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What this country needs is a 1 | car with bribes that will stop I the car behind. IBWaHHtIIHHI J Volume 41, Number 77 Town Employment Method Questioned Hiring Os Recreation Assistant Called To Attention Os Aldermen Town employment policies came under a brief flurry of criticism before the Board of Aldermen last night. Mrs. T. Franklin Williams presented the Aldermen a letter signed by nine people protesting the alleged failure on the part of Town officials to interview and properly process the applications of two individuals who applied for work as part-time assistant to the director I TOWN 1 | and | I GOWN | EislSsss By PETE IVEY J One reason why the world beats a path to the door of Chap el Hill is because Carolina alum ni do a distinguished job of mak ing headache remedies. The University of North Caro lina could legitimately be celled the Headache Cure Capital of the United States, according to estimates figured by local au thorities such as Spike Saunders at the Alumni Office and by pro fessional and unprofessional pharmaceutical experts. People who have gone out from Chapel Hill to make po tions or pills to cure headaches include these: . . The late Commodore C. T. Council who made the B. C. for mula which is so well promoted by the advertising firm C. Knox Massey and Associates. .'. . The late Isaac Emerson, donor of Emerson Stadium, who is the founder of Bromo-Seltzer. . Mr. Emerson was a native of Chapel Hill. Now living in re tirement in Chapel Hill is a for mer president of Bromo-Seltzer, F. Jackson Andrews, who is also president of the UNC Pharma ceutical Foundation. . . . The late Thad Lewallen of Winston-Salem who compound ed Goody's Headache Powders. The Lewallen family remains in charge of Goody's. . . . William Stanback of Salis bury who heads the Stanback Company “Snap Back With Stanback". . . . Vonnie Hicks of Raleigh who made Capudine a conspicu ous symbol for those seeking headache relief. What is the reason for that phenomenon so many Caro lina alumni turning their hands (Continued on Page 2) When Are Trailers Housing Projects? It may no longer be assumed that a trailer is just that at least in the Chapel Hill Planning Area. Last night the Board of Aldermen learned that a new breed of trailer may also be a five-unit apartment building or a three-bedroom house. D. A. Blackwood, who told the Aldermen he represented 50 homeowners of the Rolling Hills subdivision off the Pittsboro Highway near Watts' Grill, com plained that developer Jack Car lisle was erecting (or moving) a number of large trailers into the neighborhood and setting them up in such fashion that he could call them five-unit apart ment buildings. The trailers, fifty feet long and ten feet wide when on the road, can be expanded to a width of 24 feet. Mr. Carlisle has now “erected" ten of the units leather Report | Cloudy and unseasonably cool tomorrow. High Low Sunday 71 54 Monday 67 43 Tuesday 68 39 According to a Chapel Hill ex pert, this is idea] weather for putting up a crock of home brew. Os course, be said the same thing last January, March, and in mid- July. The Chapel Hill Weekly of the Roberson Street Com munity Center. A third applicant for the posi tion was interviewed and hired. “It seems obvious to us that these employment practices are contrary to the sound and gener ally accepted practices of almost any public organization or priv ate business,” the letter sfiated. Mrs. Williams told the Aider men that the practice of not granting interviews to applicants who requested them "opened the way to favoritism.” Town Manager Robert Peck conceded that the applicant per haps should have been interview ed. However, he said, “I don’t apoiogize for the way it was done, and 1 don’t recommend firing the girl (who was hired) and start ing over." Mr. Peck said that he and Recreation Director Comp ton' Shelton, after checking ap plications from all three, decided two were superior in qualifica tion. “For more important positions we would take considerably more pains,” Mr. Peck concluded. “If an interview is asked for, shouldn't it be granted?” asked Alderman Adelaide Walters. “I would hate to put out a flat ruling that an interview had to be granted,” Mr. Peck replied. Alderman Paul Wager said he found no serious fault with the present manner of Town hiring and felt that nothing had been done to show favoritism. “The problem is mainly a public rela tions problem,” he said. Alderman Hubert Robinson moved that the applicant who failed to get an interview be giv en an interview for a job. The motion was seconded by Mr. Wag er. However, Mr. Wagner with drew his second and Mr. Robin son withdrew his motion when Mr. Peck said he would be hap py to talk with the applicant. In other business the Aldermen: —Amended the traffic ordin ance to place “yield” signs at the intersection of Dogwood Drive and Westwood Drive, four stop signs on