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. 7A ft 1 1 -f r Winter Wsrm-dcrlzn'd Sunny oday with clouds moving in this evening. High in the upper 60s and low tonight in . the middle 40s. Chance of rain is zero. - Li K n 1 l 5 1 M ' K -' 'J I i ! , X M Si f J Serving the students and the University community since J 893 V A , "r -. y Tickets for the UNC-lndiona basketball game on Dec. 20 will be distributed today beginning at 5 p.m. in Carmlchael Auditorium. Vciuma 00, Issu f.enday. 'December 1. 1000 Chepel K!X North Csrcllna Kw.Spoft.Ant 933245 Baturit-xi., Xdvvrt im-j 933-1163 41 imwp cut could thireMev 7? ' . WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Jesse Helms' drive against the federal food stamp program could prompt a congressional backlash against tobacco, industry supporters said. Some urban congressmen are branding as irresponsible the North Carolina Republican's promise to cut the food stamp program by up to 40 percent. Helms will become chairman of the senate Agriculture Committee in January. Other rural congressmen said the food stamp program was an important political bargaining tool. Big-city congressmen trade their support for farm programs for support, of food stamp programs, they said. Helms' assault on the food stamp program may cause Northern congressmen to attack the tobacco price support program "tooth, tongue and toenail," said an aide to one North Carolina congressman. The federal prjee support program guarantees farmers a minumum price for their tobacco. It also sets quotas against an excess of tobacco flooding the markets. Rep. Frederick W. Richmond, D-N.Y., said, "I give you my personal guarantee" there will be a fight if Helms tries to pare dowm the food stamp program. Richmond, chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, which pversees the food stamp program, said, "If Sen. Helms tries to cut the food stamp program, he would be taking serious risks not only the with the tobacco program, but the entire farm program." Richmond cited studies which showed the national fraud rate in the food stamp program was about 8 percent, not 40 percent. He said most retail stores had a 5 percent fraud rate. 'Sen. Helms would do well to reconsider some of his irresponsible comments," Richmond said. "The average member of Congress does not represent farmers. The average member represents either urban dwellers or suburbanites." One farm lobbyist said if Richmond retaliated against the tobacco program, "he'll take 100 votes with him." Protecting the tobacco price support program in Congress "has taken some masterful politics in the last 30 years," said John Merritt, an aide to Rep. Charles Rose III, D-N.C. One strategy of tobacco state congressmen is to keep the food stamp and school lunch programs under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate agriculture committees. Control of such programs has given outnumbered farm state congressmen political leverage with big-city and suburban congressmen. Tobacco congressmen also have supported federal aid for financially troubled New York City and the Chrysler Corp. in ' return for New York and Michigan congressmen's support for tobacco programs. "I hope that Sen, Helms. and others would, carefully calculate the political consequences, because this is a mean town," said Joseph A. Kinney, staff agriculture director for the National Governors Association and a former aide to Sen. Robert Morgan, D-N.C. Kinney said it would "only be a question of time before tobacco would pay a terrible price" if Helms succeeded in cutting food stamps by 40 percent. The head of the Tobacco Institute, Horace R. Kornegay, said Richmond's remarks were a warning to food stamp See TOBACCO on page 2 I i ... v .(.. : 11 r" J- 4 t ! 1 L ' i -'T ' ' ' 'w ' 4, vi. - - Long day l OTHTwilTowens It's that time of day when classes are winding down and only the stragglers or the dedicated few remain. Anyone who's ever crossed the campus around 4 in the afternoon knows the feeling. The campus is subdued compared to the frenzy of the morning and those still left just want to go home. -n o HM1 i 1 Tl 0) AMMAN, Jordan (AP) Jordan called up reservists and mobilized its civil defense as precautionary measures in response to a buildup of Syrian troops along its borders, a highly placed Jordanian source said Sunday. The source said Jordan also had tightened airport and border security and was stockpiling fuel. "These are strictly precautionary measures, and we have no intention whatsoever of pre-empting the Syrians, who have been massing a sizable force and hundreds of tanks near our border," said the source, who asked not to be identified. "The whole situation, to us, is nothing but muscle-flexing by the Syrians who think they can intimidate Jordan," he said. Western diplomats said Syria had massed 25,000 troops and 600 tanks on Jordan's northern border and Jordan responded with its own buildup. It was reported Saturday by official sources in Damascus that U.S. Ambassador Talcott Seelye sought a Syrian explanation for the troop buildup and was told that it was due io Jordanian training of anti-Syrian guerrillas. The, Syrians claim Jordan is aiding guerrillas of the Moslem Brotherhood, a fundamentalist organization outlawed in Syria and which the Syrians blame for a 16-month campaign of bombings and political assassinations aimed at overthrowing the 10-year-old, Soviet-backed regime of President Hafez Assad. The two countries also differ on the Iran-Iraq war. Syria backs Iran, although Iran is Persian and not an Arab country. Jordan backs Iraq. The Syrians blame Iraq for starting the war and say the fighting diverts attention from the Arab-Israeli conflict. ' In Tel-Aviv, Israel's military chief of staff Lt. Gen. Rafael Fytan suggested Sunday that an outbreak of war between Syria and Jordan would be to Israel's advantage. "The deeper the disunity in the Arab world, the more advantageous it is to Israel," he said in answer to questions from an audience in southern Israel. In Amman, one source close to the Jordanian government said, "The Syrians want to weaken Iraq by attacking Jordan." Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's King Khaled sent Prince Abduila Bin Abdul-Aziz, the oil kingdom's second deputy prime minister and commander of the national guards corps, to Syria and Jordan in a mediation attempt. Syrian officials said the prince met for three hours in Damascus with President Assad, who Palestinian sources said also met with Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat. , The Syrians said the Saudi official planned to meet with Assad again Monday before departing for Amman but declined to give details of the talks. Saudi state radio said Abduila carried messages from King Khaled to Assad and Jordan's King Hussein urging both leaders to exercise restraint and seek a negotiated settlement of their dispute. U.S. State Department spokesman John Trattncr said last week that the United States considered pro West Jordan "a friend whose security is important to vs." Council hears more debate on Oaks3 conversion By ANN SMALLWOOD Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council ended more than four hours of sometimes heated public hearings Monday night with a cheerful vote to prohibit parking on Franklin Street during the annual Christmas Parade, scheduled for Saturday., The remainder of the two-page council agenda was deferred until Wednesday, Thanksgivng eve. , At the Wednesday afternoon meeting, the council again deferred a motion to create a task force to study relocating the University's Horace Williams Airport, pending a council consensus on the size and composition of its membership. An ordinance changing the taxicabs rate system was adopted in a 5-2 vote. More than 60 people filled the council meeting room Monday night to witness the second public hearing about the permit modification request that would allow Greensboro's Brant Homes Inc. to convert The Oaks Apartments to condominiums. Four Oakes residents and UNC Student Government Representative Susan Strayhorn 'spoke.out against the proposed-j&nv.erstony "in light of the current rental situation and the large number of students who must compete for the small percentage of unoccupied rental units each year," Strayhorn said, "Student Government opposes the conversion of The Oaks Apartments. ..and urges the Council to take the transient students' needs into consideration in its ultimate decision on this issue." - Speakers for the developer, who requested the conversion in August, argued that the sale of the 124 Oaks units, at Burning Tree Drive and N.C. 54 East, would not appreciably damage the Chapel Hill rental market. Citing a study made by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developer, Brant spokesman Mike Hyman said that as much as 37 percent of the units .could be expccf:i..laremaiaji5. apaxtsicnti after conversioh",7f they were purchased and leased by local investors. Real estate appraiser Tom Hefner said the potential return on condominium projects was so great that incentive to build apartments was reduced. No new apartments have been built in Chapel Hill since 1973. "No one is going to go out and build an apartment project for $3 million or $4 million that he will go broke on," Hefner said. Although Hefner admitted under questioning that it also was more lucrative to convert existing apartments to condominiums than to build new ones, he said he did not expect an Oaks conversion to start an irreversible trend. "Eventually, the laws supply and demand would have to come into play," Hefner said. "If every apartment in town were converted ; tor.i-ht,-1 don't believe they could be scii." John Griiiard, an Oaks resident who recently completed medical studies at UNC joined other residents in citing numerous structural defects which they contended could not be remedied through the "cosmetic" improvements the developer has promised to make before sale. Pool plumbing, insufficient insulation and unstable drainage were cited by residents as reasons why they would prefer to rent temporarily instead of buy for $5 3, (XX) to $75,000. Vote to disband fails OM East MEilhiappy witih TOW By MELODEE ALVES SUff Writer Despite arguments from some Old East residents, a motion to dissolve STOW Residence College was defeated by a secret ballot of 3-10-2 last week. Many of the STOW representatives felt that STOW had not been given sufficient time to function as an organization and should remain to prove itself. Composed of Spencer, Triad and Old Well dorms, STOW is in its first year of operation. Some of the residents of Old East argued that they did not see any substantial benefits in being a part of STOW. "We had no say-so about getting in STOW; now we have no voice in getting out," said Davis Cooke, an Old East resident. Clifton Mctcalf, vice president of Old East, said some residents felt that the amount of money taken from the dorm for the STOW fund decreased dorm mixers and made small mixers impossible to have. Some residents questioned the election process in the formation of STOW and felt that the women's dorms had an overriding vote over the men's dorms. Mctcalf said the dissatisfied residents also felt Old East was losing its individuality. "We're the oldest state university building in the nation. Iking in STOW takes away our tradition, our sense of history," Cooke said. The Old East residents particularly were disappointed with the vote