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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Monday, November 18, 1974
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President Ford flew to the Far East
Sunday to try his hand at summit diplomacy.
He described his journey as a quest for peace
during a brief stopover in frigid Anchorage,
but also promised to keep America militarily
strong.
The Anchorage fuel stop ,was the
President's last sight of the United States for
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by Rick Reed
Staff Writer
State and local authorities met Friday
with representatives of Chapel Hill,
Carrboro and Orange County to discuss the
possible purchase of the University water
system and creation of a local water and
sewer authority.
Members of the three local groups met
with representatives of the University's
Institute of Government, the Triangle J
Council of Governments, Department of
Human Resources and the Department of
Environmental Management.
The three governing bodies have until
Nov. 25 to decide whether they want to
purchase the water utility.
The meeting was chaired by Sen. John T.
Church, D-Alamance, and chairman of the
state Utilities Study Commission (Church
Commission), and was held at the request of
the UNC Board of Trustees.
The Church Commission was created by
the North Carolina General Assembly in
1 97 1 to recommend, either the sale or
retention by UNC of its electric, water,
-telephone ?werage systems.
On Sept. 27, the commission
recommended the telephone system be sold
to Southern Bell and the electric and water
systems be sold to Duke Power Company.
Then, on Oct. U, the trustees suggested
Duke Power might be willing to buy the
water system, make some much-needed
improvements on that utility, then re-sell it
to a local water and sewer authority.
If the local boards decide not to pursue
this plan, the matter will 'probably be
dropped. If, however, the plan is endorsed,
several options can be considered.
Jane Wicker, assistant director of the
Institute of Government, discussed several
options the three boards might want to
consider.
Basically, the three parties could form
either an authority or a joint agency to
handle the two utilities. The differences
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by Barbara Holtzman
Associate Editor
RALEIGH Standing in front of the gate
to the Women's Correctional Center, it is
difficult to understand why anyone would
want to demonstrate against conditions
there.
Unlike Central Prison, with its barbed
wire and imposing security fortresses, the
women's prison has a spacious, well
trimmed lawn and groves of towering trees.
The "campus," as the inmates call it, looks as
if it could have been lifted from the pages of a
Sweet Briar catalogue.
But for the 75 demonstrators gathered
outside the frcmtrgate on Saturday, a book
can't be judged by its cover. "They're all
treated as niggers in there," Celine Chenier,
representative of Action for Forgotten
Women and protest organizer, shouted
through a bullhorn.
"We want the legislators to give more
money and get more and better people to
work in there," Chenier screamed, standing
on a battered pick-up truck with her fist
raised high.
"Right on," responded some
demonstrators, their eyes squinting to catch
every moment of Chenier.
"Racist practices have got to stop,"
Chenier said. "Black inmates are sent to the
governor's mansion as domestics, but not the
whites, because they can't tell the guests from
the inmates. Whatever happened to
uniforms?" she emotionally charged.
"Free our sisters, free ourselves," Chenier
began, and the crowd joined in eagerly.
"This state is shitty," one of the protestors
commented as the chant went on, and with
her fist waving in the air, rejoined the crowd.
More chants. "The laundry will go." The
women who work in the prison laundry must
handle tubs weighing up to 250 pounds in
over 100-degree temperatures, Chenier said.
The laundry comes in from other camps
carrying germs, crabs and waste materials,
and the women have no protection or
medical treatment. Marie Hill, one of the
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the next 1 0 days as he travels to Japan, South
Korea, and the Siberian port city of
Vladivostok where he will hold his first
meeting with Communist Party Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev.
"Alaska gives us an inspiring farewell
boost as we proceed on America's quest for
peace and improved international relations,"
he said from a platform' inside the silver
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between the methods are in decision making
and raising money.
The joint agency would raise money for
purchase and capital improvements through
issuing either revenue bonds or general
obligation bonds. General obligation bonds
often have a lower interest rate.
A water and sewer authority, on the other
hand, would raise its money exclusively
through revenue bonds. The three boards
would appoint directors in compliance with
state guidelines.
, Claiborne Jones, UNC Vice chancellor
tor business, raised the question of
availability of federal and state money to the
authority. Fred Armstrong, with the
regional engineering division of the
Department of Environmental
Management, said federal funding of up to
75 per cent, and state funding to 1 2xh per cent
would be available for the sewerage system.
No federal money would be available for the
water system, but the state, in compliance
with the state Clean Water Bond Act, would
supply up to 25 per cent of the installation
cost of the water system.
