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Vol. 84, No. 3
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by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
Although Student Body Treasurer Mike
O'Neal has'released enough of the Daily Tar
Heel's Student Government cash
appropriation to keep the newspaper
publishing through today, the DTH will
have to print smaller issues than originally
planned.
The Daily Tar Heel has faced a capital
shortage this week, according to Business
Manager Reynolds Bailey, because O'Neal
would release only $6,400 of a $13,000
Student Government fund request by the
DTH. Today's newspaper had to be reduced
in size from 12 pages to six.
Bailey said the newspaper's advertising
staff has had to refuse some advertising
Project to up lobbying power
Bates to announce
by Vernon Loeb
Staff Writer
The initiation of a project designed to
increase the lobbying power of the
student body will be announced today
by Student Body President Bill Bates in
an afternoon press conference.
Bates said the project will counteract
what he feels is a closed attitude held by
the University toward the students.
Neither Bates nor Bryant Phillips,
student information director, would say
whether the project will involve a break
by Dan Fesperman
Staff Writer
After pedaling 3,494 miles,, two Chapel
Hill bike fanatics will soon make the
UNICEF Hunger Campaign $5,000 richer.
Winston Harrington and Harry Wray are
now collecting money pledged before they
left on their 45-day trip. The pair left Chapel
Hill early May 7 and reached Los Angeles,
Calif., June 21.
The pair averaged about 90 miles a day,
rolling through rain, shine, wind and even
snow. Of all the elements, wind was their
worst enemy, sometimes reaching 50 miles
an hour.
The terrain along the way ranged from the
flat floor of the Mohave Desert to the jagged
peaks of the Rocky Mountains. The pair said
that riding across w hat some call the "flat" of
Missouri was more like taking a roller
coaster ride.
The two riders prepared for the trip by
extensive biking, which was sometimes
sacrificed in order to collect sponsors for
their trip. In the two months before they left,
W ray averaged 1 40 miles of cycling per week
and Harrington, 105.
The first 600 miles of their route twisted
almost exclusively through counties which
do not sell alcoholic beverages and the pair
was deprived of beer until they crossed into
Illinois.
Harrington and Wray encountered only
minor mechanical problems such as broken
spokes and flat tires. But both of them
suffered from what they coined "cycling
hands" and "touring cheeks."
They explained that "cycling hands" is a
near-paralysis of the hands that comes from
extended pressure of the hands against the
handlebars.
"Touring cheeks" is a condition similar to
acute diaper rash. It results from constant
pressure of one's "cheeks" against a bicycle
seat. Both Harrington and Wray suffered
from this ailment, Wray's case being the
most painful. But both reported that the
problem left them after the first week of the
trip.
Funding suit goes
to Supreme Court
Eight present and former UNC students'
will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a
federal court decision which refused to end
the manditory student subsidization of the
Daily Tar Heel, plaintiff George Blackburn
said late Thursday.
Serving the students and University community since 1893
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accounts over the past few days, because
today's and some of next week's issues will be
smaller than anticipated.
Bailey had requested $13,000 of the Dailv
Tar Heel's $29,500 Student Government
allocation last week, but O'Neal authorized
only $3,900 to be released at the time. O'Neal
released an additional $2,500 Wednesday to
allow the newspaper to publish through the
end of this week.
Student Government treasury laws
require organizations within its budget to
requisition funds before entering into any
transactions. The DTH needed the $13,000
in order to meet its layout, printing, payroll
and operating expenses before collecting its
advertising revenue.
Approximately 85 per cent of the DTH
budget comes from advertising and
with the UNC administration.
But Phillips did say the project would
change the future scope and operating
procedures of Student Government.
The closed attitude of the
administration toward the student body
caused Bates to develop the project,
Phillips said. However, Bates' project is
not directed at any one administrator or
any single administrative policy, he said.
