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1 7 c M A Tlx M, U j ! A i i Vol. 02, No. 130 O 1 i f :4)ii) I by United Press international WASHINGTON President Nixon will pay roughly $467,000 he owes in back taxes and interest payments from his first term in office, the White House said Wednesday night. Nixon's decision came four hours after the staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation issued a long-awaited report that the President owed at least $476,43 1 in back taxes and interest for the years 1969 through 1972. Nixon's lower figure was based on what he said the Internal Revenue Service informed Treasurer fight settled GC by Art Eisenstadt Staff Writer Overturning the recommendation of its Appointments Committee, the Campus Governing Council (CGC) voted Tuesday night to approve the nomination of Tim Dugan for student body treasurer. The motion passed four votes above the two thirds majority required by the constitution to approve a treasurer. Dugan's nomination had been the subject of controversy since Robert Kelley, an unsuccessful applicant for the position, challenged the appointment on racial and qualitative grounds at an Appointments Committee meeting Thursday. The committee decided Monday to vote down the appointment,. but Student Body President Marcus, Williams, who appointed Dugan, made a motion to send the matter to the floor of the entire CGC. John Sawyer, chairman of the Appointments Committee, said the committee found no corroboration of any racial charges, and had no specific objection to Dugan himself. But he said that the committee's position was that "appointments are to some degree competitive. There was a least one other candidate available (Kelley) who had better qualifications." He included Kelley'sage and work experience among these qualifications. The floor then went to Dugan, who immediately yielded to Williams, "The purpose of an interview is to match the so- King memorial The Black Student Movement has scheduled services and seminars today in memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., killed 6 years ago today. From 2-5 p.m., seminars on protest and reform will be held in rooms 213 and 215 in the Union. At 8 p.m. in the Great Hall the Rev. Phillip Cousins will conduct ecumenical services, music by Martha Flowers, UNC music instructor and the UNC Gospel Choir. Choi Hrp2r ploys old favorite; rrrrrn rprrfiTrn&irnlrs lii JS LL Vs Jf JJL LI tkjj Vbsr 2-1 -Li v pw him Tuesday that Mpwed. The White Housf said Nixon would pay the taxes and injbrest, even though he believes his tax i'wyers can refute the congressional staffs findings. Nixon had said in Decemberil&en he turned his tax situation over toltlfe committee that he would abide by its, decision. The figures hef;released in December showed Nixon had fipled his net worth since he became Pres&ent, and was now a millionaire. The tx payments would take almost half that vgalth. In its announcement, the White House emphasized the IKS had found no hint of oves called paper experience with the person there at the time," the president said, re emphasizing his belief that compatibility with the executive branch is an important consideration i(i selecting a nominee. Williams sd that he could not forget Kelley's charge that he told him he had appointed to'many blacks to SG positions. The new titasurer, whomever he would be, would be losing valuable time in which he could learn the job if the council did not come to a quick decision, Williams said. I didn't see? it coming out any other way," Williams said of the decision. "I hope the people will? stop confusing these racial charges wish what was just a personal conflict." j Sawyer said that he did not feel the decision wculd , affect the strength of his committee.;' It was. not a decision that we enjoyed mating," he added. ; by Henry Farber I Staff Writer t i A . student referendum will be held Mondajj April 8 to decide if a state Public Interest Research Group (N.C. PIRG) will be estawished here, the Campus Governing Council' decided Tuesday night. i If approved by the student body and the Board e( Governors, the campus PIRG will defend the public interest in the areas of consumer protection and environmental preservation, said local organizer Doug Copeland, who is now a member of the Student Consumer Action Union (SCAU). The referendum will request a $1.50 increase in student activities fees per student each semester, part of which will fund the campus PIRG. A portion of the increased fees will go to the state wide PIRG office in Durham, Murray Fogler, executive assistant to the president of the student body said. V-'- Etsff photo by Joet Brlnktoy sflcr unususl cvonlng appif u Chapel Hill's Morning Newspaper Chaps! Hi!!, North Carolina, Thursday, April 4, 1S74 fraud in Nixon's tax returns, induding a deduction of more than $480000 for donating his vice presidential papers to the National Archives. J The White House noted thaqthe IRS communication to Nixon had rebutted any suggestion of fraud by the President, and spokesmen said "any errors whick may have been made in the preparatiin of "the President's returns were made y those to whom he delegated the respo Ability for preparing his returns and were m ide without his knowledge and without his pproval." The President believes trU his tax counsel can make a very strongf:ase against Dug ah The council approved the nminations of Nita Mitchell for attorney general, Pat Timmons for secretary, Rodnl nand Alston Gardner for elections board, notary public, Murray Fogli rey Doak for for executive assistant to the president Hancock for chief justice o and Darrell the Supreme Court. A resolution that authokes the rules- committee to look into reforrpf the election laws was adopted by clsensus. The committee will strive to elimjate loopholes in the current law pertainintto the use of pseudonyms by candidateslefinitions of what constitutes a campaign! expense, the number and location of poljhg places and clarifications of whether ajnajority or a plurality should be requiri! to