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World s Fmir
1982 expo expected to draw
more than II million visitors
By JIM WRINN
DTH Staff Writer
What's a mile long, covers 72 acres
and connects a city and a university?
This is what: comedian Bob Hope,
bluegrass music, an international bas
ketball tournament, a 69-m.p.h. roller
coaster, a genuine moonshine still, "Up
With People" musical revue, a candy
factory-turned-Italian restaurant, a ten
kilometer women's marathon, singer
Stephanie Mills, a river boat, 18 foreign
countries, fiddling contests, clowns, a
Hawaiian boutique, a railway depot
containing an international art museum,
Haagen-Dazs ice cream, an interna
tional baseball tournament, T-shirts,
comedian Bill Cosby, a German beer
hall in an old foundry, Broadway
shows, an NFL exhibition game, the
Atlanta Symphony, quilt-making, 369
marching bands, Greek food, Tennessee
Ernie Ford, bumper cars, the Houston
Ballet, a sports hall of fame, magicians,
fireworks, square dancing, a New York
deli, comedian Red Skelton, and more.
It's the 1982 World's Fair!
The Fair, the first international ex
position since Expo '74 in Spokane,
Wash., opens May 1 in Knoxville, Term,
for a six month stay.
During those months, some 11 mil
lion visitors are expected; some 60,000 a
day.
The Fair's theme, 'Energy Turns The
World," was chosen as the only one ap
propriate one for Knoxville and a timely
one for a world's fair.
Knoxville, which bills itself as the
"Energy Capital of the United States," .
is the home of the Tennessee Valley
Authority, the site of the University of
Tennessee's energy research facilities
and the National Atomic Laboratory is
located in nearby Oak Ridge.
The Fair also is hosting an Interna
tional Energy Symposia Series of three
meetings. The symposia, being held to
explore current energy issues, began
with a session in October 1980; the se
cond of the series ended Friday in
Knoxville with 24 nations in attendance.
The third symposium will take place late
next May with the goal of developing
policies based on the first two symposia.
The Fair's architecture and exhibits
are also based on the energy theme. The
exhibits of industries, nations, states
and other organizations will revolve
around the energy theme as well as the
United States' pavilion, which will be
solar powered. The symbolic center
piece of the Fair will be the Sunsphere, a
266-feet high structure with a 70-foot-wide
glowing globe. Containing five
levels, the globe serves as a restaurant
and an observation tower.
The Fair is expected to generate a lot
of energy for Knoxville as well in the
form of new jobs, revenues and down
town revitalization. Twenty-thousand
new jobs - 12,000 of them permanent
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By JIM WRINN
DTH Staff Writer
With World's Fair time drawing near, North
Carolina is gearing up to attract nearly one
million fair-goers to the state.... TJIj-Jv-
Last month, Gov. Jim Hunt officially enT
tered North Carolina in the Fair when he sign
ed a $75,000 lease for exhibit space in the
Fair's Technology and Lifestyle Center.
Jinger Mitchell, who is in charge of the
North Carolina exhibit, said, "It (the exhibit)
will be a marvelous opportunity to show off
what the state has to offer. 'We're next door,
so while you're in Tennessee come on over and
see us' is what it will say."
While the final design for the North Caro
lina exhibit has not yet been chosen, several
groups in the western part of the state already
have organized in anticipation of nearly $100
million in revenues from the fair.
High Country Hosts, an organization pro
moting the northwestern counties of Watauga,
Avery, Mitchell and Ashe, will advertise the
area in magazines, billboards, brochures and
on television spots. .
Bill Williamson, vice president of High
Country Hosts, said, "Our pitch will be 'If
you're going to the World's Fair, why not
come by the scenic route?'."
High Country Hosts has a toll-free number
for housing information and will run a daily
shuttle bus during the fair.
; -Jerry Douglas of the Western North'Caro
lina Associated Communities, a coalition of.
the 11 western-most counties, said that rather
than each county going after the Fair trade,
the association . would serve as an umbrella
group to attract people to the entire area.
Douglas said the association would raise
nearly $200,000 to go with $150,000 appropri
ated by the General Assembly to promote the
area.
"For our $350,000 investment, based on
1980 figures, we estimate the Fair will bring in
about $36.5 million plus 6 or 7 million dollars
in sales tax,' Douglas said.; x
A media campaign will begin next February,
Douglas said, when most people are planning
their vacations; it will continue throughout the
length of the fair.
Dick Trammel of the Asheville Chamber of
Commerce said the impact of the Fair on his
city would be tremendous.
"We are the closest major city to the World's
Fair," Trammel said. "And we're closer than
Chattanooga, so the impact over the six-month
period and in the long run will be simply tre
mendous." ;
: Trammel said Asheville would be in compe-;
tition with Gatlinburg, Term., for visitors to
the Fair, but that Asheville had traditionally
been a western North Carolina tourist center
and should get its share of visitors.
