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i "' i hjj, i .in . ! u i. mi .un -"- " 1 1111 1 hi "'" "' 1 i ni i luf" 4The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, October 11, 1988 TraunspoDtation departmert deimiedl ye of private bod By THOM SOLOMON Staff Writer "No," a Greensboro Highway resident has told the N.C. Depart ment of Transportation (DOT). Irwin Womble has denied the DOT permission to use his property to improve sight distance at the inter section of Greensboro Highway and Crawford Dairy Road. "If they want any more land from me, the state will have to buy it," Womble said. The state Board of Transportation approved 585,000 for highway work in Orange County. Of this money, $75,000 was earmarked to improve sight distance at the intersection. The remaining money was bud geted to widen ditches at various locations on Lee's Chapel Road. "I don't know why in the world they would want to come and take away the bank," Womble said. "The Town committee to By MARY PARSONS Staff Writer Not in my backyard. This phrase seems to be indicative of many peoples' view of a shelter for the homeless, said Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe Herzen berg. Council member Julie Andresen said most people have a strong feeling that there should be a shelter, it's just a matter of where it should be located. Peggy Pollitzer, Inter-Faith Coun cil (IFC) volunteer and chairwoman of the shelter program, said the shelter for the homeless, located at the intersection of Columbia and Rosemary streets, provides shelter for fbtus Onn i $2do i OFF 1 CHINESE RESTAURANT Ir- I Chinese Gourmet Dinner Buffett 1 Dinner I Now Open on Mon. Nights & th( e SHRIMP,BEEF, CHICKEN & VEGETABLES You Can Eat Plus Fried Rice, Egg Rolls & Dumplings 1 967-4101 University classes will be suspended from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. people here are satisfied just the way things are." John Watkins, division engineeer for the project, said, "We were handling this as a safety project. We had an accident problem there (at the intersection)." Plans for Lee's Chapel Road are scheduled to begin this fall, but plans for the Greensboro Highway Craw ford Dairy Road intersection have been postponed, Watkins said. Meanwhile, a caution light has been installed to increase the safety at the intersection, he said. Womble said there are rumors the DOT plans to proceed with the project in January, but he said residents will petition the decision. However, Watkins said the project is being postponed until the effect of the caution light has been determined, and he did not comment on plans to proceed. 32 men and 12 women each night. "The location is key to the shelter's success because it is in the center of downtown where the people are and where they work, it's easily accessible to the community kitchen and it's centrally located for the Inter-Faith Council volunteers," Pollitzer said. The IFC was given a three-year lease on its present location by the town with an option to extend for two additional years, said Jim Heavner, president of the Public Private Partnership. "The principal concern is that the IFC doesn't own the location and will always be subject to renewal," Heavner said. Sat Lunchesl ! Buffet ; ORIENTAL i For 2 i with coupon only expires 1O3088j IC L (fin Sss ffl The Board of Trustees and the Faculty of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invite you and your family to ' University Day for the presentation of Distinguished Alumnus Awards to Edward G . Bilpuch of Durham , North Carolina Gail Godwin of Woodstock, New York Richard Kniglit, Jr. of Dallas, Texas Thomas W. Lambeth of Winston-Salem , North Carolina Roger Mudd of Arlington , Virginia and the Installation of Paul Hardin as Chancellor Wednesday, October 12,1988 at 1 1 o'clock Polk Place at South Building (Rain Site is Carmichael Auditorium) The caution light may remedy the problem, but if it does not, the only way DOT can take the land is by condemnation, Watkins said. "That is a messy legal process and we don't like to do that," he said. Womble said there has not been an accident at the intersection since the caution light was installed nearly three months ago. Womble said he and other resi dents believe the proposed construc tion by the DOT would make the matter worse. Residents have been requesting that a caution light be installed for years, he said. Watkins said money for the project was provided by the regular secon dary road construction funds. Sixty-five percent of the money from the fund is used to pave unpaved roads, hesaid. The remaining money is used to improve secondary roads and salety standarc IS. examooe site for shelter for the Despite the advantages stated by Pollitzer, there are citizens, including downtown merchants, who wish the IFC would find another location for their shelter. Spanky's owner Mickey Ewell said, "I think the disadvantage is the property is far too valuable for the shelter, and it's not bringing any income in for the town." This ongoing conflict has forced the town council to form a committee to look for, the best place for the shelter, Andresen said. Sally Jessee of Marin Properties has agreed to head the committee and assist the IFC in seeking a permanent solution. Amnesty women and even children are tor tured. In scores of countries, govern ments pursue their goals by kidnap ping and murdering their own citizens. "More than ever before in world history, governments are exposed to the glare of international publicity the greatest weapon we have." Geyer said Amnesty's London headquarters has a research depart N ew oneinni bers jo i o grou p to design librarypark plan By L.D. CURLE Staff Writer The wheels are in motion for Chapel