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About half of Chapel Hill's service station
owners reached an agreement with town officials
Tuesday night on a plan to alleviate problems
caused by the gas shortage.
Beginning today, all stations participating in
the agreement will begin pumping gas to the
general public at 8 a.m. and pump half of the
daily allotment. The stations will open their
pumps again at 4 p.m. to pump the other half of
the allotments.
Mo gas will be pumped between the hours of 10
a.m. and 4 p.m. except when needed for
mechanical repairs.
The plan will be given a two-week trial.
Another meeting will be held Feb. 22 to evaluate
the success of the system.
The 14 service station owners present at
Tuesday's meeting said they would contact the
other station owners. They voiced confidence
that the other Chapel Hill stations would
comply.
The decision came in a meeting closed to every
one except town officials, station owners and the
press.
The station owners declined to meet in the
Police Department Courtroom, as scheduled,
when they discovered approximately 20 local
citizens planned to attend.
The meeting was then moved to the Orange
Savings and Loan building.
Citizens waited in the courtroom where
Mayor Howard N. Lee later returned to report
the decision of the station owners.
Town Manager Chester V. Kendzior said the
meeting was not intended to be a public meeting.
"They (the station owners) didn't want to
come and be complained about," he said. "They
were here to discuss and work on the problem."
Lee termed the meeting difficult, but said the
station owners were very cooperative.
He said, "We've made a small step forward."
The recommendation to coordinate pumping
hours was one of three proposals made by Lee
designed to solve the traffic problems caused by
long lines of cars waiting at gas stations.
He suggested a maximum purchase limit of
five dollars and a minimum limit of two dollars
for all gas sales. Lee said this measure would cut
down on congestion at the pumps caused by
panic buying.
Kendzior supported this recommendation,
citing the "full tank syndrome" as a major factor
contributing to the traffic problem.
People who used to drive around with a half
tank of gas now feel the need to maintain a full
tank, causing extra trips to the service station, he
said.
The station owxers, however, rejected the
minimum purchase proposal because they felt it
would be virtually impossible to determine
whether each gas tank would hold the two-dollar
limit.
Lee also said the town would erect and enforce
no trespassing signs to prevent cars from lining
up at stations before the gas pumps are open.
The station owners rejected a proposal, by
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Everett Lloyd to adopt a
license plate plan similar to the one in use in
Oregon. J
People with license plates ending in odd
numbers would be able to purchase gas only on
odd-numbered days. Even-numbered plates
would allow purchasing of gas on even days.
Lee said this measure would be hard to enforce
because it would be purely voluntary on the part
of the buyer.
The station owners discussed the practice of
selling only to preferred customers.
"A service station can't operate on the revenue
brought in by gasoline sales alone," said one
station owner. "I will not sell my whole allotmen
to the general public."
The final agreement, however, provided that
no sales be made on a preferred customer basis.
Jesse Page, one of the citizens who waited for
Lee's report, questioned whether the preferred
customer selling will end. noting that regular
customers could be serviced between 10 a.m. and
4 p.m.
"A regular customer cannot come in between
10 and 4 just for gas," Lee responded. "1 don't
think the dealers were playing games with us," he
said.
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Betsey Jones announced her candidacy for
president of the Residence Hall Association
(RHA) Wednesday.
She said she plans to emphasize an
increase in lifestyle options of dorm residents
in her campaign.
Jones said she would put more emphasis
on making dorm residents' desires known to
the Housing office and the Chancellor's
office. As evidence of such desires, she cited
an RHA survey that indicated 72 per cent of
residence hall students want to live in some
sort of co-ed housing.
Jones said she was not advocating an end
to all-male and all-female dorms. She said
they should remain available for students
who choose the option of segregated living.
Jones believes visitation and security
policies should better reflect student
concerns. Most male students want open
visitation, she said, largely because they feel
limited visitation is unnecessary and
unenforceable.
Most female students feel the campus
police system of admitting women after
hours is too inconvenient, she said. Women
would prefer dorm key distribution, as is.
done in some sorority nouses, or the use of
night attendants, as on South Campus, she
remarked.
