Nippy
Skies will be clear, and
the air will be nippy
today. No rain is
predicted for the
Chapel Hill area. The
low temperature last
night was in the high
40S.
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Today Is a federal
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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Monday, October 11, 1976, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Issue No. 32
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Lake up;
shortage
still here
by Sam Fulwood
Staff Writer
Although the 1.49 inches of rain that fell in
Chapel Hill early Saturday morning raised
University Lake by six inches, it didn't end
the water shortage.
Grey Culbreth, director of UNC utilities,
said the shortage is not close to being over.
That one and-ar"half inches of rain is
roughly four to five days usage (of water
from University Lake)."
Culbreth acknowledged that more rain fell
in Chapel Hill last week than any week since
the drought began this summer. But he said
that more rain would be needed to end the
water shortage.
"If it rained every week from now till
Christmas, at Chaper Hill's average of four
inches a month, the drought wouldn't be
over."
For every inch of rainfall in Chapel Hill,
University Lake rises about four inches from
the runoff into the lake, he said.
"We need 16 inches of rain to end the
drought. If we get half, we would be lucky."
Culbreth added that 16 inches of rain would
raise the lake about 64 inches and end the
water shortage.
While the rainfall helped Chapel HiU's
water situation, it did little or nothing for
Durham.
Terry Rolan, Durham's assistant director
of the Division of Water Resources, said he
didn't know how the rainfall affected the
water level at Lake Michie, Durham's
reservoir, but said he doubted the rain
changed Durham's water situation very
much.
Roland said that Lake Michie probably
rose not more than 0. 1 to 0.2 inches, if at all,
based on past rainfalls. He said that because
Durham's reservoir is larger than Chapel
Hill's University Lake, it takes more rain to
fill it.
Roland said Durham water officials were
studying the water situation to make plans if
the area doesn't receive more rain.
"If we don't get some rain in a couple of
weeks, we (Durham water officials) will
begin looking at cutting back on the sale of
water to Chapel HilL"
Chapel Hill receives 2 million gallons of
water daily from Durham. Roland said the
first step, should a cutback become
necessary, would be to reduce the amount of
water Chapel Hill receives to about 1.5
million gallons daily.
When Durham began selling water to
Chapel Hill in early August there was an
abundance of water in Durham, Roland
said. However, since late August the lack of
heavy rainfalls has caused Durham's water
supply to dwindle.
ovemors ra
by Tony Gunn
Staff Writer
-The UNC Board of Governors
unanimously approved Friday a $1-billion-plus
budget request for 1977-79
that includes a 20 per cent increase in
academic salaries.
The board also approved renovations
at Chase Cafeteria and UNC libraries
and authorized the study of a proposed
regional optometry school. A proposal
for a doctoral degree in Library Science
also passed.
UNC President William C. Friday
presented the budget Friday afternoon
Board eyes
by Tony Gunn
Staff Writer
The UNC Board of Governors Friday
agreed to allow UNC officials to work
with higher education officials in South
Carolina and Georgia to plan an
optometry school for the three states.
John L. Sanders, UNC vice president
for planning, said the proposal was not a
commitment, but an agreement "to
explore in detail meeting the need."
Sanders, who presented the proposal
to the board, said that North Carolina
has approximately six optometrists for
every 100,000 persons. The national
average is nine for every 100,000 persons.
Before actual work on the school can
begin, the proposal must be approved by
the Board of Governors and the N.C.
General Assembly.
The Southern Regional Educational
Board (SREB) suggested that North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
jointly sponsor an optometry school.
The Georgia Board of Regents and the
South Carolina Commission on Higher
Education have previously agreed to
study the proposal.
Sanders said federal aid is available for
three-fourths of the funding. He said that
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Jack Ford at Meredith
The overwhelmingly positive reaction Jack Ford drew from 400 Meredith College
girls Friday afternoon prompted many smiles such as the one above. See the story on
page 5.
University
by Kathy Hamilton
Staff Writer
The presentation of five
Distinguished Alumnus awards will
highlight University Day activities
Tuesday.
Former N.C. Chief Justice William
H. JSobbit, historian Clemont Eaton,
physicist Walter Gordy, public opinion
analyst Louis Harris and former
Congressman Charles Raper Jonas will
each receive the award. ,
University Day, which
commemorates the laying of the
cornerstone of Old East Building on
Oct. 12, 1793, will include a convocation
in Memorial Hall at 1 1 a.m. Chancellor
Ferebee Taylor will preside, and
William C. Friday, president of the
in Raleigh to the State Advisory Budget
Commission. The commission and the
governor will submit their
recommended budget in January to the
General Assembly.
