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Cloudy day It will be cloudy and mild today with the high near 70 and the low in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 20 percent today and 30 percent tonight. Mm Nov. 21 The deadline for submitting freshman p re-registration forms is Tuesday, Nov. 21, not Oct. 21 as reported in Monday's Tar Heel. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume C3, Issue No Tuesday, November 7, 1978, Chapel Hill North Carolina Please call us; 933-0245 j 1 T Mond issues 77 iepenu on stuuent vote By TERRI HUNT Staff Writer Carrboro officials say they believe all four bond issues will pass if a large' amount of University students vote. Today, an expected light voter turnout will vote on more than $2 million worth of bonds for recreation facilities, fire station building, public building and land acquisition. "The opposition to these bonds includes three groups," Aldermen Ernie Patterson said. "Firsuthere are those who don't want to spend the money on recreation facilities, although they recognize they are needed. Second are those who just voted against everything the town board proposes. Finally, there are those who oppose the bonds purely on racial terms. This concerns mostly the recreation bond, because people are unhappy that the facilities will be used mostly by blacks. Several board members have been told that people won't vote for the recreation bond, because blacks will use the pool, Alderman Nancy White taid. "Now, you won't find anyone who will admit to having this feeling, but there are people , who believe this. It's something that has become a concern of the Board of Aldermen. Alderman Sherwood Ward cautions there is no way to measure to what extent this racial feeling exists, but claims he has been approached by people who expressed this opinion. "I think the bonds are close to passing now, given no student vote, Patterson said. "But if we can get the student vote, the bonds will certainly pass, and we can construct the facilities. We can also sway that first group of opposition, because if they can be shown that we need the recreational facilities, they'll vote for the bond. Many of them don't want to vote for recreation because they see the bikeways as helping only thestudents, but we all need bikeways for safety. It keeps the bikes out of the streets. Controversy has developed regarding the land acquisition bond. A Durham - tiewspaper reported that J. V. Brockwell is opposing part of Carrboros bond proposal to purchase his land. The town proposes to buy a two to three acre tract of land near the intersection of . Homestead Road and Old N.C. Route 86 North for the future site of a fire substation. The location is near some of BrockwelFs property. "This is just a gross misinterpretation, Alderman Doug Sharer, who was quoted in the article, said. "It's an editorial play by the paper." "They're really making a story where there is not story, Patterson said. "We have not specified a site for the substation. This is just designated as a suitable spot because we predict the town will grow in that direction. We've never even contacted the land owner. Yesterday, with the election growing near, bond officials were busy making a last pitch for approval of the bonds. Leaflets detailing the bond issues were delivered to all apartment complexes and in all other areas of town. "We want to go ahead and have this recreational land now, Patterson said. "If we have the land now, we can add facilities to it in the future, because we can't do it all at once. And we need to start now, because it will cost more in the future. Every year we wait there will be 10 percent to 12 percent more inflation. The cost is the key." sit" Polls open from 6:) a.m. to 7:30 p.mw M ,. '-AiTm 11-15$ Ci&CLE H MAHIC WITHIN JFH$"5 tlSTv? 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Northside'-:; tf, f MunlciPal Balding Ifniveriit Gardens, T M:K-lt Z&ttCZ. i f - North Columbia -North Carrboro Carrboro-Scrlo Este&Park,iedar-Caujt P ) (Vri2 n - Greensboro Street -South Carrboro --Carrbrooll'ifciia,l .Fidelity-Court Chateau ?w. ifei fTi-v II H;rnJmo5?? Greenbelt, ri -v TI-;CMA$ In . Berkshire. u-niversuy;LaK.e ywvAv-Jwaieriani Dpgwpod Acres r; v fiCulbrjeth School! 5. 5. tftr(?station VyjParkr.Yum-Yura 1 he V lllages jGokerHills,. Rjigh ' f f i i turnout e'en , J . - , .... m (Dit county poll today By KATHY CURRY Staff Writer Elections officials predict about 45 percent of Orange County voters will Visit the polls today and cast ballots to decide key local races and the U.S. Senate contest between Republican Jesse Helms and Democrat John Ingram. Lackluster campaigning by Helms and Ingram combined with general voter disinterest in the race probably will cause the light turnout, said Joe Nassif, chairperson of the Orange County Board of Elections. But the county figure still should be 5 to 10 percent higher than the state average, he said. "South Orange will turn out pretty heavily as usual, about 45 to 50 percent. North Orange has always turned out slightly less, but the county has still been more active overall than the state in off year elections." Alex Brock, executive director of the N.C. Board of Elections, agreed that there is nothing to indicate today's turnout will be any greater than the average 40 percent statewide turnout in 1974, the last off-year election in which the exact same offices were on the ballot. "Voters have never really responded to a U.S. Senate race, even with (Sen. Robert) Morgan on the ballot in 1974,", Brock said. "What will bring the voters out will be hotly contested county races." - Orange County Republicans and Democrats are hoping much-publicized local races for clerk of Superior Court and two state Senate seats will attract voters who otherwise