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TOM MOWERY
Jaycees Honor Chapel Hill’s
Is Selected
first Patrolman Os Near’ For Housing
Chapel Hill policeman James
D. Farrell was awarded the
Chapel Hill Jaycees’ first Pa
trolman of the Year award
Thursday night.
At their meeting, the Jaycees
also voted unanimously to con
tribute SIOO to a fund drive start
ed by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce to help
pay for a recreation building on
the Police Department’s land
north of Chapel Hill. •
The Patrolman of the Year
award was presented to Officer
Farrell by attorney Robert Coop
er.
“We are well aware of the
tremendous job the police do
day in and day out,” said Air.
Cooper in presenting the awatd.
“As a means of recognizing the
.fine job they do, the Chapel Hill
Jaycees have instituted the Pa
trolman of the Year award, which
is given this year and will be
given in future years to the
patrolman selected by his fellow
patrolmen as the best police of
ficer.”
Officer Farrell received a
trophy, and his name will also
be engraved on a plaque to be
hung in Police Chief W. D.
Blake’s office. Future winners’
names will be added to the
plaque.
Qualifications for winning the
award include personal appear
ance, planning and performing
assignments, judgment in de
cisions and performance of du
ties, attitude in receiving and
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' SCENES
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Lt. HERMAN STONE threatr
ening a friend with arrest for
ogling a blonde on Franklin
Street. . . . JOCK LAUTERER
hanging out a second-story
Franklin Street window to take
pictures, soaring the daylights
out of a passerby. . . . SION
JENNINGS sitting on the north
side of West Franklin Street,
raptly watching the passing
scene. . . . University student
conducting a survey among shop
pers in the Eastgate Winn Dixie
hastily explaining hat he had
absolutely nothing to sell. . . .
Motorist running out of gas at
the FranklirtfHenderson Street
intersection, apologizing profuse
ly to drivers stacked up behind
him. . . . Numerous Townspeo
ple trying to locate one SARAH
Watson emery. . . . world
War II veteran emerging from
“The Longest Day” at the Var
sity all choked up with dusty
memories. . . . Colonial Heights
youngster trying to protect his
beach tan by eliminating baths.
, . . Executive returning to his
office and finding a thick rope
on his desk, neatly knotted in a
hangman’s noose. . . *V Student
standing by his- sparkling new
Cadillac in front of Julian's
while firemen sought the source
of choking smoke under the
hood. . . . JOHN EHLE, the
Governor’s cultural affairs ad
viser, turning up at the Rock
Pile in a Jeep.
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The Chapel Hill Weekly
Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923
JIM FARRELL
carrying out orders, care and
use of equipment, devotion to
duty and interest in work, moral
standards, and participation in
community activities.
Officer Farrell is 30 years old
and has been a member of the
Police Department since 1957.
He and his wife have a 6-year
old son. Officer Farrell is also
a Pony League baseball team
coach.
Chief Blake, who attended
Thursday’s meeting, said he was
pleased that the Jaycees had
instituted the award; that dur
Height Os Buildings
On Board’s Agenda
The Planning Board will take
another of the necessary steps
for raising the building height
limit in downtown Chapel Hill
when it meets Tuesday night at
7:30 in the Town Hail.
Easing of the height restriction
was requested early last month
by a representative of Interstate
Investors, a concern which has
purchased local interests in a
proposed hotei-motel on West
Franklin Street:’
Interstate Investors sought the
raising of the present 45-foot lim
it to construct banquet-assembly
hall facilities on a fourth floor.
The fourth floor would not be
permitted under the present
building height rules.
Interstate announced further
plans to convert the motel to a
convention hotel with restaurant.
These plans for the building hit
a snag on parking requirements,
when the Planning Board an
nounced a proposed amendment
School Site Sale
Will Be Discussed
Sale of Chapel Hill's present
West Franklin Street School and
Senior High School site will come
before the School Board When it
meets tomorrow night at 7:30 at
the High School.
The sale was proposed week
before last by School Board mem
ber Edwin M. Tenney, and the
Board at that time formally
adopted a resolution empowering
Board chairman Grey Culbreth
to offer the property for sale and
to appoint a committee to seek
a new site for the Senior High
School.
Mr. Tenney said at the time
of his proposal that* every effort
should be made to sell the prop
erty, in order to secure funds for
new school construction needs
forecast in a Research Triangle
Planning Commission projection
of local school needs in 1970 and
1980.
The property, located in the
heart of the central business dis
trict, was valued at a minimum
of $1,200,000 last year when a
group offered to purchase the
property. The offer made at that
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ROBERT COOPER
ing the last nine weeks his men
had put in about 1.400 hours of
overtime in connection with ra
cial demonstrations and picket
ing; and that he W'as sure the
award, and the Jaycees’ SIOO
contribution to the Chamber of
Commerce's fund drive, would
do a great deal to improye police
force morale.
A letter from the Chamber of
Commerce was sent Friday to
all Chamber members.
