| 1959
July 1, 3-A
New Post Office Station in Charlotte
July 1, 4-C
Charlotte plans new Chamber of Commerce building, possibly in Brooklyn
July 2, 5-A
School Board Lets Contracts (for building of North Mecklenburg Jr.
High)
July3, 1-B
Renewal Group Lets Contracts – work deals with plans in Brooklyn
July 9, 1-D
Veto of Housing Bill Stalled (will fund Charlotte’s slum
clearance plan in Brooklyn)
July 10, (?)
New Speedway’s Progress is Slow (Charlotte Motor Speedway)
July 12, 9-A
Queen’s Is Building and Planning More – New Sorority House,
Classroom Buildings, Irwin McKay Infirmary, Everett Library
July 12, 1-B
Stilts To Support Charlotte’s $700,000 Queen’s Terrace – modern
apartment on
Granville Rd.; architect is Louis H. Asbury
July 16, 18-A
Work To Start Immediately On New Wing For Hospital (Memorial Hospital)
July 17, 11-A
New Hovis Chapel Opens Mortuary On 829 Providence
July 21, 11-A
County OK’s Use of Funds for Building – new county office on E.
Fourth St.
July 23, 1-B
Bethel Defends (new health) Center with Wit
July 26, 1-D
Land Use and Traffic Plan; School Bids Due Aug 13 (Windsor Park
Elementary
By Wilson and McCulloch)
July 27, 1-B
Charlotte, Other Cities Sweat Out Housing Bill’s Fate (Urban Renewal)
July 28, 1-B
Health Center Building Accepted On Sugaw Creek
August 4, 5-A
Radcliffe Avenue Widening Urged – runs between Queen’s Rd West and
Selwyn
Ave.
August 4, 1-B
Redevelopment Meet Today – city council and urban redevelopment
commission
Meet about plans for Brooklyn
City Building Code Delayed
August 5, 2-B
Railways Should Keep Up With Times
August 6, 12-D
City Council Will Re-Run Whole Show – urban redevelopment proposals
will be
Given Aug 31
August 8, 5-A
Homecoming Will Highlight New Sanctuary’s Opening – Matthew’s
Methodist
Church
August 9, 8-A
The ‘Crescentite’ Is Being Studied – UNC-CH study of people
living in the fast growing and urbanized crescent from Greenville, SC
to Raleigh
August 11, 6-A
Intersection Redesigning Is Planned – Douglas Airport Rd and
Dixie Rd intersection widened to four lanes
August 12, 2-A
Senators Try to Override Veto – new pared down housing bill to be
voted on
August 14, 1-B
Photo of Charlottetown Shopping Center under construction
August 15, 1-A
NC’s Third Largest Bank Plans Charlotte Branch (First Citizen’s)
August 18, 3-A
6 Named To New Building Board (Building Standards Board)
New Streets To Be Named
Property Owner Asks New Hearing – county commissioners make last
offer to ID
Blumenthal for his property on Third St. and Myers, which is needed
for county office building
August 18, 6-A
School Board Eyes 4 Tentative Sites – for three elementary
schools and one jr high school
August 18, 13-A
City Commission May Pay For ‘Outside Area’ – Parks and
Recreation want to fund playground outside city for "investment
for the future"
August 18, 13-A
City Council Approves Four Zoning Changes
August 22, 5-A
School Site Readying Is Started -- Charlotte County Day on Carmel Rd.
August 22, 1-B
Plan Ahead, Says Veeder – City Manager Veeder talks to rotary
club about thoroughfare plan, urban renewal.
August 23, 1-A
Train Crossing Plan Sputters, Stalls – discussion of plans made in
’49 to cure
Midtown traffic jams @ RR crossings
August 23, 1-C
South High May Open on Sept. 2 (South Mecklenburg)
August 24, 1-A
Engineer May Gross Million Dollars (more on the train crossing plan
for midtown)
August 25, 1-A
Conflicting Street Plans Plague City -- grade separation,
thoroughfare plan, and urban redevelopment
August 26, 1-A
Grade Plan Is Foreseen "Eventually"
August 26, 11-A
City Schools Open Tuesday – New Schools: Garinger, Selwyn, Amay
James, Collingwood, Landsdowne, South
August 26, 1-B
New Names Asked For Streets – 350 city and county streets
recommended to be changed
August 26, 2-B
Urban Renewal An Illegal Process?
August 27, 1-B
South High Opening Delayed One Week (South Mecklenburg)
August 27, 2-B
The Grade Crossing Program Rates A Council Reappraisal
August 28, 1-A
House Dares Ike Veto – revised housing bill passes congress, now
going
To Ike (major provision of slum clearance crucial for Brooklyn plans)
August 28, 19 –C
Sunoco Opens 18th Station Here Today (@ Mint and Morehead)
August 29, 1-B
Jones Defends Anti-Housing Bill Vote
August 30, 1-B
Debates using a pedestrian mall (as shown in Toledo) in downtown
Charlotte
August 31, 1-A
Changes to 700 City Street Names
September 1, 1-A
Council To Probe Grade Separation
September 1, 3-A
Dowd Says Mall Won’t Work Here (pedestrian mall downtown)
September 1, 7-A
‘Setback Lines’ For Street Widening May Be Coming (downtown) –
these lines
limit how close property can be built to the street
September 1, 1-B
469 Streets Will Receive New Names – council approves changes;
citizens have
30 days to file protests
Council Firm On Widening Of Radcliffe
September 2, 4-A
Garinger’s First Classes Are Today
September 2, 11-A
Integrated NC Schools Open Calmly (Garinger has one black student)
September 2, 16 –B
Old Central Students Find Garinger Opens New Vistas
September 3, 1-C
Chamber Unit Kills Charlotte Mall Idea – pedestrian mall downtown
ruled ‘impractical’
September 4, 7-A
Wilkinson Blvd Widening Date Set
September 6, 3-A
Congress May Try Third Housing Bill (2nd bill vetoed by
Einsenhower)
September 7, 1-B
Behind A Quiet Mask Lies A Mind Of Inspiration -- article on Dr.
Elmer Garinger
September 8, 2-B
Urban Renewal Is The Only Answer (letter to Observer)
September 8, 16-B
Good Food Is Their Business (Town and Country Drive-In – 224
Wilkinson)
September 9, 1-A
New Housing Bill Makes Third Try (if passes, will fund Brooklyn
slum clearance)
September 11, 1-A
Ike, Congress Finally Agree On Housing Bill
September 11, 1-B
Large Banks Here Won’t Be Openly Opposed, But… (First Citizen’s
coming to Charlotte)
‘Name’ Gripes Due October 16
September 12, 3-A
Textile Concern Plans $700,000 Building – Kendall Comp. Textiles;
in Carmel County Club area; architect is J.N. Pease and Co.
