CHOU'S DEATH See Editorial Page :Y it1h A6F WINTRY High-27 Low-6 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 86 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, January 10, 1976 10 Cents Eight Pages l. ,, k Sign up Students who would like to help deliver hot meals to the homebound should call Motor Meals at ,763-2377, and ask for Marguerite Oliver at the University Hospital. Beating the tax man The big winner of the state's Bicentennial Lottery held last Oct. 14 has yet to claim his or her $1 million first prize. But lottery officials aren't too concerned about it-they just figure it was done to save money. If the prizes in the lottery are picked up after the first of the year, the tax bite is re- duced, and a number of winners in the game have taken advantage of this. For example, a Detroit man who won $250,000 accepted his check yester- day. Still, because tickets for the contest went on sale on July 4, it just could be that the grand prize winner was .. . Jimmy Hoffa? Happenings .. . .. . nothing is happening today; it has been cancelled. Practice intimidating strangers in the Graduate Library. Better luck Tuesday. Ballooning sales Are you tired of being asked what size you wear when you go to the druggist to purchase condoms? If you lived in Seattle, you'd never have to worry again. The local Zero Population Growth chapter there has opened a "contraceptice boutique" in that city with the slogan "What this world needs is a good five-cent contraceptive." The store, The Rubber Tree, provides just that. Opened last March, The Rubber Tree offers 26 kinds of male contraceptives in various colors, along with con- traceptice fhams, jellies and creams. The store has a clientele of about 4,000 persons, about a third of them regulars. Frankie and Johnnie The Senate intelligence committee has decided not to question Frank Sinatra about possible links beween President- John Kennedy and the Mafia. While they're not ruling out the action for the future, the committee decided Ol' Blue Mouth's testimony might focus on JFK's personal life rather than the primary issue of CIA assassination plots against Fidel Castro. Frankie, you recall, is the suspected matchmaker between Kennedy and Ju- dith Campbell Exner, who exchanged numerous phone calls with the chief executive during the early years of Camelot. Exner had also been link- ed to Mafiosi Sam Giancana and John Rosseli. But the committee considers it unlikely that the woman told the President about the many plots to waste Castro with the help of organized crime. Former Nixon speechwriter William Safire, how- ever, says Sinatra should be questioned, and charg- es that Committee Chairman Frank Church is sim- ply trying to protect the Kennedy name. At least they're not lazy Firemen in West Milford, N.J. are suspected of stimulating a little business lately. It seems there just weren't enough fires to go around in this quiet little town, so four fire fighters allegedly took mat- ters into their own hands and set fire in an unoccupied private home. In addition to the lack of business, it seems department morale was so low and the men just weren't getting enough practice battling blazes. Fire Chief Charles Krieger was indicted by a grand jury on charges of mis- conduct in office, and three of his men, Jack Brooks, David Fairbanks and Edward Henderson were charged with arson conspiracy and miscon- duct. Brooks was charged with sneaking out of the firehouse to set the blaze and then racing back to receive the alarm. We're left wondering what the town mortician does when he feels he has too many empty caskets . }ison tennial What a way to start the morning. Police in Grand Rapids yesterday received a flood of calls shortly before sunrise from citizens who said they saw buf- faloes "tromping down 28th Street" on the city's south side. The cops sent to investigate the re- ports, however, could find neither hide nor hair of the critters. Like good Sherlocks, they even checked for tracks, but again failed to find any clues. A hoax? Maybe not -- "We do have a buf- falo farm in the vicinity," said police, "but so far, they haven't reported any missing." In fact, it might be that the nation's current bicentennial spirit has reached even the beasts of burden in Jerry Ford's hometown. Rather than go out and buy star-spangeled coffee mugs, however, the buf- faloes may have chosen to relive 1776 by careless roaming where the deer and the antelope also used to play. On the inside * . Sports features a preview of today's game with Indiana by Bill Steig . . . the Editorial Page has a Pacific News Service report on life Rush hour train collision injures 290 in Chicago By AP and Reuter CHICAGO - Some 290 people were re- ported injured yesterday when a train on the ."Kennedy Rapid Transit Line slam- med into the rear of a stationary train here during the morning rush hour, po- lice said. No one was killed, but, nearly half of the 600 people in the trains were hurt. Two people were seriously injured and about 60 remained in any of six hos- pitals used. Most of the injured, however, had been treated and released. ABOUT 10 passengers were trapped in the wreckage for about two hours while firemen struggled to cut through the metal cars with acetylene torches. Two of the rear cars in the stationary train were telescoped and most of the injured, in- cluding school children, were in riages. these car- The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was not able to determine the cause