FOOD CRISIS See Editorial Page Y Bk i rn Dait PLEASANT High-r3 Law-42 See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 57 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, November 9, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages IW'OU .SEE WSK A CL 'DAJY Dope note The state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that doctors may prescribe narcotic drugs for patients they neither see nor examine. The decision over- ruled a judgement by a Recorder's Court judge and ordered a new trial for a 76-year-old Detroit doctor convicted of violating the state's controlled substances act. The physician, William Kerwin, was arrested after undercover policemen requested, and obtained, sedatives and diet pills without being examined. The policemen also obtained the drugs for persons not present in Kerwin's office. 676 and 677... are this week's winning lottery numbers. 839 and 779 are the second chance numbers. Winning numbers for the Jackpot Gold one dollar tickets are 264015, 05584 and 495. Oops Yesterday's story on the Committee to Study Student Governance stated that the group's report claimed that students have the legal right to run as candidates for Regent. Actually the report supports student participation in University gov- ernment, but added that this particular issue "will be decided in the courts." And, by the way, the committee was established to study, not reorganize, student government, although they did, in their report, recommend such a reorganization. To clarify a point, the report that advocated appointed Regents and the removal of University presidents as heads of governing bodies was the Milliken report mentioned earlier in the article, not the CSSG proposal. " Iappenings .. . start out early today with a conference on "Job Hunting for Graduate Students" sponsored by Career Planning and Placement. There is still limited registration available starting at 8 a.m. in Aud. 4, MLB, for the day long conference . . . the Big Ten cross-country championship is being held at 11 a.m. at the University golf course . . . the Women's Community Center Collective is having a Women's Coffeehouse from 8 p.m. 'til midnight at Guild House . . . at RC Aud. the Black Theater Workshop is presenting two plays by Ed Bullins The Electronic Nigger and The Gentleman Caller at 8 p.m. . . . and the City Center Acting Com- pany's production of The Time of Your Life con- tinues at the Mendelssohn Theatre at 8 p.m. " Olefact or fiction Trying to pull an 1,800-pound horse out of a septic tank was bad enough for a team of firemen. Then a skunk added his two squirts worth. It all started before dawn Thursday in Vero Beach, Fla. when Joyce Dittrich's 17-year-old horse walked across the soil that covered a septic tank. The concrete roof of the tank caved in, dumping the animal into several feet of what septic tanks are designed to hold. Three fire-department rescue men showed up and tried to get the horse out. They had no luck, so they called a veterinarian to bring a big sling to pull the horse out. The sling wasn't large enough, so a wrecker was called in. It hauled the beast to safety. As firemen caught their breath after the smelly job, a skunk wandered into the yard, unloaded on the firemen and left. The rescue went back to the firehouse only to run into another little problem. The other firemen wouldn't' let them in. "But we compromised by leaving our clothes outside," said one of the rescuers. " Abominable snow job? The Abominable Snowman is on the march again in the Himalayas, according to reports from a Polish climbing expedition.The Nepalese foreign ministry quoted expedition leader Andrezej Zawada as saying his group had seen footprints in the snow which were "characteristically and clearly the track of a Yeti." But they did not see any animal. The largest prints measured 13 and a half inches and showed distinct heels and toes. Zawada said there were two sets of tracks stretching for just over half a mile and the expedition had filmed them. Euthanasia To the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Dr. George Mair held the hand of his middle-aged woman patient. Then he slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein and killed her. Mair admits she was only one of the many patients he killed deliberately during his long career as a surgeon in hospitals throughout England and Scotland. The 60-year-old retired physician made the disclosure about euthanasia-"mercy killing"- yesterday in his autobiography, Confessions of a Surgeon. 0 On the inside... . . .The Editorial Page features a piece on the future of the Black Panther Party . . . reviews of the City Center production of "The Time of Your Life" and the University Dancers in Concert grace the Arts Page . . . and the Sports Page highlights a football preview from Illinois by John Kahler along with last night's hockey game. 