F. CONGRESS See Editorial Page Y Latest Deadline in the State 4bF HONOLULU High -- 32 Low -20 See Today for details . / Vol. LXXXVII, No. 101 I Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 2, 1977 Ten Cents Eight Pages Teret a. ., .. ,... nr r m I. r :/1 ^ Y PF-U SEE NS Pf1.,A U..ZLL.DAIL AFSCME Negotiators for the University and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em- ployes (AFSCME, Local 1583) are pleased with progress made at contract talks thus far. However, if a settlement isn't reached before next week, offi- cials have taken steps to bring a state mediator to the table. University representative William Neff says he has tentatively scheduled a mediator for February 7, 9 and 10, with the consent of the union. Adds AFSCME negotiator Art Anderson, "We might be at a little disagreement on the money issue and we had to arrange ( he media- tor's) schedule in case we need him." The Uni- versity and AFSCME, who are bargaining to re- place a contract which expired last year, have al- ready talked through two negotiation deadlines and are heading for a third on February 15. Happe-nin Ygs... . .kick off this morning at 11 with a Grand Opening potluck luncheon for the returning Stu- dent lounge; 3205 Michigan Union . . . atnoon, hear a lecture on "Gerontology: A Black Perspective" by Dr. Harry Morgan of Syracuse University at the CAAS Conference Room, 1100 Souh University . . . and if that doesn't grab you, go to Lecture Room 1, MLB at 4 and hear University Microbiol- ogy professor F. C. Neidhardt speak on "A Pre- liminary Scan of the Pattern of Protein Syntesis in the Escherichia Coli" . . . then at 7, U.C.L.A. parapsychologis's Dr. Barry Taff and Kerry Gay- nor will give ESP demonstrations at 'East Quad and then again et Alice Lloyd, at 9:30 . . . at 7:30 at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 2145 Inde- pendence Road, the Ann Arbor Wilmington 10 De- fense Commitee will have an evening of "Remem- bering and Action" for the Wilmington 10 . . at 9, the University Folk Dance Club will hold a general meeting at the Cook Room in the north section of the Lawyers Club . . at 9:30, there will be a poetry and prose reading at the Halfway Inn, East Quad, bring your own stuff . . . and, finally, there'll be an hour of songs and readings by the Hopwood winner Jim Grondin, in the Burs- ley Library, at 10. Turnstile squeeze The Queens, N.Y. Police Department has put the squeeze on two Israeli brothers - for putting the squeeze on each other. Itzhak Raz, 28, and his brother Gabrield, 25, were each fined $10 Monday for trying to inch through a subway turnstile to- gether on a single 50 cent fare. It wasn't because the two sneaky siblings were lack ng the money to pay for the extra fare because Itshakk, a dia- mond dealer with a business in Beverly Hills, was found to have $30,700 in $50 and $100 bills when taken to the Forest Hills police station. "It was actually just a kind of joke," said Itzhak. "We weren't worried but it was foolish and stupid." The transit officers who apprehended the Israeli citizens thought so, too. Burgeradio A firm that makes hamburger shaped radios has a whopper of a lawsuit on its hands. Seems as though another firm, Amico Inc. of Philadelphia, decided .to take Windsor Industries of Melville, N.Y., to court because Windsor's hamburger shaped radios looked too much like Amico's cheese- burger shaped marvels; and were smothered in similar packaging. Amico complained that Wind- sor was trying to steal its business by duplicating the packaging. However, a judge refused to let Amico have its own way, and refused to bar Wind- sor from producing the hamburger radio, saying Amico had not been in the burger radio business long enough to have cornered the market, in the minds of consumers. e Monstrous disco very Loch Ness monster, move over. Your Soviet cou- sin may be stealing the limelight. Interest -in the possibility that Scotland's much-ballyhooed water creature could be competing with a similar Soviet mystery was aroused when Anatoly Pzchersky, a Soviet geographer, announced that he and his son had spotted a curious figure in Lake Kok-Kol in the Ozhambul area of Kazakhs'an. The creature, sighted in the summer of 1975, had a body 50 feet long and a head over six feet in length, he said. Plans are now being made for a student expedition to investigate the report of the snake-like monster.. The Loch Ness monster has, not yet commented on Comrade Kok-Kol. On the inside ... for important international, national and state news turn to the Daily Digest on Page 3 . . Jeffrey Selbst lamentts over his snowbound exper- ience in New Mexico for the Editorial Page Ar s Page features a story on Bruce Lee by Dobilas Matulionis . . . and our friends from Sports offer Don MacLachlan's column on the cagers. Senate stalls action on natur WASHINGTON O -' Leg- islation to give President Carter new powers to deal with the nation's natural gas shortage ran into trou- ble yesterday after the House tacked on a price ceiling provision that the Senate refused to accept. A House - Senate confer- ence committee worked last night at reconciling the House bill with one that passed the Senate on Mon- day night. Congressional leaders said they still hoped to have a compromise mea- sure to the President to- day. - EFFORTS TO REACH agree- ment without having to appoint a conference committeebroke down last night with Senate re- fusal to accept the House price ceiling. Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-1ll.), said the price ceiling along with several other relatively r minor amendments added by the House would hamper the Presi- dent's ability to deal effectively with the cold-spawned gas cris- is. The conference committee was then named and immediately al gas got to work on drafting a com- promise. IN REJECTING the House bill, the Senate also turned back, 60 to 28, a proposed amendment by Sen. Edward Brooke, (R- Mass.), that would have pro- hibited gas and electric firms from cutting off service to per- sons who couldn't afford to pay their power bills during the em- ergency. Stevenson said that the amend- ment was not relevant to the gas legislation, that a similar effort by Brooke had already been rejected and that "the president will soon have a pro- proposal posal before Congress that will provide relief for people who are burdened by high energy bills." ' The House version of the bill, approved 367 to 52, contains an amendment added during ear- lier committee deliberations that puts a price ceiling on gas purchased during theiemergen- cy. The Senate bill, approved Monday night by a margin of 91-2, contains no such provi- sion. AT ONE POINT during ef- forts at reaching a compro- mise, Sen. Bennett Johnston, (D-La.), one of the Senate ne- gotiators, told reporters, "We've got. it fairly well agreed to in substance. The question now is how do you get it passed be- fore the fireside chat, a ref- erence to Carter's planned tele- vision address to the nation scheduled for tonight. But while Congress is hag- gling over giving Carter the power to deal with the natural gas crisis, several states are in need of immediate help, and the governors of those states are asking for the -same authority Carter is seeking. In Georgia, legislation is ex- pected to give the governor the See SENATE, Page 2 2 from ' seek''to Doily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER Hiiminin, dinner ... An anticipatory pooch watches yesterday as a squir- rel - possible dinner entree - scampers up a tree on the Diag. REGENT ACTION EXPECTED: h'alt dam, sv By MARTHA RETALLICK A University Law School assistant dean and an environmental law student have won an injunction halting construction of a 'len-/ nessee dam which they believe will force the extinction of a rare species of fi.h. Monday, the U.S. Sixth Circui Court of Appeals in Cincinnati - upheld the suit filed by University law student Zygniunt J. G. Piater and Assistant Dean Donald Cohen. The court's unanimous decision stopped construction of the Tennessee Valley Authori y' s (TVA) $116 million Tellico Dam Project, until it can be reviewed t! by Congress. U The suit focuses on a three-inch, perch-like fish called the snail A darter whose only known habitat is the Little Tennessee River - the waterway where the TVA wishes to build the dam. As a result e fish "The fish needs 'fast moving waterf that's shallow, over rocks' - University Law Stu- dent Zygmunt J. G. Pla t er, explaining why the construction of the Tellico D am would be hazardous to the snail darter. Dorm rates may rise By STU McCONNELL Dorm rates will increase an average of 8.4 per cent next fall if the University Board of Regents accepts the recommen- dation of the Housing Rate Study Committee at its Febru- ary meeting.{ The joint student - staff com- mittee's original January report calls for an increase in room and board charges for singles in the ten "traditional" dorms from $1753.80 to $1939.50 (10.6 per cent).; for doubles, $1511.82 to $1631.25 (7.9 per cent); and for triples and "economy dou- bles", $1338.66 to $1444.50. IN A MEMO TO BE released this morning, however, commit- tee chairWoman Judy Di Mat- tia said the rate structure will be slightly altered from the one announced in January. The double room price will in- crease 8.4 per cent while the single room rate hike will be reduced slightly to compensate, she said. Despite these minor adjust- ments to the January report, the overall average increase will still be 8.4 per cent. The committee also recom- mended cost-cutting measures in the Housing Division. These options include: *Increasing occupancy from 97.3 per cent to 98.2 per cent. * Eliminating paper towels in corridor bathrooms * Increasing laundry rates to 35 cents per washer load * Providing pillows on re- quest only. 0 Effecting a 2 per cent reduc- tion