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Vol. 83, No. 94
Committee
approves
tax break
by Don Phillips
United Press International
WASHINGTON The House Ways and
Means Committee, bypassing President
Ford's tax proposals, Monday approved a
$8.4-billion tax cut for low and moderate
income persons and gave strong indications
it would approve an additional cut of $6.9
billion or more.
The Committed proposal would establish
what amounts to a negative income tax for
the poor.
The add itional cut would come in the form
of a one-time rebate to taxpayers in middle
and low income brackets. .
Ford requested a simple $ 1 2-billion rebate
for individuals, both rich and poor, but the
committee voted 20-15 to limit the rebate to
individuals making less than $30,000 to
40,000.
A decision will come Tuesday or Thursday
on an exact figure. The committee also
apparently will hold the rebate to $300 or
$400 as opposed to Ford's $1,000.
The $8.4-billion cut approved Monday
includes for the first time what amounts to a
negative income tax for the poor, .a
refundable credit of 5 per cent of earned
income, up to $200, phasing out as income
rises from $4,000 to $6,000.
Thus, a person earning $4,000 but paying
no tax because of deductions and
exemptions would nonetheless receive $200
from the government.
In addition, the bill increases the
minimum standard deduction, granting a
tax cut to anyone who takes the standard
deduction rather than itemized deductions.
The bill was approved by the committee
21-14 after the committee turned back a
series of weakening amendments, substitutes
and delaying tactics.
The final vote broke down along strict
party lines with all Republicans present
voting against it, joined by only two
Democrats, Joel Waggoner of Louisiana
and Omar Burleson of Texas.
Women still
on
ion
Betty Westmoreland, president of the
North Carolina Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
(NCAI AW), announced M onday that its
ethics committee has decided to uphold
its earlier ruling that the UNC women's
basketball team is on probation this
season.
"In April of 1974," the statement read,
"a written complaint was registered with
the NCAI AW charging the women's
basketball team at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill with
violation of the rules for the starting dates
of practice. On May 10, 1974, the i
NCAIAW Ethics Committee heard the :
case and placed the women's basketball j
tAom rn rrrKo t irn frr tVi
season. A schedule of games may be
played this season, but the team cannot
participate in the NCAIAW state
tournament."
Details in Wednesday's DTH.
liree
Elliott Warnock, a two-year sports editor
of the Daily Tar Heel (DTH), announced his
candidacy for DTH editor Monday.
" I think the Tar Heel has become a charnel
house," Warnock said. "It's a place where the
ancient bones of archaic press mentality
have been stored and reproduced as if they
were modern innovations."
Warnock announced an eight-point
program to put in effect if elected, and said it
is similar to the way he ran the paper over the
summer. The program includes:
. Distributing papers at all major campus
bus stops;
Condensing world and national news
into first-page summaries in order to keep
students informed while increasing coverage
of events directly affecting the student body;
Creating an editorial board to improve
the editorial page and supervise the
production of the paper;
Moving quickly and completely towards
financial independence for the paper;
Working closely with the Media Board
to coordinate all financial matters
concerning the paper,
Reorganizing the staff to increase
efficiency and provide coverage for late
breaking news;
In recognition of the national
bicentennial, informing students on a
regular basis of the Carolina tradition and
history;
Broadening the scope and coverage of
entertainment events in the Chapel H ill area.
Warnock also said he will increase the use
of investigative reporting of campus, city
and state affairs. ,
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C ommltt ee lists reforms
Proposals will go before CGC
by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
The Special Committee on Campus
Governing Council (CGC) Reforms has
virtually completed its job by endorsing five
recommendations that will hopefully make
CGC more representative.
Rep. Mark Dearmon, chairman of the
committee, said all that remains to be done is
to complete a report summarizing the
committee's suggestions in. addition to the
. varidtis -'oilier recommendations it has heard
over the past month. '
Dearmon said the report would probably
be presented before the entire CGC tonight.
The five proposals are mainly ideas by the'
committee members, but at least two are
suggestions brought up by non-CGC
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Schedule for Tuesday, Feb. 4:
The Artist as Filmmaker Series Barbara Rose 6, 8, 10 p.m. Ill Murphey Hall
Rudi Stern: On Neon Sculpture 7:30 p.m. Ackland Museum
Carlos Montoya: Flamenco guitarist (a Union 8. DO p.m. Memorial Hall
presentation in conjunction with the Fine Arts Festival)
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"Investigative reporting has become
almost nonexistent on the DTH" Warnock
said. "It has been replaced by meaningless
features."
" I can't understand why a paper with great
potential lying within the staff cannot report
on the important issues of the time," he said.