Hill's new library park complex. The library committee has added two representatives, and the project's architectural team is gathering information for the library's design. The site for this combination of library and park is a 30-acre plot in the Coker Hills area, near the intersection of Franklin Street and Estes Drive. The library committee has been expanded to 1 1 members, and now includes one representative from the neighborhood of the site and one from the Parks and Recreation Board. The new committee members are Ed Hinsdale of Michaux Road and Jessee said their efforts are in the preliminary stages, and she does not know what, if anything, will come of them. "I think if the choice is between a shelter at that location and no shelter at all, I'm in favor of that location," Jessee said. Herzenberg said alternative loca tions are limited because the shelter must be in the town center zone. Pollitzer said for three and a half years she and others have looked for another site and have not been successful. "There isn't anyplace else that we can move to, and no other group has offered a viable alternative that is ment of about 130 specialists who study newspapers, journals, govern ment bulletins, radio broadcasts and letters from prisoners and their families to compile the report. The organization also sends missions to different countries for on-the-spot investigations. ' An impartial organization, Amnesty International doesn't target specific countries with certain kinds Light lunch willfolbw the ceremony . Usual campus parking regulations will be in effect; permit holders will not be displaced. Richard Baddour of Parks and Recreation. Since the project is in a residen- tial area, city officials decided to add a neighborhood representa tive, mayor's assistant Beverly Kawalec said. Hinsdale recently assumed this position. He said the Coker Hills Neighborhood Association endorses the location of the library, but with several conditions. The neighbors want to keep through traffic out of the complex, Hinsdale said. They also want an Estes Drive entrance to the library and only non-competitive sports for the park. Josh Gurlitz of GGA Architects said the architectural team is evaluating the current needs of the library and its expected needs in downtown and accessible," Pollitzer said. As it stands now, the IFC plans to make $500,000 in renovations to the present shelter located in the old Chapel Hill police building, Pollitzer said. Of the $500,000, the town is contributing $ 1 75,000. Renovations should begin by January 1989. The IFC plans to put in a larger kitchen on the first floor, add an elevator and remove the asbestos, Pollitzer said. , Heavner said, "I am concerned that the funds being invested are not the most effective way to achieve the best outcome for the people being served." of governments, Geyer said. The report is simply a reference book to show the trends in human rights patterns without ranking countries. Among other alleged abuses were reports of the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Dinka tribespeople by Sudanese forces; Iraq's summary execution of hundreds of armed Kurds; the disappearance of hundreds of Peruvian farmers seized by government forces; and court ordered executions in China, South Africa and Iran. In the eastern bloc, Amnesty said "large numbers" of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria remained imprisoned under a campaign of enforced assimilation. roir 8 pm, Memorial Hall, UNCrChapelHill THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1988 "one of the top companies. . . crisp musical, eea3 am Earn $30 this week as a new plasma donor! SERA TEC BI0L0G1CALS 109 V2 E. FRANKLIN ST. 942-0251 . (ABOVE RITE-AID) the future. , GGA is the local company.; heading an architectural team that- ' includes experts from around the i country. r "The actual designing of the building will start in February,"' Gurlitz said. In addition to being several times y larger, the new building will also employ more technology than the current library, Gurlitz said. Kawalec said the main reason for; building a new library is for space. "The current building has been inadequate for years," she said. Funds for this project were- provided by two bond issues which c voters adopted in 1986. One bond was for a new library, and the other was for parks and open space, ' Kawalec said. homeless- For $500,000 the IFC should be. able to build something that caters exactly to their needs, he said. Ewell said since the shelter now haa. a short term lease, the money spent'' on renovations would not benefit the homeless if the shelter is later movedY If the shelter moves. to anothei' location, the money spent on the new ' building would be theirs, Ewell said. , 1 Andresen said if there, is an alter-' nate site that would be acceptable (6 the IFC then now is the time to look at it before the renovations begin. ' ; "I think maybe it's better to re'-' evaluate what we've decided now than' in five years after the renovations;' Andresen said. from page f In Romania and East Germany where all prisoners of conscience were released in amnesties, new arrests were reported of people exercising their rights to freedom of expression.- The Soviet Union released 259 prisoners, most of them prisoners of conscience but nearly 200 were pardoned under secret decrees that; falsely implied they were criminate and "hid the fact that they had been unjustly imprisoned in the first place," the report said. Another 300 Soviet-prisoners of conscience were held in prisons, 'm exile or in psychiatric hospitals, it said. n n3cm Heinz Poll, Armiic Director I j aU-American style. " -New York Times Easy Mq
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