THE WOMEN'S POLITICAL MOVEMENT See Editorial Page Y L SAfr Dati DISAPPOINTING High-low 60's Low-mid 40's Mostly cloudy, chance of showers Vol. LXXXII, No. 46 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 2, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages SETBACK FOR MAYOR: Tax committee gives Senate aims surprise split report for interim By TAMMY JACOBS A Citizen's Tax Committee- expected by many to recom- mend that Ann Arbor adopt a one per cent personal income tax-told City Council instead last night that it was equally divided on the issue. The report of the predominantly Republican committee came as a setback to Democratic Mayor Rob- ert Harris, who had hoped the committee would advocate the tax, thus giving the mayor a better chance at enlistingytheRepublican Council votes needed to pass his tax resolution. The resolution will come before the council in a first reading next Monday. In order for an income tax pro- posal to be on a city-wide ballot in time for it to take effect during: the 1972-73 fiscal year, it must be passed by the council by Nov. 15. The tax committee's report, a prelude to an expected major rec- ommendation sometime next year, was presented by its chairman, John Laird, who told the council the split came because of "philo- sophical differences" in regard to Guy Larcom, city administrator, and Ma the city's priorities among mem- (below), chairman of the Citizens' Tax WASHINGTON OP--The Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee agreed yesterday that the United States should stay in the foreign aid business,astCongress appeared headed to ward a stopgap resolution to keep the program alive. But controversy loomed over the duration of any such revival measure, and the shape of a long-term foreign aid formula. The Foreign Relations Committee spent some 90 minutes behind closed doors discussing the future and the impact of last Friday night's Senate vote that killed the $2.9 billion foreign aid authorization bill. No votes were taken at the committee session and no formal decisions made. -Daily- City Clerk Harold Saunders 1 bers of the committee. e CityAdministrator Guy Larcom, H o se- t - 1ouse 'l as well as other members of the, city administration, have been urging adoption of the tax, saying fo * e s1p r vl that 'Ann Arbor faces a budget - crisis next year, with projected revenues of $12 million and pro- jected "normal, growth" expendi- By CRIS ARKStures of $14.5 million. Following weeks of pressure from both inside and out- However, the tax committee's side city hall, City Clerk Harold Saunders announced last report cites "philosophical differ- night his willingness to institute a program of door to door ences concerning the approximate voter registration in Ann Arbor. levels and types of sources which; the city ought to be providing as Saunders' announcement, which came in the form of a well as varying estimates as to the joint report prepared with City Administrator Guy Larcom, potential for increased operating concluded that he would "recommend that door to door reg- efficiency w i t h i n city govern-1 istration be instituted in Ann Arbor." ment." In fact, the committee report The move could have a large effect in increasing regis- aysthat about half the 20 com- tration among Ann Arbor's newly enfranchised youths. 'mittee, members estimate a rev- The conclusion came as a surprise to many who opposed enue-expenditure gap of less than the door to door concept. $500,000, as compared to the gap five times that great projected by Councilman James Stephenson'! 1Ile ses Larcom. (R-Fourth Ward) expressed shock U lf Simultaneously with the t a x' at the decision telling Saunders "I committee report last night came can't believe you're recommending ; a "budget outlook" report from it" voter figures Larcom's office, suggesting three Supporters of the concept, as budget alternatives for 1972-73- well, were caught off guard by the a "no growth" budget, a "sub- decision. By MARK ALLSHOUSE level" budget, and a projected The report had followed the City Clerk Harold Saunders re- budget if an income tax is passed. Larcom told the council his re- introduction of a resolution three ported yesterday that 4 259 18-20 port was "not intended to be weeks ago by Councilmen Norris year-old voters have been regis- alarmist, or to overstate the fig- Thomas (D-First Ward) which tered in Ann Arbor since the vot- ures," but that the city needs would have instructed the clerk to t i"g rs" besources," and whether institute door to door registration. ing age was lowered this summer. "reat resonce a whether or not the income tax proposal is At that time action was deferred This represents close to 12 per passed, "We must reconsider the until the clerk along with the city cent of the total registered vot- tax structure of this city." administrator could compile a re- ers in Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor's tax system present- port on the feasibility of such a ly includes a 14.85 mill property project. Of the new voters who were reg- tax, which would be reduced auto- Mayor Robert Harris explained istered during the massive voter matically by 7.5 mills if the income last night, since the clerk has the , registration drive this fall, three- tax is passed. authority to take such action with- fourths registered at locations Although Harris is optimistic out the approval of the council, other than City Hall. about the chances of passing the! Council meeting last night. DIVERSE GROUPING: Thirty sti Scandidac -Daily-David Margolick yor Robert Harris (above, from left) listen as John Laird Committee, explains a point of his group's report at the City --dents declare ,y In SGC race By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Thirty students have declared themselves candidates for the nine Student Government Coun- cil member at largevacanciesuto be filled in a campus-wide elec- tion Nov. 16 and 17. The period during which candidacy