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2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, April 1, 1987
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Dy NEIL VATSON
Staff Writer
A bill that would require non
partisan election of judges in North
Carolina was introduced in the N.C.
General Assembly last week.
If the bill passes, the current
system of statewide elections would
be replaced with elections held by
judicial districts. No party affiliation
would be shown on the ballot, said
Sen. Larry Cobb, R-Meck., the bill's
sponsor.
The change would bring the
system more in line with the U.S.
Constitution, Cobb said, adding that
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Dy PAUL CORY
Staff Writer
"Clean Sweep," a statewide anti
litter campaign, begins today with
special emphasis on Orange, Vance,
Wake, Durham and Guilford
counties.
More volunteers and N.C.
Department of Transportation
maintenance crews will work in these
counties because of the upcoming
U.S. Olympic Festival, said Jean
Dodd of the Keep North Carolina
Clean and Beautiful branch of the
N.C. Senate approves
By SHARON KEDSCHULL
Staff Writer
The N.C. Senate voted to ban the
use of phosphates in laundry deter
gents after only IS minutes of debate
Monday. The bill goes next to the
N.C. House of Representatives.
The House passed two phosphate
bills before, but both died in Senate
committees.
The Senate debated seven amend
ments to the bill for 90 minutes
Friday. This is the third bill of its
type to go before the Senate. The
most recent one was voted down in
Tenants fear loss off hoimes wittln town takeover off pimlbMc tooMsiini
By HUNTER LAMBETH
Staff Writer
Public housing tenants at a public
hearing March 23 told Chapel Hill
Town Council members that they
feared a proposed town takeover of
the Housing Authority would mean
they would be forced from their
homes.
Annie Freeman said she and her
family have been public housing
tenants for 15 years.
We. believe we .'will, .be evicted
because they (the town) don't have
anything to show us differently," she
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a federal court trial now pending
could result in last year's judicial
elections being invalidated.
The method of statewide elections
has led voters to make uninformed
decisions, Cobb said.
The Democratic Party has used
the system to ensure the election of
Democratic judges, said Paul Shu
maker, the state Republican Party
press secretary. People often have no
idea who most of the candidates are
and know little about their creden
tials. And because the overwhelming
majority of voters in the state are
DOT.
The month-long campaign
involves recruiting volunteers to help
with litter collection. Almost 15,000
volunteers participated in the pro
gram last spring, Dodd said.
Dodd said the campaign is
designed to hefp educate people
about litter by getting them to pick
it up.
"We believe that if we get volun
teers out there, they will realize we
have a littering problem," Dodd said.
1985,, and environmental groups
criticized the Senate for not support
ing environmental causes.
"We feel like the bill won't do any
good for the environment," said
Lawrence Davis, an attorney and
legislative counsel for Proctor and
Gamble. "It will cost consumers lots
of money."
Only 6 percent of the phosphates
in water come from detergents,
Davis said.
Sen. Russell Walker, D
Randolph, who sponsored the bill,
used a parliamentary move to cut
said.
The Housing Authority has been
independent of the town since 1962
but is now seeking financial assis
tance. Rosemarie Waldorf, a Hous
ing Authority board member, said
the town has given the Authority a
gift of about $63,000, but more funds
are still needed. The bulk of Housing
Authority funding comes from rental
income, she said.
Tenants at the public hearing said
they feared that if the town takes
over public housing, it will renovate
the Housing Authority's 312 apart
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registered Democratic, they simply
vote for the Democratic candidate,
he said.
This bill would force the public
to become more informed about who
the candidates are, Shumaker said.
It would also ensure that people in
Winston-Salem arenH electing Wake
County judges and vice versa, he
said.
But Ken Eudy, the state Demo
cratic Party press secretary, said the
issue needed more study.
We think something as funda
mental as changing the way justice
is handled in the state deserves a
deararo campaign
"People will think twice about
littering after they have had to work
to pick it up."
Dodd said that while North Carol
ina's litter problem is less severe than
that of other states, there is still more
litter than maintenance crews can
possibly pick up. North Carolina
spent $2 million on litter collection
last year, she said.
