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Chapel Hill's Morning Newspaper
Chgpel Hill, North Carolina, Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Vol. 83, No. SO
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by Greg Porter
Staff Writer
Second of three articles
A young lady from Winston-Salem displayed an'1
unusual talent in University Mall last week. The
pantsuited maiden marched into a department store
sporting a 23-inch waist-line and waddled out 9 '
months pregnant. She performed the feat three days in
a row. The third day the concerned storeowners
arrnanged for a police escort. The pregnant
phenomenon gave birth to over $100 worth of ladies'
dresses and leather jackets on arrival at the Chapel
Hill Police Department. .
Shoplifters like this mother of merchandise and her
four accomplices, stole approximately $4.8 billion
worth of goods in the United States last year,
according to an article in Newsweek Magazine. Some
large Chapel Hill businesses estimate losses for 1974 in
the o-digit category.
"Shoplifting has always been a serious problem,"
said one local department store manager. "The.
public just hasn't known about it. The rate of
shoplifting doesn't seem to be increasing, although the
economy could cause an increase. We expect to lose
about 1 to 1.5 per cent of oyr inventory, as we did last
year. That's about $125,000."
Yet Chapel Hill Police Department records account
for only $5,094 worth of goods shoplifted in all of
Chapel Hill last year. The discrepancy between the
figures reported and the amounts actually lost reflects
amazing inefficiency in preventing shoplifting and
apprehending shoplifters.
"Prosecution of all shoplifters, major or minor, is
one of the best methods of prevention," said Lt.
Arnold Gold or the Chapel Hill Police Department.
'"Probably half the shoplifters who are caught settle'
with the store itself rather than with the police and
court system.
"It's gotten to the point that shoplifting is such a big
business for a certain element of the population," Gold
added, "that it is a disadvantage for the storeowner to ,
settle with the perpetrator, since most are repeaters." ,
But the majority of Chapel Hill merchants view the
prosecution process with dismay because of court
leniency in punishing offenders.
"What the hell can you do?" said one department
store manager. "There's no real sense in getting
worked up over prosecuting people until there are
some teeth in the law."
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Court leniency prevails at UNC as well, according
to Student Stores Manager Thomas Shetley. The
Student Stores send approximately 10 shoplifters to
Honor Court each semester, he said.. In general these
students are "-slapped on the wrists."
Storeowners also criticized the prosecution process
for stealing many productive hours from the paid time
of their employees. This cost is easily absorbed by the
large merchants who often lose only the time of their
security force.. The strain, however, is practically !
unbearable for the smaller businesses that must
sacrifice the time of employees who keep the store
running and the profits coming in.
Many stores in the last few years have installed
cameras, mirrors and electronic detection devices to
inhibit shoplifting. The cameras are often times fakes,
serving only as psychological deterrents; but the
efficacy of cameras and mirrors is still a function of
employee vigilance, which many storeowners called
the greatest weapon against shoplifting.
Yet employee vigilance has fallen short in the past as
evidenced in the phenomenal rate of shoplifting in
1974. As a result many stores have sought salvation in
technology. Chapel Hill Police said electronic devices
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installed locally have considerably increased the
number of shoplifters apprehended.
Many merchants, however, have shied away from
any overt protective devices in fear of projecting a
negative image to their customers.
Electric detection devices are not a panacea; they
are expensive, can only be rented and are ineffective in
stopping the brazen professional shoplifter who will
escape before police can be summoned. Some leading
department stores in New York employ electronic
systems which activate sets of sliding doors to trap an
escaping criminal automatically. Such systems are
enormously expensive and have yet to be installed in
this area.
. The major drawback of any automatic system is
that it aims only at a small part of the problem those
shoplifters without inside connections. Newsweek
estimates that goods heisted on inside jobs account for
75 per cent of shoplifting losses. Merchandise is often
shoplifted by professional with the help of employees
who receive a cut of the fence (resale profits).