September 12, 1-C
Picture – new residential developments (national housing week)
September 12, 2-C
1959 Home Building Total $41 Million
September 12, 10-C
"Suburbs? They’re Wonderful"
September 12, 17-C
FHA Is Catalyst In Home Building (FHA insured loans make home buying
easier)
September 13, 1-F
Photo of Garinger Cafeteria
September 15, 1-B
Council To Set New Rules For Street Name Changes – old criteria
dropped in face of protests
September 16, 7-A
Street Name Change Rules Are Backed Up
September 16, 1-B
Tighter Subdivision Controls Proposed – perimeter section
affected (wider streets, gutters, and curbs to city standard)
September 16, 1-B
Work Starts On New Motel – Transcontinental Motel (chain) on 900 N.
Tryon
September 17, 11-B
Charlotte Tops NC In Building Permits
September 18, 7-A
New HS Offers ‘Surprises’ – South Mecklenburg (still under
construction –
Problems for students attending the school)
September 19, 1-B
Three Lots Needed For County Offices – negotiations still
continuing for last three lots in block on E. Fourth Street
September 20, 1-B
We’ll Have Fun On The ‘Inland Sea’: Catawba Waters To Back Up
Again – groundbreaking for Cowan’s Ford Dam set for September 28
September 22, 13-A
Ashely Park High – buying of school land is directed (opposite Cannon
Airport)
September 23, 6-A
$750,000 Bowling Alley To Be Built – Montford Dr. near Park Rd.
Shopping Center (to be called Park Lanes Bowling Center); designed by
Ferebee and Walters, built by Myers and Chapman
September 24, 1-A
Billion Dollar Housing Bill Signed Into Law
September 24, 1-B
Part Of Sugaw Creek To Be Covered – for parking lot; raises
speculation about covering more for a highway
Bypass Completion Expected By Dec 1 – Connects to Hutchinson Ave,
Rozzelle’s Ferry Rd, and Beattie’s Ford Rd.
September 25, 1-B
City Slum Optimism Prevails – Brooklyn and Urban Redevelopment
September 26, 1-B
Contracts Not Let – Wilkinson Project (road widening) Must Await
Summer
September 26, 1-B (last page)
Governer Will Begin Damwork Monday (Cowan’s Ford Dam)
September 27, 1-F
Fast Growth Of Community Colleges Seen – Charlotte College and
Carver College ; 248 acre tract for Charlotte, 50 acres for Carver
have been purchased
September 28, 6-A
Charlotte Church To Grow – Myers Park Methodist on Providence Rd.
(picture)
September 28, 1-B
They’ll Grow Side By Side, Say Trustees – Charlotte College and
Carver College
September 28, last page
Cowan’s Ford – Hodges To Signal Dam Construction
September 29, last page
Dynamite Starts New Duke Lake – Lake Norman shoreline to touch
Mecklenburg, Lincoln, Catawba, and Iredell counties (picture)
September 30, 1-B
City College Unit To Be Ready In ’61 – Charlotte College’s
new campus; AG Odell, architect.
October 1, 1-B
$125,000 Drive-In Café Planned Here – McDonalds; Ray Kroc is
selecting site
October 5, 1-B
Mormons Celebrate A New Building (3020 Hillside Dr.)
October 6, 9-A
Zone Changes: Council OK’s 5, Kills 4, Holds 1
October 8, 6-B
School Center Plea Made – Proposal to build administrative center
for city/county school in Brooklyn (after re-development) is
criticized
October 10, Section C
Parade of Homes
October 11, 13-A
Dam May Endanger Striped Bass
October 12, 1-B
Newest Street Name Plan Faces City Council Today
October 13, 1-B
Council To Retain Name Change Plan
County Office Building Gets Close Estimate – architect Charles
Wheately’s estimate is just under the wire at $2 million
October 16, 1-B
Deadline For Filing Is Today – street names to be change
(deadline for filing protests
Charlottetown Mall To Open Oct 28 – on Independence; located on
40 acres of Thompson orphanage
October 16, 2-B
North-South Expressway Nearer?
October 17, 8-A
City Street Name Petitions Flow In
October 18, 18-A
Three Young Bros. Boss Bank (First Citizens – coming to Charlotte)
October 20, 1-B
Overhanging Signs To Go By January 1 -- City Council Stands Firm on
Ordinance passed in ‘58
October 21, 1-B
City College Is Given Green Light On Plan – Shows Odell’s
tentative " master plan" for Charlotte College (photo)
October 22, 1-B
26 Names For Streets Suggested
October 23, 6-A
Picture of future Charlotte College campus
October 24, 4-A
City Church To Break Ground Sunday (addition for Myers Park
Presbyterian)
October 25, 10-A
Full page ad for Charlottetown mall
October 26, 1-B
County Building Decorator Sought
October 27, 8-A
Residents Choose 26 St. Names – city council accepts new names
October 28, 4-A
Schoolmen Eye Bond Fund For Administrative Center
October 28, Section C
Charlottetown Mall Opens – photos, ads, bios on those who ‘made
it possible’, layout sketches
October 29, 3-A
Mall Developers Ponder Unused Acreage -- 30 remaining acres of
Thompson orphanage land
October 29, 1-C
Charlottetown Mall Opening Attracts Shopping Multitude – on
Independence and Kings Dr. (photo)
Free Parking Might Solve Downtown Stores’ Problem – validated
parking will help keep downtown stores running with comptetition with
Charlottetown
November 3, 1-B
Photo of new YMCA on East Morehead and South Caldwell
Planners Buck Some Street Name Changes
November 6, 6-A
Signs must Be Down In 55 Days (overhanging singns on Trade and Tryon
Streets
November 7, 1-A
New $1 Million Plant to Create 300 Jobs – site is Arrowood on
York Rd. – bought by Duff-Norton (jack and hoist manufacturing)
November 7, 14-A
Sketch – St. Andrew’s Big Plans – planned addition to church
on 3601 Central Ave.
