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Cloudy Today and Wednesday will be partly cloudy with highs near 80. There is a 40 per cent chance today, decreasing to 20 per cent tonight. The overnight low will be in the low to mid 60s. err rrllY Awards given The Chancellor's Undergraduate Awards Committee will honor 45 outstanding students at 3:30 p.m. today in the Banquet Hall of the Morehead Building. & Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Tuesday, April 19, 1977, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Volume No. 84, Issue No. 134 Please call us: 933-0245 Carter warns U.S. of imminent crisis in energy supply WASHINGTON (U PI) President Carter grimly told Americans Monday night that looming energy shortage confront the United States with a crisis as serious as war and can be met only by inconvenient and painful sacrifice. Warning that the unbridled consumption of past years cannot continue, Carter sought to convince a doubtful nation that the crisis is real and to rally support for a program he will detail to Congress Wednesday night. "If we fail to act soon, we will face an economic, social and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions," he said. Never smiling, Carter spoke for 18 minutes in an address televised nationally from the Oval Office. He sat behind his desk, looking straight into the camera, a picture of stiff formality in a dark pin-stripe suit and red tie. For the first time since becoming president he called upon the country for sacrifice. The President's talk launched a week-long blitz intended to sell Congress and the people on a series of stringent steps to reduce gasoline consumption 10 per cent by 1985, slash total energy growth by more than half to less than 2 per cent a year and cut in half the use of imported oil. His speech was laced with strong language terms like "national catastrophe," "a problem unprecedented in our history," "the moral equivalent of war." A recent Gallup poll showed less than half the nation considering the energy shortages "very serious." Carter, hoping to convince a majority the crisis is real, acknowledged the skepticism he faced. "I know that some of you may doubt that we face real energy shortages," he said. The 1973 gasoline lines are gone and, with this springtime weather, our homes are warm again. "But our energy problem is worse tonight than it was in 1973 or a few weeks ago in the dead of winter. It. . .will get worse every day until we act." He withheld details of what "unpopular" steps he intends to propose Wednesday, but officials said he would seek standby authority to raise gasoline taxes by five cents a gallon every year for 10 years, and Carter hinted he would try to tax out of existence cars that get low mileage. Even before Carter spoke some members of Congress, just back from their Easter recess, said the people had no stomach for higher gas taxes. For example, Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Tex., said he found "overwhelming hostility" among his constituents. llilll . s t ? s , NO ks v V s s s ' v'vi-vi-. V- - s 1 lliilppllllii .8 4 u tr ii I u u Hi 3 N" v HI N N f 1 4R iilliiillilliifi rrborobus service Dforov w A . 5 oT . i g mm . v s N v-sN i.N sv s 5 s N N v,. a N . . f N; N B , --s N 5 'mm s 4 ' viX --X X-x X s X-" x- 'xv - - is1?.-.-.' Vs " ' s 'w.NVAi'NVv. -i liiliii? By ELLIOTT POTTER City and State Editor The Carrboro Board of Aldermen appropriated $13,500 Monday for an extension of the Chapel Hill bus system that would provide transit service between the UNC campus and Carrboro's many apartment complexes. The funds for the extension were approved by the board by a 4-2 vote during a special meeting called by Mayor Ruth West. The decision came three referendums and many lengthy discussions after the town of Carrboro first began considering transit service for its residents. The action was taken after Carrboro Town Manager Richard Knight had received a letter Monday from Kurt Jenne, Chapel Hill's town manager, which stated that the extension could be provided to varrooro ior jij,juu. jenne esumaiea me going 10 scnooi. total cost of the service at $42,700 and said UNC Student Body Pres $1 2.50 more than last year Phone installations to cost $20 the University has agreed to pay the remaining costs. The service, which is scheduled to begin August 15, will operate during the nine month academic year on Monday through Friday when University classes are in session. The extension will not be available on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Three buses will be operated on the Carrboro route during the peak service hours from 7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. A single bus will provide the service from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proponents ot the extension said at the meeting that the service would offer' transportation for a large portion of the Carrboro community the students. Alderman Robert Drakeford said, "Approximately 30 per cent of our populace have no way of getting to their job which is going to school. UNC Student Body President Bill Moss and Campus Governing Council representative Phil Searcy told the board that the service will help ease campus and town parking squeezes. When asked why the University will not pay all of the costs for the service. Moss responded, "Claiborne Jones (vice-chancellor of business and finance) feels the University simply cannot afford to go into the utility business. If they paid 100 per cent of the costs that would be essentially what it would be doing." Opponents of the bus extension said at the meeting that the Carrboro residents had expressed an opinion against the service by defeating various service