Chapel Hill's Morning Newspaper
Vol. S3, No. 97
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by Arnold B. Sawlslak
United Press International
WASHINGTON-Pledging to "help the
people in this country who are getting hurt,"
Sen. Henry M. Jackson formally declared
Thursday he is running for president in 1976.
The Washington Democrat's long
expected announcement increased to four
the number of candidates for the party's
presidential nomination next year.
Jackson, 62, is regarded as the front
runner in the early field. He already has
formed a strong campaign organization,
collected more than $1 million and has
shown up well in national poll "trial heat."
against President Ford.
Jackson's pre-recorded five-minute
announcement at 10:55 p.m. EST on CBS
was carefully aimed at television watchers
waiting for the late evening news.
In the format of a campaign commercial
rather than a speech, the purchased air time
was used to play up Jackson's strong points
as a 35-year veteran of Congress and to
answer critics who picture him as more
interested in building bombers than helping
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"1 would use the office of the presidency to
help the people in this country who are
getting hurt," Jackson said. "For the past six
years, the Republican administration has
been tilting in favor of big business, the large
corporations, the people who can take care of
themselves.
"And, the little people little business, the
elderly, the young, across the board have
been the ones who have been taking the
beating."
Jackson made a special effort to dispel the
image of "big bang" defense spender "1 want
to see arms reduced. The Valdisvostok
agreement put a cap on the arms races, but
they put the cap on Mount Everest . . . It's
going to cost billions of dollars more for the
defense budget." . . -
. The . program narratioff-StSd" emphasized ...
that Jackson had been rated "by Ralph
Nader poll as the most effective senator on
Capitol Hill."
Jackson's declared opponents are Rep.
Morris K, Udall, D-Ariz., former Gov.
Jimmy Carter of Georgia and former Sen.
Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma.
Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen, D-Tex., is
expected to join the field Feb. 17, and Gov.
George C. Wallace of Alabama is edging
toward formal announcement of his
candidacy. .
Of this group, only Wallace has ranked
near Jackson in early public opinion polls.
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Black H istory Week begins on Sunday,
Feb. 9 with a lecture on Politics and
Power by Bambose Shango, a member of
Stokely Charmichael's All African
People Revolutionary Party. Sponsored
by the Black Student Movement, the
lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in the Upendo
Lounge at Chase Cafeteria.
Shango's party supports the concept of
Pan Africanism, which calls for all
African people to unite, recognize their
heritage and pool their resources to solve
problems.
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Schedule for Friday, Feb. 7: '
Robert Brunk wood sculpture and informal jq-4 p.m.
discussion (a Union presentation)
. Robert Scull: America's Pop Collector a film', 7:30 p.m.
by Jeff Vaughn1
Film discussion with Jeff Vaughn and John Schott 9.00 p.m.
Early Music Ensemble 8 HO p.m.
Psychology of Color, a multi-media presentation 7:30, 8:30.
9:30,10:30
Schedule for Saturday, Feb. 8:
Robert Brunk wood sculpture
The Artist as Filmmaker Series John
Chamberlain, KeithlSonnier, Vito Acconci,
Baldessari and I Linda Benglis
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Play'makers)
Schedule for Sunday, Feb. 9:
Robert Brunk wood sculpture .
North Carolina Piano Trio
Film and Video Exhibition shorts from
Film Festival and area filmmakers ,
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Amid continued gloomy economic
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Condie hears residents' protests
by George Bacso
Staff Writer
Faced with the threat of losing their single
occupancy rooms, a group of 65 James
residents are trying to halt the Housing
department's efforts to move them to
different rooms within the dormitory.
The students are all presently living alone
because their roommates have moved out for
various reasons. They received notice last
week that they would either have to find
another roommate, pay a pro-rated fee for a
"si'nigU-li'ml'b'.moyein.vith each other.
The students admit they have "no legal
grounds on which to base their case, since the
housing contract which every student signs is
legally binding.
"Legally, they have us over a barrel, so we
are asking them (housing) to sympathize
with the inconvenience and unfairness of our
situation," Delmar Williams, a spokesman
for the group, said.
Williams, RH A President Betsey Jones
and four other students met with James
Condie, director of university housing,
Thursday after holding dorm meetings
Tuesday and Wednesday nights. After
hearing their grievances, Condie said he
would consider extending the deadline for
the students' decision after he meets with his
staff.
Williams and Jones have, sought
assistance from Dean of Student Affairs
Donald Boulton, who said he would have to
look into the situation further before
commenting.
Jones has given the students her support.
"1 hope you hold to your grounds," she told
the group, "as it's unfortunate you are in
such an inconveniencing situation."
At Wednesday night's meeting, the group
decided to seek a compromise whereby they
would be left in single rooms under
conditionally-guaranteed status. Housing
would then be able to temporarily house
visitors in their rooms. Presently, a
conditional single room carries an extra fee
of $ 100 with it, which would be pro-rated to
S70 to $80.
