NEW ANTI-WAR FOCUS NEEDED See Editorial Page I I . giltb :4Ia itM FROSTY High-51 Law--38 Cool, windy sunny and clear Vol. LXXXI I No. 28 ' Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, October 12, 1971 Ten Cents! Eight Pages arris Puts income tax on city agenda By TAMMY JACOBS In the wake of a financial report stating that Ann Arbor will go into fiscal year 1972-73 with a $480,000 deficit, Mayor Robert Harris last night told city council that he intends to place a controversial income tax resolution on the agenda Nov. 1. The move apparently came as a surprise to several coun- cilmen since it was expected that Harris would not place the motion before council until after receiving a report of the Citizen's Tax Committee, due Nov. 1. The resolution will seek to replace part of Ann Arbor's property tax with a flat one per cent personal income levy. "We had no advance notice of this," said Councilman James Stephenson (R-Fourth ..Ward), generally considered the leader 'of the Republicans on council. "I think you're totally premature. The least we can do is await the com- mittee's report." i AFSM-CIE rejects strike By GERI SPRUNG University service and main- tenance employes Sunday re- jected a strike as a means of solving a controversy with the University over contract in- terpretation. In a 533 to 395 vote, Local 1583 of the American Federation of State. County and Municipal Em- ployes (AFSCME) indicated that, rather than striking, they prefer to follow the procedures outlined in the agreement they have with the University to work out prob- lems. But after the vote, Union President Charles McCracken em- phasized, "We don't want the Uni- versity to get the idea - just be- cause there were only 395 votes for a strike - that we agree with what they are doing now."~ "If it takes everything we've got," he added, "we are going to get these problems ironed out." "Our job now," he continued, is to go back to our own people to let them know that the union is only as strong as its members." Only about 100 outof approxi- mately 2450 members attended yesterday's meeting -, most of them disappointed with the re- sults of the vote and the low re- sponse. McCracken emphasized the need for union members to work together. "We can't go as in- dividuals. we must go as a group, as a union of 2,450 people. Until that gets across, we're not going to get anywhere." The union, sees its job in the coming weeks, as continuing to get problems solved through pro- cedures in the contract and edu- cating their own members as to the meaning of unionism. Manager of Employe and Union Relations James Thiry declined to against ' Mayor Harris # By SARA FITZGERALD City Coincil last night debated resolutions which could affect the impact of the stutlent vote in fu- ture Ann Arbor elections. Council postponed action for three weeks on a resolution ask- door vote regisration Thedea ministrator time tostudithet eas bilit of such registration. Proponents of voter registration have said it will be necessary to go door-to-door in order to register the majority of the city's newly enfranchised students by the Feb- ruaiy primary election. In other action, the Council Re- publicans tried in vain to over- ride a mayoral veto of an earlier resolution to add the six Republi- can Council members to the sward boundary commission. The bound- ary commission will soon begin redistricting the city's wards inI accordance with 1970 census data. The redistricting may either con- centrate or dilute the bloc of stu- dent, voters throughout the city's wards, thus affecting the power of the student vote. The boundary commission is cur- rently made up of four Democrats and three Republicans. Though the Republicans had no hope of get- ting the two-thirds majority neces- sary to overrule Mayor Robert Harris' veto of their measure, they went ahead "in order to exhaust all the administrative remedies to test the legality of the mayoral See REDISTRICTING, Page 8 Harris, however, spoke on the need to act on the tax issue im- mediately, though he emphasiz- ed the fact that even with a first reading Nov. 1, Council would not be able to vote until at least a week after the committee's report. For the tax to go into .effect during the 1972-73 fiscal year, it would have to go on a February city-wide ballot. Deadline for placing items on the ballot is, Nov. 15. Prior to the quarterly finan- cial report of City Administra- tor Guy Larcom, it was thought possible that if the committee did not recommend an income tax in its Nov. 1 report, Harris would wait until 'next spring to place it before Council. However, the report, dated Oct. 8. "makes a bad story worse," Harris says. In August, a five year financial projection report by Larcom's of- fice predicted a gap of $1.4 mil- lion between the city's revenues and what the report called "nor- mal" levels of service for this fis- cal year. Last week's report added an expected $480,000 to the de- ficit. We were informed several months ago that the next fiscal year would bea disaster unless we tapped a new source of revenue," Harris told council. Although Larcom's five year projections underestimated incom- ing funds from state revenue sharing programs, Harris said, it overestimated the money that would come in from such things as parking fines by an equal amount. The quarterly report also de- tails expenses beyond original pre- dictions for such items as street lighting (now expected to in- crease 45 per cent), garbage