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CAROLINA VOLUME III, NUMBER 61 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 1972 Construction begins on by-pass Enrollment declines Construction began last week OH thecrural Business District Loop m Greenville Construction had been stated 10 begin in November of lu70. bul has been held up since thai nine by a lawsuit Involving the former mayor of Greenville, Frank M Woo ten The road will begin on the c-asi side ol Reads Street and extend toward Clement Dormitory, curving in a loop around Georgetowne Shoppes It will eventually come out on Pitl Street When finally completed the circle will serve as a by-pass lor the downtown mall area The new road is almost certain to create some problems lor the store owners in that area Several of these owners were contacted and asked their feelings on the road One woman, who asked not to be identified, said. "I don't think it's necessary It 'i costing a great deal of lederal money which could be better spent It's a shame to tear down houses and trees to pour concrete I think it will hurt im business, too. To re-route traffic on a by-past seems to me to be defeating the purpose of the downtown renewal-to encourage shopping " Several Othei merchants expressed the belief that the road would, in fact, be an asset to the shopping centei One merchant staled thai ihe new road will double the amount ol parking space now available and provide a better Mew of the stores from the road According to Larry If.If ol the Greenville redevelopment (ommiaaion, the completion date of the segment ol the loop between Fifth Street andotanche is set for January ol 1973 Holt said thai a temporary walkway to be used during the construction period is to be built to provide access from tile dormitories to the shopping center However, the decision to build the walkway is the perogalive of the contractor A permanent walkway is scheduled to be built aftei final construction hut according to Molt, only about hall of the needed money is on hand at the moment. "I hope that the university, the students and the Student Government Association will contribute to the building of the walkway in the event thai sufficient funds are not available for it's completion said Holt. Abortion faces opposition NEW ROAD WILL miss Clement Dormitory by twelve feet, (see story above and to right) ACC must raise gate (AP)-Staiting with the 1973 season. Atlantic Coast Conference schools will guarantee visiting football teams $40,000 or 50 percent of the gate whichever is greater The minimum guarantee now is $35,000 The decision to raise the minimum came last Thursday at the end of a two-day meeting of ACC athletic directors, assistant athletic directors, fund raisers and sports information directors. The meeting was held at North Carolina State. In addition to raising the minimum guarantee the athletic directors appointed to a Committee to reivse the conference's football contract to liberalize game expenses and establish ticket prices. The group also appointed a committee to Study insurance costs. ACC Commissioner Bob James of Greensboro said, "We're all concerned about the costs of insurance for travel, medical care and catastrophe insurance, and we have appointed a committee to review these costs and try to economize yet still get the best protection possible in this area The committee will report at the next meeting of the group in November at the University of Virginia In other action, the athletic directors decided that schools will be allowed to suit up fourteen instead of twelve players at the ACC Basketball Tournament in March. The move is designed to let teams bring in some players from the junior varsity squads. The group also decided that although the conference will have a baseball tournament next season, point standings for the Carmichael Cup will be based on regular season play and not on results of Ihe tournament (AP)Just one year ago. advocates of legalized abortion were riding a favorable current of state legislation and court decisions that seemed to point to an irresistible trend. Alaska Hawaii, Washington and New York had greatly liberalized their laws, virtually providing abortion on request Thirteen other states and the District of Columbia allowed abortions under certain circumstances. More than thirty other states were considering new abortion legislation. Bul today, a full-Hedged counteroffensive is gathering force in an election year that has politicians stepping warily on an emotional and politically sensitive issue. Right to Life committees have formed in virtually every state, conducting mail campaigns, educational programs, protests and lobbying drives in legislatures. So successful were their efforts that only one state. Florid . has enacted abortion changes this year, and a liberal law in New York was retained only by Governor Nelson A Rockefeller's veto of the repeal act. The Democratic National Convention's platform committee defeated a proposal for a legalized abortion plank. "We can't be known as the abortion party one committee member commented. Senator George McGovern. the Democratic presidential nominee, has called abortion reform a "no win issue" and contends it should be left ud to the states President Nixon said publicly he couldn't square "abortion on demand with my personal belief in the sanctity ol human life, including the life of the yet unborn "urist business, but is neither begins nor ends at life, including thr life ot the yet unborn The strength of the opposition in New York came as a surprise to many reformers "We were really caught off guard Back in 1970. we though! the abortion issue in New York was secure and that progress throughout the country would be automatic said Linda Zimmerman, national coordinator for the Woman's National Abortion Action Coalition WO-VAAC. It came as a shock I trunk abortion reform will be a long and difficult campaign, with some defeats ahead I'm sure " In addition lo New York, many other state legislatures have felt the pressures of organized opposition. This past year, moves for liberalization were defeated in Georgia. Indiana. Rhode Island. Colorado. Delaware. Maine. Kansa. Iowa. Illinois. Michigan. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut Politicians speak out on Demo nominee i) man I" IIM I Si. ! I'lHIIU ihcii ri '??i John Connally (API-Former Treasury Secretary John B Connally, a Democrat and close ally of President Nixon, has fired a verbal barrage in 'what promises to be a continuing White House campaign assault on Senator George McGovern, The Democratic presidential nominee. President Nixon has said he will avoid public- Involvement in politics until after next month's Republican convention. But he let Connally use the front lawn of the Western White House on I Friday to take roundhouse swings at McGovern before cameras and microphones. Identifying himself as a life-long Democrat who never bolted the party ticket. Conally said he will not support McGovern and will try to rally Democrats behind Nixon. Conally took aim at McGovern's pledge to bring home all American tioops and war prisoners (rom Southeast Asia within ninety days after his inauguration if elected "Obviously said Connally. "a president on the United States has no capacity, no power to bring home prisoners of war in the hands ol the North Vietnamese "It is an unfair statement, and it is a statement that, frankly, sabotages the efforts of this administration and of the peace negotiators in Paris to try to bring the war to an end Connally came here to report to Nixon on a thirty-five day trip around the world undertaken at the President's request. Asked about continuing speculation that Nixon might tag him to replace Vice President Spiio T Agnew on the GOP ticket, Connally said he doesnT want the job and doesn't expect it will be offered. 