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Sirljmoni) cimfi-Eifipatcb Section Area state 1-3 Entertainment 6-8 Living Today 5 Obituaries 2 Ileligion 4 TV radio 8 Saturday July 10 1982 1 US told it probe UR athletics Visitor center reports increase Visitation at the Richmond Visitor Information Center through Monday was up 28 percent over the figure for the same period last year according to the Metropolitan Richmond Chamber of Commerce The center at 1700 Robin Hood Road had 68560 visitors compared with 54454 during the period last year Among attractions that showed increased visitation were: Richmond National Battlefield Park up 5 percent the Valentine Museum up 18 percent the Virginia Museum up 1 percent and Agecroft Hall up 1 percent The US Department of Education does not have authority to investigate the University of Richmond's athletic program because the program receives no federal funds a federal Judge said here in a ruling made public yesterday District Judge Dortch Warriner enjoined the Education Department from investigating the program at the private liberal arts college or at other colleges and universities in the Eastern Dis- -trict of Virginia unless the program in question receives direct federal financial assistance The Jurisdiction issue arose after the Education' Department notified the university in February 1981 that it planned a weeklong campus investigation of the university's athletic program because of a sex discrimination complaint received by the department's Office of Civil Rights The department also submitted a long request for information on all aspects of its intercollegiate athletic program including budgets policies practice schedules lists of teams training facilities and locker rooms according to Warrior's order The university questioned the Education Department's jurisdiction to conduct such an investigation saying that the program received no federal money and calling the request for information unduly burdensome and in excess of the department's authority It filed suit seeking to block the investigation The Office of Civil Rights responded that any receipt of federal funds by the university whether direct or indirect means the university must comply with the anti-discrimination provisions in Title IX Title IX says that there can be no discrimination because of sex in any educational program or activity receiving federal fends The Education Department suggested that if the university received even $1 from the federal gov ernment for any program or activity the university would be subject in all its programs to department authority Warriner said But that is not what the legislation swthnhiti Title IX says Warriner said He rejected the Education Department's contention that the athletic department comes within its jurisdiction because it benefits from various federal fends received by the university that releases money for use by the athletic department court simply will not countenance the Education attempt to bootstrap itself' through its regulations to make all programs and activities of a private university subject to its control when any program or activity within the institution or the institution or students themselves receive what it determines to be federal financial assistance" he wrote Cagle jury recesses till today US probes utility bids in Virginia By Bill Miller and Peter Bacqut Times-Dispatch Staff Writers WASHINGTON With help from the Justice Department the state attorney general's office and the Environmental Protection Agency a federal grand jury is investigating the possibility of bid rigging on water and sewer construction projects across Virginia federal and state officials confirmed yesterday The probe will include review of all federally financed water and sewer projects built in the Old Dominion work worth hundreds of millions of dollhrs to check allegations that some bids may have been rigged one official said privately Officials in Richmond Chesterfield and Chariot taville-Al-bemarle also said yaterday their governments had been contacted either by the Justice Department or the EPA inspector-general's office about the probe "What they are trying to do is see what if anything is going on in this that smacks of Md one local government official said He said an Investigator told him every "Step project work that had reached the construction stage would be examined "They're trying to see if everybody's getting together in a motel and saying Charlie thia is your the official said He asked to remain unidentified Bid rigging is a violation of federal and state law when government contracts are involved It usually involva collusion of at least two contractors to artificially increase the price of what is supposed to be a competitively awarded contract in which the qualified firm bidding the lowat price gets the job The la tat investigation by a grand jury in Alexandria covers contracts for public utility projects across the state Justice Department spokesman Tbm Stewart said Stewart said "I don't know if it's the same people who were on the grand jury that indicted several Virginia contractors on charga of rigging Mds in road construction projects but the utility invatigation grew out of the highway Md-rigging probe The grand Jury began hearing evidence a month ago and meets once each month Stewart said The initial subpoena covered all of Virginia except Northern Virginia but the invatigation will cover the whole state he added Stewart would not disclose the number of compania that might be involved or the localitia where Md-rigging practices have been suspected Neither Stewart nor other Justice Department officials would comment on how long the investigation might continue taka awhile to build a body of Stewart aid you get it things move fast if there is anything Virginia is the third state where such an investigation ha been made A similar probe in North Carolina resulted in several indictments Stewart confirmed that another state is being invatigated now but would not disclose which state Justice Department officials had aid previously that the highway