2The Daily Tar HeelThursday, October 29, 1937
Mew tax
By USA WYNNE
Staff Writer
Scholarship recipients, including
Morehead scholars and graduate
students, may find themselves once
again exempt from taxes if a bill
under consideration in the House
Ways and Means Committee passes
congressional scrutiny.
The bill would revive tax deduc
tions for scholarship recipients taken
by last year's Tax Reform Act.
The bill, cosponsored by Reps.
David Price, D-N.C, and Martin
Lancaster, D-N.C, would restore tax
deductions for interest paid on
student loans and for all scholarships,
said Frank Proctor, legislative assist
ant to Lancaster.
' Before the Tax Reform Act, Proc
tor said, students could deduct any
scholarship aid, but the new tax
legislation taxes everything except
tuition and book allowances.
ilim and Tammy Bakker plan concert torn
Py STACI COX
Staff Writer
After months of exile from PTL,
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker are
taking their story on the road, with
concert dates all over the nation.
; The Bakker tour will begin on Nov.
J in Nashville, Tenn. and continue
until Dec. 21, when the Bakkers will
take a Christmas break. It will resume
in January, said Marilyn Ford,
spokeswoman for ATI Equity, the
company producing the show.
Gfomp finds disparity in school
Dy KELLY JOHNSON
Staff Writer
' Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools
receive more funding per student than
Orange County schools, although
both systems have about the same
number of students enrolled.
I A commission organized to study
a proposed merger of Chapel Hill
Carrboro and. Orange County
schools in 1985 and 1986 found that
expenditures for the entire county
school district at that time totaled
$14,550,000, or $2,860 per pupil. The
Chapel Hill-Carrboro expenditures
totaled $18,172,000, or $3,382 per
pupil.
. The commission recommended
that the Orange County commission
ers equalize the per-pupil funding
county wide. A fact-finding group is
now studying ways to fund the two
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At UNC, all students receiving
financial aid or merit scholarships,,
including Morehead Scholars, grad
uate students receiving stipends and
need-based scholarship recipients,
have to file tax returns by April 15.
"This is just one more burden
students will have to put up with,"
said Thomas Langston, associate
director of the UNC student aid
office. "There's no possible way to
anticipate what the effects of this will
be."
Although Morehead Foundation
trustees decided to help defray the tax
costs, the students will still have to
file returns in April, said Dana Post,
treasurer of the Morehead Founda
tion. Working students may ulti
mately wind up in a higher tax
bracket, Post said.
"Everybody is waiting for it to hit
on April 15, when they have to come
Most of the concert sites are in the
South, including Greensboro,
Atlanta and Columbia, S.C. But the
Bakkers will also take their show to
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Denver,
Ford said.
Concert promoters and tour man
agers will determine ticket prices on
a local level, Ford said. The tickets
will usually be equivalent to the cost
of an average area rock concert, she
said.
Jim Bakker will host the concert,
school systems more equitably, said
Shirley Marshall, chairman of the
county commissioners.
This group consists of Marshall,
who organized the group, the super
intendents of both school systems, a
teacher from both systems, the
chairmen of both school boards, the
interim county manager and the
financial officers of the county and
city school systems.
"This is not a policy study,"
Marshall said. "It's just to bring out
all the questions. Then well try to
give some direction on what we want
done about (unequal allocations)."
The group will discuss the inequi
ties, but the county commissioners
will find a solution, she said.
"A majority of the commissioners
are very concerned about the dispar-
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now everybody isn't worrying about
it. It's real but it's unreal."
The Tax Reform Act's authors
intended the student aid provisions
to prevent scholarship abuse at high
profile, private institutions and did
not realize the impact it would have
on average students, Proctor said.
Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of
the House of Representatives Ways
and Means Committee, had been
reluctant to accept individual groups'
requests for special treatment under
the act, fearing a bombardment of
requests, Proctor said.
The Price-Lancaster bill was the
first of many bills attempting to
amend the act, he said. Many of these
bills have similar, overlapping pro
visions, so it is possible to apply the
bill to other areas not mentioned
specifically, he said.