November 7,1-B
Bids On Buster Boyd Span To Be Taken In Jan – bridge over Catawba
river – last of the major horse and buggy bridges to be replaced
November 8, 1-C
Barringer To Build 100-Unit Auto Court On St. Mark Site (414 N. Tryon)
November 10, 1-A
Smith Blasts Council’s Street Naming Action (14 duplications)
November 10, 1-C
New Lance Plant Contracts Given – New plant planned on US 21
November 11, 1-C
Brandon Circle Residents Plan Suit To Keep Name: Area Is ‘Up In
Arms’ Over Council Action
November 12, 6-A
Queens To Start Dana Building – J.N. Pease and Co. are architects
(drawing)
November 13, 4-A
Sketch – new campus proposed for Charlotte Country Day
November 15, 1-C
Church’s Campaign To Top Goal – Myers Park Baptist Church gets
more money than expected in fund raiser for three new buildings
November 16, 1-C
Council Faces Building Protest Delegation Today – home owners
near freedom park object to planned Jr. League Building
November17, 1-A
250 Bed Memorial Wing Is Proposed (Memorial Hospital)
November 17, 9-A
Talk Is Made On Brooklyn – Urban Redevelopment Commission meets
with Society of Residential Appraisers
November 17, 11-A
School Unit May Get New Plans – Garinger addition (Odell is
architect)
Novem ber 17, 1-C
Council Holds Up On Ten Streets – 27 names now stand undecided
Photo – New Mercury Vapor Lights Downtown Charlotte
Junior League Asked To Hold Up On Building (until objections of
nearby residents could be considered)
November 18, 13-A
Southern Bell To Build New Service Center -- at Hobbs and 24th
St. (near N. Tryon)
November 19, 1-C
New Memorial Wing Would Cost $3 Million
November 20, 7-A
Negroe Church Aided – Mt. Olive Church to become University Park
Baptist – Myers Park Baptist aiding – C.D. Spangler donated land
plot (drawing)
November 22, 12-A
Charlotte’s New $3 Million YMCA Nears Completion (photo)
November 23, 14-A
Burned Church Breaks Ground For new Home (University Park Baptist
Church)
November 23, 15-A
Signs Must Come Down In 39 Days (overhanging signs downtown)
November 24, 8-A
Education Center May Gain City, County PTA’s Support
November 25, 4-A
Shopping Center Still Protested – residents protest rezoning of land
on Albemarle
Rd. and plans for a new shopping center
November 25, 5-A
PTA Councils OK Education Center
November 25, 1-B
Sign Removal Law Will Get Test In Court (photo)
December 1, (?)
County Board To View Plans For New School –new junior high on Tyvola
Rd.
December 2, 6-A
Merchants To Appeal Ban (of overhanging signs)
December 2, 7-A
Chamber ‘Looking For Site’ – stalled Brooklyn development
delays Chamber of Commerce’s building plans there
December 2, 8-B
Board Pushes Plans For Education Center
School To Be Named After J. Mason Smith
December 3, 10-A
Wrecking Deadline Close, Work Ends (for County Office Building) –
(photo)
December 4, 1-B
Bar Committee Oopposed County Building Sites – protest to board
planned
December 6, 1-B
Face Lifting For The Future – those slums must go – Charlotte
making headway on (plan of ) redevelopment (for Brooklyn)
December 7, 1-B
City Sign Hassle Awaited (overhanging signs)
County (bar) To Protest 2 Building Sites –
December 8, 7-A
County Garage Location Choice Delayed 30 Days (county office plans)
December 8, 12-A
City Street Name Issue Is Revived
Architect Wanted For (education) Center
December 8, 1-C
Council Insists Signs Must Go (overhanging st. signs)
December 9, 10-A
New Grid "Stadium" Promised – speedway (Highway 29)
will be designed for football games
December 9, 1-C
Final Slum Clearance Plan Near – study on Brooklyn area to be
presented Jan 5
December 9, 12-C
School Unit to Hire Architect for (Education) Center
December 11, 4-A
Cornelius May Get Face - Lifting – highway 115 widening, park planned
(sketch)
December 12, 1-B
Banks Building Plans May Shrink Three Stories (American Commercial Bank
–
South Tryon St.)
December 13, 1-B
After Extension – What? (Charlotte city limits extended after Dec.
31)
December 14, 1-B
Home Owners Study Annexation ( Soon They’ll Be In The City)
December 15, 6-A
Brooklyn ‘Uses’ Suggested (secondary commercial district)
December 15, 18-A
Thoroughfare Plan Delayed
December 16, 1-B
‘Joining City To Cost Druggist $500 (Some To Pay More, Some Less)
December 16, 8-C
Couny Plans New Elementary School – In S. Mecklenburg (Starmount
development on Pineville Rd.
December 17, 1-C
Advice For Perimeters (Charlotte city limit expansion)
Motel, 9-Hole Golf Course To Be Built – Sam Snead Motor Lodge, Inc.
(Sketch)
December 18, 1-B
New Area To Be Zoned In Mid-July (Charlotte Expansion)
December 21, 1-B
Veeder Takes A Look At City’s Seamy Side – city manager takes
‘after dark’ tour of Charlotte’s slums
December 21, 4-B
There’ll Be Farms In City Jan 1 (Charlotte expansion)
December 22, 1-B
County Won’t Lose Much (Charlotte expansion)
Naming ‘Clean Up’ Continued (street renaming)
December 22, 9-C
County Children May Have 2 New Junior High Schools Next Year – J.
Mason Smith (Tyvola Rd – Wheatley is co-architect) and North Junior
High
December 23, 1-C
College Buildings May Lag – September of ’61 Predicted Finish
Date (Charlotte College
City Annexation Battles Are Over (Charlotte expansion)
December 27, 1-B
Speedy Action Is Anticipated Over Sign Issue (overhanging signs
downtown)
December 29, 1-B
Sign Ban Is Legal, Says Shaw (overhangin signs downtown)
December 30, 4-A
Kings Drive-Morehead St. Traffic Jam To Be Eased – roads flared,
light added
(sketch)
Contract Law (requiring four separate contracts for buildings using
public money)
Is Opposed By Odell For Garinger High School Addition
December 30, 16-A
Country May Clear Last Building Hurdle Today – may acquire last of
the land for
The new county office
Planners: Let Garage Await (‘master’) Plan – for new government
plaza
1960
January 1, 1-C
Charlotte Greets 41,000 New Inhabitants Today -- population to exceed
200,000
January 3, 1-B
Welcome New Charlotteans! (expansion of city limits)
January 4, 1-B
Draft Of Campus Ready – Carver College (J.N. Pease & Co.,
architect)
January 5, 1-B
NAACP Asks Stronger Voice In Slum Plan – Brooklyn Housing Is Urged
January 6, 3-A
City Can Condemn Land For School (proposed Ashley Park High School)
January 7, 8-A
Construction Plans For Carver, Charlotte Colleges – sketch
January 7, 1-B
New Bridge Contract To Be Let – Buster Boyd Bridge
January 10, 1-C
Our Slums Are A Losing Proposition – Charlotte’s Brooklyn area
could be tax bonanza (overhead photo)
January 11, 1-B
Brooklyn Homes Give Owners High Returns (low investment, negligible
taxes) photo
January 12, 16-A
College Building Programs Studied (Carver and Charlotte Colleges)
January 12, 1-B
A New Brooklyn To Start January 20 – Charlotte Redevelopment
Commission To
Unveil Overall Plan
January 13, 4-A
Contracts On 2 Schools Are Awarded – West Charlotte High and
Barringer Elementary
January 13, 1-B
Slum Cleanup May Clip Barber’s Income – Brooklyn ‘Ought to be
torn down’ – and he’s ready to move
Commission To Act On Providence Road – Widening decision due Feb 3
(sketch)
January 14, 1-B
Where Will Folks In Brooklyn Go?
