Thursday, June 13, 1935
Chapel Hid, North Carolina
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Copyright 1985 The Daily Tar Heel
By Lane IXtcheH
News Editor
A UNC-CH junior is charged with
faking his death as part of a scheme
to collect $600,000 in benefits from
six recently purchased life insurance
policies.
Charles Walter Scott, 24, of
Mebane, was jailed in Bryson City,
on a charge of conspiracy to commit
fraud and was returned Thursday to
the Orange County Jail where he was
released on a $25,000 property bond
posted by his parents.
Scott's blood-sprinkled car was
found abandoned at 11:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 1, beside Interstate
85 under the Buckhorn Road over
pass. On Tuesday, June 4, the Orange
County Sheriff in conjunction put
out a Crime Stoppers bulletin think
ing that Scott was still alive.
Late Wednesday night federal park
rangers found Scott in a camping
shelter at Derrick's Knob in Swain
County, a part of the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. Park
ranger Robert L. Grant said Scott
had filed a trail permit, which
includes a travel itinerary, under the
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By Lane Mitchell .
News Editor
"We Ye been broken in four times
in the past year. Folks just drop in
through the sky light," said Milton
Julian, manager of Milton's Clothing
Cupboard at 163 E. Franklin. Julian
is vice president of the Downtown
Chapel Hill Association which
recently petitioned the town council
for more on-foot police coverage in
the downtown area.
The association told the Chapel
Hill Town Council that people do
not feel safe downtown because of
inadequate police protection. "In an
area as congested as downtown
people just don feel safe unless they
see a policeman around," said Dr.
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name Sam Johnson. Using the
itinerary he had filed, Grant said park
rangers hiked nine miles through
rough terrain to find Scott asleep in
the shelter.
Orange County Sheriff Lindy A.
Pendergrass said Scott used a hypo
dermic needle to withdraw blood
from his arm to sprinkle inside his
car.
Pendergrass also said Scott had
arranged a bogus drug deal in
Mebane to lead deputies to believe
his disappearance was drug related.
Another man, Charlton Slater
Fox, 20, also of Mebane, was charged
Wednesday for conspiracy to commit
fraud in connection with the case.
Fox was to collect benefits from the
three insurance companies in Dur
ham, Mebane and Washington, D.C.
and meet Scott in California. Fox
was freed Thursday on $7,500 bond.
Both men told a District Court
judge Friday they would seek their
own counsel for a probable cause
hearing set for June 21 in Orange
County District Court in
Hillsborough.
CUnapel Hill
William T. Kohn, president of the
downtown association.
Kohn, an optometrist whose office
is at 129 E. Franklin, said that when
people downtown see a patrolman
walking a beat they feel more pro
tected against people who commit
crimes.
Both Kohn and Julian said the
attempted robbery at Back Then
Vintage Clothiers, 405 W. Franklin,
last Friday probably would not have
happened if there had been a police
man walking a regular beat
downtown.
According to Chapel Hill police
Capt. Ralph V. Pendergraph, only
one officer is assigned foot patrol in
the downtown area each day. Two
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Wednesday morning singing anti-Contra songs. The protestors are pressuring Cobey to vote
against a proposed aid package for the Contras.
Association petitions foot patrols
other officers walk the 100 block of
Franklin street twice a day as part
of the department's direct patrol
program. Studies have shown the 100
block most suspectable to downtown
crime.
Figures compiled by police planner
Keith H. Lohmann for the past year
showed no significant increase in the
number of downtown crimes
reported. During this time 36 break
ins have occured downtown, 59
trespass violations, and 68 vandal
ism, 29 of which were to vehicles.
"This isn't a recent problem,"
Julian said. "We've been trying to get
the Town Council to make down
town safer for more than a year now."
"The problem with crime down
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town is like an itch," Kohn said. "Its
not going to go away."
Julian said that adequate police
protection downtown is particularly
important now as Rosemary Square
nears completion. "We don't know
what kind of people that Rosemary
Square is going to attract. It might
be a nice crowd, it might be a bunch
of hoodlums," he said.
Either way, Julian said, if people
realize that there is going to be a
policeman on a regular foot beat
downtown, criminals would be less
likely to commit crimes.
"We understand it's impractical to
expect a police officer to be on every
block downtown 24 hours a day,"
for some
By Stewart Gray
and Peggie Porter
Staff Writer and Kaleidoscope Editor
"IVe been selling Coke here for
38 years, and I don't know why
they changed," says James Mous
moules of Jeffs Confectionery on
Franklin Street. "I can't tell you
what I think, I sell the stuff. But
99.5 percent of the people IVe
talked to dont like it.
"Who knows the true story?"
said Mousmoules with the testy air
of one who has been over the same
ground many times. And indeed
who does know the true story?
"Maybe the government made
them stop because it causes
cancer," Mousmoules added jok
ingly. "I got customers here."
Jeffs has the last 'true' soda
fountain in Chapel Hill. At Jeffs,
Coke syrup is mixed with fresh
carbonated water. Mousmoules
has a gallon of the 'old formula'
of syrup stashed away.
No one we talked to in Jeffs
approved of the switch. "They're
trying to make it taste like Pepsi,
I don't know why though," said
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Kohn said. "But we would like to
have the Town Council consider
spending more money on protection
for people downtown."
The Town Council voted unanim
ously last week to consider the
associations complaints.
The association is particularly
concerned with the crime that occurs
after dark when the "night element"
hits Franklin Street, Julian says.
"There are some students and a lot
of people that think there's a lot of
things to steal in Chapel Hill after
dark," Julian said.
Kohn agreed. Between midnight
and 2 a.m., "the bugs come out of
the woodwork," he said.
old fans
Charlie Stancell, a 40-year patron
of Jeffs.
"This is worse than when they
took the cocaine out of it,"
remarked another patron.
Mousmoules has a theory,
though. He predicts that when the
new Coke has failed to convert
Pepsi drinkers and the like, Coca
Cola will make a big production
out of switching back to the old
taste.
"ItH be the biggest ad scoop in
history," he said. "Radio, TV.
newspapers. 'The people have
spoken, that sort of thing." Asked
if he believed the rumor that the
company had waited until the
death of its president to try the
gimmick, Mousmoules said the
president did die but didn't spec
ulate as to the rest of the popular
theory.
However, attitudes were differ
ent at Sutton's Drug store.
Margaret Durham, an employee at
the Sutton's lunch counter for the
last 26 years, approved of the
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