Remember when the headquar ters of a beat generation was the § woodshed? 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 : . Related stories and pictures are on Cage 1-C. r 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 t Continued on Page 2) ~ 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 (Goototuod ob Fife 4) 5 Cents a Copy jr# Jn ■ * if- jgm FyO" v M * W • »!*' jB j||L y _j !!•• lit m_ . ?'■ i.. ■■ ' ¥ 7%m . JBEEHHteaf j, |? „ 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