January 15, 1-B
County Office Building Plans Hit New Snag – Bar unit, architect
disagree
January 16, 1-B
$700,000 Is Allocated City Community Colleges – 2 Buildings May
Result (for
Charlotte College)
January 19, 1-A
Slum Razing Project Approved By Council – Brooklyn slum clearance
(photo)
January 19, 1-B
Dedication Is Held At Health Center
January 20, 1-B
‘Where Are We Gonna Go?’ They Ask – Slum Families Must Move
Eventually
(photos)
January 21, 1-B
Park-Like Brooklyn Center Foreseen -- $2.9 Million in local funds
will sart job (sketch)
Negroes To Meet With Urban Group (Brooklyn)
Here’s Brooklyn’s Future
January 25, 7-B
Architect To Force Decision On County Office Building – architect =
Wheatley
January 26, 1-B
Commissioner OK New Office Building Plans – Architect’s ‘Package’
Approved
January 27, 1-B
Street Bridge Must Get OK From Council – Wheatley’s county
office street bridge
January 28, 1-B
McIntyre Says Charlotte Needs New Zoning Law – present ordinance
outdated
January 29, 8-A
Brooklyn Session Hailed – Negro Leaders and Redevelopment Can Meet
January 30, 1-A
Mutual Savings and Loan Buildin Will Cost $1.2 Million – S. Tryon St.
and West
Second St. (Sketch)
February 3, 1-B
Planners Pave Way For Brooklyn Action – 33 acres labeled blighted
February 6, 1-B
Bridge Suit Is Threatened – county office building
February 9, 16-B
Town And Country Drive-In Opens Second Restaurant
February 11, 1-B
More Trouble Afoot For His Little Bridge – Wheatley’s county office
plans
February 14, 1-B
Tall New Office Building Planned – structure could be loftiest
(Cutter Realty, SE
Corner of Tryon and Fourth – sketch)
February 19, 6-A
"City’s Thoroughfare Plan Finally Shaped" – a
blueprint for Charlotte’s street needs for the next 20 years
February 19, 20-C
Expressway Plans Pushed
February 23, 7-C
NC Renewal Act Okayed – Slum Clearance Project Affected –
Superior Court ruled NC urban renewal act of 1957 constitutional
February 25, 6-A
Downtown Sign Case Is Scheduled (overhanging signs downtown)
February 25, 1-B
Bids Seen On Building For County – Charles Wheatley, architect
February 27, 1-B
County, City May Clash Over Proposed Pedestrian Bridge – county
office building
February 27, 1-B
Sears, Roebucks Plans $300,000 Expansion – N. Tryon St. and Tryon St.
February 29, 6-A
County Hears Cost Of Building Today (county buildings)
March 1, 1-B
County’s Bridge Is Getting Shaky – County Commission worried
about cost (of street bridge for county office building"
March 3, 23-A
Whittling Goes On: County Still Shy Of Building Cost – county office
buildings
March 6, 2-B
The County Office Buidling Story (picture)
March 6, 1-D
Road Plans Expected By April 1 – plans will clear way for elimination
of traffic
Bottlenecks at west side grade crossings
March 9, 4-A
Speed Up Promised For Slum Clearance
March 15, 1-B
Council Votes Against Building Bridge Across E. Fourth St.
March 16, 1-B
City Colleges Seek $975,000 For Buildings – College Building sketches
okayed
March 18, 4-B
He Prefers Bridge To Money – Architect Wheatley still wants
crosswalk, not cash from new county office design
March 19, 1-B
County Decision – Building To Rise Without Bridge
March 22, 1-B
Building Permits Delayed – Council asks to preserve plans for E.
Fourth St. – city
Wants time to fix setback lines on street)
March 25, 5-D
Pease Firm Is Cited For School Designs – Selwyn Elementary and
Alexander Graham Junior High
March 25, 1-D
At Fourth St. and Tryon St. – Setback Lines May Scuttle Proposed
12 Story Building – building inspector instructed not to allow any
more buildings on fourth st.
March 25, 5-D
Pease Firm Is Cited For School Designs
March 26, 7-A
Catawba Surrenders: Dam Project Progressing (progress of Cowans Ford
Dam)
March 27, 1-C
State Will Relocate Some Roads Covered By Lake (Norman) – Highway 73
March 27, 18-C
Odell Will Be Judge Of Design – nationwide competition of school
design
March 30, 3-A
Lake Norman Road Relocation Plan Revealed
March 31, 1-D
Education Center: School Find Way To Pay – County pleased,may look
again
April 1, 1-B
Plans Coming To Open Up Fourth Street: Committee Suggestion to
Allow Cutter Building, Wider Street
April 1, 1-B
Duke Project Covers Big Area: Will New Lake Be Near You? (detailed map)
April 5, 1-C
Picture – "Old and New" – of beginning of construction
for new county offices
April 6, 1-C
New Post Office? Thoroughfare plan key to US building
April 7, 1-B
Friendly Critics Hear The Story: Education Officials Cite Careful
School Spending – Boards invite ideas, criticism
April 8, 1-A
Meeting Traffic Needs For 20 Years – 2 year study is completed
April 9, 1-A
Traffic Cure For Charlotte Would Come In Four Doses (map)
April 9, 1-B
Circle Around One-Way Street, To Speed Cars: Downtown Pattern
Stretched (map)
April 10, 1-C
Three New Roads Planned: Highways To Link Into Street Project
(I-77, I-85 North, U.S. 21 South)
April 13, 1-B
7-Mile Loop Would Ring Downtown By 1975 – It Could Be a Reality
Thoroughfare Plan Won’t Stop Renewal (plans for Brooklyn)
April 14, 7-C
C of C Discusses School Office Site
April 15, 20-C
Expressway Would Cost $20 Million (pictures)
April 17, 1-B
It Takes Smoke, Time, Brains To Build A $65 Million Dam (Cowans Ford
Dam)
April 19, 1-A
Street Plan Wins Council Approval – "In Principle"
April 22, 11-A
Two Modernistic Buildings Are Proposed For Carver – J.N. Pease
& Co., Architect
April 26, 1-B
Brookly Plan Approved By Federal Government – approved plans for
clearing 33
Acres of Brooklyn’s slum areas
April 28, 13-A
School Center In New Brooklyn? Well, "Maybe"
April 28, (?)
Brooklyn Relocation Discussed – Urban Agent Says Moving Is A Problem
May 4, 11-A
Interstate 77 – Plans Unveiled For Expressway
May 5, 3-A
Picture – First Steel – construction of 16 story American
Commercial Bank Building
May 5, 1-C
Fourth Street Widening Assured: Cutter purchases necessary land
May 10, 1-B
Fourth St. Will Have Third Lane In Future – Council Reserves Land
Strip
May 4, 6-B
Pictures – Charlotte Speedway
May 12, 9-B
Changes In Plans To Cut Building Costs – Charlotte College –
Odell enters plans to share cost
May 19, 1-B
$1.5. Million Nursing Home Planned For Charlotte – Louis Asbury,
architect –
Shamrock Dr.
