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WASHINGTON (UPI) Former Treasury
Secretary John B. Connally Jr. was indicted
Monday on charges of accepting $10,000 in
bribes to influence a 1971 increase in milk price
supports, and then lying to a grand jury about it.
He was the fourth member of President
Nixon's first-term Cabinet to be charged with
criminal conduct.
Watergate grand jury No. 2 submitted the
long-rumored indictment to Chief U.S. District
Judge George L. Hart Jr. in a 90-second
proceeding in open court.
The swashbuckling Democrat-turned-Republican
from Texas promptly denied any
wrongdoing. In a statement issued through his
Houston law office, Connally predicted, "I will
be completely vindicated of these charges."
Connally, 57, w as charged with two counts of
accepting bribes, one count of conspiracy to
commit perjury and obstruct justice, and two
counts of making false declarations before the
grand jury. The charges carry a maximum
penalty of 19 years in prison and $50,000 in fines.
The grand jury also indicted Connally's long
time Texas colleague, Jake Jacobsen, 54, on one
count of making an illegal payment to a public
official, and named him an un indicted, co
conspirator in the plot to cover up the bribe. The
maximum penalty would be two years and
$10,000..
The charges against both men grew out of
Connally's role in Nixon's controversial 1971
decision to increase the federal price support for
raw milk after the milk producers' $2 million
pledge to his re-election campaign.
The grand jury accused Jacobsen of paying
Connally "for official acts performed by him, to
wit, his recommendations in his official capacity
concerning an increase in the federal milk price
support level to be fixed by the secretary of
agriculture, announced on March 25, 1971."
It said the cash came from Associated Milk
Producers, Inc. (AM PI), which Jacobsen then
represented.
Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski last
November disqualified himself from the dairy
money investigation because of his long
acquaintance with Jacobsen and because his law
firm had handled a civil suit involving AMP1.
Connally served three terms as Texas
governor. He was riding in the car with John F.
Kennedy in the Dallas motorcade in 1963, and
was seriously wounded by the same bullet which
struck the President.
Nixon called him to Washington in 1970 to
replace former Treasury Secretary David M.
Kennedy, and the handsome, white-haired
Connally was an eloquent sponsor of the wage
price freeze imposed as Phase One in attempts to
deal with Nixon's first economic crisis.
He returned to Texas after 18 months and
headed "Democrats for Nixon" in the 1972
campaign.
In the spring of 1973, at the height of the
developing Watergate crisis which he once called
a "sordid mess," he announced his conversion to
the Republican party, and Nixon once again
summoned him to Washington shortly thereafter
to shore up the administration in the wake of the
firings and resignations of White House staff
personnel.
When he left Washington to return to his law
practice a few months later, it was thought to be
all but certain that he would seek the 1976
Republican presidential nomination.
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Dawn will arrive on Thursday morning
6. The dawn of a new era, that is. At that
hour, regular service commences for the
town's new bus system, Chapel Hill
Community Transit.
But, if you're curious enough not to want
to wait, buses will provide eight hours of free
service to the public on Wednesday. The
buses will run between noon and 8 p.m. to
demonstrate to those interested how
convenient the system will be.
Implementation of the full-time bus
operation culminates years of debate over
proposals for the town's transportation and
traffic problems.
Although most of the buses running are 15
years old, they are all ready to roll and
should provide dependable service until the
new model buses arrive. Delivery of the new
General Motors buses will begin in October
and should be completed by late November.
All routes on the new bus system will run
Thursday, with the exception of route S
the South Campus Shuttle, which will not
run until August 24. Service to South
Campus will, however, be available on
Campus Route "IP, departing from the
Student Union (not Wilson Library as in the
past) and terminating at Chase Cafeteria.
Students, faculty and staff may buyaone
.year, unlimited use pass for $24 at the traffic
office in the Y-Building. Anyone else
desiring the same pass may purchase one. at
the Chapel Hill Municipal Building for S30.
Students may buy fall semester passes for
$10. but these will not become effective until
August 15.
Single fares on Routes "IT and "S" will be
15 cents; ail other routes in the system will
cost 25 cents per ride. Transfers from one
route to another will be free, unless
connecting from a campus route to a town
route, which will cost the rider an additional
dime.
The bus system will operate between 6
a.m. and 12:15 a.m.. the exception again
being the "U" and "S" routes. These campus
routes will run from 6:25 a.m. until 1:45 a.m.
Schedule or route information can be
obtained by calling 942-5174 or 929-1111.
Published schedules are currently posted in
the student union and will be made available
sometime in August.
