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Hatlu (Far Hw'l F Volume 102, Issue 34 101 years of editorial freedom Scning the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world U.N. Chief Asks NATO for More Airstrihes in Bosnia . UNITED NATIONS—TheU.N.chief asked NATO on Monday to authorize air strikes to protect all the U.N.-designated safe areas in Bosnia, a move that would expand U.N. authority overN ATO planes. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made no request for mili tary action to end the siege of Gorazde. But diplomats said they expected that ifNATO approved Boutros-Ghali’s request, then air strikes could be forthcoming to stop the Serbian onslaught on Gorazde. Threats of punitive air strikes on Serb positions around Sarajevo resulted in the withdrawal of Serbian forces in February. Former President Nixon Recovering After Stroke NEW YORK Former President Ri chard Nixon, whose accomplishments in a lifetime on the world stage were forever overshadowed by the Watergate scandal that forced him from office, suffered a stroke Monday. Nixon, 81, had the stroke at his Park Ridge, N.J., home and was taken by ambulance to Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed in serious condition, spokes woman Kathy O’Connor said. Nixon was con scious and was be ing treated with blood thinners. O’Connor said Former President RICHARD NIXON was listed in serious condition Monday. Nixon was getting ready for dinner when he suffered the stroke at 5:45 p.m. He was able to summon the housekeeper, who called the ambulance. Leaders in South Africa Near Compromise on Vote PRETORIA, South Africa Political leaders indicated Monday they were on the verge of a breakthrough agreement that would end the Zulu nationalist boycott of next week’s election. A government spokesman said a pro posal to end the boycott was accepted by all three sides during talks involving Presi dent F. W. de Klerk, Zulu nationalist leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and African Na tional Congress officials. De Klerk and Buthelezi were to meet Tuesday with ANC leader Nelson Mandela. The government spokesman said it was not too late for Buthelezi’s Inkatha Free dom Party to be included in South Africa’s first all-race election from April 26-28. Patriot Defense Missiles Deployed in South Korea SEOUL, South Korea As the first American Patriot missiles arrived on Mon day in South Korea, North Korea’s leader called for talks with the United States in an effort to prove his country was not devel oping nuclear weapons. South Korean military officials said three Patriot batteries with a total of 24 launch ers arrived at the port of Pusan along with 84 Stinger missiles to defend the Patriots. North Korean President Kim D Sung released a rare statement on Monday to assure the world he had no plans for mak ing nuclear weapons.“ The only way that the nuclear problem on the Korean Penin sula can be solved is through direct talks with the United States,” Kim said. Supreme Court Considers Old Gun-Control Measure WASHINGTON The Supreme Court stepped into the national debate about gun control Monday, saying it would consider reviving a federal ban on posses sionofguns within 1,000 feet of any school. The justices agreed to decide whether a federal appeals court erred when it essen tially threw out the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act as unconstitutional. The Clinton administration is asking the high court to reinstate both the law and the conviction of a former San Antonio high school student who admitted he took a gun to school in March 1992. The gun-control case asks whether Con gress wrote the 1990 law correctly to com ply with the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Breezy; high mid-80s. WEDNESDAY: Clear; high low 80s. Carrboro Explores Possibility of Handgun Ban BYHOLLYM. WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER CARRBORO ln the wake of recent gun-related problems, the town Gun Con trol Committee met Monday night to dis cuss ways to curb the negative effect of firearms. Although the committee didn’t set any ideas in stone, its members did explore the feasibility of banning handguns. Carrboro Aldermen Jay Bryan and Jacquelyn Gist and seven community mem bers comprise the committee, which has been meeting since November. Carrboro Police Chief Ben Callahan and Town At torney Michael Brough also sit in on the meetings. Thanks to an anonymous contribution, Appeal Hearing to Decide Fate of Man’s Barking Dog BYKRISTENLANEY STAFF WRITER CARRBORO Residents of Carrboro’s Spring Valley subdivision are frustrated by a 4-year-old German shep herd named Keetoo who barks —a lot. The complaints about Keetoo led Carrboro animal control to issue a notice March 18 to the dog’s owner, Rizwan Sheikh, who lives on Creekview Circle. The notice