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Volume 40, Number 79
Board Would Ease
Sign Restrictions
Planners Agree To Recommend
Net© Formula To Control Size
If Planning Board recommendations on signs are
followed, future Chapel Hill businessmen are going to
have to brush up on their high school mathematics.
The Planners last night agreed to recommend to the
Board of Aldermen for public hearing November 25 a
new set of business sign rules for suburban commercial
and regional commercial zones.
The present sign ordinance permits three'small iden-
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PETE IVEY sms*
The story about Oliver Wendell
Holmes that Chancellor William
B. Aycock was reminded of the
other day when the subject of
the Holmes Lectures came up
involves the great judge and
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After his retirement from the
Supreme Court Justice Holmes
remained in Washington.
When Franklin Roosevelt was
elected President of the United
States one of the first people he
called on was Justice Holmes.
That's the kind of man Justice
Holmes was. He didn’t pay
a courtesy call on the President
of the United States. The Presi
dent of the United States came
to see him. Justice Holmes was
then past 94 years of age.
When the President was usher
ed into Holmes’ study, the Jus
tice was reading. The book:
Essays from Plato.
“Why are you reading Plato?”
asked President Roosevelt.
“To improve my mind, Mr.
President,” said Justice Holmes.
* * *
It was the custom while Justice
Holmes was on the Supreme
Court Bench for the Harvard
Law School to send each year
a different bright law graduate
to be secretary to the great man.
Arthur E. Sutherland, who is the
Holmes lecturer here this week,
was one of these law secretaries.
Justice Holmes had used the
word “skeptical” in a document.
The law secretary questioned
the spelling. The English spell
it “sceptical,” he pointed out,
and he thought use of the “c”
rather than the "k” was pretty
good. Justice Holmes said he
didn't care very much one way
or the other about it. He said
he respected those who spelled
it with the “c,” and that perhaps
there was much to be said for
that form.
“Then should I change this to
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SCENES
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Two citizens crouched low un
der umbrellas in a topless MG
during last Saturday’s rain. . . .
KEMP NYE smoking a hookah,
without a burnoose. . . . Waitress
at Long Meadow Dairy Bar play
fully bombarding a customer with
paper missiles. . . . Rare occur
rence: Town Manager ROBERT
PECK and attorney HAROLD
EDWARDS on the same side of
a public controversy (Jack Car
lisle’s trailers). ... One of the
Town’s political fire ants urging
newly elected YDC officials 808
COOPER and BARRY WINSTON
to resign in protest of a contro
versial resolution (praising Sen.
Sam Ervin) adopted by the
Young Democrats. . . . Dr. W. T.
DOBBINS, imperturbable as ever,
presiding over a building donny
brook at last night’s Board of
Adjustment meeting. . . . SPERO
DORTON inching closer and
closer to the 1904 Gubernatorial
race, impressed by the fa,ct that
hii candidacy would mean the
first time in history Orange
County would have two candidates
(RAY STANSBURY of Hillsboro
is already in). . . . Chapel Hill's
license plate tallyman reoorting
the discovery of a New Mexico
in Town, bringing the number of
states, if you include North Ca
rolina which he had forgotten, to
40 (Hawaii and Alaska still be
ing diligently sought)
tification signs totalling 12 square
feet in area within ten feet of
highway rights-of-way.
Harriss-Conners Chevrolet last
summer challenged this rule,
erecting a large sign within 13
feet of the Durham Boulevard
right-of-way. The resulting con
flict between Harriss-Conners
and the Town has not been
reconciled yet.
Planning Board chairman Ross
Scroggs pointed out last night
that in recommending changes in
the sign ordinance the Board was
not trying to “solve Bob Har
riss's problems” but was only
"recognizing that a problem
existed.”
The Planners’ proposed solu
tion:
To begin with, signs would not
be permitted any closer to a
highway right-of-way than 15
feet.
However, the Planners also
agreed that the width of a high
way right-of-way has an effect
on the sign: the wider the right
of-way, the bigger the sign nec
essary to impress passing traf
fic; the narrower the right-of
way, the smaller the sign need
ed.
Consequently, the Planners
agreed on what appears at first
glance to be a formidable form
ula:-the allowable size of a sign
shall be one twelfth of the dis
tance in feet, squared, from the
centerline of the right-of-way to
the base of the sign.
