Page 2 Guidelines To Chapel Hill’s Future > (Continued from Page 1) buildings, an industrial park containing carefully se lected light industries and a mammoth University using land from which the bell in South Building cannot be heard. Terrifying? No, say the planners, if a comprehensive plan and the necessary control machinery are followed in the development. The best of the Old and an excel lent New should make it one of the finest places to live and work in the country. The second volume of the Com mission’s recently pitolighed re ports contains a general inven tory of features and factors now present in Chapel Hill. They are a accessary basis for foreseeing the growth |o come. Actually the volume contains two develop ment plans, the first being an “interim 1970” plan. No doubt by 1970 the planners will be well at work on the shape of things to come in 1990 and 3000. What wps once left to good intentions and an unwritten body of tradi tion has become quite a vital science. At present, although to a less er extent than ten years ago,. Chapel Hill is a highly specializ ed community which draws pri marily on the ‘University of North Carolina for its employ ment resources. For other mat ters and needs, it is to some ex teat dependent on surrounding communities —for general mer chandising, automotive needs, construction, and a number of diversified services. Essentially the Town today feeds, clothes and educates its inhabitants, and provides residence for Uni versity faculty, students and per sons who work in surrounding communities. One fundamental question be ing asked about Chapel Hill right now is whether it shall continue as this sort of Town or, diversify. The answer here as everywhere seems to be diversi fication and relative municipal independence. No more will the University be the Town’s one source of employment its one industry. The one-crop concept is finished. This is particularly necessary to growth, -since one of the Town’s present deficiencies is broader employment with conse quently higier wages and a great er tax base from which to draw the money to do the planning and developing. In the past local planning and zoning have tended to be restrictive in nature and function. This will no longer be completely true. High property values will to an extent guaran tee selective use, but in order for all the parts to mesh, the Town will have to provide and enforce a general blueprint which also leaves room for individual initiative and imagination. Bid to take a quick look at the Town seven years hence: Thirty - seven thousand, eight hundred people win probably live bere by then, students included. The University will have an en rolment of 14,600. This will mean that residential laud needs in and around Town wi]{ have swollen to a total of 7,910 non - student households, with 2,117 new households pro jected; 2,502 new homes will be required. Many of these new households will be living in apartments. Apartments mean radical chan ges ip the pattern of the Town, and their construction will have to he taken into account in the planning of schools, traffic park ing, recreation areas. By 1970, to an extent, and certainly by 1960, the downtown area will be gin to see construction of apart ments possibly high-rise with internal parking. Public transit, a negligible factor today, may well he a headache to be faced, although planners now see the automobile still carrying the bulk of the load. At the same time, singe-family areas must be safe, guarded from increased traffic, and the pedestrian cannot be overlooked. CenfraHy located residential areas—in other words apartments —np#a* that more thought will have to be given to walkways. In away the walkway system is an essential companion to the Thoroughfare Plan, most of toe features of which are now set. "Such walkways might follow the spirit, if not the exact spe cification of the University walk ways at the boundary of the campus with the business dis- Many variations are pos sible within that spirit. Speci jf«ca(ly, improved walks will be JTb» Chapel HID w’edSTl every Sunday and 1 Wednesday, and is entered as t second-class matter February W, 1923, at the post office at CW* Hill, North Carolina, gashed br the Chapel Hill FBWuning Company, Inc., is under the act of March 8. Hfl. dive John A Hand • ' He Needs Your Support (P*i& for by Friends of Jobs Carswell) i. i i- needed along Airport Road and - Henderson Street to connect the h new 104-unit apartment with the v business district,” the report e notes. Walkway construction l could also be an important part e of the neighborhood rehabilitation . within the Rosemery-Northside i areas. t Commercial use of land in the 1 Central part of Chapel Hill-Carr -5 boro will require 67 acres, but t by 1970 it is possible that the 5 Town will be making more in tensive use of its commercial 1 land than in the past. The attempt during the 40's and . 