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By RENEE McRARY
Staff Writer
Strap on your helmet, donjpur reflective vest, check
your lights and you're ready.
Bicyclists seem to be more concerned about protecting
themselves from the hazards of bike-riding nowadays, .
says Dave Witten, owner of Chapel Hill Cycle Shop.
Sales of bike safety accessories, such as helmets and
flashing lights, have risen sharply in recent years. "I've
sold probably 10 times as many helmets in the last two
years than any time' before," Witten said.
Concern for bicyclists' safety is the main reason bike,
lanes and paths were built in Chapel Hill, said Tony.
Hooper, assistant town manager. "TheTe are a lot of
people that use bicycles, and we want to encourage that,"
he said.
Parking is banned on Cameron Avenue and Country
Club Road during certain hours where bike lanes have
been, marked off. There are also red-colored bike paths
along Airport Road, Franklin Street and Raleigh Road
which are separated from the roadway and double as
sidewalks.
The xne-way paths were designed for bicyclists in
areas where they are not able to keep up with the flow of
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'Don't push your right-of-way' on a bike
traffic because of steep hills. nid Mark Royal, assistant
town engineer. Hooper said those paths are "90 percent
completed'! and usable for cyclists now.
Chapel Hill police reported nine accidents involving
bicycles in the last six months. "There were no major
injuries," said Ralph Pendergraph, crime prevention
officer. "We've been fortunate."
Pendergraph said most accidents involving bicycles
happen either because the rider is not given full right-of-
McNeill Smith lecture"
way by a motorist, or because he fails to obey traffic
laws.
Most of the accidents happened on Franklin and
Rosemary Streets, where "we're just too congested,"
Pendergraph said. The failure of drivers to yield to bikes
in bike lanes has led to some "near-accidents," he added.
Though bicyclists have full right-of-way,
Pendergraph said, "there's a difference between right-of-way
and good common sense. Don't push your right-of-way,
because you don't have much protection on a bike.
If theres a flagrant violation or pattern of violations (of
bicycle right-of-way by motorists), report it."
A bike-rider is required to put a headlight and back
reflector or red light on his bike for riding at night and to
obey all applicable traffic laws, such as" stop signs, hand
signals and lane requirements, Pendergraph said.
A Chapel Hill ordinance also requires bike owners to
register their bikes. Registration costs 50 cents, and the
registration number is engraved on the bicycle,
Pendergraph said. If a registered bike is stolen and
recovered, its owner can be traced within 30 seconds.
"It's the best insurance against theft," he said.
Indents too erioi3i today
DTHFite photo
Don't be too career conscious Smith
By GEORGE JETER
Staff Writer
The future of the University depends on the attitude of
its students, former State Sen. McNeill Smith told
members of the UNC Dialectic and Philanthropic
Societies Monday night,
Smith, who unsuccessfully campaigned for the
Democratic Senate nomination in 1978, gave the
audience a University history lesson and advice for
planning what to do with their time here as students.
"It'll be your thinking that determines whether people
of the world will look to Chapel Hill for guidance or
someplace else," Smith said.
Many of today's students are too serious and career
conscious, Smith said. "You should come here to shine
and say and do what you want to do," Smith said.
The University was intended to be a school for all
classes and kinds of people, Smith said. Although the
school once only accepted men, the original founders
encouraged men from all kinds of backgrounds so "there 4
wouldn't be any aristocratic class," said Smith.
Smith also stressed the need for all well-rounded
liberal arts education. "I think that's the main purpose of
a place like Chapel Hill," he said.
In addressing the question posed to him by the
societies, "The University: Parent or Child of the State?"
Smith said that even though the school's funds are
controlled by the state legislature, the University is a
multi-faceted body which neither controls the state nor
is controlled by it.
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Smith said the fact that a large number of the state's
government business leaders are UNC graduates and
that the University often makes studies which are used
by the state shows that, indirectly, the school is a parent
to the state.
On the lighter side of how students should learn new
things at Chapel Hill, Smith told the group about his
experiences as a UNC student in the 1930s. He and
several of his friends drove through town with women's
lingerie tied to the first car ever owned by a member of
their class.
Noted prof
dies at 59
Dr. George M. Himadi, UNC
professor of radiology who has been
named Professor of the Year twice by
the senior class of the UNC School of
Medicine, died Monday at his home
following anextended UlnessHe. was.
' A memorial service will be heETat
p.m. Monday5'" "at N.C. Memorial
Hospital. Burial services wilTBe private.
Himadi joined the faculty in 1969.
"Dr. Himadi was an inspiring member
of the University faculty," said Dr.
Christopher C. Fordham, vice
chancellor for health affairs. "His
students and colleagues will greatly
miss him both as a friend and as an
outstanding teacher and physician."
