MMp urn i iym iitoy j 0 Wn'W" - r Mostly cloudy It will be mostly cloudy through Thursday with highs in the 60s and lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain is 40 percent. Volume GS, Issue No. 65 jj? Liq or tax to up costs of cocktails By PAM KELLEY Staff Writer When local establishments begin serving mixed drinks around Thanksgiving, Chapel Hill residents can expect to pay $1.50 and up for their favorite cocktails, according to restaurant owners. "We're going to try to match everybody else," Tim Mee, co-owner of the Mad Hatter, said. "Drinks will probably range from about $1.50 to $2.25. If we could get away with charging $5 a drink we would, but the price will be determined by what the market will bear." Mickey Ewell, who owns Spanky's on Franklin Street, said he thinks the $10 tax on each gallon of liquor purchased by proprietors is excessive. Nine dollars of the tax will go to the county; the remaining dollar will go to state funds. Each establishment that wishes to sell -4iquor also mu3t purchase a $500 license. "It would have been better to have charged more initially for the license and to have had a $5 a gallon tax " Ewell said. "These taxes make it hard for proprietors to keep the cost of the drink dow n." Frank Dale, owner of The Peddler on East Rosemary Street, said he also thinks the liquor tax is high. "I've worked with bars in Georgia, and it seems everything is done a little backwards here," he said. "In Georgia liquor licenses cost $2,100, but taxes are cheaper." The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen and the N.C. League of Municipalities have passed a resolution which argues that cities should be allowed to levy a license tax of $250 per year on establishments selling mixed drinks. Chapel Hill Alderman Gerry Cohen, who proposed the resolutuion, said he expects it to be brought up and passed in the N.C. Legislature this spring. If passed, local establishments could be paying the tax by June I. "I don't think a local tax is needed, and I don't think it will pass," Ewell said. Cohen said beer and wine sales are taxed both by the state and locally, so he feels the absence of a local tax on liquor is an omission. "It would bring in about $3,000 or $4,000 a year in revenues for Chapel Hill," he said. "Mixed drinks are sure to increase local business and traffic, so Chapel Hill will need more law enforcement and more city services." Mary Alice Danziger, owner of The Rathskeller on Franklin Street and The Ranch House on Airport Road, said she thinks a local tax is needed. "This town needs money for a lot of things, especially parking," she said. "1 had a feeling there would be high taxes to pay for the cost of enforcing the regulations." Charlotte is expected to become the first North Carolina city to serve mixed drinks. As many as 75 restaurants and hotels along with a few private clubs will apply Monday for .liquor by the drink licenses there. Town parking crunch solution closer Ja. By CAROL HANNER Staff Writer Chapel Hill aldermen moved a step closer to solving the local parking crunch Monday when they authorized Phase II of a city parking study. The eight-to-ten week study will investigate financial feasibility and design alternatives for parking in the Central Business District, city Finance Director Tony Hooper said. The parking alternatives include construction of a parking deck on town owned land at the corner of Rosemary and Henderson Streets; metering curb spaces on West Rosemary, Graham and Roberson Streets; making two surface lots in the West Franklin area and developing park-ride lots. mmmmammmmmmmm 8 m IT SUJL lUCiL Philosophy prof horses around Julian Bond told Memorial crowd civil rights may regress Bo nd fears '60s gains in civil rights short-lived By MARTHA WAGGONER Staff Writer Julian Bond, Georgia state senator and civil rights activist, said Monday he believes much of the progress made in the civil rights movement of the '60s is in danger of being set back. Bond spoke in Memorial Hall as the 1978 Weil lecturer. The annual lecture on Topics in American Citizenship has been sponsored by the Weil family of Goldsbro since 1915. Bond spoke on "Democracy in America: 1978." Bond was twice refused his seat in the Georgia Statehouse in the years 1965-67 and required a U.S. Supreme Court decision to takr-fris seat in 1967. He served four terms in the house and was elected to the senate in 1974. On N ov. 7 he was elected to another term in the state senate. "The removal of more blatant forms of . American apartheid makes it easy to think many of the major battles have been fought and won," Bond said. "Many, in fact, are in danger of being refought and lost." Bond called the 1964 Civil Rights Act the most comprehensive of all such acts and traced the