Wednesday, May 15, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Wednesday, May 15, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Ypsi's $5 dope ordinance may face court showdown By DAVID WHITING Ypsilanti's marijuana ordinance may face a court test following a Police De- partment decision to charge a man caught with marijuana under the state law. The police are challenging the mari- juana ordinance approved by voters dur- ing April's elections. Like Ann Arbor's law, the Ypsilanti ordinance makes dope possession punishable by a ticket and five dollar fine. THE ORDINANCE further states, "No Ypsilanti police officer . . . shall comt- plain of the possession, controls use, giv- ing away or sale of marijuana . . . to any other authority except the Ypsilanti City Attorney." The challenge camne after the arrest of David Grey, 19, who was charged tin- der the state law with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, a felony. Police Chief Herbert Smith made the decision to prosecute under the state statute after being advised to do so by Washtenaw County Assistant ,Prosecut- ing Attorney Lynwood Noah. HUMAN RIGHTS Party (HRP) Coun- cilman Eric Jackson regards the case as a "bigger issue" than whether Grey is prosecuted under the city or state law, contending that "the real issue is whether or not City Council can exert control over the Police Department." Grey says police officers have told him, "What they're doing, Mouse (Grey's nickname), is using you as a guinea pig" to test the city's five dollar marijuana ordinance. Noah has charged that the marijuana ordinance is "blatantly illegal," contend- ing that "the police have'an obligation to prosecute under the state law." JACKSON CLAIMS that the law is "valid" and has charged that Smith broke it by going to the county prose- cutor and not the city attorney. "Cops are supposed to obey the law and if they don't they should be disciplined," he says. Noah admits that Smith's going to the county prosecutor "would be a violation of the city ordinance," but claims "if he had not gone to the county it would also have been a violation of the state law." He stresses that "state law does take precedence over city law." MONDAY AT a special council meet- ing Jackson called on City Manager Joseph Warren to "take disciplinary ac- tion" against the Police Department. Council rejected this proposal, asking Warren to investigate "as to whether a violation . . . had actually been com- mitted." Police claim that Grey was attempting to smuggle marijuana concealed in a pack of cigatettes to his brother at the Ypsilanti City Jail on April 29. Grey, facing a charge that could mean up to four years in prison for possessing two joints, claims he "did not know" the pack contained dope. Gilbson garners- second term as- Newark mayor By rie AssociAed Press Kenneth Gibson, the first black mayor of Newark, N. J., won a second term yes- terday by defeating State Sen. Anthony Imperiale and three other candidates in the mayor's race. With 150 of Newark's 196 trecincts re- porting, Gibson had 32,316 votes and Imperiale, a white community leader who rose to prominence during the city's 1967 race riots, had 24,761. THREE OTHER candidates, Lewis Perkins, also black, Raymond Stabile and James Rotonda, shared less than 1,200 votes. Gibson had called the election "my 'report card' on my first four years in office." Meanwhile, Nebraska's Democratic Gov. James Exon won nomination to a second term yesterday, defeating Mayor Richard Schmitz of Lyman. . Initial returns from Douglas County, which includes Omaha, showed Exon had virtually secured the nomination. Statewide, with 93 of 2,077 precincts re- porting, Exon had won 3,068 votes com- pared to 437 for Schmitz. The quick Exon victory was expected. The question was whether Exon had the political muscle to pull his preferred running mate, Gerald Whelan, past three other candidates for the lieutenant gov- ernor's nomination. WHELAN FACED a tough challenge from State Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff. Initial returns showed Whelan with better than a 2-1 lead, with 1,166 votes compared to 590 for Carpenter. Incumbent Democratic Reps. John Slack and Robert Mollohan won nomina- tions yesterday in early returns in West Virginia congressional primaries. With 136 of 617 precincts reporting in Mollohan's 1st Congressional District Ia the northwest corner of the state, Mollo- han had 8,966 votes to the 1,371 recorded for Wheeling businessman .Howard Shackleford. In the 3rd District around Charleston, Slack had collected 12,247 votes with 214 of 577 precincts counted. Points out discrepancies John Northrup, a 46-year-old municipal bond trader, poses in New York yes- terday with a copy of the White House transcripts of President Nixon's Water- gate conversations. Northrup discovered there were substantial differences in key words and phrases in two versions of a tape-recorded conversation be- tween Nixon and Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen on April 16, 1973. City OK'sjnyr relocation proposal City Council unanimously approved a imburse Lansky's for construction of a contract early yesterday morning which building on the Pittsfield site and to pro- provides for the long-awaited removal vide the company with' $3,500 for mov- of the Summit St. junkyard from city ing costs, limits. Relocation of Lansky's has been a The Summit Street site is being sought long-standing piece of council business, for development into a park for residents with residents of the junkyard's vicinity in the north-central part of the city. cimin sky' is a b igt n te claiming Lansky's is a blight on the THE AGREEMENT with Lanskyv and neighborhood. Sons, owners of the site, calls for re-loca- lion of the junkyard to a 6-acre parcel in Pittsfield Township near State and Payeur. However, final transfer of the salvage operation hinges on approval by Pitts- field officials of rezoning for the scrap metal operation. The contract authorized by council grants Lansky's six acres-on a 76-acre site the city is considering buying if township approval is given. LANSKY's would also receive under the terms of the contract an option which expires in two years to purchase four additional adjoining acres on which to re-locate its North Main St.opera- tion, The city also agreed to provide a well and septic tank to the company, to re- Trasrpsla apsbest seller list By STEPHEN HERSH The hottest selling book on campus is the $2.50 paperback copy of the White House Watergate transcripts. Borders Book Shop estimates conser- vatively that it has sold 800 copies of the book. The transcripts have been the store's biggest seller since copies of it were received on Friday. THE BOOK has been a best seller also for the University Cellar and Centicore book stores. The Cellar has sold approximately 325 copies, but Centicore won't divulge the number of copies it has sold, in order not to "give guidelines to our com- petitors," Ulrich's reports that it has sold out the 25 copies of the book it has received, while Follett's has not as yet been sent any copies. Customer reaction to the publication of the paperback seemed relatively one- sided yesterday. "I'VE HATED those bastards for so long," commented a Borders customer. "On election day 1968 I was considering packing up and moving to Canada. "When I was arrested in Washington on Moratorium Day for being on the street, I saw John Mitchell smiling down from a balcony at a crowd of us being herded into a paddy wagon. "So, of course, now I take great pleasure in watching the grief those people are going through," the patron explained. A UNIVERSITY Cellar customer re- marked, "I think it's good that the people who have seen the situations in countries like Greece and said, 'Ift couldn't happen here,' now have access to documents that show that it did, in fact, happen here." Another Cellar patron said, "I imagine the book would be a popular item in corporate circles, as a guide to buying a country." "Watergate is a whole lot of fun for me," explained a browser at Centicore. "I have no use for the book, though. I read the whole thing in the New York Times."