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4 8The Daily Tar HeelFriday, January 13 1984 i A little PR goes a long way Speak latlg ular By WA YNE THOMPSON out 9 1st year of editorial freedom Kerry DeRochi, Editor EDDIE WOOTEN, Managing Editor CHARLES ElLMAKFR, Associate Editor FRANK BRUNI, Associate Editor By SHARON SHERIDAN Kelly Simmons, Univenity Editor KYLE MARSHALL, State and National Editor MICHAEL DESlSTI Sports Editor Melissa Moore, News Editor Michael Toole, City Editor KAREN FlSHER, Features Editor Jeff Grove, Arts Editor CHARLES W. LEDFORD, Photography Editor Wills of steel Arts and the N.C. School of Science and Math were your favorite examples of the quality education the state offered. But what about North Carolina's ranking in the bottom half of the 50 states in education? Or why North Carolina's teachers are paid $1,502 under the national average of How about explaining how North Carolina's education system can be so great when the state's students' average score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test ranks 19th of the 21 states and the District of Columbia where it's usually given, according to statistics recently released by U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H.

Bell? The same statistics showed that 31.4 percent of the state's ninth graders didn't stay in school to graduate in 1982, ranking North Carolina 41st among the 50 states. I guess the reason you didn't say any of this stuff is because of "damage management" a word coined by White House counselor Edwin Meese during Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign to mean all efforts to keep the president-to-be away from reporters. Meese didn't want any more statements like "Trees put more sulfur oxide into the air than all the automobiles." They hurt, Reagan politically and made him look unpresidential in the eyes of the media. But, Jim, you've never done anything or said anything that would hurt you politically. On top of being a Great municator, you're the Premier Politician.

What would it hurt for you to mention at a news conference that, unfortunately and for some unknown reason, the state's industrial recruiting efforts seem to be benefiting some areas of the state more than others? Come down off your white horse, Jim. And take off those rose-colored glasses. Wayne Thompson, a senior journalism major from Roanoke, Va is a staff writer for The Daily Tar Heel. There you go again, Jim Hunt. Last week during your news conference in Raleigh you said that North Carolina recorded its second-best industrial recruiting year ever.

You added that in 1983 announcements of new plants or expansions totaled more than $2.15 billion, providing more than 32,200 jobs for the state. And then you said that last year was also the best ever for investments by foreign industries, with $345 million in manufacturing facilities. Just like everyone believed Ronald Reagan when he said he could balance the budget, cut taxes and increase defense spending, you convinced everyone at your news conference that your industrial recruitment program had created jobs throughout the state. The next day N.C. newspapers heraiaed your achievements with headlines such as "N.C.

Records 2nd Best Industrial Recruiting Year Ever." You really are a Great Communicator, Jim, because you know that the jobs created by industrial recruitment really aren't spread evenly throughout North Carolina. The guy who made the announcement with you, State Commerce Secretary C.C. Hope, knew that, too. According to his department's 1982 Economic Development Report, 53 percent of the new business projects were located in the Piedmont, compared to 24 percent for the mountain region and 23 percent for the coastal areas. In terms of employment, more than half of the new jobs created by these projects were in the Piedmont.

To borrow a line from Jesse, where do you stand on this, Jim? It's probably where you stand on education, which is Last year in many of your speeches you lauded North Carolina's education efforts. The N.C. School of the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lamenting women without pants This week might only have marked another well-intentioned but perhaps ineffectual chapter in the current struggle to restore U.S. industrial growth and improve American competition in world markets had it not been for a precedent-setting, faith-restoring event in the community of Weirton, W.Va. While a group of business and labor leaders in Washington were preparing an undoubtedly verbose report suggesting the formation of a governmental bank to provide loans to companies hit hard by still international competition, some 10,000 workers saved Weirton's giant steel plant through this nation's largest-ever experiment in employee ownership.

The blue-collar workers Wednesday signed the documents creating the new Weirton Steel. In doing so, they became their own bosses and at least temporarily escaped the fates of so many steel workers across the United States. Moreover, they demonstrated not only the initiative and sacrifice of which the American blue-collar worker is capable, but also the difference he can indeed make in a society which often seems ruled predominantly by corporate interests. Weirton workers abandoned selfish concerns and sacrificed a great deal to create the new steel company. Most of the $386 million involved in the transaction was borrowed money.

To make the new venture succeed, workers have agreed to significant and long-lasting cutbacks in salaries and benefits. They have even created an efficiency program intended to bring back to work the 2,000 plant workers presently unemployed. What these workers stand to save is much more than individual jobs. The tragedy of both the steel and automobile industries in the United States lies not only in the percentages of the American population unemployed, but also, and more vividly, in the entire communities impoverished by the failures of plants around which town life is centered. Weirton is just such a community, where the grandfathers of present employees lived and worked and where present employees hope their grandchildren can reside and prosper.