50’s to preserve the village char acter of the Town resulted often ~'in rather loose, disjointed use of land, and an architectural style r that never quite achieved the . unity of effect sought. ‘‘The business and civic leaders of the Town sought to provide an archi tectural character which would preserve the ‘village atmosphere’ of the Town. ‘Williamsburg Col onial’, a popular historic style, was selected as being best suited to the University town. Follow-, ing the example of the restored commercial district of Williams burg, Virginia, a monumental at tempt was made to adapt that style to the commercial buildings' of Chapel Hill. An architect was employed to prepare sketches, and voluntary compliance was sought from all who-erected new ‘ structures in the business dis trict. Generally developers were cooperative with this movement. “Unfortunately, however, busi ness establishments were devel oped individually and without re lation to each ’other. The archi tectural unity which had been sought through the scrupulous regimentation of detail was not achieved', chiefly because there was no plan for the orderly de velopment of the area. Busin esses developed sporadically over a fifteen-year period and a cha otic pattern resulted. Adapting the borrowed style of architec ture to modern commercial build ings also proved troublesome. The village harmony of buildings has largely failed to material ize.” In other words, with a compre hensive plan such as the one in which that statement is set forth. Chapel Hill might today be a replica similar to Williamsburg. That things will change in em phasis is clear. The old effort will not be re-duplicated, but, the report says, the effort was a les son that “illustrates the difficul ty of imposing a static pattern of construction details, shopping habits, economics and taste, de veloped in earlier centuries, in toto onto the people and life of the present time, with our dramatically evolving technology and culture . . . fit is) virtually impossible for community mem bers to relive the old village life whenever they come downtown. However, given the tools and knowledge of this century and the wishes of the people in the Chapel Hill community, it should still be possible to build space and time for ‘extra’ living into the downtown district. Then the essential exchanges can take place and still leave spaces free from glare or clutter, nooks for a pause and a quiet word between friends, places for a young tree or two, where flowers can be sold and old but sociable dogs can lie drowsing in the sun.” By 1980, with the population at 65,800 including a University en rollment of 24,000, things will be getting a bit tight. New resi dential areas must open up. Chapel Hill will be pushing against the Durham County line at all points of the Planning Area; Morgan Creek and the ridge behind, well along toward the Chatham County line will be r e si d e nt i a 1 complexes. This growth wiU be matched in the west and ike north. The central business district will extend sol idly from Henderson Street past the Carrboro town limits along both Franklin and Rosemary- Main Streets, with off - street parking lots as needed, and an unproved center at the intersec tions of Greensboro and Main Street in Carrboro. Few if any single homes will remain in the area. Grouped shopping centers to the west, near the proposed outer loop and either Highway 54 or 86 and to the south, on Pittsboro Road, will be added to the five shopping centers estab lished 'in 1970. These earlier shopping centers will have con tinued to expand, particularly near the Bolin Creek thorough fare between Franklin Street and the bypass, and at Eastgate, de spite severe competition with the ttowntown area and each other. Eighty or ninety acres of the Planning Area will have been given over to industrial use, i! the industries which can use locally traihed manpower can be found. A number of planner - ideas have been proposed as part of the over-all plan for 1980, and they mayor may not see the light of day. One of them has already run slam-bang into con flicting plans and wishes the mile-long lake on Bolin Creek. Other proposals: a community lake oo Wilson Creek, south of Town, near Highway 15-501. - Apartment towers close to the Central Business /District. ‘‘lt would be a very healthy thing for downtown Chapel Hill to have a larger population within walk ing distance. A solution provid ing just such an element would be a number of