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I Wlut’s became of an the bad- * | get balancers we seed te hear § | about during the campaign? Imu nntFiriaiiii riinnaf w iiumi in hi mu wiJi Volume 40. Number 4 Boulevard Signs Will Come Down; Passed The Aldermen Monday accepted a conditional surrender from the General Outdoor Advertising Co. and stated their own conditions by which other business signs will be per mitted. General Outdoor’s highway billboards will be taken down by July 1. Merchants must comply with new business dis trict sign regulations within one year. The new ordinance controlling business district signs is, Chapel Hill CHAFF . By JOE JONES Many Chapel Killians have been driving out to see the Chat ham County robin roost thought to contain between 500,000 and million birds. A question some ask is. "Where do all these robins come from’’ We haven't seen any around Chapel Hill this winter and yet only nine miles away a million show up every afternoon ” Our guess is that in the day the birds scatter over hundreds of square miles of feeding grounds that don't include Chap el Hill In winter, especially during .snows, robins depend on berries for food It must take a daily consumption of many tons of dogwood, holly, cedar, and honeysuckle berries to sustain the robins in the great Chatham roost. Berries in such prodigious amounts can only be found in extensive woodlands of the kind that cover much of Chatham County. To keep alive during the long cold winter nights the robins is the big roost „ must spent the short hours of daylight foraging, and they have got to go where the food is. Such a vast aggregation of robins can't afford to waste time fooling around places like Chapel Hill where the woods are spotty The present roost is one of a series of such* roosts that have existed in Orange, Chatham, or neighboring counties almost every for many years This evidently means robins are drawn in winter by a good food* (Continued on Page 8) State Rejects Bid For Tuition Grant Carrboro jeweler Reeee Birm ingham’s request for a State tui tion grant under the Pearsall Plan was blocked this week by an unfavorable recommendation accreditation of the Twadell School in Durham But Mr. Birmingham plans to feccp his two daughters in the T’wadell School anyway, bearing the expense himself. The unfavorable recommenda tion was made by an inspection team headed by Samuel Stell, State supervisor of nonpublic schools. --i The team's report to State di- Ircctor of instructional services iNilc Hunt recommended the Twadell School not be granted accreditation because its school tlay was shorter than the State required six hours. Mr. Birmingham became the first man in the State to request ) tuition grant under the Pear all Plan when he presented his request to the Chapel Mill School Board last summer The School Board fulfilled its part in grant ing his request hy forwarding a favorable recommendation on it to the State Board of Education. The Birmingham girls were al ter ady enrolled in the Twadell ISchool at the time of (he request. Mr. Birmingham said yester day he had no plans regarding | Weather Report | (outlawed clear and cald ex pected tomorrow. High law Moaday 3« 30 Tuesday U 28 Wednesday 38 t 1* This mondag’s five degrees was Chapel Hill’s Unrest temp erature la many a day, and let's hope we wen’t see Ha equal 4>ii naan. Seven fat predicted far toalght. 5 Cents a Copy as Town Manager Robert Peck said, “the same one that was read at the last meeting, only now' it’s writ ten in legalise instead of English.” The provisions of the ordinance will affect many downtown signs and some awnings. Briefly, these provisions are: No sign may be erected with out a permit from the building iaspector, an additional permit from the electrical inspector (Frank Morrow, University Ser vice Plants) is required for il luminated signs No permit will be required for a wall sign no more than (i feet square in area or extending no more than 2 inches from the wall Other wall signs may bo erect ed provided they do not extend more than 12 inches from the building and are not less than 8 feet from the ground. Projecting signs may not ex tend more than 5 feel from the building, lie more than 40 square feet in area, or less than 9 feet above the ground. No ground sign of any kind except those erected for orderly traffic control and other govern mental purposes will be permitted on the public right of way Marquees may not extend more than to feet from the building, > ■tu-kw than to feet above, tho ground, or interfere wild any street tree. No part of any awning may he less than 8 feet from the ground All signs, marquees, or awn ings must comply with the North Carolina Building Code require ments Except in the business zone, no sign other than traffic control or other signs erected by the town. Slate, or other governmental unit will be permitted on or “-over any street, sidewalk, or (Continued on page 8) the tuition grant request, and in tended to keep his children in the Twadell School, paying the ex penses himself. “1 can do it,” he said. "A couple of people have asked me if I can afford to send the chil dren to the Twadell School, and I can I applied for the tuition grant because it’s on the books and I'm entitled to it. ”1 have no plans now Time may change something, though ’’ Mrs. Vera C. Twadell. who runs the Twadell School, said she felt th" State s negative recommenda tion was based on ‘‘technicali ties.” "The State said they