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4The Daily Tar HeelFriday. November 9, 1984
Record-breaking voter turnout
causes some snags in Orange Co.
Interstate 40 project contracts awarded
By JIM HOFFMAN
Staff Writer
Isolated mistakes were made in
handing out ballots to some voters in
Orange County after record-breaking
turnout for Tuesday's election took its
toll on many precinct officials.
Some election officials said that may
be an indication that the county's
electoral process needs to be improved.
Although few official complaints were
delivered to the Board of Elections or
the Orange County Democratic Head
quarters, there were some mistakes.
A spokesman from the county Demo
cratic headquarters said he was aware
that some voters got more than one
ballot or not getting all the ballots the
voter was entitled to. A 14-year-old
student at Phillips Jr. High School was
given ballots while walking through the
lobby where voters were standing in
line.
"I really don't like the set up at
Phillips Jr. High School," said Verla
Insko, chairman of the Democratic
Party of Orange County. "I think it
should be moved to the auditorium."
At the Phillip's precinct, voters
waited in line and voted in the lobby
where the students walk.
Insko also said that she thinks there
were similar problems at Carrboro
Elementary School. She said there was
not enough room at the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority poll and that
neither that site nor Carrboro Town
Hall had an adequate number of voting
booths.
"Voters should have the option of
moving through the lines quickly and
having a place where they can vote
privately," Insko said.
"We'd love to have a foolproof
process, but we do the best with what
we have. If voters want us to spend more
tax money on machines that we use for
an onslaught of voters every four years,
then maybe something may be able to
be done," she said.
A lack of voters in primaries makes
..!iL.'c s.ilc investment of hiring people
to work elections or buying machines
impractical, said Peg Parker, chairman
of the Board of Elections.
"If anybody has any suggestions
without spending any money, then I
would be perfectly willing to listen," she
said. "But I really believe in our system."
A poll worker for more than 1 2 years,
Parker said she knew of times when
voters received extra ballots. "But they
always seem to return them," she said.
"Orange County just isn't known for
its fraud, and I don't believe there is
any fraud."
She said most of the mistakes made
were caused by tired and overwoked
poll workers.
Workers, who have helped at polls
for several years, are trained or
informed of new .voting laws and
procedures at a workshop one week
before the election. A minimum of three
workers must be at each precinct, but
Tuesday there were as many as five at
the polling sites.
ROTCs honor veterans yesterday
By CATHY KURY
Staff Writer
U.S. veterans were honored yesterday
during a ceremony performed by the
Navy and Air Force ROTCs.
Before a scattered crowd, members
of both ROTC units gathered around
the flagpole outside South Building and
presented their colors. Then members
of the UNC Marching Tar Heels played
the National Anthem.
As the anthem played, several spec
tators sang and held their hands over
their hearts.
The invocation was given by Harold
Wallace, vice chancellor of University
affairs. He issued thanks for the
freedom Americans enjoyed and asked
that a special blessing be given for those
who served their country.
The speaker for the ceremony was
Col. James J. LeCleir, commander of
the 438th military Airlift Wing,
McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. A
veteran of Vietnam, LeCleir said that
although we should honor those who
gave the supreme sacrifice, we should
also pay homage to those veterans still
living.
"In their minds they are not heroes,
merely people doing a job they were
trained to do," he said. LeCleir also
encouraged the cadets to continue on
in their military careers and hoped they
would consider it an honorable
vocation.
In conclusion, he asked the spectators
to embrace veterans because they had
kept the nation free.
The flag was lowered while Taps was
played. The older spectators saluted and
held their hands over their hearts.
Air Force ROTC Major Glen D.
Sandinista
Mills, assistant professor of aeorspace
studies, said "Veterans Day is a day
when the country recognizes the service
of both living and dead veterans." They
stand for peace and security of the
country. Mills said.
"Most veterans are everyday Amer
icans, the neighbor next door," he said.
Captain A.M. Koster, commander of
the Navy ROTC, said he thought
veterans paid a price that most citizens
do not have to pay. "I think they deserve
a national holiday, as they have served
their country and have made a sacri
fice," he said.
By KEVIN SULLIVAN
Staff Writer
The state will award two sections of the. Interstate 40
project, which links Research Triangle Park and 1-85 at
Hillsborough, to contractors today, according to Billy Rose,
state highway administrator.
Only one section of the interstate remains to be contracted,
but Rose said a contract cannot be awarded until Congress
approves the funds for a section in western Orange County.
"(Congress) went home without approving it," Rose said.
