A WOMEN'S RIGHTS VICTORY See Editorial Page Sir&igzr Da111 SNIZZLING High-30 Law-20 For details see Today Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 94 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, January 23, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages IFrOuSEE NEWS t1PP CALL 7,NY Profs unionize Unionization among college and university professors is on the rise and will have a major impact on higher education in the seventies, according to Prof. Terrence Tice who has recently completed a nationwide survey on the topic. "Faculty bargaining," Tice says, "is now established as a major force in American academic governance." According to Tice's survey, faculties at 314 colleges and universities are represented by 194 bar- gaining units (unions) - an increase of 110 since 1969. The unionization movement is being led by three, major organizations: The National Education Associa- tion (NEA), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). NEA tops the list with 85 bargaining units. The group, Tice comments, "got into the game early, not- ably through the community colleges." Tied for second are the AFL-CIO-backed AFT and the more established AAUP. 4 EPA in use According to its author, Michigan's Environmental Pro- tection Act (EPA) which allows citizens to sue polluters has been widely used since it came into effect in 1970. Prof. Joseph Sax, the law school's environmental spe- ialist says a survey of the past three years shows that some 74 cases have been brought to court under EPA covering .a wide range of environmental issues, indicat- ing that the law is not "being written off in the minds of judges, legtaislors and concerned citizens." While con- ceding that no "big time test litigation" has come out of the law, Sax says "we got what we bargained for in drafting a grass roots law. The great bulk of the cases involved quite localized problems-road widening, vaca- tion home subdivisions, country land drainage or a particular polluting factory." Chess champ "Tex" Rubin has been named the winner of the E. Quad Chess Tournament. He received the honor byhbeat- ing his opponent-Ira Kobllnski-in 36 moves in a match held Monday night. Oops! Due to a typing and editing error, the Daily mistakenly printed yesterday that the containers surrounding radio- active nuclear waste are "oak" casks. Actually, the casks are constructed out of lead and steel to prevent radioactive particles from escaping. Wallace By JIM SCHUSTERG Democrats hoping to wrest pow- er away from the Watergate-ridden Republicans may be surprised to discover that they aren't the only on CPS survey beneficiaries of the Gop's political tremendous de misfortune. trust in the f According to Prof. Warren Miller The surveys s of the University's Center for Po- confidence fell litical Studies (CPS), George Wal- faster rate in 1 lace and his American Political er time in th Party could pick up enough new history. support in the next two years to As evidence become the nation's number two ler points to< political party. showed 75 per MILLER BASES his prediction supporting thei could profit by prof. foresees realignment of major ys that document a cline in the public's ederal government. how that levels of to lower points at a 973 than at any oth- e survey's 15 year of this decline, Mil- a 1958 finding that cent of the voters notion that the coun- try was being run for the benefit of everyone, not just for an elite. In 1972, only 43 per cent of the people felt the same way-a de- cline of 32 per cent over a 14 year period. By October 1973, the level of agreement had dropped to 28 per cent, a decline of another 15 per cent in but a single year. ' SIMILARLY, public confidence in the electoral system plunged from 75 per cent to 51 per cent in 1973. This finding was particularly noteworthy in light of the fact that the level had remained constant in the first 14 years of the study. The Watergate scandal is the "obvious" cause of these changes in political attitude according to Miller, who sees further erosion of public confidence in 1974 with the continuation of Watergate and the energy crisis. Thougi changes: sult of t Miller do ment of the realn ACCOF fears of by the t tally daz Party in sequenc Wa tergate s dependents and conservative Dem- rtiles ocrats will be looking for new leadership. Given Wallace's image of a h he foresees no structural champion of the little man in his in the government as a re- battle with big government and big he public's new cynicism, business, Miller thinks the Ala- oes feel a massive realign- bama governor's third party could party loyalties is within overtake the Republicans. n of possibility. Though he is by no means sure RDING TO Miller, new that such a political scenario will big business touched off unfold, Miller thinks the Republi- wo crisises could be mor- cans could pick up as little as 20 maging to the Republican per cent of the vote in 1976, with 1974 and 1976. As a con- Wallace and the Democrats split- e a good many political in- ting the remainder. SENATE HEARINGS CONTINUE Oil firms w.r . e on tax breaks hand 'U' Shefty gift 2 By CHARLES COLEMAN Steep tuition fees are not the ~ University's only source of income. In the current period of financial cutbacks for many University de- Spartments, the Center for Japanese SStudies has received a gift of $1 million from the Japanese govern- ement to strengthen its programs in - JThaegiftwads presented to Uni- versity President Robben Fleming Syesterday by Japanese Consul Gen- Seral Tateo Suzuki and Vice Consul SGeneral Susumu Yamagishi at a *brief formal ceremony held in the Regents' Room of the adkninistra- Ztion building. After a visit to the United States Japanese Premier Kakeui STanaka announced last August thiat ten American universities would PRESIDENT ROBBEN FLEMING, right, and Japanese Studies Center Director Richard Beards- ~be receiving identical gifts of $1 ley, center, are all smiles yesterday as they are presented with a check for one million dollars by * See JAPAN, Page 2 Japanese Consul General Tateo Suzuki. .. r V f ..y.TK.E .H.E..P..YA D..P..r ..f........