streets in Coker Hills, and a stop sign at the intersec tion of Boundary Street and Park Place. —Enacted a "model” ordinance requested by the State Office of (Continued on Page 2) on two five-acre tracts adjacent to Rolling Hills, which he also developed. A third trailer has been erected on a separate lot and is listed as a three-bedroom house. “We are very opposed to it. This trailer park doesn't con form with zoning as we under stand it," Mr. Blackwood said. Town Manager Robert Peck agreed. He told Mr. Blackwood and his delegation that he was appealing to the Board of Ad justment for a ruling on wheth er Mr. Carlisle's project was a trailer park or an apartment development. He said that he did not feel that units which merely touched at the roof could be considered “permanently joined.” He also noted that at least two of the units had no connection to septic tanks, and were discharging raw sewage onto the premises. Mr. Peck also noted that a single trailer could be erected on any building lot in Chapel Hill. However, trailer parks could only be operated with a special use permit. Mr. Carlisle has thus far obtained two building permits to erect two five-unit apartment structures, Mr. Peck said, and has argued that the ten trailers comprise two build ings. For the same type of struc ture in Carrboro, Mr. Peck not ed, Mr. Carlisle has contended that they were trailers. The Board of Adjustment will hear Mr. Peck's appeal next Tuesday night 5 Cents a Copy \ : -4- --Vi ' • . ■' „ •' /■' ' ■ ■ . - ,v -? arljjpß Hgfe THICKET OF BIKES Traffic around Estes Hills Elementary and Guy Phillips Junior High schools is chaotic enough these days to spook a seasoned patrolman. Besides the wild clutter of Enrollment At University Standing Steady At 10,800 University officials closed the registration lines for the fall semester yesterday afternoon. A down-to-the-student count is not yet available, but the total en rollment is closgljuestimated at 10,800. A final count and a break down of students fmale, female, graduate, undergraduate, for eign. etc.) will be completed lat er this week. The University housing situa* tion is less than last week, though“ not all students have found permanent living quarters. UNC Housing Officer James Wadsworth said he planned to have Stacy Dormitory basement cleared of temporarily roosting students the end of this week. Avery Dormitory basement has already been cleared. Mr. Wadsworth said he still needed about 700 living spaces before the tripled two-man dorm Coming This Sunday UNO’s UNDEFEATED TAR HEEI£ take on the Spartans of Michigan State University this coming Saturday and the Weekly’s Billy Car- f michael will be on hand to report direct from | East Lansing. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ ORANGE COUNTY’S ALCOHOLIC REHABIL ITATION Center has been in operation for a year now and results show it to be an unqual ified success. ★★★„ ★ ★ ★ THE UNIVERSITY’S FIRST Writer-In-Resi dence, novelist John Knowles, is the subject of a Book Page feature by W. 11. Scarborough. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ ou 11 find them in this coming Sunday’s issue of The Chapel Hill Weekly, along with art news i by Ola Maie Foushee, columns by Billy Arthur, Bill Prouty, Pete Ivey and Bob Quincy, and the latest neivs of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro com munity. Be sure to get a copy. . • 1 Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1963 itory rooms could be restored to their normal population. Coeds also have been tripled in double rooms, but not to as greet an extent r as men. One squeeze placed on graduate women is the conversion this summer of Smith Dormitory from a graduate to an under graduate dorm, forcing its grad uate occupants to find quarters off the University campus. But all students do have a place to live. One boy reported that he had been temporarily liv ing on a sofa on the social room of his dormitory, and a couple of students have taken tempor ary rooms with friends in town. Married students arc letter off than single men or women, for whom there arc no single rooms at all within walking distance of the campus. A few apartments can be found beyond walking distance, Mr. Wadsworth said, but except for these, every car and pedestrian traffic, there is a fair-sized procession of bikes. Shown above are a few parked in front of the elementary school. —Photo by Town 4t Country known square inch of living space in the town is occupied, “It’s ail I can do now to find a parking spot for my bicycle,” said Mr. Weds worth. He gave credit to Paul Sturde vant of the UNC Buildings De partment. whose furnishings crew has been responsible for moving beds and other equip ment from building to building steadily since students began to arrive for the fall semester. He also said he was thankful for newspaper and radio public ity of the housing situation, which prompted many towns people to rent