Wednesday, July 10. 1963
Carswell Clarifies
Colonial’s Policy
John Carswell, proprietor of
Colonial Drug Store on West
Franklin Street, Monday clari
fied his position in the racial con
flict currently centering around
his business.
Colonial Drug Store is segre
gated to the extent that Negroes
are not served from the store’s
lunch counter while sitting in
booths. -
For the past several weeks,
Colonial Drug has been demon
strated against repeatedly by
members of the Chapel Hill
Committee for Open Business.
Open Business Committee pick
ets also march in front of Col
onial Drug daily.
“A lot of people have been
talking about my hatred for Ne
groes,” said Mr. Carswell. “I
don’t hate Negroes. I have no
hatred for them. I have no
hatred for anybody, not even
Khrushchev—his principle?, may
be, but not the man personally.”
Mr. Carswell said the reason
Negroes are not allowed to sit
in lunch counter booths in his
store is that "it’s the custom of
this area, and I’m going to do
what’s right for my store.”
He said he had been brought
up to believe as he did about the
separation of the races, and had
no intention of changing his feel
ing. But, he added, he did want
to point out that he believed
Colonial Drug offered Negroes
good service—in some respects
better service than they got else
where in Chapel Hill; and that
he was interested in Negroes’
problems and in trying to help
solve them.
“When something’s wrong with
them I do everything I can, I
do my best, to help them. More
often they call me before they
call a doctor. You ask any Ne
gro around if Negroes don’t get
good service here, and they'll
tell you. A great many of my
friends are Negroes. I can go
anywhere I want down here in
the Negro section, day or night,
and I don’t have anything to
worry about,"T don’t have to be
afraid of anything. I’m their
friend, and they know that.”
Mr. Carswell said that three
weeks after picketing of his store
had ended in 1960, Negroes had
begun to return to Colonial Drug
to do business. He said this in
dicated that Colonial Drug was
of value to the Negro population.
He said this value was manifest
ed in several ways, among them
the manner in which he treated
Negroes ("I treat them nicely”),
the services he offered them
("They get better service here,
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most places in Chapel Hill"), and
the fact that Colonial Drug stay
ed open more hours per day than
most local drug stores -
“Whenever anybody talks about
the racial situation they mention
Colonial,” said Mr. Carswell. “I
wish people would stop doing
that. There are other segregated
businesses and Colonial isn’t
really segregated. We serve Ne
groes just like white people, ex
cept that we don’t allow them
to sit in the booths.”
As far as the picketers and the
demonstrators themselves were
concerned, Mr. Carswell said his
business had not been injured,
and that he no longer noticed the
picketers. Picketers only made
him feel more strongly about
what he believed, he said.
"Let ’em walk. If I run this
business into the ground, nobody
has to cry over it except me. And
I made this business. I started
off with S4OO and made most of
the fixtures myself. My wife and
I made it by working long hours,
and now we’re making good mon
ey. I’m not going to change.
They can walk out there until
doomsday.”
Mr. Carswell said he believed
he had a right to run his business
the way he wanted to, and con
cluded that "if the Board of Al
dermen is stupid enough to pass
a public accommodations law,
we’ll get an injunction against
it right away.”
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UNC Announces
New Appointments
Nine new faculty appoint
ments to the University were an
nounced today by Chancellor
William B. Aycock with the ap
proval of President William C.
Friday and the Board of
Trustees.
New appointments are Dr.
Duane Francis Taylor, as pro
fessor in the School of Dentistry;
Dr. Newton Underwood as pro
fessor, Department of Environ
mental Sciences and Engineer
ing, School of Public Health, be
ginning September 1; Gerald D.
Bell as a member of the Depart
ment of Sociology and "Anthro
pology beginning September X;
Dr. Sang-Il Choi as assistant pro
fessor, Department of Physics,
beginning September 1, former
ly a research associate at the,
University of Chicago.
Also, Dr. William Emerson
Hatfield, as assistant professor.
Department of Chemistry, begin
ning September 1, formerly as
sociate at the University of Illi
nois; Dr. Fred John Heinritz as
assistant professor, School of li
brary Science, beginning in Sep
tember; Hipolito Vincent Nino as
assistant professor, School of
Medicine and director of Clinical
Chemistry Laboratory, formerly
director of Chemical Labora
tory, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Sy
racuse, N. Y.; Ellis Lawrence
Rolett, M D.. as assistant pro
fessor, School of Medicine as of
July 1, 1963; and William H.
Wynn as assistant professor, De
partment of Psychology, begin
ning September 1, formerly a
Carnegie Fellow at the Univer
sity of Texas.
Adult Astronomy
Course Scheduled
"Introduction to Astronomy,”
a beginning course for adults,
will be offered by the Morehead
Planetarium in July and August.
The course is given for three
hours on each of five consecu
tive Saturdays beginning July 27
and ending August 24. Classes
meet from 12 noon until 3 p.m.
There will also be one outdoor
evening session during the course
for celestial observation.
"Introduction to Astronomy”
carries certificates renewal cred
it for teachers who desire it. The
course has often been used by
school teachers to familiarize
themselves with astronomical ma
terial for use in their own class
es. The course also may simply
be audited. Any person interest
ed may take the course, which
requires little or no prior know
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Subjects covered are the Earth,
the Sun, the Moon, the planets,
meteors, comets, astroids. fam
ous astronomers, astronomical
instruments, the Milky Way and
other galaxies, stars, and con
stellations, and the Universe it
self.
