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These students were among the 6,342 who waited for financial aid checks in the 90 degree heat
Returns from Vietnam
.Broyliill cautions about resuming, talks
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By CAM JOHNSON
Staff Writer
U.S. Rep. Jim Broyhill of Lenoir, recently returned
from a congressional mission to Southeast Asia,
Tuesday said he has guarded opinions about his
delegation's report recommending a resumption of
diplomatic talks with Vietnam.
"Because of the change in direction of the foreign
policy of the Vietnamese, we want the administration to
consider negotiations to normalize relations and
concurrently start talks about opening trade
negotiations," Broyhill said:
A major impediment to normal relations between the
United States and Vietnam has been the Vietnamese
demand that the U.S. government pay $3 billion in war
reparations for damages inflicted during the Vietnam
War.
"We told the Vietnamese that Congress won't approve
aid," Broyhill said. "They issued a statement saying
neither country should impose conditions on the other in
aiming toward achieving normalization of relations."
The Lenoir Republican said congressional feeling
about normalization depends on factors that will
develop during peace talks between the two countries.
He said the Carter administration should negotiate
with the Vietnamese and report to Congress.
"If there are other factors that wouldn't call for it, we
shouldn't extend (full diplomatic) relations," Broyhill
said.
Broyhill said the administration should explore
Vietnamese attitudes on several issues before deciding
whether to normalize relations or begin trading with the
Southeast Asian nation. .
American treaties with other countries, treatment of
UTjusinesscxecut
and Hanoi's attitude toward a global- anti-hijacking
treaty signed by the United States and her Western allies
are matters the Vietnamese government should
comment on before the White House decides to extend
full, normal relations, the member of Congress said.
, Broyhill said he believes the return of remains of 1 1
American M I As by the Vietnamese government is a step
toward improved relations between the two countries.
"This was a good faith effort on their part," Broyhill
said. "What is significant is that they have agreed to and
are proceeding with a full-time search for bodies."
The Vietnamese want to establish relations with the
United States "because they are in a real bind," Broyhill
said. "They're reaching out to the U.S. and the West
because of their conflict with China and because their
economy is in trouble."
Although he was not among Congressional delegation
members who visited the border area between Vietnam
and Cambodia Broyhill said his colleagues who went
there "observed a lot of troop and tank movement -and
heard a lot of artillery fire." - '.-v- A'A.v:
In recent months, a border war has erupted on the
Vietnamese-Cambodian border. As many as 60,000
Vietnamese troops have been involved.
By MIKE COYNE
Staff Writer
Bookkeeping by the check recovery
and collection departments of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association
drew criticism Tuesday from an
accountant who said records are so
incomplete he cannot perform a certified
audit.
Charles Carver of Farley and Carver,
certified public accountants in Chapel
Hill, gave the testimony in a hearing
continued from May as part of a seven
month investigation by the N.C.
Department of Insurance.
The hearing was continued so new
evidence could surface and auditors,
could examine available records.
In earlier testimony, insurance
invetigator Allen Surratt testified he
found $2,0007 in cash, checks and money
orders that had been collected for bad
checks but not returned to creditors.
The money was found in the desk of
Andrew Landes. a Merchants
Association collector who has since left
the association. .
Some of the money, checks and money
orders involved came from UNC
students. Part of the evidence in the
resumed hearings was to come from
complaints made to Student Legal
Services attorney Dorothy Bernholz.
Bernholz did not present evidence to
the Department of Insurance Tuesday
because, she said, the persons who earlier
filed complaints either have left town,
decided they didn't want it to be known
they wrote a bad check or decided they
did not want to get involved.
M onday the executive director and the
president of the association admitted that
deficiencies existed in the check recovery
: department's accounts. -
of its-
vcollection license or imposition of more
stringent collection regulations.
Carver testified that an audit is
impossible due to missing checks.
destroyed statements and incomplete
files. He said a number of discrepancies
were found - between check recovery ;
ledgers and individual debtor cards kept :
on file. Records did not agree on whether ;
the account had been paid.
Besides the charges of failure to keep
proper collections records and a proper
list of creditors, the Merchants
Associaton is charged with using forms
not approved by the insurance
department, failure to furnish receipts to
creditors and failure to place collected
monies in a trust account immediately
after receiving them.
