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by Helen Ross .
Staff Writer
Six new buses will be leased by the town to
alleviate rush-hour overcrowding and safety
problems, the Board of Aldermen decided
Monday night. .The vehicles will be leased for
two months, with an option to buy, until the
town's new buses arrive late this fall.
The immediate cost 01 leasing the buses
will be '$18,500. John Pappas, town
transportation director, said the leased buses
could be in operation within the week.
Alderman Gerry Cohen said four of the
buses will operate during the morning and
afternoon rush hours. The other two vehicles
will remain as spares ior nuunicuauyc
purposes. The new leased buses are intended
to provide relief for the F, G, N and U routes.
"As public officials we would be derelict
in our duty if we did not act immediately" on
the bus problem, Mayor Howard Lee said.
While following several of the buses on their
routes Monday, Lee said he saw riders left
behind and. numerous instances of
overcrowding. I saw people hanging out of
the bus windows," Lee said.
Lew Warren, an advisor to Student Body
President Marcus Williams and the Student
Transportation Committee, termed the
transit system at this point "inadequate and
unsafe" Pappas stressed, however, that the
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Despite court ruling
by Jim Roberts
Staff Writer
Gubernatorial elections will not be held at
Granville Towers Thursday despite a recent
Student Supreme Court ruling that a run-off
election must be held on that day, current
Granville governor Mark Miller said
Tuesday.
The court's decision was in response to a
case disputing a Feb. 5 general election for
Granville Residence College governor.
Miller said that before elections are held,
the Granville, senate must convene and
choose an elections board. The Granville
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to speak
United Farm Workers (UFW) President
. Cesar Chavez will speak at 3:30 today in
Memorial Hall. A Gallo Wines
representative will also be in Chapel Hill
today to respond to any Chavez charges.
Chavez, invited to North Carolina by
AFL-CIO president Wilbur Hobby, will also
visit Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh and
Durham to raise funds and to begin a
statewide boycott campaign. .
. The UFW is seeking support for a boycott
of table grapes, iceberg lettuce and Gallo
wines. The union is on strike against the
producers of these products.
Gallo southeastern representative Rick
Brank will answer questions concerning
Gallo's side of the dispute after Chavez's
speech in Room 101 of the Chapel Hill
Holiday Inn.
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drivers take every possible step to insure
passenger safety.
"We have underestimated and
underbudgeted the bus system," Town
Manager Chester . Kendzior said. In the
entire month of August there were over
75,000 passengers, while in the first six days
of September the buses have served over
51,000 people.
The aldermen also took under ad visement
a "truth-in-dining" proposal submitted by
Richard Levin, owner of Richard's, Inc. The
ordinance would ; require Chapel Hill'
restaurants to show on their menus whether
their food is frozen, prepackaged or
prepared in their own kitchen. They would
also need to specify what additives, other
than traditional seasonings, their - food
contains.
Town Attorney Emery - Denny said this
type of ordinance is probably not within the
bounds of a municipality and that he has .
serious reservations about the town's ability
to enforce such a proposal at this time.
Levin commented that he had contacted
the state attorney general to gain
consideration of his proposal on the state
level. Lee, voicing his concern, promised to
look with Cohen at possibilities for truth-in-dining
legislation on the town level.
In other action, the board granted
permission to ,the Record Bar to block off
constitution says, however, the senate will
first meet during the third week of classes.
There is no way for Granville to prepare
for an election by the Thursday deadline,
Miller said. If an election is not held by
Thursday, Granville Elections Board could
be cited for contempt of court.
Darrell Hancock, chief justice of the
court, said Tuesday that he has received no
message from Miller stating that elections
could not be held.
If the elections are not held, Hancock said,
Granville must show cause as to why they
were not held. If the cause is not sufficient,
contempt of court can.be cited.
The case involved a complaint filed by
Alvia Gaskill, candidate for governor of
Granville Residence College in last
February's general election. Gaskill finished
third and was thus denied a berth in the
subsequent run-off election.
