2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday. January 9. 1985
Council hears views oil capital improvements
By MAKJOKIK MORRIS
Staff ritiT
local residents and advisory boards recommended
changes and additions in the preliminary Capital
Improvements Program to the Chapel Hill Town
Council Monday night.
(Jury I). Ciiles. a Chapel Hill architect, told the
council the CI I plan neglected landscaping improve
ments on Franklin Street. He said students were
injuring trees by locking their bikes to them and
suggested that more bike racks be added on Franklin
Street and that fines be given to any person locking
his bike to a tree.
Al Vurth, a member of the Chapel Hill Trans
portation Board, told the council he agreed with the
proposal for more bike racks, adding the CIP plan
should include a comprehensive plan to extend
bikeway networks in Chapel Hill.
Pat Sullivan, chairman of the Human Services
Advisory Board, asked the council to re-emphasize
the need for housing that middle-income families can
afford. Chapel Hill is a bipolar town composed of
high- and low-income families, and the needs of the
middle class are often ignored, she said.
"Craftsmen, women and university faculty are being
eliminated from Chapel H ill," she said.
The town, according to Sullivan, is losing the vitality
brought by the presence of a diversity of people by
eliminating middle-income families as residents.
Jacques Menache, director of the ArtSchool in
Carrboro, asked the council for help in developing
creatively and historically with the arts. He also said
he would like to expand the ArtSchool's programs
to Chapel Hill.
Lisa Price, chairman of the Chapel Hill Public
Library's Board of Trustees, told the council she hoped
it would agree to build a new 28,000 square-foot
building as a main library and retain the town's current
library as a branch.
A library system with two buildings would provide
easier access to residents, she said.
Automation in the main library would help reduce
operating costs of the two libraries, according to Price;
In other action, the council held another public
forum on the Rosemary Square project, with a local
resident complaining of a lack of public discussion
on the project.
Joseph Herzen berg of Cobb Terrace said he had
no recommendations on how to get more public input.
Another resident. Wade Dansby of North Street,
asked the council to not allow the project to ruin
the neighboring residential areas, adding that North
Street already had a lot of traffic problems.
"Every five minutes a car being driven at excessive
speeds passes on North Street," Dansby said.
Henry A. Whitfield of 302 Plum Lane asked the
council to consider moving the proposed Rosemary
Square to the edge of town, because according to
Whitfield, Rosemary Square would damage the
atmosphere of Chapel Hill as a student town.
"IVe lived here since 1922, and the area from the
old Post Office to University Square has always been
dominated by students," Whitfield said.
Watts Hill Jr., vice president of the Chapel Hill
Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, disagreed with
Whitfield, saying Rosemary Square's proposed
location would not destroy Chapel Hill.
Apex man charged with murder in shooting death
By LEIGH WILLIAMS
SUfT Writer
Chapel Hill police stayed busy during
the Christmas holidays, investigating
the town's first murder charge in more
than a year, as well as another shooting,
an armed robbery and one assault.
Burnell N. Neville, of 601 -B Goman
St., was killed by a gunshot wound to
the chest on Dec. 24 because of a
domestic dispute, according to Detec
tive Barry Thompson of the Chapel Hill
Police Department.
Arthur William Brown, 46, of New
Hill Road, Apex, was arrested in the
case Dec. 25 and was charged with first
degree murder. He is being held without
bond pending his trial in Orange
County Superior Court.
In another shooting incident, Rodney
Men-it, 28, of 500-B Sykes St. was shot
in the head during an argument on Jan.
1. According to Thompson, the shoot
ing was the result of an argument that
"got out of hand." Thompson said
alcohol was involved in the incident.
Merrit was treated at N.C. Memorial
Hospital and released on Jan. 5.
Tyrain Renae Snipes, 20, of 611-A
Sykes St. was arrested for assault with
intent to inflict bodily injury in con
nection with the shooting.
An armed robbery occurred during
the holidays at Revco Drugs in Ram
shead Plaza when a man armed with
a butcher knife stole about $40 worth
of drugs. Police have no suspects.
In another case, UNC graduate
student Neil G. Alderman, : 23; was
assaulted by two unidentified men on
Pritchard Avenue Extension while he
was delivering two pizzas. The two men
beat Alderman with sticks and stole the
pizzas.
Lower gasoline prices expected to continue this year
By LAURA VAN SANT
Staff Writer
For N.C. motorists, 1985 brings good news of
continued lower gas prices.
The Carolina Motor Club reported that in
December an average gallon of gas in North Carolina
cost $1.19, about 3 cents less than the national average
of $1.22 per gallon. In Chapel Hill, prices were even
lower, averaging $1.16 per gallon.
Earl Walker, owner of Walker's Gulf in Chapel
Hill, attributed the cheaper gasoline to competition
and low oil prices.
"The current situation in the Middle East, with a
weaker OPEC and all, has driven down the price of
a barrel of oil, and these savings are passed on to
the consumer, Walker said.
In Chapel Hill, the average price for self-service
unleaded gas is $1.09 per gallon, while a gallon of
self-service regular costs $1.02. Statewide, self-service
unleaded averages $1.12 per gallon, and self-service
regular is $1.03. Full-service runs about 20 cents higher
for each grade of fuel." '
Carolina Motor Club president Ralph Peters said
he expected prices to continue to decline as OPEC
is forced to charge less for each barrel of oil.