Thus, if a highway right-of
way is 28 feet wide anti a sign is
placed 15 feet from the right
of-way, the sign may be four
feet square half the width of
the right-of-way: 14 feet; plus
15 feet minimum sign-to-highway
distance: 24 feet; divided by 12:
2; squared: 4.
The idea of such a formula is
to have signs always appear
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Weather Report |
Generally fair and mild tomor
row.
High Low
Sunday 79 59
Monday 69 49
Tuesday 74 41
The leaves of the gums along
Bolin Creek are beginning to turn
and soon the limbs will be bare.
The way things are moving now,
there won’t be any trees in a
couple of years just another
apartment project.
2nd Holmes Lecture
Scheduled Tonight
Restlessly end impatiently, and
sometimes painfully, the Amer
ican people in 100 years have
gradually changed the economic
structure of the United States by
proceeding “step by step to sub
ject it to their control" by Con
stitutional and political means,
it was stated here last night by
Prof. Arthur E. Sutherland of
Harvard University. Prof. Suth
erland delivered the first of three
Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures,
held this year at the University.
Chancellor W. B. Aycock presid
ed.
Citing changes in the Consti
tution which paralleled changes
in the kind of lives people have
led in their work and in ac
cordance with the structure of
society emerging from agricul
ture to balanced Industrial and
economic complexity, Prof, Su
therland cast his remarks in re
lation to the life and opinions of
Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, "The Great
bissenter.”
“The life of the law has not
been logic; it has been ex
perience” quoted Prof. Suther
land from Justice Holmes.
Sutherland added: "The ex-
The Chapel Hill Weekly
5 Cents a Copy CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1963
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CHAMBER MEETING At a meeting of a
delegation from the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
and members of the temporary steering committee of
the proposed new Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce
this morning were, from left, T. L. Kemp, president
of the Chapel Hill Merchants Association; Herb Went
worth of Greensboro; John Harden, president of the
Peace Hikers
Will Visit
Chapel Hill
About a dozen members of the
Committee for Nonviolent Ac
tion’s Que b e c-to-Guantanamo
“walk for peace" will appear
on the steps of the Post Office
here tomorrow night.
Among speakers from the
group will be Bradford Lyttle.
The Committee for Nonviolent
Action sponsored a San Fran
cisco-to-Moscow "walk lor
peace” last year, and also has
sponsored the entry of private
vessels into mid-ocean nuclear
test zones.
The Nonviolent Committee's
walk for peace started from
Quebec last May and expects
to reach Guantanamo by Christ
mas. Pat Cusick of Chapel Hill,
lield secretary for the Student
Peace Union, is coordinating the
walkers’ appearance in Chapel
Hill, Durham, and Raleigh. The
walkers' appearance in Chapel
Hill is sponsored by the UNC
chapter of the Student Peace
Union.
Mr. Cusick said Mr. Lyttle
and his colleagues would speak
from the Post Office steps in
protest against the “gag law,”
which prevents persons with
communist affiliations, or per
sons who have plead the Fifth
Amendment, from speaking at
State-supported institutions.
The complete text of Dr. Suth
erland's address is on Page 1-C.
perience of the United States
before and after the Civil War
has of course governed the
course of its law, including the
underlying part of our law we
call the Constitution. A great
part of this has been the effort
of the American people to dom
inate for their collective bene It
the operation of their increasing
ly interrelated and complex ec
onomic and political system.”
The process, said Prof. Suther
land, “inevitably tended to eco
nomic levelling, painful to those
whose possessions and power
are downgraded.”
A century ago the traditions
of America “were not those of
material egalitarianism" he said.
Sutherland. The American land
of opportunity in the early 19th
century was a place where “an
energetic, acquisitive and some
times ruthless man could go out
and get himself a fortune.” The
west was "there for the taking
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Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923
UNC Enrollment Is 10,887;
Mechanical Brain Wins Out
By PETE IVEY
A mechanical brain won out
over the human brain in totaling
the 1963 Fall enrollment at the
University.
Announcements last week that
10,704 students are enrolled prov
ed today to be incorrect.
The real total is 10,887, or 183
more than first reckoned.
IBM equipment used in (he
University's Central Records Of
fice has produced figures which
necessitate upward revision of
registration totals.
