QUINLAN DECISION See Editorial Page Y friOP A4W 4:3 46maw t at 1 9 MATURING High-5* Loyv-30 s See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 149 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, April 2, 1976 10 Cents Ten Pages U *1 IFYOU SEE NE HAPPECALDAL6 LY Sprimary issue Lawyers were dashing in and out of court yesterday as the Michigan Presidential Primary started and stopped once more, all within a mat- ter of a few hours. First the state Court of Ap- peals overturned a restraining order which had halted the primary last week. A short while later Judge Ray Hochkiss, who issued the first order halting the election, issued a second one. The fight is centered around who will foot the bill if the election is held. In 1972 the primary was funded by the state, but the law providing the money expired in 1973. Local officials say they can't come up with the $2.5 million needed to run an election. In the meantime, Michigan is without a primary and the lawyers are getting rich. Happenings... ... start off with a luncheon at noon, sponsored by Guild House, where George White of MIT is speaking on "Simon Weil's.'Great Beast' and the American Bicentennial," 802 Monroe ... at 1:00 the Food Action Coalition is sponsoring a film showing focusing on critical food issues, at Thomas Francis School ... at 2:00 Dr. Robert Spicer will conduct a seminar on "Formation of Fossil Leaf Deposits" in Lecture Rm. 1 of the Modern Lan- guage Bldg. ... throughout the day the "Our Own Thing" bucket drive will be going on ... tonight at 9:00 the first all-campus happening will be held at 548 S. State, dancing is promised. Numbers games The battle of the century was fought recently. The mighty opponents were a modern pocket cal- culator and an ancient abacus. It looked like an easy way for an Australian department store to show the speed of its wares. Out of 10 separate competitions, the abacus came out ahead. The calculator operator was bogged down by having to press the "plus" button between each num- ber. While the backers of the abacus admit it can't perform more complicated operations, they asked "can your calculator go up to 922,980,000 like the abacus? Nice giys finish last. In a fit of honesty straight from the legends of George Washington and Abe Lincoln, Mas Web- er, a 13-year-old newspaper carrier turned in an envolope he found which was stuffed with $2,300 in $100 and $20 bills. "I would rather maybe bet a $5 reward for this and make sure it gets to the person it belongs to," Weber said. With honesty like that, he'd never make it far in big-time politics. Postal pennies If the Postal Service is going to break even financially, it will probably mean that first class stamps will cost 19 cents next year and 34 cents by 1984. This cheery prediction came from the Government Accounting Office in a report to Con- gress. These estimates are based on the "self sufficiency concept," meaning no government sub- sidies to pay for Postal Service deficits. ! On the inside... den David Goodman writes about Michigan Stu- dent Assembly funding on the Editorial page... the Sports page takes a look at the men's tennis team by Scott Lewis . . . Arts page has the long awaited review of "All the President's Men" by Jim Valk. On the outside ... Today will be much nicer, especially in the after- noon. The storm system that gave us yesterday's weather will be moving away so skies will be- come fair by afternoon with temperatures getting milder. Tonight will be fair and cool. Highs today will be 46-51, lows tonight 30-35. Kissinger denies Reagan charges WASHINGTON (Reuter)-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger yesterday accused former California Gover- nor Ronald Reagan of uttering "false and irresponsible inventions" about his foreign policy positions. A statement released on behalf of Kissinger by State Department spokesman Robert Funseth said a speech Wednesday night by Reagan, who is challenging Presi- dent Ford for the Republican presidential nomination, contained false quotations attributed to Kissinger. REAGAN QUOTED Kissinger as saying he thinks of the United States as Athens and the Soviet Union as Sparta, with the United States in a second-best position. The quoations are from a book by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. former Chief of Naval Operations who is seek- 'U , e mp bye files U nion - who wished to remain She then listed various arose among her fellow grievance By LOIS JOSIMOVICH An employe of the University's Engineering Services Department has filed a union grievance against the University, through her department, for racial discrim- ination on the job. The secretary, Jackie Kischuk, is white, unmarried and pregnant. The father of her child is black. "I THINK the relevant fact is that there is racial discrimination going on, and it's being condoned by the management," said Kischuk, In the grievance-filed with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2001-Kischuk charges that specific mem- bers of her department were making discriminatory remarks to her and to other employes concerning her interracial relationship. -W -- Racism charged She also claims that her workload was being increased to "discipline" her after she was first seen with her black friend. "IT'S HARASSMENT - pure and simple," said 23-year-old Kischuk in an interview this week. She added, "I think it is all related to the discrimination." Department supervisor Kenneth Beaudry declined to comment on the matter, saying, "It's in the union's hand now, it's going through the procedures." Kischuk said department members became aware "almost immediately" when she began seeing the man ma rks unidentified - last November. reactions which she claimed workers. "THERE ARE the people who ignore you, the people who stare at you when they think you're not looking, and the people who don't care whether you're looking or not," she said. ''They said things about sticking to your own kind'," Kischuk added, "and one of them asked if it's true that 'they' (black men) are 'bigger' than 'we' (whites) are." She said she was also asked how much she 'charged.' THE SECRETARY claimed she went repeatedly to Beaudry, to complain of the alleged discrimination, See SECRETARY, Page 10 truck s 'I think the relevant fact is that t here is racial discrimination going on, and it's be- ing condoned by the management,' -Jackie Kischuk 'U' clerical worker trike Prof criticizes hi~ke in health insurance rate By JIM TOBIN A University public health professor yesterday called Wednes- day's 28 per cent Blue Cross-Blue Shield rate