didn't think anyone would make ap plication for the tuition grants,’' she said "They don't have the money and if they give it to Mr. Birmingham everyone in Orange County could get it, “They came in October and asked about the length of the school day. I said we could con form to 'the State-required six hour school day). “Our classes arc far smaller and we can get through the work Furthermore, we don’t go in for a lot of extracurricular activi ties ” She said that after graduating from Twadell, her students had been making first and second honor rolls in junior and senior high schools. A "safety valve" provision of the Pearsall Plan permits tui tion grants if a child is assigned against parents’ wishes, to a schoool attended by a child of an other race. Eligibility for a tuition grant under the Pearsall Plan requires that at the time of request the children In question he enrolled in a private, non-sectarian school approved hy the State; and that the local School Board find it not reasonable to assign the children to another public school. All of (Continued on page •) The Chapel Hill Weekly 1 I r JHg . Vjffij-i**' < ■ ■ M iHßry# * *■" tjl *• *> ' wi *» <jßk wmmzmfmwk ■ - jr,*. M JH - - , <#- - 'fmm - '• •*-* f * ■ •&;. ~ • /ag ■f ■ 4,1 -V - -W: m awi ‘ -■pLyes\ A. ■ • jitCimJim Jp i - larAiS^TCj-i * , ii's . —■<■, ... .-Ea PHOTO UV TOWN U COUNTRY University Announces Retirements Albert M Coates will retire as director of the Institute of Gov ernment at the end of the current academic year and former Uni versijy Chancellor Robert B. House will go into full retirement. Their retirement, along with that of four other prominent UNC faculty members, was announced Monday by Chancellor William B. Ay cock, following a meeting of the Board of Trustees’ executive committee. The retirements will become effective on .June 30 Mr Coates, who founded the Institute of Government in 1031 and served as director since that time, will continue his duties as a professor in the UNC School of Law. His retirement follows the stale regulation that University admin istrators must retire at the age of 85. but may continue to teach until the age of 70. Chancellor Emeritus House re tired from his administrative duties in 1057 under the same regulation Since then he has taught classes in classics and English Mr. House graduated from UNC in 1916 and received the M A de gree from Harvard He held ma jor administrative posts from 1026 until 1957. Mr. Coates graduated from UNC in 10)8 and joined the Law School here in 1023 after receiv ing a law degree at Harvard. The four other professors whose retirements were announced Mon day are Dr. John W Lasley Jr., Dr Milton S Heath, Margaret Blee and Ruth Hay. iContinued on page 8) R. B. House retired in 1957 a* Chancellor of (he University, and for (he past five years has been teachinif Fnftllsh and Greek and Homan literature to freshmen and sophomores. I.ast week his complete retirement at the end of the spring semester was announced. By J. A. C. DUNN The porch of Robert Burton House’s house on Fast Franklin Street is screened with ever greens. There are rockers on the porch, even in January. In the front hail is a long antique church bench with arms separating the seats—an ancienl piece of furni ture from upper New York State, stiil in use. The house has an atmosphere about it not of the stifling quiet ness of age. but simply the sea soning of time. Mr. House is an old soul, now: a great deal has registered behind his heavy lid ded eyes. But he has young blood. ‘Tm very happy about my re tirement," he said. "A lot hap pier than that picture in the Dur CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1962 Walkway In The University Arboretum A Talk With Robert B. House Serving the Chapel Hitt Area Since 1923 Changes Planned At Intersections Major changes in some import ant downtown intersections in Chapel Hill have been recom mended by the State Highway Commission f late last September the Com mission's Traffic Engineering De partment analyzed the flow of traffic at 15 major intersections and rnade recommendations which would speed traffic at each. One of the traffic engineers' most important recommendations Was that Franklin Street he made a four lane thoroughfare with all parallel parking, instead of the present angle parking as it exists on lioth East and West Franklin Streets. Some of the recommendations involve no more important chan ges than alteration of traffic light timing Other recommendations are more drastic, the biggest of these laing for the intersection of South Road, McCauley, and South Columbia Streets. At this intersection, which the Chapel Hill Police consider the most dangerous in town, there is now one triangular island at the end of South Road The engineers recommend that two lanes he cut through this triangle, with a long dividing median between the lanes Facing down South Road toward Woollen Gym, the right hand lane would be for south bound traffic turning left off Columbia Street, the left hand lane for west-bound traffic turn ing left onto Columbia Street to go toward the Hospital Instead of the present three signal lights there would be six. The average hourly traffic in ham Morning Herald made me appear. I think it's a privilege to have a whole career in some thing. and finish it and then look back at it. a whole life’s work. And I've done a lot of work I've been working at something ever since the age of eight, when I got my first job as a nursemaid and butler to a jersey cow. "That was down home. Halifax County. Thelma. Did you ever read my little book, ‘Aunt Sue and the Sheriff?’ Well you ought to. It's a corking good piece of literature. It’s a collector's item now, out of print But it was about my childhood, until the age of eighteen when I left home. I was a good jackleg at a lot of things when I left home. Farm ing. cotton gin. lumber mill. I think It's good to have some country experience. 1 grew up under rather unusual circunw stances. There were ten children in my family, and my parents, and my uncle and aunt and their five children, and another aunt that taught the school we «U went to, a little private school, and all directions across this inter section is 3,260 At Columbia Street and Cam- Cion Avenue the present traffic Tine arrangement would be re tained, but instead of one four faced signal head to handle all four approaches, (here would be sow single-faced signal heads <u "signal head" is one single mounted or suspended light in stallation, ami can have as many as four "faces,” or groups of four red amber-green'. An average of 3.584 cars cross this intersection every hour. At Raleigh Street and Cameron Avenue there would he no chan ges made. The present single signal head would be retained to control the 2.262 cars that cross the intersection hourly. At Cameron Avenue and Mal lette Street left ami right turn lames would be painted on Cam eron Avenue. The single signal head would remain green for fifteen seconds for Mallette traf fic, nineteen seconds for Cam eron traffic. The average hourly car count at Cameron-Mallette is 1,170. The average hourly car count at McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, where no change in lights or tailing would lie made, is 822. One of the most complicated traffic lane-signal head arrange ments would tie at the intersec tion of Country Club Road and NC 54 at the Institute of Govern ment There are now four signal heads at that point: ten are rec ommended. South hound traffic on Country Club would have two wider lanes in which to approach (Continued on Page 8) a grandmother lived with us 100, so there were fifteen children and six adults every time we sat down at the tabic. There were so MR. BOUSE Merchants Endorse Big Dam Project The Board of Directors of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchant* Association this week endorsed the Cape Fear River Basin flood, coo trot prefect, while \tm Board of Aldermen decided to give the controversial matter more study before taking a stand. Town Planning Board Chair man C. Whui Powell Jr., speaking for Dr Henry Jordan of Cedar Falls who heads an 18-county committee supporting the project, asked the Merchants Association directors for their support at the hoard’s regular moeing on Mon day. The directors adopted a resolu tion endorsing the flood control project and pledging its support. At tlie Board of Aldermen meet ing Monday night, a resolution was introduced supporting the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan for a 100 loot dam in Chatham County. However, at Alderman Roland Giduz' suggestion, the board deferred action until it has had a chance to study an alter nate proposal submitted by the Soil Conservation Service. The Engineers’ plan calls for construction of the large dam at Moncurc which would flood about 9.400 acres in Chatham ami cre ate a reservoir reaching into Orange and Durham Counties Mr. Powell told the Aldermen the large dam would provide much needed flood control for down stream areas an give recrea tional benefits to the Chapel Hill area. The Soil Conservation Service plan calls for numerous smaller dams throughout the Cape Fear Basin. many of us and so much to do, and we did everything in the world. City people are so prov incial. they don’t know how to do anything, they miss so much. I remember when I was passing through New York City on my way back from Plattsburg. the first officers training school, dur ing the First World War, I was helping this old lady get her stuff in an upper pullman berth. There we were in Pennsylvania Station, and she said this was the first time she had ever been on a train. I said where arc you from, and she said right here. I guess she never had had to be on a train. She'd already arrived I remember I always liked to take the ferry out to Staten Island and then turn around and come right back. It was like coming in from Europe.” He drew on a pipe which was dark and anonymous with age. "The only foreign travel I ever did wac in France during the First World War. I lived with a French family and had a little (Continued on Page 8) I’^ZSSZTETI Neum paper Circulation I In Orange Camniy | Chapel Hill Condition Is Snow White Chapel Hill shifted to Condition White yesterday as the result of about four inches of snow. Reactions were normal in most respects, abnormal in some. The public schools closed, but UNC held its classes as usual. Town trucks went to work at about 5 a.m. yesterday spreading a mixture of sand and salt on the roads. At about mid-morning the plows went to work, and were still clearing streets late yes terday afternoon while some outlying citizens call ed Town Hall to find out when their remote areas would be scraped. There were no fire calls, but the Police had a busy day When the snow reached two inches, “no parking" signs were put on the parking meters on Franklin Street Some cars already parked had to be moved when their owners couldn't be located. When