2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, April 3, 1987
Waste bills o Iback - to committees
By SHARON KEDSCHULL
Staff Writer
Bills calling for the removal of
North Carolina from a nuclear waste
disposal commission and the possi
ble placement of a waste site in three
counties were sent back to commit
tees for further discussion in the N.C.
General Assembly Wednesday.
A bill calling for North Carolina
to pull out of the Southeast Compact
Commission, sponsored by Sen. Joe
Mavretic, D-Edgecombe, was sent
back to the Air and Water Resources
Committee after legislators discussed
the costs for the state to take care
of its own waste. Legislators have
threatened to pull out of the com
Local jails to take
By RUTH DAVIS
Staff Writer
Gov. Jim Martin's emergency
order to reduce the N.C. prison
population will transfer the over
crowding problem to local jails,
which are already packed to full
capacity, officials at the Orange
County Sheriffs Department said
Wednesday.
Martin ordered the state Parole
Commission last week to release at
least 787 inmates to reduce the prison
population from 18,067 to 17,280.
Under legislation passed by the N.C.
General Assembly in March, the
commission must comply by May
25.
The Parole Commission will
review cases of misdemeanors
those involving false pretense, lar-
For the Record
In a front page photo cutline
Thursday, Susan Henriette Reinecke
of New Orleans, La., was incorrectly
identified as Susan Lynn Reinecke
of Greensboro. The Daily Tar Heel
regrets the error.
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mission if the commission does not
reach an agreement on penalties for
states that try to pull out.
North Carolina is set to sponsor
a site for the eight-state commission
in 1992.
Mavretic also proposed an
amendment requiring that only
Mecklenburg, Wake and Brunswick
counties be considered for the
disposal sites. These counties were
highlighted because they are the only
counties receiving more than $3
million in property taxes from a
nuclear power plant.
Capt. William Briner, one of the
two representatives to the compact,
said the entire state benefits from the
ceny and other non-violent property
crimes and decide which inmates
will be transferred to jails or paroled
early to comply with the order.
Local jails are designed to hold
people awaiting trials and do not
have the resources for inmates, said
Orange County Sheriff Lindy
Pendergrass.
"The emergency order could have
a real outstanding effect on us in that
our jail is equipped to house 42
inmate-type people," he said. "...
Now they're saying jails must pro
vide work release programs. That
puts the county jails into the business
of being correctional institutions."
Pendergrass said the jails could
have been prepared to deal with
additional inmates if they had been
warned of the problem a few years
ago when the state became aware of
the overcrowding.
"I understand what the state's
doing and I'm not in disagreement
with them," he said. "But not having
prior planning really has an effect."
By pleading guilty to lesser
offenses and gaining shorter senten
ces, Pendergrass said felons and
repeat offenders could take advan
tage of the pressure on the prisons.
"We're just going to have to play
a constant catch-up game and hope
we can work it out," he said.
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The continuing debate is having
an "adverse effect" on the commis
sion, Briner said.
At the commission's last meeting,
some states said they understood the
need for sanctions on states pulling
out of the compact but also felt
North Carolina needed to "show a
little faith" of its own, he said.
UNC Geology professor Daniel
Textoris said the reason Wake
County would be a good idea,
excluding the political aspects, is that
the Shearon Harris power plant
owns about 10,000 acres of land set
up for waste disposal in the Trassic
Basin, which is prime land for such
iim more
emergency order would have a
catastrophic impact on the jail.
"The Orange County jail is one
of the smaller jails in the state and
it is already packed," he said.
To discuss the burden on local jails
and possible ways to handle it, N.C.
Department of Correction Secretary
Aaron Johnson will meet with a
committee of local sheriffs and
county commissioners, said Director
of Public Affairs Jim Marable.
"(Transferring prisoners) may cause
a small amount of overcrowding in
the county jails. But Secretary
Johnson intends to work closely with
local sheriffs on watching (the
transferred misdemeanants and early
parolees) closely," Marable said.
Marable said the Parole Commis
sion will use sound judgment to
decide which inmates will be paroled.
"The Parole Commission will,
case-by-case, try to choose the most
appropriate inmates," he said.
"There will be no mass releases, so
the public does not have to worry.
The parolees will be monitored
closely."
Calling the situation in prisons "an
emergency," Gordon Whitaker,
acting chairman of the curriculum
in criminal justice and associate
professor of political science at
UNC, said coordination between
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"Wouldn't it be a noble gesture
for them to give a couple hundred
acres of their land for use?" he said,
adding that the site is also close to
the Harris plant and roads ideal for
transportation of the waste.
Textoris said the criteria of where
to place a disposal site includes an
area that is not heavily populated
but near a highway or train route
for transportation, an area of a few
hundred acres, and, most geologi
cally important, a place where the
waste can stay dry.
Land with high clay content is
ideal because it does not allow rain
in, he said.
inmates
must be achieved.
