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Volume 39. No. 55
A Special Chapel Hill Weekly Report
Our Substandard Negro Housing: Just How Sub Is It?
By J. A. ('. DUNN
% Most Negro houses are reasonably good, some better
than that. Some Negro houses are bad. a few incredibly
so. All Negro housing is scarce in Chapel Hill and Carr
boro.
The chief problem is that of the Negro renter, Pro
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Related stories and pictures are on Cage 1-C.
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l>erty owners can take care of themselves and usually do
so commendably, living in solid houses with hot and cold
running water, electricity, sanitary facilities, and heat
ing. But Negroes who rent apartments or houses general
Project
* Denied
Permit
% Apartments Get
One More Defeat
The proposed Towne House
apartment project suffered an
other in a long series of de
feats at Monday night's Board of
Aldermen meeting.
The Aldermen, after a lengthy
discussion, unanimously denied
the developers a special use per
mit for the $1 5 million project,
as the Planning, Board had
recommended.
Mrs. Harold Walters moved
for denial on the grounds that
the apartments would not be in
harmony with the area in location
and character and would not be
in general conformity' with IJMI
plan ami developmdk of Chapel
Hill Boland Gidii,. seconded the
motion
Karlier, Chapel Hill attorney
Kmery Dennv. who is represent
ing the developers, again urged
the Aldermen to consider the pro
ject on its merits And he in
formed them that denial of the
wproject would, in his opinion, con-
Mtitute denial of apartments per
sc, even though apartments arc
provided for in every zone by the
He suggested, instead, that the
Aldermen approve the request
for a special use permit sub
ject to whatever conditions they
desired. "Then if we can comply
with the special conditions, we
will submit new specifications
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Ck. r l Hill
CHAFF
— By Joe Jones --
As edited for many years by
I/niis Graves, the Weekly was
known for having the flavor of
Vthe little college town in which
it was published It reported the
life of tile village in conversation
al prose as clear and serene as
the air its readers breathed. The
village is now a bulging city lean
ing sullenly against its bounds,
and the Louis Graves style of
journalism would no longer ade
quately mirror its problems.
In scanning old copies of the
Weekly in search of items for
our “Looking Back” column one
comes across many of the stories
of tlie type which made the paper
famous and which seem worth
a look from modern Chapel Hill
ians. One such, about the father
of Charles S. Mangum Jr. of
510 Bast Franklin Street, appear
ed 25 years ago in the issue of
July 10, 1936. It follows:
“ We had breakfast last Sunday
in the corner of the garden under
the mulberry tree. The last frag
ment of waffle had been con
sumed, and I had tilted my chair
back and started puffing on my
pipe wticn I glimpsed, out on liie
street, the man who is now the
Village Patriarch: my neighbor.
Dr. Charles S. Mangum, dean of
the University's Medical School.
In response to my hand signal
he turned in at live gate «r>d c«ute
down the flagstone path. In his
right hand was a brown paper
sack, the contents of which. I
knew without asking, were egg*.
Evwrftnday morning lor thirty
#*• *r forty yen Dr. Mangum
l fa* been going around to ton
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HOT DKSCHTY— Cactus TeS' Danzig
er’s Hot Dignity hostesses |iosc around
a pizza with the boss who entertained
them at a pizza party Monday. The hos
tesses will pass out pizza Friday after
noon. Cactus Ted is co-chairman of Hot
Boulevard
Property
Is Rezoned
Three areas at the intersection
of the Old and New Durham
Hoads were rezoned from RA 20
to Suburban Commercial Monday
night.
Action on the rezoning request
had been deterred from the June
27 meeting of the Aldermen until
the three owners and the Town
could reach agreement on more
restrictions than Ihe suburban
commercial /one requires
The areas ere the Old Whipple
Service Station property, owned
by Sion Jennings; the White Ser
vice Station property, owned by
Hubert White, and the Cha|iet
Hill Nursery property, owned by
B J. Kednocker
At their June 12 meeting, the
Aldermen voted 4-2 to rezone the
property But the action did not
carry. The owner ot adjoining
property had tiled a written pro
test and in order for the property
to be rezoned, the ordinance re
quired at least five Aldermen to
vote for it, Monday night’s vote
was unanimous.