No one at the meeting said they would
oppose having the housing department
assign them a new roommate, but no one was
in favor of paying any additional money or
moving in with someone else.
"There's no good reason to make 65
people move, especially since it is four weeks
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forecasts, unemployed auto workers staged a rally Thursday in Washington
into the semester and everyone is settled,"
James resident Bill Booker said at the
meeting.
"It would be different if they contacted us
at the beginning of the semester and
prepared lis for the idea of moving so we
wouldn't settle down. But now half of us
would have to re-adjust to new suite-mates
as well as a new roommate," Booker said.
Another resident,' Dave Robinson, who
also attended the meeting with Condie, cited
further problems in moving. .
"Not only would half of us have to adjust
- to a new environment and gojhrough all the
' " hassles vof moving, but telephone- changes
and consequent billing procedures would
have to be dealt with, checks and accounts,
changed and change-of-address notices
would have to be sent all over the country,"
Robinson said.
Chapel Hill Alderman Gerry Cohen was
also present at Wednesday's meeting. Cohen
said he went through the same consolidation
problems when he was a freshman living in
James, but because no one was aware of the
extent of their problem, nothing was done
Some Villages tenants withhold rent
by Helen Ross
Staff Writer
Disputes over a rent discount and
incomplete facilities at' the Villages
Apartments in Chapel Hill have led about
half the tenants to withhold their February
rent payments.
Roger Bernholz, attorney for the tenants'
group, said Thursday an escrow account has
been established to administer the.payments
withheld, until an agreement can be reached
between manaeement and tenants.
Bernholz delcined to comment specifically
about the negotiations citing the "delicate
conditions" and "good feelings" under which
the negotiations have been conducted.
Tenants had been receiving a 20 per cent
rent discount because the Villages'
developers, Lee-Hall Properties, have not
provided all facilities the complex
advertised.
A reduction in the rent discount was
proposed recentlv
"The tenants association does want the
Villages Apartments to have any bad press,"
Bernholz said. "They don't deserve it.
GaDidMatfes Iheard.
by Art Eisenstadt and Jim Roberts
Staff Writers
Student campaigning moved into full swing Wednesday
night as candidates for student body president and Daily Tar
Heel editor addressed the Black Student Movement (BSM)
and the Carolina Coalition.
Candidates for the office of student body president
speaking at the BSM meeting were Tim Dugan, Joe Knight,
and Jerry Askew. Don Baer and Tom Wright campaigned
for the DTH editorship.
Dugan said one of the limited aspects of the BSM is its
ability to educate white students.
He proposed an increased amount of printing by the BS M
newspaper Black Ink, and more BSM meetings and social
functions open to white students.
. Askew said he would get more input from blacks in his
administration b giving staff appointments to blacks. He
said he thinks the money now appropriated for the BSM is
sufficient, but "if you (BSM) can show the need for more you
should, be, able to get it.
"The BSM is a prime example of an organization whites
don't understand," Askew said.
Knight proposed a student caucus composed of the heads
of various student groups such as the BSM and the Residence
Hall Association. .
Knight's platform centers on unity and fulfillment, he said.
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and he paid the additional money.
"1 don't think it's really costing them more
than five or ten dollars for these singles
the University doesn't save a dime when they
shut off a room's heat because the heat just
gets blown off as steam somewhere else,"
Cohen said.
Condie said Thursday that the main
reason for consolidation is financial since the
vacated rooms could be used to house
temporary students and thus bring in more
income.
"My biggest desire and goal is to keep
room- rents down as much as possible .
and this additional income would help offset
rising costs, such as utility rates," Condie
said.
Condie said the School of Public Health
wants to house 30 students in university
dormitories for eight weeks this semester, at
a rate of $200 per person.
Jones, however, questioned the ethics of
"pushing out people who are full-time
residents and students to make room for
someone who is only a temporary student."
"1 cannot overemphasize how smoothly
and cordially things have been happening
concerning the negotiations."
He said that in money disputes involving
escrow proceedings, the money in question is
handed over to a third agent who is directed
to administer the money according to pre
established rules. - '
Villages attorney Gordon Battle could not
be reached for comment Thursday.
The manager for the Villages,, who
declined to be identified, said Thursday the
bus service, utilities, kitchen appliances,
sauna baths, clubhouse, storage areas,
landscaping, 24-hour security and laundry
rooms promised in their advertisements have
beer? provided.
The social activities mentioned in the ads
will probably begin later this month, she
said.
The lighted tennis courts and three
swimming pools advertised are not yet open.
The manager said two of the pools will be in
operation this spring and the third will not be
built until another section of the apartment
complex is completed.
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"We've seen the lack of unity in the BSM. 1 don't see even half
of the black undergraduates (at Carolina) here tonight."
