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..-4 - Platforms Candidates for the RHA presid3nt end. senior class'- president and vice president get a chance to explain their platforms in columns on. the back page. Page 6. Polar plexus The forecast (or today calls for sunny but cold weather. The high will be near 34 with the low dipping down to 1 5. ..-! r ; Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Vclums 80. issue df Tuesday, Fefarusry 3, 1031 Chapel HYA. Worth Carolina News.'Spm.'Arts 933 0245 Businesi Advertising S33-1 163 ! O" ! o O ! . " - I - mrVs Li -jW U : UiJ U 1 ! mttsi tr on o -' : ' a Dy EDWINA RALSTON Staff Wrirer H'os either school or the business; so I decided to get rich. CILL SKINNER This former UNC student is not rich yet, but at age 21, Skinner already owns a successful business. Two and a half years ago, after his sophomore year at the University, he opened a discount carpet store on Franklin Street. The next fall he returned to school as a junior 'but dropped out midway through the semester to go into the business full-time. Today, Skinner and his partner, Steve Payne, who is 22, are 10 years younger than the average business owner. They have moved into a much larger store and have broadened the line of merchandise. Their ultimate goal: to own a chain of 1,000 stores. Skinner and Payne have two stores Aragorn Carpets and Bedding Showcase that operate under the same roof as one business, offering first line merchandise at discount prices. They are not typical businessmen. They don't sit behind a desk from 9 to 5 and just call the shots. They do it all. Payne and Skinner are the salesmen, the delivery boys, the storekeepers, the bookkeepers and the advertisers. ' With only one other part-time worker and hiring out only for large carpet installations, the two men do 90 percent of the work. "We don't have to hire a bunch of people so it cuts costs. We don't work on traditional store mark-ups. We work on ambition and drive," Payne said. " The key to their success, they say, is that they rely on the quality of the business rather, than store decorations, avoiding high rent payments. The building they operate out of is clean and neat but not at all decorative. "The main thing is to get people to come through the door. Ninety percent of the people who come through our door either buy on the spot or come back to buy after looking around," he said. When Skinner originally opened the store he was in a 20-by-20 room next door to their present D f HSuianne Conver sano Steve Payne stands in bedding showcase of the store his partner started ... Skinner and Payne own and run Aragon Carpets, a discount carpet store location. He could not afford high rent; he started on a $500 loan from his father. Because of his age, he could not and, still cannot get a bank loan. Both men said their ages often worked against them: "Most people are hesitant at first. That's just another one of those social norms," Skinner said. . When Skinner went into business as a college stu dent, he said most people were quite skeptical. He preferred not to discuss the store then because nobody wanted to believe fie could do it. "Whenever you stick your head out above the ground, somebody's gonna try to knock it down. 1 guess there are just so many people talking and not doing," he said. Skinner attended the University on a wrestling scholarship until Spring Break of his sophomore year when he seriously injured his arm in the Bahamas. He opted for a medical drop that semester and returned home to New York. With the loan from his father, he began buying, repairing and selling used carpet. By July, he had earned enoygh money to open the store. Payne joined Skinner five months ago. He had given up a baseball scholarship at the University of Arizona to become a furniture salesman two years earlier. ; - The two men hope to have at least 10 stores by the end of their first three years in business together, and are shooting for 100 stores within the next 10 years. They are opening their second store in Dur ham this month- --.' See BUSINESS on page 2 