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by George Bacso
Staff Writer ,
The UNC General Faculty held its
November meeting Friday, passed two
memorial resolutions and two faculty code
amendments but adjourned in the absence of
a quorum before several annual reports from
its standing committees could be presented.
Memorial resolutions were passed for the
late medical school instructor Dr. Louis G.
Welt and the late George Kachergis of the art
department.
J. Dickson Phillips, chairman of the
committee on University government,
presented three proposed amendments to
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Protesters Join demonstration organizer Celine Chenier in 'Free our sisters' chant outside Raleigh's Women's prison
inmates, had two toes amputated because of
the wet and unsanitary laundry floors,
Chenier said. .
"You will be paid for your labors," the
crowd chanted. Men inmates are paid for
their work in the prison; the women aren't,
Chenier said.
"More telephones for the women," went a
new chant. "There are only two phones for
400 women," Chenier said. "Can you
imagine the chaos in trying to talk to your
loved ones?" she asked.
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hangar No. 5 where Richard M. Nixon met
Japanese Emperor Hirohito a year ago.
Meanwhile in Tokyo, an estimated 30,000
demonstrated against Ford's visit. Although
the demonstration was the largest in Japan's
history, it did not draw the 100,000
organizers hoped to rally, and generally
lacked enthusiasm.
"It is a completely underwhelming
demonstration," an American official who
watched the participants troop past the
heavily guarded U.S. embassy said.
Because of tight security. Ford will
probably not see the American and Japanese
flags and signs raised to greet him. He will be
met at the airport by about 25,000 police,
and whisked by helicopter to the ancient
imperial palace.
Aboard Air Force One Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger said he believes chances
are better than even that the United States
and the Soviet Union will sign next year a 10
year treaty placing limits on both offensive
and defensive missiles.
The new strategic arms limitation treaty,
called SALT II, would be a more
comprehensive pact than the SALT I interim
agreement signed in Moscow in 1972. It is
especially desired by the United States to
head off new and costly escalations of the
nuclear arms race and to continue the era of
detente; 1
UPI learned that Kissinger's optimism
about the SALT 11 treaty stems from the fact
that the Secretary of State considers the
Watergate scandal largely a thing of the past.
Soviet officials are believed to have been
leery about reaching any new SALT
agreement with Richard M. Nixon in
Moscow last summer.
The Russians are thought to view Ford as
a potential six-year man in the White House,
whereas they had rightly feared that Nixon
was serving his last weeks as President when
they saw him last summer.
passes
'The Faculty Code of University
Government." The first proposal, a
correction of a previously approved
amendment, passed unanimously.
Debate over the second proposed
amendment bogged down, however, as
several attempts were made to change its
wording. The proposal would give the
chancellor the power to dismiss a dean for
any cause the chancellor determined would
be in the best interests of the University. The
chancellor would be required to discuss the
matter with his advisory committee first,
however, except in cases of exceptional
circumstance..
After considerable debate, the
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"More money to the prison," the crowd
yelled. "This demonstration is not aimed at
the administrators but at the legislators,"
Chenier said. Even the warden supported the
demonstration, but without money, nothing
can be done, Chenier noted.
As the chants continued, one jokester in
the crowd yelled, "Go Tar Heels! Go to hell,
State!" A bystander quipped, "1 guess he's
not socially aware."
In between chants, the crowd listened to
speakers, and although Angela Davis was
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by Andy Sidden
Staff Writer
Newsmen should be aggressive in
investigating and reporting governmental
and criminal wrongdoing, press and justice
amendment passed 56-15. During the
discussion over the second proposal, many
faculty members left the auditorium. A
proposal was then made that there was an
absence of a quorum, and when a count
proved this correct, the meeting was
adjourned.
Thus, four annual reports from the faculty
council's standing committees were not
given. Reports on undergraduate admissions
and student aid detail the 1974 statistics in
those departments. An annual report on the
University's participation in the faculty
assembly recommends continued
participation by the University. A report on
personnel on the 4 a.m. shift, previously
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not there as she was during the first prison
demonstration in July, an equally fervid and
dedicated reformer was.
Mrs. Lee Faye Mack of the Mothers for
Liberation in Winston-Salem, told the
crowd, "Check it out, my friends. We got a 1
job to do."
Standing on the truck, with Chenier
holding the bullhorn. Mack ardently said,
"We are iacing a monster, but 'the man is
shaking. Even if there was seven of us here,
the man' would shake."
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representatives urged during a weekend
seminar.
The primary purpose of a free press is to
act as an additional check on the three
official branches of government,
Greensboro Daily News Editor and N.C.
resolutions
postponed from the council's October
meeting, concludes that the position of
"ombudsman" be established so employee
complaints could be effectively handled.
