STUDENT HYPOCRISY See Editorial Page Y Siir igau DaitAl1 FRRROSTY High-61 Low-36 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 15 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 21, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages I Costs take year's biggest hike Ic . IFYOSEAE ES RAPECALL rDNLY Halftime hootenanny Michigan Stadium will sound a little bit like the Grand Old Opry at halftime today when the Michi- gan Marching Band presents a country-western music show. Featured will be John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Road (along with some other Denver favorites), Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax, Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, and The Ballad of Jed Clampett (remember that old TV favorite?). The tuba section will take center stage in the pre- game show with the theme song from another TV biggie, Cannon. Happenings ... . . . start off today with the Michigan-Colorado football game. Kickoff is at 1:30 . . . and if brains interest you more than brawn, try a meeting of the Go Club at 2 p.m. in 2050 Freize Bldg. Go is a Japanese game comparable to chess. That's all, folks ... s New press chief Ron Nessen, a White House reporter for NBC, became President Ford's new press secretary yes- terday. With Ford standing beside him, Nessen said he would never knowingly mislead or lie to the White House press corps. He replaces Jerald terHorst, a veteran Detroit newspaperman, who resigned after Ford's pardon of former President Nixon, saying it was a matter of conscience be- cause hie disagreed with the decision. TerHorst also said he felt important information on presiden- tial decisions had been withheld from him. Pardon me? 1resident Ford's honeymoon with Congress and the public may be over, but he still retains his sense of humor. Oakland County Prosecutor Brooks Patterson says he was in Washington earlier this week visiting people in the White House. While hurrying down one hallway, Patterson bumped into Ford as he emerged from a door. Automatically, the prosecutor said, "pardon me." Ford grinned at Patterson and quipped, "Not you, too!" 0 Dope note The largest seizure of marijuana ever made in the United States - nearly 19 tons - was reported yesterday by the U. S. Customs Service. Officers of the Custom's patrol confiscated 37,785 pounds, worth an estimated 10.9 million dollars, in Nogales, Arizona, authorities said. Four people, not imme- diately identified, were arrested. The U. S. Cus- tom's Service said officers, assisted by air and ground units, also seized two large rented vans in which the material was being smuggled. Woman cop shot A Washington, D. C. policewoman yesterday be- came the first woman officer to die while on duty in the city's history when she was shot while chas- ing a suspect, police said. The officer was identi- fied as Gail Cobb. She was 24 years old and joined the police force last October. The police said two policemen spotted two men in a car outside a bank. When they went to question the men, the two drew guns and opened fire on the police, then ran from the car. Cobb, on patrol nearby, followed one man inside a garage and was shot there. The suspect surrendered outside the garage, but the other man was still at large. The city has had women on its police force for over 50 years, but has only allowed them to go on street patrol and other hazardous duties in the last few years. Ms. Marcos in China Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai, ailing for more than four months, yesterday met Imelda Marcos, wife of the Philippines President, for about one hour in a hospital, a Chinese spokesperson said. Marcos later told reporters that Chou was "very well. He looked very well." It was the first time in about two months that the 76-year-old Chinese leader had received a foreign guest. Among the last that he saw was U. S. Senator Henry Jack- son (D-Wash.). The meeting suggested to observers that the health of Chou, whose last public appear- ance was July 31, had improved. Transatlantic cut The United States and. Britain yesterday an- nounced a 20 pertcent cut from November to April in transatlantic flights by their airlines in a move aimed at increased profitability. "This should go a long way in helping Pan American with its $10 million a month deficit," a senior U. S. official said. Traffic demand across theNorth Atlantic this winter is expected to decline by between 10 and 12 per cent, according to a joint Anglo-American statement issued in Washington. On the inside . The arts page presents two new features this Saturday, a bridge column and "Movies on TV" . . . Gordon Atcheson takes a look at the fall of the Pierce campaign on the editorial page WASHINGTON (AP) - Inflation worsened in August as the cost of living advanced at the sharpest rate in a year, the government reported yesterday. Americans paid more for nearly everything with meats, clothing, mortgage rates, and medi- cal services leading a 1.3 per cent jump in con- sumer prices last month. IT WAS THE second biggest monthly increase in more than 23 years, exceeding only a 1.9 per cent rise in August 1973 after the government lifted its 60-day price freeze. The new surge in the cost of living was oversha- dowed by near record wholesale price increases over the past two months. Many of the wholesale hikes have yet to work their way into the retail sector, thus leaving consumers the almost certain prospect of still higher prices later this year. As the Labor department issued its price re- port, the Agriculture department proposed a jump of up to 13 per cent in prices paid to farmers Meat, mortgages lead trend- for milk, to meet the rising cost of production. This could mean a two cent per quart increase at the retail level. SEVERAL participants in President Ford's summit meeting on the economy have blamed high interest rates and the government's tight money policies for contributing to the continuing inflation. Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve Board told financial leaders attending the meet- ing yesterday that there could be no further tightening of monetary policies. He indicated any easing of home mortgage interest rates may be forthcoming. "The federal reserve will see to it that the s'ipply of money and credit continues to expand," Burns said. "There will be no credit crunch in our country." THE 1.3 per cent August price increase lifted consumer prices 11.2 per cent higher than a year ago and works out to annual rate of 15.6 per cent if projected over the full year. The government consumer price index moved up to 15.02 - meaning it costs $15.02 to buy goods that cost only $10.00 in 1967. Paychecks of American workers continued to shrink in August, with real, spendable earnings- that is, what is left after tax deductions and the effects of inflation -- dropping nine tenths of one per cent, a level well below a year ago. AVERAGE gross weekly earnings were $157.73 in August, comoared with $146.73 a year earlier. But because of a decline in working hours and the rise in consumer prices, real gross average weekly earnings were down 3.2 per cent. Detailing its price report, the Labor depart- ment said price increases prevailed across almost the entire economy. The only declines were noted for some food items and gasoline, which dropped in price for the first time since last December. Overall food prices rose 1.3 per cent last month reversing a trend noted in July. GROCERY PRICES ROSE 1.5 per cent, with increases for beef, eggs and pork higher than usual for August. Cereal and bakery products processed fruits and vegetables, sugar and sweets, also went up, while fresh fruits and vege- tables, dairy products and fish declined in price. Nonfood commodities posted their biggest in- crease on record, rising 1.5 per cent last month. About a third of the increase was due to higher clothing prices. New car prices went up instead of declining as usual at the end of the model year. Regents approve budget for '75 By JEFF SORENSEN The University's Board of Regents yesterday approved an operating budget of $342 million for the '74-'75 academic year on the Ann Arbor campus, an increase of about seven per cent over last year. The budget includes an eight per cent raise slated for salary hikes for all University person- nel, as well as the tuition in- crease, adopted at the July Re- gents' meeting, of nearly six per cent above winter '74 figures. THIS INCREASE places tui- tion at the same level as fall '73, since tuition was lowered last winter when a $3.75 million surplus was discovered in the budget. The budget's anatomy is a mismash of different funds. The operating outlay consists of monies from state and fed- eral appropriations, donations and student fees-and allocates funds for salaries, mainten- ance, research and academics. This year's appropriations in- clude an increase of 12 per cent in the auxiliary activities budget, which includes revenues for the University's residence halls, hospitals, the Michigan Union and the Michigan League. STUDENT financial aid, budgeted in the general fund, is u~p nearly 20 per cent to a total of $10.7 million. Never- theless, this hike is substan- tially less than hikes for 1972- 74, which averaged over 30 per cent annually. The general fund budget, ap- proved in July, totals $158 mil- lion and pays for teaching, re- search, library services, student aid, and administrative opera- tions. T h e expendable restricted fund budget, of which spon- sored research is the largest factor, was set at $74.5 million, up less than one per cent. ALL THE revenues in the general fund, auxiliary activi- ties budget and expendable re- stricted fund budget were in- cluded in the total operations budget. The Regents also adopted budgets for the other Univer- sity c a m p u s e s, with figures totaling $8.6 million at Dear- born, up 24 per cent, and $6.8 million at Flint, up 13 per cent. During the past academic year, the cost-of-living index has increasedenearly 10 per cent nationwide. .... .. ..... ..... .......... Nixon to be hospitalize OS 1 aZ s . for phlebitis LONG BEACH, Calif. (P) - Former President Richard Nixon will check into a hospital in this seaside city Mon- day for treatment of phlebitis that has painfully swollen his left leg, a hospital official said. Nixon will stay in a private room on the sixth floor of Memorial- Hospital Medical Center of Long Beach, the official said yesterday. HOSPITAL officials said they had no idea how long Nixon will be hospitalized. Though the phlebitis has created two blood clots in his leg, which could be fatal if either broke free and lodged in his heart Daily Photo by KEN FINK TWO MEMBERS of the "Jews for Jesus" religious group are shown delivering their own brand of evangelism at yesterday's rally. The group