civil rights movement from the act to ,the Equal Opportunity Employment Act passed by Congress in 1972. "This parade of paper promises seems impressive and on paper it certainly is," Bond said. Bond said the years after the Brown v. the Board of Education decision showed the ascent of Negroes and that 1978 is the year the C7 The study will design plans to finance the parking program. Such plans may include revenue bonds, general obligation bonds or a special tax district in which businesses who benefit from parking facilities are charged additional property taxes. Hooper said. The town hired Wilbur Smith and Associates in February 1978 to conduct a two part survey of parking needs in the Central Business District. Hooper, Town Manager Gene Shipman, the Transportation Board and a Mayor's Parking Study Committee studied the survey and presented Monday's recommendation. The group suggests that 96 unmetered spaces currently being used for long term parking by students and downtown employees be metered to increase By TERRI GARRARD Staff Writer When the chairperson of the UNC philosophy department takes off in his battered red pick-up truck, he's no longer a professor. He's a horseshoer. Michael Resnik, w ho - keeps his own horses, learned the shoeing procedure after having problems with a horse that was chronically lame. He organized a course made up of students and owners of horses and hired an instructor to teach horseshoeing. To develop his skills, Resnik began to practice on horses belonging to his neighbors and friends. Before long, it evolved into a part-time business. "Lots of people think it's kind of a dumb thing to be doing, because it requires strength," he says. "But to do a good job. it requires good judgment and keen intelligence." The procedure for shoeing a horse includes removing the old shoe, which is nailed on, and trimming the hoof w ith knives, files and nippers until it's the proper length. "Just like trimming a fingernail," Resnik says. "Trimming is the most important aspect. The surface of the hoof must be flat and the angles correct so the horse will be comfortable and perform well." The next step is to make the shoe, although many horseshoers now use premade shoes. Resnik explains that handmade shoes, are very expensive and are more of a status symbol. "Usually a premade shoe Serving the students anil the Wednesday, November 15, 1978, Chapel Hill North Carolina ! . . - .if 1 racial tide turned. "No single act in 1978 reversed that forward motion." he said. He said the 15 years following the Brown decision showed a "hopefulness changed to a militancy. The militancy quickly began to eliminate the symbols of Jim Crow." Bond said Lyndon Johnson proved "regionalism and racism are not necessarily partners." but that Johnson's domestic programs were halted by the Vietnam War. "The best and the brightest were beaten down by bullets. An awful calm settled on the American political scene." In 1968. the American people elected a president who "began a national nullification of the" nee3s of the needy." Bond said. He accused, Nixon and his administration of "pious platitudes and self righteous swinishness." He also charged Nixon with changing the Supreme Court from a defender of the minority status to the protector of the prominent and the powerful. "The people who were wronged were told to set themselves right." Bond said. "Nixon's evil genius could not turni back the movement of 200 years." Bond said. People supporting Nixon believed "enough had been done for the helpless few at the expense of the powerful many." In 1976, blacks turned to the polls in record numbers to support a man "who seemed singularly committed to closing the gap between the shadow and the substance of the American dreams." See BOND on page 4 turnover. The spaces on West Rosemary. Graham and Roberson Streets would not meet the need for 100 additional spaces Wilbur Smith and Associates say the town will need in the next three to five years. The study recommends adding two levels of parking over the Rosemary Henderson Street lot to. 'combat the problem. The group recommended two surface lots in the West Franklin Street area to provide an estimated 120 spaces needed in that district. George Watts Hill Jr.. chairperson of the town's Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee, presented the board with a report supporting trie overall recommendations of the parking stud v. " WWWMM,MMBMBIMMMaiBmilBBI,BBBIB does the job." he adds. , After the shoe is placed on the hoof, it is nailed on. The nails go into the bottom of the hoof, come out on the side, and then are bent, cut off and filed down. "The nails are designed to turn out as you hit them." Resnik explains. "So you have to hav e the courage to hit them hard and hope that they will go the right way." If the nail turns inward, it goes into the horse's foot. Horseshoeing isn't easy, especially if a horse simply doesn't want to be shod. Young horses can be more of a problem than older animals i! ;hev haven't been shod before. "The animal w in fight and can hurt itself and hurl the horseshoer." Resnik says. "But it won't throw you on the ground like big horses can." He recalls when one of the young horses he was shoeing jumped into the air and almost landed in the back of his truck. 