vVednesday, ox\ugust 21, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page he WednedoyAugut 21 197 THEMICHGAN AILYPogeThre c By GO Nestled in Monroe Count ship has beco election contr mine who will challenger to man Marvin E Charges of ures in the A have been lod commission by Whiteford ToN they are subst could be voide WHITEFOR attention when was discovere rection gave hopefull John DN Dispute over primnary results enters in White ford ownship RDON ATCHESON vote edge over his closest rival Dr. Ed- inspector to look into the situation but Apparently the mix-up was discovered the southwest corner of ward Pierce. the accuracy of the complaint has not around 9 p.m, election night. However, y, rural Whiteford Town- 'hese extra votes handed Reuther a yet been determined. the poll workers did not know how to me the focal point of an paper-thin 69-vote lead over Pierce, but Last week, Briskey refused to discuss correct the problem and called in the oversy that could deter- if the results in the township were ruled the letter on what he said was advise of Monroe county clerk and Board of Can- be the Democratic Party's invalid by a court the best guess is that legal counsel. vassers the next day. incumbent U. S. Congress- Pierce would emerge the winner. THEY reviewed the results and issued Esch (R-Ann Arbor). The allegations made by supervisor NOT SURPRISINGLY, Pierce and his a set of "corrected" totals. The new improper voting proced- candidate Melvin Briskey include at- campaign workers have carefully studied numbers showed that Pierce received kugust 6 primary election tempts to influence absentee voters, in- the Whiteford Township results. After only 19 of about 350 votes cast while Reu- ged with the state election operable voting machines, and inade- talking with the local candidates and ther got 113. On election night Pierce had y a defeated candidate for quote vote-counting procedures. election workers, they allege no wrong seemingly gotten 60 tallies to 89 for Reu- wnship supervisor and if doing yet feel the original mix-up has ther. tantiated, the entire ballot HE MAKES no effort to fix blame for not been corrected. Moreover, the new figures showed that d. the irregularities which if they occurred The problem arose when the four vot- Briskey actually lost the supervisor post would have influenced the outcome of all ing machines used in the township were -which he thought he had won on the D became the center of the contests appearing on the ballot. improperly setup before the election. As basis of the totals released on election an election night mix-up Briskey laid out the apparent viola- a result of the error, the vote totals for night. d and the subsequent cor- tions in a letter written to the state elec- each candidate - in all races from gov- While Monroe County Clerk Warren La- Democratic Congressional tion commission four days after the ernor to the various township offices-- Beau contends the vote has now been Reuther an additional 64 election. The agency has assigned a field were incorrectly reported. See TOWNSHIP, Page 8 Agency to %C YCo :C Wd// yS check wagup Sp rices set u by ongress AP Photo Holy cow! Eyeing traffic as though rustlers could materialize on either side, this oversize steer moved across an intersection in Wichita, perhaps beefing about the lack of proper "cattle corssing" signs. Motorists were probably chagrined at the thought that the bulk of the beast, a promotional figure for a local steak chain, was prime plastic rather than choice steaks. Nixon to get financial aid to help in answering mail WASHINGTON /1' (ongress complet- ed action yesterday on legislation re- establishing a wage and price monitoring agency, thus complying with President Ford's first specific legislative request. A 369-27 house vote sent the bill to the White House. Both Senate and house earlier had passed slightly differing ver- sions and some jockeying was required to get a bill to Ford before the congres- sional recess, which begins today for the Senate, tomorrow for the House. THE BILL does not restore authority for mandatory wage and price controls. It depends on investigation and disclosure of increases that threaten to feed infla- tion. Before final passage of the bill, Ford issued a statement saying that he would not ask for any legislation authorizing mandatory wage-price controls. He said recent experience made it clear that compulsory controls would be most un- desirable. "I wilt do my best to see that the new price and wage monitoring agency works effectively to combat inflation," Ford said. THE BILL establishes a Council on Wage and Price Stability, consisting of eight full members and four advisory members. All named by the President, who also designates the chairman. The council is directed to: -Review and analyze industrial ca- pacity, demand and supply and work with appropriate private groups and government agencies to encourage price restraint, -Work with labor and management to improve collective bargaining; -Improve the data on which wages and prices are based; -Conduct public hearings as neces- sary; -Focus attention on the need to in- crease productivity; -Monitor the economy by acquiring reports on wages, costs, prices and re- lated matters, and -Review and appraise government programs to determine the extent to which these may contribute to inflation, WHILE A NUMBER of members, especially Demiocrats, have publicly questioned wietlher an agency without mandatory control powers could have much impact oninflation, the overwhelm- ing mood in C'ongress was to comply with Ford's request nd give his pro- posal a chance. See CONGIKESS, Page 9 Body of U.S. ambassador fown home tiy Time Asociatrd Press The body of Rodger Davies was on its final journey home from Cyprus yester- day and the slain U.S. ambassador's replacement said, "U.S. policy will not be affected at all" by the diplomat's death. Davies' body was placed aboard a spe- cial plane sent by President Ford. The plane then flew to Lebanon to pick up his daughter, Anna, 20, and son, John, 16, who had been evacuated to Beirut in the early stages of the Cyprus crisis. WITHOUT ceremony, the Boeing 707 took off from Beirut for Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on its last leg home. Newsmen were not permitted to approach the children but a U.S. eri- bassy spokesman said: "It was sad." Davies' wife died last year. The new U.S. envoy, Dean Brown, de- scribed the killing of Davies Monday during an anti-American riot as "an un- fortunate incident." He spoke at the British base at Akrotiri as Cyprus au- thorities pressed the search for three persons wanted in connection with the slaying. The Cyprus government also imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in Nicosia and banned all demonstrations in the wako of Davies' slaying. THE BODY a r r i v e d from Nicosia, where the United Nations said Cyprus was quiet with only some minor shooting reported. WASHINGTON l4P) - More than 200,- 000 letters to former President Richard Nixon are sitting unanswered in San Clemente, Calif., because there's no money to pay for the stationery. But help is on the way, the government's general services administrator said yesterday. Arthur Sampson said his agency is pushing for approval so that presidential transition funds can be rushed to Nixon's office in the next few days. F E D E R A L law already author- ized $450,000 for an outgoing president to spend on the winding down of his presidential affairs. But since Nixon's abrupt departure from office hadn't been planned for in the federal budget, the money hadn't been appropriated. With Congress about to recess until after Labor Day, Sampson and a con- gressional staffer working on the prob- lem said it is likely that interim author- ity will be granted to send money to Nixon's office before a supplemental ap- propriation is voted by Congress. The three principal aides working for Nixon at San Clemente are still on the White House payroll. The transition mon- ey is needed for office supplies, shipment of papers and the like. "THEIR most immediate pressing need is for stationery to answer liter- ally more than 200,000 letters," said Sampson. He said aides Ronald Ziegler and Ste- phen Bull began contacting the General Services Administration the day after Nixon's arrival in San Clemente. "They're anxious to get going be- cmuse they have a lot of work to do, They are waiting with bated breath for us to do something with their problem," he said. The Presidential Transition Act pro- vides that $900,000 be split between the outgoing and incoming presidents. Presi- dent Ford didn't need his half, however, since he assumed office immediately rather than having a 10-week pre-inaug- ural period as elected presidents have.