- Gov. Jim Martin supports the
effort and has declared April "The
Month of the Clean Sweep," said
Tim Pittman, Martin's press secre
bam om plnospMtes
off debate Monday night before
more amendments could be
proposed.
Sen. William Barker, D-Pamlico,
withdrew a final amendment after
Walker told him debate on the
amendment would hurt chances of
passing the bill.
Barker said he planned to intro
duce the amendment again as a
separate bill, which would apply
stricter anti-pollution standards to
the lower Neuse River in the
Piedmont.
Cost to remove three-fourths of
ments in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
and sell them in the private market.
Council member R.D. Smith told
them that federal regulations would
prohibit the town from selling public
housing.
Town manager David Taylor
agreed. "There's no truth to that. It
does not matter who manages (the
public housing units), tenants would
not be evicted, he said.
Tina Vaughn, Chapel Hill human
services coordinator, also said the
tenants have not been told they
electloinis
pretty in-depth look," he said.
The argument that the voters are
making uninformed choices can be
carried to "ridiculous degrees,'' Eudy
said. "Very few people know who
the state auditor-general is, but he's
elected statewide."
Eudy said he thought that the
Democratic Party would not support
the bill and that it would not pass.
But Shumaker and Cobb dis
agreed. "Given the pressure put on
(the legislature) by the governor and
the public, I think it stands a good
chance of passage," Shumaker said.
tary. Martin has also designated
April 26 to May 2 as "Keep America
Beautiful Week in North Carolina."
Dodd said that Martin's wife,
Dottie, has also supported the
"Clean Sweep" program by writing
letters and speaking to committees
and groups across the state. "She
(Mrs. Martin) is very concerned with
how the state looks."
On April 16, Mrs. Martin will take
a plane trip across North Carolina
to support the "Clean Sweep"
program, Dodd said.
the phosphorous would be $9.35 per
household of four per year, Davis
said, while with the ban, the cost to
the detergent industry would be
passed on to consumers, costing
them an extra $42 per year.
He said lobbyists were "rather
amazed" at how fast the bill was
passed. They said that if amend
ments had been allowed, proponents
of the bill may have turned against
it
Associated Press contributed to
this story.
would be evicted.
The nine Housing Authority
board members, who are appointed
by Mayor Jim Wallace, agreed that
public housing needs financial assis
tance, but they disagreed on whether
public housing should remain inde
pendent or become a town agency.
Tornado Mast damages Jhomes9
irajimres 4 on N.C. Ouiter Bae&s
From Aisocitad Prcn reports
Four people were injured and
mobile homes and boats were flat
tened when a tornado hit without
warning and "blindsidecT two Outer
Bank communities Tuesday, but
officials said it could have been
worse if the tourist season was in
full force.
"There's just total devastation on
Buxton Harbor," said Wally
DeMaurice, head of the National
Weather Service office in Buxton,
about 50 miles south of Manteo on
Hatteras Island.
A Buxton mobile home housing
a couple and their daughter "was
literally destroyed, completely flat
tened," when the twister touched
down around 6:30 a.m., DeMaurice
said. "It looks like a bomb went off
in it. It literally just blew it apart."
Michael Rak, 31, was treated for
a shoulder injury, and Pam Rak, 27,
was treated at Albemarle Hospital
in Elizabeth City for a hip injury,
officials said. Their daughter, whose
Father wins custody rights
in landmark Baby M case
From Associated Prss reports
HACKENSACK, N.J. A
judge awarded custody of Baby
M to her father Tuesday and
stripped surrogate mother Mary
Beth Whitehead of all parental
rights to the child she bore under
a $10,000 contract.
In the nation's first judicial
ruling on surrogate parenting, a
Superior Court judge said the
contract was valid because just as
men have a constitutional right
to sell their sperm, women can
decide what to do with their
wombs.
Guerrilla attack kills American
SAN SALVADOR, EL Salva
dor Leftist rebels raided a
major army base Tuesday, killing
at least 43 soldiers and a U.S.
military adviser, the first Amer
ican to die during battle in the
7-year-old civil war.