the cars were moved, Franklin Street was cleared. Town Manager Robert Peck said Chapel Hill drivers were co operating very well with the ordinance prohibiting parking on Franklin Street after the snow depth reaches two inches, and hoped for continued cooperation. There were normal fender bumps on the slippery streets, and a dozen or so cars were abandoned after failing to reach the tops of the major hills in the area—Pittsboro Road Hill, Strowd Hill, the Glen Lennox Hill, the Airport Road Hill. Police Chief W D. Blake said his men bad trouble with students in the bit: and little fraternity were ftrdNfen and the foplight was knocked off a taxi. Lite yesterday afternoon the jwlice were still searching for a group of people riding around in a green Volkswagen throwing snowballs loaded with firecrack ers at pedestrians. A coed was injured by one of these snow balls and treated at Memorial (Continued on Page 8) Town Will Extend Fire District Lines The Board of Aldermen agreed Monday night to extend the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Dis trict east to the County line if the residents affected will pay a tax sufficient to take care of the additional cost. Town Manager Robert Peck said citizens on the east side of Town had indicated an interest in having the fire district ex tended to include Lake Forest and the Durham Boulevard as far as the County line He said if the Town did this a tank truck would have to lie pur chased to satisfy the fire under writer's insurance requirements. A tank truck would cost about $4,500, he said. Discussion revealed that a 10- ccnt fire tax on property in the area would produce enough reve nue to pay for the truck within two years, The Board stated it was willing lo include the I-ake Forest-Boule vard area in the fire district as long as a sufficient number of property owners agreed to come in to pay for the truck with the fire tax. John Cates appeared before the Board to inquire whether the Town would he interested in "the idea" of Exchange Swimming Pools Inc. using a plot of land at the intersection of NC 54 and 15-501 Bypass as a swimming poql site. The Town owns the land, and Mr. Cates said that as co-chair man of the Swimming Pool Corp oration's site committee he had lo find some sites. He said he thought the Town might possibly be Interested in selling, leasing, or giving the land for the swim ming pool. Town Attorney J. Q LeGrand said that the Town could only dispose of Its property by auction, and that in any case the deed stipulated the property must be used for park purposes. He said he thought the restriction Im plied that such park use could only be municipal, and not private. "Let’s refer It to the Racrea Pllhlinfci I Pvam, B nionHra Every niovuniy ins ißmy Man Os Year To Be Named Two charter members of the Chapel Hill Jaycees will play a prominent role in the program at the 13th annual Chapel Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award Banquet tonight at 7:00 in the Carolina Inn. Bill Cochrane, of Chapel Hill and Washington. D. C.. admin istrative assistant to Senator B. Everett Jordan, will serve as master of ceremonies for the D.S.A. event. Herbert W. Wentworth of Greensboro, the first president of the local Jaycees in tMtIMO, will be the featured speaker for the evening. Mr. Wentworth is executive vice-president of tho North Carolina Savings and Loan League. A crowd of ever 300 is expected to attend the banquet where in dividuals and firms will he rec ognised for their assistance to the Jaycees during the past year. Several inter-club awards wiH ha presented to Chanel lU Jaseea members. Presentation of the Distinguished' Service Award to the outstanding young man in Chapel Hill during the past year will be a highlight of the evening. The D.S.A. banquet has also been designated Bosses and Wives Night, invitations have been extended to all former local Jaycees, Roosters. University and tbwn officials, and Chapel Hill Jaycettes. tion Commission,” said Alderman Roland Giduz. "No, no, let’s not refer it any where,” said Mr. Cates. "I just wanted the thinking of the Board on whether this would be a prob able proposition.” The Board voiced its thinking that the proposition would be very improbable, and the matter was dropped. In other action the Board: —Received a petition signed by 241 residents requesting the establishment of a Chapel Hill housing authority to correct un safe and unsanitary housing con ditions. A public hearing on the petition will he held January 23, at the same time as a scheduled public (Continued on Page 8) Scenes Seen dancing at a recent party and looking much too youthful to be the parents of four youngsters: DR. and MRS. ROY LINDAHL . . . One who can give a terrific performance of the twi st: TONYA HINNANT . . . four teen-agers having a wonderful time talking with each other over walkie-talkies they got for Christ mas: LOUIS AMBROSIO, KEMP NYE JR.. BOBBY SCOTT, end JOHN UMSTEAD . . . Elderhr man who looks frail but can still do a good job of raking leave*: GEORGE BALDWIN . . . MRS. HARRY MACKLIN trudging through the snow at 8:30 yester day morning on her way front home to work . . . WILStA RENTER out bright and early shoveling snow off his drivfWay . . . Typical Chapel HOl Man* on snowy morning: Little ears whipping past big can an bills . . BRAWDY RIGGSBEK walking through early-morning snow to gat hot coffee for hie fellow workers at Um Pot Office.
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