2AThe Daily Tar Heel Thursday, August 22, 1985
From staff reports
Two Chatham county brothers were
given lifetime prison sentences this
summer for murdering UNC senior
Thomas Perry Zimmerman last
February.
Richard Anthony Sanders and
Steven Wayne Sanders, both 21, were
convicted of first-degree murder June
14 and sentenced the next day.
Zimmerman, from High Point, was
killed Feb. 4 during a visit to friends
at Hilltop Trailer Court, Lot 35, outside
Chapel Hill. The residents of the trailer
told the Orange County Sheriffs
Department that two men wearing ski
masks entered the trailer at about 8:30
p.m., demanded money, then beat the
four men, shooting Zimmerman as they
left.
The six-man, six-woman jury that
tried the men deliberated for about 30
minutes before sentencing them to life
in prison. Both brothers could have
received the death penalty. J
The Sanders brothers were also found
guilty of two counts of armed robbery,
one count of attempted armed robbery7
and first-degree burglary. According to
witnesses at the trial, one ounce of
marijuana, $20 and a stereo were taken
from the trailer.
The two men were convicted under
the first-degree felony rule a murder
committed while a robbery was in
progress. Under this rule, they received
one sentence for all the convictions.
District Attorney Carl Fox said the
Sanders probably would serve a min
imum of 16 years in prison before being
eligible for parole.
During the trial, which began June
7, testimony by three of the state's
witnesses and scientific evidence placed
the brothers at the scene of Zimmer
man's murder. None of the state's
witnesses could say which of the
brothers actually shot Zimmerman.
Public defender Kirk Osborn said the
defense attorneys were dissatisfied with
the verdict but were glad the brothers
hadnt received the death penalty.
Osborn said the Sanders brothers
would appeal their case to the state
supreme court.
Sandlin fined in case
of missing cadavers
Lester S. Sandlin, former state
mortician and curator of anatomical
material at the UNC School of Med
icine, was fined and sentenced in late
April for embezzling cadavers and
defrauding UNC and the Veterans
Administration.
Sandlin, 42, was indicted in August,
1984, on charges of embezzling 25
cadavers and obtaining property by
false pretenses. He also was charged
with illegally filing for Veterans Admin
istration benefits for the funerals of 18
veterans and using his state job to
contract for his own benefit.
Sandlin was convicted of the charges
and sentenced to a mandatory two-year
prison term. After the two years, he will
be up for a five-year probationary
period.
Sandlin was also ordered to pay a
$3,500 fine, the court costs of $404 and
a supervision fee of $10 per month
during his probationary period.
Harris murder trial
pending, clerk says
The trial of Alton Eugene Harris Jr.,
20, charged with first-degree murder in
connection with the stabbing death of
a UNC sophomore in March, is still
pending, according to Libby Walters,
clerk of Oran? bounty Superior Court.
Golkho, a native of Iran, was found
dead March 16 in her apartment at
Royal Park. An autopsy revealed that
she had been stabbed 18 times and
beaten.
Harris, of 801 Estes Drive, was
arrested March 17 and charged in the
case after police tracked him down by
using composite drawings by a police
artist using descriptions of a man seen
leaving Golkho's apartment.
Police found Golkho's partially nude
body about 7:30 p.m. when they
responded to phone calls from her
neighbors who said they heard screams
and sounds of a struggle coming from
her apartment.
The body, lying on the floor between
the kitchen and living room, was
covered with blood, and there was
blood on the nearby walls, police said.
An 18-inch carving knife and Harris'
wallet were found near the body.
John H. Butler, a Carrboro police
investigator in the case, testified in the
probable cause hearing in April that
Harris had been dating one of Golkho's
roommates, and that Golkho and
Harris argued frequently.
Golkho's sister, Fariba Golkho, told
police that Golkho objected to Harris'
overnight visits to the apartment.
Harris is still being held in the Orange
County Jail without bond pending trial.
There is no set date for the next action,
Walters said. ' 1
3o7 taMon hike foiroiuiit-oif-sitatieirs in UNC 'schools
By JILL GERBER
Staff Writer
Out-of-state students at UNC are paying 9.7 percent
more tuition this year because of an increase initiated
by the General Assembly and approved by the UNC
Board of Governors on July 27, said Sam B. Barnard,
University cashier.
