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[mrn&zmm rew i<aw»iii>iwaa>a»»it;it| When a man says we should 1 put teeth hi our laws, he may I not mean wisdom teeth. > g Volume 41, Number 63 Housing Authority Executive Chosen Mrs. Sarah G. Rains Will Assume New Duties July 12 The Chapel Hill Housing Authority Monday night chose. Mrs. Sarah G. Rains as executive director of Chapel Hill’s projected low rent housing development. The appointment was effective Monday. For several years Mrs. Rains has been a University employee in the Buildings Department. In this work she has gained considerable experience in the maintenance and opera tion of rental buildings. Legion Biftass Take Office Here Sunday Judge L. J. Phipps will be in stalled as Commander of the North Carolina Department of the American Legion in ceremonies at the Legion Home here Sunday. Judge Phipps was chosen by the Legion at its 45th State con vention in Charlotte last week. He is the second State command er to come from Chapel Hill. An other Chapel Hiliian, Paul Rob ertson, held the Legion’s top post a number of years ago. Being installed with Judge Phipps will be Nash McKee of Raleigh, Department Adjutant; Clarence C. Boyan of High Point, Department Judge Advocate; William Carpenter of Cherry ville. Department Historian; Rev. Robert H. Poole of St. Pauls, De partment Chaplain. Also to be inducted in the cere monies are Ike Davis of Manteo, vice commander, Division 1; Ger ald Massey of Clinton, vice com mander for Division 2; Robert A. Tart of Benson, vice commander for Division 3; G. Frank Jones of Winston-Salem, vice command er for Division 4; Jarvis Beck of Cherokee, vice commander for Division 5; Benjamin F. Smith of Durham, vice commander for Division 7. 32 District Commanders and 32 District vice commanders will al so be installed. Officers of Chapel Hill Post No. 6 to be installed are W. G. Kil- a trick, commander; D. M. Horn first commander; Austin Watts, second vice commander; Sam Taylor, third vice command er; Ural Wright, adjutant; Frank Blocksidge Jr., finance officer; Paul Robertson and Carl Sey mour, chaplains. Post No. 6 Auxiliary officers to be installed are Mrs. Donald A. Lowe, president; Mrs. W. L. Colville, first vice president; Mrs. D. M. flc.ner second vice presideht; Mrs. Alta Singletary, corresponding secretary; Mrs. John J. Keller, recording secre _ tgry; Mrs. Ira L. Ward, treas urer; Mrs. Lester Foley, chap lain; Mrs. Iva Brooks, sergeant at-arms; Mrs. Paul Sexton, his torian. Officers of Voiture 1266 of the Forty and Eight to be installed include J. Frank Ray of Hills boro, Chef de Gare; and T. E. Be vans of Hillfitoro, correspon dent. Central Carolina Plans New Branch Central Carolina Bank * Trust Company has applied to the State Banking Commission for authority to establish a branch in Eastgate Shopping Center. ;*A hearing on the application will be held on July 94 at 11 a.m. hi room 316 of the Motor Ve hicles Building in Raleigh. All interested persons will be heard. If approved, the Eastgate of fice will be the second Central Carolina branch in Chapel Hill. Jr addition to the main office on Franklin Street, die bank has a branch office at Franklin and „ ** 111 II Hii 111 fill Mill Ifi , M w ' NMRS Mrs. Rains retires from the University this month. She will take over as executive director of Chapel Hill low rent housing immediately upon her retire ment becoming official July 12. The executive director’s job' is a part-time one, paying S3OO a month; from this amount cleri cal help must also be paid. The Authority might have chos en an architect for the Jiousing project if an impasse had not been reached ovdr which archi tect to choose. The Authority members present narrowed the field of six choices down to two, but could not vote conclusive ly on the matter because all five members were not present, and the four members present were split as to which architect to hire. The two possibilities are a firm in Durham and another in Raleigh. Authority member Dr. Sidney Chipman said the three criteria by which on architect ought to be chosen were archi tectural skill, proximity to Chap el Hill, and “know-how in