GARBAGE GRIPES Trash collection troubles city By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN As students trickled back to Ann Arbor this fall, they brought with them an ex- pected burden to the Department of Public Works (DPW)-30,000 person's worth of additional garbage. But this fall some Ann Arbor residents found themselves awakening not to the oh- so-dreary clatter of sanitation engineers making their rounds, but instead to the buzzing of flies hovering about their un- collected rubbish. At a September City Council meeting, spectators roared with laughter as irate citizens detailed their sluggish rubbish collections. The problem seemed particu- larly acute in student neighborhoods, where it was reportedly frequent for a person to see the same garbage sitting in the same spot day after day. Yet despite the laughter of the unin- volved, garbage accumulation is a serious matter. Although garbage collection now follows a regular schedule, according to Superintendent of Public Works F r e d Mammel, local residents say there were weeks this fall during which no garbage was picked up in many areas. The main problem impeding orderly gar- bage collection is the city's austerity bud- get. This year's appropriation for garbage collection is $1,014,589, up from $896,668 last year. However, this includes a nine per cent contracted pay increase to all employes and assumption of all fringe benefits, making it a real decrease, ex- plains Bud Greelick of DPW. Another reason for the tight garbage collection is that the department is in the process of being reorganized. Hence, it will operate on an interim basis for approxi- mately the next 18 monthhs, after which it will presumably undergo complete re- vision and modernization. In the meantime, however, the lack of proper funding has led to curtailed service. "The funding prior to July 1 was insuf- ficient," Mammel states. To maintain a regular schedule City Council late in Sep- tember allocated a $50,000 emergency sub- sidy from the city's general fund. This sum will keep the collections con- stant for the six weeks following the allo- cation. During this time DPW awaits receipt of newer trucks - termed "Shoe- pack" by the manufacturer-which require, fewer employes than the trucks presently in use. Mammel predicts that the first shipment of these trucks should arrive within the next few weeks and that the balance should arrive by March 1. See AREA, Page 6 -Daily-Tom Gottlieb One of the city's finest,. . -Daily-Tom Gottlieb . . . and the kitchen sink BUSING AND THE GOVERNOR See Editorial Page Y L gilt 4:3 a i149 POLAR High--50 Low-20 Warmer; chance of showers Vol. LXXXII, No. 49 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, November 5, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages DISSENT GOES ON: H ouse Govt. insists passes on bomb test' WASHINGTON UP-The White House turned aside mount- ing protests against a planned underground nuclear test off the Alaskan coast yesterday as opponents prepared a last ditch appeal to the Supreme Court. The explosion is scheduled for Saturday at 5 p.m. EST on Amchitka Island to test the five megaton hydrogen bomb warhead for the Spartan antiballistic missile. Asked about White House reaction to continuing protests and petitions, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said "a most careful study was given to ,all aspects including potential en- vironmental risk." It was decided to proceed with the test, he said, becausej of overriding interests of national defense and security. Seven environmental groups op- measures p reven WASHINGTON UP-The House of Representatives voted late last night to clamp harsh restrictions on the government and the federal courts in an effort to prevent forced busing of school children to overcome segregation. to Fiusing SGC acts to expand bail fund By LINDSAY CHANEY Indigent persons detained in the Washtenaw County Jail on mis- demeanor charges will be bailed out daily by the Student Govern- ment Council Bail Fund as a re- sult of an amendment to Council operating procedures approved last night. As previously set up, the SGC Bail Fund was designed primarily to bail out students who had been jailed during mass a r r e s t s. Amendments to the procedure last night empower SGC to pro- vide bail money from the fund to anyone who cannot pay his own bail. Council also designated last night a committee to draft a poli- cy statement on SGC appoint- ments to University advisory committees. Previous SGC administrations have refused to appoint student members to University committees which have only advisory powers, claiming that such appointments would legitimize token student representation in decision-making. However, a related issue is whe- ther the University committees will recognize SGC as the only legiti- mate body qualified to appoint students. Many Senate Assembly committees now specify that gra- uate students be appointed by Graduate Assembly, which may soon be replaced by the new Graduate Federation. SGC maintains that it and it alone should make all appoint- ments, including graduate stu- dents to the University commit- posing the explosion prepared their appeal to the Supreme Court, ask- fi::s.".":. , .::::::::".. . .. ..:.:.. .....::: ..:::::: .::::.::::.: blast. Sen. Democratic leader M i k e Mansfield of Montana told report- .:;::...