Gaskill Complained that the election was
invalid because of alleged illegal practices at
the polls, such as candidates serving as.
polltenders, unattended ballot boxes, and
electioneering within the limit of 50 of the
polls. ;
Last Feb. 20, the Residence Hall
Association Tribunal ruled it could not hear
the complaint because it was not filed within
96 hours of the election as required by the
Campus General Election Laws.
The case was then taken to the court which
then referred it back to RHA. RHA heard
the case but denied Gaskill a run-off.
Gaskill finally appealed his case to the
student supreme court which ordered,
"Granville Residence College Elections
Board shall conduct a new election no later,
than 14 calendar days following the
commencement of Fall 1974 Semester." The
14-day time limit runs out Thursday.
Hancock said the major reason for
ordering a new election was that Granville
lacked any written election laws.
In its opinion the Court also stated that'
electioneering near the polls did have a '
detrimental effect on the election.
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Henderson Street Wednesday, September
11, from 7 until 11 p.m. for live music. A
permit was also issued to Jim Ridout,
proprietor of The Cave, for operation of a
poolroom adjacent to his establishment.
Several new town ordinances were
enacted. If a car is parked in a bus loading
zone the owner now must pay all the
expenses of towing and storing the vehicle. A
car will also be removed from any municipal
parking area if it remains there for over 24
hours.
The aldermen filled four vacancies on the
Town Planning Board? Among those
appointed was the first student to ever serve
on the board, Ann Slifkin. A second year law
student, Slifkin has served for the past six
months on the Zoning Board of Adjustment."
Gerry Cohen, who nominated her, said the
Planning Board is the most important town
board after the aldermen.
Before the meeting Monday night the
aldermen held a public hearing on -the
desirability of interior and exterior bus
advertising. The board postponed any action
until further consideration of the matter
could be made.
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by Hefen Thomas
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON President Ford is
studying the possibility of pardoning other
persons involved in the Watergate scandal,
just as he did former President Nixon, a
White House spokesman said today.
As the White House continued to explain
the circumstances behind the controversial
pardon of Nixon, Deputy Press Secretary
John W. Hushen dropped another
bombshell by announcing the prospect of
pardons for others, including those men who
go on trial Sept. 30 in the Watergate cover
up. He said the "entire matter is under study."
Meanwhile, defense lawyers for the men
Ford is considering pardoning Tuesday
seized on the pardon of Nixon as
ammunition to battle for clearing their
clients of all criminal cover-up charges for
which they are to go on trial. .
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- Attorneys for the six cover-up defendants,
all former Nixon aides, were holding a,
strategy session just a few blocks from the
White House at the same time presidential
spokesmen made their statements.
Unaware of this development, defense
counsels reportedly agreed to file motions
with U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica
contending that the cover-up indictments
should be dismissed due to the Nixon pardon
or at the very least, the trial should be
delayed because of the massive publicity
about it.
"This came as a complete but pleasant
surprise," John J. Wilson, attorney for
defendant H.R. Haldeman, said when told;
of the latest White House announcement '
that others may also be pardoned! hope it
will come to. pass."
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Leon Jaworski, meanwhile, the White
House released a prosecution memo
showing that criminal investigations
possibly involving Nixon in 10 areas other
than the Watergate cover-up were under way
at the time he was pardoned of any and all
crimes.
. Those areas ranged from Nixon's taxes to
wiretaps to possible conversion of campaign
money for his "personal benefit."
Attorneys for Haldeman and the other
five cover-up defendants John N.
Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, Robert C.
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by Ben Steelman
Special to the DTH
Student Government now officially exists
for the first time in 1 1 years, according to the
Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.
The two traditional campus debating and
literary organizations, meeting in joint
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it," Alderman Gerry Cohen said, "so I
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attending a meeting Tuesday night, was
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by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
It's almost becoming easy to obtain a
campus parking permit these days.
Student Tramsportation Director Scott'
Brannen announced Tuesday that Student
Government (SG) is releasing an additional
150 spaces for student use.
