Michigan ploughs over Spartans, 24-13 See story, Page 9 LANDLORDS VIOLATE FREEZE See Editorial Page Y air ~~IAitbj PARADOX High-60 Low-37 Mostly sunny, chance of frost Vol. LXXXII, No. 27 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, October 10, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages Ten Cents Ten ac e City By TAMMY JACOBS " Garbage is piling up behind Arbor apartments because the does not have money for proper bage disposal equipment. Police overtime pay shrink citizens' calls for help grow. " The fire department is several sub-stations needed to protect the city. Ann Arbor is experiencing o; the worst financial crises in itE tory, and the only solution sho a miracle seems to be the ado of a personal income tax-at according to the city's top adn trators. But, despite City Hall's adv of an'income tax, it remains a troversial subject to taxpayers, rejected such a tax by a narrow gin in 1969. budet Between now and the day an in- I Ann come tax again appears on a city- city wide ballot-possibly sometime next gar- year - intricate political dealings, many long hours of study and several ks as more months of tightening purse- strings are in store. short If an income tax is established, em- fully ployes of the University would be ine of subject to pay either the one per cent se hs Ann Arbor citizens' tax, or the one- s his- half per cent tax for Ann Arbor em- rt of ployes living outside the city. These eatn are the maximum rates the city can least- levy, according to state law. minis- It is not yet clear how residency ocacy for the tax would be determined, es- con- pecially in the case of University stu- who dents. "We don't know how to judge mar- it yet," says City Financial Officer Kenneth Sheehan. crisis: "So far we've only been concerned with students who maintain a house- hold here-mostly grad students," he adds. Sheehan explained that even stu- dents who have registered to vote in Ann Arbor do not have clear status as residents, since a recent state supreme court ruling allows non-resi- dents to vote in the place they attend school. The first informal steps towards in- stituting the tax have already been taken. In August, the office of City Administrator Guy Larcom came out with a mammoth 90 page report on the budget-from 1963 to a projected 1977. The figures in that report were enough to send even the strongest opponent of an income tax scrambling Is income tax the answer? for just that-or so Mayor Robert Harris thought. So, shortly after the report came out, Harris appointed a Citizens' Tax Committee to study the problem and suggest a solution. Because Harris is a Democratic mayor who must work through a City Council with a Republican majority, he appointed mostly Republicans to the 21-member committee. This way, Harris reasoned, when the committee came back with sug- gestions for an income tax, Repub- lican City Council members would have to give serious thought to the recommendations. John Laird, chairman of the com- mittee, realizes that he is expected to recommend a personal income tax "to pull the city out of the hole." But, he says, the committee has not yet discussed what its recommendations will be, and is still investigating the conclusions of the Larcom report. "It seems almost impossible to get council's approval for the tax unless the committee recommends it," Har- ris says. Even then it might be hard. Coun- cilman James Stephenson (R-Fourth Ward), who is generally considered the leading Republican on council, expressed disfavor with the idea of an income tax, but says his vote on the. subject, if proposed, would "de- pend on what the tax committee says." However, even if the committee recommends the tax, Stephenson will See INCOME, Page 7 Harris Stephenson STRIKE VOTE DUE TODAY '', U By GERI SPRUNG Six months after a strike leading to a new contract, disagreement over that con- tract has sparked a new round of contro- versy between the University and its service and maintenance employes. Local 1583 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) has called on its members to express their dissatisfaction by voting on whether to strike. If the majority of the ballots, to be counted tonight, reject the University's in- terpretation of these issues, then strike preparations will be made. . The University vehemently opposes a strike, which under state law would be illegal, contending. that.disagreements should be settled through arbitration. "We do not think the arbitration process is a process we should fret about because we both mutually agreed to have that process," says Manager of Employe and Union Relations James Thiry. But the Union claims the grievance and arbitration procedures have not been solving the problems of interpretation. Charging that the University is applying the rights of management in "an arbitrary and ca- pricious manner," local President Charles McCracken says, "The University has taken certain actions and we just don't approve of them." The local claims over 900 grievances have been filed against the University since last February, with few of them being re- ,olved. Further, the union maintains, it is being forced to takecases to arbitration needlessly-a costly undertaking. "In the last seven months," says Mc- Cracken, "we have had to put between 30 to 40 cases into arbitration. I would venture to say that all 15 other state universities put together do not file that many cases in a year." Thiry can not explain why the Univer- sity has gone to arbitration more than other schools. "Despite the fact we do seem to be going more," he says, "the fact is we dis- agree on the interpretation of the contract, so the only recourse left is for the union to ask for a third party. We don't enter arbi- tration lightly," he adds. Thiry claims that "more cases are with- drawn than are heard." But of the six cases that have been heard since last March, the four decisions which involved contract in- terpretations have gone in favor of the union. The other two concerned discipline and classification matters. See 'U', Page 6 1On spar a ~a am Workers