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V Design bus bid awarded Council favors GM By MICHELLE CHRISTENBURY " 1)TH Slaff Writer The ChapeJ Hill Town .Council voted unanimously Monday night to recommend that a bid for the purchase of 12 advan ced design buses be awarded to GMC Truck and Coach division. GMC is the manufacturer of the 16 ad vanced design buses purchased by the town last year. The Council rejected the low bid made by Neoplan USA Corporation because it felt Neoplan was not a "responsible or re sponsive bidder." Ron Secrist, Chapel Hill's interim town manager, gave several reasons for the Neoplan rejection. Secrist said that Neoplan, a West German-based manufacturer, had never built an advanced design bus and did not meet bid specifications. He said the company had indicated a desire to change specifications to meet the requirements of the advanced design buses, but not until after the contract was awarded to them. "There are specific inconsistencies in the buses Neoplan manufactures,' Joan Wilson, grants coordinator for the Cha pel Hill Transportation Department, said Tuesday. - "For example, the windows do not open the way the advanced design bus windows do, and a maintenance worker would have to use a step ladder to check the oil level in Neoplan's buses. "Neoplan probably builds a good bus," Wilson said. "But we don't want to be the testing ground for a new coach." ' Because Neoplan's only U.S. plant is in Colorado, Secrist said there could have been difficulty in securing repair parts or maintenance personnel. . On a site visitation of Neoplan's plant, Secrist said that Bob Godding, director of the Chapel Hill Transportation Depart ment, observed transmission difficulties in some of the buses. ' The Council's recommendation that GMC be awarded the bid is contingent upon approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Eighty percent of the funds used for the purchase of the buses comes from that department. Man arrested iri connection with assault of UNG student Chapel Hill police have arrested a Mebane man in connection with a Thursday night assault on a UNC freshman in a rest room of the Happy Store at 100 E. Franklin Street. Police Department Administrative Assistant Ben Callahan said Michael Anthony Cousin, 23, of Route 2,. Mebane, had been charged with com mon law attempted murder. According to police reports the vic tim was in the women's rest room alone around 11:30 p.m. when a man stuck his head in the door of the rest room. She asked the man to leave and an argument ensued. The victim was struck several times by blows to the head, and neck. Callahan said the victim's head had been knocked against the rest room : wall and sink, and that bones in the victim's face were crushed and broken. Several store customers outside the rest room heard the disturbance and chased a man out o the rest room to the alley near the Porthole restaurant. The Chapel Hill Rescue Squad rushed the victim to N.C. Memorial Hospital where an emergency operation was performed.- . Cousin is on federal probation for a similar offense and is being held with out bond at the Orange County Jail pending a preliminary hearing. yveanesday, October 28, 1981The Daily Tar Heel3 Endorsements announced The South Orange Black Caucus has announced its candidate endorsements for the Nov. 3 municipal elections in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The caucus endorsed Joe Herzenberger, Bill Thorpe and Lightning Brown as can didates for Chapel Hill Town Council. They endorsed Carrboro mayoral candi date Robert Drakeford and Carrboro Board of Aldermen candidates Hilliard Caldwell, Braxton Foushee, Doug. Sharer and Nancy White. - - ; . For the Chapel HiU-Carrboro Board of Education, the caucus favored candidates Ted Parrish, Wallace Hill and Ron Strom. In addition to the Carrboro mayorship. the election will feature races for three ' seats on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, . four on the Chapel Hill Town Council and -' jhree on; the school board. hie-White distribution today Distribution for the Nov. 21 Blue-White basketball game begins today at 5 p.m. in Carmichael Auditorium. Students may get one ticket with an athletic-pass and buy one " A few tickets still remain for the Nov. 7 Blue-White game and may be picked up at the ticket office in Carmichael. for $6. u IIZJOO Pre-Law Students Dean Frank K. Walwer of The University of Tulsa College of Law will be on campus Thursday, October 29th from 10-11:30 to speak with interested pre-law students. If you believe, as many do, that significant developments regarding the country's future, and yours, are taking place in the southwest, we suggest you make inquiries about our law school, which supplements the traditional study of law with a substantial program in energy and other areas. Plus, we believe we have an ideal environ ment for professional and personal growth. For further details, contact: University of North Carolina Ms. Faye Goodwin Placement Office or write to: The University of Tulsa College of Law 3120 East 4th Place Tulsa, OK 74104 The University of Tulsa has an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Program. Sweaters By BRAEMAR To warm those Chapel Hill days & nights a-. J The irresistable classic crew neck sweater. In a legion of col ors. . . like kelly green, natural, grey, yellow, purple, red or pink. Scottish Shetland wool, naturally. Available in solids & stripes ' . , 7Pi' -rr. 103 E. 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