The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, April 20, 19883
irgaDTiiizeirs optnmisttic about Ctharitatte basketball frainiclhiiige
By KAREN DUNN
Staff Writer
North Carolina is synonymous
with great college basketball, and in
a few more years, it may stake a claim
in the world of professional basket
ball as well.
"It feels great. It took three years
to get this team," said George Shinn,
general manager of the National
Basketball Association's newest fran
chise, the Charlotte Hornets. Shinn
wanted to bring professional sports
to Charlotte, and among basketball,
football and baseball, basketball was
the best bet.
The Dallas Mavericks are the
model for the Charlotte team, Shinn
said. The Dallas franchise is the
newest active team in the NBA, but
it took a gradual build-up to become
a viable competitor in the league.
"You have to go through an
expansion period so it may as well
be in your first few years," said Norm
Sonju, general manager of the Mav
ericks. His main suggestion to Shinn
has been to build slowly, Sonju said.
Shinn will also spend two weeks in
the Dallas office learning how to run
the organization.
"It takes several years before you
can really compete. Well be losing
and losing a lot," Shinn said.
Town council debates
traffic management
ordinance at hearing
By BILL HILDEBOLT
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill's proposed traffic
management ordinance was discussed
at length at a public hearing Monday.
No action was taken on the ordi
nance Monday. The town council
referred the ordinance back to the
town staff and to the planning and
transportation boards for further
review.
Chapel Hill Planning Director
Roger Waldon outlined at the meet
ing what has already been done with
the proposal.
The ordinance will address four
basic concepts, Waldon said.
"We would establish a threshold
for (commercial) development," he
said. "Any development over this size
would need a transportation special
use permit before it could occur."
Anyone applying for such a special
use permit would have to prepare
statements and plans demonstrating
the impact of the development,
Waldon said. These plans would have
to show how the traffic impact of the
development could be reduced, he
said.
Chapel Hill's roads and intersec
tions that are already near or above
capacity would require more strin
gent reductions, Waldon said.
"The town will monitor and
enforce all of the management that
would have to occur because of the
ordinance," he said.
"The main goal of this project will
be to reduce the number of single
passenger cars on the road."
Planning Board chairman Al
Rimer said the University should not
be excluded from the ordinance.
"We would like to understand what
the economic impact would be on the
community, and that community
includes the University.
"We have decided to create a
subcommittee which will meet shortly
to take a much more in-depth look
at this issue," he said.
Joseph Nassif, former mayor of
Chapel Hill, spoke at length on the
flaws he saw with the proposal.
"Unless you rezone land, you aren't
going to have any new development,"
Nassif said. "As far as I know, there
isn't any land available for
development."
The town also needs to address
traffic problems that already exist in
Chapel Hill, Nassif said.
"The traffic on N.C. 54 every
morning going to Research Triangle
is a problem," he said. "All you have
to do is go sit out there one morning
to see that.
"Something is going to have to be
done about that, because that is part
of the problem, and it has nothing
to do with development."
Several real estate developers
spoke out in favor of an exemption
that keeps residential zones from
being affected by the ordinance.
One of the developers, Bill Kalporf,
said a town-wide coordination effort
would be necessary to improve the
traffic situation in Chapel Hill.
Mark Payne, a spokesman for Blue
Cross Blue Shield, said the ordinance
would have a large negative economic
impact on that group.
"We expanded last year, and that
expansion might not have been
possible if this ordinance had already
been enacted."
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Dallas now has 10 first-round draft
choices on the team and the organ
ization is showing large profits, said
Kevin Sullivan, director of media
services for the Mavericks. "It is a
business."
Shinn estimates that the franchise
will bring $100 million annually to
North Carolina. Forty-two games,
not including playoffs, will be played
in the newly constructed Charlotte
Arena per season, and studies predict
15,000 fans per game. "We're expect
ing to set some attendance records,"
Shinn said.
But first, Charlotte needs a coach
and players. "We still have no hints
on coaches," Shinn said. The NBA
season ends on Sunday, so May will
be critical for interviewing coaches.
