The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, November 4, 19865
Voters face maey decisions alt polls
Dy MICHELLE EFIRD
Staff Writer
When Orange County voters go
to the polls today, theyll find varied
items on the ballot for positions at
the local, state and national levels.
In Chapel Hill, one of the most
publicized issues is the bond refer
endum, which proposes raising $1 1.8
million for town improvements.
If approved, the money will go
toward a new public library, several
street improvements, municipal
building improvements and a new
fire station. The ballot allows voters
to decide on each expenditure
separately.
Voters also will be asked to
consider three amendments to the
N.C. Constitution.
If approved, the first proposal
would give the N.C. General Assem
bly the power to enact laws author
izing the state to issue revenue bonds
for financing private or non-profit
higher- education facilities.
The second amendment would
change the policy dealing with
vacancies in elected positions. The
proposal reads, "An election shall be
held to fill the remainder of the
unexpired term if the vacancy occurs
more than 60 days before the next
election, rather than 30 days as is
presently provided."
Voters also will decide the fate of
an amendment concerning the devel
opment of new and existing seaports
and airports. The amendment would
let corporations use bond revenues
to finance such developments for
their personal uses.
As usual, the ballot will contain
names of candidates running for a
host of political offices. This year,
the legislative list includes spots in
the U.S. Senate, N.C. Senate and
N.C. General Assembly.
An intense race has been estab
lished between Democrat Terry
Sanford and Republican Jim Broy
hill, both vying for a U.S. Senate
seat.
Voters will choose between Demo
crat David Price and Republican Bill
Cobey for the position of 4th
Congressional District
representative.
Open judicial positions are for
Orange County district attorney and
district court judge. '
Also at the Orange County level,
candidates are running for clerk of
superior court, county commissioner
(3), sheriff and register of deeds.
Ten offices in the general court of
justice are up for grabs. The most
notable race is for chief justice of
the N.C. Supreme Court, sought,
after by Democrat James Exum Jr.
and Republican Rhoda B. Billings.
Also on Tuesday, 20 superior
court judge positions will be filled.
Finally, Orange County voters can
expect to choose a soil and water
conservation district supervisor.
All polling sites in the county are
open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
UNC students who are registered in
Orange County and live on campus
can vote according to the residence
hall in which they live.
Those students in Alderman,
Kenan, Mclver, Old East, Old West
and Spencer residence halls (East
Franklin precinct) can vote at the
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 300
E. Rosemary St.
Students in Alexander, Aycock,
Carr, Cobb, Connor, Everett,
Graham, Grimes, Joyner, Lewis,
Mangum, Manly, Ruffin, Stacy and
Winston residence halls (Greenwood
precinct) can vote at the General
Administration building on Raleigh
Road (N.C. 54).
Those in Avery, Ehringhaus,
Craige, Hinton James, Morrison,
Parker and Teague residence halls
(Country Club precinct) can cast
their ballots at Fetzer Gymnasium.
Residents of Granville Towers and
Whitehead Residence Hall (Lincoln
precinct) can vote at the Lincoln
Center on Merritt Mill Road.
For other polling places, see
accompanying list. Students and
residents who live off campus and
have questions about which precinct
they are in should call the Orange
County Board of Elections.
Nuclear plant helps state's economy, officials say
By SABRINA B. DARLEY
Staff Writer
Although there has been much
controversy over the opening of
Carolina Power & Light Co.'s
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power
Plant, area experts agree that the
effects of the plant on the state's
economy greatly outweigh the
disadvantages.
Already, the plant has added
millions of dollars to the state's
economy in taxes and in employee
wages.
The Harris plant will also be a
crucial factor in attracting more
industry to the state, said Roger
Hannah, CP&L spokesman.
"One of the factors of growth in
this area has been CP&L's efforts
to supply the growing energy needs
of the area," Hannah said.
Paul J. Turinsky, head of the
nuclear engineering department at
N.C. State University, agreed. with
Hannah.
"Each technology has its own
risks," Turinsky said. "We can't
escape that fact." Despite the risks,
he still considers nuclear power the
safest and most economical in the
long run.
Turinsky said that while coal
plants are less expensive to build,
they would prove more expensive to
operate.
"(At full power) we will be able
to produce 20 percent more energy
(with nuclear power) than would
normally be produced," Hannah
said.
Since construction began in 1978,
approximately 4,600 employees have
been employed at the Harris site,
most of which were in construction
and engineering.
