IDEAL COURSE See inside Y Sir i!Mt ait TROPICAI High-4 Low--4? See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 153 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 11, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages THUMBS UP FOR RURAL MOTORCADE 1/- IFMUSEE wESF(AP iL 1AtY Feldkam p b-b-blasted The Housing Unit Committee (HUC) yesterday called for the censure of University Housing Director John Feldkamp - then decided to hold off the motion until they could tell it to his face. Feldkamp, now in Arizona on an unidentified mission, has long been the target of criticism from the HUC. This time, the group moved and seconded a proposal to chide him for his failure to consult with them when he accepted controversial staff selections for Baits housing. The motion was tabled until 4 p.m. today, when the HUC plans a special meeting in West Quad's second floor dining room, in hopes that Feldkamp will be present. Interest flags "Well, I gues I can go back to the golf course," commented one literary college faculty member yes- terday, noting the sparse turnout at an LSA faculty meet- ing called to discuss the Commission on Graduation Requirements (GRC) report. The meeting was dismissed due to lack of quorum, with many of his colleagues ap- parently taking advantage of the clement weather to hit the links rather than debate the GRC report. Before closing the meeting, LSA Dean Frank Rhodes reminded the handful of professors in attendance, that the report has gotton no formal approval as yet. "We reserved the right, at the end of our, discussion - whichever year . that may fall in - to review the entire report and vote on it," Rhodes said. Death in Ypsi Twenty-five-year-old Ronald Melvin of Ypsilanti called the town's State Police post early yesterday morn- ing and said he had killed his 21-year-old wife Yvonne. Troopers ariving at the scene found the woman's corpse, shot though the head by rounds from a 16-gauge shot- gun. Melvin was taken into custory and arraigned later yesterday on an unspecified murder charge. Police say they have not established a motive in the slaying. Oops!c SGC interviews for University committee positions will end this afternoon, not April 14 as was printed in their advertisement. So hurry on in if you're inter- ested. To find out more about the positions open, stop in at the SGC office on the third floor of the Union. Happenings ... ...vary from the political to the pleasurable be- ginning with a noon meeting of the Secretarial Subcom- mittee of the Commission for Women in Rm. 2224 of the Education School . . the International Center is spon- soring a European Travel coffee hour from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for interested students in the center's lounge and recreation room . . . at 4 p.m. Prof. George Kish lec- tures and shows slides on "Unusual Maps and Globes of the Renaissance" in the Law Quad's Cook Rm. 'N' entry- way . . . at 7:30 p.m. Cesar Chavez will speak on the imminent grape strike in California at UAW local 212, 12101 Mack, Detroit. Rides to the speech will be leaving from the north door of the Union at 6 p.m. . . . Demo- cratic gubernatorial hopeful Sander Levin will meet and talk with students in the main lounge of the Law Quad at 7:30 p.m. . . . state Rep. Perry Bullard (D- Ann Arbor) and Democratic County Commissioner Kath- leen Fotjik host an open discussion on women's rights, tenants rights and secret police in Markley Hall's An- gela Davis lounge, 7:30 p.m. . . . HRP will be meting on the 4th floor of the Union at 7:30 p.m. to decide on their School Board campaign . . . the Residential Col- lege dancers present a concert entitled "Of Time and Space" at 8:30 p.m. in the E. Quad Aud. complete with original, live music . . . and those interested in going to Washington or Chicago for the National Im- peach Nixon Rally can sign up for bus trips with the Ann Arbor Committee to Impeach Nixon in the Fishbowl, or by calling 665-6200 or 662-6671. Cheering crowds greet Nixon Tour s parks scattered protests By GORDON ATCHESON and CHERYL PILATE Special To The Daily SAGINAW - Following an enthusiastic welcome at Tri- City airport near here, Presi- dent Richaid Nixon toured the state's rural "thumb" re- gion yesterday to chorus after chorus of admiring cheers. Yet even in this sparsely populated, staunchly Repub- lican area, the President could not escape significant numbers of protesters. The anti-Nixon contingent made its presence felt despite the throngs of pom-pom girls, high school bands, and flag- waving wellwishers. THE PRESIDENTIAL motor- cade drove through 11 towns in three hours following welcoming ceremonies attended by Governor William Milliken, Lieutenant Gov- ernor James Brickley, and Senator Robert Griffin. About 30,000 people saw the President and in some of the smaller towns, the crowd greatly exceeded the local population. After briefly address the airnort crowd, Nixon helicoptered into Bad Axe where his 15 car entour- age began the 57 mile journev through the agricultural counties of Huron, Sanilac and Tuscola. AT EVERY STOP, Nixon blasted Congress for ffiling to approve 17 bills which he claimed would re- duce unemployment and increase automobile production and sales. The President termed Congress' actions a "bottleneck" and added, "Your fuature here in this area depends so mtichron thethealth of the automobile industry." Unemployment in Saginaw cur- rently exceeds 10 per cent because of lay-offs at General Motors fac- tories. THE VISIT CAME at the re- quest of James Sparling, Repub- lican candidate in the eighth con- gressional district. Robert T axler, Sparling's Dem- ocratic opponent inhnext Tuesday's special election, has made the Watergate scandals and Nixon's income tax problems the leading campaign issue. To counter that tactic, Sparling asked Nixon to tour the district and "meet the people and ex- plain the national problems." However, many Republican in- siders have indicated the presiden- tial visit had actually been forced upon Sparling by the White House. AT MOST OF the small cross- roads, Nixon proceeded slowly - waving and shaking hands with members of the crowd from his