Copyright 1S85 The Daily Tar Heel
Thursday, August 1, 1SS5
V- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Fnre at Towiie Hoiuise AptiSo
leaves 14 homeless Tuaesdlay
By Kevin Meredith
and Jim Greenhi'l
News Editor and Editor
Fourteen people were left homeless
Tuesday after fire at the Towne
House Apartments on Hillsborough
Street destroyed four apartment units
and severly damaged at least four
more.
A spokeswoman for the American
Red Cross and a police department
social worker said that many were
students or recent graduates of the
University. No families were
involved.
The Red Cross offered shelter, and
local residents have been calling in
offers of clothing and temporary
housing.
The fire, which started in the
basement of the two-story apartment
block, caused no injuries. Geoff
Hilliard, a resident, reported the fire
about 10:30 a.m. when he saw smoke
coming from the basement door.
The cause of the fire has not been
determined, Assistant Fire Chief C.
Firefighters battle blaze that
By Lane Mitchell
Staff Writer
The Coalition for the Advance
ment of Industrial -Technology,
comprising more than 52 corpora
tions, 15 major universities and nine
trade associations, is lobbying on
Capitol Hill for two congressional
bills aimed to amend the existing
Research and Development law to
encourage more corporate donations
of research equipment to universities.
According to forecasts by the
Battelle Memorial Institute, the
United States will spend about $107
billion this year on research and
development. Industry-sponsored
research represents more than half of
the total at $55 billion, which is up
1 1 percent from 1984.
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Matthew Maynor said Wednesday,
but added, "At this time we don't
suspect arson or anything of that
nature." He suggested that mattresses
and other flammable materials being
stored in the basement under the
apartments were a fertile place for
a fire to begin.
"It (the fire) had a lot of fuel in
that basement, he said. Maynor said
the quick spread of the flames to the
first and second floors might have
been due to fire going up through
air conditioning ducts.
Denise Dixon, a resident of the
first floor apartment over the base
ment, said she saw flames and smoke
coming out of the vents to the
basement. After knocking on her
neighbor's doors, she left the build
ing. No one else was home, she
added.
Dixon, a student from Winston
Salem who moved to Towne House
Apartments this June, said she lost
everything in the blaze which com
destroyed four units and severely damaged four more.
The two bills, H.R. 1188 and S. 58,
propose to:
make a permanent tax credit of
25 percent to companies for spending
on university research that exceeds
one percent of their annual average
qualified research expenditures
between 1981 and 1983
enact a new 20 percent tax credit
for basic research specifically encou
raging companies to fund it in
universities
enhance deduction provisions
for corporate donations of state-of-the-art
equipment to universities for
research and educational purposes.
According to the American Society
for Engineering Education, most
university laboratory engineering
equipment is 20 to 30 years old and
pletely gutted her apartment, the one
above it and two others. Lateral
spread of the flames was stopped by
afire wall.
By the time the fire was under
control, most of the roof over the
apartments had burned leaving a
gaping hole ringed with charred
shingles and smoldering timbers.
"They've got a lot of wood in the
attic," Maynor said, estimating that
the fire's temperature had reached
2,000 degrees by the time it broke
through the roof. Dorothy Bernholz,
director of Student Legal Services,
said that the flames were visible from
her second floor office in the Carolina
Union. The SLS offices are over a
mile away from Towne House
Apartments.
All three Chapel Hill Fire Depart
ment trucks were at the scene and
more than a dozen firemen fought
the blaze.
The Red Cross still has shelter and
clothing available." '
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equipment to teach new technologies
is almost non-existent.
In 198 1 a provision for a 25 percent
tax credit was established. This tax
credit is scheduled to expire on
December 31, 1985. Since 1981,
research spending in the United
States increased by about 40 percent.
According to Martin Neil Baily
and Robert Z. Lawrence of the
Brookings Institution and Data
Resources Inc., a permanent tax
credit would generate an additional
$2.9 billion in gross national product
by 1991.
Under ideal circumstances, the
Brookings Institution says, the
annual GNP could increase in the
See RESEARCH page 8
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' Heat from flames soared to an estimated 2.000 degrees.
Clinton unun charged
in oncumpus assault
By Kevin Meredith
News Editor
Police arrested a UNC-Chapel Hill
student following a fight in the Davie
Hall area Tuesday morning.
Marc Douglas Knight, 21, of 13
Hamilton Dr., Clinton, N.C., was
charged with possession of stolen
property and assault with a deadly
weapon by University police, and is
being held in Orange County Jail on
$500 bond.
The police report filed on the
Ice cs 'earn party today
An all-campus io cream party
will take place today in the Pit
from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. The party,
originally scheduled July 30th, was
cancelled at the last minute
because of possible inclement
weather.
CGC Rep. Tom Vlcek said CGC
Speaker Wyatt Closs cancelled the
party at the last minute.
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incident, which occured about 11
a.m., did not say what weapon
Knight used, or what stolen property
he has been charged with possessing.
Sgt. Ned Comar, of the UNC
campus police, said that at the time
the arrest was made, Knight had
probably disposed of the weapon
cited in the report. Charges of assault
were brought by the victim of the
assault, who was not identified in the
report.
"I think he thought we'd have
rainfall, so he called ARA Food
Services and postponed the party,
Vlcek said of Closs. Despite the
expectation, it was sunny through
out the Tuesday lunch period. The
party, sponsored by Student
Government with student activity
fees, is open to all on-campus
second summer session students.
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