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Howard N. Lee

Howard N. Lee came to Chapel Hill from Georgia in 1964 to study at UNC. On May 6, 1969, he was elected mayor of Chapel Hill, the first African American mayor elected in a predominantly white southern town since Reconstruction, and served three terms. He later served in the state senate and chaired the State Board of Education.

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1934– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineThe Franklin Street vending ban, 1970–19741970–1974 · 14 events · In June 1970 Chapel Hill banned selling on its streets and sidewalks except by the flower ladies, the Black women who had sold flowers on Franklin Street since about 1950. Young vendors organized and kept selling, and in June 1971 a judge struck the ordinance down as discriminatory. The aldermen answered by banning all street vending, flower ladies included, and the flower ladies moved into an alley off Franklin Street. Vendors came back on rented private space in 1972, and in 1974 the board refused to let them return to the sidewalks. StorylineThe Horace Williams Airport, 1940–20181940–2018 · 52 events · In 1940 the University bought the Chapel Hill airport that Charlie Martindale had opened in 1928 and planned a field named for Professor Horace Williams, who gave more than 200 acres. University students began Civil Aeronautics Authority flight training there that February. WPA workers began grading in January 1941 on a project costing about $200,000, and that month fire destroyed the hangar and seven training planes. By mid-October crews had finished rough grading for the runways, and that fall University and Duke students began joint pilot training. In 1942 the federal government paid for a new road to the field because of its military value, and in March 1943 paratroopers from Fort Bragg dropped on the airport. From 1968 townspeople and faculty opposed paving the field, and the Faculty Council asked that it be kept to University use; the runway was paved chiefly for medical flights, and in 1974 the Chapel Hill aldermen set up a study of the airport. In 1980 neighbors petitioned to close the airport, and in 1981, a year of three crashes near the field, Chancellor Christopher Fordham offered to close it once a replacement was built near Chapel Hill. The county commissioners approved a private Midway Airport in Bingham Township in 1982 and 1983. In 1988 and 1989 the county studied and then dropped a plan for a new county airport, and after a fatal crash in August 1989 about 350 people debated the University's runway extension at a council hearing. In 1990 UNC decided to keep the airport open to public use, and from 1991 county and town managers planned for moving it; mediators led a dialogue group on its future from October 1992. UNC closed Horace Williams Airport in 2018. StorylineChapel Hill’s first public housing, 1961–19691961–1969 · 14 events · Chapel Hill created a housing authority in 1962 to seek federally financed low-rent housing, and the choice of sites drew objections in which race was a factor. The aldermen acted after testimony about substandard housing before the Mayor's Committee on Human Relations in 1961 and a hearing of about 100 people, all in favor. In 1964 Vivian Foushee of the Citizens Committee for Progress led a Black delegation against placing most of a 60-unit project in the all-Black Gomains Avenue area, neighbors of a North Columbia Street tract petitioned against housing there, and two commissioners said 21 businessmen opposed the project. Craig-Gomains and Lindsay Street were built in 1967, and North Columbia Street in 1968. In 1969 Mayor Howard Lee appealed for low-rent housing for 30 families in condemned houses while more units were built. StorylineOpposing the Vietnam War in Chapel Hill, 1965–19731965–1973 · 81 events · From 1965 to 1969 opposition to the Vietnam War in Chapel Hill grew from a silent walk of about 30 Student Peace Union marchers to a Moratorium day in which thousands took part. Students held fasts, sing-outs and pickets, a silent vigil stood at the post office every Wednesday from January 1967, and Vice President Humphrey, Senators Morse, Mansfield and Kennedy and others spoke on the war. Draft counseling began in 1967, faculty members signed statements backing draft refusers, and in March 1968 fifteen people were arrested at a sit-in against a Dow Chemical recruiter. On October 15, 1969 some 3,500 to 5,000 marchers walked through downtown to a convocation where Mayor Howard Lee spoke. From 1970 a Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense tied ROTC to new courses, students and faculty lobbied Congress, and in April 1972 more than 2,000 students marched against the renewed bombing. The Franklin Street peace vigil went on into 1973, when local peace groups formed the Chapel Hill Peace Center. StorylineChapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–19771965–1977 · 25 events · Sandy McClamroch won a third term as mayor of Chapel Hill in 1965 and was re-elected in 1967, both times by wide margins. The 1965 election also chose three members of the school board. Before the 1967 vote some registrars turned away students living in University dormitories, and that May voters returned two aldermen, brought back a former one and elected David Ethridge, while Gene Strowd lost the seat he had held for 12 years. Howard Lee won second and third terms as mayor in 1971 and 1973, Carrboro elected Robert Wells mayor, and in 1973 voters put the first UNC student on the Chapel Hill board and returned Edwin Caldwell, the school board's only Black member. In 1975 James C. Wallace defeated Gerry Cohen for mayor in the first election under Chapel Hill's new charter, and Ruth West and the Carrboro Community Coalition won in Carrboro. In 1977 Robert Drakeford became what the Daily Tar Heel called Carrboro's first Black mayor. StorylineThe North Carolina Botanical Garden's first decade, 1966–19761966–1976 · 6 events · The North Carolina Botanical Garden opened its Mason Farm grounds in 1966, the year its support foundation was formed under William Lanier Hunt. It added a lake in 1967 and Azalea Hill in 1970. When the University refused it more money in 1973, Chapel Hill voted it $6,000, and in 1976 the Totten Center, its first permanent building, opened.
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StorylineFrom campus buses to Chapel Hill Transit, 1968–19901968–1990 · 162 events · Student-run buses began crossing the UNC campus in 1968, and a bus system for the University and the two towns was planned from 1970. Town buses ran for five weeks in 1971 before their money ran out, and voters then turned down a bus tax. Carrboro refused to join a later plan, but in February 1973 Chapel Hill voters approved bonds and a tax. With a federal grant, a University contract for bus passes and used buses from Atlanta, Chapel Hill Transit began running on August 1, 1974 and carried about 259,000 riders in its first eight weeks. The drivers formed a union in 1975, the town leased University airport land for a bus garage, and the buses carried more than two million riders in their first year. Service was cut in 1976 and night buses gave way to shared-ride taxis in 1977, and in 1979 federal aid lowered the bus tax and paid for 17 new buses. From 1980 the town replaced its aging buses with new General Motors buses that knelt at the curb and carried wheelchair lifts, finished a maintenance and operations facility and reshaped its routes, running nine from the fall of 1982. Ridership slipped in 1981, fares rose, and the drivers petitioned against the town's purchase of uniforms until they began wearing them in 1983. Ridership, down to 1.81 million in 1984-85, rose again from 1985 to more than 10,000 riders a day as the system added routes and buses. In 1988 a Blue Line began running to Duke, and in 1989 the council approved a park-and-ride lot on N.C. 54, the University opened one on Estes Drive, and the state funded 14 more buses and more park-and-ride lots. In 1990, after carrying more than 2.1 million riders the year before, the buses began running from a new park-and-ride lot on N.C. 54 East, 14 new buses arrived, and drivers complained that tight schedules forced them to speed. StorylineHoward Lee’s campaigns for mayor, Congress, lieutenant governor and the state Senate, 1968–19921968–1992 · 24 events · Howard Lee came into Chapel Hill politics in 1968 through the McCarthy and Hawkins campaigns and the town's stop of the Poor People's Campaign. In May 1969 he defeated Roland Giduz to become Chapel Hill's first Black mayor, and he won second and third terms in 1971 and 1973. In 1972 he ran for Congress against Rep. L. H. Fountain while staying on as mayor, and in 1974 he said he was finishing his last year in office. He left the mayor's office in December 1975 and opened his campaign for lieutenant governor in Chapel Hill in April 1976. In 1984 he ran for Congress again, filing in the 4th District Democratic primary against Rep. Ike Andrews and opening an Orange County campaign office on West Franklin Street. In February 1990 a district Democratic committee elected him to a vacant state Senate seat, and in May 1992 he and Russell Walker narrowly won the 16th District Democratic primary. StorylineFiber Industries and New Hope Creek, 19691969 · 4 events · In the summer of 1969 Fiber Industries asked Orange County to rezone 450 acres near New Hope Creek for a $100 million plant. Chapel Hill's aldermen called the site unfortunate, and UNC and Duke scientists warned of pollution, but the county planning board recommended the rezoning. The company withdrew its request in August, and commissioners chairman Carl Smith blamed its opponents, among them Mayor Howard Lee. StorylineCampus radio: WCAR, WXYC and WUNC-FM, 1969–19941969–1994 · 17 events · The student station WCAR began broadcasting to UNC's dormitories in 1969, and students voted in 1973 to fund its move to FM. The Black Student Movement twice protested to keep the program Black Sounds on its schedule, in 1973 and in 1974. The University's WUNC-FM, silent for lack of money from about 1970, won grants in 1974 and returned to the air as an NPR affiliate in 1976. In 1975 the FCC granted and then set aside a permit for a student FM station after the chancellor withdrew University backing. WCAR went off the air in 1976, and the student station WXYC signed on at 89.3 FM in 1977. StorylineHonoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–19931970–1993 · 46 events · Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed a Martin Luther King Day in Chapel Hill in January 1970, though UNC declined to close, and the aldermen named the day again in 1973. UNC's Faculty Council struck King's name from a proposed yearly observance in 1977, but a King Memorial Lecture began in 1978 and a campus-wide celebration in 1982. In 1984 Chapel Hill made King's birthday a town holiday. Andrew Young, Max Robinson and Randall Robinson were among the King Memorial Lecture speakers of the 1980s, Carrboro's mayor proclaimed a King Day in 1981, and King's daughters Yolanda and Bernice spoke at UNC's celebrations in 1984 and 1989. UNC held classes on the first federal King holiday in 1986 but, after students petitioned, closed for it in 1988 under new state legislation. Rallies and marches on Franklin Street marked the holiday in 1987 and 1988, and Maya Angelou and June Jordan spoke at UNC in 1988 and 1989. In 1991 a King holiday gathering at the post office opposed the Persian Gulf war and UNC's tenth annual celebration brought C.T. Vivian, and in 1992 an NAACP march and a service at First Baptist Church marked the day. In 1993 UNC housekeepers held a Unity Day dinner in King's honor. StorylineSelling the University’s utilities, 1970–19771970–1977 · 61 events · From 1970 Chapel Hill and Carrboro pressed to take over the water, electric and telephone systems the University owned. Carrboro lost a court fight over a 1970 water rate increase, and in 1972 a state study commission recommended that the University sell its utilities. Bids were opened in April 1974, and that fall the commission chose Southern Bell for the telephone system and Duke Power for electricity and water, over a nonprofit backed by the towns. The trustees asked that the water system go to a local authority, and OWASA, created in 1975, took over the water and sewer systems in 1977. StorylineThe Dey House, the historic district and the Press building, 1970–19921970–1992 · 35 events · In 1971 the Chapel Hill Historical Society fought Delta Upsilon's plan to raze the Dey House for a new fraternity house, and in 1972 the aldermen approved the plan on condition that the house be offered to anyone who would move it. The Chapel Hill Historic District entered the National Register in 1971, the society published a landmarks guide in 1973, and in 1976 the aldermen took up a historic district ordinance. From 1978 the Historic District Commission twice refused the University a certificate for a UNC Press building in the Battle Park neighborhood, and in 1979 the houses on the site came down after the legislature exempted the University from local historic district rules. In 1980 the trustees leased a house near the press site to the Preservation Society to repair, and the Town Council refused to rezone a historic district lot for a sorority house; in 1984 it refused to allow larger bed and breakfast inns in the district. In December 1990 fire gutted the press building, Brooks Hall, and in 1992 the Press began rebuilding it on the same site with sprinklers and fire walls. StorylineChapel Hill, Carrboro and the bicycle, 1971–19921971–1992 · 33 events · Chapel Hill lifted its ban on bicycles on its main downtown streets in 1971 and marked bike routes, and Mayor Howard Lee led about 500 riders on a Bike Day parade. The town began ticketing cyclists, studied licensing and safety, and in 1974 began registering bicycles; Carrboro's aldermen took up the Carrboro Cyclists' safety plan that fall. By 1980 Chapel Hill had built its bond-financed bikeways, and from 1980 to 1982 Carrboro built its own with bonds and a federal grant, opening the Jones Ferry Road lanes in 1981 and a railroad-spur path to Chapel Hill in 1982. From 1985 Chapel Hill fined cyclists on downtown sidewalks, the state funded bike lanes on Airport Road and Carr Street in 1987, and in 1989 Carrboro adopted a safety campaign for cyclists and a townwide sidewalk and bikeway plan. In 1990 and 1991 town and University police began bicycle patrols and Carrboro planned a bike path behind Carr Mill Mall, and Chapel Hill, after sending back a helmet rule for all riders, required helmets for riders under 16. StorylineApple Chill and Festifall, 1972–19941972–1994 · 25 events · Chapel Hill's Recreation Department started the Apple Chill Fair in April 1972, and in 1974 it ended with a street fair on Franklin Street. By 1977 a fall street fair, Festifall, was held there too. After Apple Chill crowds reached 25,000 in 1979, the Town Council limited sellers at both fairs to Orange County residents and moved to curb drinking, and that fall's Festifall had half as many booths. Both fairs went on filling Franklin Street through the 1980s. After rain canceled the 1989 Festifall and West End merchants held a fair of their own, the council moved Festifall to West Franklin Street in 1990 and kept it there in 1991. After gunfire on West Franklin Street followed the 1993 Apple Chill, the town added police, kept the spring fair on East Franklin Street and drew about 30,000 people in 1994 with few arrests. StorylineThe farm workers' boycotts, 1972–19761972–1976 · 10 events · From 1972 Chapel Hill supporters of the United Farm Workers backed the union's boycotts of non-union lettuce, grapes and wines. They persuaded the campus food service to buy union lettuce in 1972, and in 1974 the Chapel Hill Friends of the United Farm Workers picketed a grocery, a wine shop and a Carolina Inn banquet for Gloria Steinem, who carried her salad outside. Cesar Chavez spoke in Memorial Hall for the boycotts in 1974, and in 1976 the group picketed a Gallo-funded Olympic benefit dance on campus. StorylineUniversity Mall comes to Estes Drive, 1972–19731972–1973 · 4 events · University Mall was built on Estes Drive in 1972 and 1973 while the state planned to widen the road in front of it. The Chapel Hill aldermen let it open before the widening was done, with a temporary third lane, and the mall opened on August 2, 1973 with room for about 60 stores. StorylineCondominium conversions in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1973–19841973–1984 · 19 events · Chapel Hill's aldermen approved condominium projects in 1973, with Mayor Howard Lee breaking ties, and turned one down in 1974. From 1980, with rental housing short, the Town Council refused conversions of Graham Court and The Oaks, then approved The Oaks in 1981, and a judge ruled that the town could not stop a realty firm's conversions. Conversions spread in Carrboro and Chapel Hill through 1983. StorylineThe energy crisis in Chapel Hill, 1973–19741973–1974 · 12 events · The fuel shortages of 1973 and 1974 reached Chapel Hill as gas stations closed to protest federal price rules, heating oil dealers stopped taking new customers and stations limited sales. The University cut its energy use and closed nonessential buildings over the 1973 holidays, and Mayor Howard Lee named an energy task force. By late January 1974 nearly every station had run dry; dealers agreed on set pumping hours, the attorney general sued five stations over tie-in sales, and the county's energy coordinator pressed federal officials for more gasoline. StorylineRewriting Chapel Hill’s charter: from Board of Aldermen to Town Council, 1973–19791973–1979 · 11 events · In 1973 Chapel Hill's aldermen created a Charter Commission, which recommended eight aldermen with staggered four-year terms and a four-year mayor. In 1975 the board sent the rewritten charter to the General Assembly rather than to a referendum, and Mayor Howard Lee broke ties to keep it there and to limit its human services powers. The new charter was first used that November. In 1977 the board sought a fair-housing power, and in 1979 it renamed itself the Town Council. StorylinePublic housing and the Chapel Hill Housing Authority, 1974–19941974–1994 · 41 events · In 1974 two Chapel Hill Housing Authority commissioners resigned, saying the merged authority neglected housing, and Mayor Howard Lee's inquiry found bad judgment by some employees but no scandal. That spring the director asked two senior staff members to resign. Public housing tenants accused the authority and its director of unfair practices in 1979. In 1981 the Chapel Hill Town Council approved public housing duplexes at Piney Mountain over neighbors' petitions and a suit the town won in 1982, and in 1982 Carrboro's aldermen approved 30 units off North Greensboro Street, Oakwood Apartments. After a rent strike in the 1980s and deep federal cuts, the authority's board voted in 1987 to become a town agency, and the town took over public housing as a town department. HUD grants in 1988 and 1989 paid for 24 new units and for repairs, and a 1988 settlement refunded tenants' utility overcharges. In 1991 public housing residents marched for affordable housing, safer streets and better wages. In 1992 the town added drug-activity rules to its public housing leases, refused to reinstate evicted tenants who were acquitted, and put two residents on its Housing Advisory Board. From 1993 residents pressed the town over repairs with a videotape of conditions, and in 1994 the council formed a special committee with residents, the Airport Road units were finished and the Residents Council won a federal training grant. StorylineThe Equal Rights Amendment campaign in Chapel Hill, 1975–19811975–1981 · 7 events · Chapel Hill's aldermen endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1975, and an Orange-Chatham coalition opened a local ratification drive in 1976. Supporters picketed the 1977 unveiling of a bust of Sam Ervin, who had spoken against the amendment before the state Senate defeated it, and rallies in the Pit in 1978 heard Miriam Slifkin and state Sen. Kathy Sebo. In 1980 a campus group formed to oppose ratification, and in 1981 Betty Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly debated the amendment in Memorial Hall. StorylineChapel Hill's police chiefs and the public safety department, 1975–19941975–1994 · 20 events · Chapel Hill hired Sidney Hilliard from Florida as police chief in 1975; after he resigned in 1977, Herman Stone, who had joined the force in 1949, led the department until he retired in January 1987. A 1985 consultant's report proposed merging police and fire into a public safety department, and the council created a public safety director's post in 1987, but the town put off filling it. Arnold Gold, interim chief since Stone's retirement, became chief in 1988. Cal Horton was public safety director by 1990, when the town named Daniel Jones fire chief. In 1991 the council moved to split the public safety department into police and fire departments, and after Gold retired in 1992 Ralph Pendergraph became chief. In October 1993 the council ended the cross-trained public safety system and split police and fire services, and in 1994 Chapel Hill and Carrboro agreed to run their fire departments in cooperation. StorylineOrange County’s civil rights ordinance, 1987–19941987–1994 · 13 events · Orange County's Human Relations Commission, formed in 1987, drafted a civil rights ordinance by 1991, and in 1993 Sen. Howard Lee introduced a bill to let the county enforce one. After residents objected to its threatening-speech clause, the commissioners dropped it. They adopted the ordinance in June 1994 without the sexual-orientation clause gay and lesbian residents sought, and Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough brought it into their towns that fall. StorylineOrange County in the 1990 election1990 · 9 events · In 1990 Democrats Alice Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis and Verla Insko won three open seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Registration drives signed up thousands of new voters during the Senate race between Jesse Helms and Harvey Gantt, and UNC's campus precincts gave Gantt 84 percent of their vote. Chapel Hill voters narrowly turned down a $3 million library bond. StorylineUNC housekeepers’ movement, 1990–19961990–1996 · 64 events · UNC's housekeepers, most of them Black women, objected to merit ratings and low pay in 1990 and formed the UNC Housekeepers Association in 1991. With lawyers Alan McSurely and William Morris, student groups and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, they pressed grievances over pay, training and supervision. UNC refused to hear them as a group in 1992, so they took a group discrimination grievance to the state. A state judge certified it as a class action in September 1993, but a Superior Court judge dismissed it that November; the housekeepers appealed, and in 1994 the Center for Constitutional Rights pledged its help. A mediated settlement in 1996 brought back pay and career training. StorylineOrange County in the 1992 election1992 · 14 events · In the 1992 Democratic primary Margaret Pollard finished less than 500 votes behind state senator Howard Lee, and that fall students registered thousands of new voters and Bill Clinton and Al Gore rallied about 2,200 people in Hillsborough. On November 3 turnout reached 67.8 percent, voters approved a $52 million school bond, and commissioners Moses Carey and Don Willhoit and the county's legislators were re-elected. StorylineThe Bicentennial of UNC and Chapel Hill, 1993–19941993–1994 · 20 events · UNC and Chapel Hill marked their 200th year from 1993 to 1994. President Bill Clinton spoke at the University's Bicentennial Convocation in Kenan Stadium, and the town unveiled a post office mural of the 1793 lot auction. Lectures, a musical, books, exhibits, entranceway markers and an open house followed, and the town's Chapel Hill Revisited day and UNC's 1994 commencement closed the celebrations. StorylineOrange County in the 1994 election1993–1994 · 11 events · In 1994 Orange County Democrats Alice Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis and newcomer Bill Crowther won the three open county commissioner seats, and Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass won a fourth term. In the Republican wave Sen. Howard Lee lost his state Senate seat and Rep. David Price lost the 4th District though Orange County backed him. Voters also turned down a $5 million farmland preservation bond. StorylineLaVonda Burnette and the school board recall, 1993–19941993–1994 · 15 events · LaVonda Burnette won a Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board seat in November 1993 and a month later acknowledged she was not enrolled at UNC. The board asked her to resign and sought a recall law, which the legislature passed in 1994 over NAACP objections. After a recall petition was certified for the November ballot, she resigned in October, and Bea Hughes-Werner took the seat.

