For Daily subscriptions, phone 764-0558 FREE ISSUE IF iritoiau Fig hty-T hree Years of Editorial Freedom Ait FREE ISSUE Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 8, 1973 Free Issue Eight Pages MORE BAD NEWS FOR CONSUMERS sFYOUSEE NE'SAPPEN CALL7:rNAILY Something tor nothing There's just one more day of free Dailies and then you have to pay. Look us over, and if you like what you see, why not subscribe? It's only $10.00 for both semesters. One of the few real bargains left. Just call 764-0558 to get home delivery of your Daily started. 0 Help on the way Director of Housing Information John Finn assures homeless students on the waiting list for University housing that efforts are still being made to place them. After noon Monday, his office will have finished compiling the list of cancellations and no-shows for hous- ing and will start assigning people on the list. Fresh- men desiring a place to live should drop by the Uni- versity Housing Office at 1011 Students Activities Building starting Monday night. Upperclassmen should come start- ing Tuesday. English Language Institute students, many of whom are temporarily assigned to the University Mo- tel and the Michigan Union, will be taken care of after- wards, according to Finn. " Ann Arbor-Dearborn bus Commuting to the University's Dearborn campus from Ann Arbor is about to be made easier with the addition of a new stop on the Ann Arbor-Dearborn commuter bus run. The service, sponsored by the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority, has been expanded to include a drop-off and pick-up point at the circular drive north of theDearborn library. Starting Monday, buses leave the Hilton Inn in Ann Arbor weekdays at 7:00 and 7:30 AM, arriving in Dearborn about an hour later. Buses depart the Dearborn library for Ann Arbor at 4:37 and 5:07 PM. Price of a single one-way ticket is $2, but if monthly passes are purchased the cost works out to approximately $1 a ride. 0 Happenings... ..the great Ray Charles will top the bill at the second day of the three-day Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival at Otis Spann Memorial Field . . . Bogart's "The Maltese Falcon" is featured at the Cinema Guild Bogart Festival at Arch Aud. 7, 9 p.m. . . . the Friends of Newsreel present "Easy Rider" and Chaplin's "Mod- ern Times" at the Modern Languages Bldg at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. . .. R. C. Summer Theater is doing Mrozek's "Tango" at the Residential College (East Quad) Audi- torium at 8 p.m. . . . and last but not least Huron Valley Youth for Christ presents Nicky Cruz, author of "Run Baby, Run" at Crisler, 7:30 p.m. 0 "I'm innocent..." Former White House aide David Young pleaded innocent to burglary-conspiracy charges yesterday and told newsmen, "I am confident . . . about my own in- nocence." Young was indicted with John Ehrlichman, Egil Krogh and G. Gordon Liddy in the 1971 burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Krogh already has surrendered in Los Angeles and pleaded innocent, and Ehrlichman flew to the coast yesterday to do like- wise. 0 We been had! Treasury Secretary George Shultz conceded yesterday that the United States got burned in the Soviet wheat deal, but promised it won't happen again. "I think it's a fair statement to say that they were very sharp in their buying practices," Shultz said of the 1972 Russian wheat purchases which resulted in massive increases in U. S. food prices. Sun burst Skylab 2 astronauts photographed a sun explosion so massive officials said it may cause temporary power blackouts in earth's northern latitudes. Scientists esti- mate the solar flare was 10 times the size of the earth and called it "the brightest and biggest this year." Astro- nauts Alan Bean, Dr. Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma captured the flare on film using a powerful array of tele- scope cameras. Elephant pinched The Munich police thought they had a real crank on their hands when a man called to report an elephant standing in front of a local tavern. But instead of asking if it was pink, they went to the scene to investigate and found that the elephant did indeed exist. Inside the bar, they found the owner-the caretaker of a local univer- sity's animal research center. He explained he was tak- ing the elephant for a walk and just dropped in for a cup of coffee - the man not the elephant-that is. On the inside . * Marcia Merker previews the intramural sports scene on the Sports Page . . . Marcia Zoslaw reflects on the differences between Cambridge, Mass.