Increased tips for drivers - 1 t i -Tl ill . i ,a. i r? h'w -i'v ' WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan pledged Monday that the United States would maintain its troop strength in South Korea, burying the former Carter administration's long-stalled plan to withdraw American forces. . "The United States has no plans to withdraw U.S. ground combat forces from the Korean peninsula," Reagan said in a communique following talks here with South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. Both leaders signed the communique. . A senior State Department official said it was possible that the United States could strengthen its forces in South Korea, if needed. . Reagan clearly used the occasion of Chun's official visit to demonstrate the importance of South Korea in the ad ministration's foreign policy and to reassure the Korean leader that the frictions that occurred during the former Carter administration wouldn't carry over to the Reagan administration. By inviting Chun for a visit ahead of leaders of major U.S. allies, Reagan also showed his administration has confidence in the Chun government, which seized power in a military coup following the assassination of President Park Chung hee in October 1979. The United States maintains a military force of about 39,000 in South Korea. Former President Carter withdrew several thousand U.S. troops in 1979 to the dismay of the Korean military. But, the Carter administration put the withdrawal plan in "abeyance" after determining there had been a major buildup of North Korean forces. The plan was supposed to be reviewed this year, but Reagan's statement made clear Monday that it's a dead issue for his "administration.'.-' ".-. The State Department official, who declined to be identified, said questions of human rights were not raised by Reagan during the talks. Human rights abuses in South Korea were a major point of contention in the relations be tween the two governments while Carter was in the White House. "We are looking to the future and not to the past," the official said during a briefing of reporters. Speaking to reporters with Chun at his side, Reagan said he assured the Korean leader that "the United States will remain a reliable and Pacific partner and we shall maintain the strength of our forces in the Pacific." Reagan said U.S. Asian allies, includ ing South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, "will have our continued support as our European allies have." For his part, Chun said: "President Reagan has given his firm assurances that the United States has no intention of withdrawing the American forces in Korea. I am pleased that the present level of the United States military presence in Korea will be maintained." Chun said U.S. forces provided "a vital and indispensable contribution to not only peace in Korea, but peace and tranquility in the northeast Asia region." J OTHSuzann Conversano Frldrikh fJcznansky at UHC Law School on Russia's crime rata ... Neznansky is a former Moscow lawyer and public prosecutor n "9 Siaff V.r!:cf Contrary to the claims cf Soviet prop canda, the socialist system of the Soviet Union has r!rJ to reduce oi-r.e, a former Moscow lawyer and public rrosccutor sa!d last week. Neznansky to! J more than 100 people at thj UNC Law Schocl th;t at Lra:,t cnj-thlrd of the crim!r.a!$ in the Soviet Union were convicted cf akr.es which cxLt because cf the totalitarian r.a! ure cf the ovcnamcnt. He cited thmir.3 black markets as an cxar ;lef N'car.ar.:,!ky, vsho left the Soviet U." ' . .1 in 1577 in protect cf the totaltadan re;"."