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It's always springtime in McCorkle Place, or so it seems. These zealous Chapel
HiSiians are flying in the face of a coming fall to enjoy one last fling in the warm
weather. Have fun now, people, for tomorrow it may snow.
(Staff photo by John Locher)
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by Stella Shelton
Stall Writer
WRBX, a new commercial AM radio
station featuring solid gold music is
scheduled to begin broadcasting early next
month at 1530 on the dial.
Final preparations for broadcasting are
being made at WRBX's 311 W. Rosemary
St. station and at the station's tw in towers on
Jones Ferry Rd. Michael Turner, vice
president and general manager, said, " Weire
shooting for the end of this month or the first
of November.'
The 160-foot towers will throw a simple
directional signal over the Research Triangle
daily from sunrise to sunset. With 5,000
watts of power, Turner said, "There's no
place in the Triangle you won't be able to get
us."
Getting on the air has been a problem for
WRBX, Turner said. The station has been
licensed by the FCC since April of 1969 and
has been in the planning stages much longer
than that.
Turner said that various local protests
have been staged, preventing an earlier
starting date. Zoning hearings involving
location of the towers also held up WRBX.
Program Director Robert Friedman says
Police crackdown
by Bunky Flagler
Staff Writer
Freshmen William Fox and Dwight Dutton, two
Morrison dormitory residents, started their UNC days with
a crash.
Riding bicycles, they collided in the Ramshead parking lot
early in the semester. Fox said he was only shaken up a bit.
But Dutton landed in N.C. Memorial Hospital for a week
with his fractured jaw fixed, a rubber support under his eye
to replace a broken facial bone and a set of recapped teeth.
He's back in classes now.
Approximately four accidents most not as serious
occur monthly, Lt. Arnold Gold of the Chapel Hill Police
Department said.
He said most accidents involve automobiles, although the
Dutton-Fox accident indicates the serious danger of riding a
bicyle, even if an automobile is not involved.
"In an accident, no matter who's right and who's wrong,
the operator of a bike is going to come out getting hurt,"
Gold said.
The bicycle is the country's most hazardous product, the
consumer product safety commission reported last week in a
survey of hundreds of products for safety standards.
It caused 372,000 injuries requiring emergency treatment
this year, the Commission said. Mechancial failure, feet
caught in spokes and chains and loss of control are the major
causes of accidents, according to the report. They plan to
issue mandatory safety regulations later this year.
But until better, safer bicycles are required by law, Chapel
Hill police will continue their attempt to alleviate the main
cause of bicycle accidents the careless.unknowledgeable
driver.
"You can't ride a bicycle with an air of nonchalance," Gold
said. "You must be aware." And you must know the lavvs, he
said.
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the station's approach to music is "adult
contemporary.'" If that sounds too scary, the
format is basically "solid gold," going back
as far as 1955 or '56.
But it's not middle-of-the-road stuff.
Friedman said the station will play artists
who contributed to the development of
rock progressive but not super-heavy. In
addition to the oldies, WRBX will have a
"meticulously selected" current playlist and
will broadcast cuts from solid gold albums.
Friedman said.
"Repetition will be held to a minimum."
Friedman added. He said the music will be
"as palatable to the University audience as it
is to the community."
Friedman further described the station's
sound as being "moderately homogenized"
during the week. He said the weekends will
be reserved for specialty programs.
Programs under consideration include
movie and record reviews, the syndicated
Barry Farber interview show, the National
Lampoon Radio Hour, local discussion
groups and live area folk music.
The staff plans to provide extensive news
coverage. They will do comprehensive local
news and will work closely with the
University, according to Friedman.
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 9, 1973
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United Press International
Israel said Monday its reinforced and
regrouped armed forces had
counterattacked the invading Syrian and
Egyptian armies and that Egyptian tanks
which crossed the Suez Canal into the Sinai
Peninsula were being routed. The Arab
nations denied it.
Israel claimed mastery of the air following
deep penetration raids into Egypt and Syria,
including attacks on Five Syrian air bases
Monday, and said its planes and ground
troops shot down 15 Egyptian planes over
Taylor reaffirms
by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor reaffirmed
UNCs commitment to the Affirmative
Action plan Friday, in response to a letter by
Health, Education and Welfare officials
which outlined remedial action for UNCs
plan.
UNCs Affirmative Action plan was sent
July I, 1973 to the regional office of HEW.
The plan provides for promoting and
maintaining equal employment opportunity
practices within the University of North
Carolina, with special emphasis on female
and black representation.
