A TRIBUTE TO KALINE See Editorial Page Y , .Cita tj ii TORRID High-88 Low--56 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 20 Ann Arbor, Michigan--Friday, September 27, 1974 Ten Cents Ten Pages _ _. ifYu EE t EL FHPPEN CuA~lL. siY Tenants site Trony Four apartment dwellers have filed suit against Trony Associates, a major local rental firm, for alleged violations of state law regarding rent and damage deposits. Legal Aid attorney Roger Chard, who initiated the suit for former tenants of 802 Oakland, claimed Trony acted in "remarkable defiance" of the law by charging three months' advance rent as a damage deposit. The law, which greatly strengthened tenants' rights when it came into effect last spring, prohibits damage deposits in excess of one-and-a-half times a months' rent- plus the first month of rent in advance. Trony's attorney insisted the question is "moot" since the firm has since revised its deposit system. Regent bill delayed Hopes that the state legislature would pass a bill allowing students to sit on the University Board of Regents were set back yesterday as the Senate postponed a vote on the proposal until it recon- venes in late November. The measure, approved by the House in July, would strike down the clause that now forbids student regents because of a "conflict of interest." Sponsor Gilbert Bursley (R- Ann Arbor) admits that action was delayed because proponents were unable to muster enough votes for passage at this time. Campus Dems' pollp A two-week poll conducted by the campus chap- ter of Young Democrats before Ted Kennedy an- nounced he won't run for president shows Univer- sity students favoring the Massachusetts senator as the Democratic candidate in 1976. Of 221 students interviewed, 21 per cent listed Kennedy as their first choice, with a surprising 16 per cent naming 1972 loser George McGovern. The South Dakota Senator was followed in the poll by Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota, who scored nine per cent; Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) took a meager six per cent. Young Dems chief Guy Cavallo said he spoke to McGovern during a trip to Washington earlier this week and found the Senator "very interested" in the poll's resultshe 325 and 516. . . . . .are this week's winning numbers in the Michigan lottery. Second chance winners are 58 and 891, and the two-out-of-three paymaster bonus numbers are 737, 415, and 077. If you cash in, call us. Everybody loves a winner. Happenings .. . .. . Joan Baez headlines today's happenings with a benefit concert for the Save the Whales move-- ment at 8 p.m. nCrisler Arena. If that's note enough for you, try one of the following: The U.S.-China People's Friendship Association will celebrate the 25th birthday of the People's Re- pube with a five-course dinner and a speech from Gerald Tannebaum, who was an aide to Madame Sun Yat-Sen and lived 25 years in China. The dinner will take Great Leaps Forward from Shanghai chicken to shrimp-fthasrrin rpce to sweet- and-sour pork. It's all for $3 at 7 p.m. in the First Water MtondaleofuMinnSotae wdHousored..nine fr cean Sudents Hsociatieora ffs Drasho of Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed-the seg- ment on the ancient Africans, at 8 p.m. in Angell Ad. D . . . the Hospital Women's Commission meets at noon in W10410 of the hospital . . . and the Folk Dance Club does its regular Friday Night Thing from 8 to 11 p.m A source in the Watergate special prosecutor's office yesterday said the prosecution is not counting on Richsare 737, 415,arance as a state witness in the cover-up trial. Nixon may be unable to attend the October trial due to his failing health. But the source was confident that the case is strong without Nixon's testimony. "You've got to remember," he said, "when charges were brought in this case, he was still president, and the case was brought with the assumption (Nixon) wouldn't be available . . . We're still prepared to handle it that way." Meanwhile, convicted ex-White House aide Charles Colson yesterday asked President Ford to grant him a pardon like Nixon's. A White House official said the Justice Department will study the matter. Colson faces a 1-3 year prison term for obstructing justice. Snail's pace The second annual great snail race of Sacramen- to, Cal., will be run, so to speak, at a pizza parlor tonight. Because first prize goes to the slowest crawler, the rules include a provision that all entries must be alive at the start of the race. It's also illegal to glue a snail to the track. 