"Gatlinburg and Asheville are to eastern
Tennessee what Myrtle Beach is to South Caro
lina," Trammel said. "It will be hard to attract
people away from Gatlinburg-Pidgeon Forge
area with 10,000 to 15,000 rooms," he added.
"But, we're sure going to try."
Trammel said though the Asheville-Bun-combe
County area had only 3,300 rooms,
and prices had not increased as drastically as
in the Knoxville-Gatlinburg area.
"We've all Heard about the outrageous
prices in and around Knoxville but most of
our area motels and hotels have increased only
about 5 to 15 percent," Trammel said.
Trammel said an estimated $25 million
would come in as a result of the Fair.
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The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Saudi Arabian radio re
ported Monday that Israeli jets flew into northwest
ern regions of Saudi Arabia and U.S: government
sources confirmed that Israeli planes flew into Saudi
airspace twice.
The first headline broadcast from Riyadh called
the incident an attack but a later report said only that
the jets had violated Saudi airspace.
The Bahrain-based Gulf News Agency quoted a
Saudi-Arabian army spokesman as saying Saudi war
planes intercepted the raiding Israeli jets and "forced
them to flee.' .
There was no report of any gunfire. There was no
Saudi description of the number or type of planes in
volved. The reported violation came at a time of increased
tension in the Mideast following the U.S. congressional .
approval of an $8.5-billion arms package to oil-rich
Saudi Arabia, which provides 20 percent of American
imported oil.. '
A terse communique broadcast by .the official
Saudi state radio and monitored in Beirut said the
violation occurred in Saudi Arabia's northwest region
about 105 miles from the kingdom's Red Sea coast.
Israeli military command spokesmen refused to
comment.
"The military never gives any details on its flights,
not in the north, the south, the east or the west," said
an Israeli official.
The location of the reported violation is hundreds
of miles away from Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf oil
fields.
In Washington, the Pentagon refused comment on
the reported airspace violation, but U.S. government
sources confirmed this had happened.
The sources, who asked to remain ' anonymous,
said the Israeli aircraft flew into northwestern Saudi
Arabia near Tabuk, site of a Saudi Arabian military
airfield.
, "They operate there lots of times," said one
source. "It is common knowledge that the Israelis fly
across the border to check things out."
Word reaching the U.S. government did not men
tion any interceptions by Saudi military planes, nor
any shooting. .
The Saudi communique did not mention whether
U.S. AWACS planes stationed in Saudi Arabia had
detected any Israeli aircraft. The Airborne Warning
and Control Systems planes had been sent to Saudi
Arabia to monitor air traffic in the region after the
Sept. 22, 1980, outbreak of war between Iran and
Iraq.
The U.S. arms package for Saudi Arabia included
five of the sophisticated radar aircraft an arrange
ment that has angered Israel.
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New state biotechnology center
Hunt ummouFices i-plans
By TAMMY DAVIS
DTH Staff Writer
Promising "to lure to North Carolina what will
one day be a burgeoning industry," Gov. Jim Hunt
announced last Thursday plans for the establishment
of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Hunt said the purpose of the center, which would
beJocated hi Research,Trianglfi,Park, wpidd.be to ex
plore new ways to put North'Carolina in the fore
front of the greatest advancement in the biological
sciences since the invention of the microscope.
An estimated $115,000 will be contributed to the
center by the Board of Science and. Technology and
the Department of Commerce in Research Triangle
Park.
Biotechnology, or "gene-splicing," involves alter
ing the genetic codes that control the function of liv
ing cells. The field allows the characteristics of a gene
within a cell to be changed.
Hunt also recently appointed Leon Golberg of
Raleigh as director of the Biotechnology Center. Gol
berg, a retired president of the Chemical Industry of
Technology in the Research Triangle, has been active
in biotechnology and is affiliated with the study
throughout the nation and world.
"When Gov. Hunt offered me the position, I took
it because I'm concerned about biotechnology," Gol
berg said Monday. "I want to see the program get off
the ground."
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tight hwt OK
By LYNN EARLEY
DTH Staff Writer
The location of a newly approved residence hall can be
called tight but adequate said Thomas S. Shumate, con
sulting architect with the UNC Planning Office.
The residence hall will be on Stadium Drive between
Teague Residence Hall and Fetzer Gymnasium,
overlooking Kessing Pool.
Gordon H. Rutherford, director of the Planning Of
fice, said the site was chosen because of its central loca
tion. "There was an attempt when we were looking at places
where we felt like it could go to try to find a place where
it was as close to everything as possible."
Rutherford said the new residence hall would be near
recreational areas, libraries, .eating facilities and
classrooms.
Shumate and Rutherford said the original appearance
of the site would be used to enhance the building.
Shumate said the slope of the site would be taken into
consideration when the plans for the building were
drawn. ,
"We hope that would be part of the design solution
one that will utilize the slope of the land," he said, and
added, "There's 22 foot of fall from front to back (of
the site)."
