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Moist assuredly Mostly cloudy today with a 50 percent chance of thunder storms. High expected near 80. Ifl it IP v7tD1 01 rrir v JU S3 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 fJerf Writers posted A list of feature writers will be posted at The Daily Tar Heel office Wednesday after noon. All those listed should attend the features meeting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at The DTH office in the Union. Volume ffi, Issue r 1 Wednesday, September 2, 1S81 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NvwsSportftArtt B62-0245 BusinssAdvrtifting 962-1163 .Reag --- . ( , 1 . r bill,!. . V. irdD m M de ff ems e Bmdgeit . .. , v, .v.-X .-- - . . . .'.V. 's- 'f 'A J ,r. ... ,. ; , , -T-mwirrriiii i imiinf DTWScott Sharp Scott Norberg and ElChino Martin discuss SLS $5 fee at Tuesday night's CGC meeting ... in other action the CGC approved Mark Jacobson as Election Board chairman CGC stops Norberg SLS fee to he studied reexamined By JONATHAN SMYLIE DTH Staff Writer Student Body President Scott Norberg said Tuesday night he would not issue an executive order for Student Legal Services to begin charging a $5 fee for continued legal service, despite a Monday statement that he would ask SLS to adopt the fee today. Norberg's decision came after the Campus Governing Council voted Tuesday night to send the bill back to the Finance Com mittee for further study. "I will not impose the order in light of the small amount of .understanding and the unwillingness on the part of the council to take the time tonight to examine the bill," Norberg said, add ing he still supported the plan. In other action, after heated debate, the council approved Norberg's appointment of Mark Jacobson as Election Board chairman. Some members of the council questioned the grounds for ap pointing Jacobson... Council member- Kevin xYow, pointed out that Jacobson, Norberg and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Vandenbergh were members of the same fraternity. Yow said possible association of several fraternity brothers in Student Government could undermine the students' confidence in the election process. Norberg said Jacobson displayed the leadership and organi zational qualities needed to do the job well. "He has good organizational skills," he said. "Having been on the other side lends a valuable perspective to the job," Nor berg said, pointing to Jacobson's experience working on a Daily Tar Heel editorial campaign in last spring's elections. Concerning the SLS user fee, Norberg said he had wanted the bill passed Tuesday night because the validity of the experiment would be jeopardized if it began any later in the semester. "The testing period won't be long enough to decide whether it (the fee) will work,' Norberg said. He added that the delay would push the needed time to con duct the experiment one semester into the spring. Then there would be little time to analyze the results if the information was to be used during the budgeting process. Norberg said the experiment would be useless if not completed before the budget hearings. SLS is allotted almost one-fourth the student fee allocations. Norberg said the fee could increase the money available jto other organizations without taking away from the funds needed by SLS. Council members said they needed more time to study and understand the possible effects of the fee proposal before voting. The Associated Press LOS ANGELES President Ronald Reagan has ordered new cuts in an already pared 1982 federal budget because high interest rates are jeopardizing his goal of holding the fiscal year's deficit to $42.5 billion, a White House spokesman said Tuesday. Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes indicated that even with a new round of cuts, the president may be forced to abandon his promise to hold the 1982 deficit to the level projected earlier. Speakes also said Reagan was prepared to delete up to $30 billion from his 1983 and 1984 defense budgets and would be given written recommendations today from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinber ger where to make the cuts. White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III had told reporters in a series of interviews Monday that Reagan would make, defense cuts of $20-$30 billion and possibly more in an effort to bal ance the budget by 1984. However, the administration also is faced with a ballooning deficit for fiscal 1982, which begins Oct. 1 , mainly because higher-than-anticipated interest rates are driving up the government's borrowing costs. "Assuming everything else remains the same we will be forced to increase the 1 982 deficit by virtue of the interest rates," Speakes said Tuesday at a briefing. But he refused to say how much the deficit may be increased and said Reagan was prepared to "look for additional cuts in the form of savings that will enable us to come down to $42.5 billion." "That is still our goal ... but we have to face reality," said Speakes. Some senior administration officials said privately that without a new round of budget cuts, the deficit could soar above $60 billion. Speakes said Reagan "is going to take a sharp knife on these 1982 budgets in or der to hold the line on the deficit. We rea lize it's going to be a difficult job, but it's still our goal to get $42.5 billion.". He said the Office of Management and Budget had not formally changed its pro jections, but "certainly we recognize that the assumptions that OMB made with re gard to interest rates are underestimated and that the interest is making it difficult to meet that $42.5 billion goal.". Ed Dale, an OMB spokesman, said in Washington Reagan had ordered budget director David A. Stockman to come up with additional spending cuts for 1982 be yond