'U'ref u By JEFF DAY The University rejected Graduate Employes Organization (GEO) demands for a 25 per cent pay increase and free tuition yesterday, claim- ing the demands would cost the University as much as $10 million. In rejecting the demands, the University offer- ed GEO a two-year contract providing for an eight per cent pay hike the first year and in- state tuition status for all teaching fellows, re- search and staff assistants the second year. THE UNIVERSITY offer drew angry responses from GEO, which pointed out that graduate 4 ~es GEO student employes had been promised an eight per cent pay hike last year. "Teaching fellows teach three-quarters of the lower level courses and one-quarter of the upper level courses. We are doing what faculty are doing in terms of teaching. Yet we earn much much less. All we are asking is a wage to live on," head GEO negotiator Michele Hoyman told the University. But the University claimed that teaching fel- lows, who work between 10 and 20 hours a week, have no right to expect a living wage for any- thing less than a full week's work. "YOU CONVENIENTLY forget that no matter sala ry( how you cut it, you're still students," University attorney William Lemmer told the union. "The position of teaching fellow and the money in- volved are intended to help you through school. "Yet you want to be made full time employes working part time," Lemmer said. A cost-of-living clause that GEO had insisted upon was also missing from the University offer -drawing further GEO criticism of the package. "GIVEN THE inflation rate of 11 per cent and your offer of an eight per cent pay increase this year, we're losing three per cent. Next year you're asking us to accept the status quo-no ternands pay increase-and a real loss in wages of 11 per cent," GEO negotiator David Gordon told the University. The University, however, maintains that its limited budget precludes increasing salaries as the cost of living rises. "We've gone to the limit of what we can offer," chief University negotiator Charles All- mand said after the meeting. "We just don't know where these funds will come from." THIS MARKED the first mention of where the increased wages would come from in any of the See 'U', Page 2 Judge acquits Kent defendants Srica to appoint mredica panel WASHINGTON (P) - U. S. District Judge John Sirica de- cided yesterday to appoint three doctors to examine former President Richard Nixon and report on whether he is healthy enough to testify in the Water- gate cover-up trial. Sirica, who said he expects to choose a panel of outstand- ing physicians by next week, was seeking a weekend meet- ing with one of the doctors he is considering. HE SAID the panel would in- clude specialists in internal medicine and circulatory disor-' ders. The doctors would report their findings to Sirica after examin- ing the former president, who is undergoing treatment at Me- morial Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., for phlebitis and various complications. The decision marked the lat- est development in defendant John Ehrlichman's effort to se- cure the testimony of his for- mer White House boss. NIXON'S PERSONAL physi- cians have said that Nixon can engage in no substantial phys- ical or mental effort for two to three months and probably will be unable to travel for an in- definite time. .fAttorneys for the other defen- dants voiced no objections to appointment of the medical panel, but associate Watergate prosecutor James Neal said the prosecutors don't need Nixon's testimony and "don't concede that Mr. Nixon is a necessary witness for any of the defend- ants." Former Nixon advisers Ehr- lichman, H. R. "Bob" Halde- man, John Mitchell, Kenneth Parkinson and Robert Mardian are on trial for conspiring to See SIRICA, Page 2 Evidence for guilt called insufficient By AP and Reuter CLEVELAND - Eight former members of an Ohio National Guard unit were acquitted here yesterday of shooting student demonstrators in a tragedy that made the words "Kent State" an anti-war rallying cry and haunted the conscience of many Americans. U.S. District Judge Frank Battisti ordered the acquit- tal, saying that evidence presented by the government during a two-week trial was insufficient to prove that the defendants intended to deprive anyone of their civil rights, as charged in federal indictments. FOUR STUDENTS were killed and nine wounded when guards- men fired into a crowd of students demonstrating at Kent State University on a warm day in May, 1970, against President Richard Nixon's decision to ex- tend the Vietnam war by send- ing troops into Cambodia. While Battisti's ruling acquits the ex-guardsmen of the federal charges, the judge said that state officials may wish to pur- sue criminal charges in the case. "It is entirely possible that state officials may yet wish to pursue criminal prosecutions against