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-a Those who are truly deserv ing of respect never have to sead out reminders. Volume 41, Number 98 TOWN and GOWN MWtft By PETE IVEY Tar Heels who will eat gator jowls and blackeyed peas in hon or of the New Year are also ex amining the travel schedules from North Carolina to Jackson ville. They are bound for the Gator Bowl Game, December 28. One enthusiastic fan suggested that the Battleship North Caro lina, now harbored at Wilming ton, be fitted for a voyage to Jacksonville, transporting 4,000 Or more Carolina alumni and followers to Jacksonville. “The battleship is big enough for every«>e to travel comfort ably overnight from Wilmington to Jacksonville,” he said. "They can eat and sleep aboard, stay there in port while the game is going on, as well as have the vessel as the gathering place for a tremendous UNC reunion.” After the game is over, the voyagers can go back to the ship, and take a leisurely cruise back to Wilmington, he said. That sounds fascinating, but unfortunately the battleship can’t easily be moved. That is, it’s very difficult, and expensive, to get it going. It is tied up at a dock, and getting up steam, pre paring it for a voyage would be a large undertaking. When the ship was brought from Philadel phia Navy Yard to Wilmington, it was towed by smaller vessels, and the cost was tremendous. However, that does not detract from the realization that it is a glorious idea. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the Battleship North Carolina put out from Wil mington, flags flying, guns shoot ing, thousands of North Carolina alumni aboard singing “Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices.” Despite the difficulties involv ed, we have great faith in the abilities of Hugh Morton, presi dent-elect of the Alumni Associa tion, who is also the promoter, of the Battleship in North Caro lina and is owner of Grandfather Mountain. Maybe Hugh some how can get the ship ready mi raculously for the Gator Bowl crowd. * * * Wilmington alumni are not waiting for travel by ship. In stead, they are promoting a spe (Continued on Page 7) Voter Registration Campaign Mapped A torchlight parade and other plans to promote voter registra tion J among the Chapel Hill-Carr boro Negro population were an nounced at a public meeting Mon day night. John B. Dunne, local organizer of the registration campaign, and Shelton Sparrow, member of the County Elections Board, discussed the coming elections and answer ed questions concerning the voter registration drive at a meeting at Orange Savings and Loan. According to Mr. Dunne, the campaign will b e conducted SCENES WILLIAM PEACOCK still dog gedly bicycling to work up the long hill from Glen Lennox . . . Carrboro Mayor C. T. ELLING TON extending hospitality of the Town by passing out chewing gum to all present at the Com missioners’ meeting last night. . . FRED RINGROSE of Fayette ville rolling a 721 set (All Star Lanes' first set over 700) in NCPBA traveling league competi tion Sunday .... Ad executive BILL STAUBER searching high and low for a gent named SMYTH. Anybody named SMYTH. (Somebody sent him a tie taste fully decorated with the name.) .... Almost everybody guessing low on the pile of pennies at Central Carolina's branch bank in Eastgate. An expert in tucß matters vows the total is some* where between 4,000 and M.OOO .... Eastgate supermarket checkout girl weak-kneed after her third (or fourth) shot at col lege boards .... Insurance sales man JEFF NEWTON momentari ly shifting his base of operations from the Carolina Coffee Shop to Colonial Drug Store. Midtown Recreation Center Is Approved Town Will Take Over Operation Os Roberson St. Swimming Pool The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Association formally asked the Town to assume operation of the Roberson Street pool Monday night. In a petition presented to the Board of Aldermen the Association, represented by president Adolphus Clark, requested that a formal presentation ceremony be ar ranged. Also requested were provisions that the Association’s .Referendum Registration Starts Dec. 21 Registration for the January 14 Statewide referendum on Legisla tive redistricting will begin Sat urday, Dec. 21. Registration books in Chapel Hill and Carrbcro will be open at the polling places on that Saturday, and and December 28 and Janu ary 4. Challenges Day will be Saturday, January 11, and the ref erendum will be on Tuesday, Jan uary 14. In the referendum, voters will decide whether to amend the State Constitution to increase the Senate from 50 members to 70 and reduce House membership from 120 members to 100. The referendum will be the same as a general election, per mitting absentee ballots. Applica tions for absentee ballets must be submitted in writing to Sam T. Latta, chairman of the Or ange County Board of Elections, Hillsboro. Any resident of Chapel Hill Township eligible to vote in the Chapel' Hill School Board elec tion last spring is eligible to. vote in the refendum without re-reg istering, unless he has changed his precinct since the School Board election. New residents of Chapel