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Airport—i aside and Outside
The new terraina building at the
Knit lgc-Durham Airport. with its soft
cushiorifec setts and ah its modern facil
ities is not only comfortable and con
venient The excellent lighting both
natura. and artificial and the tasteful
nrigTit co)Or* of the ceii.ng and the walls
make :t delightfully cheerful. In all ter
minals . whether for trains or busses or
airplane l , even with good service by the
transportation compar .es. a good oea.
of waiting has to be done at one time or
another and I don't know of any more
agreeable p»aoe to s.t down wait:
around in than this one. The thanks of
the public are due to its designers and
to the officers of the Raleigh-Durham
Airport Authority who chose them.
It is a pity tnat no such good word
can be said for the facilities; on the out
aide of the u uiiding. For the people who
use an airport terminal nothing is. more
important than the arrangements for
approaching, departing, and parking
and tnese arrangements are distinctly
unsatisfactory at the Raleigh-Durham
Airport. This is of great concern to Ra
leigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, and
there has. been complaint about it in all
three communities.
One very vexatious restriction is
that you may not leave your car near
the building even for a minute or two
when you are meeting somebody or see
ing somebody off. Hay this, is a typical
case and was the case with me recently
—say you have brought a departing
guest to the termiHa; You want to leave
your car and go inside with her, to bid
her goodbye or maybe to help her with
her tickets and her baggage. You have
to let her out, move off in your car,
wind around a hundred yards or so to
a pay-parking space or go more than
twice that far to the free parking space.
Then you walk back to the terminal.
When your guest ha gone you walk
back to your car.
At the pay parking space they give
you a ticket that exempts you from the
fee if your car stays, there less than J 5
minutes:. Often airplanes are not on
time and so often the exemption is; null
and void. However, it is not the fee
that is vexatious. Jt is the damnable in
convenience.
If your guest's baggage is too heavy
for her to carry, as it often is, you can’t
take it in for her That is prevented
by your not being permitted to leave
your car close to the building. This is:
so even though you want to be- away
from the car for only the minute or so
needed foi taking the baggage in. Thus
there is a compulsion to pay a porter a
fee for a light and easy service you
would of course be glad to perform. This
is as odious; as: the celebrated hat-check
tyranny.
Rut the worst, the incredibly out
rageous, fault in the parking layout at
the Raleigh-Durham airport is 'tie lo
cation of the free parking space. This is
away off beyond the pay-parking space.
Not beyond it in the sense of adjoining
it on the far side, but beyond a stubble
field that is beyond the pay-parking
space. If you elect to leave your car in
the free parking space you have a Jong
walk to make back to the terminal and
later the same long walk in the opposite
direction.
Not only does the length of the walk,
make it fatiguing and disagreeable.
There is no pathway for you, and you
either have to go back along the road you
came by—on which the traffic is one
way against you, mind that!—or else,
in order to be with the one-way traffic,
you have to go around by the state
highway and come in by the entrance
from the highway and up the airport
road to the terminal. This is at least
half a mile; somewhat more than that.
my guess is.
Fern persons of normal health and
strength such a long walk over such a
poor surface is inconvenient and tire
some. For i*ersons not well and strong,
especially for those with children, it is
much worse It put.- a severe strain on
them. and. since it forces them, to walk
aior.g ilose v a rapid fkw of automo
tive traffic. ;t exposes them, to actual
danger. Every time I’ve been to the air
jK»r. 1 have beer amazed to see that
there nas continued to be- no wa.xway
for the free parker-. I have wondered
v r:> the Airport Authority didn't lay a
concrete path across the Stubblefield V
th< rear fence of the pay-parking area,
make ar, oj*ening in tr.e fence, and thus
provide a decent Dating between the
free parr mg -pace and the terminal
■ uilding
I am. not now c m.plaining about
people's having to pay extra for extra
service l . That is common practice
everywhere But I am. against an ar
ranger.* r.t that make* • practically im
possible for people to carry their bag
gag*- int* a terminal b-iiding when they
want to. And. stii. more emphatically. I
am. against a plan of operation under
which users of free parking -pace are
treated so conspicuously as a second
ed-* section of the public.
