Tuesday, October 11, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
Area residents find that 'seat belts pay off9
By MSA BRANTLEY
Slaft Writer
Many Chapel Hill and Carrboro
residents are finding that wearing their
seat belts really does pay off.
Just ask Marshall Jenkins, 'a 25-year-old
doctoral student in the department of
counseling psychology. Jenkins is the
latest monthly winner of $500 in the
"Seat Belts Pay Off campaign spon
sored by UNC's Highway Safety
Research Center.
"My initial reaction was one of plea
sant shock," Jenkins said. "It pretty well
spaced me out for the day." While he ad
mits to being partially aware of the incen
tives of the HSRC program, Jenkins said
he always wore his seat belt.
He and his wife Sharon, a graduate
student in the UNC School of Social
Work, already have plans for the prize
money. "We'll probably buy a washing
machine and get that big expense over
with," he said. "It'll help us because my
wife and I are both students."
Jenkins is not alone in his use of seat
belts. Marianne (VrM'ni'v search assis
tant for the HSRC, said the center has
distributed several thousand prizes to seat
belt users. "My guess is that we've given
out about 6,000 prizes in all of almost 60
prizes per day," Gemming said.
In addition to the $500 monthly prize
that is drawn randomly from lottery
postcards sent in by the previous winners,
HSRC gives out smaller prizes daily by
stopping cars and presenting gift cer
tificates to those drivers who are wearing
their seat belts.
These incentives are part of almost
$30,000 in cash and prizes donated by
local merchants and civic organizations to
promote safe driving. Most recently the
HSRC van has been distributing $5 gift
certificates for free meals at McDonald's.
The "Seat Belts Pay Off program,
sponsored jointly by a grant from
General Motors Corp. and the N.C.
Governor's Highway Safety Program,
will end in mid-October, but a final grand
prize lottery drawing will be held Nov. 1
to select a $1,000 winner. This winner will
be presented with a check at an HSRC
luncheon the following day.
Gemming said motorists who had been
stopped at sites in Chapel Hill and Carr
boro since the program's April 15 starting
date were cooperative. "They're general
ly really positive about the program,"
Gemming said. "There's always the
cranky ones, but even the ones who don't
win are usually positive."
Gemming said she heard many excuses
for not wearing seat belts, the most com
mon being, "I always wear my seat belt. I
can't believe that you stopped me this one
time when I didn't."
Results of the HSRC's monitoring of
17 area locations during peak traffic
periods show that seat belt usage in
Chapel Hill and Carrboro is steadily in
creasing. The area has recorded a usage
high of 40 percent, compared to a na
tional average of 13 percent.
' 'The percentage is calculated by obser
vation of shoulder belts with an added
correction factor for the use of lap belts,
which can't be seen," she said. The
highest rate of seat belt usage previously
recorded was a figure of 32 percent in a
study conducted in Seattle, Wash., by the
National Highway Traffic Safety Commission.
Service to be held for UNC
women killed in car accident
A campus memorial service will be
held Thursday for three UNC women
who were killed in a car accident Friday
night near Greensboro. The service will
be at 5 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
The service will be held in memory of
Pamela Nicole Cummings, 19, Myra
Melinda Jeffries, 18, and Sonya Renee
Melvin, 19.
Delaney Fields, a UNC student who
was in the car with the three women,
was in fair condition Monday in N.C.
Memorial Hospital. William Gentry, a
passenger in the truck that collided with
the car, was released Monday from
Memorial Hospital of Alamance Coun
ty. Harold Wallace, vice chancellor of
University affairs, will be the main
speaker at the memorial service. Other
sneakers will Ke Vire Phanr11rr for "
student affairs Donald Boulton,
Associate Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences Hayden Renwick, Assis
tant Dean of the General College Joyce
Clayton, Student Body President Kevin
Monroe and Black Student Movement
President Sherrod Banks.
There will be a wake service today at
7 p.m. at E.E. Smith High School in
Fayetteville for Cummings and Melvin.
There will be a graveside service for
Ciirnmings at 2 p.m. Wednesday in
Richlands. Services for Melvin will be
held in Fayetteville at 4 p.m. Wednes
day at John Wesley Church. The
funeral for Jeffries will be today at 3
p.m. at Rock Creek African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Burlington.
