Crisis nears in By LANIE LIPPINCOTT The Model Cities Program for North Central Ann Arbor is only in its pre- natal stages. But already it has spark- ed a controversy which is polarizing the community. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Model Cities is a six-year program aimed at solving the social and en- vironmental problems of urban areas. In Ann Arbor the target of the pro- gram is the North Central area, be- tween Division and 7th, north from Huron to Brooks and Sunset. The city's request for the program was approved by HUD last November. The city was awarded a $112,000 plan- ning grant for one year. Funds for the five years of rehabilitation will be awarded on the basis of the policy board's planning report. But planning has yet to begin. Like all social welfare programs to- day, Model Cities wins the verbal sup- port of everyone in the city, but few can agree on exactly what the pro- gram should do or how;kit can be set up. Model The divisions of opinion have come along party, racial and intra-racial lines. Two issues are now in dispute: * Is the Model Cities Policy Board, selected by a vote of the community, representative, or does it represent the power block of one political party? Republicans c h a r g e that Demo- crats manipulated the handling of the community meeting at which b o a r d members were selected. Democrats deny the charge and say the board was selected fairly. 0 Democrats want the board to have control of administration and policy in the North Central area. They say if that is not so - if the board is only advisory to City Council - then the entire program would become a tool for the economic interests of real- ty speculators and the city, not t h e neighborhood it is expected to serve. Some Republicans maintain t h i s demand violates the conditions under which the federal grant was secured, although the federal guidelines a r e flexible and co not explicitly rule out such powers. The controversy should come to a Cities head at the public hearing on the program slated for April 8 at the Ann Arbor Community Center. The hear- ing was proposed at the March 14 City Council meeting by Councilman Brian R. Connelly (R-Fifth Ward), and adopted by council, 7-5, in a straight party line vote. Democrats charged the meeting would be an attempt to un- dermine policy broad. Only North Central area residents will be allowed to speak at the meet- ing. This will specifically bar the act- ing chairman of the Model Cities Pol- icy Board, CORE chairman Ezra Row- ry, from speaking. Likewise, Dr. Albert Wheeler, a member of the policy board and state NAACP chairman, will not be allowed to speak. On the other hand, businessmen in the area who also do not live there won't be allowed to speak either. The policy board is seeking to be made the City Demonstration Agency as well, which the April 8 hearing will consider. The board is seeking auto- nomy in both planning and adminis- tration in the area, with only final responsibility going to City Council. Program The federal guidelines stipulate that there be a board to devise policy on the program - the Model Cities Policy Board - and one to administer the program - the City Demonstration Agency (CDA ), In a proposal to council Feb. 28, the policy board asked to be named the CDA for the Model Cities area. This would include acting as c i t y administrator, planning commission, zoning board of appeals, building and safety office, human relations com- mission and workable program com- mittee for the area. "The board would be a city hall con- fined within the city," says temporary chairman Rowry, "It would use the city's planning staff and be respon- sible to City Council," Republicans have voiced strong op- position to a powerful policy board. "They are asking for control to place a moratorium on an area while they plan," says Connelly. "But the city planning commission can stall effec- tively to achieve that." Republican county supervisor and city planning commission member David Byrd says trying to make the policy board the CDA is illegal. "It goes against the application by which the city received the HUD grant," he says, and may be going against fed- eral requirements. "I'm looking into the legal implica- tions for collusion and fraud in this thing," he adds. The Republican candidate for coun- cil in the first ward, Adtric Gillespie, agrees with tha "collusion" charge. "After study of the federal govern- ment's intent in the Model Cities pro- gram. I feel the present nucleus of the Model Cities program is misinformed as to.the aim of the program," he says. But what exactly these changes mean with respect to the guidelines Is unclear. Don Borut, assistant to the city administrator, says the recent HUD guidelines state CDA must be the city council or an independent agency. However, he notes, if the city is the CDA, it can delegate to the policy board what responsibilities it wants, including the autonomy the board is presently seeking. See ANN ARBOR, Page 3 Bk tgau :tatl Us.. -Daily-Peter Dreyfu'ss end Vol. LXXIX, No. 148 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 30, 1969 Eight Pages may OSTERHELD RECOMMENDATIONS urban program, WASHINGTON (R) - One of President Nixon's top ad- visors, pointing to a five-year cost projection of $27 billion, is urging thjat the Model Cities program be abandoned, sources said yesterday. The sources said the arguments of economist Arthur Burns run counter to the views of a solid group of Nixon's urban advisers. These aides want Nixon to endorse the program, launch- ed