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Thursday, July 10, 1986
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Clhapel HilMains alerted
eedeF law to save water
By JO FLEISCHER
Co-editor
Chapel Hill residents have been
asked to conserve water voluntarily
by the Orange Water and Sewer
Authority because of low rainfall,
and new measures may be enacted
this week if the drought continues,
carrying civil penalties for violations
of the conservation guidelines.
OWASA imposed the first, or
"alert," stage of water conservation
ordinances last Monday, said Everett
Billingsly, executive director of
OWASA. The mayors of Chapel Hill
and Carrboro, the Chairman of the
Orange County Board of Commis
sioners and the Chairman of the
Durham County Board of Commis
sioners were asked to impose the alert
phase of the five-stage water conser
vation plan due to increasingly dry
conditions.
The National Weather Service's
WATER CONSERVATION
MEASURES
The conditions of the first phase of OWASA's ordinances are
voluntary and carry no civil penalties, but water customers are
urged to implement several conservation practices to reduce
consumption. They include:
Taking four minute showers instead of longer showers or
full tub baths.
Limiting flushing of toilets to only when needed.
Not running faucets while brushing teeth, shaving or rinsing
dishes, etc.
Operating clothes washers and dish washers only with full
loads.
Limiting lawn and garden watering as much as possible.
Temporarily delaying new landscape work.
Limiting or stopping washing cars, vehicles, etc.
Not washing down outside areas such as driveways, patios,
sidewalks, etc.
Using disposable dishes.
Harry's 'retired beatniks' remember good times
By KATIE WHITE
StaffWriter
This Fourth of July, while the
people of America were celebrating
their independence and the anniver
sary of Miss Liberty, another kind
of celebration was going on in Chapel
Hill. It was called Harry's Reunion.
What was Harry's? Who were these
people?
Harry's Bar and Grill opened in
1926 under the ownership of Harry
Stern. In 1940 the management
changed to Harry's sister-in-law,
Sybil Macklin and her husband,
Harry. They ran it until 1967 when
their son, Ralph took over, closing
the place down in 1972. Harry's"
served sandwiches with names such
as Coedible, Whatduzitallmean,
Passion, College Bored, and No
Drought Severity Index for the
region indicates an extreme drought
situation. Rainfall this spring and
summer is lower than it has been
since the summer of 1890, and there
is no relief in sight, Billingsly said.
"Historically, July is the wettest
month, but the one-month extended
forecast prompted us to take a very
concerned look," he said. "It will
probably take 10 to 15 inches of rain
to bring up the level of University
Lake a couple of major storms
or a long rainy spell but we don't
normally get that kind of precipita
tion during the. summer months."
The situation is further compli
cated by Hillsborough's reluctance to
sell up to 2 million gallons a day of
treated water to Chapel Hill, said
Patrick Davis, assistant to the
executive director of OWASA. "Our
request to the Hillsborough water
system to release up to 2 million
More War, as well as other delica
tessen fare. It was located next to the
post office where Four Corners is
today.
If you walked into Chapel Hill in
the 1960s and asked where was the
"place to be; it was Harry's. "It was
a focal point," said one the several
hundred reunionites.
The organization for the reunion
can be credited to Alex Mclntire, a
professor of international studies at
the University of Miami who was a
regular at Harry's. He was wondering
where his old friends were and started
writing letters to people he knew,
who in turn wrote to people they
knew, and the reunion was in pro
gress. Several activities happened
over the .weekend, including a big
reunion party in the country west of
gallons a day to us from Lake Orange
was tabled by their board until next
week. There has been some move to
limit the amount of water going to
OWASA."
The Lake Orange water flows
directly into Hillsborough's reservoir
and is treated. When requested, up
to 2 million gallons a day can be
diverted to Chapel Hill and Car
rboro, Davis said. Lake Orange was
established by the citizens of Orange
County, and 60 percent to 70 percent
of the appropriations for the project
came from the citizens of Chapel Hill
and Carrboro, he said. OWASA gets
the raw water without charge, but
pays for its treatment.
"A large number of people who
paid for the project may not get water
service ... If there is no appreciable
rainfall for the next several weeks and
we don't get the. water from Hills
borough, for example, if we are
denied 1 million gallons a day, that's
15 percent of our usage and thats a
considerable amount of water that
could help us reduce the rate of fall
at University Lake," Davis said.
There is also pressure to retain the
the level of the Eno River to support
its fish and aquatic organisms by
releasing 1.1 million gallons a day
from the Ben Johnson Reservoir and
Orange Lake into the river, Davis
said.
"It's a trade off between serving
the aquatic life or our customers,"
he said. "If it gets to a situation where
we have to ration water, our custo
mers are going to ask, 'Where'd all
the water go?' and we tell them we
released 1 million gallons a day into
the river to support the fish, they'll
ask, 'What did you do that for?' "
Davis said the water being diverted
into the Eno River could represent
as much as 20 percent of Chapel Hill's
See WATER page 7
Chapel Hill Saturday, other smaller
parties, a wall sit-in in front of the
Carolina Coffee Shop and a demon
stration march.
What was Harry's? It was a place
where you could eat three meals a
day, drink beer or just sit for two
to 12 hours and talk. "It was more
than a restaurant experience," said
Ralph Macklin, the once-manager of
Harry's. "It was a cross-pollination
of people," added Neal Smith, editor
of the Chatham Herald, "Anyone
could go to Harry's."
Who came back? Several distinct
groups of people and those in
between such as former members of
the Daily Tar Heel and PlayMakers
Repertoire, retired hippies and
beatniks and former International
Student Center members. These were
Gettin'xad
Butch Sauvage, a rising freshman at Chapel Hill High School, is
airborne for a few seconds on his board Tuesday afternoon as he
leaps from a ramp in front of the South Building. Sauvage says his
sport is all about 'getting rad.'
the people who made Harry's. "We
were a radical group," said one. They
were protestors in the civil rights
movement, anti-Vietnam demonstra
tors, peace movement advocates who
remembered the good conversation
they had at the restaurant.
Why did they come back? "For a
good time," said Karen Byrd, a
student here during the early 70s,
now a single mother who lives on
Shannon, an alternative living com
munity in Virginia. "It was a special
time," said another. "We came back
to see each other." They came from
places like Minnesota, Calif orniar;
New York, Georgia and even Genoa,;
Italy.
A party was given by Loyd Little,
a former editor of the Daily Tar Heel.
His house walls were covered with
St
Tar HeelJohn deVille
UNC memorabilia: old Daily Tar
Heel articles, telegrams to friends and
pictures of John F. Kennedy when
he came to speak at the University.
"He (Kennedy) made us believe
that we could do something," said
Margaret Ann Rhymes (now Range),
who was once a member of the Tar
Heel staff and now works with the
Peace Corps.
"We were hard to teach," said
Newton Smith, a poet and writer.
Other former UNC students there
included Wayne King, formerly a Tar
Heel editor, now a Washington,
D.C., correspondent for the New
York Times, and Steve Vaughn, who
came from Oakland, Calif. He agreed
with Smith.
See HARRY'S page 14