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r Thursday, August 27, 1981The Daily Tar Heel5 r v: f HSBf y (C X- 5- Dy RACHEL PERRY DTH Staff Writer Beginning this weekend, both Chapel Hill and Carr boro will tighten enforcement of alcohol sales to minors, especially in grocery and convenience stores, Chapel Hill Mayor Joe Nassif said Wednesday. Nassif called a meeting early Wednesday morning to discuss the coming crackdown with local .alcohol ven dors, including representatives of Spanky's, Linda's Kroger stores. Four Corners, Troll's, Harrison's and the Happy Store on Franklin Street. Also present at the meeting were Carrboro Mayor Robert Drakeford, Chapel Hill Police Chief Herman Stone, District Attorney Wade Barber, Orange County ABC Officer Clifton Latta and representatives of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. "There isn't adequate effort being made uniformly (by vendors) to control the sale of beer to minors," Nassif said. "The easiest place for young people to (il legally) buy beer is at convenience stores and grocery stores, so we will probably concentrate on those places." Nassif said Chapel Hill and Carrboro were being assisted in the crackdown by both Orange County and state ABC officials. "There are already people in the area checking stores, and a number of arrests have already been made," he . said. Nassif urged alcohol vendors in the area to step up ef forts on checking identification before selling beer to anyone. "We're asking you to tell your employees how to check ID's, to crack down on the minors. We are not after you licenses, just your cooperation." Since last year's crackdown on public drinking and the serving of beer to minors in bars, the checking of proper identification in most downtown bars has improved greatly, Nassif said. "Yet there is still beer being sold to minors," he said. "We're going to enforce this as hard as we can but if that action continues, we'll have to go for (revoke) the licenses." . Keg parties, a popular pasttime in Chapel Hill, are ao tually illegal, Nassif warned vendors and distributors. . "It's illegal to charge for drinking in the first place," he said. "Also, there are usually minors being served. Chapel Hill high school students swing in and out of those fraternity parties all the time," Nassif added. "When you sell kegs to fraternities, I want you to keep in mind that these parties are frequented by minors," Nassif said. "We aim to ask the fraternities to assist us, and we ask you to advise them of that when you sell the kegs." Nassif also asked grocery and convenience stores to post signs at each cash register and on the front doors stating that a valid driver's license would be required for the sale of alcohol. "Ask your employees to ask for that ID it doesn't matter if the employee thinks the customer is 25 (years old) ask for it anyway." Many managers and owners of area bars said that fake identification cards and special identification cards (state : identification cards for those who don't drive) with an older sibling's name and birthdate were frequent in Chapel Hill. "The occurrence of these fake IDs has tripled or quadrupled over the past 12 months," one restaurant owner said. Barber advised vendors to retain the false identifica tion and identify the minor to police for further investi gation. I - ' v "You've fulfilled your . responsibility by. checking a (supposedly) valid driver's license," he said. Nassif said that the nationwide increase in under-age drinking in the past few years had contributed to in creased alcoholism among teenagers, rising arrests and convictions for driving under the influence, and in creasing accident-related deaths; "We've turned our backs and minds off it for a long time. We don't want to do that anymore," Nassif said. According to police records, IS of the. 19 traffic fa talities in Orange County last year involved drinking drivers. Four of the 19 killed were teen-agers one only 14 years old. In June,, Chapel Hill police arrested eight minors for driving under the influence, Stone said. Thirteen minors between the ages of 16 and 17 were arrested for DUIs in July. ; I . ' Stone said the police department was increasing sur veillance manpower, for the alcohol sale crackdown. "Some policemen will be in plain clothes; others will be in uniform," he said. "We want to forewarn every body. From now on, your places (establishments selling beer) will be watched," Stone said. "There will be a definite step-up in arrests and cita tions given both for teen-agers and college students drinking under age," he