May 21, 1-B
Wilkinson Zone Action is Urged – Boulevard Is Called ‘A Mess’
May 24, 1-B
First Building For Charlotte College – sketch
May 26, 6-A
Building Will Be 12 Stories Tall – Cutter Buidling (corner of E.
Fourth and Tryon)
May 26, 1-B
Charlotte’s Street Plan Approved – by state highway commission
(thoroughfare plan)
May 27, 1-B
Location Of Center In Doubt: 2 Candidates On the Fence – proposed
education center; whether it should be near government agencies or not
May 29, 1-C
The Changing Face Of Tryon Street – pictures, descriptions of old
and new buildings
May 29, 1-D
YMCA Dedicated Amid Politicking – (photo)
June 1, 1-B
Interstate 85 Link To Open By Next Fall (it runs to Gaston County)
June 2, 15-A
Transients Home Dedicated – Salvation Army Home (221 W. Seventh St.)
June 9, 1-B
42,000 Charlotteans Live In Blight Areas -- Plan Urges Changes
Chamber To Request County Board To Zone Major Roads
June 10, 1-B
City Allots First Budget Money To Slum Program – Veeder Earmarks
$120,500
Speedway Contractor Fuss – Charlotte Motor Speedway Construction
June 11, 1-B
Supreme Court Upholds NC Urban Renewal Law – way is cleared for city
project
Slum Unit is "Greatly Pleased"
Speedway Spokesman Says Current Debts Will Be Paid – Charlotte
Motor Speedway (photo)
June 13, 1-B
8,000 Turned Out…Week Before Race – practice run (photo)
June 18, 1-B
Copter To Help Direct Speedway Race Traffic (sketch)
June 19, 1-A
9 Observer Staffers Covering World 600 (at Charlotte Motor Speedway)
June 19, 1-B
600 Reality Today, If Track Holds
June 20, 1-A
Photo of Charlotte Motor Speedway
June 21, 1-B
City To Pave 16.19 Miles of Street (annexed area)
June 22, 1-B
Brooklyn Plans To Get Public Opinion Test
June 23, 1-C
Brooklyn Project: Conflict Looming On Housing Issue – NAACP,
Planners To Clash?
June 24, 1-B
New Plant Here Will Employ 400 – Subsidiary of Republic
Industrial Corp. to move inot plant to be built in Arrowood
July 1, 6-A
Photo – Buster Boyd Bridge Construction
July 6, 1-B
Colleges To Ask For More State Help (Charlotte, Carver Colleges)
July 13, 4-A
Charlotte Red Cross To Seek Approval For $66,250 Park Rd. Site
July 18, 1-B
Colleges Ask Aid Today – Community Units Want $946,500
July 19, 1-B
Charlotte Welcomes New Industry – Duff Norton Plant to come to
Arrowood (sketch)
July19, 1-C
Expansion Is Requested For 2 Local Colleges (Charlotte and Carver)
Slum Plan To Be Given Hearing
July 21, 1-B
Paving ˝ Finished On Perimeter Streets
July 23, 1-B
Charlotte Street Program Goes Into High Gear – city thoroughfare plan
July 26, 7-A
Four Zoning Changes Get Council OK
August 3, 1-B
Food Firm Building Big Warehouse – Goodnight Bros. (Wilkinson Blvd.)
August 9, 1-B
Collins Store Coming – Freedom Drive Center Chosen
August 11, 1-A
J.C. Smith Undertakes Expansion -- $4 Million, 10 year plan includes 5
buildings
August 13, 3-A
Code Would Attack City’s Unfit Housing – proposed by outgoing
superintendent of city building inspection department James Bell
August 16, 9-A
Wilkinson Boulevard Zoning Plan Pushed
August 16, 13-A
New Woodlawn Fire Station Design Sought – architect Charles M. Grier
August 17, 6-A
These School Plans ‘Different – Ashley Park High, architect
McDowell Brackett
May become first air conditioned school in Charlotte
August 18, 1-B
Flood Protection Zoning Is Shaping
August 19, 1-B
Durham Negro Bank Plans To Open Charlotte Branch – Mechanics And
Farmers Of Durham
August 20, 1-B
Photo Buster Boyd Bridge
August 20, section D
Echo Home – sponsored by the Charlotte Homeowner’s Association
– Architect Claude Crosby
August 22, 1-B
Renewal plan Up Today – Public hearing starts at 4 pm
August 26, 10-A
Charlotte College Campus Work To Start In October
August 26, 1-B
NC Road Plan: "It Hit Us Right In The Face" – Charlotte
Thoroughfare and Grade Separation Plan
August 29, 1-A
First Steel Rolling Mill In Caroline’s Planned (Photo)
August 29, 9-A
Photo – Charlotte YMCA
August 29, 1-B
School To Occupy New $200,000 Campus – Charlotte Country Day (Carmel
Rd)
August 30, 1-A
Charlotte City Limit Signs To Be Protested (new ones designed)
September 1, 1-C
Cornelius Urban Renewal Step Due (renewal and thoroughfare plan)
September 2, 5-A
Photo – opening of Duff Norton Plant in Arrowood
September 2, 8-A
Photo – NC National Bank Construction
September 2, 1-B
Highway 95 Route North Is Selected – Charlotte to China Grove
(sketch)
September 9, 9-A
26 Bachelor Apartment Units Started (Fulton Avenue)
September 9, 1-B
Charlotte College Area Folks Plan Sewer Discussion
September 15, 12-A
Cornelius Building Study Scheduled (redevelopment)
September 16, 10-A
City Ends Paving Project (for streets in expansion area)
September 16, 12-A
Frim Is Picked To Finish Grade Separation Program
September 16, 1-B
$1 Million Motel To Be Built Here (on W. Trade St.)
September 20, 1-C
$1 Million Approved To Buy Right of Way – start on expressways
New Community May Be Laid Out – Near Charlotte College site
September 24, 1-B
Rolling Mill For City Planned By Willard – Willard Smelting Company
September 24, section C
Home Week Begins
September 26, 1-B
Zone Change Expected -- Council May OK Red Cross Site
September 28, 6-A
New Luxury Apartments Going Up – 1100 Queens Rd.
September 30, 15-A
Davidson City Hall To Open Doors January 1 (photo)
October 1, 4-A
Cowans Engineer: He Builds Dams The ‘Casual Way’
October 1, 1-B
$200,000 Gulf Office Planned (on Morehead St.) – T.C. Rickenbacker,
architect
October 6, 1-C
College Plan Challenge Stuns Chamber Of Commerce Group – Must Build
Faster
October 7, 7-A
Interstate Highway Route Is Approved -- I-77
October 7, 2-B
Charlotte College Bond Issue ‘Greatest Bargain Ever Offered’
October 8,1-B
1960 Housing Spectacular Opens Today
October 8, 1-C
City Grade Separation Hopes Hit
October 8, Section D
Akers Motor Lines’ Charlotte Terminal
October 10, 7-A
Queens To Dedicate New Buildings
October 12, 1-C
Brooklyn Plan Wins Urban Group OK
October 14, 20-C
Mecklenburg Road Projects Slated – widening, repaving
October 18, 11-A
Eighth Bank Opens In City – First Citizens, S. Tryon and W. Fourth
St.
