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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, September 14, 1973
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Okay, now, Just what is this? First we got the commercials with the little men
making ice inside a refrigerator. Now we have white-clad elves painting the campus.
What next - Professor Tom Thumb?
(Staff photo by Gary Lobralco)
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knew of overthrow
United Press International
WASHINGTON -The United States
apparently heard of plans for the
ov erthrow of the Allende government in
Chile shortly before the coup occurred,
but the White House said Thursday
President Nixon had no advance
knowledge of it.
Administration soruces, who
declined to be identified, said
ssault case
yields suspect
A 22-year-old Chapel Hill man has
been arrested and charged in connection
with the kidnapping and rape of a UNC
coed Sunday.
Ezzard Charles Stroud of 109-B Cole
St. was. picked from a line-up and
arrested at 1 2:10 a.m. yesterday by
Chapel Hill police. According to Lt.
Arnold Gold, Stroud was charged with
kidnapping by local police and will be
charged with rape by the Chatham
County Sheriffs Department.
The freshman woman was assaulted
Sunday night in Chatham County after
being picked up in the Bell Tower
parking lot on campus. She was
reportedly going to her South Campus
residence hall from the library and was
cutting through the parking lot to avoid
Kenan Stadium.
The victim reported to police that she
was forced into a blue Volkswagen at
knifepoint by three black males and one
white male. She was driven to Chatham
County, where the assault took place,
and then left there.
No further arrests have been made,
but the investigation is continuing with
Chapel Hill and Chatham County
authorities cooperating on the case.
Chapel Hill police Chief William D.
Blake urged students to stay out of dark
areas of the campus and to take the long
way around rather than cutting through
areas that are not lighted.
He added that anyone who is
assaulted or followed or observes
suspicious behavior on the part of
anyone should call the Police
Department immediately.
Weather
TODAY: Considerable cloudiness
with occasional rain. The high Is
expected In the upper70's and tha low
tonight Is expected In the mid 3's.
There Is eighty per cent chance of
precipitation. Outlook: rain.
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information about the attempt to oust
Chile's Marxist president, Salvador
Allende, reached some high-level U.S.
officials about 10 hours before a four
man military junta seized power
Tuesday. A decision was made that the
United States should not become
involved, the sources said.
The White House, questioned about
U.S. policy regarding the coup, said "we
have been receiving reports of unrest in
the military in Chile for more than a
year" and that some of the reports
included specific dates for action to
depose Allende.
The U.S. embassy in Santiago, he
said, had instructions "to have nothing
to do with anyone approaching them
about possible plans for a coup and
these i instructions were followed
carefully."
At the State Department a
spokesman said the department
received hints of a coup plan for three
different dates over the past five days -including
Tuesday - but insisted thre
was "absolutely no way of knowing
that a military takeover was going to
occur Tuesday.
The department spokesman, Paul
Hare, said the department did not
receive definite word of a coup until 8:45
a.m. EDT Tuesday.
Election on Sept.
CamdMattes aeeouieced.
by Stella Shelton
Staff Writer
The UNC Elections Board has released a
list of candidates for the Campus Governing
Council (CGC) and Honor Court for the
Wed., Sept. 19 campus election. Also
released were lists of all polling places and of
eight resolutions to be voted on.
The open positions and candidates for
CGC Off-Campus Districts are as follows:
Dist. II; open.
" Dist. V; Ken Jarvis, Jim Shaw, Janice
Mills and Robert S. Ripley.
Candidates for CGC Graduate Districts
are as follows:
Dist. I; open.
Dist. II; Marilyn Harrington.
Dist. V; Stephen Foreman and
Dennis Horn.
Dist. VI; Frank Kessler and Richard
"Butch" Lael.
On-campus Men's Honor Court:
DisL I (one seat); Rick Shoaf.
Dist. Ill (one scat); John Capell.
Dist IV (one seat); John Cox.
Dist. V (two seats); John Byerly. No
one has filed for the second seat.
Dist. VII (two seats); Tom West,
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by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee and
Carrboro Mayor Robert J. Wells Jr. stressed
that a timetable is not the most important
factor to them in the impending sale of UNC
utilities.
The two mayors registered similar
viewpoints Thursday in a State Utilities
Study Commission meeting. Commission
members had met to approve the University
prospectuses regulating the sale of its
telephone, water, electricity and sewer
utilities.