The Budget Reconciliation Bill,
which will feature singing performan
ces by Tammy Faye and daughter
Tammy Sue, Ford said. Lulu Roman,
a member of the "Hee Haw" cast, and
gospel singers Jesse Dixon and
Howard McCrary will also perform,
Ford said. Jamie Charles Bakker, son
of Jim and Tammy Faye, will be
included in the concert, she said.
In addition to the vocal performan
ces, Jim and Tammy Faye will tell
the story of their loss of the PTL
ministry, Ford said. The Bakkers will
ity," Marshall said.
The disparity is partly a result of
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city school
system's supplementary tax. Resi
dents in the jurisdiction of this system
voted in 1967 for a tax of up to 35
cents for their district, Marshall said.
Sue Baker, chairman of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City School Board and
a member of the fact-finding group,
said the tax for the city school district
will produce $3,498,000 this year. The
money is used for teachers' supple
ments, reading teachers, support staff
supplements and aides grades four
and above, she said.
Residents in the Orange County
system have never voted for a similar
supplement. If they approved a
supplement, the county would require
a school district tax of two cents per
$100 property tax evaluation to equal
the amount raised by one cent per
$100 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro,
Baker said.
$This means that county residents!
would have to tax themselves twice
as much to raise the same amount
of money that city residents do,
Marshall said.
UNC researchers to study special
By LINDSAY HAYES
Staff Writer
UNC and the Wake County public
school system will work together over
the next three years to find the most
effective ways to provide special
education to children with learning
disabilities.
Researchers from UNC's Frank
Porter Graham Child Development
Center have received $450,000 from
the U.S. Department of Education to
work with 12 area elementary
schools.
Almost 100 children in grades one
through three will be involved in the
program, said James McKinney, the
principal investigator for the project.
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under consideration by the full
House, allows exemptions for grad
uate students who teach or conduct
research in exchange for tuition
reductions, said Jim Jordan,. Price's
press secretary.
"There are a lot of proposals out
there for remedying different prob
lems," he said. "If that one doesn't
pass, it will probably be brought up
again."
Proctor said the bill, introduced
into the House on June 10 and still
in committee, has secured 77 cospon
sors. Lancaster is drafting a letter to
the chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee to demonstrate support
for the bill and to draw attention to
it, he said.
"We Ye done all we can to publicize
this bill," Jordan said. "We hope that
sometime in the future these provi
sions will be seriously considered."
answer questions about the scandal
surrounding them and describe how
they have conquered adversity to
rebuild their lives, she said.
"There will be a lot of crying, a
lot of happiness, a lot of emotion
from two people who have suffered,"
Ford said.
Ford said she could not estimate
the ticket sales, but said she expects
that as with many evangelical tours
ticket sales will increase dramat
ically as the concert dates draw closer.
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She said this disparity was caused
by a difference in the county and city
tax bases. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro
district is more populated and has
more businesses, so the assessment on
the worth of the land is greater, Baker
said.
Two-thirds of the county tax base
is concentrated in the Chapel Hill
Carrboro district, while the remain
ing one-third is in Orange County,
Marshall said.
Baker said the group has met once
to define equal funding. "Per-pupil
funding between the Chapel Hill
Carrboro schools and the Orange
County schools means equal resource
availability so that appropriate
programs can be available based on
the identified needs of the respective
student population," she said.
Marshall said the county can close
the gap in funding to the county and
city schools by increasing the general
tax and decreasing the district tax.
In early December, the fact-finding
group will present its information to
the county commissioners, who will
determine ways to create equal
allocation for both school systems.
The children will receive instruction
in the regular classroom or in a part
time special education class, he said.
"We will try to determine the most
effective practice for each individual
child," McKinney said.
Susan Osborne, co-principal inves
tigator for the project, said she does
not think the disabled children will
be negatively affected by participating
in classrooms with children oriented
for normal achievement.
"Children benefit from being
integrated with normal achievement
oriented peers," she said.
The general and special education
teachers will give these learning
disabled students as much assistance
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N.C. congressman accused
of misusing campaign funds
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The House
ethics committee on Wednesday
formally alleged that Rep. Charles
Rose, D-N.C, converted more
than $63,000 in campaign money
to his personal use and failed to
fully report debts owed to his
campaign on annual financial
disclosure forms.
The panel, formally known as
the Committee on Standards of
Official Conduct, said it found
"reason to believe" - that Rose
violated House rules on four
separate counts.