by Lyndon B. Johnson's Democratic administration to at- tack urban squalor in 150 of the nation's poorest neighbor- ' hoods. The Union. Up from Daniel P. Moynihan, head of the M President's Urban Affairs Council, M oscow is a defender of the program, the sources said. Both Moynihan and Burns hold Cabinet-level status in, White House inner circles. asks talks Neither Burns nor Moynihan could be reached for comment. " But special presidential assistant - e Martin Anderson, also an econ- omist, denied that Burns was pro-, posing the program be abandoned. MOSCOW (P-The Soviet Union "Your sources are misinformed,"' called on Communist China early Anderson said. "They may think today to join in negotiations aim- Burns feels that way. He has asked ed at ending their border clashes questions, but he's not expressed A government statement issued disapproval. He's not expressed by the Tass news agency said the approval either." Soviet Union "believes that it is Anderson said only "vague necessary to take without delay numbers and no hard estimate" practical steps to normalize the have been given for the program's situation on the Soviet-Chinese cost. However, he said. the pro- frontier." gram could eventually cost "tens T Tass said the Soviet government of billions of dollars." "urges the government. of the Other unanswered questions be..Ie i People's Republic of China to re- sides the cost include "exactly frain from any actions on the how the program is operated in By The Associated Pres frontier that may cause complica-thecities what kind of programs m tions and urges it to solve differ- tectewa ido rg'm With mighty cathedra ences, if they arise, in a calm situ- are being proposed, khat is Model nelling, the body of Dwigl ation and through negotiation." Cities trying to do these are Iisenhower was received y The Soviet statement proposed still unclear in my mid, Ander- into the stately National that officials of both Red powers son admitted. dral where it will rema: should "resume in the nearest fu- A subcommittee headed by late today. ture the consultations that were Secretary of Housing George i After a private 20-minu started in Peking in 1964." Romney is expected to recommend ice attended by the 34th It said the Soviet message men- to the Urban Affairs Council soon dent's close friends- and r tioned armed attacks on Soviet that the program be continued, thousands passed by the c frontier guards on the river as but confined to the 150 cities al- pay their last respects, having taken place on March 2, ready participating. As the humble said far 14 and 15. It described them as ' The subcommittee is also ex- the little chapel, the mi "premeditated a n d preplanned pected to recommend a revamp- the world prepared to p: acts." ing of the program. own tribute by attending t autonom By NADINE COHODAS Daily News Analysis The Michigan Union has long been proud of its independ- ent status within the University. Except for a direct financial relationship with the University under which the Union receives an allocation of $6.00\ per male student per term, the Union basically has been an autonomous operation, gov- erned by a Board of Directors who are responsible only to the Regents. But the end of this independence may rapidly be ap- proaching. If the recommendations of the Osterheld report, presented to the Union Board March 4 are implemented, the Union would be restructured to be more fully integrated into the University. The board would be abolished and the Unionl would be under the jurisdiction of two University vice presidents. Business affairs would be channeled through the vice president and chief financial officer while Union programs would be under the jurisdiction of the vice presi- dent for student affairs. The Osterheld report--pre- pared by Douglas C. Oster- held; assistant vice president for business and finance at the University of Wisconsin- was commissioned last fall by f President Robben Fleming and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wilbur Pier- . pont. -Associated Press The Eisenhowers pay their respects to the former President es FACULT1Y SHORTA( LSA pl By RICK PERLOFF Sixth in a Series For the last three years the Univer- sity's austerity budget has forced the literary college to tolerate rather acute shortages' of faculty and to postpone a number of educational innovations. And with the State Legislature ex-, pected to cut all the University's prior- ity requests for increased appropriations for the college, administrators and fac- ulty members are thinking again in terms of delays, "It's 'been difficult to start anything new," admits Dean William Hays. "We've got a lot of wonderful new programs and I'd love to see them supported. But I'm very pessimistic that they will get the funds this year to expand their opera- tion. " rogram s outstanding men in the field," he adds. "But funds were too tight to hire him. He may accept the job in 1970, but we will have to make a strong financial case to bring him here." Because of the faculty shortage, the course will not be taught until next winter. And 800 level courses in psy- cholinguistics will not be offered next term for the same reason. VU and the budget squeeze "We'r'e straining," Tikofsky admits. face The departme on initiating a for non-zoology would parallel B signed for prosp "Without mon a teaching staff until the fall o course," says Pr department chai Thus, Zoology only introductor ment for non-zo ways the first co to close," Allen "And next y over-enrolled sir have the money them." "Faculty