Jones said another campaign issue will
concern residence budgeting. Funds
mismanagement is one of the reasons
causing the Housing Department's proposed
third room rent increase in three years she
added.
Jones plans to look further into a $17,000
mistake in social funds allocations attributed
to the University. She criticized the policy of
keeping social fund accounts closed, and
said the Residence Hall Governing Board
should be able to view the accounts upon the
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by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
A bill to hold a statewide referendum on
the East Carolina University medical school
has been revived from a N.C. General
Assembly committee.
The bill calls for a public referendum to
vote $50 million in bonds for capital
construction at ECU. The bill was
introduced in 1973 by Rep. Larry Eagles (D
Edgecombe) and has been held in the
Finance Committee since then. Eagles said.
University President William C. Friday
said Wednesday he doubts the board will
favor the public referendum idea to finance
medical school expansion at ECU.
Friday said the board met informally
Monday night to hear a review of the recent
Thursday night closed sessions designed to
carve a compromise between university
officials and state legislators on the ECU
issue. Board chairman William A. Dees Jr.
also presented the referendum proposal to
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The undergraduate representative to
the Craige Graduate Center Executive
Council has accused council president
John Sawyer of "dictatorial tactics" in
his relationship with the undergraduate
residents of the south campus dorm.
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board's request in case of future errors.
Jones is a junior history and political
science major from Ossining, N.Y. She is a
member of the RHA Budgetary Advisory
and Housing Alternatives committees.
Lloyd Scher, a junior and the only
undergraduate representative on the 15
member council, criticized Sawyer and
alleged that attempts by undergraduates
to organize and present grievances to
the graduate officers had been seriously
undermined.
Controversy between the two factions
arose last week after Sawyer circulated a
petition asking residents if they wanted
Craige to be returned to its former status
as an exclusively graduate student
dormitory. Overcrowding in University
housing prompted Univeristy officials
to assign approximately 75
undergraduates to the high-rise
complex.
Scher said Sawyer considered the poll
an informal questionnaire rather than a
petition, but, Scher said, "Call it what
you want, questionnaire or petition, it's
still based on the same premise that
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the 18 members, Friday said.
Only three members indicated serious
interest in the proposal, Friday said, and he
believes that if a motion is proposed to
support the idea that the board will not
approve it.
Dees could not be reached for comment.
Eagles said his bill re-emerged because
there is a stalemate between the board of
Governors and the General Assembly." The
issues should "be decided by letting the
people decide," he added. "I don't know any
charged
discriminates against undergraduates."
Scher also criticized Sawyer for
removing several signs promoting an
undergraduate meeting which he
planned for tonight at 9 p.m. Although
Scher had obtained permission of
several Craige resident advisors to post
the signs, he said Sawyer based his
action on the fact "I did not clear the
signs with him."
Sawyer was unavailable for comment
on Scher's charges Wednesday
afternoon.
- Yesterday Scher was making plans to
present his objections to the executive
council at their weekly meeting last
night. Scher said he would propose
election of new officers of the executive
council with all residents of the dorm
having voting privileges.
"There are some graduate students
who refuse to listen to us. We are human
beings, we live in Craige and we are
entitled to just as many rights as the
graduate students. They have got to
realize that the undergraduate segment
at Craige deserves equal rights," said
Scher.
Tonight's meeting will include
discussion of housing information,
financial aide, intramural sports at
Craige and equal rights for all students
at the dormitory. Scher urged all
residents of Craige and any other
interested students to attend the
meeting, to be held in the first floor
lounge
better way."
Eagles was reported to have strong
Democratic support in the House. The
decision to present the refendum was
considered in an informal meeting in the
office, of House Speaker Jim Ramsey
Monday night.
Eagles said the other funds requested by
the Board of Governors for health education
would not be affected by the ECU
referendum. He said the referendum as
proposed by him would deal only with the
ECU medical school. Any other money
requested by the Board would be handled
through regular legislative channels. Eagles
said.
