NIXON ON THE STAND See Editorial Page Y Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom :43, a ii DULL High-34 Low-15 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 73 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, December 3, 1974, Ten Cents Six Pages EP SEEtr S HAPEN CALL 7- Snow jobs Inevitably, we have a snow item for you: Snow is always an easy bet for practical jokes, and two students proved it on North Campus Commons yes- terday. The students made a couple of huge snowballs - the kind you use for snowmen, only bigger -- and rolled them onto the newly plowed Bonisteel Ave. Needless to say, traffic was tem- porarily blocked. But dauntless drivers hopped out of their cars and just rolled them away again. The culprits were seen escaping into the Music School. Happenings .. . .. are few and far between on this snowy Tuesday. Nevertheless, President Robben Flem- ing, just back from his China trip, will discuss the pros and cons of alternative educational philoso- phies as part of the Residential College Lecture Series, 7 p.m. in East Quad's Greene Lounge . . . there are still standing-room-only tickets available for the Juliard String Quartet at 8:30 p.m, in Rack- ham Auditorium . . . Women's intercollegiate bas- ketball try-outs are 4-6 p.m. at the I-M bldg. . . . and the Women and Health Project of the Ann Ar- bor Care Collective will meet at 7:30 p.m., 1114 Michigan, near East University and Packard. Oth- erwise, activities are snowed under. Mills stripped Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), long-regarded as one of the most influential members of Congress, yes- terday was stripped of one of his important pow- ers as part of a reform move bolstered by his public r pearance this weekend with an Argen- tine-born striptease dancer. The caucus of Demo- crats in the House voted 146-122 to take away from Mills' Ways and Means Committee the important job of assigning House members to various com- mittees. Mills appeared onstage this weekend with Annabella Batistella, also known as Fanne Fox or "the Tidal Basin Bombshell" during her act in a Boston night club - "to dispel all these in- nuendos." But the bombshell backfired. Several Democrats said although the reform effort aimed at the Ways and Means committee had been in the works for weeks, Mills' appearance with the strip- tease dancer cost him some key votes. Rockefeller, Inc. The latest on one of America's favor- ite families, the Rockefellers: Despite vice presi- dent-designate Nelson's most recent statement, a report to Congress assessed 15 members of the dy- nasty to have total assets of $70 billion. They direct 40 corporations, and have family representatives on the boards of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Chrysler Corporation, I.B.M., American Motors, Eastern Airlines, S.S. Kresge, Macy and others. The boards the family belongs to have interlocking directorates with 91 major U.S. corporations hav- ing combinedassets of $640 billion. The study was conducted by William Domhoff, a psychology pro- fessor at the University of California, and Charles Schwartz, a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Rockefeller dismissed the study as a work of academics unqualified in the field of economics. He termed the idea that he and his family exert any control over the economy "a myth." 0 DAR up in arms President Ford has chosen a British-born woman for a top job in arranging the U.S. bicentennial - and consequently aroused the wrath of that bul- wark of Americanism, the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. The DAR, which, on last report, is just about ready to fight the British all over again, has filed a protest with the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee over the selection of Marjorie Lynch as deputy administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. They termed the selection "an affront to patriotic, native American women" and said they were "incredulous" at the nomination. Lynch, who became a naturalized citi- zen in 1948, has served as an associate director for domestic and antipoverty operations of ACTION, and was a Washington state legislator for 10 years. Emergency call It was almost an emergency. Police and firemen in London yesterday received a frantic phone call from a man who said he was trapped inside a tele- phone booth. They released him by explaining that the door opened inwards - not outwards. On the inside . . . Gordon Atcheson writes about secret files and the student on the Editorial Page . . . and on the Sports Page, Bill Crane writes of Michigan's basketball victory over Toledo. On the Outside ... Superstorm! 