custom-built, bullet-proof presi4 dential limousine. The President stopped and ad. See BIG, Page 8 Daily Photo by KEN FINK Nixon and GOP candidate Sparling greet crowd Meir to step down as political furor grows By AP and Reuter JERUSALEM - Premier Golda Meir of Israel announced her resignation yesterdayin the midst of a domestic political dispute and a month-long military conflict with Syria on the Golan Heights. "This time my decision is irrevocable," leaders of her Labor party quoted the 75-year-old leader as saying at a closed meeting in Jerusa- lem. "I have reached the end of the road . .." THEY SAID she planned to submit her resignation formally at a Cabinet meeting today. That move would mean the collapse of Israel's government which took office only last month, and new general elections. The party leaders said Meir had agreed to stay on as head of a caretaker Cabinet until the elections are held. THE MAJOR SOURCE of friction within the government since the war has been who to blame for Israel's being poorly prepared for the October Arab attack. See GOLDA, Page 2 Gaily Photo by KEN HNK PRESIDENT NIXON shakes hands with an admirer during a tour of the Michigan "thumb" area yesterday. Nixon made the appearance, his first campaign trip since he ran for re-election, on behalf of Republican Congressional hopeful James Sparling. House probers threaten to subpoena Nixon tapes Inter planetary creature? By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent word to the White House yes- terday that a subpoena is virtually certain if President Nixon refuses to comply immediately with the panel's request for more presi- dential tapes and documents. The majority Democrats and the Republicans caucused sepa- rately yesterday to discuss a White House proposal that they wait two more weeks for a final ,decision on what material the President feels is relevant to the impeachment inquiry. Chairman Peter Rodino (D-N.J.) scheduled a meeting of the full committee for today with the ques- tion of a subpoena the only item on the agenda. BUT IT WAS the Republicans who voiced the strongest reaction to the letter received late Tues- day from James St. Clair, the President's Watergate lawyer. St. Clair wrote to committee counsel John Doar that he was pleased that the committee has made its original request for tapes of 42 presidentialsconversations more specific in subsequent cor- respondence. Campy to turn pro? Citing financial hardship, U 'ni- versity basketball star Campy Russell has requested to play professionally in the NBA, pass- ing up his senior year here. See story Page 7. "Although further specifications might be desirable to assist the President in determining what he should provide the committee, he has directed me to advise you that a review of the materials in ques- tion is under way," St. Clair wrote. THE WHITE HOUSE lawyer said he hoped the review would be completed by the end of the up- coming Easter congressional re- cess on April 22. Rep. Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, senior Republican on the committee, said, "I am not satisfied with the response. I think it was offensive to the House." Hutchinson indicated that he and the other Republicans would sup- port a compromise under which committee counsel and Rodino and Hutchinson would review the re- quested material with St. Clair to determine if it is needed for the impeachment inquiry.' A similar proposal was put for- ward two weeks ago by House mi- nority leader John Rhodes (R- Ariz.) but was rejected both by Rodino and the White House. Meanwhile, in other Watergate developments, former Attorney General John Mitchell took the stand in his own defense yesterday and denied he had ever attempted to impede an investigation of fi- nancier Robert Vesco. MITCHELL, who is facing char- ges of conspiracy and perjury along with former Commerce Sec- retary Maurice Stans, also told a hushed federal courtroom he had demanded to know why his initials appeared beside an entry show- ing Vesco's $200,000 contribution to President Nixon's re-election cam- paign. Mitchell said that when he asked Two clowns of the Lichtenstein Quarter Ring Sidewalk Circus demonstrate their wares during a campus performance on the Diag yesterday. The circus attracted a crowd of nearly 1,009 during its hour of frivolity. Creature from another planet? Not really. It's mere- ly the center support on a monkey-bar type piece of playground equipment at McCook Point Park in Niantic, Conn., which took on an unearthly appearance yester- day following an overnight snowfall that blanketed the area. On the inside.. . . . The Arts Page features David Whiting's view of the awards in the Tower Plaza design competition .. . John Lande's discussion of the model LSA course graces the Editorial Page . . . and Marc Feldman has the scoop on Michigan star Campy Russell's switchover to professional basketball on the Sports Page. A2's weather Our temperatures will actually get ab ve normal Quarter Ring circus 'U' cost hikes trail nationwide average draws Diag crowd By MARILYN HANSON Inflation and tight governmental budgeting will drive the cost of attending college up 9.4 per cent next year, according to predic- tions made by the College Entrance "I would be out of my mind to recommend another fee increase," Smith declares. Smith says last fall's 24 per cent increase in tuition rates has brought the University to a stable By TIM SCHICK "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have here in my hand Harvey the duck." A crowd of about a ~thousand children, ranging in age from three to 63, giggled with delight as what was obviously a rabbit twitched its ears. HARVEY THE DUCK made his appearance on the Diag yesterday along with the Royal Lichten- stein Quarter Ring Circus, "the smallest circus, old-fashioned market place. Then this sort of thing became popular on campus," explained the group's leader Nick Weber. "I like the campus crowds best, they're a lot different from what you get in a shopping center." The circus appears on campuses and in shopping centers in 35 states over a period of eight months doing 300 shows. Based in San Jose, California the circus consists I .