Hill can find out their precinct, reg istrar, and polling place by call ing Elections Board secretary Clyde Carter, 933-2137. through three different communi cation channels in order to reach all members of the community: communication, through organi zation, and door-to-door. “We hope to reach the mass of people by passing out leaf lets in the churches and by giv ing out leaflets for children to take home from school.” said Mr. Dunne. “Also we hope to have a torchlight parade, complete with a band and speakers, the night before the registration books open. “There are also plans to use the Negro and white church or ganizations. We hope the Negro churches and various fraternal organizations will stress the im portance and significance of vot ing and registering. We are also looking for volunteers to do pap erwork, typing and many other odd jobs and we hope that many of the local white organizations will help us in getting the campaign organized. “We have divided the Negro community into five major areas for door-to-door canvassing. Each (Continued on Page 2) Lake Forest Area Downzoning Is Laid To Rest The Board of Aldermen laid to rest a proposed downzoning of 9.6 acres adjacent to Lake Forest and Coker Hills at its Monday night meeting. The Aldermen accepted unani mously a Planning Board rec ommendation that C. A. Elling er's request for RA-10 zoning on his acreage between, Durham and Old Oxford Roads be denied. Mr. Ellinger had told the Plan ners he had no immediate plans for development of the property. However, he wished it to be re zoned from Agricultural In order to make plans accordingly. „ Other Planning Board recom mendations referred to the Al dermen for action did not have v Mann Film L&boratorias 740 Chatham Rd. 4 Winston-Salem. K T _ c The Chapel Hill Weekly 5 Cents a Copv beautification club continue it's work in improving appearance of the pool’s grounds; that better lighting be provided ;that a pol luted creek near the grounds be improved; that a cover for the pool filter be provided; and that a roof be constructed over the bleachers. The Town agreed to accept ance of the pool, pending ar rangements for details of the , transfer. In another recreation develop ment, the. Aldermen accepted “with thanks” an offer by Ted Danziger of the basement of the Strowd Building for use as a community recreation center. The basement will provide around 2,500 square feet for use as a center, end will in large measure replace Umstead Rec reation Center as the Town’s chief recreation facility. Mr. Danziger will lease the basement to the Recreation Commission at a rental of $1 per square sot per year and in turn will donate the rental to the Recreation Department for its use in supDorting recreation al activities. The lease is con tingent on the Town’s providing adequate restroom facilities and installing a new ceiling in the area.. Eddie Mann told the Aldermen that the ceiling, using volunteer labor, would cost around sll2. Conclusion of the arrangement will be made In the near future. In other business the Aider men voted to pay $119.50 in in terest premiums on off-street parking bonds which will sup port construction of off-street parking on three lots on East Rosemary Street. Hie Aldermen had some difficulty finding funds for the premium, since the Town contingency fund has been virtu ally depleted. Finally they de cided to transfer the money from the Dog Control Fund, a $550 budget item used to pay Dr. Lou Vine for handling stray dogs. Town Manager Robert Peck also reported that landowners in the vicinity of a proposed radial road in the Morgan Creek area were refusing permission, at a ratio of- about 2-1, for State Highway Dept, surveying teams (Continued on Page 7) - w Cameron On Campus To Become One-Way Cameron Avenue from the Caro lina Inn to Raleigh Street will be come a one-way street today and will remain so for about a month while the University excavates for new telephone and electrical lines. One lane of traffic going east will be open. Director of Opera tions J. S. Bennett said the bulk of the line laying would be done i during the University’s Christmas holidays. Present lines running under Cameron are inadequate to handle the load. Mr. Bennett said. The new power transmis sion line will triple the capacity of the old one to about 7,200 volts. Eventually the line will also be run down Raleigh Street to Wool len Gymnasitan. However, this is not scheduled until the Cam eron Avenue project is completed. quite such smooth sailing. An amended recommendation designed to eliminate parking in required front yards in re gional and suburban commer cial zones was postponed for fur ther study. The Planners had amended their original recom mendation after Restaurateur Ted Danzigcr had objected to a provision that would have elim inated any parking within ten feet of public rights-of-way. Mr. Danziger recommended that in instances where buildings were located closer to a public right of-way than 10 feet, parking be permitted up to the building line. The Planners incorporated Mr. Danziger's suggestion into their Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1963 