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Chapel Hill's Morning Newspaper
Chspel Hill, North Carolina, Wednesday, December 4, 1974
Founded Februsry 23, 1CD3
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United Press Internationa!
WASHINGTON Rep. Wilbur Mills
entered Bethesda Navy Hospital Tuesday,
complaining of exhaustion, as House
Democrats voted away more of his power as
chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee.
"I'm terribly tired," colleagues quoted
Mills as saying shortly after the Arkansas
Democrat left for the hospital in suburban
Bethesda, Md. "I'm exhausted."
Meanwhile, the Arkansas Gazette, , the
largest newspaper in the state, Monday
called on Mills, in an editorial to either
torego "his public indiscretions" with,
stripper Annabel Battistella (Fanne Fox) or
resign.
"It Mr. Mills cannot forego his public
indiscretions and if he prefers the life of show
business to the life on Capitol Hill, then let
him select the former and resign his seat in
Congress to devote full time to his new line of
work the Gazette said.
"Whichever course Mills prefers, it is past
time that he made a choice."
The Gazette endorsed Mills during his
successful re-election campaign after his
participation with Mrs. Battistella in the
Tidal Basin incident.
Speaker Carl Albert disclosed Tuesday
that Mills who appeared on stage with the
stripper in Boston during the weekend
confided to him on Monday that he was
ailing.
"1 asked him, 'Wilbur, are you sickT "
Albert said. "He said, 'Yes, I am sick. "
Disclosure that Mills had entered the
hospital came after the Democratic Caucus,
comprising all party members elected to the
new Congress, voted with no audible dissent
to increase the size of the influential Ways
and Means Committee from 25 to 37.
This opens the way for increasing the
liberal bloc, on the committee and
diminishing the power MUU had wielded. At
the same time, members have concluded
privately that Mills recent activities have
made it likely he will be removed as panel
chairman.
Friends said Mills had planned to be floor
manager of the effort to override President
Ford's veto of a minor tariff bill containing a
disaster-aid rider, but that he became addled
and could not go through with it.
Rep. Charles E. Bennett, D-Fla., who sat
next to Mills during a late afternoon session
of the House, said he asked his colleague if
something was wrong, and the reply was:
"I'm terribly tired. I'm exhausted."
Bennett said he advised Mills to see a
doctor or go to a hospital and that shortly
thereafter M ills called aides and was taken to
Bethesda.
Mills has appeared despondent since his
return from Boston where he appeared with
Miss Battistella, the entertainer who jumped
from his car and then into the Tidal Basin in
October after the speeding vehicle, with its
lights off, was stopped by police.
He made no effort to prevent action
against him by House Democrats; who voted
on Monday to strip his committee of the
power to make House committee
assignments, which it has held since 1911.
Many members of Congress have
suggested his removal as committee
chairman, and members of his own panel
have met to discuss a possible changeover to
Rep. AI Ullman, D-Ore., next in line for the
chairmanship.
"He's obviously sick," said a committee
member, speculating that Mills might be
suffering from complications of surgery last
year for a back ailment.
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by Laura Toler
Staff Writer
Most UNC students believe in God, but not nearly as
many attend religious services.
This conclusion was drawn from a recent Daily Tar Heel
survey of student attitudes in which 183 random y selected
subjects-a statistically reliable portion of the University
enrollment were questioned on various topics.
Approximate percentages showed 56 per cent of the
students believed in God, as opposed to about nine per cent
who did not and 35 per cent who were undecided. About 16
per cent attended worship services weekly, 19 per cent
monthly, 51 per cent rarely, and 28 per cent never. Eight per
cent claimed some other form of religious expression.
Some area religious leaders and UNC students contacted
last Monday attributed this paradox to failures of the
religious institutions themselves. Others admitted that
churches have faults but believed the non-attendance trend is
on the way out. Finally, some said students are just busy
forming new concepts of God on their own.
"Nobody is making an attempt to find out how to reach
students on their own level, said Father Thomas Palko,
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RALEIGH Mrs. Juanita Baker,
superintendent of the women's prison,
was fired Tuesday by . Corrections
Director Ralph D. Edwards . for
"ineffective performance of duty.'
Edwards said his department's
programs for women "have not kepi
pace with the programs for the men and
efforts to rectify the situation have been
unsatisfactory.
"In my opinion to have a satisfactory
statewide program for female offenders
required a change in command at the
correctional center for women,
Edwards said.
He said the position will be filled on
an interim basis by Morris Key,
manager of -institutions for the
department and Mrs. Bakers
immediate superior.
A search for a successor will begin
immediately, he said.
Edwards said he and Secretary of
Corrections David L. Jones had
discussed the situation at the women's
prison for more than a year, and Jones
was aware of his decision to dismiss
MrsBaker.
But, he said, "1 was not ordered to fire
Juanita Baker."
