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Chapel Hiirs Morning Newspaper
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, September 13, 1974
Vol. 83, No. 12
Founded February 23, 1833
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by C D Gaines
Staff Writer
The Carolina Gay Association (CGA), now an officially
recognized campus organization, may have problems
obtaining Student Government (SG) funding.
"Every person involved has to decide on his own if he is
going to reveal his name to the group," CGA chairman Mike
Grissom said Thursday.
But, according to Student Body President Marcus
Williams, an organization ; composed of anonymous
members requesting SG funds "might be sorely
disappointed."
"How can they substantiate a budget request without
proof of who these people are," Williams said. "The Student
Government is going to demand to know. Numbers just
won't do."
"It's not a veil of secrecy," Grissom said, "but it has to be
. realized by others that it's a difficult thing. Oviously there are
some nuts running around," Grissom said. He added that
some gays perceive threats of physical violence.
" It is our belief," the CGA statement of purpose says, "that
those gays who participate in a recognized group activity will
feel more accepted by society as a-whole and will become
more accepting of themselves, thus developing a more
positive gay self-concept."
In the first executive meeting of the CGA Wednesday
night, one CGA member suggested that posters should be
placed around Kenan Stadium for the benefit of UNC
alumni.
Gamemis . electioinis to lb e
by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council (CGC)
passed a bill Tuesday night authorizing a
campus-wide election to be held Wednesday,
Oct. 2. .
All undergraduate students can vote to
elect members of the new Undergraduate
Court, and at least four vacant CGC seats
will be filled. ' ''
Rick Bryant, a member of the Elections
Board whom Student Body President
' by Helen Ross
Staff Writer
The battle for parking spaces continues
daily between student and adult commuters
and area shoppers at University Mall.
Steven Techet, leasing representative of
North Hills, Inc., which owns the mall, said
as many as 250 commuter cars park there
each day.
In an interview before a meeting of
University Mall merchants Thursday
morning at K & W Cafateria, Techet said all
types of commuters, not just students as
reported earlier, were parking in the wrong
areas at the mall:
The meeting was held to determine how to
by Gary Dorsey
Staff Writer
The biggest road in Chapel Hill is named
after the airport. Airport Road, it's
a spacious four-lane road that evolves from
South Columbia Street as you leave town.
The four lanes and extra center turn lane are
posted with 35 mile per hour speed limit
signs, presumably to control congestion of
skyway travelers bustling to and from the
airport..-
You may assume this. Reality, of course is
a different experience.'
The Horace Williams Airport is not big
and bustling and modern. The airport
terminal and lobby is a small five-room
wooden building (including restrooms) and
looks like the clubhouse at a public golf
course. It's hard to see from the road.
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On the flat acreage in front of the lobby
terminal are the runway, hangers and a large
field area where 15 or 20 planes are tied
down. . , ,
Jimmy Gibbs, one of the three part-time
employees at the airport said the airport
facilities are "adequate, just about
adequate." Airport manager Kenneth
Hawkins said, "That's about the best word
for itadequate."
Other people have called it a dump.
"The airport lobby is a shambles," one
person said. "The furniture in a surplus store
looks better. These are the first things some
people see of Chapel Hill, and, for some
people, it's the only thing they see "
One pilot, who keeps his plane at the
airport, complained that the University
won't lift a finger to update facilities,
improve runway lights, install a good beacon
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"They always said there were queers and harlots behind
every tree," he said. "Well, now we're coming out from
behind the trees."
CGA will hold an open house Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Craige Green Room. The public is cordially invited.
Marcus Williams has asked to coordinate
the Oct. 2 election, said details concerning
polling locations and polltenders will be
worked out within the next week.
Williams must nominate as many as eight
members for the 1 1-man board and appoint
a"chairman. Besides" Bryant, only Ed
Rodman and Alston Gradner will definitely
be serving this year.
CGC members must be elected from the
following districts:
Undergraduate Off-Campus District IV,
battle
rectify the park-and-ride system.
Convenience parking for customers is
guaranteed to merchants in the rental fee
they pay for space in the mall, Techet said.
Commuters now tend to block areas close
to Roses, Billy Arthur's and Belk's, he said:
The merchants would like commuters to
park as close to the Binkley Church, 15-501
highway area as possible.
Techet said, since the "mall is not striped,
part of the problem is ours."
Student Body President Marcus Williams,
who attended the meeting, said, "The major
purpose of the mall arrangement is
convenience in parking and, for that reason
and also for security reasons, it is asked that
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light or generally make the airport safer.