Attorney William S. Stewart,
representing the property owners,
presented their signed agreement
to comply with a proposed
amendmenl to Chapel Hill's limit
ed business and suburban com
mercial ordinances The agree
ment provides that the property
owners will comply with the
stricter requirements suggested
by the Planning Board for nine
(Continued on page 4)
Weather Report J
Tomorrow expected to tie clou
dy and warm, with possible show
ers.
Mondav KJ vt
Tuesday SO :> 1
Wednesday . M 60
Ripe blackberries now hang on
the vine tn clusters the color of
polished jet. bummer’s tastiest
wild fruit, they’re a sweet reward
le those daring enough/to brave
the bramble patch and the chig
ftfs that infest It.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
ly have a tough time: their finances are limited, their fam
ilies are no smaller than average, and the housing they
can both find and afford is often substandard.
A" local public official with considerable experience in
living standards remarked, “I think most Negro rental
property is not maintained with an eye to the comfort of
the individual,,,but only for the profit involved.”
A tour this week of Negro rental housing bears this
out —at least in part. Certainly not all Negro rental pro
perty is substandard. But the properties that are sub
standard are definitely so.
On Whittaker Street in Chapel Hill three frame hous
es stand around a sandy courtyard. During heavy rains
water from the street drains down the deeply-gullied
‘Hot Diggity Day’
Unveils Tomorrow
Hot Diggity! It’s here again.
Chapel llill-t arrooro’s sixth annual Hot Diggity Day
is tomorrow. It will be a day marked by:
BARGAlNS—Merchants have slashed much of their
merchandise-from Hi to 50 per cent. And many stores will
feature crowd-drawing specials such as: men’s shoes,
19 cents a pair; suits, $1 ; and a 1941 Chevrolet, $35.99.
GlßLS—Official Hot Diggity Day hostesses who will
be on Franklin Street during the day are Mary Ann Hen-
derson, Miss Ghapc] Hill;
Toby Andrews, Miss Hairy
I’rincess; and Misses Dian
ne Foote, Klaini Divas,
Nancy Edwards, Suzanne
Landis, and Grey Preston,
ton.
FOOD—Frets pizzas will lie dis
tributed to all comers between
2 and 4 p.m on the sidewalk in
front of Amber Alley and between
the University National Bank and
the Zoom-Zoom
DRINKS—Soft drinks will be
passed out at three locations:
corner of Columbia and Franklin
Street, between Ledbetter Pick
ard's and Sutton's, and in front
of Robbins.
ENTERTAINMENT—PIans are
In the making for a combo to
flood the Town with music from
Hearing Requested
On Reassignment
A hearing has been requested
wdh the Chapel Hill School Board
for Slieliah Bynum, who was de
nied reassignment to the ninth
grade at Chapel ILill Junior High
School last week.
Her mother Mrs Barbara By
num of McDade Street requested
Uie hearing.
Also denied reassignment at
las* Friday's special School Board
meeting was William Miles, who
sought to enter the third grade
at Carrboro. The live-day period
for requesting a hearing expires
tomorrow. The board will consid
er the appeal as well eg first
grade reassignment requests July
38. "...
Serving the Chapel Hill Area Slave 102:1
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 13 1961
Diggity Day promotion. The hostesses
an*, from left, Gray Preston, Toby An
drews, Diana Foote, Ted, Nancy Ed
wards, and Mlaini I.ivas, Not shown are
Mary Ann Henderson, Miss Chapel Hill;
and Suzanne Landis.
atup the awning at Bobbins las
tween 2 and 4 p in. Beginning at
4 p.m , Mrs. Joseph Papsidcro’s
I’recisionettes will perform at the
corner ol Columbia and Frank
lin
And while the hostesses aren't
busy giving away pizzas, they
will he giving nickels for park
ing meters, courtesy of the Bank
of Chapel Hill and the University
National Bank.
(Continued on Page 2)
Tom Rose is retiring from His
position as Oiaprl Hill's town
manager in September, lie has
beea town manager far 12 years.
Thomas Duncan Rose is an old
man who hasn't finished yet by
a long shot.
”1 look forward to going back
to engineering," he said. "All my
life I've always ben happiest when
I was doing engineering work.
I'd like to open up another office.
