North Carolina Newspapers

Mellow yellow It will be mostly sunny today and tomorrow, with high tem peratures near 90 and low temperatures tonight in the 60s. 4- Volume 8JJ, Issue ental firm tir fu with offer By MARK SC1IOEN . DTH Surf Writer Although its impact on UNC students who have signed contratts has not been determined, an incident in which a privately-owned rental service solicited refri gerator rentals, without the University's permission has been resolved, a Student Affairs official said Wednesday. The company, Student Services Co. of Arlington, Va., has been told that its soli citation on Aug. 22 was in violation with a state law that prohibits commercial so licitations on campus without a permit, said James O. Cansler, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs. "It's cleared up in the sense that they understand the policy," Cansler said. "We said they're free to advertise in newspapers or by mail, but they were not free to come on campus and solicit." The problem began, Cansler said, when the company delivered to students leaflets advertising the rental service. Later, Parker Residence Hall staff members challenged the representatives of the company who were attempting to deliver refrigerators to students. "Apparently the driver called the own ers and then left," said Jody Harpster, an associate director of University Housing. "But that was already after they had de livered some." "They were asked to leave the campus by the campus police and they did," Cansler said. "If they had stayed, then they would have been arrested." It could not be determined immediately how many students had rented refrigera tors from Student Services or how the incident would affect any contracts that have been signed. A representative of the company said today that the incident was the result of a -misunderstanding :and had been cleared up. "Obviously UNC was more strict about its licensing," said Paul Jost, president of Student Services Co." He (Cansler) made the regulation clear to us. Now we know the rule, and I think we have resolved it." Jost said his company would seek ad . vertising through newspapers and by mail in an attempt to continue refrigerator rental on campus. "From what I understand, we're allow ed to make the deliveries, but not put up the leaflets," he said. "We're allowed to deliver, but we have to get the or'ders through the students calling us, not through leaflets." Cansler likened the situation to restau rants' that deliver orders on campus. "The distinction is that the restaurant is free to deliver at the request of the stu dent," he said. "They are not free to set up a stand and say 'call us.' "They can't go through the dorm and solicit," he said. The regulation was adopted to protect students from businesses of unknown credibility, Harpster said. "We have to make sure that the busi ness could be dealt with if there was some trouble with the service," he said. "If people have trouble with some unli censed company then we run the risk of not being able to get in touch to solve the problem.' Cleaning Mr 7 (4 i J - ri t- ' ' i V A y f "V .: . .' I v , . " . 9. M (m xV i ' :.j i ,)it 'jii.. ' if St 111 47 U L . X ".rs $:':v:::-::::: ' : ::: ' : : :'y. -: . v-vo x Vx ?$JvXV ,x, XXX ' Cx x-: "Jxx x-- ;:-:. x. x .;vsp" s "Cow-N x . . x --xx , x. X - - -W xx V x ,xx x. x x x Ns OTHScott Sharpe Ben Ferguson uses pipe detector to find gas line on Estes Drive ... line had to be found before water break could be fixed Voyager '2 Flow of The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. Mechanical trou ble aboard Voyager 2 interrupted the flow sk-stunning and revealing photographs ' from Saturn Wednesday, but scientists said that the mission was still a "high-percentage success." A platform carrying Voyager's cameras apparently got stuck, limiting the cameras' aim, and project controllers could not fully analyze the problems until they received crucial tape recordings at midmorning, a, spokesman said. ; Controllers noticed the problem shortly after 2 a.m. as soon as radio signals with the craft were transmitted once Voyager passed from behind Saturn as seen from Earth, project spokesman Alan Wood said. He said scientists hoped to learn from the tape recording made when Voyager 2 was behind Saturn the extent of the plat form problem and also whether it occur red before several crucial pictures were taken. "We can't point the cameras at the proper targets," Wood said." The.other instruments are working. It's just the op tical instruments that are pointed by the platform." : Although many of the critical close-up transmissions were received as Voyager 2 "approached Saturn, "there were some crucial pictures taken during the ring plane crossing which we hope is on the tape-resording. That is not quite clear yet," Wood said. As it raced away from Saturn Wednes day, the one-ton robot explorer began a five-year journey to distant Uranus, a world never seen at close ranges Until the ship arrives in January 1986, no other planet will be explored before the Ameri 531 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Thursday, August 27, 1981 to. - -ft i i 4. 