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mutinmr a M,ltWn Movie review Aithony Siedman takes a look at 'Foul Play'onpage7. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Vc'umo C3, No. 12 Monday, August 28, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Please call us: 933-0245 Phillips proposal mm&iy High In" 60s The high today will be in the eOs; the low in the 70s. There is a chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers. of r H v 1 aid. .bias X V '-I 5 7 7 ..VI..: , - I y" i 1 'Vow p J A ! ' i mmm till By MARY ANNE RHYNE City Editor The Campus Governing Council soon may be asked to take out its checkbook and pick up part of the tab for a bus system in Carrboro. Student Body President Jim Phillips' confirmed information The $180,000 surplus comes from unspent funds which revert to the General Surplus at the end of each year. Phillips said the money! has been saved in the bank for emergencies. "I don't want to spend the money but neither side is willing to give in," he said. "This - - - i , - J WW VW lllv wail ft few from Student Government sources Sunday that he will propose without. This is the kind of thing we ought to be doing " such a bill to the CGC if the town and the University don't agree He said the action would not set a precedent because SG this morning on transit funding. A simple majority of the CGC cannot afford to support a bus svstem "The University doesn't want us to hi would have to approve such funding Phillips said the bill would provide service equal to last year's with $30,000 from SG and a matching amount from the University. The SG money would come from its $180,000 General Surplus. Phillips was to meet with John L. Temple, vice chancellor for business and finance;. Bob Drakeford, Carrboro mayor; and Doug Sharer, a Carrboro alderman, this morning to discuss the bus system. The University has offered $31,300 aid to Carrboro for a bus system z . a X have to Dut the mnnpv in. L -J r-i i . . i... . J nc saia. i ne university is willing to participate with Student Government, Phillips said, or with apartment dwellers who want to put up the money for a bus system. Carrboro did not know about the proposal before this morning's meeting. Negotiations between the town and the University have been at a standstill since June over cost allocation of the system. Carrboro officials have attempted to get the University to increase its funding. Temple said earlier the problem is that Carrboro wants a level A y-y x-.-.'.-.- yy v'y- o ft Phillips said SG could spend less money if it would be satisfied of service eq ual to that offered in Chapel Hill John B. Cooper (left) and Charles Ross of the Black Mayors' Conference . At Carrboro conference with a lower level of bus service. On Wednesday, the University promised that Carrboro would have at least three weeks of bus service while negotiations continue. Service on the C route was to begin this morning. The N route extension will not begin until Sept. 5. Sharer, who is negotiating with the University, said the school makes only a $1,000 net contribution to the bus system in Carrboro. A 6 p.m. meeting is scheduled today in the Carrboro Town Hall to discuss the bus system. The meeting is sponsored by the city of Carrboro. if- - Jim Phillips Muyor accuses TFMI af surveillcmce By TONY MACE Staff Writer The president of the National Conference of Black Mayors Saturday accused FBI officials of conducting a systematic surveillance of members of his group and other black American leaders. Mayor Jay Cooper of Pritchard, La. said at a press conference in Carrboro that his group will seek a second meeting with FBI Director William Webster to discuss what Cooper called the FBI's politically motivated effort to harass and discredit black leaders nationwide. The executive committee of the black mayors' group held its quarterly meeting m Carrboro Friday and, Saturday. "I am outraged and disappointed that since our last meeting with. Judge Webster, it has come to our attention that this organization, members of its board and its officers have been under surveillance by the FBI, that apparently phones have been tapped and recordings made of our activities," Cooper said. Cooper had earlier requested President Carter to appoint a special commission to investigate the charges! Tom Harrington, special agent in charge of the FBI public relations office See 'In Quotes' on page 10 for related story in Washington, declined to comment on Cooper's charges. "But we don't do that kind of thing anymore without a court order," Harrington said, referring to recent disclosures of illegal FBI probes in the early 1970s and before. "It may have been done. But if it had, I don't know about it, Harrington said Sunday. - --- - i ' U.S. Attorney Mickey Michaux said Sunday he knows of no authorized FBI wiretaps of black mayors in North Carolina. "I would know about it in this district if the FBI had gotten a court order for any wiretapping," said Michaux, who is chief federal prosecutor for 28 central North Carolina counties. "We haven't had any requests for wiretapping on any black mayor in this district," Michaux said. Michaux, the only black U.S. attorney in the South, is a close friend of Carrboro Mayor Bob Drakeford, who also is black. Other central North Carolina towns with black mayors include Southern Pines and East Spencer. FBI wiretaps are prohibited by law , unless authorized by a federal judge. Such court orders are usually kept secret through