Although no response from HEW was
received until September 27, Taylor said, the
University continued to employ its principles
of affirmative action. Now that further
revisions must be made, he added, "we will
continue our efforts to implement the Plan
UMW
by Seth Effron
Associate Editor
Since late July members of the United
Mine Workers of America (UMW) in
Harlen County, Ky., have been on strike
against Eastover Mining Company owned
by Charlotte-based Duke Power Company.
Bernard Aronson, a UMW organizer, came
to Chapel Hill Friday toexplainthestriketo
Student Government (SG) leaders and to
gauge the amount of support for the miners.
On June 26 employes of Duke Power's
Brookside Mine voted by a margin of 2-1 to
be represented by the UMW rather than the
company-oriented Southern Labor Union
(SLU).
The central issues in the strike are w orking
conditions, wages, pension benefits and the
right to exploit the labor of coal miners in
The Police Department staged a biking law and safety
campaign through radio, TV, newspapers and through 4,300
brochures sent to all new UNC students. They listed the rules
of the road, listed bike paths and given safety hints an
attempt for safer biking.
Police have arrested 20 students since school started in an
attempt to prevent injury.
Wednesday night, a patrol car pulled out of Fraternity
Row after quieting down noisy fraternity men. Headed
south on Columbia Street, he made a quick U-turn towards
Ackland Museum. Blue lights flashing, the car was hot on
the tail of an offending biker someone riding without
proper lights.
The biker got a ticket that will cost him from $16 to $26.
the same fine imposed on the operator of a motor vehicle
without proper head and tail light equipment. Running a red
light or a stop sign will get a biker similar fines.
The rules are the same for operators of both automobiles
and bicycles, and offenders pay the same consequences.
Gold said.
On the whole, things have improved since the beginning of
the semester, Gold said. "At least 90 per cent of all those
without lights at the beginning of the year now have them."
To the 14,000 estimated cyclists in Chapel Hill, Gold said:
"If you're involved in an accident, you're gonna be hurt." But
police can't control bikers as well as they'd like, he said.
"One of our problems is just that bicycle riders are hard to
apprehend," he said. "If a biker runs a red light, he's gone."
Policemen don't always arrest offenders, however.
Sometimes there's just a warning, but that warning comes
out strong and stiff: '
"Hey buddy," one policeman warned a drunk and stoned
biker cruising in the still-balmy September night without
lights. "The best thing for you to do with that thing is to park
it," he said. "And for you to get on home."
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the Sinai and several Syrian planes over the
Golan Heights.
A Cairo communique said the Egyptian
forces were in complete command of the
whole eastern bank of the Sue Canal and
were advancing into the Israeli-held Sinai.
The Arabs reported more than 150 Israeli
planes shot downabout a third of the
Israeli strike force.
An Israeli military spokesman said most
of the Syrian anti-aircraft batteries in the
Golan Heights had bcenb destroyed. He also
said the Israelis were attempting to encircle a
Syrian tank brigade and that the situation in
so as to achieve our goals of equal
employment opportunity and affirmative
action."
Chancellor Taylor reactivated the
Affirmative Action Working Committee to
"coordinate and direct the required
amplification" of UNCs plan. He also made
personnel changes to replace two committee
members leaving UNC.
Susan McDonald. Assistant to the Vice
Chanccllor for Administration, was named
committee chairman. Louise M. Hall.
Chairman of the new EPA non-faculty
grievance committee, was also appointed to
the committee.
They succeed Jean H. Gaulden and
Professor John L. Sanders. Sanders will
become Vice President for Planning in the
University's General Administration.
Chancellor Taylor advised the members of
the working committee to "consult with all
intereted persons and groups" in revising the
Harlen County by absentee land owners,
such as Duke Power.
The most pressing issue is mine safety.
There is no safety committee w ith the right to
inspect the mines and to tell the company
w hat hazards exist and w hat must be done to
create safer mines.
News Analysis
"Coal mining is hard and dangerous w ork.
During the past 15 years, on the average of
one coal miner has died in the nation's mines
every working day." Aronson. UMW
spokesman, said. "In December 1970, 33
miners died in an explosion in a non-U MW
mine in Hyden. Ky. (a neighboring town).
The men in Brookside remember Hyden and
don't want to see a repeat in their mine.
Under the contract between Eastover and
the SLU, the top salary of the workers was
$38 for an eight-hour day. This does not
include the hour it takes to get from the
portal to the "face. or work area, of the
mine. Often workers have to ride slow coal
cars down the mine and then crawl on their
hands and knees for 100 yards to the work
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the Heights had cased enough to permit
evacuated settlers to return.
The 1973 Middle East War began at 2 p.m.