0 On the inside .. . . . . Wayne Johnson satirizes the clandestine cloak-and-daggerisms behind the fall of Richard Nixon on the Editorial Page . . . Arts Page features its regular Cinema Weekend capsule reviews . . . Rich Flaherty takes a bouncy look at trampoline competition on the Sports Page. IIilliken: On the trail in A 2 Yp si By CHERYL PILATE The housewives of Ann Arbor's most staunchly Republican district turned out in full regalia yes- terday to welcome Governor William Milliken as he campaigned door-to-door amidst a bevy of leafletters and advance men. "We're just out here to do a little politicking," he said to a middle-aged woman decked out in a rhinestone necklace and a pink chiffon dress. "And I must say, I'm delighted to be in beautiful, sunny Ann Arbor. MILLIKEN'S 30-minute, whirlwind tour through Ward Three was on behalf of State Senator Gil Bursley, (R-Ann Arbor) who, along with the Governor, is up for re-election. Nearly every step of the way, Milliken was swamped by hordes of giggling kids clamoring for his autograph. Good-naturedly, he scribbled his name on small slips of pink and blue paper thrust into his hand. "Isn't this wonderful," gushed a young wo- man beaming at the children. "This is real Republican country." Milliken and Bursley only stopped at a dozen homes - six in Ann Arbor, six in Ypsilanti - but they shook the hands of nearly 60 potential voters thanks to a brief punch and cookies party in the Pittsfield Rd. subdivision. WHILE THE flushed and excited hostess duti- fully served the fizzy, lime-flavored punch, Mil- liken told a group of 30 smiling women how "delighted" he was to campaign for a "fine man like Senator Bursley." "I've never known a more competent or more able Senator," he said between rounds of baby- kissing and handshaking. Clad in a cuffed, blue doubleknit suit and a red, white and blue tie; Milliken stopped to pose for several rounds of picture taking with Burs- ley and the neighborhood children. Meanwhile, effusive young women sporting campaign buttons and straw hats distributed Bursley's leaflets to the solidly Republican vot- ers. NEXT STOP for the Milliken entourage was a See MILLIKEN, Page 7 Doily Photo by STEVE KAGAN CAMPAIGNING on behalf of State Senator Gilbert Bursley (R-Ann Arbor), Gov. William Milliken tours through the city's Third Ward. Here he took time out to shake hands with eager and in- quisitive youngsters. Econ adviser sees 10% price rise, job woes By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON-President Gerald Ford's chief eco- nomic adviser Alan Greenspan, predicted yesterday that consumer prices would increase about 10 per cent this year over 1973 levels. In addition, Greenspan told a congressional com- mittee that the economic index indicated higher un- employment, further stagnation in an already depressed construction industry and a slowed expansion of the productive capacity necessary to curtail inflationary product shortages. Former ' VP Spurr fired from Texas post University of Texas President Stephen Spurr, who formerly served here as vice president and dean of the graduate school, was yesterday dismissed by that school's board of re- gents. The regents gave no cause for their action which was taken in an emergency session. It marks only the second time the Uni- versity of Texas has fired its president. SPURR worked at Michigan for 19 years as an administrator and teacher before accepting the Texas presidency in 1971. At a press conference yester- day, Spurr said he felt he had been dismissed because he solic- ited faculty and student input in operating the school and re- fused to allow "those outside the academic process" to dic- tate policy. While here, Spurr co-ordinat- ed the University's move to a year-round academic program in the early 60's. He was named vice president in 1969 after spending five years as dean of the graduate school. BEFORE joining the Univer- sity staff, he held teaching po- sitions at Harvard and the Uni- versity of Minnesota. Spurr has See SPURR, Page 2 Greenspan told the Congress' Joint Economic Committee that any significant relief from rising food prices will have to await next year's harvest. FURTHERMORE, "the sec- ondary effects of higher oil prices are and will continue to be felt in a number of diverse industrial products" despite an expected leveling off of pe- troleum prices said Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Eco- nomic Advisers. Already this month, govern- ment statistics have reported the second back-to-back, near- record jump in wholesale