of the crash which happened despite several "fail-safe" de- vices installed on the train to prevent such ac- cidents. THE KENNEDY line was opened in Febru- ary, 1970. The "fail-safe" system is designed to control speed and spacing of trains, and an investigation is being conducted into its appar- ent failure. CTA spokesman Tom Buck said the crash oc- curred when a four-car "B-train" slammed into the rear of a six-car "A-train" which was stop- ped at the Addison Street station. The Northwest Side line runs at street level down the median strip of the Kennedy Expressway. It is one of the most recent additions of the city's mass See TRAIN, Page 7 .Decembher wholesale prices fall WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sharply lower food prices brought a 0.4 per cent decrease in wholesale prices in Decem- ber, but that good news was clouded by a continuing 8.3 per cent unemployment rate which made 1975 the American work- er's worst year since the Great Depression. The year-end averages which were completed with the De- cember figures held a mixture of good and bad news. THE LABOR Department re- ported dramatic improve- ment in wholesale prices for the year. Unadjusted prices in December were 4.2 per cent higher than the year before - compared to a 20.9 per cent jump in 1974, 15.4 per cent in 19-3 and 6.5 per cent in 1972. Food prices to wholesalers and grocers plunged 2.5 per cent for the month, to more than offset increases for non- EVE KAGAN food items like building mater- ;y Services of ials and paper products. f tarot cards The one-month decline in yesterday's prices was an indication that inflation might be easing, al- though it will hardly lead to rapid or widespread price cuts in retail stores. BUT unemployment h a s shown less improvement than any other economic indicator since the current recession bot- e ,tomed out last spring. It aver- ages 8.5 per cent through 1975, a rate highnenoughto cause many economists to predict dreams? persistent high joblessness through next year. your life? Unemployment averaged 8.5 never met the per cent through 1975 compar- ed to 5.6 per cent in 1974. 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Police are se-rching for the motorman who was working on one of the trains at the time of the crash. The Chicago Transit Authority is investigating the accident. FOR EIGN INTEHYENTR)N ({ND)EINEB: Angola goupse s bi d f or1"- na t1*tionl u iy Daily Photo by STE David Weime, psychic reader for Cosmic Astrolog East Detroit, reveals the future in the form of for a customer at the Briarwood Mall during astrological convention. "O Cosmic conuples the stars and h By BILL TURQlJE Are you an Aries lusting for the Scorpio of your A Leo waiting for the Pisces Mr. Right to enter OR AN AQUARIUS wondering why you'ven Gemini that set you on fire? Well, for a mere 30 bucks, East Detroit's Cosmi may provide the answer. 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Dr. Agostinho Neto told Bel- grade's new ambassador to Lu- anda, Nikola Sasic, that the formula of national unity "had exclusively a propaganda-tacti- cal character designed to cause constant conflicts and disturb- ances among the Angolan people," Tanjug said. HIS REJECTION of the pro- posals, which have been bucked by several western and scme African states, came on the eve of a summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in A dis Ababa called to seek a wv out of the Angolan Civil War. The National Union frtoc te Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which is fihtiaig the MPLA, has urged the summit to consider such a government as the best solution to the Angolan crisis. Tan.ig quoted the MPLA chef as telling the envoy he hoped the weekend meeting would con- demn "the foreign in vemion in Angola and find w iys really to eliminate it." PRESIDENT Idi Amin of Uganda, arriving in Addis Ababa for the summit onfer- ence, told reporters it was the ,African continent's first priority to stop bloodshed in Angola, and that it was not up to the OAU to endorse any of t 'ree factions in Angola. "It is not for Africa to dic~ate to Angolans wh'at is to ne cone by Angolans," he said. Arnin is the current chairman of the 0AU and will oreside at the emergency neaniug of chief exectives. COMMENTING on intervEn- tion, Amin said "We have not come here to discuss Russia, Cuba or anybody. Any force in Angola-South Africa,,, Europe, Russia-they are killing Ango- lans. We condemn everybody, even black Africans, If they ar involved." Amin, wearing a blue ai; force pniform with a pistol on his hip, also said he was "very, very happy" with American qolcy on Angola after he received a letter from President Ford as- serting that Washington would not interfere in the former Por- tugese colony's internal affairs. Among dignitaries arriving was Osmany Cinfuegos, secre- See ANGOLA, Page 7 NO FOREIGNERS INVITED China prepares to bury Chou PEKING (Reuter) - China announced yesterday it would not invite foreign lead- ers to the funeral of Premier Chou En-Lai. The tributes to Chou, who died of can- cer Wednesday after a long illness, will last country asked to be allowed to come to Peking, informed sources said. A western government head also expressed a wish to attend, they added. But a statement from the committee or- foreigners will attend will be to express condolences to relatives at the Workers' Cultural Palace in the ancient Forbidden City on Monday. CHOU'S BODY will lie in state here this .v........ .. . E . t .