At lanta.” The latter point refers to the fact that dealing with the Pub lic Housing Office in Atlanta requires knowledge of PHA pro cedure, and the procedure itself involves considerable red, tape. An architect familiar with the convolutions and intricacies of PHA dealings would speed up the Chapel Hill Authority’s ap proach to completed low rent housing here. A further difference emerged in the question of whether to have site planning done by the architect who designs the build ings, or by a separate firm. One of the candidate architectural firms does its own site work, one does not. The Authority agreed to meet the two architects again next week end try to make a decision on the basis of that meeting. Sev eral motions were made con cerning choosing an architect, but all of them died for lack of a second. July Fourth Protest March Is Planned ■ Jr*'- - • ’ - * v ' / An Independence Day march will be held in downtown Chapel Hill tomorrow by the Chapel Hill Committee for Open Business. The anti-segregation demon stration will begin at 12:45 at St. Church on Rosemary Street. The route of march was not announced. Marchers were asked to bring American flags. A bring-your-own picnic will be held by the demonstrators at the Roberson Street Community Center immediately following the demonstration. The regular Wednesday demon stration at Colonial Drug Store on Franklin Street was schedul ed to be held this afternoon at f:3O. Two more marches are scheduled this week, on Satur day and Sunday at 12:30. At a public meeting of the Committee last night, Robert V. N. Brown, reported that partici pation in demonstrations had been increasing conskter ibly. About 250 took part in a march through downtown Chapel Hill last Saturday. Last Saturday's march was interrupted suddenly at the intersection of Franklin and Columbia Street by two fire thicks answering a call nt Julian's Collage Shop. The alarm reportedly resulted from a abort circuit at Julian’s. ,;/ Store tvas halted last tveekend picketeMl * reported he ban boh® l tItTCtXJrMJQ. AS it lu6 The Chapel Hill Weekly ’ ’ - " ~ ' \ v- " ‘ v ' .• - 5 Cents a Copy ■—R3—BBBHBBg .', c members of the Chapel Hill School Board and school officials were given oaths of office Monday nighty by Recorder’s Court Judge William Stewart. From left are Dr. Howard Thomp son, superintendent of schools; Mrs. Marie Lancaster, Picketer’s - Trial Is Postponed Trial of Robert V. N. Brown, a local integration leader charg ed with assault after an alleged incident during West Franklin Street picketing last week, has been continued until Tuesday, July 16. Mr. Brown was to have been tried in Chapel Hill Recorder’s Court yesterday, charged with as sault after John Carswell Jr., sob of Colonial Drug Store proprietor John Carswell, told his father he had been hit on the head with the sign Mr. Brown was carrying in the picket line. Mr. Carswell subsequently swore out a Warrant against Mr. Brown charging him with simple assault. Chapel Hill Police Chief W. D. Blake said the officer on duty at the picketing did not see Mr. Brown’s sign touch young Cars well’s head. Chief Blake also said that Mr. Brown did not know his sign had touched anybody, and that Mr. Carswell Sr. did not see the incident either, Mr. Carswell is represented by attorney Harold Edwards. Mr. Brown will be represented by Durham NAACP attorney Floyd McKissick. other incidents were reported (m the picket line. About 100 Negroes and Whites attended last night’s meeting at the Roberson Street Community Center. Jesse Jackson, a 21- year-old leader in the Greensboro integration moverhent, was the guest speaker. He is a native Os Greenville, S. C., where he has also led sitrin demonstrations.. Mr. Jackson, student govern ment president-elect at North Carolina A & T College, is free under a total of 818,000 in bail bonds. In Greensboro he has been charged with inciting to riot. Discussing the integration movement in general Mr. Jack son said, “Any mayor, city councilman, governor or presi dent who stands against the flow of the tides of history will be hurt politically, morally, and spiritually.” New Proposal Offered For Downtown Zoning ~ ... u chairmanship of Roy Merlin. The report recommended elim ination, of the earlier propped division of downtown Chaps! HSI ■ into two separate wb-dktricU with different parking require meats. • **'■-*• Also set forth & the recom ißwdnOon tf*s « proposal far * Serving the Chapel Hitt Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1963 Nearly 3,000 Are Expected For ‘Old Fashioned Fourth’ Nearly 3,000 people are ex-, pected jo attend the Old Fash ioned Fourth of July celebration Thursday afternoon and evening on Fetzer Field. Admission is flee, but tickets must be pur chased for the picnic supper. The celebration, sponsored by the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Field Service, will ba-i ' gin- at about 2:30 with a soft ball game, and will continue throughout the afternoon with games, concessions, and other ac tivities. Late in the afternoon a picnic supper wil be served by the Chapel Hill Altrusa Clti>. Tick ets for the supper, which will be served only to ticket holders, are $1.25 for adults, 75 cents for children under 12 Tickets have been oh sale at a booth on Frank lin Street, and may be bought from any member of the Chapel Hill High School Student Coun cil or at the Fetzer Field gate Thursday. About 1,000 people are expect- Tomorrow Will Be General Holiday Tomorrow, July 4, will be a general holiday throughout Chap el Hill. The Old Fashioned Fourth will be held on Fetzer Field to morrow afternoon, followed by fireworks, but most businesses will be closed. The University will operate as usual. Classes Will be held and all University offices will be open. The Chapel Hill Post Officeyvill be closed. * Both banks will be closed. Chapel H'ii and Carrboro Town offices wiQ be closed. Chapel Hill and Carrboro will each divide their Thursday garbage collec tions between Wednesday and Friday. Friday’s and Saturday’* garbage collections will not be affected. One or two drug stores may he open Thursday, as will some filling stations. Restaurants plan ning to remain open are the NC Cafeteria, Brady’s, the Carolina Coffee -Shop, toe Porthole, the Rathskeller, the Ranch House, the Village Cafeteria (through lunch only), Harry’s Grffl, the College Case, tte Caroltoe Inn Cafeteria, and tte Pines. Memorial Hospital, the Chapel HOl and Carrboro police Depart ments, and the Fire Department will operate as usual . . -doubling toe permissible height of downtown buildings to 90 feet. If the suggestion is adopted, downtown buildings can be con structed to a maximum height of 80 feet with no setback, side yard or backyard requirements unless the building is adjeceat to a District with uniform off-street parking provisions for ML tor I ittidm Os m, mH. vwAtolti b* A N treasurer for the Chapel Hill school system; Judge Ste Wart; Ed Tenney and Ben Perry, new board mem bers; and Grey Culbreth and Dr, Richard Peters, incumbent members of the board. —<Photo by Town & Country ed for supper, which will consist of fried chicken, potato salad, pickles, chips, /oils, and chocolate cake. There will be no band concert at the celebration this year, but a five-piece miniature band will play at various times at various places on the field. The fireworks display will be twic* as big as last year's. The fireworks will begin at nightfall. The University has contributed to the cost of fireworks. Entries in’ the Children’s Pet show, sponsored by the Junior Service League, must be broufirt to the pet pavilion by 4:30 Thursday. Judging will be held at 5:30. Judges this year are Ted Danziger, Ed Adkins, Ro land Giduz, and Dr. Robert Chambless. In addition to first, second, end third prizes, awards will be given for the best groom- Coming This Sunday DESEGREGATION IN CHAPEL HILL is the topic discussed by two panels of Townspeople. One panel, made up of representatives of the Committee for Open Business, and another made up of residents with somewhat differ ent views, discussed Chapel Hill’s racial situa tion at length with two Weekly reporters. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ..... MRS. OTELIA CONNOR, Chapel Hill’s gadfly of student manners and morals, is the talker in one of J. A. C. Dunn’s talk pieces. ★ ★ ★ / ★ ★ ★ ■ • ■ v MISS ORANGE COUNTY?! talented singer and dancer, leaves Tuesday for the Miss North Carolina pageant in Greensboro. She is the sub ject of a piece by Weekly Women’s News Edi tor Paquita Fine. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ You’ll find them in this coming Sunday’s issue of the Chapel Hill Weekly, along with a full page of book news and reviews, Ola Maie Foushec’s news of North Carolina’s art and the latest news of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. ; after adoption of tte amend- Off-street parking to be requir- HftT nreajof addi- Pt E"2° a i^L the origtoMJstfkitag^ In thfl rwrtaj DMr*e! wifi be considered cooforming a* far asoftstreetparUng {.con cerned, and If destroyed by fire or #a*tor cpqjd In pttiilt tft t! * ~.W - - > V- t. m.. . -r- ed, prettiest, biggest, smallest, and most unusual pets. Any pets are invited, but they must be either attended or caged. Object of the Old Fashioned Fourth is to raise funds to help pay the annual cost of the AFS student exchange program in Chapel Hill. Profits from ell concession stands operated by the civic clubs wlfr go to the lo cal program. This is the ninth year that the community has taken part in the international high school student exchange pro gram. Each year, a foreign stu dent has come to Chapel Hill and lived for a year with a local family while attending high school as a senior. The 1962-63 student was Len Salmon, from Quito, Ecuador, who resided with the Dr. Charles Bream fam ily on Laurfl Hill Road. their original floor space. Off-street parking require ments suggested by Mr. Mar l-Motels, l**space per-bed room; restaurants, 1 space per four seats; offices, 1 space per - Mftee plus Am space for tour Requirements tor stores and hotels would be modified to one apace per 496 square feat of gross commercial floor spare, and for hotels cne space per bedroom. The change means that mum previ<s#iy pqqMl j WEDNESDAY I I ISSUE J Published Every Sunday and Wednesday School Allotment Raised By County County Budget Os $2,275,000 Raises Tax Rate By Two Cents The Orange County Commissioners Monday raised the County tax rate two cents to $1.12 per SIOO valua tion and set a County budget of $2,275,000 for the codling year. The new budget not only provides for routine opera tion of County agencies, but also increases the County’s per-pupil school allotment by $3 to s4l, and establishes an emergency fund that could provide air condition- ing for the County courtroom. The new budget is $85,905 larg er than last year's. But. if all budget requests had been grant ed, the tax rate would have been increased by nine cents instead of-by- two._^ . The emergency fund created by the increased tax rate was not earmarked by the Commission ers, but suggested uses for it * were air conditioning th- County courtroom, school emergencies, land acquisitions, and possible pay raises not accounted for in other parts of the budget. In school capital outlay funds, the Commissioners allocated - $339,107 to the County system, $234,093 to the Chapel Hill sys tem. Chapel Hill will get about $169,000, the County $192,000, in current expense funds. Other principal accounts fin anced by the County tax dollar include about $260,000 in public assistance and general welfare programs, and $306,000 in school bond debt service . Built into the budget are funds for anticipated pay raises that will.result from a reclassification of county personnel now being conducted by the Institute of Gov ernment. Exact amounts of the raises wifi be determined when the study is completed. In other business, the commis sioners appointed Hezekiah Dob. son to replace Don Lowe on the Carrboro Planning Board. The commissioners also met vith the Orange County ABC Board and received a promise of-$225,000,in ABC profits to the county treasury. Another Sign Fight Shapes A new round of battles ever Chapel Hill s sign ordinance loom ed again yesterday after disclos ure that Harriss-Conners Chevro let had erected a sign at its new Durham Boulevard headquarters in violation of the ordinance’s setback requirements in regional commercial zones. Town Building Inspector