"This is not a Santa Claus Budget,"
said Hugh Cannon, chairman of the
board's Committee on Budget and
Finance.
"Everything that was asked for (by
the 16 schools in the UNC system) was
not approved in the budget. Everything
they did get, they did want."
Cannon reviewed the 439-page
budget with the board for an hour
optometry
the states would pay the other one-fourth.
South Carolina has expressed an
interest in having the school at the
Medical College of South Carolina in
Charleston.
As the host state, South Carolina
would provide the remaining one-fourth
of funding, with the other two states
providing for the retirement of the debt.
About SIS million would be required
for building the school, Sanders said.
Annual operations would require $3
million. Appropriations would be based
on how many students came from each
state.
North Carolina and Georgia students
would probably compose 40 per cent of
the school, Sanders said, with 20 per cent
from South Carolina. Total enrollment
would be approximately 360 persons.
By a contract with the SREB, North
Carolina has 1 8 spaces in each class of the
three southern optometry schools at the
University of Alabama, the University of
Houston and the Southern College of
Optometry in Memphis, Tenn. North
Carolina has six spaces at the
Pennsylvania College of Optometry in
Philadelphia.
Only 12 optometry schools exist in the
United States.
tify
Day activities to celebrate UNC
University will be the featured speaker.
A special musical selection, "To Saint
Cecilia" by American composer
Norman Dello Joio, will be presented by
the Carolina Choir, , Men's and
Women's Glee Clubs and the Brass
Ensemble, directed by Asst. Prof, of
Music Robert Porco.
jClasses recess from 10:30 a.m. to
12:30 a.m. on Tuesday so students and
faculty may participate in the
ceremonies.
Bobbit, one of the recipients of the
Distinguished Alumnus awards,
received both his undergraduate and
law degrees at UNC. He was elected
superior court judge of the 14th District
in 1938, and was appointed associate
justice of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina in 1954. Bobbit became chief
justice in 1969.
biennial
before it was approved.
The board approved the use of
$600,000 for renovating Chase
Cafeteria. The project calls for moving
the food services from the second floor
to the first.
The space made available upstairs
will be assigned to the Health Services
Research Center, the Speech and
Hearing Institute, the Division of
Student Affairs and the Personnel
Department.
The project will be financed with
$300,000 from excess student union
building bond revenues and $300,000 in
nonappropriated trust funds.
For Chapel Hill, the board also
appropriated proceeds from the sale of
utilities at UNC-CH to construction of a
new central library ($22.6 million),
addition of three floors to the Health
Sciences Library ($2.7 million), and
alteration and renovation of Wilson
Library ($5.6 million).
The proceeds from the sale, it has
been estimated, will be approximately
$42 million. The first $ 10 million is to be
paid into the state's General Fund.
Practically all that remains will go to the
three library projects, approved by the
UNC-CH Board of Trustees July 30.
Highlighting the budget request is the
salary increase 10 per cent each year
for UNC employees exempt from the
State Personnel Act.
"The State Teachers Association also
recommended a 10-plus'-10 (per cent)
increase," Cannon said. "I'm not sure
which came out first."
The budget also includes funds for the
building of a School of Veterinary
Medicine at N.C. State University, the
development of a p re-veterinary
training program at N.C. A&T State
University, and the continued work on
the School of Medicine at East Curolina
University.
The budget represents "what we think
the real needs of the universities are,"
Cannon said, noting that one of those
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State will finally repair
Chapel Hill-Raleigh
'Pray for me' road
by Laura Seism
Staff Writer
The State Transportation Board partially answered
the prayers of motorists who travel N.C. 54, Friday
when it approved $600,000 for immediate
improvements to the narrow, twisting road.
Improvements are scheduled for an eight-mile
stretch of the highway between the Orange-Durham
county line and Research Triangle Park. Scheduled
improvements include resurfacing the entire stretch,
widening the roadbed to 24 feet from its present 20 feet,
smoothing out sharp curves and creating six-foot
shoulders where possible.
Work by state highway construction crews on most
of the improvements will probably begin within two
weeks, Henry Clegg, assistant to highway
administrator Billy Rose said Sunday.
Eaton received his masters and
doctorate degrees from UNC and
Harvard University respectively. He is
recognized as a leading Southern
historian, and was president of the
Southern Historical Association.
Gordy received his A. B. and his
Ph.D. at UNC. He was elected to
membership jn,the National Academy
of Sciences In 1964 and has served for
several years on the National Research
RH A plans to utilize student patrols
by Elizabeth Swaringen
Staff Writer
The Residence Housing Association
(RH A) is working on a $45,000 security
proposal that would incorporate
bud
needs was $126,600 for the
"Improvement of Reproductive
Efficiency in Turkeys" the 11th
priority requested in agricultural
programs conducted by N.C. State.