Shinn says he has his eye on current
NBA coaches, assistant coaches and
top college coaches.
"Notre Dame, Kentucky and UNC
have top coaching jobs," Shinn said.
"Dean Smith is too imbedded at
UNC. We wouldn't even try to take
him."
But Smith has helped with sugges
tions for the Charlotte team, Shinn
said.
Signing players will also be diffi
cult, he said. Both the Charlotte and
Miami franchises will get one player
from each of the other 23 NBA teams,
Shinn said. Charlotte gets the eighth
or ninth-round picks on the college
drafts.
Shinn is ready to start up the team,
but getting it was far from simple.
"They were the dark horse from the
start," said Terry Lyons, assistant
public relations director for the NBA.
Charlotte was last on the list of 1 1
prospective cities for NBA expansion.
In September 1985, the NBA
announced expansion of the league,
and in October 1986 the expansion
committee met in Phoenix, Ariz., and
narrowed the field down to five
places: Orlando, Fla.; Toronto;
Miami; Minnesota; and Charlotte.
Shinn won the committee over,
Lyons said.
"George Shinn's presentation
(about Charlotte) was head of the
class. He showed us a can't-lose
situation," Lyons said. Charlotte was
chosen to begin play in the 1988-89
season along with Miami. Minnesota
and Orlando will begin play in the
1989-90 season, Lyons said.
Professional basketball should be
an exciting addition to North Caro
lina, Shinn said. "Cooperation will
make our professional team an asset
not only to the Charlotte community
but to the entire state."
N.C. hospitals doctor up maternity care
By TROY FURR
Staff Writer
So you're going to have a baby.
You make a list of things you need
to check out before the birth, and
at the top of the list is ... a hospital
room with a hot tub?
It's true, according to local
hospital advertisers. To keep up
with growing competition in health
care, hospitals are offering incen
tives to make their maternity wards
seem just like home, or at least like
a five-star hotel.
Durham County General spends
about one-third of its budget on
maternity advertising, account
representative Crystal Hughes said.
Wake Medical Center in Raleigh
alloted $316,000 for its advertising
in the past year, a spokesman said.
Durham County General Hospi
tal has renovated its labor-delivery-recovery
(LDR) rooms, one of
which has a hot tub. New Bern's
Craven County Hospital offers a
complimentary steak dinner as
thanks for choosing the hospital,
which recently opened a women's
center.
In Raleigh, Rex Hospital has
plans for a 40-bed maternity center,
and Heritage Hospital in Tarboro
has a new birthing center with seven
LDR rooms.
Grace Ward, director of public
relations for Heritage, said the
hospital wants to create a homey
atmosphere and warmth by stock
ing the LDR rooms with custom
curtains and bedspreads, rocking
chairs, lounge chairs and televisions.
"When you are pregnant, you
should not be treated like you are
sick," she said. "We are trying to
create more of a bonding between
the mother and her family. This
way, the father can be with her
throughout and the whole child-
bearing experience will hopefully be
enhanced."
The LDRs are like home, but do
have immediate access to medical
help. "We have an emergency unit
right across the hall, and if there
are any complications they can be
taken care of quickly," Ward said.
The rooms also keep mothers
from being moved around the
hospital from admittance, examin
ing, birth and recovery rooms,
hospital spokesmen said.
Heritage has to advertise to
compete with larger, established
hospitals, Ward said.
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purchase over $5.00 in value at the UNC
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Limit Two (2) Bucks per one item purchase.
Tar Heel Bucks good thru Sat., May 7, 1988
Sorry, Tar Heel Bucks can not be given for
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During each day of Book Buy Back
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certificates will be awarded!
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staff has indicated will be used again the following semester with the limi
tation of the number of texts we need in our supply.
How much can I get?
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that publishers classify as text and 33V3 of retail price on all book
classified as trade.
What ahout books no longer used?
A buyer will offer you the current wholesale price on all books that have a
value. This price is determined by the law of supply and demand, and if the
book has been in circulation for a long time or is not being used by many
other schools, this price will probably be less. Many students feel their
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