Don Archer said last night that Mr. Harriss had Obtained a building permit to erect an agency sign % feet from the right-of-way of Highway 15-501, as required by the ordinance. The sign was erected only 13 feet tram the right-of-way, Mr. Archer said. Town Manager Robert Peck said Mr. Harriss had ordered Mr. Archer from the automobile agency premises and given indi cations that he would fight the restriction in the courts. Asked What measures the Town would take to enforce Harriss- Conners to comply," Mr. Peck said, “We’ll make him. move it” Mr. Peck said no action would be taken on the matter until Town Attorney John Q. LeGrand re turned from vacation to give counsel on the Town’s enforce ment actions. Mr. Harriss was out of Town and could not be reached for comment. He had earlier been dented relief from the ordinance by the Board of Adjustment which held that be would not suffer undue hardship by compli ance, and was not being dented use of his property. to have one spare per 200 square feet may now be required to provide only half as many spac es as previously, while others previously required to have only one snare oar 500 moan feet - Will in tte future be required to provide 20 per cent more apace. The required parking epatre must hi ail eases be located-with in 400 feet of tte business wspfi they serve. . .. . ~ very small lots within the Cen tral Buettera District will have - tner pvSui repUMnWS Hi <MW oat P*a» to : * 5 fy'-'MS&kiki Kit. 4.F Thompson Is Pleased By Increase Chapel Hill School Superintend ent Howard E. Thompson ex pressed satisfaction yesterday with the County Commissioners* allocation of school funds to Chap el Hill Schools for the coming year. The Commissioners approved a net increase of $3 per pupil for the District, up to s4l from last year’s S3B. The Chapel Hill School Board in its budget re quest to the Commissioners had requested a $4 per-pupil increase to $42. Dr. Thompson said he felt “good” about the increase, am) was not particularly bothered about the one-dollar paring. “They gave us all our capital out lay requests. The cut was in cur rent expenses. There will be certain reductions to be sure, but they will just rest with the Beard and my office to be made. R isn’t a big item, it amounts to about SB,OOO. You take SB,OOO out of a budget of over $170,000, that isn’t much of a cut for my money. "The County Commissfanart, I thought, were exceeding]* oon fOterate of us. They didall they could. I thldk we'U crane out all right There are a lot of things we believe We need right at tte moment, but they can be post poned for a year. After ail, we’re filing to have to ask tte County Commissioners for money for mace buildings in another year. The School bonds, if pass ed, will help us on that.*' Dr. Thompson said a new chairman for the Chapel Hill School Board would probably he named July 10 at the Board’s spe cial meeting. The naming of a chairman was delayed at last Monday's meeting fines ealjr tour board members were present. The main item es btudaeaa at the Board’s July to meeting wifi be hearing of apesals from denial of re-aasitomwr - lime far Or. Thompson said the toad had de nied 26 requests tor re nnign ment of children within the School District Five have ap pealed the denials, all of then Negroes. Other appeals were ea> pected before today’s deedttw tor filing, aksaontototoNßMtototototototoMtoi ; SCENES^ : v>* Purloined road sign (MEN AT WORK) and two smudge pots M the front door stoop of a Rose mary Street rooming houae, re moved by police. . . . ROBERT LESTER replacing the sunglasses his baby crushed. . . . Sevan) citizens wandering around laa) night with glazed eyes and twitch* ing lips after Time and News week failed to arrive on time..., BYRON FREEMAN, taking Ms ease with friends at tte Carolina Coffee Shop, asked by a waitress dcring in ivply “ Wh&U ||i‘ that rotgutT”. ’ . , WHtt> POW ELL leaving a sick bed to make it. a quorum at tte .Plmniatt J tvaatlite; In it j warQ ITicvUllk toH Hums* , • SM Town Manager ROBERT r&X; exacting tte Bow Scout’s oath from a reporter before to discuss Town business. ..
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