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Ah, Wilderness! Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's sentimental comedy is playing now at the Playmaker's Theatre. DTH contributor Stephen Jackson reviews the PRC production on page 3. It Serving the students and the University community since S'9i Volume 85, Issue No. 107 Tuesday, March 21, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Please call us: 933-0245 Cloudy Today will be mostly cloudy with highs near 70. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and cool with lows in the 50s and a chance of showers. Mi ni ft Carter proposes House vote to cut education aid quick By KATHY HART Staff Writer In an unsuccessful attempt to bypass the House Rules Committee and suspend regular voting procedure, the U.S. House of Representatives Monday honored a White House request and scheduled a quick vote on President Carter's $1.5 billion aid to education bill. The move was made to block an amendment opposed by President Carter which adds billions of dollars in tuition tax credits to the administration-backed measure. Democrats will try to get the House to vote on the bill again Wednesday, but this time they are going through the Rules Committee, said Tom Lambeth, administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro. The UNC Student Aid Office is holding a meeting of v student financial aid recipients and other interested persons at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Great Hall to discuss the merits of the aid to education bill and the tax credit proposals. "Under the aid to education bill, student aid will be increased to assist families at all income levels," said William Geer, student aid director. "Aid will not be restricted to certain income levels." The various tuition tax credit proposals would allow students or parents of students in college, vocational schools and in some cases parochial and private schools to subtract $250 - $500 from their tax bills each year for tuition. A tax credit is subtracted directly from taxes owed as opposed to a deduction or exemption which is subtracted from income before taxes are calculated. "Carter's package would put money in the hands of students at the beginning of the semester, whereas tax credit would simply get lost in the family finances," Geer said. "It does not give the student direct benefit at the time when money for college bills would be needed. "The. tax credit proposal would only benefit those people who pay income tax. The poorest people don't pay taxes, and therefore would get no benefit; yet they have the greatest need," he said. Geer said the aid to education bill would benefit both low and middle income students' more than the tax credit proposal. Tax credit would decrease as the income of the family rose. Carter's bill, introduced by Rep. William Ford, D-Mich., would extend Basic Educational Opportunity Grant eligibility to students with family incomes up to $25,000, increase funding of supplemental grants and college work study and make families with incomes up to $45,000 eligible for guaranteed loans with interest subsidized by the government while the student is in college. If passed, the tax credit proposal would cost the American taxpayer $1.7 - $2.5 billion in the first year. The increased financial aid bill would cost only $1.2 billion in the first year and offer more dollars for Carolina students who have not formerly been eligible and more dollars to students who are already eligible according to Tom Langston, associate director of the UNC Student Aid Office. At the meeting in Great Hall Wednesday, the student aid staff will urge students to write their congressional representatives to advocate passage of the Carter bill without the tax credit amendments. t , , ' v ' 3 HEW action Decision to cut funds postponed by Calif ano i , , w Dog and friends enjoy the warmth of springtime in Chapel Hill Spring's arrival boosts jogging, sales By NELL LEE Staff Writer Robins are happy about spring. Daffodils are happy about spring. And local sports shop owners are especially happy about it. Spring is the traditional time for hibernating athletes to reappear, and local sports shop owners say their sales have increased substantially since warm sunny rays hit Chapel Hill. "I've had about a 70 percent increase in business," said Bob Rogers, manager of the newly opened Wedge and Racquet on West Franklin Street. "We're selling lots of tennis dresses and shorts, racquets and shoes, and we're still selling warm up suits." He said jogging appears to be the most popular sport, with many students taking it up recently to get in shape for tennis. Ed Powell of Hackney's in University Mall agreed that jogging is the big sport this spring. "We're selling three or four times as much stuff for jogging than last year shoes, shorts and T-shirts." He said the sport caught fire last summer, and a surprising number of people kept in shape by running all winter. He added that tennis is still widespread, but the craze of recent years is beginning to level off. As for the golf crowd, Rogers said equipment sales had been down the past few months because of the snow, but he expects a boost in sales of golf equipment and apparel when the courses dry out in the next few weeks. Fenno McGinty of McGinty's Sport Shop on Franklin Street admitted to "a definite increase in sales recently." Popular items are tennis equipment, shoes and basketballs. They never go out of season in this town, he said. He agreed that jogging appears to be the sport of the year, and he offered some advice to students coming out of hibernation: "Spring athletes need to take it easy and exercise gradually. It's a good idea to loosen up