October 19, 14-A
Lake Norman Zoning Set Up
October 27, 1-C
Zoning Plan Is Broadened To Include I-85 – Consultant Is Brought In
For Study
October 30, 12-B
He Found His Clients Drinkin – Coffee – profile on architect
Thomas C. Rickenbaker
November 1, 4-A
Two Story $150,000 Office Building Is Planned Here – 1510 Elizabeth
Ave
November 6, 1-B
Bond Election To Be Tuesday: Charlotte, Carver College Future Rests
With Votes
November 9, 6-A
First Estimate Low: Brooklyn Land May Top $1Million
November 10, 8-A
Community College, Backers Celebrate – got bond for building
November 11, 1-B
College Bids Give Cushion of $200,000: Building costs leave healthy
surplus for needed extras
November 12, 7-A
$150,000 Church To Open Sunday: Biracial Effort – University Park
Baptist Church
November 13, 1-B
Ervin Plans Sidewalks In Future Subdivisions: 100 House Project Started
November 13, 3-A
Slum Work Speed Up OK’d
November 17, 6-A
Amity Shopping Center To Be Built In Early 1961
November 17, 1-C
Big Skyscraper Frame Finished – NCNB building (architect – Walter
Hook)
November 22, 17-A
Two Charlotte Architect in "Top Ten" -- Gillespie &
Little, Odell & Colvin win awards
November 22, 1-B
City College ‘Blasts Off’ – ground breaking for Charlotte College
December 2, 2-B
Dillon Opening South’s Finest Supply Facility – 1631 W.
Independence
December 9, 1-B
Brooklyn Relocation Survey Is Completed – photos
December 13, 1-B
Photo – New Dam Inches Across Catawba (Cowans Ford)
December 14, 6-A
Brooklyn’s Housing Outlook Is Brighter – fewer to rehouse than
thought, fewer large families after survey
December 15, 16-B
Air Conditioned School Possible – Ashley Park High (Allegheny Rd)
December 15, 1-C
Allstate Plans New $500,000 Building Near Park Rd. Shopping Center
December 22, 1-B
Gastonia-Charlotte Zoning Principles Win Agreement of Group:
Wilkinson Survey May Cost $3700
December 29, 1-C
Red Cross Building Plans To Be Ready Soon – Sloan and Wheatley,
architect
1961
January 7, 1-B
County Office Building Ahead Of Schedule
January 11, 1-B
Broadened Anti-Slum Laws Are Endorsed (by urban renewal group) –
Change Would Permit Business Area Work
January 12, 6-A
Red Cross Building Plans Are Ready – Charles Wheatley, architect
January 12, 1-B
City Will Seek Ruling On Key Code Provision – trying to rewrite
building code, want to know if city has power to require a minimum
space between buildings
January 18, 1-B
Final Slum Clearance Blueprint Approved: $1,498,360 Set Aside
January 24, 1-B
$1 Million Structure Will Be Built: Building For Offices Planned
– at Charlottetown Mall, Independence Blvd; AG Odell, Jr., architect
February 8, 12-A
Slum Project Clears Hurdle – approved by City Council Planning
Commission
February 8,1-B
Urban Renewal For City’s ‘Heart’ – plan urged for city’s
downtown area
Planners OK Flood Areas Building Ban
February 8, 1-B (2)
Photo -- Launch Pad For Some Kilowatts (Cowans Ford Dam)
February 13, 5-A
Street Program Nears End – Cornelius Street Widening
February 13, 1-B
Photo of county office construction
February 15, 1-A
$15 Million Apartment ‘Community’ Planned (Green Oaks) – site
near coliseum is chosen
February 16, 6-A
Subdivision Bill On The Way – Allows county commissioners to
regulate subdivision
February 17, 1-B
(City) Officials Agree On (Unfit) Housing Code
February 18, 8-A
Route To Follow Charlotte (Thoroughfare) Plan – US Highway 21
February 18, 1-B
Railroad Crossing plan Stuck -- grade separation plan
February 22, 1-C
Brooklyn Area – Slum Clearance Hearing is Today
February 24, 1-B
Minimum Space (Between Buildings) Plan Ruled Legal By the State
March 1, 13-A
Office Building Planned – 1100 E. Morehead – Charles Grier,
architect
March 2, 1-B
City Heads Agree On Housing Code
March 4, 1-A
Lance To Build $4 Million Plant On Pineville Road – J.N. Pease,
architect
March 4, 7-A
Clear Up Downtown Section First (says Odell) – instead of clearing
Brooklyn
March 10, 1-B
Sharon Road Citizens Fight Development (shopping center)
Bank Plans Four Story Office Unit – NCNB (on S. Tryon and W. Fourth )
March 13, 6-A
Highway 73 Bids Are Asked – Relocate road behind Cowans Ford Dam
March 14, 1-B
Council Rezones Sharon Property (for shopping center)
March 15, 18-A
$4 Million Lance Plant Officially Underway
March 17, 8-C
Ervin (Construction Company) To Build 1300 Homes
March 20, 6-A
Progress Report On Codes To Be Asked (city codes)
March 21, 1-B
Expressway Speed –Up Tentatively Approved – Charlotte May Save 2
Years
$2 Million Sought For Parks
March 23, 1-B
Rubber Processing Unit Is Planned Here – Surratt, Wingate, Hunter
and Hysmith, architects
March 24, 7-A
Plans OK’d For Two Schools – Plaza Road and Paw Creek areas
March 24, 13-C
Churches Are Pushing Housing Projects For The Elderly
March 25, 1-B
City Urged: Buy Foruth Street Back – Redevelopment commission
wants it to be used for civic/government center
March 28, 1-B
Slum Clearance Plan Passes Its Final Test – Eight Block Clearance
Gets OK
March 31, 19-C
Planners Move To Restrict Signs In City Perimeter
April 2, 1-C
New Office Building Planned – E. Morehead; designed by Thomas
Rickenbaker (sketch)
April 2, 3-C
Morehead: You See It Grow – New Offices For Old Homes
April 5, 1-C
Harding High Might Get New Home – move to building under
construction (known as Ashley Park High School)
April 6, 1-C
City Planners Unveil Bold New Zoning Ordinance – proposal to get
hearing in June
April 11, 1-B
New House Plan: Swap Work, Cash -- Ervin Homes
Expressway Plan Gets Good Start
April 12, 6-A
Fourth Shopping Center To Start – Freedom Drive Shopping Village
April 12, 1-B
Downtown Plan To Be Sought By Merchants – ‘We Are Hurting’ Says
Myers
Chemical Firm Plans New Plant – Interchemical Corp. (Arrowood)
April 17, 1-B
Dupont Plans $250,000 Lab To Begin Operation In The Fall – Old
Steel Creek Road; Mash and Hawkins, architect (sketch)
April 18, 4-A
Big Office Structure Is Started – Allstate Life Insurance Co., 4701
Park Rd.