Action was postponed until Sept. 27 to
give Commission members more time to
Runge comments
6CGC
by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer
A lack of progress and slow movement
within the Campus Governing Council
(CGQ, Student Body President Ford Runge
said Thursday, make it necessary- for him to
prod the CGC.
"Last spring. I said that I would not be an
initiator but an arbitrator in the CGC," said
Runge, "but now 1 feel that in view of
students needs on programs that aren't
being acted upon. I will be forced to act
increasingly as an initiator in order to press
for a realization of these programs."
Runge's reaction came as a result of the
most recent CGC meeting in which the
Resident Unit Grant and Loan Fund bill was
sent back to the Finance Committee over
Runge's arguments. He said he felt that CGC
Gasolnmie
Dealers take gripes to Washington
by Lu Ann Jones
Staff Writer
Several Chapel Hill gas dealers joined
more than 300 service station operators from
North Carolina who left for Washington
yesterday to petition Congress for the release
of Phase IV controls on the retail price of
gas.
Earl Walker, owner of Walker's Gulf on
East Franklin Street and president of the
Chapel Hill Service Station Association,
Robert Summey, owner of Sumraey'i Gulf
on West Franklin Street and I.F. "Buddy"
Hardee, owner of Glen Lennox Gulf were
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Wayne Cardwell.
On-campus Women's Honor Court:
Dist. I (one seat); Rebecca Daniels.
Dist. Ill (one scat); Elizabeth Boyd.
Dist IV (two scats); Frances Robin
Bourne. The second seat is open.
Dist. V (one seat); open.
Dist VI (one scat); Dcnise Kidd.
Dist. VIII (two seats); Jane Ellis,
Priscilla Burt.
Off-campus Men's Honor Court:
Dist. I (one seat); David Eley.
Dist. II (one seat); Peter Gardner.
Dist. VI (one scat); Robert Pharr,
Alec Allen.
Off-campus Women's Honor Court:
Dist. V (one seat); Pamela
Williamson.
Dist. VI (two seats); Katherine
Stamper, Cambay Pickard.
There will also be ballots for seven
constitutional amendment proposals and
one resolution which states, "Yes or no, I
favor the establishment through student
government of a student FM radio station."
Polling places will be open from 10 a.m.
Wednesday until 6:30 p.m. that night.
Where should you vote?
Graduate students at either Y-Court,
the School of Public Health, Craige or the
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study the prospectuses, which they
complained were not delivered in time to
afford a thorough study.
Mayor Lee said he doesn't feel the "press
of time" the other commission members
seem to feel. He believes that now the
information is available, it should be made
public.
A motion by Thomas Eller, a Charlotte
lawyer, to extend the study period to 30 days
for "employes, consumers and any known
prospective bidders" to study the documents
was never brought to a vote. Instead, a
substitute motion was offered by Rep. Carl
Smith, which passed by an 8-2 vote.
Mayor Wells supported Eller's motion,
which also provided 15 days for interested
was too caught up in their rules and
processes.
"1 frankly don't think the students give one
damn about the various political processes
and procedures w hich go on w ithin the CGC
or the executive branch of student
government," said Runge, "what students
are interested in is results."
"I think the more delays and the more
petty politicking that goes on the more
confirmed students' feelings will be that SG.
if this is how it will behave, need not exist at
all" he said.
Runge said that among the most
important items he feels CGC should come
to grips with are the Residence Unit Grant
and Loan Fund Bill, the further expansion of
the Student Services Commission, and a
student-faculty course evaluation.
among the local dealers
Raleigh with a bus load
who left from
of area service
station operators.
The North Carolina dealers had
appointments with Sen. Jesse Helms and
Congressman Ike Andrews to discuss the
problems they are facing as retailers under
the Phase IV controls and possible solutions.
Avery C Upchurch of Raleigh, executive
director of the North Carolina Service
Station Association, was to meet with
congressmen on the west side of the Capitol
building.
The petitioning fs in response to an
increase of the wholesale price of gas by one
Student Union.
Off-campus undergraduates at the
Naval Armory, the Y-Court or the Student
Union.
Residents of Granville Towers in the
Granville cafeteria.
Old East. Old West, Carr and
Spencer at the Y-Court.
Whitehead at the Naval Armory.
Law students at the Law school.