"They say they don't have the money," he
said.
Hawkins said, "1 wouldn't say they (the
University) don't want to give us these
things. The University Airport is supposed
to be supported by the money it makes on
gas, oil and tie-down rentals. But the money
also has to pay wages and those things. We're
gradually building up as best we can."
' Gradually seems to be too slow for some
people. Colonel Earl Provancha operates the
Medical Air Operations trailer by the
airport. A confidential source close to his
office says the colonel had to fight with the
University to get the runway paved. It wasn't '
paved until 1971. Before it had been just a
grass runway.
The pilots who used the runway were so
elated after it was paved that, according to
one, "they threw a party to celebrate."
At the party they decided to' pitch in and
buy some runway lights and a beacon since
the University wouldn't do it. The airport
finally got its lights and beacon.
Gibbs says the lights on the runway are
sometimes hard to see at night. The rotating
beacon is now broken and even when it did
work, according to Hawkins, it could have
been better. "But it's better than no beacon."
The University Physical Plant mechanics, he .
said, are supposed "to come out sometime to
fix it."
The University administration oversees
the airport operation. '
The administrator in direct charge of the
airport is James A. Branch, the executive
director of auxiliary enterprises at UNC.
Because of the gasoline shortage last
spring and because the airport was handling
more planes and having to hold more gas for
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speakers refreshments
putting this poster all over campus
for alumni to see
to replace Rick Turner who graduated. The
district includes the western edge of
Carrboro and most of western Orange
County.
Undergraduate Off-Campus District V,
to replace Lee Harris who graduated. The
district includes all students who live outside
of Orange and Durham Counties and parts
of northeastern Orange County.
Precise information about boundaries can
be obtained from the Elections Board by
calling 933-5201.
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students park as close to the fringes as
possible."
The merchants are "sincere in wanting us
to go through the right channels in
communicating our needs and seem very
receptive to the students point of view."
Although plans for moving a bus stop
were discussed, Williams said no definite
action was taken.
The park-and-ride facility at the mall is
temporary until the town can locate a more
permanent place, but the mall merchants,
continue to worry about providing enough
convenient parking spaces for their
customers, especially as the Christmas
shopping season nears.
the Medical Air Operations planes, which
had increased their air traveling, according
to Hawkins, an order was issued form the
administration to reduce their gasoline sales
to transients, including alumni.
"Transients come in here and want gas,"
Gibbs said. "They read in their maps that
we're an open airport with gas to sell. But
when they ask for gas I've got to tell them
that I can't sell it to them because of the
University order. Some of them get mad as
shit.'!
"It (the order) was made because of the gas
shortage. Well, the shortage is over and we're
.the only station around that can't sell gas to
transients."
, Actually, the airport can sell gas to
transients but only if it is an emergency. They
will give a pilot enough gas to get to the
nearest airport so he can fill up.
But what happens this weekend when
'some transient alumni come in their planes
to see the football game? Will they be told
they can't get gas?
"I don't know," said Gibbs. "There'll be a
lot of aircraft coming in. 1 guess we'll find out
this weekend."
Branch doesn't speak hesitantly. People
will be able to get gas, he said, alumni
included. "We'll be able to take care of
anyone that comes in."
The Horace Williams Airport, Chapel
. Hill's guide to the skies, marked on a wall
size U.S. map inside the airport's terminal
lobby by a silver thumb tack.
It's Chapel Hill's airport it's even got a
road named after it and it's a big deal to
some people. An integral part of continental
travel. Welcoming the jet age.
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by Jane Denlson
United Press International
WASHINGTON U.S. District Judge
John J . Sirica Thursday denied demands by
three major Watergate conspiracy
defendants to dismiss charges against them
on grounds that Richard Nixon's tacit
admission of guilt by accepting a pardon had
made a fair trial for them impossible.
Sirica also rejected their request that the
cover-up trial be postponed indefinitely
because the mass of publicity over the Nixon
pardon. But he did order a one-day delay,
until Oct. I , to permit calling a fresh batch of
nearly 1,000 prospective jurors.
The rulings were issued after a closed 90
minute meeting with lawyers for the six
defendants in the cover-up case.
The motions by former Attorney General
John M. Mitchell and one-time top Nixon
aides H.R. Haldeman and John
Ehrlichman for dismissal of their
indictments or a lengthy delay of their trial
had been filed only hours before.
But Sirica did grant a Haldeman motion
to dismiss the 400 prospective jurors who
have already survived a preliminary
screening process, and to call a fresh pool
from which 12 jurors and six alternates will
be chosen.