prices, the biggest monthly rise in con- sumer prices in a year and a record monthly trade deficit due primarily to the high cost of imported oil. Against this backdrop, econ- omists, politicians, labor lead- ers and industrialists will meet today and tomorrow to review areas of agreement sketched out in pre-summit meetings to com- bat inflation and the stagnating economy. Summit directors hope the participants will be able to focus on the options available to Ford. OPTIONS which the White House has indicated are under consideration include some sort of tax relief for persons at the lower end of the economic scale and more federal support for home lending activity. Greenspan, an advocate of re- duced federal borrowing said he could support a tax cut for the poor. At the White House, press secretary Ron Nessen said Ford remained adamantly opposed to wage and price controls, but had made no decision on wheth- er to revive wage-price guide- lines. Nessen also quoted William Seidman, executive director of See ADVISER, Page 7 * AP Photo Protecting the children A ht Following the city's rash of racial tensions, Bostonians play it s afe as a wall of police cycles escorts a school bus of black stu- dents bound for the formerly all white Hyde Park High, yesterda y. Boston, which recently integrated their school system, was the site of much violence in the past few weeks. However, no violen ce was reported inside or out of Hyde Park yesterday. VOTE NEXT WEEK: CommiSSion calls for massive student gov t. reorganization By JEFF SORENSEN The Commission to Study Stu- dent Governance (CSSG) dis- cussed last night a report to be sent to the University Board of Regents that would call for a massive reorganization of stu- dent government. The report also asks for full student voting membershipon the governing boards of all Uni- versity schools and colleges. THE COMMISSION will prob- ably vote to approve the recom- mendation next Thursday and will report to the Regents in November. The group, appoint- ed by the Regents last October, is composed of student and fac- ulty representatives. The report asks Student Gov- ernment Council (SGC) to call for a constitutional convention to re-organize the Council along the lines of a proposed Mich- igan Student Assembly (MSA). A s s e m b 1 y representatives would be chosen at large by students in an election as well as being appointed by the school and college governments. The president would be elected by MSA members rather than by the student body. SGC PRESIDENT Carl Sand- berg sharply criticized the re- port for "striping students of the vital power" of voting on the executive officials. "I fear this proposal may erect buffer zones between students and their o f f i c i a 1 s," Sandberg argued. He also attacked the report because it did not include a recommendation for a full vot- ing student regent. The CSSG report instead asks for a non- voting "participant in regental deliberation." The report also asks that the MSA maintain open financial records, keep all funds in Uni- versity accounts and have an independent audit at least once each year. THESE PROVISIONS are to "i n h i b i t financial impropria- ties," plainly in response to allegations of massive fund mis- use against several former SGC officers. Some CSSG membersexpect the commission's proposal to s e a t students on governing boards of schools and colleges -to draw heated criticism from the faculty and administration. "Students, like other people, have a right to participate in making decisions which sub- stantially effect them. This is a fundamental principle of a democratic society, and it ap- plies to the University as it does to all other institutions," the report says. Panel speaks on whale crisis, Fleming opens Values Year' By STEPHEN SELBST Declaring that Watergate had raised questions about "the University's role in systems of values, and ethics," President of study. THE PROGRAM is funded by $15,000 from the University's undesignated gift fund. Fleming called it a "quite modest By TIM SCHICK One of the worlds mightiest animals, the whale, may soon be just a fading memory. Ev- ery twelve minutes a whale is killed. As part of the "Save the Whale Week," a panel of five "whale advocates" spoke about the slaughter of whales by So- it played into the wrong hands. He also added that the boy- cott was causing anti-American feeling abroad. "The information the Japa- nese citizen is receiving is from the whaling industry and they are saying that the boy- cott is an isolationist move," Lavelle said.