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WASHINGTON Under pressure from
President Nixon and the oil industry, the
Senate voted 57-37 Tuesday to return the
emergency energy bill to a House-Senate
conference. "I'm afraid it's dead," said Sen.
Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash.
The bill would give the President a vast
new array of energy-saving powers,
including authority to impose gasoline
rationing. But the measure foundered
Tuesday as it did during the pre-Christmas
-adjournment rush over a provision for a
windfall profits tax against the oil
companies.
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by Dave Ennis
Staff Writer
Members of the Student Academic
Reform Committee will ask for the support
of the Campus Governing Council tonight in
efforts to have a four course-load system
considered by the Faculty Council this
semester.
Lisa Bradley, committee chairman, said
she will ask the council to pass a resolution
urging the Faculty Council to take a vote on
the four-course load system at the CGC
meeting.
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Jackson, the bill's chief Senate sponsor,
said he would meet with House supporters of
similar legislation to try to fashion a
compromise on a piecemeal basis.
"Industry won and the consumers lost,"
Jackson said. "This was an industry
proposition let's not kid ourselves."
President Nixon supported a drive by
liberals and conservatives of both parties to
return the bill for further changes.
Nixon, in a letter to Senate GOP Leader
Hugh Scott, objected chiefly to the windfall
"profitsvpf&vision which he said was not
"rational."
The Senate bill would have required
"My committee is convinced 100 per cent
of the merit of this system," Bradley said.
"There is no reason to delay it any longer. It's
time for the Faculty Committee to vote," she
added.
John Brawley, a member of the com
mittee, said the trend in ivy league schools is
toward a four-courseload. Harvard, Brown
and Yale have changed from afive-to a four
course load system, he said.
Bradley said in polling student opinion of
the proposed academic system, the com
mittee has found most of the response to be
positive. She noted however, students who
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find they can't sell as much as they would
(Staff photo by Bill VVrenn)
companies making excess profits to give
rebates to consumers in the form of lower
prices. The administration has proposed
separate legislation intended to funnel
windfall profits into exploration and
development of new energy sources.
Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., who made
the motion to return the bill to conference,
said many of the powers it would confer on
the President were contained in other bills.
The President already has authority to
impose rationing under the Defense
Production Act, Nelson said.
Nixon also protested the bill's provision
for expanded unemployment benefits for
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oppose the system usually have the same
complaint.
"Many students feel that this could
narrow the scope of education," Bradley
said. "But, assuming degree requirements re
main the same, it would still leave 24 courses
for students to explore different areas," she
added.
She also said degrees would not be
"watered down," voicing confidence that
department heads would "make sure that
education is not slighted under this system."
Bradley said the history of the four-course
load proposal began with the Godfrey
Committee in 1969. This committee, a task
force" within the Faculty Council
recommended a reduction from 40 to 32
courses for a bachelor's degree. The council
initiated changes in the General College
curriculum, but asked the chancellor to form
a committee to study the matter .of the
number of courses required.
The committee, appointed by Chancellor
J. Carlyle Sitterson in 1971, also
recommended the implementation of a four
course load system with four unit credits per
course.
"Many people indeed question the need
for further study and talk of the academic
merit of such a proposal, and believe the Ad
ministration should plunge ahead into the
actual implementation of the program,"
Bradley said in a written statement to CGC
members.
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DTH gets 2 new editors
A couple of personnel shifts at the
DTH have sent Nancy Pate and Tom
Randolph to editorial positions.
Pate moves to the associate editor's
desk, replacing Seth Effrbn, who has
moved to the campus affairs desk. She
will work with David Eskridge
coordinating the editorial page and
generally assisting Editor Susan Miller.
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by Bob Ripley
Staff Writer
It was virtually impossible to find gas in
Chapel Hill Tuesday, and the situation isn't
going to improve until at least Friday.
Only two of the nearly 40 stations
contacted late Tuesday afternoon were still
selling gas.
One was selling by reservation and the
other was selling only to the Post Office for
mail trucks.
Charles Street of Burch's Tire Service said
they were booked up until next Friday. Feb.
8 and will have only 20 gallons available for
that day.
"We don't have a limit on how much we'll
sell to a customer, so long as he has a
reservation." Street said.
"We have planned our allotment so that
we don't run out like everyone else has. We
will only sell 130 gallons per day. We'll take
reservations till it's all gone," he continued.
Walker's Gulf on East Franklin was
selling gas yesterday, but only to the Post
Office. Even they had a $2 limit. Earl
Walker, station owner, said he -expected to
be open to the public today.
workers who lose their jobs because of the
energy crunch.
Nelson said House and Senate committees
were working on unemployment
compensation legislation. "I dpn't really :
think it was all that serious a matter to pass
the emergency bill," he said.
Jackson said, "The fact that the bill is not
law today is a sad commentary on the
leadership of this nation.
"It reflects the fact that the special interest
groups have a bigger voice in government
than the people."
The legislation ran into trouble just before
the congressional Christmas recess when oil
state Senators filibustered to kill the windfall
profits control section.
The bill would give the President, through
an energy administration, broad powers to
order rationing arid allocation of oil
products and energy-related equipment,
require conservation measures, and
postpone some clean air goals.
In Nixon's letter to Scott Tuesday, the
President said the Senate should "take the
additional time required for developing a
truly responsible product."
