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The Red and Black, Thursday, October 1*. 1978
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North Ave. proposal made
By MARY THURSTON
Staff writer
A controversy over the widening of one of Athens' major
northside thoroughfares was partially settled Tuesday night A
City Council finance committee recommendation to widen North
Avenue to four lanes was met with some relief by residents of the
area.
"I (eel better,” Mrs Dorothy Booth, of 305 North Ave., said.
"If it was five lanes, I couldn't even sit on the front porch
State Department of Transportation officials recommended at
the Tuesday night called meeting of the City Council that four
lanes would adeauatelv handle future traffic predictions
Neil Snyder, of 217 North Ave., said he thinks (our lanes would
be “adequate." “It’s going to be sufficient for a long time,” he
added "Of course, they'll have to five-lane eventually, some
years down the road."
"I wish we could recommend four lanes through Strickland
Avenue and then three lanes to the by-pass," Bob Booth, another
resident opposed to widening, said "But I don't know what else
we can do."
The recommendation calls for widening the road to four lanes
beginning at Water Street (below Strickland Avenue) and
continuing to the by pass
Neither Bob Booth nor Mrs. Dorothy Booth believe widening
will decrease traffic accidents, one of the pro-widening
contentions. "It's the drivers that cause the trouble," Mrs. Booth
said. “We certainly didn't want five ianes, but I don’t see why
three won’t work.”
DOT engineer Bruce Nicholson presented figures for collisions
at the council meeting Figures for 1977 showed 51 rear end
collisions on North Avenue, 18 in 1973. He said taxpayer’s costs
for these accidents average $50,000 a year
"I sure don't see all these accidents on North Avenue," Bob
Booth said. “I don’t know where they are on North Avenue.
Certainly not in front of my house.”
The recommendation will be presented and voted on at the next
regular council meeting to be held November 7.
Professor to study
chipmunk behavior
in California area
By PAM WALTER
Dr. Daniel Estep, professor
of psychology at the Univer
sity, and his co-researcher, Dr.
Joan Callahan of the Univerity
of Arizona have received a
$6000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to study
small animal behavior.
The grant will be used to
conduct a preliminary field
study on how two species of
chipmunks that live in the
same areas can remain
separate species.
According to Estep, the
actual field study will be
earned out in March through
June 1979 in the San Jacinto
mountains in California. The
chipmunk species meet in
these mountains and “...prob
ably use behaviorial means to
stay separate.”
The procedure Estep and
Callahan will follow entails
catching various chipmunks
and marking their fur with
individual patterns. Once the
staining is accomplished, they
will spend several hours a day
observing how the animals
interact among the other
species Callahan has already
done some of the biological and
taxonomic work on the ani
mals.
“We are studying the inter
action between two species of
chipmunk Only one type is
found in the east, so we must
go out west to conduct the
study. There is no evidence
that any of the chipmunks
have interbred, although some
rats and mice have.
“We will be gathering basic
knowledge about behavior, and
I hope others can draw on this
knowledge at a later date,”
said Estep.
The major problem facing
the doctors will be the
chipmunk’s cooperation.
“We’re at a stage where
money for research is not as
easy to get as it used to be. If I
have good success with the
preliminary work, I stand a
good chance to get more funds.
There is a gamble here that
nothing may happen at all,”
Estep said
‘‘The University and the
psychology department has
been very helpful and sup
portive in my research,” said
Estep “It has given me time
to go out west and do research,
and has given me financial aid
and moral support.”
In reference to how the
University rates with schools
such as Harvard, Yale and
MIT in research. Estep re
marked, “I think we’re doing
pretty fair research, although
some departments are better
than others Money invested in
individual departments is im
portant in research and
developing a good campus."
Staff photo Jack Waterman
North Ave. widening will shrink lawns
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CBS plant aides growth
CARROLLTON (UPI)— Gov. George Busbee predicted
Tuesday that the growth of Georgia—now the sixth
fastest growing state in the nation- would be quickly
reflected in the huge CBS record and tape
manufaturing plant to be built in Carrollton
Ground was broken for the $50 million facility which
will employ 3.000 persons when in full operation
“As Georgia continues to expand in population as the
sixth fastest growing state in the nation and as buying
power continues to grow in the Southeast. I predict that
even this magnificent manufacturing and distribution
complex will be faced with a need for expansion shortly
after you become operation in mid-1980.” Busbee said.
Tax cut ‘not massive’
DECATUR (UPI)— Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., said
Tuesday that the multi-billion dollar tax cut bill passed
by Congress will be largely offset by increases in Social
Security.
“To call this a massive tax reduction would be a
misnomer,” said Nunn who was in Decatur to make a
speech
“It’s more or less a tradeoff.” He said that most of
the lawmakers who voted for the $18.7 billion bill didn't
have a chance to read the conference committee report
and “no one will know for sure...what’s in that tax bill
for several weeks."
He added that Congress was “operating in the 19th
century as far as the way we handle tax bills. We really
do need to change many of our ways of operating.”
Sheraton buys Biltmore
ATLANTA (UPI)—The Sheraton Biltmore Hotel,
which has reportedly been losing money for several
years, has been bought by the Boston-based Sheraton
Corp.
Sheraton Vice President Phillip D Shea said the
building and land was purchased from Mrs. Howell Ross
Hanson whose first husband. William Candler, had the
once-elegant hotel built in 1924 and operated it until he
died in 1936.
No purchase price was announced.
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