About 1,500 workers will remain
during the testing period of approx
imately one year. In this testing stage,
the plant will operate experimentally
at very low power until it is fully
certified by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
At last, 'Ink'
goes to press
By TOM CAMP
Staff Writer
The Black Ink, the official news
paper of the Black Student Move
ment, will be distributed this week,
said Co-editor Sheila Simmons.
Delays due to an inexperienced
staff have held the paper back,
Simmons said, but the paper should
be out Thursday or Friday.
"There was no editor of the paper
at the beginning of the year,"
Simmons said. "We have one pho
tographer and eight working staff
members. Only three of those are
returning from last year. That has
really put us back."
Simmons, a junior transfer from
N.C. State University, said she was
learning to handle a variety of
newspaper responsibilities with
freshman Co-editor Jeff Rayner.
"Neither one of us has background
experience as editors," she said.
"Layout, graphics and advertising
are all new to me."
The Black Ink focuses on the
activities and interests of black
students on campus, Simmons said.
"There has been a big controversy
in the past about what the paper
should cover," she said. "This year
I'm trying to move it away from the
strict format. It's been a newsletter
In the past. I'm trying to make it
a newspaper."
Several changes from previous
issues will be made, Simmons said.
The Black Ink will add a leisure
lifestyle section, which will include
profiles of outstanding blacks on
campus and extracurricular activities
of blacks and black organizations.
An entertainment section will also
be added, which will review prim
arily black movies, albumsperfor
mances and lectures.
"I want to inform the students
around campus what's going on in
the black community so they can get
out and see some of these activities,"
she said. Another goal of the paper.
Simmons said, is to increase the staff
and possibly turn the paper into a
weekly in the near future.
When the plant is at full power,
it will employ 1,000 clerks, admin
istrators, engineers and nuclear
specialists.
Hannah said testing at five percent
power is planned to start in four to
five weeks, with full-power status
being granted in about a year.
Last year CP&L paid $7.5 million
in property taxes to Wake County
for the 10,723-acre plant. This figure
is not likely to decrease.
CP&L began experimentation
with nuclear power in 1960 with a
joint-utilities committee on the Parr
Scholes project near Columbia, S.C.
The success of the Parr Scholes
experiment led to the H.B. Robinson
Nuclear Plant in Hartsville, S.C.
There, power is generated by both
a nuclear plant and a coal plant. The,
Robinson nuclear plant served as the4
prototype for the larger Harris plant.
CP&L also owns and operates the
Brunswick Nuclear (steam-electric)
Plant in South Port.
The Harris plant has been the
object of controversy since its first
proposal, but Hannah said most of
the allegations against it have been
litigated in court as being "...
without merit or substance."
Few changes within the plant
resulted from the negative publicity,
he said. Work there has been unin
terrupted, and will continue.
Polling sites
PRECINCT
Battle Park
Coker Hills
Cole's Store
Colonial Heights
Country Club
Dogwood Acres
East Franklin
Eastside
Estes Hills
Glenwood
Greenwood
King's Mill
Lincoln
Lion's Club
Mason Farm
North Carrboro
Northside
Orange Grove
OWASA
Patterson
Ridgefield
St John
Town Hall
Weaver Dairy
Westwood
White Cross
POLLING SITE
Chapel Hill Community Center, Plant Road
Church of Reconciliation, 110 Elliott Road
Union Grove Methodist Church, Union Grove
Church Road
YMCA, 980 Airport Road
Fetzer Gymnasium, UNC Campus on South
Road
Grey Culbreth Junior High School, Culbreth
Drive
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 300 E. Rosem
ary St
Ephesus Road Elementary School, Ephesus
Church Road
Guy B. Phillips Junior High School, Estes
Drive
Glenwood Elementary School, Prestwick
Road
UNC General Administration Building, Raleigh
Road
Aldersgate Methodist Church, 632 Laurel Hill
Road
Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road
Lion's Club, 131 Fidelity St, Carrboro
Community Church Building, Purefoy Road
Carrboro Elementary School, Shelton Street
Carrboro
Chapel Hill Municipal Building, 306 N. Colum
bia St
Orange Grove Fire Station, Orange Grove
Road
OWASA Filter Plant Jones Ferry Road,
Carrboro
New Hope Community Center, Whitfield Road
Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive
St John Church, off Hatch Road
Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W. Main St,
Carrboro
New Fire Station, Weaver Dairy Road and N.C.
86
Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, N.C.
54 Bypass
White Cross Recreation Center, White Cross
Road
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