The tuition hike applies to all universities in the
UNC System and was enacted in Chapel Hill on Aug.
2, Barnard said.
Barnard said tuition for a non-resident undergrad
uate taking a full course load 12 hours or more
had increased from $ 1 ,550 to $ 1 ,700.
Out-of-state tuition was raised to make rates
comparable to state universites around the country,
according to a prepared statement by the UNC
Cashier's Office enclosed in each student's tuition bill.
"We're currently operating under a statute passed
by the General Assembly to increase tuition," said
James Smith, finance officer at the UNC General
Administration of Budget and Finance. MA review
is done annually to bring rates in line with statutory
legislative intent," he said.
A sampling of student reactions to the tuition
increase varied in degrees of approval and disapproval.
Tm all for it," said John Leidy, a second-year law
student from" Winston-Salem. "It's nice that our in
state tuition is cheap, but it's ridiculous that out-of-state
is. It's unnecessary for North Carolina to
subsidize for people from other states to come to
school here."
Brad Knight, a pre-med senior from Columbus,
Ohio, disapproved of the increase.
"I'm paying taxes in Ohio now, and people from
North Carolina are paying taxes at schools in Ohio,"
Knight said. "It all balances out across the country.
The administration doesn't care what we think."
Mel Landis, a junior business administration major
from Boca Raton, Fla., also opposed the tuition hike.
"For how much they (in-state students) pay, the
increase is ridiculous," Landis said. "We pay 10 times
more, and our tuition is raised all the time. They
could raise in-state (tuition)."
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siIIoOTGig developer timnie for meeded iinniproveimieirBts
Ants-sateMte weapon testing
receives approval by Hieagan
From wire reports
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.
President Reagan on Tuesday auth
orized testing of an anti-satellite
weapon in space.
"We have to test and test now
to restore the military balance,"
presidential spokesman Larry
Speakes said before Reagan's three
day trip to Los Angeles.
Reagan decided on the testing
Monday, Speakes said.
Falwell labels Tutu a 'phony'
NEW YORK The Rev. Jerry
Falwell called black Anglican Bishop
Desmond Tutu a "phony" after
returning from a five-day trip to
South Africa. Falwell also proposed
U.S. reinvestment in the white-run
nation.
Civil rights leaders condemned
Falwell, head of the fundamentalist
Moral Majority, for his comments.
One black congressman said he was
"ashamed and embarrassed" by the
comments.
Falwell told reporters at Kennedy
International Airport that Ameri
cans were receiving a distorted view
of events in South Africa.
Sikhs kill political leader
NEW DELHI, India Sikh
terrorists assassinated Sikh political
leader Harchand Singh Longowal
on Tuesday, less than a month after
an accord with the government was
signed to settle a three-year crisis in
the Punjab state of India.
The killing of Longowal, 57,
occurred hours after Sikh terrorists
murdered one of the Hindu leaders
of the Congress Party of Prime
Minister Rajiv Ghandi.
The killing sparked a national
security alert and raised questions of
violence in the state, bordering
Pakistan.
NASA approves space factory
plans
WASHINGTON The space
agency on Tuesday approved a
Houston firm's plans to build and
operate the first commercial space
news in brief
factory.
The multimillion-dollar facility
will be built without government
funds and will operate automatically
with occasional maintenance trips by
astronauts.
N.J. girl to get football tryout
TRENTON, N.J. A judge
Tuesday ordered a school district to
let a 15-year-old girl try out for her
high school football team, despite an
unwritten school policy barring girls
from playing football
"I want to play football. That's the
only reason why IVe done this," said
Elizabeth Balsley, a 5-foot-5, 127
pound junior at Annandale's North
Hunterdon High School in rural
western New Jersey.
Lebanese car bomb kills 44
BEIRUT Lebanese car
bombers struck in Tripoli on Tues
day, apparently luring people into a
main square and setting off a bomb
that killed 44 people and wounded
90, police said.
