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R n Wat offensive Mostly cloudy, cold and wet with occasional showers. High of 70; low In mid-50s. 1W Jazz concert S3yro Gyra, while on tour promoting its latest album, Freetime, will stop in Chapel Hill for a concert on Nov. 1. o un S3 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 NmraSportsArta 962-0245 BusineuAdvertising 962-1163 Volume E Issue Cj Tuesday, October 27, 1S31 Chapel Hill, North Carolina t r Candidates for NIfOmi fjjl frp It 51 s board mayor attend forum By KAREN HAYWOOD DTH StaN Writer Carrboro candidates for mayor and alderman discussed taxes, economic development, financial management and citizen representation at a forum that became hot at times at the Carrboro town hall Monday night. About 80 people attended the forum which was spon sored by WCHL radio. The first part of the debate included aldermen candi dates Hilliard Caldwell, Braxton Foushee, Joyce Gar rett, Doug Sharer, Jim White and Nancy White. Caldwell said there was always a possibility of a tax in crease, but "the present board has gone too far too fast." Caldwell said he would ask each department head to look at ways to cut expenses without cutting services. Incumbent Sharer said the town had worked success fully to broaden its tax base, during his four-year term. The present board has approved development totaling $33 million. Garrett said several problems in Carrboro resulted from a "narrow-base town government." He said that incumbent alderman candidates Sharer, Nancy White, Braxton Foushee and Mayor Bob Drake ford, all of whom are members of the board and the Carrboro Community Coalition, attended Coalition meetings where decisions were made relative to public business. Foushee said Carrboro was trying to attract industry to town and had had many inquiries from "the type of businesses we would like to see locate in Carrboro." 4 It r v I s u If n i 1 SHARfL OTWAI Steele Joyce Garrett (left) and Doug Sharer discuss issues at Carrboro forum Monday ... both are candidates for Board of Aldermen seats in Nov. 3 election Foushee said buses were a high priority and he would like to maintain bus service at its present level. The main issue in the election is open government, candidate Jim White said. "The problems we have are all magnified because the incumbents have not been open and sensitive to citizens." He said he would call for more task forces to study Carr boro's problems. Candidate Nancy White said low- and medium-cost housing was Carrboro's most pressing need. She said the town should also "encourage business to locate in what is essentially a one-business town." Joyce Garrett charged that the town spent tax money illegally to promote bond issues in 1978. Public funds may not be used to advocate passage of proposed bonds, she said. Nancy White said that some of the board members had spent their own money to advocate the bond issue. . "The town didn't spend a penny," she said. In response to a question of whether students would continue to be driven out of Carrboro because of increas ing rents on apartments, Caldwell said they would, and that rents would continue to go up. Sharer said he did not believe students were being driv en out of town because of high taxes, contending Carr boro does have a problem with high rents but that is something the town does not directly affect. Jim White said the only ways to lower taxes were to cut services and make town government more efficient. Mayoral candidates Robert Drakeford, Roger Messer and Bill Pressley spoke during the second half of the forum. Pressley said he was running because "my taxes went up 41 percent this year." . See FORUM on page 4 By LEISHA PHILLIPS DTH Staff Writer Although most of the money invested in the new tax-exempt All Savers certifi cates in North Carolina has come from account transfers, local financial Officials said last week the certificate was accom plishing what it was designed to do. "They (the certificates) were in 'Rea omi:S' t6 give a tax break to the gene tuuuc ana generate money back mto the housing market," said Brad Bradford, assistant vice president of Northwestern Bank in Chapel Hill. "And the certificates have generated new money from those not having the $10,000 minimum for money market certificates. A lot of peo ple are digging up their (money) jars in their backyards and bringing it in." Since Oct. 1, when the certificates were first offered at a 12.61 percent interest rate with a $500 minimum, Bradford said roughly 50 percent of the new accounts at his bank were from new money, or money transferred from outside the bank. "We were tickled with the response Friday (Oct. 2) was a zoo," he said, citing a total of approximately $600,000 in cer tificate deposits month. since the first of the At Security Federal Savings and Loan Association in Chapel Hill, branch mana ger Jim Long reported a total of some 500 new accounts, with 35 percent being out side money. "We had