AMY TANNER
OWASA to provide
conservation devices
Where there's a will, there's always a
ws.y of conserving water more efficiently,
- so the Orange Water and Sewer
Authority seems to think.
This week OWASA will distribute
various water conservation devices to its
customers, said Pat Davis, systems
management specialist for OWASA.
These devices, which include low-flow
shower heads, faucet aerators, toilet tank
displacement devices and leak detection
devices, will be given to OWASA
customers free of charge, he said.
"We have no way of forcing people to
use them," he said, "but the use of these
devices could result in a 5 percent to 10
percent cut in water consumption."
Interested customers should come to the
OWASA. offices on Jones Ferry Road to
pick up the conservation devices, he said.
OWASA will also send its customers
mailers in the next day or two to increase
awareness about this new plan for water
conservation, he said.
University Lake
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Sunday' consumption
level 4.6 million gallon
OWASA Target Level
million gallons
30 people seek 1 7 seats in Orange Co.
"Water use is running about 5.5 million
gallons a day, which is our target level," he
said. "But because we have had no rain to
speak of for a while, we should continue to
do everything we can to conserve."
SUSAN OAKLEY
University celebrates 190th Wednesday
By KATE COOPER
Staff Writer
UNC will celebrate its 190th birthday Wednesday with
speeches, song and celebration.
It's all part of University Day, which includes the can
celing of classes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. so that students and
faculty can. participate in the University Day festivities.
University Day is the anniversary of the laying of the cor
nerstone of Old East in 1793. Old East is the nation's first
state university building. The University opened its doors to
students two years later in 1795.
The first celebration of University Day was held Oct. 12,
1877. It has been a University holiday since then.
At the convocation at 11 a.m. in Memorial Hall, four
Distinguished Alumnus awards will be given and the Uni
versity library will honor the acquisition of its three millionth
volume.
The Distinguished Alumnus awards will be given to astro
naut William Thornton, Civil Rights attorney Julius Levonne
Chambers, State Secretary of Administration Jane Patterson
and former University of Chicago Ubrarian Herman Fussier'.
Patterson will give the main address during the University
Day convocation. The men's and women's Glee Club, the
Carolina Choir and the Chamber Singers will perform a two-
choir by Brahms.
Thornton received his undergraduate degree from the Uni
versity in 1952 and a medical degree in 1963. In August, he
became the oldest person to journey into space when he flew
on the space shuttle Challenger.
Chambers, a 1962 graduate of the School of Law, was the
first black editor of The North Carolina Law Review and the
first black elected to the Order of the Golden Fleece, a stu
dent honorary society.
Patterson, a 1961 graduate, was appointed Secretary of
Administration by Gov. Jim Hunt in 1981. She was one of
the first students of the International Studies program at
UNC and also completed the University's real estate and
government executives programs.
Fussier received undergraduate degrees from UNC in 1935
for mathematics and in 1936 for library science. He achieved
scholarly prominence as acting dean of the University of
Chicago library school, one of the largest and most pro
gressive academic libraries in the country.
University Day will also mark the addition of the three
millionth volume to its library. This is the result of 300 rare
Estienne books presented by the John Wesley and Anna
Hodgin Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and
Development of the Book.
Schedule of University Day Events
10:40 a.m. Academic procession from the Old Well to Memorial Hall,
with faculty and administrators in academic robes and music by the University
band.
11 a.m. University Day convocation in Memorial Hall. Followed by a
birthday party in the Pit sponsored by the Union.
1:30 p.m. Astronaut William Thornton will speak and show a film in the
Morehead Planetarium.
3 p.m. Thornton will speak in Hamilton 100 and return the flag which was
carried with him on the Challenger.
4 p.m. Rare book scholar Fred Schreiber will speak on the Estienne books
in 209 Manning Hall.
9 p.m. Thornton will speak at the Morehead Planetarium and show a film
as part of the 25th anniversary of NASA.
By TRACY ADAMS
Staff Writer
The filing deadline for the Nov. 8 municipal elections ended
Friday at noon, with 30 people seeking 17 offices.
In the mayoral races, Chapel Hill Mayor Joe Nassif will run
unopposed as he seeks his second term.