l WKEUEWm .a IfaJu . I W EL • & **-1 El muHi HELP—Mr. and Mrs. Dean Clark went shopping. They took their son, Jeffrey. Ordinarily, when shopping, Jeffrey investigates low level cracker boxes and,, at Mother’s shoulder alti tude, the chewing gum racks. But it is Christmas time, and cookies and gum have been eclipsed by all the crackly Tar Heels Will Be Honored At Banquet Saturday Night A banquet with the flavor of a coronation feast will be held for Carolina’s Gator Bowl-bound Tar Heels here Saturday night. The occasion will honor Coach Jim Hickey, his staff and his players, beginning at 6:45 at Lenoir Hail. Some 450 guests are expected. A limited number of tickets are now available for Chapel Hill townspeople and other backers of the team. They are available at $2.50 and can be purchased at the Merchants Association office or at the Sports Information Office at Fetzer Fieldhouse. Harry Mehre, widely quoted humorist from Atlanta, will be the principal speaker. Mehre. who The Perfect Gift g 9 What better for your friends to nave a continuing reminder of your Christmas thoughts . than a full year’s subscription to Hill Weekly. And The Weekly is the liveliest, most infor mative way to get the complete news of Chapel Hill and its people. Telephone 967-7045 and we’ll take care of the rest. recommendation, which had qrig-' inally been intended only to elftn inate parking in front yards. The proposed regulation drew criti cism from Alderman Gene Strowd and Town Manager Rob ert Peck. "I’m afraid at the present time we couldn’t enforce this if we passed it," Mr. Peck said. He said that in several cases en forcement of the regulation would eliminate all parking for a num ber of establishments doing busi ness In the Planning Area. The Aldermen also granted a Planning Board request for fur ther time to study its sign size setback formula. .... paper and the spools of endless bright ribbon. So that’s Jeffrey’s shopping project for December: help in the gift wrapping department. Mrs. Clark seems to be taking Jeffrey’s efforts in good humor. Mr. Clark may have to be led to a seat and fanned. Color Jeffrey determined. writes a column for the Atlanta Journal, is an ex-Notre Dame player who served under Knute Rockne. He formerly coached at Georgia. A number of special awards will be given Carolina'players on the basis of their individual prowess during the highly successful 1963 season, which netted 8 wins, 2 losses in 10 games. “As for the meal,” said George Prillaman, director of the foot ball menu and boss of the cam pus eating operations, “it will be one of the finest ever served from our kitchens." Mr. Prillaman’s entre will be Bird of Paradise with Rock Corn ish Game Hen. Said he; “It’s a Another Planning Board rec ommendations, intended to elim inate a discrepancy between two sections of the ordinance estab lishing sideyard requirements and building heights in regional and suburban commercial zones, drew opposition from Planning Board Chairman Ross Scroggs, who was not present when the recommendation was adopted. Assistant Town Manager Don Archer had noted in a letter to the Aldermen that two sections of the zoning ordinance permit ted construction of buildings up to the property line in suburban and regional commercial zones, but also required a sideyard meal which many New York res taurants would charge $25 to serve.” The University Music Depart ment will furnish special music for the program and the entire corps of cheerleaders will be pres ent. Besides the varsity and frosh squads, a number of high school prospects will be here as special guests. Members of the Chapel Hill Athletic Club, who have been in vited to attend with their wives, are asked to call Justice Has well at North Carolina National Bank by tomorrow afternoon to make ticket reservations. Only 70 tick ets to the Club and reservations will be necessary. The cost to Athletic Club members also is $2.50 per plate. Less Than Gator Tickets Left Os the 12,391 tickets received by the University for.the Gator Bowl, less than 3,000 remain. The deadline for returning unsold tick ets to the Gator Bowl is Saturday, but it appears now there will be none to return. The report is that no tickets are available in Jacksonville. The Athletic Office at Chapel Hill hopes to (ill orders and mail all tickets late this week. equal to the height of the build ing, up to 90 feet. • The Planners originally were to recommend that die section permitting construction of build ings up to the property line be stricken from the list of permit ted uses for regional and sub urban commercial zones. Mr. Danzigcr had also objected to this, and requested that the Plan ners recommend that no side yard be required in the two zones except where they adjoined a residential district. The Plan ners incorporated the suggestion. At Mr. Scroggs’s request the recommendation was referred back to the Planners for further consideration. Emmmmmmmsmmmsm WEDNESDAY ISSUE I Published Every Sunday and Wednesday Sports And Music Programs Pushed Paved Playgrounds At AH Schools Also Suggested To Education Board Two requests, a hint, and some none too gentle prod ding