If their present gumption and grit are yardsticks by which the chances of future success can be measured, workers in Weirton may indeed realize their dream. And should that happen, it will be a success infinitely more tangible than the creation of new appendages to the vast body of well-intentioned agencies in Washington. In his letter to the editor "Sealed Lips" DTH, Dec. 7, 1983) G. Gordon Bailey III said he was "sick and tired of hearing about racism and hearing self-righteous people stir up a worn-out issue that does not need stirring." If some students are racist, he said, "that is their problem." He concluded: "The people who are outspoken against racism are just stirring it up.

If the students here are really anti-racist, which I feel they are, then if we ignore it, it will just go away. Only when we quit focusing so much attention on racism will it fade away as all archaic views do." I do not wish to argue about the degree of racism at UNC. And I agree that there can be too much "finger-pointing," too many ac-cusations made. When a black person and a white person compete for a job and the white is hired, some may cry "racism," even if the white is more qualified. Similarly, if the black person is hired, some may cry "reverse discrirnination." What concerns me about Bailey's letter are his assumptions that, if people are racist, it is "their problem" and that ignoring issues such as racism will make them "just go away." I always have thought that ignoring problems did not make them disappear.

Overdue term papers have a nasty tendency to remain unwritten and overdue if one ignores them. Or denying that you have cancer does not change the fact; nor does it prevent the cancerous cells from metastasizing. Ignoring an issue such as racism dismissing it as someone else's problem is a poor way of dealing with it. Racism, or any kind of prejudice, affects not only the person who is prejudiced but also those around him, particularly those against whom he is prejudiced. Taken to its extreme, such prejudice can lead to a Ku Klux Klan or a Holocaust.

One should not cry "racism" or "discrimination" without due cause; nor should one stir up controversy needlessly. But if people are becoming the victims of others' prejudices, they should speak out against it. If no one speaks out, there will be no incentive for discontinuing discriminatory acts. If there had been no Civil Rights Movement, for example, the injustices protested in the movement probably would have continued. Bailey said he believes UNC students are anti-racist.

This may be true. But if racism does exist, it is unwise to assume that people's racism will not hurt others or to ignore the issue. Sharon Sheridan, a sophomore journalism major from East Setauket, N. is a staff writer for The Daily Tar Heel. are solely responsible for such atrocities as child abuse and, of all things, pornography, a wrong women constantly fight to right.

Furthermore, how many instances have been reported of a woman instigating a sexual crime? Yet we cannot even begin to count the women who have been victims at the hands of men. Alas, we are again victimized by this "evil smear among us" (Jude 12, Living Bible), this San Diego slanderer. By lumping together incoherently linked Bible verses out of context, Johnson has the audacity to imply that when Jesus said, at his crucifixion, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," He was referring to women, thus insulting the in-'telligence of the public on the political workings of a patriarchal society. Margie Walker Ehringhaus Dorm Ashley Royal Morrison Dorm To the editor: I would like to thank Wayne Johnson for his accurate letter without pants?" DTH, Jan. 11) With all of the rabid feminists lurking the streets and airways, I had forgotten that God only spoke the "Queen's English." To think that my pristine mind actually thought that the prophets God spoke to wrote in Hebrew and Greek makes me shudder at the extent df the feminists' conspiracy, and it is a conspiracy.

While rummaging through the attic of my mobile home I found what appears to be a monumental document that will once and fof all show this U.S. of A. what the feminists intend. Its title is Protocols of the Elders of Feminism, and it goes on to describe how women are planning to mongrelize our society through the use of Cheenos and Levis and eventually take over the world. We were just kidding ourselves when we thougnt pornography that exploits women was created by males its just another feminist ruse.

I don't know about others, but I like the idea that all the problems of our great society are the fault of female pants wearers. After all, they do make up a majority of our societies' leaders. Johnson has inspired me. I will do my part to restore America's lost greatness. Tonight when I go home I am going to kick the cat, rip up all of my wife's pants and keep her in the kitchen barefoot, if not pregnant.

Perry Fisher Nature Trail Up in smoke To the editor: Wayne Johnson has written a hasty letter without pants?" DTH, Jan. 1 1). Women have worn pants in one form or another for much longer than the last 20 years. The only difference is that before, the pants were under dresses. In Deuteronomy 22:5, the verse he quoted, it reads: "A woman shall not wear an article proper to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's dress for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the Lord." What about the Scottish clansmen? I suppose that their kilts are a categorical abomination.