'Some horseshoers w ill restrain difficult horses with ropes. Resnik says, but he doesn't advise doing so because the horse often injures itself trying to escape from the ropes. Despite the deelitK- in the practical use of horses over the last century. Resnik says horseshoeing is not a dying art. In the last ten years, he says, horses have become more popular for racing or pleasure riding. Horseshoeing schools have been created to meet the new demand for the skill. Resnik says there are at least 300 horseshoers across North Carolina. N I'niversity community since IXVJ Epi tea vot 9 Raleigh (AIM government I uesday I he federal challenged the fairness of the Wilmington 10 trial and petitioned a federal Court to either throw out the slate convictions of the nine black men and one white woman, or hold a hearing on the government's findings. The petition, which says the government has uncovered evidence indicating the defendants were denied a fair trial, comes after nine of the ten defendants have already been freed on parole. Members, of the Ten and their supporters hailed the n.ove on their behalf, but said it was long overdue six years late, to be exact. "We've got new hope now," said Reginald Epps, who. along with eight other black men and one white woman, was convicted in 1972 of a firebombingin Wilmington the year before. "I think it was long overdue, but I'm just glad to see it." "It's, w hat we've been fighting for." said Ann Snepherd .Turner, the only Ten member free without parole. "The president surely had to have a hand in this." she said, echoing the sentiments of several other supporters. White House spokesman Mark Henderson said Tuesday the President Carter had no comment on the Wilmington 10 action. Carter has said, before that he would not comment and that the case is a matter for the courts to decide. In an 89-page brief, the department questioned whether the state's chief witness. Allen Hall, told the truth when he testified that each of the defendants took part in the firebombings. The department concluded that "Hall is not a reliable witness." that the defendants were not allowed to fully portray Hall's unreliability at the trial a nd t hat t he pr osecut or.- J a mes S t roud . withheld from the defense an amended statement by Hall that cast doubt on his testimony- in short, that the Wilmington Adds amendments Board .OKs new vlsitatioii rules By SI SAN LADD Staff W r.iter The Residence Hall Association Board of Governors' approved the RHA visitation committee report Tuesday night after adding several amendments that would include graduate students in the visitation rules, prov ide lor additional quiet hours and establish a residents' bill of rights. The RHA committee to study visitation was appointed Sept. 19 in response to concern ol residents and staff stemming from a crackdown on visitation violations this tall. I he - committee submitted its final report to the RHA Board of Governors last week for consideration. The original wording, of the first recommendation stated that "an visitation policy established and enforced, be applied equallv to all undergraduate University residence halls." The RHA Board of Governors voted to delete the word "undergraduate" so the policy would be applied to all residents in University housing, specifically Craige. where graduate students currently, have 24-hour visitation, while undergraduates in Craige must abide b the University visitation policv. The current University policy limits visitation hours to tiom noon-1 a.m. noun J0 were denied a lau trial. "There is reasonable likelihood that the jury's verdict might have been different had it known" what was in thestatement. the brief said. It said Hall could have been cross-examined in front of a jury about the apparent discrepancies. Last January. North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt reduced the sentences of the Wijrnjngton 10. allowing all butChavisto. get out of prison this year. But Hunt said then he was convinced they had a fair trial and "the jury made the right decision." Gary Pearce. Hunt's press secretary, said "This came as a complete surprise to us." adding that he doubts very seriously the governor will have any response to the ruling. In February, 75 