'Skipper' Bowles (AP)Democratic gubernatorial nominee Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles says he will vote i the McGovern-Eagleton ticket, but he dicated he would avoid any entanglement Ith the national Democratic campaign "Senator McGovern's nomination doesn't .ange my campaign plans one bit Bodies lid Friday. "I've taken no part whatsoever in SENATOR GEORGE McGOVERN the selection ot the Democratic nominee. My time has been spent in running for governor, and, believe me, that's a fulltimc job. "When I filed for governor, I swore on the Bible to vote for the party's nominees, and I'm certainly going to do that he said Sam Ervin (AP)Senator Sam Ervin said he had always supported the Democratic presidential ticket and he has no reason to think he might do otherwise this election year The Notth Carolina Democrat said at his home in Morganton that several of his Republican friends, commenting on the nomination of Senator George McGovern, believe it would be bad to have a liberal Democrat in the White House Ervin said if there were a liberal president, then "the GOP members of Congress could start voting like sensible people-a thing they haven't done since Nixon became President Jimmy Carter (AP)Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, one of Senator George McGovern's most persistent Southern critics, said last Thursday the Democratic presidential candidate may be able to carry the South in November Carter told newsmen McGovern is moving closer to positions that could be accepted by Southern voters. He said McGovern appears to be willing to seek what Carter called equal treatment oi the South under federal civil rights laws McGovern and Senator Henry M Jackson of Washington received 14 votes each from the Georgians in Wednesday night balloting for the nominee Representative Shirley Chisholm ot New York received 12. Alabama Governor George Wallace 11 and the other vote went to former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford Carter had projected accurately the vote before the nominating session. He endorsed Jackson on Tuesday, almost certainly swaying delegation support for the senator Carter made Jackson's nominating speech, stiessinghis stand for a strong defense policy The governor was among several others who spent two hours with McGovern at a breakfast meeting Tuesday He said later that he told McGovern what would be necessary tor him to carry Georgia and the rest ot the South. Carter said he told McGovern he should insert a strong defense plank and stress the work incentive aspects of any welfare reform proposal The governor was in the van guard of a Stop McGovern among governors at the National Governors' Conference ai Houston, attempting to enlist the aid of others. "1 think we succeeded in slowing him down and making him clarity his position on the issues Carter said "He reversed himself on tax reform and welfaie. at least an indirect result ol our efforts to slow him down It we had not been active, he would have ridden through without having to talk to people like me " "I doubt if he would have paid much attention to the South said Carter McGovern's own supporters in the delegation were far from certain that he could carry Georgia. "It wdl be very tough, I can't kid you about that said I ugenc Bianchi of Atlanta, an Emory University profes The Wallace delegates saw no chance for hun "1 don't care who he puts on the ticket said Mrs Phyllis Farrell of Savannah "There's all this talk about low leftist he is The people in my district told me that if he's the nominee, they'll lead a Democtats for Nixon move in Georgia I Hugh Scott (AP)Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today Senator George McGovern's tax reform plan is going to hurt the average American guy and hurt hun a lot Scott told the Senate that the plan as originally presented would not just mean higher taxes for the rich but aiso for middle-income Americans "He is revising his plan and we must wait to see the new version the Pennsy rvaman said McGovern.s original plan would end various deductions and exemptions and put into effect a ssstem of tax credits as an alternative Mike Mansfield Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield commented that he welcomed searching criticism oi the proposals ol the Democratic presidential nominee "We will be ready to do the same for the proposals of the Republicans he said fAP)-Dr Wiiham Friday, president of the 16-campus University ot Northjmima. said lasl Saturday that the number ol applications foi enrollment of state-supported schools is on the decline Friday also agreed with results ol a national survey which found thai 87 percent ot United States colleges and universities still had openings this month for fall Although I haven't checked ihe figures in the past few weeks, it is my understanding that there are available spaces in all institutions with the exception of Appalachian Stale and the university here at Chepel Hill Fndas said The national survey, conducted b the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, estimated that there are 300.000 to 500.000 current student openings in I S colleges and universities The survey attributed the large number of openings to economic conditions, changes in draft laws that no longer make college attendance necessary to avoid military service. growing doubt about the value of a college degree and the breaking of "lock step" school attendance Friday said. "The economic factor and the mobility of today's students are especially important considerations Increasing numbers of students are getting out to work for awhile Agnew for Pres? (APl-Vice President Spiro Agnew says if he decides to seek re-election as vice president it will mean he is keeping open his options tor an eventual bid tor the presidency. In a copyright story in the Manchester Union Leader. Agnew indicated that President- Nixon had not yet advised htm whethei he would ask Agnew to be his running mate Agnew said it was a decision the President "should make on a cold, realistic, political basis without any feelings ot personal affinity tot the individual, because what really is going to market here u the welfare of a pmrty and in ability to remain in power to effectuate its policies Agnew' said he had made "no cold, hard decision to seek the presidency "You could rely on the fact that if I'm a candidate for vice president, I want to al least preserve my options about where I'm going to eventually seek the presidency he said U.S. accused of fake withdrawal tAPt-Pravda accused the United States Monday of faking its withdrawal from Vietnam