A FULL SERVICE MEXICAN RESTAURANT with DANCING NIGHTLY presents - - - - Ann Arbor's Premier Discoteque 611 CHURCH ST.-NEAR SOUTH UNIVERSITY 995-5955 Page 6-Friday, October 6, 1978-The Michigan Daily Strike empties candy machines *1 Washtenaw jail chief resigns post By SHELLEY WOLSON If you've been thwarted in obtaining your library study break candy bars this week, you may still have to hold out a little longer. Employees of the Ann Arbor division of the ARA Food Service Company, which fills all the vending machines in Ann Arbor, went on strike Monday, following a breakdown last week in negotiations between the workers and the company. ARA is also on strike at its Dearborn and Wyandotte divisions. ARA PRESIDENT Don West said the strike is occurring because the com- pany can't meet the demands of the Teamsters Union, which represents the workers. "They're asking for a 50 per cent in- crease in wages and benefits over the next three years. There's no way we can meet that - it's very unrealistic,"_ West asserted. West said the company is ready to meet at the bargaining table whenever a federal mediator. calls for a new bargaining session. "WE'RE SORRY for the incon- venience to the University of Michigan students, faculty, and employees. We're doing everything to get back into operation," he added. One ARA employee, however, denied that the workers' demands amount to a 50 per cent wage hike, as West claims. "I don't think we're asking for much," said Fred McQueer. "We dropped a lot of the things we asked for, like extra holidays, sick days, mileage and some vacation time. Now we're just trying to bargain for our cost of living demand." By PAULA LASHINSKY After holding his post for less than ten months the head' of the Washtenaw County jail resigned Monday. Following charges of serious security infractions at the jail, Washtenaw County Sheriff Thomas Minick asked Michael Montgomery to quit. "I called for his resignation basically because I feel that more emphasis should be put on security," said Minick. MONTGOMERY TOOK the post as jail chief last December. In the ten months that have followed, several escapes have occurred that have left the reliability of the county security system in question. The most recent case was an escape two weeks ago by three in- mates who jammed open a door and scaled the fence by standing on foot- stools. All three were captured within a few hours of their escape. . "In view of the seriousness of these infractions I felt it was adequate time for a change," said Minick. Montgomery said that his actual resignation was probably a result of the escape but that the move grew out of a mutual ,decision between himself and the sheriff. Minick added "The escape had some bearing on my calling for his resignation but that it is not the only reason. Security is just not what it should be and that is a reflection on our entire staff." Arby' s Roast, Beef Griffin changed tune on tax proposal championed in race Get your FREE souvenir football with a 2-sandwich purchase Saturday, Oct. 7 4IJ (Continued from Page 1) release was meant to inform reporters that, in the current session of Congress, Griffin was the first to propose tax in- dexing. Margie Lehrman, a Griffin press aide in Washington, said yesterday the senator "has said over and over, 'This is not my idea."' Lehrman also said Buckley's was only one of four amendments proposed for the 1975 tax-cutting measure and "with all kinds of amendments" Griffin didn't have time to research any of them carefully enough to allow an af- firmative vote. JERRY ROSEN, Griffin's legislative assistant, said when Buckley offered the amendment in 1975 to the tax reduciton provisions of HR 2166, "There had been no hearings-the idea was totally new" to Griffin. Rosen went on to say that Griffin opposed the amen- dment at the time but "the very next * Stadium Blvd. " Washtenaw Ave. year he assigned some of us to look at it" and tried to get it passed later. Rosen said when then Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) picked up the idea in 1976, Griffin supported him. "Then in 1977, (Griffin) threw down the guan- tlet" when Taft was defeated in 1976 and lead the tax index drive himself. From his law office in New York, former Senator Buckley said an article printed in the Detroit News yesterday which reported Griffin's negative vote on Buckley's 1975 amendment and his alleged claims to authorship of tax in- dexing "left an impression I never gave" since Buckley is quoted in the ar- ticle as saying Griffin was '"unwise"~ not to approve the amendment in1975. BUCKLEY SAID yesterday an amendment "is one way to catch somebody's attention with a new idea," and that "it was no surprise to me whatever that it was tabled." He added he thought he has been proven suc- cessful in his attempt to "get the idea rolling" since the Senate has a chance to move the bill along next week. Buckley said he "approves" of Grif- fin's having first turned down the measure in 1975,and then, three years later, become its foremost advocate. he said Griffin's vote "isn't an opinion about whether it (the amendment) (was) right or wrong." In April, 1977 Griffin sponsored an in- dexing plan that was voted down in the Senate. Then Griffin, who sits on the Senate's Finance Committee, watched a new proposal, formed in conjuntion with Dole, lose 10-8 in committee. GET STYLED by a Pro Um Stylists at the UNION Harold, Dave & Chet BUT NEXT WEEK the bipartisan group hopes to convince colleagues that "the hidden tax" of inflation should be eliminated by allowing wage earners to gain modest cost-of-living raises without being forced into a new tax bracket. According to Levin aide Steve Serkaian, the former Detroit City Council president "tends to, agree with idea of indexing" taxes, though it should be seen as only "one of'many op- tions." Levin's Director of Research Roger Tilles said yesterday Levin's campaign workers had known about Griffin's 1975 vote and had used the fact in adver- tising, claiming that the vote was in- consistent with Griffin's current in=, dexing campaign. On the two statewide tax-cutting issues on the ballot this November, both candidates ask voters to approve Proposal E, .authored by Farmington insurance company president Richard Headlee. Griffin and Levin agree Robert Tisch's Proposition J is too stiff a tax slashing plan. Today, Levin is scheduled to appear at a rally on the Diag at 1:15 p.m., followed by a news conference in his city headquarters at 711 N. University, and a meeting with professional studen- ts in 100 Hutchins Hall in the Law Quad, at 2:30. Beirut hit (Continued from Page 1) asylums, shelters, nothing is being spared. In the name of humanity, in the name of the most elementary principles of human rights, in the name of the children, women and aged people who are dying by the hundreds, we urge you to act." The International Red Cross said it issued the statement from Geneva because its Beirut office was cut off and it could not get supplies through to the injured. AT THE UNITED Nations, a senior U.S. State Department official said President Carter had sent a letter to Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is in Moscow, expressing Carter's "deep concern . . . and the need for an im mediate cease-fire to stop the blood- shed." The official, who would not be named, also said a U.N. Security Council meeting was likely to be called today if the situation in Lebanon did not im- prove. 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