100%

Scanned image of the page. Keyboard directions: use + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrow keys to pan inside the viewer.

Page Options

Download this Issue

Share

Something wrong?

Something wrong with this page? Report problem.

Rights / Permissions

This collection, digitized in collaboration with the Michigan Daily and the Board for Student Publications, contains materials that are protected by copyright law. Access to these materials is provided for non-profit educational and research purposes. If you use an item from this collection, it is your responsibility to consider the work's copyright status and obtain any required permission.

February 05, 1974 - Image 8

Resource type:
Text
Publication:
Michigan Daily, 1974-02-05

Disclaimer: Computer generated plain text may have errors. Read more about this.

Page Eight

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Tuesday, February 5, 1974

Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 5, 1974

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
Women in Management-Data Processing-
Personnel-Retailing-Fed. Govt.

Gov. Millili
out Nation

:en calls

ABA CONFERENCE

sponsored by T . i (Continued from Page 1)
E The second in a series of informal lunch hour discussions with Schools in several states closed
CA R E E R employers. Meet with representatives from Ford Motor Co., Amer- because they couldn't get gaso-
icon Natural Gas System, Abraham & Strauss, National Bank of line to run the buses or didn't have
N. America, Internal Revenue Service. any heating oil; meat packing
plants were running out of fresh
Tuesday, Feb. 5-12 Noon fruits and vegetables. Layoffs
were estimated at over 20,000.
Held in Conference Rms. 4 & 5, Michigan League The protesters are independents,
but some company drivers have
Planing tTray lunches are available in the Michigan League cafeteria, been staying off the road - in
Placement You are welcome to buy your lunch and eat during the discussion. sympathy or fear. Jimmy Hoffa,
764-7460 761-7460 former president of the Teamsters
Union, gave his support to the in-
Sdependents."They're entitled to
make a profit .. . and they're en-
Stitled to a decent wage," said
UA-DAYTARpresentsinconcert:WHLEgHoffa.
f MEANWHILE, IN Washington,
hnegotiations intensified yesterday
to end the spreading independent,
truckers' shutdown, with the driv-
ers still at odds over the govern-
ment's objection to their key de-
mand - a roll back of diesel fuel
ENSEMBLIE prices.
The Nixon administration moved
to give the truckers some financial
relief by asking Congress to allow
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion to speed approval of new regu-
lations that would pass increased
fuel costs on to the shipping com-
panies for whom the drivers work.
A source involved in the talks
said an agreement could be close
if the government showed more
willingness to compromise with the
STONIGHT
Saturday,* February 23 ON
"Ihis Week in Sports'
.H IL L A UDITORIUM
Johnny RR
8 p.m. - Reserved Seats $3-$4-$5 U-M Basketball Coach
PLUSI
TICKET OUTLETS: MICH IGAN UNION, Discount Records, Huckleberry Party RU~ 1
Store, Recordland (Briarwood Mall) and the Where House Campy Russell
nd

al Guard Shield
truckers' demands. HOUSTON (P) - The American
"The truckers have been very Bar Association (ABA) yesterday,
reasonable and moved consider- rejected a proposal to "shield"
ably," said the source, a member journalists' confidential sources
of Pennsylvania Gov. Miltonj from compelled disclosure.
Shapp's staff. The ABA's policy-making house
Shapp, who brought the truckers of delegates voted 157 to 122
and government together, said he: against putting the influential or-
was hopeful the dispute would be ganization on record as favoring
quickly resolved. shield legislation.
The delegates also. went on re-
IN CHICAGO cattle and hog cord condemning credit- practices
rcdwest droed sha aket seerlthat discriminate on the basis of
day and meat packers reported x or marital status.
more closings or production cut- The bar association rejected a
backs as a result of the nation- request from the Senate Water-
wide truckers shutdown. r gate Committee to aid in identify-
Meatwhoesaersandretailers ing "the major implications" of
said deliveries in the Chicago area Concern that the ABA has been
were reduced and a Connecticut too vocal and too visible in its
wholesaler said he would have no position on the scandal has been
beef tomorrow or Thursday. a recurring theme of the organiz-
In other developments: ation's meeting here.
-U. S. Steel at Gary, Ind., saida
the truckers shutdown was inter- THE SENATE committee had
fering with operations, but a asked a number of organizations
spokesperson said the company for help in sifting the importance
was not planning any production of Watergate revelations. The ABA
curtailment. initially responded by appointing
-Bethlehem Steel officials in a committee to consider the re-
Porter County, Ind., said the com- quest. The group reported that
pany made no over-the-road de- "it would not be feasible for thel
liveries during the weekend. ABA to provide a specific response
-Connesticut Gov. Meskill said to the Senate committee," accord-
the Public Utilities Commission ing to the board of governors.
will issue an order prohibiting I The rejected shield policy was
truckers from interfering with the fashioned by a committee that
flow of commerce. If that doesn't recommended an absolute or near-
work, he said, the state will go to ly absolute shield to prevent dis-
court. "I am very sympathetic to closure in courts, legislative hear-
the problems they are facing," ings and the like.
Meskill said, "but . . . we can't Its supporters maintained the
allow people to take matters into privilege was needed to serve the
their own hands." 1 public through an increased flow