two fantastic days on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 1 and 2), he said, "but Friday was the best day when the question was if the rate would go up or down." Home Savings & Loan spokeswoman Diane Lloyd said the majority of their customers in Chapel Hill also bought cer tificates before the rates went down on Oct. 5. New accounts there have averaged around $7,500, according to vice presi dent Toby Grady, although they ranged from the $500 minimum to the maximum deposit eligible for tax-free interest. Other area banks and savings and loans agreed that most certificate customers took advantage of the higher interest rate, before it dropped to the current 12.14 percent. Becky Bradshaw, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Savings and Loan League in Raleigh, said a survey of 152 out of the state's 183 associations showed 28,450 All Savers accounts were opened Oct. 1-3, with total deposits exceeding $200 million. Of that amount, approximately 18.5 percent was new money. Most of it trans : ferred fromsix-mOnth money market cer tificates. Bradshaw said the league would con duct another survey at the first of next year to determine further customer in terest in the 12-month certificates. Both financial institutions and the cus tomers benefit from the All Savers plan, according to Grady. "It helps the savings and loans (and banks) shift from high- to lower-paying certificates and for the con sumers it can be a higher net return than the money market," he said. Bradford said financial institutions could save as much as 3 percent on cost of funds as customers transfer from the high rate certificates. But, he added, the All Savers plan offered 12 percent interest or more to those with less than $10,000 to invest who previously had been limited to 5 or 6 percent interest of the passbook savings plan. The All Savers rates, pegged at 70 per cent of the interest rate on one-year U.S. Treasury Bill, will change every four weeks based on monthly auctions of the bilIsuMost financial institutions should know the new rate by Oct. 30, but ac cording to Lloyd it will not go into effect until Nov. 9. Most of the certificates have a $500 minimum investment and mature in one year. They are sold in denominations of $500. For individuals, the first $1,000 is tax free and for couples filing joint tax returns, the first $2,000 interest is tax free. According to Grady, at the current 12.14 percent interest, an individual can deposit $8,237 in an All Savers to earn the maximum tax-exempt $1,000 interest and couples on a joint return can buy $16,474 to earn the $2,000 tax-exempt interest. "It's a good deal," said Long. "Be sides, where else can you get that kind of rate on $500?" Videomumm Local bars attract electronic game enthusiasts By STEVE GRIFFIN DTH Staff Writer In a year that has seen a number of Franklin. Street businesses close their doors, one type of establishment, the video game parlor, has prospered appearing from one end of downtown Chapel Hill to the other. The trend can be traced back to the opening of Silver Odyssey on West Franklin Street about a year ago. The actual boom did not begin until the past six months, however. Pump House Entertainment, Inc., located across from University Square, opened last May, as did the Henderson Street Bar, one of the two video parlors which serve alcoholic beverages. Star Trax, in the old Jasper's location, opened in August and began selling beer last month. Two Bits, located near Puxdy's, opened in September and is the newest of the video game parlors. None of the spokesmen for the various businesses be lieved that the area has yet become totally saturated. Each seemed to believe that the different places attract a different type of crowd and that each has its own "regu lars." Paul Stephenson, an employee of Pump House Enter tainment, commented on that opinion. "We've got our own clientele, and I guess everybody does. I've seen nearly everyone in here once or twice before. A lot has to do with location." Stephenson said that most of Pump House Entertain ment's business consisted of high school students, Gran ville Towers residents and customers of the He's Not Here bar. He believed that the newer places had not hurt Pump House's profits. "Everyone's trying to get their piece of the pie, but our piece has not gone down," he said. John Brugos, an employee of Two Bits, agreed that there remains a market to be tapped. "We haven't even advertised since we opened and we've had pretty steady business. There has definitely been a steady increase in business," he said. The estimates on how much people actually spend on the games varied slightly from place to place, but $5-$10 a visit was not an uncommon estimate. Stephenson reported that occasionally people do spend more. "I've seen people spend up to $18 at one time," he said. "One time I even saw one guy spend $28 on a De fender machine. It's ridiculous." Most of the businesses contacted declined