The committee's action,
announced in a brief statement,
came after a preliminary inquiry
that began in June, during which
investigators looked into the
allegations first raised by the N.C.
Republican Party during a 1986
election campaign.
At that time, Rose issued a
statement implying that the money
he took from campaign coffers
had constituted repayment of
loans he had earlier made to the
campaign.
Following issuance of the pan
el's statement on Wednesday,
Rose issued his own statement,
saying: "The (committee) has
taken a very long time in this
matter. We have come to the final
stage of the committee's deliber
ations. In a very short time, I will
have an opportunity to present my
case to the full committee, and at
that time I am confident that the
committee will agree with me that
no violations of House rules have
occurred."
Four assassinated in Philippines
ANGfiLES CITY, Philippines
Two U.S. airmen and two other
people were shot and killed Wed
nesday in separate daylight attacks
near the U.S. Clark Air Base.
U.S. officials said the dead
included two Air Force sergeants,
a Filipino retired from the U.S.
Air Force and a Filipino business
man of U.S. ancestry. Assassins
also fired on an Air Force captain.
Names of the victims were not
immediately available. Base spo
kesman Maj. Thomas Boyd said
both airmen were in uniform.
Maj. Gen. Donald Snyder,
commander of the 13th Air Force,
said the motive for the killings was
unknown. But Col. Manuel
Caranza, security officer of the
Philippine military's Clark. Air
Base Command, said he suspected
Communist - rebels v were
responsible. , ,
Francisco Nepomuceno, mayor
of Angeles "City, also said he
suspected Communist rebels
because of recent U.S. arms
as they would receive in instruction
outside the classroom.
"The teacher assumes the primary
responsibility for the program, or the
consultant teacher provides instruc
tion," McKinney said.
Each child will receive an interven
tion plan designed to meet his
individual needs, McKinney said. He
said he suspects that some children
will respond better to some interven
tion plans than to others.
The special education program will
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learning disabilities in reading, math
and language development and their
problems with short attention spans,
McKinney said. They will also deal
with behaviorial problems in the
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shipments and statements of sup
port for President Corazon Aqui
no's government.
South Korean hostage released
BEIRUT, Lebanon Kid
nappers released a South Korean
diplomat for a $1 million ransom
after holding him for 21 months,
the. leader of the mainstream Shiite
Moslem militia said Wednesday.
Do Chae-Sung was released
Tuesday, and "not less than $1
million have been paid," Nabih
Berri, leader of the Shiite Amal
militia, told reporters in Moslem
West Beirut.
"Amal did her job to protect
him after his release into a safe
voyage," Berri said. He did not
disclose further details.
No information was imme
diately available about who pur
portedly provided the money and
who was paid.
Do, 33, the second secretary of
the South Korean embassy in
Beirut, was kidnapped in the city's
Moslem western sector on Jan. 31,
1986. A group calling itself Revo
lutionary Cells claimed his abduc
tion but has made no public
demands.
Do's release leaves 22 foreign
ers, including eight Americans,
held hostage after kidnappings in
Lebanon.
Better IUD to be introduced
NEW YORK A more effec
tive copper intrauterine device will
become available in the United
States next year, two years after
a wave of lawsuits and adverse
publicity drove all similar birth
control devices off the market.
The new IUD, called the
Copper T 380A, was developed by
researchers at the Population
Council, a non-profit research and
policy organization in New York
City. It was approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration in
1984. It has been used in other
countries since 1982, but it has
never been sold in the United
States.
The Copper T 380A is recom
mended for women over 25 who
have been pregnant and who are
in a monogamous relationship,
said Roderick Mackenzie, chair
man of GynoMed Pharmaceuti
cal, the company that will be
marketing the device. It is not .
recommended for women who
have multiple sexual relationships
or who have had pelvic inflamma
tory disease, an infection that can
lead to sterility.
education
classroom, he said.
Wake County schools will consult
with the six counties nationwide that
are also participating in the project,
he said. Because of collaboration
between the Wake County and
Chapel Hill-Carrboro city school
systems, research information will be
passed along to the local school
system.
The children's progress will be
monitored by classroom observations
and curriculum-based measures that
assess a child's progress in a particular
area, McKinney said. ' -
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periodically administered to the
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