The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 9

CfarW Hfil Public tTb'rsfy Regional Mews The Chapel Hill Newspaper Community News from All of Orange County Tip CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO COMMUNITY HEALTH Primary medical care preventive health care 105 Roberaon Street Carrboro Mon-Frl 8:15 am to 1pm Saturday 5-11 am Telephone 948741 THURSDAY DECEMBER 30 1976 umUadM I r- 9 Sec Of Commerce Hunt Chooses i Faircloth To Join Cabinet The following meeting! and events win take place in the Chapel HUCnrrboro community through Friday Meetings ALANON FAMILY GROUP OF CHAPEL HILL-1 pm Thiraday Binkley Bitflit Charch EAST CHAPEL HILL ROTARY CLUB-1 Friday Holiday Inn BAHA'I UNITY 7 pm Friday Public invited Phone 967-1797 for information ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS-Friday: Chapel Hlll-Carrboro Group I pm Univenity Methodist Church RALEIGH (UPI)-Lauch Faircloth chairman of the state highway commission under Gov Robert Scott was named secretary of commerce by Gov-Elect James Hunt Jr today In announcing the appointment Hunt restated his determination to transfer industrial development from the department of natural and economic resources to the commerce department Hunt said that to accomplish that he needed a secretary who could the language of both business leaders and the working people of this state If 8 i 1 estate He served as a member of the highway commission between 1961 and 1965 during Gov Terry Sanford's administration and was named its chairman when Scott became governor in 1969 heading the commission for four years The highway commission was replaced by the state transportation board under state government reorganisation rinse him because he has the dedication to work the long hard hours that are going to be essential Hunt said understands the need for better Jobs and better pay he has a special concern for expanding businesses The expansion of business and industry already in North Carolina will be a primary aim of our efforts in this As commerce secretary Faircloth will be paid $3280 a year (Staff mala by KaWi Rldianlaan) Evening Shadow In Downtown Chapel fill Faircloth has those Hunt told a news conference is a Horatio Alger success story He grew up on a farm in Sampson County and has literally built his business from Faircloth has business interests that include farming construction car dealerships farm equipment sales milling operations and commercial real State Allowing Fuel Distributors To Use Parts Of Energy Reserves RALEIGH 1 The state energy division is letting distributors use emergency reserves of propane gas and heating fuel to help meet a sharp demand for fuel brought on by this unusually Durham Men Receive Prison Assignments Federal Judge: Gavin Hitchcock said propane gas is being used in same cases as a substitute for natural gas and the demand is a very tight distribution problem with propane" The reserves are actually' held by the distributors who are required to withhold three per cent of their propane and four per cent of their beating fuel for emergencies To use the reserved fuel and gas the distributors must file applications with the energy division The division last wed: released sli an effort to avoid shortages think taken care of the said Hitchcock purchasers have been cut Highway Ride Interstate 85 5 'ft- i i RALEIGH Law enforcement officers say increasing numbers of prostitutes are soliciting business with CB radios on North interstate highways But the officers said they have had no complaints about the rising number of and thus no way to take action against them drivers sure Durham County Sheriffs Deputy Creech said Wednesday of truckers reportedly entertained along Interstate 85 a guy wants to invite a lady to his truck not our Job to look inside and see going he said long as they commit a traffic (Continued on page SB) Events 7:50 pm Friday Epheaua Road School multi-purpose room Family night dance out the old year aponaored by Chapel HiU Recreation Department i 1 I Senior Citizens NEW For information about New Generation activities call Chapel HID Recreation Department 929-llU Ext 210 Bicentennial Events HISTORIC Tours of the Old UNC buildings in the historic district Leave the west wing of the Morehead Planetarium at 11 won daily and Saturday and at pm Sunday Free BICENTENNIAL EXHIBIT-'Thys-Msns who signed the Declaration of includes a medicine chest and surgical and medical instruments fromthe Bicentennial period 2d floor Library UNC DookmobBe Schedtde 4 WanfannMs service will resume Monday Jan 5 1977 Entertainment MOREHEAD "Star of BetMehem" tlroagh Jan 19 Shows at -1 pm dally Saturday shews at am 3 aad I pm aad Saaday 23 aad I pm ExMbhs WINTER STUDENT ART SHOW-Ghapd Hill High School students