Another report scheduled to be given was
a progress report on the Women's Studies
committee. The report says the group was
hampered during the summer but that it is
now in full swing and progress will soon be
seen.
.Faculty secretary Henry C. Boren said
Friday the agenda committee, which meets
Nov. 26, may decide to hold a special faculty
council meeting so the reports may be
presented before the next regularly
scheduled meeting in December.
More "Right on's" from the crowd.
"We are facing the same racism and
oppression in prison that is in society. If you
cross that red, white and blue line, you'd
better believe that the man' will find a way to
get rid of you. We must liberate our sisters.
The women must do it, because the man'
can't do it," Mack declared.
"A change has got to come," arose a new
chant. By this time, a deep-voiced minister
had joined in, and he could be heard above
the crowd.
"Can you hear me, my sisters?" Chenier
asked. A barely audible chorus of screams
came from inside the gates.
"They're listening to us," Chenier told the
crowd, and aiming the bullhorn to the
distant inmates told them, "We are with you,
my sisters. Hey. I can see you .. I can see
some of your 'fros . . . how's it goin Marie?
It's not true. You know what I mean. I'll talk
to you on the phone later."
More cheers arose from the prison, and
the crowd rushed up to the gate, peering in to
catch any glimpse of the inmates.
"Hey, what're they saying?" one girl asked.
"They're telling us to climb the gates,"
another girl announced to the crowd,
looking around to see who would be the first
to rush in.
The crowd stayed at the gate but chanted
loudly, raised their fists and waved their
signs in the air. "Abolish women's prisons,"
"No more victims! No more prisons! Change
the society that makes victims criminals,"
read some of the signs.
"We're doing what we can out here,"
Chenier told the inmates, but "You must
unite in there." The crowd picked up the
chant.
As the crowd continued to yell, Chenier
surveyed the scene with admiration, picked
up the bullhorn and told the inmates, "1 love
you. I love all of you."
A little girl, who before had complained of
being too warm in her coat, listened for a
while, then, looking around, yelled, "1 love
you."
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protest President Ford's upcoming visit
seminar
Press Association President William Snider
said Friday.
This idea differs radically with "the kind of
claptrap the former vice president Spiro
Angew was trying to put over on the
American people," he said. ;
Because North Carolina's law
: enforcement agencies cannot adequately
deal with organized crimes, N.C. SB1
Director Charles Dunn said Saturday,
investigative reporting, is one of the best
resources to fight this crime.
Snider and Dunn spoke as part of the 12th
annual N.C. Press-Broadcasters Court
Reporting Seminar. The seminar was
sponsored by the N.C. Press Association, the
N.C. Association of Broadcasters, the N.C.
Association of Radio and Television News
Directors and UNC's Institute of
Government.
Quoting from a recent speech by U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Stewart Potter,
Snider said, "There is no constitutional right
to have access to particular government
information, or to require openness from
bureaucracy. The Constitution, in other
words, establishes the contest, not its
resolution."
Although the press has the right to seek
out and to publicize government abuses "the
Constitution does not guarantee that it shall
succeed or that it can avoid the consequences
if in the process it fails."
Praising the work of the press and
government officials such as Sen. Sam Ervin
during the Watergate controversy. Snider
said, "We can be thankful today that all our
institutions the presidency, the Congress,
the courts and the press working together
met their reponsibilities. As a nation we can
take pride in the fact that the separation of
powers and the checks and balances of
government worked."
Snider challenged the press to be
courageous and responsible in its work.
This, he said, is necessary if the press is to
retain its freedoms.
Dunn cited examples of reporting by both
the Winston-Salem Journal and the Durham
Morning Herald which helped keep certain
Mafia-backed businesses out of their cities.
Cigarette and drug smuggling, land
speculation, stock manipulations and
various swindles are areas in which
organized crime is active in North Carolina,
Dunn said.
Organized crime is also trying to
"whitewash their money" by going into
legitimate businesses in North Carolina,
Dunn said. This was an area where he thinks
the press can be especially instrumental in
combating the organization.
In order for state laws to be more effective
Dunn said, "we need an investigative grand
jury." He also advocated greater witness
immunity and stricter gambling laws.
Snider's and Dunn's.speeches were two of
seven, given by newsmen and law and court
officials during the two-day seminar.
Rain likely
Today will be partly cloudy and
cool, with rain likely. Highs will be In
the 50s, and lows In the upper 30s to
low 40s.
Chance of rain Is 60 per cent today
end tonight. Winds are SE at 5 to 10
miles per hour.
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