‘'Recent events have only em
phasized what a great many cit
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to the zoning ordinance for the
Central Business District which
would require the hotel to pro
vide one parking space per hotel
room, plus one parking space for
each four restaurant seats.
Interstate's request for elimin
ation of the latter stipulation was
aired at a special public hearing
July 23, then referred to the
Planning Board for recommenda
tions, a routine step. Some com
promise between the Planning
Board and Interstate Investors
on the parking requirements has
been indicated.
The Planning Board will also
discuss its proposed amendment
for Central Business District zon
ing. The new amendment re
places an earlier plan which
would have set up two separate
business districts with separate
requirements for off-street park
ing. The amendment would also
provide for the raising of build
ing heights permissible in the
downtown area to 90 feet.
The easing of the height re
striction is hoped to speed reno
vation of buildings in the down
town area.
The Board will possibly rc
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A Talk With George H. Esser
George Esser is a professor of
Public law and Government and
an assistant director of the In
stitute of Government at the Uni
versity. Recently he was ap
pointed dirortar of the North
Carolina Fund, which is designed
to help improve the lot of a targe
segment of North Carolina's pop
ulation.
By J. A. C. DUNN
The *s(ieLvos which cover two
walls of George Hyndham Es
ser's office are one inch thick,
and not without reason. They
are loaded with books and folders
and bundles and boxes and stacks
of papers and pages and manu
scripts and reports, practically
any form in which the written
or printed word can be collected.
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1963
CHIEF WILLIAM BLAKE
The Chapel Hill Housing Auth
ority has selected -an architect for
a 60-unit low-cost housing pro
ject here.,
At a special meeting last week,
the Authority chose Leif Valand
and Associates of Raleigh for the
project, which will be financed
through the Public Housing Ad
ministration.
Valand was the architect for
Glen Lennox in Chapel Hill, for
which he received the National
Home Buildings Award. He also
did Cameron Village Apartments
in Raleigh,
sonville.
Sarah G. Rains, executive di
rector of the Housing Authority,
Town Manager Robert Peck,
Authority member, and a repre
sentative of the architectural firm
will inspect a proposed site for
the housing project on 'Thursday.
Officials from the PHA office
in Atlanta will come to Chapel
Hill on Aug. 12 to inspect the
site for tentative appoval. ff the
site is approved by the PHA,
then the Chapel Hill Authority
will proceed with plans to buy
it. The Housing Authority al
ready has selected two apprais
ers.
Construction will begin follow
ing approval of the site and the
architect’s plans. The first units
of the project are not expected
to he completed for at least two
years.
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Weather Report
Fair and Warm with widely
scattered thundershowers.
High Low
Wednesday 90 69
Thursday ...... 90 70
Friday 90 66
Saturday 90 62
. Sunbonnet weather, as Granny
used to call it, will be with us
yet awhile. In the old days, folks
used to rut a headhole in a yard
of oilcloth for a poncho-style
slicker. If you tried that now,
you might start a new fad.
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MR. ESSER
Institute’s Suggestion
Law Would Bar Racial
Bias In New Business
Statement Os Policy
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By MAYOR SANDY McCLAMROCH
In keeping with the founding precepts of the
United States of America, and in pursuance of
the goal of equal rights and opportunities for all
people, I, as- Mayor of the Town of*Chapel Hill,
do hereby proclaim that it is the official policy
: of this Town that there be no discrimination
practiced on the basis of a person’s race in the
operation of both public and private enterprise.
The Town of Chapel Hill, in its administration
of municipal services, in the hiring of its em
ployees, and in the use of its municipal facilities,
does not recognize nor sanction racial discrimina
tion.
In this same spirit the Town of Chapel Hill
hereby advises all private business operators
within this municipality of this official policy, as
by the Mayor, and intends to further
notify the operators of business firms that may
be annexed to this municipality, or who set up
business operations here in the future, that this
. is the official policy of the popularly-elected gov
ernment of this municipality, and that they will
be expected to conduct thir affairs in accordance
with this policy.
Demonstrations
End Racial Truce
Two weeks of grace from racial demonstrations ended
this weekend with a silent sidewalk march and another
mass walk down Franklin Street.
The sidewalk march took place Friday between 6 and
7 p.m., with about 80 demonstrators going single-file
down the north side of Franklin to the Post Office,
then returning through the business district on the
south side of the street.
The marchers carried anti-seg
regation signs, but remained si
lent. Most downtown stores had
closed for the day and pedestrian
and auto traffic was* compara
tively light. Police accompanied
the demonstrators and there were
no interruptions in traffic. The
demonstration was peaceable
throughout.
A mass walk down Franklin—
this one in the street was
scheduled to begin yesterday at
12:30. Another is planned at the
same time today.
Resumption of the demonstra
tions was announced by the Com
mittee for Open Easinesses
Thursday night after a commit
tee of businessmen appointed by
the Mayor announced that it had
been unsuccessful in attempting
to persuade 14 segregated bus
inesses here to change their poli
cies.
The businessmen, who have not
been identified, had been trying
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Mr. Esser’s office is, generally
speaking, one big mound of pa
per. For the most part, all of
this material is “somewhere.”