?, said that short c;es of goods had Ir J t-3 the c'cvc!eprr.cr.t cf an extends "cccacniy ca the tiie," uhich iave'ved "the most induitricus and talented Sovicis." Ik taid that thousands were circled annually for invclvernent in this il!r-;-d eccacruy. aid free-thinking forces in V.'catem countries." But Neznanaky said the Soviet Union still had 6.6 prisoners per 1,000 citizens, com pared to 1 .8 per 1 ,000 in the United States. "Hooliganism" is the most frequently prosecuted offense in the Soviet Union, Neznansky said. The Soviet Criminal Code defines this as a crime which ex presses a "clear disrespect , toward society," but Neznansky said a typical argument could fcrtn such a charge. He said hooliganism was "a purely Soviet crime, mih no direct equivalent in the West." . . ' Neenansky's statistics also. showed a high murder rate. Although murders in the Soviet Union are less frequent than in the United Sfatcs, they are about six times as prevalent as in ether European, nations. "The United States is hardly ta example worthy cf emulation," Neznaa- t v : 1 I.ie c:l :t f -:ets cf hov 1 a t;i;ty, the caurti ere tv y tl e Cc: r.uri.l Tarty ,.:h Z.'.'.n j .1 meat statistics vvl iji he a: . J "un. cffic::!lyM (Soviet c:. : k w l.,..e i A l:een officially rch ? si :s r;: ) t iho.v that raare tl i2r . f .-.1 u v.;e in f r I : ans cr 1 1 "r t. r ; ii V,!?, Me said there vm re ' h' ) r , . ::$ i 1 the Ur.itcJ htatri. r.;t pfr.-.are fieri the V s ! a . r 1 " ; Cf.: ra.ni.t J'.rty fll. t.ar.s a' .e th.ir d-ty t.5 t, 1 'J j. 'i.e. I 2 1 d. As a i :'. . e c:i ihe '' :'.A j ), In lt - v - - , , I -. - r;l-- a:.s in 1577 ta tl t" tl :.? C.'., : r t c r " , ' si,:. ::c."..', si it i -l , i-s: Party ) :.re i: ! v 1 -i ,vUH3f to crn ! tl e Party : . c . .! e ' ? ih. -1 1 77 f 3 7 00 770 77 f "9 By ANNE PROSSKIt Start Writer Friday's heavy snowstorm brought added driving problems and anxiety, as well as unexpected tips, to Chapel Hill's food deliverers. One deliverer from Blimpie's witnessed a minor accident involving an automobile , and a pedestrian and was held up from making deliveries for an hour and a half. Neil Horowitz, manager and owner of Blimpie's, assumed that the driver, Luis Andrade, had been in an accident. "I didn't hapen to tell Luis that 1 had 'told the customers we thought he had been in an accident," Horowitz said, "so he would arrive and the people would give him these fantastic tips." The snow slowed service from other food delivery companies in Chapel Hill as well. "We were incredibly busy," Jill Lederer, manager of Domino's Pizza, said. "When it started snowing, people just holed up in their rooms. All they wanted to do was stay inside and order out for food." The 2.5 inches of snow that paralyzed ; most Chapel Hill residents was a financial boon for the delivery companies. "We had delivered 400 pizzas by 5 p.m.," Lederer said. "We had 18 drivers work ing. Some doubled up in cars to help out in case they got stuck." Usually Domino's employs only 12 to 15 drivers on weekend nights and delivers only about 300 pizzas during the early hours, she said. Blimpie's had so many orders that it had to put all its phones on hold in order to catch up. "We did 250 sandwiches before 11 p.m.," Horowitz said. Two Blimpie's drivers usually can handle the store's average of 80 sandwiches per night, he said. "The customers were so desperate for us to deliver that even when we said we couldn't guarantee when the sandwiches would get there, they still wanted to place orders," Horowitz added. None of Chapel Hill's four food delivery companies Pizza Transit Authority, Domino's, Blimpie's or Sadlack's reported any driver accidents. Dy KATIIOUNE LONG Staff Writer Students will play an important role in the newly formed National Black Independent Political Party, North Carolina party members said recently. "Students have been very active (in the party)," said state co-convener Barbara Arnwine, a Raleigh attorney. Arnwine said that at the party's founding conference in Philadelphia last fall, which attracted 1 ,500 people, 350 to 500 students attended. "The student caucus meetings were absolutely packed," she said. The party was formed primarily to involve and inform blacks on political issues rather than just to run candi dates, said UNC student Stella Jones, who is statewide coordinator of the party's Youth and Student Caucus. "It's not a traditional political party," Jones said. "It will address the overall needs of the black com munity." Arnwine said the party would organize and educate Drivers for all four companies said they had to exercise extreme