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Chspel HI!!, florth Carolina, Tuesday, October 8, 1S74
Vol. 83, No. 31
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by Laura Toler
Staff Writer
The nation's first marine sanctuary may
soon be designated IS miles off North
Carolina's own Cape Hatteras. The
candidate for such distinction is a shipwreck
that of the Civil War ironclad Monitor,
discovered in August 1973 by a team of
North Carolina scientists.
During a recent news conference, Gov.
James E. Holshouser Jr. said he has asked
the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to designate
the site a sanctuary under the federal Marine
Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act of
1972.
John Newton, Duke University scientist
and head of the original Monitor discovery
. team, supports the plan. "As the first marine
sanctuary, the site will receive 'legal
protection so that it might not be destroyed
by souvenir hunters," he said Friday. "Also,
this is a way of attracting future researchers."
Once the Monitor becomes a marine
sanctuary, those wishing to do research at
the site must have their proposals approved
by the federal Department of Commerce's
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
"The mechanisms are still being worked
out," North Carolina archaeologist Steve
Gluckman said Friday. "Final authority will
reside with NOAA, but they will probably
set up a review process." Gluckman said the
second view may, come from an advisory
board of scientists.
A public hearing on the proposed
designation will be held at the Duke Marine
Laboratory at Beaufort on Nov. . 5.
According to marine sanctuary law,
Gluckman said, some demonstration of local
interest is required before the federal
government can offer protection for the site.
Newton said Friday he hopes an
agreement can be reached in time for an
official designation of the sanctuary on Jan.
30, 1975, the 1 13th anniversary of the
Monitor's launching in 1862.
The Monitor was lost in a storm off Cape
Hatteras Dec. 31, 1 862ning. months after its
inconclusive battle against the Confederate
Merrimac near Hampton Roads, Va.
Discussions about the need for some '.
protectional authority over the Monitor's
assets were spurred . to conclusion by a
controversial incident last May. University
of Delaware geologist Robert E. Sheridan, a
member of Newton's Aomror-finding team,
was passing the wreck during another cruise
and lowered a dredge to raise artifacts from
the area. Although Navy spokesmen from
the expedition claimed Sheridan had
damaged the delicate vessel, investigations
during an August cruise led by Newton
confirmed the ship was unharmed.
Because Sheridan used a Duke ship for his
cruise and radioed to Newton daily about his
activities, some scientists suspected Newton
of authorizing' the arbitrary dredging.
Newton denied having given permission and
confirmed his interest in the valuable
knowledge the site may provide.
The vessel will also aid archaeological '
research, Gluckman said.
"The Monitor was quite a revolutionary
design," he said. "It marked the transition,
from sail to steam and from wood to iron."
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Democrat considered strong candidate
by Greg Turosak v
Democrat Russell Walker sees repeal of
the food tax and a concern for social services
as the two major issues in his state senate
campaign.
Walker, an Asheboro resident and
businessman, is running for one of two seats
in North Carolina's 16th Senatorial District
against fellow Democrat Charles Vickery
and Republicans Ed Tenney and Michael
Budd.
Walker is regarded by many as the
strongest candidate in the field, having won
in Randolph, Chatham and Moore Counties
in last spring's primary. However, he lost the
race in Orange County with tough
opposition from Chapel Hillians Vickery
and Tenney.
During an informal interview last Friday
in the Daily Tar Heel office, Walker
explained that he thinks the food tax is
unfair to poor people.
As an owner of 10 grocery stores in four
counties and a resident of Randolph County,
which is not known as affluent, Walker says
he knows all too well the difficulty of a food
tax for some persons.
"We don't have a lot of black people down
there maybe eight or nine per cent but we
have a lot of poor whites," Walker said, "and
the. food tax is a burden on them."
Walker said food costs constitute enough
of a burden on these poor people already
without the additional burden of a food tax.
Walker qualified his disapproval of the
food tax, however, as being against the state
food tax. (The four per cent sales tax on food
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by Ben Steelman
Staff Writer
"Break into Carolina life anywhere, and
you will discover 'Luke.' He is eagerly
looking forward to the greater Carolina of
the future, and very genuinely helping lay its
foundations. Luke will make good. "
- 'Yackety-Yack,' 1919
'Luke' Hodges did make good,:
spectaculary. Perhaps no' Carolina graduate
better typified the Horatio Alger ideal of,
wealth attained through energy and thrift
and devotion to public service.
