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anger Terry Sanford
by Merton Vance
Staff Writer
Former North Carolina Governor
Terry Sanford sharply attacked charges
Tuesday that he is leaving his name
Florida presidential primary ballot in
order to receive additional federal
matching funds to pay his campaign
debts.
Sanford said the accusations are
untrue and resulted from ignorance of
campaign laws on the part of Florida
Secretary of State Bruce Smathers.
Smathers said Monday that Sanford
planned to obtain additional federal
funds by refusing to sign a sworn
affidavit necessary to remove his name
from the ballot.
QanfnrH n rt nrci H on t rF
University, withdrew as a candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomination
Friday.
United Press International quoted
Smathers as saying he thinks Sanford is
"an honorable man" but that Smathers
is upset over what he calls a loophole in
federal campaign laws which he says
allows candidates to pass on campaign
debts to taxpayers.
But Sanford said Smathers is
Parks and recreation rated poor
by Russell Gardner
Staff Writer
A public opinion survey released to
the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
Monday night reveals that citizens
generally rate Chapel Hill boards and
services favorably and town recreation
facilities unfavorably.
George Rabinowitz, a UNC political
science professor, presented the survey
to the aldermen.
David Williams launches
campaign for presidency
David Williams, a junior English major
from Boone, announced his candidacy
Tuesday for the office of Student Body
President, becoming the first person to
announce for a major office in the upcoming
Feb. 25 election.
Williams acknowledged the potentialities
of a "cohesive, concerned and dedicated
Student Government," and attacked the
performance of this year's administration as
"political brinkmanship."
"At a time when the University was
wrangling with questions ranging from
grading practices to faculty tenure, the
Student Government ostensibly the
vehicle for student input into the decision
making process was consumed by
surreptitious cloak-and-dagger games," he
said. -
Williams, who currently holds no Student
Government office, said, "My experiences
outside Student Government and my
observations of the workings of Student
Government make me feel that I have certain
Union employee
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Staff photo by Howard Shepherd
day in Chapel Hill Tuesday as the rains
apparently ignorant of campaign laws
and added that he sent Smathers a
telegram saying that "the secretary has
done me an injustice."
Sanford said Smathers' statement
implies that he (Sanford) asked to have
his name placed on the ballot. "This is
not true," he said. '
A Florida law requires the names of
all announced candidates to be placed
on the primary ballot. In order to have
his name removed, a candidate must file
a sworn affidavit stating that he is no
longexjurming. v t ir '
"1 resented having my name put on
that ballot," Sanford said, adding that
he would not have entered the Florida
primary had his name not been
automatically placed on the ballot.
Although Sanford said he will leave
his name on the ballot, he said he will
not accept any more federal matching
funds even if they are offered.
Sanford has already received
$244,000 in federal matching funds,
which he does not have to return unless
he has a surplus after paying his
campaign debts. However, he said he
expected to have some money left to
return to the government.
The survey, based on a 169-person
sample which included 54 students, was
conducted last fall by one of
Rabinowitz's classes.
Town residents were asked to give
their overall opinions of various Chapel
Hill services and departments.
Responses were rated on a seven-degree,
scale, ranging from "excellent" to "very
poor."
The fire department rated highest
among town boards and services,
followed by the bus system, social and
insights into what sort of changes should be
made."
He listed several primary proposals he
would seek to implement if elected. Among
them was the possibility of establishing a
student to represent student interests before
state and local governing boards.
"Governmental bodies other than those
on campus affect our campus lives,"
Williams said, citing a possible out-of-state
tuition increase and a Carrboro bus system
as possible areas of interest.
Williams' other proposals include the
formation of a Student Government news
bureau to work in conjunction with other
campus media, the establishment of a
Student. Government grant officer to solicit
grant monies for student organizations, the
implementation of educational policy
reforms including adding voting students to
major faculty committees and developing a
student internship program.
A member of the UNC Debate Team,
Williams worked with the N.C. Department
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Serving the students and the
Chspd Hill, Korth Carolina,
by Dsn Fesperrngn
Staff Writer ,
An anonymous female caller claiming
to be a Carolina Union employee said
Friday that irregularities in Union
financial records should have been
noticed last summer when a reputable
firm audited them.
The caller's charge came in
connection with the alleged
embezzlement of approximately
$26,000 by a former Union assistant
director.
Union officials have since refused to
speculate on the possibility of such an
auditing error.
Irregularities noticed in December by
Union Director Howard Henry were
responsible for an investigation that
resulted last week in the arrest of Jon
Thomas, assistant Union director until
October 1975.
Thomas, 3 1 , was arrested at his office
in Indianapolis and charged with 16
counts of embezzlement.