"It appears that some of the
inmates will move out early or be
held in county jails," he said. "There
is a problem with this because the
county jails are overcrowded, but the
federal courts are not aware of that
problem."
Whitaker said the state will even
tually have to spend more money on
prison and jail construction. But cost
and finding locations make prison
construction an unpopular issue, he
said.
The state should find programs to
serve as alternatives to incarceration,
said District Attorney Carl Fox.
"There are some people in prisons
who shouldn't even be there. They
should be in programs, such as first
offender programs," he said.
He said the pressure to avoid
overcrowding will probably not
make much of a difference on the
ability to get an offender convicted.
Jack Betts of the N.C. Center for
Public Policy said the state should
expand the alternatives to incarcer
ation to divert prison-bound offend
ers, as well as releasing present
inmates. Also, by not housing
misdemeanants, prisons might be
less crowded, he said.
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problem years ago and should have
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Democrats override veto
with Sanford's vote change
From Associattd Pratt raporti
WASHINGTON - The
Senate rejected a personal, last
minute plea from President Rea
gan and voted Thursday to over
ride his veto, enacting into law
an $88 billion highway and mass
transit bill.
Democrats reclaimed one vote
by freshman Sen. Terry Sanford,
D-N.C, which they had initially
lost in a vote Wednesday.
The final 67-33 vote, exactly
the necessary two-thirds majority,
capped two days of political
struggle over the bill that became
a test of the wills of the Repub
lican president and leaders of the
Senate's Democratic majority.
Sanford's critical vote to Over
ride the veto ignited a political
firestorm Thursday as Republi
cans blasted "Turn-around
Terry," and Democrats defended
his change of heart as an act of
courage.
AID S-conscious group
stresses bloodl-testing
By LAURIE DUNCAN
Staff Writer
A national organization, which
requires that its members undergo
blood tests for the AIDS virus every
six months, held its first meeting this
week in Greensboro, the vice pres
ident of the group said.
The National Association of
Responsible Single Adults is for
single adults concerned about the
spread of AIDS and for promoting
good health, said Suzanne Williams,
vice president of the organization's
board of directors and one of the
group's two organizers.
The association is a private orga
nization that plans to offer social,
educational and informational activ
ities for single members, Williams
said.
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome is a fatal disease that
cripples the immune system, leaving
the victim susceptible to a variety of
infectious diseases. It can be trans
mitted by having sex with an infected
person or by sharing needles used
to inject drugs.
Williams said the blood testing
requirement was secondary to the
group's main purpose of holding
educational and well-run social
functions. Joining the group would
give concerned singles the option of
getting away from the bar scene, she
said.
Beside holding social functions,
NARSA members can serve on
working committees.
"That's the best way for people to
meet each other in a non-threatening
way," she said.
Results of the blood tests are
confidential, which sets NARSA
apart from similar groups that share
members' results, she said.
The blood test is reliable in
detecting the AIDS antibodies.
"There is no blood test that is 100
percent accurate, but this one is 99
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Republican Gov. Jim Martin
of North Carolina, who said prior
to the vote he believed Sanford
would vote to sustain the veto,
said afterward he was "very
disappointed."
Kremlin claims defection
MOSCOW The Kremlin
announced Thursday that an
American soldier and his West
German wife had defected to the
Soviet Union and had been
granted asylum because the cou
ple feared political persecution.
The U.S. Army in West Ger
many and the Pentagon in
Washington could not confirm
the defection, which would be the
first by an American serviceman
to the Soviet Union since the
Vietnam War.
percent accurate," she said.
When tests show a person has
AIDS, "responsible adults will take
the knowledge of the test results and
will not engage in trying to spread
the virus," Williams said. Infected
members are not expected to resign
from the organization.
NARSA is creating a research and
education foundation to provide the
most current and accurate informa
tion about AIDS and other impor
tant health issues, Williams said.
The foundation will receive part
of members' dues for donations to
AIDS research and will eventually
help pay for the biannual blood tests,
Williams said.
A one-year adult membership
costs $150, and the biannual blood
tests cost a total of about $70, she
said.
The membership fee includes six
social functions a year and educa
tional activities based on health
issues and other topics of interest to
the members, she said.
Youth memberships have the
same benefits, but the yearly fee is
$60, and can be paid in two install
ments, she said.
The organization provides for
setting up nationwide chapters,
including youth chapters on college
campuses, Williams said. Each
chapter would be based on the
organization's loose framework, but
could function independently to
serve the needs and desires of its
members, she said.
Williams said NARSA chapters
would be virtually autonomous,
intuitively fair, non-discriminatory
and would uphold the compassion
ate, caring and responsible philo
sophy that is the fabric of the
organization.
Williams said she hoped to see
NARSA expand its services to
provide counseling for members who
have been exposed to the virus.
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