rooms they had not originally planned to rent. With the total enrollment about 1,200 larger than last year's, and no new dormitories in .sight, Mr. Wadsworth said he preferred (Continued on Page 2) Friday Announces Chancellor Group President William C. Friday today announced an advisory committee composed of faculty, alumni and trustees to assist him in recommending a successor to William B. Aycock as Chancel lor of the University at Chapel Hill. Mr. Aycock has resigned, ef fective July 1, 1964, to return to teaching in the University Law School. Chairman of President Friday’s advisory committee will be Wil liam C. Medford of Waynesville, an attorney, trustee and alumnus of the University. Other trustee members of the committee are Henry A. Foscue, High Point furniture manufactur er; R. 'D. McMillan Jr. of Red Springs, a lawyer and member of the Genera] Assembly; T. Henry Redding, Asbeboro textile manu facturer; and C. Lacey Tate of Whiteville, president of the Bank of Waccamaw. Alumni members of the com mittee are Frank Daniels, gen eral manager of the Raleigh News & Observer; C. Knox Mas sey of Durham, president of Knox Massey & Associates Ad- 6 20 To 25 Businesses- New Shopping Mall Planned Off Bypass Work May Begin In 6 Months Developer E. N. Richards will begin construction of a 200,000- square foot enclosed mall shop ping center in Chapel Hill with in six months. The shopping center, which will have apartment and insti tutional building areas adjacent to it, will be on the broad tract of recently cleared land between 15-501 Bypass and the Durham Road. Mr. Richards said the shopping center would be open late in 1964 or early in 1965, and probably would be completed in 1966. The center will be similar to the Charlotte Mall. The enclos ure will contain sidewalks and businesses, and the entire struc ture will be air conditioned. Trees and shrubbery will also be enclosed. Mr. Richards said he was cur rently negotiating for a major department store, a major va riety store, a major food store, a drug store, and “all the other things that go to make up a complete shopping center.” The mall would ultimately contain 20 to 26 businesses in all, he said. “It’s going to be beauti ful. We think it will benefit the community. A lot of people should be shopping in Chapel Hill who aren't now.” Mr. Richards has not yet ap plied for a building permit of any kind. When he does, Build ing Inspector Donald Archer said he would have to see the plans before deciding whether Mr. Richards’ project could be considered a single commercial building or a unified business development. For a single com .mcrcial building in the proposed area, only a building permit would be necessary. For a uni fied business development (sev eral buildings on one tract), a special use permit would be necessary. “We would hope for an op portunity to review Rich ards’ plans,” Mr. Archer said. The shopping center is still on the drawing boards, though it has been planned for its intended location for the last five years. The Durham Road access to the shopping center has not been finally arranged. Negotiations are under way between Mr. Richards and the Public Serv ice Company to exchange the land on which PSC's Durham Road distribution station now stands for the land Mr. Rich ards presently owns beside the station as right-of-way for his Bypass-Durham Road connec tion. vertising Agency; Hugh M. Mor ton of Wilmington, businessman and president-elect of the Alum ni Association; State Sen. Lind say C. Warren Jr. of Goldsboro; and Meade H. Willis Jr-, v;ce president of Wachovia Bank & Trust Company and immediate past president of the Alumni Association. Faculty members of the com mittee are George M. Harper, chairman of the English Depart ment and chairman of the fac ulty; 11. 'E. Lehman, chairman of the Zoology Department; Donald R. 'Matthews, associate professor of political science; Everett D. Palmatier, Kenan pro lessor of physics and chairman of the Physics Department; Jo seph C. Sloane, chairman of the Art Department and director of Ackland Art Center; Dr. Louis G. Welt, professor of medicine; and W. L. Wiley, Kenan pro fessor of French. The committee will hold its first meting on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 10 a.m. in Chapel Hill. Students in the University will also be given a chance to ex (Continued on Page 6) WEDNESDAY L ISSUE Published Every Sunday and Wednesday ★★★ ★ ★ ★ Scout Camporee Will Start Friday Registration of Scouts arid adult leaders for the Fire ball Camporee at Glenwood School this weekend is great er than any previous District Camporee, Captain Coy Durham, Orange District Camping chairman, reported today. “We always have some late registrants,” Captain Durham said, “so it's dificult to give an exact total count at this time, but we will have at least 250 boys participat ing.” For the first time, an Orange District seasonal camporee will be held inside the