SUNDAY MAGAZINE See Inside Y Ic i6FauF :43L tii SCRUFFY High-26 Low--10 See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 97 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, January 26, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages I i l-/ 1/i s ...... ..... t k.t" d " .: y:;:vv i< ...: '..v..:. : J P resid ell Dope note The Ann Arbor Sun's dope giveaway contest has spawned at least one elaborate practical joke. Yes- terday a University student got a call from some- body claiming to be Sun Editor David Fenton. The caller told the student that he had won the pound of dope. But to get the grass, he would have to go to the fountain in the Briarwood mall at 2 p.m. this afternoon. There he would meet a man in a pin-striped suit who he should ask "got a match?" The man would respond "pound for pound" and lead him to the dope. Suspiciously, the student called the Sun and spoke to the real Fenton who denied the entire story. But come 2 p.m. the sudent plans to be cruising the mall, looking for a man in a pin-striped suit. Seeing Blue Woody Hayes is out looking for new material for his Ohio State Buckeyes. He showed up in Dayton last week to visit 6'2" 195 pound Lawrence Cole, only to find that Michigan had been there first. Cole, a linebacker and defensive end at Dunbar High school, showed up wearing a gold sweatshirt with Michigan emblazoned across it in blue. "Woody wasn't real pleased," Cole said. "He wanted to know if Bo Schembechler gave it to me just to upset him. I just wanted to wear it to school since I'd been up there the day before." Bo himself was unavailable for comment yesterday. " Blood drive The dismal state of the economy has caused some unexpected side effects. Among other things, the shutdown of many auto plants has also can- celled many blood banks which are often held at th' factories and the result has been a predictable blood shortage. In response, the University Stu- dent Blood Bank will be holding a blood drive Monday through Wednesday between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the Union ballroom with a goal of getting 1,200 pints. So roll up your sleeve and turn out. 0 Whistle stop The Rape Education Committee of the Women's Crisis Center will be selling whistles and passing out information Monday in the Fishbowl as part of their continuing battle against rape. The whis- tles, which will cost $1.00 wil also be available at the Women's Crisis Center at Catherine and Divi- sion. For more information call the Center at 994-9100. Happenings .. . are few and far between today. The first meeting of the University Simulations and Strategy Games club will be held from 1-6 p.m. in rooms D and E of the League for all you closet Kissingers and Strangeloves . . . athletic fans can take in the volley ball match between the University's squad and teams from Michigan State and Bowling Green. That's at 5 p.m. at the IM Building . . . at 7 p.m. there's an Outreach film, Law and Order in room 231 of Angell Hall. Admission is free . . . and Monday's sole event is free square dancing lessons for beginners at 8 p.m. in Barbour Gym sponsored by the Square Dancing Club. 0 More CIA dirt Senator Alan Cranston (D-Cal.) yesterday said a special Senate Committee should investigate re- ports that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had murdered its own agents. In an advance text of a speech delivered yesterday Cranston called the alleged murders part of a "dirty laundry list of activities by the U.S. intelligence community." Cranston said there was "considerable substantiat- ing evidence that the CIA murdered its' own agents who, for one reason or another, it wanted out of the way." Cranston claimed the CIA refers to the alleged practice as "termination with extreme pre- judice," a phrase Cranston termed "a ghastly sick humor euphemism." 0 Beating the system When Congressman Robert Lagomarsino (R- Calif.) explained an old way of defrauding the mail in the Congressional Record, Post Office officialsj were not amused. Lagomarsino's well-known meth- od works like this: The sender writes his own name where the addressee's name normally ap- pears and the addressee's name in the upper left hand corner, then drops the letter, without a stamp, in the mail box. The Postal Service then "delivers" the mail "returned" for insufficient postage. While Congressional Record readers chuckled, Postal Ser- vice bureaucrats didn't find it funny, and sent Lagomarsino a letter explaining that intentionally depositing mail without postage was a crime pun- ishable by up to a $300 fine. 0 On the inside ... . . . the Sunday Magazine features Dan Boras writing on a veteran of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters currently residing