The main flaws in Nixon's eyes were in the
bill's windfall profits limit, unemployment,
and administrative sections.
"The subject of windfall profits should be
addressed through a rational tax scheme
using the normal legislative process," said
Nixon, who has suggested a profit control .
bill of his own.
"We have been able to do without
emergency legislation thus far," the
President said.
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Aldermmeini will coesMeir
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by David Klinger
Staff Writer
"As long as there is a law against
marijuana, then we have to enforce it,"
Chapel Hill Police Chief William Blakesays.
Blake was talking about a police
procedure that has once again been thrust
into the center of public controversy: the use
of police funds by undercover agents to buy
drugs and related evidence for court cases.
The procedure will be reviewed by the
Board of Aldermen during their Feb. 4
meeting when a larger budget request by the
Police Department is scheduled for
discussion.
"As I understand what the money is being
used for, I'm against it," says Alderman
Pate has been a staff writer and
editorial assistant for the past year,
following her transfer from Furman
University in fall, 1972. She is a senior
Journalism Foundation scholar from
Charlotte.
Randolph replaces Tad Stewart as
photo editor. He has been a staff
photographer since August. He is a
junior history major from Brodnax, Va.
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A spokesman for Norwood Car Care
Center said they were selling only to regular
customers, but they were hoping for a new
shipment la-te tonight.
"When we've got gas. we'll sell it to
anybody. And we try to let them have as
much as they need," Howard Stone of
Brinkley's East Gate Gulf said. "But when
we're out we're out."
George Penny of Carrboro American said
the distributor in Greensboro had over 50
stations who were out of gas waiting to be
filled-up.
"They can only deliver to six or eight
stations a day," Penny said. "We. are
scheduled to get gas Friday, but it just
depends where we are on the list. 1 hope we
are at the top, but it may be the middle of the
month before we can open again."
Mrs. Ronald Haskins at the Mobil Gus
and Food Store on Airport Road said she
had gas until Tuesday morning.
"I wasn't going to open Saturday, but
everyone else was closed and we had all those
people in town for the basketball game."
Haskins said. "1 turned the pumps on and let
them run dry. They lasted till today."
"We are out now and no telling when we'll
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(Staff photo by Bill Wrenn)
Gerry Cohen, a UNC law student.
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee adds,
"this is an area that I've always had problems
with and 1 would think we could take a look
into it at this particular time."
The procedure, standard for many
municipal police departments, allows agents
to buy drugs from suspected narcotics
dealers and later use the sale as the basis for a
court conviction. Eventually the money used
by the police to purchase the evidence is
returned by the courts to a special expense
fund.
The current town budget appropriates
$2,000 for this purpose. The issue was first
discussed by the Board of Aldermen during
their Jan. 21 meeting when an additional
$2,500 was requested for the fund.
Cohen, who first raised the issue among
the aldermen, based his objections to the
present administration of the fund on two
counts: allegations that the fund is primarily
used for marijuana cases, and that the board
is not being given an accurate and complete
accounting of the use of the money.
"My impression is that the fund is being
used to buy 6mall amounts of marijuana. It
should be saved for major breakthroughs in
cases or for buying information on drug
pushers." Cohen said.
"If you look at the case load for Superior
Court, you'll see that the majority of cases
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get any more." an attendant at the Mini
Mart on Airport Road said. "You know how
the government has messed things with this
fool allocation system. We might get some
the first of the month or it may be the first
half of the month."
The seven stations reportedly expecting to
open today and to sell to whoever drives up
are: Carrboro Exxon on Main Street. Little
Exxon, on Durham Road. Obie Davis
Exxon Service. Center on West Franklin
Street and Gerald's Shel' on Airport Road.
Hern's Service Center and Shell on 15
501. Walker's Gulf on East Franklin.
Norwood Car Care Center on West
Franklin. Town and Country Exxon on
Airport Road and Barclay's University
Service on Franklin and Columbia also
expect to be open.
Those stations that will be closed
tomorrow but expect gas Friday or Monday
are: Car Shop Gas. Chapel Hill 76. Clark 66.
Frosty Self-Service. Glen Lennox BP.
Gordon's Gulf. Summey's Gulf. Holloway
Motor Center, Kirby's. Carrboro American.
Kilpatrick American and Brinkley's East
Gate Gulf.
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are. for marijuana," he added.
Blake disagreed and said. "Our total
committment is to do all of our work in hard
drugs and go for the real pushers. A man
using a joint is not really hurting anything -it's
the man who is selling heroin.
"Why mess with marijuana when you have
these other problems? However, if someone
comes along and offers to sell the police 100
pounds of grass, you don't turn it down."
Blake said.
Cohen's allegation that the Board of
Aldermen is not receiving a complete
accounting of the uses of the fund was also
disputed by Blake.
In advising that the federal government
establishes strict guidelines for the
accounting of funds in drug evidence
programs in which it participates. Blake
said, "They have all kinds of checks and
balances and the Chapel Hill Police
Department also has a lot of regulations."
"If Chief Blake's statement about the use
of the fund is true, then I'm in agreement,"
Cohen said, "but I think he should provide
the board with an accurate breakdown of the
cases.
"I'm not opposed to either using money to
buy evidence in serious drug cases or
increasing the fund by $2,500. I just want
some accurate and definite accounting
procedures," he said.
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