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  1. Realtors steer Howard and Lillian Lee away from white subdivisions After moving to Chapel Hill for graduate study, Howard and Lillian Lee searched for about six months while realtors hesitated to show them houses in white subdivisions. They bought in Colony Woods, then received threatening calls and had a cross burned on their lawn. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Colony Woods, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lillian LeeUNC Libraries, North Carolina Miscellany: May 1969: Howard Lee
  2. McCarthy supporters win three Chapel Hill Democratic precinct meetings Supporters of Senator Eugene McCarthy won the delegate slates to the county Democratic convention in the Westwood, Estes Hills and Glenwood precincts, challenging the party's local leadership. The Glenwood slate was headed by George W. Harris and Howard Lee, and Glenwood Democrats also called for a local open housing ordinance; Westwood and Glenwood passed resolutions for serious negotiations and disengagement in Vietnam. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: George W. Harris, Eugene McCarthy · Also mentions: Estes HillsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 12, 1968, p. 1
  3. Hawkins campaigners form the People's Reform Organization for Democracy At their last meeting in the Hawkins-for-Governor headquarters on East Rosemary Street, local workers from Reginald Hawkins' campaign took the name People's Reform Organization for Democracy (PROD) and chose Howard Lee and Hilliard Caldwell as co-chairmen, with talk of working on the schools and seeking seats on the Board of Aldermen. PROD went on to organize the Chapel Hill stop of the Poor People's Campaign. People: Howard N. Lee, Hilliard Caldwell Place: 413 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Reginald Hawkins' · Also mentions: East Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, May 15, 1968, p. 1
  4. Poor People's Campaign marchers stop in Chapel Hill on the way to Washington Five buses brought about 250 Poor People's Campaign marchers from across the South to St. Thomas More Church about 1 p.m.; local churches fed them, homes found through the churches housed them for the night, and Dr. Thal Elliott arranged a clinic for them at Memorial Hospital the next morning. Area coordinator Howard Lee said the town handled the group easily, and later called Chapel Hill the best organized stop in the Triangle. People: Howard N. Lee Place: St. Thomas More Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thal Elliott · Also mentions: Memorial HospitalSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 17, 1968, p. 1
  5. Howard Lee and Roland Giduz meet in an open forum at the Newman Center About 100 people heard the two mayoral candidates differ on the Mitchell Lane open storm drain, a local option sales tax, the Inter-Church Council low-income housing project and developers' seats on the Planning Board. Lee called the drain the town's responsibility; Giduz, twelve years an alderman, was asked why it had not been covered. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Mitchell LaneThe Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1969, p. 1 (OCR text)
  6. Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government Lee, Giduz and all seven candidates for the Board of Aldermen took questions at an open forum. Sharp exchanges came over a police review board, which Lee said he had never favored, and over whether the town should pay to cover the Mitchell Lane drain, on which Giduz cited county health tests and Steve Bernholz answered that 'the ditch stinks'. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz, Robert Varley, Ross Scroggs Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Steve Bernholz · Also mentions: Mitchell LaneThe Daily Tar Heel, May 2, 1969, p. 1 (OCR text)
  7. Howard Lee is elected mayor of Chapel Hill Howard N. Lee defeated Roland Giduz by about 400 votes on May 6, 1969, in the largest turnout for a Chapel Hill election to that date, becoming the town's first Black mayor. He was the first African American elected mayor of a predominantly white Southern town since Reconstruction. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Lillian LeeThe Daily Tar Heel, May 7, 1969, p. 1: Howard Lee Elected Chapel Hill Mayor
  8. Rebecca Clark carries voters to the polls in Howard Lee's mayoral campaign Clark worked on Howard Lee's campaign for mayor, sending her son's Greyhound bus street to street to take voters to the polls, and helped count ballots by hand on election night. Lee won the May 6, 1969 election. People: Rebecca Clark, Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Howard Lee: A Historical Mayoral Election
  9. Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall More than 140 people packed the second-floor room of Town Hall for the 7:30 p.m. meeting at which town clerk Roberts swore in Lee after outgoing mayor Sandy McClamroch reviewed his ten years in office. New aldermen Joe Nassif, Mary Prothro, George Coxhead and Ross Scroggs were sworn in, and Lee's first board elected David Ethridge mayor pro tem. People: Howard N. Lee, Sandy McClamroch, R. D. Smith, W. David Ethridge, Ross Scroggs Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: David Ethridge, Joe Nassif, Mary Prothro, George CoxheadThe Daily Tar Heel, May 14, 1969, p. 1 (OCR text)
  10. Chapel Hill aldermen commit to piping the Mitchell Lane storm drain Two days after Howard Lee took office, the mayor and aldermen met in special session and voted unanimously to have town engineer Tom Rose price piping the open drain at least from Lindsay Street to McDade Street, with his report due June 9. Town manager Robert Peck and alderman George Coxhead had argued for making the ditch a park, but the board chose piping as the first step. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom Rose, Robert Peck, George CoxheadThe Daily Tar Heel, May 15, 1969, p. 1
  11. The Chapel Hill Telephone Company opens its Campus exchange on Manning Drive The University-owned Chapel Hill Telephone Company moved its 9,000 University lines to a new Campus exchange in a $2.3 million building on Manning Drive, built to grow to 20,000 lines, leaving the Rosemary Street exchange to serve the town alone. At a ceremony on July 25, Vice Chancellor J. C. Eagles placed the first call, to Governor Bob Scott, with mayors Howard Lee of Chapel Hill and Hughes Lloyd of Carrboro and commissioners chairman Carl Smith on hand. People: Howard N. Lee, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) Place: Manning Drive, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. C. Eagles, Hughes Lloyd, Bob Scott · Also mentions: Rosemary StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 31, 1969, p. 1
  12. Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents The county commissioners learned two hours before their Monday meeting that Fiber Industries had withdrawn its request to rezone 450 acres near New Hope Creek for a plant, after opposition from UNC, Duke and Mayor Howard Lee. At a public hearing in Hillsborough that day, county commissioners chairman Carl Smith blamed 'unintelligent intellectuals' and a town political 'machine', and said Lee, the town's Black mayor, was not serving Black residents by opposing the plant. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Howard N. Lee Place: New Hope Creek, Orange CountySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: Fiber Industries withdraws request, August 7, 1969, p. 1
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  1. UNC trustees refuse to take up Mayor Howard Lee's appointment to the School of Social Work The University trustees told President William Friday not to put Howard Lee's proposed appointment to the School of Social Work faculty on the agenda of their next meeting, holding that an elected town official could not take such a post. Lee had been approached for the job before his election as mayor, and the Daily Tar Heel reported that newspapers across the state questioned the decision. People: Howard N. Lee, William C. Friday Place: University of North Carolina (meeting place not stated) · Also mentions: School of Social WorkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1969, p. 2
  2. The town begins piping and filling the Mitchell Lane storm drain Work crews began laying concrete pipe and fill in the open storm drain along Mitchell Lane from Lindsay Street to McDade Street, a $29,900 job for the town, after about ten years of complaints from the Black residents along the ditch. Alderman Joe Nassif said federal urban redevelopment money could pay much of the cost, while former mayor Sandy McClamroch argued on WCHL that the town should have made a park instead. People: Howard N. Lee, Sandy McClamroch Place: Mitchell Lane between Lindsay and McDade streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Nassif · Also mentions: WCHL, Mitchell LaneThe Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1969, p. 4
  3. UNC trustees reverse themselves and approve a lectureship for Mayor Howard Lee The trustees approved Howard Lee for a one-year, $11,000 lectureship in the School of Social Work, below the $14,000 assistant professorship Dean C. Wilson Anderson had proposed. The same day Lee sharply criticized Governor Bob Scott at a conference of Black elected officials in Washington, and Chancellor Sitterson, President Friday and Dean Anderson then held up the appointment; Lee apologized to Scott and said a Charlotte Observer report had taken his words out of context. People: Howard N. Lee, J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday Place: University of North Carolina (meeting place not stated) · Also named: C. Wilson Anderson, Bob Scott · Also mentions: School of Social WorkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1969, p. 1
  4. Mayor Howard Lee withdraws from the UNC social work lectureship Howard Lee withdrew from consideration for the School of Social Work post, citing pressures and counter-pressures building inside and outside the University and a 22 percent cut in the salary offered him. Dean C. Wilson Anderson accepted the decision with regret and said the hold placed on the appointment after Lee's remarks about the governor had never been lifted. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: C. Wilson Anderson · Also mentions: School of Social WorkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 18, 1969, p. 1
  5. Mayor Howard Lee appeals for low-rent housing for 30 families living in condemned houses Mayor Howard Lee asked citizens and realty companies to report any housing renting for $100 a month or less, saying 30 Chapel Hill families in condemned houses needed homes at once and that the public housing units meant for them would not be finished until early 1970. The Inter-Church Council for Social Services and the Housing Authority were placing the families. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 28, 1969, p. 1
  6. Thousands in Chapel Hill observe the Vietnam Moratorium On the national Moratorium day students read the names of the war dead before the Naval ROTC building from dawn, about 400 people stood in the weekly peace vigil on Franklin Street, and some 3,500 to 5,000 marchers by the Daily Tar Heel's counts walked through downtown to a Memorial Hall convocation where Mayor Howard Lee and journalist Jack Newfield spoke. Organizers said about 7,000 took part and 60 percent of students stayed out of class; objectors tore down a National Liberation Front flag carried at the start of the march. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Memorial Hall and Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jack Newfield · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 16, 1969, p. 1
  7. UNC Young Democrats hold a rally with state Democratic leaders in the Pit About 300 students and faculty met state Attorney General Robert Morgan, Mayor Howard Lee, state Young Democrats president Charlie Rose and other party figures at a barbecue rally in the Pit, where Rose spoke of party reform and of getting out of Vietnam. People: Howard N. Lee Place: The Pit, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert Morgan, Charlie RoseSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1969, p. 1
  8. Orange County voters narrowly reject a one-cent local sales tax In the statewide local-option referendum Orange County voted 3,033 to 2,814 against raising its sales tax to four cents, by the unofficial count. Chapel Hill, whose aldermen had endorsed the tax 6 to 0 with Mayor Howard Lee's support, voted for it, with only the Northside precinct against it, 176 to 175. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1969, p. 1
  9. Mayor Howard Lee and Black community leaders back the striking cafeteria workers At a Saturday news conference Mayor Howard Lee, Howard Fuller of Malcolm X Liberation University in Durham, the Rev. John Manley of the Ministry Alliance of Chapel Hill and civic leader Ed Caldwell Jr. pledged their support to the SAGA strikers. Lee blamed the 'bad faith' of the food service operators and said he would not send town police onto the campus without a blatant reason. People: Howard N. Lee, Elizabeth Brooks Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Howard Fuller, John Manley, Ed Caldwell Jr.The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1969, p. 1
  10. About 500 Black parents and students take their grievances to the school board at First Baptist Church Joined by about 50 white residents, Black parents and students packed First Baptist Church on Wednesday night to tell the Chapel Hill school board of unequal treatment and harassment at Chapel Hill High and to ask amnesty for the students facing charges. Chairman Roy Lindahl refused amnesty but delayed the warrants, and the next night the board held them back pending investigation while ordering strong discipline; about 350 students stayed out in a partial boycott. People: Howard N. Lee Place: First Baptist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Roy Lindahl · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardThe Daily Tar Heel, November 14, 1969, p. 1
  11. Strikers and police clash at the rear door of Chase Cafeteria Two Chapel Hill policemen were struck on the head with steel milk cases and two picketers were arrested when strikers blocked the rear door of Chase Cafeteria against two non-striking workers; the union said officers drew guns and pushed the pickets first. About 30 town police in riot gear then guarded Chase, and that afternoon Mayor Howard Lee, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, President William Friday, an aide to Governor Scott and union leaders met. People: Howard N. Lee, J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday Place: Chase Cafeteria, UNC campus, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, November 13, 1969, p. 1
  12. The Chapel Hill school board answers Black students' demands and the boycott of Chapel Hill High ends Meeting in special session on Sunday, the board promised a biracial grievance committee of parents, teachers and students and renewed efforts to hire Black teachers and secretaries, but refused all-Black homerooms and assemblies and said all the Lincoln High trophies were already on display. Its replies went to students and parents on Monday as Black students ended the boycott begun after the November 11 disturbance. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill High School, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1969, p. 1
  13. Police charge pickets at Lenoir Hall; nine are arrested and four hurt About 25 police charged a group of pickets and sympathizers at the north end of Lenoir Hall when they did not disperse. Nine people were arrested, including AFSCME official Gene Gore and a graduate student, and four were treated at Memorial Hospital. The next day Mayor Howard Lee announced that town police were being withdrawn from the strike scene. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Gene Gore · Also mentions: Lenoir Hall, Memorial HospitalThe Daily Tar Heel, December 6, 1969, p. 1 (OCR text)
  14. Chapel Hill withdraws its police from the campus during the cafeteria strike The day after the police charge on pickets at Lenoir Hall, town officials took the Chapel Hill police off the campus and left it to University police, with town help when needed. Mayor Howard Lee said the decision was made jointly with Police Chief W. D. Blake and University officials, while SAGA's James Westbrook wired Governor Bob Scott that workers and students were left unprotected. People: Howard N. Lee Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. D. Blake, James Westbrook, Bob Scott · Also mentions: Lenoir Hall, University policeThe Daily Tar Heel, December 6, 1969, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 20, 1976, p. 6
  15. Ralph David Abernathy joins the striking cafeteria workers in Chapel Hill SCLC president Ralph David Abernathy picketed with the striking SAGA workers behind Lenoir Hall, then told strikers, students and faculty gathered in the Carolina Union that he pledged them his support. He went on to South Building for a meeting with Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and Mayor Howard Lee. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Howard N. Lee Place: Lenoir Hall and Carolina Union, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph David Abernathy · Also mentions: Lenoir HallBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1969, p. 1
  16. Nearly a thousand Black students rally at UNC for the striking cafeteria workers On what organizers called Black Monday, close to a thousand Black students from campuses across the state answered a call by the Black Student Movement and the statewide group BSUL to back the striking SAGA workers. The strike had been settled before dawn, so the afternoon rally by Lenoir Hall turned into a celebration, with talks by union organizer Jesse Eppes, Mayor Howard Lee and others. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Lenoir Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jesse EppesBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1969, p. 1
  17. David Etheridge resigns from the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen Alderman David Etheridge, who had pressed the University to obey town building and traffic rules and had brought it into opposition to the Fiber Industries plant that summer, resigned in letters to Mayor Howard Lee and the board, effective when a successor was named. The Daily Tar Heel wrote that many observers considered him the most influential politician in Orange County. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: David EtheridgeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 12, 1969, p. 1
  18. Aldermen hear the merchants' call to regulate Chapel Hill's flower ladies At a public hearing the Board of Aldermen took up a letter from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association asking for rules on street vending by the flower ladies, the Black women who had sold flowers on Franklin Street for about fifty years. Residents spoke on both sides, and Mayor Howard Lee named a committee of three aldermen to study street vending and report. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz, Ross Scroggs Place: Franklin Street, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, p. 1
  19. Chapel Hill aldermen approve the town's Neighborhood Development Program application The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to send the town's Neighborhood Development Program application to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. If approved, it would bring $444,000 for planning, a staff, and loans and grants to property owners in selected areas of Chapel Hill to improve their property. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill (Board of Aldermen meeting)The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, p. 1
