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Buses will be rolling in Chapel Hill by
August 1, even though the town may not
receive its own buses until mid-October,
promised Town Transportation Director
John Pappas in a Wednesday morning press
conference.
The Town will either lease or buy used
buses for the interim period, said Pappas.
Used buses would be more economical, he
continued, and would have a good resale
value when the Town decided to sell any.
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by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer
RALEIGH The North Carolina General Assembly
reconvened at noon here Wednesday, quickly making a tax
reduction package the first major issue on the new year's
agenda.
Within ten minutes of the opening of the session, the
House had decided to put the tax cut on Thursday's agenda
for debate and a vote.
The tax reduction package, which includes a state income
tax credit to manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers for the
inventory tax they pay local governments and a tax break for
lower incomes and the elderly, was recommended by the
House Finance Committee and is strongly favored by House
Speaker Jim Ramsey.
Proponents cf the tax reduction measure base their
recommendation on the fact that the state budget is expected
to show a surplus for the second straight year. This year's
surplus will be $144 million.
The tax cut measure is opposed by Gov. Jim Holshouser,
who cites economic uncertainty because of the energy crisis
as one reason tax cuts would be risky at this time.
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Stsff Writer
If town planners had any reason to
question local concern over Chapel Hill's
transportation and highway needs, their
doubts were dispelled Tuesday.
The first in a series of four public forums
to discuss the Chapel Hill Thoroughfare
Plan drew a capacity crowd to the town
Municipal Building. The open meetings are
being held by the Chapel Hill Planning
Board to test public sentiment for proposed
changes in its highway master plan.
The Thoroughfare Plan is a means by
which town planners and the North Carolina
Department of Transportation can assess
current road problems and project what
highway needs will be in the future.
Chapel Hill is presently operating under
the 1963 Thoroughfare Plan, which was
preceded by master plans in 1959 and 1955.
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The Finance Committee of the Campus
Governing Council (CGC) will consider a
bill Monday that would force WCAR to
discontinue operation.
Dill Snodgrass, committee chairman, said
the bill will ask the Publications Board to
step the radio station from broadcasting
because of poor management. WCAR now
has a cash balance of S193 with which to
operate for the rest of the year.
In the Student Government budget.
WCAR received $4,473 from CGC and was
to have raised S5,50Q in revenue from
advertising. They have not sold any
advertising and have spent all but S193 of
the CGC appropriation.
"With little money left, any kind of
spcr-iins would result in a deficit,"
Sr.Owrzss said.. "Student Government law
dees not allow any organization to create a
deficit. That is why we are asking to freeze
what money they have.'
John Taylor, business manager of
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An $360,480 federal capital grant was
recently approved by the Urban Mass
Transit Administration (UMTA). allowing
Chapel Hill to move ahead in its schedule.
The next step is to submit bus specifications
to U MT A. When approved, the Town may
accept bids for bus contracts.
The present system calls for 17 buses,
including 12 for the town, and one for the
handicapped. Four 45-passenger buses will
serve the campus.
Pappas said that if the order for the 13
buses can be submitted to the Twin Coach
manufacturing company by February, the
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"These transportation plans are each built
upon the former plans. Hopefully we will
have our new Thoroughfare Plan by the end
of 1974," said Planning Board Chairman
Phillip Cooke.
The portion of Tuesday's meeting which
drew the greatest public comment was the
recommendation by Department of Urban
Development director Kurt Jenne that seven
proposed street extensions be deleted from
consideration in the Thoroughfare Plan.
The majority of citizens present appeared
to favor the proposed deletions and
suggested approximately eight additional
deletions for consideration at the next
Forum in February.
Claiborne Jones, UNC vice chancellor of
Business and Finance, announced specific
opposition by the University administration
to the Ridge Road and Boundary Street
projects. Extention of Ridge Road would
require construction through the recently
of WCA1
WCAR, said the station has had technical
difficulties and that is the reason they have
not sold any air time.
"You can't advertise on a radio station
that is not on the air just like you can't sell
ads in a paper that doesn't publish," Taylor
said.
