2
Monday, January 29,1996
Council Invites Public
Input on Town Budget
BY JENNIFER FULLER
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill residents will be able to
voice their concerns aboutthetown’s 1996-
1997 budget at tonight’s Town Council
meeting at Town Hall.
The public forum will be the first of four
AH edx
Mayor ROSEMARY
WALDORF said the
public's views are
crucial to budget
discussions.
public hearings the
Town Council will
conduct to get resi
dents’ comments on
spending for police
and fire protection,
public works ser
vices, transporta
tion and other bud
get-related items.
“I think the bud
get is extremely im
portant; it’s the most
important thing we
do all year long,”
said Mayor Rose-
mary Waldorf.
Waldorf said the council is actively seek
ing residents’ input on next year’s budget,
which is over S3O million
“Truly it’s a forum for anybody to say
something about anything,” she said.
FORUM
FROM PAGE 1
ated longer on average than those who are
found guilty.
N.C. Sens. Patrick Ballantine, R-New
Hanover, andMarkMcDaniel, R-Forsyth,
co-sponsors of the Ballantine-McDaniel
Bill calling for the enactment of the guilty
but-mentally-ill verdict, also spoke at
Friday’s forum.
“'litis is a victim’s rights issue,”
Ballantine said. “Our bill is simple. It says
ROMANO’S PIZZA KTTCHF.N
Fast , Free Delivery • 929-5005
I. Grilled Chicken Parmesan $7.25
PARMESAN 2 - Breaded Chicken Parmesan $6.50
3. Broccoli Parmesan $6.50
Dishes 4. Sliced Tomato Parmesan $6.50
5. Mushroom Parmesan $6.50
(Parmesan dishes are spaghetti 6. Black Olive Parmesan $6.50
noodles, mozzarella cheese 7. Mixed Vegetable Parmesan $6.50
and marinara sauce with your ®- Pcpperoni Parmesan $6.50
choice of a main topping.) ® e , ef P * r ™ san * 6 - 50
10. Meatball Parmesan $6.50
11. Honey Baked Ham Parmesan $6.50
.... ....... . . 12. Veal Cutlet Parmesan $7.25
j.'j .......... 13. Cheddar Parmesan....™ ..,...$6.50
DON’T FORGET! Every time you enjoy a meal from Romano s, we will make
a donation to the Ronald McDonald House and the American Red Cross.
Carolina Dining Services & Spartacus Etestauran
Welcome You To
“A Night on the Town”
I . .. . . II
27707 ■
Tuesday. Jon. 30 from 5-7:3opm
Ala Carte Menu
in the Cutting Board, Lenoir Dining Hall
T-shirts and other apparel available.
This fine restaurant is kind enough to join us for dinner and prepare
some of their signature selections. They are located in the immediate
area and would like to invite you to dine with them at any time.
ing Services & &partacus Restaurant
PASSPORT • COUNTDOWN - SHOWDOWN • SPOTLIGHT • WIPEOUT • PASSPORT • COUNTDOWN
? COUNTDOWN . SHOWDOWN . SPOTLIGHT • WIPEOUT ■ COUNTDOWN
PLAY Ht
INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
HHERE!
PRIZES given to top winner of
each game from 7 PN - 1 AN
* CANES EVERY 10 NINUTES *
—Call about seating for large parties!
I Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11-2 am • Sun. 11-Midnight
j £Se? . J HASSLE-FREE PARKING In Back,
PASSPORT • COUNTDOWN • SHOWDOWN • SPOTLIGHT • WIPEOUT • PASSPORT • COUNTDOWN
The hearing begins at 7 p.m. and is
scheduled to last for three hours. The fo
rum will address eight budget topics, in
cluding capital programs for 1996-2001,
which will relate to improvements of town
buildings, roads and sidewalks, as well as
the purchasing of land for parks.
People can get the initial 1996-1997
financial forecast report in the town
manager’s and clerk’s offices in Town Hall
and at the reference desk at the Chapel Hill
Public Library.
Residents will be able to comment on
the use of two federal grants within the
town designed to benefit low-income to
moderate-income families.
A separate giant targeted to improve
local public housing neighborhoods will
also be discussed.
“It’s always good to hear what citizens
have to say,” said council member Lee
Pavao.
In addition to setting town service levels
and property tax rates, the council will be
making decisions on whether to adjust or
adopt service fees.
Refuse collection, transit, development
review, inspections and other programs
and services will be reviewed in the budget
discussions.
if you kill people you will be punished, no
excuses.”
Peter Murphey, former teammate of
Kevin Reichardt and one of the forum’s
organizers, said the forum should be just a
start for those who want to make a change.
Karl Reichardt also urged the audience
to help him and the foundation members
change the law. He said: “I ask you as
Kevin’s father, who will never see or hold
him again ... to help me right this terrible
wrong and prevent this tragedy from hap
pening again.”
New State Laws Force Deadbeat Parents to Pay Up
■ Parents who owe child
support could lose their
driver’s licenses.