  20. Mayor Howard Lee proclaims Martin Luther King Day in Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed January 15, 1970, King's birthday, as Martin Luther King Day and asked residents to remember his work, though the town held no official functions. Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, on a faculty committee's advice, turned down the food workers' union local's request to close the University for the day, saying it had no policy of holidays honoring great men. People: Howard N. Lee, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Elizabeth Brooks Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 15, 1970, p. 1
  21. Chapel Hill aldermen name a committee to study buying the University's utilities On Mayor Pro Tem Joe Nassif's recommendation, the Board of Aldermen agreed to study buying the water, electric and telephone systems the University owned and ran for Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and Mayor Howard Lee named Nassif, Ross Scroggs and Steve Bernholz to work with a Carrboro committee. Lee also named a second joint committee on problems the two towns shared. People: Howard N. Lee, Ross Scroggs Place: Chapel Hill (Board of Aldermen meeting) · Also named: Joe Nassif, Steve BernholzThe Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1970, p. 1
  22. The Chapel Hill, Carrboro and University public transportation commission holds its first meeting A Public Transportation Commission with two members each named by Mayor Howard Lee, Carrboro Mayor Hughes Lloyd and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson met for the first time to elect a chairman and plan a bus system linking the University and the two towns. It grew out of a task force report the previous September, which said a referendum would be needed before tax money could go to buses. People: Howard N. Lee, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Hughes LloydSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1970, p. 6
  23. Chapel Hill young people organize a youth council in town government About 90 people came to the second meeting on Mayor Howard Lee's proposed youth advisory body and set it up as an open town meeting of anyone aged 12 to 18 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, with an elected board to carry out its decisions, instead of the 11-member cabinet Lee had first proposed. A planning group of 13 was chosen under the mayor's youth assistant, Hal Lenke. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Hal LenkeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 21, 1970, p. 1
  24. Citizens present Mayor Lee a petition against NCNB's six-story Franklin Street building An Ad Hoc Protest Committee of Chapel Hill citizens handed Mayor Howard Lee a petition with 1,240 signatures against North Carolina National Bank's planned six-story, 90-foot addition on East Franklin Street and asked for a halt to construction, a public hearing and an independent review. The petition had begun circulating in front of the bank on March 17, and the committee said the building broke with the street's two-story scale and would worsen traffic and parking. People: Howard N. Lee Place: North Carolina National Bank, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 25, 1970, p. 1
  25. Mayor Howard Lee sets aside a day of tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Mayor Howard Lee named March 24 a day of tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, and that night the YM-YWCA showed the documentary King: A Filmed Record, Montgomery to Memphis in Memorial Hall as part of its one-night national premiere, with $5 tickets benefiting the Martin Luther King Jr. Special Fund. Upward Bound started a King memorial fund for needy students in connection with the showing. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Martin Luther King Jr.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 20, 1970, p. 1
  26. NCNB drops its six-story Franklin Street design for a three-story front and a Rosemary Street tower Meeting town officials, North Carolina National Bank vice president John Wettach and architect Joe Hakan withdrew the six-story design for the bank's East Franklin Street addition and showed a split-level plan: a three-story building on Franklin Street joined by an archway and a 15-foot walkway to a six-story office building on the Rosemary Street side. Appearance Commission chairman Alice Welsh and Mayor Howard Lee welcomed the change, which followed weeks of citizen protest. People: Howard N. Lee Place: North Carolina National Bank, East Franklin and Rosemary streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Wettach, Joe Hakan, Alice Welsh · Also mentions: East Franklin Street, Franklin Street, Rosemary StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 4, 1970, p. 4
  27. Strike volunteers canvass Chapel Hill and Carrboro door to door against the war Over the weekend of May 9 and 10, about 250 to 300 UNC students went door to door in Chapel Hill and Carrboro asking townspeople to support the antiwar movement, as Mayor Howard Lee had urged in a statement opposing the move into Cambodia. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill and CarrboroThe Daily Tar Heel, May 12, 1970, p. 1
  28. Mayor Lee, President Friday and Chancellor Sitterson set up a town-gown study committee Meeting with William Friday and Carlyle Sitterson on July 2, Mayor Howard Lee presented the aldermen's resolution for a Town and Gown Commission, and the meeting set up a six-member committee, three from the town and three from the University, convened by vice president Ferebee Taylor, to study it. Lee also pressed for town control of the water system and for limiting the Horace Williams Airport to University use. People: Howard N. Lee, William C. Friday, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Ross Scroggs Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee Taylor · Also mentions: Horace Williams AirportSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 9, 1970, p. 8
  29. A town and University committee turns down Mayor Lee's proposed town-gown committee After Mayor Howard Lee proposed a standing town-gown committee in June, he, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and President William Friday agreed on July 2 to a six-member ad hoc committee, with Alderman Ross Scroggs, town manager Bob Peck and town attorney Emory Denny for Chapel Hill. Later that summer it reported no need for such a committee, leaving disputes to administrators, and Lee called the rejection a personal defeat. People: Howard N. Lee, J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday, Ross Scroggs Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bob Peck, Emory DennySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1970, p. 1
  30. The University more than doubles Chapel Hill's water rates Effective July 1, the University, which owned the water system, raised its rates to help pay for a $5.8 million to $10.3 million expansion of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro supply and a projected $218,145 deficit; the town's minimum monthly charge went from $2.00 to $3.60. Mayor Howard Lee answered that the town meant to take over all the utilities. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1970, p. 2
  31. The Faculty Council recommends closing Horace Williams Airport to outside users and jets The same Faculty Council meeting passed proposed trustee regulations for Horace Williams Airport that would end all non-University use and bar jets, aircraft louder than 100 decibels and planes over 12,500 pounds, limits Mayor Howard Lee and nearby residents had sought. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Horace Williams Airport, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 3, 1970, p. 1
  32. Chapel Hill aldermen grant a bus franchise and back a mass transit study The Board of Aldermen approved a franchise for Raleigh City Coach Lines to run buses on campus and certain town streets and approved a grant to study a mass transit system for Chapel Hill and Carrboro, for which the Raleigh firm Kimley-Horn had been hired; Mayor Lee said he hoped for town bus service by January 1. The board put off a stricter dog ordinance until it knew the cost of a shelter and dog catcher. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1970, p. 2
  33. Trustees back a state commission to decide whether to sell the University's utilities The executive committee of the Board of Trustees approved Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson's recommendation for a commission, to be created by the 1971 General Assembly, to decide whether the University should keep or sell the water, electric and telephone systems serving Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Mayor Howard Lee welcomed it as opening the way for the town to take over the water system. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, William C. Friday, Howard N. Lee Place: Board of Trustees executive committee; utilities of Chapel Hill and CarrboroThe Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1970, p. 1
  34. Mayor Howard Lee is named the state Democratic Party's vice chairman for minorities Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee was named vice chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party for minorities, a post created in the party's reorganization, and said he hoped to be a channel for Black voters to its leadership. At a Chapel Hill news conference the same day he said he would run for re-election as mayor in the spring. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Announced in Raleigh; news conference in Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1970, p. 1
  35. Mayor Howard Lee leads a memorial march for James Cates About 65 people joined a memorial march for James Cates led by Mayor Howard Lee and Alderman R. D. Smith, four days after the killing. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith, James L. Cates Jr. Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1970, p. 1
  36. Chapel Hill residents start Operation Santa Claus for needy Orange County children Townspeople started Operation Santa Claus to raise Christmas money for needy children in Orange County, to be given to parents as purchase orders redeemable at local stores, aiming at $3 to $4 a child, and Mayor Howard Lee declared Sunday, December 13, Operation Santa Claus Day. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 10, 1970, p. 3
  37. Washington Witness II takes UNC students and faculty to Congress to press for an end to the war About 85 UNC students and faculty, with some 40 others from across the state, rode three chartered buses from Chapel Hill to Washington to urge members of Congress to back the Vietnam Disengagement Act of 1971. The group, organized by faculty and students through the YMCA and other campus groups, met Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Representatives Earl Ruth and Richardson Preyer and aides to several senators. People: Tom Bello, Howard N. Lee Place: Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill, to Washington, D.C. · Also named: Richardson Preyer · Also mentions: YMCAThe Daily Tar Heel, February 24, 1971, p. 1
  38. About 570 people set out on Chapel Hill's second Walk Against Hunger Mayor Howard Lee led off about 570 walkers from the Institute of Government on a 25-mile route through Chapel Hill, and about 300 finished; the YMCA reported at least $12,000 raised. About half the walkers were high school or junior high students, and the money was split between a social worker for the Chapel Hill Inter-Church Council, a farm project in Mexico and the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Institute of Government and streets of Chapel Hill · Also mentions: YMCASearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 22, 1971, p. 1
  39. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro town bus system begins running Five buses began running seven routes through Chapel Hill and Carrboro, with rides free the first day and a 25-cent fare after; Mayor Howard Lee rode a test run to the hospital after a short inauguration ceremony. Run by Raleigh City Coach Lines under the towns' Transportation Commission on an 11-week subsidy of about $12,000, the system's future rested on a tax referendum set for the May 4 municipal election. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Downtown Chapel Hill and CarrboroSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1971, p. 1
  40. Police charge young Black men from Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the county in the five firebombings Chapel Hill police, with a State Bureau of Investigation agent, arrested six young Black men early on April 15, six more that night and two more on April 18, charging them with arson or conspiracy to commit arson in the March 25 and April 13 firebombings; several were Chapel Hill High School students. All were first held under $60,000 bond each, and Mayor Howard Lee praised the police while declining to guess at motives. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill High SchoolSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 17, 1971, p. 1
  41. Chapel Hill and Carrboro voters reject a tax to run the town buses Voters turned down a levy of up to eight cents per $100 of property value to help pay for a bus system: Chapel Hill defeated it by five votes, 2,282 to 2,277, and Carrboro by 530 to 196. Mayor Howard Lee and all but one Chapel Hill alderman had endorsed the tax, while every Carrboro candidate at a public forum opposed it. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill and CarrboroSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 6, 1971, p. 1
  42. Chapel Hill returns R. D. Smith, Alice Welsh and Joe Nassif and elects James Wallace to the Board of Aldermen In the election that returned Mayor Howard Lee, R. D. Smith, the Black assistant principal of Chapel Hill High School, led the aldermen's race with 2,936 votes, followed by Alice Welsh, newcomer James C. Wallace of N.C. State and Joe Nassif, while incumbent Steve Bernholz finished fifth and lost his seat. About 60 percent of Chapel Hill's registered voters, 4,688 people, went to the polls. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice Welsh, James C. Wallace, Joe Nassif, Steve Bernholz · Also mentions: Chapel Hill High SchoolSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 6, 1971, p. 1
  43. Howard Lee is re-elected mayor over Jack Maultsby Lee won a second term against three challengers, leading restaurant co-owner Jack Maultsby 1,999 to 1,352 with two-thirds of the vote counted on election night; NCpedia gives his final share as 64 percent. The same ballot narrowly approved a Chapel Hill-Carrboro bus system in Chapel Hill, which Carrboro voters rejected. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Jack MaultsbyThe Daily Tar Heel, May 5, 1971, p. 1 (OCR text)
  44. Mayor Lee and Alderman Welsh lead some 500 cyclists in Chapel Hill's Bike Day ECOS and the new Chapel Hill Bicycle Club, formed in early April, held a Bike Day to promote cycling as everyday transportation, and about 500 riders paraded through town led by Mayor Howard Lee and Alderman Alice Welsh on their own bicycles. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Streets of Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice WelshSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 10, 1971, p. 1
  45. Chapel Hill aldermen keep a ban on all street vending, flower ladies included After the court ruling, the aldermen voted to let the vending ordinance stand without its flower exemption, so that all selling on Chapel Hill's public sidewalks would end when the current licenses ran out at the end of June. Mayor Howard Lee, who favored stalls or zones, called the decision hypocrisy and said the flower ladies, some of whom had sold on Franklin Street for 35 to 40 years, had no other decent way to earn the money they needed. People: Howard N. Lee, Ross Scroggs Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 24, 1971, p. 7
  46. Street vendors protest the vending ban on Franklin Street, and Mayor Lee heads off arrests On the first day of the ban, vendors and supporters spread blankets on the Franklin Street sidewalks, gave away flowers and food and circulated petitions asking the mayor to let them return. Police sent by Chief William D. Blake ordered them to move and arrested one leader for obstructing the sidewalk, but Mayor Howard Lee overruled the officers, had the man released after 15 minutes and named an advisory committee of vendors, two flower ladies among them, which met with him on July 6. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: William D. BlakeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 8, 1971, p. 1
  47. Mayor Howard Lee tells freshmen the town and university have become partners Speaking at a freshman orientation seminar in the Carolina Union, Mayor Howard Lee said town-university relations had moved from parent and child to partnership, urged that UNC leave the utilities business and that its businesses pay taxes, and asked students to take part in town government. Place: Carolina Union, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 20, 1971, p. 4
  48. Chapel Hill aldermen go on record for a parking deck on the Rosemary Street lot Citing a critical parking shortage and rising building costs, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted in favor of adding a parking deck to the main municipal lot on Rosemary Street and talked of a plaza with shops and a park on top. Town Manager Robert Peck said the board had only gone on record for more parking, that plans would take a year and would probably be financed by revenue bonds, and that a rise in lot fees to 15 cents an hour would wait for the end of the price freeze. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal parking lot, Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert Peck · Also mentions: Rosemary StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1971, p. 2
  49. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University proclaim Community Chest Month Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson proclaimed October Community Chest Month for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community Chest drive, which sought $115,300 for local agencies from the Community School for People Under Six to the Carr Court Community Center. The campus drive raised about $21,000 of its $23,000 goal by October 21. People: Howard N. Lee, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also named: Robert WellsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 8, 1971, p. 7
  50. Mayor Howard Lee proclaims Minority Business Week in Chapel Hill Mayor Howard N. Lee proclaimed December 1-7 Minority Business Week in Chapel Hill to recognize the Minority Business Association, formed two years earlier to protect the interests of the town's minority merchants, and urged the community to support its program. The association's goal was 'a better community through better business.' People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 6, 1971, p. 2
  51. Mayor Howard Lee announces his run for Congress in the Second District Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee announced at news conferences in Rocky Mount and at the Holiday Inn in Chapel Hill that he would challenge Rep. L. H. Fountain for the Democratic nomination in the Second Congressional District, into which the 1971 General Assembly had moved Orange County. Lee said he would stay on as mayor during the campaign, and the next day he resigned as the state Democratic Party's vice chairman for minority affairs to campaign full time. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Holiday Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: L. H. FountainSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 13, 1972, p. 1