The station went back on the air Monday
after problems with the power supply and
control board prevented operation in
November and December.
Taylor estimated a revenue from
advertising to be $3,000, 53,500 short of the
projected figure.
I knew good and well the $4,473 from
CGC wasn't going to be enough. There is just
a limited amount of advertising you can sell
on a college current carrier station. Last year
we got $9,000 from Student Government,
Taylor said.
"We'll survive. I am now organizing my
sales staff, and I see no danger of having to
go off the air," he said.
Snodgrass said the raanag-rs of the station
have proved themselves incompetent and
should be ordered to halt broadcasting
unless they can run the station properly.
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company promises to deliver those buses by
mid-October.
The campus bus order, however, must be
filled by a large compnay. Pappas explained
that the fuel shortage made mass
transportation more popular, increasing
orders for buses. Large manufacturers are
especially swamped with orders. Pappas
said, so the large buses now have a delivery
date of 320 days after being ordered.
Only one company is expected to bid on
Chapel Hill's TC-25 (small bus) order,
avoiding some delays. The contract bids on
the larger buses, however, should have some
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Holshouser will officially address a joint session of the
legislature at noon today, during which the 170 legislators
will receive copies of the proposed 1 974-75 budget, estimated
at S3 billion.
The governor is expected to stress those budgetary items
he considers most important and to review some of the past
year's issues in his address.
The opening of the 1974 General Assembly marks the first
time the state legislature has gone to annual sessions. The
1 974 seession is, in effect, a carryover of the 1 973 session, and
many of last year's unresolved issues remain to be decided.
Medical education is likely to be the most controversial
issue. The Board of Governors, backed by Gov. Holshouser,
has recommended against building a four-year medical
school at East Carolina University, while a legislative group,
the House Manpower Training and Education Commission,
has come out in favor of the of the ECU Med School.
Other important issues concern reform of North
Carolina's capital punishment law, currently the strictest in
the nation; no-fault insurance with an end to age and sex
discrimination practices; campaign financing reform; land
use and prison reform.
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completed Boshamer baseball stadium,
while the Boundary Street project would
destroy a portion of the Battle Park forest.
Jenne listed eight street location policies
which he hopes will become a major part of
the 1974 Thoroughfare Plan:
Major thoroughfares should cause the
minimum possible disruption in the areas
they cross. They should separate
incompatible land uses and not split cohesive
residential neighborhoods,
Existing investment in streets and
highways shall be used to the maximum
extent possible,
A car intercept strategy combining
parking areas and bus service should be
developed in the Central Business District
UNC campus area,
Alternative transportation shall be
encouraged,
Major thoroughfares shall serve major
neighborhood centers and be integrated with
the intercity movement system.
The intersection of local streets with major
thoroughfares shall be kept to a minimum to
competition, said Pappas, forcing the Town
to wait for bids the full 45-day period.
Town and University officials began
meetings last week to work out a mutally
agreeable plan for Town and Gown bus
service.
The University is "anxious" for Chapel
H ill to begin its system. Pappas said, so U NC
can initiate its proposed traffic system. This
plan calls for fewer campus parking spaces
and a $60 parking fee per year for the
remaining campus spaces.
Although Carrboro voted itself out of the
bus system in a referendum last May. Pappas
believes the town service as planned should
still serve the University.
Past discussions mentioned a University
commitment of $250,000 for the bus system.
This would pay for 20.000 bus passes at
$12.50 each, sold at cost to the University
community and those buying parking
stickers.
Pappas would like to receive comments
from citizens on service levels, routes, fares
and equipment for the system.
Informal sessions will be held on
Saturdays through February from 9:30 a.m.
to. 12:30 p.m. to discuss the transit system.
To provide the kind of service that Chapel
Hill wants, more buses will have to be
purchased, Pappas said. The four buses for
University use are already insufficient, and if
a shuttle system is started, even more buses
will be needed.
There is a surplus in this year's budget that
Pappas hopes to channel to the bus fund.
A firm price cannot be cited now, Pappas
remarked, but the budget estimates have
been overshot by inflation and
manufacturing shortages.