in the city . . . and learn all the details of the basketball team's triumph over Northwestern on the Sports Page. On the outside... Fun for the skiers An intenses torm moping hild may social down welfare WASHINGTON (A -- Concerned about what it fears is a national drift to- ward socialism, the Ford administration is mounting a major campaign to re- strain the growth in Social Security benefits and oth- er income redistribution spending AP Photo Horse play A couple of horses in Port Angeles, Wash. str ain to munch the grass on the other side of the fence, which apparently is greener. With more than an acre of grazing area behind them, the duo had to turn their heads sideways to squeeze through the narrow fence. REBUILD IMAGE: PpIans CHICAGO () - Chairman Mary Louise Smith of the Republican National Committee announc- ed plans yesterday for a television campaign "to rebuild the shattered perception the public has of the Republican party." Winding up a meeting of GOP state chairmen who pledged "to stop the tide of the Democrats," Smith said the network negotiations will start soon for a monthly, 30-minute television show beginning in May giving information, perspec- tives and viewpoints of the Republican party. "IT WILL be a kind of magazine of the air and will be paid for by the national committee," she said. "Viewers will be asked to make con- tributions to keep the program going. We must find positive ways to turn the tide and we have been forced to seek new directions." Taped interviews of prominent Republicans also will be available for radio stations, she said. She also announced that a registration drive TV shows will be held at every level during the first th weeks of November "to demonstrate that wea in touch and have the public's concern in a n election year." "THERE STILL are 29 million who ideni with Republicans and we must turn armcN Republicans into active ones," Smith said." the last elections we were unable to inspire p lic confidence and we need a positive public titude," she added. Researchers told the c ference there were many problems to overcon Tully Plesser of Cambridge Opinion Resea said exploratory surveys showed peoplea thinking this way: -"Republicans are more committed to fore policy; Democrats are more committed toc mestic policy;" and -"The Republican party is interested in philosophy instead of the people and meet their human needs." See GOP, Page 2 programs. Budget Director Roy Ash, who explained the cam- paign, said nobody likes to use the word socialism, but added this is what the administration fears would occur by the year 2000 if present trends continue. "IT IS better not to use that word, because everybody locks into position, either for or against it, but that is the real issue for the next 20 to 25 years," Ash said in an inter- view. What the administration fears is that income redistribution programs would push govern- ment spending to more than half of the nation's Gross Na- tional Product if they continue to increase in years ahead at the same rate they have grown in the past. And if that happens, Ash said the United States may be irre- versibly on the road toward a controlled economy. HE SAID President Ford will tell Congress in his budget mes- sage next week that the issue is not a partisan one, but that when the facts are understood by Republicans and Democrats alike, "I'm sure most every- body in this country would not want to go that route." Ash said the administration ree is not now making specific pro- are posals, but he said the Con- on- gress might want to consider a 25-year, 5 per cent ceiling on any real increases in total tify benefits for all programs. That lair would be one of several possi- "In be alternatives, Ash added. pub- The 5 per cent real growth would be in addition to cost-of- at- living increases to compensate on- for inflation, Ash said. me. BUT HE also said that if a rch national health insurance pro- are gram is enacted, that alone would account for a 5 per cent ign annual real growth in over-all do- spending for these programs, allowing other programs to a have cost-of-living increases only. i~g Among the federal redistri- bution programs are Social Se- curity, Medicare, food stamps, military retirement, unemploy- ment insurance and welfare grants to states for such pro- grams as aid for dependent children. Ford already has signaled his support for the campaign. In a speech to the Conference Board here last week, he said the hat growth in income redistribution h- programs has ominous impli- g- g cations for the economy. ate If they continue growing at een the same 9 per cent rate in the ian next 20 years as they have in the past, government spending utn at all levels "could eat up more than half