  52. A Chapel Hill public hearing on the New Hope Dam votes about 3 to 1 against it At a hearing the Board of Aldermen called at the Institute of Government, with Mayor Howard Lee presiding, a panel on planning, zoology, water quality and law and speakers from ECOS and the League of Women Voters criticized the New Hope Dam then being built in Chatham County, while the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce backed it. A standing vote at the end ran about 3 to 1 against the dam; the Army Corps of Engineers sent no speaker, citing the pending lawsuit, and law professor Thomas Schoenbaum urged the town to join the suit. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Institute of Government auditorium, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas Schoenbaum · Also mentions: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of CommerceThe Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1972, p. 1
  53. Chapel Hill aldermen vote to join the lawsuit against the New Hope Dam At a special meeting the Board of Aldermen voted 3 to 1 to ask the federal court to let the town join the suit against the Army Corps of Engineers, protesting that towns above the reservoir would bear the cost of cleaning their water to lake standards; Town Manager Robert Peck put the cost at $150,000 to $200,000 for equipment plus four to six cents per 1,000 gallons. Aldermen R. D. Smith, Alice Welsh and James C. Wallace voted yes and George Coxhead no, a day after the Durham City Council voted to join. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice Welsh, James C. Wallace, George Coxhead, Robert PeckThe Daily Tar Heel, February 5, 1972, p. 1
  54. An NAACP youth conference on politics meets at UNC Between 300 and 500 young people came to the campus for an NAACP conference on youth in the political process, a voter registration and membership drive aimed at new voters aged 18 to 20. Speakers included Governor Robert W. Scott, governor's race candidates Hargrove Bowles and James Holshouser, Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP's Washington bureau and Mayor Howard Lee, and workshops met in the Union and four campus halls. People: Robert W. Scott, Howard N. Lee Place: Carolina Union, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Hargrove Bowles, James Holshouser, Clarence MitchellSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1972, p. 4
  55. Chapel Hill aldermen loosen the town's pool hall ordinance The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen replaced the town's old pool hall ordinance with a looser one. Beer still could not be sold or drunk inside a pool hall, but beer and pool could now share the same premises if a solid partition fully separated them, and the proprietor became responsible for keeping out anyone under 18 on pain of losing his license. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 16, 1972, p. 1
  56. Mayor Howard Lee files to run for Congress against L. H. Fountain Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee formally entered the Democratic primary for the Second Congressional District by paying his $425 filing fee, challenging ten-term Representative L. H. Fountain of Tarboro. Lee, who had announced on January 10, said he would stress rural development, housing, health care and the flight of young people from the countryside; Orange County had been put in the 12-county district by the 1971 redistricting. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: L. H. FountainSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 21, 1972, p. 1
  57. UNC students organize Students for Howard Lee A campus group, Students for Howard Lee, held its organizing meeting to back the Chapel Hill mayor's run for Congress, planning a voter registration drive across the Second District and a self-supporting student campaign. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 18, 1972, p. 1
  58. Chapel Hill aldermen start a town newspaper recycling program With Mayor Howard Lee's backing, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen approved a plan by the Mayor's Task Force on Recycling for bulk containers at the Glen Lennox fire station and the East Franklin Street fire station, open around the clock for untied newsprint that the town would haul to Raleigh and sell. Lee cited the town's nearly full landfill and said he hoped to extend the program to other materials. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Glen Lennox and East Franklin Street fire stations, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1972, p. 5
  59. Chapel Hill holds its first Apple Chill Fair The town's first Apple Chill Fair, conceived in February by the Recreation Department's Teen Planning Committee and run by volunteers under director Harper Peterson, opened with a UNC band concert in Polk Place and ran a week of open-air concerts, a crafts bazaar and carnival at the Municipal Building, a sidewalk cafe, a bicycle parade, day care center family dinners, a costume ball and a family field day at Umstead Park. Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed the week and the Board of Aldermen endorsed it. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Franklin Street, Polk Place, the Municipal Building and Umstead Park, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harper Peterson · Also mentions: Municipal Building, Polk Place, Umstead ParkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 26, 1972, p. 3
  60. Aldermen approve Delta Upsilon's new house, leaving the Martin-Dey House to be moved or razed After almost a year before the town and two public hearings, the Board of Aldermen granted Delta Upsilon fraternity a special use permit for a new house on East Rosemary Street, with Mayor Howard Lee breaking a tie. The fraternity had to offer the historic Martin-Dey House on the site free to anyone who would move it and could tear it down if it was still there when building began; the board also approved an addition to the Pi Beta Phi house. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Martin-Dey House and Delta Upsilon house, East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Rosemary StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 15, 1972, p. 1
  61. State study commission recommends that UNC sell its water, electric and telephone systems Meeting on Saturday, July 29, the State Utilities Study Commission recommended that the University give up its utilities, turning the water system over to the Town of Chapel Hill or selling it to a private company and selling the electric and telephone systems to private enterprise. Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells, county board chairman Harvey Bennett and Rep. Carl Smith sat on the commission, which the legislature created at the University's request. People: Howard N. Lee, Harvey Bennett, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) Place: State Utilities Study Commission (University utilities, Chapel Hill and Carrboro) · Also named: Robert WellsThe Daily Tar Heel, August 3, 1972, p. 2
  62. Chapel Hill aldermen put off a referendum on a town-campus bus system On August 31 the aldermen voted 4 to 2 not to put the Transportation Commission's proposed $440,000 public bus system on the November ballot, so the public could be heard first; Shirley Marshall and Mayor Pro Tem R. D. Smith wanted the November vote. The plan, drawn up by Kimley-Horn and Associates, called for 18 or 19 buses on figure-eight routes through campus, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, paid for by a town tax levy, federal funds and a $5-a-semester student fee. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Shirley MarshallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 1, 1972, p. 1
  63. Chapel Hill aldermen adopt an anti-noise code While students were away for the summer, the Board of Aldermen enacted an anti-noise code that separated necessary noises, such as sirens, parades and construction, from unnecessary ones, such as boisterous parties, combos playing outdoors and loud radios, judged by whether two people could talk at the next property line. In September residents' complaints about fraternity bands and a Franklin Street bar led the aldermen to look for stricter enforcement. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 31, 1972, p. 2
  64. Chapel Hill aldermen declare a garbage emergency and reopen the old Plant Road landfill On Labor Day, September 4, the Board of Aldermen declared the garbage situation an emergency and voted to reopen the old town landfill on Plant Road off Franklin Street, unused for about 20 years, for Chapel Hill's use for a week or two so collection could resume. Opponents of the Eubanks Road site told the board that the engineers' report had missed springs and wet bore holes on the tract. People: Howard N. Lee, Ross Scroggs Place: Plant Road landfill, off Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks Road, Franklin StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1972, p. 1
  65. Mayor Howard Lee opens the Some American History exhibition at the Ackland On Sunday, September 17, Mayor Howard Lee opened Some American History, a multimedia exhibition by white artist Larry Rivers and six Black artists, at the Ackland Art Center, where it ran until October 29. Rivers's 22-foot Slave Ship was among the works. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Ackland Art Center, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Larry RiversSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1972, p. 3
  66. Rogers Road landfill opens Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County opened a shared, unlined county landfill on Eubanks Road beside the historically Black Rogers-Eubanks community, whose residents were told it would close after about ten years. Chapel Hill bought the site and put it into use in the week of September 18, 1972, while the New Hope Improvement Association was suing to stop it; in November 1972 the town, Carrboro and the county agreed to own it 43, 14 and 43 percent. It was expanded repeatedly and ran for 41 years, closing in June 2013. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel: Orange County landfill to close this weekend (June 26, 2013) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 20, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1972, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1972, p. 1
  67. State study commission votes to negotiate a sale of the University's water, electric and telephone systems In a close vote the State Utilities Study Commission changed its October resolution, which had called only for study, and voted to proceed with negotiations for the sale, lease or other disposition of the University's water, electric and telephone enterprises. The resolution, introduced by State Senator Ralph Scott and prepared with University administrators, required any buyer to pay at the time of sale, which the Daily Tar Heel said would make a public or local commission owner hard to arrange. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University utilities, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph ScottThe Daily Tar Heel, November 29, 1972, p. 1
  68. Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood RENA's chronology records that Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Mayor Robert Wells Jr. and county commission chairman H.D. Bennett signed the full landfill agreement. Residents remember Lee promising that their road would be paved and that the filled site would become a recreation center for them. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Orange County · Also named: Robert Wells Jr., H.D. BennettRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  69. Chapel Hill police start a social-worker unit In December 1972 the Chapel Hill Police Department began a police social-work unit as an experiment with UNC, encouraged by Mayor Howard Lee, who had a social-work background. The town paid for its first full-time social worker in October 1973, and by fall 1975 the unit had three, on call around the clock for domestic disputes, crisis calls, pre-sentence evaluations in court and police training. In 1981 its members said it was probably the second such unit formed in the country. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill Police Department, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 3, 1981, p. 1
  70. Alderman George Coxhead resigns to join the State ABC Board George Coxhead, the town's only Republican alderman, resigned from the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen on the day Gov. Jim Holshouser offered him a seat on the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Elected in May 1969 and usually in the board's conservative minority, he had already said he would not seek a second term; the board accepted the resignation on January 15 with a resolution praising his service. People: Jim Holshouser, Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: George CoxheadSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 15, 1973, p. 3
  71. Chapel Hill aldermen dismiss Town Manager Robert Peck Meeting in special session, the Board of Aldermen voted 4 to 1, with Ross Scroggs dissenting, to relieve Robert Peck of his duties after he refused to resign; he had been town manager since September 1961. Mayor Howard Lee read a statement citing two years of disagreement over how Peck ran the town rather than any dishonesty, the board named Assistant Town Manager Maryl Levine interim manager, and Scroggs said it was the first time he had been ashamed to be a member of the board. People: Howard N. Lee, Ross Scroggs Place: Old town hall, above the police department, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert Peck, Maryl LevineSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 18, 1973, p. 1
  72. Mayor Lee breaks a tie to rezone 27 acres on Umstead Drive for condominiums Mayor Howard Lee cast the deciding vote as the Board of Aldermen approved rezoning a 27-acre tract on Umstead Drive for a 196-unit condominium project, the most disputed of several zoning requests at the board's first full meeting in weeks. The board also delayed action on the Lake Forest development over a boundary dispute and allowed Orange Builders to remove certain parking spaces off Franklin Street. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Umstead Drive, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 7, 1973, p. 4
  73. The second Black Arts Cultural Festival brings Don L. Lee and the Bar-Kays The BSM's second Black Arts Cultural Festival, Habari Kwa Afrika, ran a week: poet Don L. Lee lectured on renewing ties to Africa, Owusu Sadaukai of Malcolm X Liberation University and Mayor Howard Lee discussed education and Black survival, the Bar-Kays played Carmichael Auditorium, and the Ebony Expressions players and the BSM drama group staged one-act plays. The choir, dancers, readers and actors closed it on April 8 with Flavored in Black in Memorial Hall. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Memorial Hall and Carmichael Auditorium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Don L. Lee, Owusu Sadaukai · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 1973, p. 4
  74. Mayor Howard Lee breaks a tie to approve the Village West condominiums At the April 9 meeting of the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen, Mayor Howard Lee cast the deciding vote for the Village West condominium project near Umstead Park, which he called one of the most controversial issues to come before the board in a long time. The Planning Board and the Recreation Department had opposed it because of traffic near children at the park, in an area already almost two-thirds multi-family housing. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Umstead Park area, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Umstead ParkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1973, p. 1
  75. Chapel Hill puts revenue sharing money into a trust fund for low-interest home loans On June 18 the Chapel Hill aldermen unanimously approved Mayor Howard Lee's plan to put $189,000 in federal revenue sharing into a trust fund of about $300,000 for loans at three to four percent to low-income families to buy, build or repair homes, with the Housing Authority screening applicants and local banks handling the loans. Lee said HUD saw it as a possible national model; the first loans were to go to ten families in public housing. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 21, 1973, p. 2
  76. Governor Holshouser and Senator Howard Baker address a revenue-sharing conference at the Carolina Inn On June 25 and 26 the UNC Office of Continuing Education in Health Sciences held a conference at the Carolina Inn on using general revenue sharing for human services, for officials of six southeastern states, with Senator Howard Baker, Governor James Holshouser, Atlanta Vice-Mayor Maynard Jackson and Mayor Howard Lee among the speakers. Lee outlined Chapel Hill's housing loan trust fund there. People: Howard N. Lee, Cecil G. (Cecil George) Sheps Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: James E. Holshouser Jr., Howard Baker, Maynard Jackson, James HolshouserSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 28, 1973, p. 1
  77. Chapel Hill aldermen let University Mall open before Estes Extension is widened Voting 4 to 2 on July 9, 1973, the Chapel Hill aldermen waived the special use permit's rule that a five-lane road be built in front of University Mall before it opened. In its place they required a temporary third lane on Estes Extension from Willow Drive to the U.S. 15-501 bypass by August 2, parking for 1,900 cars, paid traffic officers and a $10,000 bond, and held the developer to a four-lane road by March 31, 1974, if the state did not let the widening contract. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Estes Drive Extension, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University Mall, U.S. 15-501 bypassSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 12, 1973, p. 1
  78. Chapel Hill votes the Botanical Garden $6,000 After the University turned down the North Carolina Botanical Garden's request for $56,000 and the garden warned it would have to close its trails and end its school and public programs, the divided Chapel Hill aldermen agreed at a budget session on July 16, 1973, to give it $6,000 for one year toward an activities coordinator, a compromise proposed by Mayor Howard Lee. The money stayed in the budget adopted July 23 over the recorded objection of Aldermen Nassif and Welsh, and the Chapel Hill and county school budgets added $2,500 and $1,000. People: Howard N. Lee Place: North Carolina Botanical Garden, off the U.S. 15-501 bypass, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 19, 1973, p. 1
  79. Chapel Hill adopts a $6.56 million budget and a 92.5-cent tax rate The Chapel Hill aldermen adopted a 1973-74 town budget of $6,562,757 on July 23, 1973, with a tax rate of 92.5 cents per $100 valuation: 89 cents for town operations and 3.5 cents for the bonds voters had approved for a town bus system. The rate rested on a new 100 percent valuation, replacing $1.54 on the old 70 percent basis, and the board accepted the University's $111,000 payment for town services, to be billed first for landfill and sewage service. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 26, 1973, p. 3
  80. University Mall opens on Estes Drive University Mall opened with a ribbon cutting at its main entrance on Estes Drive at 9:45 a.m. on August 2, 1973, where Mayor Howard Lee cut a ribbon with representatives of the developer, Northills, Inc., and Provident Life Insurance; stores and banks opened at 10. Built by the company that built North Hills Mall in Raleigh, the mall had room for 58 to 60 stores between Belk's and Ivey's, with Roses, the Intimate Bookshop, three banks and 1,900 free parking places, and expected sales of $13 million a year. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University Mall, Estes Drive, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Intimate Bookshop, Estes DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 2, 1973, p. 2