in administrative expense AFTER STUDENT protests, which included an "eat-in" at Couzens Hall, a proposal to consolidate meal service on weekends was scrapped. The meal service plan. would have shifted students from three central campus dorms to three neighboring dorms for weekend meals. .The transfer would have cut rates by $12 per term for most dorm residents. "Basically the increases are the result of general inflation, that was over 9 per cent," Di Mattia said, "but we made cost reductions and brought it down to a 7.6 per cent (increase). Then we scrapped the food con- of a petition filed by Prater two put on the endangered species list in October 1975. According to Plater, the fish needs "fast moving water that's shallow, over rocks". If the TVA were to build the Tellico Dam, it would turn the 33-mile stretch of the Little Tennessee River where the snail darter lives into "a slow moving lake, he add- ,ed. "Virtually every river in Ten- nessee is dammed from top to bottom," Plater said. "There are 29 dams within 50 miles of this one." Plater called this stretch of the Little Tennessee "the last 33 miles of free flowihg river in Tennessee." He added that if this stretch were elimina ed, "there is no way to replace its quality.' TVA counsel Herbert Sanger, however, is disappointed at the court's decision. years ago, the snail darter was Local inmate fails in sucideattempt By LAURIE \YOUNTG A newly-arrested man slashed his wrists- yesterday morn- ing in his Washtenaw County Jail cell with a razor supplied him for his morning shave - only one day after jail officials were alerted to his suicidal state, according to Assistant Pub- lic Defender-Ronald Carlson. The man, who was not seriously injured, was arrested and arraigned in Ann Arbor District Court last Monday. He had "a previous history of emotional and psychological problems," said Jail Administrator Tom Fournier. CARLSON SAID THE COURT notified him Monday after- noon of the new client's state and-he immediately notified Fournier. See INIVATE, Page 8 MSA to ask 'U'to set check-off date, By PATTY ,MONTEMURRk Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) last night voted to ask the University Regents to declare the due date of the term's first tui- tion bill as the last oppor-unity students have to indicate their support for MSA funding. Students can voice their support for. MSA funding through a negative check-off system. Presently, students can check a form that wi?1 credit 'he voluntary 75 cent MSA fee to their accounts anytime before the last day tuition payments are due for the term. MSA MEMBER Mike Taylor pointed out the difficulty in plan- ning a budget when students can withdraw their funding support at the last minute. "It hurts us if we don't know how much money See REGENTS, Page 8 See 2, Page 2 H istory lives at I Blaze threatens Tiger Stadium From Wire Service Reports DETROIT - Dozens of fire- men last night battled a stub- born blaze that swept through the press box area at Tiger Stadium and threatened other areas of the aging structure near downtown Detroit. A fire department dispatcher said about 60 fire fighters us- ing 21 pieces of equipment were. at the scene of the two-alarm fire at the southwest corner of the stadium. we have," he said. "This is not a way to sneak back mandatory funding," add- ed Taylor. MSA member Wendy Goodman noted that in "all bill- ing procedures, there's a due date." MSA officers Scott Kellman and Steve Carnevale will write a letter to the Regents formal- izing the request. ACKNOWLEDGING the heavy load of work MSA faces, the body last night also voted to hold weekly meetings on a four week trial basis. Previously, the full assembly would meet every other ,week In other MSA business: -MSA allocated $227.25 to bal- ance out the expenses of last week's Festival of Women in the Arts. MSA loaned $3.500 to the Eclipse , Jazz program. The money will be used to purchase a sound system for the student organization and will be paid back to-MSA in- installments fol- lowing each Eclipse concert. -THE ANN Arbor Prison Col- *s Bentley Library_ By LANI JORDAN Nestled among the trees on the east edge of North Cam- pus, Bentley Historical Library maintains the neat and quiet ambience indicative of most any other library on campus. Bentley Library, however, is not any other library. TO THE BENTLEY, history is more than rows of books recounting past events from the viewpoint of modern day schol- ars. The library houses history in its original form: more than 20 million papers and docu- ments, many of them from promiinent historical figures as well as "plain average people." Among those who have dona- ted their papers 'to the library are former Michigan Governors t George Romney and G. Mennen Williams, several former Uni- versity Regents, congressmen, and many prominent organiza- tions such as the Urban Plan- k .c, ..::w, .a. . .. r. s.. ,.,,,,.. _: ,.: :::::.....