NCNB downtown through Jan 7 NCCU ART MUSEUM-Art Show City and County Schools Student through Jan 24 ACXLAND ART CENTER-Twentieth Century Master Prints masterpieces from Matisse and Picasso through German expressionism to Jasper Johns' lithograph of Cans'! organised by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through Jan 2 UMITED Larry Myxner and Anita Jones Stanton wooden toys and etchiivi of North Carolina Through Dec 31 Northgate Mall Durham WILSON Round Wilson One Hundred All display ernes on first and second floors devoted to the life and career of Wilson University Librarian from 1901 to 1932 in commemoration of Ms 100th birthday MOREHEAD BUIUHNG-South Art Gallery: Extended paintings by Bambi Rabe of Durham through Dec SI SOMERHILL GALLERY-Studlo Frames Ltd Strswvalley East Recent Drawings and Intaglios by Florentine artist Swietlan Kracsyna through Dec 31 Mon-FrL Sat 154 GREEN HILL ART GALLERY-Works by Billie Corder ToQy Hicks Theresa McGeady and others through Dec 21 712 Summit Avs( Greensboro I Community Services CaU 9424630 Monday through Friday 0 am to 4 pm for information aboyt the university the community and organisations RAPE CRISIS CENTER-Expert confidential counseling legal faiformation and immediate medical care at the Emergency Room NC Memorial HospitaL Can 9654438 Support and information from community members through the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Rape Crisis Center: 987-RAPE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOOETY-Daspentriy in need of volunteers pet foster homes Information: 967-7383 E-Z RIDE Rr-S pedal bus service for elderly and handicapped hours: 8 am-6 pm weekdays Information: 942-5174 Retired Senior Volunteer frofram Information: 942-7248 (Kay Huey) cold winter Paul Hitchcock director of the division said Wednesday that applications from dealers wanting to use the reserves are up about 30 per cent over last'winter Vs In a consent Judgement issued Wednesday District Court Judge Eugene A Gordon said that actions constituted interference with the of free expression beyond that permitted by the first and fourteenth amendments of the United States handling of a State Bureau of Investigation probe of political activities in Richmond County was criticized by Michael Samuel Smith and Smith was called before him last June When Smith told Gavin that he should have disqualified himself from handling the report because of a friendship with (Continued on page 6B) Interchurch Council Seeks Additional Aid ByDANNARRON Staff Writer The Chapel HiU-Carrboro Interchurch Council for Social Services win petition the Orange County Board of Commissioners Tuesday to increase the county's allocation to the Orange County Social Services Department's emergency assistance fund The Interchurch Council is making this request in order to relieve the council of some of the burden they have been shouldering in emergency assistance in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area Mrs Lawrence Nielson president of the Interchurch Council said this morning she did not feel the county's appropriation of $5000 a year to the county Social Services emergency assistance fund was enough to cover the need in this area for the year in the position where we feel that when the emergency assistance fund is exhausted the responsibilities in the area of emergency assistance fall on the Interchurch Council" she said asking the county to increase their emergency family assistance fund so that it will be sufficient to cover the county's need there during the year" Nielson said she felt the need in that area was accute and that more than double the current allocation of $5000 would be needed to meet that need She said the Social Services Department presently helped families in need of emergency assistance only so long as the allotted funds lasted She said that emergency assistance funds were used to help families in need with food rent and Mil payments while the family was being approved for other forms of long-term assistance Joann Haggerty the Council's consultant for community services said that (Continued on page SB) North Carolina Judicial Council Drafts Capital Punishment Bill GREENSBORO (UPI)-Four Durham men who pleaded guilty to mishandling savings and loan association funds have received federal prison assignments or-darjng Jhem tp report for pistody on Feb Iff Paul Roberts was assigned to the Eglin Fla federal Prison camp Walter Attorney office believes it is constitutionally acceptable North Carolina now has no capital punishment A law that made death mandatory far murder and rape convictions was overturned by the Supreme Court last summer In rejecting the law the court said one be felt will be a very important lass but we're hoping to