Is there away to correct this bad
situation'' The answer .- yes and I
dor. t believe the cost of the correction
would b<- beyond the Airport Authori
*\ \ r(. Uyfj r f*(*_
The decision to devote the space
immediately ir front of the terminal
building between it and the pay-park
rg space, to the lawn that you see there
today, was a big mistake A lawn is a
pr*”y sight and i’ is well lor one to
be alongside an airport building if it
car. be placed there without the s.acri
-1 .'<■ o 1 the public interest. But that i*
not the case here. The space given over
*o 4 r.e lawn is de*perately needed for
th< efficient operation of the airport
and it i- being utterly wasted. What the
A.rport Authority ought to do i- to con
vert it into a parking space
It would accommodate a larg*- num
ber of car*. I am not suggesting any
of the details of the parking arrange
ments. The Authority might decide to
rt-krat*- the pay-parking space or the
free parking space or both of them, or
to leave them where they are. They
might deride to use the space v. her*- the
lawn is now for an emergency parking
space, with part of jt or all of it for
.incited time use- 'They could work out
a proper set of regulations, one of which
should certainly permit cars to come
up to the building and stay there the
short time required for the letting out
of passengers and the handling of bag
gage. There is no doubt that the Au
thority, if it will recognize the obvious
fact that the lawn, utterly useless now,
can be put to excellent use, will lie able
to correct the bad situation at the Ra
lejgh-Durham Airport. E. G.
Shop and Mail Early
The mail is being put in the boxes
at the post office just a bit later, and
that po.-tman who comes to your front
door has slowed down some. Everyone,
though, is working harder than ever at
the Rost Office. The difference is
Christmas. There is already an abun
dance of packages, and the cards and
letters that go with the holidays will be
along in a few days.
There are two reasons we call the
above to your attention. First, we feel
that the nun who deliver the mail
through "rain, sleet or snow” deserve
to be commended for their efforts. They
work hard throughout the year, and
they work doubly hard at Christmas
time.
Ea:-,tly and perhaps more important
to you is Ji reminder to shop now and
mail your packages and cards just as
early as possible. There are bound to
be sorn<* delay between now and Christ
mas, and the quicker your mail is
turned over to Uncle Ham the faster it
will arrive at its destination. And re
gardless of tb< gift, it doesn’t mean as
much if it doesn't arrive by the twenty
fifth.
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A Time to Take Block
This week has been nationally pro
claimed as Rill of Rights Week.
It is fitting that Americans pay
homage to their Bill of Rights, the first
ten amendments to the Constitution.
For our Bill of Rights gives us the
dignity of men, free and responsible be
fore the law and in the church or syna
gogue of our choice. It gives us freedom
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
to say and print what we believe, even
about politics and religion.
Many part- of the world are now
struggling for these very rights. Wit
ness Hungary and Poland, fighting for
something handed to us long ago by
*ur Founding Fathers along with our
Constitution.
Perhaps it has be*-n too easy for
l-u May :*e we have taken our rights
too much for granted. But they are at
-take today, fcnd it behooves us to re
examine and re-evaluate the document
that make- us free men.
A Summing-Up of Joan of Arc
from the F'reface to Shaw’s “Sain? Joan"
Tin*- nv re obedient a man is to ac
credit**-: authority the more jealous he
i- of a. wing any unauthorized person
to order * im about. With this in mind,
eor.s.der *f.e career of Joan. She was a
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1)
our sou*..* window- and -aw Warren trees stand firm
and pr* A 1 w uld go to a north window and see Kyser
tree.-, da*red to tr.e ground. On our own place seven
mulberries w *,*•*- jprooteo. flagstone- were jerked out
of place, and the high rock wall wa- tumbled into
Helper lane. •
A giar.t oak in th< Kyser yard that had been
pared by the hurricane, had to be cut down last week
because .t had died, and .- nday afternoon I came upon
Mr-. Ky-er looking *adh at the stump.
“Limbs were falling off. it was dangerous, and
there was no’hing else could do but have it cut
down, she said, "i am again-t de-troying a tree or any
part of a tree for any re&sor except that it i- dan
gerous.”