increase "insanely high," and proposed that the state create a commission to control medical costs. "These exorbitant increases to the swollen Blue Cross bureau- cracy and to the doctors and hospitals must be brought to an end before they bankrupt us all," said Prof. Max Shain in a statement released yesterday. BLUE CROSS-Blue Shield is a corporation which provides medical insurance to approximately 55 per cent of the state's resi- EMU Regents aprove contract By JENNY MILLER Eastern Michigan Univer- sity's Board of Regents yester- day approved contract agree- ments with United Auto Work- ers (UAW) locals representing clerical, professional, adminis- trative, and technical employes at the university. The contracts, ratified by members of UAW locals 1975 and 1976rlast Saturday, were ap- proved by a 6-0 vote. EMU President James Brickley said last night that two board mem- bers were absent when the vote was taken. BOTH contract run for two years. They provide a five per dents. In return for certain exemptions, the corporation must submit rate increases for approval by the state Insurance Commission, Responding to a Blue Cross- Blue Shield request for a 35 per cent, $355 million hike for the coming year, Insurance Commissioner Thomas Jones Wednesday granted a 28 per cent, $284 million increase, the largest in the corporation's his- torv. Jones stung the organization with charges of inefficiency and ordered a full audit of its quar- terly reports. BUT SHAIN, a specialist in the health insurance field, came down more emphatically on the corporation than Jones, lambasting it for a bloated bureaucracy and a tendency to cater to unnecessarily high medical costs. "The hospitals and doctors don't need as much money as they're getting now, (from the insurance paymens)," Shain said. "They're benefiting from these increases at the expense of 55 per cert of the other peo- ple in the state." Shain expressed particular concern over the timing of the increase. Daily Photo by SCOTT ECCKER April fools Although the steps of the Graduate Library usually sport no more than a harried scholar or two, Karen Wallace (left) and David Laird celebrated yesterday's Hash Bash by gracing the stately building's steps with their birthday suits. Factory closings imminent By AP and UPI D E T R O I T - Non- striking truckers in Michi- gan were shot at, allegedly beaten and run off the road yesterday in scattered inci- dents of violence that marked the beginning of a nationwide w a lk o u t by Teamsters. Up to 14,000 Michigan union members joined the strike, while hundreds of their brothers remained on the job under hastily sign- ed interim agreements with haulers. STATE POLICE Director George Halverson ordered beef- ed up freeway patrols out of "concern for the public using the same highways." The walkout not only threat- ened Detroit automakers, but industry in the state as a whole. Auto industry officials feared plant shutdowns and layoffs within a matter of days if a national agreement were not worked out soon between the Teamsters union and Trucking Employers, Inc., bargaining agent for 16,000 trucking firms. Consumers could start feeling considerable difficulties after about two weeks, federal offic- ials said. See VIOLENCE, Page 7 fire refiners to retain retail market- ing outlets held prior to Jan. 1, 1976. The Federal Trade Commis- sion would be given authority to review, approve, modify and ultimately accept divestiture plans filed by the companies. Bayh also said the revised bill would permit the FTC to allow retention of otherwise prohibited assets of up to $5 million if con- sistent with the bill's purposes, such as pipelines integral to refinery operations. UNDER the bill's definitions of major producers;refiners and marketers, the subcommittee said, the following 18 companies would be affected: Exxon, Texaco, Shell, Stan- dard Oil (Indiana), Gulf, Mobil, Standard Oil of California, At- lantic-Richfield, Getty, Sun, Phil- lips, Continental, Cities Service, Marathon, Sohio, Amerada Hess, Ashland and Union. William Tavoulareas, presi- dent of the Mobil Oil Corp., said in New York that the subcom- mittee's approval of the bill was "a first step toward higher energy prices and a serious weakening of the nation's ability to become self-sufficient in energy." HE SAID in a statement "The By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - The Senate antitrust subcommittee yester- day approved a bill to force the break-up within five years of the nation's 18 biggest oil compa- nies. The measure, which faces in- tense opposition, would require the major oil companies to con- fine their operations to one of four principal segments of the industry - production, market- ing, refining or transportation. [rusts' Currently, the big oil com- panies dominate much of the refining, transporting and selling of petroleum products. SEN. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) said the forced splintering of the industry giants would increase competition and "result in enor- mous benefit to the consuming public." Critics say the industry al- ready is highly competitive and contend the bill would reduce un1der efficiency, increase costs and hamper production, all of which would mean higher prices for consumers. The measure, which now goes to the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee, is a revised draft of legisla- tion introduced by Bayh. The new version was offered by subcommittee Chairman Phil- ip Hart (D-Mich.) in an effort to win increased support. ONE change would permit cent adjustment in base wages v retroactive to July 1, 1975 and "THE ECONOMY is just get- an additional five per cent hike ting over a major depression," a year later. he said. "This is not the time Professional, administrative to be throwing another burden and technical workers will also on payrolls. Unemployment is receive a four per cent basic still very high, the schools and See EMU, Page 10 See PROF, Page 10 / f Motley masses mill - and mash at Bash By JENNY MILLER 4Despite cold temperatures and an almost constant drizzle, yesterday's Fifth Annual Hash Bash enjoyed its largest turn-out in recent memory. Nearly five thousand people came to the bash, which originated five years ago to celebrate the reduction of the penalty for marijuana possession to a misdemeanor. WHILE MOST people appeared to be enjoying the avail- S:; ability of large quantities of dope and alcohol, some felt that "the whole thing is getting too commercial." Besides the selling reportedly attempted to sell a twelve pack of empty, crushed "' . }r "::;;::beer cans.