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Skies should be mostly
cloudy this afternoon and
tonight, with temperatures
reaching 70 today and the
upper 40s tonight. The
chance of rain is 30 percent.
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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 85, Issue No. 13 U
Monday, April 24, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Horseshoes, barbecue, bbegmss
highlight old-fashioned rally
By NELL LEE
- ; ; Staff Writer
" Horseshoes, bluegrass music and plates heaped with
barbecue. Add some senatorial candidates and you
have an old-fashioned political rally; like the one
sponsored Saturday afternoon at Ehringhaus Field by
the UNC-Chapel Hill Common Cause, the Association
for Women Students and the Young Democrats.
Festivities got underway with rousing music by a
barbershop quartet, a local bluegrass music group and
a guitarist. A sparse crowd languished in the sun,
listening to tunes and drinking beer, while others
tossed Frisbees and threw horseshoes. The most
energetic played volleyball. On the sidelines, campaign
volunteers peddled campaign buttons, T-shirts and
other paraphernalia.
The crowd swelled to about 200 by late afternoon
when three of the eight candidates in the May 2
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate spoke. State Sen.
McNeill Smith of Greensboro, former Fayetteville
newspaperman Dave McKnight and Winston-Salem
newspaperman Joseph Felmet each spoke to the
crowd, which was composed mostly of students.
Representatives for Luther. H. Hodges Jr. of
Charlotte, Insurance Commissioner John R. Ingram
and state Sen. Lawrence Davis of Winston-Salem also
spoke. The three candidates had planned to attend the
rally but cancelled in favor of a dinner near Morganton
honoring former Sen. Sam J. Ervin
Smith spoke first, advising students to avoid voting
for the candidate "with the money or the name,"
because "whoever wins this primary will have
immediate name recognition because this is a hot
race."
Following him was McKnight, who delighted the
crowd with a rendition of "Orange Blossom Special."
McKnight restated his opposition to the decline of the
family-owned farm in North Carolina, saying, "We
have to stop the large corporate agricultural interests
from driving out the small farm in the name of
efficiency and productivity."
Felmet then spoke, arguing for elimination of right-to-work
laws which prohibit requirements that all
workers in a shop join a union. "They ( right-to-work
laws) are just rights to lower wages."
Representing Hodges was Lillian Woo, a consumer
activist. She told the crowd campaign issues were
economic and that Hodges is best qualified to deal with
them. UNC student Mike Mills spoke for Ingram and
student John Totten for Davis.
Common Cause members said the rally was a
success and that similar events for other elections
would be planned.
"I think it was a success," Common Cause member
and rally co-chairperson Lynne Pollock said. "We had
a fairly small crowd of people there because a Tot of
.other things were going on at the time, but the crowd
'we had was very enthusiastic."
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-FDA committee
says pot needed for
medical research
By TONY MACE
Staff Writer
The Food and Drug Administration and
Congress are acting to make it easier to use
marijuana in medical research and to
decriminalize possession of small amounts
of the drug, federal officials said.
An FDA advisory committee last month
recommended the federal government
reclassify marijuana to make the drug more
available to cancer researchers. The
committee said there is evidence lhe. active .
ingredient 'in marijuana (THC) helps
alleviate the discomfort experienced by
cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
treatment.
The committee's recommendation
represents the first step in an elaborate
approval process, FDA drug abuse chief
Edward Tocus said last week.
"There's no way to speculate on the
chances for ultimate approval," Tocus said.
"The recommendation is now at the Bureau
of Drugs. Then it has to be approved by the
commissioner of the FDA, and then it goes
to the assistant secretary for health, who will
make the final decision."
Meanwhile, a House subcommittee is
considering a bill that would make
possession of less than an ounce of
marijuana a civil offense, rather than a
criminal offense, with a $100 maximum fine
for conviction.
Under the measure, individual states
would have the option of retaining criminal
prosecution for possession of marijuana.
North Carolina and several other states have
already enacted similar modified
decriminalization laws.
Both the FDA action and congressional
legislation were initiated by the Carter
administration. Peter Bourne, Carter's
health adviser, has asked the National
Cancer Institute to ends its discrimination
against researchers who request grants to
investigate the use of marijuana in treatment
of cancer and glaucoma.