In other action, E. Walton Jones was
elected UNC vice president for research
and public service programs by the
board. Jones, 45, had been serving as
associate vice president since January
1973.
The board unanimously passed a
resolution in memory of Walter J. Gale,
who died Sept. 9. Gale served as
president of Pembroke State University
for seven years.
VW Stuff
Continues
Would you climb into a Volkswagen with
19 other people just for a free keg of beer?
That's the question the Student Union
sponsoring the VWBug Stuff contest.
The contest began on Friday when the
Kenan K rammers stuffed 20 people in a
dilapidated Volkswagen behind the Carolina
Union in two minutes, 20 seconds. The fun
begins again today at 2 p.m. when Alexander
residents challenge the K rammer's record.
If there's a tie, we'll weigh them to see
who got the most- weight in," Leigh
Fullington of the Recreation Committee
said.
Fullington said she didn't think there has
ever been a bug stuffing contest at UNC
before. "We're just letting each group try to
set their own record," she said.
get
Council. Gordy is credited with having
established an experimental basis for
and a theoretical definition of the
concept of electronegativity,
Harris is a journalist and leading
analyst of American public opinion. He
received his A.B. in economics at the
University in 1942, and has been in
public opinion and marketing research
since 1947. His firm, Louis Harris and
Associates, Inc., has had a major role in
campus patrols by students equipped
with radios.
RHA President Bob Loftin said
Thursday night that the proposal, which
is now in the planning stages, has been
lauded by several administrators.
Under the RHA plan, two students
would patrol the area where they live
nightly for a designated period of time.
They would be equipped with radios to
contact police if they notice anything
unusual. Loftin said that principal areas
requiring security include Kenan
Stadium, Ramshead parking lot, and
the areas around the high-rise dorms on
South Campus. He said stricter security
measures are needed on North Campus
in the arboretum area, around Cobb
dormitory and the cemetery behind
Connor.
"Currently no campus police patrol
these areas on foot after dark," Loftin
said. "These student monitors would
become the eyes and ears for the police.
"We want to increase the security to a
point where there is little chance of
anyone getting hurt," Loftin said. "The
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Clegg said improvements will probably be
completed by next spring or summer. Resurfacing,
which usually can be completed within two weeks, will
not begin until May or June because of winter weather
conditions, he said. Resurfacing will be handled by
private contractors with the state.
The improvements to N.C. 54 will not significantly
increase the highway's traffic volume capacity, but they
will make the road safer for motorists, Clegg said.
He said the highway will be satisfactory from a
pavement-width standpoint. "But it's carrying 8,000 to
9,000 cars a day, and that type of traffic warrants four
lanes," he said. "It will still be inadequate for the traffic
volume."
The winding, hilly contours of N.C. 54 were not built
to withstand heavy traffic volume. Passing
opportunities are infrequent, and shoulders, which
vary from two to four feet, sometimes drop three inches
from the pavement. The repairs which dot the
pavement are indicative of the $204,000 spent on spot
repairs.
Traffic volume and the fatality rate on N.C. 54 are
higher than the state averages in both areas. Average
traffic volume for two-lane roads in the state is 1,800
cars per day, according to transportation department
figures.The volume on interstate highways in rural
areas 8,500 cars per day is not as high as that of
N.C. 54.
founding
analyzing national elections.
Jonas received his A.B. and law
degrees in 1925 and 1928 from UNC. He
served as Congressman from the 10th
District from 1952 to 1972. Jonas
became known as a "watchdog of the
treasury" as a member of the
Appropriations Committee of the
.House of .Representatives. Jonas was
' president of the N.C. Bar Association in
1946.
program is tor the security of all
students, not just women."
"We see this as a more viable, less
controversial, less expensive program
than a paid escort system," Loftin said.
"The program will cost approximately
$45,000 and counting capital outlays we
feel this is a worthwhile investment."
Loftin said RHA would present the
proposal for administration approval
after concrete plans are worked out with
several student organizations.
The program is being developed with
Betty King, the Student Health
Advocate, who is working to establish a
student courtesy van for hauling injured
students to class. The van would double
as a security control vehicle at night.
Loftin said that student affairs
administrators reacted favorably to the
proposal. Ted Marvin, UNC director of
security services, offered to train
students for the program and
coordinate a work schedule.
The RHA is also working on a
campus noise policy, because some
Chapel Hill residents complained that
bands playing on campus were too loud.
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