EQUAL CREDIT? See Editorial Page Y it i6Fau AOF CHANCEY High-46-5l Low-29-34 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State k Vol. LXXXVI, No. 39 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 18, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages _. 1 /I 'U, asks hefty hike in state funding IfYAE !! WS MAMCALL DAIIY Teen angels? The past year has been full of terror for a 73- year-old widow in New Buffalo, Michigan. Nine boys from 12 to 15 years old have been taking half her monthly pension after threatening to smash her windows, rip up her garden and burn down her house. The youths collected more than $1,000 according to police, who called the extortion plot "grotesque." The widow, Emma Welderick, said she didn't go to the police because she lived in Nazi-controlled Europe during the war and feared all men in uniform. By The University Board o a "realistic and defensible 77, calling for an 11 per ce additional student financial, Vice President for Aca Board that the package wil year's appropriation of $9 back by at least one perc . RHODES MADE it cle increase "does, not imply, on campus." This was an o tation by the Committee o (CESF), in which CESF Ch Board to consider a 12.4 pe - University President R ary increase "is believed t politically possible is a qu lature to answer." UNIVERSITY officials BILL TURQUE ken on November 18 to discuss the proposals, and will present the f Regents yesterday tentatively adopted Regents with a final appropriations request at the November 21 " state appropriations request for 1976- meeting. .nt staff salary increase and $500,000 in Other program improvements in the request include: aid. -an additional $500,000 in financial aid funding to maintain a ademic Affairs Frank Rhodes told the commitment Rhodes called "more difficult to keep in the tightening 1 represent a $21.8 million hike over this budget conditions;" 9.8 million, which is likely to be cut -a 7.5 per cent increase to cover anticipated inflation over the cent sometime next week. coming fiscal year; -$1.7 million in new utility monies, and $333,000 for new library ear that the 11 per cent compensation purchases; a commitment to any one job family -$540,000 for expansion of the Interflex program, designed to obvious reference to Thursday's presen- give students a medical degree six years after high school gradua- n the Economic Status of the Faculty tion; and hairman, Prof. Saul Hymans, asked the -$875,000 for health science programs to compensate for losses r cent compensation increase for faculty. in federal revenues that Rhodes says may total one million dollars obben Fleming said the 11 per cent sal- this year. o be just," but added, "whether that is Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) warned that "the state estion for the Governor and the legis- demands a superior education to be offered here," and that cur- rent budget problems "will make it difficult to maintain that di- will meet with Governor William Milli- rection." RHODES ALSO noted that a three per cent enrollment increase this year - about a thousand new students - brings the campus total to 36,335. Rhodes also indicated that if budget cuts continue to erode the University's state appropriation, the administration "might be compelled to suggest some reduction in enrollment." The Regents also approved the appointment of Affirmative Action Director Nellie Varner to the associate deanship of the Rackham Graduate School, effective January 1. Varner, who was out of town yesterday and unavailable for comment, will split her time this winter between the deanship and duties as an assistant professor of political science, resigning the directorship she has held since 1972. IN OTHER ACTION, the Board passed a resolution by Regent Thomas Roach (D-Detroit) to seek alternative means of funding PIRGIM, and allowing its current contract with the University to expire at the end of the winter term. Students are currently as- sessed an automatic $1.50 fee at registration. See REGENTS, Page 8 Fix-it President Ford's $500,000 bullet-proof limousine was in Detroit yesterday sans its owner. The car was found atop a hydraulic lift in a building near the Ford Transmission Plant in Livonia. The limo was in the shop for repair work following a Tues- day night accident in which it was struck broad- side by another car. Secret Service agents, Ford Co. spokespersons and presidential spokespersons had no comment. Happenings ... . . .are of the agdio-visual variety today. The Young Workers Liberation League presents a pro- gram on the National