Indianapolis police originally
reported that Thomas was charged with
embezzling about $40,000, but a state
justice department official said "I don't
know where they got that figure."
Touche Ross & Co., an Atlanta-based
firm, audited the Student Activities
Fund records last summer and reported
no inconsistencies.
The Student Activities Fund, directed
by Frances W. Sparrow, handles all
financial accounts for the Union and
most student organizations.
When asked Monday if the firm
might have conducted a faulty audit,
Sparrow said, "How can they audit
checks that we never received?"
Thirteen of the counts against
Thomas concern illegal check' usage,"
while the other three counts concern
stealing cash.
After answering this reporter's
questions, Sparrow conferred privately
with Henry for several minutes and then
said, "Until the (legal) process is
complete, I cannot say anything about
this."
She added that Touche Ross & Co. is
one of the top-ten auditing companies in
the United States.
Henry refused to speculate as to why
last summer's audit discovered no
irregularities.
Thomas allegedly embezzled cash
from the Union long before the Touche
Ross audit. John Satterfield, public
cultural activities, garbage collection,
the police department, the Board of
Aldermen, the school board and street
maintenance.
Parks and recreation was the only
area receiving less than a 50 per cent
favorable response, and 30 per cent of
the sample rated the service "poor" or
"very poor."
Alderman R.D. Smith said the survey
represents too small a sampling of a
population of over 30,000 residents and
20,000 students to be significant.
Staff photo by Margaret Kirk
David Williams
of Administration's' Service-Learning
Internship Program, the Academic Reform
Committee, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Affairs Committee on the possibilities of a
bus referendum, and the November student-faculty-administration
conference on
campus governance. Nancy Mattox
please
University community since 1893
Wcdnssdsy, Jsnusry 23, 1976
information officer of the N.C.
Department of Justice, said Tuesday
that one of the 16 charges concerns
Thomas's activity during September
1973. Thomas was named assistant
director in July 1972.
"Satterfield added that the justice
department is disturbed over
accusations made last week against SBI
investigator Troy Green by Thomas's
attorney, John Hammond.
Green handled the investigation of
the Thomas case after the UNC Internal
Audit, which had been called in by
Henry, turned the investigation over to
the SBI at the request of an undisclosed
University administrator.
Hammond said Green had promised
to send him information concerning the
specific charges against Thomas and
called Green a liar when he denied this
promise.
Hammond also had claimed that a
deal had been struck between he and
Green, Satterfield said. "He said he was
told that warrants would not be issued if
Thomas cooperated and went back to
North Carolina," Satterfield said.
"This is completely untrue," he
added. "Warrants had to be issued
because it was determined that Mr.
No solutions this year
Election laws remain
A News Analysis
by Nancy Mattox
and Chris Fuller
Staff Writers
" Any promise of clarifying the current
election laws, which have been called
vague and unenforceable by Student
Government officials and former
candidates, will apparently go
unfulfilled for now.
"This year's Campus Governing
Council is in no position to change the
election laws," Brooke Bynum, former
Elections Board chairperson said during
a CGC Rules and Judiciary Committee
hearing on the laws Sunday.
She said that any laws which could be
passed by CGC in their remaining two
meetings could not possibly be fairly
enforced, since some candidates would
undoubtedly be already running their
campaigns in accordance with current
Rabinowitz admitted that the
sampling was small and that "all survey
results should be interpreted with a
certain amount of skeptical awareness."
Also at the meeting, the board
endorsed and granted $1,200 for a
proposed seminar on participatory
planning methods to be held by. the
UNC Department of City and Regional
Planning for the fall 1976 semester. .
Town Manager Kurt Jenne stated the
proposed seminar could be helpful in
obtaining citizen input for the Town
Planning Program, espeically in the
establishment of the town's Long Range
Development Plan.
In other action, the board voted to
request that the Orange County Board
of Commissioners expand the town's
planning district by adding 8.7 square
miles to the present planning area.
If the commissioners expand the
district, the town will set up an advisory
committee of residents in the affected
areas to work with the staff in the
development of zoning
recommendations.
In addition, the board authorized
Jenne to take the necessary steps to
maintain operation- of the Morgan
Creek Sewage treatment plant, after
Jenne warned that an emergency
situation has resulted from the sudden
failure of a centrifuge.
Jenne explained that failure of the
centrifuge which is used to separate
digested waste from liquid waste has
made it impossible to dispose of waste in
a normal manner.
ros i g o o "ts
Thomas w as a security risk at his job in
Indianapolis, where he had access to
large sums of money."
Thomas is employed with the Market
Square Arena in Indianapolis, and his
work concerns ticket sales revenue.
Satterfield also denied Hammond's
other charges. "He is lying," he said.