col- lection and police overtime. -Daly-Robert A musical day at the 'U' With bagpipe and violin in hand, two traveling musicians (top left) entertain afternoon near State St. and N. University. As the crowd grew, a city policeman makers (top right) to move further away from the street. Later last night some and dance on the Diag (bottom) to protest oppression of Soviet Jews. Wargc \-Jim Wallace students yesterday asks the two music 500 marchers rally AFSCME President McCracken 'GRAVE' IMPACT: PROTESTS TOMORROW Anti.war activities planned across U.S ByARTHUR, LERNER Rallies and marches are scheduled across the nation to- morrow in conjunction with the anti-war moratorium called by the National Peace Action. Coalition (NPAC) and the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ). Spokesmen say this moratorium has the broadest base of support that any "of the anti-war actions have had in recent years, including support from organized labor in many areas. In Ann Arbor, a full day of anti-war activities, sponsored by the Ann Arbor Coalition to End the War, will begin with a march at noon from the Diag to city hall to promote reg- 'U' officials grapple with looming fund cutsi comment on the results of the. balloting. By CARLA RAPOPORT While University department heads say they have already stripped their programs to skele- tal proportions because of this year's stringent state appropria- tion, an additional two per cent general fund cutback appears imminent. This new cutback will come directly from the governor, who is empowered to cut appropria- tions by as much as three per cent if he decides it is necessary, to balance the state budget. In a letter to all state depart- ment heads, including President Robben Fleming, the governor's budget bureau has asked each state unit to submit by Friday a description of the "impact" such a cutback would have on their programs. Whether Gov. William Milli- ken will order the entire three per cent cut at this time is un- sure, but for the past week, University officials and faculty members have been discussing various ways of dealing with the full cut. "The impact of such a cut will Panther chief faces trial today for alleged '67 police slaying certainly be grave," says Allan Smith, vice president for aca- demic affairs, "but the state is facing a very serious financial situation also. We've got to be ready to make cutbacks." As state appropriations make up only 60 per cent of the Uni- versity's general fund, a three per cent cutback ordered by Mil- liken will constitute about two per cent out of the total general fund budget. The consensus of recent faculty- administration meetings, Smith said yesterday, is that fully one-third to one-half of the impending cutback should be absorbedinnon-academic areas. These areas include new lab equipment, road repair, elevator maintenance and other non- salary expenditures. According to Smith, there was also.a general agreement at the meetings that certain areas of the University be immune from the cutbacks. These areas are faculty and staff salary increases and benefits, student aid pro- grams, and increased funds for library materials. Whether the remaining portion of the funding reduction would be reached through an across- the-board cut of all units is yet uncertain. Plans for the cutback will be finalized by tomorrow night in order to be presented to the Re- See BUDGET, Page 8 Ever since the University and' the union agreed on a new con- tract last February - after a three day strike - a controversy has been brewing between the two parties over interpretations of that contract. The issues include disagree- ments over promotions and trans- fers. grievance procedures, sick' time. lay-offs and wash-up time. One Union activist contended that the failureofthe strike vote was due to a lack of awareness among the membership to prob- lems facing them. Because union members did not understand these problems, the union activists con- tended, they saw a strike as too drastic a measure. The activist charged the Univer- sity with seeking too divide the union membership. Backing his charge, he said that somehow a rumor circulated among Univer- sity's printers that the University had been willing to budget' higher raises than the union negotiated in the final contract. Union activists maintain that such statements were false rumors circulated, by the University to try and undermine the trust of printers in the union. Three weeks ago, before call- ing a strike vote, the union had presented a list of complaints to the University requesting answers. The union received a written re- sponse two days later and twvo spe- cial conference were held to dis- cuss the issues. Still dissatisfied with the re- sultt, the union sent a letter out to all 2,450. members of the local presenting the union's complaint and the University's answers to them-asking the membership to vote whether they approved of a strike to settle the differences. Sunday's tally was the result of this balloting. istration for "votes to end the, war." A teach-in and workshops held' in the afternoon will lead up to an anti-war convocation tomorrow night in Hill Aud. The moratorium is only one na- tionally planned program in the fall offensive against the Vietnam war. Marty campuses expect much larger anti-war activities next month in the next phase of the anti-war drive. This month, many large cam- puses and communities which have traditionally been associated with