THE BYLAWS- VITAL TO 'U' See Editorial Page C, r Sir tian, 74IaitF FOREBODING High-sO Low-BO Variable cloudiness. possible thundershowers Vol LXXIX, No. 50-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, July 24, 1969 Ten Cents Four Pages PACIFIC SPLASHDOWN: Astronauts U.. court for landing prepare today HOUSTON (t-Rested after a long sleep and yearning for the good earth, Apollo 11's moon explorers neared the halfway point of their home- ward j o u r n e y yesterday, streaking on a perfect course toward today's landing in the Pacific. Mission control let the space- men sleep past noon, resting for the critical re-entry and landing' that will climax man's greatest exploration. Apollo 11 was on such an ac- curate course a small engine cor- iection scheduled today was can-I celled. The Apollo ship, gaining speed second-by-second as the earth's gravity tightened its hold, passed the halfway point of its journey through space at 3:56 p.m. EDT. Its speed will continue to grow a to about 24,000 miles an hour be- fore the splashdown. It was going 3,663 miles an hour when the astronauts awoke yesterday to start their final day in space. President Nixon, meanwhile, Press prepared to fly to a flotilla of on- Navy ships in the Pacific to await the return of the men who put the nation's flag on the moon on Sun- day. The target area is 1,196 miles southwest of Honolulu. Splash- down time is 12:49 p.m. EDT (11.49 a.m. EST). rt Meanwhile, scientists at the Manned Spacecraft Center stud-: ied the first hint of the scientific gain that may come from Apollo 11.~ to hear suit on landlords By NADINE COHODAS Arguments for the dismissal of a federal antitrust suit filed by Ann Arbor tenants against members of the Ann Ar- bor Property Managers Association will be heard today in De- troit by Federal District Judge Fred W. Kaess. The suit 'charges the landlords with conspiring to avoid competition in the Ann Arbor housing market. Kaess will also hear arguments on a motion to dismiss a counterclaim filed by the realtors charging the tenants with conspiracy. The antitrust suit was filed March 11 by eight tenants as a "class action." This means they represent all tenants who are living now or have lived here within the last four years and have rented from the de - - ®.__ . fendants. The suit charges the landlords with violating section one of the Sherman Antitrust Act by con-. spiring, combining and agreeing to avoid competition in t h e rental market in the central campus ar- ea. Striker wilns $100 -Associated Press -AssociatedP THE THREE ASTRONAUTS will have to wear these dec tamination suits immediately after splashing down today. PUBLIC HOUSING: Weeks denies repo of fundin delays The new royal family Princes Juan Carlos de Borbon and family will be Spain's reigning mi Franco steps down. Juan Carlos was named Tuesday by Franco an Franco's successor-designate. Juan Carlos' father has always claimed t he would not interfere with his son's succession. Franco has not indic Although Juan Carlos will eventually be allowed to rule Spain, he ha the nationalist political party, the only legal party allowed by Franco. SLIGHT REVISIONS: CN I I They reported that a seismic N device left on the moon by Neil By JUDY SARASORN Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. City Housing Commission Chairman Robert Weeks denied recorded movement of the lunar crust, raising the possibility that yesterday reports that federal funds for city housing projects the moon and the earth are of the' may be delayed because the commission will not have a di- same origin. rector as of Aug. 18. Dr. Don Latham said the tremor "There is no immediate danger of losing federal funds" may have originated from either said Weeks. "There isn't any apprehension." a moonguake or the impact of By JUDY KAHN William Bergeron, regional director of the U.S. Housing a large meteorite. The Board of Education of thef If the movement was a quake, Ann Arbor Public School System Assistance Administration (HAA), said Tuesday that Ann Ar- ihe said, it could mean thenmo, last night voted to continue its bor may not be able to obtain federal money for projects un- like the' earth, has a molten core'.lastntvotedaltoamcotifanu ext til a full-time director or - If the moon and earth are of sim-Econ r gramyi d ilar structure, it could mean they Education Program. qualified consultg firm is UOS said are of similar origin, he said. Ten recommendations for im- hired.1Meanwhile the Apollo 11 flight proving the existing program were "It's not a matter of law," said director said yesterday that thealso approved last night. The rec-' Bergeron. "It's a matter of doing lunar module was low on fuel as it ommendations were presented to business. We need to have some- taneared the surface of the moon the board by Michael Sniderman body we cap talk to who can op- lebut not low enough to abort it' assistant superintendent for in- erate a program."' landing. struction. The recommendations Peter Hurkos, the mystic, may include: Tho fr:nti~ nmoiv Asked[3about k blh d Pt ofnt boid- r rca(ion p, -The establishment of a pro- !. fessional advisory board to con- cu: sider all health education mat- six ters; scl -The designation of a part-time health