TV REALISM See Editorial Page S ir igau iIF PRECARIOUS High-71 Low-45 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 8 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 13, 1974 Ten Cents Ten Pages i I j SEE ESHAMECAIJLK AltY Sale of the year Some folks will merchandise anything. Yester- day a pair of political hucksters were turning heads and profits on the Diags by peddling all-pur- pose pardons at the bargain price of 15 cent each or two for a quarter. "I should have gotten mine in Washington," complained one buyer. "I hear they're going at a lower price there." PIRGIM poll " Voters in Ann Arbor's Second Congressional Districi favor cutting the nation's defense budget to reduce federal spending and hold back infla- tion according to the results of a poll released yesterday by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM). The survey of 198 voters in Ypsilanti, Livonia, Dundee, Monroe, and Ann Arbor showed 30 per cent naming defense as the first area for budget cuts, with 26 suggesting foreign aid and 12 per cent social services and welfare. Two out of three respondents said inflation is the na- tion's worst problem. " Happenings.. .. ... are light today, with the headlines going to a noon Diag rally in protest of President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. The quickly-organized gathering is being sponsored by the Ad Hoc Coali- tion of Ann Arbor Social Change Organizations .. . the Hospital Commission for Woman will meet at noon in W10410 of the hospital . . . East Quad's Halfway Inn players will tap-dance through "Tapi- oca Holiday" to provide dinner-threatre-musical entertainment in the quad's basement Inn .. . No dice The California Bar Association yesterday refused to allow ex-President Richard Nixon to resign from its membership. The rejection came after 100 attorneys launched a petition drive urging the association to continue its investigation of Nixon's activities-a process that could lead to disbar- ment-instead of accepting his resignation. Earlier yesterday, the group received Nixon's letter of resignation. Chenault sentenced Marcus Wayne Chenault was sentenced yester- day to die in the electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr., and a church deacon, during services at historic Ebenezer Baptist church last June. Judge Luther Alverson set Nov. 8 as the execution date for the 23-year-old black college student from Dayton, Ohio. As the prosecutor read the death sentence to the court, Chenault blew kisses at him. The jury found Chenault guilty after little more than an hour of deliberations. Chen- ault's attorney said the sentences would be ap- pealed. More price hikes Ford Motor Co. yesterday said prices on its 1975 model cars and trucks would be an average of $373 or 7.4 per cent higher than 1974-model prices. The percentage increase is lower that the tentative 8 per cent the company had announced in July, and is the lowest introductory price hike of the four major U. S. auto companies. Ford said the increase includes $269 or 5.3 per cent to offset rising costs. More jobless The Michigan unemployment rate for August was 9 per cent of the state's work force, making it the seventh consecutive month that the jobless total has hit that high a figure. The state unemployment figure compares with 5.4 per cent nationally. The Michigan Employment Security Commission said yesterday the state unemployment total was 351,- 700 persons, up 500 from July. The last time the jobless figure dipped below 9 per cent was in January, when it was 8.2 per cent. The peak figure was 10.9 in June. More inflation The government reported yesterday that whole- sale prices rose 3.9 per cent in August, the second biggest monthly jump in 28 years and an indication that inflation may be worsening. Last month's in- crease pushed wholesale prices 17.8 per cent high- er than a year ago and further dimmed the Ford administration's prospects for any significant eas- ing of inflation this year. Administration econo- mists indicated they are again revising their fore- casts. On the inside... ... Beth Nissen lemoans the badness of the first week of classes on the Editorial Page . . . Arts Page features its Cinema Weekend capsule re- views . .. and Rich Learner talks to Dennis Frank- Un' hcr c.hnl nar n te- n .