because the motion would have given the area freshmen their first opportunity to vote on STOW. When STOW was first formed, there was no official individual dorm , vote. "Why are they scared to have a vote of confidence? It should never be something that you can get in, but can't get out of. That's not a democracy," said Stephen Stock, an Old East resident. Still, some Old East residents were not surprised by the vote and just wanted recognition of their problems, Terry Childress, an Old East resident, said. Metcalf said Old East would try to work to solve its problems within the framework of STOW. "Most of the dorm is middle-of-the-road. Those people we can appeal to," he said. Pam Byrd, governor of STOW, said she was glad Old East brought out its problems and she said she would work on a compromise in the future. "I am concerned that there is a lack of communication. We'll work on that," she said. Byrd said she would propose smaller events for next semester, with more money allocated for social events. f setecmon process us cnan&ea i:y i:::tm simmons MaffWriur This year's Resident Assistant cprllcants will have to go through a different process from the hectic one Hinton Jjrr.cs MA Grctchcn Yost went through two years ;,. "When I .ot to be an RA, first I had to fill out an application, then I wcr.t to an individual interview wiih zr 11 A from my dorm. Then I went to frcup interviews. It was supposed to show how oa woulJ act in a rroup situ-!ion," she said. "I really didn't hke that pt too much because you really didn't know any of the people, isnj a lot of it was r c ix y f a V c . Like Yost several other UAs tompUmcd about p.u!v of the proem in a survey University lloiisinj compiled. As a result, students apply i.a for one of the ,out K) HA pmiuns this )c.:r will r !hmL:-h a s!.,-S,t!y diiTcrcTJ selection po.s. University Housing nil! f c.'in accepting applications today. "Last y ear's candidates recommended we take another look at the process and chance a few thine.s," Jody Harpster, associate director of University Housins, said. llzrpfAcr said people interested in RA positions will meet Jan. 14, before applications are due on Jan. 16. The next step in the three-month selection process will be individual inters $ wiih current RAs. "These are more like informiticn sessions. They give a candidate a chance to aik questions on a one-to-one bails," Harpster said. In past years, after the information sessions, several pecp'i were fiver a hypothetical problem to solve during a group interview. This year each candidate will t- randomly ginned to an ir.'ervie vS;er a panel wi:i esk the candidate questions. "Las! year's k..v,u:ei hit tl. -t the ito-cp interviews weren't a fair assessment of their abilities and they weren't a fair assessment of their abilities and they weren't giving (housing) what we needed to know Harpster said. "During the last phase (the mini interviews), only those candidates that we still feel we'd like to know more are interviewed sjain," she said. People chosen for RA positions will I? notified in writins Tcb. 17. "I don't think it's easier (this year)." Yost said. "Cut I think it's more fair, I'm not sure whit all the new prcr-m is, but I know it's fcloj to be not z file, zr.i net u much cf a put-crt, 1 think you're rcilly jre4rs to see whit the Applications for RA positions are available tl the Residence Life Office in Carr Building at the area, directors offices in residersc? f.slls and ct the r. .. ' v dels h Grtnvill; To .vers. V v '.. - ... - " t v , ' , " C T ; : ' . . . . - , - . 4 . , ' ' - s . t ' .. t ,.--' . . - ' "' fc j . , " '.! ' ! - ...selling flowers for 45 years in a business pssscd down from her mother 7! o 4 ' Hy LINDA r.O-HmON Staff SV filer It is strange, but proper, to sec the words "Floucr Ladies' posted cn the downtown NCK3 Plaza si-n along with p2p2s3yos" gr.d "Aaron Literary Serviees." Cut, just like the Old Well and UNC ath'eties, Chzpel Hill's flower ladles, as they are called, ere an integral part cf the University community. They bt'003. The ladies sit faithfully, day in and day out, just io-li the plaza in small chairs hueied s;alr.st a mlrrcr-hr.ei wall, furroundti ty cental-ers cf colorful hense-fxen fioim. "On ct'd zr.i rair.y da$ tAe thlt. tiose roes ty iber," tald parethy I .n.r::'ort, v,ho is the dean tf C ; I Chapel nUlflotver ladle:; add a touch of brightness Hill's farr.ed flower ladles. . She has been seliiog Rowers for 43 years. She and the ether floucr ladles grow them at their karr.es and farms tlx miles outside Chapel Hill. "My mother started it all and I just sort cf lat;hed to. zr.i kept it up, the said. "My sister d es the anar-'n-. She v u never trained; it's just a God pi. en ift she v,as tcrnsvith, a natural ) "V.'e used to sell the flowers til i'''"Z rrsr.ll'rt Street. Ttrre vcre tl out 12 cf us i:t tp fctar. here &rj it used to te real pretty ta see a many fioucri raiiirston tali. Li! Pratt it a tlUtbe, friendly vernal ci f 1, h;s, hie P 1. "I started back when 1 was 10-1 1 years eld. Mr and my sister wcu'd go around to the women's darns,!: ones and 10 from house to house felling," she laid. "I didn't Xt t: II in 3 doer-to-doer Lie that so I'd fir the bell once and leave, and my jlster would tell me I'd never make any money. 1 Lke dclnj it this way better the p eop!:cae come up to you and you don't have to be ashamed cf askin f:lis for money." Pntt h c,l;k to p in! cut the ti;rr and effort t: .1 j-ses tato taah of their t'Cu';ue.i. "Peapl: dunt mll.'e ho- mu.h fecfk we pat in to thr-e." the tald, n.st we tot to tale cart cf the jarden and we jot tr pi. I tl :'i asj ln-j hsj I :::z',:z t:.e tlscrs far f t cf r-i rtov,:n cn r
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