The son of a Virginia tenant farmer,
Luther Hartwell Hodges was born in 1 898, in
a log cabin just across the border from North
Carolina. When he was two, his parents
(who had lost their farm during a crop
failure) moved to nearby Leaksville, a tiny
cotton mill town.
Young Hodges' earliest memories
included sweeping out his father's one-room
general store. As one of nine children, he was
expected to earn his keep.
"I had a surging ambition to get out from
under conditions I saw around me as a kid,"
he recalled in 1959, "but I was never ashamed
of them." .
He enrolled in the University in 1 9 1 5, after
finishing high school a semester early. To
help pay tuition, he waited on tables in the
University cafeteria (then located in Swain
Hall) and stoked coal in the Chapel Hill
power plant.
In his spare time, Hodges played varsity"
football and basketball, managed the
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in North Carolina is broken down into three
per cent for state tax and one per cent for
county tax in 96 percent of North Carolina's
counties. The remaining four per cent of the
counties have only the three per cent state
tax.)
Walker said the state tax must . go.
Although he has no specific program at this
time, he mentioned taxing people at a higher
rate in the middle to upper income ranges
and perhaps placing luxury taxes on such
items as expensive automobiles and pleasure
boats. The current limit for taxation on these
is $120, no matter what the retail value.
Local governments depend more heavily
on the one per cent tax they get from food for
educational and other community
programs. Walker implied it may be harder
to replace the county tax.
.... Referring to his business profession,
Walker wryly noted, "I know my stand on
the food tax isn't going to be too popular
among some of the other merchants."
Walker said he feels he represents his
community but that once in the legislature he
must mate decisions as he sees them, not
taking stands just to get himself re-elected.
As for social services, Walker mentioned
specifically the need to improve prisons and
mental health centers. He also said the state
kindergarten program must be continually
expanded until it includes all children in the
state.
' Walker's wife is a social volunteer, and
Walker currently serves as treasurer of a day
care center. A second day care center is just
starting in Asheboro, and Walker is on the
governing board of that one.
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Photo courtesy of the North Carolina CoCtocfion
corner) with UNC Student Cabinet 1919
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baseball team and debated in the Dialectic
Society (Di), which awarded him its oratory
medal.
As a senior, he was UNC Student Council
president, a member of the student cabinet, a
president of the Di and YMCA Campus
secretary. He was tapped for Golden Fleece,'
and his class elected him senior president and
"Best All Around."
He served in the Student Army Training
Corps (the ancestor of .ROTC), was.
commissioned a second lieutenant but was
discharged without seeing action at the end
of World War 1.
After graduating in 1919 with an A.B. in
economics, he took a job as a clerk with
Carolina Cotton and Woolen' Mills, a
Leaksville factory owned by the Marshall
Field and Co. textile division.
In 1914, he was manager of all Marshall
Field mills within 12 miles of his home town.
By 1940, the company had transferred him to
its New York office, and by 1943, he was
vice-president in charge of Marshall Field's
textile operations, earning $75,000 a year.
Hodges attributed his success to being
constantly unsatisfied with his work.
"Not dissatisfied, mind you, but
unsatisfied. That goes for the job I do and the "
job others do, too.
"I worked for Marshall Field for 15 or 20
years before I found out what the office
hours were."
.Hodges retired in 1950 but almost
immediately involved himself in public
affairs. For a year he acted as head of the
industrial division of the U.S. Economic
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repeal off tete food.
On two other major issues bound to come
up in the 1975 legislature, Walker is in favor
of the Equal Rights Amendment, but is
reluctant to do away with the death penalty.
He said that in cases of murder or a
premeditated serious offense, "I would have
strong reservations about abolishing the
death penalty." He alluded briefly to an
experience close to him involving rape and
attempted murder that influence his
thinking.
Walker was twice elected to the Asheboro
City Council in the mid-60s, and was later
defeated in a bid for the state house. He was a
local manager for Nick Galifianakis in 1972,
and supported the minority anti-war
platform as a delegate to the 1968
Democratic National Convention in
Chicago.
On amnesty, he said, "I'm the forgiving
type. I know if I had a son in that position,
I'd want him right back."
"I think it would have been better to get
out in '68," he said about the Vietnam war.
"We would have saved a lot of time, money
and lives."
Walker said he would prefer biannual
sessions of the state legislature, provided the
committees could be relied on to do a lot of
work in the interim.
"I think there's too much of a tendency to
get out of there fast with annual sessions," he
said.