"Bill's plan was created not only to
make students more aware of what is
going on in the administration, but
more aware that they have the ability to
Harry Wray and Winston Harrington
raised $5,000 for UNICEF by biking to
Los Angeles.
The two cyclists said they had one day of
dehydration as they struggled to reach Las
Vegas, Nev. After facing strong headwinds
which slowed them considerably, the pair
suffered in the sun without water for several
hours. When they finally reached an auto
wrecking company on the outskirts of Las
Vegas, they each drank over one and a half
gallons of water, but remained thirsty.
Wray said the pair has collected about
$4,300 of the $5,000 in pledges due UNICEF
and that no one has given them trouble
about making payments.
"I guess the best thing about the w hole trip
was all of the different people that we met
along the way, and they were all very good to
us," Wray said.
Wray said he would encourage anyone
planning a bike trip such as this to go ahead
and do it.
"Neither of us are tired of bike-riding
because of the trip. And we both still ride
around Chapel Hill." Wray then laughed
and added, "But it is a little easier now."
Blackburn, a law student here, said he had
been contacted Wednesday by the
plaintiffs' attorney, Hugh J. Beard, who told
him the high court appeal had been filed.
The appellate -decision, made early this
month by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of
Appeals, upheld a September 1974 ruling of
the U.S. District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina.
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subscription sales. Although the newspaper
made a profit on its first three issues, most of
its expected revenue is still tied up in
uncollected bills, known as accounts
receivable.
"Since we don't have the money to print
papers," Bailey said Thursday, "we're having
to not accept advertising. We can't accept
marginal ads or ads from smaller
businesses."
Bailey said today's six-page issue was
originally scheduled to be 12 pages. Ellen
H orowitz, a member of the D TH advertising
staff, estimated the six-page cutback may
have cost the paper as much as $ 1 ,260 in lost
advertising revenue.
O'Neal claimed that the DTH is in
financial dnager, and said he is holding back
part of the newspaper's Student Government
move today
change the administration's policies,"
Phillips said. "It's amazing how effective
a lobbying force can be. Bill proved that
during his tuition hike lobby last
spring."
In April Bates went to Raleigh and
protested the proposed tuition hikes to
Livingston Stallings (D-Craven),
chairperson of the North Carolina
Senate Committee on Higher
Education.
He also tried to have classes
suspended one afternoon so students
could attend an anti-tuition hike
.demonstration in the.Pit. Classes were,
not suspended, but the demonstration
was held with approximately 450
students attending.
Bates said Thursday that although he
thinks further demonstrations would be
a good idea, it is too early to discuss
them at this point.
Phillips said he knows of no
prospective demonstrations to be
announced today.
Bates said he has asked Dan Besse,
Campus Governing Council speaker,
and Andromeda Monroe, Student
Attorney General, to attend the press
conference, as well as representatives
from the Daily Tar Heel, the Chapel Hill
Newspaper, WCAR and WCHL.
Although formal invitations to UNC
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and Dean
of Student Affairs Donald Boulton were
not extended by Bates, he said he would
deliver copies of his statement to their
offices before the conference.
Bates also said Taylor would
probably want to respond to the
announcement of his project.
On Thursday, neither Taylor nor
Boulton had any idea what the Bate's
project would entail, Phillips said.
Lack of industry, University
by Linda Lowe
Stall Writer
The local unemployment rate is one of the lowest in the
state, but that doesn't mean the Chapel Hill job situation isn't
tight, according to several job placement sources.
The Orange County unemployment rate of 5.4 per cent is
nearly one-half that of the national rate of 9. 1 per cent and
substantially less than the statewide rate of 8.9 per cent.
Employment Security Commission (ESC) statistics show.
The reason for Chapel Hill's lower jobless rate is the lack of
industry in the area, according to Phillip Skinner, manager
of the Chapel Hill branch of the Employment Security
Commission.
Those seeking industrial jobs just do not come to this area,
he said. The University is the town's largest employer, with
most other jobs being in businesses supporting the
University, like banks and stores.