> ers he hopes the court stops it, calling it "dangerous and an out rage." Sens. George McGovern (D-SD), and Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.), also joined in protests. Lawyers for the environmental ,} groups contended there is evidence) . the AEC violated the National En-z vironmental Policy Act of 1969 by: refusing to include adverse com- X. ment on the test in its environ-... mental impact statement. They pointed to formerly secret .7 i documents that showed President Nixon's chief environmental ad-X viser Russell Train concluded al- f most a year ago that the test < could trigger a large natural earth- quake and release radiation into the sea. According to a memo written by Jimmy Caras, five times world pockett Train, the chairman of the Coun- Michigan Union yesterday afternoon. cil on Environmental Quality, such --- a blast could trigger a chain of earthquakes w h o s e combination SENATE UNIT ACTS: could amount to a major quake. While this, in itself, would not. cause serious damage in the re-' ! mote, and sparsely populated Aleu- e a present an unknown risk of gen- erating a tsunami, or tidal wave, that could sweep across the Pacific 0 0 Ocean bringing destruction to dist- ant shores. The Train memo also warnedl that radioactivity from the blast could move upward through brok- WASHINGTON ()-The Senate ago re en rock and find its way to the Foreign Relations Committee chop- to 27. sea in only a year or two, instead ped the defeated foreign aid bill Con of the 145 years predicted by the into separate economic and mili- ures i Atomic Energy Commission. tary aid sections yesterday, while nextw Although the outcome of Satur- the House began work on a resolu- either day's blast is as yet unknown, U.S. tion that would revive temporarily man J scientists in Palmer, Alaska will be the current program. answe the first to measure its effects. The Senate panel, in a, series of The1 Minutes after the underground close votes, slashed the funds for had on explosion of the five m e g a ton t 9 ., aid pr ThtcetssatPlehilb adt Acting in what Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) called "haste, ex- citement and hysteria," the House adopted a series of potentially far- See related story on the High- er Education Bill, Page 10. reaching amendments that could sharply slow the pace of deseg- regation. One amendment would prevent expenditure of any federal funds for busing. Another would prohibit the federal government from re- quiring a state to spend state or local funds for busing. Still another would delay a court-ordered busing plan until all possible appeals have been ex- hausted, which could mean two or three years. All the amendments were added to a massive, $21.7 billion higher education bill, which was headed toward passage early this morn- ing. acWarnings that the House was acting irresponsibly and in viola- tion of the Constitution w e r e brushed aside at the late night session as members rushed enthus- iastically to get on record against busing. Southerners clapped and cheered as Northerners with a long history of opposing antibusing amend- ments when only the South was affected by them trooped down the aisle to vote for the amend- ~ts -Daily-Jim Wallace The Champ billiards champion, demonstrates his prize winning form at the *Taylor strikes back SGC member Brad Taylor posts a bill on a trash container urging the defeat of a proposition on the upcoming SGC referendum ask- ing his removal from office. The recall campaign was initiated last summer after Taylor testified about local anti-war activities before the House Internal Security Committee. NIXON OBJECTS: House unit supports retroactive pay hikes sure split into te bomb, they will begin checking to retail see if the blast had indeed trig- gered a tidal wave. prov tees. The SGC is expected to draft a statement asking that Senate Assemblyerecognize Council as the onlybody empowered to appoint students and stipulating that Council will appoint no students unless such recognition is given. The draft statement will be acted on at the next Council meeting. According to Joel Silverstein, the member-at-large who spon- sored the bail fund amendm-nt, "there are 10 to 15 people in the Countyajail at all times who { cannot afford ten dollars bail." The Bail Fund Board, which administers the SGC bail money, was expanded last night to include i The scientists at