proposals in three separate resolutions. "I can't believe you would even waste your time discussing this when it has been voted down three times," Alderman Mary Riggsbee said. "If the University has a transportation problem, let them solve it. The student is a resident, but his domicile is not here. The Carolina sky is not so blue when viewed from the vicinity of the steam plan on Cameron Avenue. Staff photo by Rouse Wilson. By BERN1E RANSBOTTOM Staff Writer Students will have to pay $12.50 more in the fall for telephone installations than they did last fall, a Southern Bell spokesperson said Monday. Subscribers will have to pay $20 for phone hook-ups. The Chapel Hill Telephone Co., which recently sold its operations to Southern Bell, charged $7.50 for installations. With the increase, the cost of installing a telephone in Chapel Hill reaches the same level as in all other areas served by Southern Bell, according to manager Mike Carson. "This is the service-connection charge that is applicable all over the state," Carson said. "Southern Bell customers have experienced installation-rate increases recently because the charge we used to apply did not come close to covering the cost of installation." Although phones already are in dorm rooms, Carson said it still will be necessary to charge students the same rate as other customers. "There is a considerable cost in processing the applications, processing and printing listings and maintaining services," he said. Another reason that costs will be higher, Carson said, is that Southern Bell must compensate for several costs which did not apply to the University-owned, state supported system. "The University as a state agency did not have to include some articles which are very costly to a business, such as state and federal corporate income tax and workman's compensation and property taxes," Carson said. It may be possible for dorm residents to choose the type of telephone they wish to have in their room, Carson said, but the University will have to approve such a privilege. If the University does decide to permit Bell to install alternate units, there will be extra charges for such changes, Carson said. Nobel Prize winner Katz speaks at UNC neurobiology symposium By KAREN MILLERS SUff Writer Nobel Prize winner Sir Bernard Katz explained his research in neuromuscular transmission at a public symposium Monday that recognized the 10th anniversary of the neurobiology program at UNC. Katz, a professor of biophysics at University College, London, won the Nobel Prize in 1970 in physiology and medicine. At the symposium Katz explained slides that highlighted his work with the quantal theory and the vesicular hypothesis. The quantal theory states that nerves pass messages in a series of jump-like steps instead of in a continuous flow. The vesicular hypothesis deals with the way neural messages are transmitted through the eruption of nerve vesicles. "This is a working hypothesis that is par excellence," Katz siad. "But there is sill a lot of work to be done." Sydney Brenner, head of the genetics section in the medical research council, Cambridge, England, followed Katz with a discussion of the genetics of complex systems. "Our view of complexity is how long it takes us to understand something," Brenner said. "What looks like a disorderly mess may actually be very orderly." ' Brenner said he believes that the study of a small and finite system is important in understanding the structure of more complicated systems such as the human nervous system. He has worked with the nervous system of a simple worm about a millimeter in length. Seymour Benzer, who concluded the lectures at the symposium, also has studied a simple nervous system, that of the fruit fly. He has manipulated nucleic acids in the genes of the fruit fly to see how genetics might affect behavioral changes. He spoke on the uses of genetics in problems of the nervous system and behavior. Apartment scarcity causes prodigious fall waiting lists By AMY McRARY Staff Writer It's a first-come, first-serve situation when looking for a Chapel Hill or Carrboro apartment for the fall semester. Most apartments have waiting" lists for August ranging from 20 to 115 parties. Those few complexes that can now guarantee applicants a place to live also may have waiting lists before exams are over. Carolina Apartments has the longest waiting list for the fall of the complexes surveyed. "Our list for August is about 1 15," manager Ricky Hester said. Of this number, probably on 40 to 45 will receive apartment leases, he said. !I am discouraging the people who are calling now for an apartment," Hester said. Kingswood has the next-longest waiting list. Most of the 70 persons on the waiting list will receive an apartment for fall, manager J. Brent Bobbitt said. The major factor determining how many students receive apartments for the fall is the number of persons who move before August, Bobbit said. But students who apply for an apartment now will have a hard time finding a complex located on a bus line, according to Bobbit. Planetarium offers kids moon flights, space ants, neat w hatch am ac all its There is as yet no waiting list at Foxcroft Apartments, says apartment manager Jeffrey L. Sellers. "We are still guaranteeing two-bedroom apartments for the fall," he said. "But that's today's situation; things may change by tomorrow. "By some time this week, we will continue to take applications, but we can make no promises to the applicants," Sellers said. Estes Park and Old Well also are guaranteeing spaces at the present time. At both complexes students must place a refundable deposit to receive a space. "We can guarantee anyone who wants an apartment at Old Well a place to live because we know the number of people who are vacating," secretary Betsy Bobbitt said. Old Well can continue to guarantee apartments until the exact turnover number is known in the middle of May, she said. The guarantee of an apartment also probably will stop by the middle of May at Estes Park, manager John Ray said. The smallest percentage of persons on a waiting list who will receive an apartment in any of the complexes surveyed in the fall is at Townhouse Apartments. Of the approximately 100 parties on the list, six or seven are guaranteed space. A policy change has resulted in a shorter waiting list at The V illages, according to management there. Only two persons , I r ' i ft, h fx f'V' v-sf tm-y iff ,,- - v2NH ? f I If -1 - - I '';'. r S.