"In the past it was something routine, but this year it got
bogged down somewhere. If they release the funds, (1-40)
should open sometime in 1988."
W.C. English, contractors out of Altavista, Va., will be
awarded a 7.4 mile stretch of the project today for its bid
of $8.6 million while another section 2.4 miles long will be
contracted by Mason C. Day of South Boston, Va., for $15.5
million.
Rose said when completed, 1-40 will cost about $73.7
million, although that probably does not include right of
way "what we have to pay residential population for
acquired or condemned land."
"Progress has been real good," he said, "even though we
have to wait for the release of additional funds. It works
best for the contractors (to wait) because they can't predict
the price of asphalt two years in advance."
Along with the 1-40 project, which is expected to relieve
some of the traffic on 1-85 and 1-70, Rose said N.C. 54
east of Chapel Hill to 1-40 would be widened to four lanes
to provide easier access to the new highway.
Rose said the N.C. Department of Transportation had
wanted to develop the 1-40 project 'for several years, but
environmental groups from Orange County prohibited its
progress.
"We had a threat of a lawsuit about four years ago," Rose
said. "But the courts found that we had complied with all
environmental procedures."
Rose said the drainage, grading and bridges would be
completed by late 1987. If part of the project is operable
at that time, the highway project will benefit the fesitval
to be held in the Triangle area in July of 1987, said Hill
Carrow, chairman of the N.C. Committee for the Sports
Festival.
"We will be very pleased to see it completed," Carrow
said. "I think anyone who has traveled on Highway 54 it
would seem obvious that there is a traffic problem. You
cannot get through there in any reasonable ammount of time
or safely."
Carrow said the plans for a new highway in the Triangle
were included in N.C.'s proposal to the U.S. Olympic
Committee, which is responsible for the festival.
"We sold the Olympic Committee with the fact that there
has been substantial road construction to make (the area)
more convenient to visitors," Carrow said.
At the 1982 Sports Festival held in Indianapolis, over
250,000 people attended. The Triangle expects as many as
300,000.
"A majority of the people who attended the festival in
Indianapolis were within a day's drive from the city," Carrow
said. "We hope to attract people from an area within 500
miles (of the Triangle) which would be good because that
includes New York City and other large metropolitan areas
like Atlanta."
Rose said he did not know of any other road projects
planned for the Triangle with the Sports Fesitval in mind.
Endowed professorship set up
By LAURA VAN SANT
Staff Writer
Partners of the accounting firm Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell & Co. have estab
lished a $250,000 endowed professor
ship at the UNC School of Business
Administration.
The Peat Marwick Foundation has
funded this professorship on an annual
basis since 1974. The new permanent
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Professorship'
in Professional Accounting is funded by
active, retired and inactive partners as
well as matching gifts from the foun
dation. Harold Langenderfer has held
the position since its inception and will
continue in that role.
S. Phillip Harris, a retired partner
and 1954 UNC graduate, led the
endowment fund drive to which 37 Peat
"Peat Marwick has benefited greatly
from the University's high academic
standards for accounting education,"
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might respond.
Radio Moscow reported last night
that Nicaragua had denied U.S. alle
gations that Soviet MiG-2l aircraft
were being shipped to the Central
American nation. "The Nicaraguan
government has dismissed as false
Washington's allegations that vesels
bearing Soviet MiG aircraft were on
their way to Nicaragua," the official
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Nicaragua.
Nicaragua appeared to interpret the
concern in Washington over possible
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American troops," said an official
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chairman, in a prepared statement
released last month. "We are pleased
to be able to help maintain those
standards with the endowment of the
Peat Marwick Professorship."
The endowment will accrue over five
years, during which time the foundation
will continue to fund the professorship.
"This new example of Peat Marwick's
support is especially meaningful to us
because it represents the active commit
ment of so many of our alumni,"
Business School Dean John P. Evans
said.
Thirty-one of the endowment con
tributors are UNC alumni.
SomeBA 160
students may
get $40 refund
If you're taking a Business Admin
istration 160 class, you may have been
mistakenly, charged JS40 for,- computer
use because of an administrative error,
even if yqnye, vrieertoihei .a video
display terminal keyboard"
William Perreault Jr., professor in the
School of Business Administration, said
the computer charge was supposed to
be assessed only for students enrolled
in an honors section of the class, not
a regular section.
"Apparently the 'h' was deleted from
all the sections, so the computer charge
was mistakenly applied to each section
instead of simply the honors course."
Perreault said. He said he learned of
the error last week, and after consulting
with the administration, a solution was
reached.
The $40 charge will be refunded to
BA 160 students not enrolled in the
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