may be filed ended yesterday afternoon. The turnout of candidates is unusually large, particularly for a November election. Tradition- ally the March elections, which include the SGC presidential con- test and voting for various Uni- versity boards as well as elec- tions of members at large and referenda, have elicited more student interest than those in November. The nine Council vacancies represent three-fourths of the at- large SGC seats. This large num- ber of vacancies results from SGC's decision not to appoint students to replace the four m e m b e r s who resigned from Council last month. Two candidates - Bill Jacobs, '73 and Donald Wurster, '75- withdrew from the race almost immediately after declaring their candidacy. "I think the one thing I can " say is that there wasn't any dis- position to do nothing," said Sen.J.W F1rh(b o ard J. W. Fuibright (D - Ark.), the c h a i r m a n. "Something will be done, but what it will be, I have iaw legal, Fulbright said the critical issue to him would be the military side of foreign aid, particularly such judge items as the sharply increased al- 3 lowance for Cambodia, which 'would have received $341 million A ruling by a Livingston County under the defeated Senate bill, judge has upheld the legality of He said the Foreign Relations the city's three - month - old bill- Committee wants to discuss the board control ordinance. whole situation with Secretary of The r u1i n g, from Livingston State William Rogers and Agency County 'Circuit Court Judge Paul f o r International Development Mahinske, lifted a restraining or- (AID) administrator John Han- der on the city's new ,sign ordi- nah, as soon as possible. Fulbright nrn e ctprnonedi g lr y apernance and pronounced it "legally said hehoped they couldha enacted." before the panel within the next few days. Mahinske also ruled that nine seemed" billboards planned for erection in For the moment, there Ann Arbor by Central Outdoor to be as many ideas about a solu- Advertising Co. could not be built, tion as members of the committee. as they would violate the local Sen. Gale McGee (D-Wyo.) said he thinks foreign aid should be ordinance. continued by resolution, which The city ordinance enacted Aug. would authorize spending at about 21 came as the result of five years the current $2.6 billion-a-year lev- effort to deal with the prolifera- el, at least until Jan. 1. tion of signs and billboards along Senate Republican Leader Hugh Iroads. Ecologists throughout the Scot sid cotiningreslui state and country have waged Scott saidacouing esution legal action against billboard com- is likely, followed by an interim panies-blasting the signs as "en- foreign vaid bill to be drafted by pironmental eye-sores the Foreign Relations Committee, with an overhauled assistance plan' Signs with moving or flashing presented to the next session of parts, signs obstructing windows Congress. and doors and signs deemed traffic Sen. Frank Church (D - Idaho) hazards are prohibited under the ordinance, and sizes of billboards said 30 days of new life for foreign and a r e a s where they can be aid should give the committee erected are strictly limited. enough time to fashion a new-look Arethetictlyflisi ngd. foreign aid system, which probably At the time of his ruling last would trim away much of the mili- week Mane annuned im- tary assistance provided by the self removed from further jurisdic- defeated bill. tion in the case. The White House said it is im- He had issued the restraining 'perative that the program be order three m o n t h s ago-only continued by resolution. hours after the ordinance had The the House, Appropriations been e n a c t e d-at Central's re- Committee Chairman George Ma- quest. hon (D-Tex.) said he would try to Since the restraining order, Cen- push through a "stopgap" resolu- tral had been trying to. obtain tion to keep things "as is" for 30 approval for the erection of the days beyond Nov. 15, when AID is billboards, which Mahinske had now due t~o expire. originally ordered the city to al- n deoreiet low.That order was negated, how- Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt.) said eeb uigfo ahea he thinks the extension should be ever, by a ruling from Washtenaw limtedtk t 30xdysn pasNov. 1. County Circuit Court which or- limited to 30 days past Nov. 15. dered maintainance of the status "If you can't work it out in six quo regarding billboards until a weeks then you can't work it out," hearing was held on the matter. he said. The State Department said fail- At the hearing Sept. 15, Mahins- ure of Congress to pass a resolu- ke said the city ordinance had tion to keep AID alive would re- been adopted according to proper sult in the loss of 4,126 employes procedures, but he left the ques- by Nov. 15. tion open as to whether Central could erect the nine billboards Marty Scott Michael Davis Those who remain represent three party groupings along with 16 independents. Included in the 28 are three women and two blacks, comprising ten per cent and seven per cent of the total field, respectively. Although the group compr ses mostly students in the literary college-21 of the candidates, there are also three graduate students, one law student, two engineering students, and one education student. Four candi- dates are incumbents. a resolution urging him to do so is now unnecessary: While leaving open the possibil- ity of terminating the program if it proved unsatisfactory, Saunders1 indicated he would proceed with the necessary steps including re-r education of present deputies and increasing deputy training to get the program moving.7 He said he hopes door to door, registration can begin by Decem- ber. 1 Under Saunders' program, out- lined in the report, registration materials will be checked out in~ lots of 25 to registrars who will be1 assigned a specific area of the city to canvass. Registration in dorms or apart- ment complexes where door to door solicitation is, illegal, would' be