Page 2-Thursday, July 26, 1979-The Michigan Daily Art Fair browsers, artists adapt to rain (Continuedtrom Page 1) rain on sales. Printing on price tags was somtimes blurred by water spots, but the buyers and sellers never took time out for a rain delay. Sales started outlwell yesterday mor- ning, but when the showers started "the crowds sort of disappeared into testaurants," according to Tom Paar. From his booth, displaying abstract collages, he said, "They're hiding somewhere." Business had slowed down by early afternoon but Paar didn't seem worried. "People look at the whole show first, then they come back." "IT HAS BEEN slow," said Carl Wesenberberg. The woodcarver at- Remembering weather problems of previous years, fair planners made provisions for inclement weather. The booths on East and South University Avenues are pre-constructed and protected with a "visqueen" plastic canopy. Exhibitors in the Summer Arts Festival on E. University Ave. and Main St. built their own booths. Many artists set up plastic or wood ceilings over their work, while others whose works could not be water-damaged, braved the elements with umbrellas as their only protection. AMONG THE artists there was no clear concensus about the effects of tributed the crowd lag to rainy weather as he sat by his table of sugar pine and cyprus wood figures. Displaying in his nineteenth fair, the native Ann Arborite said he came all the way from Florida, where he moved last year, because he enjoyed past fairs so much. Behind a water-spotted table of her daughter's stoneware sculptures, Helen Grisell said, "It (the rain) hasn't stop- ped sales." "Sitting here I'm pretty miserable," Grisell said, with a rain-soaked smile. People say the rain doesn't bother them while they walk through the fair, she added. Wearing a navy blue poncho, Kit Hor- ton rated the effects of the weather as "minimal. People come back," said the first-year exhibitor on North Univer- sity. "It's more annoying\than anything,'" explained Horton. She said sales of her jewelry have been "fairly good." Even though he said he wasn't plan- ning to buy anything, one barefoot browser claimed to be enjoying the fair despite the weather. "It's a good place for ideas," said Mark Sopchak, a woodworker from Dearborn. Despite forecasts of continued damp, warm weather, artists, merchants and patrons plan three more days of the nationally-known fair - fair weather or foul. Bill creates board to review toxic waste dumps LANSING (UPI) - Gov. William and storage firms, requires detailed means of tracking those wastes from mittee that developed the legislation, Milliken yesterday signed a long-sought record-keeping on movement of generation to disposal," he said. said a compromise on the location of bill giving the state government new dangerous chemicals, and provides for The bill's sponsor, Rep. Alice Tom- dump sites was the key to passage of totls for handling the increasingly maintenance of disposal sites after they boulian, (D-Lake Orion), said the the bill. threatening problems of hazardous are shut down. measure finally will put the state on top waste shipping and disposal. The legislature was prodded into ac- of the hazardous waste situation. "THE PROBLEM from the begin- The measure's most discussed tion on the issue after the state was "UP UNTIL NOW we would only ning with this issue has been that feature is creation of a nine-member rocked by a series of scandals involving learn of such disasters as Love Canal, everybody recognized the need for safe state board with the power to give final improperly stored wastes. the Montague pollution or the PBB disposal facilties but nobody was approval to proposed toxic waste dum- "THIS BILL marks another impor- dumping in St. Louis after the fact," willing to have a facility as a neigh- ps, overruling local officials if tant milestone in Michigan's efforts to said Tomboulian. bor," Mathieu said. necessary. protect the public health and our en- "Under this law we will know about WITHOUT SUCH a commission, vironment from toxic materials," every potentially dangerous waste "The combined state-local approach backers feared, efforts to establish Milliken said in signing the bill. from the time it is generated and we to licensing and locating facilities in the badly-needed disposal facilities would ' "The provisions of the Hazardous will know that when it is disposed of, it law is an imaginative approach that is be repeatedly frustrated by local op- Waste Management Act will enable the is being disposed of safely," she said. already stirring interest in other position. state to effectively regulate the Rep. Thomas Mathieu, (D-Grand states," he said. The bill also licenses waste haulers disposal of toxic wastes and provide a Rapids), who chaired the special com- The commission will have five per- manent state members and four 14.n r yrepresenting the affected community, A ,who will be selected on a case-by-case Ttr P n6- basis. The bill also reflects lawmakers' preference for the licensing privately- owned disposal sites rather than creating a huge central state-owned facility. THE MICHIGAN DAILY (USPS 344-900) Volm LXXXIX No.52-S Thursday, July 26, 1979 .; is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. Published 4 OKORROW daily Tuesday through Sunday morn- ings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 Septem- R ber through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside nn Arbor. Summer ses- sion published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 by mail out- side Ann Arbor. 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