strike last January -Daily-Robert Wargo Flying 'Cowboy' Alan "Cowboy" Walker flies through the air in yesterday's game against Michigan State. Walker, being brought to earth by Ron Curl (94), picked up 78 yards in Michigan's 24-13 victory. (See story, Page 9.) OCTOBER 13 Local plans for moratorium include teach-in, noon rally TECHNICALITIES OVERLOOILED Charter flights usually illegal By LINDSAY CHANEY "Almost any charter flight you'll get on is technically illegal," according to Bill Jacobs, '73. Jacobs, who worked last summer for a charter group in New York City, is now helping to organize a series of SGC-spon- sored charter flights for next summer. "It's not really a reflection on the people in the business," Jacobs added, explaining that "Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) regula- tions are stringent, maybe even unrealistic. The CAB regulations which render most charter flights illegal require all participants on a flight to be bona fide members for at Reuistration to open at Free ' By LINDA ROSENTHAL Do your nimble fingers long to learn Slavic embroidery? Is your soul curious about Krishna consciousness? Are you possessed with a mad desire to satisfy your wander- lust by train-hopping? These and other yearnings can be fulfilled through taking courses at the Free Univer- sity, an experiment in learning sponsored by the University Activities Center. This se- mester's Free University catalog is scheduled to annear tomorrow, and Free registration least six months of an organization whcse purpose is something other than travel. This is the so-called "affinity group" rule. Another CAB regulation requires all char- ter advertising to designate which portion of the total cost denotes air fare and what por- tion covers "administrative expenses." Violations of these rules are so frequent, however, that CAB officials have all but given up trying to enforce them. One CAB official noted that the regulations were written in a time when charter flights were actually initiated by clubs or organi- zations which included travel as a sidelight to their main activity. Now, the official said, almost all charter flights are initiated by professional charter promoters who actively advertise the flights and recruit passengers for them. The business of promoting charter flights, which the CAB regulations do not even acknowledge, is now a dominant force in the charter market, according to travel agents. A charter sponsor hires a plane from an airline for certain specified departure points and dates, then goes about getting people to ride on the flight. Quite often, the sponsor also forms a phony "club" which charter participants must join to "qualify" for the flight. It is a common practice, according to travel agents, for the club organizer to issue back-dated membership cards to persons who buyv seats loesthan qix mantho hsfrn thn $50 per seat on a flight which costs traveler $200 per seat. the Calladine wrote in the Financial Post, a Canadian publication, that it is possible to profit $9,000 from a single charter flight. It is, of course, also possible for the sponsor to lose money on a given flight, if he is unable to fill the plane. The possibility for "fantastic" profits in the charter promoting field has resulted in a proliferation of small-time promoters. Since CAB has no rules which set standards for the "economic soundness" of a charter promoter, it is almost inevitable that some See GOVT., Page 6 By MARCIA ZOSLAW Declaring Oct. 13 a National Moratorium Day, anti-war groups here and across the nation have called for "no business as usual" to protest the war. Highlighting the day in Ann Arbor will be a teach-in, workshops, a noon march to City Hall promoting voter registration, spe- cial speakers in the evening at Hill Aud., and a midnight rally on the Diag. The moratorium has been called by the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) to reflect on the war. The Ann Arbor teach-in version of the mora- torium is being organized by the Ann Arbor Coalition to End the War (AACEW). On Oct. 4, Senate Assembly, the faculty representative body, endorsed the teach-in and agreed to any suspension of regular classes it might entail. The moratorium begins Tuesday night, Oct. 13 with a peace vigil in St. Mary's Student Chapel, a discussion on the war led by Vietnam veterans and the movie "An- other Family for Peace." A noon march to City Hall for "regis- tering to vote against the war" starts Wednesday's program. Scheduled speakers there include Ann Arbor Mayor Robert Har- ris, PCPJ leader Jay Craven and medical Prof. Donald Rucknagel of AACEW. Afternoon workshops will span the eco- nomic, philosophic, ecological, and political range of the war. Their topics include "The Impact. of the War Upon American Values," "Defoliation in Vietnam", "Racist America and the War Against the Peoples of the Third World," "The Impact of the War Upon U.S. Cities," and others. Evening speakers at Hill include Father James Groppi, Catholic priest, antiwar ac- tivist and a leader of the open housing See LOCAL, Page 10 See-LOCAL,-Page 1 Underground press flourishes By CHARLES STEIN Long neglected by the establishment media, rock music, radical politics and the youth culture were given their first serious coverage in the underground newspaper. As the youth culture has expanded its interests in the past few years, the role played by its papers has also undergone transition. And nowhere has this transition been more clearly illus- trated than in Ann Arbor - one of the pioneer communities in the underground movement. once or twice a month, and have circulations ranging from four to six thousand. The underground paper made its first appearance here in January, 1969 with the publication of the Argus. In its initial stages, the Argus served as a prime source of local and national news for the growing radical movement, but it grad- ually shifted to more of a community paper during its last year of publication. The early Argus revolved primarily around the ideas of its fnlntam. n- lnrrnraa- qenn + - As. - - + tr--,- 1- -1-a } yy