"Regardless of the economic situation in the state, the
U niversity is going to have a certain number of jobs," he said.
"This tends to stabilize the unemployment rate."
The University hires approximately 6,000 persons out of
the entire Chapel Hill labor force of 33,400, according to
several sources.
But the University is not hiring as many employees this
summer as it did last summer. Assistant Personnel Director
Cy R. Matheson said. Forty to 50 fewer staff positions are
available this year than in August 1974. Matheson said he
expects that trend to continue into the fall.
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allocation in case of later emergencies.
"It's a pretty accepted practice that when a
paper is in financial difficulty, it has to cut
back," O'Neal said.
O'Neal said the D TH business staff has the
option to tighten its advertising-to-copy
ratio. "An edit page without advertising is a
luxury the Tar Heel may not be able to
afford," he said. "What is more important, a
column about Jerry Ford or a $200 ad to
help save the paper?"
The main difference between Bailey's and
O'Neal's views center around the paper's
accounts receivable, which total between
$30,000 and $40,000. O'Neal said he feels this
is an unacceptably high amount of credited
revenue.
"Those ads could turn out to be bad
debts," O'Neal said. "Student Government
would be ultimately responsible for them."
Bailey said the newspaper's accounts
receivable should be interpreted as a
percentage of the newspaper's total revenue.
This year's projected accounts receivable
rate is 1 3 per cent, which, according to Dick
Pope, a Campus Governing Council
representative who has served as a mediator
between Bailey and O'Neal, is normal for a
college daily newspaper.
The newspaper's accounts receivable rate
was only about 6 per cent three years ago,
but at that time, the DTH was selling about
half the advertising and receiving twice as
many student funds as it now does.
Bailey said the newspaper has a cash flow
problem but added that this results from the
Student Government requisition system.
"The only reason I need cash is so that 1
can requisition against it," Bailey said. "If I
didn't have the requisition system, I'd have
no cash flow problem."
Bailey has said the newspaper's bad debt
rate is approximately 4 per cent, which he
says is good by professional standards.
In making his 1975-76 budget, Bailey said
he had anticipated obtaining a large portion
of the Daily Tar Heel's Student Government
funds as capital before advertising revenue
could be collected. O'Neal decided last week,
however, to release the DTH's funds in
monthly allowances of $3,900.
Wednesday, O'Neal agreed to release
$2,500 of the Tar Heel's September
appropriation in advance, and said he would
meet with Bailey at least monthly to
determine the paper's future appropriations.
According to O'Neal the Student
Government portion of the DTH budget had
been traditionally released in regular
portions until last year, when most of the
newspaper's appropriation was granted in
one chunk.
The newspaper did run in the red last April
and had to borrow $10,000 from Student
Government. Bailey said he expects
advertising revenues to rise sufficiently this
year so that a deficit can be avoided.
"I'm being asked to make the same
mistake as was made last year," O'Neal said.
"I'm not going to do it. 1 don't need a chart
from the Federal Reserve to predict what's
going to happen."
Several Campus Governing Council
(CGC) members and O'Neal have
recommended a financial study of the Daily
Tar Heel be conducted, either by the Media
Board, the CGC or an outside panel.
The Media Board is scheduled to hold a
special meeting today at the request of DTH
editor Cole C. Campbell to discuss the
DTH's financial situation.
The University hired approximately one out of eight
applicants during June and July, he said, and the number of
permanent staffers declined from almost 4,200 six months
ago to 4,086 in July.
Matheson said the reason for the decline was the recession
and the nonrenewal of some federal grants for School of
Medicine and School of Public Health jobs.
Still, "compared to other employers, it (the employment
picture) is not that bleak," he said.
The University currently has 95 positions available,
including positions for secretaries, clerks, lab technicians,
computer programmers and maintenance personnel.
The local ESC office also lists some clerical, janitorial and
service openings, with a few skilled jobs for mechanics or
carpenters, Skinner said.