All pictures of Jesus and the apostles that I have seen from Byzantine mosaics on up have him and his followers wearing clothes that are still worn in the East today and certainly resemble Western women's clothing more than men's. Elsewhere in Deuteronomy it also says (referring to victory in war and taking prisoners), "and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; then thou shalt bring her home in thine house; and she shall shave her head and pare her nails." Personally, I think the shaving of heads and the paring of nails sounds more than a little butch for the woman who should be striving to be as different from man as the good Lord would have only a chapter later (Deut. Johnson urges us to "rebuild America with the only true word of God, the 161 1 King James Bible" or "else continue to let TV hype lead us to the slaughter." I can only wonder what programs he has been watching or why he feels that the hype shown is leading anywhere but back to the TV room to watch more (and slaughter less). If he wishes to rebuild America, he cannot hope to do so without 55 percent of her population, whom he just so glibly rejected for the Lord. Also, there are many other divinely inspired works that were written thousands of years before King James was ever born.

Ned Irvine Chapel Hill To the editor: Regarding the letter "Women without pants?" DTH, Jan. 11), I was personally offended by Wayne Johnson's reference to the 161 1 King James version of the Bible as "the only true word of God." My religion uses the Saint Joseph edition of the Bible rather than the King James. What could possibly be the basis of his statement that the King James Bible contains greater truth than the Holy Books of other religions? Naturally, Johnson sees his own beliefs as being the ultimate truth, or else they would not be his own beliefs. However, I do not appreciate his implication that any version of the Bible other than the King James is totally meaningless. Such a view is narrow-minded.

Johnson attempted to convince readers of his views on the ferninist movement. Although I do not agree with his radical Twenty years ago Wednesday, the surgeon general of the United States declared that cigarette smoking was a leading cause of cancer and led to serious heart disease. The famous report. made front-page headlines worldwide, and drastic cutbacks in smoking were predicted. At the time, more than 50 percent of men and more than 34 percent of women smoked cigarettes regularly.

Twenty years later, with increased warnings and multiple medical studies backing up the surgeon general's report, almost 38 percent of men and almost 30 percent of women still smoke. Smoking is clearly on the way out as smokers and non-smokers alike realize the health hazards arid economic burdens placed on them because of smoking. This 20th anniversary of the famed report should send a special signal to the people of North Carolina, where tobacco production is the economic life-blood of many people. As smoking declines, North Carolina must wean itself away from tobacco production and forge into new and safer industries. Although smoking has decreased drastically statistics show that yearly per capital cigarette consumption in the United States has dipped from 4,345 in 1963 to 3,512 in 1983 Dr.

Luther L. Terry, the surgeon general who issued the 387-page report, said gains made in the fight against smoking were disappointing. And University of Michigan researcher Kenneth Warner recently estimated that about 4 million people died between 1964 and 1978 because they smoked, though smoking cutbacks have prevented 200 premature deaths overall. The status of cigarette smoking is a mixed blessing for North Carolina, where the tobacco industry does billions of dollars in business each year. Still, even industry spokesmen do not deny the devastating health effects smoking produces.

As North Carolina's second-largest industry, tobacco is important to the people of the state, though that economic dependency must constantly be weighed against the health hazards to the American populace. It is clear that Americans will not continue to smoke in great numbers, and it is only good economic sense that North Carolina leave tobacco behind. views on the movement, I think Johnson would have more credibility if he would display an openness to opinions opposing his own. Paul J. Klosterman Granville South Letters? To the editor: Were the holidays so devasting to our beloved DTH that the staff has sunk to the depths of a serpent, forced to grovel to fill the back page with useless crumbs to feed the hungry minds nestled in UNC's student body? In "Women without pants," DTH, Jan.

11). Johnson has willfully committed the sin of mass generalization, and the shameful result a slanderous flogging of all women. He blatantly states that any woman who dares wear pants is stating her support of this nation's spiritual decline. Johnson also implies that women The Daily Tar Heel welcomes letters to the editor and contributions to columns for the editorial page. Such contributions should be typed, triple spaced, on a 60-space line, and are subject to editing.

Contributions must be submitted by noon the day before publication. Column writers should include their majors and. hometown; each letter should include the writer's name, address and telephone number. THE WEEK IN REVIEW Execution delayed following appeals By KERRY DEROCHI about U.S. covert aid to the Nkaraguan rebels.

Perhaps that's just not Season Ticked Off At the beginning of basketball season, ESPN programmers were pleased to promote the "Season Ticket," but now it looks as if they may be losing the show. For about $75, Season Ticket had promised 23 games of fast-paced ACC action, matches ranging in intensity from UNC-Dartmouth to yesterday's UNC-Maryland bout. As a result of a deal with Raycom Sports, the company that owns the rights to ACC basketball coverage, these 23 games would not be shown by any other network. But apparently ESPN forgot just how mad ACC fans could be. Or just how quick those mad fans could take a cable company to court.