various persons respon- sible for events at Kent State," the judge said. "This opinion does not pass on the propriety of such prosecutions, if any." OHIO ATTORNEY General William Brown refused to spec- ulate on the possibility of the state undertaking any criminal prosecution. Judge Battisti's opinion said that "based on evidence offered to the court, reasonable jurors must find that there is a rea- sonable doubt as to whether these eight defendants were possessed of a specific inten- tion to deprive the students of KenttStatepset forth in the in- dictment of their constitutional and federal rights at the time they discharged their weapons." As the freed men walked out of the courtroom, one of them, 28-year-old William Perkins, said: "There was a lot of prayer behind us. We did not intend to harm anyone. We were there because we were ordered there." DURING THE trial, the de- fense said the guardsmen, sur- rounded by stone-throwing stu- dents shouting "Kill, Kill," be- lieved their lives were in jeopardy when they opened fire. Prosecutor Robert Murphy maintained the guardsmen were in no danger and fired indis- criminately and without warn- in g. After yesterday's acquittal, Murphy said: "The judge's or- der cannot be appealed. As far as I'm concerned, it's over." THE KENT State campus was quiet " yesterday after the ac- quittal, with most students un- aware of the ruling and con- cerned only about making week- end plans. But the officers of the Kent .State student government re- leased a formal statement, on See KENT, Page 2 Calley AP Photo Hard times A Vietnamese peasant woman attends a meeting required by local officials, to protest a re- cent guerrilla attack on a school in which more than five youngsters died. Her face is etched with the suffering of years of war in and around her native village northwest of Saigon. Army paroles Lt. Calley WASHINGTON (P)--Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway disclosed last night he has granted former Lt. William Cal- ley, convicted of murder in the My Lai mass acre, a parole from his 10-year prison sentence. In a statement, Callaway said he signed a parole order on Oct. 30 to become effective Nov. 19, when Calley completes one third of his sentence. The surprise disclosure came as Callaway announced that the Army will comply with a ruling of a federal appeals court in Columbus, Ga., this morning at 11 a.m. "for the purpose of re- leasing him on bail." SEVERAL HOURS earlier, the appeals court announced its decision toorder Calley's re- lease on bail while the Army appeals a decision by U.S. Dis- trict Judge, Robert Elliott, who ordered Calley freed from the Army Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas on Sept. 25. Callaway said the Army will not ask "any terms or condi- See ARMY, Page 2 STRIKE BEGINS TODAY: UMW President Miller expects two-week WASHINGTON (A) - United ticipatin Mine Workers (UMW) presi- dent Arnold Miller predicted UMW yesterday that an imminent John G strike by 120,000 union mem- the men bers against the coal industry ed, "I d would last at least two weeks. back. Th Miller indicated it would last now." longer unless a settlement is The n reached by tomorrow that terdayv members would support. posing c A WEEKEND settlement counterp would not avert a strike because source s of the time it takes to ratify a jor diffe contract. But it could shorten Boths the impending shutdown of the ed in th 1,200 UMW-organized mines in the barg 25 states. had bee Although the UMW contract indicatin doesn't expire until midnight mainedb coal miner walkout g the nationwide strike: DISTRICT 6 president uzek said he ordered back to work, but add- don't suppose they'll go hey are all pretty itchy egotiations resumed yes- with the industry pro- contract language based dons of the UMW's latest roposal. A U M W said, however, that ma- rences still remain. sides were more guard- e reports of progress at gaining table than they n in the past two days, ng much haggling re- before a tentative settle- of some 280,000 jobs for non-coal industry workers. In Chicago, Inland Steel announced it is re- ducing operations already and might give its workers four-day work weeks. However, a government spokesperson acknowledged lit- tle can be done about a strike outside of voluntary cutbacks in electrical use. PRESIDENT Ford's chief la- bor troubleshooter, W. J. Usery, has been in the background throughout the negotiations, keeping in touch with both sides See TWO-WEEK, Page 2 GROUP OFFERS REHABILITATION Volunteers aid problem youth By MARY KELLEHER A local community organization focuses on friendships in helping young people who have spent time in correctional insti- CAR has recently been concentrating its efforts on the pre- vention of delinquency by working with the Police Support Unit, a division of the county Sheriff's Department, as an alternative