New bar opens
above Porthole
over weekend
By JOHN CONWAY
DTtl Stuff .Writer
A new bar, the Upper Deck, is sche
duled to open this weekend in Chapel
Hill. Owner Barry Huff and manager
John Hartley are awaiting their beverage
license from the Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol Board before the tavern opens its
doors.
Located above the Porthole restaurant,
the Upper Deck has been under construc
tion since Sept. 10 and is currently adding
the final interior touches. Hartley said the
Porthole's old storage area had been
renovated to hold the bar.
"Everything is ready," Hartley said.
"It really looks nice up here."
Hartley left his position as manager of
the Carolina Theatre to manage the
Upper Deck.
The Upper Deck features an English
pub atmosphere, Hartley said. Only beer
will be served. But both men said that
they hoped the Upper Deck would "be
better than the average beer joint."
Huff said he didn't expect live bands to
play in the Upper Deck, but the bar
would have a variety of music on its juke
box, including classic songs from the '60s
and '70s.
The property's excellent location will
Convenience store to
By GREG BATTEN
DTH Staff Writer
A 24-hour convenience store, which will also sell gasoline, is
scheduled to open soon at the corner of 'Estes Drive and
Franklin Street, replacing the recently, torn down East Franklin
Exxon station.
Stallings Oil Co. of Rocky Mount recently purchased the pro
perty at 1501 E. Franklin St. from Ron Ragan and Silas, Talbert,
co-owners of the Exxon station.
Ragan, who now operates East Franklin Car Care near
Eastgate shopping center, said Wednesday that Stallings Oil Co.
had purchased the property for about $240,000.
He had been operating his gas station at the new location
since June. .
Talbert also operates two other convenience stores that sell
gasoline in Chapel Hill one across from Glen Lennox shop
ping center on Highway 54 and the other on Airport Road near
the A&P grocery store.
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increase greatly its. business volumn,
Huff said.
With recent debate arising over beer
consumption in Chapel Hill, many resi
dents may oppose construction of addi
tional bars.
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stitution is justifiable, he added.
The Upper Deck will carefully check
identification to verify legal drinking ages
before serving anyone alcohol, Huff said.
"We're going to try to do everything to
stay within the boundaries of the law." ,
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Carl Cullen, executive vice-president of Stallings Oil Co., said
the $400,000-plus new business, called Chapel Hill Swift Service,
will feature modern self-service facilities.
"We plan to have 16 electronic gasoline dispensers under a
50-feet-by-150 feet canopy in addition to regular convenience
store food items."
Cullens said the volume of gasoline that the business planned
to sell would allow prices to be below average.
"Although I can't give a specific price, I can promise that no
one in town will underprice us," he said.
Cullens said he did not feel that the excessive number of
gasoline stations already in the area would affect the success of
the new store.
I do not feel that we will be competing with the existing full
service stations," he said. "We feel that there are disparingly
few innovative self-service facilities in the Chapel Hill area."
Although he could not give a definite date for
opening, Cullens said Chapel Hill Swift Service should open
soon.
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Vietnam yet
By DAVID McHUGH
. DTH Staff Writer
"First the draft, then the shaft," said
David Christian, the most decorated vet
eran of the Vietnam War, describing the
treatment of Vietnam veterans in a
Veterans Day ceremony speech Thursday
on the UNC campus.
Christian, a leading veteran's advocate,
urged the government to do more to help
Vietnam veterans. "Why can't the poli
ticians create programs to give vets jobs?
How hard would that be? In terms of the
economic pie, these things are small," he
said.
"We have better re-entry programs for
prisoners than we do for veterans," said
Christian, who refused to be considered
for Administrator of the Veterans
Administration in protest of Reagan ad
ministration cuts in veterans programs.
"Politicians should do something, any
thing," he said.
Christian was, at 20, the youngest cap
tain in the Green Berets. He received
seven Purple Hearts, two Bronze Stars,
two Silver Stars, the Vietnamese Service
Medal and a Distinguished Service Cross
while in Vietnam. He suffered severe na
palm burns and a number of other serious
wounds, and spent several years in
veteran's hospitals.