Jim Porto and Alderman Jim White will seek the mayor's of
fice in Carrboro. Porto is an independent and White has been en
dorsed by the Association for a Better Carrboro, a conservative
political coalition.
Hillsborough Mayor Lucius M. Cheshire Jr. will seek another
term. He will be opposed by Frank M. Sheffield, chairman of the
Hillsborough Planning Board.
Voters will elect four Chapel Hill Town Council members from
a slate of six candidates.
Three incumbents, Joe Straley, R.D. Smith and Jonathan
Howes, are seeking re-election. They are being challenged by
former council member Bill Thorpe and newcomers Nancy
Preston and Katherine Wright. '
Carrboro voters will elect three members to the Board of
Aldermen. Official candidates arp innim Tohn Boone, B.
' Willis Wilson, Doris Foushee, Bill Koole, Doug Anderson and
Zona Norwood. Boone, Anderson and Norwood have been en
dorsed by the ABC. Foushee is aligned with the liberal Carrboro
Community Coalition.
' The largest field of candidates are running for election to the
. Hillsborough Board of Commissioners. Eight candidates are
seeking the three seats up for election.
Incumbents Rachel S. Stevens and Allen A. Lloyd are nmning
for re-election. Others seeking the office are Barbara Page,
Horace Johnson, Frank Cates Jr., Sam M. Gattis, E. Vic Knight
and Myron L. Martin.
Four people will be elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School
Board. Incumbent Edith Elliott Wiggins and newcomers Carolyn
Horn, Fred Battle, Dorothy Baker and Phyllis Lotchin are seek
ing the seats.
- Carrboro Mayor Robert Drakeford will not seek re-election.
Other officials who declined to run again are Steve Rose and
'Ernie Patterson of the Carrboro Board of aldermen, Chapel Hill
Town Council member Jim Wallace and Edwin Caldwell Jr.,
Phyllis Sockwell and Barbara Thornton of the Chapel Hill
Carrboro School Board.
UNC student arraigned Monday, pleads not guilty
A UNC student was arraigned in
Orange County District court Monday on
charges of sexual assault, breaking and
entering, first-degree burglary and
larceny.
Danny Nathan Allison, 22, of 2J3 Nor
thampton Plaza, pleaded not guilty to
five counts of sexual assault, one count of
felonious breaking and entering, seven
counts of first-degree burglary and three
counts of larceny.
A new charge of first-degree, burglary
was added Monday to the previous
charges. Allison also pleaded not guilty to
the new charge.
No trial date has been set, said Robert
Mahler, Orange County public defender.
Local police officials said that dating
from March 5, assaults on five UNC
women occurred in Granville South,
Morrison, Hinton James and Craige
residence halls and Carolina Apartments.
The assaults occurred in the early morn
ing hours and were connected to break
ings and enterings at the residence halls
and the apartment complex. A weapon
was reportedly used in several of the
assaults.
Allison was arrested in connection with
a break-in that occurred on Aug. 6 at
Foxcroft Apartments. An investigation
led police to believe that Allison matched
the description of the alleged assailant
that was given by victims in the assault
cases.
On Aug. 19, Allison was issued a war
rant charging him with breaking and
entering into the victim's apartment.
Allison was arrested on Aug. 22 and
charged with 14 other crimes,, including
sexual assaults.
Allison, a fifth-year industrial rela
tions, is being held in the Orange County
Jail in Hillsborough.
BETH OWNLEY
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The idea of student television deserves support, said..
John Dunlop, director of the UNC Center for Public
Television. But the committee could save time and
money if it televised campus events as they occurred
rather than attempting to produce programs. Such "as-it-happens"
coverage would probably be more success
in the long run, Dunlop said.
The pilot program has convinced the committee that
the magazine format is workable, Wilson said.
Once it gets its own equipment, the committee hopes
to produce two or three programs per week. But Simp
son suggested that plan be scaled down to more
manageable proportions about one program a
month.
Simpson also said the students' ambition bodes well
for the future of STV. Student involvement was the
main appeal of the project, he "said.
"It's not a bunch of professionals telling the Univer
sity story," he said. "It's students telling the University
story in a medium they're very familiar with television."
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