first by doing exercises indoors." By HOWARD TROXLEK Staff Writer A decision on whether to begin action to cut off up to $89 million annually in federal funds to UNC was postponed Monday by HEW secretary Joseph Califano. Catifano must decide whether to grant UNC an extension of the deadline for producing a new desegregation plan or begin administrative proceedings to cut off federal money to the 16-campus UNC system. A prepared statement issued by the HEW public affairs department said Califano would make his decision by Wednesday. "This means simply ' that he has not reached a decision one way or the other on this matter," the statement said. Califano's delay could signify that he is unsure of how much progress is being made in negotiations with UNC administrators, observers said Monday. UNC officials insist that negotiations are productive even though they say no progress is being made on the duplication-of-programs issue. "The University has not and will not request an extension from him (Califano)," UNC president William C. Friday said. But Friday also said he had the impression from talks in the last two weeks with Califano and other HEW officials that the deadline would be extended. "What had happened was Mr. Califano had said he wanted to carry forward the discussions and he said that if the discussions are going along well, then we'll take whatever steps necessary to complete them," Friday said. A Raleigh newspaper reported last week that UNC had asked for an extension so more negotiations on the desegregation plan could take place. On Feb. 2 Califano said if the plan wasn't submitted by Monday hewould initiate steps leading to the cutoff of federal aid to UNC. Monday was the original deadline set by Califano for federal officials and UNC administrators to agree on a new desegregation plan. HEW is under U.S. District Court orders to step up desegregation efforts in the university systems of North Carolina and five other states. The other states have all reached a compromise with HEW and have agreed to implement federal methods to achieve greater black enrollment. North Carolina is the only state that has not reached an agreement with HEW. The main source of disagreement between UNC and HEW is a requirement to eliminate the duplication of academic programs in both black and white schools and place emphasis on putting new programs in traditionally black institutions instead of at heretofore white campuses. HEW rejected the latest revised UNC desegregation plan Feb. 2. Friday has said he will recommend no changes in that plan. No further negotiations between HEW and UNC are scheduled until after Califano makes his decision. The UNC Board of Governors has hired the Houston-based law firm of Fulbiight & Jaworski to represent the University system in possible legal battles with the federal government. If Califano decides not to extend the deadline and no agreement is reached, then HEW will begin review of UNC schools and departments to determine where to cut off federal funds. Califano has said he will not cut off student aid to UNC. Census: you're alive and well if you live in Chapel Hill By MICHAEL WADE Staff Writer ' Residents of the southern part of heaven are apparently as healthy as they are happy. Chapel Hill is the second healthiest city in the state, according to a recent study by the public health statistics branch of the N.C. Health Services Division. A comparison of the death rates in 38 North Carolina cities of 10,000 or more population between 1968 and 1972 showed that only Morganton has a lower death rate than Chapel Hill. Hickory, only 20 miles from Morganton, has the highest death rate in the state. Researchers fed death figures into a computer to come up with the analysis, the first of its kind in the state. They studied 1968-1972 deaths in order to use the 1970 census, which is the only reliable comparison among cities because of changing boundaries. The study included deaths from heart disease, stroke, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide, nine different types of cancer and several other causes of death. Chapel H ill had the lowest death rate in the state from motor vehicle accidents and the second lowest death rates from heart disease, infiuenze pneumonia and trachea, broncl.us and lung cancer. The death rates number of deaths per 1 00,000 people were adjusted for age, race and sex to make the comparison between cities as fair as possible, according to Kathryn Surles of the public health statistics branch, who was responsible for the study. Raleigh was the third healthiest city in the state. Greensboro ranked fifth, Charlotte sixth, Durham seventh, High Point eighth and Winston-Salem eleventh. Besides H ickory, the cities with the highest death rates in the state include Sanford, Goldsboro, Jacksonville and Eden. Douglas Henderson-James of Capital Health Systems Agents in Durham said Chapel Hill has a lower death rate because of the composition of the town's population. "The major education," he Jeff MacNelly will draw crowd at the Great Hall By SUSAN LADD Staff Writer "Jeff MacNelly? He worked on the Chapel Hill Weekly when I was editor," Jim Shumaker, UNC journalism lecturer, said Monday. "He was theoretically in the art school here. Never did graduate, just sort of walked off." Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly attended UNC from 1965-1969. He may not have graduated, but in 1972, only three years after he left UNC, he was awarded the Pultizer Prize for editorial cartooning at the Richmond News Leader, where he has worked since 1970. MacNelly will be back in Chapel Hill to sketch original caricatures and discuss the art of political cartooning at 8 tonight in Great Hall as part of the five-week Carolina Symposium. MacNelly was the cartoonist for the DTH in his college days and for the Chapel Hill Weekly from 1969-1970. Shumaker said Macnelly has so much talent that "it's just criminal." "You could give him just a little seed of an idea, and he'd develop it with meaning, bite and humor. Fifteen minutes later he'd come back with the finished comic much better than what you'd had in mind. Shumaker is allegedly the inspiration for MacNelly's widely syndicated comic strip Shoe, which is carried by more than 300 newspapers. "I can't take credit for anything he's done. I know that nobody at the Chapel Hill Weekly taught him anything. He was really professional even in his student days." O 1 m i i 1 I I i n f,:k - trr.n.ii ..H..I .I ii Trim ..., n in Fiddlers Convention Mountain music fans will begin gathering Wednesday night on J. P. Vanhoy's farm in Union Grove, N.C. They will be waiting for the 54th annual Oldtime Fiddlers Convention to open on Thursday night. Th.s event, the largest country music festival held in the country each year, is expected to attract over 100,000 music fans. Last year's "World Champion Fiddler" Buddy Pendleton, a postman from Stuart, Va., is expected to return to seek a fifth title. Staff photo by Allan Jernigan. industry in Chapel Hill is said. "Generally, people in education are among the healthiest segments of the population in the country." Henderson-James said the higher socio economic status of an education-oriented population is one reason it would be healthier than other areas. He said such a population is more likely to emphasic exercise, proper diet and other forms of health care. In spite of its low overall death rate. Chapel Hill was among the highest ranking cities (3lst) in deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, a disease related to chronic drinking. Henderson-James said there is probably a relationship between the high rate of alcoholism in Orange County and the number of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver. Morganton had the highest rate of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver in the state. Redistribute transit costs between UNC, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, study recommends Parking applications available April 10 Applications for student parking permits for the 1978-79 academic year will be available beginning April 10 in the Carolina Union, the married student housing office and the UNC traffic office. Permits will cost $54, William D. Locke, traffic office administrations officer, said. Completed applications should be returned to the traffic office by May 15. Locke said students should submit applications by the deadline because applications are not processed during the summer, and parking spaces are scarce once the fall semester begins. Locke said he foresees no problems with accommodating everyone who applies lor a parking permit before the deadline. "If any problems arise ue.ulii invoke the priority system set up by Student Government," Locke said. The system gives ranked priority to handicapped students, graduate students, seniors, juniors and sophomores. Locke said 30 parking spaces w ill be added to North Campus student parking next fall in the circular drive behind Aycock dormitory. - I R A A I I A WDI il By MIKE COYNE Staff Writer A study is being conducted to determine the redistribution of costs for the Chapel Hill bus system among its three users Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University. Chapel Hill Transportation Director Robert Godding said the study was commissioned by the Chapel Hill town manager in an effort to more fairly divide the costs of running the bus system. "What we are trying to do is look at how the costs are being distributed," Godding said. "This hopefully will help us tie the cost responsibilities to something concrete." Godding said Chapel Hill initiated the study because it feels it is carrying the cost burden of the bus system. "The town (according to preliminary studies) appears to be paying somewhat more than its share of the costs, the University somewhat less, and Carrboro definitely less, Godding said. This year the town of Chapel Hill contributed $4 1 0,000 to the bus system's budget. The University helped by purchasing $396,000 worth of bus passes which it resold to students. Carrboro is participating in the bus system in a nine-month experimental program. It has submitted $20,000 to help pay for buses. The University helped Carrboro pay its part for the system. Godding said after the study is completed, representatives from the tow n, Carrboro and the U niversity must work out a plan for settling cost responsibilities. Godding said if an agreement distributing the costs of the bus system more fairly could be reached, the town might act to cut back services. "We don't anticipate a reduction in - ' !M c' : , 1 h V v V ' A study conducted by a Washington firm recommends thatthetown redistributethe costs of the Chapel Hill transit system between the University, Carrboro and Chapel Hill. The study advised that UNC pay iess for the system and Carrboro pay more. services," Godding said, "but it is always a possibility." The study, which is being conducted by Barton Aschmen Associates, Inc., of Washington. D.C., is considering the cost responsibilities with three formulas: users served, areas served and services rendered in terms ol vehicle miles and hours. Godding said the study and negotiations with Carrboro and the University should be concluded sometime this spring so a budget can be prepared. 1 he town manager will recommend a budget to the Board of' Aldermen in mid-April.
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