'U stopped Haggard hundreds huddle in hotels By GORDON ATCHESON A disheveled young man in shirtsleeves cradled a sleeping baby in his arms and cursed the weather as he and his wife stared out the big front window of Campus Inn yesterday morn- ing at snow-choked H u r o n Street. The child dozed fitfully as the haggard couple downed cup af- ter cup of coffee. They looked about the way you'd expect them to look after camping out all night in a hotel lobby. BUT THEY were among the luckier ones. The snowstorm that blitzed southeastern Mich- igan with 18 inches of flakes Sunday forced many travelers to spend the night uncomfort- ably billeted in public school builidngs on the city's outskirts. Hundreds of other motorists waited for National Guardsmen, dispatched late Sunday, .o dig their stalled cars out from Lin- der shoulder-high snowdrifts. The snowbound masses fil1ed local hotels and motels over their capacity. "It's been miserable . . . jest miserable," said Mrs. John Brooks w it h a half-hearted smile. She was returning from Midland to her Huntington, W. Va. home Sunday night but thought better of continuing af- ter reaching Ann Arbor. "The last few miles took us over two hours to drive end we were pretty lucky-we got one of the last rooms here," Brooks said as she sit in the Bell Tower Hotel !obby. MANY MOTORISTS si out early yesterday only to turn back in the face of halfh-poved See SNOWBOUND, Page 2 cold Classes resume as residents dig out The campus and the city began digging out of 18 inches of snow yesterday as southeastern Michigan, aid- ed by warmer weather, staggered loose from its worst blizzard in this cen- tury. The colossal Sunday storm forced the University to cancel classes yesterday. The wind-whipped white stuff left hundreds of mo- torists foundering on high- ways and city streets as many campus-bound stu- dents had to camp out Sun- day night in airports, mo- tels, and bus terminals as far away as Boston and Minneapolis. BUT THE GOOD news was temporary: all classes will be held as usual today, the Uni- versity announced last night. Hardest hit by the storm was a 150 mile corridor stretching into Ohio where about 20 inches of snow fell in less than a day. National Guard units swung into action in an effort to rescue returning students and Thanks- giving holiday travelers stuck along I-75, I-94, and I-96. All roads remained in poor condi- tion last night. THE STORM yesterday forced Detroit Metropolitan Airport to close and kept the Detroit News from publishing for the first time in the newspaper's history. Late Sunday, University Vice President for Academic Affairs Frank Rhodes made the deci- sion that no classes would be See CITY, Page 2 pact, AP Photos A SNOWBOUND young woman (right) sits and waits and waits a nd waits at Detroit's Metro Airport yesterday for a flight to Grand Rapids. At the same time hundreds of motorists struggled through treacherous conditions across the southern portion of the state in the wake of a record blizzard that dumped over 18 inches of snow here. A long day's journeyj home... Editor's Note: 'Siiperstorm' hit the out-of-state Thanksgiving travelers hardest. Among them was Daily reporter Sara Rimer; she stumbled in late yesterday with the following first-hand account. By SARA RIMER It took a day and a half to fly back to Detroit from Philadel- phia Sunday, with Northwest Orient manning the controls through a memorable blizzard. After an overnight detour in Minneapolis, a six-hour vigil at Detroit's chaotic Metro airport for luggage that was whisked to Chicago, and a three-hour crawl via automobile to the beloved campus, six of us from the Philadelphia area wondered why we had chosen a school in the sunny Midwest. FLIGHT 542, departing from Philadelphia Interrational at 2 p.m., was doomed from check-in time - when the airlines an- nounced that snow-blitzed Metro might divert us to Minneapolis. We were given the option of passing up the flying circus, but, anxious to leave gray, drizzly Philadelphia, we marched on board, waved good-by to worried friends and parents who pressed extra money on us (just in case), and buckled up for the usual unevent- ful hour-and-a-half flight to Detroit. Our complacency was short-lived. SOON THE PILOT announced that Detroit's runways were clogged and Minneapolis was our new destination. Bob Merion, a self-proclaimed veteran of wayward winter flights, hoisted the first of many calming Daiquiris - all courtesy