those already proposed by the presi dent or approved by Congress. In Milwaukee, Stockman said the ad ministration would be unveiling its new cutback proposals within a week. Among the possibilities, he said, were the elimina tions of some federal agencies and further cuts in the federal work force. Dale would not say how much the new cuts would total, but he said every agency was vulnerable. He stressed that the new cuts are in addition to about $14 billion in Social Security cuts and other program reductions that Reagan proposed in March but has been unable to get through Congress thus far. Even without the problem of higher-than-anticipated interest rates, the pro jected $42.5 billion deficit assumes Con gress will go along with the $14 billion in proposed cuts. While the administration estimated an interest rate of 13.6 percent this year, the current interest on three-month Treasury bills is 15.6 percent. For 1982, the Reagan administration is predicting a 10.5 percent rate on the three-month bills, but con gressional experts estimate it will be closer to 12.6 percent. For every 1 percent increase in interest rates, spending is estimated to increase by $4 billion because of government pay ments on its debts. Beyond the 1982 cuts Reagan will seek, the president also is looking for a total of $75 billion in budget cuts in 1983 and 1984, Speakes said. Jordan Meservoir unofficially opens after, 18 years of controversy, delay By DIANE LUPTON DTH Slaff Wriier " The motors whirred, the gates lowered and the beginning of the B. Everett Jordan Lake became a reality. It took six minutes Tuesday to end 1 8 years of controversy and delay. "I pushed a button which lowered the gates to a predetermined opening," said Col. Robert Hughes, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Wilmington district), which is responsible for the Jor dan Reservoir project. Approximately 100 state officials and visitors stood on the observation deck over the dam and watched the water flow slowly through the gates. . The lake, formed at the confluence of v, the Haw and New Hope rivers, will take about two months to fill, Hughes said, although extreme rainfall or drought could change that figure. Although the lake could have been opened earlier in the summer, Hughes said wildlife and fisheries concerns had delayed the opening until September. The official opening ceremony is scheduled for April. "There is less green vegetation (in the fall) to fill up the lake and the odor from chlorophyll is lessened," said Samuel J. Thomasson, deputy director of the Division of Parks and Recre ation in the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. Food supply is also an important reason the lake could not be pittsboro ; 1 W. formed until after the summer months, he said. "With a slow fill, the animals can put (food) in (for winter)," Thomasson said. "The colonel said, 'I'm going to close these gates at 1 1 a.m. sharp'," said Jim'Diggs, a postal .carrier and resident of the former Farrington community, which the lake will cover. "He said we had waited long enough." Residents of the Farrington community and others had their land purchased by the Corps as early as 1963, when the reservoir site was approved for construction. Al though there was bitterness at the time, most of the people present at Tuesday's gate closing seemed glad to have the lake. "It's about time," "It's so beautiful," and "I can't believe it's finally here," were some of their exclamations. The purposes for the entire reservoir are flood control, water supply, water quality control and recreation, Hughes said. " . The lake will be filled to a level of 190 feet while Corps workers finish some con struction. In January, it will be allowed to reach its standard level of 216 feet, he said. Water flows through the gates at a rate of 100 cubic feet per second. Prior to the closing of the gates, the flow was twice that. "We'll be impounding anything above that (100 cubic feet) rate which comes through," Hughes said. See LAKE on page 2 dam site Tower now all white, graffiti-free By KEN MINGIS DTH Staff Writer WANTED: Five or six brave, young ar tists. Must be daring and unafraid of heights. Report with paintbrushes in hand to the Manning Drive water tower. The South Campus water tower, long the target of paint-wielding van dals, received a new coat of paint this summer, courtesy of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. Today it looms clean and white next to Morrison Residence Hall. It is just asking for a graffiti attack. For years, the tower has been a UNC landmark, emblazoned with NFLO, NROTC, apes and other graffiti. It is now polished with a layer of antique white. Some Morrison residents do not like it white. "I'm pissed," Roger Vredeveld, a ninth floor resident said. "It was sort of a trademark on campus for ninth floor." (NFLO allegedly stands for Ninth Floor Liberation Organization a tradition around Morrison.) "We don't have the water tower any more to show the floor spirit," ninth floor resident assistant Warren Wise said. "I'd like to see NFLO back on it." There is sentiment on the floor to put it back, to sneak out one night and paint NFLO back in its traditional place. "There has been some talk about how to do it," senior Jose deJesus said. . "We've just got to figure out how. The fence is electrified." "The same guys who did it before are the ones who are talking," deJesus said. "I was with them the first time. I was a freshman and didn't know what the hell was going on. I waited on the ground and watched for cops. "Five or six of us climbed over the fence and started working on it about &30 a.m.," he said. "We didn't finish until about dawn. fc , ' if It was damn cold that night, and it , took a lot of work," he said. "But we were proud of it." Doug Terry of OWASA