The Tar Heel Thursday, August 5, 1971 018! DIGIG SIIOOOStQd for uonfilm in vote reaisCTaCwi) by Lynn Smith Staff Writer A downtown plaza was suggested as a means to preserve vending without over-crowding Franklin Street sidewalks at a Board of Aldermen meeting Monday. Alderman James Wallace said he spoke for both local merchants and the vendors when he proposed the new plan. He called it a "place for the little man." The plaza would have a parking deck with trees, fountains and a public market. The area would be under city control. Most discussion concerned the question of whether Jhe Aldermen, in the interest of the rrablic good, could contribute the use of public property for private gain. Alderman Ross Scroggs said 'To allow vending on the public streets, in effect, would be to have citizens paying for the vendors' right to sell." Wallace agreed that the question was to what extent the streets should be used by a few for profit. He said the board had to weigh the principle of public cost as opposed to public benefit. He said his plan took both into account. The plan presented by the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Vending at the July 12 meeting was not discussed. The vendors proposal advocated restriction by space. The Aldermen refused to consider the plan at the earlier meeting because they needed more time to discuss the principles involved. The Aldermen postponed any action on the issue until early September. The controversy over street vending has raged between Mayor Howard Lee and the Board of Aldermen since the town anti-vending ordinance was ruled discriminatory. The ordinance contained a clause exempting flower ladies. The ordinance was allowed to stand without the clause, prohibiting all vending on Chapel Hill streets. by Charles Jeffries ' Staff Writer The student body presidents of 11 major North Carolina universities held a press conference in Raleigh today to reveal their plans to hold a Student Action Conference ' in Chapel Hill on August 13-15. The purpose of the conference is to discuss mutual political and educational problems and to plan action to solve them. The conference is expected to draw 400 North Carolina high school and college leaders to discuss matters other than political and educational problems including drugs, women's rights and black institutions. UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Joe Stallings opened the press conference by emphasizing the fact that since the 26th amendment had given the 18 year-old the right to vote, "We must now realize that students must have a voice in the future direction of this state, and that students must no longer be treated as second class citizens." The text of Stallings' speech was released to The Tar Heel on Wednesday. "With 139,000 college students and over 65,000 high school seniors eligible to vote in the 1972 primaries, we are willing and ready to use the established political system to achieve our goals," Stallings said. Turning to the conference, Stallings said that the major focus of the conference will be voter registration and he added, "We believe that nearly every student we can register will vote, but we must first lessen the restrictive residency y -Yf Mi rules, which are obstacles in our path." Stallings ended by saying that while the conference will probably be highly political, it would be completely non-partisan in its sponsorship and goals. Further information concerning the conference is available from Gerry Cohen in Chapel Hill at 933-5201. , (rup u by Charles Jeffries Staff Writer irecrooffs (mew vote Plans to recruit the-newly enfranchised 1 8-year-old voter have been drawn up by the Citizens For Voter Registration, an informal group of high school and college students and adults in Orange County. The new voters will be divided into three distinct groups. First will be those persons in the 18- to 21 -year age bracket who are going away to college in the fall. Secondly, the 18-year-old high school students, and finally persons of all ages who are not in school. John Lindsay, a 22 year-old UNC student, started the citizens group because of concern over the lack of effort to register the 1 8 to 20 year-old voter in Orange County. To help initiate the voter drives, Lindsay enlisted the help of the county chairmen, women's clubs, young people's clubs of the Democratic and Republican parties, the County Board of Elections, the League of Women Voters, and individual adults and young people. Marshall Cates, chairman of the Orange County Election Board, told a group of interested persons at a July 29 meeting that the local board is not "dragging its feet" on a decision on whether to appeal a recent federal court . decision that invalidated the state's one year residency requirement. $ioo stolon from EGOS Over $100 was stolen last week from the ECOS office in Suite B of the Student Union. The money was taken from a locked desk drawer. The thief used a ball-point pen to force the drawer open. Petty cash from bicycle rentals and Elephant and Butterflies sales has been moved to another file which has a stronger lock to prevent further thefts. "We just can't afford to lose that kind of money," said Dev Joslin, an ECOS volunteer. Several other robberies in the Union were reported last week. A wallet was taken from the ECOS office while the owner was present. Joe Stallings, student body president, lost uncashed checks totaling over $50 when Suite C was robbed last Tuesday night. esfron ffires strike by Mike Parnell Editor One of the leaders of the food service strike against SAGA food service two years ago has been released by Servomation-Ma-thias, Inc. for failure to perform her duties. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks was released by the food service for failure to uphold her responsibilities as supervisor in the Union Snack Bar, according to Robert Greer, director of Servomation at UNC. Mrs. Brooks told The Tar Heel Tuesday she had been fired for failure to sign a responsibility slip for a shortage of money in her cash register Friday night. The shortage in the cash register was $4.91. When Mrs. Brooks was asked to sign the responsibility slip, a normal procedure for all employes of Servomation, she refused. She claimed she was not responsible because three other persons had handled the cash register. Greer claimed, however, that as supervisor she was responsible for the shortage. Mrs. Brooks said the problem began because she did not consider herself a supervisor. "I was led to believe at the beginning of the summer I would be a cashier instead of supervisor this summer," she said. Greer replied that there was a misunderstanding about Mrs. Brooks being supervisor, but they had cleared it up prior to the incident Friday night. Mrs. Brooks had signed a paper saying she understood she would be supervisor and that she accepted the job's responsibilities, Greer said. Mrs, Brooks' signature was found on this particular document. Greer said the Friday night incident was not directly responsible for the release of Mrs. Brooks. He cited five previous incidents where Mrs. Brooks had signed warning slips for infractions. The warning slips are a normal procedure for Servomation employes, said Greer. The previous warnings, issued between February and May, occurred on two occasions when Mrs. Brooks was more than an hour late for work, and for three "failures of duty" as a supervisor. These failures occurred when Mrs. Brooks was found out of the Snack Bar and her employes didn't know where she was, when Mrs. Brooks was held responsible for the lack of napkins and eating utensils in their proper places in the Snack Bar and when Mrs. Brooks was held responsible for three r J '-" , r4 I' i x 1 1 I' V!f .,'',. ;, s. f f. employes who were found to be slack in their duties. The supervision of personnel and the supervision of the eating utensils are part of Mrs. Brooks duties, according to Lawrence Joseph, director of personnel for Servomation at their home office in Baltimore, Md. Joseph was in Chapel Hill Wednesday making a routine check of the Servomation facilities. Mrs. Brooks answered some of the charges against her Tuesday. She said when she began last fall she "had no idea of what a supervisor was supposed to do." Concerning the warning slips Mrs. Brooks said she had notified the director in advance on the two occasions she had been late. She said it was impossible for a supervisor, expected to also handle the duties of cashier, to keep check on her employes at all times because of the amount of work involved. She explained the incident of her being away from her post when she said she was in the bathroom for only five minutes and that the employes knew where she was. That report was filed against her by Arthur Nielson, manager of the Snack Bar, and Merrit Catlin, director of Servomation until May, when Greer took over. Mrs. Brooks said she thought the firing was due to "my outspokenness." "If I feel I'm right, I speak out. I went to Mr. Nielson and Mr. Catlin and argued different points with them in an attempt to improve work conditions for myself and otherworkers. "I think they are firing me now because they know that if they fired me in the fall there would be a chance of another strike and they don't want that." She referred to the two strikes against SAGA food service at UNC two years ago. The strikes resulted in the SAGA workers receiving back pay owed them and in the formation of a union for the workers. The union has since dissolved and SAGA left campus in favor of Servomation. Greer and Joseph both said they felt Mrs. Brooks has shown she was unfit to be a supervisor due to the previous problems mentioned on the warning slips, as well as occasions' she was found lax in her duties when no warning slips were filed. Mrs. Mary Smith, co-leader of the strike with Mrs. Brooks two years ago. refused comment on the firing. Greer said he "hated to let Mrs. Brooks go. but a supervisor has to set a good example, which she was not doing."

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