C.W. Barbee, attorney for the
Department of I nsurance, said he was not
satisfied with the Merchant's,
Associaton's efforts.
"I am chagrined that in the past five
months (since the first hearing), in view of i
the testimony we heard in April, that no'
more progress nas oeen maue, ne saia. ;
Joe Augustine, executive director of
the association, testified Monday that thef
check recovery department's collection
agency has closed and all accounts have
been settled. He also said money found in
the office was dispersed to creditors and
that there are no other claims against the
association. j
Merchants Association President
Irving Folger said the group plans tor
merge with the Chapel Hill Chamber of 5
Commerce before the end of this year. He
said then the collection agency's?
bookkeeping system will be revamped by
Carver and a full-time accountant will be
hired. The association has been without a
full-time accountant since the end of;
March. V
Hearing chairman B.E. Latimore said
records of the hearings will be open to '
testimony by letter from any client
debtor or interested person until noon,.
"There was some indication thaf
citizens in the area ' did want aft
opporunity to speak," he said. "This way
they get their testimony on record."
Kepcuving halts S bus
Students waiting for an S Ws will find
they have to walk or ride the U bus
around campus at least for this week.
While state contractors pave South
Columbia and South Road, traffic,
including buses, will have to detour the
area.
The S-bus will travel the U-bus route
while its regular path is blocked off. The
three buses travelling the U route will be
hand dispatched to insure efficient
service. .
Each bus stop affected by the detour
will have a notice posted listing the
nearest U-bus stop. Bert Gurganus,
operations director for the Chapel Hill
Transportation Department, said the city
is trying to run buses parallel to the
regular S route.
"The buses should come about every 10
minutes, depending on the traffic and the
extent of the detours, Gurganus said.
I)jbi cancel UNC gig;
ticket refunds available
By ANN SMALLWOOD
Assistant Arts Editor
The Doobie Brothers' Sept. 4
Carmchael Auditorium appearance has
been postponed until Dec. 6, the Carolina
Union announce Tuesday.
Full refunds will be given at the Union
information desk from 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
through Sept. 22 to the almost 2500
students who already have purchased
tickets. After Sept. 22 the old tickets will
not be valid for either refund or
admission to the December concert.
The Doobie Brothers are dropping the
Chapel Hill concert from the end of their
present tour, having decided to end their
tour in Atlanta before returning to the
West Coast.
Union Director Howard Henry said
that although advance sales had been
good (almost one-third of the house had
been sold) the Doobies were "probably
unhappy with the advance and wanted to
quit on a high note." He said that he had
not heard of any concert cancellations on
the tour other than this one at UNC.
Henry said he thought more tickets
might have been sold if the concert had
not been scheduled so soon after the fall
semester began because news of the1
performance was not given the usual
amount of advance publicity.
Still, Henry said the Union was upset
about the delay because, he said, "There
isn't much you can do." He said they
couldn't even be sure the group would not
back out of the Dec. 6 engagement as
well. He added, "We'll know for sure on
Dec. 7."
Though the Doobies' promoters also
are sponsoring the upcoming
performance by Little feat Sunday Sept.
17, Henry said the Feat concert will not
be affected and will go on as scheduled.
Tickets for that concert will be available
at the Union Desk beginning Sept. 5.
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Shoppers should find grocery prices have leveled off this month
Wo frills9 groceries ease budget
The toilet paper is white and unscented. The
green beans are cut unevenly. But "no frills"
groceries packaged in plain wrappers can be as
much as 30 percent cheaper than national brands,
A&P store managers say.
- A&P, the only Chapel Hill grocery store to sell
the unbranded products, recently introduced the
items in 135 A&P stores in North and South
Carolina.
"This is A&P's part to show that we are trying to
help inflation. These products are only lor people
who really want to save money," said Frank
Thompson, manager of A&P at Eastgate.
"We are not trying to get people who want brand
names to switch," he added.
Specific sales figures for unbranded products
introduced in recent months in supermarkets form
coast to coast are not available, but Thompson said
products sold in the so-called Economy Corners of
A&P stores are selling well and that shoppers are
particularly interested in- trying out non-food
products such as detergents and paper goods.