He said there would be as little cutting and filling of
the land as possible.
"Obviously, you've got to tear some trees down to
build it," he said, "But we will certainly save what we
can save there. We're not going to scald the hillside if
we don't have to."
The landscaping around the residence hall will be
similar to that around the infirmary, Rutherford said.
The building will be set among the trees.
Shumate said no additional parking area would be ad
ded with the facility. He said there would be no need for
added parking since there will be no increase in enroll
ment in conjunction with the building.
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Plans for the operation of the center were
developed by Hunt, Duke University President Terry
Sanford and UNC President William C. Friday. Bio
technological research and studies are presently being
done by Duke, UNC and N.C State University.
Walton Jones, vice president of research and
public service at UNC, said the center's purpose was
to pull together complex sources to promote further
development of technology.
t . "The center has a promise of doing good things;
Jones said. "It can improve agriculture and forestry
and advance medical research."
Jones said UNC's School of Medicine was study
ing the pharmaceutical and medical applications of
biotechnology while N.C. State's School of Agricul
ture was focusing on the agricultural and forestry
aspects. He said a university council on biotechnol
ogy consisting of representatives from the three
schools would be concentrating on the progress of
the studies.
"The council will ... communicate and accelerate
the rate at which these technologies can achieve new
and better things for North Carolina," Jones said.
Golberg said North Carolina would be the first
state to establish a biotechnology facility.
The biotechnology center's staff is to spend the
next six months to a year researching the application
of the industry to the state and proposing long-term
goals for the center.
"The field is still very new," Hunt said. "But al
ready it is apparent that the possibilities are endless."
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Rutherford said that since there was a limited amount
of land which could be developed on campus, priorities
had to be set. He said convenient parking was not as im
portant as living space for students.
"There must be a renewed emphasis on storing cars
and using them only to get to places not within walking
distance, he said. "There is adequate parking in the
outlying areas for that type of parking for storage
parking."
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Shumate said no formal plans had been drawn up by
the architectural firm, Six Associates of Asheville, "No
sketches have been done as yet but probably before the
first of the year we will be able to go into more detail as
to what the structure will be," he said.
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The Board of Trustees approved the site and architec
tural firm for the new residence hall in mid-October.
They approved the residence hall last spring.
By MICHELLE CHRISTENBURY
DTH Staff Writer
The Piney Mountain Resident Associa
tion, which has opposed the construction
of a 16-duplex public housing project off
Airport Road, is now attempting to block
the construction through court action.
The group has filed a lawsuit against
the Town of Chapel Hill contending the
town acted improperly in approving a
special use permit for the project,
The development was approved by the
Town Council Sept. 28, following a Sept.
21 public hearing.
Although proponents of the public
housing project agree that there is a need
for low-income housing in Chapel Hill,
the association, headed by James Haar,
argues that the Piney Mountain commun
ity is not the place for it.
"It will (negatively) affect our property
value and will alter the neighborhood
beyond recognition with the increased
density," Haar said at one of the town
council meetings.
"Our part of town has poor public
transportation, and the people (project
residents) would be stuck out there," he
said.
Bill Potter, attorney for the Piney
Mountain Association, said that his
clients were not against the idea of public
housing, only the site for this project.
"The association cannot be classified
as a traditional reactionary group," Pot
ter said. "They simply feel the location is
a poor choice." ,
Potter said the lawsuit was based on
the town's failure to meet all the stand
ards necessary to grant a special use per
mit. One of the standards is that the project
must be located in a place which will en
sure the public health, safety and general
welfare of residents.
Potter said the project would not pro
mote the general welfare of either the ex
isting neighborhood or the public housing
tenants.
"The project will destroy the neighbor
hood significantly because it will change a
quiet single-family neighborhood into a
multi-family neighborhood," Potter said.
"Furthermore, the project will be detri
mental to the low-income families who do
not have cars The bus service runs on a
commuter basis in this community and
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complex should be built closer to school
and community services like shopping
centers." '
But Chapel Hill Planning Director Mike
Jennings said the transit system would be
adequate. -
Jennings said buses run in the area
from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every 20 min
utes. "Also, there is a shared ride taxi ser
vice that can be used at off-peak hours."
Jennings said that the association has
in the past argued that the project will in
crease traffic in the area, but called that
argument "totally inconsistent" with the
argument about increased bus use.
"Either these people are transit depen
dent or not," he said. "The planning de
partment's study says that about 180 ve
hicle trips would be generated by this
thing." !m
For the town to propen approve a
special use permit, the project must com
ply with all applicable standards in the
town's zoning ordinance.
Potter said the project does not meet
the zoning ordinance requirement that
there be 3 percent assisted housing in each
sub-community. He said the Piney Moun
tain community already had more than
that much assisted housing while other
sub-communities in Chapel Hill had
none.
But Jennings said that requirement was
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