Independence movements in Portugal and Angola including a movie about the latter at 730 p.m. in the dining room of Joint House Co-op, 917 S. Forest . . . The Vietnam War documentary, "Hearts and Minds," will be screened at 7 and 9 p.m. courtesy of the Ann Arbor Teach-In in MLB Auditorium 3 . . . and Hillel offers an Israeli flick, "Sallah," with English sub- titles, 8 p.m. at 1429 Hill St. Pencil pusher Marvin "Muzzy" Musgrave was bored when he retired. He needed a hobby to fill his leisure time and so decided to tell people about pencils. Mus- grave, 67, has gathered close to 40,000 pencils in 37 years of collecting. And now he and his wife Edna travel about the country telling "The Story of Writing Sticks." Musgrave's oldest pencil is attached to a dance card dated July 24, 1847, in Hamburg, Germany. " Doggie delivery Bank tellers at the United Missouri Bank of Blue Valley in Kansas City say that Bourbon, a 6-year- old St. Bernard, is their best customer. At eight every morning, Bruce Clevenger gathers the pre- vious day's cash receipts at his service station, puts them in a bank pouch, hands it to Bourbon and says "Go to the bank." The dog dutifully trots to the bank-some 100 yards away. "We see her coming about halfway and we let her in the back door," says one teller. "She's the only customer we have who doesn't comlain." A Dagwood and Blondie Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, the long time favorites of national comic strips, have now emerged as the heroes of the working masses in capitalist countries. The Dagwoods' new-found pop- ularity, according to the Soviet Journal Za Rube- zhom, is due to the fact that "the worries and concerns of Dagwood and his wife are shared by tens of, millons of workers in the countries of capital." The Journal reports that the working class can identify with the "cruel reality" that invades the limited little world of the Dagwood family. Watch out Ralph Nader. O Who's who The bodies of two elderly women were placed in each other's coffins and one was buried under the wrong tombstone as the result of a mixup between two Philadelphia funeral homes this week. On Wednesday, relatives of 91-year-old Marie Entriken went to view her body at Valvardi Funeral Home and realized they were looking at the wrong corpse. Relatives of the other woman, who were not identi- fied, didn't notice anything was amiss even though they viewed Entriken's body. "It really wasn't the undertaker's fault," said one of Entriken's rela- tives. "I blame the other family. They didn't even know their o n mother." On the inside .. . . . . Editorial Page features Cathy Reutter's story on the mediation service which tries to solve landlord-realtor disputes . . . Arts Page has Mark Friedlander's bridge column . . . and Mike Wilson previews today's clash between the Wolverines and the Wildcats of Northwestern. . 26 busted on drug charges NYC escapes de fault with teachers' help From Wire Service Reports NEW YORK - The nation's largest city survived its closest brush to date with financial disaster yesterday, escaping default barely an hour before,$453 million in debts had to be paid. The reprieve was provided by the city's United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which offered its pension fund to loan New York the $150 million it needed. Despite strong pleadings from Democrat Mayor Abraham Beame, President Ford yesterday repeatedly re- fused to provide federal funds to help the beleagured metropolis. INSTEAD, IT was Albert Shanker, UFT's militant leader, who saved the Big Apple from default when he reversed himself and asked three key trustees of his union's retirement fund to help Largest WANT raid ever By TIM SCHICK and ROB MEACHUM The Washtenaw A r e a Narcotics Team (WANT) yesterday nabbed 26 per- sons for trafficking in her- oin and cocaine in a mas- sive raid marked by police gunfire near City Tall. Some 23 other suspects are- still being sought by WANT following the largest bust in its controversial four-year history. THE RAID - Ann Arbor's second in less than a month - was made possible by what at- thorities termed "a non-polce source." The source bought an undisclosed quantity of the drugs, gathering evidence for warrants against 49 persons on 75 counts of trafficking, all but two for heroin. Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and State Police began their ar- rests at about 7 a.m. yesterday. At 10:35 a.m., as officers were taking one man into custody, they spotted another suspect and shots ensued. Councilwoman Carol Jones, (D-Sedond Ward) witnessed the incident, and said: "WE WERE at the southwest corner of Ann and Fifth Ave- nue when we saw a (green) Volvo doing crazy wheelies - it was going backwards down the street. "There was a van nearby and one guy jumped out. There See WANT, Page 8 the city pay off $453 million whi Robbery foiled at city banik By GORDON ATCHESON A local man yesterday held up the Huron Valley Bank branch office in the Wolverine Towers Building on State St. and momentarily escaped with about $24,000. Within minutes after the rob- bery, city police arrested the suspect in the adjacent Briar- wood parking lot. POLICE described the robber as a black male in his early twenties but declined to identify him by name until after he is arraigned later today. Carrying an automatic pistol, the man entered the bank around 4 p.m. yesterday, ap- See GUNMAN, Page 8 ich was due at 3 p.m. UFT's action triggered addi- tional state aid. The funds, in the form of bond purchases, will enable New York to keep going until December 1 when new funds, hopefully with a federal government guaran- tee, can be found. "We are not in default," said Gov. Hugh Carey at mid-after- noon. He had spent a hectic 24 hours of fiscal give-and-take, broken only by a five-hour re- cess before dawn. SOURCES SAID Shanker re- lented in exchange for conces- sions involving a tentative teach- ers contract turned down by a state board. The UFT leader said it was the situation of desperation New York City found itself in which convinced him to give the go- ahead for helping the city. "We were put in a box where we were the only ones who could save the city," said Shanker. "No one else was coming for- ward to save the city." SHANKER'S AID was in stark contrast to Ford's flat refusals See NYC, Page 3 Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS Pickin' u a storm Folk singer Michael Cooney, known as the one man folk festival because of his versatility, enter- tains an enthusiastic audience at the Ark last night. He will also be appearing tonight, with his banjo and songs. DIXY LEE RAY: Ex-agency chief defends AEC By MARGARET YAO Hounded by charges from an- other scientist, former chair- woman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Dixy Lee Ray reluctantly defended the now-defunct federal agency at a program in Rackham Audi- torium last night. Ray highlighted an all-day "Briefing on the Nuclear Op- tion" sponsored by the Residen- tial College (RC) with her speech on the problems of com- munication between science and government. HER SPEECH was followed by comments fromDan Ford, executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a pub- lic interest group. Ford charged that the AEC "suppressed re- sults of studies" concerning the safety risk of nuclear reactors because of the AEC's "high de- gree of enthusiasm for nuclear power." After repeating several times that she did not want to "en- said that she did not know there would be any discussion of nuclear energy or the AEC at last night's program. Ann Larimore, associate di- rector of RC, confirmed Ray's statements, -saying that the eminent scientist learned of Ford's presence at the meeting only a few hours before hand. Ford contended that the AEC tried to manipulate their safe- ty studies to prove that a nu- clear reactor accident would be "no more severe than the crash of a large airplane," but was unable to do so. Ford further asserted the AEC controlled the release of information from their own study, saying, "Why cause a huge uproar?" RAY defended the AEC's ac- tions, stating that the studies had been available for public perusal at all times. She added that the "AEC is not the kind of agency painted by Mr. Ford tonight. I think it was a very grave sort of misrepresentation." Commenting on Ray's proposal for more scientists in govern- ment, Ford said that bureau- crats disregard scientists' rec- ommmendations and "go right on with their (the bureaucrats') reports" because the sugges- tions are not what they want to hear. Radical vegetarians stage puhe-in protest at Mac's The McDonald's restaurant on Maynard St. was hit yesterday by a brand of protest the likes of which Ann Arbor - a hotbed of ac- tivism during the late sixties-had never seen. At high noon, as hungry patrons jammed The customers, not surprisingly, recoiled in shock and disgust during the protest and sub- sequently stepped carefully to avoid the re- sultant mess. Those who planned the demo claimed it will }ยข:., :'RSi :r:'::: iii>:v,' :i:: .v:kJ:,titii. .s.n . .. .!.:'.9'i. ':".... . . ..........{i } ::i:.... LeA' !: .;!.:.]: fl:: ':l w.:.' :?:. : :::.