Reception of the "no frills" items introduced this
month has been good, said Brooks Mills a
See GROCERIES on page 5
Food prices down;
other indices have
year's smallest rise
The Associated Press
The first decline in grocery prices in a year gave shoppers some .
welcome relief from inflation in July as overall consumer prices
increased just 0.5 percent, the smallest rise this year, the
government reported Tuesday.
Grocery prices fell by 0.4 percent in July after average monthly
increases of 1.6 percent during the first six months of the year.
The improvement was due chiefly to lower prices for beef, down
2.2 percent, and pork, down 4 percent.
The government had been saying for months that the upward
spiral in food prices would ease after mid-year. However, prices
of goods other than food increased 0.7 percent in July, the same
as in other recent months, showing there has been ' no
improvement in inflation in the non-food sectors of the economy.
Consumer prices had increased 0.9 percent in each of the
previous three months, and the July increase was the smallest
since 0.4 percent registered last December. If continued for a.
year, it would translate into a 12-month inflation of 6 percent.
The annual rate of inflation in the previous three months was
10.7 percent.
President Carter's inflation adviser, Robert Strauss, said
Tuesday the best that can probably be hoped for this year is total
inflation of 8 percent, up from 6.8 percent in. 1977.
He told the National Governors' Conference in Boston that the
administration is studying new ways to strengthen its anti
inflation program, but declared they would not include wage and
price controls.
The July improvement in inflation gave some brief support to
the dollar on currency exchange markets. But that was quickly
offset by another government report showing the nation's foreign
trade in July was in deficit by nearly $3 billion, the fourth largest
monthly deficit ever.
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Two members claim Media Boardinefficient seek reva
By GEORGE SHADROUI
Staff Writer
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Reorganization or elimination may be the
fate awaiting the UNC Media Board if various
board members, Student Government officials
and publication editors have their way.
Crisann Ohler, Yackety Yack editor for 1978
79, and Will Blythe, Cellar Door editor for
1978-79, have said the Media Board in its
present form is inefficient.
"There are too many politicos on the board,"
Blythe said. "I suspegt that many of the board
members get on to advance their careers in
business and politics. They want their dossiers
to look good."
Ohler said the Media Board is "producing red
tape, at least for the Yack:
"There is also a question of whether or not an
editor of a publication should also be chairman
of the Media Board," Ohler said.
Ted Kyle, 1977-78 Yack editor, will serve as
Media Board chairperson this year. The board's
member, organizations include the Alchemist
and the Carolina Quarterly, as well as the Yack
and the Cellar Door.
But Kyle said he sees no conflict of interest as
his term as Yack editor officially ended last
spring. He added that as chairperson he votes
only in case of a tie.
"1 know of several CGC members who would
like to see the boar1 disbanded," said Jim
Phillips, student body president. He added that
something'will have to be done about the board
this year, whether it be reorganization or
disbandment.
But Kyle said he is not aware of any plans to
disband or reorganize the board. He said that if
a change does take place, it will be change for
the sake of change. :
"There is some dissatisfaction with the Media
Board on the smaller publications because the
organizations want to control themselves," said
Andy Michael, Media Board member.
"There has been a role change," Michael said,
"but there is nothing wrong with that. It is a
question of reorganization."
The Media Board oversees the publications,
controls their budgets and selects their editors.
Blythe said these duties could be performed
by an independent organization which was not
stifled by a Media Board caught up in
personality clashes. But Kyle said he believes
publications must answer to a governing board,
whether it be the Media Board or not.
The Media Board has undergone several
major changes in recent years. The 'Daily Tar
teW gained its independence from the board in
1977 when a referendum guaranteeing it 16
percent of the student fees was passed by the
students.
Michael said the DTH separation was
necessary because the newspaper monopolized
the board's time. It was a case of the DTH being
too large for the board to handle, he said.
WXYC, in a move sparked with controversy,
also gained independence from the Media
Board last year.
The M edia Board serves a valuable function,
Michael said, because it settles financial
problems. But he added the board in its present
state is obsolete.
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