required Sheikh to remove the dog from Carrboro because of the flood of complaints. Sheikh appealed the notice to remove his dog. The appeal hearing will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Carrboro Town Hall, and Sheikh is trying to raise community support for his plight. “I want to let everyone be aware that there is this ordinance out there and that they (animal control) have followed through with it,” Sheikh said. According to Carrboro’s animal con trol ordinance, an animal is creating a nuisance if it “seriously interferes with the reasonable use and enjoyment by neigh boring residents of their property because of its odor, habitual barking, howling, whining, crying, crowing or other noise making.” The “habitual barking” clause is what the residents have complained about six different times within one year. Sheikh, a sales representative at RPM Nissan in Durham, said he worked from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week, and he gave the dog the best care possible considering his time constraints. While Sheikh is working, the dog stays in his front yard on a 30-foot-long metal chain. Carolyn Hutchison, captain of adminis trative services for the Carrboro Police Department and Sheikh’s next-door neigh bor, said she made several complaints about the dog’s barking. Hutchison said the first complaint about Keetoo’s barking was issued May 2. The complaint stated that Sheikh was gone for the weekend, and the dog barked all night. Longtime Resident Remembers Good Old Days .. jiji JR • i.- 'i . raaß|| H UTH/IUDITH SIVIGLIA Patty Warren, 102, spends a relaxing afternoon with her daughter, Caroline Donnan. Warren, one of the oldest living residents of Chapel Hill, moved to Chapel Hill from Hillsborough when she married in 1922. / am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell Chapel Mill. North Careliaa TUESDAY, APRIL 19,1994 Andrew Sachs, a mediator from the Dis pute Settlement Center, has guided the discussions to help keep the meetings fo cused and to ensure that each member has a fair chance to voice his or her opinions. Once the committee decides on recom mendations, they will present the sugges tions to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen. The problem with handguns is that they are affordable and are used to settle dis putes, committee member Diana McDuffee said. “I see a ban as the only way to prevent the availability of guns, handguns in par ticular,” she said. At first, Gist said placing restrictions on handguns would be more feasible than would an all-out ban. People didn’t ob serve the ban on alcohol during Prohibi tion, nor do they observe the ban on drugs, ' *>■ * ’:W/i '/fir/m Jl DTH/IUSTIN WILLIAMS Rizwan Sheikh didn't expect that owning his German shepherd Keetoo would cause so much trouble. Because of complaints about Keetoo’s 'habitual barking" from his Carrboro neighbors, Sheikh has been driving the dog to work with him in Durham during the day. After the first complaint, several others followed, and on Oct. 26, the town of Carrboro issued Sheikh his first notice of violation. The barking needed to be cor she said. But later in the meeting Gist changed her mind and decided that a handgun ban would be best, after Bryan reminded the group that to focus on the number of people killed by concealed handguns. People use guns to commit suicide, and children often die while playing with them, committee member Chris Carlson said. “You don’t have to be a criminal to kill or be killed,” Carlson said. But Carlson said she wasn’t sure how effective a ban would be. “I’d like to have a ban, but I’m not really sure how that could be accomplished.” Such a broad and controversial idea could be easily defeated by the aldermen, committee member Michael Robinson said. “I just think it would undermine rected within 48 hours, or the dog would have to be removed. Sheikh corrected the problem tempo rarily in October by buying Keetoo a bark BY MICHELLE LAMBETH STAFF WRITER When 30-year-old Patty Warren came to Chapel Hill in 1922, Hillsborough Street was just a dirt road, and a dairy farm stood where Townhouse Apartments now stand. “It was a great, big, rolling town,” War ren, 102, said of her impression of the town then. Patty Warren was bom in Hillsborough in 1892. U nlike many young women of her time, she was able to go to college and graduated from the Normal School, which now is UNC-Greensboro, in 1913. She taught elementary school in Kinston, Durham and Greensboro. In 1922, she married J.A. “Ben” War ren and settled down in Chapel Hill. Warren said she met her husband through his brother, an acquaintance of hers. “I knew his brother, and whenever Mr. Warren would come to town to visit him, he would make a date with me,” she said. Warren’s husband, who died in 1956, served as the University’s treasurer from 1912 to 1952. She still has the engraved silver bowl he received upon his retirement that reads, “From your friends in South Building for 40 years of service. Julius Algernon Warren. 