"Prices are dropping fairly steadily at this point,
and we expect them to continue falling. Peters said.
"We think the decline will be most noticeable in late
winter or early spring, as demand for heating oil begins
to slacken."
Recording star Evelyn King:
"There is no greater joy than
to have a healthy, beautiful
baby. But not all babies are so
fortunate 250,000 infants are
born with-physical or mental
birth defects each year. The
March of Dimes Birth Defects
Foundation works to save
babies."
Martin
Walker blamed the difference in gas prices around
the state and throughout the nation on transportation
costs that differ according to where gasoline is being
sent. He said distributors were often so eager to sell
their fuel that they would accept an unusually low
price.
"If (a distributor) wants to sell his goods . . . hell
usually take any reasonable offer, Walker said.
"Sometimes he's just willing to deal, and the gas gets
sold for less.
Walker added that when one gas station lowered
its prices, others in the area ususally followed even
if their wholesale costs had not gone down.
"Competition should keep the prices down for a
while, Walker said.
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WEfcE FIGHTING FORVOUR LIFE
Baker, Regan to trade jobs
From I niled Press International reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan announced yesterday a swap
in his leadership team, nominating
his chief of staff James Baker III to
be secretary of the treasury replacing
Donald Regan, who will take Baker's
place at the White House.
The surprise announcement
means Reagan will sweep clean the
"Big Three" group of advisers who
guided the White House during his
first term.
Reagan, whose announcement
was nationally televised, said both
Regan and Baker had "served loyally
and admirably at considerable per
sonal sacrifice. "
He also said that "their desire for
the change is completely understan
dable" and that each "is extremely
well suited for his new assignment."
Zaccaro pleads guilty
NEW YORK John Zaccaro,
the husband of Democratic vice
presidential candidate Geraldine
Ferraro, pleaded guilty to participat
ing in a fraudulent real estate scheme
to spare his family the publicity and
"anguish" of a trial, his lawyer said.
Zaccaro was accused of inflating
the value of five apartment buildings
he was helping a client purchase,
altering a property appraisal in
attempting to secure financing for
the deal, and overstating his net
worth by nearly $18 million.
If the deal had been consum
mated, Zaccaro would have received
a $333,000 commission plus more
than 8 percent ownership in the
building, authorities said. The deal
never went through.
Guerrillas surrender camp
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand
Outgunned Cambodian guerrillas
gave up the last portion of their
headquarters camp yesterday after
battling for two days against an
overwhelming Vietnamese assault.
Fighters of the Khmer People's
National Liberation Front were
ordered at 1 1 a.m. to withdraw "to
keep the KPNLF troops intact for
further struggle," a statement from
the resistance command said.
The command ordered the tactical
withdrawal from the overrun camp
near the Thai border to an undis
closed location -for the purpose of
"carrying out a more successful
guerrilla struggle," the statement
said.
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News So Brief
Priest kidnapped in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon Unidenti
fied gunmen kidnapped an American
priest from a Moslem west Beirut
street yesterday and escaped in
morning rush-hour traffic, firing
machine guns to clear a path through
the crowded avenues.
The abductors, with Roman
Catholic clergyman Laurence Jinco
is a car, sped past a police station
near the well-guarded West German
and Saudi Arabian embassies, firing
machine guns to push their way
through early morning traffic jams,
a witness said.
The abduction coincided with an
unexpected breakthrough in the
Lebanese government's efforts to
send troops south along a key coastal
highway to the Israeli army lines at
the Awali River in sourthern
Lebanon.
A committee of rival Christian,
Druze and Shiite Moslem militias
gave the green light to a task force
of 200 Lebanese policemen to deploy
along the highway in preparation for
a Lebanese army move to the river.
Budget to bring new debate
WASHINGTON The budget
President Reagan sends to Congress
next month likely will miss his goal
of slicing projected $200 billion
deficits in half by 1988, according
to administration officials.
But these officials are claiming
success by setting the agenda for this
year's upcoming budget debate. And
they add that the short-term goal of
holding federal red ink to about $170
billion next year can be met.
Less than two months ago, Rea
gan decided to seek a deficit
reduction plan that would bring
deficits down to about $99 billion
by 1988 a level equal to about
2 percent of the Gross National
Product.
Current administration projec
tions show the deficit for the current
fiscal year at about $218 billion.
Also, an administration official
said Reagan would endorse the
Treasury Department's proposed
"flat tax" with some modifications
and believed there was a reasonable
chance of its passage by Congress.
for campus elections
Campus elections are scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Petitions and candidate information sheets for all offices except CGC
representative are available now in Suite C of the Student Union. CGC petitions
will be available Jan. 15.
A mandatory candidates' meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 24 to explain
finance and campaign laws. Candidates not attending the meeting will be
disqualified, and the names of candidates who do not submit their petitions by
the meeting will not be on the ballot.
Groups desiring to sponsor a forum should contact the Elections Board as soon
as possible. Forum requests must be made by Jan. 22.
Students interested in tending poll or otherwise assisting the Elections Board
can go by the Elections Board Office in Suite C.
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