militant anti - war activity, are conspicuously lacking in programs for tomorrow. In Detroit, picketers will protest the Defense Department business of Singer and Firestone, urging shoppers to boycott those two companies. Wayne State University will host' a convocation on racism in the military, and students at Oakland University will vote on a referen- dum on the seven point peace proposal of the Provisional Revo- lutionary Government of South Vietnam. In Highland Park, a Detroit sub- urb, the mayor has proclaimed tomorrow Moratorium Day and has given city employes the after- noon off. National moratorium or- ganizers have labled Highland Park a model moratorium city, typical of many small communities See ANTI-WAR, Page 8 Servicemen refus8e war assignment ALAMEDA, Calif. (P)-A group of 11 servicemen said yesterday athat 1,000 crewmen from the air- craft carrier Coral Sea have pe- titioned Congress to keep their ship from sailing to another com- bat mission off Vietnam. Between 30 and 35 of the ship's 4,500 crewmen will refuse to re- port for duty Nov. 12 when the ship is scheduled to sail for South- east Asia, the group said at a news conference. Wearing civilian clothes and accompanied by supporters, the 11 men began a sitdown vigil at midday at the east gate to the Alameda Naval Air Base, where the Coral Sea is anchored. Ala- meda adjoins Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. The men said they planned to camp until this morning when the ship sets out for eight days of sea trials. "The ship will not go back to Vietnam. If the petition doesn't work, we have other means," said one man who identified himself as Seaman Larry Harris, 20, of Philadelphia, Pa. OAKLAND, Calif. (R) - Black Panther chieftain Huey New- ton, charged with manslaughter, goes on trial a third time today in the shooting of a rookie Oakland policeman four years ago. The trial is the latest in a long series of Black Panther trials that have been widely criticized for being "political" in nature. Re-t cently juries have become increas- ingly reluctant to convict the Panthers - most notably in the cases of Panther co-founder Bob- by Seale, Chief of Staff David Hilliard and the trial of 13 Pan- thers on a bombing charge in New York. Police security will be tighter than at the previous two trials, said Superior Court Judge Lyle Cook. He said everyone entering the 48-seat courtroom will be searched. Alameda County supervisors or- dered tighter restrictions follow- ing incidents of courtroom out- bursts. Charles Garry, Newton's law- yer, said he plans several bids to NEW RESTAURANTS Organic food demand blossoms By BETH OBERFELDER Eating h a b i t s are changing" here inrthe city as the sprouting Sof several "organic" food stores in the past few years offer food shoppers a more natural - and many claim more healthy-menu to select meals from. In addition to buying naturalr foods off the shelf, the Ann Ar- bor community wil soon have the option of ordering organic meals from two restaurants slated to open soon: Organic, as it refers to the I -.....i s" ran] cw3 .o....,}/-..;,".:.:J .: delay the trial - one on grounds it should be postponed until the California Supreme Court rules on whether 18-21 year olds should sit on juries. "Huey is confident if he gets a cross-section of people on the jury from his own peer group he will be acquited," Garry said. "If he is tried by old, middle class racists, we've got problems." Newton is 29. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale, is accused of shooting patrolman John Frey, 23, on Oct. 28, 1967. At an eight-week trial in 1968, Newton was charged with first- degree murder but was convicted of manslaughter. He served 22 months of a 2-15 year sentence before a retrial was ordered by an appeal court in August 1970 on grounds the jury was improperly instructed. The second trial ended in a hung jury after six days' deliber- atior:. He has been free since on $50,000 bail. Garry has told two previous juries that Newton had no motive for the shooting, adding that New- ton was due to be off probation for an earlier offense only hours before the incident. Garry said Newton was quot- ing his constitutional rights to of- ficer Frey, that Frey became in- > _ E i r E .i i i ' 1 i 'CONTROVERSY '71' Maddox speaks to ' By SUE STARK and BILL LILLVIS The program was billed as "Con- troversy Series '71" and contro- versy was indeed what Georgia's Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox gave the audience of less than 300-many who came to spar with him-Sun- day in Hill Aud. In a low-keyed speech, the for- mer Democratic governor of Georgia called for a closure in what he termed the truth and Americawill not long be a free' 'country." In remarks interspersed with down-south humor, Maddox de- cried public officials "who cam- paign under one platform and live by another." Maintaining that h y p o c r i s y among public officials ought to be rooted out wherever it can be found, he called on the press to help in this task. Using anecdotes to illustrate his udience, would bring more people into the city compounding problems by breeding more ghettos, crime, wel- fare, and pollution. "And where they goin' to get this money?" he drawled. "From the working people, who else? They put more into revenue shar- ing than they get out," he said. "We're told the m o n e y will strengthen city, county, and state governments-but the exact oppo- site is true," Maddox claimed. .. ...... .....