Vol. LXXXIX, no. 42-S C TsaJ1n Twelve Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents Carter hears more experts; Cam David (0 sumnut may end soon THE MICHIGAN THEATRE was officially purchased yesterday by the Michigan Community Theatre Corporation. The largest theatre in Ann Ar- bor, built in 1927, will be used as a community theatre, and the group plans to restore the building to its original condition within three years. Non-profit corporation buys Michigan theater WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter brought representatives of business, labor, and government to Camp David yesterday for conferences on employment, amid forecasts that the jobless rate may climb toward seven per cent near the 1980 election. With Carter's domestic policy sum- mit in its sixth day, there was speculation that the conferences may be coming to an end soon and that work will begin on a presidential speech, with Sunday a possible target date for delivery. AN ADMINISTRATION source said one result of the meetings could be a shift in White House staff operations in which Carter's longtime aide, Hamilton Jordan, would be given more direct lines of authority in the role of White House chief of staff. And White House presssecretary Jody Powell discounted a report that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger is being fired. He said the report was "uninformed speculation." Meanwhile, members of the White House staff specializing in energy worked feverishly to put the finishing touches on the president's options in developing synthetic fuels to cut oil ex- ports. One staff member said they hoped to deliver their work to Carter by the end of the day, two days beyond their original deadline. THERE WAS also a congressional report that the approaching recession may be worse than first anticipated. (See story, Page 10). The president held a morning meeting at the retreat atop Maryland's Catoctin Mountains with Govs. Jay Hammond of Alaska and Bill Clinton of Arkansas; Sens. Harrison Williams (D- N.J.), chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, and Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Employment subcommit- tee; four union chiefs; three business leaders, and others concerned with ur- ban problems. An evening session was planned for a half-dozen governors and a delegation of mayors. TIAT, BY unofficial count, would bring to about 130 the number of per- sons Carter has had flown to his hideaway 60 miles north of the nation's See CARTER'S, Page 2 city officials diseuss lend to campus loitering By TIM YAGLE and JOHN GOVER Responding to numerous citizen and merchant complaints, city officials yesterday explored ways to stop "harassment" and vagrancy in the city's downtown and west campus areas. After meeting with two City Coun- cilmembers and police and fire depar- tment chiefs yesterday afternoon, Mayor Louis Belcher said the city would probably increase police patrols in two problem areas: on State St. near central campus and on Catherine St. near Main St. BELCHER SAID he had received complaints of "harassment, vagrancy, drunks, some drugs," from merchants and downtown yesidents. Belcher pointed to the "type of character" found in the downtown area as contributing to the harassment and See CITY, Page 7 By BETH PERSKY History is expensive these days, or so it seems. For instance, a group of Ann Arbor citizens agreed to dole out more than $1.3 million yesterday in order to keep part of the 'old' Ann Arbor around for a while, The Michigan Community Theater Corporation, a non-profit group com- posed of Ann Arbor citizens, bought the Liberty St. theater from the family of Angelo Poulos, who built the establish- ment 52 years ago. The group will take official ownership of the building on Sept. 1. THE THEATER, which had caught the eye of buyers willing to construct a small mall within the building, drew much attention during the year from citizens who didn't want to lose the historic theater. Richard Lotz, the theater's new board president, said the entertainment house will be maintained in period form, as it's restored. He said the theater will likely be returned to its original condition within three years. The corporation plans, possibly as early as this fall, to use the facility as a community theater, inviting civic theater and orchestra groups to per- See CORPORATION, Page 2 Indian Ocean, Australia hit with flaming Skylab WASHINGTON (AP) - The space station Skylab, in its death plunge to Earth yesterday, sprayed debris- over central Australia across some of the most desolate terrain on the face of the earfh. There were no reports of damage or injury, sparing the United States worldwide embarrassment. It was estimated 20 to 25 tons of metal survived Skylab's fall. FOR RESIDENTS in southwestern Australia, the fall of Skylab over the Indian Ocean and the down- under continent provided a celestial fireworks show, complete with the sound of sonic booms. "It was an incredible sight," said John Seiler, a ran- cher in Australia's vast outback. "Hundreds of shining lights dropping all around the homestead ... we could hear the noise of wind in the air as bigger pieces passed over us. Just after the last pieces dropped out of sight, the whole house shook three times .. . "The horses on the property ran mad. They galloped all over the place and the dogs were barking," Seiler said. JIM KUKOWSKI, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said, "Quite a bit of debris fell on Australia." Late yesterday, the North American Air Defense Command(NORAD) revised its coordinates for the ,point where the last and largest -piece lost its forward motion and started to drop. NORAD put the spot at Kalgoorlie in southwestern Australia, about 700 to 800 miles -northeast of the position in the Indian Ocean where it first had been estimated to be. NORAD estimated the time "decay point" at 12:37 p.m. EDT, give or take two minutes. "WE HAVE RECEIVED no reports of property damage or personal injury," Kukowsaki said. "That doesn't rule it out 100 per cent, but it appears highly unlikely that any debris would fall on anybody." He said the area was one of the most remote in the world, "on a par with the Sahara desert or worse." That, however, didn't prevent hundreds of Australians from witnessing the flaming spectacle in the sky. See IT'S, Page 10 PREPARED FOR THE fall of Skylab, Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs fans adorned protective helmets during a baseball game Tuesday night.