education consultant to ti develop health education pro- al grams and integrate them withr existing school subjects; -Changing the emphasis of theFse sex education materials taught in n the first and fifth grades to bet- ter correlate with what is taught thi For federal jurisdiction to ap-' ply to the case, interstate com- merce or an effect on it must be onarchy when Gen. Francisco shown. The complaintants say the d the Spanish parliament as effect of the landlords' violations Tenants Union member Bev- he Spanish throne, but he said restrains prospective out-of-state erly A. Nescot yesterday was ated when he will leave office. tenants from coming to Ann Ar- awarded a $100 reduction in ad to pledge his allegiance to bor because rents are too high. the amount of back rent and The landlords in their motion to utilities that, she owed Cam- dismiss have claimedthere is no pus Management. federal jurisdiction because real pu3aaeet estate is not interstate commerce. After nearly two hours of de- liberation, t h e six-member jury In their counterclaim the real- returned the verdict which grant- tors have charged the tenants with ed the reduction from the $240 the same conspiracy charges of a rent and '$10 utilities fee Nescot ta i n slocal case which will be tried owed f or an apartment on 114 starting Aug. 21, in Circuit Judge Thayer. William Ager's court. The land- Rent strike eviction trials will lords charge the tenants are con- continue tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.in spiring to withhold rent, encour- District Judge Pieter Thomassen's Mrm age others to withhold rent and court. to obtain libelous articles in The Testimony in the Nescot case Daily. was presented Tuesday, but the -The establishment of a pilot The tenants have filed a motion case was adjourned until yester- irriculum for the second and to dismiss the counterclaim be- day at 3:30 p.m. when final argu- xth grades during the 1970-71. cause they say there is no inde- ments and the verdict were given. hoolyear: pendent federal jurisdiction for Nescot, represented by Tenants the' conspiracy counterclaim. Union lawyer Robert Reed, claim- -The establishment of a con- ed that 'Campus Management had nuous sex and family education- Under federal regulations, cer- failed to live up to its contract be- n material review. tain counterclaims can be permit- cause the apartment was not up ted in federal courts if they are in to housing codes. Qhe held that -The purchasing of supplies for fact related to the main claim, she was not obligated to pay the x enucationandamiy pan- The landlords claim the con- full amount of rent due because spiracy counterclaim is related to of alleged breach of contract. -Establishing the m e a ns the tenants antitrust action. The Nescot, said the apartment was rough which all interested tenants say it is not. dirty when she moved in and re- oups-parents, teachers, and ad- Besides charging'members of the quired four days for her and her inistration-can communicate; Ann Arbor property Managers three roommates to clean It. In -Increasing parent involvement sociation with violating the anti- any was a limited amountio t- rough the Parent-Teacher Or- trust laws, the tenants' suit speci- water, sometimes none by Friday inization, designating an adult fically cites John Stegeman of lucation consultant to meet with Charter Realty, Apartments Lim- or Saturday afternoons. rents, and distributing a booklet ited, Campus Management, Sum- Nescot added that in December questions parents are generally mit Associates, J. Patrick Pulte,up intohewattetnga ncerned with in discussing sex of J. Patrick Pulte, Inc., Wilson- odor into the bathtub creatitng a ith their children; White, Inc., Ann Arbor Trust Co. pdumbers came after she called the -Establishing a parent, teach- and J. L. Shipman. landlord Nescot said, but the prob- , and administration evaluation Although Ann Arbor tenants lem still existed until Jan.'8, when oup and and some Tenants Union legal a plumber came again and reamed staff are involved in the federal the pipes. -Extending the program to all suit, the plaintiffs say the anti- Later in spring, Nescot testified, ndergarten, first and fifth grade trust action is not officially con- dirty water from one of the wash- asses in the Ann Arbor school nected with the Tenants Union ing machines in the basement strict. or the rent strike. started to back up into the kit- Despite the approval of these However, law student Greg Curt- chen sink. comlmendations sex ucatin ner who has been working on the She also said that many of the in flhn hnma- i in w~e nome ; T e city housing commission ' be on the verge of solving at least accepted Monday by a four to one one of six Ann Arbor area mur- vote the resignation of former Di- ders, according to his associate rector Mrs. Joseph Mhoon. The Ed Silver., resignation is effective Aug. 18 or sooner if a replacement is hired In fact, Silver optimistically be- before that date. lieves that Hurkos may be able "We're going to have a new di- to wind up the case" today. rector; we're interviewing a num- Hurkos is concentrating on the ber of people," Weeks said. There murders of Joan Schell, 20, an would only be a problem if there Eastern Michigan University coed were no chance to find a director, whose body was found July 5, according to Weeks. 