Power line easement suits
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are to be heard next week;
no route change anticipated
Discussion at a two-hour pub
lic hearing last Thursday made
it apparent that Duke Fower
Company’s’ new 100,000-volt pow
er transmission line is going to
dome into Chapel Hill along its
originally-planned Morgan Creek
route.
Condemnation hearings om
Morgan Creek area land over
which the utility firm seeks ease
ment are scheduled for next
Wednesday before court-appoint
ed commissioners in Hillsboro.
But it is now obvious that the
Power Company will not change
its plans for the Chapel Hill end
of the new line from Research
Triangle Park unless the current
litigation goes against them
Seven property owners have re
fused the company the right to
cross their land and Duke har
instituted condemnation lawsuits
under its state-granted power of
eminent domain
The hearing last Thursday
night was held under auspices of
the Board of Aldermen to pub
licly receive reports on possible
alternate routes for the line from
the Research Triangle Planning
Commission and from Duke Pow.
er Co. itself.
However, at the end of lengthy
and heated discussion of a num
ber of different routes, W. I
Ward, attorney for Duke, de
Walter Allen's
group study
is published
An article on “Number of Let
ters in Cicero’s Correspond
ence” in the new issue of “The
Classical Bulletin,” published by
St. Louis University, was wriiten
by Walter Allen, Jr., UNC pro
fessor of Latin, and his Cicero
seminar: _
Robert J. Barnett, Jr., Wil
liam Franklin Boggess,.,.Theo
dore Crane, Jr., Kathleen Ann
Dempsey, KathoVine Harel sen,
Rchard C. Jensen, William C.
Kurth, Margaret MacQueen. B.
L. Rickenbacker, Jr., Harry E.
Whitelock, John E. Ziolkowski.
‘^‘.UntiL now," the article begins,
“a wise professor-' would not at
an oral examination ask the can
didate for the number of Cicero s
Epistulae, for the professor
could not be himself certain of
the answer. The question has
likewise plagtied generations of
graduate students who have
come across the results of
various calculations in the
handbooks.”
The difficulties are due to the
manner in which the letters
were transmitted in the manu
scripts. Some are wrongly divid
ed or combined, and it has
caused scholars much trouble to
set matters straight. It is also
troublesome to decide how to
count the letters that Cicero sent
as enclosures with, his own.
Dr. Allen and the seminar de
cided that there are about 870
letters m the tradtional number
ing, of which 788 are by Cicero,
70 are to Cicero, and 12 are
neither by nor to Cicero. The
full' count, employing the sub
divisons and combnations of the
letters in modern texts, is likely
to be about 940.
dared in answer to a question
that his firm would not consider'
any alternate route while the
current condemnation lawsuits
were in litigation.
About 100 persons were pres
ent, most of them property own
ers in the Morgan Creek and
Mt. Carmel areas that would be
directly affected by the various
proposed routes. The Mt. Carmel!
.residents bitterly opposed all
moves tc alter the route to bring
it any closer to their neighbor
hood.
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There was a good deal of dis
cussion about running the lines
underground—a procedure that
the Duke attorney estimated
would cost 10 times the average
I over-land cost of $20,000 a mile
A number of Morgan Creek area
residents pressed for further
consideration of this idea.
However on Monday the attor
ney for several of them, Gor
don Battle of Chapel Hill, re
leased a letter to the Town
Board in which he reported or
a conference held Friday with
an engineer for the State Utili
ties Commission in Raleigh,
The latter told him. Mr. Bat
tie declared, that underground
construction costs would be six
to 10 times higher, maintenance
costs greater, and that it would
be unfair to the rate struct ure
to expect the Power Company to
bear this expense for the benefit
of a small area.
Mr. Battle did not so state in
his letter, but it appeared that
he was not going to pursue this
campaign further in behalf of
his clients.
GRANT TO UNC DEPARTMENT
The National Science Founds
tion has awarded a grant of S38
000 to the University Depart
ment of Geology and Geography
to conduct an Institute in Earth
Sciences from June 7-July 17.
The period of the institute co
incides with the University’s reg
ular summer school and is open
tb 38 junior and5* senior high
school teachers to improve the
subject matter competence of the
teachers.
What we need is the prayer of
fervent desire for growth in
grace, expressed in patience,
meekness, love, and good deeds.
—Mary Baker Eddy
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being offered
More than three million vet
erans holding National Service
Life Insurance (NSLI) still have
the opportunity of buying a low
cost total disability income rider
for their GI policies.
This rider was first offered to
veterans in November of 1958
Since that time nearly 800,000
of the 4.5 million policyholders
eligible have applied for the
rider, J. D.„ DeRamus, manager.
Veterans Administration Region
a Office, Winston-Salem, said
today.
j Those policyholders who have
bought this rider and who be
come totally disabled from any
cause before age 60 and while
; their rider is in effect will re
ceive a monthly income of $10
for each $1,000 face value of
their policies.
Payments will continue for the
duration of the disability regard
less of its length, Mr. DeRamus
pointed out.
However, the rider ceases to
exist after age 60 and no pa.v
! ment is made for disabilities in
1 curred after that age.
The premium cost of the rider
varies with the policyholder’s
age, type of policy and its face
amount.
Veterans whose age at nearest
birthday is 40 or less may get
the rider without physical exam
ination. Those older are required
I to submit to a physical examina
tion by either VA physicians of
! their own local doctors. VA
medical application forms must
be used.
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