Md-rigging probe might go into other area But the department proceeded into the utility probe quietly Theresa Clinton an official in the antitrust division who wu quoted confirming the invatigation would not answer questions yaterday She referred a reporter to Stewart Two state officials meanwhile aid yesterday they were aware of the probe but knew little of the details or what projects might be involved Ernat Simmons director of the State Water Control division of construction grants aid that the oily contact the agency ha had with federal invatigators hu consisted of lnquiria from them about the type of records the agency hu in its fifes on Mds and contracts He aid that to date the investigators have not asked for information concerning any particular contracts nor have they asked for coptes of any financial data are totally in the dark" as to which projects might be under invatigation he aid (The executive director of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority in Charlottesville confirmed that an EPA inspector had visited his agency about two or three weeks ago (According to George Williams the inspector told Mm he found nothing amiss in the authority's records) The state water agency doa not award contracts but simply acts as middleman between the EPA which awards the federal grants and the localitia that apply for them and award contracts The water control board is responsible for deciding through the formation of an annual priority list which local projects are to receive money and how much is to be allocated to the projects annually This privity list however mat be approved by the EPA As of now the EPA fumisha 75 percent of costs and municipalitfes supply the remaining 25 percent No state money ha been allocated for construction grants since 1975 Simmons aid that since the inception of the Federal Water Continued on Page 3 Cot 3 Staff Photo by Bob Brown Conversation and a bit of guitar music may have helped elder The two were sitting yesterday on a bench on dose a generation gap between a young man and his Harrison Street Generation gap By Mike Grim TtoioJXapatch Staff Writer The jury deliberating on charges of murder and malicious wounding against Patrolman Randy Lee Cagle was sent home about 7:15 lari night after about 4fe hours of discussion The forewoman agreed with the judge that it would be good to recess until today Cagle is charged with murdering David Keith Riddell 17 and wounding Wiliam Dixon 45 on Jan 13 after a 45-minute episode in which Cagle who was off duty testified that he was trying to stop the owner of Save-A-Tow because of a traffic offense Dixon indicated in his testimony that he had not committed any infraction Cagle maintained that Dixon had a shotgun in one hand when the patrolman decided to shoot Dixon denied that he was holding a shotgun although one was found on the floor of the tow truck after the shooting Just before the jurors began deliberating at 2:42 pjn Richmond Circuit-Judge William Spain told them that be had forgotten to say that the verdict had to be unanimous Then Spain delivered what is known in legal circles as the or charge The charge is designed to fry to break the deadlock of a hung jury It stresses reaching a verdict while nonetheless calling on Jury members to listen to aU viewpoints and keep their principles Spain told the 10 women and two men that legal scholars believe that if the dynamite Continued on Pope GoL 4 Columnist onvacdtion Shelley Rolfe is on vacation His column will resume later this month Correction A table accompanying the final story in a series on vocational education in Times-Dispatch contained some incorrect figures Enrollments in occupational home economics in Virginia public schools should read: 6319 in 1977 6640 in 1978 8013 in 1979 4907 in 1980 and 5186 Id 1981 net worth rose by 40 to approximately $25 million Sewer costs will boost water bills Customers at the city waste water utility will see a 35 percent Increase in Mils dated on or after Wednesday The rate increase was included in the 1982-83 city budget passed by the City Council The average customer's waste water Mil will increase by $130 from $930 to $1261 The 35 percent increase is in addition to the 51 percent increase that went into effect in January According to Daniel A Lynch city director of public utilities the Increase was to cover a $3 million first-year payment to the city for maintenance replacements and extensions of the city's sewer feeder lines and a $685000 sludge disposal program to comply with new state regulations interest In Bay Cities at $77341 in last year's statement This year they assigned a value of $123 million to their 250 shares This year's figure was based on the purchase agreement for the shares according to the financial statement Debt loans The financial statement also showed that the Da visa owed Bay Cities almost $400000 and that they guaranteed loans of $13 million to Bay Citia from other unidentified lenders Those loans were used to pay off other Bay Citia debts also guaranteed by the Davises The financial statement also showed that Last year an unidentified buyer offered the lieutenant governor $900000 for his 93 percent interest in Virginia Investment and Mortgage Co Davis' mortgage banking firm The offer was By Dale Els man Times-Dispatch Staff Writer LI Gov Richard Paris and his wife increased their net worth by more than 40 percent and passed the $2 million mark during the 12 months that ended Oct 31 according to a financial state-' ment released yesterday by the Davis tar US Senate campaign The statement prepared by the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse Co on information supplied by Davis and his wife Martha plued the Davises' net worth at just las than $25 million The couple showed assets totaling about $4-3 million and liabilities of about $17 million A statement provided by Davis during last year's campaign for lieutenant governor placed the couple's net worth at $17 million That was for the year ended Oct 31 1980 Republican opponent 1st District Rep Paul Trible Jr released a financial statement earlier