  81. Howard Lee announces for a third term as mayor of Chapel Hill Mayor Howard N. Lee announced at a press conference on August 29, 1973, that he would seek a third term, promising to put off other political ambitions until the term ended in 1975 after testing a race for lieutenant governor. He named the town bus system by August 1974, public purchase of the University utilities and a Housing Trust Fund for low-income homeowners among the work he wanted to finish, and later proposed a charter commission. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University utilitiesThe Daily Tar Heel, August 30, 1973, p. 1
  82. State utilities study commission delays approving the terms for selling the University utilities Meeting on September 13, 1973, the State Utilities Study Commission put off until September 27 its approval of the University's prospectuses for selling its telephone, water, electric and sewer systems, after members said they had not had time to study them; Mayors Howard Lee and Robert J. Wells Jr. said the timetable mattered less than the public's and the utility workers' interests. University officials expected 15 to 20 bidders and a price of $20 to $30 million. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert J. Wells Jr.The Daily Tar Heel, September 14, 1973, p. 1
  83. Chapel Hill aldermen oppose the I-40 Alternate I route The Chapel Hill aldermen voted unanimously on September 18, 1973, to oppose Alternate I for Interstate 40, a route from I-85 west of Durham across U.S. 15-501 to Research Triangle Park through rural land. Mayor Howard Lee said he would ask the state Board of Transportation instead for improvements to N.C. 54 east and N.C. 86 north toward Hillsborough. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: N.C. 54, U.S. 15-501Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1973, p. 1
  84. The state utilities study commission approves the prospectuses for selling UNC's utilities The State Utilities Study Commission, known as the Church Commission, approved revised prospectuses prepared by the American Appraisal Company for selling the University's water, electric, telephone and sewer systems, dropping the requirement that a water bidder finish the Cane Creek reservoir project but requiring a commitment to enlarge the water supply. It let bids cover all or part of the utilities and let the University keep its Cameron Street substation, while County Commissioner Bill Ray and Mayor Howard Lee told members a county reservoir in central Orange County was being planned. People: Howard N. Lee, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University utilities, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill RayThe Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 1973, p. 1
  85. The League of Women Voters holds a candidates' fair at University Mall Candidates for Chapel Hill mayor, aldermen and school board spoke to shoppers at a fair sponsored by the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters at University Mall. Mayor Howard Lee, seeking a third term, was challenged by Douglas Holmes over tax increases, and aldermanic candidates debated buying the University utilities, a ward system and the I-40 route. People: Howard N. Lee, Alexander Julian Place: University Mall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Douglas Holmes · Also mentions: University utilitiesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1973, p. 2
  86. Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a town-wide dog control ordinance Over the objection of Alderman R. D. Smith, who wanted a full leash law, the Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance requiring that from January 2, 1974 all dogs off their owners' property be under restraint by leash, at heel, by voice control, in a car or in an enclosure, with hand-held leashes still required downtown and fines of $15 for a first offense and $25 after. It also required rabies shots for cats; dog warden Gus Shoffner had proposed a stricter leash law that the board softened after a crowded meeting on October 8. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Gus ShoffnerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1973, p. 2
  87. Chapel Hill aldermen create a Charter Commission to review the town charter The Board of Aldermen formally created the Charter Commission proposed by Mayor Howard Lee to review the town charter, including aldermen's terms and a possible ward system, and appointed ten members, with Alderman Joe Nassif as chairman and one UNC student, Lee Corum. The Daily Tar Heel objected that only one student was named although student leaders said the mayor had promised two. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Nassif, Lee CorumSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1973, p. 2
  88. Carrboro begins sending its sewage to the University's Bolin Creek treatment plant Under an agreement signed in January and put into effect in October, Carrboro began using the University-owned waste treatment plant on Bolin Creek that served Chapel Hill and the campus, according to former alderman Jim Wallace, who told the Chapel Hill board in November that the agreement set no limit or end date on Carrboro's use. Wallace said the plant, rated at 4.5 million gallons a day, ran at about 3.5 million with Carrboro on line; Mayor Howard Lee called it "a problem, not a crisis" and named a joint task force. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Bolin Creek waste treatment plant, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim Wallace · Also mentions: Bolin CreekThe Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1973, p. 2
  89. Chapel Hill elects Shirley Marshall, Gerry Cohen, Tommy Gardner and Sid Rancer to the Board of Aldermen In the town election that returned Mayor Howard Lee, Alderman Shirley Marshall led the field with 4,888 votes, UNC law student Gerry Cohen came second, appointed Alderman Tommy Gardner third with 4,233 and Durham businessman Sid Rancer fourth with 3,819, while clothier Alexander Julian trailed with 2,744. The Daily Tar Heel called Cohen the first UNC student to serve on the board. People: Alexander Julian, Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Shirley Marshall, Gerry Cohen, Tommy Gardner, Sid RancerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1973, p. 1
  90. Howard Lee wins a third term as mayor by a landslide In Chapel Hill's first November municipal election Lee carried every reporting precinct, taking 5,001 votes to 1,109 for graduate student Douglas Holmes, whom he had also beaten in 1971. NCpedia puts his share at 89 percent. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Douglas HolmesThe Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1973, p. 1 (OCR text)
  91. Lady Bird Johnson visits Chapel Hill and Carrboro as the Orange County Young Democrats name their club for Lyndon Johnson Lady Bird Johnson signed books at the Chapel Hill Public Library, visited Carrboro Town Hall and Carrboro Elementary School, and that night joined about 175 people at the American Legion hall as the Orange County Young Democratic Club was named for her late husband. Mayor Howard Lee gave her a gold key to the town and called it the first LBJ Democratic club. People: Howard N. Lee, Terry Sanford Place: American Legion hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lady Bird Johnson · Also mentions: Carrboro Elementary School, Carrboro Town Hall, Chapel Hill Public LibrarySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1973, p. 4
  92. Mayor Howard Lee names aldermen to a Chapel Hill-Carrboro energy conservation task force As fuel shortages spread, Lee named Aldermen Shirley Marshall and Joe Nassif to an Energy Conservation Task Force that was also to draw members from the Carrboro board, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association, the University and the school board. The Daily Tar Heel reported that Lee also nominated UNC student Juli Tenney and that Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells nominated new alderman George Beswick. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Shirley Marshall, Joe Nassif, Robert Wells, George Beswick, Juli TenneySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1973, p. 2
  93. Chapel Hill aldermen approve a labor arrangement that clears the federal grant for the town bus system Meeting in special session, the aldermen approved an arrangement among the town, the Amalgamated Transit Union and the U.S. Department of Labor that let the Secretary of Labor stand in for a union agreement the town could not legally sign and promised that drivers of the campus charter buses would not be made worse off. The union's approval was the last step before the Urban Mass Transit Administration could act on the town's $880,000 grant for buses planned to run by August 1974. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 28, 1973, p. 1
  94. Chapel Hill Housing Authority chairman Edwin Caldwell Sr. and commissioner J. S. Bennett resign Caldwell, a ten-year member, and Bennett formally resigned, saying housing needs had gone unmet since the Housing Authority merged with the Redevelopment Commission and that the new board cared more about budgets and salaries than housing. The same day Mayor Howard Lee asked for a full investigation of charges of misused funds and administrative problems in the town's housing program, which then had 156 public housing units. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Edwin Caldwell Sr., J. S. Bennett, Ivan HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1974, p. 1
  95. Federal transit officials approve an $860,480 grant for Chapel Hill's bus system Word that the Urban Mass Transit Administration had approved $860,480 toward a community bus system came late in the afternoon through Congressman L. H. Fountain's office, and Mayor Howard Lee and the Board of Aldermen met in special session to receive it. The grant let the town match it with $215,000 in local bonds and plan 53.9 miles of routes, with 13 small town buses and four 45-passenger campus buses, aiming for service in August. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: L. H. FountainSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 11, 1974, p. 1
  96. Chapel Hill joins a regional water pollution planning area with Durham The Board of Aldermen adopted a resolution joining the planning area permitted under section 208 of the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act amendments, providing for Chapel Hill and Durham to work together against regional water pollution. At the same meeting the board, with Mayor Howard Lee breaking a tie, sent the long-disputed question of street vending to the downtown study committee rather than the Planning Board. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1974, p. 1
  97. Chapel Hill gas dealers and town officials agree on set pumping hours to ease gas lines Meeting with Mayor Howard Lee and town and police officials, station owners agreed for a two-week trial to sell half their daily allotment from 8 a.m. and the rest from 4 p.m., with no sales in between except for repairs and none on a preferred-customer basis. They turned down a $2 minimum purchase and an odd-even license plate plan, and moved the closed meeting to the Orange Savings and Loan building when about 20 citizens came to the police courtroom. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Orange Savings and Loan building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 7, 1974, p. 1
  98. Mayor Howard Lee reports bad judgment but no scandal in the Chapel Hill Housing Authority inquiry Summing up the month-long investigation, Lee said it found bad judgment and indiscretions by some employees, including an employee who had tried to get $150 from a building contractor and was reprimanded, and personal long-distance calls on the authority's telephone, since repaid. The commissioners under chairman Michael A. Stegman cut travel allowances, tightened bookkeeping and asked that the authority's budget be handled like other town departments. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Michael A. StegmanSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 14, 1974, p. 1
  99. Chapel Hill aldermen accept the downtown study and set up a committee to carry it out The Board of Aldermen received the final report of its Central Business District study committee, which called for pedestrian walkways, new offices, shops and apartments near downtown, traffic changes tied to the new bus system, town purchase of several buildings and a Downtown Redevelopment Corporation. On Mayor Howard Lee's recommendation the board discharged the study committee and, on Alderwoman Shirley Marshall's motion, created a CBD Implementation Committee to cost the plan and set a timetable; on March 18 Lee named Aldermen Tommy Gardner, Gerry Cohen and Marshall to it, with Marshall as chairman. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Shirley Marshall, Tommy Gardner, Gerry CohenSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 19, 1974, p. 2
  100. Assistant Town Manager Maryl Levine resigns to join Duke's policy institute Mayor Howard Lee announced the resignation of Assistant Town Manager Maryl Levine, in the post since February 1972, who was leaving to become assistant director of Duke University's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Maryl LevineSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 20, 1974, p. 2
  101. Chapel Hill Housing Authority director Alvin Stevenson asks two senior staff members to resign Citing insubordination, Stevenson asked assistant director Gloria Williams, who had directed the former Housing Authority from 1968 until its merger with the Redevelopment Commission the previous September, and the agency's relocation officer to resign. Both said they would appeal to the Housing Authority Board; Williams said the move followed a staff grievance memo the two had sent to the board and Mayor Howard Lee, which Stevenson called a breach of agency procedure. People: Gloria Williams, Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill Housing Authority, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alvin StevensonThe Daily Tar Heel, April 10, 1974, p. 1
  102. Chapel Hill aldermen agree to bid for the University's half of the sewage treatment system With the University's sewer, telephone, electric and water systems going up for sale on April 16, the aldermen agreed to bid for the University's share of the sewage treatment system, which the town and University owned equally. Mayor Howard Lee urged a bid despite criticism that Chapel Hill might instead join Durham under a new federal waste treatment program. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, April 10, 1974, p. 1
  103. Chapel Hill wins the bidding for 22 used Atlanta buses to start its town bus system Bidding in Atlanta on buses sold by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Chapel Hill became the apparent high bidder on 22 diesel buses of 1958 and 1959, pending an audit, to start its transit system on August 1 until new buses arrived late in the year. Two days earlier the aldermen had voted to go ahead with the bid over Alderman Sid Rancer's proposal to buy used British double-deckers instead. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill (bids opened in Atlanta, Ga.) · Also named: Sid RancerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1974, p. 1
  104. Chapel Hill Transit begins service Chapel Hill's municipal bus system began running on August 1, 1974, after Mayor Howard Lee and UNC Chancellor Ferebee Taylor cut the ribbon, with eight town, campus and park-and-ride routes. Carrboro was not yet served. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: bus system opening day ceremony, August 26, 1974 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1974, p. 11; The Daily Tar Heel, November 8, 1976, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1984, p. 4
  105. Mayor Howard Lee says he will not seek re-election In his State of the City message at the Board of Aldermen's first fall meeting, Lee said it was assumed he was finishing his last year as mayor, while reserving the right to change his mind, and put off until spring a decision on running for lieutenant governor. He said the town was operating on the largest budget in its history without a tax increase and urged a commitment against sex discrimination in town jobs and a referendum on a new municipal building. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1974, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 22, 1975, p. 3
  106. Chapel Hill begins registering bicycles under a new town ordinance Town officials opened the registration period at the Municipal Building under an ordinance requiring every bicycle kept in town, dormitory students' included, to be registered for 50 cents and marked with a decal, with stations at the police department, the three fire stations and the campus police. Police counted 246 bicycles stolen in Chapel Hill in the first half of 1974; ticketing was put off until December 1, and Carrboro's aldermen were to vote on a similar ordinance. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 9, 1974, p. 2
  107. Chapel Hill aldermen lease six buses to relieve the crowded new bus system With the town buses carrying more than 51,000 riders in the first six days of September, against 75,000 in all of August, and passing up waiting riders at rush hour, the board voted to lease six used buses from Atlanta's MARTA for two months with an option to buy until the town's new buses arrived. The same night it passed ordinances to tow cars parked in bus loading zones and cars left more than 24 hours in town lots. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 11, 1974, p. 1
  108. State study commission votes to sell the University's telephone system to Southern Bell and its electric and water systems to Duke Power The 14-member Utilities Study Commission chaired by Sen. John T. Church voted 9 to 5 for Sen. Ralph Scott's resolution recommending that UNC sell its telephone system to Southern Bell and its electric and water systems to Duke Power Company, and keep the sewer system the Town of Chapel Hill had bid on. Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee and Carrboro Mayor Robert J. Wells voted no, the Consumers Utility Corporation backed by the towns and county got none of the systems, and Church named a five-man board, Lee among them, to negotiate the sales. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also named: Ralph Scott, Robert J. WellsThe Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 1974, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 9, 1975, p. 1
  109. Chapel Hill aldermen reorganize the town administration under two assistant town managers In executive session on October 7 the Board of Aldermen approved Police Chief William D. Blake, chief for 16 years and on the force for 33, as assistant town manager for public safety and Kurt Jenne, director of urban development, as assistant town manager for development and community services, and on October 21 it approved the reorganization plan. Blake took charge of police, emergency services, animal control and civil preparedness and Jenne of planning, inspections, human services, recreation, the library and transportation, and Town Manager Chester Kendzior expected a new police chief within six weeks. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William D. Blake, Kurt Jenne, Chester KendziorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1974, p. 2
  110. Chapel Hill aldermen set up a Transportation Advisory Committee for the town buses The Board of Aldermen formally created a nine-member Transportation Advisory Committee, appointed by Mayor Howard Lee with two UNC students among its members, to help the town transportation department run and develop the bus system. At its first meeting the committee urged the aldermen to send a federal capital grant proposal in November for buses, fare boxes, park-and-ride lots and shelters, and looked to a federal demonstration grant for the system's operating deficit of about $200,000. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 8, 1974, p. 1