to release any figures related to the financial aspects of their operations. The general method by which most video parlors work is that the individual businesses allow a large distributor to place its machines in the parlors, and then the receipts are split evenly. Stephenson estimated that either one of the two most popular machines, Pac Man or Defender, could take in See VIDEO on page 3 (B Meat tcdfco) tests The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium A senior U.S. official said after consultations with NATO allies here Monday that huge anti-, nuclear demonstrations oyer the weekend ; had not altered the alliance's plans for deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. , The official, who asked not to be nam ed, spoke after a special NATO panel was briefed on the Reagan administration position in the . upcoming U.S.-Soviet talks on restraining nuclear weapons in Europe. "We take the demonstrations seriously as ... the opinion of a fairly substantial number of Europeans," the official said, adding the protests were not brought up at the panel's meeting. The official said the peaceful protests, which drew a total of 600,000 people to rallies in London, Paris, Brussels and Rome, would force "no change of atti tude" by NATO members about deploy ing a new generation of nuclear missiles in Western Europe. British and U.S. diplomats in London, speaking privately Monday, took note of the demonstration and the Dutch Labor Party's ' resolution opposing a NATO ministers' statement affirming the deployment plans. "If the Dutch do not finally accept the missiles, we will obviously have to revise the deployment," said a British source who asked not to be identified. Britain's Foreign Office, asked for comment on the wave of protests in European cities, referred to recent state ments by Foreign Secretary Lord Car rington expressing the "great concern and anxiety" of Europeans about the nuclear arms race. The Dutch Labor Party, part of the center-right coalition cabinet that resign ed over a domestic dispute on economic policies, unanimously endorsed a week end resolution saying the Dutch govern ment "canjake no responsibility for thosesec6ns of the NATO communique ' that state the need for the modernization and deployment of nuclear arms." The Dutch Cabinet is staying on while efforts to resolve the economic dispute continue. The Netherlands and Belgium, two of the countries that would get the missiles, have not yet agreed to take the warheads. U.S. officials have said a deci sion rejecting them would force NATO to reduce the number of missiles deployed or to seek other bases for them. The 13 NATO ministers last week reaf firmed plans to begin deploying the new U.S. missiles starting in 1983. It was not a final vote on deployment, however, and was made after U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pledged U.S. negotia tors would consider proposing to reduce, rather than just restrain deployment of missiles in Europe. The U.S. official here said "differences of opinion" between Washington and the European NATO allies over what the U.S. posture should be in the arms talks starting Nov. 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, were resolved. "We have been able to reconcile these differences fairly easily," the official said. When asked what the differences were, he declined to elaborate beyond "differ ences in approach." In Washington, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said, "... The president has made it clear he favors arms reduction, not just arms limitation." NATO favors arms reductions to "the lowest possible level ... which could in clude the possibility of a 'zero outcome under ideal circumstances and on a basis of reciprocity," the U.S. official here said Monday. .According to NATO figures, the Soviet Union has to date deployed 750 SS-20 warheads. In 1979, NATO agreed to bal ance this by deploying 572 ground launched cruise and Pershing II missiles in West Germany, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. The "zero op tion" calls for canceling deployment of the additional missiles in return for a re duction in the number of the Soviet war htadsr" . ' Student voice BOG spot sought By KEN MINGIS DTH Staff Writer , ; A recommendation that a student rep resentative be included on the UNC Board of Governors will be presented to President William C. Friday later this week, Student Body President Scott Nor berg said Monday. "The Board of Governors is the su preme governing body of the University system, making decisions on items that affect students everyday," Norberg said. "We feel some type of student represen tation and input is needed at that level. "Students see this as an opportunity to assist in the decision-making process," he said. The proposal was agreed to at a meet ing of The University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments, Norberg said. Norberg is president of the association, which met