. THUMB CRACKS NIXON SHELL See Editorial Page f:Y L Sr iga n Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom 4A4*&brp 4:3 a t 149 REFRESHING High-65 Low-38 See Today for details Vol. LXXXIV, No. 159 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 18, 1974 Ten Cents Ten Pages EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT i f. b .I"FYOUSEE WSAPON'CAiLrALY Regents meet It's the last two days of school and time for the last Regents meeting of the winter term, which could prove to be pretty interesting. In the light of Eastern Michigan University's resolution to publish full salary lists, Regent Gerald Dunn (D-Livonia) will present a resolution to the Regents for the mandatory public disclosure of University faculty and staff salaries. But an official close to the Regents maintains that the proposal will undoubtedly loose to the same 6-2 vote as it did in July 1972, when Dunn first presented the proposal to the Regents. Also, at the meeting, University Counsel Roderick Daane will explain the legal aspects of the University's position concerning the former director of the University Hospital Edward Connors $8,000 em- bezzlement. But it is unlikely the University will prose- cute. Stans on the stand In a brilliant surprise move yesterday, former com- merce secretary Maurice Stans categorically denied that he tried to fix a government investigation into controver- sial financier Robert Vesco's dealings. He also cate- gorically denied that he accepted a secret and illegal $200,000 campaign contribution from Vesco in exchange for blocking an investigation into Vesco's corporate empire. As a result of that probe,Vesco was charged with systematically looting millions from the inter- national mutual fund he controlled; the Investors Over- seas Services. Vesco has long since skipped off to Costa Rica, far away from the long arm of the law. 0 Bursley's bill State Senator Gilbert Bursley (R-Ann Arbor) has in- troduced a proposal to the state legislature that will require the state's general fund to kick in payments for municipalities which service state-owned, tax-exempt property. The bill would make the state pay for city services such as police and fire protection without requiring any payments of property taxes. The Big U' presently pays $300,000 annually for police protection, but nothing for fire protection. The bill, if it were passed, would make the state pay for such services. 0 Plaudits Laurels are in order for sorority Alpha Delta Pi on South Forest Ave. This sorority is the first recipient of the Go Greek award. The Ann Arbor Panhellenic Asso- ciation plans to make the award an annual affair, with the first award handed out last night during the regular Panhel meeting. Standards for the award include scholarship, philanthropic projects, campus participation, national recognition, and loads of other criteria. " Happenings ... show the effect of finals. There are, however, a few going-on worth noting. Margaret Burbidge, professor of astronomy at the University of California-San Diego, will lecture twice today: at 2 p.m. in Aud. E of the Physics Astronomy Bldg., she'll speak on "Rapidly Varying Extragalactic Objects," and at 8 p.m. on "The Active Universe" . . . Chris Christian's one-act play, "The Killers from E-1," will be performed at the Frieze Bldg's Arena Stage free at 3 p.m. . . . William Brehm, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for man- power and reserve affairs, will lecture at 4 p.m. in Angell Hall's Aud. A . . . the final meeting for all Project Community volunteers will be held at 7 p.m. in Rm. 1322 in the School of Ed Bldg. . . . and the Ostomy Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Senior Citizen's Guild, 502 W. Huron. McGee dies NBC lost one of its top newscasters yesterday when anchorman and "Today" co-host Frank McGee died of pneumonia. Although pneumonia was the immediate cause of McGee's death, he had been suffering with cancer of the bone marrow for four years. His doctor reported that the last few months of broadcasting had.. been severely painful. McGee made his final appearance on the "Today" program last Thursday morning and checked into the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York later the same day. 0 Where's Hoffman? Radical youth leader of Chicago 7 fame Abbie Hoffman has made the news again-this time when New York State Supreme Court Justice Mary Johnson signed a bench warrant for his arrest yesterday. The ever- popular Hoffman, it seems, failed to appear in court to face a narcotics charge. If convicted on charges of selling three pounds of cocaine for $36,000 to an under- cover agent Aug. 29, Hoffman will face a 15-year to life prison term. Hoffman was last seen on Feb. 5 when he taped a TV show. He had been freed on a bond of $10,000. Seoul protesters In that country where liberty rings free and clear, Seoul, South Korea, a military appellate court yesterday upheld the convictions of five people for violating the decree banning open opposition to President Chung Hee Park's regime. On the inside . . The full lowdown on Arthur Miller's "Up from Para- dise" is spread out in pictures and stories by David Blomquist and Sara Rimer on