  111. Chapel Hill Charter Commission recommends eight aldermen with staggered terms and a four-year mayor The Chapel Hill Charter Commission voted to recommend enlarging the Board of Aldermen from six to eight members with staggered four-year terms, half elected every two years, and lengthening the mayor's term from two to four years with a limit of two consecutive terms and a vote on every issue rather than only on ties. Student member Lee Corum's motion for some two-year seats died without a second, and the report was to go to the aldermen on November 4. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Lee CorumSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1974, p. 1
  112. Chapel Hill Friends of the United Farm Workers picket Friar's Cellar for the Gallo wine boycott For four weeks, mostly on weekends, the Chapel Hill Friends of the United Farm Workers picketed Friar's Cellar on West Franklin Street to press it to honor the union's boycott of Gallo wines. After a policeman told five picketers on October 25 that they could not stand on the sidewalk or parking lot or march without a parade permit, the group protested the police action to Mayor Howard Lee; the store moved its Gallo display to a back corner. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Friar's Cellar, West Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 30, 1974, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 24, 1975, p. 2
  113. Chapel Hill aldermen ask the General Assembly for authority to spend town funds on day care The Board of Aldermen petitioned the 1975 General Assembly to authorize the town to spend public funds on day care and child care services. Mayor Howard Lee said the town would not be obliged to spend the money but would have the option without being blocked by state statutes. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 13, 1974, p. 1
  114. Chapel Hill aldermen deny a permit for the 225-unit Laurel Hills condominiums Overruling a Planning Board recommendation, a rare step that Mayor Howard Lee said he had not seen in a long time, the Board of Aldermen voted 4 to 2 on Alice Welsh's motion to deny a special use permit for 225 condominium units on Parker Road at the town's southern edge. Traffic at the Farrington Road intersection was the deciding concern, and residents who had packed an October hearing against the project celebrated. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Parker Road, south Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice WelshSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 13, 1974, p. 1
  115. Chapel Hill aldermen refuse a Granville Towers driveway to Cameron Avenue The Board of Aldermen upheld the Planning Board and denied a land use permit for a driveway from the Granville Towers parking lot to Cameron Avenue, sought by University Square merchants to ease traffic in their lot. Cameron Avenue residents had argued that the traffic would erode the street's residential character; Mayor Howard Lee agreed to consider a committee on traffic around University Square. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Granville Towers and Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Granville Towers, University Square, Cameron AvenueSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 13, 1974, p. 1
  116. Chapel Hill aldermen agree to appoint a committee to study the Horace Williams Airport After a Lake Forest resident told the Board of Aldermen that University airport traffic was constant and endangered children at Estes Hills and Phillips schools, the board agreed to appoint a committee to study the facility. Mayor Howard Lee said he backed the medical flight program but was concerned about commercial use on football weekends. About 50 planes were based at the University field, 37 of them privately owned. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Horace Williams Airport, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Estes HillsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1974, p. 1
  117. Georgia legislator Julian Bond speaks at UNC's colloquium on student rights Georgia state representative Julian Bond spoke at the Colloquium on Individual and Student Rights, sponsored by student government and the Carolina Forum, faulting federal neglect of the poor and fielding questions on a possible 1976 presidential run. Afterward he met Mayor Howard Lee in his office. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julian BondSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1974, p. 1
  118. Chapel Hill aldermen ask for federal money for seven more buses and a Plant Road bus garage The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen approved an amendment to the town's federal transit grant application asking for money for seven new buses and a bus maintenance garage, including $300,000 to prepare the Plant Road site, on condition that federal officials be told the site could change. Alderman Tommy Gardner cast the only vote against, and the same evening Mayor Howard Lee named a committee to meet with the transit workers' union. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Tommy GardnerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 8, 1975, p. 3
  119. Chapel Hill aldermen form a task force to look for another bus garage site The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen named a search task force of Marvin Silver, Jonathan Howes, Alderman Alice Welsh, the town attorney and manager, a UNC geologist and Mayor Howard Lee to study sites other than Plant Road for the bus maintenance garage, over Alderman Gerry Cohen's objection. People: Jonathan Howes, Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Marvin Silver, Alice Welsh, Gerry CohenSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1975, p. 1
  120. Citizens for Lee forms to back Mayor Howard Lee for lieutenant governor A committee called Citizens for Lee was formally announced to promote a 1976 run for lieutenant governor by Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee and to raise small contributions for a statewide poll on his chances, with Chapel Hill lawyer Gretchen Dunn as treasurer. Lee, who had said he would not seek another term as mayor, told the paper days later he was sure he wanted to run and would decide by June. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Gretchen DunnSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 1975, p. 1
  121. Local NAACP protests Sam Ervin's UNC visit, then calls off a picket of his award banquet Robert Kelley, president of the local NAACP chapter, met Chancellor Taylor on January 20 to protest the invitation to Sam Ervin, whose civil rights voting record he called one of the most racist in Congress, and announced a picket of Ervin's North Carolina Public Service Award banquet at the Carolina Inn. On January 22 Kelley called the picket off, citing the potential for violence, and Ervin received the award after defending his record at a news conference; Mayor Howard Lee attended to welcome him. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Howard N. Lee Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert Kelley, Sam J. Ervin Jr., Sam ErvinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1975, p. 1
  122. Chapel Hill Transit unveils its new 25-passenger midi-buses Mayor Howard Lee cut the ribbon at University Mall on the town's new brown and yellow 25-passenger midi-buses, one of which stood on display inside the mall; 11 of the 13 ordered had arrived, including one for elderly riders with a hydraulic wheelchair lift. The town planned to put four of them on the F, L, N and G routes that Sunday. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University Mall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 31, 1975, p. 1
  123. Black Student Movement holds Black History Week at UNC The Black Student Movement opened Black History Week with a talk on Pan-Africanism by Bambose Shango of the All African People's Revolutionary Party in the Upendo Lounge at Chase Cafeteria. The week also offered the BSM Ebony Readers, a panel on Black social workers that included Mayor Howard Lee, and a documentary on the BSM and Black campus life made by former BSM president Willie Mebane. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Upendo Lounge, Chase Cafeteria, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bambose Shango, Willie Mebane · Also mentions: Chase CafeteriaThe Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1975, p. 1
  124. Chapel Hill aldermen add temporary bus maintenance space at the Plant Road garage The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen decided to add two maintenance areas and more storage and office space at the Plant Road bus garage, to be finished by June 1, for use until a permanent site for bus, public works and animal control facilities was chosen. A committee was to report on the permanent site in 90 days, and Mayor Howard Lee was to lead a delegation to federal transit officials in Atlanta. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Plant Road garage, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1975, p. 2
  125. Chapel Hill aldermen admit a sewage sludge trench broke the landfill agreement Answering an Airport Road resident's petition, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen admitted that the town had broken its landfill agreement with Carrboro and Orange County by digging a 30-by-100-foot trench of wet sewage sludge in an unopened section of the Eubanks Road landfill, on the south side of the road, without state health department approval. Mayor Howard Lee, who had visited the site, said the board learned of it that morning, and the town promised to start removing the sludge the next day. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Eubanks Road landfill, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Airport Road, Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1975, p. 2
  126. Chapel Hill aldermen expand bus routes and trim evening service Over the town manager's objection, the Board of Aldermen voted to add a route B along North Lakeshore Drive to University Mall and to swap the south ends of routes L and N, while cutting evening service on four routes from every half hour to hourly to save money. The changes, estimated at $64,956, were to begin by March 17, and the new routes started with a free-ride day on March 22. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University MallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 26, 1975, p. 1
  127. Chapel Hill aldermen endorse the Equal Rights Amendment At Mayor Howard Lee's request the Board of Aldermen voted unanimously for a resolution supporting the Equal Rights Amendment, then before the General Assembly. The next day Lee was among about 65 representatives of state organizations introduced at the House committee's hearing for ERA supporters in Raleigh. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 5, 1975, p. 1
  128. Chapel Hill aldermen send a revised town charter to the General Assembly The Board of Aldermen voted 4 to 2 to approve the final draft of a rewritten town charter and send it to the legislature, bypassing a local referendum that would have fallen in summer when students were away. The main changes enlarged the board from six to eight members, lengthened the mayor's term from two to four years and limited mayors to two consecutive terms; on February 24 the board had dropped a change that would have let the mayor vote on all issues. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 5, 1975, p. 2
  129. The Campus Y's Starvathon raises about $5,000 to fight hunger The YM-YWCA's Starvathon, four days of talks on world hunger ending in a one-day fast, raised about $5,000 of its $10,000 goal, with 30 percent pledged to hunger relief in North Carolina and the rest to a UNICEF project in Bangladesh. Mayor Howard Lee signed a proclamation endorsing it and said he would fast, and Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin spoke at the Wesley Foundation. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University and Wesley Foundation, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Sloane CoffinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 21, 1975, p. 2
  130. Chapel Hill aldermen ask to lift the state ban on palmistry in Orange County Mayor Howard Lee broke two tie votes as the aldermen let a palmist keep a town license issued weeks earlier and asked the county commissioners to have Orange County's legislators strike it from the list of 65 counties where state law forbade fortune telling and palmistry. A week earlier the board had voted to revoke the license; the palmist's lawyer called the state law racist because it charged gypsies $500 a year and others $250. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1975, p. 3
  131. Chapel Hill names Sidney M. Hilliard police chief Sidney M. Hilliard, a 59-year-old criminal justice planner for Pinellas County, Florida, with more than 30 years in Florida police work, was named Chapel Hill's police chief, to take office April 28. He was chosen from 267 applicants by a committee including Mayor Howard Lee and Town Manager Chet Kendzior, and succeeded William D. Blake, who had kept the post while serving as assistant town manager for public safety since October. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Sidney M. Hilliard, William D. Blake, Chet KendziorSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 1975, p. 1
  132. Chapel Hill aldermen narrow the new charter's human services powers to meet county objections By 4 to 3, with Mayor Howard Lee breaking the tie, the aldermen added a charter amendment saying a town Department of Human Services would not compete with, duplicate or supersede the Orange County Department of Social Services, and refused to recall the charter from the House Local Government Committee. The Daily Tar Heel reported that the charter's grant of power to run social services had no precedent among North Carolina towns, and the county social services board had charged the town with taking over county duties. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1975, p. 2
  133. Mayor Lee breaks a tie to keep Chapel Hill's revised charter before the General Assembly Chapel Hill's aldermen split 3-3 on Alderman Alice Welsh's motion to recall the revised town charter from the legislature, and Mayor Howard Lee broke the tie to keep it there. Lee also broke a tie to pass his own amendment limiting the town's power to run social services; the revisions added a Human Services Department, a town day care program and absentee voting in town elections. People: Howard N. Lee, R. D. Smith Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice WelshSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1975, p. 1
  134. Chapel Hill aldermen take public comment on an $11.4 million capital improvements program At a public hearing on the town's first five-year capital improvements program, 31 projects for land, parks, sidewalks, streets, sewers, transit and a new police station, residents and the Sierra Club pressed for bike routes before 1979 and the Recreation Commission asked that work at Hargraves and Ephesus Church Road come before new parks. The aldermen favored financing the program with a bond issue. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1975, p. 2
  135. About 450 students rally in the Pit against proposed tuition increases An estimated 450 students gathered in the Pit to protest a state Senate subcommittee's proposal to raise in-state tuition $200 and out-of-state tuition $300 a year, one of a series of rallies on University campuses. Sen. Charles Vickery, Mayor Howard Lee, Alderman Gerry Cohen and student and aid officials spoke, and students wrote more than 500 letters to legislators. People: Howard N. Lee Place: The Pit, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles Vickery, Gerry CohenSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1975, p. 1
  136. Mayor Howard Lee appoints a recycling implementation task force Mayor Howard Lee named a task force, chaired by Jane Sharp, to get residents to use the town's recycling program. With $500 from the aldermen it planned to buy recycled paper for bus schedules and town stationery, and it hoped to start door-to-door collection of household waste in June 1976. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Jane SharpSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1975, p. 22
  137. Students charter Student Educational Broadcasting, Inc. to seek an FM license To reapply to the FCC without University backing, Student Government formed a nonprofit corporation, Student Educational Broadcasting, Inc., which the Secretary of State chartered. Its board joined Media Board members with four community directors, Mayor Howard Lee, Alderman Gerry Cohen, Union director Howard Henry and Raleigh radio newsman Randy Wolfe, and WCAR station manager Jim Bond planned to reapply for the construction permit at once. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Gerry Cohen, Howard Henry, Jim BondSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1975, p. 1
  138. Town Manager Chet Kendzior resigns after the aldermen ask him to go Chet Kendzior handed the mayor and aldermen his resignation as Chapel Hill town manager, effective September 26, citing professional differences. On May 16 Mayor Howard Lee, acting for five of the six aldermen, had asked him to resign at the end of a three-month review that began after a February violation of the county landfill agreement; only Alderman Sid Rancer backed him. He left the job July 31, and Kurt Jenne became interim manager. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Chet Kendzior, Sid Rancer, Kurt JenneSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 29, 1975, p. 2
  139. Chapel Hill leases 34 acres at Horace Williams Airport from UNC for a bus garage Mayor Howard Lee and University officials announced that the town would lease 34 acres in the northeast corner of the University's airport property, by Glen Heights and N.C. 86, for $1 a year for 30 years as the site of a bus garage and public works building. Lee called it a highlight of his term; the town had been ready to pay up to $250,000 for a smaller site, and the Plant Road tract planned for the garage could become recreation land. People: Howard N. Lee, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Horace Williams Airport property, Airport Road (N.C. 86), Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1975, p. 10
  140. The University utilities study commission approves contracts to sell the electric and telephone systems With four members absent, the UNC Utilities Study Commission voted 9 to 1 to approve contracts selling the University's electric system to Duke Power for $16 million and its telephone system to Southern Bell for $24 million, and to recommend the sale to the trustees. The sale still needed the Council of State, the state Utilities Commission and, for the telephones, the Federal Communications Commission. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 12, 1975, p. 1
  141. Chapel Hill aldermen approve the Delta Upsilon fraternity's Rosemary Street addition After four months of dispute with neighbors over noise, the Board of Aldermen unanimously modified the fraternity's 1972 special use permit to allow a two-story addition behind its house at Rosemary and Hillsborough streets, with the patio and meeting room turned toward the existing house and nine conditions including a screening wall and sound-deadening materials. Building had to begin by July 1, 1977. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Delta Upsilon house, East Rosemary Street, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1975, p. 1
  142. HUD releases $190,000 in frozen Neighborhood Development Program money to Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Housing Authority received $190,000 in Neighborhood Development Program funds that the federal housing department had held back until the town answered questions about its budget, bringing the program's money since July 1973 to $840,000. Mayor Howard Lee called the program, which gave low-income owners loans and grants to repair their homes, a reasonable success and said the new Community Development Program would replace it after December 31. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, September 23, 1975, p. 3