The U.S. Department of Justice came up
with the decriminalization plan at the
request of President Carter, according to
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By MIKE COYNE
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
again will be asked to consider a special
use permit for the proposed addition to
the Health Sciences parking deck at its
meeting tonight. The board rejected the
permit request by a 5-4 vote at its April
10 meeting.
"It (the deck) is still a live issued as far
as the town is concerned," John Temple,
vice-chancellor for business and
finance, said. "We feel we have to have
the deck for hospital traffic."
Temple said the University has
answered the town's questions
regarding the deck.
"To summarize our position at this
time, it is my belief that we have
successfully resolved the expressed
concerns of the town staff, the
transportation board and the planning
board," Temple wrote in a letter to
transportation board chairperson Peg
Parker and transportation board
In that same letter, Temple said the
cost of campus parking permits
tentatively is scheduled to jump from
$72 per year to $84 per year for fiscal
year 1979-89."
The transportation board will hold a
special meeting at 4 p.m. today to
consider the permit request again and
possibly to make further
recommendations to the board of
aldermen, transportation director Bob
Godding said Sunday.
Peg Parker, chairperson of the
planning board, said , she would not
convene her board for a special meeting.
"We have already had several special
meetings on this issue and I refuse to
hold another," Parker said. She added
she would telephone planning board
members to see if any new
recommendations should be made to
the aldermen.
Tonight, the board of aldermen also
will consider proposed changes in the
noise ordinance passed at us last
From staff and wire reports
U.S. and Soviet representatives were finalizing
provisions of a new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
agreement in Moscow this week while the true strength
of American military forces was called into question at
home.
U.S. officials Sunday said significant progress was
made during the SALT talks concerning limits on the
number of nuclear weapons either side could produce
and maintain.
Meanwhile in Congress, Rep. Robin Beard, R-Tenn
released a report concerning the all-volunteer Army.
The report stated Army recruiting shortages, increased
pregnancies and poorly educated enlistees tend to make
the system a failure.
Beard, when releasing his report, said the United
States will need to consider restoring some form of draft
or mandatory national service if there is no
improvement in the situation.
The New York Times reported Sunday that, in
SALT details
addition to the congressional report, some high-ranking
American officials believe the United States is
unprepared to deal with terrorist activities at home and
abroad.
The officials said the United States is far from being
prepared to deal with terrorist attacks. Only one .
military detachment has received any anti-terrorist
. training and that group will not be ready for action until
this summer, the officials said.
The congressional report said active U.S. military
forces are 80,000 units short of wartime strength adding,
recruiting shortages will lead to a shortage of half a
million soldiers in the event of a wartime situation
before the draft could take over.
The all-volunteer draft, begun in 1973, is based on a
total force concept which puts 54 percent of Army
manpower in reserve units, the report said. But the
report also stated, "The U.S. Army total force is a
failure due to major losses in reserve force strength."
The report noted the Army is "making comic books
ind. director Terry Lathrop. meeting.
nuclear weapons limitation
out of training manuals" by rewriting them on an 1 1th-
grade to an eighth-grade level, while Army weapons
systems are becoming increasingly complex.
UNC's Samuel R. Williamson, history professor and
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, sees the Army
situation as an attempt by the United States to offset the
Army weakness with greater weapons systems.
Williamson, former director of the Curriculum of
Peace, War and Defense has served as a consultant on
the Soviet Union to the U.S. Department of Defense.
"We are trying to use weapons technology to offset
where the Army is below standard," Williamson said
Sunday. "Our looking for offsetting technology, in my
opinion, enhances the chance of war."
Williamson said a trade-off between Army strength
and more sophisticated weaponry is only a part of the
military competition between the Soviet Union and the
United States.
"The Army isn't as weak as the wire services say it is,"
Williamson said. "It's not a paper tiger."
Williamson said there is no way to improve the Army,
short of renewing the draft or some sort of mandatory
national service.
The report said budget cutbacks have resulted in
reduced training and shortages of equipment in the
Army, contributing to a drop in readiness and morale.