recru Part of the report deals with long range changes in the.organizationalstructureth ed ra of the Union, while a large /portion of the study explores cipal funeral service tomorrow. list of foreign dignitaries who will among those planning to attend possible immediate changes in That will be in the main cathe- attend. It will be his first visit to the funeral tomorrow. the Union government and dral. The body will be returned the United States since November Nixon is expected to greet the food service. there after lying in state in the 1963, when he came for the fun- visitors with appropriate appre- ' reot wed Capitol Rotunda today, following eral of President John F. Ken- ciaton o the having come t ince e repor was iss , a grand procession along Constitu- nedy' pay their r espects But the short- administrators, union direc- tion Avenue. The Soviet Union selected a nes of time available appears to tors and students have been For the fourth time in five World War II hero, Marshal Va- rule out extensive diplomatic talks. meeting to discuss Osterheld's years a riderless horse in funeral sily I. Chuikov, to represent the trappings, boots reversed in the Kremlin at the funeral. He will The procession will takemplace recommendations. saddle, will follow an artillery be accompanied by Vasily V. Kuz- amidst the flourishes of martial President Fleming says he hopes to-move.fairly quickly" caisson bearing a dean American netsov, first deputy foreign mm- music, the sonorous sound of !on the changes proposed for the food service. "But we can't to Capitol Hill. ister. muffled drums, do it overnight,' he adds. "We have to decide among the French President Charles del Crowned heads, statesmen and After the Monday afternoon alterniatives which route we're going to take." Gaulle, a comrade in arms to Eis- soldiers from Europe, Asia, Africa service, the body will be placed enhower during the war, heads the and the Western Hemisphere were aboard a special 12-car train at Wally Stromberg, president of University Activities Union Station for the 30 hour j Center says the Union Board would also like to see the food journey west to the boyhood home service problem tackled first. After a meeting yesterday and Eisenhower Center at Abi- morning with President Fleming and Vice Presidents Newell lene, Kan, and Pierpont, Stromberg said both the Union representatives Eisenhower will be buried Wed- and the administration want to have a new food service plan nesday in the chapel of the libra- ready to present to the Regents at their April meeting. Ittli.,d e l ry near his son, Doud, who died in childhood. The union board has set up two committees to investi- Contrary to some expectations gate the various alternatives in Osterheld's report. One nt had planned this fall of funds prevented this," he says. "We -and at the family's wishes- committee is studying the Union's entire financial problem botany-zoology course go through this funding problem every the last train ride home is not and the other is considering space allocation in the building majors. This course year, but I'm tired of it." planned to be a public spectacle, and how it might better be used. liology 106 which is de- The Outreach project, a part of Psy- Unlike the slow train that bore Before any decision can be made, however, and before ective concentrators. chology 101, may also be forced to cut Abraham Lincoln to Springfield specific action can be taken in any area, Fleming says a ey to pay salaries for its enrollment for next year because of in 1865, or the one that carried mutual agreement will have to be reached between all parties we now have to wait the lack of increased funds. Robert F. Kennedy from New York mu ul a em en edlh y the ches. f 1970 to institute the "If our funds are cut, I presume we'll to Washington one nightmarish who would be influenced by the changes. f. JohnAllnszoology haveutolimit the nn rumber of rsuens e afternoon last June, the Eisen- The Osterheld report says that although college campuses rman. in the program. That many fewer stu hower train will move at a 50- are changing to less centralized institutions with just vest- 101 would remain the dents can then be so educated," explains mile-an-hour clip. iges of "in loco parentis," a union can remain a vital organ- y course in the depart- Prof. Wilbert McKeachie, psychology The few stops will be brief and ization if it "reflects with sensitivity the changes being ex- ology majors. "It is al- department chairman. functional: 10-minute haltsin perienced in its community.". )arse in the department "Whatever is cut will have to be made Charlottesville, Va., White Sul- says upnyincreasing the f trhee stdets mut phur Springs and Huntington, W. To most effectively create this type of institution, Oster- says. up by increasing the fees students must Va., and Washington, Ind,; an held has recommended a major reorientation of the Union ear, sections may be pay to take part in Outreach;" he warns. hour for washing and changing from a service organization to a student institution totally in- mply because we don't McKeachie believes, however, the project tracks in Cincinnati, and a longer tegrated into the University. The report outlines five "man- to pay staff to teach is such an enriching experience that it stop in St. Louis to switch to Nor-yh justifies an increase in fees. folk - Western lines for the final datory" steps to achieve this: uitment is considerably Presently, each Outreach student pays push westward,0 The existing board of directors and the corporate