Instructors for the course are
Donald S. Hall and Richard
Knapp of the Planetarium staff.
Registration fee for the course
is sls. This covers the complete
cost of the course including text
and reference materials.
Persons interested in taking
"Introduction to Astronomy" may
either send payment of the reg
istration fee to the Planetarium
or write for further information.
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Shopping Centers: ‘Adding Insult To Injury’
By NANCY VON LAZAR
Five years ago there was a
whisper on the wind that North
Carolina’s downtown shopping
districts might suffer with the
growth of shopping centers in
suburbia, a movement which
would leave ghostly traces in
downtown.
Today, if North Carolina’s
downtown shopping districts
have not become actual ghost
towns, in many cases they are
not too far away from that mark.
Many downtowns in both large
cities and small communities
have that down-et-the-heel look.
And the new shopping centers
are not all doing a thriving busi
ness either.
The Institute of Government, a
training, service, and research
agency for city, county, and
state government, has* had mem
bers of its staff looking into the
problems of community develop
ment and land use. Over recent
years the mushrooming problems
of the central business district
and the attendant problems caus
ed by shopping centers have been
given increasing attention. One of
the institute’s staff members,
city planner Ruth Mace, hes
made this somewhat of a special
concern.
Five years ago, Mrs. Mace sur
veyed the State’s major cities
and found little concern with
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downtown problems and few *
shopping centers in existence.
But there were many centers on
the drawing boards. She warned
that these new developments,
then in planning, posed a signifi
cant competitive threat to the
central business districts and
suggested, ”lt is time for Main
Street to wake up to the need
for action.”
As these shopping centers have
come to life one might say in
sult has been added to injury.
If the warning of five years ago
had been taken more seriously,
today the downtowns might be
in better shape. But the down
town picture has not perked up
and the shopping centers them
selves brought new problems.
There are now about 100 shop
ping centers in the State. Some
of them are good but too many
of them are bad, according to
Mrs. Mace.
In many cases, it is too late
to do much about the already
existing poor shopping centers .
with their haphazard locations
causing dents in would-be effec
tive highway systems, with their
poor design, with their stimulus
to fringe or “strip” commercial
areas, with their drainage on the
downtown property values, with
the establishment of an inade
quate corftmercial district in ad
dition to the inadequate down
town district, because the stiop
’ ping center has not replaced
the range of goods and services
originally offered by downtown.
Now that the shopping centers
are here, many people are ask
ing themselves how it happened.
One of the biggest arrows can
be pointed to a disinterestedness
on the part of the public, a kind
of public apathy. Few cared
when the warning was sounded
five years ago in North Carolina
and few seem to care today to do
something about centers of the
future or about the side effects
which go along with existing cen
ters.
But interested citizens can do
something, according to Mrs.
Mace. They can be one of the
most active forces in tidying up
existing shopping centers and
in assuring the growth of effic
ient, well-planned centers of the
future. From these citizens are
needed time and strong, per
suasive loud voices interested
citizens with a broad vision of
. the city or ton who can and will
work with the mayor, manager,
and the planning agency of the
community.
The concerned individual can
talk up the problem of poorly
planned shopping centers during
meeting of his community orga
nizations and clubs. Interested
persons con arrange to have ex
pert speakers discuss the prob
lem at club meetings. Women's
clubs and garden clubs, too, can
be an active force. Garden Clubs
can often work toward immedi
ate results by urging shopping
center developers to beautify
their centers and may even wish
to work with the developers to
ward this end.
But those people who are di
rectly concerned with the de
velopment of an area the
planning boards of commissions,
zoning boards, city managers,
mayors, . and governing board
members are the people who
are the key figures in seeing
that communities are not sad
dled with ill-planned or shoddy
shopping centers.
According to Mrs. Mace, these
leaders must recognize that some
of the responsibility is theirs.
Many businessmen, residents,
and professional planners around
the State share this view and
feel the need for more construc
tive leadership on the front of
better planning.
It is an easy thing for those
who are involved in the day to
day planning for urban develop
ment to overlook what is actually
coming to pass around them.
Too often a big development,
such as a shopping center, slips
through the machinery inade
quately planned and poorly lo- -
cated.
There is no reason why shop
ping centers cannot be beautiful
and well run. There are shopping
centers which rival any thriving
market place teeming with life,
color, and activity.
These centers have the shop
per in mind and are well-planned
with covered pedestrian walks,
with parking areas clearly desig
nated,' with traffic directions
clearly established, without signs
of outgoing garbage, without con
gestion of traffic in front of a
particular store's entrance, with
out both customers and trucks
arriving at the same entrance,
with excellent architecture,
without store windows covered
with paper posters. Architect
Victor Gxuen and economist Lar
ry Smith, authors of “Shopping
Towns U. S. A.: The Planning
of Shopping Centers,” show in
their well-illustrated book that
centers can be successful in
these ways.
In their book, published in
1960 by the Reinhold Publishing
Corporation of New York,
Greun’s and Smith's discussions
also treat the added features of
shopping centers the little
extra items which can make
them really successful and fun
to shop in and which are in use
in a number of centers through
out the country such as bench
areas, sculpture, ponds, flowers
and trees, sidewalk cases, and
planned areas for concerts and
other entertainment.
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