Local merchants seemed to feel their greatest threat
was not from students or even local residents, but from
out-of-towners, like the pregnant pilferer. These are
the professionals; they shoplift for a living," skipping
with
from town to town, often filling orders for respectable
citizens who enjoy a black market discount.
No one group can be singled out as primarily
responsible for shoplifting. Student Store Manager
Thomas Shetley echoed the local general sentiment of
local merchants: "Shoplifting transcends all social and
economic strata almost anyone could be a
shoplifter. That's one reason it's so hard to deal with."
"I've never caught anyone who shoplifted because
he really needed the item." he added.
"Those damn big shopping bags," arc a major
irritant of storeowners.
"If a man comes into the student store with a
shopping bag," Shetley said, "we request that he leave
it in the lockers at the front. But a woman can come in
with a fertilizer sack and swear its her purse."
One storeowner summed up the concensus of the
merchants: "Hell, the only'safe thing to do is lock up
the merchandise and bring it out piece by piecc.And
then you couldn't make any money. If I did that, I'd
make less money than the shoplifters make off me
now."
Thursday, Barbara Holtzman will examine the
problem of employee pilfering.
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by Jim Roberts
Staff Writer
After three years of work by the staff and
management of campus radio station
WCAR and Student Government, the
students of UNC are one step closer to
having a campus stereo FM radio station.
Student Government received a telegram
Monday from the Federal Communications
Commission ( FCC) stating the commission's
approval of a construction permit for a non
commercial FM station.
C.Rendsburg.andMedia, Board Chairman-.
Mark Dearmon both estimated that the;
10,000-watt station would be broadcasting
by the fall semester and possibly by the:
middle of the summer.
"A good stereo listening signal would
cover Orange, Durham and much of,
Chatham counties," Rendsburg said.
Before the station can begin broadcasting,
an antenna must be built and transmitters!
and over 30 pieces of broadcasting;
equipment must be bought. The station will,
use the studios of WCAR-AM.
Money for the station's construction will
come from a $35,000 appropriation
approved by students in a September 1973.
referendum. The Campus Governing
Council recently added $6,491 to the
appropriation. All the funds were frozen,
however, until the FCC granted the
construction permit.
The main and the auxiliary transmitters
will be the most expensive pieces of
equipment, Rendsburg said. "According to
our plan, the $41,000 should cover
everything."
Jim Bond, assistant to the chief engineer,
said the station's programming will "include
music that will appeal to the students. The
station is intended to serve the area as a
whole."
- Once the station has been constructed, the
management must run field tests and
program tests before FCC will grant a
license.
Rendsburg denied that obtaining the
construction permit was the most difficult
step. Dearmon, however, said that when the
construction permit was granted, "there was
a general sigh of relief. We now know almost
for sure that there will be an FM station."
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Several classes took to the outdoors Tuesday as the weather hit an unseasonably high 70 degrees.'
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Dearmon cites inaction, personal use
by George Bacso
Staff Writer
Betsey Jones has done little or nothing
that could benefit students in her position as
president of the Residence Hall Association
(RHA), Mark Dearmon, the acting
chairman of the Carolina Coalition charged .
at a meeting of the group Tuesday.
"RHA receives almost $4,700 out of
student fees and has done nothing useful
with it," Dearmon, also a member of the
Campus Governing Council, said.
Dearmon called for a vigorous
investigation into several "widespread
rumors that have been circulating
concerning Betsey Jones."
"First on this list is the rumor that Dr.
James' Condie (Director of University
Housing) gave Jones access to housing
records during her election campaign which
other candidates did not have access to,"
Dearmon said.
"Jones' entire campaign last spring
smacks of conspiracy. I know of a person
who worked for Condie who saw Jones in his
office several times during her campaign, but
has kept hushed because he feared for his
job," Dearmon said. " ,
Dearmon charged Jones with "spending
most of her and RH A's time working on an
honors thesis and thus neglecting her RHA
duties." He said Jones is getting credit and a
grade for this thesis through Condie.