the Arts Page . . . tactics and perspectives for change are featured in an article by Marnie Heyn and John Lande on the Editorial Page .. and Jeff Chown profiles Michigan's shotput ace GOP resp onds By AP, UPI and Reuter Michigan congres Democratic Candidate J. Robert (Bob) Traxler's narrow victory in continued Democ Michigan's Eighth Congressional District Tuesday night sent shock ship." waves through GOP ranks yesterday and spurred new Democratic at- "One party c tacks on President Nixon. crat Traxler's vic Traxler defeated Republican James Sparling, for whom President "And the tren Nixon personally campaigned last week, in an area that has elected to end up with ar only one other Democrat to Congress in this century. IN SAGINAW, a jubilant Traxler said it had been a mistake for Nixon to campaign on behalf of Sparling. "If 1 wasi "If I was a Republican, I would not want the Nixon albatross 'round my neck in the November congressional elections," he said. "We will Nixon AlbG throw the rascals out and give good government to the people." ber congre Sparling repeated that he did not regret Nixon campaigning for him. "I don't think he helped or hurt me," Sparling said. "I was the candidate. I take full responsibility." THE WHITE HOUSE said President Nixon was "not dismayed or disheartened" by Sparling's defeat and will be willing to campaign in SEN. ROBER the future for GOP candidates if he is invited. Republican Sparl Other GOP leaders, however, from Vice President Gerald Ford on safe seat anymor down expressed dismay, disappointment and concern. Griffin said VICE PRESIDENT Ford said the Democratic victory in a special Democrat Traxle to Traxiers victory sional election is a bad omen for the country and that ratic victories could lead to a "legislative dictator- ontrol is not good for America," Ford said after Demo- ctory. nd in congressional elections now is for the Democrats n overwhelming majority in the House." a Republican, I would not want the atross 'round my neck in the Novem- ssional elections." - Traxler RT GRIFFIN (R-Mich.) said yesterday the defeat of ing means "no Republican should assume he has a e.'" Watergate was certainly involved in the victory of r, but he added it was difficult to judge how much. He said other major factors in the race were high unemployment and good union organization for the Democrats. State Republican Chairman William McLaughlin also declined to put the finger on Nixon. "It's easy to blame the President, but I don't know if that's the right thing." BUT REPUBLICAN Gov. William Milliken said he believed that the Democrats who have won in special elections this year are "riding President Nixon's coattails to Washington." "The whole issue of the presidency was not a plus," said Milliken, who declined to tour the area with Nixon last week. "It was a minus." Lt. Gov. James Brickley, a Republican who called earlier for Nixon's resignation, agreed. "We have a crippled President," he said. "People don't feel they have a President and this is caused by the effects of Watergate." THE DEMOCRATIC victory was the fourth in five special Congres- sional elections this year and was the last major election before No- vember. The special election was called after Rep. James Harvey resigned earlier to take a federal judgeship. Federal S mo a Simor ai Treasury energy p0 chief dlas secretary WASHINGTON (R) - William Simon was appointed as Treasury secretary yesterday by President Nixon to replace George Schultz, who recently resigned. Simon was federal energy chief. Besides being nominated Treasury secretary, Simon was designated as chairman of two key economic groups, called the Troika and the Quadriad. While Simon will not be the economy czar, he clearly will be a prince. Sitting on the Troika and Quadriad will be most of Simon's rivals for influence over the domestic economy, including Director Roy Ash of the Office of Management and Budget and Chairman Herbert Stein of the Council of Economic Advisors on the Troika. Also on the Quadriad will be Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Energy Board. PRESIDENT NIXON said he would keep for himself Shultz' position as head of the White House Council on Economic Policy. Sources said that where Shultz was the final arbiter in the council's economic decisions, Nixon will now take that role. Nixon also is leaving open Shultz' position as an assistant to the Simon Don't proof, and a show. Daily photo by PAULINE LUBENS Clowning around listen to your weather bureau, it's spring on the Diag, regardless of what they may say. And as this "Friends Roadshow" performed under sunny skies yesterday. Here, one of the show's clowns five-year-old friend watch the mime, acrobatics, puppets and magic that comprise the multi-facted Reportedly, the troupe is in town to perform a t the Blind Pig. President in charge of coordinat- ing domestic and international economic policy. "SIMON CAME out pretty well," said one Treasury source. "The President said he would be one of equals, and then named him head of the equals." Simon's influence in foreign eco- nomic matters was a question mark, however. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been leaning more and more into -the policy- making area in international eco- nomic problems. He delivered a major speech before the United Nations on U. S. foreign economic policy on Monday. "Kissinger is discovering that economic problems are behind most of the world's difficulties," - said a Treasury source. SCHULTZ HAD sufficient influ- ence to minimize Kissinger's eco- nomic role, but Simon may have to move rapidly if he wants to maintain the authority the Treas- ury had under Shultz in interna- tional matters. By TONY SCHWARTZ Sheriff Fred Postill was dealt an unexpected . blow last night when the Washtenaw County Com- missioners put off approving Un- dersheriff James Spickard as Re- habilitation Project Director in or- der to first investigate circum- stances surrounding the recent firings of three project employes. At a meeting with unusually high citizen attendance, the Com- missioners voted to table until May 1, Postill's proposed grant ad- justment which would have made Spickard project director. T H E COMMISSIONERS de- cided to wait until they could hear a grievance filed by the three fired employes, and "investigate the cir- cumstances surrounding Jail Ad- ministrator Paul Wasson's resig- nation." The grievance will be heard on April 24, but no date was -set for the general investigation of Was- son's departure. The grievance i permitted under a county regula- tion ordering that employes must be given "clear and just" cause for dismissal. See POSTILL, Page 2 County delays action on Pll nominee for jail project chief CON GAME VICTIM: Frcit president missing FBI agents and the city police are presently investigating an elaborate con game involving an escaped convict and the president of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Mike Kubinski, like many other fraternity membersacross the country, has apparently been dup -ed into paying hundreds of dollars worth of travel expenses by Bar- bara Marella, an escaped convict from a Colorado prison with a reported IQ of at least 200. Police report that Marella has been go- ing under a number of different aliases. AFTER MAKING initial contact with a fraternity president, claim- ing that she has been the target of obscene phone calls from the fraternity, Marella demands that the president meet her at an air- port, and in Kubinski's case, Kily seeks recognition for Tolkien and Lewis By LAURA BERMAN Professor Clyde Kilby considers J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy to be serious literature and dares anyone to disagree. In fact Kilby, who lectured twice here yesterday on Tolkien and the late C. S. Lewis, claims to have a "rebuttal speech or two prepared O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. After confusing her victims with stories of high governmental con- spiracies and the need to remain silent, Marella convinces them to fly to another cityrto confer with other unnamed persons. By the time the fraternity mem- ber realizes that he has been part of an elaborate ruse, he has been to as many as six or seven cities and has been taken for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. One victim spent $4,800 before he be- came aware of Marella's antics. INVESTIGATORS S A Y t h a t there doesn't appearto be any ro- mantic links between Marella and any of her victims, nor does there appear t6 be any evidence of drug trafficking. Marella doesn't gain anything financially, just plane fares, food and lodging, say the investigators. Kubinski has not been located yet, and it is possible that he ei- ther is not yet aware of the ruse or he has been kidnaped. Kubin- ski's brother, Walter, was the first person to report him missing, some seven to ten days after he disap- peared. He called the city police Mr. Nicolls protects UGLI against book-snatching horde By BILL HEENAN Like a hawk ready to swoop down on an about-to-be-ripped- off book, Mr. Nicolls sternly guards the Undergradute Li- brary gate. With his faded lab coat and stony gaze, William Nicolls is the University's best known, but least loved personality because his zealous bookbag inspections often prompt long waiting lines between classes. B I L L Rickenbacker, UGLI circulation supervisor, says that the volume of complaints about Nicolls recently forced him to ask him to speed up. "But when I told him," Rick- enbacker remarks, "he acted as if he didn't even notice the long lines." Countering Rickenbacker's re- quest, Nicolls grimaces, "You've got to examine every book - 4,_+,, - - nhlrrn~tln ,r ha in requires you to train your neu- romuscular coordination," he adds. SLUMPING into a lounge chair after a tedious day the haggard Nicolls recounts, his past. "I can't believe how rap- idly time has passed," he sighs. On graduation from the Uni- versity in 1935, Nicolls planned to enter medical school, but an "unfortunate accident" which he refuses to discuss befell him. Lost in thought for a moment, he mentions working at Packard Motor Co. in Detroit after his disaster. Later, Nicolls "tried a hand at farming" in Jackson until his father died. Then he returned to the city where he currently lives with his 80-year-old mother and runs errands for Rackham, besides guarding the UGLI's gate. Nicolls i