The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • 33

UErhisi Section Local and state news Obituaries Classified ads The News and Observer Wednesday January 21 1981 Raleigh NC section 0 Martin picks Hawke for GOP post Shelley-Millbrook extension plan OK'd by council ill fa el 14 '1 '''-t' 4' trAc i- 14" 1 A e-i'44" A 1 1 ''1' 1 I lie' t'' -7 :4 1 ''1'41' $4 1 I i q4 l''''iIT il 1i 1111:: ri 4 i' ttkr1 '1 i-i -47- 1'4 144' A A :11 0 b1' -t 41-4 '--4 -1: i '-g' to -1 0t74z iy 7 i 1 'Itlirei 04tLI'r'''' 7: 'I IT ::::4 4r 1t '''f 'k 'is og4:) c' I it' 4- 1K 44tgAo "-1 i 4ki 7 li1: i r- vi 4 sr 7 --44z i 1''''4' 46i''' 1 I 1r 7 '''-'-2'' :7 7 7 i'4'' t--s 4 A'-'44 i 1 ei-: -1: l''7' sl'' 1' :1 4 i- 'kttt -g N' 16' 4 '4: kIf fi: 0' it osi: i 6 V--3 4 -I :1: A fi 44" 4f s': It'''': r's '1i :1 -1''- sno': fe ii 4 171w: 0- 01' It 'i i 'C' 'ii iN a 1 iN By ROB CHRISTENSEN Chief Capitol Correspondent Gov James Martin Tuesday nominated Jack Hawke Jr his former campaign manager to become the new state Republican Party chairman in a move that could prompt a factional brawl between the two major wings of the state GOP Hawke was tapped after negotiations between Martin and Sen Jesse A Helms failed to produce a consensus candidate After Martin's announcement a Helms strategist said the GOP's right wing would field a candidate against Hawke when the 400-member Republican Executive Committee meets Jan 31 in Winston-Salem to choose an interim chairman But the real test of political strength is expected at the state Republican convention in Asheville May 29-31 when a chairman will be elected for a two-year term to succeed Charlotte lawyer Robert Bradshaw Helms heads the right wing of the state GOP which focuses largely on social issues such as abortion and school prayer Martin heads the party's more moderate traditional wing which focuses more on economic issues "There is a difference in the two wings of the Republican Party and I think this race will be a way to debate and air those differences" said RE "Carter" Wrenn executive director of the National Congressional Club which is Helms' Raleigh-based political organization At a news conference at state GOP headquarters Martin said: "I am of course disappointed that we were not able to reach an agreement so we would be able to have a combined endorsement of one candidate And yet we sometimes have to take those disappointments" Hawke urged the GOP to present a "unified front" for the 1988 elections "I would offer to those who may not be here today an open hand to join with me in a unified effort to bring about victory in North Carolina" he said Hawke 45 is a veteran of Republican politics in North Carolina The Pennsylvania native was the party's executive director managed James Gardner's upset victory over 4th District Democratic Congressman Harold Cooley in 1966 and was the GOP nominee for that congressional seat in 1970 and 1972 After running Martin's 1984 campaign Hawke became one of the governor's top political aides But be was edged out of Martin's inner circle in a 1985 reshuffling and became state director of planning and policy the road opens regardless of whether the intersection is built initially The councils action clears the way for land to be bought and the road built Mayor Avery Upchurch said in an interview But specific plans for the roadway would come before the council later and could be altered he said Designed to improve east-west travel in North Raleigh the project includes improvements along Leesville and Shelley roads east of Creedmoor Road as well as the new segment connecting Shelley Road at the park to Mil Road at Snelling Drive Millbrook crosses North Raleigh to US 1 in the northeast On another matter several council members criticized the Wake County school board's proposed stadium for Broughton High School near downtown because of how the 4000-seat stadium's would affect nearby homes Preliminary plans for the $600000 arena were approved last month by the school board with final drawings expected to come before the school board in February If approved it could be built by fall Council member Norma De-Camp Burns said she was concerned about noise bright lights and parking in the neighborhood after two school officials showed the council the stadium plans She noted that most of the seats in raised stands would be facing houses "I would think the shouting might be intolerable at times" she said "You recognize how noisy these events become particularly with amplified sound The Associated Press A whale of a story The body of a 55-foot sperm whale lies in a slip at the Hatteras Inlet Coast Guard station The whale has been drawing crowds including a team trying to determine why mammal died page 2C See MARTIN page 2C Cancer death rate in Bynum more than double state average of scientists the 50-ton Bynum cancer death I I I 1947-49 1950-54 1955-59 1960-64 Nik 14 15 I Jordan 501 't Lake t7A Haw pee 1 River taib lir 1:: 1 01 death caused by cancer 60 50 40 Bynum 30 INC1 1 0 0 ot death caused by cancer 60 I I I I 0 'It got so when I turned around everyone had it And because I grew up here it was like your family My mother was the last one diagnosed on Dec 3' Lora Sparrow By NASH HERNDON Stott Writer The Raleigh City Council Tuesday approved construction of a controversial $42 million extension of Millbrook Road to Shelley Road at Shelley Lake Sertoma Park a move designed to improve east-west travel through North Raleigh But council members raised concerns about a costly bridge and a proposal to make a portion of Shelley Road a dead-end street last-minute changes that were included after area residents complained Last month 90 North