Hhe pointed to a magnolia a few feet away, half of
which had been broken off by the hurricane, and re
called that sereral persons, including a tree-care expert
had advised her to take down the surviving part,. She
had refused and here it stood, not symmetrical as it
had been before Hazel struck it, but a flourishing and,
to Mr Kyser, still a beautiful tree. I agreed with her
completely when she said she thought a tree’s losing its
regular shape was a poor reason for destroying it.
The two old cedars that have been left flanking
the front entrance, on Franklin street, though they arc*
now trunk* all bar*- of foliag*, add to the charm of the
Kyser home.
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Mr- Irl Summerlin’s Sunday school class of ten
year-olds: at the Episcopal church, who, while she was:
away on a visit to Buenos Aires, had been taught by
Mrs. Donald Jyoomis, surprised her with their welcome
when she came back to them this, last Sunday. It was
articulate (appeals, all in a chorus, for h<*r to tell them
about her trip) and pictoHld (drawings and cut-odffe at/
tached to the window-panes).
Presently she found herself delivering a compre
hensive* travelogue. Then* was no danger of her running
out of topic* the * hildren supplied them in a barrage
of questions. What about the airplane how high up
did it fly and how fast did it g o ? What about the
Andes? Did they really have snow on them? What
about the people and the animals? What sort of lan
guage did the children peak in Sunday school? And so
on and on.
The das- v.a- fa * mated by a statuette of the
Virgin that M* . Summerlin had brought to show to
therm And u-Ip?' told them about th<- churches, both
Roman Uatholi* arid Rrot* -tant, that he arid Mr Sum
merlin had visited.
Dne in* id*-nt that impressed them wa- Mr Sum
merlin’ case of faintn* • brought on by his: leaving
the plane and moving around too mu*h at Ea J'a/.,
Bolivia. The airport there i* the high* t in the wvrld,
!•', 000 feet above ** a I*-'. < and the air is o thinjJ+rft jI
you take any but the slightest exertion yourfoxygen
runs out. When Mr. Summerlin’s leg- began do feel
weak he returned to the plane. The hostess; noticed tbat
ho was pale, quickly slin k an oxygen tub*- in his nose,
and command*-*!: "Breath*- deep.” JJe did and in a minute
or two was all right. Me had no more trouble because
the airplane's passenger quarters are kept under pres
sure.
News of Books
By Robert Bartholomew
PHOTO JOI KNAI.I.SM By
Arthur Rothstein American
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Whether you own a box
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It i>: illustrated with over
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The book is lively, yet one
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one who is curious about how
modern newspapers and maga
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theory and the working prac
tice behind the publications on
the corner newsstand.
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AMERICAN HERITAGE. Lie.
eember, 195fi. Published by
American Heritage. New York.
(2.95 a copy or sl2 a year.
The current issue of “Ameri
can Heritage" begins the third
year of publication of this
village girl, in authority over sheep and
pigs, dogs and chickens, and to some
extent over her father’s hired laborers,
but over no one else on earth. Outside
the farm she had no authority, no
prestige, no claim to the smallest defer
ence. Yet she ordered everybody about,
from her uncle to the king, the arch
bishop. and the military General Staff.
Her uncle obeyed her like a sheep, and
took her to the castle of the local com
mander. who. on being ordered about,
tried to assert himself, but soon col
lapsed and obeyed. And so on up to the
king. This would have been unbearably
irritating even if her orders had been
offered as rational solutions of the des
perate difficulties in which her social
superior* .found themselves just then.
But they were not so offered. Nor were
they offered as the expression of Joan’s
arbitrary will. It was never "I say so,”
but always “God says so.”
Magazine of History that is
published iri hook form six
lime a year
No finer Christmas present
may he found for the lover of
good hook in 'he historian
than a subscription to tin.- firic
journal.
Os special uit|.| ( i 1,, North
Carolina reader.- in ibis issue
i “Why 'liny jnripeached An
drew Johnson," by I lav id Jlon
aid.
Johnson was. called a Judas
and a drunkard, hut he was
neither. Hut in the tragic
Reconstruction day , h<- missed
a dazzling opportunity for
leadership. Excellent line draw
ings and photograph*.