court-imposed gag orders. "At some point a decision was made by the FBI that the National Conference of Black Mayors was a threat to national security," Cooper said. "It's absolutely amazing that the FBI would waste money and violate our rights by ihvadingi privacy; We intend to insure that black leaders do not have to continue to suffer this kind of abuse," Cooper said. Cooper said the board would seek to cooperate with other black groups to determine the extent of the alleged abuses and would retain a staff person to pursue the allegations. Cooper refused to' link FBI surveillance to his own indictment in U.S. District Court in Mobile, Ala. on kickback charges. The federal indictment charges Cooper with inducing a contractor on city drainage projects to purchase land for the benefit of Cooper and others. Three other black mayors currently are under indictment on various charges, according to conference host Drakeford. Cooper said FBI surveillance was discovered when one board member gained access to his FBI file. He said it contained evidence that other members of the group had been investigated for at least three years. On another matter. Cooper said the black mayors' group will continues to urge' the Carter administration for specific legislation to benefit small towns. The National Conference of Black Mayors works primarily to assist small communities in gaining access to federal funds. Cooper said. Most of its 176 members jcarhe from towns of fewer than 30,000 inhabitants. Most board members at, the two-day meeting represented small towns in Mississippi, Texas,. Ohio and South Carolina. Mayors Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, Walter Washington of Washington ' and Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., also members of the executive board, did not attend. Clia rlotte lidpior friends recruit student voters By SUSAN LADD Staff Writer Amid growing controversy between pro and anti-liquor forces in Charlotte, a pro-liquor group Friday announced plans to shuttle students registered in Mecklenburg but living outside the county home to vote. The Mecklenburg Mixed Beverage Committee will provide rides to Charlotte for students who are eligible to vote in the Sept. 8 liquor referendum but currently are attending universities in Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill r Lloyd Scher, UNC graduate and h college c.oord inator for th committee. told a group at UNC that the student vote could be crucial to the passage of the referendum. Scher estimates that 3,200 to 3,500 registered voters of Mecklenburg county are students in the Triangle area. Also, Scher said, surveys by WSOC radio and the Charlotte Observer indicate tht the 1 8 to 35-year-old voter will comprise the group that will pass the referendum. Because it is a special referendum, absentee ballots will not be accepted. "We think it's very important that we provide students with the opportunity to vote on an issue that will affect their county," Scher said. Student coordinators on each campus will put up posters listing their phone numbers and arranging car pools for students who want to go to Charlotte to vote. Scher said that 68 students at N.C. State already have signed up, although the school has a football game the following day. Scher estimated that 35-45 percent of the college student voters of Mecklenburg will return tQthe county to vote. He added that some will come from as far as Washington. As Sept. 8 grows near, the antagonism between the forces increases daily. " Anti-liquor " leader Henderson Belk alluded recently that supporters of mixed drinks would b punished. "When you violate the spiritual law of God, you pay the price," Belk said. "You watch whoever's involved in the campaign for, mixed drinks and see what happens to them." Belk named Joseph Kennedy, an importer of Scotch whiskey, as an example, pointing to the tragic deaths of his three sons. See LIQUOR on page 2 New Pope John Paul I to keep PauVs spirit Court favors UNC in Smith suit s VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul I humbly pledged Sunday in his first message to the world to follow the programs of Pope Paul VI, and appealed for "a new order" with more justice, a more stable peace and more sincere cooperation among peoples of the world. In his first full day as pontiff, John Paul, 65, looked out at 200,000 people gathered to great him in St. Peter's Square and told them: "I do not have the wisdom or the heart of Pope John or. the preparation or culture of Pope Paul. But 1 am in their place. I must try to serve the church. 1 hope you will help me with your prayers." He praised Pope Paul, who died Aug. 6 at age 80, as a "great and humble man. "Our program will be to continue his," the new pope said. Earlier, in a 30-minute speech in Latin to the cardinals who Saturday elected him the 263rd leader of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics, he pledged to pursue the reformist policies of both his immediate predecessors, Paul VI and John XXIII. When one reporter referred to John Paul as a conservative. Cardinal John Dearden of Detroit said "I think you'll have to get away form that conservative label. It's too strong. I'd say he's very 'moderate." Under reforms initiated by Pope Paul See POPE on page 2 $5. ii Mary Carroll Smith By JIM HUMMEL Staff Writer A federal court jury last week said thp University did not practice age or religious discrimination when it refused to grant tenure to Mary