at close range with no
protection."
Police officials also praised
students. Patrolman Harold
Smith, who spotted the fire
and turned in the alarm, said
William Deans, a pharamcy
student from Wilson, directed
traffic on Rosemary Street for
more than an hour during the
fire.
Baldwin said one of his men
had his arm blistered from the
heat and another hurt his leg.
"I've been fighting fires for
28 hears," he said, "and that
was one of the hottest."
A ladder truck and three
pumpers were at the scene.
The tin roof on top of the old
building handicapped firemen.
Baldwin said the man atop the
aerial ladder could not shoot
through to the flames until
the roof finally fell through.
After the first fire Aberne
thy was given 60 days, until
July 10, to demolish the build
ing. Through his Chapel Hill
representative Kemp Nye he
was granted a 30 - day ex
tension until Aug. 10 to
remove the building.
Peck said the extension had
been revoked and the building
would come down immediately.