• * *
OCRACOKE Ry Carl Goercln/
Edwards & Broughton Go. Ra
leigh 22d pp. s:j.oo.
Oeracoke is one of the few
unspoiled places left along the
Atlantic coast. It is an island
just south of Mutteras approx
imately 20 miles from the
mainland, and ha* seen very
few changes with the passing
of the years.
Mr. Goerch has written an
outstanding book about this
spot on the Tar Heel coast. If
you have been there, you will
Jove the book. If you haven’t
been there, you will decide that
Oeracoke ie the spot for your
next vacation. Easy reading
and well illuatrated. A book
that should be in every North
i
From Our Files
r
j ) »ars Ago
W*-.-?wood, the residential
•*'•.-• adjoining Chapel Hill
on tr.<- southwest, i to become
part of the town. The ordi
nance annexing it was unani
rnov y adopted by th<- aider
rr.‘r. at tt.e.r meeting Monday
n.'gf.t.
At *.**■ direction of the board
of a -le.-meri the mayor and the
tow.* manager have sent a
• *o the I.’niversitv a-kmg
it to do something to improve
t/affj* conditions on the Pjtts
b* jo Highway just outside the
town limit.*.
10 Wars Ago
Members of the Carrboro
J. or met !a-t. evening iri the
Methodist * hurch hut to di*-
* plan foj the building of
a community 'enter in Can
boro.
lj Vears Ago
Th<- airport, the darn at the
Cru.i j -ity lake, and the power
plant aji- being guarded by
armed sentries 24 hours a day.
Patrolmen and watchmen on
the l.’nivei ?y campus report
to police headquarters Uy tele
phone every hour throughout
the night.
Carolina horn*
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John Umstead did something last week that he
hadn't dune in 30 years. He went rabbit hunting.
And he did something else that he hadn’t tackled
s-ince he was 1G years old. He skinned four rabbits.
The rabbit hunting deal reminded Policeman Gra
-*ham ('rt-el about the time Herman Stone went one
afternoon and started out again the next morning.
"Going rabbit hunting again today?” he was asked.
“Nope,'' he replied, "dog hunting.”
It'- generally agreed that Carrboro is the
hunting capital of the world. Recently one of the fel
lows out asked if there would be room enough in
a hunting party for just one more person.
So. when time came to begin the hunt, he and five
other Carrboro folks showed up.
* * * *
Noel Houston was high atop a ladder cleaning out
the gutters on the roof of his two-story Greenwood
Road home when I passed and called out to him.
"Getting these things cleaned up,” he advised. “You
know folks want at least sls to clean ’em, so I decided
I'd do it myself, because this’ll be the only sls I’ll make
thi* month.”
* * * *
University students who are inclined to nip on
weekends, beginning Fridays, sometimes start on Thurs
days and have designated that, day “Little Friday.”
* * * *
J am thoroughly enjoying “Charlie Craven’s Kind
of People,” the new bowk by our News and Observer
contemporary. His stories even now are as funny and
touching as when I first read them.
♦ * * *
Former cheerleader Vic Huggins tells of an em
barras-ung episode during his collegiate career. It oc
curred j-hortly after Archibald Henderson had been
knighted by British royalty.
In those times Mr. Henderson was an ardent atten
dant and a good speaker at Pep Rallies, as well as an
astute teacher and biographer of Bernard Shaw. •
Before fin*- of the big football games, Sir Archibald
had accepted an invitation to make a pep talk. Vic v. jt
whipping up the enthusiasm and yelling and leading
cheers, and finally screamed to the audience: “Now, we
got. a man h*-re who needs rio introduction to you ...”
He turned and pointed to Mr. Henderson, but Vic’s
memory failed for the moment.. “A fellow who needs no
introduction, I said . . . what the heck’s your name,
sir?”
H ♦ * 4*
A man may be honest in all else, but he always
played a better game of golf two years ago than he does
now.
* * * *
Too many people act first and think it over later.
* * * *
The United Nations has voted to finance the cost
of preventing war in the Su*-z, but it’ll b<* cheap as water
at that.
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Friday, December 14, 1956