  143. The American Issues Forum opens its Chapel Hill series with a debate on the melting pot The first Chapel Hill meeting of the American Issues Forum, a national Bicentennial program sponsored here by the town's Bicentennial Commission and the University's Bicentennial Committee, took up whether America was a melting pot. Mayor Howard Lee and Afro-American studies director Sonja Stone called the idea unrealistic, while playwright Paul Green defended it and said the University would stop if Black workers stopped for a day. People: Howard N. Lee, Paul Green Place: Carroll Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sonja StoneSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1975, p. 2
  144. Chapel Hill aldermen require town bus drivers to wear uniforms Over protests from drivers and some residents, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted 5-1 to have bus drivers wear uniforms provided by the town, as Town Manager Kurt Jenne recommended, with $9,500 set aside. Alderman Gerry Cohen voted no, and a petition signed by 40 residents against buying the uniforms reached the transportation department the next week. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Kurt Jenne, Gerry CohenSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1975, p. 2
  145. James C. Wallace is elected mayor of Chapel Hill James C. "Jimmy" Wallace, a North Carolina State University professor and environmental activist, defeated Alderman Gerry Cohen 3,939 to 2,274 to succeed Howard N. Lee, mayor since 1969. It was the town's first election under its new charter and the first for a four-year mayoral term; Wallace was to take office December 8. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: James C. Wallace, Gerry CohenSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 5, 1975, p. 1
  146. Chapel Hill grants the University a 60-year franchise for its electric utility The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen gave the University a transferable 60-year franchise to run its electric lines in town, which had operated without one for seven years, and the franchise was expected to pass to Duke Power on the sale of the utility. An amendment by Alderman Alice Welsh to limit it to 25 years failed 4 to 2, and the franchise passed 6 to 0. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice WelshSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1975, p. 2
  147. Chapel Hill aldermen approve a sewer extension into the King's Mill Road area over some residents' objections After a public hearing that split residents of the upper and lower parts of the neighborhood, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a $64,000 sewer line to 27 houses on Sourwood, Woodbine and Coker drives and parts of King's Mill Road and gave the contract to Billings and Garrett of Raleigh. Owners were to be assessed about $3,000 each, and the board sought state Clean Water Act money. People: Howard N. Lee Place: King's Mill Road area, southeastern Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1975, p. 1
  148. Howard Lee leaves the Chapel Hill mayor's office to James C. Wallace Howard Lee, whom the Daily Tar Heel called Chapel Hill's first Black mayor, left office after six years and three elections, handing over to James C. (Jimmy) Wallace; Aldermen Alice Welsh and Sid Rancer left the board the same day. In a farewell interview Lee named the Aug. 1, 1974, start of the town bus system as the most significant day of his administration and listed a long-range development plan, town ownership of the University utilities and a town water supply as unfinished work. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Municipal Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: James C. Wallace, Alice Welsh, Sid Rancer · Also mentions: University utilitiesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 1975, p. 1
  149. Howard Lee opens his Chapel Hill and Orange County campaign for lieutenant governor in the Pit Former Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee spoke to about 200 students at a noon rally in the Pit to open his campaign in Chapel Hill and Orange County for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, backing the Equal Rights Amendment, calling the state's welfare system a form of enslavement and urging an end to the sales tax on food. People: Howard N. Lee Place: The Pit, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1976, p. 1
  150. About 25 UNC students are turned away from the polls at the Greenwood precinct About 25 UNC students who had registered from their dormitories but moved over the summer were refused ballots in the runoff at the Greenwood precinct; at hearings that night the registrar and judges allowed two of six challengers to vote. Howard Lee declined to contest the results. People: Howard N. Lee Place: UNC General Administration Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1976, p. 1
  151. Former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee files to run for Congress in the 4th District Lee, mayor from 1969 to 1975 and later state secretary of Natural Resources and Community Development, filed for the May 8 Democratic primary against Rep. Ike Andrews after resigning on January 31 from the UNC School of Social Work faculty. When Raleigh developer John W. Winters Jr. also filed on February 6, Secretary of State Thad Eure said it was the first time in the state's congressional primaries that a white candidate faced two Black challengers. People: Howard N. Lee, Thad Eure Place: Chapel Hill; 4th Congressional District · Also named: Ike Andrews, John W. Winters Jr. · Also mentions: UNC School of Social WorkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1984, p. 1
  152. Rep. Ike Andrews opens a congressional office in Chapel Hill Andrews, whose 4th District took in Orange County for the first time in his current term, opened a district office at 1777 Durham Blvd. in Chapel Hill, adding to his offices in Cary and Asheboro. His staff said a year's study of constituent demand had shown the need; his primary challenger Howard Lee had made Andrews' accessibility a campaign issue. People: Howard N. Lee Place: 1777 Durham Boulevard, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ike AndrewsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 15, 1984, p. 1
  153. Howard Lee opens his Orange County campaign office for Congress Former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee, challenging Rep. Ike Andrews in the May 8 Democratic primary for the 4th District, opened his Orange County headquarters in The Courtyard on West Franklin Street, citing a Calumet Research poll that showed him and Andrews tied at 32 percent. His Orange County co-chairs were Carol Ann Zinn, developer of The Courtyard, and the Rev. B. Willis Wilson II of St. Paul's AME Church in Carrboro. People: Howard N. Lee Place: The Courtyard, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ike Andrews, Carol Ann Zinn, B. Willis Wilson IISearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 29, 1984, p. 2
  154. Ike Andrews, Howard Lee and John Winters meet in their only Orange County forum Congressman Ike Andrews joined his Democratic primary opponents, former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee and Raleigh developer John Winters Jr., for the first time at a League of Women Voters forum in the courtroom of the Franklin Street Post Office; Andrews said it would be his only forum in Orange County. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Franklin Street Post Office courtroom, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ike Andrews, John Winters Jr. · Also mentions: Franklin Street Post OfficeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 19, 1984, p. 1
  155. Former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee is chosen to fill a state Senate seat On February 1, 1990, the 16th Senate District's Democratic executive committee elected Howard Lee to the seat Wanda Hunt of Moore County gave up on January 10 to take a state child support job. Lee, a former Chapel Hill mayor and official in Gov. Jim Hunt's administration, said he would run for a full term in November and work on teacher pay, test scores and the coast. People: Howard N. Lee Place: 16th Senate District (including Orange County) · Also named: Wanda Hunt, Jim HuntSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1990, p. 4
  156. Harvey Gantt rallies more than 3,500 students in the Pit Democratic Senate candidate Harvey Gantt told more than 3,500 students in the Pit on Oct. 15 that they could be the margin in his race against Sen. Jesse Helms, and called for spending less on B-52 bombers and more on students. Mayor Jonathan Howes and state senators Howard Lee and Russell Walker attended. People: Jonathan Howes, Howard N. Lee Place: The Pit, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harvey Gantt, Russell Walker, Jesse HelmsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 16, 1990, p. 1
  157. The UNC Board of Governors gives UNC-Chapel Hill and nine other campuses budget flexibility Under a law the General Assembly passed in July, the Board of Governors named UNC-Chapel Hill and nine other campuses special responsibility constituent institutions, letting them move unspent money from one budget line to another instead of losing it. Chancellor Paul Hardin said he was very pleased; the schools still had to return to the state each year an amount equal to their five-year average reversion. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul HardinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1991, p. 1
  158. Margaret Pollard files as a Democrat for the 16th District state Senate seats UNC public health administrator Margaret Pollard filed with the State Board of Elections as a Democrat for one of the 16th District N.C. Senate seats held by Howard Lee and Russell Walker, a district taking in Orange, Chatham and Moore counties and most of Randolph. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Orange County · Also named: Margaret Pollard, Russell WalkerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1992, p. 3
  159. Howard Lee and Russell Walker hold their state Senate seats in a close primary State senators Howard Lee and Russell Walker won the 16th District Democratic primary over Margaret Pollard by unexpectedly narrow margins, Pollard finishing less than 500 votes behind Lee. Lee, a former Chapel Hill mayor, praised Pollard's organizing and said Black women candidates faced both racial and sex discrimination. People: Howard N. Lee Place: 16th state Senate District, including Orange County · Also named: Russell Walker, Margaret PollardThe Daily Tar Heel, May 28, 1992, p. 5
  160. UNC housekeepers meet Orange County legislators and decide to seek allies at other campuses On September 3, 1992, leaders of the UNC housekeepers' movement met for nearly two hours in Dey Hall with state Reps. Anne Barnes and Joe Hackney, Sen. Howard Lee, University administrators and a state personnel official, and agreed that their next step was to join with low-paid employees at other state universities to press the General Assembly. Barnes had the press leave before the meeting began. People: Joe Hackney, Howard N. Lee Place: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Anne Barnes · Also mentions: Dey HallThe Daily Tar Heel, September 4, 1992, p. 1
  161. Orange County's Democratic legislators are re-elected Orange County voters returned their Democratic incumbents to the General Assembly on November 3, 1992: Senators Howard Lee and Russell Walker in Senate District 16 and Representatives Anne Barnes and Joe Hackney in House District 24, both two-seat districts with three candidates. People: Howard N. Lee, Joe Hackney Place: Orange County · Also named: Russell Walker, Anne BarnesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 5, 1992, p. 3
  162. Sen. Howard Lee introduces a bill to let Orange County enforce a civil rights ordinance In April 1993 Sen. Howard Lee introduced Senate Bill 807, drafted with the Orange County Human Relations Commission, to give the county commissioners power to enforce an anti-discrimination ordinance. The bill drew criticism for reaching threatening speech, and the commission asked the Chapel Hill Town Council for support on April 26. People: Howard N. Lee, Miriam Slifkin Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 26, 1993, p. 1
  163. The Chapel Hill Town Council withdraws its meals tax request On June 14, 1993 the Chapel Hill Town Council voted unanimously to withdraw its request to the General Assembly for a 1-percent tax on prepared meals and drinks, which restaurant owners and the Chamber of Commerce had opposed. The council pledged to work with restaurants and hotels on other ways to pay for the downtown Streetscape plan. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 17, 1993, p. 1
  164. General Assembly gives Chapel Hill and Carrboro the power to recall elected officials The General Assembly ratified a local act on July 16, 1993 giving Chapel Hill and Carrboro voters the power to recall elected officials, which both towns' boards had asked for that spring. Within a month a Chapel Hill resident began circulating petitions to recall council member Joe Herzenberg, and Sen. Howard Lee described the new authority at a Chamber of Commerce forum on September 9. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also named: Joe HerzenbergSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1993, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1993, p. 2
  165. General Assembly lets Hillsborough levy a meals tax Reviewing the 1993 legislative session at a Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce forum at the Siena Hotel on September 9, Sen. Howard Lee said the General Assembly had passed Hillsborough's tax on prepared food, while the Chapel Hill Town Council had withdrawn its own request. The session also let Chapel Hill police use the Denver boot on illegally parked cars. People: Howard N. Lee, Joe Hackney Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of CommerceSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1993, p. 2
  166. UNC trustees give William R. Davie Awards to four alumni On November 18 the UNC Board of Trustees gave its William R. Davie Award, its highest honor, to Elizabeth Dowd, a former trustee and General Alumni Association president; Robert Eubanks, founder of Franklin Street Partners and also a former trustee and alumni president; state Sen. Howard Lee, former mayor of Chapel Hill; and Sherwood Smith, chief executive of Carolina Power and Light. People: Howard N. Lee Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Elizabeth Dowd, Robert Eubanks, Sherwood SmithSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 23, 1993, p. 3
  167. The Orange Lesbian and Gay Association asks the commissioners to add sexual orientation to the county civil rights ordinance At the county commissioners' February 15 meeting OLGA chairman Doug Ferguson asked the board to commit to amending the countywide civil rights ordinance, then awaiting approval by Chapel Hill and Carrboro, to bar discrimination by sexual orientation and to take the change to the 1995 General Assembly. Sen. Howard Lee had dropped that clause from the 1991 proposal; Commissioner Moses Carey said the same legislature would refuse it and the local ordinance came first, while Carrboro Alderman Mike Nelson, whom the paper called the only openly gay elected official in North Carolina, urged the board to try. People: Mike Nelson, Howard N. Lee Place: Orange County Board of Commissioners meeting, OWASA building, Carrboro · Also named: Doug Ferguson, Moses CareySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 17, 1994, p. 1
  168. Chapel Hill Town Council backs the county civil-rights ordinance and a sexual-orientation clause At a public hearing the council spoke in favor of the Orange County commissioners' proposed ordinance against discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations and unanimously supported adding a ban on sexual-orientation discrimination, a clause dropped earlier so the legislature would approve the county's bill. No speaker opposed the ordinance; the Orange Lesbian and Gay Association urged the council to work for the amendment, and the chamber of commerce asked for caution. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Chapel Hill Town Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1994, p. 1
  169. Chapel Hill marks its Bicentennial with a day of speeches, tours, performances and a parade 'Chapel Hill Revisited' closed the town's Bicentennial program with speeches by Mayor Ken Broun, Chancellor Paul Hardin and Sen. Howard Lee at the Franklin Street post office, an antique car show, the art exhibit in the old Hector's building, cemetery, garden and historic-house tours, 'Life on the Hill' history programs in five downtown churches, among them one on the Black community at St. Paul AME, and a parade down Franklin Street with the flower ladies on a float. Animal rights protesters, including a student group, joined the parade uninvited, U.S. Rep. David Price spoke at the closing at McCorkle Place, and the 'Hillzapoppin'' concert of local performers ended the day in Memorial Hall. People: Howard N. Lee, David Price Place: Franklin Street and McCorkle Place, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ken Broun, Paul Hardin · Also mentions: Franklin Street post office, Memorial Hall, Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1994, p. 1
  170. Gordon, Crowther and Halkiotis win the Democratic primary for Orange County commissioners In the May 3 primary Alice Gordon (6,913 votes), Bill Crowther (6,400) and Stephen Halkiotis (6,395) won the three Democratic nominations for county commissioner, with S.A.M. Brooks fourth at 4,978. District Attorney Carl Fox beat Barry Winston 8,660 to 2,175, Sen. Howard Lee and Fred Hobbs took the two Senate nominations for the 16th District, and Joe Buckner won the nomination for district judge; Joan Terry and Myra Lee Crawford went to a May 31 runoff for clerk of court. People: Howard N. Lee Place: Orange County · Also named: Alice Gordon, Bill Crowther, Stephen Halkiotis, S.A.M. Brooks, Carl Fox, Barry Winston, Fred Hobbs, Joe BucknerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 19, 1994, p. 3
  171. General Assembly lets Chapel Hill-Carrboro voters recall school board members After the state Senate passed it unanimously on June 16, the House in the first week of July 1994 passed a local bill, sponsored by Sen. Howard Lee, letting voters in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district petition for a recall election of a school board member, with signatures of 10 percent of registered voters (about 4,250) gathered within 30 days. The board, which in January had chosen to seek recall legislation over removing member LaVonda Burnette for falsely claiming to be a UNC student, then dropped a hearing set for July 7 on whether her conduct was immoral or disreputable and left the matter to the voters. People: Howard N. Lee Place: N.C. General Assembly, Raleigh; Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district · Also named: LaVonda BurnetteSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 7, 1994, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, June 23, 1994, p. 3
  172. Howard Lee loses his seat in the North Carolina Senate Former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee, a Democrat serving Orange County in the two-seat 16th Senate District, finished third behind Democrat Fred Hobbs and Republican Teena Little, both of Southern Pines, in the Republican wave of November 8. It was the first time Lee had lost as an incumbent; UNC officials said the University had lost one of its strongest advocates in the legislature. People: Howard N. Lee Place: 16th Senate District (including Orange County) · Also named: Fred Hobbs, Teena LittleSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1994, p. 1