April 22, 1-B
Expansion Of College Hinted By McLendon – Charlotte College may
become a four-year college
April 23, 18-A
Shopping Centers Bite Into Downtown Sales -- Will Merchants Meet
the Challenge?
April 25, 3-A
Charlotte On List For New Airport – Manager Quinn Dubious
April 26, 16-A
Construction Of Steel Plant At Croft Being Pushed – Carolina Electric
Steel Mill
May 1, 2-B
Brooklyn’s The Big Issue in Tomorrow’s Election (photos)
May 1, 5-B
Two Bridges Nearing Completion – Buster Boyd and Wither’s Creek
(photos)
May 2, 4-B
Proposed Branch Library Location May Be Rezoned (Camp Greene and
Rovston Rd)
May 3, 1-B
Photo of Merchandize Mart construction
May 5, 1-B
Futuristic Domes Are Sought For Min, Nature Museums – geodesic
domes considered to help with lack of space
May 5, section E
Goodnight Bros. Opens New Warehouse – 4323 Wilkinson
May 7, 12-A
Repaving of US 21 Due Soon
May 7, 16-C
Does Charlotte Need An Anaysis Of Downtown Section?
May 7, 1-D
Wilkinson Boulevard Plans Are Due Soon
May 7, 1-E
Bateses Enjoy Living In the Goldfish Bowl – Charles Bates,
architect and owner (photos)
May 12, 1-B
Zoning Proposals Get Public Hearing Today
May 13, 1-B
Public Hearing Stirs Mild Zoning Protests
May 14, 1-D
City and Three Towns Rubbing Elbows (Matthews, Pineville,
Huntersville) – May Join Soon
May 16, 1-B
Photos Of Mural In New County Offfice Building
Two Doctors File Suit To Halt Carver Work – Facilities Unneeded, They
Say
Carver Project Just Getting Started (photo)
May 16, 3-B
County Office Building To Get First Tenants
May 17,1-B
Streets Not Bad, Veeder Reports – annexed roads improved
May 18, 17-A
$500,000 Apartment To Be Built – Providence Rd. and Altondale Ave.
May 20, 1-B
Sign Ordinance Complaints Top Public Hearing – 50 Citizens Speak
Out On Zoning
May 23, 1-B
Residents Favor Slum Project 9 to 1 (Broolyn)
May 24, 16-A
Plans For Negro County Home Approved – Work Will Start Within a Few
Weeks
Richard D. Gillespie, architect
May 26, 1-B
Span About Ready (Buster Boyd Bridge)
May 28, 13-D
He’s Furnishing Nails For Brooklyn’s Coffin – Martin Waters,
developer
May 30, 11-A
Commissioners Balk, Then Pay Office Building Bills
May 31, 1-B
Carver College Suit Goes Before Judge Sharf Today – New Buildings at
stake
June 1, 1-B
Carver College Suit Dismissed
June 2, 1-B
Cost Estimate On West Side Grade Separation Due July 1
June 4, 5-B
Charlotte Bank Sculpture – Murall Symbolizes Carolina’s
Activity – in NCNB Building
June 4, 1-C
Zoning Law Designed For a Growing City (Sketch)
June 5, 1-B
Planning Unit Wants To Use Cluster Zoning (sketch)
June 6, 10-A
Zoning Law To Include Rings of ‘Insulation’ (sketch)
June 7, 7-A
Charlotte’s Zany Zoning Ordinace Has a Hole In It
June 8, 12-A
School Architect Suggested – board of education might hire its own
architect
June 9, 1-B
Brooklyn Clearance Still Awaits Go-Ahead Signal
June 12, 7-B
Planners Will Air Zone Plan – Pineville (sketch)
June 14, 1-B
Photo – Kings Dr. to be widened
Southern is Ready to Move Station to N. Tryon – Grade Separation Plan
June 15, 2-B
$166,966 Is Asked By Parks Commission (for park development)
June 16, 1-B
Federal unds OK’d For Slum Clearance – Brooklyn Project Can Start
Now)
June 18, 1-C
Lake Norman Area Will Be A Mecca For Fun Seekers
June 18, 8-C
Slot By Slot Process Builds Dam Gradually – Cowans Ford
June 22, 1-B
Charlotte Is Planning Piecemeal Annexing – Developed Areas Will Be
Studied
City Restrained In Court Fight – residents on Providence Rd.
fight to keep Greentree apartments away
June 23, 1-B
Stalling Is Charged By Apartment Foes
June 24, 1-B
Court Approves Building Permits For Apartments – Owners Alter
Plans On Project
June 25, 1-C
Slum Clearance Learn To Be Sought Monday
June 27, 12-A
New $1 Million Chevrolet Unit To Be Started In 2-3 Months
June 28, 5-A
(Greentree) Apartments Face New Opposition
June 29, 1-B
Apartments Again Hault – Greentree in violation of building codes and
zoning
June 30, 1-B
Rural Zoning Is Stop-Gap Plan – protect against building and industry
July 1, 11-A
Architects Sketch of Greentree – order stopping work was lifted
Friday
July 1, 1-B
Greentree Developers Can Work
July 1, 5-B
Mechanics and Farmers Bank and NC Mutual Life’s new building
under construction – West Trade and Beatties Ford Rd (sketch)
July 5, 4-B
NCNB Spells Expensive Too – lettering for the bank costs $1000/letter
July 6, 1-B
City Again Revokes Apartment Permit (Greentree)
July 7, 9-A
Echo Home To Open 68277 Folger Dr. – Charles M. Grier, architect
July 7, 1-B
Greentree Plans Being Redrawn – revisions to apartment being made
July 8, 10B
Building Permit Issued – Way is clear for Greentree apartments
Photo – construction of Merchandise Mart
July 9, 1-B
Home Owners Ask Federal Aid – owners near downtown want federal money
to
Redevelop their homes before they become too delapidated
July 9, 2-B
‘Dozers Invade Residential Areas – Greentree apartment
July 11, 4-A
Court Rejects New Anti-Greentree Move
July 13, 1-B
Echo Home Features 4 Vista Design (photo)
July 14, 8-A
C of C Finishes Park Study – Big Needs Pinpointed
July 15, section C
Echo Home1961
July 17, 1-C
Council To Hear Greentree Case – zoning dispute
July 18, 1-B
City Rezones Greentree Site
July 22, 16-A
A Woman Watches A Dream Come True – Bonnie Cone and Charlotte College
July 22, 12-B
Overhanging Signs Still Clutter Downtown Charlotte
July 25, 1-B
State Part Site Tentatively Picked – at Lake Norman
August 2, 6-A
Plans For Carver College Union Building Approved (sketch)
Schools Get some relief on zoning – keep business and industry at a
distance
Purchase of school site OK’d – negro junior high school
August 2, 1-B
2 Office Buildings Planned – 2100 Commonweath Ave. – Benton and
Boye Firm, architects
August 3, 1-B
$8.3 Million Sought For Schools – for buying sites and building
through 1965
Shopping Center Is Still Planned, Says New Chief -- on Wilkinson Blvd.