said. Students' return brings tripling of nightspot sales By KAREN HAYWOOD , DTH SUff Writer Sales at local nightspots, bars and beverage stores as much as tripled last week with the return of students, mana gers and owners said. "Our business was triple, maybe more," what it had been the week before, said David Sink, owner of Harrison's, a Franklin Street restaurant and bar. Sink said Harrison's went through 150 to 200 cases and 15 to 20 kegs of beer last week. He said he noticed that students did not seem to be staying out as late this year as in previous years. Business tails off at 12:30 a.m., he said. What do you do if you're 17? Underage students seek answer By KAREN HAYWOOD DTH Staff Writer You're finally at school, away from home for the first time and ready to go out. Where do you go? Not many places, if you are 17. One Cobb freshman, who will be 18 Oct. 1, said The Porthole restaurant was the only place she went, besides parties. "I was just in and out of the hair be- cause , I couldn't, get, in. (at dowrMwnT nightspots)," she said. "I watched TV." The dorm always emptied about 9:30 p.m. she said. She said she didn't try to get in any where. "To go with a group, get carded and then for someone to have to walk me back here would be too embarrassing," she said. Another student, Cheryl Lockhart, who will be 18 Sept. 14, said she did not go many places during orientation week, but that it was not because she could not go anywhere. Lockhart said she went to dances on South Campus, visited friends in Hinton James and "walked Franklin Street to death." "I don't feel like I've been missing out," she said. "The only thing I'm mis sing out on is the beer, and I don't drink." One Grimes Residence Hall 17-year-old said he had been out many times, but that there- were "just- a- couple of places I'd Having an identification card with an 18-year-old birthdate helps tremendously. One sophomore who turned 18 this month, said that without her sister's ID (saying she was 18), she probably, wouldn't have gotten into Zack's or Pur dy's last year. Senior Barbara Stalder said she seldom got carded before she turned 18 Sept. 14 of her freshman year. "Nobody ever carded me. Now they're stricter," she said. Patience is, to many minds, the answer. "I figure everyone else waited their 18 years. I can wait mine too," the Cobb freshman said. The Bottom Line takes a lighter look at the news. Look for it every Tuesday and Thursday on the editorial page of The Daily Tar Heel , . ' minima . i J fci.ni. n ri nrn.t 1 i .in, 1 PERMANENTS - $20 includes cut 1SHAMPOO, CUT, BLOWDRY - $7.00 "i t a r . .. W Jt. 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Bill Moss, Four Corners' day bartender, said bar sales almost doubled from the week before, when no students were here. "It was a big jump," Moss said. "We have a lot of regular customers who are non-students, but business picks up when the students return." , "Our business tripled," said Bobby Ipock, manager of the Happy Store. Ipock said the beer-and-wine-oriented convenience store sold 1,500 cases of beer and 50 cases of wine last week. Most students surveyed said they went out almost every night last week, and that, their entertainment was fairly inexpen sive. Roommates Janet Pester and Tina Buchholz went to Purdy's the first night they were back in Chapel Hill, Zack's on Wednesday night, fraternity parties on Thursday back to Purdy's on Friday and back to Zack's on Saturday. "We've had an active week," one said. Pester said she spent only $5, and Buchholz said she spent about $10. "A lot of stuff was free last week," one said. . Chris Tucker, a junior living in Everett Residence Hall, went to Purdy's and va rious parties around campus last week. Tucker said his entertainment cost about $50 for the week. - Ken Mingis, a junior from Raleigh, said he went to Kirkpatrick's, Purdy's and Zack's on the nights he went ou$ last week. "I spent $35 at least," Mingis said. Evan Miller, a freshman from Char lotte, said the money ($10-$15) he spent went mostly toward admission charges. "Almost everything was free," he said. I derive all my strength and . v intelligence from : : reading CAROLINA UNION TECH CREW HOUSE STAFF Anyone wishing to work with Tech Crew or House Staff who did not attend Wednesday meeting MUST BE in Union 207-209 at 5:00 p.m. TODAY Thursday, August 27. Carolina FINANCIAL AID CHECKS Student Aid Office 300 Vance Hal! Telephone: 982-8398 The Student Aid Office has changed procedures (or the disburse ment of financial aid checks in 1981-82. 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