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I ^3/J. Ill VOl.l'MK 82. NUMBER I THE RED AND BLACK WEATHER Today’! forecast calls for genrrsl cloudincss and a 40 per cent chance of rain. The high will be in the middle?** Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper UNIVERSITY OK GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA imi«2 WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1975 Bentley takes Demo primary By BKVKRLY THOMAS and DALE WHITEN Upshaw Bentley, an Athens attorney, overwhelmingly defeated three candi dates for mayor in the Democratic primary Tuesday Bentley, who polled almost 4000 votes, will face republican Paul Oeland and Charles Mack, an independent in the Nov 4 general election. Two democratic candidates. George M. Hester of the first ward and Dwayne Chambers of the fourth ward, who faced no competition, won City Council seats in the election. Homer Cooper, a former Clarke County Commissioner, placed second in the mayoral race with 1252 votes. Jack Thomas and James Smith finished third and fourth respectively ACCORDING TO an official in the ' ordinary’s office, "usually in this type of election you only get about 11 per cent but this is running about 30 per cent." Others winning council nominations f were Robert H Carson of the second ' ward. Barbara Rystrom of the third ward and Lee H Guest of the fifth ward who faced no democratic opposition. ' "I feel great and it’s been an exciting night I appreciate the confidence that's been put in me by the voters." Bentley said , He said he plans to continue the same campaign strategy he followed before the primary. "Now that there are only two candi dates the issues will become more defined and we'll probably go into them in more detail, but it will be the same business of getting out to see the people,” he added Bentley said he is looking forward to having the young democrats at the University working with him and sup porting him for the coming election. BENTLEY'S PLATFORM calls for economy in government in government "to insure the taxpayer gets the absolute maximum for what he paid in." To achieve this status for the citizens, Bentley believes the city government should be operated in an “efficient, business-like manner." In the races for city council, first ward candidate Hester received 341 votes, and in the second ward Robert Carson received 780 votes. Barbara Rystrom, the first woman in recent history to be elected to the council, received 678 votes and Dwayne Chambers of the fourth ward polled 641 votes. The major issues in the mayoral race have been the sales tax issue, possible city-county consolidation, city fiscal poli cy and the Athens police department Bentley, a graduate of the University law school, currently serves as a partner in the law firm Fortson, Bentley and Griffin. UPSHAW BENTI.Y Local attorney sweeps llemo primary MSU probated Mississippi State (MSU), Georgia's football opponent Saturday, has been placed on probation for more than one year and starting defensive tackle Larry Gilliard has been ruled ineligible in action taken by the (National Collegiate Atheltic Association) NCAA last Friday, the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger reported in a copyrighted story on Tuesday, September 16 MSU has also been restricted to signing 25 players to football scholarships instead of the usual 30 for a period of more than one year, according to the Clarion-Ledger Other unnamed players were also ruled ineligible by the NCAA MSU officials have 15 days from the date of notification to either accept or appeal the NCAA's penalty. Until they notify the NCAA of their decision, no official announcement concerning the probation will be made Bob Hartley, MSU's sports information director, said of the alledged NCAA probation Wednesday. "MSU President Dr. William Giles met with Head Football Coach Bob Tyler Tuesday morning and they discussed what action MSU would take Hopefully, we should be able to announce something definite within the next 48 hours -BILL E1CHENBERGER Voters reject local sales tax By SUSAN WELLS Associate city editor Clarke County residents last night voted down the one per cent sales tax in a referendum initiated by the 1975 General Assembly. An estimated 30 per cent of registered voters turned out to vote “no" on the local option tax which was written by the General Assembly and proposed in part as a relief for property owners The State Revenue Department esti mated that the one per cent sales tax would provide $816,000 for Clarke County; $1,783,900 for the city of Athens; and $22,100 for the city of Winterville The proposed tax law included a "rollback" provision which required the three municipalities to reduce ad valor- urn taxes to equal the amount of revenue received from the sales tax THE CONSTITUTIONALITY of this provision has been questioned and many voters, as well as public officials, have predicted the bill will face revision in the 1976 General Assembly Democratic candidate for mayor Upshaw Bentley said he voted in favor of the sales tax but added he did not make it an issue in his campaign. Paul Oeland. Republican candidate for mayor, also said he was in favor of the tax. Charles Mack, the Independent mayor al candidate indicated he was opposed to the tax. "I don't see where Athens is at a crisis now where we need to put his burden on the people." Mack said MEMBERS OF the City Council and Mayor Julius Bishop voted last week in favor of supporting the local sales tax. Bishop said. "Athens and Clarke Coun ty would benefit from the tax more than other cities because of the large amount of