win an election. All these topics 'pre causes of controversy in the recentcampus-wide election. VOl The referendum includes Jprovision that requires a semi-annual r4-ffirmation of student support for PIRG tontinue here. Even if the PIRG is estlished by the necessary two-thirds voteiext Monday, students will be able todecide during registration each semester hey want their activities fees to go to the'IRG, stated a Suite C release. j Students who want to wiftiold their $ 1 .50 from the PIRG will be ab to check "no support" on a computer cii to be included with their registrations. T( increase in fees will go into a generalpnd to be re appropriated by the CGC If 35 per cent of the stent body checks "no support" for the Pip, a referendum will be called to decidion the campus PIRG's continuing existeie. If 50 per cent withhold their support e group will be automatically disbandeduite C said. If the campus PIRG ilstablished, it will to by Joel fjnkley Staff Viter EUGENE, Ore. Egene is not the sort of place in which onepuld expect to find a nationally famous reiurant. It's a small town, not much largenan Chapel Hill, and the home of lumber rfls and cattle ranches. But Eugene is at the home of The Country Inn. The nls conjures visions of greasy fired chiclf and wagonwheel chandeliers suspend! from fake beam ceilings. Instead, lie finds a bizarre establishment the fcject of stories in The Los Angeles Times, ? Wall Street Journal, The Washington Pf and virtually every newspaper and telefion station in Oregon. "For people here.ating at The Country Inn is a social test,! Eugene resident said. "Many people just jei't take it." What many pe le can't take is the restaurant's staff cf Jimmie Harper and host-waiter Neil ki. They own the place, live upstairs and ojjrate the restaurant in a totally absurd nuier. The Country Inn leaves the first-life customer with the impression he hasten in another world, a ludicrous world X is just a bit insane. "We don't thinif The Country Inn as a restaurant" Neil jTch says. "It's a way of life." For most prons, it's a way of life unlike any ever bare experienced. Inside the fronUte, a sign reads: "If you have a reservatio!rring bell." Reservations generally must bmade at least a month in advance and oft, are only accepted with r urn y cJ A 1 (P 3 the major conclusions set forth in the committee's staff report," the White House said. "However, at the time the President voluntarily requested the committee to conduct its examination of his tax returns, he stated that he would abide by the committee's judgment. "In view of the fact that the staff report indicates that the proper amount to be paid must be determined by the Internal Revenue Service, Nixon has today instructed payment of the $432,787.13 set forth by the Internal Revenue Service, plus interest," the White House said. The committee's staff said the money it computed the President owed covered the period of from 1969 through 1972 Nixon's first term in office. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., vice chairman of the group, emphasized that the report did not necessarily reflect the views of the committee itself. But he expressed hope that if the committee does take a position, the President will abide by it. The committee voted 9-1 to release the 784-page report, which stressed that the staff drew no conclusions as to "whether there was or whether there was not fraud or negligence involved in any aspect" of the returns, either on the part of thte President or his personal representatives. "The staff believes it would be inappropriate to consider such matters in view of the fact that the House Judiciary Committee presently has before it an impeachment investigation relating to the President ..." the report said. It also said members of the committee, which undertook the tax study at Nixon's request in December, may have to pass judgment on impeachment and so "would not want to have pre-judged an issue which might be brought before any such proceedings." The lone dissenter to making the report public was said to have been Sen. Carl T. Curtis", R-Neb. EH work in conjunction with the SCAU until merger plans are completed, Copeland and SCAU member Jack Knight said. SCAU chairman Janie Clark said, "We'd have the same programs as the ones we have now, but with the backing of the statewide group." The N.C. PIRG passed a student referendum in 1972, but was vetoed by the Board of Trustees, past SCAU chairperson Ted Claghorn said. At that time, Claghorn said, the referendum stipulated that students who did not want to support the PIRG could have their extra student activities fees refunded. "However, activities fees are not refundable, Claghorn said, and he conjectured that the board did not want to set a precedent by approving the student referendum. Polls will be set up at the Student Union, the Y-Court, Berryhill Hall, the School of Public Health, the Law School, and these dorms: Craige, Ehringhaus, Parker, James, Morrison, Granville, Mclver and Cobb. o "Ti)TTD) (P V HM!iH SMlAVif personal recommendations. A moment after the bell is rung, Koch inspects his patrons through an eye-level slot, then opens the door. Guests are led into the barely lit dining room. Koch and Harper decorated the room themselves. It resembles a wealthy Victorian brothel. Tassled velvet drapes and tiny glass beads hang from the ceiling and antique alabaster animals are carefully scattered about. One end of the room holds a large pipe organ. A fire crackles in the fire place opposite. The far wall is a bank of windows all painted over with tiny flowers. "We had little noses pressing against the glass, peeking in and destroying our privacy," Koch explains. "So we painted the noses over." The focal point of the room is a small st age with several layers of velvet curtains, each lowered to a different height. Diffused red lights glow from the stage floor. "Sometimes we give shows on the stage, Koch says, "but we don't do them when nice people are here." He did tell us that one show inspired a lady to leave