6 The Tar Heel Thursday, July 6, 1978
Outdoors with the
Housing Office
by Bernard Cook
Staff Writer
If it looks as if the wooden doors are
being ripped off their hinges in Old
East and Old West, they are. The
frames are being ripped out, too.
The gaping, brick-lined holes that
remain will be filled in with metal
doors and frames, according to
Russell Perry, assistant director for
the Department of Housing. The
replacement is part of an ongoing
program to keep UNC dormitories
within state fire regulations.
Doors are also being replaced in
eight other buildings and new fire
doors are being installed in halls and
stairwells in some cases.
Costs will total $200,000 to replace
the frames and doors and $50,000 to
install the fire doors, Perry said.
Staff photo by Allen Jernigan
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Towing to begin again
A Chapel Hill ordinance passed last
summer which banned parking on
some 41 town streets will be enforced
again beginning Aug. 1.
Judge Robert Collier said in Orange ,
Superior Court last week that he will
issue an order lifting an injunction
placed on the ordinance's
enforcement last fall by Judge Henry
A. McKinnon, Jr.
The town ordinance called for a ban
on commuter parking on the affected
streets, and for the issuance of
parking permits to residents who did
not have driveways.
UNC law student Philip Williams
brought the suit against the town of
Chapel Hill which resulted in the
original injunction. Williams' suit
charged that the ordinance was too
broadly-drawn, and that the
ordinance's provision for the issuance
of permits to residents was
unconstitutional because it created a
specially-treated class of citizens. The
suit said that non-residents were
therefore discriminated against
unfairly.
But in a case much like that of
Chapel Hill, the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in October that ordinances of
the District of Columbia, Arlington,
Va., and Montgomery County, Md.
banning commuter parking in
residential areas were constitutional.
And in January the Chapel Hill board
of Aldermen passed amendments to
the ordinance to make the criteria for
the issuance of permits more specific.
Attorney Steve Bernholtz, who has
represented Williams in his suit, said
Wednesday that his client will not
contest the ordinance further.
Bernholtz said that the Supreme
Court's decision was the main reason
for the decision.
The ordinance will remove
approximately 500 parking places on
streets near the University campus.
Day care center to close xxxixixxzxxrn:
by Karen Gunter
Staff Writer
The University Methodist Church Day
Care Center at 150 E. Franklin Street will
close on Aug. 11 because of financial
problems.
An administrative board, consisting of
several church officials and committee
chairpersons, voted May 21 to close the
day care center, which has been in
operation for 10 years.
John Brantley, chairman of the Day
Care Advisory Board, said the main client
of the center is the County Department of
Social Services. Because of the
department's involvement, the center
must adhere to strict government
regulations.
The center must conform to many rules
it cannot afford in order to keep its
certification, says Neill Scott, a member of
both the day care center advisory board
and the church's administrative board.
The center's three teachers were
unavailable for comment. Ms. Vincent
Patrick has worked for ten years at the
center, while Anice Roundtree has taught
for nine years and Kathy High for five
years.
Parental opposition to the closing has
been vocal. Mrs. Ester Vassar, whose son
attends the day care center, said she
blames poor leadership, almost to the.
point of mismanagement, for the center's
closing.
She said that a survey was sent out
recently to parents to ask for a 15
tuition hike, which would boost her son's
tuition from $142 to $169. Parents have
volunteered their services, and the
teachers, who were already working at a
low pay scale, were willing to supply
educational tools themselves. But the help
was apparently not enough to cover the
reported $5,000 to $10,000 deficit.
Mary Jane Pierce, the Director of
Christian Education at the University
Methodist Church, said that the decision
to close the center was made after
meetings of the Finance and Council on
Ministries committees. A final vote by the
Administrative Board sealed the fate for
the center.
Pierce said that money and enrollment
problems have plagued the center since
last summer. Many bills are waiting to be
paid after the church receives various
reimbursements.
Plans for use of the building after
August 11 are uncertain. The day care
center was relicensed in June for a year,
after which the center will lose its
grandfather clause and be required to
adhere to new, stiffer regulations than
when it was built. Any decision must be
reached after several church committees
meet, said Pierce.
Many of the 42 children enrolled now at
the day care center are already relocating.
At least one of the teachers has found
another job.
Writers, Photographers, Artists.
If you are interested in working for The
Tar Heel during the second summer
session, please come to an editorial
meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday in the DTH
offices, Carolina Union. If you can write
(news, features or sports), take pictures,
draw or edit copy, we can use you.
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