Friday, February 11, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
Report says workload
reason for funds delay
Cobey discusses 9 82 election;
says year bad for Republicans
By GARY MEEK
Staff Writer
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Increased workload was one of four factors
responsible for a delay in the commitment of ,
community development funds that caused
Chapel Hill's funding application for 1983 to
be refused, according to a report released
Thursday -by Chapel Hill Town Manager
David Taylor.
The report states that the addition of 17
cases to the regular workload during a two
year period almost doubled the number of
original cases from 19 to 36.
Among the other three factors responsible
for the Chapel Hill Housing Authority's
failure to spend all of the money - allocated
in the 1982 budget was an accumulation of
delays which began in 1979 and prohibited the
authority from working on the 1982
workloads.
The third factor was the elimination of what
is known as section 8 of the moderate
rehabilitation program. Essentially, it helped
landlords of low-rent housing borrow money
from the private sector in cases where com
munity development funds were insufficient.'
An agreement was reached to create a replace
ment program in February 1982 but nothing
was approved until three months later on April
26, 1982.
The report stated that the fourth factor that
caused the spending delay was that during the
last year, the Housing Authority was faced
with solving the most difficult type of case,
ones in which the ownership of a building was
not legally clear or in which the owner, of a
building did not want to work with the town.
Taylor's report came in response to criticism
of the housing authority at the Town Council's
work session Monday night.
Town Council member Winston Broadfoot
has been critical of the housing authority for
some time, and he suggested Monday that the
CHHA become totally independent of the
town.
"I am pleased with the manager's report,"
Broadfoot said.
After reading the report, Broadfoot said he
was pleased with the improvement of com
munication between the housing authority and
the town.
He said the report did not sufficiently ex
plain why the housing authority fell so far
behind, but he emphasized that he was pleased
and was expecting progress in the future.
The report also states that, although the
authority applied for $750,000 in funding,
staff members of the N.C. Department of
Natural Resources and Community Develop
ment told town officials that two programs
whose funding totaled $500,000 had no chance
for funding even if the application had been
accepted.
Thus, potential loss of funds that could be
attributed to the failure of the housing authori
ty or to circumstances beyond its control was
$250,000 instead of $750,000.
. And the report noted that as of Dec. 31,
1982 the housing authority had caught up with
the workload and that 60 percent of the budget
had been obligated.
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By CINDI ROSS
Staff Writer
. Unsuccessful Congressional candidate Bill Cobey of
Chapel Hill said Wednesday he hasn't made any decisions
about his political future.
Cobey, who challenged Democratic incumbent Ike An
drews for his 4th Congressional District seat last fall, said his
biggest problem in the campaign was being a Republican in
a year when few Republicans won.
'I have to be pleased with my campaign," the former
UNC athletic director said. "Out of 161 Republicans' runn
ing for Congressional seats against Democratic incumbents,
there was only one winner in a Republican district in
Ohio."
Cobey said he received the second highest percentage of
votes in the country. .
Although the media criticized him for running a negative
campaign, Cobey said that criticism was good as long as it
did not become a personal attack.
"Ours (criticism) was basically concerned with the
balanced budget," he said. "Yet the one ad was on TV
quite a bit, and the media picked up on it as a negative
. issue.
Looking back, Cobey said more time and money should
have been put into organization rather than the media. He
said he should have gotten into more neighborhoods and
recruited more volunteers.
"Mr. Andrews criticized me quite a lot, and ads toward
the end (of the campaign) were quite negative," Cobey said,
"but the media never said anything about that."
Cobey's affiliation with the Taxpayer's Educational
Coalition, a Raleigh-based pro-balanced budget group, also
drew criticism from Andrews' supporters who said it was a
'Mr. Andrews criticized me quite
a lot, and ads toward the end (of
the campaign) were quite negative,
but the media never said anything
about that'
Bill Cobey
political front. Following his unsuccessful 1980 bid for
lieutenant governors, Cobey formed the organization and
served as director until stepping down to run for Congress.
"It was a desperate political attack on the part of An
drews' camp because they knew they were losing," Cobey
said regarding the claims.
The Taxpayer's Education Coalition is a spe;cial project
of Coalition for Freedom, a Raleigh-based political group,
Cobey said. He said the coalition's purpose is to inform the
people of North Carolina of the advantages of a constitu
tional limit on state and local spending.
He said he was no longer employed by the Taxpayer's
Education Coalition, but was on its advisory board.
Last December, Cobey organized Cobey and Associates,
a small Chapel Hill-based consulting firm. The firm does
management consulting, and Cobey said he primarily has
been working with companies in manufacturing but will be
consulting in inter-collegiate athletics and real estate in the
future.
Cobey said he is enjoying his work and the time he can
spend with is family after the election grind. "You can
somewhat set your own hours," he said. "And that's hard to
do in politics and athletics."