RHA has done little or nothing to stop or
investigate the upcoming dorm rent hikes,
Dearmon said.
Dearmon also criticized Jones' failure to
Picked number three in first round
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by Elliott Warnock
Sports Editor
Ken Huff, star offensive guard for North
Carolina, was chosen number three in the
first round of the National Football League's
player draft Tuesday afternoon.
A Coaches' All-American, Huff was the
first pick of the Baltimore Colts. Huff is a
native of Coronado, Cal., weighing 255
pounds and is 6-feet, 4-inches tall.
"I'm shocked I was picked third "
admitted Huff when told of the news.
"Truthfully, I thought I would go in the first
round, but 1 thought it would be later in the
draft."
Huff said that Baltimore had "definite
plans" for him, noting that the former Super
Bowl champs are in need of rebuilding. Two
other Tar Heels are already with the Colts:
Don McCauley, an All-American tailback
from UNC, and former UNC offensive
tackle Robert Pratt.
"I am anxious to talk with McCauley and
Pratt to find out more about Baltimore,"
Huff said.
Huff was a two-time AU-ACC performer
for Carolina, and also earned recognition on
the UP1 second team All-America team.
"Ken Huff is a 'can't miss' prospect in
professional football," stated Carolina head
coach Bill Dooley. "He is the best offensive
lineman that I've even been associated with
in 20 years of football."
"Baltimore is a good club to go with," said
Huff. "For example, I would rather have a
fighting chance to start with a lower division
team than be drafted by the Miami Dolphins
and sit on the bench."
Huff revealed some regrets at not being
picked by a California team. He had thought
he would go to either the San Francisco
49ers or Los Angeles Rams.
Upon learning of his selection by the
Colts, Huff left Chapel Hill by plane for
Baltimore, where he took part in a press
conference Tuesday with the Colts
management. Huff said he was not sure of
his salary, but would have an agent to
negotiate his contract. ,
Three more Carolina players are potential
draft picks: quarterback Chris Kupec, tight
end Charles Waddell and wingback Jimmy
Jerome.
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successfully reinstitute the Campus Escort
Service, "a major point in her campaign
platform," he said.
" I'd hate to think some girl could be raped
because Betsey Jones has not followed up on
her campaign promise," Dearmon said.
Dearmon said he feels a major role of the
Carolina Coalition, the new campus political
group, is "to search into anything like this
which adversely affects students."
"The students have a right to know," he
said, "and we as a party have to seriously
consider endorsing a candidate in the
upcoming elections who will get into RHA
and kick some ass."
Jones answered Dearmon's charges
Tuesday night.
"I did not see Dr. Condie the whole time 1
was campaigning, and the only records from
housing 1 used was a roster of students for
my term paper," Jones said.
Jones said the reason the escort semce has
not been continued is because not enough
volunteers have responded to RHA's
requests for escorts.
"As far as room rent increases are
concerned, we have 15 students working on;
the Budget Advisory Committee
investigating the matter," Jones said.
Jones also defended the amount of time
she has spent working for RHA and said she
has spent no more time on her honors thesis .
than any other course. -
"1 sometimes used the office at night to
work on my project because it's quiet, but 1
deny the charge that 1 put that over my RHA
work," Jones said.
"I only wish Mark had confronted me first
with these charges because all of them are
unfounded," she said.
Condie said Tuesday night he did not
recall giving Jones any information except
information she used as a member of the
Budget Advisory Committee, which any
student on RHA had access to.":
Condie said he met with Jories during her
campaign and "she told me she was going to
say what she thought she had to do in her
campaign. I told her that's .what she had to
do."
"There's been no effort to cajole Betsey.
There are a lot of things we disagree on and
this is something that most people dotf t see,
but we try to work it out like mature adults,"
Condie said.
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by Richard E. Lerner
United Press International
WASHINGTON President Ford
asked Congress Tuesday for another
$522 million in military aid to South
Vietnam and Cambodia saying "we
cannot turn our backs on these
embattled countries. .
