PQge Three- Wednesday, June 6, 1973 THE SUMMER DAILY STAFF BITTER Turmoil hits cable TVstation DudY Photo by TERRY McCARTHY Larry Randa delivers a newscast from Cable 3's studios. R RULED DISCRIMINATORY: iit't'ttt JLSECly Airlines cut of By LAURA BERMAN In his efforts to make Michigan Cable TV "delightful," executive to a n a g e r Lawry Dolph has fired several top station personnel, discontinued Io c a I program- ning, admitted his ignorance of broad- costing and-as a result-has become a very controversial man. Comments about the former editor of the Huron Valley Advisor range from "he's all hype and a supreme egotist" to "he is a very smart man." PEOPLE IN the local news media gen- erally concede that Dolpth was responsible for transforming the Advisor from a shop- ping sheet into an aggressive, muckraking weekly. But does tie know anything about televisioan? "We did something before (on the Ad- oisr)," Dolph says, "and we'll do same- thing again." Dolph says lie believes local Chasrel 3 can become an "a g g r e s s i v e viable medium." "COMIMIUNII'Y IS what this is about. I want to make this town talk to itself, to make it a more candid town where people can trust each other. TV should be in the commnity, not the studio," he said. But three local "community oriented" shouts have been cancelled. Dolph says he is involving the station in the com- munity by having one of the newsmen do consuner surveys on the station's service each day. lie also plans to buy a mobile TV unit that the station cannot presently afford. In Dolph's two and a half months as manager of Channel 3, the major change at the station has been a staff upheaval that replaced several p e o p t e who had broadcasting experience with others who have none. Some of the replacements are Huron Valley Advisor imports. "DOLPH IS TRYING to make the news into a daily edition of the Huron Valley Advisor" says Derrick Janisz, who was fired from his position as news director of Channel 3 a few weeks ago. "Dolph wanted more scandals in govern- ment uncovered but we simply didn't have the manpower to do what he wanted," Janisz said. "I wanted more hard news and tight features deating with people and ptaces" Dolph is evasive about explaining his staff changes. "People mouth values but really only want to perpetuate their ca- reers. We have to work as a team and move by consensus." HE ALSO MENTIONS "narrow-minded- ness" and a lack of creativity on the part of former staff members. And he defended the hiring of people without TV or broad- cast experience. "A good man is a good man. If he has taught himself discipline in research, acts ethically and with integrity then it doesn't matter if he's a chemist or carpenter, a physicist or a plumber. I can make him a good journalist with an open mind." Marcia Domurat, another former em- ploye at the station says t h a t Dolp4 "knows nothing a b o u t television" and "thinks anything different is good-which is simply not true." See CABLE, Page 10 Rape A fourteen year old local girl was the victim of a kidnapping and rape yesterday. The girl, whose name was not released, told police she was walking in the 500 block of N. Division when two men forced her at knife point into their car. After driving her around for about half an hour, the men took her into an apartment where she was raped. The girl said that she was then kept until morning in the apartment before being driven to the Diag and released. Solar eclipse A full moon occuring June 30 will create the second longest total solar eclipse seen in the last 1,433 years, University astron- omy Prof. Hazel (Doc) Losh said yester- day. The eclipse, which will last seven and a quarter minutes, will not be visible in the United States. The longest possible to- tal solar eclipse is seven and a half min- utes and only one longer than this month's has been recorded since 540 A. D., Losh said. Happenings... are light and summery . . . the Ann Arbor Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. at the Public Library Meeting Room . . . The all-star Michigan rugby team will take on the Northampton Saints of England at 6:30 p.m. on Ferry Field . . . and the ever-faithful Grad Coffee Bour will b4 held in Rackham's East Conference Room at 8 p.m. A2 s weather Cloudy with chance of rain this morn- ing, clearing this afternoon and evening. A nice high pressure center in the south- west will be sending good weather our way. Slighty cooler temperatures today with highs between 70 and 75 and lows tonite 60 te 65. youth fare rates WASHINGTON (UPI)--Why should peo- ple under 21 pay less for their airline tickets t Is a n middle-aged businessmen? Isn't that discrimination? Or is it a valid way for airlines to fill empty seats? The Civil Aeronautics B o a r d (CAB) argues that youth fares and family fares do discriminate, and ordered them phased out starting this week. Student groups argue that the youth fare-which is about a third less than the full fare-is a -money-maker for the air- lines. Students travel only w h e n there is "space available"-empty seats. On an average, up to half of available airline seats are empty, they claim. Most airline officials contend that this can be a distorted argument. Many stu- dents travel at peak seasons when planes are normally filled with full-fare pas- sengers. Nor are students above "insuring" that they will get a seat. Under this strategy , students telephone the airlines with fic- titious reservations in order to make sure there are empty seats at departure time. Many airline officials argue that all discount fares-whether for student fares, family fares or special vacation fare- dilute revenues. Abolish the fares and revenue will in- crease because the, g r o u p s benefiting+ from the discount fares will continue to travel full fare is the way this argument goes. Parents of college-age children - want Congress to save the fares, and students are organizing lobby groups to urge pass- age of legislation to keep them. Not even all airline officials agree it is a good idea to do away with the discount fares. Under the discount fare, a student can fly to the West Coast from New York for $111. As the special rate is phased out, the price of the ticket would rise to $168 by June 1, 1974. ''library growth stunted by spiraling costs of new books By DAVID BURHENN Because of skyrocketing inflation, the University library system faces a serious crimp in its ability to buy new books and other publications. The situation "could definitely lead to a deterioration in the quality of the (li- brary) collection without funds to offset it", says Frederick Wagman, director of University libraries. OVER THE LAST few years- the cost of books has increased dramatically, at an annual rate of nearly 10 per cent. At the same time, the state legislature's University appropriations have not includ- ed library fund increases proportionate to rising book costs. One University official, speaking about library allocations, said "we really never got anything. Libraries are just not a popular item for legislators. They don't read a lot of books." Since the 1969 - 1970 school year Uni- versity library book purchases have fallen from 155,251 to 132,850 in 1971-72. LAST YEAR, libraries on the local cam- pus (not including the Law and Business Administration Libraries, the Michigan Historical collection and the Clements Li- brary) purchased 32,000 fewer volumes than in 1970-71 The library system's future outlook is unclear. In his budget recommendations to the legislature, Governor Milliken has included a 10 per cent increase in library funding, which Wagman says would help to "offset the rising costs for a year." But at the same time, the Library Direc- tor said, "I suspect that the inflationary spiral will be just as bad as this year."