Hammond could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
"Our (the justice department's) last
understanding," Satterfield added, "is
that they (Thomas and Hammond) are
going to fight extradition."
Thomas's extradition hearing is
scheduled for Feb. 17 in Indianapolis.
Extraditions are handled through
governors' offices, Satterfield said,
adding that Thomas's extradition has
been forwarded by Gov. James
Holshouser to Indiana Gov. Otis T.
Bowen.
"Thomas's family is prominent in
Indiana," Satterfield said, "and I don't
know whether they will have any
influence or not."
If the governor does not grant the
extradition, he said, the issue would be
decided in the courts.
"And the courts are not always
effective for this," he said. He then
laws.
Committee members Dick Pope and
Ben Steelman said before the meeting
that there were no recommendations the
committee could make to the council at
this late date in the session, which ends
Feb. 24.
Steelman said that if necessary, he
could introduce "pressing reforms" to
the council in committee of the whole. A
committee of the whole, which must
include a quorum (half plus one) of
CGC representatives, may report bills
like any regular committee. It is a device
used to speed up the legislative process
and improve the chances of passing a
particular piece of legislation.
Pope, however, said he would not
support any bill in committee of the
whole, since not even the committee
hearings produced a quorum
Steelman and. Pope were the only
committee members present.
The hearings, set up by CGC for the
purpose of offering alternatives to the
complex election laws, have been
attended only once by 2 members of the
committee other than Steelman and
Pope, who apart from conducting
routine questioning, have dominated
the hearings with statements about their
personal grievances.
Pope asked Bynum at the Sunday
hearing what her opinion was on what
he called spending violations by Student
Body President Bill Bates in last spring's
elections. Pope told the Daily Tar Heel
earlier that he was convinced Bates had
overspent. He based his convictions on
Speaker pro
CGC thaws
by Mary Anne Rhyne
Staff Writer
Campus Governing Council Speaker
Pro Tern Laura Dickerson resigned her
office one month before the end of her
term at Tuesday night's regular CGC
meeting.
"They (the CGC) haven't done
anything all year but spout off,"
Dickerson said Tuesday.
In a written statement she added that
she took the action "to show myself as
someone of intelligence rather, than a
'petty politico,' to use a nicely coined
phrase."
Dickerson said she wanted to resign
as long as four months ago, when she
first noticed that "nothing was being
accomplished. I stayed mostly because
of a few people who seemed sincerely to
have the interests of the student at heart
and were not there for some sort of
ego trip."
CGC Speaker Dan Besse expressed
disappointment at Dickerson's
resignation but said "I understand her
sentiments and share some of them.
Some of my own efforts to deal with
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Staff photo by Margaret Kirk
Howard Henry
Carolina Union Director
referred to the recent Robert Williams
kidnaping case in Monroe, N.C. "It
took 15 years to extradite him."
muddled
information given him by former
Student Body Treasurer Mike O'Neal.
He charged that neither Bynum nor
Student Attorney General Andromeda
Monroe would investigate Bates
because they were both Bales
Appointees. ------
Bynum, who was noticeably irritated,
said that because she was not Elections
Board chairperson at the time of the
alleged infractions, she was virtually
powerless to do anything but examine
Bates' campaign spending reports.
When Bynum asked why then
Elections Board chairperson Kicky
Bryant was not at the hearing, Steelman
replied that he had been unable to
contact Bryant.
Pope also asked Bynum if the
Graduate and Professional Students
Federation could be recruited to tend
' polls in graduate voting districts.
Bynum replied that she had asked for
and received aid from GPSF President
.Gwen Waddell, but not from any other
graduate students.
Relatively few graduate students vote
in student elections, Bynum said, noting
that most of the current graduate CGC
representatives were elected by less than
12 votes.
Pope asked Bynum if a clause should
be added to the election laws making it
necessary for the winners in each
election to be notified by the Elections
Board (he himself had once found out
about his election to an office through a
third party.) Bynum replied that most
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- tem quits;
BSM funds
more meaningful issues on the CGC
have been frustrated. 1 only hope things
will get better next year."
The council partially unfroze the
Black Student Movement Gospel Choir
funds. The bill called for the immediate
release of 50 per cent of the previously
frozen funds.
Former Student Body Treasurer
Mike O'Neal and former CGC Finance
Committee Chairperson Bill Strickland
froze the funds last fall, charging that
the choir maintained an illegal checking
account. The charge is still under
investigation by the Finance
Committee.
The remaining 50 per cent of BSM
funds would be reserved in case the
group is found guilty and required to
pay a fine.
Another bill passed by the council
provides for a mechanism for the
alteration of student fees. To alter fees a
resolution must be passed by CGC and
approved by two thirds of the student
body voting in a campus-wide
referendum providing at least 20 per
cent of the eligible students voters
participate