About half of those looking for a job are college graduates.
Skinner said. Matheson said about 1,000 recent college
graduates applied to his office during the summer months
and many left disappointed.
"There are a tremendous number of people with advanced
degrees around here applying for positions that they
obv iously have the minimum qualifications for, but they may
not have the specific skills required," Matheson said. Some
of these are student spouses, he added.
There also are many "hangers-on" in Chapel Hill, Jane
Smith, Career Planning and Placement counselor, said.
"Occasionally, half our graduates will want to stay in the
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Cooling off
On a day as hot as the last few have been, there are few more pleasant places
than Navy pool behind Woollen Gym.
Emergency helipads
installed
- by Bruce Henderson
Staff Writer
Army helicopters, part of a medical
evacuation program which has been serving
Memorial Hospital for three years, will
begin delivering emergency patients directly
to the hospital in mid-September.
Memorial has completed a new $13,000
helipad, and dry runs of the Military
Assistance to Safety and Traffic program
have been held this week. Previously, the
helicopters landed at Horace Williams
Airport in Chapel Hill.
Fred Parker, assistant to the general
director at Memorial, said Thursday the
Army began three years ago "thinking of
ways of using training funds for useful
civilian pursuits and also, I think, for the
public relations involved."
The program provides emergency
hospital-to-hospital transportation in a 100
mile radius of Ft. Bragg, where the Medivac
Evacuation Squadron is stationed. The
evacuation program is used "only when we
are sure a life is hanging in the balance,"
Parker said. Conventional ground
transportation is used for less extreme
situations, he said.
The Medivac unit at Ft. Bragg has pilots
and trained Army medics on 24-hour alert,
Parker said. All calls for the service are
screened to ensure they are true emergencies,
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he said.
Three-way communications between a
doctor, the pilot and the Ft. Bragg control
officer are possible with the system, he said.
Army medics can also communicate, en
route, to hospital personnel.
Dr. Herbert Proctor, director of the
program at Memorial, said the hospital is
one of five "receiving" hospitals in the Ft.
Bragg service area. UNC is the first
university hospital to have a helipad, he said.
Those five large receiving hospitals,
including in this area Duke in Durham and
Bowman Gray in Winston-Salem, serve
many small hospitals in rural areas.
Hospitals in New Hanover, Gastonia and
Fayetteville already have helipads. Proctor
said. All are within the 100-mile radius of Ft.
Bragg.
Funds for the medical assistance service
come mainly from the Army training budget.
Proctor said. No additional funds are needed
except for the additional equipment at the
hospitals.
Before the helipad here opens Sept. 15.
safety features will be constructed, including
lights fencing and firefighting equipment. A
simulated landing using a live patient will be
conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday. Sept. 4.
Parker said.
Auxiliary services of the Mediac
squadron include transporting blood and
drugs in emergency situations.
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area," she said. "Many students do not want to consider two
new things at once: a new job and new location."
She said many graduates simply like Chapel Hill. "But
they may lower their salary overall if they limit themselves
geographically," she said.
She advised UNC graduates to register with her office,
which has a 1971 directory of area employers and other job
resources.
The tight job situation extends to part-time jobs also.
Skinner said. The ECS has a few part-time clerical and
service station jobs, she said, and will register students
seeking part-time work.
Those students who cannot find part-time work will find it
very difficult to draw unemployment benefits, she said.
Persons receiving benefits "must be available to take a full
time job with no restrictions," she said. "If a student can't
work during classes, that is a restriction."
A list of part-time opportunities for students both on- and
off-campus is posted at the Student Aid Office in Vance Hall.
About 80 positions are available, mainly as waitresses,
babysitters, clerks and lab assistants.
Those interested in part-time work should complete a form
at the Student Aid Office and then contact the prospective
employers.
But "the employment picture is generally tight," placement
counselor Smith said. A lot of people want to work here. It
probably always will be tight here."