Brannen made the decision to release the
spaces Monday night after the Chapel Hill
Board of Aldermen approved a proposal to
lease six additional buses for use during rush
hours. SG had been receiving complaints
from students about packed buses bypassing
. stops on certain lines.
The 1 50 spaces SG is releasing are reserved
for students only. They are located in Zone
N-3 A (the Union Parking Lot) and Zone S-5
(Ramshead Parking Lot, Stadium Drive,
and Ridge Road).
"We can now accomodate all Scott
College residents who have been closed out,"
' Brannen said. Since there are vacancies in all
student zones, the Student Transportation
Office says every student who applied for a
permit either last spring" or this August will
get a space.
Any student eligible to have a car on
campus can apply for one of the open spaces
in N-3A or S-5 by filling out an application
at the Traffic Office, located in the basement
of the YMCA building, before Thursday. If
more people apply than the lots can
accomodate, the permits will be assigned to
seniors and graduate students first, followed
by juniors, and then sophomores.
In addition, there are spaces remaining in
all student zones and all employee zones'
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Mardian, Gordon C. Strachan and Kenneth
W. Parkinson refused to say publicly
what happened at their strategy meeting.
But sources close to the case said they
agreed they should seek dismissal cf all
charges on grounds that pushing those who
worked for Nixon while he goes free
amounts to "discriminatory prosecution"
forbidden by law.
All six stand accused of conspiracy in the
plot to hush up the bugging scandal. Several
are also charged with obstruction of justice
and lying to federal investigators.
ociety
session Sept. 5, formally repealed their 1963
resolution which had declared student
government a pointless waste of time and
had declared it abolished.
"It was a matter of unpleasant necessity,"
George Blackburn, a second-year law
student, past president of the Di-Phi, and
sponsor of the repeal motion, said.
The Societies had been considering a
proposal to organizTan all-campus
conference on Student Government, when
Tom Schoenheit, a senior and the group's
vice-president, objected that the matter dealt
with something that did not exist.
Blackburn then introduced his motion
which passed . after heated debate. The
conference ' proposal passed with little
objection.
As a result, Keith Kapp, president of the
Societies' Joint Senate, will confer this week
with Student Body President . Marcus
Williams on arrangements for the
conference, tentatively scheduled for late
October.
The leaders of major campus
organizations will be invited to participate in
a round-table discussion, lasting several days
on problems and inadequacies in the present
student government system and how these
can be reformed.
"The abolition resolution was a satirical
protest," explained Blackburn, "a protest
against 'Mickey Mouse' tendencies in the old
Student Legislature and an attempt to poke
fun at politicos who were taking themselves
too seriously.
"Since students will be voting whether or
not to continue with the present student
government system in the spring, we think
that problems and improvements should be
discussed in an open forum."
except Zones S-l (the Health Affairs
Complex) and S-2 (Bell Tower Parking Lot).
The "Daily Tar Heel" erroneously reported
Monday that there were still spaces available
in these lots.
Anybody students or employeesmay
apply for a space in any zone other than S-l
and S-2 until Friday. The permits cost $54,
and that sum can be either paid in full, split
into two S27 installments, or credited to the
applicant's University account.
William D. Locke, manager of the Traffic
and. Parking Office, said more than 125
students and employees who received
written notification they were awarded a
parking permit this fall have not yet picked
up their permit from the Traffic Office.
Locke said these permits must be picked
up by Friday or they will go on general sale
next week.
These leftover spaces will go on sale
September 19 instead of September 16, in
order to allow the Traffic Office staff time to
review all applications still being held.
Students who applied for a space and did not
pick up their permit will have their money,
refunded through a credit to their University'
accounts.
Meanwhile, Locke announced a change in
policy regarding lost and stolen bus passes.
The Traffic Office previously announced
that no passes would be replaced.
. "We're going to listen to the people who
have had the misfortune to have their bus
pass stolen," Locke said. He added that
stolen passes and passes that have been lost
the first time" will be replaced for a small
service charge.
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