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2Tbe Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 31, 1986 Voters, to By SHARON KECSCHULL Staff Writer North Carolinians who go to the polls Nov. 4 will find three amend ments to the state constitution on the ballot. The first and third amendments proposed by Democratic state Rep. Daniel Lilley concern financing through privately owned bonds. The second would affect absentee ballots for November . elections. The first amendment would auth orize issuance of revenue bonds to finance private colleges and universities. In 1982 the amendment was defeated with 52.8 percent of the people voting against it. For the election, a group called Friends of Higher Education (FHE) formed to tell taxpayers that the amendment would not cost them anything. It would allow non-profit inde pendent organizations to use financ ing from the bonds to improve their facilities at a lower interest rate, said ' Hope Williams, executive director of the N.C. 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The third amendment would cost taxpayers nothing, said William Edwards, executive director of the N.C. Port Authority. The amend ment would allow corporations to use bond revenues for their own benefit, such as building a private dock. Without the amendment, corporations would have to use the funds to build a dock for the general public. Corporations would have to repay the bonds, which will be Elliott Rd. JHT Squined Masks " ' 5cf-T Afy f rnlnr haircnrau anH murh mrvrol I I v Costume Accessories inciudina hats, beards, mustaches I I H: 942-1234 J Earn a degree in leadership. Marine option NROTC. NROTC Marine College Program for those students already in college. Provides selectees $100 per month during their junior and senior years without the scholarship benefits. One pre commission training period (six weeks for males, 10 weeks for females) is the only summer session required. MARINES 3P i i a ; secured on a lease. "The way the law is now is a hindrance to airports and seaports," Edwards said. "I'm hoping it'll pass easily, but I don't know how much education ther public has had." The second amendment on the ballot would make a difference in absentee ballots. It states: "When a vacancy occurs during a term of an officer 60 days before a regularly scheduled election, a mid-term election shall be held. This amendment, proposed by Democratic state Sen. Melvin Watt, will change the current policy, which states that if a vacancy occurs 3 1 days CASH attorney opposes By TRACEY MAXWELL Staff Writer The low-level operating license recently granted to the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant permits high-level waste to be stored at the plant site, said Bob Epting, an attorney for the Coalition for Alter natives to Shearon Harris. "This should infuriate the public," Epting said at a press conference Thursday afternoon in his Chapel Hill office. The license states that CP&L, which owns the plant, may bury high-level waste products from the plant. If CP&L can obtain insurance coverage, the plant may receive and possess, but not separate, nuclear waste from units 1 and 2 of the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant and Unit 2 of the Robinson Steam Electric Plant. The Brunswick and Robinson plants are also owned and operated by CP&L, Epting said. "The license calls them steam plants, but don't miss the fact that they are nuclear power plants," he said. AJf clothing designed & sold exclusively by Modem Times Modern Times 402 W. Franklin St Chapel Hill 929-8119 before an election, it must be put on the Nov. 4 ballot. Absentee ballots can be sent out up to 60 days before the election, so some candi dates miss being put on the ballot, said Alex Brock, the executive director of the State Board of Elections. "This is just a convenient time for it, and the General Assembly was receptive to it," Brock said. The only campaigning for it was through the media, election officials and the League of Women Voters. He said he did not think there was any opposition to it, calling it merely a logistical problem. The Nuclear Regulatory Commis sion granted the license to CP&L Oct. 24, authorizing officials to load fuel into the plant's reactor to begin testing. To bring the waste to the Harris plant site, about 35 miles southwest of Chapel Hill, CP&L will have to transport it along state highways, Epting said. The required insurance agreement would limit liability to $650 million, he said. "The question I want to ask the NRC and CP&L is how they plan to insure the people of North Carolina against loss if a transport royhill amount of goods is coming in at a predictable rate," Broyhill said earlier at a meeting with reporters in Greensboro. "If we're faced with 20 to 30 percent increases in the import level every month, that's when it becomes difficult to handle." Broyhill concluded with a plea to supporters to "use your telephone, use your influence" to get out the vote on Tuesday "for the betterment of America." - Martin also warned against complacence. "You know how many more shopping days there are until Nov. 4?" Martin asked. "You know how many (voters) there are out there to get? Well, go out and get them." He also kept up his plea for more No tricks; jus treats ffu&rj new University Square Chapel Hill 967-8935 The Qeabest Classroom 1 4 - 1 V t 1 -"v 4 For full information, including a catalog and call 1-800-854-0195. Or write Semester at Sea, Institute for Shipboard Education, University of Pittsburgh, 2E Forbes Quadrangle, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260. ; Then prepare for the learning adventure of ' .7 yourlife. ::---v " I' SEMESTER AT SEA REPRESENTATIVE AND FORMER STUDENT TO VISIT UNC Friday October 31, 1986. Information table 9:00-3:00 The Pit. BRIEF FILM PRESENTATION: October 31 at 4:00 p.m. Student Union Rm. 206. 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He said the petition addressed three main issues: a construction flaw at Shearon Harris called "cable tray separation," CP&Ls firing of two quality assurance employees "for doing their job too well," and specific reports of other construction Republicans in the Democrat controlled General Assembly and to do away with the supersubcommittee he said met secretly to enact the state budget. And he asked again to no longer be the only governor in the nation without veto power. Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C, said Robin Britt, the Democrat he ousted in 1984, had distorted his record on social security. "Vicious television advertising is the most cruel form of advertising because it plays upon the fears of senior citizens," he said. Coble also said Britt had accused him . of voting like Helms. "I guess all I can say to that is 'guilty as charged.' " Of AIL 0 I Applications are now being accepted for the University of Pittsburgh sponsored Semester at Sea. 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The source named 40 or 50 specific instances when inspectors failed to thoroughly check the unusual place ment of anchor bolts into the concrete walls, Epting said. But so far NRC officials have said the allegations are too vague, he said. He said he thinks it is "extremely important and extremely serious" that the NRC investigate these allegations. "It's not too late, in fact it's exactly the right time to admit the allegations are site specific and to check them out," he said. "We're hopeful they 11 do so." from page 1 He warned the GOP not to forget conservative Democrats when going to the polls because "we need them and they need us." Ssnford frm pa9e 1 tion, which has been under a two year, court-ordered ban on nation wide farm foreclosures, is preparing to resume the foreclosure process, Sanford said. "The FmH A has already hired 1 1 lawyers in North Carolina alone to handle the planned increase in foreclosures, starting right after the election," Sanford said. "We will put a stop to that." On specific farm votes, Sanford said he agreed with Broyhill's sup port for the 1985 Farm Bill and his support of a resolution urging the Farm Credit System to consider the restructuring of delinquent loans to farmers. But he said Broyhill voted "present," instead of casting a yes or no vote, on a motion to restore deep cuts in farm export programs and a 60 percent cut in the agricultural extension service. Broyhill has said that measure was brought up out of order, prompting his procedural vote. Sanford said Broyhill was the only Southern senator not to vote for a recent farm-credit relief bill, but Broyhill said he was not in Washing ton when the vote came and that he knew his support was not vital to its passage. while calling upon application, Still L.
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