Area day care day. Ih eld
Chapel Hill Community Transit system route map
by Laura Toler
Staff Writer
In Saturday's "Day for Daycare," each of
the nine local non-profit day care centers
manned activity booths for children and
educational booths for the Chapel Hill
community to learn just what day care is all
about.
Children's activities at McCorkle Place,
University Methodist Church,
Henderson Street and University Mall
were conducted from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Collective money-making efforts involving
parents and workers from every center
included a bake sale, a rummage sale, a
pancake feast in the church basement, and
the sale of bumper stickers and T-shirts
advocating support of day care.
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Staff Writer
First of a two-part series
There's a simple test to determine whether
a college campus is racially segregated.
Ask the Office For Civil Rights of the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) in Washington. They can
tell.
Since June 21, the University of North
Carolina system of public universities and
technical institutes has been declared legally
free of racial segregation. UNC officials
submitted a 600-page plan last spring "for
further elimination of racial duality in the,
public post-secondary education systems,"!
and HEW ruled the plan acceptable.
Thus, the federal government will not sue
U NC for racial discrimination and it will not j
attempt to withhold federal money from the
colleges and universities of North Carolina.
Such actions are currently a real possibility
in Louisiana, which has refused to submit a
.Plan to HEW
UNC-CH, the other 15 campuses of the
Consolidated University of North Carolina,
and the state's 57 community colleges and
technical institutes receive untold millions in
federal grants for construction, research,
curriculum development and special
projects. Most recently, UNC-CH was
awarded $6 million by HEW Friday to build
a nine-story Medical School office and
laboratory facility.
Virtually all University administrators
agree that UNC could not function without
the constant influx of federal dollars.
They do not take lightly the prospect of an
HEW law suit either. Louisburg College may
soon be dealing with such a suit because
students there complained to HEW last
spring about curfew regulations they,
claimed discriminated against women.
The UNC desegregation plan, prepared
after a year of research in the hope of
preventing such calamities, is potentially a
potent document. It outlines the present
racial composition of the student body, the
level of expenditure and facility
development at each public institution, and
the racial composition of all the faculties,
boards of trustees and other governing
bodies.
Theoretically, it also outlines proposals
for remedying any racial discrimination
implied by the data. If HEW did not believe
changes were necessary, it would not have
requested the plan.
"It shouldn't make any difference at all as
far as student financial aid is concerned,"
Student Aid Director William Greer said last
month. "UNC provides aid for any student
who comes to us and needs aid. The plan
can't improve on that."
Undergraduate Admissions Director
Richard Cashwell agreed about the plan's
limited impact. "I don't know of any
admissions policy changes brought about by
the plan," he said. "The only, way the
admissions picture is really going to change
for blacks in this state is if things change in
the high schools so that more blacks go on to
college."
Student Body President Marcus Williams,
who participated in the plan's development
as an ex-officio member of ihe UNC Board
of Trustees, said Monday that the plan was
not only ineffectual but harmful.
"This plan is a rhetorical response which
lacks specificity," he said. "The acceptance
of this desegregation plan by H E W (has) set
back by at least half a century the hopes and
dreams of many black people in their quest
for equal educational opportunity."
The only specific change mentioned in the
plan is a "goal for increased minority
presence" at each campus. For UNC-CH,
the goal is a 2 per cent increase in the
proportion of black students enrolled, from
the present 5. 1 per cent to about 7. 1 per cent
by 1977.
The increase is equivalent to about 100
more blacks on campus each year until 1977.
"We hope this project will educate the
community about day care so the. overall
community as well as the Board of Aldermen
will see the functions we perform," Lynn
Hefner, Director of the Chapel Hill Day
Care Center, said. "We're building future
citizens, and that's important."
The Coalition wants to educate the Chapel
Hill Board of Aldermen concerning the pros
of day care in hopes that the body will
consider allocating part of the town's
Federal Revenue Sharing Funds for day care
centers.
The town Budget Committee was on its
way to setting aside approximately $20,000
for local centers when it discovered that state
law does not expressively provide that
municipal funds may be used for day care.
"No state statute says towns can provide
money for day care," Sue Conrad, a
representative of the Community School for
People Under Six, said. "However, there's
been no court precedent to say they cant."
Mayor Howard Lee set up a Mayor's Task
Force last week to study the centers' needs
and to attempt to find a legal means of public
aid to day care.
While teachers, parents and directors
delved into legal matters and social issues,
wide-eyed children concerned themselves
with penny and ring tossing.