-home of Har- olesale rices ump sharply Largest monthly gain since World War 11 By UPI and Reuter WASHINGTON -- Wholesale prices, unleashed from a two- month freeze and fueled by a 23 per cent boost in raw agri. cultural products, scored their biggest monthly advance in August since the summer of 1946, the government reported yesterday. Grains alone jumped by 70 per cent last month, and hay, soybeans and other such livestock feeds shot up by 57 per cent. BUT TREASURY SECRETARY George Shultz said he thought food prices would "ease off" because of sharp declines in soybean, corn, PERFORMERS AT THE Blues and Jazz Festival look out at the large crowd that jammed into Otis Spann Memorial Field yesterday for the opening session of the three day concert. cattle, hog and broiler prices since the Labor Department's figures were 'gathered before mid-August. "My instinct is that we have seen the worst of the food price problem," Shultz told a White house news conference. Other economists also cast doubt on the inevitability of a sharp up- surge in retail beef prices when ceilings are removed Sunday. They noted that producers who had been withholding cattle from the market in anticipation of higher post-ceil- ing returns might glut the market and actually push retail prices down. THE LABOR Department said wholesale prices rose by 5.8 per cent in August, the worst on record since the postwar inflationary boom in July, 1946, when they advanced 10.7 per cent. When statistically adjusted to account for the weather and other seasonal factors, the August in- crease was 6.2 per cent-the big- gest since the government began making seasonal calculations 30' years ago. By contrast, wholesale prices dropped by 1.3 per cent in July during the freeze. THE WHOLESALE Price Index rose to 142.7 last month, meaning it cost $14.27 in August to buy the same wholesale goods that sold for $10 in 1967. In a separate report, the govern- ment said unemployment was es- sentially unchanged last month at 4.8 per cent of the labor force, up from 4.7 per cent in July but still well below the 6 per cent level that prevailed throughout most of 1971. Shultz said the rise in cost of living was only temporary. He urged wage earners to "be a little patient" and resist the temptation to demand big pay increases in contract negotiations to catch up. See WHOLESALE, Page 2 Local food prices up as. usual, By JEAN LOVE and PENNY BLANK Along with the rest of the nation, ,there seems to be little .or no re- lief in sight from swollen food prices for the Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti area consumer. Customers at local grocery stores and markets will continue to be faced with rising costs of meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, and other staples despite efforts of na- tional price freezing to curtail them. MEAT SALES managers from the chains say they,. are not yet experiencing a n y shortages or scarcities of any kind due to hoard- ing, even though the price freeze on beef will be lifted next Sunday. "Sales are pretty normal this week in area stores -- I guess ev- eryone already has their freezers full;" comments A&P's main De- troit office meat manager. "Pork and chicken continue to be good values, even at their re- cent increasing prices, relative to beef prices," says Wrigley's De- troit division manager. "I CAN'T really predict what will happen to beef next week. This week we are selling beef in special at twenty percent off the ceiling prices - because more beef is available this week. We are pass- ing this advantage on to the people as quickly as we can." Despite such comments, sales managers predict that pork prices See LOCAL, Page 2 U10unt Batewelcomes crowd ' 0 By DAN BIDDLE Seventy-year old Count Basie stepped up to the mike, smiled a beneficent smile and welcomed 14,000 cheering young folks: "Hello there . . . it's so nice to see you all so happy." And a sea of faces floating in the pink floodlit twilight on Otis Spann Memorial Field smiled back to the Count like children to a pleased grandfather. THE SECOND Annual Ann Ar- bor Blues and Jazz Festival last night smiled its way past technical foul-ups and fear of police action Kissinger rilled on w1A.iretaps By AP, UPI and Reuter WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee gril- led Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's nominee to be secretary of state, for four hours yesterday and threatened to delay his confirma- tion because of past wiretaps on his staff. Sitting under television lights in the ornate Senate caucus room,the same room used in the Watergate