Wright, candidate for DTH editorship, called the present
Tar WfW"about the sorriest excuse for a newspaper." He said
he would write editorials only when students get so apathetic
that they cannot fill up the editorial page.
"The Daily Tar Heel budget is $163,000 ... do you
think you're getting your money's worthT Wright asked.
(Although the 1974-1975 Tar Heelbudget is $163,825, only
$29,925 is appropriated from the Student Activities Fee. The
remainder of the Tar Heel budget receipts comes from
advertising revenue.)
Baer, running as co-ditor with Harriet Sugar, said the
DTH should provide more coverage of activities of the BSM.
"It's a damned shame that the BSM gets coverage only in the
Black Inkr
. One of the major problems on campus is racial
segregation, Baer said. "A lot of segregation is the result of
ignorance. The best way to educate is through the
newspaper."
The Carolina Coalition, which also heard some of the
same candidates at a later meeting, will endorse a candidate
for president and possibly editor at its February 16
convention. '
Presidential candidates Dugan and Bill Bates were asked
how they planned to work with the administration
concerning student cost increases, such as tuition and rent
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by Richard Hughes
UPI Business Writer
The Labor Department Thursday
prepared a January unemployment
report all but certain to show the highest
jobless rate in 25 years.
"In related developments, the
department said 2.5 million more
persons applied for jobless benefits for
the first time during a three-week period
of January, and two senators proposed
$7.8 billion to give public jobs to 1
million recession victims.
"The nation is moving at alarming
speed toward depression-like levels of
unemployment in terms of absolute
number the truly human measure,"
said Sens. Harrison A. Williams, D
N J., and Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y. Both
are key members of the Senate Labor
Committee, and they promised speedy
action.
In related developments, the North
Carolina Employment Security
Commission (ESC) reported Thursday
that insured unemployment in North
Carolina for the week ended Jan. 24
reached 10.6 per cent, a slight increase
from the previous week.
The 10.6 per cent rate means 183,700
workers were receiving unemployment
compensation.
The ESC also reported Thursday that
a record $31.3 million in unemployment
insurance benefits were paid out in
North Carolina in January, the highest
ever -paid in a single month and more
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The ESC said the number of layoffs
declined in the week ended Jan. 24, with
25 companies laying off 6,855 workers,
most of them textile employees.
In Washington, the Labor
Department said 2.5 million persons
claimed unemployment compensation
for the first time in the first three weeks
of January.
The January unemployment figures,
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to be released today, are expected to
show the nationwide unemployment
rate soaring to nearly 8 per cent, or
about 7.5 million persons out of a work
force of 91 million.
Should the January rate exceed 7.5
and it was expected to do so it would
be the worst jobless rate since October,
1949, when the rate was 7.9 per cent.
The Labor Department said
4,773,000 persons, received
unemployment insurance payments
during the week ending Jan. 18. Not all
unemployed persons receive benefits.
On the New York Stock Exchange,
prices rose higher in another day of
heavy trading.
The gain in stock prices came chiefly
in reaction to the lowering of the prime
interest rate to eight and three-quarters
per cent from nine per cent by Morgan
Guaranty & Trust, the nation's fifth
largest bank. Other major banks were
expected to announce similar cuts
today.
The prime rate that banks charge
their most creditworthy corporate
customers has not Jeen below nine per
cent in nearly a year.
The lower rate reflects a moderation
in the Federal Reserve Bank's tight
money policy designed to curb inflation
and the slowing demand for commercial
loans.
Henry Bloch, president of H&R
Block Inc., said a random survey of the
firm's 7,000 income tax filing offices
showed Americans this year are trying.
refundable
dollar out of a government fhev
consider fiscally inept.
"Some people used to say that if a
deduction could cause an audit, we
should leave it off," Bloch said. "This
year they're taking their chances."
Bloch also said people are filing for
refunds earlier than ever because "with
the tight economy' and high
unemployment people need the cash."
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Dugan said Student Government would have to work
directly with the Administration, while Bates proposed
establishing a special student committee to look into the
matter.
Regarding the Housing Department's recently announced
plans to place foreign and handicapped students in two men's
North Campus dorms. Bates urged increasing pressure from
the Residence Hall Association (RHA).
Dugan also recommended using RHA, and said,
"Certainly, this is where students should be looking out for
other students' rights."
DTH editor candidates Elliott Warnock and Cole
Campbell both reviewed their platforms and were asked by a
Coalition member how they felt they individually differed for
the job. s
Warnock' said, "1 am willing to take up the banner of
reorganization of the staff. I've had experience with the staff.
You have to observe and watch and learn."
Campbell said, "1 offer a pretty good grasp in getting to the
editorial issues," citing his experience as a debater. "My
strength really comes in my research and my writing ability."
Warnock challenged Wright's platform by saying he had
offered many opinions about the paper but no specific plans.
Wright responded with some of his ideas to hire a
professional to supervise the business and advertising offices
and encouraging non-staff members to submit articles.