of our Gross National the Product," the President said. dlk New flu bug hits Ann Arbor; long, difficult battle to come AP Phdto FORD: His adlministration fears increased government support of social welfare programs may someday lead to socialism. Ford banks on lack o alternatives to energyle, econ plans By CARL LEUBSDORF AP News Analysis WASHINGTON - President Ford appears to be counting heavily on the lack of a single, clear Democratic policy in Con- gress to help him win public support for his energy and economic programs. Despite vows of prompt action by Democratic leaders, their lack of a well-defined policy is helping Ford. So is the difficulty any Congress faces in trying to impose its views on any presi- dent. ULTIMATELY, however, the success of Ford's effort will de- pend primarily on how well his proposals work, whether they curb fuel consumption and stimulate the economy without a new round of inflation. As the President said Thursday night, if inflation of more than 10 per cent continues and the jobless rate is still over seven per cent next January, "those are pretty tough odds" for him to face in seeking a full four-year presidential term in 1976. But he expressed confidence that the economy will rebound from the current recession "more quickly and in a better way than most pessimists say," a confidence that has been a central theme of his steady round of public appearances the past two weeks. FORD HAS been virtually forced to go over the heads of Con- gress to the public because of two interrelated factors, the heavy Democratic majorities in both House and Senate and the sub- stantial disagreement between his views and those of many key Democrats. "Some of his proposals are in deep trouble. He knows it Therefore he is taking the issue to the nation," said Senate Demo- cratic Leader Mike Mansfield in an interview. Despite his conversion to fighting recession and his advocacy of a tax cut, Ford still favors less federal effort to provide jobs than most Democrats and is fighting to trim spending by limit- ing popular Social Security benefit increases. Bubble gum house: Unique if By GORDON ATCHESON The small, one-story house sits on a quiet sunny corner, as a curl of white smoke rises from the chimney. "Home, Sweet Home" may be a cliche but it could never be more appropriately applied. RED, yellow, and blue flow- ers decorate the front yard and in back are a few pieces of bubble gum - leftover bricks which might someday be used By PAULINE LUBENS The flu bug is biting faster and faster these days and as a re- sult more city residents are awakening bleary-eyed, with noses running and bodies ach- ing. This is just the beginning of a long,hard bout with the flu, ac- cording to Dr. John Atwater, director of the Washtenaw County Health Department. IT'S JUST a matter of time before Ann Arbor joins the rest of the state and the eastern United States in falling victim to the latest wave of flu, At- water says. He reports that there has been "a drastic increase" in absen- teism in both area public schools and local industries. But the University Health Service officials say they have Sci-fi convention attracts 300 fans "no documented evidence" th the incidence of flu is any hig er than normal seasonal re because the facility has b handling no more patients th usual. THE CURRENT influenza o break apparently originated the southeastern portion of t country and has been rapi spreading north. In Michigan, the situation so severe that schools w closed last week in Wave and Marquette. The flu appears to be a ne strain-the Port Chalmers v iant-to which most people h, a low resistance. This accoun for the virus' massive impa on a nationwide basis. "IT IS A highly contagio organism and will probablyl a large percentage of the pop lation in a short period of tim striking the young, weak a elderly first, Atwater says. Unfortunately, there is specific cure but the age- addage about going home, g ting plenty of rest, and drinki fluids prevails. In addition,P water believes the flu vacinati is only partially effective. By CATHY SHUGRUE Hundreds of sci-fi freaks gathered together this weekend to soak up the vibes at "Con- fusion 13," the midwestern re- gional science fiction convention held at the Briarwood Hilton. The festivities, which end early today, were highlighted by a series of lectures, futuristic folk singing and a cosmic light show. Star Trek and trading advice about the best paperback books displayed on the hucksters' ta- bles. Hucksters are sci-fi fans with enormous collections of books, magazines, or prints who sell enough to pay their way through the convention. The most well-attended event was the lecture series which featured both authors and sci- - -t .! }4x alf