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. WASHINGTON President Ford came
up with a different and lower set of
figures than his White House economists
Wednesday in estimating the bite his 5 per
cent income surtax would take from middle
income families.
Ford told his news conference the surtax
would cost families making $15,000 a year
nothing and those making $20,000 only $42
in 1975.
A government fact sheet released with
Ford's speech Tuesday said family incomes
of $15,000 would have $128 added to their
tax bill.
Both examples are correct. In the first
case. Ford was using "adjusted gross
income" for his $20,000 example: This is the
same as overall income for most families but
does not include exemptions and deductions
which, when subtracted, result in a "taxable
income" figure on which the surcharge is
based.
In the President's example, the family of
four would have four exemptions of $750
each totaling $3,000 plus deductions worth
$3,400. This leaves taxable income of
$13,600 on which a 5 per cent surcharge of
$42 would be paid.
The government's earlier" example
assumed a taxable income of $20,000 would
be subject to a 5 per cent surcharge of $128.
Ford said the one-year tax proposal would
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by Sandra Millers
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill's newest restaurant, the Steak ,
Pub Ltd. on Hamilton Road, may soon be
facing a lawsuit for discrimination in .; ,
advertising. -.
Chairman of the Association of Women
Students JAWS) James Ellis said
Wednesday her organization is currently
investigating legal options to protest the
Steak Pub advertisements. Ellis said several
individuals have come to her with
complaints about a recent ad in the Daily
Tar Heel which they, considered
discriminatory toward men and
unbeautiful women.
The controversial ad read: "Wanted! The
most beautiful girls in town to serve Steak
Pub's endless Feast, , Excellent . potential. -Waitresses,
cocktail waitresses, and
hostesses. Also, guys and girls as cooks, bus v
boys, dishwashers and salad cutters."
"We were incensed when we saw the ad,"
Ellis said. "And we're investigating what we.
can dp legally. We are definitely going to do
something. It's not only that ad's attitude
toward women, but the discrimination
against male waiters."
John Maloney, manager of the Steak Pub,
responded sharply to the accusations of
discriminatory hiring practices.
"I do not discriminate , whatsoever he
said, "1 have no qualms about hiring male,
female, black, white, orange, green or
whatever. Anybody who came in here with
two hands and was willing to work I was
willing to hire."
.Maloney said his staff includes twenty
waitresses and no waiters, although men are
employed as busboys, salad makers,
dishwashers and cooks.
"I was willing to-hire men," Maloney said,
"but the first 70 to 75 people who came in
asking about jobs were women, so I hired
them."
The Duke Chronicle also ran the
controversial advertisement. ," We got it at
the last minute and ran it at the last minute,"
a member of the Chronicle's advertising staff
said. "But we did ask them not to send us any
more like that."
The Chronicle representative said Jhe
paper had printed several other ads for Steak
Pub LtdUthat did not contain the appeal to
"the most beautiful women in town."
not dip deeply into the average American
wallet.
Ford told a news conference the carefully
considered proposal would affect only 28 per
cent of all individual taxpayers. Nor would it
be extended beyond the calendar year 1975,
he said.
There is no quick fix or immediate
panacea for an end to the spiraling cost of
living, Ford said. But, he added, "I'm
convinced, if the Congress responds, if the
American people respond in a voluntary
way, that we can have, hopefully early in
1975, some meaningful reduction in the rate
of inflation." .
On other subjects, the President:
Deplored the violence in Boston over
court-ordered busing.
Indicated he would not ask Congress to
restore drastically reduced funds in his
request for $850,000 in transition expenses
for former President Richard M. Nixon.
Disagreed with Treasury Secretary
William E. Simon's testimony earlier
Wednesday opposing eventual elimination
of the oil depletion allowance as contained in
a tax reform bill before the House Ways and
Means Committee. Ford said he favored a
phase-out of the controversial tax write-off
for oil companies.
Said the adverse reaction to his pardon
of Nixon and the illness of his wife, Betty,
had not changed his mind about the
possibility of running for election in 1976.
Had no comment on the Nixon pardon,
saying he would await his personal,
testimony ..next week before a House
Judiciary subcommittee.
Sidestepped comment on reports in
Washington and London that he and Soviet
Communist Party leader Leonid 1. Brezhnev
were considering a get-acquainted summit
meeting in November.
Said he had been assured there was
nothing improper about vice presidential
nominee Nelson A. Rockefeller's $50,000
cash gift to Secretary of State Henry A.'
Kissinger, then a foreign policy adviser to the
former New York governor.