of Northwest. Confidently, the pilot said we could grab a 5:30 p.m. Sunday flight back to the Motor City. He was only off by 12 hours - we See A LONG, Page 2 ord urg es WASHINGTON ('P)-President Ford, pronouncing inflation a "deadly long-range enemy," prodded Congress last night to act immediately on his budget- cutting and unemployment-aid programs. At a two-phased White House news conference, the President also disclosed that the terms of his arms agreement with So- viet leader Leonid Brezhnev would permit each nation an arsenal of 2,400 nuclear missiles or bombers. As many as 1,320 missiles in each country could have multiple warheads. FORD SAID the terms of the accord, which has yet to be turned into a detailed agree- ment between the two super- powers, would cap future arms outline;. ee action buildups and would not, as some critics maintain, "permit an agreed buildup." Without the strategic arms ceilings, Ford said, there would have been a renewed arms race. He said the United States had information that the Soviet Union would have increased its nuclear arsenal, adding that the United States would have had to do the same. Ford said that will not be the case now. But he also said that U.S. defense budgets will be going up, and that the adminis- tration has an obligationrto en- large the U.S. nuclear force "to stay up to that ceiling" set in the Vladivostok agreement. THE PRESIDENT'S news conference, held in the Execu- arms on inflation tive Office Building, across a narrow street from the White House, was divided into two parts, each with an opening statement from Ford. Ford also said he and Brez- hnev had agreed that in Middle East settlement efforts, Israel and her Arab foes should make a maximum effort to keep ne- gotiations going. "We think our step by step system approach is the right one for the time being . . ." he said. "We also agreed that at a certain point, a Geneva confer- ence might be the final an- swer." THEN, FORD switched from foreign to domestic matters, and for the second half of his news conference, concentrated on the economy. Again, he began with a pre- pared statement, saying "Our greatest danger today is to fall victim to the more exaggerated alarms that are being generated about the underlying health and strength of our economy." He said recession is a serious threat that has hurt many Americans and alarms many more, but "hopefully, it is a shorter-range evil" than infla- tion. "We are going to take some lumps and bumps,tbut with the help of Congress and the Ameri- can people, we are perfectly able to cope with our present and foreseeable economic prob- lems," he said. Photo by SCOTT BENEDICT SNOW SCULPTOR GERRY ZONCA puts the final touches on his blizzard-born masterpiece, which could be titled "Cold- Hearted Wolverine." It was a good day for snowpeople since the University called off classes, idling Zonca and about 35,000 other students. Council gets revised City sign ordinance By DAVID WHITING City Council last night re- ceived a revised version of the local sign ordinance which has been mired in court almost since its inception eight years ago. The original ordinance was intended to curb visual pollu- tion by limiting the size, num- ber, and location of signs within the city. But opposition to the measure has kept the law from being fully implemented. ALTERATIONS in the ordi- nance would allow more flexi- bility in the placement of signs, can be reworded in a manner which will serve the same basic purpose . . . such a revised ordinance would not only have fewer opponents, but also a much s t r o n g e r position in court." UNDER THE revisions, the ordinance would allow some- what larger signs and would grant snecial exemptions for gas stations, churches, and theaters. Also the new additions would provide more lenient standards for billboards than for other signs mo'nted on poles. Pres- Masked man rides again TORONTO-Who was that masked man? That was no Lone Ranger. This is Canadian politics, and the masked man, believe it or not, was Rik of the Universe, a candidate for mayor of this vibrant Ontario city. He lost in yester- day's election. NO MAJOR party candidates challenged youth- ful, popular incumbent David Crombie. Instead, there was a brigade of ten losing opponents ranging from Rik, a leather-clad upstart who wants to rename the city "Miami" to improve the weather, to a professional clown named Rosy Sunrise. Rik's campaign was doomed from the start: He urged voters to stay at home and cook a good meal-preferably frogs' legs-instead of voting.