- a SGC s charges ues former 'misuse' Of Rally opens boycott effort By DAVID WHITING United Farm Workers (UFW) vice president Dolores Huerta told a Diag audience of 150 yes- terday that her people are "working on their knees . . . to feed you." Huerta's appearance was in- tended to kick off a fall offen- sive aimed at local stores car- rying non-UFW wine, grapes and lettuce. "WE HAVE GOT to be noisy and bother people and not let anybody eat any grapes or let- tuce, Huerta said, calling for active support from her lis- teners. "When people are picking grapes they are working on their knees, bent over like clothes pins . . . farmworkers walk thousands of miles to feed you," she asserted. She urged sympathizers to join picket lines See HUERTA, Page 3 officers, 42000 Council suit names Jacobs, Schaper By JEFF SORENSEN and DAVID BURHENN Student Government Council President Carl Sand- burg announced last night that SGC has filed suit against former President William Jacobs and ex-treasurer David Schaper for alleged misuse of nearly $42,000 in Council funds. Sandburg revealed the legal action at an SGC meet- ing in which members voted to press criminal charges against controversial former Council President Lee Gill for alleged embezzlement of nearly $16,000 in SGC funds. JACOBS WAS president from March 1972 to May 1973; Scha- per was treasurer from March 1972 to June 1973; and Gill served Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS DOLORES HUERTA, first vice president of the United Farm Workers (UFW) speaks at a Diag rally yesterday. Huerta asked participants to support "a new local boycott effort aimed at con- vincing more shoppers to eschew non-UFW grapes, wine and lettuce. After the rally, a portion of the 150 participants picketed in front of the Village Corner, a major seller of boycotted wines. SIRIC;A DENIES DISMISSALS: White House clarifies Watergate pardon- stance- from May 1973 to January 1974. The lawsuit against Jacobs and Schaper charges that they "exceeded their authority and acted in an impropermanner'' towards SGC "with regard to incurring debts and liability for Council property, and without miaking a sufficient accounting thereof." The civil suit accuses the de- fendants of allegedly making unauthorized deposits and with- drawals'from a number of legi- timate SGC accounts, both in local banks and within the Uni- versity. IT ASKS for an accounting and restitution of $41,863 plus ilterest, attorney's fees and costs. While assistant Coumcil attor- nev Lou Lessem declined to say whether SGC had evidence for criminal prosecution, he ad- mitted that "despite the work of our staff, we can't explain many of the transactions." During the meeting Schaper was served with a copy of the suit and a summons in one of the Council chamber offices. He appeared angry and remarked to one SGC member, "I rigged elections: I screwed people left and right, but I never, never took any money." BOTH SCHAPER and Jacobs are legally bound to appear in court for the hearing, which will be held in Washtenaw Cir- cuit Court. According to Les- sem, "under joint and sev- eral liability both are liable for the whole amount if we serve one of them and not the other." Schaper is presently an Ann Arbor resident and is enrolled at the University. Jacobs is at- tending Columbia Law School. Sandburg said that efforts "will be made in the very near fu- ture" to serve him with a sum- mons. Sandburg told SGC members that he is "confident" the Coun- See SGC, Page 2 Youth center put on probation By CHERYL PILATE The University C e n t e r, a controversial local facility for emotionally disturbed adoles- cent males, has been re-licensed by the state Department of So- cial Services and will be allow- ed to continue operating on a probationary basis. The center was issued a six- month provisional license pend- ing a more thorough investiga- tion of the facility by Social Services and the state attorney general's office. After conducting a four-week inspection of the institution's psychiatric, medical, and edu- cational programs, the Social Services Department discovered "four areas of non-comoliance with certain regulations." HOWEVER, the alleged defi- ciencies at the center involve violations of the city's fire code more than problems in the area of natient care. "The center appeared to gen- erally be in solid shape," asserted Harold Gazan, director of the state inter-agency office. During the past year, the cen- ter has been probed by the U.S. Permanent Investigations Sub- committee and the State De- partment of Mental Health. Both agencies alleged that the facility was guilty of a wide See CENTER, Page 2 By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - The White House denied yesterday that President Gerald Ford had ever considered pardons for the Watergate cover-up defendants before their trial starts Septem- ber 30. Acting Press Secretary John Hushen issued the new clarifica- tion of the presidential position as U.S. District Judge John Sirica denied defense motions for dismissal of charges in the cash. THE DEFENDANTS, includ- ing former Atty. General John Mitchell, had claimed the par- don granted ex-President Rich- ard Nixon has made a fair trial impossible. Members of the Senate Judi- ciary Committee, meanwhile, sought to ensure that the full facts of Nixon's role in Water- gate are made public even though he will not be indicted and tried. While Hushen denied any pos- sibility of a pardon for the Watergate defendants, the Sen- ate reacted' to the furor over Tuesday's