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Med school budget included
C arrboro threat ee
Old Well foreclosure
Chief promoted
Chapel Hill Police Chief William Blake
has been promoted to ah assistant town
manager whose duties wilt be in the field
of safety services, according to a source in
Town Hall. A new chief has not yet been
named and the effective date of the
change has not been set. The decision will
be officially announced Oct. 21.
Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells threatened
legal action against Roberts Associates if
1973 and 1974 taxes on Old Well
Apartments are not paid by Friday.
Speaking to Carrboro's Aldermen
Tuesday night, Wells referred to possible
foreclosure on the realtor's Carrboro
property.
John Curry, the attorney working with
Carrboro's tax collector, said the case was
given to him several weeks ago and he was to
take legal action with foreclosure. Roberts
Associates owed the town of Carrboro
approximately $8,000.
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The banks holding mortgages by Roberts
Associates were notified last week by Curry
that Roberts Associates was about to be
foreclosed. The banks assured Curry the full
amount would be paid by Friday. So far
$3,000 has been paid.
"My opinion is that the full amount will be
paid," Curry said. "If the town forecloses
and the property is sold at a public auction,
the banks lose their mortgage. So
consequently, they're going to pay the bill."
Bobby Roberts of Roberts Associates
confirmed this statement. "They already
have the money and 1 think they'll be paid
Thursday."
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by Tom Foreman
Staff Writer
A proposed report concerning funding
and development of the East Carolina
medical school, originally to be completed
this mortfh, has been postponed until Nov.
15, University President William Friday said
Tuesday.
, Friday would not comment on the delay
and UNC medical school Dean Christopher
Fordham was not available Wednesday for
comment.
However, Friday did say Tuesday that the
report would contain a proposed budget for
the ECU medical school program. It will also
contain a statement of the program's
progress.
The report, part of the mandate set forth
for the Board of Governors by the 1974
General Assembly earlier this year, was
originally to have been released Oct. 28.
Thus, the debate over the ECU med school
continues for another month, after
remaining a dominant issue in political and
academic circles during the summer. In July,
Fordham requested that ECU Chancellor
Leo Jenkins support his proposals for the
operation of the medical school. Fordham
said he could not go through with his plans
until "Chancellor Jenkins and his
constituencies support the effort in good
faith."
State Rep. Hortori Rountree of Pitt
County, a strong proponent of the ECU Med
School, charged UNC with bypassing the
East Carolina administration when
formulating administrative plans' for the
school. Earlier, a liaison committee on
medical education turned down an attempt
by Friday and Jenkins to make ECU's school
independent of UNC.
Their plans would then have been in
accordance with the General Assembly's
mandate for establishment of a two-year
med school with a capacity for forty
students, double the present number.
The committee charged that ECU lacked
experience and qualifications for a new and
developing program. Friday said, however,
that a new program would be initiated.
Friday also attempted to pass a "muzzle
rule" at a July UNC Board of Governors
meeting. The ruling would have forbidden
administrators, such as chancellors, to
express in public their disapproval of
policies adopted by the Board. The proposal
by Friday was considered by many to be an
attempt to silence Jenkins, who had made
numerous comments last spring about the
board's decision against expansion of East
Carolina's med school.
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win in CGC run-off
, Bob Heymann and Tom Dillard
have been declared winners in races
for Campus Governing Council
(CGC) in Wednesday's run-off
elections, election board chairman
Ricky Bryant said. Wednesday.
Eighteen students voted in the
election.
Heymann, running for the seat in
off-campus District IV, received seven
P votes. His opponents, John
; Whittingham and Don Hurley each
: received one vote.
$ In graduate District IV, Dillard
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received six votes and his opponent,
Marty Elks got three. Dillard was a
write-in candidate in the Oct. 2 general
election for the CGC position.
In the Oct. 2 election, Dillard
received 10 votes while Elks received
eight. Because of "other write-in"
candidates, Dillard did not have a
clear majority.
In the Oct. 2 election for
undergraduate off-campus CGC seat.
Whittingham had eight votes while
Heymann and Hurley each had four,
leaving no clear majority.
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by Vernon Loeb
Staff Writer
Staff photo by AJIc Boyle
Psychiatry professor Mario Perez'Reyes in his marijuana research laboratory
"it is too bad society has to use drugs," Associate Professor
of Psychiatry Mario Perez'Reyes said,"but if anyone is going
to, marijuana is the best drug to use. if you compare the use
of alcohol to that of marijuana, marijuana is by far the better
of the two."