I'll have to find an office some
where, or I’ve cvqi been think
ing of converting my garage into
an office.
' I'll have this job up in Hflls
boro. They dump raw sewage and
industrial waste info the Eno Riv
er up titer*, and the State s been
checking if OR *very watershed
ip North CwMku and they say
something’ll to be done about
it . 1 staridl if A a report on it
for Hillsbc" ' • few years ago, and
then I took this job and never
A Talk With Tom Rose
driveway and swirls under the houses, which stand > n
stone pilings. Two families each house, three rooms
to each family. Rem is $lB a month.
All three houses are condemned, but the tenants
keep on ;>aying rent; there is no law tnat says they need
not.
Behind the houses are three outdoor privies, one to
each house.
In <me three-room apartment a man and his wife and
their two children live. All sleep in the bedroom, where
there is no closet space. I here is a living room and a
kitchen—with no cabinet space.
Much of the space in the living room is taken up by
tin oil heater, which the couple bought wneti they got ntar
Glen wood Group Protests
New School District Lines
★ ★ ★
Carrboro
Budget Is
Adopted
Spending Is Up,
Tax Is The Sajne
By DAVIS B. YOUNG
—The —v’rtfrsro 'SCoumiissiuners
adopted the budget fok the l‘JM
<52 fiscal year at their meeting
Tuesday night in Die Carrboro
Town Hail.
The budget had been tentatively
passed at a June 13 meeting. It
had then bee.i left open lor pub
lic inspection, and Tuesday eve
ning's action was only a formali
ty
The Commissioners left the tax
rate at 93 cents on the hundred
dollar valuation Increased rev
•BMP from newly annexed areas
and other soirees made possible
no change in the town's tax struc
ture
The final figure for the budget
was $1(58,751 47. This was an in
crease of roughly $22,000 over last
year's figure of $14*5,250.
The biggest single item is $42,-
151.47 on hand.
Carrbffl ex|*ects $43,000 from
property tax receipts. Another
$32,000 will Ik: on hand from the
sale of water.
Other major sources of revenue
will include:
Powell Bill Fund—sß,soo.
Sewage tax—s7,ooo
Kent on town property—ss,ooo.
Bills receivable—ss,*soo
For its part, the town of Carr
boro will pay out $38,000 for (he
upkeep and extension of sewers,
end SIB,OOO for the program of
the Police Department, and the
same amount to the University
for water.
Other major expenses will in
clude:
Upkeep of water system—sls,.
(Continued on Page 4i
finislted it, John (Jove, who used
to work with me, hr Marled to
do it, but then he left and never
finished it. guess I'll design them
a sewage plant up tliere. The en
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PROFESSORS HONORED—Five Kenan Professors
ami one Distinguished Alunuii Professor were named at
the University this week. Top row, left to right: Harold
Hotelling, Statistics; K. William Noland, Sociology; Clif
ford P. Lyons, English. Bottom row: Charles B. Robson,
Political Science; J. Carlyle Sitterson, History (also Dean
of the General College and College of Arts and Sciences),
and Corydon P. Spruill, Economics. Spruill was named a
Distinguished Alumni Professor. The others were named
Kenan Professors.
6 I NC Professors
Given High Honors
Five new Kenan Professors and one Alumni Distingush
ed Professor appointed this week at the University
here,
i he new professorships were recommended by Chan
cellor William B. Aycock, and approved by President Wil
liam C. Friday and the Executive Committee of the Board
of Trustees.
The newly appointed Kenan Professors are; Clifford
ginecr gets eight per cent, and
it'll be about a $120,000 job, so
that means $12,000. but it'll* cost
me half of that to do it, with the
field work, and having somebody
up there to watch it, so you don't
make much,
"But other johs will come along.
In that ‘Forward i/xik ami a
Backward Glance’ I predicted that
by 1960 the old towage plant down
here would have to be doubled,
and I'll do that. And then if the
town ever gets into this Lake
Forest sewage business. I’ll do
that too.
“When f cwtie here to college
there never was any doubt in my
mind what t wanted to do. 1 re
member way back in my early
teens f gpt interested in electri
city, those httJo eld shocking ma
chines, you know. Then I went into
engineering, and when 1 graduat
ed some people came around just
the way they do now only not so
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rted because they knew that anywhere they went to live
no heating facilities would be provided. (‘‘We don’t know
anybody who has heat provided”). Oil is stored in a 50-
gailon drum under the house, but there is no connection
between the drum and the heater. The heater is fed from
a five-gallon can which sits behind it.