The court in early July had sent
questionnaires to more than 700 District of
held.
Two graduate representatives have
resigned, creating vacancies in their districts.
They are:
Graduate District IV, formerly
represented by Richard Bowerman! The
- district ;. is composed of students in the
Schools of Medicine and Eduaction.
Graduate District II, formerly
represented by Ian Cooper. The district is
composed of students from the following
departments: business, computer science,
operations research, statistics, botany,
chemistry, geology, ecology, marine science,
mathematics, physics, zoology and graduate
medicine. '
Undergraduates will elect a man and a
woman from 14 districts to be determined
next week,, to serve on the new
Undergraduate Court, which will replace the
old Honor Court.
Candidates for CGC seats must reside in
the district from which they are elected, but
candidates for Undergraduate Court need
not.
All candidates must submit a petition of
25 names in order to run. Petitions are
available in Suite C in the Union and must be
turned in to the Elections Board by Sept. 18.
. Candidates for Undergraduate Court
must also be certified by the court
supervisory board. The board, which met for
the first time Tuesday, has not yet decided
what guidelines to follow.
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Columbia residents asking if they would be
able to serve on a sequestered jury for a
highly publicized criminal case expected to
last three to four months.
Haldeman contended that this tipped off
prospective jurors that they might be serving
on the Watergate cover-up jury and thus
might have been influenced by Nixon's
subsequent resignation and pardon.
In a draft of his formal order which will be
filed Friday morning, Sirica said the grounds
for Haldeman's request for a new jury pool
were insubstantial but they he would grant
RHA board okays
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by Frank Griffin
Staff Writer
The Residence Hall Association (RHA)
Board of Governors voted Wednesday night
to propose an amendment to the RHA
constitution which will give Craig Graduate
Center residents representation on RHA and
allow Mike O'Neal to retain his RHA
presidency.
The proposed amendment, which calls for
striking the word undergraduate from the
RHA constitution, passed unanimously. It
must now be approved by Men's Residence
Council and the Women's Residence
Council.
If the amendment is approved, O'Neal,
who is a resident of Craig, will be allowed to
continue as RHA president.
The constitution now requires executive
officers to live in a University-owned or
approved undergraduate residence hall.
O'Neal said Thursday, however, that his
appeal process is not over. He said he would
deliver a letter of appeal to Henry A. Foscue,
chairman of the Board of Trustees for
UNC Chapel Hill, at the board's meeting
Friday night. The appeal will not be taken up
by the board until Oct. 11.
Student Body President Marcus Williams
said Thursday O'Neal was "superceding
rules other students have to live by" by
continuing his appeals.
Clear, warm
Today's forecast is clear to partly
cloudy and warm with a chance of
afternoon and evening thunder showers.
Highs will be In the mid to upper 80s,
and lows in the mid to upper 60s. Chance
of rain is 30 per cent today and 20 per
cent tonight. Winds will be light and
variable.
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the plea "out of an abundance of cauf ion."
He said Special Prosecutor Leon
Jaworski. who had representatives atvhc
meeting, had no objection. He also said he
would decide at the opening of the trial
whether the jury would be sequestered.
Mitchell was the first to file for dismissal
of all charges Thursday. Motions from
Haldeman and Ehrlichman followed within
a few hours. The three pinned their motions
to the pardon for Nixon and claimed they
should not be prosecuted while Nixon goes
free.
representation
"I have reason to believe Mike was fully
cognizant of the housing policy, but
proceeded to run for the RHA presidency.''
Williams said. "Chancellor Taylor's decision
was a judicious one and I applaud it."
"The only question now is how effective
can a leader be when he through malice of
forethought desregards rules by which the
rest of the students must live," Williams said.
"I respect Mike's knowledge and his
organizational skills, but I abhor his decision
to run knowing that that rule did exist."
The governing board vote came after Neil
Pennywitt, a junior transfer student
representing undergraduates living in
Please turn to O'Neal, page 2
Saturday
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for tonuses
Chapel Hill's bus system will observe a '
special home football game schedule
Saturday.
Two special express buses will run from
1 1:30 a.m. to 1: 15 p.m., and for 90 minutes
after the game. One wjjl connect University
airport parking lot and Kenan Stadium
every 12 minutes,- and the other will run
between Finley Golf Course Road and
Kenan Stadium every 20 minutes.
The campus "U" route will run every six
minutes instead of every 15 minutes.
All other bus routes will follow their
regular Saturday schedule.
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Staff photo by Tom Hutto
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