The Chapel Hill Herald from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 1

AN EDITION COVERING HILLSBOROUGH CARRBORO AND ORANGE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES Relief program shut down for lack of funds3 A disease by any other name 6 r- 1 Student Governments seeks renewal of past powers7 2S VOL 1 NO 40 FRIDAY JULY 15 1988 uilsiOF pD7 to By ROCKY ROSEN The Chapel Hill Herald Marshall calls Cates charge By EDDIE HUFFMAN The Chapel Hill Herald HILLSBOROUGH Mayor Fred Cates said Thursday an engineering report critical of Seven Mile Creek as a site for a dam and reservoir is a by a Raleigh engineering firm to gain the contract to design the dam at an alternative site report is just a ploy by Hazen and Sawyer to get the engineering project on Site an Eno River Cates said in an interview know that engineer John Pridgen will get Seven Mile Pridgen is the consulting engineer for the Seven Mile project The town has authorized paying Pridgen $15000 to prepare an engineering report on the project but no money has been paid yet The Hazen and Sawyer report the second the firm has prepared on the issue cost the county $7000 Pridgen defended his proposals Thursday but said he could not comment on specific findings of the Hazen and Sawyer report until he has a chance to review them my understanding that most of the county commissioners do support Seven Mile Cates said hope this change their minds I think see The county report prepared by the Hazen and Sawyer firm and released Wednesday favors building a reservoir on the Eno River above McGowan Creek citing drainage area See MAYOR Page 2 HILLSBOROUGH Orange County Board of Commissioners Chairman Shirley Marshall Thursday dismissed as charges by Hillsborough Mayor Fred Cates that a just-released engineering report is a by a Raleigh firm to try to gain the contract for a dam and reservoir project think outrageous that Mayor Cates would make such a remark as Marshall said She described Hazen and Sawyer the engineering firm that just finished a preliminary report for the county as very reputable environmentally sound engineering firm" The Hazen and Sawyer report is critical of the proposed Seven Mile Creek site in many respects appearing to favor another site on the Eno River above McGowan Creek Cates supports the Seven Mile Creek location for a dam and reservoir for northern Orange Coun TM Chflpal Ml HarridCfNMft IIMf Firemen cut Into roof of fraternity house porch In effort to extinguish blaze on Thursday Fife aft fraternity house thought caused by torch By LIZ LUCAS The Chapel Hill Herald ty See MARSHALL Page 2 Schools say asbestos date should present no problem Dale Wagner an employee with the paint contractors said he was cleaning the bottom of the porch columns when smoke was first seen He said the paint crew had been scraping and painting the house for about a month Robertson said another worker saw the smoke coming from the top of the porch and tried to douse it with a hose A passer-by called the fire department Although the worker with the hose thought the fire was out when firefighters arrived the attic was filled with smoke and the inside of the column was burning Robertson said Firefighters chopped their way into the porch roof to reach the area Stan Stubbs of Durham president of the Beta Theta Pi house corporation said the house has been unoccupied all summer because of the renovation project which eventually will cost more than $100000 The house is not one of the 11 UNC fraternities that received condemnation notices last summer he said Over the summer the house is being painted and decorated Stubbs said The house will receive new windows roof and plumbing Fraternity members planned to move back into the house in late August for fall semester Several local fraternity alumni planned to meet with the general contractor late Thursday afternoon to assess the damage CHAPEL HILL A propane torch may have been responsible for a fire at a vacant fraternity house Thursday according to fire department officials Three pumpers and a ladder company responded to the 11:46 am call to the Beta Theta Pi house at 114 Columbia SL No University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students are living in the house which is under renovation this summer No one was injured Chapel Hill Fire Marshal Joe Robertson said the fire was still under investigation Thursday afternoon The cause of the fire was apparently a propane torch that was being used to help remove paint from a porch column Roberston estimated the fire caused about $2000 in damage to the house he said Robert Denny Paint Contractors of Pittsbo-ro was handling the painting and scraping Robertson said The heat of the torch apparently went up the column and into the porch roof igniting a roof joist he said The heat traveled quickly because the wood in the columns was extremely dry Robertson said asbestos in their buildings and have a management plan to control it a royal pain but we all have to do said Dick Drake director of plant operations for the Chapel Hill-Car-rboro City Schools A Chapel Hill firm will begin inspecting the city schools next week which should give them time to submit a management plan to the state by the Oct 12 deadline The regulations require all asbestos to be removed options include Drake said asbestos can also be encapsulated which could mean painting over it or enclosed which means enclosing it in The Orange County schools have already been inspected and officials are waiting for lab results said Wayne Watts director of business affairs expect that they found any dangerous Watts said they had See ASBESTOS Page 2 By LAURA VAN SANT The Chapel Hill Herald CHAPEL HILL Area schools received results of federally-mandated asbestos inspections but officials say complying with the new regulations be a problem The Asbestos Hazards Emergency Response Act which took effect in October requires all public and private schools to identify Not much left feud! to IfreSp replenish Ibllood supplies 2nd annual Blood Feud set uesday By DWIGHT MARTIN The Chapel Hill Herald had dipped to one-day levels officials said is the most common blood said Eleanor Morgan assistant director of public relations for the Carolinas Region percent of the population has it also the type used in trauma situations when there time to test for People with Type blood are called universal donors Morgan said which means that anyone regardless of blood type can receive Type blood Beverly Thompson communications director at the Durham Red Cross said the Triangle area which includes two large educational hospitals has helped contribute to the shortages are a very progressive medical Thompson said adding that the bone marrow transplant unit at Duke University Hospital and NC Memorial hemophilia clinic required many units of blood NC Memorial the fourth largest consumer uses about 75 units of blood per day said John Stokes director of medical center public affairs at the hospital we could use See BLOOD Page 2 CHAPEL HILL The University of North Carolina at Chapel blood feud with North Carolina State gets serious next week On Tuesday students at the two universities will compete in the second annual Blood Feud a competition designed to boost blood donations for the American Red Cross It come at a better time The Carolinas Region of the American Red Cross which serves 5 million people and includes 53 North Carolina counties has a severe shortage of Type blood Supplies had dipped to one-day levels earlier this week Officials at regional headquarters in Charlotte said the region which includes Wake Orange Durham Forsyth Guilford and Mecklenburg counties uses about 800 units of Type blood every three days Earlier this week supplies Th Ctiapd HtraM'ClNMk UN) Some bike owners have been known to take their easily unless of course this bicycle seen chained to a signpost removed front wheel with them to prevent theft But taking on Rosemary Sheet was stripped by thieves and not the well-anchored rear wheel is much less common modified by its owner 4 1.