{.<:..S .... rrxwr..r..r..F....TAK...{E... HO.F M E.... PAY DROPS.......4.v. ............. .....".: q':.;....'i::viT":ri ",.r Happenings . . . . .. recruiters for Action (Peace Corps and Vista) will be at the student lounge in the Business Administration Bldg. from 9 am until 5, pm . . . the Psych film series is showing Powers of Ten), The Lottery, and Witches of Salem at MLB Aud. 3 at 4 pm . . . and the Journalism Dept. is showing the film I.F. Stone's Weekly at MLB Aud. 4 at 4:15 pm. Miners to strike The British miners' union threatened a national strike yesterday after the government refused to lift its wage controls to permit a larger wage increase than is al-- lowed to other workers. A strike by the miners, whose refusal to work overtime has already created an energy shortage, could halt most of British industry by spring. (help) City police in Niles, Ohio were, amazed to find a report that someone was inside a Goodwill Industries used clothing deposit box near a local store was true. The unidentified man said he fell in while putting cloth- ing and other items into the box and then couldn't reopen "the flap. Police didn't say how long he was trapped. Restaurant kisser Where were you on New Year's eve? If it was the Soup and Salad restaurant in Seattle, Wash. and if you kissed a singer there, she's looking for you. Jessica Bry- an, a 27-year-old dressmaker and folksinger is seeking a reunion with the man she's met-and kissed-only twice. She sings at the restaurant and says three weeks before New Year's she kissed on impulse a man who dropped a dollar in the collection bowl at her feet. She says he came in again New Years Eve and kissed her (but didn't leave any money). Bryan placed the follow- ing. ad in the local gaper: "Will the man who kissed me at Soup and Salad New Year's please come again be- fore I go nuts? Jessica." On the inside ... Ed Shuttlesworth and Paul Seal weredrafted by the Detroit: franchise of the fledgling World Football League. Read all about it on the Sports Page . .. Eileen Loeher covers a poetry reading by Joseph Brodsky on the Arts Page . . . and County Commissioner Kathy Fojtik writes,'on the need for more rational abortion laws on the Editorial P-ge. 0 Prices rose 8.8 per cent for '73 By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - Inflation clip- ped almost nine cents off the dol- lar's purchasing power in 1973 as consumer prices rose 8.8 per cent, the most in any year since the lift- ing of World War II price controls. At the same time the real take- home pay of workers fell by three per cent. THE YEAR-END figure came with the Labor Department's re- port yesterday that the Consumer Price Index, led by soaring food and fuel prices, rose five-tenths of 1 per cent seasonally adjusted in December. The nation's inflationary rate more than doubled that of-the pre- vious two years combined. Consum- er prices rose 3.4 per cent in 1971 and again in 1972. It also marked the biggest an- nual increase since retail prices rose 9 per cent in 1947 following the end of war price controls. PRESIDENT NIXON said the price rise reflected "increasing worldwide competition for pro- ducts" that have "created extraor- dinary pressures on our economy." In a report to Congress, he con- ceded "the picture was not as bright as we would have liked," but said if the country responds "to new challenges, including the current energy shortage with the Tribal Funding sues city over cancelled revenue sharing, pac..t By DAVID STOLL Tribal Funding, Inc., filed suit against Mayor James Stephenson and City Councilman William Col- burn (R-Third Ward) in Circuit Court yesterday, charging the two with illegally conspiring to break the organizations' contract with the city to provide community rock concerts. The suit is the latest action in a running battle between the Repub- lican majority on council and the Rainbow People's Party (RPP). Tribal Funding is the financial arm of the RPP-dominated Ann Arbor Tribal Council. IN A PARALLEL action, Tribal Funding also filed suit against Col- burn for making allegedly libelous statements about the organization. After the suits were filed, Cir- cuit Court Judge Patrick Conlin issued a temporary restraining or- der barring the city from spending the funds originally allocated to the group. The suit stems from the Repub- licans' December decision to break the city's $18,000 contract with Tribal Funding. The Republicans charged that the group was guilty of conflict of interest in its hand- ling of the funds since it had rent- ed office space from the First Zenta Church, a tax front for an RPP-owned house at 1520 Hill St. THE REPUBLICANS also justi- fied their move on the grounds that Tribal Funding had failed to de- liver most of the concerts promis- ed. Counter - charging that the Re- publicans' move was politically mo- tivated, Tribal Funding spokesper- sons pointed out that the Repub- licans decided to break the con- tract soon after they learned that finds from it were about to be used as a downpayment on a new building for the People's Ballroom. At a press conference yesterday D~avid Sinclair farther charged that Colb rn had collided with Univer- sity Housing Director John Feld- kmno, to nrevent Tribal Funding from using University facilities for its concerts. same sense of poise and flexibil- ity" as in the past "we can look forward with assurance to a pros- perous new year." NIXON OFFERED no inflation forecast this year but some private economists predict it will be as bad as 1973 with a new surge in meat prices and continued high prices for fuels, among other things. The price surge has eaten deeply into the paychecks of the nation's workers, according to the govern- ment's figures. In December, real spendable earnings -- or weekly pay after taxes stripped of the ef- fects of inflation - fell one-tenth of 1 per cent, the third consecu- tive monthly decline. Over the year, the Labor Department said, real spendable earnings dropped 3 per cent, about half due to higher taxes and the remainder to infla- tion. AFT..