said alarms were being installed that would ring the police if someone got close to the tower. "We can't go that route (of little protection) anymore; painting the tower is too expensive," he said. "It cost $73,000 to paint it this time." The tower was painted both inside and out to prevent rusting, Terry said. "Painting the graffiti got to be a rivalry,"' deJesus said. "We painted NFLO up there. Then some people from Craige dorm painted "apes" on it. But they got caught." "It (the graffiti) added some color," ninth floor resident Eric Harbinson, said. "It's a trademark of South Campus." Harbinson suggested that one solu tion to the problem might be to allow a group of students up on the tower under supervision. "It could be a school land mark, and it might stop them from painting it in the middle of the night." But, sophomore Ronald Dixon, who also lives on ninth floor, disagreed. "I think it's good that it was painted over; it kind of symbolizes a new beginning for the floor." But, deJesus said the graffiti did little harm. "It was nothing gross, or any thing like that," he said. "It definitely needs something," Harbinson said. "I don't like it plain." A few. students have been caught in past attempts to paint the 25-year-old tower, Terry said. "The last ones we caught had to pay for what they had painted." jPs tal offic mh go img uhemd wtih mme-(Mj SF By JAMEE OSBORN DTH Staff Writer U.S. Postal Service officials are going ahead with plans to fragment the Chapel Hill area to ac commodate the new nine-digit ZIP Code system, and at least one area business is worried the changes will increase costs and create new problems in mail delivery. Area businesses and some residents have been notified of their new, longer code and have been encouraged to start using it, said Nancy Wood, manager of retail sales and service for the Postal Service in Raleigh. Wood said Tuesday the new code was sent to Chapel Hill businesses and box holders on Aug. 10. The nine-digit ZIP, or "ZIP Plus 4," was im plemented nationally in May 1980. Structured on a voluntary basis, the program will add an extra four digits to the five-digit num ber now in use. The first two digits of the four-digit addition indicate a certain city segment, called a sector, and the last two digits indicate a specific block or building within the sector. The plan calls for dividing Chapel Hill into 48 sectors. The University would be chopped into eight sectors, while rural routes outside the city limits would have nine sectors. Small businesses, residences, and dormitories will be notified of their nine-digit codes in early 1982. The campus mail system, however, has been notified of their codes already and has put them in to effect. Michael Strong, administrative manager of the campus mail, said he had been working with the postal service on the new ZIP codes for about a year. He also served on an executive committee re searching the effects of the ZIP code changes in the Triangle area. Though the campus mail would be using the sys tem, Strong said the new ZIP would hot affect de livery of campus mail. "We sort mail by depart ment, and the post office sorts it by building," he said. "We will still have to sort it all by hand." Strong said campus mail handled about 50,000 pieces of mail per day, and processed a letter in four to six hours. "The University buildings have a three-digit building code," Strong said. "We will be using the regular five-digit ZIP, a prefix indicating whether the building is academic affairs or health affairs, and then the three-digit university building code." The prefix for academic buildings is sue, and the number Jbr health affairs is seven. Businesses have been unconvinced about the system and are taking a wait-and-see attitude, Strong said of the new code's effect on bulk customers. . Business mail comprises 85 percent of all U.S. mail. Banks and utilities, two major bulk users of the mail system in the Chapel Hill area, would, be profoundly affected by the change. "The cost of converting the computer address file for such businesses would be between $400,000 and $1 million, depending on the volume of mail handled by the business," Strong said. John Kincaid, district manager of Duke Power, said, "Whether or not we use the nine-digit ZIP depends on how much trouble is involved." "The nine-digit ZIP will require significant computer programming changes," he said. "This will definitely.have some economic impact on us. Whenever we have an increase in operation cost, it ultimately shows in the customer's bill. However, since residents will not receive their new ZIP codes until next year, Kincaid said it was really too early to tell how much of an economic impact the program would have on Duke Power. Wood said the nine-digit ZIP code had advan tages because the Postal Service would be able' to handle a larger volume of mail more efficiently. "Eighty-five percent of postal expenses is labor," she said. "Right now, mail is sorted by Letter Sor ting Machines (LSM). The machines can sort 1,800 pieces of mail per employee per hour." However, LSMs can read only the five-digit ZIP code, Wood said. "The nine-digit ZIP code is read on a machine called an Optical Character Reader (OCR). These machines can sort 10,000 pieces of man per employee per nour. she saia. Strong said it would take at least ten years to fully implement the nine-digit ZIP code. He said another potential problem of the new plan would be that the system would be difficult to use. The new nine-digit ZIP codes would not be readily available to the public, he said. "There is one directory thai lists all the ZIP codes in the couniry," he said. "If you redid the directory in include all the new nine-digit ZIP codes, you would need 30 directories."
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