state and federal property owned within the city limits plus the number of visitors and the student population in our area ." The sales tax was the target of criticism because the tax would also be levied on neccessities such as food, drugs and utilities Critics said this type of tax would be unfair to the lower income families I A provision in the present wording of the bill called for cities to roll back property taxes for only one year with unincorporated areas getting a perma nent rollback COUNTY COMMISSIONER Jewel John predicted the "whole law will undoubtably be challenged in the courts and-or be challenged in the next legisla ture" because of this provision. County wide voting on the local option sales tax was 4280 voters against the referendum and 3715 voters in favor of it. A simple majority was required for the passage of the bill. On a state wide basis the sales tax has been voted down in eight counties and has passed in 10. CAPSULE NEUS Hassle-free booths' The University Union. Black Student Union and Communiveristy are sponsoring "hassle free booths" as a service to new students who need some help getting through the first few days of classes. The booths are open to answer questions on just about anything; hours are 9 a m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday and from 9 a m. to noon on Friday, New I.D.'s made Any new student who has not yet had his University I D. card made may do so any Thursday, beginning tomorrow, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Memorial. Clements at Legion Vassar Clements, whose specialty is Nashville-style music, will perform tonight at 7 p.m. at Legion Field in a University Union sponsored concert. Problems plague Pandora; set by Christmas AAUP asks salary relief •0 from courts Bv STEVE BURNS Executive editor I A panel of three federal judges will I hear a plea for "injunctive relief" next Monday from the Georgia Conference of the American Association of University ’ Professors (AAUP) in the first phase of the AAUP suit against the Board of Regents for promised pay raises The suit has not yet been scheduled in court and the "injunctive relief” consti tutes a request by the AAUP for the judges to order the Regents to pay the professors their raises until the suit is settled. After a special session of the Georgia General Assembly cut $18 million from the University System budget last Jan- - uary. the Regents nullified promised pay raises to faculty now in the system, though some had already signed con tracts promising raises. THE UNIVERSITY chapter of the AAUP voted last July to join the Georgia chapter in filing two suits against the Regents for "breach of contract" to regain the raises they had contracted for. The suit in state court asks the Regents to honor the contracts which included salary raises for the 1975-76 school year. The suit in federal court says by 'honoring contracts for incoming new faculty while not honoring contracts for faculty now in the system, the Regents are in violation of the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution No action has yet been taken in state court, since its decision will simply go along with the federal decision IF THE federal court grants "injunc tive relief' it will be retroactive (back through June) only for those on a 12 month contract, according to Joseph Berrigan, president of the University chapter of AAUP. The vote last July by all state members of the AAUP was "nearly unanimous” in favor of suing the Regents. "Those not in favor argued basically that ‘we have to live within this system and that we have to come up for appropriations again in January’," Ber rigan said. '"ITiey felt if we win the suit, we might anger the Regents and the legislature and it could hurt us then " See AAUP, p. 2A delivery By LYNN PLANKENHORN Feature editor The 1974-75 Pandora will be four or five months late this year, according !o David Smith. Pandora editor for the past year. The hook was originally ‘cheduled to be mailed to students at the end of the summer; plans now are to have it mailed during the Christmas break. Smith said. The delay was caused by a number of things, according to Smith, including a change in format, missed deadlines and a change to a subscription basis "There was some procrastination on everyone's part, but there was a small staff and a lot of work to do," he said "The pictures were late, but then, so was the copy." ALL PAGES for the Pandora have now been completed, according to Smith and the book should he printed by the end of November Gail Lawrence, current Pandora editor, does not expect the lateness of last year's book to affect this year's sales. "The 74-75 book will be good, so hopefully it will encourage buying the new book when it comes out,” she said Lawrence continued. '‘It’s not going to make selling the new book easy, but we're hoping the quality of this (74-75) book will encourage people to buy the new book " She added that she didn't expect the next Pandora to run into any of the delays the 74-75 book has exper ienced ONE PROBLEM which interfered with the completion of the Pandora, Smith said, was the switch Irene being funded by student activity fees to a subscription funding "It wasn't until two weeks before the end of school that we knew that we were going to c on a subscrip ■ tion basis," he said i Smith said there seemed to be a greai I deal of mix ups throughout the execution of the book. "We changed’ the format, used more copy and we wanted more pictures. This was new to the staff and it 1 took them awhile to get used to the ] ideas." One problem which the Pandora staff