A native of Ridgewood, N.J.,
Himadi attended Duke University and
then its medical school, where he
received his M.D. degree in 1944. At
Duke he was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha
medical honorary.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Cora Arnold, a son William of
Tucson, Ariz., a daughter Elaine of
Worcester, Mass., a daughter Linda
Himadi Lenz of Chapel Hill and two
grandchildren.
The family requests that any tribute
to Dr. Himadi be in the form of
contributions to Triangle Hospice,
Inc., P.O. Box 3120, Chapel Hill, N.C.
27514.
Local amnesty proponents work
o free prisoners of conscience 9
By JOHN ROYSTER
StafT Writer
Several?. Chapel Hill citizens " are
working tS free prisoners in such faraway
places as Romania and South Africa.
They are members of the local chapter
of Amnesty International, a worldwide
organization that works to free what it
calls "prisoners of conscience" those it
says have been imprisoned for reasons of
race or beliefs, confined without trial or
mistreated while confined.
"Mainly our purpose is to exert
pressure of public opinion, which seems
to work pretty well, although I'm not
quite sure why,'' said Bruce Tindally,
chairman of the local group.
Local groups are assigned cases by
Amnesty International's headquarters in
London. Members write letters to
officials in the countries concerned,
appealing for the release of the prisoner.
The chapters also appeal to the U.S.
State Department and distributes press
releases about the prisoners.
One victim sponsored by the Chapel
Hill chapter is Jianu Sava, a Romanian"
coal miner who took part in a 1977 strike
against the government-owned mine in
which he worked.
According to Raquel Goldberg,
coordinator for the Sava case in Chapel -Hill,
the incident is unique to Amnesty
Vnternational ' lecause' Sava is nqt
imprisoned. HV has "beendembted and
transferred, however.
The second case sponsored by the local
chapter is that of Aaron Ipinge, a leader
in the Southwest Africa People's
Organization (SWAPO) who, according
to Amnesty International, was arrested
earlier this year by the South African
government and imprisoned without
trial.
SWAPO advocates independence of
Southwest Africa, now under the control
of South Africa.
The cases were assigned to the local
chapter after an investigation by the
London headquarters. Persons who are
believed to have used or advocated
violence receive no aid from the ?
organization.
"The main thing we do is just keep
writing and keep writing over and over,"
Tindall said. "There are no official
statistics, but kind of a rough estimate is
. that 50 percent of the cases we handle end
. in the prisoner being released."
.On the local level, seven peases have
h been taken since the chapter started in1'
1977. Five of them have ended in
prisoners' release, although not always
before the scheduled end of the sentence.
Amnesty International, Tindall said,
strives to remain politically neutral. "We
don't want to antagonize anybody," he
said.
The organization also provides
financial help to families of the prisoners.
The Chapel Hill chapter outlined some
of its plans at a meeting on Monday. A
booth will be set up in University Mall
Saturday in conjunction with the mall's
Community Services Day.
Boaz Sharon, a Durham pianist has
agreed to do a benefit concert for the
chapter, but a date for that has not yet
been set.
The chapter also will conduct a
downtown observance of Human Rights
Day and Week in October.
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Boogie for a cause
The Embers (Greg Willard pictured above) played Tuesday in the
Phi Delta Chi house on Finley Road. Proceeds from the all
campus bash wentto the American Cancer Society.
Sticker approvals ready
Students who applied for Student
Government hardship parking stickers
before 5 p.m. Monday may check by
Suite C Carolina Union from 1-5 p.m.
today through Sept. 21 to determine
whether their application has been
approved.
The secretary in Suite C will have a box
of letters approving hardship
applications. If an applicant's letter is not
in the box, the application was rejected,
said Warren Collier, Student
Government director of parking and
transportation.
Applicants should present a valid I D to
receive their letters. Applicants can have
the letters mailed to their home by calling
933-5201, Collier said.
Approximately 55-60 of the 65
hardship applications received by
Student Government were approved.
Collier said. Student Government has
approximately 40 stickers, left to
distribute to hardship cases which may
arise throughout the year, he said.
Any questions concerning the
application process should be directed to
Collier or Lee Carr in Suite C.
Student'sconditiowpoor
A UNC student who was hit by a car on
N.C. 54 Bypass last Thursday remains in
poor condition, a spokesman for North
Carolina Memorial Hospital said
Tuesday.
Michael John Schlautman, 23, of 1-Q
Royal Park Apartments, received
multiple injuries when he ran into the
path of a car driven by Wanda Brown
Frick, 25, of 65 Laurel Ridge
Apartments. Frick and her daughter,
two-year-old Tanya Marie Frick,
received minor injuries in the accident.
The child was treated in the emergency
room and released Thursday. Wanda
Frick was not hospitalized.
No charges were filed in the accident,
police said Tuesday.
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