Monday night set the Chapel Hill Sfchool Board in vestigating the possibility of music and athletic pro grams at Guy B. Phillips Junior High, and paved play grounds at all Chapel Hill schools. One request came from Estes Hills PTA president Dr. Ira Fowler, He asked for the Board’s “approval and sup port” of a paved playground at Estes Hills. Another came from Dr. David Mitchell. He suggested that the Board “get back into the music business” in the Junior High School. The hint came from Guy B. Phillips principal Clyde Pressley. He quietly gav the board a peek at the benefits of organized juni or high athletics. The prodding came from Board members Ed Tenney and Ben Perry. They peppered the meet ing with a hail of motions, many of them abruptly withdrawn and re-worded, favoring music, ath letics, and playgrounds. The problems of money and fairness to all schools in the system made discussion of each matter lively. Music: i —fV Mitchell said he didn’t know why he was in front of the Board “except that I got to talk ing with some of my patients’ mothers, and I thought a highly enlightened place like Chapel Hill would have a band program, but 1 find it doesn’t.” He suggested a part-time mu sic program in the Junior High School, to get both Junior and Senior High schools “back into the music business.” Mr. Pressley said that m his experience a junior high music program would offer a great deal, would need financial as sistance, but would “contribute to school morale” and would de velop student areas of interest. He said he wouldn’t aim such a program at producing “master musicians,” but "one thing the junior high is indebted to young sters to do is to give them some thing they can do and get satis faction from” He said he would envision such a program as extracurricular at first, though “anything worth having as an activity at the school should be part of the reg ular program.” Starting a music program in (Continued on Page 2) , aHK fJv-’S',?* , * Weather Report Cloudy and cool tomorrow with more rain. High Low Sunday 62 33 Monday 47 29 Tuesday . 50 27 A thin rime was on the edge of the pond this week and lasted until near noon. Before long it wiß be possible to skate empty beer cans across the ice. BHntMtiHgaw* mm • sj**. Coming This Sunday 808 LACEY, CAROLINA’S fabulous pass catching end and the Tar Heels’ first Associa ted Press All-America since Charlie Justice made it in 1949 is the talker in one of J. A. C. Dunn’s talk pieces. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ ONE OF CHAPEL HILL’S newest organizations is the Inter-Church Council for Social Service, a group of volunteer workers whose sole aim is to help those who help themselves. ★★★- ★ ★ ★ THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC Library celebrat es its fifth birthday Sunday and, like any five-year-old, is still growing like a weed. Weekly Women’s News Editor Paquiia Fine tells the remarkable story. ★★★ ★ ★ ★ You’ll find them in this coming Sunday’s issue of the Chapel Hill Weekly, along with a full page of book news and reviews, and the latest news of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community. Be sure to get a copy. Also can be used for housebreaking pets. New Auction Planned For School Land The Chapel Hill School Board will try again to sell the West Franklin Street school property. The Board held a public auc tion of the property in Novem ber, but no bids were received. The Board at its meeting Mon day night agreed to try “one more time" to sell the property, which consists of 9,3 acres fac ing Franklin Street and contains five buildings, one of them the Chapel Hill Seni3r High School. One reason the new auction was agreed to is that the Board has placed the property in the hands of a realtor. At the first auction the Board was acting as its own real estate agent. The realtor must be in a legal posi tion to negotiate with prospective buyers, and haggling is illegal unless the sale has been official ly opened with a bona fide bid. Another reason the Board is still interested in selling is that potential customers still seem to exist. “There does seem to be more interest (in the property) than before the auction,” said School Board chairman Grey Culbreth. “As of this moment I am con vinced there is more interest than there was two months ago.” He said he did not know who constituted the “interest” or, monetarily speaking, how much “interest” there was. At the November auction a representative of the Little Con struction Co. of Charlotte was present and had been expected to bid, but did not. Wien no bids at all were received the Board was left without a legal basis for private negotiation. Mr. Culbreth said J. Q. LeGrand, the Board's attorney, had advised him to be sure to get at least a bid of sl, to enable private ne gotiation subsequent to the auc tion. A new resolution to sell the property was adopted, and the legal machinery preceding the auction will be set in motion. The auction date has not been set yet. The Board had considered million to be a fair price for the property before last month’s auc tion.
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