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There's no reason to
break the agreement
Above we discussed the necessity for enforcing local
zoning laws if land use restrictions are to be meaningful
at all.
Now comes before the Chapel Hill aldermen another
test of whether the law is to be the law.
Some months ago a Durham boulevard property
owner, anxious to develop his res idenrially-zoned land for
business purposes, asked the Town Board to re-zone it. He
proposed an agreement binding him to the terms of a
then-proposed highly restrictive regional business zone in
developing his land. The Board, in an attempt to be co
operative, approved the pac t as desired by the land owner.
Now the land owner through his attorney admits
that it will he impossible tor him to develop the land as
he wishes—specifically, to build a service station on it—
in keeping with the terms of this agreement. So he asks
to be relieved born the very agreement which he proposed
■iitd secured acceptance of only a lew weeks ago.
Tn seeking to accommodate the land owner bv accepT
ing his proposal the Board went far more than “the first
mile" toward helping him. Actually the aldermen dipped
into the realm of the District Planning Board by assumin'’
subsequent recommendation and passage of the new re
gional business zone. (It has now been recommended but
is yet to be passed.)
Certainly the aldermen cannot now in the public in
teiest acquiese to the breaking of an agreement that they
made at the request of a person who now wants to erect
a structure that will not meet the high standards calle
lot
bv this agreement.
I he suburban commercial rezoning in* this instant
was granted by the aldermen with the assumption that i
would enable the property owner to more quickly mov
ahead with a high-type business development in compli
ante with the then proposed zoning amendment.
lot either or both parties to now violate this ao,et
tuent will violate a public trust. n
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volved in hai<1 labor over most
01 a summer, building a dam un
iter direction of Freddie Utley on
a liny trickle of a branch that
dribbled down the draw into the
Stadium bottom.
The resulting four-foot-high dam
and swimming hole was a thing of
bounty a joy for several summers
to the youthful constructors. The
new geology building that will
‘ soon rise on <th;.s site will recall
• to a few local citizens yet left
of this hardy band of young en
gineers the man-made geological
wonder that previously occupied
the site.
* PRESENTS PAPER
'• AT LONDON
Professor James G. Ingram of
k University Department of
Bionomics just returned from
a 10-day Conference on the Ec
i noonric Development of Asia
• held at London’s School of Or
iental and Asian Studies, Lon
*■ 'b'O; England where he present
ed a paper entitled “Thailand’s
ftice Trade and the Allocation
of Resources.'*
POLITICAL SCIENTIST
IS APPOINTED
James Warren Prothro, visit
ing professor in the University
Department of Political Science,
has been appointed a professor
in the political science depart
ment.
New Morehead Planetarium show to feature
macn-shotproject and what to expect
Now comes the Morehead
Planetarium with its own theo
ries why the Carolina moon is
prettier and shines brighter than
the, moon of Missouri, on the Wa
bash and over Miami.
„ In the show “Carolina Moon."
now being presented at the More
head1 Planetarium, it is pointed
out: '
1. “If we were located much
farther north than North or South
Carolina-, the full moon would be
so low. in our skies as to be dis
figured by haze or hidden by
buildings and trees to a much
greater extent.”
2. “if we were located much
farther south, the full moon would
net attract attention so often.”
“Carolina Moon,” a new pro
gram to run through Oct. 9,
opened at the Morehead Plane
taritim last Friday night.
The demonstration highlights re
search and work being done to suc
cessfully place a man on the
moon, what he should expect when
he lands there and the current
aspects of a moon space shot.
“This achievement.” according!
to Planetarium Director Anthony
F. Jenzano, “will probably be
matte sooner than anyone had
imagined a- few years ago, prob
ably within the next ten years.”
The program also touches on
the prominence of the moon of
Carolina, its phases, superstitions
and eclipses.
Numerous effects and first
time-shown charts, date and maps
will enable Planetarium patrons
to appreciate the research. Plan
ning and labor that so far have
contributed and will contribute to
a successful moon shot.
They include the latest moon
maps made by a U S. Geological
Survey team for the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
Official current data on land- j
ing, movement and ffie relative
ease of building structures on the
moon also are given. Charts j
classifying areas of the moon |
scape likewise are presented j
though it is admitted' that “man !
has to go there to get the actual j
facts.” , * j
Near the close of the program
the audience suddenly finds its
self imaginatively on the moon,
a feeling made realistic by a beau
tiful panorama more than 200
feet in circumference. That leads :
to a discussion of the satellite’s ,
physical environment and of in- ‘
struments needed to send to the j
moon in advance of man’s trip. j
i
‘‘Carolina Moon" will be pre-!
sented every evening at 3:30 and j
at matinees on Saturdays at 11 j
a m. and 3 p m.
The school version of the pro-j
gram, recommended for children
in grades 7 through 12, will be1
given at 11 a.m., 1 and 4 p.m.
Wednesdays through Fridays. Ad
vance reservations are necessary
for the school programs only.
LYLE JONES IN DENMARK
Dr. Lyle V. Jones. Professor of
Psychology at the University and
Director of its Psychometric Lab
oratory, is^ currently in Europe,
where he was scheduled to ai/
rive in Copenhagen on August
11. There he attended the XIVth
International Congress of Applied
Psychology, at which he present
ed a- paper on psychological
studies of aphasia. His itinerary
included Warsaw, where he is
visiting psychologists of the Pol
ish Academy of Sciences, and the
psychologicalt laboratories of
the University of Stockholm.
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