BY MEGAN MCLAUGHLIN
STAFF WRITER
Only three of Governor Jim Hunt’s “ 10
most wanted” deadbeat parents remain at
large after new state laws aimed at crack
ing down on parents who are delinquent in
their child support payments went into
effect Jan. 1.
Two more “at large” parents, Gary Jo
seph Threadgill and Joseph Ray Colavito,
were arrested Monday.
Four of the seven “10 most wanted”
deadbeat parents who have been found
were arrested, two turned themselves in,
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Rabin's Assasin Questions
Witnesses, Defends Self
TEL AVIV, Israel His defense in
disarray, Yitzhak Rabin’s confessed assas
sin cross-examined prosecution witnesses
himself Sunday, often interrupting police
to correct their accounts of the shooting.
Cordial and casual in a sweat shirt,
former law student Yigal Amir took over
KENAN CHAIRS
FROM PAGE 1
said recruited professors would be paid
within their current salary range.
“The salary range is actually fairly mod
est,” Hooker said.
The issue of Kenan professorships was
raised at the Jan. 19 meeting of the Faculty
Council, which also passed two measures
designed to enhance the intellectual cli
Be Your Own Boss!
If Financially Rewarding!
Earn $35
this week!
(Based on 2 visits M-F)
Donate Lifesaving Plasma!
Please Present Ad.
SERA-TEC BIOLOGICALS
1091/2 E. FRANKLIN ST.. CHAPEL HILL (expires 2/1/96) 942-0251
PRACTICE
painless
DENTISTRY.
iSSfF
It’s a unique break-
through that only fhe Air
Force offers. Enjoy the tremen
dous benefit of a group dental
practice with no office overhead.
Qualify as an Air Force dental offi
cer and enjoy:
• great pay & benefits
• well-equipped facilities
• support of skilled technicians
• 30 days vacation with pay per
year
What are you waiting for? Call
USAF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
TOLL FREE
l -800-423-USAF
COME
PLAY OUR
TRIVIA!
NEWS
and one, Threadgill, currently resides in
Tampa, Fla., which will complicate the
legal process for arresting him.
Many deadbeat parents have turned
themselves in after the new laws were en
acted. Under the new laws, a deadbeat
parent’s driver’s license, professional li
cense or hunting license might be revoked.
“Many professionals are afraid of los
ing their licenses, so they turn themselves
in, ” said Theresa Dalton, who works at the
Family Centered Services Department of
the State Department of Human Services.
Additionally, the laws give state agents
greater freedom when tracking down par
ents because they can use financial and
employment records to locate them. Dalton
said much of the recent success was be
cause of greater public awareness efforts,
products of Hunt’s “Crackdown for Chil
dren" program. The program includes ra
defense questioning in a chaotic six-hour
court session after one lawyer resigned and
the second stumbled badly over the He
brew language, bringing laughter from the
packed courtroom and a despairing sigh
from Judge Edmond Levy.
Levy chastised U.S.-born lawyer
Jonathan Ray Goldberg, but agreed to
help Goldberg look for a second defense
lawyer. Amir has admitted shooting Rabin
after a Nov. 4 peace rally in Tel Aviv,
saying he believed that Rabin’s peace policy
put Israelis in greater danger of Palestinian
attacks.
Last week, Amir, 25, gave contradic
tory testimony over whether he intended
to kill the prime minister or only disable
him so as to force him from office. That
was registered as a plea of not guilty. Amir
is charged with murder and faces life in
prison.
Goldberg angered Levy when he asked
Sunday to postpone the trial which
mate on campus.
“The issue of intellectual climate is not
an issue of facing anti-intellectuals or stu
dents who are not bright,” Hooker said.
“They are exceptionally bright. They work
hard.ln my opinion, they work too hard.
“When (BOT Chairman William
Armfield and myself) were at Carolina, it
seemed like going out for a few beers on
Saturday night was part of student cul
ture.”
* UNC WOMEN S BASKETBALL! UNC lA/OMEI w |
; PASSPORT • SHOWDOWN • SPOTLIGHT • WIPEOUT • PASSPOBT
UNC Tar Heels
Wake Forest Demon Deacons Btir y
7:oopm a Carmichael Auditorium l
This game sponsored by ► J®®® EAT FREE!
Free Pina for the first 300 youths* Bth grade & under!
► Tickets available at the door
■ 01U 111 D 1 $5 for adults •$2 for senior citizens • UNC Students Free w/ID 1
Granville Towers FREE Parking
in ► For more information call (919) 962-5154
1333a
UNC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL! * |
dio ads, public service announcements and
billboards that feature pictures of deadbeat
parents and tell the public what to do if
they know a deadbeat parent.
“If you owe back child support, pay up
now or face the tough consequences when
we find you,” Hunt stated in a press re
lease.
Dalton also credited the state’s success
to a toll-free hotline. Anyone with knowl
edge of a deadbeat parent can report to the
toll-free number. “We’ve had over 500 tips
and leads from this number. The public is
really behind this effort,” Dalton said.
