Wednesday, May 30, 1973

THE SUMMER DAILY

Page Three

Nixon will refuse to testify
on Watergate-White House

/
PIRGIM purged
A report by PIRGIM (Public Interest
Research Group in Michigan) alleging
lax health standards in Michigan fast food
outlets was based on misrepresented re-
search, according to the Associated Press.
The report-presented as the work of 35
interviewers-was, in fact, largely based
on the oersonal experience of one PIRGIM
volinter -Michigan State student Patricia
Mierzwa. According to Mierzwa, the re-
port also contained third-hand information
and quotes which came from interviewers
and not those interviewed. Mierzwa also
admitted that she recently quit a fast
food restaurant after a dispute over her
salary.
POW.notes
Former POW Army Col. Theodore Guy
filed charges yesterday against eight of
his fellow ex-priseners, accusing them of
collaboration with their North Vietnamese
captors. Guy claims the five Army men
and three Marines obtained special privi-
leges by giving uformation about othen
prisoners' acsvties to the North Vietna-
mese. Prior to Guy's suit, the Pentagon
aad followed an unofficial policy of lIt-
ting the issue of POW "misbehavior" die
quietly. Meanwhile, another ex-POW,A :ir
Force Lt. Leo Torsness, plans to 1" mfor
George MctaOieri's South Dakota Sentte
seat next year Hte insists that antiwar
statements made by McGovern in his
1972 presidential campaign "disgraced
America" and prolonged the war.
Happenings
. . . today are minly at the mtoies
with the old reliable Grad toffee Hour
providing a caffeinated alternative at S
p.m, in Rackham. The livelier types
should check out Sleuth (6:15 and ':45
pm. at the Michigan) with Michael Caine
and Laurence Olivier, or self-proclaimed
sex symbol Clint Eastwood in High Plaits
Drifter (, 7, and 9 at the State).
A2's weather
Anther dismal Ann Arhr du: many
clouds and - you guessed it - a slight
chance of rain. The real wet stuff is
heaving misery on Toledo and points
south, an area which is grim enough
even when the sun is shining. Highs to-
day in the mid-60's and low tonite around
48
City Hall hit
by increased
fuel prices
By GORDON ATCHESON
Ioa1 government fet the pinch of the
gasoine shotage last night s City Coun-
cil approved a municipal fuel contract
reflecting substantially increased prices
The contract with Gulf Oil calls for an
increase of nearly seven cents per gal-
lon, according to purchasing director John
Bergren.
GULF CAN also cancel the contract af-
ter 30 days notice to the city. The con-
tract covers a six month period and re-
quires delivery of 180,000 gallons of gaso-
line at 18 cents per gallon.
A spokesman for Gulf said the cancella-
tion clause was cluded in the contract
because the duration of the shortage is
difficult to predict and we can only
See CITY, Page It

WASHINGTON i1) - The Water-
gate investigators, judicial and con-
gressional, will get no testimony
from President Nixon himself, the
White House said yesterday.
"We feel it would be constitution-
ally inappropriate," said Press Sec-
retary Ronald Ziegler. "It would do
v i o l e n c e to the separation of
powers."
THE QUESTION AROSE after a story
in the Washington Post quoted federal
prosecutors as telling Justice Department
superiors "there is justification for call-
ing" the President before the federal
grand jury.
Ziegler said the ban applies to sworn
testimony, informal statements and writ-
ten responses to written questions.
Ziegler called the Post's story "a shock-
ing and irresponsible abuse of authority on
the part of the federal prosecutors" if it
is true. Ziegler said the White House has
ordered an investigation of what he term-
ed a leak of information dealing with a
grand jury investigation.
NOTHING IN the Constitution grants
immunity to a president. le imay be sum-
moned to court and is liable to arrest.
Thomas Jefferson established a prece-
dent in refusing to appear as a witness in
1807 at the treason trial of Aaron Burr,
but the action did not bind future presi-
dents.
President Franklin Pierce and Ulysses
Grant were arrested for horse-and-car-
riage traffic violations.
ZIEGLER SAID J. Fred Buzhardt Jr., a
special White House counsel, telephoned
Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson Monday
night to investigate the source of the
host's report.
Richardson was ordered to take appro-
priate action with the aim of seeing "it
doesn't happen again''
See NIXON, Page 10

