page three 1i : ti; SUNNYSIDEUP high-78 Law-5I Partly sunny, mostly clouds Saturday, July 8, 1972 ANN'ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phoe: 764-0552 Local judge rules present jury list uneousti~t jonal By DAN BIDDLE In a controversial decision, Juvenile Court Judge Francis O'Brien has ruled that the current Washtenaw County jury panel is unconstitutional because it excludes 18- to 21-year old registered voters. O'Brien's ruling, the first of its kind in Michigan, stated that "with this group (18-21-year old voters) omitted, the panel does not provide the cross-section of the community to which the accused is entitled and therefore he cannot be constitutionally comp Iled to stand trial until such time as this group is included. O'Brien therefore ordered indefinite adjournment in the case of a 14-year old Ann Arbor boy accused of at- tempted rape. Defense at- torney Elmer White had Fire uHioll moved for adjournment un- til the jury panel list, from which jurors for all county H S court cases are selected, cotilitlue could be updated to include newly registered 18- to 21-- year olds. LU' b a ga1i1 As a result of O'Brien's ruling, that trial is now adjourned for an indefinite period of time. B, LORIN LABARDEE The current county jury panel Ann Arbor's police and fire was selected by the Washtenaw departments are still negotiat- County jury Board from a list ing new contracts with the city of registered voters as of June and it appears that the fire de- 1971-one month before the partment dispute may require voting age was lowered to 18. compulsory arbit'ation before Donald Silkworyh, sre.ident of agreement is reached, the jury board, says 18- to 21- Mike Jackson, co-chairman year old voters won't be in- of the International Firefighters eluded until a new jury panel is Association's negotiating team, selected in September. says that members of the asso- O'Brien stated in an inter- ciation are asking for specific view that he could not "con- benefits while the city is offer- stitutionally compell anyone to ing a "package deal" to the go to trial" in Washtenaw union. County Juvenile Court until the Under compulsory arbitration jury panel is updated in Septem- each party chooses an. arbitra- ber. for and they in turn choose a Circuit Court Judge John Con- third. The decisions of the panel lin took issue with O'Brien's rul- are final and must be accepted ing, contending that "on a prac- by both parties. tical basis there is no require- Since the firefighter's union ment that (18-21-year olds) be filed with the state for compul- added to the present jury panel." sory arbitration before the ex- Conlin said that he and Circuit piration of the old contract any Judnn Will A e Jan Cru benefits agreed upon will be ret- ges iam ger, Jr and roactive to the expiration date Ross Cambell agreed several of the old contract, July 1. months ago to deny any chal- The possibility of a strike by lesge of the present jury panel either union is small. Strikes by on exclusion of the 14-21 police and firefighter unions are age group. against Michigan law. Disputing District Court Judge Santiorf bargaining agents are expected J. Elden refused to comment on to settle their differences O'Brien's ruling but said he through the binding arbitration planned to proceed as usual with process. the current jury panel. The Yippies set up camp... ---and Miami plays it cool fly PAUL TRAVIS... }.,z r, special To iThe Daily MIAMI BEACH - The Yippies yesterday began movmg mto their city provided park camp- grmnd and immediately began. making fritends ith time dozem of seriar etzens sitsssuamlly hang-out there Under a swelterin, sun, some 150 young people set up their tents, roiled out their sleeping bags and set out in search of - unarijuana. Six blocks away con- struction crews put the finishing touches to the Maimi Beach Con- vention Hall where the National / Democratic Convention o p e n Menday. - m- Yesterday's contingent se medis to be only an advance crew for the several thousand denmonstra- tors-the residents here call them "non-delegales" - who are ex-Ascae rs pected to show up for the con- -Asociatees vention. YIPPIE LEADERS Jerry Rubin (left) and Abbie Hoffmai They included such nationally discuss the scene in Miami's Flamingo Park yesterday, where prominent agitators as Jerry the Miami Beach City Council agreed to allow the Yippies See THE YIPPIES, Page 8 and Zippies to set up a tent camp. NIXON TAKES ACTION: a t a 5 c i; c t f WILLOW RUN Researcher's h Meat, gasoline costs surge in June; unemployment rate dips By The Associated Press meat import quotas are fixed. In effect, the latest White The price that wholesalers Secretary of the Treasury House attempt to curb meat and manufacturers pay for George Shultz, who is chairman prices relied heavily on jaw- heir goods -- especially meat of the Cost of Living Council, boning. and gasoline - rose sharply told newsmen this was the ma- The Wholesale Price Index ast month, the government re- jor concrete move coming out rose by five-tenths of one per ported yesterday, of a Nixon meeting with eco- cent last month. Combined with At the same -otime, the Labor nomic-consumer aides at the the May rise of three-fifths of Department said the nation's western White House office. one per cent, it was the biggest unemployment rate dipped from Shultz said he promised to two - month jump since last .9 per cent in May to 5.5 per deliver to Nixon a report with January and February. lent in June, but many of the specific recommendations for ew jobs went to students who dampening the rise in meat In addition to increases tn work only during the summer. prices. meat costs, rises were regis- As part of efforts to halt ris- But the only other move he tered, s the price of gasoline, ng meat prices, President Nix- announced involved plans for dumber, shoes clothiicspaper, sn disclosed yesterday that an educational campaign to en- countries shipping the most beef courage housewives to put more A reflection in retail prices o the U.S. this year will get of their food budget into non- in a few months is likely. avored treatment when 1973 beef items. Meanwhile, wholesale prices of big household appliances in- OFFcICIALeluding televisions, natural gas, glass, milk and chemicals all declined. g J The Labor Departoment's un- ouse picketed eployment reportshoe ci's last maosth were young peo- ple out of school. Sen. William Proxmire (D- Wis., chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said it is not very encouraging" that on- ly young people seem to be finding jobs. lierbert Stein. chairman of the Council of Economic Ad- visers who joined Shultz and Consumer Affairs Adviser Vir- ginia Knauer in meeting with Nixon. hailed the ness unem- ployment rate as a "very gra- tifying de-lom'ent " N This and other indicators shost, Stein said, that "the U.S. economy is enjoying an ex- tremely strong recovery." Shultz joined in the optimism by say- ing the administration had -Daly-Davii Margoe made "a considerable amount of PROTESTERS AGAINST war research last night picket the progress" in its anti-inflation Ann Arbor home of a top Willow Run Laboratory official. fight. By JIM KENTCH -Opponents of war research yesterday took their protest to the home of Richaid Legault. assistant director of the Willow Run Laboratory. The early evening picketing by 25 members of Ann Arbor Citizens Against War Research was part of a new campaign which aims to confront individ- ual war researchers rather than the University's Regents. The picketing was peaceful as police looked on. Legault and his wife offered . sandwiches and raincoats to the picketers. Last Wednesday evening the anti-war research group invited Legault to a meeting in the Michigan Union to discuss the results of Legault's work. Le- gault did not appear, saying he wanted a complete listing of all those who would attend. Approximately 50 group mem- bers went to Legault's home, where he spoke with them for about an hour. A member of the group read about various projects complet- ed at Willow Run under Le- gault's supervision. Legault answered the charges, /saying that the work done under his supervision had non-military applications at the present time. The group said they chose Legault for the focus of their actions because of his promi- nent position at Willow Run Laboratories, a research facili- ty which does much war re- search. Legault is head of the infrared and optics division at Willow Run. The response of Legault's neighbors to their discussion with members of the group was "not hostile," according to one member.