Beginning with last week's Wilmington case, ESPN subscribers have petitioned the courts across the state to lift the ban on the ACC games, since the games were part of regular viewing outside of the conference. In Wilmington, the court ruled in favor of the fans. On Wednesday, Orange County District Court Judge Patricia Hunt placed a restraining order on local cable companies forcing them to make "Season Ticket" games available to all ESPN subscribers. The ruling, issued following a complaint filed by Steven Bernholz of Chapel Hill and Sam Maf fei of Carrboro, will remain in place until Jan. 20, unless challenged by ESPN.

What started out as a pragmatic move on the part of ESPN and Raycom sports turned into perhaps the oldest and most certain lesson of business. The customer is always right. Kerry DeRochi, a senior journalism and English major from Greensboro, is editor of The Daily Tar Heel. death would not bring back the lives of the three officers. And didn't killing him rob society of a potential good and at the same time destroy the basis of our judicial system that of working to reform instead of enacting revenge? More Central American aid In Washington this week, every government official, each diplomat and politician, waited with bated breath for the release of the much-heralded Kissinger Commission report on Central America.

The commission had been charged with forming a rationale and political basis for U.S. military and economic policies in Central America. (Perhaps it should have preceded involvement there.) The most noteworthy part of the report was its insistence that Central America has remained vital to U.S interests. According to the commission, a strong CubanSoviet influence in the small band of countries threatened the U.S. security interests.

In reaction to this purported communist take-over, the report called for immediate and significant increases in the amount of military aid to El Salvador. In addition, the United States should initiate a five-year, $8 billion economic aid program. Another section of the 132-page document called for the establishment of 10,000 scholarships that would enable Central American students to study in the United States. Each of these proposals would be strengthened by the scheduling of a summit for Central American and United States leaders to discuss a comprehensive economic development plan. The report in many ways completed its mission that of finding a basis for the administration's stances.

Yet, it fell far short of reaching a definite conclusion on Central America, plagued by inconsistencies and omission of fact. For example, it does not specify as to what level a revolution becomes such a "threat" to the United States and, curiously, it mentions nothing The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Assistants: Bill Riedy and Gigi Sooner. Assistant Managing Editors: Joel Broadway, Tracy Hilton and Amy Tanner Nrlw Desk: Cynthia Brown News: Tracy Adams, Dick Anderson, Diana Bosniack, Keith Bradsher, Amy Branen, Lisa Brantley, Hope Buffington, Tom Conlon, Kathie Collins, Kate Cooper, Teresa Cox, Lynn Davis, Dennis Dowdy, Chris Edwards, Kathy Farley, Steve Ferguson, Genie French, Kim Gilley, Heather Hay, Andy Hodges, Melissa Holland, Reggie Holley, Sue Kuhn, Thad Ogburn, Beth O'Kelley, Janet Olson, Rosemary Osborne, Heidi Owen, Beth Ownley, Cindy Parker, Donna Pazdan, Ben Pcrkowski, Frank Proctor, Linda Queen, Sarah Raper, Mary Alice Resch, Cindi Ross, Katherine Schultz, Sharon Sheridan, Deborah Simpkins, Sally Smith, Mark Stinneford, Carrie Szymeczek, Amy Tanner, Wayne Thompson, Vance Trefethen, Chuck Wallington, Melanie Wells, Lynda Wolf, Rebekah Wright, Jim Yardley and Jim Zook. Sports: Frank Kennedy, Michael Persinger and Kurt Rosenberg assistant sports editors. Gn-na Burr ess, Kimball Crossley, Pete Fields, John Hackney, Lonnie McCullough, Robyn Norwood, Julie Peters, Glenn Peterson, Lee Roberts, Mike Schoor, Scott Smith, Mike Waters, David Wells and Bob Young.

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Hutchins, the 54-year-old Rutherford County carpenter, won a stay in his execution scheduled for 6 a.m. today. If the execution had gone as planned, Hutchins would have become the first man to be put to death in this state since 1961 the first ever to die by lethal injection. Hutchins was sentenced to death in 1979 after being convicted in the shooting deaths of two Rutherford County deputies and a state highway patrolman. The deputies had responded to a call from Hutchins' daughter, who Hutchins apparently had been beating.

Hutchins shot the deputies from the steps of his home and later, as he drove from the scene, he shot and killed a highway patrolman chasing him. Since the conviction, Hutchins' case has gone through 3 Vi years of court appeals and new testimony. Those appeals failed for the last time this week as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and on Thursday a Superior Court judge dismissed new claims that Hutchins had been insane at the time of the slayings. As it became apparent that Hutchins would be denied a stay of execution, groups opposed to the death penalty began holding protests across the state.

They held vigils in churches and on the steps of post offices. Some even camped on Gov. Jim Hunt's doorsteps. At issue was not whether Hutchins was guilty, or even whether he was insane at the time of the shootings. Instead, they were protesting the right of the state to kill.

For no matter whether Hutchins was killed this morning or next week or next month, his.