4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, June 14, 1990
Participants place
in Special
By ADELE MYERS
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill participants in the
Special Olympics' Summer Games
brought home two firsts, one second
and two third places after competing
last weekend at the N.C. State Uni
versity, said Chapel Hill Director
Wendy Trueblood.
Justin Allison, Franco Brovin,
Michael Brown, Rebie Jones, Kimly
Parker, Jiuseppe Polcaro, Anthony
Stevenson and Monica Walker
brought home several awards includ
ing first place in softball throw and
running long jump, second place in
the team relay, and third place in the
200 meter dash and 400 meter run.
Robert Samblin, 1990 Volunteer
Games Director, said more than 3,000
people participated in the games, a
new record for the Special Olympics
program. Events included swimming,
gymnastics, roller-skating, softball,
tennis, volleyball, track and field, and
powerlifting.
"We were kind of scared going into
it because the games were the largest
ever held, but all of the events ran very
well. The volunteers are really the key
to making it work," said David Lenox,
Executive Director of the Summer
Games. About 1,800 athletes, 750
coaches and 2300 volunteers were
present.
Trueblood said that the event was a
success. "I think it gave everyone
involved the chance to move onto a
higher level of competition, to be in a
different atmosphere and meet and
interact with new people in a social
situation," she said.
"The athletes who get to compete
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onstrate their athletic skills."
At the conclusion of the Summer
Games, Hardees presented a check
for $63,000 and Eckerd Drugs and
Proctor & Gamble donated $18,000
to fund the volunteer organization.
Special Olympics is a year-round
program of training and competition
that encourages the physical, social
and psychological development of
mentally retarded athletes. It is run by
a 20-member, all-volunteer board of
directors.
Other Special Olympics programs
include annual Fall and Winter Games
and International Games once every
four years for both summer and win
ter events. There are Special Olympics
programs in more than 70 nations on
six continents.
Lenox said he hoped to see more
spectators attend Special Olympics in
the future.
"I think the most important thing
that happens with the games is that
they prove to the general public what
mentally retarded people can do," he
said. "The general public is amazed to
see good competition. There is no
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For the second year in a row, the
Chapel Hill Town Council voted to
raise taxes as part of its $31 million
budget Monday night, although the in
crease was less than the amount origi
nally recommended by interim town
manager Sonna Loewenthal.
The council voted 6-3 to reduce the
tax from the proposed 5 cents to 4. 125
cents per $100 valuation. To compen
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members decided to raise downtown
parking and bus fees, to eliminate a
proposed maintenance position from
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Nine month renovations to the
InterFaith Council (IFC) Community
Shelter are nearly complete, and all
shelter guests should be moved in this
week, according to IFC Community
Services Director Chris Moran.
The shelter, located on the corner of
West Rosemary and Columbia streets,
will comfortably accommodate up to
30 men and 20 women not including the
volunteers, according to Richard Harrill,
a member of the IFC policy and man
agement board. Harrill said that figure
could easily be inflated by putting ad
ditional guests on the floor.
"We feel very confident that we fi
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per half hour, while bus fares will go
from 50 to 60 cents per ride. The parking
rate increase is expected to raise $42,000
for the town's transportation fund,
Loewenthal said.
Council member Julie Andresen ob
jected to increased parking rates. "Some
people like to drive downtown,"-she
said, "but 45 cents is a lot to pay for a
half hour."
The plan to allocate $18,000 to cre
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spector, Harrill said. Moran said the
main delay was getting the elevator
inspected. State law requires the building
to have an operational elevator, and
Moran said the elevator must tie in with
the fire alarm system.
The renovated shelter will have
several features absent from the old
building. Harrill said the greatest im
provement is the integration of the soup
kitchen into the complex. The new
dining room will accommodate 68
people at each sitting, and there is now
a display area that will keep food warm,
he said.
The integration of the soup kitchen
and the shelter will also mean guests
will not have to walk across town after
dinner to get to the shelter as was nec
essary when the kitchen was located on
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way to appease downtown businesses
who have complained about litter.
However, the council decided to keep
a traffic engineer position in the budget.