3 v. ' vW J i , , xsx.w,' XX x x -x-. ixyM;:. v x i x x x XX photographs interrupted can spacecraft. Voyager is also headed for a 1989 tour of Neptune. - Until Wednesday's hitch, the project had been proceeding-well. ' 1 - "! think it is the inost flawless, perfect encounter I've ever been through, and I've been through a lot of them," Voyager project manager Esker Davis said after the spaceship made its closest approach to Saturn late Tuesday night. Crowd at planetarium sees sate llite 's pic t ures By SUSAN HUDSON - DTH Staff Writer "You could hear a pin drop," Plane tarium Director Tony Jenzano said of the crowd gathered to see fly-by shots of Sat urn from Voyager II. "They seemed to be awe-struck by what they saw on the screen." I There were people crowded into the planetarium and sprawled over the lawn outside to watch the program on two TV monitors. Jamie Johnson, one of those seated casually outside, paused from watching the screen and said, "It's great that it's available on campus and that it's free." " It's really great ," Van Johnson agreed. "But it's a shame that it's the last mis sion," he added. Chris Price, one of the people closest to the screen in fact, he was on the Nortli Carolina 20009 looks at the- f ntftare off tlie ,Tar Heel state 19 years.from now By KATHERINE LONG , v DTH Staff Writer What will North Carolina be like in the year 2000? A state project, North Carolina 2000, has started work that will try to answer that question, program spokesmen said recently. - North Carolina 2000 is the idea of Gov.' Jim Hunt, who started the program when he called the state's . Goals and Policy Board together last December to start the project. Since that meeting, the board has compiled a state workbook that makes predictions about the state's future based on current trends, said Elaine Matthews, policy analyst with the state Division of Policy Development in Raleigh. The workbook, being circulated this month, is only the beginning of the year long project. But a view of the state's fu ture is already beginning to take shape. The workbook predicts that the state's population will by then be 7.7 million Chapel Hill, North Carolina By JOHN ROYSTER . Oty Editor Three unrelated water pipe breaks dur ing a 24-hour period Tuesday and Wed nesday caused many Orange Water and Sewer Authority customers to have murky water, and one of the breaks forced the closing off of much of Chapel Hill's Estes Drive. " ' A Wednesday morning break caused murky, though still safe, water to flow from faucets over much of the UNC cam pus and the residential neighborhoods to the immediate west of it. Two of the breaks were caused by con tractors digging near water mains, and the third was caused naturally, said Wayne Munden, OWASA's chief engi neer. All three were in the Chapel Hill Carrboro area. The first break occurred about 4 p.m. Tuesday on Smith Level Road south of Carrboro, Munden said. A crew installing a sewer main near a water pipe caused the pipe to give way. Munden said the crew did not actually strike the pipe in digging, about a foot away from it, but that the change in land pressure resulting from the digging evi dently caused the break. The second break, the one that caused students to discover brown water in their sinks and toilets Wednesday, occurred After traveling across nearly 1.5 billion miles of space since it left Earth Aug. 20, 1977, the ship arrived within 30 miles of the bull's-eye just 3.1 seconds early, Davis said, ; .' i " . "It's a high-percentage success," Wood said. "Until we know exactly what we have on that record we can't say for. sure. The going-away observations by the optical instruments are jeopardized." front row was more enthusiastic. "The pictures are fantastic!" he said. An estimated 1000 people crowded into Morehead Planetarium or sat on the lawn directly outside to watch the shots from Voyager II Tuesday night. : The people at Morehead took advan tage of the last opportunity for at least five years to see close-up views of other planets. After its encounter with Saturn, Voyager II will not transmit any more planet photographs until it approaches Uranus in 1986. A possible equipment malfunction or damage from flying particles now has the camera on the Voyager II satellite pointed toward outer space instead of its target, Saturn. But this development will not keep the Morehead Planetarium from presenting its scheduled program "Saturn Encounter" at 8 p.m. tonight and Friday. Jenzano said that if live pictures were not available, computer enhancements of pre- people, 1.8 million more than now. "And that's a bunch of new folks to account for," Matthews said. One startling prediction in the report concerns the state's elderly population: By the year 2000, 71 percent of the state's residents will be 65 or older. "Once you see these trends you start asking, 'What does it mean in terms of health care?'," Matthews said. "Do your values shift slightly?" - The workbook says the amount of farm land will shrink and that the size of households in the state also will become smaller. "Jobs will be a real question," Mat thews said, pointing out that the work book reports that 950,000 new jobs will have to be created. And, as technology continues to change rapidly, job training will have to change, too, she said. "How do we educate our people for jobs that don't exist now?" Matthews asked. Matthews also said the project was needed now. "We're all beginning to re when a construction crew working on Carrboro's Jones Ferry Road bikeway project struck a pipe Wednesday morn ing. The crew was digging in front of the PTA Thrift Shop, off Jones Ferry at its intersection with Main Street. The pipe is a feeder main to the Uni versity campus, explaining why there was water difficulty from the break to the campus. Such