A junior journalism major and native of
Chapel Hill, Warnock has worked in nearly
every phase of the DTH operation since
joining the staff as a high school junior, and
served as editor of the summer semi-weekly
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members during the two public hearings the
committee held in January.
If approved by CGC, the proposals would
require changes in the CGC by-laws and
S tudent G overnment election laws.
The suggestions include:
Realigning of graduate districts to
combine departments of similar disciplines.
This may involve establishing multi-member
districts of up to three representatives;
Realigning of off-campus
undergraduate districts. One suggestion
would be to create specialized 4sHrktsfor
fraternities, sororities, apartment dwellers
and Carrboro residents;
Conducting a general student survey as
part of an overall redistricting plan;
Requiring on-campus and graduate
members to post reports of each meeting in
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Joe Knight, a junior economics and
political science major from Winston-Salem,
announced his candidacy for Student Body
President Monday, pledging "To make
Student Government a useful tool for all
students."
"Marcus Williams has done a hell-of-a-good
job, but I think improvements can be
made especially in the area of
communication," Knight said.
"The word platform sounds too political.
I have only two promises which I am sure I
will fulfill to do my damndest and to
change the name on the Student'
Government stationary from Marcus
Williams to Joe Knight."
Knight thinks Student Government
should embark on a program of
"peoplization to expose different campus
cultures so we can learn what each other is
doing." v .
Knight wants to establish a student
caucus, in which representatives of every
campus organization would meet with
Student Government twice a month to
discuss goals and accomplishments.
He also said the major purpose of Student
Government should be "to provide services
to all students to help them get practical
experience in preparation for the outside
world."
"Student Government should function as
an information disseminator, with
community-based programs such as prison
reform," Knight said.
Knight said experience is not the most,
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their districts, and studying methods by
which off-campus members can better
inform their constituents. CGC -would
budget funds for this purpose next year.
The committee also brought up the idea of
advertising in the Daily Tar Heel a list of bills
passed and voting records.
Consolidating the J udiciary Committee,
which rarely meets, into the Rules
Committee, and absorbing the
Appointments Committee into a new
Administration Committee. This committee
wbuld also gather information on arid hear
reports - from the various organizations
funded by Student Government.
"We've come up with a lot of good ideas,"
Dearmon said. "I'm glad we got as much
student input as we did."
Student Body President Marcus Williams
said he thought the committee's
recommendations will be beneficial, but
added he was disappointed the committee
did not include his own recommendation to
directly elect a student body Vice President.
Currently, the CGC speaker has that title,
but is chosen from within CGC. The
committee debated whether the post should
still include the speaker's job and finally
rejected the idea, feeling it would place too
much strength in the executive branch of SG.
Dearmon said he thinks CGC will approve
legislation based on the recommendations
by the end of the current session in March.
As much time as we've spent on this, 1
think it will all pass, except that the vice
presidential idea may come up again, he
said.
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Joe Knight
important qualification for the office,
although he has. been on the student
Attorney General's staff, a Campus
Governing Council representative, and a
member of the Black Student Movement
Student Government must sell itself to the
students, Knight said. "If students want to
party, student government should help them
party."
Knight attributes present apathy about
Student .Government to ignorance.
"Prejudice and apathy both stem from
ignorance," he said.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON President Ford sent
Congress Monday a $349 billion budget of
honest self-denial" which calls for the
biggest deficit in peacetime history and
predicts rising unemployment and inflation
in 1975 and 1976.
The forecasts were the bleakest the
administration has issued.
In Congress, budget action ran along two
contradictory tracks. There was dismay over
the size of the deficit, and anguish over
Ford's proposals to reduce scheduled
increase in health, veterans, education,
welfare, food and other human needs
programs. The 10 per cent jump in the
defense budget, to $94 billion, also came
under fire.
My God," said Rep. Sam Gjbbon, D
Fla., when he heard about Ford's economic
predictions. "It must mean he is going to be a
two-year president."
If the predictions hold fast. Ford would
have to run for the presidency in 1976 with
nearly 7.5 million persons out of work.
Ford forecast greater economic
stagnation this year than last, with national
output dipping by 3.3 per cent when
increases due to inflation are left out. Last
year's drop in the gross national product was .
2.2 per cent.
The budget calls for a $51.9 billion deficit
and outlays of $349.4 billion in fiscal 1976,
which starts next July.
Rep. George Mahon, D-Tex., the tall,
stooped-shouldered chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, said in a House
speech that the size of the budget was
"breathtaking." .
"It's proposed deficits and the increase in
the debt will frighten thoughtful Americans
and arouse concern in the international
financial field," he said.