White House state- ment that pardons were being studied by voting two-to-one against any blanket amnesty. THE S E N A T E resolution, passed by 55 to 24, declared that it was "the sense of the Senate that the President not grant pardon hereafter to any individual accused of any crim- inal offense arising out of the presidential campaign and elec- tion of 1972 prior to the indict- ment and completion of trial and any appeal of such individ- ual." Hushen said: "There never was any intention on our part to give the impression that the W a t e r g a t e defendants were about to be pardoned at any time and especially not prior to the trial." On Tuesday the White House had said the question of par- dons for the Watergate defen- dants was under study. Later, it said that a blanket amnesty was not being considered, lead- ing to speculation that the orig- inal announcement was made to test public opinion. THE HEWAED discussion of pardons was cited by Mitchel -one of six cover-up defen dants--ir a request for disniissa in 11 I1 of charges against him. Sirica denied that and several similar requests for dismissal or indefinite delay from two other defandants, former White House chief of staff H. R. "Bob" Haldeinan and former White House advisor John Ehrlichman. The judge disclosed his rulings following a long closed meeting with attorneys for the six de- fendants. According to sources familiar with the case, in the final days of his presidency Nixon re- ceived and rejected appeals. for pardons from Ehrlichman and Haldeman. First-day strife hits Boston area schools BOSTON (1P) - Several black children were hurt yesterday when buses were stoned by white youths in one of the few incidents on the first day of the court-ordered busing for t h i s city's 200 schools, the mayor's office said. Three to five children were in- jured when rocks smashed win- dows in five buses after they pulled away from "L" Street Annex of South Boston High af- ter class, the mayor's office re- ported. OFFICIALS said persons were arrested in connection with the stoning. Earlier, outside the m a i n branch of the high school, about 500 white teen-agers and adults booed and chanted as 56 'black children arrived by bus for morning classes. The s.c h o o l had been 99 per cent white. The mayor's office said five arrests had been made in con- nection with the morning de- Monstrations. All those arrested were young men, and charges included disorderly conduct, as- sault and battery on a police of- ficer, and assault for throwing rocks, a spokesman said. He said one policeman was injured near South Boston High School racial slurs from the crowd as they walked past a line of police into the building. At predominantly black South Boston - Roxbury High, only 40 of an assigned 535 white pupils attended along with about 400 of the assigned 493 black pupils, officials said. Richardson differs with fiord on Nixon pardon EmpoS Telassie deposed in Ethopi ADDIS ABABA, E t h i o p i a (Reuter) - Emperor Haile Se- lassie, "The Lion of Judah" who has ruled this East Afri- can nation for 44 years, was deposed yesterday in a bloodless coup by the army. The armed forces coordinat- ing committee named Defense Minister Aman Andom Prime Minister of a provisional mili- tary government which will run the country until elections are held. THE ANONYMOUS armed forces coordinating committee- which has virtually controlled the country since March - also Haile Selassie, a once all- powerful ruler who lived in a splendid feudal state in 13 pal- aces, left his now almost de- serted m'ain palace in a blue Volkswagen and was taken to army headquarters. AS THE CAR drove away 400 youths ran after it hurling in- sults. Five thousand people staged a brief hand-clapping demon- stration outside the palace but obeyed officers' pleas to go home. The armed forces have so far given no clue as to the former By GORDON ATCHESON Former Attorney General Elliott Richardson said yesterday that he disagrees with President Gerald Ford's decision to grant a full pardon to Richard Nixon. While conceding Ford acted out of compassion and sincerity, Richardson declared that he would have sought a complete report on the former president's alleged wrong-doings from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski before taking any ac- tion in the case. THE DAPPER Richardson made his assess- ment of the pardon during a press conference at the Campus Inn which was part of a campaign drive on behalf of Gov. William Milliken who is seeking re-election this November. "The public should know what former President Nixon was pardoned for," Richardson said, urg- ing that Ford continue probing the Watergate scandals through the special prosecutor's office. Richardson held three cabinet posts in the Nix- on Administration and resigned as attorney gen- eral on October 20 last year after refusing a nrP-dP tin n e t dimis thenecalPom- mmuffAnMBAMMns