a break, Munden said, causes velocity of water flowing through pipes to increase, with the faster water picking up more residue from the lining of pipes, re sulting in murkiness. "(The water) doesn't look good, but it's safe enough,". Munden said. "It's still treated water it's pure." He said all pipes of any similar surface unavoidable had some of the residue. "It's like setting a rain bucket out in the yard," he said. "When you pour it out, y6u can see a residue." , OWASA did not, however, recom mend the water for such uses as washing clothes. The third, and evidently the most fearsome-looking break occurred just after 4 p.m. Wednesday on Estes Drive in Chapel Hill, between Granville Road and , Mills Drive. It actually caused little ser vice interruption and discolored water. The break occurred beneath the street. vious footage would be shown and discus sed by commentators. Live pictures from the satellite go through a complicated process to reach viewers on Earth. First, the pictures are relayed from Voyager II to four deep space network stations. Then the signals go to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where they are trans mitted to Satcom I. Cable networks around the world receive the pictures from Satcom I. Locally, the pictures can be seen on Village Cable Channel 18 or at the Morehead Planetarium. The moons Iaptus and Hyperion were the main attractions for Monday, night viewers. They also witnessed the myster ious formation of black spokes in Ring B of the planet. As yet, scientists have no explanation for this phenomenon. alize limitations of the government " as responding to people's needs," she said. UNC has already been involved with the preliminary findings of the reports of North Carolina 2000. Revisions of the first state workbook have been made by officials of each of the 16 institutions in the University system. "We added another consequence here and there," said Vice President for Uni versity Relations Rollie Tillman, who co ordinated UNC-Chapel Hill's responses. "It was very much an abbreviated re sponse," she said. ' But the University may become more involved with the project if, as expected, a University official is appointed to the 50-member Commission . of the Future that Hunt is forming. The commission will use the workbook . as a basis for discussions about what will happen to the state in. the future. The commission also will work with local committees and the Committee of 100, a Escape Irish children, Protestant and Catholic, leave Belfast vio lence to spend five peaceful weeks in Greensboro this summer. See story, page 10. NewsSportsArts 9334)245 Business Advertising 933-1163 causing police to close' off Estes from Granville to Franklin Street while OWASA crews did repair work. ' Chapel Hill Police Officer M.L. Hayes said there was traffic backup along Estes . Drive until the department put in a call to local radio station WCHL, which began broadcasting traffic warnings. The break was repaired and the street reopened last night. Water to a few customers in the resi dential neighborhood north of Franklin Street "was cut off for the duration of the repairs. The Tuesday break on Smith Level Road caused a service interruption for customers south of State Road 1994 (the Grey Culbreth Junior High School Road), as OWASA crews shut off valves to make repairs. Hydrants were opened along lines be yond the breaks to flush the lines after re pairs were made. Munden said breaks such as these three were not an unusual occurrence in any water system. "It's not anything unusual, except for the fact that we got (the three breaks) bang, bang, bang," he said. "A couple of years ago we had four or five one night." ; "It I had my druthejs, this would never happen," Munden said. "You wouldn't ever have a flat tire or run out of gas, either." Tuesday night's broadcast provided viewers with a higher resolution look at the rings in full sunlight. The star Delta Scorpii was occulted during the Tuesday program. "During the occultation of a star, the star will appear to move behind the rings when in fact Voyager is moving," Jenzano said. "The intensity of the star will help determine the number, size and density of the rings," he said. "The amount of knowledge to be gained...." He sighed and shook his head. "It's hard to express," Johnson said. Kathi Johnson, who recently sat in on a conference at the Jet Propulsion Labor atory, said, "It's so frustrating. They have funding just cut out from them." And with that, she suddenly took the book in her hand and bit its corner in frustration. special group made up of project repre sentatives from each of the state's coun ties. "They'll be feeding into one another" with questions and responses, Matthews aid. Voters of the state will be given a chance to voice opinions next spring with a ballot asking citizens to list what they think will be the most significant issues in the year 2000. "Really, it's a people project," Mat thews said. "People all across the state will participate in the process." If the right funds come through, college students may be challenged with a speech contest on possible issues developing in the next century, a spokesman in the youth involvement office said. The project will culminate in September 1982 with a statewide convention. The convention will produce a document that will present a picture of North Carolina in the year 2000, "outlining major goals, priorities and things to be acted upon," Matthews said.