city limits. This arrangement enables parents and interested townspeople, for the first time, to conveniently ob serve Hie Boy Scouts of this Dis trict under actual outdoor camp ing conditions. Parents and friends have always been wel come to visit camping areas, but heretofore the campsites have not been readily accessible. The camping area in the Glen Lennox lot is made available by the Glen Lennox Development Corporation. The camp water supply has been provided by the Chapel Hill Fire Department un der the direction of Fire Chief James Stewart. Parking areas will be marked, but no vehicles will be allowed in the actual camping area. Troops are expected to arrive Hearings Sought On Racial Issue The Human Relations Commit tee will urge Chapel Hill and Carrboro civic groups to schedule time during coming regular meet ings for leaders of the racial pro test movement in Chapel Hill to speak. The decision to make the re quest came at the Committee’s meeting last week on mo tion by Committee member Dr. T. Franklin Williams. Dr. Wil liams suggested that the Com mittee urge more communica tion between the racial discrim ination protest movement here and community leaders. The Rev. Loren Mead, chair man of the Committee, will write an open letter to the civic groups asking that they schedule time during their meetings for the protest movement speakers. Committee member Mrs. Mar garet Taylor reported on the Committee’s current job oppor tunity survey. Mrs. Taylor will write letters thanking merchants and businessmen who have an swered the Committee’s inquiries as to their job opportunities and hiring practices, and requesting Two School Buses Collide, No Injury A Chapel Hill school bus ram med the rear of another school bus on the Airport Road Monday afternoon, but no injuries result ed. The accident occurred at the in tersection of North Columbia Street (formerly Clark Road) and the Airport Road at 3:45 p.m. About S7OO damage was done to both vehicles. The buses were on their homeward runs, loaded with children. ‘ William Scott, 17, driver of the trailing bus, was charged with following too closely. Police said he was traveling at about 15 miles per hour when he hit the leading bus, and quoted him as explain ing that the brakes were too weak to stop a ioaded bus. Scott and a six-year-old girl were shaken up, but not injured. The children were taken home in a third bus. at their assigned camp lots Fri day afternoon between 3:30 and 7:30. Supper is scheduled for 6 p.m. for units encamped by that time. Taps will be blown at 10 p.m. after which adult leaders will meet with Fireball staff members for planning Saturday’s events. Parents and friends are invited to visit the Fireball Camporee beginning at two p.m. Saturday. Patrols will give a variety of demonstrations during the after noon. It is hoped that parents will bring picnic suppers and .join their sons at the troop eve ning meal. Scouts may cook for parents if the boys are informed in advance. Following the eve ning meal there will be an hour and-a-half campfire, for which parents are invited to stay. Cub Scouts also are invited to four the Fireball camp area on Saturday morning between nine and eleven, accompanied by pa rents or their Cub leaders. answers from those who have not yet replied. Appointment of two replace ments for coming vacancies on the Committee was announced at the Board of Aldermen’s meeting last night. Warren Wicker, as sistant director of the Institute of Government, and UNC Law School Dean Henry Brandis have accepted appointments to the Committee. A third appointee has not yet accepted. Mr. Mead and Committee members Dr. Donald Irish and Mrs. Donald Hayman arc resigning because they arc leaving town. It was not announ ced which of the three resigning members Mr. Wicker and Dean Brandis replaced. D.: : , ~: g • SCENES ' BILL PROUTY and attorney ROBERT PAGE greeting each other with cheery howdy’s after bumping fenders on Henderson Street. . . . Town crew shrewdly choosing the 5 p.m. rush hour to inch a truck slowly through the downtown Franklin business block, collecting American flags from the sidewalk holders. . . . Townsman marveling at the va riety of license plates he had spotted in Chapel Hill thirty five so far. including Great Brit ain and Ontario A solid wall of high schoolers on East Frank lin, hitchhiking to school. . Goldwater 64 stickers turning up in some of the unlikeliest places. . . . Advance men for Guberna torial candidate Dan Moore cas ing the Town. . Resident of Mount Bolus planning a sign for his front yard. The sign will read: THIS IS THE HIDEAWAY HOUSE. . . . SHIRLEY WOOD ELL flexing his public relations muscles for the imminent Com munity Chest campaign. .. Sev eral Townsmen muttering about last Sunday’s New York Herald- Trtbs which arrived in Chapel Hill one-third current, one-third a week old and one-third mining
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