Hungry potholes seek new victims feet solution and no solution at al'". Unfortunately, implementation of street repairs could take up to 90 days due to complications in approving the bond sale, ad- mitted city administrator Syl- rester Murray. THE DECISION was the cul- mination of years of partisan bickering. During elections, the city GOP has been up to its neck in espousing pothole re- pair while their vocal Demo- cratic and Human Rights Par- ty counterparts have worried about "more important" social services. Meanwhile, their children fish in and recover automobile carts from the roadbed monsters. According to Webster's Dic- tionary, potholes are "pot-shap- ed holes found in roadways." Yet this does not adequately de- scribe the many-faceted crea- tures. Instead, I suggest seven categories: r Craters - the well-known circular gouges; r Dips - similar to craters, but smoother-complexioned; * Ridges - the opposite of a crater, i.e., a mild rise in the road; * Rilles - crack-like forma- tions which can extend several blocks; * Pockmarks - a series of mini-craters appearing in clus- ters; and 0 Patchwork - uneven layers of pavement left by well-mean- ing repair crews. This has a pseudo-cobblestone effect when driven over. "EVERY POTHOLE is differ- ent and requires different treat- ment," explains Fred Mammel, city superintendent of public works. For extensive repairs, the entire street is resurfaced, while isolated potholes receive patchwork treatment. To repair a pothole, he says, the affected area is dug out un- til a firm base is reached; next, the hole is squared and filled with bituminous concrcte or asphalt - all at a cost of less than $6 a square foot. But until the repair work oe- gins, potholes continue to take their toll. "I've heard of people drop- ping their tires in Glacer Way's deep ruts, warns Dial-A-Ride driver Susan Schurman. "I feel I can speak for a number of drivers - the city situation is hard on the passeng- ers, hard on the driver, asd rough on the vehicle too," she adds. OTHER BAD areas include South Maple Ave. between Li- berty, and Pauline streets, state Jim Robinson, Dial-A- Ride's operations supervisor. Campus highlights feature North University Street's Dent- al School pockmark formations; Jefferson Street's vicious patch- work, and South U's exiliarating series of four roller-coaster dips near State St. Maynard St. behind the LSA Bldg. is a study in pothole types. Boasting at least two potholes per square yard in a 70 ft.-long section, the road features "the pit", an evil-looking crater mea- suring 38 inches by one yd. by six inches deep. In a survey of East Univer- sity St. near the Engin. School, a cyclist experiences an aver- age of 26 discomfitting jolts per minute. East 'U' is even more unique because its potholes defy the aforementioned categories. Ra- ther, it resembles solidified cake frosting. We had better stop the rav- enous craters before they seek new' victims. Already sidewalks and parking structure interiors are succumbing. THE Michigan Daily. Edited ond managed by Students at the University of Michigan Friday, August 16, 1974 News Phone: 764-0552 Fiscal resposibIiity DESPITE MY DISAPPROVAL of the city council's deci- sion regarding the jazz festival, I feel obligated to voice my objections to the view expressed by Doug Nelson. Mr. Nelson, in his letter which appeared in Tuesday's Daily, stated that he had closed his bank account because one of the vice-presidenlts of the bank (also a council member) voted against holding the festival. He went on to suggest that someone more knowledgeable write and suggest more ways to "turn economic pressure on other council members too." First, this policy. if carried out, would effectively limit the legislative bodies of our nation to those people with nothing to lose. Many nualified candidates would be scared off fearine great nersonal financial loss. Secondly, the government of the people (if it exists now) would be replaced by government of those who, with their great financial power, would have the ability to force their views on the lawmakers even when they conflict with the views of the majority. Third and foremost, everyone, council members in- cluded, has the right to his political views. A policy of fiscal retaliation would destroy that right. Control of our representatives should remain where it is-in the bal- lot box. IN SHORT, economic pressure is nothing short of eco- nomic blackmail which can be no better justified than can threats of nhvsical violence. Control should be over the office. not the person in it. --STEVE LEMIRE By BILL HEENAN WHILE DRIVING, one sud- denly realizes that he is entering Ann Arbor long before any 'welcome' signs greet him. Instead, State Street's pothole gauntlet reminds the driver by devouring her hubcaps, shock- ing shock absorbers, and bounc- ing him through a convertible roof. Potholes this year are as Ann Arborish as striking unions and the humidity. And we may see even more of our gaping-mouth- ed friends unless city repair crews can shut them by winter. Last month, City Council fin- ally approved an $800,000 bond for street repair, but in the prophetic words of Mayor Jam- es Stephenson, the decision was "a choice between an imper- Population control pangs By ALLEN MILLER WITH WORLD POPULATION due to reach 7 billion by the year 2000, governments, uni- versities, and foundations everywhere are ready- ing population control programs aimed at achiev- ing a Zero Population Growth (ZPG) by the end of the century. These efforts are doomed to failure, charges a new group of "political" population specialists, because they neglect the real reasons why poor people have large families. Population experts have traditionally held that only through "control" programs such as clinics and family planning centers can escalating popu- lation pressures be eased, These assumptions are being challenged by the "political" experts, like India's Mahmood Mandami. Birth control programs in India fail, Mandami believes, because planners neglect a basic social reality: poor people depend on large families for economic survival. "You think I am poor because I have too many children," Mandami quotes one Indian farmer as saying. "If I didn't have my sons, I wouldn't have half the prosperity I do. ONLY A FUNDAMENTAL redistribution of wealth in the world's poorer countries, the polit- ical demographers maintain, can check the global population explosion. World population has tripled in the past 100 years. By the end of this century, it is expected to double. The shanty towns on the edges of the great cities in the underdeveloped world now hold 12 per cent of the world's population. Although the worldwide fertility rate (the num- ber of children born per year per 1,000 women -of child-bearing age) is decreasing, a lowered in- fant mortality rate has meant a rapid increase in the number of young women of child-bearing age. More than 50 per cent of the people in most of the developing countries are now under 18. For most of the poor in the world, the only way to increase earning power and "Social security" is to have many children. SOME GOVERNMENTS are resorting to stringent measures to control birth rates. In Singapore's large families are given low prior- ity in the assignment of housing; and tax exemp- tions end with the third child as do free maternity care in hospitals and maternity leave for work- ing mothers. In many countries, the political demographers charge, family planning policy is determined less by concern for people's welfare than by the labor requirements of industry. Indonesia was content with its galloping birth rate (3.3 per cent) with new emphasis on capital- intensive industries like oil and mining the need for cheap labor has declined and family planning programs have been introduced.