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The Courage to Lead: One Man's Journey in Public Service

Lee, Howard N. · 2008 · Cotton Patch Press

Howard N. Lee (born 1934) tells his own story, from a farm childhood in Lithonia, Georgia, through college, army service in Korea at Camp Casey and the move from Savannah that planted him in Chapel Hill, to his election as mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969 and his later run for Congress and years in the state legislature. Published by Cotton Patch Press of Chapel Hill in 2008, 199 pages with plates.

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Oral history interview with Edwin Caldwell, March 2, 2001: interview K-0202, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Caldwell, Edwin · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Edwin Caldwell, Jr. reviews a life in Chapel Hill politics in a three-hour Southern Oral History Program interview recorded March 2, 2001, by Oliver White. A skilled organizer, Caldwell worked in the campaign that made Howard Lee the town's first Black mayor in 1969, ran for office more than once without winning, and became a local political power. The conversation also covers race relations, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board and the Church of Reconciliation. Published online in 2006 in Documenting the American South.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

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Oral history interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000: interview K-0536, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Clark, Rebecca · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Interview recorded June 21, 2000 with Rebecca Clark (1915-2009), a Black Chapel Hill resident, for the Southern Oral History Program at UNC. Clark, educated in Chapel Hill's segregated schools, describes working life under segregation and the economic discrimination she met in it. Topics also include Lincoln High School, school integration, and Howard Lee, elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969. Interview K-0536 in collection #4007.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

NC Cardinal UNC

The mayor who kept his promise : Howard Lee of Chapel Hill, N.C., makes inroads on his town's employment, housing, utilities, and transportation problems during tenure

Poinsett, Alex, 1926-2015 · 1973 · Johnson Pub. Co.

Alex Poinsett's profile of Howard Lee, elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969 as the first Black mayor of a predominantly white town in the South, detached from the November 1973 issue of Ebony. The subtitle credits Lee with progress on employment, housing, utilities and transportation. About six magazine pages with illustrations and portraits, published in Chicago by Johnson Publishing.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

UNC

My life of breaking barriers, building bridges, and making history

Lee, Howard, 1934- · 2021 · North Caroliniana Society

Howard N. Lee's account of his own career, published in 2021 by the North Caroliniana Society with the society award given to him that year, together with tributes from Angela Lee, Valerie Foushee and others. Lee became mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969, the town's first Black mayor.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

UNC

Oral history interview with Anne Barnes, January 30, 1989

Barnes, Anne Craig · 2006

Oral history interview with Anne Craig Barnes recorded on January 30, 1989 and issued in 2006. Barnes represented Orange County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, and topics include women in politics, the National Women's Political Caucus, the state Democratic Party, Terry Sanford and Howard Lee of Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

NC Cardinal

[Request for financial support of Howard Lee's campaign for Congress]

Campus Howard Lee Fundraising Committee (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1972 · Campus Howard Lee Fundraising Committee

Fundraising appeal dated May 1, 1972 from the Campus Howard Lee Fundraising Committee in Chapel Hill, asking for money for Howard Lee's run for Congress. Lee had been elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

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[Howard Nathaniel Lee]

Material concerning Howard Lee, born in 1934 and elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969.

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The Black experience : social, cultural and economic considerations : proceedings of the First Workshop on the Black Experience

Workshop on the Black Experience (1st : 1980 : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1981 · UNC School of Social Work

Proceedings of the first Workshop on the Black Experience, convened at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and published the next year by the UNC School of Social Work. The papers take up social, cultural and economic questions, and the volume includes 'The Black experience in politics' by Howard N. Lee, who was elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lee, Howard, 1934-.

UNC CH Historical Society

Environmental Education Series Part 1: Recycling Solid Waste, A Community Action Model

1972

Black and white film from the Environmental Education Series, made between 1972 and 1975, presenting a Chapel Hill recycling effort as a model for community action. A panel of local participants talks it over, among them Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee, C. Ritchie Bell, Peggy Cohn, Kenneth McIntyre, Mary Turnbull and Alice Welsh. Part of North Carolina Sights and Sounds.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Lee, Howard Nathaniel.

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Mayor Howard Lee

Barnes, Deborah H. · 1972

Howard Lee, mayor of Chapel Hill, speaks in the Pit on the UNC campus in 1972. Lee, elected in 1969, was among the first Black mayors of a mostly white Southern town. From the Deborah H. Barnes Collection.

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DPLA

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Lee, Howard Nathaniel · 1969

Papers from the political career of Howard Nathaniel Lee, who won the 1969 race for mayor of Chapel Hill and became the town's first Black mayor. The 45 items include addresses, biographical sketches, his proposed platform for that race, and campaign material from it and from his 1972 run for the Second Congressional District seat.

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