"We need to acknowledge there is a serious problem,"
Beard said when releasing the report, based on five
months of interviews of all ranks of Army personnel.
In the arms limitations talks, the Soviet Union is
trying to prevent American production of the "cruise
missile," an extremely accurate (within 300 yards)
nuclear-tipped pilotless drone. The United States could
have an arsenal of up to 11,000 cruise missiles in
operation by 1981 if President Carter approves current
production plans.
The United States now has roughly 13,000 missiles in
all, according to the Armed Forces Journal, an
unofficial publication of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Archaeologists to search 1-40 corridor
By KATHA TREANOR
Staff Writer
State archaeologists are to explore the
proposed Interstate 40 corridor through
Orange County for significant historical and
cultural artifacts.
But Mark Mathis, supervisor of the field
work expected to begin May 15, said even if
something of major significance is unearthed
he is not sure if it will be enough to persuade
state officials to shift the corridor for the
interstate.
"We're concerned about the cultural
resources, both archaeological and historical,
of North Carolina, but at the same time we
have to look at the economic aspect of the
public good," said Mathis, who works in the
N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.
Division of Archives.
"We don't like to stop projects. That's not
our purpose," Mathis said. "But we try to be
as objective as possible."
The N.C. Board of Transportation has
voted to extend 1-40 from Research Triangle
Park to 1-85 near Hillsborough.
The boards of aldermen ol Chapel II ill
and C'arrbor o and the Orange Count Hoaid
of Commissioners hae asked state high.is
planners to scutch the pi o posed i-.n'k. s,n mg
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Mathis said he does not know what
workers can expect to find along the
proposed route. The area has been inhabited
by transient American Indian tribes for
12,000 years and by English-speaking
peoples since the 17th century.
"We'll be looking for evidence of
prehistoric activities ceramics and stone
artifacts," Mathis said. "We'll attempt to
find out yf ihere" afe intact, undisturbed
deposits of cultural materials that bear
looking closer before they (highway
construction workers) run their bulldozers
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Sensible Highways and Protected
Environment, a group of Orange and
Durham residents opposed to the state 1-40
plan, held a festival Saturday to raise funds
for a court suit to stop proposed 1-40 routes
through the area.
Environmentalists and others formed
SHAPE in September 1977 to oppose N.C.
Department of Transportation plans to
extend the highway.
"There is no sufficient reason forspending
that money and building that road." said
SHAPE member Llio Soldi, a professor of
plnsics at N.C. Central l'niersin in
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$1,000 prize
Company seeks flagpole sitters
for three-month boardwalk perch
By TERRI HUNT
Staff Writer
Interested in sitting on a flagpole for
three months? Well, here is your big
chance.
World Atlantic Productions of New
York City now is taking applications for
thejob from anyone over 18 years of age.
The lucky man or woman chosen for the
position will spend from May 26 to about
one week after Labor Day atop a
flagpole. The winner will receive $1,000
for the feat.
"We would really like to have a
female," Norman Adie of World Atlantic
Productions, said. "There has never been
a female flagpole sitter on record."
The Atlantic Productions venture
would be a world's record if done by a
female. The present v orld record, held by
a male flagpole sitter, is 365 days.
Rest assured, vou w on't he sitting on an
ordinary flagpole for thiee months. The
chosen sitter will have a one-room suite
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The suite will be equipped with a
telephone that will permit the occupant to
dial friends around the world to tell them
of his or her incredible adventure as well
as a telephone service connecting him or
her with the millions of vacationers of the
beach at Wildwood. Also included will be
a comfortable lounge chair, running
water, electricity, radio, TV and heat if
needed.
Promotional brochures boast that the
sitter will have a panoramic view of the
Atlantic Ocean while over the southern
New Jersey seashore.
Why is the attempt being made? "It's
actually a promotion for a new
entertainment center in Boardwalk
Mall," Adie said. "Also, we're doing it,
because it's never been done on a
boardwalk."
Adie said his company already has
received hundreds of applications from
people mostly between the ages of 18 and
30, but no final selection has been made.
Potential flagpole sitters can mail
applications to: World Atlantic
Productions. 150 fast 35 Street, New
York, cw Yotk I ;;-;;! 6.