This is the only heating the apartment has.
The apartment is chilly in the winter because of the
cracks in the floor and around the doors and windows.
Utst winter the couple’s eldest child had a continuous cold,
despite S2OO spent on oil throughout the cold months.
There is no shower or bathtub. There is cold run
ning water, but not hot.
(Continued on Page 4)
P. Lyons, Knglish; K. William
Noland, sociology; Harold Hold
ling., statistics; J. Carlyle Sitter
son, history; and Charles 11. Hob
son, political science.
Corydon I*. Spruill Jr, eco
nomics, has been named as an
Alumni Distinguished Professor
The new professorships are
awarded for distinguished serv
ice to the University over a
period of years and for scholarly
contribution to academics as a
whole.
The Kenan Professorship en
dowment and Reserve Fund was
established in 1917 at the bequest
of the late Mrs. Mary Lily Ke
nan Flagler Bingham in memory
of her father, William R. Ke
nan. and her uncles James G.
and Thomas S. Kenan, who were
graduates of the University.
The Kenan Professorships rep
resent one of the highest honors
the University Trustees confer
upon’ University faculty mem
bers. They ate accompanied by
an increase in salary and are
"awarded on the basic of distinc
tive service in any legitimate
field of university endeavor.”
The Kenan Professorship
servo the University as a means
(Continued on Page 4)
Carrboro
Opposition
Also Forms
By LARRY SMITH
Residents of the old Glenwood
School District are organizing to
pretest the Chapel Hill School
Board's agiproval last Friday
night of new first grade district
lines.
At thtnDne time, a group ot
Carrboro randoms began holding
meetings Monday to organize a
pretest against Hie entire derision
to assign first grates on a strict
ly georafAAPtedftr them racial
basts.
y "Hie inly organised fmport of
the board s action cams Mb a let
ter Bom a group of ministers
Monday.
The redrawn districts will make
Glenwood the most highly inte
grated school in Chapel Hill. Su
perintendent of Schools Joseph
Johnson estimated at the board
meeting that the new lines will
put eight to 10 Negroe first grad
ers in Carrboro, 21-23 in Glen
wood, 11 ui Estes Hills, and 12
white children in Northside.
A district map proposed at an
earlier meeting, if adopted, would
have put about five Negroes in
Glenwood and 25 in Carrboro.
In approving the district lines,
the board admitted frankly they
were gerrymandered to favor
Carrboro. Resident of Carrboro
had appeared at the last several
board meetings to protest any
thing more than token integration.
Spokesmen for the Glenwood
group repeatedly emphasised they
do not oppose integration. But
they are strongly opposed to the
gerrymandered districts, which
give Glenwood more than its
share of Negro pupils.
William Hobbs, one of the mem
bers of the Glenwood group, said
they talked Tuesday evening with
Chapel Hill Attorney John T.
(Continued on page 4)
in
Scenes
wvf. nearra •mruxwbmmmmmtU
I’assersby enchanted by ARN*
01 J) NASH’s cute little dog sitting
mi sidewalk waiting for his owner
to come out of Sutton's . . . MRS.
BILL HARRIS enjoying her thTW
grandchildren, liere for visit . . .
Attractive scene: MRS. CLAR
ENCE FHILBROOK entering
Post Office to mail letter to son,
away at summer camp . . . Help
ing to make Carolina Inn Cafe
teria a pleasant place: Friendly
and gracious manner of MRS.
J. E. MONROE . . . Franklin
Street scene: WALTER WHEE
LER entertaining friends with
one of his many stories . . .
The old JUNE HARRIS house
in first block of West Franklin
Street serenely bolding out against
tlie march of progress . . . SILLY
MAUBR walking across street la
the rain carrying his infant #oa
while MRS. tMAUER w*lks tte
side him holding newspaper over
baby's head to !* i * w him tram
raindrops ... JOHN LAStgTY
complaining of wtat • painful
operation It, was for him to shaw*
Monday monung rfte MMjpt
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