carried on from "a table in the lobby or commons area."l The number of those who reg- resolution in time for it to go on! a February city-wide ballot, Mayor, istered "was less, than I had pro - tem James Stephenson (R- hoped for," said Saunders. He felt Fourth Ward)-generally consid- that some students may have been ered the leader of council's Repub- undecided about changing their lican majority-last night said he registration from their home townswas inclined to oppose the tax." If the vote goes, as expected, by to Ann Arbor, and would register party lines, Harris will need the here later. votes of all four Democratic coun- cilmen plus one Republican. Rob- According to the 1970 census, ert W e av er (R-Second Ward), there are 13,865 18-20 year-olds in often the "swing vote" on the the city of Ann Arbor. Saunders council, said last night he was says that only 30 per cent of these "generally in favor" of the tax, newly eligible voters have regis- but refused to commit himself. In order to pass a personal in- tered here. 'come tax resolution by Nov. 15, Saunders also reported that 75 council will have to work overtime per cent of the approximately 70,- during the next two weeks. Be- 000 Ann Arbor residents of voting sides the regular Nov. 8 and Nov. age have already registered.nnf 15 meetings, a special working ses- a sion is scheduled for this session, those over 21 who are eligible, 86 and open hearings will be held per cent have registered. several nights next week. SGC puts referenda on November ballot One of the party groupings which filed yesterday has also registered to become a student organization. The party, called Government Reform of Univer- sity Policy (GROUP), includes Michael Davis, Grad, John Koza, Grad., Bob Nelson, '74L, Iale Oesterle, Grad, and Marty Scott, '72. Each of these candidates has served at least one year on SGC. Scott was Council president in 1969-70; both Davis and Nelson have been Council vice president. Koza has assisted in previous SGC campaigns, and both he and Davis were instrumental in work- ing to abolish Graduate Assem- bly. The second five-member party is the Radical People's Coalition, which includes incumbents Ar- lene Griffen, '73, and Joel Silver- stein, '72 as well as Jean Tes- hima, '74, Art Nishoika, '74 and Allison Stieber, '72. The third party is the Respon- sible Al ter native Party, a moderate-conservative grouping. Running on this slate are Doug Rick, '75E and William Kre- baum, '75. l t In addition to electing nine members at large to Student Government Council, students will vote Nov. 16 and 17 on a wide variety of referenda, two of which aim to "open up SGC." One referendum would grant SGC the right to hold a special referenda election each term, at its discretion. The purpose of these refer- enda votes would be to enable students to decide what they consider "important issues" on which Council should work, ac- cording to member at large Joel Silverstein, '72. Although SGC now has the power to authorize such special elections, Silverstein explained that the referendum would le- gitimize the idea with a "man- date" from the students. The second referendum would extend the "transferable ballot" system now used for SGC presi- dential voting to elections of members at large as well. Under this system, students would in- dicate their choices for Council members in order of preference, up to the number specified by SGC before each election. ,An additional provision of the referendum stipulates that a quota of first place votes re- quired for election be established in each balloting. This quota is defined as the "whole number Just greater than the quotient obtained by dividing the total number of seats to be filled." Thus, for example, if 4,900 first place votes were cast, with seven Council vacancies to fill, a candidate would need 701 of these votes for election. Secretary of Defense MelviniI: Laird warned yesterday that the Mahinske had previously quash- scuttling of the U.S. foreign aid ed a 1966 sign ordinance, starting program could adversely affect a five year legal struggle. He con- withdrawal of American forces tended that thes1966ordinance from Vietnam. was not related to public health, But, Laird told a White House: safety, morals or welfare, and that news conference he plans to tell it was retroactive and would have South Vietnamese officials this involved taking down signs already week that he does, not expect the on display. Senate's rejection of the overseas The city has been in the process assistance program will stand.' "I am going to assure the Viet- of appealing the decision for al- namese that ... corrective action most five years. It is currently in will be taken," Laird said. the U.S. District Court of Appeals. Elections across nation Student vote may cause tremors, not m quakes. in. country's college towns: today Observers seek 72 election hints WASHINGTON {A') - Elections ross the country today are be- g watched for trends and hints r the presidential politics of 72 despite a remarkable ab- =ce of national involvement in ost of them. A SALUTARY FEAST Black women dine, hear secrets By JEANNE FOX. and GAYLE POLLARD Some of the secrets of black womanhood were revealed at Markley Hall Sunday evening as t about 150 black women ate Muslim delicacies and basked in a salute given them by members of two black fraternities. Political activist Fannie Lou Hamer addressed the banquet guests on their roles in life, saying "Black women should support their men, because By SARA ITZGERALD College town officials across the country trembled when 18 to 21- year-olds won the vote last sun- mer. With "visions of Berkeley" in their heads, they feared stu- dtnt wmid wn nntrl o lon, Ohio, received rulings after the registration deadline for this elec- tion. And in many towns, students played what seemed like a game of "Twenty Questions" with city clerks in determining whether they enni ras rthr act ing for 197 ser me 4 samma munamar.