The engineer will design and imple
ment a $ 1 .2 million system to coordinate
and computerize traffic lights, which is
being funded by the state Department of
Transportation.
The council also decided to cut
$1 1,400 from the travel allocation for
the mayor and town council and elimi
nated the $5,000 set aside to fund
hanging flower baskets on Franklin
Street.
The council discussed several ways
to reduce personnel expenses, which
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storage, Harrill said. The freezer will
allow the kitchen to accept large dona
tions from restaurants that previously
could not taken because the food would
spoil, he said.
The third major improvement is the
addition of a new medical examining
room that will be staffed by volunteer
doctors and nurses on Thursday nights.
Shelter guests were moved out of
the building last September and have
been staying at temporary locations
since then. The men have been staying
on the second floor of the Merritt Mill
Road soup kitchen. The women were
staying at the United University Meth
odist Church and then at Granville
Towers before they moved into the
shelter June 5.
According to Moran, the shelter is
serving more people. He said approxi
cautious about 2 live Crew
"We're currently out of stock. People
want to hear it now."
The Record Exchange, Spins in
Greensboro and Marty's Record Shop
in High Point are among the few stores
that still sell 2 Live Crew records. Three
other chains, including Record Bar, have
pulled the band's recordings off the
shelves.
"The people we buy from simply
stopped carrying it," said Jeff Stabnau,
manager of a School Kids Records and
Tapes store in the Triad. "Given the
current attitude, we're just adopting a ,
wait-and-see attitude."
Local retailers say they aren't afraid
of getting in trouble for selling theband's
records, although a Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., man was arrested Friday after
selling a 2 Live Crew album to an un
dercover officer.
Two members of the group, Luther
Campbell and Chris Wongwon, also
were arrested after a Sunday concert.
Some Charlotte-area stations said
they had dropped the album from their
playlists because it was musically stale
or offensive to their audiences.
"I'm sure it would appeal to some of
our audience, but we just have to be
careful about records we select," said
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make up more than 60 percent of thje
general-fund budget, but could not agreie
on any cuts. Council members consid
ered establishing a hiring freeze or re
ducing a proposed 7.5 percent pay in
crease for all employees, but neither
matter was approved.
Councilman Wilkerson spoke in f4
vor of the proposal to raise employee
salaries. "A large number of individuals
in town do not get cost of living or merjt
increases each year," he said.
The council also debated cutting smajl
items such as magazine subscript iohjs
and refreshments for town functiojts
during the three-hour meeting. How
ever, Mayor Howes called these sug
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mately 30,000 meals were served in
1988 and around 37,000 meals were
served in 1989.
Both Harrill and Moran said the
homeless problem is in large part due to
the lack of affordable housing in the
Chapel Hill area.
The low unemployment rates in the
area attract people, but they cannot af
ford to live here, Harrill said. Moran
added that the cost of living is 28 per
cent higher in Chapel Hill than in the
rest of the state.
The homeless have a hard time get
ting jobs, Harrill said. "When you are
on the street, it is hard to get a job. Even
if you can find a job, you have to save
several month's wages to have enough
money to make a deposit on an apartment
or house and get your power turned on.
The start-up costs are enormous ... it is
a vicious cycle."
Michael Saunders, program director for
WPEG-FM, which caters to a predomi
nantly black audience. "We're a family
oriented station."
WCKZ-FM program director Mark
Shands said he thinks the rap band is
being singled out partly because its
members are black.
"I think a portion of it is racially
motivated," Shands said. "The comedian
Andrew Dice Clay has a new album that
is filled with the same, sexually explicit
language. But you don't see anybody
arresting. him". '
In the Triad area of Greensboro, High
Point and Wihsroh-Salem, several ra
dio stations say the fact that 2 Live
Crew isn't on their playlist has nothing
to do with it being censored.
Meanwhile, legal experts say North
Carolina's obscenity law is broad
enough to warrent arrests in the Tar
Heel state.
North Carolina's Obscene Literature
and Exhibitions statute makes it a felony
punishable by three years in prison for
a person to intentionally disseminate
obscenity, which is described as mate
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