her table, remove her clothes and dance on the stage. The sole dining room holds only four tables, providing a total seating captacity of 18. Each table is used only once a night and groups are staggered so that each has the restaurant to itself for a period of time. Chef Harper only serves one meal to a group; each group has a choice cf only three entrees. The meal's five courses are r J ; Is:: . -; Staff photo by Tom Randolph Durham lawyer Nick Galifianakls r peeks in the Pit Wednesday in his bid for the democratic nomination for Sam Ervin's Senate seat. Nick promised to seek federal funds for improving Highway 54 between Chapel Hill end Raleigh. Galiiiaoakis predicts defeat ' will moil: irecimir Nick Galifianakis says it will not happen again. He is out to win the seat now held by Sen. Sam Ervin and told UNC students that Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan will be the man to beat. -"GaHfiana.k!s told a small crowd of UNC students Wednesday the deciding factor in his loss to Jesse Helms in 1972 was a well timed visit by President Nixon to North Carolina. He said this visit gave the impression of a strong Republican unity between Helms, Gov. Holshouser and Nixon, but such a coattail effect would not be possible again. On other issues, Galifianakis called desegregation by busing senseless, but doubted an anti-busing amendment would come out of the issue. He said he is against busing to end segregation and referred to a bill he introduced when he was in the House of Representatives calling for voluntary desegregation. Galifianakis pledged himself to utilize all the available influence to secure federal funds for the improvement of Highway 54. He reminded the students of his efforts in the Weather Cloudy with a chance of showers today and tonight. Highs today uppr 70's, lows tonight in the 50's. Chance of rain, 50 per cent today, 30 per cent tonight. o n a beautifully prepared and served, each course with a different wine. As excellent as the food is, it takes second place to the constant attentions of the owners. At several points during the meal, Koch ceremoniously displays to his guests various Objets d'art and other oddities from his personal collection. During the first course, we were presented with an antique toy bear that marched across the table, beating a tiny drum. "Toys aren't for children," he said. "Kids should be given bones to gnaw on. Don't you agree?" Later, we were shown a porcelain figure on a silver tray. Setting the figure in the center of the table, he asked one guest to shine a flashlight on it. "Look at the detail on those knuckles," he said. "There are only six of these left in the world." At other times he came in blowing an antique bird whistle, and displaying a green visored wind-up gorilla that shot dice across the table. Koch leaves the room after each presentation (often after his partner summons him to the kitchen with a loud cow bell) and the guests stare at each other in silent awe of the place's total absurdity. "That guy's half crazy," someone said after one such visit. "This sure isn't a Howard Johnson's." The evening's climax comes when chef Harper makes his entrance, ducking under the velvet drapes to avoid knocking off his 18-inch starched chefs hat. He presents a Founded February 23, 1C03 1 I past that resulted in the reconstruction of the road when it was termed the "missing link.' As a means of curbing military spending. Galifianakis said "I would hold the contractor to his contract price." He said he would seek to end the use of the open-ended contract, a common arrangement between civilian contractors and the military which allows contracts to be revised after work is in progress. However, he said a great deal of excess military spending is passed in supplimental allocations in well disguised and often misleading forms. Galifianakis has represented himself as being in favor of increases in personal income tax exemptions and has proposed an incentive plan encouraging medical students to locate their practices in medically deprived areas. The candidate has served six years in the state government and also served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He considers this to be one of his greatest advantages over Morgan. "Morgan has no national legislative experience. I happen to have that legislative experience," he said. Galifianakis has not yet released figures on his campaign expenses. He is the only candidate not to have done so. He explained that he had not had time to got the information together since he was the last candidate to file. He estimated them to be about $40,000. Tl o tiny antique music box. the evening's final curio. "This box is passed from person with love, not money," he says. "And we show it to you because we love you." He then presses a button on the box and a tiny metal bird pops up, chirping and furiously flapping its wings. As the bird quits. Harper seats himself at the organ and plays a 15-minute medley of pre-1940 popular songs. While this goes on, Koch is in a back room manipulating unseen controls. The stage's various curtains rise and fall as stage lights flash and dim. With the final song, all curtains rise, displaying 15 life-size cutouts of Victorian ladies, each wearing bustles, satins and a sash proclaiming the lady's affiliation with a particular virtue chastity, charity, truth, etc. Each lady bears a facial expression betraying her as opposite the virtue she claims. With the organ's final note, the curtains fall; the lights dim. Koch and Harper make a final bow, present a red rose to each guest and leave the room to be seen no more. The check is discreetly left on a side table. Koch and Harper are sincere about their conduct; it's not an act. Considering The Country Inn's high price $135 for a meal for 6, and long waiting list, they seem to have found a bizarre formula for success. Editor's note: Joel Brinkley was on a work-study project traveling down the West Coast with a television news jilm crew. 11 VS
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