August 4, 12-C
Pictures – grade separation: before and (projected) after
August 6, 1-D
Charlottetown Mall To Have Movie Theater
August 7, 1-B
Busy Wilkinson May Be Part Residential – zoning study underway
August 8, 1-B
New Look In Courthouse Marred By (old) Garage (photo)
Shopping Center To Cost $1 Million – At Beatties Ford Rd and I-85
August 9, 1-B
Wilkinson Drivers Can Expect Relief – highway to be widened,
median strip added in ‘62
August 11, 1-B
City Buys Little Piece Of Brooklyn (photos)
August 16, 5-A
Merchants Want ‘Help’ On Vacancies – help from county in general
August 16, 6-A
Zoning Plan Is Ready For Council
August 17, 8-A
Two Story Medical Building Planned – corner of Commonwealth Ave
and The Plaza (sketch)
Ruling On Greentree Apartments May Be Made Today – deed
restriction, zoning problems
August 18, 1-B
Court Throws Permenant Roadblock At Greentree – developers will
appeal
August 19, 1-B
She Leads Brooklyn Exodus – Mrs Steel Is First Resident To Leave
Blighted Area (photo)
August 20, 1-C
Photo of NCNB under construction
August 21, 1-B
College Will Get Buildings Early – Charlotte college
August 21, section F
Boastful, Garrulous Talking House Opens Today – 4810 Cinderalla Rd.
– Hidden
Valley Builders
August 23, 1-B
York Rd ‘Mall’ Will Be Built – at Clanton Rd.
August 24, 5-B
Greentree Decision Postponed
August 25, 1-B
Road Project Wins Praise, Hot Protests (Wilkinson Blvd)
Charlotte College Officials Inspect Their New ‘Home’
September 2, 3-A
Phillips Seeks Zoning Changes To Permit Tall Apartments – for
apartments on
Briar Creek Rd, near Coliseum
September 2, 1-B
Buy Airport Land At Once Consultant Will Urge City (540 acres for
growth)
September 4, 1-C
Ervin Offers Bargain Advance School Sites – in subdivisions
September 5, 5-B
Carver Construction
September 6, 1-C
Photo Of Lance Building Construction (HW 21)
September 7, 14-A
Revamped Zoning Ordinance Called Big Improvement
September 9, 1-B
Fourth Ward Project Picks Up Steam – renewal plan
September 10, 1-C
College’s Long Wait Nears End – Charlotte College (photo)
September 12, 1-B
Council OK’s Planning More Slum Clearance – Second Brooklyn Tract
September 13, 7-A
College May Soon Be Four Year School (Charlotte College)
September 14, 16-A
Ad For Opening Of Wachovia on 316 S. Tryon St.
September 16, 1-B
Airport Plan Due In Week – plan for growth
September 17, 16-A
Downtown City Group Seeking 150 (new members) – want to prevent
business
From moving to suburbs
September 17, 1-D
Renewal To Erase a Fourth Of Slum Houses – Brooklyn
September 19, 4-A
Board OK’s School Bond Vote – 8.4 Million for construction
September 19, 1-B
Zoning Hearing Is Oct 6 – on new zoning ordinance
September 20, 5-A
College Will Open On New Campus (Today)—Charlotte College
September 21, 1-B
New Campus Greets New Pupils – Charlotte college (photos)
September 21, 4-B
Sketch Of Eastern Air Lines Proposed Installation on 6000 Fairview Rd.
September 22, 24-A
Ill Old Folks To Get Home -- $3 million building on Shamrock Rd –
Louis
Asbury, architect
September 23, section C
Home Week
September 25, 9-A
Thoroughfare Plan Making Itself Felt
September 26, 1-B
Group Gets Peak At Big Duke Dam – Cowans Ford
October 3, 1-B
Third Brooklyn Tract Bought By City Agency
October 4, 4-A
Second Brooklyn Area Is Officially Declared A Slum
October 7, 1-B
All Business Zoning Asked On Boulevard – Independence Zoning
October 8, 1-F
Photo Of Newly Complete Merchandise Mart
October 9, 1-B
Independence Owners Are Ready For A Change – in zoning
Student Union Loan Sought By College (Charlotte)
October 10, 6-A
Grade Separation Job To Be Tough
October 11, 7-A
New Buster Boyd Bridge Open
October 11, (special section)
Merchandise Mart Rushed To Completion For Event – NC Trade Fair
October 12, 6-B
C of C Pushes Slum Battle – Unit Pushes land buying in Brooklyn
October 13, 1-C
Airport Plan Recommends $18 Million For Expansion ( most for Douglas)
October 14, 1-B
Business Called Threat To School – zoning hearing
October 15, 17-18A
A New Life Beginning For Charlotte College
October 16, 1-A
Photo – Charlotte College Dedicated
October 16, 1-B
College Dedication
October 17, 1-B
Bond Vote Set Back To Dec 19 – School Bond
October 19, 1-C
Zoning Meets End – Council Hears 100 Complaints
October 22 8-F
New Center Will Stress Culture – Cunningham Liberal Arts Center
(Davidson)
October 26, 1-B
City May Be Forced To Eye Public Housing – it may be only way to
relocate
Brooklyn residents
October 30,12-A
Mutual Savings and Loan Building almost ready (advertisement) – 119
E. Third
November 3, 1-B
Officials Take ‘Look’ At Zoning Objections
November 5, 1-B
North Carolina Bond Proposal Calls For Many Improvements (including
educational institutions)
November 6, 1-B
County Expecting 15,000 Bond Votes
Action May Come On Streets (perimeter improvements), Zoning
November 8, 1-A
All 10 State Bond Issues Defeated As Sanford Gets First Big Setback
November 8, 1-B
Downtown Parking, Traffic Plans Offered – Idea would have city own
garages
November 9, 1-B
Charlotte College and Carver – Separate Campuses OK’d
November 12, 18-A
US 21 South Plans Will Be Shown Soon
November 14, 1-B
Railway Zoning Accord Reached – Light Industry
November 17, 1-A
Carver Gets New Name – Mecklenburg
November 19, 6-F
Gottlieb’s Plans New Store – 11th and College –
Designed by Ralph Mesrobian
November 20, 1-C
Lake (Norman) Area Control Pushed – Land Use Study Completed
November 22, 1-C
New South Route 21 Agreed On
November 30, 1-B
Council Okays Many City Zoning Changes |