Saturday (8 a.m. EDT) when Israel and
United Nations observers reported the
Arabs struck Israel on two fronts. The Arabs
accused Israel of starting the war and
pledged to continue it until all occupied
lands are liberated from Israeli occupation.
Israeli military commentators said Israeli
strategy was to block the two invaders and
then counterattack. An official spokesman
said Monday. "The holding action has been
concluded. Our forces are repulsing the
plan
plan to meet further HEW specifications.
Douglass Hunt. Affirmative Action
Officer, set the middle of January. 1974. to
submit UNCs "amplified plan."
During the talks with HEW officials.
Hunt said, "It became rapidly evident that
we have a very siable task ahead of us a
task at least as large as that we embarked
upon in developing the original plan."
HEW requested documentation for the
revised plan, including substantiated data to
determine if. and why. minority groups arc
being underutilized in faculty. EPA and
SPA job classifications of the University.
Further evidence is also requested on
establishment of goals and timetables,
compliance with Affirmative Action,
publicity of UNCs intent to hire without sex
or racial consideration and evidence that
UNC is participating in programs to increase
its minority employes.
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area. They do not get paid for this time.
The miners spend 10 hours or more in the
mines and get paid for only eight hours.
The UMW is asking for a $39.75 per day
minimum wage including pay for travel from
the portal to the face of the back.
The Union also wants the passage-way
down the mines improved. "If a man is
injured on the job. it would probably kill him
if he had to be carried over an area only wide
enough for someone to crawl through."
Aronson said.
The SLU has a pension plan. Aronson
said, but he has never heard of a SLU card
holder ever receiving any money from the
plan. The SLU offers a pension plan based
on 14 cents a ton. The UMW plan calls for a
pension plan based on 80 cents per ton of
coal mined, a comprehensive
hospitalization, retirement and family
medical care.
Aronson added that the miners now have
no job security.
"The people who operate the mines can
hire and fire at will." said Aronson.
Duke Power's response to the pickctcrs
has been minimal to this point. They have
recognized that the workers arc represented
by the UMW but have not met any of the
union's demands. In Charlotte, the workers
and Duke Power executives met only briefly.
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enemy.
Frontline military reporters said the
Israeli air force had knocked out the doen
or so pontoon bridges across the Sue Canal
and that 400 or so Egyptian tanks were now
trapped. Monday night the Israeli National
Radio reported thc"routing"of those tanks.
The Israeli command said the Arabs had
suffered heavy losses, including 90 aircraft
and helicopters, but it refused to disclose its
own casulaties in fending off the attacking
Arabs for two days.
An . Israeli military spokesman,
broadcasting to the nation, said the situation
on both the Egyptian Suez Canal front and
the Syrian Golan Heights line was
"encouraging . . . the initiative on the field
of battle has turned to the Israelis."
Cairo Radio gave a far different picture of
the situation. A communique broadcast at
1:40 p.m. (7:40 a.m. EDT) said:
"The eastern bank is now completely in
the hands of our forces."
Syrian communiques reported their
troops had liberated large areas of the Golan
Heights, that tanks and troops were
advancing rapidly under Syrian air cover
and that Svria during the day had show
down 32 Israeli planes.
Both Cairo and Damascus reported
beating back Israeli counterattacks and said
the Israelis suffered heavy losses in men and
tanks.
Weather
TODAY: Variable cloudiness with a
chance of light showers. The high is
expected in the upper 70's to the low
SO's. The low tonight is expected in the
low 60's. There is ten per cent chance of
precipitation through tonight. Outlook: a
possible clearing.
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Aronson said he felt the strike was going
well. Almost 200 miners were out on strike.
The Eastover Mining Company attempted
to break the spirit ofthe workers by getting
restraining orders to limit to two the number
of pickctcrs and by hiring scabs. The Harlen
County Coal Operator's Association sent
out a letter to all workers in the county
stating: "The Eastover Mining Company.
Brookside. Ky. will hire about 100 men
because their employes are now on strike.
With the combination of only two men on
the picket line and the letter, scabs felt little
restraint, and about 60 went to work. When
the wives of the miner realized what was
going on. they organized themselves and set
up their own picket line. In a couple of days
the scabs refused to cross the line.
This past week Aronson and several of the
coal miners have been in Charlotte picketing
the headquarters of the Duke Power
Company. The miners are pointing out that
in a few weeks Duke Power will be asking for
a 17 per cent rate increase.
"If Duke can ask for a 17 per cent rate
increase then they will have to prove to us.
the consumers, and the N.C. Utilities
Commission an increase is justified. I'm sure
the commission will wonder why they will
want to increase their rates, and cheat their
employes." Aronson said.
Staff pftoto by Gary Lebraioe
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