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By LINDSAY HAYES
Staff Writer
An Orange County man who has
operated a landfill on the Univer
sity Lake watershed for the past
five years without a permit will face
legal action authorized by the
county commissioners.
Jehue Edwards charges $5 per
load to dump debris on one acre
of his 10-acre lot on Jo Mac Road,
five miles west of Carrboro.
Besides a few junk cars and old
refrigerators, most of the debris
dumped in the landfill consists of
soil, trees, stumps, waste lumber
and other construction site waste,
said Warren Faircloth, erosion
control supervisor of the Orange
County Planning Department. '
County officials are concerned
about the landfill because no one
is regulating what is dumped,
Faircloth said. Edwards is not
covering the debris with soil, which
creates a thriving habitat for rats
and snakes, he said. "
The county commissioners also
fear that this landfill could harm
the University Lake water supply,
which serves about 55,000 people
in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and parts
Reports
In 1985, before the study was
issued, 41 percent of UNC-CH's
entering freshman student athletes
had scores of less than 700. This fall,
the percentages dwindled to zero
percent.
N.C. State also dropped to zero
percent of below-700 scores, after
reporting 42 percent in 1985. Twenty
one percent of ECU'S entering fresh
men had SAT scores less than 700,
down from 48 percent in 1985.
Padilla said the graduation rates
for student athletes at many of the
schools compare favorably to those
of the rest of the students.
The five-year graduation rate for
the 1981 freshman football players at
UNC-CH was nearly 70 percent,
compared to 32 percent for the 1980
freshman class.
However, UNC-CH fared better
than other schools in the system.
ECU's football program reported a
graduation rate of only 5 percent.
The reports represent the second
year of data and information on
athletics since the BOG issued its
comprehensive report on athletics in
October 1985.
In an interview Monday, Padilla
praised the University's coaches and
athletic department officials for their
successful efforts.
"I think the chancellor, athletic
director and particularly the coaches
should be commended for this pro
gress, because without their concur
rence with what the Board of Gov
ernors is trying to do, there wouldn't
have been such a splendid record,"
Padilla said.
Athletic reports from Pembroke
State University and Elizabeth City
State University have not been
released.
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Property owners planning to
operate a landfill must first obtain
a special-use permit from the
county, but Edwards has ignored
warnings that he is violating this
county zoning ordinance, Faircloth
said.
The county has issued Edwards
a stop-work order to prevent
further dumpings, but he continues
to operate the landfill, Faircloth
said.
Edwards is also violating a
county erosion control ordinance
that prohibits property owners
from disturbing more than one-half
of an acre of land without obtain
ing a special permit, Faircloth said.
; The county commissioners auth
orized county attorney Geoff Gled
hill last week to take legal action
against Edwards.
' "We have made several attempts
to resolve the situation," Fairclott
said. "We have suggested to him
that he cease operations and res
tabihze his property."
The county wants Edwards to
cease his landfill operation and
stabilize his remaining property
Students questioned Monday
responded favorably to the academic
progress outlined in the report, but
said student athletes should be
admitted to the University on the
same standards as other students.
The students also agreed that
exceptions were not a major problem
on the Chapel Hill campus, especially
in comparison to other schools in the
system.
"Carolina has a reputation of being
hard," said Dawn Witherspoon, a
native of Kannapolis and graduate
student in the School of Public
Health.
"Many athletes who are really good
go to other schools because they
know they can't make it here," she
said.
Witherspoon also said she thought
public knowledge of the academic
Runoff
several issues as a congress member,
including the Old East Old, West
renovations, defunding of the Caro
lina Gay and Lesbian Association,
and student input on the search for
a new chancellor.
"Ill address whatever my constit-
uents. in District 17" want me to
address," he said.
' Miller said graduate students
Kendrick Prewitt and Logan Brown
ing, who received one write-in vote
each, declined to compete in a run
off in District 8 due to lack of interest.
District 8 will be the only district left
unrepresented, she said.
All the winners declared Tuesday
turned in their financial statements
on time, so that no one was disqual
ified, Miller said.
She said, "The financial statement
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with vegetation, he said.
But as of last week, Gledhill said
he had only recently received the
information on Edwards landfill
and had not yet reviewed it.
Faircloth said , the county com-,
missioners want Gledhill to write
a letter to Edwards stating the
county's case against him and
asking for compliance. Edwards
then has 30 days to respond to the
letter.
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If Edwards does not comply with
the county's request, the county will
seek an injunction, Faircloth said.
Failure to heed the injunction will
cost Edwards at least $100 a day
in fines, he said.
The planning department, has
received numerous phone calls
from neighbors complaining about
the landfill,' especially after a rain
when trucks dumping at the prop
erty leave mud tracks on nearby
roads, he said.
"When it rains we get five to 10
calls a dav " Faircloth said.
Up to this point, Edwards
response has been one of surprise
that the county would monitor the
use of his land.
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standings of student athletes was not
helpful. "They (athletic departments)
are going to learn to fudge the records
and change the numbers to make it
look better anyway."
A junior industrial relations major
who asked not to be identified said
student academic standings should
not be made public, and such records
should be considered private
information. -
"1 wouldn't want confidential
information on me made public," he
said.
David Whitehead, a freshman
psychology major from Wake Forest,
said he. thought the reports were
helpful because they would throw
light on unacceptable academic
standings, and would put pressure on
administrators to upgrade standards.
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is a way of screening out uninterested
write-in candidates as well as making
the others do their jobs."
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the rest of the ceremony, holding the
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Program to offset heating costs
for state's low-income residents
By GERDA GALLOP
Staff Writer
With winter fast approaching,
many of North Carolina's poor will
be left out in the cold. But the state
government will spend about $23.7
million in federal funds in an effort
to heat the homes of the needy.
The program, funded by a federal
grant specifically designated for
energy assistance under the Low
Income Energy Assistance program,
is primarily designed to help offset
the cost of heating bills during the
winter months, said Meredith Smith,
director of public affairs for the N.C.
Department of Human Resources,
Which controls the money.
! Smith said priority is given to the
elderly, the disabled and families with
young children, but eligibility is
determined only after residents apply
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for the program.
Anyone responsible for heating
bills who meets income guidelines of
the program is eligible for assistance,
said Martin Whitt, income mainte
nance director of the Department of
Social Services in Orange County.
To be eligible, residents must have
household incomes at or below 110
percent of the 1987 poverty level and
have household financial assets of
$2,200 or less. For example, a family
of two must have an average income
of less than $678 per month and a
family of -four must not exceed
$1,026.
Smith estimated that statewide, as
many as 187,000 households may be
eligible for assistance this year as
compared with 166,000 households
that received assistance last year.
In Orange County, 850 households
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in Orange County received assistance
from the program last year, Whitt
said. But this year's numbers depend
on how many people apply, he said.
"We encourage any household that
thinks it might be eligible to apply,"
Whitt said.
Eligible N.C. residents should
apply at their county's Department
of Social Services between Oct. 15
and Nov. 25, Smith said. ,
The application process is not on
a first come-first serve basis, so
anyone who applies during the
specified times will be considered,
Whitt said.
Local employees of the department
will gather and verify applications
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