Officials say
By JIM WRINN
DTH Staff Writer
Nuclear war. Sirens go off. Civil de
fense officials go on the radio and tele
vision, and people evacuate and move in
to fallout shelters where they can wait out
the worst.
That's the kind of scenario civil defense
coordinators wish they could give, but at
a Wednesday night presentation, area civil
defense personnel said their provisions
for such a war were inadequate. "The
bottom line is: Few people would
survive," said Marilyn Braun, an emer
gency management coordinator for Guil
ford County.
Braun and Joseph E. Deaton, also a
Guilford County coordinator, told an au
dience of about 40 people that Greens
boro and Guilford County would be un
protected in a nuclear war.
Braun, noting that the Defense Depart
ment had declared Greensboro a nuclear
"risk area," said the city's 1975 war plan
did not tell the truth. "It's 20 years of
deception that's provided people with a
false sense of confidence," she said.
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Christian called the Vietnam War a
mistake from which Washington has
learned little. "Yes, Vietnam was a mis
take. There's nothing wrong with mis
takes if you learn, but the people in
Washington refuse to believe they can
make mistakes. People are so likely to
start another war. You can hear the war
drums beating all over the world."
He worked on veteran's issues in the
Labor Department under President Jimmy
Carter, but was fired. "I was too visible
and was fired for making people uncom
fortable," he said.
"Eighty percent (of today's veterans)'
enlisted to go to Vietnam," Christian
said. "The problem is that these people
regret not being used but being misused
by politicians."
Christian blamed the government both
for the defeat in Vietnam and for the neg
lect of veterans.
"Don't blame the military," he said.
"That war was lost by the elected officials
in Washington.
"The politicians put us in a war and
told us to play steady defense. They lost
the war, and they're ashamed of it, and
they ought to be ashamed of it," he said,
adding that the government was responsi
ble for negative attitudes toward veterans.
"We learned in Vietnam that never,
ever, again can we commit our young
provisions inadequate
Funding for civil defense, Braun said,
was high in the early 1960s after the
Cuban missile crisis. Government interest
in civil defense was high as well.
Architects were sent out and identified
143 fallout "spaces" in the city. Some
food, medicine and other supplies were
distributed to these shelters and the rest
was put into storage.
Deaton,. referring to the "spaces,"
said, "I'd rather stay outside and crawl
around with the dying people than get in
one of those coffins."
Braun and Deaton also said they were
concerned because the Department of
Defense's plan to evacuate Greensboro
and Guilford County into ten neighbor
ing counties was based on three to ten
days of warning. ' ' - -
"When we asked what the warning
would be," Braun said, "we were told it
would be marked by an increase in ten
sions in international affairs.
"We worry because we don't have any
shelters or supplies, and we worry be
cause the surrounding counties don't
have any either," she said.
Braun said North Carolina prepared
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men and women to a war without com
mitting our nation to a war. Otherwise,
when they come back, the country will
not be committed to them," Christian
said.
"Those people in (Washington) are so
good at getting us mad at each other, and
then we miss the point. For the first time
since the Civil War, all of us suffered.
Vietnam, for America, was a nightmare.
It's time to come back together, to join
hands.'
ness officials were scheduled to inspect
Greensboro's plans and shelters in 1982.
"By their definitions and standards,
they'll find a lot, and by ours
nothing," Braun said.
Bobby Baker, Orange County's emer
gency management coordinator, said his
office had made efforts to correct gaps in
emergency preparedness while others still
needed attention.
Since his appointment last July, Baker
said 15 radiation monitors had been pur
chased and damage assessment people as
well as 18 shelter managers had been
trained.
"The problem is, our shelters are main
ly for hurricanes arid the (national) com
puter print-out on shelters lists some that
don't even exist,' ' Baker said.
Baker said evacuation routes and speci
fic nuclear shelters had not been identi
fied yet. r' . - .'
"If you were to ask me today (about
the shelters), I wouldn't be able to tell
you," Baker said. "I hope it's a short
term-situation."
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