this past weekend at N.C. Central University in Durham. Friday said he felt the proposal would need to be considered. "But, student representation on the BOG is entirely different than representa tion on a university board of trustees," Friday said. Currently, student government presidents hold a seat on the University board of trustees, Norberg said. "I'm on the board of trustees, and it is a good way to provide advice, as well as give and take, from the student point of view," Norberg said. The inclusion of a student on the BOG would require a change in North Carolina law, Norberg said. The change cannot be considered until the next regular session of the General Assembly in January 1983. "There was a strong feeling (at the UNCASG convention) that the BOG ex ists by the fact that there are 120,000 students in the UNC system,", Norberg said.- "A student representative would be in a strong position to help the BOG in making decisions that affect students," he said. Norberg said that he felt the president of the UNCASG should be the student who served on the board. The time between making the actual proposal (to Friday) ahd its possible im plementation will be a good time to look at the issue, Norberg said. Even if a student is appointed to the board, Norberg said he did not foresee any major changes. "I don't envision that we'll see all kinds of radical moves," he said. "I feel it is more of an opportunity to have ques tions answered and advice gained for the BOG." I ocil Boet & xb e nemc e 6 JL By TERESA CURRY DTH Staff Writer ; Ever have trouble finding the right thing to say? Monika Davis doesn't. "All of my friends say I have an incredible way of saying things and that I should write them down," said Davis, a resident of Chapel Hill. The problem is that she has what Ellen T. Johnston-Hale, a poet and friend of hers, clas sifies as "page fright," Davis said. Johnston Hale wanted her to write down her own poetry, but Davis was not able to. However, Ellen captured my commentaries on daily life and observations which she felt were unique in the booklet, Monika Says by listening to me and writing down what I said - as I talked," Davis said. . The booklet contains 32 poems all beginning with "Monika says," Davis said. It was pub lished by the Durham Morning Herald in August. "The poems are about coping with daily life," Davis said. "They show how to see the funny side of things, no matter what. 1 feel there is something comic in every incident. " 'Singles Party is my favorite out of the booklet," Davis said. "It has such universal appeal to all my friends who are divorced or JL single. The poem is about my one and only ex perience with a solo club. I never joined one.", The poem goes as follows: Monika says that she attended, ' . recently, a singles party. What she saw was couples dancing, clinging fiercely, desperately. What she saw was not romancing, ' V . . only misery, there, -dancing. ' ' Before the publication of Monika Says, the poems first appeared for about 14 months in the Durham Morning Herald opposite the edi torial page, Davis said. V.C. Rogers, a car tonnist for the Durham Morning Herald, pro vided illustrations for the booklet. "This is the first time the Herald has ever ventured into printing a book," Davis said. "It was really exciting because there are dozens of people dying to have the Herald print some thing like this." About 1,000 copies of Monika Says were printed by the .Durham Morning Herald, . Davis said. So far, sales of the booklet have se frmht C7 ry BU JL been best in small .gift shops. "I'm taken back by the response to the booklet thus far," Davis said. "I had never had anything published in America except ads," Davis said. "The publi cation of the booklet was so exciting that it made me feel like being in a labor room with my labor pains two minutes apart." Davis, who majored in journalism in col lege, said, "I was always interested in fashions and writing about them. I did advertising for fashions and I did some buying for small bou tiques." Originally from Berlin, Davis explained that she and her husband moved to America in 1950. When her marriage ended in divorce, she returned to Chapel Hill, where her hus band had spent his residency earlier as a doc tor, because she was familiar with the area. After settling in Chapel Hill a second time, Davis met Johnston-Hale. "We were both recently divorced and both depressed," Davis said. "Ellen called me up one night after we had first met and asked me to come down and have a depression party with her and some friends. "Ellen urged me to write," Davis said. "She helped me overcome my page fright.' "The Durham Morning Herald has about 40 more of my poems in its computer and is 1 r.!cnika DTHScott Sharpa still running them opposite the editorial page," Davis said. "In addition, I have about 40 more at home besides those in the com puter. "My great ambition is to have a short story published by the New Yorker,' Davis said.