congressmen signed a petition urging U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell to direct the Justice Department to intervene in federal court on behalf of the Ten. Elizabeth Chavis. mother of the Rev. ,Ben Chavis. the on! defendant still in jail, termed the petition "the best news I've heard. "My faith in God is restored." she said. . '"'.' Mrs. Chavis.who lives in Oxford, said she visits Chavis every Sunday at the Orange County, prison unit in Hillsborough. Prison officials said Chavis., who could not be reached for comment, would probably hold a news conference Wednesday. The Ten were convicted of arson and conspiracy in connection with the burning of Mike's Grocery, a white owned store, on Feb. 6. 1971. The fi reborn bing came at the end of a week of racial violence w hich left one white man and one black man dead. If the court follows the government's suggestion. Chavis would be freed and the parole restrictions for the eight other men would be dropped. The members and .'their backers said they have no plans to follow up on the petition, except to continue to push for Chavis' release and wait for the ruling by Sunday through 'Thursday and noon-2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Dart Hemrick. governor of Craige. said this discrepancy has caused problems between graduate and undergraduate residents of the dorm. Fran Williams, governor of Henderson Residence College, opposed the rewording to include graduate students on the basis of an age consideration. "I don't think that graduate students should be -subjected to any less than 24-hour visitation." Williams said. The Board of Governors also amended the quiet hours guidelines set by the visitation committee that limited quiet hours to 7 p.m.-8 a.m. Monday through Thursday. The committee voted to set quiet hours at 7 p.m. -8 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 2 a.m.-8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The committee recommendation to set visitation hours at 10 a.m.-1 a.m. Monday through I hursday and 10 a.m. Friday to I a.m. Monday, which would mean 24 hour visitation over the weekend, was approved by a 6-2 margin. RHA President Don Fox. who voted against the recommendation, raised the point that the committee's surveys clearly showed that a majority ol students favored an open visitation policy 24 hours- seven davs u week. Ricky Murray, governor of Granville jmw JT fa ' r , iH. - -.' r '-'2 J I Professor end terrier Michael Resnik files Study in Europe Professors Armitage, Leutze and Unks will hold a public meeting to discuss the UNC Study in Europe program at 7:30 p.m. today in 218 Peabody. Please call us: 933-0245 em Si?;- -v" . 5... 1 Ann Shepherd Turner District Judge Franklin T." Dupfee Jr.. in whose court the document was filed. Richard N. League, an assistant state attorney general who represented the state during the Ten's post-conviction hearing in Burgaw. N.C. in 1977, said his office had not decided whether to file a response to the 89-page federal brief. League said that from his first look at the bulky document, he found few points that had not been raised in earlier actions. League said the only new evidence he saw was a previously-secret copy of documents used by prosecutor James Stroud in his pre-trial interview of key witness Allen Hall... Several of thedefendants will hold a joint news conference Wednesday at 6 p.m. on the North Carolins Central University campus in Durham. and a member of the visitation committee, told the Board of Governors that the committee decided to recommed more restrictive hours primarily because they felt a stricter policy would have a. better chance of being approved by the administration. The Final recommendations of the Board of Governors must be approved by, the Department of Housing, the Division of Student Affairs. and the Chancellor before they can become official policy. Fox said he approved the committee's recommendations and the reasons for the recommendations, but cast a dissenting vote as a matter of principle. "It's my personal belief that there should be no time restrictions." Fox said. Also amended was the committee proposal to establish a Judiciary Board composed of students elected from each dorm with the responsibility of making judgements on violations of University or residence hall policies. The Board of Governors v oted that the members of the board should he appointed by the RHA president with the advice and consent of 'the RHA Board of Governors with one representative from each area rather than each dorm. This was done on the suggestion of Fox. who said he felt the members of the Judiciary Board should be above politics. hoof boforo thosing horta t f fci mum, im i

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