Although Mrs. Baker is a Democrat,
Edwards said her "political affiliation
had absolutely nothing to do" with his
decision to dismiss her from the
$17,052-a-year job.
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tonight in the upper 20s. The chance of
precipitation is about 10 per cent today
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chaplain at the Newman Catholic Student Center. Palko
said most area churches are guilty of such non-receptiveness.
Churches do need a new approach,"agreed Rev. Charles V.
Bryant, senior minister at University United Methodist
Church. "The church has not kept pace with the needs and
aspirations of students. It's not the message we have to offer,
but the means we have to offer it with."
In his ministry, Bryant is trying to upgrade the methods
for getting his message across, "I'm trying to get out of the
Model-T Ford and get into the jet,' he said.
Students interviewed agreed there is some type of message
but that the church doesn't necessarily get it across.
"You don't have to go to church to believe in God," Cheryl
Pearson said. "Churches today are hypocritical." She
believes in God but goes to church mostly for the music.
"You can believe in a supreme being without haying to go
through some type of worship," Vernon Rose said.
However, some religious leaders reported renewed
student interest in church services. Both Linda Mackichan, a
secretary for the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting a local
Quaker organization and Rev. Gene Jester of University
Baptist Church have noticed increased student attendance at
services over the last several years.
"The rejection of institutions has been going on for quite a
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by Howard Fields
United Press International
WASHINGTON By votes of 394 to I0
and 90 to I, the House and Senate Tuesday
overrode President Ford's veto of a bill
increasing veterans' educational benefits by
23 per cent.
Ford had anticipated defeat in his pre
Thanksgiving veto but made the gesture
anyway as a symbol of his determination to
light inflation by holding down federal,
spending.
The veto was Ford's 1 5th and the third
to be overrridden.
Even before the strong vote against the
veto, presidential press secretary Ron
Nessen announced Ford would send
Congress a request for $814 million in
supplemental appropriations to pay for the
increases.
"If they override, then Congress can vote
to put up the money to pay the bill," Nessen
said.
Congress told Ford, through its one-sided
margins, that the placeto start economizing
was not with the aid offered veterans who
served in the Vietnam conflict, America's
most unpopular war.
Ford had said he would accept an 18.5 per
cent increase in veterans' benefits, but not
the nearly 23 per cent which now becomes
law over his objections.
All 10 of the House members who sided
with Ford Were Republicans. In the Senate,
only GOP Whip Robert P. Griffin, Mich.,
voted to sustain the veto.
The 22.7 per cent increase in veterans
educational benefits is the largest since
World War II and Ford has called the bill
inflationary.
The Vietnam veterans who fought in "that
horribly, muddy, nasty war" had a more
difficult time than any other. American
veteran and should be helped in their efforts
to readjust at home, said Rep. William
Jennings Bryan Porn, D-SC ,
"We cannot delay any longer," Dorn
added.
The measure would increase education
benefits for a single vet from $220 a month to
$270. A married vet with no children would
get $321 instead of $261 and those with
children would get proportional increases.
Veterans could collect the benefits for 45
months instead of 36 and would get $600 in
educational loans if other federal loans were
not available.
Ford said in his veto message Nov. 26 that
his veto was not an easy one, "but it is
necessary if all of us are to operate with
essential budgetary restraint."
Dorn, outgoing chairman of the Veterans
No money, no grades
for all traffic violators
Students with unpaid parking tickets will not receive grades or be allowed to register in
January unless their accounts are settled with the traffic office by Dec. 9.
Traffic officials will then send a' list of violators to the cashier's office, Administrative
Director of Motor Vehicle Registration William Locke said Tuesday.
In the future, Locke said, all outstanding parking debts will be charged directly to the
student's account. However, there is not enough time to follow such a procedure this
semester, so each student must pay his debts in person, Locke added. In any case, this
semester or next, all students with parking debts will have their records put on "hold."
There are some 1 5-1 8,000 parking tickets that have yet to be paid. Locke said, adding there
are only about 1,000 students responsible for them. It is estimated that 75-80 per cent of the
1,000 violators are students who have never bothered to buy parking stickers.
Locke said the current traffic office record is held by a student who has yet to pay 28 tickets
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while," Jester said. "This trend is reversing, though not in
great numbers." He thinks the student may be alienated from
the sect of his choice in a college town simply because he
knows no one in the congregation.
"From indications I've received, students would like to
attend a service if they could find one that is meaningful,"
said Jim Abrahamson, a pastor-teacher at the Chapel Hill
Bible Church. Average attendance at the Bible Church has
increased from 20 to about 500 during the last three or four
years. Abrahamson believes his church is not guilty of the
irrelevance most churches are accused of these days.
Churches can best avoid stagnation by preaching the Bible
rather than rigid doctrine. Dr. Dick Henderson, pastor of
the First Baptist Church in Durham, said. "The kids are
really hungry to hear not what the Church says but what the
Bible says."