Effects of nuclear war topic
of public health co urse
By JULIE HAACK
Staff Writer
UNC students need look no further than their own cam
pus to learn about nuclear war. Beginning this semester,
students can study the consequences of nuclear war in a
weekly seminar in the University's School of Public
Health, "Issues in Health Care: Public Health Conse
quences of Nuclear War."
Ken Wing, a professor in both the school of public
health and law school began the class after realizing that
many students were uninformed about the potential of
nuclear war, he said last week.
Sparse attendance at a convocation about nuclear war
held on campus last November disturbed Wing enough to
take action.
The purpose of this class is to make people aware of
political alternatives for disarmament, Wing said.
"(The purpose is) to explore the alternatives would in
dicate to the U.S. government that people want serious at
tempts to negotiate for disarmament," he said. "It is
futile to continue the ridiculous poker game between the
Russians and the Americans," he said. "You don't get the
other side to negotiate when it's obvious that it's not what
we want. You can't get the government to negotiate when
it thinks negotiation is not what the people want."
On the back of a memorandum sent out to his students,
Wing addressed a note to President Ronald Reagan: "I
have received neither help nor encouragement from the
Soviet Union in the preparation or presentation of this
course." "I find an attempt by the Reagan administration
to red-bait (attack as communist) disarmament highly
obscene."
Wing, said he wanted to use his class to define the issues
of disarmament and to explore alternative solutions. He
said he hoped the class would be much of an eye-opener.
Wing used films, videotapes and guest lecturers to teach
students the health consequences of nuclear war. On Mon
day, Feb. 14, the class will watch the film, Hiroshima: A
documentary of the Bombing. Other classes will feature a
UNC-Greensboro physics professor who will discuss the
technology and politics of nuclear proliferation. The
editors of Southern Exposure magazine will explore the
effect of military spending on North Carolina and Morris
Lipton, director of the UNC Biological Sciences Research
Center, who will lecture on the psychological impact of
nuclear war.
Revitalization strategies given Wahoos
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By TOM CONLON
Staff Writer
The choice for marketing consultants to
study revitalization strategies for downtown
Carrboro was narrowed from 1 1 to two by
Carrboro's Revitalization Task Force Tuesday.
Wednesday the Task Force will, choose bet
ween Foran and Greer, Inc. of Raleigh and
Hammer, Siler and George Associates of
Washington, D.C., to conduct a detailed study
of traffic patterns, economic conditions, land
jjse sites, population trends and to study ex
isting and potential businesses in Carrboro
said Dail Dixon, a Carrboro architect and
member of the task force.
"We have narrowed our choice down to two
companies and should have our one recom
mendation to the Board of Aldermen after
next Wednesday's meeting," Dixon said. "We
want to get started on this project as soon as
possible."
Dixon said the task force was looking
primarily for experience, but that recommen
dations, cost, availability and interest in the
project were also important considerations.
"Our goal is to get a consultant who can
find out the directions for Carrboro and get it
moving into prosperity," he said.
The Board of Aldermen passed a resolution
to form the Task Force Feb. 9, 1982.
"Alderman Jim White realized the need for
a task force which would study and review
comprehensive plans for the revitalization of
downtown Carrboro," said Maria Ann Mar
tin, a graduate student in the city and regional
planning department and intern for the Carr
boro planning department.
"The task force was to make recommenda
tions to the aldermen on affairs that affected
the downtown revitalization effort," she said.
"Our recent actions have been to educate
ourselves about downtown revitalization,"
Dixon said. "We've taken field trips to Tar
boro and neighborhoods in Charlotte to study
successful restoration projects so that we can
get some ideas for Carrboro."
Martin said the task force held its first
meeting last October and now holds meetings
at least twice a month, conducts work sessions
and takes a few field trips.
UVa.'s and Sampson's, only hope now for an ACC championship
now can come from the ACC tournament crown.
And right now," North Carolina is in the driver's seat.
"We knew the team would come back," Jordan said. "It's great
to know that when we're down, we still have the firepower to win."
If the Tar Heels were showing off their firepower last night, it
wasn't pretty. North Carolina shot just 41 .4 percent from the floor,
while Virginia could only manage 47.3 percent.
But after the dust clears, what does it matter? Only a few impres
sions remain.
Jordan. Steal. Dunk. Pandemonium.
And Terry Holland? A reporter asked about Carlisle's final
jumper.
"He just missed the shot?"
Holland shook his head.
"Yeah."
Virginia: Robinson 16, Sampson 15, Miller 9, Mullen 8, Wilson 8,
Edelin 4, Carlisle 3, Merrifield 0, Stokes 0
North Carolina: Jordan 16, Braddock 14, Doherty 11, Perkins 10,
Daugherty 8, Peterson 3, Hale 2, Brownlee 0, Exum 0, Martin 0
UVa. 31 32 63
UNC 28 36 64
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