tower apart ments, perhaps six to eight floors in height, and providing at their base not only adequate off-street tenant parking, but also addition al landscaped grounds. Such a concentration within walking dis tance of the University, other ma jor employers, and the business district would also tend to reduce the parking problem downtown and on the campus, and to reduce traffic on major radials.” An industrial park in the com munity. Specifically for pure and applied research, and per haps for instrument production. Community use of a 55 - acre tract near Tenney Circle above Bolin Creek, possibly for apart ments, parks, schools, communi ty centers, mansions or town houses. Elimination of Horace Williams Airport as an airport and its use as an area for possible recreation or other purposes requiring a large open area. Os course all this planning is going to have to be implemented. There can be many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. The plan is going to have to be hashed over thoroughly and examined for soundness of proposal and con cept. Approval depends on ‘/study, review, and favorable public opinion. Implementation, the next step, can continue using both negative and positive tools.” Miss Caldwell (Continued from Page 1) Recreation Director, said, “If is with real regret that we lose so valuable a person. Miss Cald well has been e dedicated work er, a forceful leader, and a significant influence in the pub lic recreation field. We will not be able to fully replace her.” Mr. Shelton quoted Miss Cald well as saying she was leaving ■“for a greater opportunity to serve, to improve my present working conditions, and my per sonal worth.” “I feel very very pleased, hav ing been born here in Chapel Hill, to have been able to make a contribution to my own home town,” said Miss Caldwell. When Miss Caldwell under took the operation of the Center, there was no equipment and the grounds were marred by a wash ed out gully in the rear. In 1955 two pieces of playground equipment were provided by the Chapel Hill Junior Service League with the assistance of the* Board of. Aldermen. Programs in arts and crafts, music, and games were started, and have continued. Folk, tap, formal, and creative dancing classes have been held there for children. Girl Scout troops have been organized at the Center (there are now six Troops, in cluding Brownies), and the Blind Star Club was also organized for the benefit of Chapel Hill’s blind people. In 1961 the Chapel Hil Swimming Pool Corporation op ened its swimming pool in back of the Center. Little League base-' ball has also been organized there. In addition, the Center pro vided Chapel Hill's first Negro Gray Ladies organization, and has offered its services to Uni versity students doing papers end research on social problems. Subjects for the UNC School of Education to do technical work with, and subjects for UNC den tal students to take practical examinations with have also come from the Center. Since 1961 an Opportunity Seekers Club has operated at the Center to promote the inter est-of young people in communi cations techniques and skills in preparation for various types of jobs. Other community needs the' Center filled have been provid ing references for adults and young people applying for jobs all over the State, serving as a means by which needy families can be furnished with baby clothing, and offering its facili ties for well-baby clinics and pre-school clinics. The Center has also been used for meet ings, wedding receptions, ban quets, end other gatherings. It has always operated on a full-time basis. Use The Weekly Classified Ad vertisements regularly . . . They Work Around the Clock for yon. TEE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Short Shrift (Continued from Page 1) tended to take them as far as the juncture of the Bypass and the Pittsboro . Road. But they said they were beaded for Route 1, and the professor was torn: he wanted to help them, but Route 1 is in Sanford, forty miles a.vay. Hts daughter was hungry and begoniNg to cry, and he was expecting company he knew he couldn’t get home in time to greet if he went to San ford. He reached ahe fork of the Bypass and the Pittsboro Road, and somehow he didn’t stop. He just kept on going. That sign on the suitcase stuck In his mind. • * * They were nice people, the hitchhiker and his family. They talked freely, but without Whin ing. The man said he was go ing to Miami because he had a job down there. The man’s wife said she had a brother in Miami they would stay with. The man did not say what kind of job was waiting for him. The professor didn’t ask what kind of job, and he didn’t think to look at the man’s hands. “He looked like the kind of man who has had malnutrition in his family for generations,” the professor said later. “Kind of a caricature of the refugee. They just didn’t have any other way to get there.” They had started hitchhiking Saturday night from a small town in New Jersey 450 miles away. When the professor pick ed them up at Eastgate it was last Monday afternoon. They hadn’t been making very good time, but then what motorist would pick up a man and a wom an and a baby and four suit cases? * • * A sailor had picked them up Rehabilitation Program.