would be disinterested in the election. Gerry Cohen, voter registration chairperson for the Orange County Democratic Party, said he feels the U.S. Senate race will be the biggest- drawing card in Chapel Hill and Carrboro precincts. But black Republican Richard Batts' challenge to Democrat Frank Frederick, incumbent clerk of court, will bring out the vote in rural northern precincts, he said. "The key to the election will be the turnout of the black community," Cohen said. Intense telephone and door-to-door campaigns by Democratic get-out-the-vote committees resulted in a 79 percent Democratic registration of new voters in the county, Cohen said. M ost of the new registration took place in University-dominated Mason Farm, Northside and East Franklin precincts, he said. Democrats will be conducting a last minute telephone blitz today , to key University and predominately black precincts to bring out low-income irregular voters that are Ingram's base of support. Cohen said But county GOP chairperson Ray Montgomery said he believes a high turnout will benefit Helms. Heavier turnouts have traditionally benefitted Democratic . candidates in Orange County because of minimal Republican registration. But a low. turnout of regular voters this year would benefit the more liberal Ingram, Montgomery said. A heavier turnout would indicate the more conservative farmers and small business executives in northern Orange that lean toward Helms are turning out, he said. Montgomery conceded that Republican state Senate candidate Richard Smyth of Chapel Hill needs at least 40 percent of the votes in Orange County to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Charles Vickery of Chapel Hill. Smyth and Vickery. together with Democratic Sen. Russell Walker and Republican challenger Alice Ward of Asheboro, are running' for seats from Orange, Chatham, Randolph and Moore counties. Smyth's heavily visible campaign has raised concern among local Democrats. Hugh Wilson, county Democratic chairperson, said Monday that Smyth advertisements broadcast on local radio stations claiming the state Senate race will be close are false. Wilson said the ads claim he contended in a letter to precinct leaders that the state Senate race will be as close as 100-200 votes. "The private letter was poorjy written, but I was referring only to the Ingram Helms (U.S. Senate) race," Wilson said; "I do not believe the state Senate race will be that close." Many UNC undergraduates who did. not vote in the SepL 12 mixed-drink referendum may be subjected to at-the-polls hearings to determine if they are legally domiciled in Orange County, Nassif said. The hearings are a result of voter challenges filed last spring by 26 Orange Committee supporters. Nassif said only those remaining challenged voters who are UNC undergraduates will be required to face a hearing conducted by party precinct judges and registrars. .Boitk HJ mate eaiiiOTdates ccdh ffideiLit If) k? i - x M Jesse Helms The Associated Press - , ; ' North Carolina voters are deciding today if Republican Sen. Jesse Helms will return to Congress in January, or if he will be replaced by Democratic challenger John Ingram. I ngram, 49, predicted M onday he will win, despite polls which show him trailing badly. He made last-minute accusations of misrepresentations and falsehoods from the Helms camp. Helms, 57, seeking to become the first Republican re-elected to a statewide office in modern Tar Heel history, said Monday he expects a close finish despite two recent newspaper pools show ing him with an 18 percent lead over Ingram, the state insurance commissioner. ' Ingram's barrage of accusations ranged from poster-defacing "goon squads" to Republican vote-buying, but he presented no evidence to support the charges. ' Ingram campaign manager Charlie Webb, who originally made the accusations Sunday night, traveled with the candidate Monday, Ingram referred all questions about the vote-buying charges to Webb. , Webb said the I ngram camp has an affidavit from a woman in Clay County who said she was offered $40 to vote Republican. But he didn't name the woman or produce the affidavit. "I think you know and I know and we all know this is just another one of these smokescreens with no evidence, no substan tiation whatsoever," Helms said. "I'm disappointed that kind of campaign has emerged." s A moderate voter turnout is expected among the 2.4 million persons registered in North Carolina. Democrats comprise about 75 percent of the electorate. In their final salvos, Ingram and Webb accused Helms of mis representing Ingram's position on issues and said it had become one of the dirtiest campaigns ever in North Carolina." Helms dismissed Webb's charges as rhetoric. "I think it's been dirty one way. yes," Helms said. "But I have not spoken an unkind word." Tom Ellis, Helms' campaign manager, said he resents Ingram's accusations of vote buying and vandalism and said Ingram is deliberately trying to mislead the public. The voting today ends a re-election campaign begun by Helms in mid-1 976. Its dominant issue became the vast amount of money Helm's campaign committee raised with computerized, direct-mail solicitations. The Helms committee reported raising and spending $6.7 million as of the last reporting period 10 days before the election, but the final figure was expected to top $7 million by far the costliest campaign for the Senate on record in the country. Half that amount was spent on a sophisticated fund-raising ef fort run by Richard Viguerie of Falls Church, Va., a veteran of conservative political campaigns. Helms still was left with enough money to run the largest and smoothest campaign the state has ever seen, with 100 full-time, salaried workers and $300,000 worth of television commercials. Ingram, by