El Salvador's military com
mander said Staff Sgt. Gregory
Fronius, 27, was killed by mortar
fire near a command post.
Officials said seven guerrillas
died in the attack on the 4th
Infantry Brigade garrison at El
Paraiso in Chalatenango pro
vince, a rebel stronghold.
Marine scandal continues
WASHINGTON A third
man has been arrested in a
burgeoning sex-and-spy scandal
in the ranks of the Marine Corps'
security guard force at the U.S.
embassy in Moscow, the Pen
tagon said Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Robert Stanley Stuf
flebeam, 24, of Bloomington, 111.,
was taken into custody on sus
picion of failing to report contacts
with Soviet women while working
in Moscow from May 1985 to
May 1986. He was arrested Sun
day at Camp Pendleton, Calif.,
but has not been accused of
The board voted 5 4 in favor of
becoming dependent on the town
March 23.
Taylor said the proposal is an
"alternative," not a takeover. He said
the Authority requested a joint study
with the town in October 1986. The
study was to find alternatives to the
name and age were not available, was
unhurt.
At least two other people were
treated at the scene in Buxton for
cuts and bruises.
Four mobile homes in Buxton
were destroyed, DeMaurice said. A
total of about 15 homes were dam
aged in the community, said Bryan
Meekins, communications director
for Dare County.
The tornado destroyed or dam
aged about 17 boats in Scott's
Marina in Buxton, Meekins said.
DeMaurice estimated the damage to
boats in the harbor area ranged from
$200,000 to $1 million.
"About two-thirds of those boats
down there belong to fishermen who
normally cannot afford insurance,"
said Vance Kee of the state division
of emergency management.
In Avon, five miles north of
Buxton, three mobile homes were
destroyed and one home was lifted
off its foundation when the tornado
touched down eight minutes later,
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House overrides highway veto
WASHINGTON The
Democratic-controlled House
voted 350-73 Tuesday to override
President Reagan's veto of an $88
billion highway bill, while admin- :
istration officials scrambled for
support to sustain the veto in a .
coming Senate showdown. "''.'-
Senate Republican sources said
the president was still shy of the
votes needed to sustain the veto . '
in the Senate, and Democratic
majority leader Robert Byrd
refused to say when he would call
for the vote.
The bill includes a provision to
raise the speed limit from 55 mph
to 65, which Reagan said he
supported, but called the $88
billion spending "pork barrel
politics."
Bird causes car mishap
MIDLAND, Mich. It
started when Auburn Donald
Hudson noticed his morning
paper was moving. It seems that
a bird had nestled into Hudson's
paper before he picked it up from
his lawn and put it on the car
seat beside him. So he stopped
his car and put it in neutral to
let the bird go.
He had one leg in the car and
one leg out when the gear slipped
and the car began to move.
Hudson tried hopping down the
road to keep up with the car
because his foot was stuck under
the seat.
Then his pants fell down, and
so did he when his foot came
loose. He hit his head on cement,
but the car kept going onto a
neighbor's lawn.
The bird got away.
independent Housing Authority.
A report of the study was pres
ented to the council March 9, and
the proposal to make public housing
a dependent town agency was sug
gested as an alternative. The council
will probably make a decision in its
April 13 meeting, Taylor said.
DeMaurice said. A total of seven to
15 houses were damaged, Meekins5
said. .;
IVe never heard nothing come up
like that. My God, it was terrible,"
said George Gray of Avon. He said
his home was damaged but his family,
was unhurt.
For the Record
In Tuesday's article, " 'Koala
Week' focuses on substance abuse,"
the Daily Tar Heel incorrectly
reported that the event was being
sponsored in part by WGNCG105,
and that G105 would broadcast live
from the Pit Thursday.
The radio stations WDNC and.
WDCG 105 are helping to sponsor
the event. WDCG 105 will broadcast
Thursday from 1 1 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.;
and WDNC will broadcast from
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. The Daily Tar
Heel regrets the reporting errors. V