Friday said he would not know how the
university's budget request would be affected
until he sees the exact wording of Eagles'
bill. The Board of Governors submitted one
budget request for its needs, and funds for
medical education will have to be
distinguished from ECU recommendations.
Several other bills have already been
introduced into the legislature, and all reflect
the different opinions on ECU's fate.
A bill supported by Rep. J. P. Huskins(D
Iredell) calls for growth in the current one
year program at East Carolina, and
recommends the addition of a second year
curriculum by 1976.
A compromise bill, introduced by Sen.
Ralph Scott (D-Alamance) and Rep. Carl
Stewart (D-Gaston) directs the board to
present plans to the 1975 General Assembly
to expand ECU's class size and curriculum
as soon as possible. All nine of the board's
proposed Area Health Education Centers
(AH EC) would be developed, according to
the compromise proposal.
Another plan may be presented to the
Finance Committee by Rep. Herbert Hyde
(D-Buncombe) today which would call for
referendums to finance both the ECU
expansion and the AH EC development.
Hyde refused to comment, however when
asked about the plan.
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Gary Phillips, sophomore, announced his
candidacy for student body president
Wednesday.
The English and International Studies,
major said he was running because "most
people involved in Student Government
consider it a perpetuation of their political
egos. I'm thinking of completely redirecting
Student Government"
Phillips, president of the Carolina Union,
said he believes Student Government exists
for two primary purposes: to provide direct
services-for students and to involve students
in all decision-making processes which affect
them. His platform, he said reflects these
purposes.
"I favor a complete examination of
student housing policy and the new student
housing contract," Phillips said. "There are
several controversial points in that
contract."
Phillips also said he intends to end
overcrowding in the dorms as much as
possible and to expand coed living.
In the area of academic reform, Phillips
said he will seek course credit for outside
work, will attempt to extend the pass-fail
option further into the semester and will
support the four-course semester load.
"I would also like to see implementation of
a course-teacher evaluation," he said. "My
staff has already done the work on this; all
that is needed is official credence."
Phillips said he plans to reinstate the
student locator service and to expand the
service to two or three phones manned 24
hours per day, with an information referral
service.
"1 also favor "termination of the
Sevomation contract when it comes up next
year," he said, "specifically with regard to
the Union Snack Bar."
Phillips said he would also like to see
"increased contact with the cities of Chapel
Hill and Carrbor. He added, "If students can
develop good relations with them, it would
serve as a lever when dealing with the
administration and would help students with
consumer dealings in these towns.
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Gary Phillips
Lew Warren, a junior business
administration major, entered the student
body presidential race Wednesday.
Warren said he has gained insight into the
functioning and administration of the
executive branch of Student Government by
serving as Student Transportation
commissioner and as head of student voter
registration for the November elections in
Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
"I have a working understanding of many
of the programs initiated this past year and
an informed basis, upon which these can be
expanded," Warren said.
He also noted that his acces to the
executive branch has given him a first-hand
view of the mistakes made by the present
administration.
"Too often the executive office was denied
vital student input and the manpower
needed to conduct programs because of the
small staff," the Greensboro native said.
To correct this error. Warren said he
would expand the size of his staff and includs
a woman, a black, a member cf th; Greeks
and a graduate student.
Warren accused the University of "blatant
neglect" of the parking problem, noting that
the development of a mass transit system will
offer a partial solution.
He said parking spaces should not be
beyond the economical grasp of students and
should not go only to faculty members.
.Warren also said he would work for
reinstitution of the Student Locator Service.
He suggested the implementation of a
brief student directory published in the fall
semester by the Student Government. This
would relieve the overburdened locator
service, he said. ' '
. Warren voiced his support of second floor
Winston residents and called the
administration's decision "yet another
example of the University's callous lzxk of
consideration for student input in the
decision-making process."
Other programs which Warren said he
would support as president are Student
Ccnsumer Action Union, student legal aid,
judicial reform and academic reform.
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