offered music and discussion in an effort to encourage Jewish students to adopt Jesus Christ as the promised messiah. Jews for Jesus' hit town with electronic evangelism or lungs, the former president hospitalization. Dr. John Lungren, Nixon's longtime physician, will make an announcement after Nixon's arrival - the time has not been revealed - and will make daily reports on his condition, the spokesperson said. LUNGREN had no immediate comment to newsmen. It was not immediately known if Nixon's wife, Pat, or any fam- iiv members would stay with him. A spokesman at Nixon's villa in San Clemente would say only that the former chief executive"planned to enter a hospital early next week for treatment of his phlebitis." In resisting his doctors' ef- forts to hospitalize him, Nixon reportedly said, "If I go into the hospital, I'll never come out alive." ONE OF his two doctors, Air Force Maj. Gen. Walter Tkach, was quoted in a magazine last week as saying the phlebitis condition had worsened and it's going to take a miracle for him to recover." Tkach and Lungren, former chief of staff at Memorial Hos- pital, want Nixon in the hospi- tal so treatment can be started with anticoagulant drugs to dis- solve the clots. Such treatment must begin intravenously and then can be taken orally. It was expected that Tkach, formerly Nixon's White House doctor and now stationed at An- drews Air Force Base in Wash- ington, would see Nixon in the hospital. Lungren, an internist with a specialty in cardiology, has an office near the hospital. NIXON could go there by helicopter from his San Cle- mente villa, land on the roof- top helipad and go down a stair- way to his room on the west wing of the seven-floor, 680- bed hospital built in the 1960s. The top floor is not yet open. Secret Service agents were arranging security for the hos- pital stay. Nixon stayed in Memorial once before, having a physical examination there in 1968 when he was President-elect. LONG BEACH is about 25 miles south of Los Angeles and about 5 miles north of San Cle- mente. The hospital is located in an industrial area north of downtown Long Beach. It is surrounded by rocking oil rigs, ni n-c- +tnkr and ware- reportedly had, fought against G Nixon By STEPHEN SELBST Richard Nixon's delay in en- tering a hospital for treatment of his phlebitis condition could easily have cost the former president his life, according to a doctor at University Hospi- tal. Surgery expert Dr. William Coon said yesterday sudden death "was always a possibil- ity"' as long as Nixon refused to get hospital treatment for his swollen left leg. NIXON "should have been hospitalized a long time ago," according to Coon, who spe- cializes in phlebitis and similar ailments. The danger to the former commander-in-chief is "much greater at home" than in a hospital "where he would be immobilized and under con- Coon semphasized that me- diate hospital care is consid- ered standard and essential for patients suffering from the same form of phlebitis that afflicts Nixon. Nixon's ability to travel to Washington is also clearly un- dermined by his condition, said Coon, concurring with claims made by Nixon's attorneys this week that the phlebitis should exmpthiiyfro taeint the Watere trials cheduled todeinaer tyhis onth., ai THE DISEASE amounts to See 'U', Page 2 By DAVID BLOMQUIST A California-based religious group known as "Jews for Jesus" yesterday kicked off a Univer- sity-wide campaign designed to encourage Jewish students to adopt Jesus Christ as the promised messiah. "The Liberated Wailing Wall," a national tour- ing group of six singers, dancers, and electrified musicians, joined forces with a similar Detroit- based band called "Israel's Remnant" to produce a lunch hour music and discussion session in front of the administration building. "SOME WOULD SAY that I'm a Jew that's broken with tradition," said "Wailing Wall" leader Sam Nadler to about 75 interested but uncommitted onlookers gathered in People's Plaza. "But I think I'm a Jew who has returned to the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," he asserted as the band played an original rock-and- roll tune called, "I Knew Jesus Before He Was a Gentile." Nadler termed student reaction at the Univer- sity to the group's unusual campaign "rather favorable." MANY JEWISH students who attended the rally, however, described it as "disgusting" and See JEWS, Page 8 VILLAGE FLOODED Storm kills 4000 in Honduras GUATEMALA CITY, Guate- mala (A) - Hundreds of bodies were found floating in receding rivers in the northern Honduran town of Cholona, and police there estimate that 4,000 vil- lagers were killed in floods raised by Hurricane Fifi, the Hondan Natinnal Emergencv had given orders to burn the bodies to prevent an outbreak of epidemics. Andino painted a grim picture of death and destruction all across northern Honduras, in- cluding more than 200 confirm- ed deaths and the prospect of Choloma on the coast, "and there will probably be more deaths there." Honduran Air Force Col. Jose Cerra Hernandez, who flew a reconnaisance mission over the stricken area, said: "The de- struction of an infinity of hn.r- of hnnn n ntatnn 61 bodies. He said the city of 53,000, in the center of an agricultural and banana - producing a r e a, also remained isolated. The emergency committee in Puerto de Tela, near La Ceiba, reported finding 58 bodies and expected to find more. : o