Ihey're engaged
"There is no romance," the princess has steadfastly insisted. But yesterday
Buckingham Palace officially announced the engagement of Princess Anne to Lt.
Mark Phillips, the 24-year-old cavalry officer who has been her frequent com-
pacion. Palace officialIs said the couple has been secretly engaged since Easter
time and hinted that Phillips, a commoner, may soon become an earl.

WHAT IS IT?
Stfange 'Blob' oozes
into streets of Dallas

DALLAS a)--It's something right off of
an after-midnight television horror movie
-a mysterious, encompassing ooze, dub-
bed "The Blob." So far it appears to be
friendly. There are those who toy with
the notion that it may be a lPng-lormant
mutation from outer space.
REPORTS OF the blob came from vari-
ous areas after it first made its debut
two weeks ago, oozing up in the backyard
of a suburban Garland housewife, Marie
Harris.
The Dallas Times Herald ann3Unced the
birth of the blob thusly:
"The mysterious membrane st pulses
. . It has multiplied itself 16 times over
in two weeks . . . blackish -mucous in-
side . . . reddish with thick bubbles on
tp . c.o.foamy like shaving cream - ..n
turns colors when punctured -.-.-.swben
the bubbles burst, it appears to be bleed-
ing red and purplish inside"
THAT DID IT. From an area east of
Dallas Edna Smith rep ed seeing the
blob climbing a telephone pole. Another
woman said it was crawling on her hedge.
Where could the blob have come from
To the northwest at Aurora, Tex., a
small graveyard is said by villagers to
hold the remains of a mysterious crea-
ture whose spacecraft crashed there in
1897. Dallas newspaper accounts of the
day noted the reports.
COULD THE BLOB have come along
for the ride? Not in the opinion of Arnold
Dittman, who said his Growth Interna-
tional firm is concerned with the recycl-

ing of waste, including the use of bac-
teria to digest it.
"The blobs appear to be a combina-
of various bacteria," said Dittman.
SCRIPT WRITERS customarily call up
the Army with tanks and deadly rays,
and the air force with atomic bombs as
a last resort against a fictional blob from
outer space, or the blob from the depths
of the Black Lagoon.
Mrs. Harris had a somewhat less com-

plicated solution in her attack on the blob
in her backyard. She recounted:
"I got a call from a woman here in
Dallas, who said that tobacco mixed with
water was an old-time remedy for killing,
insects in gardens. I figured I had nothing
to lose and tried it on the one that wa;
growing last Friday. It started to dry up
and this is what's left."
SHE POINTED to some white crusty
material at the edge of her garden.

LSA finds Green
misused class time

By JUDITH RUSKIN
In a report released yesterday, the Lit-
erary College (LSA) executive committee
confirmed an earlier decision stating that
Prof. 'Mark Green misused class time by
showing an anti-war slide presentation
during Chemistry 227 lectures last Oc-
tober.
But the committee also criticized Acting
Chemistry Dept. Chairman Thomas Dunn
for his role in the incident.
DUNN RELIEVED GREEN of his teach-
ing duties after the acting chairmen deem-
ed the side show to be unrelated to the
course curriculum.

The chemistry department's ad hoc
committee to investigate the matter con-
cluded early this year that both Dunn and
Green had taken improper actions.
The executive committee found that
"the conclusions of the ad hoc committee
are reasonable in the light of the informa-
tion available," and agreed that no fur-
ther action should be taken in the case.
THE REPORT STATED: "A professor
has a clear obligation to use the class-
room in ways which relate directly to the
announced purposes of a course and which
will not bruise the conscience or indepen-
dence of individual students. .
See LSA, Page 10