The car bomb in the port city of
Tripoli was the fifth in a week in
Lebanon's largest cities. Overall, 143
persons have been killed and more
than 300 wounded recently in Leban
on's "war of the car bombs."
Political name change criticized
NEW ORLEANS State Rep.
Jon "Peaches" Johnson says he is
sure that Collins Anthony Lewis
changed his name to John Peaches
Johnson to fuzz up their race for the
state Senate.
John Johnson officially filed as a
candidate for the Oct. 19 election to
fill the vacant seat of the late Sen.
Nat Kiefer.
Accusing his opponent of decep-,
tion, Jonhson said his mother had
nicknamed "Peaches" when he was
a boy.
By LISA BRANTLEY
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill planning board
voted 6-2 Tuesday night to postpone
its review of a zoning compliance permit
for the construction of a 58,800 square
foot shopping center at the former Glen
Lennox park-and-ride lot on the south
side ofjlaleigh.iload...,- .
VvThe postponement in effect for no
longer than 60 days, came at the request
of applicant Owen Kenan in the wake
of site design concerns expressed by
board members. The concerns included
high land use intensity, lack of the
required amount of buffer area around
the site and increased traffic flow in the
vicinity of Glenwood Elementary
School, which is close to the' proposed
site.
The time extension will give devel
opers of the proposed 5.3 acre site time
to address 31 separate items identified
as concerns and deficiencies by town
planners in their recommendations to
the planning board.
Although Chapel Hill Development
Coordinator Stephen Sizemore said he
thought that most of the concerns, with
the exception of traffic flow problems,
could be addressed with fairly minor
revisions to the site plan, Board
Chairman Alice Ingram said that she
disliked the idea of a shopping center
next to a school.
"This is not the proper place ... for
a shopping center," she said. "On the
site plan review this certainly isn't taken
into consideration."
Kenan said the proposed site, which
would include a Harris-Teeter grocery
store and a Kerr Drug store, was one
of the. best sites in North Carolina foj
a retail" center according' to marketing
reports.
In other action, the board unanim
ously approved two motions to recom
mend that the Board of Adjustment
grant a variance to Goforth Properties,
Inc. for the construction of a 180-foot
bridge across Little Creek, and the
relocation of an unnamed tributary of
the creek in the Oaks II subdivision.
The bridge, which will extend Pine
hurst Drive, requires a variance because
construction plans called for the filling
of dirt at either end of the bridge which
will affect the water course in a 100
year floodplain resource conservation
district. The proposed straightening
of the tributary will also change the
boundaries of the resource conservation
district according to planning depart
ment reports.
Resource conservation districts are
designed to prevent increase in the
height, volume or velocity of flooding
in the floodplain as a result of
construction.
Before the planning board meeting,
members of the Citizens for Respon
sible Land Use, a neighborhood coa
lition of Tinkerbell Road and Churchill
Drive residents who live near the
proposed tributary diversion, signed an
agreement with Goforth Properties, Inc.
' The agreement included provision!
requiring Goforth to clean up the
existing tributary channel, use materials
acceptable to the residents to stabilize v
it and complete all further work on the
channel for the diversion before further
subdivision construction is completed.
The residents who asked that their
agreement be read into the public
record, negotiated with Goforth
because they said they forsaw increased
flooding problems on their land as a .
result of the tributary's diversion.
The planning board also recom
mended, 6-2, that a variance, be
approved to allow the Pine Tree
Corporation to build a single family
dwelling at 221 Huntingdon Driveu
which would encroach 25 to 35 feet into
a resource conservation district.
According to planning department ,
studies, houses on either side of the
proposed site also would not conform
to the present resource conservation
district limits, but were constructed
before their enactment.
A proposed textual amendment to
the Chapel Hill development ordinance
that would require the town to establish
a zoning district with special restrictions
on development along 1.2 miles of the
Interstate 40 corridor within its juris
diction, was unanimously approved.
. - Similar districts have been -estab- ?
lished by.Wal0pranXai4;lQrwe
counties and Durham' to 'restrict' bil
lboards and to require reviews of site
.v plans and landscape of buffer areas
along the 1-40 right-of-way.
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