page three a £frki rn I3Axt YIPPIEt High-$5 Low-57 Mostly sunny and warns Thursday, June 8, 1972 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phoie: 764-0552 Supreme Court, accepts case on school financing From Wire service Reports The Sopreme Court yesterday agreed to role on the constitutionaslity of financing educastion by local property taxes. The action came on an appeal by Texas of a Federal Court ruling in Ssn Antonio which found the curentdrao petty tax system discsriminates against the puns, Crawford Martin, the Texas attorney general, appealed to the Supreme Court April 17 for review and reversal. He said the court in San Antonio had limited the freedom of states to govern themselves. Martin said that while a different financing system would improve education us poorer districtsieducation in other districts would suffer. In every state of the union except Hawaii, local pro- 'Let i, bleed' MICK JAGGER gyrates on a San Francisco stage last night as the Rolling Stones make their first San Francisco Bay area appearance since the ill- fated Altamont concert of 1969 which led to vio- lence and murder. ECONOMY DRIVE: . aims to cu aid to UN From Wire Service Reports The United States State De- partnent, calling for more economy in the United Nations has laid down a strict new poli- cy aimed at reducing the Aner- ican share of the organization's budget. In a memorandum circulated by the U. S. mission in Genoa to American missions attached to the United Nations and its agencies the State Department said the austerity principle set out for federal expenditures must apply equally to interna- tional organizations. The memorandum says that if the budgets for U.N. agencies continue to grow at their pres- ent pace their spending totals will double in the next 10 years. The aim of the American pol- icy, according to the memo, is therefore to keep expenditure levels at their current size "for the next sevctral years.- The goal of the policy, ac- cording to the memorandum, is to cut the U.S. share of the U.N. budget from the present 31.5 per cent to around 25 per cent. The document states that scales of assessment for mem- ber nations should no longer be based solely on ability to pay as in the past. New criteria, it says, should include "the relative influence each member can exercise in an organization of foreign states and to the benefits derived from membership." The present U.S. contribu- tion, it goes on, "is dispropor- ate te in light at the aboveacos- tiottate its light at the above considerations." In order to make reduction possible, the document calls for economy measures in several areas of the international or- ganization. The organization, it says, should support new programs "only at the expense of older programs of lesser priority." The United States, it states, will oppose any increase in sal- aries and urges that all ex- penses be held to a minimum. There should be no new con- struction and "extraordinary efforts must be made to curtail the flow of documentation front international organizations." Conferences, it says, should be held at the headquarters of the organization concerned or the host government should de- fray all extra costs. More money could be obtain- ed it said, by getting "maxi- mutn benefit of the percentage points addetd to the assessment scales by the admission of n w members." The memorandum was ac- companied by a covering letter explaining the reasons for the move. According to the letter, international agencies have doubled over the last ten years, and are projected to double again in the next decade. perty taxes are used as the basis of school taxation thus making the quality of education directly depend- ent on the ability of the community to raise reve- nues. In Michigan, Gov. William Milliken said yesterday he's glad the court has decided to rule on the question. Milliken and Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley filed suit last October to overturn the property tax fi- nancing of schools in the state. The State Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case Tuesday. According to court experts, the tax question is the most important school question to be decided by the court since the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Edu- cation suit which led to the fa- mous desegregation order. In other action, the court also ruled that states cannot com- mit suspects judged unfit to stand trial to indefinite sen- tences. The decision came in the case of an Indiana retarded deaf mute confined to a psy- chiatric institution when it was judged he could not stand trial. .The court also: -Ruled that dependent chil- dren whose parents are away for any reason are eligible for welfare benefits: -Strengthened the Federal Communication Commission's power to regulate cable tele- vision; -Agreed to review a Con- necticut law requiring lawyers to be U.S. citizens before being admitted to the bar; and -Ruled that the federal government is not liable for damage caused by the sonic booms of high flying military aircraft. YaO suiil deniedIy U.S. court By PAUL RUSKIN Federal District Judge Law- rence Gubow declined yesterday to issue a temporary injunction to place the name of Sonia Yaco, Human Rights Party (H- RP) school board candidate, on the Ann Arbor ballot. Yaco, a 15-year-old junior high school student had sought to overturn a state law which requires candidates to be 18- years-old. Yaco's case is scheduled to be heard by a three judge panel sometime in July. However, she had sought the injunction in order to get her name on the ballot before the June 12 election. According to HRP spokes- man Robert Hefner, Yaco will appeal her case to the Supreme Court if the panel of judges rules against her. He added that if Yaco's case did reach the Supreme Court, it would be the first time the high court had ruled on an age discrimination case concerning a mor. HRP intends to initiate a write-in campaign for Yaco. Prof. Murphey China and bck By DAVID STOLL "The North Vietnamese will keep on fighting, if necessary forever, because they're confident they're going to win." Prof. Rhoads Murphey reports after a three week visit to the People's Republic of China. Murphey,'director of the Center for Chinese Studies, has just returned to the University from his first trip to the main- land since World War II. A member of Murphey's visiting group planned a trip to Hanoi to arrange transportation of medical supplies to the North Vietnamese, but a Hanoi representative in Peking po- litely declined the offer. Murphey notes that now "people are well-fed, well-housed, well-clothed, and have adequate medical care"--big changes See TO, Page 12 Allye and well in Warsaw Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who yesterday denied reports of heart trouble, visits a Polish school named after Cuban revolu- tionary Che Guevara yesterday. See News Briefs, Page 9.