caution, lowering their speed to under 20 mph as conditions 'worsened after sunset. "The roads began to ice up around 6:30, so we stopped tak ing orders at 8," said Tom Resier, man ager of PTA. "Our business prospers the best when the weather is really bad and people don't want to go cut," Resier said. "It's funny but a lot of people will apologize and $3y they're sorry to get us out on a night like this. They don't realize that going out in crummy weather is our bus iness, and that's how wc make money." Seo DELIVERY on paga 2 T! A -TS Tl T? : T! e . . - Tl v irelie m Maeiii "pojiauiiieaii Bairw the black community, build or fortify black institutions such as predominantly black colleges and support black elected officials. "Through the party, we will have a mechanism through which people are informed and can respond to issues," Arnwine said. Right now, the party is in the planning stages and has not attracted widespread interest, officials said. "The word hasn't spread too well throughout the slate," said Mark Fields, convener cf the party's Orange County chapter. "That's really the first hurdle to overcome, to let the word out." The party will try to develop numerous local chapters throughout the United Stales, Arnwine said. Each Youth and Student Caucus would be a part of the local chapter instead of a separate chapter, she said. Jones said students had been organizing the party at Shaw University, North Carolina Central University and Appalachian State. Mark Canady, president of UNCs Clack Student 7TT Tl e r9Hf-TirTlTl A. WW 7! o H h 1 j 1 1 m ! ' J J Ty 11 1 M A!)h After Carolina trounced his team 100-60, Georgia Tech coach Dwane Morrison said that a 100 percent rcct- cry by Matt Doherty mi;ht ju.st male Carolina the en;- t talented team in the Atlantic Ccaa Conference. I rcihnian forward Doherty says he's back to 100 percent. p.'herty return couldn't Lave com? at a tetter tin e fur the Tar Het'.i. Tl'.e presence of D-hrrty tlh;.,- Dean Smith greater f.exihiiity in crrar.in lineups and mczm more depth at both guard and forward, ' The Jar I!et! will need that Cep-th, alanj ith an)!hin? th.e they can rr.u-.ter, su they fece 'ifgir.iji tcr;l. ht. 1'heCjvH. rarAe.1 1 in thi ste$ A!' 5 ; . 1 1. .-.-d t'.-t 1' - ' :. c e t.i C: -t: 1 .V. .! ..:: U X U ; r t ' t it ') ti. ,1. I. .M).af.-i. f-7f;. ' .-.;. li ...iM : . N.Y.. v, 1 t s 1 - w , . !, w S 4 f;? J tl - over Wake Forest sriJ Georgij. 1 ih z'.Jl e :urd.-.y agsinst N.C. State. "We're a lot better at both g : rd c J f. ::. when we have Pepper, Wood rJD ' . . ty," 5 'h said. "What Matt ghc u U iie : t t' : r : d ; -'.i-tion which will be important a : s 'j ; J he'sagret a- :t in our zon;C:i,:. .?. "Matt is al.apreat ra-"er. I ! ; ! d the t. -i v.:- -C " f Ct-ifj Dvhef!) 't-r:eJ tl e htate r --' : f : Ja-t a content to vi..l t n t e I r:.h f. . ! , c' - .e c . r t Virginia. "l j ; t hae t, Llr ;art.r,t tl e h'-'e r e i- s:r.de,M.Ve(Pp; et :.'.! .! I j H -e! he re. I, U wi r e t Sf tl e t m.h." I' i. "V,r,n I r in f- r !',rr:r. F.l t I - r It.Lcr a; J ! :n I ; U f A! V i. j Jc I l, : I; r're t 'S c I'.: j . : l i.e t- ,t. -. ih.M , r.: ? Movement, said UNC students had shown interest in the party. "The response is very gocd," he said. Canady said students could have an important role in the movement. "Students are very important because they arc people coming together from various walks of life," he said. Party leaders raid they hoped students could spread party information care s the country. "This may be the beginning cf something that is very instrumental to the black community," Canady said. The Youth and Student Caucus would submit pro-' posals for programs to solve problems that face blacks and tell the party what the concerns cf youth arc. "Youth traditionally has teen super-creative with ideas," Arnwine said. "Y,e're loking for a few people who arc fired up and energetic." The party would serve as rapport for the youth caucus, helping cut with organization. $ea STUDENTS on pa 2 ty Ml J 1 C;t. i f.r 1 rf cf " . .-, rnu-' ' M
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