Carroll Smith, a 43-year-old assistant professor of religion. The jury said discrimination was not a factor and Smith's denial of a promotion was based solely on her professional performance during her three years at UNC. Smith's $2.25 million lawsuit was filed in 1976 after she was denied a contract renewal by her tenured UNC Department of Religion colleagues. One part of Smith's complaint has not been resolved. U.S. Middle District Court Judge Eugene Gordon must decide whether the plaintiff has been discriminated against under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law dealing specifically with sexual discrimination. Smith said after the jury verdict was announced that she will appeal the decision if Gordon does not rule in her favor. "We still have a chance," Smith said. "It's very important for women to bring this type of case to a federal level." Smith, a'Roman Catholic, was the first woman to be appointed to an assistant professorship in the religion department.1 She came to UNC in 1973 after receiving degress from Trinity College, Boston College and Harvard University. She has accepted a teaching post at Vassar College in New York to be a visiting professor of religious history. Her trial has no bearing on her teaching status at UNC and will only determine damages. Smith has been teaching at the University under a federal court injunction since August 1976, one month after the case was filed in district court. The injunction issued by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals prevented her from being dismissed. iterate paimteiTa ;ppBt shares' Ms. ait9 wisdloiinL i it 2 ill & ' It y V . .-.-:.::::::-.-::::::".;......'.... y. v. '. '.y'-yyly y.Ay Dcd' Carter pcirtts the Pizza Hut on Franklin Street DTK Andy James By BETSY FLAGLER Features Editor Some have called him "an illiterate S.O.B. Most folks just call him Dad. W.F. Carter, born in a log cabin in Tennessee, recently parked himself and his motor home on Franklin Street to paint a picture of the new Pizza Hut for a Chapel Hill resident and talk with passersby. "Who is this guy?" a youngster smaking gum asked as he watched the artist who looked like a misplaced cowboy. A wide-brimmed hat.. Sideburns that almost meet under his chin. A polyester vest and flowered shin . Pointed leather boots. "Just call me Dad," he said. "I live mainly on the road in motor homes," he said. A plaque on the door of his motor home indicates his home base: Dad Carter, Carter Country, Fort Meyers, Fla. Carter Country is 'an orphanage Dad started on a 4,000 acre ranch to give people of all ages a home and a last name if they don't happen to have a legitimate one. "I seen thousands of people that needed help that didn't need a welfare case. They didn't need an insane asylum. All they needed .was a daddy." he said. Dad, who claims to have raised more than 500 children, has been on the road for 19 months after leaving his 1 8-year-old son to run the orphanage. Traveling with him across the country is a 19-year-old girl whose parents live in Chapel Hill. She said Dad raised her, and that she has lived at the orphanage since she left her family, formerly of Florida, when she was 13 years old. "He's a wonderful man," she said as she looked at Dad. Dad can't read or write. "I'm mirror minded (dyslexic). God is dog and dog is god," he explained. He was born without a palate and since no one understood him he only stayed in school for two years. Even then, he said, he went to school only on days it was too rainy to work. He said he did not learn to talk until he was 36 years old. Now it's hard to keep him quiet. He talked about painting pictures for Elvis Presley, burning down the schoolhouse in his hometown, starting a recording studio in Memphis, scouting for country music talent, sketching portraits of disc jockeys, riding the rodeo circuit, taking care of children others don't wanf, appearing on television and in newspapers across the country "just because he's stupid," earning no less than S i 00 a day by painting and writing songs and, and more and more and more. Is he for real? "When you've changed as many diapers as I have, when you've stayed up late nights with unwed mothers or held the 'hands of dying ones, you know what realis," he said as he stopped painting for a moment to reflect on his life. My idea of life is to share it. It doesn't matter what you've got; unless you share it, you've got nothing." The kids at the ranch, IH put food in their stomachs and a roof over their head but I jyont tell them which God to believe in. A preacher comes once a week but he don't have a denomination." ' Rhyme and meter don't make much difference to Dad. Common sense does. His speech is a series of adages, a string of pearls. "You can hire a man to kill you, but you can't pay him enough to love you," said Dad, who calls himself a "modern-day Pied Piper" because of the stories he has told and the songs he has sung. Dad has left the orphanage and said he ( probably will not return. He's tired. His health ' is declining. The orphanage is controversial. The neighbors don't like it and he's tired of arguing with them. Hell let his son worry about it now. He wants to travel, to paint to share his life with folks who want to hear about it. Before moving on to another -sidewalk in another town, the Pied Piper handed out one last pearl of advice: "Get up and watch where you're going. You might never be there again."
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