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Howes to seek third term
By REBEKAH WRIGHT
Staff Writer
Jonathan Howes officially announced
that he will seek a third term on the Chapel
Hill Town Coiuncil at a press conference
Wednesday. .
Howes said he had just returned from
filing for candidacy. He said he was the
first candidate that filed for election to the
Town Council.
In his announcement, Howes stressed
five major issues: the Thoroughfare Plan,
the Development Ordinance, the Joint
Planning Enterprise, the present water
shortage and the Interstate 40 extension
through Chapel Hill.
One issue he discussed was the
Thoroughfare Plan.
Howes opposed the one-way pairing of
Rosemary and Franklin streets, but
favored the extension of West Franklin
Street into Carrboro.
Howes disagreed with the proposed ex
tension of McCauley Street. He said
preserving McCauley Street's neighbor
hood was as important as the need to
direct high volume traffic. Howes said
alternate solutions can be found.
The U.S. 15-501 Bypass should be
widened and an outer belt connecting sur
rounding counties to N.C. 54 should be
developed, he said.
In regard to the Joint Planning Enter
prise, Howes said that he is reluctant to
grant an expansion to the planning district.
He viewed group planning action between
the community and Town Council as a
better route to town development.
Howes said the extension of 1-40
through Chapel Hill was "the most signifi
cant new development force that must be
developed in Orange County." Howes
said careful planning should be made so
that 1-40 will add to, not detract from, the
community.
He commended Orange Water and
Sewer Authority for its work concerning
the present water shortage.
Howes voted in favor of the local half
cent sales-tax option, but said it was pro-
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Howes is director of the UNC Urban
Studies Center.
Smith bids for re-election
By DEBORAH SIMPKINS
Staff Writer
R.D. Smith, an 18-year veteran of local
government, officially announced that he
is a candidate for re-election to the Chapel
Hill Town Council.
Smith said taxes and the Thoroughfare
Plan would be major issues in the coming
election.
If re-elected, Smith said he would exam
ine the manager's budget to see how tax
payers' money was being spent. The best
service a town can offer is to protect the
taxpayers' money, he said.
Concerning the Thoroughfare Plan,
Smith said he agreed with some aspects of
the plan. Smith said he opposed making
Franklin and Rosemary streets one-way.
The idea of extending Pittsboro Street and
Airport Road, he said, was remote and too
expensive. "You might as well delete it
(from the plan)," he said.
If Menitt Mill Road were improved,
Smith said, there would be no need to ex
tend McCauley Street. Smith also said he
would like to see the U.S. 15-501 Bypass
widened to four lanes to relieve the traffic
problem.
Additional parking in the business dis
trict is needed so downtown businesses can
entice citizens to shop there, Smith said.
Students are important citizens of the
town, Smith said, because they keep the
downtown businesses thriving.
Smith retired from teaching in 1980. He
served 10 of his 30 years of teaching as
assistant principal of Chapel Hill High
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Recently released FBI documents show that there was
FBI surveillance and infiltration of campus organiza
tions, including the Black Student Movement, during the
late 1960s and early '70s. What do you think about the
FBI having informants in student organizations?
Saroya Webb, freshman accounting major, Durham:
"I don't think the FBI should involve themselves in stu
dent organizations. It doesn't look like school activities
would be that important to an agency as big as the FBI."
Randy Allred, graduate student in American literature,
Upland, Calif.: "The FBI had no idea of the nature of
these movements during the '60s and '70s, and I don't
blame them for being curious. I do blame them for being
subversive in their attempts to gain information,
however."
Hisayo Nishimaru, freshman journalism major,
Charlotte: "I definitely think the FBI has the right to do
this sort of thing. It's good that they get involved and
know what's going on."
William Ware, School of Education professor: "I
think that it is very typical of the FBI. They were unsure
of the movements of that time, but I wouldn't be sur
prised to hear of the same activity in the FBI today. The
FBI's function is to keep up to date with what is going
on, and this is evidently how they do it."
Susan Femra, freshman business major, High Point:
"I agree with it as being a necessary part of government.
It doesn't seem to be affecting me now, but I can see
where it might pose a problem. The FBI does need to
know what's happening though."
Rodger Harris, library catalog department head: "I
wasn't surprised to hear of the FBI's actions. It's really
too bad that such activity was necessary, and I don't
think that it was good for the University, but I'm really
not surprised."
Interviews conducted by staff writer Heidi Owen. Pic
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Straley to run for re-election
By REBEKAH WRIGHT
Staff Writer
Joe Straley, a one-term Chapel Hill
Town Council member, officially an
nounced his intentions to run for re
election at a press conference Wednesday
in the Municipal Building.
Straley, who described himself as pro
gressive, involved, concerned and quali
fied, discussed his views on issues such as
the Thoroughfare Plan and half-cent
sales-tax option.
The Orange County Commissioners
are studying the merits of approving a
half-cent increase in the sales tax for the
county. ,
If additional revenues are heeded,-1
Straley said he favored a property tax u
crease before hiking the local sales tax.
"We're coming into windfalls," Straley
said. "It's quite likely that we won't need
a tax increase."
By windfalls, Straley was referring to
property that has been added to tax
1 books.
"Property tax in Chapel Hill is the best
bargain people in Chapel Hill are
getting," he said.
Though Straley approves, of sales tax,
he pointed out one of its problems. "It's
progressive and has unwarranted penalty
on poor people," Straley said. "I say it's
a dishonest tax. The sales tax option pre
sents a flaw in our present sales tax."
Straley said he is opposed to the one
way pairing of Franklin and Rosemary
streets, as proposed by the Thoroughfare
Plan for Chapel Hill.
He also said he would like to see the
traffic problem on Estes Drive and Clay
ton Road solved.
iStraley said he was concerned . that, a ,
v numberi of town employees were living
-.below the povertyUevel. He suggested sl
town employee pay increase to correct
that problem.
Straley has worked with the governing
board and served on committees of the
Joint Orange-Chatham Community Ac
tion Agency.
Baldwin cancels lecture because of illness
Author James Baldwin has canceled his scheduled appearance
at UNC because of a sudden illness, a University official said
Thursday.
Baldwin, 59, was scheduled to give the sixth annual Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture in Memorial Hall on Wed
nesday. He was listed irt satisfactory condition in the intensive
care unit of a Northampton, Mass., hospital Thursday after
noon. Baldwin's agent has informed the University that his ap
pearance may be rescheduled, said Judith McLaurin, admini
strative secretary to the chancellor.
McLaurin said she was unsure if Baldwin would be re
scheduled, but said that he would not be replaced for the
memorial lecture next week.
Baldwin was forced to cancel an appearance here last year
because of health reasons.
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committee on Energy, Environment and
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