“I have that here somewhere,”
Mr. Esser says, pawing through
a subsidiary mound. A long
table serves no other purpose
than to support other mounds for
which there is no room on the
shelves. The table top has de
veloped a slight bow from the
load.
Mr. Esser himself has the sort
of face that looks as if it were
born adorned with horn-rimmed
’glasses. The inflections of many
people’s voices carry implied
question marks, even when they
are stating facts (“It was rain
ing outside? So we had to find
the umbrella? And then I step
Racial Situation
Will Be Discussed
The Mayor’s Human Relations
Committee will sponsor another
community meeting today to dis
cuss racial problems in Chapel
Hill.
The private meeting will be
gin at 3 p.m. in-Town Hall. The
following groups are being in
vited to send representatives: Hu
man Relations, United Church
Women, Merchants Association,
Ministers, Junior Service League,
Jaycees, League of Women Vot
ers, Committee for Open Busin
ess, Community Council, and
Board of Aldermen.
The Rev. Loren Mead, chair
man of the Human Relations
Committee, issued the following
statement:
“It is unfortunate that the real
efforts at negotiation during the
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ped in this puddle?”), but Mr.
Esser's voice is not like that at
all. His implied question marks
are in his eyebrows, which have
been raised for so long, in a sort
of interrogatory hope that you
understand what he is saying,
that the creases in his forehead
consist of two groups of concen
tric arches, one over each eye.
Mr. Esser's voice is rich but
quiet, calm but not placid. Its
pitch varies little, its volume is
constant. The result is that Mr.
Esser's exact words fade away
almost as soon as they are spok
en, leaving your mind blanketed
with information, but uncertain
about most of the terms in which
it was imparted. Listening to
Mr. Esser speak is not unlike
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SUNDAY
ISSUE 1
Aldermen To Get
Proposal Aug. 12
A proposed ordinance to prohibit racial discrimina
tion by tuture businesses in Chapel Mill will be pre
sented to the Town Hoard of Aldermen on Aug. 12.
The ordinance was suggested by staff members of
the Institute of Government as a possible alternative
to ;i public accommodations law.
The Aldermen had asked the Institute for.information
concerning the iegalify-ul a pub-'
lie accommodations
In June the Town Board post
poned action indefinitely on a
public accommodations ordinance
that had been recommended by
the Mayor's Committe on Inte
gration .
Details of the new ordinance
have not been completed. How
ever its effect would he restrict
ed to new businesses. Segregat
ed businesses already operating
here would not lie affected.
The non-discrimination re
quirement would be applied to
now businesses much in the
same way that planning and zon
ing requirements are applied.
It has not yet been made clear
whether the ordinance would ap
ply in the case of an existing
business being transferred to a
new owner, when an existing
business moves from one loca
tion to another, or in the case of
lease arrangements.
At’ least four members o( the
six-man Town Board already
have indicated that they are
highly receptive to the proposal.
Mayor Sandy McClamroch said
the new proposal had several ad
vantages over a public accom
modatioas law. For one thing,
he said, the new proposal was
not likely to be tested in court,
whereas a public accommoda
tions law was almost’ certain to
draw an injunction and a Su
preme Court lest. Enforcement
of the Institute’s proposed ordi
nance, he added, would be com
paratively simple. One of the
major criticisms of a public ac
commodations ordinance was that
effective enforcement would be
a constant headache.
With the new anti-discrimina
tion ordinance pending, the Town
last week formally advised all
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ADDITION For some months a large addition
to the Carrboro Baptist Church has been under way.
Last week the addition was completed.’ The Rev. Calvin
Rains, left, pastor of the Church, went on ah inspection
tour of the addition Friday with contractor L. G. (Dick)
Nl'ripp. C. T. Ellington, building committee chairman,
and Donald A. Lowe, project foreman, accompanied
them on the tour. Formal opening of the addition will
be soon.
J x \ (Photo by Bill Prouty)
Published Every Sunday and Wednesday
Chapel Hill
CHAFF
By LOUIS GRAVES
I am lucky to bring out the big
news tar Betty Smith that
she has had an offer of SIOO,OOO
for the motion picture rights to
her new novel, "Joy in the
Morning” just as J did the
news of the acceptance by Har
per's of her novel, "A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn.”
She told me of the offer, just
conveyed to her by her agent
in Now York, when l telephoned
yesterday about having seen a
notice of her new book in the
Times. It will be published on
the 19th of the month, the anni
versary of the publication of the
famous "Tree.”
“Two Chapel Hillians, Paul
Green and I, had had movies
made out of our books then,”
.she said, “and two Chapel Hill
ians, Mr. McKenna and 1. are
having movies made out of our
books this year.”
The sum Betty Smith gets for
the movie this year is twice what
she* goi for that- of ”A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn.”
The late Noel' Houston and I
met at the post otiice one day
m August 1943.
"Do you know anything about
Betty Smith” he asked.
“I've never met her," I said,
“but she’s working with the Play
makers and I've published some
pieces about her winning prizes
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