The error happened when regis
tration personnel, hastening to
get the total after the registra
tion deadline, did not wait for the
electronic equipment to complete
its computations.
The mistake was in subtracting
from the Graduate School total
the registration from the School
of Public Health. Owing to a
change in submitting totals from
professional schools, figures had
been subtracted, in one instance,
rather than added.
Ray Strong, director of Central
Records, got on the phone and
obtained totals from deans of sev
eral professional schools, but did
not take into account the new
way of submitting totals from
the schools. Thats where the
’sljp-up occurred.
Haste was the culprit. In jus
tice to Mr. Strong, it ought to be
said that he was being subjected
to extreme pressures from state
Coming This Sunday
VISUAL AIDS ARE BECOMING an important
part of instruction in Chape! Hill schools.
Weekly Women’s News Editor Paquita Fine
tells the story.
★★★ ★ ★ ★
DR. DOUGLAS M. KNIGHT, the young and dy
namic new president of Duke University, is
the talker in a J. A. C. Dunn talk piece.
★★★ ★ ★ ★
FROM THE CAROLINA-WAKE FOREST action
Saturday night will come a game story by
Billy Carmichael, color by J. A. C. Dunn, and
the coaches’ post-game comments.
★★★ * ★ ★
You’ll find them in this coming Sunday’s issue
of The Chapel Hill Weekly, along with art news
by Ola Maie Foushee, columns by Billy Arthur,
Bill Prouty, Pete Ivey and Bob Quincy, and the
latest news of the Chapel com
munity. Get a copy. Also useful for chinking
busted windows.
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; and Vic M. Nuss
baum, chairman of the Greensboro Chamber’s trade
development division. The two groups met for coffee
in the community room of Orange Savings and Loan
Association before the Greensboro delegation toured
Chapel Hill and the University.
—Photo by Town & Country
newspaper reporters, by the Uni
versity News Bureau, and others
to hurry up with the enrollment
figures on the largest registra
tion in Carolina’s history.
Knowing that it would take
several days for the IBM equip
ment to give enrollment break
downs—statistics by schools and
departments, classes, sex and
other categories—Mr. Strong did
the calculations with pencil and
paper and by consultation with
deans of schools.
Mr. Strong made no alibi. “I
am proud of our electronic equip
ment,” he said. “This doesn't
mean the mechanical brain is
Thorough Traffic
Survey Coming Up
The traffic of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro will receive its first
systematic examination during
the next two weeks.
Resident Planner Lucien Faust
said yesterday that a survey of
traffic within the two planning
areas would be complete in its
first phase by mid-October. The
over all study is expected to be
complete roughly a year from
now.
Mann Film Laboratories
740-Chatham Rd.
Winston-Salem, K. C.
superior to the human. It just
means that in this particular cir
cumstance the mechanical brain
has won a round.”
The registration is the largest
in the history of the University—
not only that, but the 10,887 is
over twice the number in increas
ed enrollment as had been expect
ed to enroll this year.
Enrollment last year, the fall
of 1962, was 9,604.
Current enrollment of 10,887 is
1.283 more than the autumn of
1962.
It has been the policy of the
University here in the past six
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Mr. Faust has been in process
of assembling a team of “survey
ors,” who will collect data neces
sary for the study, and they
are expected to begin work this
week.
Basic sources of the informa
tion to be used in the study will
be a limited house-to-house sur
vey aimed at determining the
numbed, frequency and destina
tion of trips residents of the area
make within Chapel Hill each
day. A second set of interviews
will be conducted at selected in
terview stations on various streets
and roads, during which drivers
of vehicles will be stopped and
asked a set of questions concern
ing trip origin, destination, and
tho route used to reach the des
tination.
The interviews will be supple
mented by traffic counters both
mechanical Ond human, at select
ed points.
Once data has been gathered,
Mr. Faust said, it will be tabu
lated 'to determine what areas
and factors generate traffic in
Chapel Hill, where the traffic
goes and how it gets there.
From this will be inferred the
efficiency and shortcomings of
the area’s present road and street
systems, and which roads or
streets will become overcrowd
ed in the future.
The survey will abo provide
a major test of the Major Thor
oughfare Plan. Using the survey,
Mr. Faust said, it will be pos
sible to construct a “model”
traffic pattern “to anticipate the
traffic we will have when the
community has grown further—
we can anticipate deficiencies
that have not yet occurred.”