— (Continued from Page 1) the County ABC is authorized to spend on its rehabilitation pro grams. Five per cent of total yearly revalues may be spent toward the effort, and ABC rev enues last year were over $200.. 000. Up to SIO,OOO was available. “We’re not making any delib erate attempt to save money on the program,” Mr. Burch said, “but its cheaper to treat an alco holic than to send him to jail. “Costs could go up as the pro gram is improved, but not much. It’s much more than fulfilled our expectations. I don't like to compare our setup now with the old setup, that would be unfair. Let’s just say they are coming to us for help.” The Rehabilitation Committee has also in a number of cases found jobs for alcoholics in need. “We’re not an employment agen cy, but we do work in finding people jobs.” Individual members of the committee have undertaken full scale rehabilitation with five pa tients at Memorial Hospital on several occasions, and have, at the request of patients, also made two calls to Umstead Hospital, one call to Veterans Hospital. One welfare referral has also been treated. Mr. Burch told the Board that the Rehabilitation Committee’s visiting program in hospitals was possible through permission of attending doctors and requests of the patients themselves. The Committee is not otherwise auth orized to work with patients in hospitals. Forty-seven of the Committee’s 54 cases appealed directly for help. The Committee is working with friends and families of the other seven. Mr. Burch said a second phase of the rehabilitation program, un der the Board’s Education Com mittee, has also gotten well off Merger (Continued from Page 1) this much closer to a merger with North Carolina National Bank," said Mr. Gobbel. “We know their tradition of giving ‘hometown service’ to each of the 11 com munities they now serve. “North Carolina National recog nizes that each area has its own particular needs. For that rea son each city executive and his staff have authority to make on the-spot decisions so necessary to good bank service in the com munity “Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Or ange County may rest assured that we will continue to offer the same personalized banking as be fore. The only difference will be that we will be able to offer a far greater range of services." . The Bank of Chapel Hill has branches in Carrboro, Eastgate and Glen Lennox, in addition to the main office on Franklin Street. COMING AND GOING Commander and Mrs. Hampton Hubbard and their six children, of Kensington, Maryland, will be guests at the home of Professor and Mrs. U. T. Holme* from July 22 to August 5. Professor and Mrs. Holmes will leave Chapel Hill July 23 for eight weeks in Europe. Mrs. Hubbard is the daughter of Profes sor and Mrs. Holmes. in Virginia and had said he would take them to Raleigh. This was fine, but north of Raleigh the sailor turned off on the road to Durham. Politely, the man said perhaps they had better get off and stay on Route 1. The sailor said no. The man gently insist ed that they wanted to stay on Route I. The sailor said no, lie knew the roads in the area, and where he was going it was much toathy. The man gave in and they had ridden on. The sailor dropped them in the cen ter of Durham. * • * The man and his wife had walked out of Durham carrying the four suitcases and the baby, and bad gotten a ride as far as Eastgate, where they had waited about half an hour be fore the professor found them. They said they had been staying in motels all the way down. The baby was beautiful, but the pa rents looked tired. The professor dropped them on Route 1 outside of Sanford. “It was a ' great place for hitchhiking,” he said. “About six hundred yards of visibility, and only a slight rise, and not into traffic. They didn’t say ahything much on the way down. Just chit-chatted all the way. But they didn’t sound like, ‘Why should you have a car when we don’t have one?’ He wasn’t like that.” The professor never did find out what kind of job the man had comKfrom—if it wasn’t re lief—or what kind of job he was going to, or what the family’s name was. H e just left them' anonymously beside Route 1 with the woman sitting on a suitcase holding the baby and the man standing calmly at the pavement with his thumb out, and the suit case with the sign on it facing toward the rushing traffic. the ground. “We now have the qualified men and women cap able of going out to make talks to church, civic, and school groups on problems of alcohol ism.” The education committee also has purchased a complete library of books dealing with alcoholism for the Rehabilitation Center. The books are available for loan to interested persons. The Edu cation Committee has also given each of the schools in the county SIOO toward purchase of similar libraries for each school, and for the teaching of courses on alco holism. “We are seeking to carry our message to all people in the County. We need their help.” Mr. Burch also announced the appointment of William Peer man, coach at Lincoln High School, to the Rehabilitation Committee. “Mr. Peerman has been very much interested in this disease, and his work has been commendable. We feel he’ll make a valuable committee member.” Other members of the Reha bilitation Committee are Prof. A. L. Stanback, Central High School, Hillsboro; Billie Blackwelder, Duke Power Co., Hillsboro; Mrs. Ruth Day Lewis, Chapel Hill; Lt. Graham Creel, Chapel Hill Po lice Dept.: Mr. Burch, Carrboro Mr. Burch said all committee members were available for con sultation and assistance at any time. The Rehabilitation Com mittee maintains its headquart ers on the Old Hillsboro Road in Carrboro. adjoining Mr. Burch’s Cabinet Shop. Eclipse (Continued from Page 1) across the Pacific, and over Ja pan. Hawaii doesn’t get to see any eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs only wh«i toe moon passes directly betwpeo toe earth and the sun. Sometimes toe sun is completely covered, u id birds roost early for turns out to be a very short night. Sometimes the moon is too far away from the earth for its shadow to complete ly obscure the moon. In these cases a ring of sun is visible around the moon even at the eclipse’s maximum point. Two to five solar eclipses occur every year, but from any one place on earth a total eclipse is visible only abQut flxrfee times in 1,000 years. Thirteen to»al eclinses cross or touch part of North America in this century- The next one wili be on March 7, 1970. Tbe Morehead Planetarium has added a special ten-minutr. sec tion on eclipses to Its current program, "MiHions of Moons.” The special section is shown at the beginning of all regular per formances of the program, through Sunday. You will always be pleased with toe results that come from using the Weekly's classified ads. WALKERS FUNERAL HOME The Home of Service J, M. Walker, Manager Ambulance Service Day or Night 1M W. Franklin St., Chapel HU —Telephone 942-3861 A Talk With Chancellor Aycock (Continued from Page 1) University hasn't changed.'“Just at the same time I came into the job this period of growth began. From 1956 to 1957 the enrollment only increased by 38 students. Ever since then the average yearly growth has been 514. This year the growth will be far great er than that. You talk to a mem ber of the class of 1904, and he’ll tell you that back then the enrollment was just what it ought to be —about 500. A man who graduated in the thirties would say his enrollment was just right, two or threg thousand. In twenty-five years, when the class of 1964 has its twenty-fifth anniversary, they’ll come back here and say that ten thousand students is about right.” The reasons why size, in the Chancellor’s view, has no effect on the quality of the University are various. Enlargements and —Conference— (Continued from Page 1) WRAL-TV, Raleigh; and Mr&* Harriet Pressly of WPTF, Ra leigh. Moderator was James C. Brooks, public relations mana ger of Southern Bell Telephone Co. Without exception, the panel advocated that club publicity! chairmen should contact their lo cal editors and program direc tors for information in regards to deadlines and avance pub licity. -- - Mrs. Fine said to the group that a live-wire publicity chair man is often the decisive factor between good public relations and poor public relations for a club that is anxious to promote their current project. “A newspaper begins to shape up hours and sometimes days ahead of publication,” she ex-' plained. “A last minute -news item is likely to end up in a poor spot in the paper or, for lack • of space, in the ‘circular’ file— the wastebasket.” She also gave examples of the elements that make interesting feature stories. Mrs. Council presented a clev er skit of a women’s editor sur rounded by newseopy, brides elect, club women, and tele