Teague, Parker and Avery at Parker.
Connor, Winston. Alexander, and
Joyner at Connor.
Everett. Lewis, Aycock. Graham.
Stacy and Cobb at Everett.
Mangum, Manley, Grimes, Ruffin.
Mclver, Kenan and Alderman at Mangum.
Residents of James. Ehringhaus and
Morrison vote in their respective dorms.
A valid student ID must be presented at
the polling place in order to vote.
The vacancies in the graduate CGC seats
were caused by the recent resignations of
Dick Baker and Ernie Pattersen. Gerry
Cohen also resigned his seat earlier this year
to run for a post on the Chapel Hill Board of
Alldermen. There are two undergraduate
CGC seats up for election.
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persons to file written comments to
commission members. Wells explained that
his action came on behalf of employes
working at the utilities, to reassure them of
his interest in their continued welfare after
the sale.
Joe Eagles, vice chancellor for finance,
had earlier stated that the highest bidder
would not determine who buys the utilities,
and cited employe treatment as a
consideration.
John Temple, assistant icc chancellor for
business, said that while the delay would be
helpful from the Commission members
standpoint, he doubts their decision will be
any different in the end. that is. that the
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Student Body Vice-President JuliTcnney.
who is speaker of the CGC, was quick to
defend the processes of the legislative
branch, which she admitted are slow at
times.
"If there arc good programs." said
Tenney. "the process will preserve them."
Tcnncy said a special session of CGC w ill
be held next Tuesday night at 7:30 to deal
solely with the Residence Unit Grant and
Loan Fund Bill. The tabling of the bill at the
recent CGC meeting delayed 25 requests
involving improvements that would affect
hundreds of students.
"This meeting is an effort to show the
student body that procedure is not a
prohibitive process." said Tcnncy.
"When the bill comes up this time, it will
be a product of careful consideration, not of
railroading," she said.
cent per gallon by several suppliers. Exxon.
BP, ARCO and Union 76 suppliers have
already raised their prices and other major
companies are expected to follow with
increased prices soon.
Under Phase IV controls, wholesalers arc
allowed to increase their prices while
retailers have been forced to roll back their
prices to the January 10 level.
Because retailers aren't able to pass on the
increase to customers they arc losing one to
two cents on every gallon of ghas they sell.
About 50 dealers from the Chapel Hill.
Durham and Raleigh area met in Durham
Wednesday night to discuss their problems
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prospectuses are acceptable.
Eller's motion brought forth a storm ol
protest and support from the Commission.
Accepting input from the public and
outsiders, they argued, would set the
Commission back where it started.
Commission members would find
themselves choosing among bidders special
interests if they accept more otusidc
comments, said Eagles. The further delay
wculdjustjeopardic" attempts at any form
of schedule, he added.
"I feel that I'm being crammed into a time
schedule." Wells said. "I haven't heard from
the University employes, but I know there is
unrest."
Although the prospectuses were not
approved, many questions arose. The
University's requirement of "cash only"
payable at the sale's closing, a required five
per cent cash bond put up at the bidding, and
whether a utility could be bid upon
separately, in combinations or "all or none"
came under fire by Commission members.
An office will be opened after the
prospectuses are printed. Temple said, to
answer any questions concerning the sale.
Eller cautioned University representatives
that their Cane Creek reservoir was a
prohibitive factor in its water system sale.
Temple defended the project as the best
alternative to meet the community's future
water needs.
The rates have been raised to prepare for
the new system, added Eagles. The
University will hold this money until it is
certain that the new owners will "take it
down the road" the Universitv intended.
UNC will be the water utility's largest
single customer.
The Church Commission, formally called
the State Utilities Study Commission, was
formed in 1971. UNC was advised about a
year ago to sell its utiliites. to be ncgotaitcd
by the Church Commission.
Temple said the University expects
around 15 to 20 bidders, and that the total
price will probably be in the neighborhood
of 20 to 30 million dollars.
and the planned petitioning by the N.C.
Service Station Association.
More than half of the operators present
said they would start limiting their hours of
operation in protest of the recent Cost of
Living Council rulings.
Some dealers will have to start rationing
gas. not because of a shortage, but because
they are losing money on every gallon.
Several Chapel Hill dealers closed for
three days last week in protest of the
controls.
According to the dealers, most customers
have been understanding about their
predicament.