did not encounter was financial, Smith said “We spent the fall selling the book instead of really working on the contents But we will probably break even or come out a little ahead, despite the delays." * INSIDE THIS ISSUE —The Red and Black takes a look at the University * Union facilities and compares them with those of Georgia Tech, North Georgia and Georgia Southwestern. P. 1-3. sec. B. —An Interview with University President Fred C. Davison, p. 6.4 —A complete 'Survival" section, featuring everything you always wanted to know about baking bread and cooking in the dorm \!so hints on how to get around and who to avoid in the University and Athens. If you have academic problems, partial assistance will also be provided —A complete preview and analysis of every little phase of Georgia's athletic scene in section D. Included are stories on departed stars Craig llertwig (into the pros) and Sylvester Boler (under suspension). Stalemate resolved But Georgia's women s sports program was threatened By BILL E1CHENBERGER Sports Editor Copyright 1975 *. See related column, p. I-D A stalemate between Georgia Athletic Director Joel Eaves and Dr Ann Jewett, head of the women's P.E. department, over the amount of pay Jewett's P.E instructors would receive for coaching in the 1975-76 school year was resolved last Wednesday only by intervention of top University officials Had a settlement not been reached, the women's coaching staff would probably have refused to coach, thereby forcing cancellation of the entire Georgia women's sports program. Eaves refused to elaborate on what the exact terms of the settlement were or who was involved in the final decision. But he did say Thursday afternoon. "Let's just say everything has been worked out and the women coaches are receiving a better deal The women's sports program will function this year " Sources say the settlement came when another department of the University came up with enough money to appease the women coaches and Jewett for at least this year So. a disaster was averted FOR Ah late as last Wednesday, Georgia Women's Athletic Director Liz t Murphey was uncertain whether she would have women's sports program to direct Contacted Wednesday afternoon at her office in the Coliseum. Murphey described her dilemma "The situation is like this. All coaches in the women's sports program at Georgia f are also full time physical education instructors employed by the women's P.E department." she said. "Last year. Dr Ann Jewett, the academic head of all women coaches, conducted a study to find out exactly what percentage of her instructors' time was spent coaching." she continued “DR. JEWETT found that approximately 40 per cent of her instructors' time was spent coaching." Murphey said "The coaches themselves were very realistic in counting hours They did not include travel time and only counted the hours they actually spent coaching "It didn't make sense to Dr Jewett that her instructors were spending so much time coaching and were receiving only two ninths release time pay from the athletic department “So Dr Jewett asked the athletic department to budget in where her instructors News analysis be paid one third release time, or else those same instructors would refuse to coach." Murphey said "And without coaches there is no women's sports program," she concluded The initial women's sports budget submitted to Eaves, and dependent upon the eventual approval of the University Athletic Board, asked for $140,000 This proposal was rejected EAVES DID approve a $90,000 women's budget, an increase of $10,000 over the 1974-73 women's budget of $80 out) This budget went into effect in June and Eaves Ihought Murphey understood that the increased release time payments had been officially rejected by the athletic board Such was not the case "We haven't been able to firm up any of our schedules and unless something is decided soon, me entire women's program may be in jeopardy," Murphey said last Wednesday. In the meantime, when Eaves found that there was still some question in the women coaches’ minds as to whether they would receive increased payments from the athletic department, he took time to explain the athletic department's reasons for turning down Jewett's requests "WE HAD our athletic budget approved by the athletic board in June and I don't see any possibility of the board changing that budget to increase the women coaches' release time payments." Eaves said "A year ago. Georgia spent more money on its women's sports program than any school in the SEC (with the possible exception of Florida) We are presently paying more in release time payments to some of our women coaches than a few of our men coaches receive in supplement payments," Eaves said "So, any increase in money for the women’s sports program at Georgia is dependent on additional revenue We have little leeway on our athletic budget this . year and were we to increase the women's payments, we would definitely be in the red." Eaves stated A STALEMATE existed Dr Jewett and the women coaches opposite Eaves and the athletic board Murphey was caught in the middle "I have worked hard for the past eight years to get the Georgia women's program going. she said Wednesday "And I would probably work for nothing if it came to that All of us involved with the women's program did work for nothing in its early years "And even though I basically believe in Dr Jewett’s stand. I understand the financial problems Coach Eaves has So I will have to back Coach Eaves I would coach again for the same amount of release time pay 1 received last year." See STALEMATE, page 2.4