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said
Republican and Democratic leaders
-tnfoj-rned the-President "it would-be
extremely difficult, if not impossible,"
to get the funds approved.
" W i thout $300 million in extra .
military aid, Ford said, South Vietnam
"may go down the drain" to military
attacks from Communist North
Vietnam. He asked another $222 million
for beleagured Cambodia also.
Both Presidential requests sought the
aid funds for the current fiscal year
ending June 30.
Shortly before sending the requests to
Capitol Hill, Ford discussed his plans
with Byrd and other Congressional
leaders at the White House.
"They appreciated the frankness but
they naturally were deeply concerned,"
said Byrd of the reactions of Ford,
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
and Defense Secretary James
Schlesinger to the warnings from
lawmakers.
Byrd told reporters as he left the
Executive Mansion that Ford and
Kissinger told the congressional leaders
that South Vietnam must get the aid or
"the North Vietnamese will take over
little by little . . . and eventually it
may go down the drain."
Ford and Kissinger told the
congressional leaders that the requests
for supplemental appropriations werej
imperative because of Communist:
military operations in both countries.
Congress already has approved $700
million in aid for the Saigon,
government aid $200 million in military
assistance for Cambodia, plus $177
million in economic aid, during fiscal
1975. . ;;
The administration had sought $1.4.
billion originally in assistance to
Southeast Asia.
In his message accompanying the
requests, Ford noted that Monday was
the second anniversary of the signing of
the Paris peace agreement designed to
bring lasting peace in Southeast Asia.
He said that agreement "would have
worked had Hanoi matched our side's
efforts to implement it" and,
"unfortunately, the other side has
chosen to violate most of the major
provisions" in the accord.
Now, he said, the South Vietnamese
and Cambodian soldiers are fighting
hard against Communist offensives and,
in Vietnam, "Our intelligence
indicates ... that iheir campaign will
intensify further in the coming months"
"With adequate U.S. material
assistance, they can hold their own,"
Ford said. "We cannot turn our backs
on these embattled countries.
"U.S. unwillingness to provide
adequate assistance to allies fighting for
their lives would seriously affect our
credibility throughout the world as an
ally. And this credibility is essential to
our national security." :
C ampbelt declares
Cole C. Campbell became the first
candidate to announce for the position of
Daily Tar Heel editor Tuesday, pledging to
place more emphasis on campus news if
elected.
A senior English major from Winston-.
Salem and a nationally-ranked debater,
Campbell is -making his second try for the
top DTH post.
Last year he lost to the present co-editors,
Jim Cooper and Greg Turosak, in a run-off
election.
"The get a job' ideology has made the
DTH a passive paper," Campbell said.
"Several capable reporters seem like they
would rather wait to be assigned to a major
news event rather than hoofing it to uncover
news on campus."
Campbell, who will be a graduate student
in mass communication research at UNC
next year, proposed a three point program to
correct what he calls a "press box mentality"
on the paper.
"First, our editorial policy will be oriented
towards service and research, with definitive
stands on important issues,? Campbell said.
Specifically, Campbell proposed creating
an editorial pool to bring diverse viewpoints
to the paper, and hiring editorial research
assistants to develop background for stories.
'
He also 'promised to hold periodic
editorial and staff meetings if elected.
As his second major proposal, Campbell
called for . improved accessibility to the
DTH.
"We should redefine newsworfhiness to
get around the get a job' ideology, and
improve communication between the DTH
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and student groups," Campbell said.
Campbell plans to run a weekly full-page
events calendar, and meet with readers and
student groups, if elected.
As his third major area of concern
general servicesCampbell called for
increased use of local photojournalism,
previews of coming major events and an
entertainment-oriented weekly supplement
to the paper.
Also, Campbell wants to increase the size
and circulation of the paper, assess student
desire for more syndicated features and
encourage non-staff members to contribute
articles.