this year that showed his major assets were timber-land In Northumberland and Essex counties The statement valued those properties at $55000 to $115000 The Trible filing required by the Ethics in Government Act does not include the value of the candidate's home in Fairfax County Another disclosure A Trible spokesman said yesterday that Trible will soon supplement the federal filing with disclosure of his income tax returns A Davis aide said the lieutenant staff hadn't discussed releasing Davis' tax returns because "it Just come Much of the apparent improvement in the Davises' financial position came from a revaluation of their interest in Bay Cities Communications Corp which owns two Norfolk radio stations A sale of Bay Cities to Baltimore-based Abell Communications Inc is pending The Davises valued their 50 percent Continued on Page 2 Cat 8 Drug effect on twins differed Theory about darker spot during eclipse may be valid Brunswick to borrow $1 million By LeeNora Everett Times-Dispatch State Staff LAWRENCEVILLE The Brunswick County Board of Supervisors voted to borrow $1135 million yesterday through the safe of tax anticipation notes repayable at 9 percent interest to the United Virginia Bank In the wake of of Micheal resignation last week the bard also named Henry Turnbull clerk of Brunswick County Circuit Court acting county administrator The notes safe represents the maximum amount that the county can borrow aing tax anticipation as it trtes to improve its financial situation Approximately $850000 will Continued on Page 3 CoL 3 By Beverly Oradorff Times-Dispatch Science Writer Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia reported this week on twins born at the same time but each having a different father who were affected differently by a drug their mother took during ha pregnancy The report in this issue of The New England Journal of Medicine involva an agent commonly prescribed tar the control of epilepsy The generic name of the agent Is phenytoin which is the active ingredient of Dilantin In recent years the substance hu become associated with certain abnormal-ittes in infants whoa mothers took the medication while they were pregnant The abnormalities Include poor growth small had size and mental retardation About one of 10 fetusa exposed to the agent develops the fell set of abnormalities while about three of 10 will be affected partially according to the MCV scientists The scientists are Mary Phelan a gradate student in genetics Dr John 5 Pellock a pediatric neurologist and Dr Walter Nance chairman of the MCV Department of Human Genetics While there have been three previous reports in the medical literature of twins or triplets born to mothers who had taken anti-epilepsy drugs during their pregnancies the MCV one is the first to dal with a set of twins sired by different fathers The fathers were of different races the report aid and the twins' physical traits reflect their different racial heritages the repot indicates The twins who were bon in this area are 4 years old The phenomenon Involved the separate fertilizations of two eggs released during the same cycle according to the MCV scientists Ordinarily non-identical twins are believed to arise from the simultaneous fertilization during the same coition of two eggs that had been released Such twins are railed fraternal twins But twins resulting from separate fertilizations of separate eggs may have only one parent in common and thus may be related as half-siblings noted the report's authors The phenomenon of multiple fatherhood in humans may not be particularly rare according to some authorities But said Dr Nance yaterday it usually is not suspected unless there are obvious racial differences The medical literature contains 19 reports of twins and one set of triplets with multiple fathers and of those 11 pairs involved racially different fathers The prime point of interest in the local case fo the MCV woken however was the different effect the anti-epileptic drug had on each twin The pattern of symptoms appeared to be more pronounced in one than In the other And that suggated the MCV workers supports current thinking on the subject which claims that genetic makeup probably plays a majo role in how susceptl- Continued on Ppge 3 CoL 3 moon Earth and sun that the so-called "monster cloud" of material from the April eruption of a Mexican volcano wu blocking some of the light from the moon The result was a darkened northern hemisphere of the moon during the totality phase "We think that's largely true" one eclipse authority at the US Naval Observatory In Washington aid yaterday when told of Chilton's theory Alan Fiala a staff astronomer at the observatory said he and a colleague arrived at a similar conclusion the day after the eclipse Chilton a former Air Force meteorologist speculates that the dark of the moon may portend a colder-than-normal winter fra us Essentially the cloud that blocked part of the light to the moon during the eclipse will reduce the intensity of the sun's oblique winter rays to the Earth's surface he aid "My own speculation is that the winter around here may average 3 or 4 or 5 degrees colder than normal" Chilton said As Craig Chilton watched Tuesday morning's total lunar eclipse it occurred to him that something was not right back on Earth It turn out that his analysis may be correct Some professional astronomers have come to a similar conclusion Chilton who ha a gradate degree in Earth scicnca and rum a small book publishing firm here called Xanadu Enterprise said yaterday that he wu struck by the fact that the moon's face wu darker in its northern hemisphere than it wu in its southern hemisphere during the eclipse's total phase Because the moon was passing through the dead ranter of the Earth's shadow one would expect the moon's face to he uniformly illuminated he said During the eclipse's total phase light rays from the sun were bent as they passed through the upper reacha of the Earth's atmosphere and provided a soft reddish glow to the moon By early the next day Chilton concluded after drawing diagrams of the alignment of.