Children under six received free ear, eye,
dental and health screening at the church
from medical volunteers.
Community organizations with booths in
support of day care were the Chapel Hill
Civitan Club, the local Rotary and Junior
Service clubs, and the Kiwanis Club.
All profits were collected in a general
fund, which will be divided among the
centers on a per-child basis.
"Day for Day Care and the revenue
sharing push were not a one-person
accomplishment." Conrad said. "It all came
about through the collective efforts of
parents, community people and staff
members."
"A lot of the centers are really hurting for
money," Conrad said. The situation varies
from center to center, but overall salaries are
low. Some can't even pay salaries, and some
can't buy equipment. Parents are paying
more for day care than they can afford."
Eleven non-profit day care centers in
Chapel Hill serve 478 children: 147 come
from single-parent families and 183 from
families with incomes of less than $6,000.
Few scholarships are available, and the
Department of Social Services pays tuition
for only 68 children.
Conrad said although.the Day for Day
Care Coalition was formed specifically for
Saturday's project, the organization would
continue to work in pursuit of recognition
and funding for the centers.
Weather
Partly cloudy today and tomorrow
with a 30 per. cent chance of .
thundershowers this afternoon and
tonight. The temperaturet will be In
the upper 80s today and tomorrow.
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UNC has received a $6 million grant from
the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare to build a nine-story faculty office
and laboratory building. Congressman L.H.
Fountain's office announced Friday.
The new building is needed to help house
the 125 faculty members of the UNC
Medical School who are now working in
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Aides: Nixon won't resign
WASHINGTON President Nixon said through a
spokesman Monday he has no intention of resigning if the
House of Representatives impeaches him.
Gerald L. Warren, the President's deputy press
secretary, once more stressed Nixon's belief that the full
House will not agree to recommendations by its Judiciary
Committee that he be impeached.
But should the House vote for impeachment, Warren
told reporters in a briefing: "I do not see that as a set of
circumstances which would cause him to resign. He does
not. There is no set of circumstances which he can
foresee, or I can foresee, that would cause him to resign."
Governor blasts Morgan
RALEIGH Calling him "Little Dob," Gov. James E.
Holshouser Jr. accused Democratic Senate nominee
Robert Morgan Monday of raising a "red herring" to avoid
talking about inflation.
Holshouser told a news conference he knew of no
investigation of Morgan, the attorney general, by the
License and Theft Division of the State Motor Vehicles
Department.
Morgan said last Saturday
night
the division had
conducted a "concerted investigation" into his
background, and he intimated that the governor directod
the probe.
Congress got false reports
WASHINGTON President Nixon and his top aides
gave Congress at least 19 false reports on the U.S.
bombing of Cambodia between 1889 and 1973, a House
Judiciary Committee staff report showed Monday.
The 80-page report, accompanied by 76 pages of mt ps
and documents, revealed nothing new about the actual
conduct of the bombing which began secretly on March
18, 1S3S, and continued until Aug. 15, 1973. What It did
show was the systematic pattern through which the
bombing was concealed from Congress.
2 hostages escape convict
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. Rejecting offers to curre ne'er,
renegsce convict Fred Gomez Carrasco Monday let one
hestage bolt through a piata glass door without shooting
him and allowed another to be carried out after she
suffered a heart attack.
That left 13 hostsgs crowded In a Texss State Prhon
library classroom with Carrasco, and two ccmpanl jr.s
who fivs days ego made a bold bid to escape.
trailers or rented space. It is expected to be
built on Manning Dr. across from Memorial
Hospital in space now occupied by trailers.
Dr. Christopher Fordham. dean of the
Medical- School, said. 1 am especially
pleased with this grant, because the federal
government is doing very little now in the
construction of health facilities."
"This was a highly competitive grant," he
added. "We have been informed we were
successful because of our efforts in primary
care, outreach programs and the Area
Health Education Centers."
Fordham said the new building will help
solve the shortage of space which is expected
to get worse with the planned expansion of
the Medical School student body, but will
not solve the problem completely.
The federal grant supplements an
appropriation of S 1 2.3 million from the 1973
General Assembly.
Bids will be accepted shortly, Fordham
said, and construction will begin in
November. Construction is expected to be
completed in three years..
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Union will sponsor a watermelon feast;;;:
; and concert this Wednesday 7-10 p.m. in;:;!
ijjithe pit. Free Spirit, a local group;;';:
featuring former members of Dave Clark ;;$
and the Hot Nuts will appear. The event I;!;
will be held in the Union Snack Bar in
case of rain