Raleigh people appeared before the council opposing the five-lane road saying it would detract from the park Some said a planned 120-foot tunnel under it for Mine Creek and Shelley Lake Greenway would attract crime The tunnel was scrapped by a council committee last week in favor of a bridge but that would add $221000 to the road's cost "I like the idea (of the bridge I don't like the cost" said Councilman a Morton Congleton At his request the city staff will examine how many people typically use the greenway to see whether the additional cost were justified Council member Mary Cates favored the bridge "This is the most heavily used greenway in our system" she said "I feel if we put a tunnel in we'll essentially block off the use of the green-way to the south" of the park The council also hedged on whether Shelley Road east of the park should intersect with the new Millbrook or terminate into Forest Lawn Court a cul-de-sac They informally agreed to evaluate that issue about a year after rate soars Percentage 1965-69 1970-74 1975-79 1980-85 Pittsboro began drawing water from the Haw in 1973 The town provides water to about 1500 customers and sells water to Chatham County which in turn distributes it to about 500 customers in the northern end of the county Shy mentioned three possible risk factors that might explain the incidence of cancer Smoking habits of the residents was one explanation Working in the cotton See BYNUM page 2C ten permission of the airport director Exceptions to the ban would include local state or federal law enforcement officers members of the military and licensed private police and investigators A violation of the proposed ordinance would carry a minimum $50 fine a maximum 30-day jail sentence or both RDU Police Chief Donald Paschall said Smedes York an authority member said the proposed ban should include an exception for hunters who brought their firearms with them on hunting trips and others with legitimate reasons to bring their firearms to the airport "I'm very much in favor of this ordinance because it's a potentially dangerous situation" York said during the meeting "But what I don't want to do what sometimes happens is write a law that affects only those people who weren't going to do anything wrong in the first place" Authority members agreed to delay action on the proposal until York's suggested exceptions IBynum death rate based on 142 deaths between 1947 and 1985 of which 42 were due to cancer Source: IS86 study by Scott Osborne UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health By LIZ CLARKE Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL After a Bynum woman noticed that an inordinate number of her neighbors were dying of cancer a University of North Carolina study confirmed that the Chatham County community's cancer death rate had risen in recent years to more than twice the state average Between 1947 and 1964 the percentage of deaths caused by cancer in Bynum roughly paralleled the North Carolina rate But while North Carolina's cancer death rate rose from 15 percent in the 1960-64 period to 23 percent in the 1980-85 period the cancer toll in Bynum soared from 9 percent to 58 percent "In the last 10 years between 55 and 60 percent of all deaths in Bynum have been cancer deaths" Dr Carl Shy an epidemiology professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health said in an interview Friday Shy supervised a 1986 study by Scott Osborne III who documented the cancer increase from 1947 to 1985 During the 39 years examined there were 142 total deaths in The study stopped short of identifying a cause of the cancer rate But some residents and environmental activists blame the Haw River which has been Bynum's chief source of drinking water since 1947 Shy and Osborne are conducting a follow-up study to determine the cancer causes Gerald Featherstone a northern Chatham County resident who is a member and former president of the environmental group Haw River Assembly said he blamed the river for the cancer deaths The Haw River Assembly is awaiting further study on the question he said "We suspected it all along" Featherstone said "A 50 percent increase is a lot of increase" Bynum is an unincorporated community of about 300 people about five miles north of Pittsboro on the Haw River A local cotton mill where many residents had worked for years closed a few years ago From 1947 to 1977 more than half of Bynum's residents used drinking water that was pumped directly from the Haw That water was manually chlorinated and stored in an open-tank surface reservoir Since 1977 Bynum residents have been getting their Haw River water from the Pittsboro Water Treatment Plant which was built in the mid-1960s See SHELLEY page 2C Private dorm proposed near NCSU By DAVID PERKINS Stott Writer A Raleigh developer and a Tennessee real estate firm have proposed building a 14-story private residence hall off Hillsborough Street for NC State University students The proposed $15 million hall would house 949 students and would help relieve a campus housing crunch according to Raleigh developer and real estate broker ME "Val" Valentine Jr Valentine and Allen and O'Hara a Memphis Tenn real estate firm will build and operate the "student hotel" as a joint venture The hall would be built on 16 acres behind Swensen's Ice Cream Factory south of Friendly Drive west of Dan Allen Drive and north of the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks crossing the campus It is near the spot where university officials have said they would like to build a parking garage NCSU officials said Tuesday that the university did not oppose the new residence hall and would