Chapel Hill will have no trouble getting all
the fuel it needs, Pappas said, as mass transit
systems rate top priority for fuel.
There are.no price controls to limit the
fuel's cost. Pappas said, but he hopes to keep
the operating costs of the buses down to 80
cents a mile.
The bus with special equipment for the
elderly and handicapped will operate on a
call-demand basis, rather than a regular
schedule.
lessen conflicts with entering traffic,
Thoroughfares shall provide adequate
capacity and maximum safety and
convenience,
On all new thoroughfare construction, the
shoulder width shall be widened to provide
bicycle paths and sidewalks along each side
of the right-of-way.
Two specific street design concepts were
introduced by Jenne to acquaint town
residents with future Planning Board policy
in the location of roads and traffic arteries.
The street sector concept would attempt to
arrange neighborhood streets to radiate
outward from the center of developed
planning sectors to the major roads
circumscribing them.
A second traffic concept would permit the
construction of parking lots along major
access routes to Chapel Hill and create a
mass transit shuttle system into the central
city.
The next public forum is scheduled for
Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel Hill
Municipal Building.
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by David Ennis
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council voted
unanimously in its Tuesday night meeting to
move the date of campuswide elections
forward one week to Wednesday. Feb. 27.
The amendment to the elections law was
made to avoid any conflicts between spring
break and run-off elections. Had elections
been held March 6, as elections laws
dictated, the earliest possible date for run
offs would have been during spring break,
postponing the installation of officers until
April 1.
The CGC also voted to approve the
appointments of a Supreme Court justice
and 12 new members of the Graduate Honor
Court.
Robert Hackney, chairman of the
Appointment Committee, said Student
Body President Ford Runge will hold
interviews through Friday to select a
nominee for the position of Elections Board
chairman.
The resignations of two Council members.
Tuck Atkinson and Fred Stern, were given
to the council at the meeting. Atkinson and
Stern both told the DTH Wednesday that
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they resigned for personal reasons.
Larry Meisner. a graduate student in the
Planning Department, was switched from
the Rules Committee to the Judicial
Committee. The move to fill the vacancies on
the Judicial Committee left by the
resignations of Stern and Atkinson was
necessary for the upcoming consideration of
the Judicial Reform document.
Judicial Committee Chairman Elliot
Stephenson said his committee will meet
Sunday and Monday at 7 p.m. to consider
judicial reform. These will be open meetings
and anyone who wants to propose or oppose
changes in the document should attend.
Stephenson said.
The council scheduled a special meetingto
consider the Judicial Reform document for
Thursday, Jan. 24.
Other business included a Finance
Committee report that listed a S2.000 deficit
in the Yackety Yack budget. Committee
Chairman Bill Snodgrass attributed this to
"misunderstandings between the business
manager and editor of the Yack."
There is also a $1,000 deficit left from the
fine arts festival three years ago. Snodgrass
said that he would investigate the possibility
that CGC is not liabie for the debt,
attributing it to "incompetence on the part of
the old student legislature."
Snodgrass reported that WCAR. campus
AM radiostation. hasonly$l00inopcrating
funds for the rest of the semester." They have
raised no advertising revenue, and this is
their basic problem." Snodgrass said.
The Rules Committee approved the
proposals of the Student Academic Reform
Committee, which include provisions for a
four course-load system.
While North Carolina basks
In ths 70-d3gree sunshine, a
group cf 37 U.JC students ere
on thsir way to eclsfsr regions.
Part of an exchange program
with the University of Toronto,
the group left by bus
Wednesday for a five-day stay
in that city.
The program is part of an
annml cultural exenan-p with
the Canadian university and is
sponsored by the YM-YVCA.
Last cen-.cctsr, the cams group
of students hosted their friends
tn Toronto to a week cf fun and
varisius activities including a
barbecue dinner in Fuquay
Varfna. The group is scheduled to
return nest Wednesday from a
week fo what one participant
predicted would be, "a cultural
eschanss, end a big party too."
(Staff photo by Gary Lcbraico.)