contrast,, reported raising and spending less than $300,000 after beginning his campaign early this year and was forced to rely largely on free television exposure. He made heavy use of endorsements by President Carter and Hunt, who seemed hesitant at first but became more active in the campaign after a non-political appearance with Helms brought heavy pressure from Democratic Party stalwarts. '"' . As a-Republican, Helms clearly based his appeal on ideology, not partisanship, and stressed issues such as a balaced federal budget, inflation, and the Panama Canal treaties, which he promised to try to thwart, despite ratification this year in the Senate. Ingram countered with blasts at Helms' negative voting record, his contributions from special interest political action committees, and his own popularity for battles with insurance companies as commissioner. Ingram won the right to oppose Helms in an upset over Luther Hodges Jr. in a runoff primary in May. . " ft- ' t ' I I' .1 " ' I I ' I I ; X i 1 f M 1 ) John Ingram MHA committee to make visitation recommeiidatioiis By SUSAN LADD Staff Writer Recommendations for modifying the current visitation policy will be submitted to the Residence Hall Association Board of Governors today by the RHA committee studying visitation. This comes in the wake of a Common Cause survey Thursday in which 49 percent of the respondents said they are satisfied with the current policy. More than 100 of the approximately 560 persons responding to the survey did not respond to the visitation question. In contrast to these findings, a random survey conducted by the RHA visitation committee last month found that 74 percent of the respondents felt the policy should be changed. Another survey of dormitory residents conducted by RHA and Student Government found that 87 percent of respondents favored an extension of visitation hours. The current hours for visitation are noon to 1 a.m. weekdays and noon to 2 a.m. weekends. RHA organized the committee to study visitation as the result of a Housing Department and Department of Student Affairs controversy this fall over a crackdown on enforcement of visitation regulations and punishing of violators. RHA President Don Fox said the Common Cause survey results won't influence the way the board of governors looks at the visitation committee's finding and recommendations. "It doesn't drastically disprove the committee's findings," Fox said. When asked if he thought the lack of response to the visitation question shows a lack of interest in the issue, Fox said the 100 people who didn't reply to the question might not have been dormitory residents. Fox also said he thought the survey probably is not statistically valid. "There is no guarantee that their survey was a sampling of different areas," Fox said. "Our surveys covered every area of campus." Fox said there also is a time factor involved in the conflicting results of the survey. Because it has been more than a month since the original report on the conflict was published, people have begun to forget the details of the issue. Fox said. "We're glad that others are interested," Fox said. "I'm pleased that Common Cause included the visitation question in their survey." . The RHA Board of Governors will study the report and recommendations of the visitation committee this week and a full RHA report will be made public nex Tuesday. V' ' Odum Village utility bills could drop by 36 percent U 1 11 cm it y ivawman Many students are dissatisfied with visitation ...according to a recent survey By ANNETTE FULLER and PAM KELLEY Staff Writers UNC energy officials have updated a formula used to compute the utility bill for Odum Village Married Student Housing and. in doing so, have cut the Village's portion of the University heat bill by 36 percent. - The move resulted from a recent Odum Village Board of Aldermen meeting in which Philip Williams, president of the aldermen, f accused the University of overcharging the students by as much as 125 percent for heat. The UNC Physical Plant charges residents according to a formula that determines the cost of giving out steam heat to Odum Village as part of the total University bill. "This means that each resident may have a reduction of $ II to $ 1 4 in his rent," Williams said. A two-bedroom apartment in Odum Village now costs $149 a month, including electricity and water. "The formula we use isn't wrong; it just needs to be updated periodically," A.J. Altemueller. physical plant fiscal officer, said. - "If the Housing Department saves money because of a change in the physical plant's formula, then it will pass on the savings to Odum Villagers," Housing Director James Condie said. But he said the extra utility charges already have been spent so he does not know where any possible rebate money would come from. Williams and other residents want further investigation into the University's management policies in Odum Village. "So far in my investigations, I haven't found anyone that is corrupt or wicked. I have just found a whole lot of sloppiness in every office." Williams said. The residents will meet again Thursday to form a committee of volunteer law students and other qualified persons that live in Odum Village. The committee will conduct investigations concerning the University's budget to determine if other practices need to be updated, Williams said. "We've only just begun; this is only the tip of the iceburg. As far as utilities go, the Odum Village won't be satisfied until the meters are spinning backwards and they are sending us a check every month," Williams said. Housing and physical plant officials are meeting today to discuss Williams findings. Exercise your franchise- get 'outand.v0te,ih- ioduy's-state, local races
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