replace her with someone equally said Dr Bernard Greenberg dean of the School of Public Health Gourley a native of Kansu came to Chapel HiU from the Denver Univenity School of Social Work In 1956 she left UNC for six yean to become a medical social consultant for the Children's Bureau regional office in Dallas Tex and later for the New Mexico State Health Department She returned to Chapel Hill in 1963 to continue her social work role an associate nrofessor of maternal and child (Cfffltlnaed an page IB) A Biggs to the Lexington KyH Federal Correctional Institution and Thomas Biggs and Thomas Upchurch to the Montgomery Ala Federal Prison Camp Roberts a Durham Real Estate Developer was given a five-year sentence and $5800 fine after pleading guilty to mishandling the proceeds of a $12 million loan from home savings Loan association Thomas Biggs a former director and trustee at the Association pleaded guilty to falsifying records at another Durham savings and Loan Association Mutual and received a two-year sentence and a $10000 fine Walter Biggs his father former President of Home savings was given a three-year sentence and $5000 for pleading guilty to mishandling funds from its service corporation Upchurch former vice president of home savings pleaded guilty to making loans from which he would have profited and got a sentence of 18 months plus a $10000 fine Two other persons convicted in the case Walter Dozier and John Stewart were convicted and are appealing their convictions reason far its decision was that North Carolina did not allow for discretion in sentencing The draft measure would first let Juries deride guilt or innocence and then after conviction hear additional evidence and determine whether the penalty should be execution or life imprisonment Grniltlint Gourley GREENSBORO (UPI)-A federal Judge has declared that superior court Judge Robert Gavin violated the rights of a Rockingham man whom he cited for contempt of court Second Patrolman Reinstated DURHAM NC (UPI) A second North Carolina Highway Patrolman fired following a roadblock shootout in which a Virginia State Policeman died has been ordered temporarily reinstated by Superior Court Judge Judge Thomas Lee issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday directing patrol officials to put Trooper Robert Williams 28 of Durham back to work A hearing in Durham Superior Court on the matter was set for Jan 7 Williams 28 also filed suit against three top patrol officials Wednesday seeking (400000 hi damages He contends in the suit that he was wrongfully discharged and that his civil rights were violated A hearing was scheduled in Wake County Superior Court today for Trooper DH Matthews of Franklinton Matthews And with Williams for allegedly violating patrol firearm policy at the roadblock obtained a reinstatement order last wed: and has been working at a desk Job since Williams a seven-year patrol veteran named Transportation Secretary Perry Greene CoL EW Jones patrol commander now on a leave of absense and MaJ Jack Cabe acting patrol commander In Ms damage suit He asked for 8100000 in compensatory damages and $100000 in punitive damages for the wrongful discharge claim and similar amounts on the claim that Ms rights were violated In a telephone interview Wednesday night Williams said he was at the prospect of returning to work He said he expected it would be Friday before (Continued an page IB) Fire Damages House Trailer A house trailer about five miles west of Carrboro on Highway 54 was damaged by fire yesterday afternoon Carrboro fire chief Robert Swiger said he sent a pumper to assist the Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Department at 1:50 pm Wednesday Swiger had no further details on the blaze and Orange Grove fire officials could not be reached Thursday morning for further information RALEIGH A new capital punishment bill that would let Juries decide guilt or innocence and then determine sentencing in a second trial stage has been drafted by the North Carolina judicial council The council said Wednesday that it is taking no position on the proposed law but after drafting it in consultation with the Gourley Retires From UNC After 17 Years ByJAYDINKEL In 1953 when Geraldine Gourley Joined the faculty of the School of Public Health at the University here she recalls that I nor the department of maternal and diild health knew what to do with me was a time for me to get to know maternal and child health in a public health context and for the department to get to know the contribution of a social water'' she says School of Public Health was small enough so faculty could know each other well" The school has grown significantly in these past 23 years but when Prof Gourley retires Dec 31 her absence win.