SUNDAY DAILY See Editorial Page S1ir1 igau A& COLDER High-22 Low-5 Chance of snow Vol. LXXXI, No. 115 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, February 14, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages A&P hit for long hair rule By JONATHAN MILLER The A&P store on Huron St. summoned a deective to its premises yesterday after- noon after about 25 demonstrators blocked check-out counters with loaded shopping carts in protest of the store's policy barring long- haired men from employment. Det. Paul Bunten of the Ann Arbor police department said yesterday he intended to "seek authorization from the prosecutor for arrest warrants for those who can be iden- tified," as having been responsible for the disruption of the store. He did not specify which law the demon- strators were alleged to have broken saying only that it was "a matter for the prose- cutor." Yesterday's ;demonstration occurred after several long-aired employes refused to get their hair trimmed in compliance with an order from the store manager, Warren Hart- * man. A&P Personal Appearance Standards state that male employes hair must be "trimmed and combed, properly taperd above shirt collar and not below half-way down the fore- head." Hartman gave the employes a week to comply, and the deadline expired Friday. An ad hoc group of students yesterday prepared to protest the policy. I Student Government Council passed a reso- lution Wednesday calling for a boycott of the A&P. During yesterday's demonstration, soft goods such as eggs and cakes were placed on the bottom of many shopping carts, with heavy cans and bottles placed over them. Hartman showed a reporter a squashed vanilla cake saying, "That's a dollar nine- teen right there." He was unable to give a complete figure of losses however. "They just came in, filled 'em up and left them there," he added, indicating laden shop- ping carts strewn around the check-out counters. A store official said about 15-20 "buggies" were abandoned in this manner. in one typical incident, a man with shoulder length hair arrived at a check-out counter where a woman employe began to ring up the purchases on a cash register. He asked her if it was true that long haired male employes were being fired, and she said yes. He then announced that if thetstore would not employ long-haired men, it would not profit from long-haired customers. He then left the store leaving the full "buggie" at the counter. Stock-boys, some of them in short-haired wigs, deemed by the store to be in compli- ance with the hair regulations, were kept busy emptying shopping carts as they ac- cumulated at the check out counters. Bob Taylor, Retail Clerks Union 876 stew- ard at the store said that he felt the A&P should revise its policy against long hair, but added that he could not recommend the rehiring of those workers fired because of the disruption. Robert Quiroz, one worker threatened with firing-said yesterday, "I don't think I should have to cut my hair to keep my job." City Council hears Model Cities debate By KRISTIN RINGSTROM City Council decided last night it had no jurisdiction in a case regarding the recent firing of four employes of the city's Model City Program. The employes, Gwen Andrews, senior clerk typist; Gerald Ulmer, community organizer in economic development; Nancy Berla, as- sistant to the director; and Charlotte Sallee, clerk typist, were fired Wednesday by Wil- liam Stewart, director of the program. City Attorney Jerold Lax explained at the meeting there is no formalized grievance procedure in this type of case. Mayor Robert Harris said that since the members of the Model Cities Policy Board were elected in a city election, the Council could not act as an appellate court to over- rule the Board's action. reborah Grubbs, a policy Board member, and Councilman H.C. Curry objected to Har- ris' statement charging that the majority of the people on the Board are not repre- Laos oftensive intensifies; U.S. air aid doubles -Daily-Terry McCarthy PROTESTING the Huron St. A&P's hiring policy which bars long-haired men from employment. some 25 demonstrators staged a "shop-in" at the local food store yesterday. Picketers outside the A&P (top left) attrmpt to dissuade customers from shopping at the store. Meanwhile, inside the store (top right), over-loaded carts, abandoned by protesters, are emptied by stockboys (bottom). From Wire Service Reports The invasion of Laos went into high gear yesterday as the United States doubled its air support of the invading South Vietna- mese troops, flying 1,000 missions into the beleaguered country. South Vietnamese forces reported the wreckage of North Vietnamese base camps and supply depots on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, as well as the seizure of vast amounts of food stuffs and other stores. Early this morning, North Vietnamese troops launched their first ground assault against the Long Cheng guerrilla base in the northern sector of Laos, and field reports said heavy casualties included at least one agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. An Associated Press correspondent report- ed from Vientiane that Communist soldiers entered the perimeter of the base under cover of mortar fire and rockets. The base has been under heavy pressure from Com- munist forces for several months. It is fi- nanced by the CIA. In Washington, White House Communica- tions Director Herbert Klein reiterated the administration's claim that American ground combat troops are not being used in the Laos invasion. The statement was in reference to a variety of reports over the last four days stating that U.S. ground combat troops were fighting Communist forces in Laos. The aim of the invasion is to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail, the route used by North Vietnamese troops to transport troops and supplies into South Vietnam and Cambodia. In a related drive, 20,000 South Vietnamese troops with full U.S. air support are operat- ing in Cambodia, in an effort at cutting off the Ho Chi Minh trail from the south. The invasion of Laos has prompted large demonstrations, some with violence, at the major college campuses in the United States. Although the demonstrations are not as large as those that followed the U.S. inva- sion of Cambodia last May, anti-war or- ganizers are planning an organizing cam- paign which would culminate in a massive demonstration in Washington during the first week of May. The organizers say the Laos invasion, coupled with the recent drafting of a peace treaty between Vietnamese and American student groups will take the anti-war move- ment out of the lethargy which followed the demonstrations against the Cambodian in- vasion. In Laos yesterday, one South Vietnamese field officer reported that the North Viet- namese Army was on retreat An his unit's sector 12 miles inside Laos south of Highway 9, the east-west road that cuts across the Ho Chi Minh trail. At Long Chen, several planes run by Air America, which flies U.S. non-military aid missions, received ground fire, and the civil- ian pilots called for air support from the U.S. air force. Some Air America pilots refused to fly into the area without protection from fire bombers. Meanwhile, in South Vietnam, U.S. mili- tary spokesmen said North Vietnamese gun- ners fired a barrage of 25 large rockets into the town of Dong Ha, near the demilitarized zone, killing one civilian and wounding seven civilians and a South Vietnamese soldier. The rocket firings seemed to support spec- ulation that the North Vietnamese intend to increase pressure in eastern areas of South Vietnam near the DMZ, as a response to the Laos invasion. CITY MAYORAL PRIMARY 3 GOP candidates vie for nomima tion;,Hri EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the secondof a two-part series on tomorrow's city primary election. Today, the contests for the mayoral candidacies are examined. By ALAN LENHOFF Three candidates will vie for the Republi- can mayoral nomination in tomorrow's pri- mary election. Mayor Robert Harris will run unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The three Republican hopefuls are Louis Belcher, Lewis Ernst and Jack Garris. Belcher, 31, has the support of most promi- nent local Republicans. In his campaign, Belcher calls for the for- mation of an Environmental Impact Com- mission which would play a role in all city planning. The proposed commission would "report on the environmental impact of every city project" he says,but he emphasizes that he will not let it interfere with the "inevit- able" growth of the city. Belcher criticizes Harris for supporting the proposed city ordinance to make marijuana possession a misdemeanor. He calls it "a hypocritical ordinance" adding, "I don't think it changes the law one bit." He says that since County police officers make arrests in the city, only marijuana legislation passed by the State Legislature can be truly effec- tive. Belcher says that although the present drug laws "may- be bad," the police "should vigorously enforce the laweven if it means raiding the communes once a week." Calling the Ann Arbor police "one of the finest municipal police departments in the country", Belcher charges that Harris has restrained them. "Let the police operate on a day-to-day basis," he urges. "The only way to sound financial manage- ment (of the city)," he says, "is to identify revenue levels, set priority program spend- ing and to eliminate those costs not included within these priorities." Belcher says he is not sure where costs can be cut. "One of the first things I'll look at is Model Cities," he says, however. "If I am elected mayor," says 64-year-old retiree Ernst, "I shall try to do without the Human Relations (Department) and Ozone its subscribers with clearer reception and more program variety, in addition to earning money for the city. He further advocates redesigning parking in the downtown area. His plan calls for a double lane of diagonally parked cars in the center of the street with the two outside lanes becoming the "travelled lanes." Ernst says this would please local merchants by making their signs and window displays more easily viewed from the street. Garris, 51, an attorney, is a founder of the Concerned Citizens of Ann Arbor-a contro- versial group that two years ago attempted to recall Harris and six Democratic councilmen because of their allegedly mishandling the South University riots during June 1969. Gar- ris said at the time that the Harris adminis- tration had failed to assure "safety and morality in the city." "If you elect me as your mayor," he says, "I will do everything I can to stop the crimi- nal, the purveyor of pornography, and the revolutionary who advocates the overthrow and destruction of our American way of life from making Ann Arbor a haven for run- away crime. un opposed "I support our police wholeheartedly as they represent the final barrier of our very survival," lie says. "As mayor I promise the businessman every effort will be made to re- duce robbery, arson, intimidation and ex- tortion." Garris says he hopes to "educate our youth to avoid the pitfalls of a drug culture," by rehabilitating addicts, and apprehending and convicting drug pushers. Garris' experience includes 20 years of law practice, two years on the Washtenaw Coun- ty Board of Supervisors, and 14 years as Cir- cuit Court Commissioner. He says "Citizens want an environment where business will thrive and private capi- tal would construct industry, commerce and housing, providing full employment. - "I would give the Ann Arbor Police Dept. a free hand to enforce the laws," he con- tinues. "I would allow law enforcement agen- cies to do their job without political inter- ference." Garris adds that "Citizens are most inter- ested" in living where they are "free from fear, attack, intimidation of their person and destruction of their property." -Associated Press Hunger strike A 56-hour hunger strike passes the half- way mark yesterday in Louisville, Ky., as volunteers demonstrate what life may be like in the year 2,000 because of over-population and food shortage, (See story, page 10.) Group to plan war prote'st' action tonight' An ad-hoc student group has called for a strategy meeting at 7 p.m. in the Union ball- room tonight to plan, future campus anti-war activities and to discuss the Regents response to six demands presented last Friday. The demands called for an end to ROTC and war research on campus, a ban on all rcruiting at the University by corporations that practice discrimination, the establish- ment of a 24-hour child care center, student control over the Course Mart program, and the availability of University facilities to pub- licize the anti-war movement. Over 100 people presented the demands on Friday to the Regents, who declined to con- sider them at that time. At an earlier meeting on Wednesday, some 250 people voted to disrupt the administrative functions of the University if the demands were not immediately met. Plans for tonight's discussion stem from the Wednesday meeting called to protest last week's invasion of Laos. According to a spoksman for the ad-hoc group, the general purpose of tonight's meet- ing is "to end the University's complicity with the war in Southeast Asia." Discussion tonight will also center around "means of implementing plans to shut down the hadministrative operations," the spokes- man stated. Era of ferment: By KENNE' With the football and holi dry spell has set in for at lea nessmen-the liquor retailers. But despite the levelingc this time of the year, a ma community's collective thirst State Liquor Control Comn Arbor area report an increase fiscal year 1970 of six per cer a 14 per cent increase overI several campus area liquor st cates that drinking in the sti up only slightly over the lastf Over the past year severa that among their student con a trend towards wine. Changing spirits TH COHN cording to his store's sales, wine will probably take over iday seasons already past, a an even larger part of the liquor market in the future. ast a handful of area busi- Concerning students' tastes in wines, champagne and other expensive wines are out of the reach of a large off of alcohol sales during percentage of students. arket remains-the campus Thus the trend, besides inclining toward cheaper still needs quenching, brands such as Bali H'ai and Spanada, has favored vin mission records for the Ann roses over red or white wines. "Roses have good, in-be- in gross liquor sales during tween flavors," Kokalis adds, "not too sweet and not nt over the previous year- too dry." 1968. However, a survey of ores and sales figures di- Among the distilled spirits, there appears to be a sudent community has gone definite trend away from straight bourbon and blended few years. whiskey toward scotch, and to a lesser degree, rum. 1 liquor store owners report Kokalis maintains that traditionally "young people zsumers there appears to be cannot get used to whiskey, often preferring it only with a sweetener. More young people are going to scotch, ti .. - r .