The traffic survey was propos
ed early this summer after com
pletion of two other major sur
veys of the Planning Area, made
and reported on by the Research
Triangle Planning Commission.
# WEDNESDAY
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Published Every Sunday and Wednesday
Building Permits
Revoked By Board
Residents Protest Trailers;
Developer Appealing To Court
Th£ Board of Adjustment last night revoked build
ing permits on five trailers erected as apartments near
the Rolling Hills Subdivision.
Developer Jack Carlisle, owner of the units, im
mediately announced that he would appeal the de
cision to Orange Superior Court, and landowners ad
jacent to the project announced through their attorney,
Harold Edwards, that they
would oppose the project's re-in
statement.
In making the ruling, the
Board of Adjustment found that
Mr. Carlisle had located two
trailers on one five-acre tract
and three on another, each group
Greenboro’s
C Os C Men
Visit Here
Thirty - six members of the
Greensboro Chamber of Com
merce visited Chapel Hill on a
"hands across the State" good
will tour this morning. The
Greensboro Chamber delegation
met about ten members of the
temporary steering committee of
the newly-forming Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Chamber of Commerce,
and toured Chapel Hill.
The Greensboro Chamber has
been conducting goodwill tours to
Chambers of Commerce in other
communities since 1959, Chapel
Hill being the fifteenth. The
purpose of the tours is not to
promote Greensboro, but to ex
change ideas and make personal
contacts. Members of the Cham
bers of Commerce visited are in
vited to Greensboro to return the
visit.
While in Chapel Hill the Greens
boro delegation viewed the new
ly-renovated Kenan Stadium, the
UNC Computation Center, and the
new annex to Swain Hall on the
UNC campus housing the RTVMP
Department. The Greensboro and
Chapel Hill groups met for cof
fee in the community room of
Orange Savings and Loan Asso
ciation.
The Greensboro delegation was
also scheduled to tour Durham
and the Research Triangle this
afternoon before returning to
Greensboro.
The members of the Greens
boro delegation were from vari
ous Greensboro business, includ
ing John Harden, president of the
Greensboro Chamber of Com
merce, and George Fisher of the
Greensboro Chamber.
Members of the Chapel Hill re
ception party included Joe Aug
ustine, executive director of the
Chapel Hill Merchants Associa
tion; and T. L. Kemp, president
of the Merchants Association.
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Jack Carlisle States His Case
comprising a separate trailer
park.
Under the Board’s ruling Mr.
Carlisle must remove all but
two of the trailers from their lo
cations within a period of four
teen days.
The action came on an appeal
from Town Manager Robert
Peck that issuance of building
permits for the units be revoked,
because the Building Inspector
had erred in issuing them.
Mr. Carlisle replied to the
effect that the permits had been
granted by Town authorities
with full knowledge of the na
ture of his development, that he
had been permitted to proceed
with the trailers' erection at
considerable expense and that
Mr. Peek should be enjoined
from revoking the permits.
Approximately a dozen resi
dents of the area in which Mr.
Carlisle erected the trailers ap
peared to support Mr. Peck’s
appeal.
The trailers had originally
come into question at last Tues
day’s meeting of the Board of
Aldermen. At the tune two resi
dents objected to the project and
Mr. Peek told the Board of Al
dermen that Mr. Carlisle was
operating a trailer park m vio
lation of the zoning ordinance.
The trailers, some of them
containing two living units, are
parked next to one another and
set on a common foundation.
Mr. Carlisle's plans called tor
erection of five units on each of
his two five-acre tracts. The
units are presently occupied by
between 20 and 25 University
students, all male.
According to Mr. Peck, Mr.
Carlisle obtained a permit on
September 9 to construct four
apartments in a single unit on
a nine-acre tract. On Septem
ber 19 the original permit was
modified to list three trailers
containing five apartments, and
a second permit permitting an
identical unit on a separate tract
was also requested. On Septem
ber 20 a permit to erect a three
bedroom trailer on Lot 9 of
Rolling Hills was issued.
Mr. Peck appealed issuance
of all permits except for the
single unit trailer on Septem
ber 23, contending that Mr.
Carlisle was operating an il
legal trailer park.
Mr. Peck told the Board of
Adjustment that he felt the orig
inal permit was changed to
specify trailers after it was
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