law

of information., not to set reporters At a minimum, the shield com-
apart, as a privileged class. mittee recommended that the
privilege yield only to the most
OPPONENTS, who triumphed, compelling and overriding neces-
remained unconvinced. The pro- sity for disclosure. It would apply
posal drew staunch opposition from to any person gathering news or
the ABA's section on criminal .law, information for general dissemina-
and from the national conferences tion.
of state, federal and appellate The U. S. Supreme Court has
judges. 1already held that the Constitution
Opposition centered on the ab- does not give reporters the right to
solute nature of the privilege refuse to answer questions before
against disclosure and on the a grand jury but the court invited
broad definition of those who would Congress to determine whether a
qualify to invoke its protection. law is desirable.
Committee considers
oil rice ceiling bill
(Continued from Page 1) other oil company tax proposals,
leum products, could be increased said the proposal issued by his
under the provisions of the bill to office was designed to cut down on
reflect cost increases for the deal- long lines at service stations be-
ers, but only on a direct dollar- cause people have been stopping
for-dollar basis. for a dollar or so worth of gas
The action came in the form of every time they see a station open.
an amendment offered by Sen. The federal energy office, in a
Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) to the separate statement, said Simon
bill giving President Nixon gaso- would consider making the $3 min-
line rationing authority and other imum mandatory once the neces-
emergency powers to meet fuel sary legislative authority exists.
shortages. It replaced provisions In other energy related develop-
dealing with excess oil company ments, New Jersey Gov. Brendan
profits, which have blocked pass- Byrne said yesterday he would ex-
age of the bill since last December. ercise emergency powers to im-
The committee which approved plement a gasoline allocation svs-
the measure is made up of mem- tem intended to ease critical short-
hers of the House and Senate com- ages confronting motorists.
mittees which originally approved The governor said that ac soon
the bill. They are atttempting to as energy measures now pending
work out differences in the bill in the legisuature were approved
which will satisfy objections by he would sign them. One of the
members of both houses of Con- bills permits him to declare an
gress. energy emergency with special
The Nixon administration yes- powers to establish a gasoline al-
terday urged motorists to purchase locatiqn system.
at least $3 worth of gasoline when- Also, in Toronto the Canadian
ever they pull up to the pumps. government proposed a pattern of
Energy Chief William Simon, gradual price increases to lift the
speaking to reporters outside the price of Canadian crude oil to $8
House Ways and Means committee a barrel by 1976, about twice the
hearings on windfall profits and current price.
NOTICE
Non-Native Speakers of English
All Speakers of English as a Second Language* Are
Invited to Take Part in an Experimental Test of
English Language Proficiency to be Given in RACK-
HAM LECTURE HALL AT 7:00 P.M. ON THE 6th
OF FEBRUARY. You Will Receive $5.00 for Approx-
imately 1 /-2 Hours of Your Time. If Interested
You Must Call and Register at the Following Num-
ber: 764-2416 on or before February 6th.
No ELI Students Currently Enrolled in the Intensive English
Courses Are Eligible for the Test at This Time.

rejected

U

+ Use

Daily Classifieds --

CJ. K upec
Co-Captains
7-8 on WCB-FM-89.5
CALL IN AT 761-3500

Group Flute Lessons
Beginners can take advantage of our
6 week group flute course.. .
only $12.00
Private Instruction Available
For enrollment, call:
dh)tl /I,6v' #1 u4ic tart
336 S. STATE - 769-4980
9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mon.-Sat.

U

I

S5

th

I

ONSALE THROUGH SAT., FEB. 9

L'

11

$349

$3.49

THE 4ESENE
341 S. MTain St. Ann Arbor 769-5960
Jerusalem the Golden:

{
CLEARANCE
BOOK SALE
HARDCOVERS-many hundreds
Assorted, Fiction, Hist., Politics, etc.
Values to $20.OO Priced $1.98 to 98c
SINGLE COPIES
Come Quick-CHEAP!
&d sti
316 SO. STATE ST.
OPEN 9 A.M. TO 10 P.M. M-SAT; 11-6 SUN.
LOUIS NEEDS HELP-STILL BURIED
- -- - - --- -
I -W TR AV EL
PRESENTS
SPRING BREAK TO
DEPARTS DETROIT MARCH 1 at 5:30 p.m.
RETURNS DETROIT MARCH 9 at 12:10 p.m.
$30800 per person
INCLUDES FIRST NIGHT HOTEL
AND RENTAL CAR FOR ONE DAY
Additional hotel nights

The historical, religious, and architecural
cance of the eternal city in the traditions
daism, Christianity, and Islam.

signifi-
of Ju-

Jerusalem in the
Christian Tradition
PROFESSOR D. NOEL FREEDMAN

WED., FEB. 6
8 P.M.

$3.49
(4 4
iscoun I

$3.49

Director of Program on Studies in Religion
at the University of Michigan
Modern Language Building-Lecture Room 2

The Sacred Monu-
ments of Jerusalem
AL ILLUSTRATED LECTURE

THUR., FEB. 1
8 p.m.

PROFESSOR OLEG GRABAR
Professor of Art History, Harvard University
Angell Hall-Auditorium B

"p -

Back to Top

© 2025 Regents of the University of Michigan