cooperate with the developers "We recognize that there is need for additional rooms around the campus and the private sector can fill that void" said Charles Leffler assistant vice chancellor for business "We've got to work with him a little bit to make it work" Modeled after Chapel Hill's Granville Towers which Allen and O'Hara built near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the new tower would have a cafeteria on the top floor weight rooms computer and TV lounges 468 double-occupancy and 13 single-occupancy rooms and a swimming pool and deck Earlier this month NCSU announced plans for a S7 million parking deck next to the site for the new hall Valentine said NCSU officials were seeking about 2 acres of adjacent land he owns for the 1200-space deck NCSU may trade a smaller piece of university-owned land next to the hall site for the two acres he said But See DEVELOPER page 2C IBeg your pardon I A graphic in The News and Observer Monday depicting the growth of the Raleigh Police Department was labeled incorrectly The figures given for patrol officers and detectives actually represented the entire patrol and investigative divisions respectively which also include supervisors arld support staff Cary panel recommends rejecting mall expansion RDU board considers ordinance on guns Bynum of which 42 were caused by cancer Of those killed by cancer 35 died after 1965 "It got so when I turned around everyone had it" Lora Sparrow 46 a Bynum resident whose concerns sparked the UNC study said Tuesday "And because I grew up here it was like your family "My mother was the last one diagnosed on Dec 3" she said "These were all friends and people I knew since I was born I've cooked for them and gone to hospitals and funerals with them And it's hard it's just very hard" Osborne's figures were based on the causes of death listed on death certificates of Bynum residents Most of the deaths not caused by cancer were related to heart problems Osborne said Tuesday mall and west of Ivy Meadows Expansion would leave about 200 feet between portions of mall property and portions of Ivy Meadows Residents from Ivy Meadows along with residents from the Walnut Hills and Walnut Ridge subdivisions have fought the action saying commercial development would bring increased traffic and noise Residents at a public hearing Jan 8 also questioned whether Cary needed additional mall space The Cary Village Mall expansion would join plans for a 237-acre mall and office complex Crossroads Park about a mile away As recently as 1972 the property in question was farmland Henderson said The tract was zoned residential until four years ago when it again was changed this time for office-institutional use he said "The citizens of Ivy Meadows were concerned at that time thinking 'Well how close are you going to bring business he said Linda A Boss of 11u Ivy Lane Blvd Co Cary Village Mall Cary Senior High Maynard Rd Walnut Hilts Walnut Rtdgo South Hills Mall Walnut St said residents had been assured then that office-institutional zoning would buffer the neighborhood from commercial areas Informal expansion plans call for adding as many as three large stores as well as smaller ones said Bonnie Estes assistant planning director for the town Robert Murray senior vice president of Jacobs Visconsi Jacobs was not available for comment Tuesday The town planning staff had advised the board to recommend that the Town Council table the request to allow time for negotiations over traffic access buffering and landscaping between the mall and the neighborhood Ms Estes said Blvd COnn Westerr AY An Mall Ivy IvY Ln 011 Meadows Cary 1 Walnut Senior Hills Walnut High Reigia Maynard Rd Walnut South St Hills 4 Mat ll limiwfsn so le94 19 In an era of bustle and growth that sometimes seems to say otherwise the Cary Planning and Zoning Board has decided there are limits Board members who offer recommendations to the Town Council on zoning issues voted unanimously Monday to deny a request by the owner of Cary Village Mall to rezone 21 acres adjacent to the mall that would allow expansion of the 350000-square-foot facility The action came in the wake of stern protest by residents of Ivy Meadows a nearby subdivision Representatives of the mall owner Jacobs Visconsi Jacobs of Cleveland had sought the zoning change The decision of the planning board was only a recommendation and the full Town Council could consider the matter when it meets Thursday "In my opinion the shopping center is encroaching too close into the neighborhood an established residential neighborhood" said WE "Billy" Henderson chairman of the planning board The mall at Maynard and Walnut streets has 65 stores The land in ques: ion lies southeast of the By CARL GRAZIANO Staff Writer Anyone caught with a gun or other dangerous weapon on Raleigh-Durham Airport property could face a fine a jail sentence or both under an ordinance considered Tuesday by the RDU Airport Authority The proposal comes three weeks after a New York man was wounded by a bullet that pierced a United Airlines jet as it approached RDU But the person who shot the jet was not believed to have been on RDU property at the time and airport authority members said the proposed firearms ban was not entirely in response to the incident "This isn't a reaction to the incident involving the United Airlines plane" airport director John Brantley III said during the authority meeting "We simply have a lot of people in the area with weapons in their possession" The proposed ordinance would ban any firearm explosive or dangerous weapon such as a Bowie knife or slingshot on airport property itthout the writ See RDU BOARD page 2C i--- LT.