-CIO President G e o r g e Meany said this would increase the pressure for bigger wage increases this year. "All indications are that the cost of living will take a big jump," he said on the NBC Today Show. The government blamed about half of last year's annual increase in consumer prices on a 20.1 per cent jump in food prices, sharpest rise in any year since 1946. ALTHOUGH FOOD price surge began tanering off in the second half of the year, prices of other commodities, including fu els and other energy products, began to climb. Prices for gasoline and motor oil were up 18.6 per cent for the venr, while fuel oil and coal rose 44.7 per cent, and accounted for more than a third of the increase in Tecebrner's monthly price rise. However, the government said the increase was moderated some- Long effort seen for U.S. oil self-su pport By AP and Reuter The nation's seven biggest oil companies were put on notice yesterday that Congress will have to reconsider the fuel industry's long-standing preferential tax treatment. The warning on taxes came as executives from the com- panies predicted that 15 years of all-out effort will be needed for the United States to become, self-sufficient in energy pro- duction. DURING the second day of stormy hearings before the Senate in- vestigations subcommittee, the company chiefs came under fire for their low level of tax payments. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) told the executives that "while the consumer is suffering the.companies are reaping a bonanza." Ribicoff and other members of the panel challenged the oil con- panies' use of depletion allowances, drilling expenses and foreign royalty payments to offset payments to the federal government. RIBICOFF said that in 1972 Exxon, the world's largest oil com- pany, paid U. S. taxes at the rate of 6.5 per cent, Mobil Oil at 1.3 per cent, Standard Oil of California at 2.05 per cent and Texaco at 1.7 F a He estimated that if the oil com - e panies had paid at the standard corporate tax rate of 48 per cent, they would have paid out $3 billion more in taxes. "The time has come for real tax reform," Ribicoff said. en e "The oil industry is receiving preference far beyond what every rob em s ceiving," he added. "It's time you pay a fair share of taxation." By BILL HEENAN TWO OF the seven executives Charles Overberger, the Univer- predicted at yesterday's hearing sity's vice president for research, that gasoline prices will jump 10 to opened the first faculty seminar 15 cents per gallon over the next on energy problems by calling on year. Representatives of the five the University to act as "an intel- other companies hesitated to join lectual resource in solving the in the grim forecast. energy crisis." In attempting to forecast U. S. Overberger spoke to some 100 energy needs and supplies, Rich- students and f a c u It y members ard Leet, vice president of Stan- gathered for the premiere in a dard Oil of Indiana, said, "Every planned series of "seminars for year that's lost in mounting such the purpose of disseminating in- a massive campaign puts us far- formation, arriving at common ther behind and more dependent views, and planning action" on on foreign sources." the nation's energy troubles. Annon Card, senior vice presi- dent of Texaco, told the Senate in- CHEMICAL engineering Prof. vestigations subcommittee that the Donald Katz offered the first round 15-year prediction on achieving of information 'on a specialized self-sufficiency assumes that no re- energy area, delving into the posi- straints are placed on exploration tive and negative aspects of using and production. coal as an alternative fuel source. Noting that dwindling domestic THE SUBCOMMITTEE, seeking oil supplies are making the nation to determine the extent of the cur- "vulnerable" to f o r e i g n import rent energy shortage, took sworn problems-such as the Arab oil tesimony for the second consecu- embargo-Katz said the U.S. pos- tive day from executives of the sesses a huge amount of coal. seven big oil. firms. Natural gas extracted from coal Much of yesterday's session was "produces a clean fuel, and evet spent discussing oil profits, which at our present consumption rates, generally shot upward during the we have a 200-year supply of it," first nine months of 1973, despite Katz explained. He warned, how- only moderate increases in sales ever, that coal is "chemically See CONGRESS, Page 8 See FACULTY, Page 8 Skills center miliage slaughtered by voters By GORDON ATCHESON In a special election yesterday, Washtenaw County voters over- whelmingly defeated a one mill property tax increase to finance an expansive vocational skills center. The two ballot propositions authorizing the tax hike and a $7.6 million bond issue to fund a site and building for the center both lost by over a two to one margin. FINAL TOTALS showed both questions lost with about 3,800 votes in favor to 8,500 against. The voter turnout represented about 12 per cent of the county-wide electorate. Racki am dean slated for post at Princeton Rackham Dean Donald Stokes will be stepping down shortly to assume a new position as dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Inter- ben Fleming said, "We regret very much Dean Stokes' decision to leave the University. lie has been a distinguished member of our f culty, and a forward-looking dean of our Ur-2)d1I1at school."