This is the second in a series of interviews
with the state Senate candidates. An
interview with Charles Vickery will appear in
Friday's DTH
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by Rick Reed
Staff Writer
UNC students can expect to pay more for
dormitory rooms next year due to the
impending sale of three University utilities.
University Housing Director James
Condie said Monday he was not sure how
much the increase would be but that the sale
of the utilities would combine with the
inflationary costs of coal to push room rents
higher.
"Nobody from Duke Power has come to
me and said, 'Mr. Condie, we will be raising
utility rates so much,'" Condie said. But he
said a rate increase is likely.
The State Utilities Study Commission has
recommended the sale of the University
telephone system to Southern Bell, and the
electric and water utilities to Duke Power
Co.
A five-man sale negotiations board was
appointed by the commission and will meet
with the UNC Board of Trustees to discuss
the recommendation Oct. 11.
Condie pointed out that since housing
occupies the most square-footage, "We
could be affected more by rate increases than
any other department on campus."
The rising cost of coal used to supply heat,
light, gas and water has affected room rent
already, Condie said, and will continue to do
so.
Last year's budget for single-student
housing, Condie explained, was originally
$395,000. But due to an increase in coal
prices, the figure has jumped to about
$440,000. This year's budget is $569,100, an
increase of about $ 174,000 over this time last
year.
What all these figures mean to students,
Condie said, is that they are paying $26 more
this year for heat, gas, light and water, not
counting electricity.
For each $6,600 in utility rate increases,
each student must pay an additional $1.
Asked about the increase in coal costs,
Wesley Cleveland, utilities accounting
manager for University Enterprises,
reported that on Nov. 1 last year, cost of coal
from the mine was $9.50 per ton. The same
ton now costs $50.
"Nobody in their right mind would believe
those figures," Cleveland said, "but those
figures are the facts."
Condie believes it is in the best interests of
Chapel Hill for Duke Power to buy the
utilities. "The way I see it," he said, "if the
company starts to lose money in Chapel Hill,
they can either absorb the loss or have a
general rate increase."
Condie pointed out that Duke Power is
"spread out; they have one rate for all the
people they supply." A rate increase, Condie
said, would be spread evenly over a large
area. If a local group bought the utilities, he
said, referring to the Consumers Utility
Corporation, then any rate increase would
be felt more strongly.
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enters his automobile to go to lunch during a break in the proceedings Monday. The
trial entered its fifth day Monday with a jury yet to be selected.
Aldermen recognize
transportation council
by Henry Farber
. Staff Writer
The Board of Aldermen officially
instituted the Transportation Advisory
Committee Monday night to assist the
town transportation department in the
operation and development of the
public transit system.
Two of the committee's nine members
are UNC students.
Lee Corum, a graduate student in law
and urban planning, and Lew Warren, a
senior, were among those appointed by
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Mayor Howard Lee.
The other committee members are
Terry Lathrup, Paul Morris, Gorman
Gilbert, Shirley Marshall, Marvin
Silver, Charles "Skip" Ethridge and
William Harrold.
During interviews before the board
meeting, both appointees expressed
satisfaction with the Bus system the"
'committee's main concern and
optimism about its future.
Corum said the committee's
responsibilities incude improving bus
service on existing routes during peak
hours and considering the construction
of park-and-ride facilities on the fringes
of town, where University students and
personnel could park their cars and ride
by bus into campus.
Corum reiterated suggestions that
Chapel Hill become a model system in
the eyes of the U.S. Department of
Transportation in order to become a
more likely recipient of additional
federal funds.
"We can't just look to large cities" to
develop mass transportation, Corum
said. "Since such a large percentage of
North Carolina's population lives in
medium-sized towns," mass transit must
be developed in these areas to contribute
to energy conservation and to move the
elderly, handicapped, young and poor.
Warren said the system as planned
will probably be in full swing by
December or January. The seventeen
new General Motors buses are not
expected to arrive before mid
November. Warren said the town appearance
committee is working on bus stop
shelters, which could possibly be
installed by December.
Both appointees are Greensboro
natives and former heads of the Student
Transportation Commission. Corum
served in 1972-73 and Warren in 1973
74. Cool
Today will be pertly cloudy and cool.
Highs will be In the upper 60s to low 70s,
end lows tonight will be In the 40s.
The chance cf rein Is 10 per cent today
end tonight Winds ere northeast at 10
mi.'ss per hour.