Henderson reports attendance of 160 to 200 college
students many from UNC and Duke in his congregation
every Sunday. .
Other religious leaders, unable to report such growing
folds, attributed poor worship service attendance to faults
other than the services themselves.
Students are no exception to a trend of absenteeism
among all age groups, according to Rabbi Herbert Berger of
Allairs Committee which wrote the measure,
argued that the measure not only was not t
inflationary, but that it was cutting inflation
by preventing further unemployment.
Rep. Earl Landgrebe, R-lnd., one of the
10 members who voted against the override
attempt, said he did so because "inflation is
the number one problem," not veterans'
benefits.
The 10 members who voted against the
override effort on the veterans bill were
Landgrebe, Craig Hosmer, R-Calif.; Robert
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by Henry Farber
Staff Writer
A town physician sharply criticized
the bus system's safety standards before
the Board of Aldermen Monday night,
citing alleged examples of brake
malfunctions and other problems.
Dr. Charles E. Smith of 8 Lake Shore
Drive said a bus driver told him his bus's
air brakes do not work well enouth to
make two stops in quick succession.
However, bus officials gave a
demonstration Tuesday to try to refute
some of Smith's allegations.
Smith, described by some town
officials as a constant critic of the bus
system since its initial run Aug. I, said
heobsefved a bus on the Lake Forest
route discharging passengers at a stop
sign rather than a designated bus stop a
short distance away.
When Smith asked the driver why he
did not use the bus stop, Smith said the
driver told him the brakes would not
retain enough air after the first stop to
, function the second time. Smith, aiso
said he was given the impression that
this is a common problem.
Lamotte Akin, chief mechanic at the
transit garage, explained that the
driver's action was probably not due to
any ipalfunction but was perhaps his
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Wyatt, R-N.H.; Henry P. Smith III. R-N.Y..
and Charles Wiggins. R-Calif.
The House did sustain Tuesday a Ford
veto of a minor tarrif bill which contained an
amendment allowing special tax breaks for
victims of the Buffalo Creek flood in West
Virginia. Hurricane Agnes and other
disasters in 1972.
The 249 to 150 vote to override was 17
short of the two-thirds required.
octor says
lack of understanding of the brakes'
normal functioning.
In a dramatic demonstration. Akin
brought one of the old Atlanta buses to
a skidding halt near a dead end, pumped
more than 80 per cent of the air out of
the brakes and stopped the bus again.
He said the driver apparently does not
understand that the air compression
meter does not have to read up to
capacity level for the brakes to stop a
bus.
Bus Operations Supervisor Dick
Rhode said the driver is scheduled for a
conference today with Transportation
Director John Pappas to discuss the
apparent . misunderstanding. After
"Smith talked to the driver, he sard he
called town police who told him they
had been informed of the brake
problem. He said police also told him of
a collision between a bus and a police
car, which Smith related to alleged
brake failure.
Rhode said the collision was not
related to a brake malfunction but that
the bus driver was driving too fast on a
rainy night.
Smith also said he observed another
bus in service with its rear door open.
When he asked the driver why he didn't
close the door. Smith said the driver told
him it was stuck and that he had been
instructed to serve his route anyway.
Akin showed that when a bus's
normally functioning rear door is open,
the throttle and brakes lock. He said the
malfunction described by Smith could
conceivably occur but that he had not
seen such a bus.
The two dispatchers said they never
authorized such a bus to leave the
garage.
Smith also said Rolling Road is
unsafe for bus traffic and that the system
carries an inadequate liability insurance
policy.
Akin accused Smith of harping on
insignificant accusations in an effort to
discredit the bus system. He said Smith's
complaints are based on his opposition
to the Lake Forest route running near
his home. '
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the Beth El Center in Durham. However, he believes
students are distracted by studying and social life. In
addition, he said, "Students brought up a certain way may
want to take a little time off to re-examine old values."
Rabbi Robert Seigel of the B'nai Brith-Hillel Foundation
in Chapel Hill, said weak support for religious services may
indeed reflect a weak belief in God. "In saying they believe in
God, people are saying what's socially acceptable. They're
not thinking in theological terms."
However, Seigel thinks services could remove some
doubts if they offered less formality and more feeling.
Rev. J. R. Manley, pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Chapel Hill, agreed that the old religious practices of tedious
study and strict ethical rules have given way to more
individual interpretations of religion. "It's hard for an
institution to find out what level each person is on and
provide a base in which they will all be comfortable " he said.
Student Sydney Stern has certainly been hard put to find a
service corresponding to his own personal level.
"Synagogues don't have much to do with the things 1
consider sacred " he said. "My God takes a very nebulous
form of images which I associate with the divine things like
dinosaurs, lions, tigers, and armies marching off to war.
These are all strictly vivid and colorful images you don't find
in a church."