Palmer will be admi See NIXON, Page 10 ure1 omen plat conference t By RACHEL GOODSTEIN org The founding conference of the ach Michigan Women's Political Cau- abl; cus (MWPC)" will be held to- me morrow at Michigan State Uni- won versity. poli The state branch of the Na- cre tional Women's Political Caucus ing plans to back feminist-humanist sys aa measures To $2.2 bilion int ned an array of restrictive $34 4 isions opposed by the Nixon was u inistration and sent the meas- In t to the Senate which six days mittee weeka beyon haven tip11a tions f defens of Coll m~rr OwIt e omorrow ata1l til the session anizing across party lines to regula ieve feminist goals will prob- House y have a profound and im- sharp] diate effect. MWPC will offer Ant men a place, or home in the seekin tical system. It may also in- for ye ase the trend of women leav- arated the traditional two-party sectio. tem." vote a ecnoi help ejected a $2.9 billion bill 41 aid," House Appropriations Chair- man George Mahon (D-Tex.), sideration of the two meas- said, "and I believe there will be a s expected to begin early vast reduction." week. Asked if he thought Mahon nevertheless hopes to could win approval chair- push through a bill that would . William Fullbright (D-Ark.) continue funds for foreign aid, red, "I think it's marginal." defense and the anti-poverty pro- Nixon administration, which grams past their present expira- riginally sought a $3.5 billion tion date to the end of the year's ogram, said before the ac-I congressional session. hat anything less than the House action is expected next billion voted in the House Tuesday but the interim continu- racceptable. ing resolution faces heavy opposi- the House, the rules com- tion in the Senate. cleared for floor action next ----. a resolution to provide funds. d Nov. 15 for programs which 't received their appropria- for the current fiscal year- e, anti-poverty, the District umbia and foreign aid n grte s t rovides foreign aidfundingj evel of about $2.8 billion un- e end of the congressional n, pending action on the By MARCIA ZOSL r appropriations bill which Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D. leaders said would be cut Hart (D-Mich.) will be among py. i-war senators have been Detroit's broadly-based anti-war< i-wa seatos hve een morrow. g split foreign aid proposals ars. A foreign aid bill sep- The Detroit demonstration w into military and economic national chain of anti-war demo ns would allow senators to uled for 16 regional centers. The gainst military assistance to sponsored nationally by the Natio men~s WASHINGTON (R) - The House Banking Committee yes- The amendment barring the use- of any federal funds for busing, terday angered President Nixon and delighted organized labor offered by Rep. John Ashbrook by approving retroactive payment of most previously nego- (R-Ohio), was adopted 233 to 124. tiated wage increases stymied by the wage freeze. The one delaying the effective The provision would require payment of all but "grossly date of court-ordered busing plans, disproportionate" pay raises negotiated before Aug. 15. The by Rep. William Broomfield (R-c- Mich), was approved 235 to 125 committee also added a number of other drastic revisions o Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) of- the President's proposed Phase 2 economic legislation. . fered an amendment to prevent Organized labor, which reportedly has been fighting up- the federal government from re- hill for refunds of "frozen" raises, saw the committee action quiring the expenditure of state as a victory. "It's a whole new ball game," an AFL-CIO and local funds, which was adopt- ed 231 to 126. spokesman said. ANTI-WAR RALLY . set, AW .) and Sen. Philip the speakers at demonstration to- ill be part of a nstrations sched- protests are co- nal Peace Action tomorrow County Jail and on to Kennedy Square for speeches. Featured speakers will include McGovern, Hart, Tom Turner of the AFL-CIO, Pete Kelley of the United Auto Workers, State Rep. Jackie Vaughn (D-Detroit) of the Angela Davis Defense Commit- tee, and Janet Wingo of the Welfare Rights Or- ganization. A wide variety of groups, ranging from labor unions to the Michigan Federation of Teachers, -" Nixon reacted sharply in a statement read to reporters at the White House. "The Committee's action is clearly inconsistent with the purposes of the economic sta- bilization program," he said. "It would provide for a piecemeal ap- proach to the development of the program," he said, and "limit the flexibility" of the Pay Board and the Price Commission., The AFL-CIO said of the White House reaction, "It is obvious that Congress has more regard for the validity of contracts than does the White House." The committee's decision came in the form of a proposed amend- ment to legislation aimed at ex- tending Nixon's power to take maa~rc nb~-oilizP the economyf~l.