1912-1952.” The Warrens lived on Hillsborough Street in a house that Ben built in 1922. She lived there until she was 94, and then moved in with her only daughter, Caroline Donnan, who lives behind the original house. Warren now rents her original house, but she still is able to see where their big vegetable garden used to be. “We (Warren and her husband) used to garden together,” she said. "He loved to hoe and grow vegetables.” everything else in the end,” he said. Gradual restrictions, such as those im posed upon cigarette smokers, are often more socially acceptable, Robinson said. “I think the only way you can support a ban is when a large portion of the popula tion is in favor of it in an educated way.” Educating children about the dangers of guns in the same way that they are edu cated about AIDS is the best way to control gun-related violence, committee member John Kessler said. Children need to be taught about guns at home as well as at school, Kessler said. The group decided to continue discuss ing a handgun ban during its next meeting 7 p.m. May 9 at Carrboro Town Hall. Carrboro’s discussion about gun con trol continues five months after Chapel collar that gave the dog a slight electric shock when she barked. The collar worked at first, but now the collar is not working. Sheikh said he didn’t know why the Town of Chapel Hill 200 Years A five-part series examining Chapel Hi's past and present. Monday: Charging Face of Frankin Street TODAY: Memories el Life in Chapel Rill Wednesday: A Walk Through the Cemetery Thursday: The Town’s Most Famous Friday: Then and Now Behind both houses is a huge grassy area surrounded by a variety of trees and flowers. A path used for exploring winds through the trees, and a stream runs through the middle of the land. Donnan said her family spent a lot of time there when she was younger. “My father loved flowers, and he would take me down here and tell me the names of everything,” Donnan said. A homemade picnic table still stands as a symbol of the many meals that were shared in the Warrens' nature retreat. “They were remodeling some of the buildings at the University and throwing away big slabs of marble from the show- Please See WARREN, Page 5 Editor's Note The Daily Tar Heel will continue to accept applications for 1994-95 editorial board members until 5 p.m. Thursday. Applications are available in the DTH office, Union Suite 104. Beginning Wednesday, applications will be available for students interested in writing, photography or layout for the summer DTH. which is published weekly. The DTH is still looking for experienced journalists to run the university, features and layout desks this summer. Contact Kelly Ryan, DTH editor-select, at 962-0245 with any questions. News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1263 C-1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved Hill passed the strictest gun-control laws in the state. Local concern about an increase in gun related violence prompted Chapel Hill Town Council member Jim Protzman to initiate a gun buyback program called Buy Back the Hill last fall. Chi Psi fraternity plans to help the group hold a fund-raising auction on from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion Post on Legion Road. Goods and services donated by Chapel Hill merchants and residents will be sold at the event, which will include both a live and silent auction. Buy Back the Hill hopes the auction will raise about $5,000. Gun owners can get cash for their guns from9a.m.to3p.m.May7andMay2l at the Chapel Hill Police Department. collar wasn’t working now. His only expla nations for the collar not working is that Please See DOG, Page 4 Few Changes Expected in Ticket Policy BYHMGOINES STAFF WRITER Ticket distribution will undergo only minor changes such as increased security at football games next year, Carolina Ath letic Association officials said Monday. The CAA will release the new policy for tickets next Monday, after their cabinet meeting Sunday night. Afterameetingwiththe athletic depart ment scheduled for Thursday, the associa tion will vote Sunday night to discuss how the logistics ofticket distribution will work, CAA Co-presidents Jen Rasmussen and Nil Dalai said. Rasmussen and Dalai said they antici pated only minor changes. “The policy works pretty well the way it is,” Dalai said. Dalai added that the policy of allotting students space in the general admission section of Kenan Stadium was popular and would be retained in next year's policy. “The students seem to like general ad mission for football games.” Dalai said. Please See TICKETS, Page 4
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