hearings, Kissinger defended t h e wiretapping of several aides as painful but necessary to protect na- tional security. COMMITTEE members s a i d they could not act on Kissinger's nomination before receiving an FBI report on the wiretapping of Kissinger's White House aides in 1969-1970. The wiretap controversy, a spin- off from Senate Watergate testi- mony about President Nixon's ef- forts to stop news leaks of classi- fied information marred Kissim,- night of against drug use, to a fine and al- most flawless opening show. As some 20 uniformed police looked on quietly from the audi- ence's perimeter, the classic jazz man Basie, the more progressive Leon Thomas and bombastic blues man Freddie King led the crowd through a satisfying blend of some of the best in blues and jazz music, from "ancient"-the 1920's origins of Basie and blues pianist Roose- velt Sykes - to the modern Afri- can rooted sound of Thomas. Problems arose briefly as a vi- deo system, used to transmit a TV Blues Festival image of the performers onto a mammoth projection screen for the benefit of the people in the back, failed to function at the outset. THE SYSTEM was quickly re- paired, but organizers faced an- other snafu as J. B. Hutto and his Hawks, an electric blues band, lost the balance of their equipment in a car accident shortly before the show. Hutto's band arrived late and intact but was unable to play -his act was quickly replaced by a local group, the Mojo Boogie Band. If that wasn't enough, the phone system on the festival grounds went dead for a brief period after 10 p.m. But the performers pressed ahead unhampered through a ser- ies of crowd pleasing sets, and the anticipated source of trouble-fear of drug a r r e s t prompted by statements from Ann Arbor Police chief Walter Krasny and Mayor James Stephenson earlier this week -failed to materialize. THE CONCERT opened with an old fashioned piano blues session from Roosevelt Sykes, whose white Stetson hat matched his white pia- no. The smooth Mr. Sykes, a man of Basie's musical generation, played often with one hand held high, leading his youthful listeners delicately through "The St. James Infirmary Blues" with the finesse of a Leon Russell and the time- honed expertise of a Mississippi Fred McDowall. The Chicago Revolutionary En- semble followed with a progressive jazz set led by a fine electric vio- lin but the young musicians were no match for the classic Basie, whose 16 piece orchestra and acro- batic drummer blew 14,000 newly gained swing music fans straight back to the forties. It took the introspective sound of Leon Thomas and the electricity of Freddie King's blues to bring the crowd back into the seventies. TOMORROW'S SHOW starts at 11:30 and is headlined by John Lee Hooker and the Ray Charles show. HIIP seeks to have marijuana question placed on city ballot By GORDON ATCHESON The Human Rights Party (HRP) has begun a petition drive aimed at placing the city's recently re- pealed $5 marijuana fine on next April's municipal election ballot as an amendment to the city charter. To get the controversial law on the ballot, HRP must collect the signatures of 3,500 registered city voters before the end of Decem- ber. HRP started the campaign Diag demonstration dra wssmall crowd Wednesday but shortly plans to in- tensify their efforts particularly during the Blues and Jazz Festival. IN A RELATED move the Wo- men's Political Committee, a non- partisan group, will circulate pe- titions for a charter amendment es- tablishing the right of initiative and referendum. If successful, initiative and refer- endum would allow private citi- zens to place city ordinances on a municipal election ballot by col- lecting signatures. Presently, City Council has the sole power to put city laws on the ballot. HRP originally undertook the initiative and referendum cam- paign but by mutual consent turned the drive over to the Women's Po- litical Committee. BESIDES THE petition drive on marijuana, HRP is also trying to place pay for council members on the April ballot. Currently council members receive no monetary compensation for their time. But ifTJa rn th r nra ints By DEBRA THAL Some 150 people gathered in the sun-soaked Diag yesterday after- noon to kick off the semester with an "anti-Nixon rally" that even- tually took more potshots at the Universitv's record tuition hike BOTH GILL and DeGrieck urged the revival of "mass movement" fervor resembling the high level of campus political activity in the late 1960's. DeGrieck sounded a familiar note as he took aim on the Dower structure: "The University ..........