-$fer....ri-.v.t. - 111,1,1. IM Tinrni ii ii-itnf "nnirrtrii iiiif'J'n-T will be allowed to rent an apartment. The present waiting list at The Villages is approximately 30 to 40 persons, according to present Villages figures. Please turn to page 5. -"tXV-VVWW",VS " ' .... If! .-- By CHIP PEARSALL Staff Writer They'll trade their readers and arithmetic lessons for neat whatchamacallits and giant space-ants anytime. Diane Liles 24 second-graders from Durham County's Hope Valley School discovered Morehead Planetarium last week. They agreed it was pretty neat. Along with 375 other primary grade students, Liles class toured the planetarium building and watched the 11 o'clock "Mr. Moon" show. An average of approximately 46,000 school children make the same trip each year to see the planetarium and the UNC-CH campus. The planetarium's brochure says that "Mr. Moon" gives primary students a chance to explore, discover and investigate. They did. The students arrived about a half-hour early, as the brochure suggests. As they piled out of the standard orange-and-black school bus, the exploration and discovery began immediately. There's a big sundial, and a lot of other kids here. Inside the planetarium foyer, Liles bought tickets for Mr. Moon." While she talked to the cashier, moving bodies filled the foyer. Some clamored to buy planetarium souvenirs and refreshments from patient vendors. Others eyed posters of constellations and whispered to their friends. Liles and three mothers who came along as aides lined the children up for a brief tour through the exhibits. Friends grasped friends' hands. Most of the chattering voices fell silent as Liles, an attractive black woman, held up her hand. "Excuse me. Excuse me," she called. She told the class to stay together and led them downstairs. They followed obediently, gazing at the glass-enclosed exhibits lining the hallway. Other groups crowded ahead and behind. The line moved slowly, giving the students time to look at specimens of meteorites, memorabilia of Apollo space flights and other exhibits. A lighted red button beneath an exhibit about the sun invited touch. A bright light flashed, magically stimulating a spinning pinwheel that demonstrated the energy of light. The button was pushed 24 consecutive times. Up the stairs, into the dark Copernican Orrery, the students scattered, gazing up above their heads at whirling planets slowly revolving around a yellow sun. Several moons whizzed around the larger planets. The students had done their homework. "That's Mars," one boy said, pointing up at the conspicuous red planet. "Is that Jupiter?" another asked, carefully pronouncing the name. "Look at all the moons." He grabbed a classmate by the arm and pointed upward. Jupiter was a popular planet, and a group quickly formed beneath it. Another student, after viewing the orrery and apparently satisfying himself that all was right with the universe, approached the DTH reporter accompanying his group. With hands on hips and head tilted quizzically, he asked, "You a Tar Heel?" Yes. He grinned widely, raising the double "thumbs up" seal of approval. Liles led the group through the rest of the exhibits, imploring them to stay together. As 11 o'clock approached, the students joined the line waiting to leave the exhibits and enter the planetarium. As they Anf ji) o LVhV fir - i i s-c-"r- k fZ::.,- 'X2ts.L.jL 'yM-!;. ww'ssocw. &&wmm$mmMy.'u, ' " ;' - 5 vi " r(. s, ,t,i ' This group of school children clustered around the Morehead Planetarium the visit to the planetarium, the children sometimes sightsee around the rest sundial is one of many who visit Chapel Hill to learn about astronomy. After of the campus. Staff photo by Rouse Wilson. waited, the Mars expert pointed proudly at a lighted picture of a cluster galaxy and announced, "That's the whatchamacallit." His classmates did not disagree. Finally, the waiting ended. The class crowded into the planetarium, taking seats and whispering excitedly. Orange lights at the base of the Zeiss has to be correct, it has to be exact Because it is, because it is A sci-en-tif-ic fact. The buzz of whispers ended as the "Mr. Moon" instructor, Jim Manning, picked up his microphone. He introduced himself and "the real star of the show, " projector shone on upturned faces. A record extolling the Zeiss projector. Sir Isaac Newton and his discovery ended, and "1 think it looks like a giant space ant, don't you?" he another song followed immediately- asked. With Us metal legs and slender body, the It's a scientific fact, a scientific fact resemblance was easy to see. Manning switched the machine on, and the sun appeared. He traced its path across the sky to a "glorious planetarium sunset." Then the lights slowly dimmed, the planetarium darkened, and the magic began. Stars popped out onto the domed roof. A few at first, then literally thousands dotted the black planetarium sky. Please turn to page 4.
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