1968, and Dawn Basom, 13, of At present, the commission has, Ypsilanti, whose body was found 127 public housing units under last April 16. construction. The commission is According to Silver, Hurkos has also in the early stages of plan- told the police the name of Bas- ning 300 additional public hous- om's killer, although Ann Arbor ing units. Police Chief Walter Krasny -claim-, A $60,000 planning loan from ed yesterday that no new infor- HAA has been reserved by the mation has been discovered. commission for the 300 unit pro- Silver claims Hurkos has given gram. Weeks said that there was police new information, and has no danger of losing the planning reconstructed the actual murder3 loan. scene. a j i u posne a report-. that mission control almost called the landing off because of low fuel, Clifford Charlesworth replied: ' "It was getting close. But Arm- strong actually had plenty of fuel left when he landed. No one at mission control was ready to push scheduled next weey the panic button."( He noted that the astronauts initially descended toward a crater By JUDY KAHN filled with large rocks and had Ann Arbor will go on a "Black Odyssey" next week during to fly over it and hover like a helicopter to find arelatively the stay of a pictorial history exhibit containing any little- smooth spot. ;known facts relating to Afro-American history and culture. On a normal landing without The exhibit, called the "Black Odyssey," includes a series hovering, the craft called Eagle of biographical displays-including pictures and photographs maneuveing fuel lef ecaue of-which highlight the achievements of famous black men. the extra maneuvering, Eagle had Historic figures such as Hannibal, Alexander Dumas, Marcus! 49 seconds remaining when it Garvey, and Nat Turner are featured. In-depth displays ex- touched down at Tranquility Base! plore the lives of modern black leaders such as Malcolm X and Armstrong said, "The Eagle and Patrice Lumumba. has landed." Scientists will start Saturday on In another section of the exhibit, reproductions of works See ASTRONAUTS, Page 3 by Charles White, one of the foremost Afro-American artists r m th ga ed pa of co wi er gr ki. clI di (rec i tCnl 1nt1MIU uull SUA CUUUL4UlU,, instruction is not compulsory. A parent may ask that his child be excused from these classes and be assigned alternate study material. Voting followed a two and a half hour discussion which in- volved an audience of about forty. tenants' brief says the suit is a' screens in the apartment fit im- result of "the same violations and properly and had small holes in rental, problems" that the rent them. One window was without strikers are facing. screens, she said, which allowed The plaintiffs of the suit are flies to come in on hot days when Steve Marston, Barry Rubin, Jon- the window had to be left, open. anathan Moselle, Helen Cooper, One of the windows in the bed- Drew Bogema, Daniel Zwerdling, room fit improperly. Nescot add- Kurt Wiener, and Laura Magzis. See TENANT, Page 3 YE OLDE COMMUNAL SHOPPE u ca gt anythingyou want... in the world, are displayed. The contributions which thous- ands of black soldiers have made from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam conflict are described in the exhibit. a third segment ofj By LAURIE HARRIS The party is downstairs at Marshall's Bookstore. A pro- fane purple finger points the way down a bright green stair- well to Teeguarden and Leabu's General Store. ,r Teeguarden and Leabu's isn't a general "store" in the profit- making sense. People with things to sell bring them in to the store, and Teeguarden and Leabu deduct only enough to pay the store's rent. The result is a wide variety of merchandise sold at pheno- menally low prices. The bright- ly painted walls of the shop are covered with wall decorations-- including paintings, second hand purses and hand made clothing. And the racks, shelves and aging people to bring in any crafts and stuff they want to sell," he explains. But eventually he and Vic Leabu, the other proprietor, hope the back wing of the shop will be made into a reading room with underground news- papers and an information bul- letin board. The bulletin board will dis- play advertisements explaining how to get conimodity items re- latively cheaply, Teeguarden says, and the underground press will give the general public who frequent the shop an opportuni- ty to come into contact with papers they might not otherwise be able to find. There are also plans for the store to start selling dried Other panels include "The Black Cowboy," "The Golden Age of Africa," and a series of black Madonnas. A new exhibit displaying black literature is being presented by Vaughn's Bookstore of Detroit. Other exhibits will also be pre- sented for the first time. George Norman, who is black himself and who created "Black Odyssey," says it has a double purpose. This is to strengthen the black man's awareness of his large ': : contribution to the world and western civilization, and to give Americans a historic background which will help us to better un- derstand the nation's black citi- zens. "Black Odyssey" is sponsored : .