Colavito was located by a tip from a
woman who saw him on a“ 10 most wanted
poster” when she went to sign up for child
support services. The woman provided
authorities with the address that led to his
arrest. Colavito owed his children more
than $35,000 in back child support.
resumed last week after a month-long re
cess —to give him more time to prepare his
defense. “You have had one month and
more to prepare,” Levy said. “If I were
you, I wouldn’t sleep at night in order to
learn every part of the file. Whoever heard
of such a thing?”
Goldberg, who moved to Israel seven
years ago from Houston, frequently
fumbled over his words in Hebrew, and his
client joined the courtroom audience in
laughing at Goldberg’s mistakes.
Du Pont Heir Captured
After Police Standoff
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.-Anheir
to the du Pont fortune was captured by
SWAT team members Sunday as he
stepped outside his mansion to fix bis boiler,
ending a 48-hour standoff that began with
the shooting death of a top wrestler.
John E. du Pont, who had been without
Campus Calendar
MONDAY
2 p.m. DISSERTATION SUPPORT GROUP:
Handle die problems that block progress with spe
cific strategies.
Sponsored by University Counseling Center in
Nash Hail. Call 962-2175.
Registration required.-
3 p.m. MARK LEYNER, humor columnist for
Esquire, will read from “Tooth Imprint on a Com
Dog," his book of short stories, in the Bull’s Head
Bookstore.
3:15 p.m. CAREER CLINIC: Develop an ac
tion plan for choosing a major or a career. Sponsored
For the Record
Friday’s article, 'Decision Delayed in Con
fessed Killer's Killing' should have stated that
Sean Patrick Goble’s pre-trial hearing was not
delayed but that Goble could face die death
penalty if found guilty.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
Tan 1 Month for S4sn
New net Bulbs!
If** 10% OFF tanning, not*
If skin care productsl
W 942-7177
Tanning • Massages • Nails
"rain or shine" Q. 3 miles from campus, 15-501 s. &
- Smith Level Road at J3tar __
£ 5 x7's + 4 wallets <i
* I He* m Mof you or you 8C your
i sweetheart for only
jim IjG/Uf&i
L ■S£USumhm93l PlioioqtovpJuf {
900 Akport Road • Call for an appointment ™
£ DeKcry February 12th • Offer Expires February 2,1996 TjJ a> s4>s4
(Tljp Satly ear Irrl
Nationwide, 18 other states have used
the threat of driver’s license revocation.
Kay Hollestelle, executive director of the
Children’s Foundation in Washington,
D.C., said, “There are newspaper ads and
publications put out in many places.”
Hollestelle said several other creative
initiatives have helped track down parents
who owe child support. In Contra Costa
County, Calif., a cable program features
“at large” deadbeat parents each week.
The future of federal efforts to track
down deadbeat parents is in limbo,
Hollestelle said. “There were several pieces
in any of the welfare reform acts that would
have added some teeth,” Hollestelle said.
“But none of them have passed.”
Hollestelle said many members of Con
gress support legislation that would re
quire all states to have up-to-date, uniform
computer tracking systems.
heat since police cut off his boiler system
Friday night, told negotiators he was cold
and was leaving his house, said Newtown
Township Police Chief Michael Mallon.
He did not carry one of the many weap
ons he kept on his 800-acre estate. No one
was injured in the capture. “His intent was
to make repair to the boilers because he
was without heat,’’Mallon said. “Withina
few moments our SWAT teams were on
the location, and they made a capture.”
Police, who had cleared the entrance to
the estate hours earlier, picked up du Pont
at about 3:30 p.m. and took him to the
police station for arraignment.
He arrived kneeling in a black van, his
hands handcuffed behind him. Wearing a
jacket advertising his world-class wrestling
center and team, Foxcatcher, and running
tights, du Pont looked dazed as an officer
grabbed him by the handcuffs and lifted
him out of the van.
FROM WIRE REPORTS
by University Counseling Center in Nash Hall. Call
962-2175.
TUESDAY
3:15 p.m. CAREER CLINIC: Develop an ac
tion plan for choosing a major or a career. Sponsored
by University Counseling Center in Nash Hall. Call
962-2175.
3:30 p.m. LESBIAN EMPOWERMENT ”
GROUP: An affirmative environment to discuss
relevant issues. 210NashHall. Sponsored by Univer
sity Counseling Center. Call 962-2175.
7 p.m. CHISPA will hold a cultural dinner night
in Student Union 226. Bring your favorite Latino
dish to participate. „
WEDNESDAY
11 a.m. DISSERTATION SUPPORTGROUP:
Handle the problems that block progress with spe
cific strategies. Sponsored by University Counseling
Center in Nash Hall. Call 962-2175. Registration
required.
3:30 p.m. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN
GRADUATESTUDENTS:Discusschallengesand -
explore problem-solving strategies.
Support group sponsored by University Counsel
ing Center inNash Hall. Call 962-2175. Registration
required.
ONE PEA CUSTOMER '
- no HEELS! GO HEELS! GO HEELS! GO HEELS!