THE MICHIGAN DAILY Stickers Provoke Debate Make WAHR'S your headquarters for all your textbook and college supplies SERVING U OF M STUDENTS SINCE 1883 - By JEFFREY GOODMAN Links between the John Birch Society and city endorsement of a "Support Your Local Police" sticker campaign have stirred the ire of numerous city officials and councilmen in the past few weeks. The issue started quietly when the city b e g a n distributing, through the police department, three - inch - square stickers that, had been donated by a local cit- izens' group, the Washtenaw County Conservatives. The police stickers were available from the police only during National Po- lice Week in May. Since May, however, the Cham- ber of Commerce has mailed the blue squares to local businessmen, and the stickers have adorned many a store window both down- town and in the campus area. Birch Bulletin About two months ago an Ann Arbor citizen obtained copies of a reprint from the Birch Society bulletin which carriedan exact replica of the sticker and out- lined the Birchers' reasons for the police support campaign. The motivation was essentially that the police need citizen support in their fight against a "Communist conspiracy" and "Communist-in- spired racial riots." The bulletin reprint also gave information on where the stickers could be obtained. The president of the Conservatives did not know, however, from whom his group had received the stickers. The citizen and various Council members brought the alleged link to the attention of Mayor Cecil 0. Creal and City Administrator Guy C. Larcom and then reported their evidence to the full Council. Their argument was twofold: that the city had been taken in unwittingly in endorsing a Birch campaign and that the stickers were objec- tionable by themselves, since they call for "blanket and unqualified" support of the police. Rights Issue The police stickers incident re-. ceived its importance primarily from current contentions among local civil rights groups that the police have at times used ques- tionable or even brutal tactics in dealing with situations involving race. Those opposed to the stick- ers felt that city endorsement of the stickers was especially indis- creet at a time when these allega- tions were being made. Outlook for U.S. Funds Rises, Falls (Continued from Page 1) University has not determined what it would request., -As a second feature of H.R. 10809, the University could apply directly to the Office of Education for $1.3 million to help pay for an addition to the Graduate Li- brary. The criteria for distribut- ing these funds have not been set. --The Senate bill, under sepa- rate provisions, would give the go- ahead to the HEW to give the University. $2.5 million for its water pollution lab. An unspeci- fied Midwest laboratory was au- thority in principle in 1956 and again in 1961 under a Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Two Years Old Two years ago Ann Arbor was officially selected as the site for the Midwestern laboratory-one of 10 nationwide -- and preliminary planning on it began last year. The Office of Education criteria released reiterated what was em- phasized in the facilities act last year: enrollment is the major criteria for funds. In addition to enrollment, projects will be as- signed point values in terms of location, program and type of facility which the funds would help. The criteria are needed so that the state facilities commission can give the Office of Education a priority list of how the state's $10 million should be spent. This is the first -attempt in a federal education bill to let the states assign building priorities which will cover public, private and com- munity college institutions. Traverse City Picket Line Kills Regents' Travel Plans sTminmu UD... ENT Pm mUB mum # # r I # * CTI I1%or DI 1lD tI C1A' By ROBERT HIPPLER Reluctant to cross a union picket line, the Regents at the last minute cancelled plans to hold their July meeting in Tra- verse City. The picket line surrounds ,a Traverse City hotel owned by Regent Eugene B. Power. He had invited his colleagues to stay there will holding their annual out-of- Ann Arbor meeting in that north- ern Michigan city. Power sent a letter to the other Regents last week indicating that "he would think himself a poor host if he invited the Regents to a meeting at his hotel and then asked them to cross a picket line," Erich A. Walter, secretary to the' University, explained. 'Twas a Factor Power commented later that though the desire not to cross the union pickets was not the only reason for switching the site of the meetirig, "it was a factor." The pickets are protesting ac- tions Power took three months; ago when he bought majority ownership in the Park Place Mo- tor Inn. He terminated the con- tract of the union with thecold majority owners, made several job changes in the operation of the motel, but left the way open for his employes to form a new union. Power won a court decision last month against the union; it is planning to appeal the case to the state supreme court. Investments Power has spent over $1 million in improving the motel since he i 1= Ift, 2 a am Ron z4am a EWE zwl bought it in March. He termin- ated the contract of the union, which had operated under the old owners, on the ground that he was buying just the physical assets of the establishment and starting an entirely new corpora- tion. TIe picketing has been going on since termination of the con- tract. From two to four pickets are on duty in what is called an. "instructional" picket. Its purpose is to inform the public of union complaints, not to block access or motel operations: Age Problem After terminating. the old con- tract, Power decided to dismiss several employes of the motel be- cause of their Age. Most were over 65. Power in addition termed four employes of the old owners as "absolutely unemployable." There is an unofficial tradition among the Regents that one monthly public meeting a year is held away from the University's Ann Arbor home base. The meet- ing in Traverse City was to be this year's "away" meeting. Instead, the meeting was held in the usual place--the Regents' room in the Administration Bldg. There was no announcement, of another meeting being planned away from Ann Arbor to compensate for the switch of sites for the Friday session. . 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