The Michigan Daily-Thursday, A Manson elan memnbers ten years 1 S T a t c r G Z i f t I f later: Surviving prison life LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the Those who remember are haunted by Steven Parent wealthy cocoon of Benedict Canyon, that hot summer morning when the city shot, found in where celebrities seek safety in shake- froze in fear of a nameless evil loose in lawn, cut do roof castles, the date of Aug. 9 still sen- the hills. hideous embl ds chills through the neighborhood. Months later, the world would know and scrawling Close the windows. Lock the gates. the name - Manson. THEN, ONE Sharon Tate died 10 years ago this day. THEY FOUND the five bodies at there was me The memory of mass murder is as close sunrise, scattered like rag dolls around bizarre murdE as the hilly curve marked Cielo Drive the hilltop estate. LaBianca, a where black-clad killers once prowled. There was beautiful actress Sharon chered in their "MANY PEOPLE I know in Los Tate, 26, wife of director Roman Polan- parent reason Angeles believe that the '60s ended ski, eight months pregnant, dead with In that sum abruptly on Aug. 9, 1969, ended at the their unborn baby. fear swept the exact moment when word of the mur- There were her three glamorous sales of burgl ders on Cielo Drive traveled like brush- friends - coffee heiress Abigail Folger, guard dogs. fire through the community," Joan Polish film director Voityck In winter,t Didion writes in her new memoir of the Frykowski, and playboy Jay Sebring - Manson, a s era, "The White Album." and a friend of the house caretaker, See MEP t. They were stabbed and bloody pools on the lush wn by killers who left ems - hoods and ropes s in blood. night later across town, ore horror - two more ers. Leno and Rosemary wealthy couple, lay but- r modest home for no ap- 1. mer of senseless killings, e city. There were heavy ar alarms, bolt locks, and the case broke. Charles trange, long-haired ex- VMORIES, Page 10 Manson in 1969 Commission OKs cable TV franchise By ELIZABETH SLOWIK Ann Arbor's Cablecasting Commis- sion last night approved a franchise agreement to sell the local financially ailing cable television system. Under terms of the agreement, the Denver-based Daniels and Associates cable television company would under- take "quite an ambitious project," City Cablecasting Commission Chairman Mark Ouimet said last night. THE FRANCHISE agreement will be brought before City Council Monday night, said Ouimet and Cablecasting Commission Member Elliot Chikowf- sky. City Council will hear the tentative sale pact at first reading this Monday, while final approval will come within "one or two weeks" at second reading, Chikowfsky said. It appears "ex- tremely promising" that Council will okay the 15-year franchise plan, he ad- ded. Daniels and Associates will spend approximately $2,700,004 in capital ad- ditions, including covering past debts of Ann Arbor Cablevision, which curren- tly owns the city's cable system, Chikowfsky said. The Ann Arbor com- pany is reportedly $4.5 million in debt, including back city taxes of about $322,000. CHIKOWFSKY SAID the plan offered by Daniels and Associates includes ex- panding service to 2,500 more homes; increasing the number of channels from 26 to 34; constructing an earth- station satellite receiver, probably on top of the Tower Plaza apartment See COMMISSION, Page 9 of WE Ch ev old the Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ UNIVERSITY PLUMBER Jim Wesley maintains a lonely vigil behind the East Engineering building. Wesley and other University skilled trades workers have been on strike since Aug. 1. Plumber says striking only weapon' By PATRICIA HAGEN management." state mediator ended at an impasse last Leaning on a picket sign that read 'U WESLEY HAS been pulling a Thursday. M unfair to skilled trades,' Jim "monotonous" six-hour picketing shift But union members say they hope the esley watched the traffic drift by on every day since the campus skilled long hours on the picket lines will show lurch Street. trades workers contract with the Bunion solidarity and work to their ad- Striking "is a pain in the neck for University expired Aug. 1. vantage at the bargaining table. Even eryone concerned," said the 59-year- No one knows for sure how long the when faced with the possibility of a long I picketer. "Nobody likes it, but it's strike by the 318-member trades coun- strike, the union members expressed e only weapon labor has against cil will drag. No new negotiations have confidence that the strike will be settled been scheduled since a session with a when the University realizes the trades See PLUMBER, Page 9 Break-in on North Campus. Sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, thieves broke into the Gerald R. Ford Library, currently under construction on North Campus, Ann Arbor police said yesterday. According to police, thieves broke the latches off the doors of storage bins belonging to three contractors and stole a variety of tools valued at $1,128. No suspects have been arrested and the case is under investigation. Fear of God? Al Hopeus operates a laundromat in Oxnard,' California. -Tuesday a man wearing a paper bag mask walked into the establishment and demanded money from Hopcus. Hopcus )anded over his wallet, and the gun-wielding thief fished out the $4 and gave the billfold back to Hopeus. "I was touched," said Hopeus. "He seemed to want so lit- tle. So before he could walk away I asked if I could say a prayer for him-and, you know, he dropped the $4 and ran away screaming." It seems Hopcus put the fear of God into the would-be robber. Happenings.,.. ... the Interfaith Council for Peace will present a "Managing the Global*Plantation," a slide show on Castle and Cook, a multinational agriculture business, at noon at the Wesley Lounge, 602 E. Huron Ave.... Nancy White will discuss "Polarity and Childbirth" at the meeting of Ann Arbor Ad- vocates for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth at 7:30 p.m. in the Wesley Lounge ... Rackham Student Government Council will meet in the Rackham Board Room at 7:30 p.m.... the School of Music will present Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" in the Mendelssohn Theatre at 8 p.m... .FILMS: Ann Ar- bor Film Co-op-The Last Waltz, 7 p.m., 9 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. On the outside Mostly cloudy today, with scattered thunder- showers. High temperature will hang around 801. and the low will slip to 60'.