Like many other Democrats, Mahon
predicted Congress would not go along with
doctors see epidemnik
by Ben Kittner
Staff Writer
Don't let the changing weather fool you.
Flu is in the air, and some area doctors
foresee an epidemic.
At the Orange County Health
Department, at least 50 per cent of the staff
has caught the flu. Dr. O. David Garvin,
rdirector, said that cases have increased since
the first of the year approaching an
epidemic.
Lochlin Lockward, director of general
services at North Carolina Memorial
Hospital (NCMH) said the incidence of
influenza in Orange County is high and on
the increase.
NCMH has imposed temporary visitation
restrictions due to the recent outbreak.
Dr. John G. Craddock, director of the
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Tim Dugan, a junior business major from
Potomac, Md., has -resigned as Student
Government Treasurer to run for Student
Body President.
"Students on campus are called apathetic.
. They are apathetic depending on what
subject you're talking about. They are not
apathetic about their academics, the room
they live in, the (Chapel Hill)-Carrboro bus
system, etc. These are the important services
Student Government should help promote
. and provide."
Dugan proposed that Student
Government aid the Carolina Course
Review and create a "Faculty-Student Social
Commission" and a "University Speech
Committee."
Dugan has been a member of the Honor
Court and the Summer Governing Council,
and chaired the Summer. Publications
Board.
Dugan described the "University Speech
Committee" as a means to extend the
expertise of many UNC professors to
larger audience. "Certainly one does not
have to be a political science major to
appreciate an analysis of the current Middle
East crisis; nor does one have to be an
economics major to benefit from a critique
on President Ford's economic policy."
Student membership on the Faculty
Council would be an early goal in his
administration, Dugan said. "If membership
proves impossible, we must increase,
nevertheless, our inroads into this body,
thereby becoming not only respected
advisers but aids effective lobbyists."
Housing problems' that Dugan said he
would work on include the housing shortage
and transportation problems faced by
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"a large majority" of the reductions in social
spending Ford proposed.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn.,
chairman of Congress's Joint Economic
Committee, objected that Ford's budget
would mean "higher unemployment,
continued double-digit inflation and deeper
recession.
"Any proposal to restore the health of our
economy by cutting back on food stamps
and social security in the midst of the worst
recession since the 1930s is unacceptable,
unfair and will not be approved by
Congress," Humphrey said.
Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., a
candidate for the 1976 Democratic
presidential nomination, said the budget was
"a bloated, saddening document replete with
monumentally misplaced priorities
reflecting a sorry insensitivity to the needy,
the elderly, the disadvantaged."
Reps. Al Ullman, D-Ore., and Herman T.
Schneebeli, R-Pa., the senior members of the
house Ways and Means Committee,
predicted $5 billion or more would be cut
from the Pentagon's proposed $96 billion.
Republicans were less eager to comment.
Sen. Peter V. Domenici, R-N.M., said the
$52 billion projected deficit was realistic. "I
don't see any great latitude in this budget,"
he said.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., called
Ford's unemployment estimate "honest but
gloomy" but said he found it "nearly
unbelievable" that Ford budgeted an
increase of only $1.3 billion for public service
jobs.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., called the
budget "a doctrine of despair," saying it
provides for "a high and sustained level of
unemployment for years to come." .
House Democratic Leader. Thomas O.
.O'Neill Jr., Mass., said the budget "reflects
the same misguided priorities that lead his
economic advisers to worry most about the
economic health of the wealthy."
Employees' Health Service at the hospital,
expressed concern over the rising number of
hospital employees who have been treated
for flu. "And even worse, the number of
unreported cases among hospital
employees."
Dr. James H. McCutchan of the Student
Health Service blames the sudden wave of
flu on students returning to school from
winter vacations in "Georgia, Florida, South
Carolina and Disney World, where this
particular strain has been found since
December in a great number of cases."
The infirmary handles between 250 and
300 patients per day. Dr. McCutchan
estimates that 50 of those patients have been
treated for flu each day in the past few days,
with 5 to 10 patients daily being admitted to
the hospital with flu complications.
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students.
"Some form of housing must be provided
for international students whether it be the
reservation of rooms in a specified dorm or
the reformation of one dorm into an
international student dorm. It is also
inevitable that more dorm space for women
will have to be provided."
"We should make sure that the rights of
those presently living in the dorms to be
reorganized are respected, which means that
they should be given preference in choosing
other dorms to live in."
Dugan proposed that campus security
should include the distribution of pocket
alarms to women, and the use of "lock cards"
for dorm entrance after closing hours.