Under the auspices of the National Institute of Drug
Abuse, many American universities are studying various
aspects of marijuana and its use. The results of this medical
research will inevitably influence the decisions of politicians
who have recently begun to consider the politically
dangerous question of marijuana's legalization.
For the past three-and-one-half years at UNC medical
school, Perez'Reyes has been studying the chemical
components of marijuana. These studies will continue for at
least another two years.
Perez'Reyes said his research was formulated to achieve
three basic goals. First, to study the pharmacological activity
of the individual compounds in marijuana and how the
human body metabolizes these compounds.
Second, to study the possible therapeutic applications of
marijuana, and third, to study how the use of marijuana
interacts with commonly used drugs, such as birth control
pills. ,
Although his research is not designed to discern whether
marijuana is harmful to its users, Perez'Reyes said he knew of
no detrimental effects caused by the drug.
Aside from being less harmful to the body, marijuana does
not increase aggression, as does alcohol, Perez'Reyes said.
"People seem to be able to control themselves much better
when they are stoned than when drunk " he said. "1 have also
been told by my subjects that it is easier to stop smoking
marijuana than it is to stop drinking, or smoking cigarettes."
Students and other community members are used as
volunteers by Perez'Reyes in his research. They are paid $50
per experiment by the National Institute of Drug Abuse,
which also supplies all chemicals used in the experiments.
"We started using people we knew," he said, "but word of
my experiments spread so quickly 1 was just about being
propositioned by people who wanted to volunteer."
Although Perez'Reyes spoke of many humorous incidents
that developed during experimentation, such as subjects
reporting a "high" sensation after smoking chemically
impotent marijuana, he emphasized the seriousness of the
work.
Each volunteer must fill out a comprehensive application
before taking part in an experiment, which requires an
overnight stay in the hospital while tests are run. "My
subjects have to have used marijuana before taking part in an
experiment," Perez'Reyes said, "or else the government
accuses me of perverting the youth of America."
His research centers around the study of Delta 8 and 9
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THQ, the substances in marijuana
most responsible for the "high" sensation.
By intravenously injecting controlled amounts of Delta 9
THC into chronic and infrequent marijuana users, tolerance
factors related to the drug are studied. A report on
Perez'Reyes experiment in Archives of General Psychiatry
reads, "This is evidence that marijuana, as currently used by
young Americans, does not produce tolerance or sensitivity
to its effects."
Another experiment studied the potency of marijuana's
major chemical substances, Delta 8 and 9 THC, Cannabinol
and Cannabidiol. Perez'Reyes said Delta 9 THC overwhelms
people, while Delta 8 is about 50 per cent less effective, with
Cannabinol being about 10-20 per cent as effective as Delta 9
THC. Cannabidiol was found to have no effect.
The published report on this experiment reads, "In
conclusion, contrary to the results obtained in "the rhesus
monkey, we have found that Cannabinol is capable of
producing a marijuana-like "high." This finding indicates the
need for caution in extrapolating results obtained in animal
experimentation to man."
Substances created by the body to metabolize Delta 9.
THC also help to create the "high" sensation, Perez'Reyes
said. By injecting these metabolizers in a chemically
synthesized form, the power with which some of them affect
the brain was studied,
Unlike barbiturates, marijuana produces no related effects
when taken at the lame time as contraceptive drugs,;
Perez'Reyes said after studying blood samples of 10;
volunteers, five of whom were chronic marijuana users. Each
was intravenously injected with a contraceptive drug and
marijuana's chemical substances. :
Perez'Reyes said he has recently concluded the study of a;
possible therapeutic use for marijuana. Experimenting on a
theory developed by opthamologists at UCLA, he concluded
that marijuana reduces intraocular pressure (pressure of
fluids that build up behind the eye) by 35 per cent. :
The drug commonly used to reduce this pressure creates;
blurred vision for six hours, while marijuana produces no
such serious after-effects, Perez'Reyes said. He hopes this
new information will be published shortly.
"Society has an emotional response to marijuana, and
associates it with narcotic drugs," Perez'Reyes said, speaking
of those opposed to legal marijuana. . He thinks these
outlooks will change in years to come.
Perez'Reyes said he favored the decriminalization of
marijuana, and believes in a system used in Ann Arbor,
Mich., where something similar to a parking ticket was given
to anyone caught possessing the drug.
"I see only advantages, such as uniform quality and
taxation, in legalizing marijuana," Perez'Reyes said,. but
added that many technical problems, such as the difficulty in
guarding large fields of marijuana, would also arise if the
drug were legalized.