phones that never stop ringing. | Drawing considerable laughter j from the audience, she managed to convey the difference between a "good” and a “bad” publicity ; chairman. She also suggested that club presidents put worn- j en's editors on their club bul letin mailing lists. Mr. Beard, speaking for WRAL-TV, reminded the club women that when they asked for time in the interest of a public service it was gladly given, but that they should remember that five to ten spot announcements on TV is equal to a thousand dol lars worth of advertising. He also reminded them that pro gram directors have to give a viewer something to see as well as to hear: horizontal art cards, pictures and 35mm slides. He suggested advance notice o£ scheduled events so that prom inent speakers could be televised before or after a meeting to avoid “cluttering up a meeting” with all the TV equipment neces sary for an interview. Speaking for WPTF, Mrs. Pressly advised club members to know what was on their agenda before contacting a radio pro gram chairman. “Mention pro jects you want to publicize and speakers who might be of in terest to a’radio audience,” she said. “Contact women who have established radio programs and a large listening audience . When you write for radio, make sentenies short, verbs active, and adjectives colorful . . . De scribe things as you would to a blind person.” Assembly will be held at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in Carroll Hall. Classes will be held during the morning. At noon, a “Flight Luncheon” will be held in the Carolina Inn ballroom. Guest speaker will be Miss Margie Boyle. Eastern Airlines stew ardess with 17 years flying ex perience. Following the final luncheon on Thursday there will be an election of officers and an execu tive meeting. Uiversity Florist and Gift Shop expansions continue, but so does the education. “We have to train students to be flexible." But growth takes time. “You can only lay brick and find teachers so fast.” Sometkr.es, when dis cussing growth, the Chancellor mentions "moving forward” and words like “frontiers.” The Chancellor has always en joyed talking about growth the increase in enrollment, the expansion of facilities, the ac quisition of new equipment, the development of new resources. At the moment he is somewhat reticent about teaching law. “I’m not thinking about teach ing right now. I have other things to do this coming year, and after I get them done then I can start thinking about teach ing. I’m not sure what I’m go ing to teach. It’s up to the cur riculum committee. In the years 1 was teaching I taught several different courses, and I would hope the committee would start me off with courses that 1 know, so I can catch up. I taught wills r and the administration of estates, and real and personal property, and a course in federal courts, and military law, and others. They only assign you four courses to teach in a year. I’d like to get into some new courses, but I would hope only one at a time. “The difference between teach ing and administration is that how good a job you do teaching is pretty much under your own control, ff you don't do a very good .job one day, if you just didn’t reach students, there are a lot of hours in which you can do something about it be fore the next day. find out why you didn’t do such a good job of reaching the students. “But when you’re administrat ing, the problems that come to YATES ROTOR CO.'s OR ALL OSER CASS Bigger-Better Buys Than Ever Before Save Plenty On Every Car Listed 1961 FORD 2-Dr. _ 61395.00 1961 FALCON 4-Dr. 61195.90 1961 COMET 4-Dr. $1495.00 1960 RENAULT _____ $ 595 00 1960 VALIANT 4-Dr. Stn. 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That’s my best time, the morning. But I don’t feel I’d like td be com mitted every night. My fam ily . . .” The Chancellor explains this very delicately. What he means is that aside from a few oc casions he particularly enjoys, he likes to go home to his fam ily at night. Being Chancellor is a pretty demanding job, involv ing a lot of official functions. Chancellor Aycock is pretty good at official functions, but the tact ful way he describes himself as working best in the morning makes his feeling about long stretches’ of nisit duty fairly clear. He is equally tactful about his most interesting experience as Chancellor. "I don’t think I can say. There have been so many things. I guess I can say the most in teresting thing is seeing the in terest the faculty has in the University. This is a hard-work ing faculty. Some of them work too hard, for their own good.” when Requested COLONIAL RUG CLEANERS Phone 942-2960

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