t 1 cZ1 e r1 t xt at Vol. LXXXII, No. 59-S Ann Arbor, Michigan--Wednesday, August 9, 1972 Ten Cents Twelve Pages S a o lead s t1 Te e 4r ''rj 7:.Bullard and Postill both seore victories By PAUL TRAVIS Walter Shapiro held a small lead over State Rep. Marvin Stempien (D-Livonia) in the Democratic Con- gressional race early this morning as The Daily went to press. Both Perry Bullard and Fred Postill won their races in yesterday's primary. As of 2 a.m. the congressional race remained too close to call. Stempien and Shapiro were running neck and neck with a huge Shapiro majority in Ann Arbor being largely offset by Stempien's totals in Livonia and Monroe County. The sheriff's race-to the surprise of many, was, in contrast, no contest. Postill handily defeated his closest competitor Harold Moon winning nearly every pre- Tn cinct in the city. Results i The Democratic primary for state representative was anoth- er horse race. Helen Forsyth, Peter Eckstein and Perry Bul- lard were extremely close but it appeared that Bullard would " " win when the absentee ballots which he is expected to win heavily are counted. Shapiro has surprised most by Late last night, with 61 of coming this close to victory with the County's 150 precincts re- his under-financed and under- porting, graduate s t u d e n t staffed campaign. He has swept Kathy Fotjik was leading Car- most of Ann Arbor and at. 1:45 roll McFadden 259-218 in a a.m. was leading Stempien in race for the Democratic nomi- washtenaw County by 4,000 votes. missioner seathin District 14. This is not counting the ma- Graduate student Elizabeth jority of the Ann Arbor absentee Taylor led Bob Rollinger, '73, ballots that have not been totaled 526-167 in a similar race in the and which are expected to give 15th district. Shapiro an even greater lead It appeared that of the five in the County. candidates for the four non- to his home base of Livna partisan Circuit Court judge- Stempen hs pied ioun, ships, Patrick Conlin, Edward Stempe has piled about n Dak a nd ano El ea- equal lead of about 4,000 votes. yeak thadfr Edeas, In the outlying areas the two of ily took the first three seats, them are trading small margins. leading City Attorney Jerod Shapiro won Ypsilanti Township Lax by a narrow margin for by about 100 votes but lost thth ehe fourth position. city of Ypsilanti to Stempien by Meanwhile, a proposed con- the same margin. stitutional amendment which Shapiro, according to uncon- would allow juries of less than firmed reports, is losing Monroe 12 persons for court trials was County by nearly 1,000 votes and winning acceptance, 8,564- coupled with the large turnout 3,007. The other proposal on in Livonia could deal his eamn- the ballot, which would in- crease funding for the county's paign a defeat, parks, was losing by a close See SHAPIRO, Page 9 5,788-5,379 vote. RAIN-SOAKED and wilted signs outside the Michmigan League polling place bear witness to the wet, autumn-like weather which prevailed in the city for yesterday's primary election. Many voters, ' discouraged by the miserable weather, didn't bother to exercise their franchise and the turnout was generally low. S. VIET LOSSES HEAVY: Fighting nears SAIGON (A) - Saigon govern- ment troops suffered heavy casualties in battles with Com- munist troops only 17 miles west of the capital yesterday. It was the closest the fighting has come to Saigon since the be- ginning of the North Vietnamese offensive four months ago. The fighting swirled in an area about two miles northeast of the district town of Long Thanh. Government reinforcements were rushed to town to block a Com- munist threat to Highway 15, which links Saigon with the re- sort city of Vung Tau. Sources said the highway remained open but indicated it might be hazard- ous. U.S. and South Vietnamese air- craft were called in to support the government ground forces with bombing and strafing at- tacks. South Vietnamese troops were hit hard by mortars and auto- matic fire. Thirty to 40 soldiers were killed and at least as many wounded, field reports said. The release of Oakland U. payroll ROCHESTER, Mich. () -- A Waterford State Representative wants Oakland University to reveal the salaries it pays its staff. Republican Loren Anderson said he doesn't think an insti- tution operating on public money should be allowed to classify employe salary figures as "privileged informa- tion." Anderson has asked Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley for an opin- ion on Oakland's refusal to disclose staff salaries. In June, a Bay County Court judge ruled in a suit started by the Bay City Times that Saginaw Valley College must reveal details of its ex- penditures, including individual salaries. After that decision, Delta College, near Midland, opened up its records rather than face a similar law suit. At the University of Michi- gan, President Robben Fleming and the Regents refused a re- quest by The Daily to release requested similar salary information. The Daily is investigating the pos- sibility of launching a lawsuit against the University in or- der to obtain the list. Rep. Anderson said he did not know when Kelley would answer his request. "The policy is wrong," he said. "Any time public money is spent for anything, details should be completely available to the public." Oakland University, last year operated on a budget of $13.3 million -- most of which came from the state. The issue arose in June wen OU officials refused to release the salary of an administrator appointed to a new position, saying it was against Board of Trustees policy. An OU spokesman said uni- versity officials are gathering information on the legal and administrative implication of the request. The Saginaw Valley College case is currently under appeal. Saigon fighting tapered off at dusk and more wounded were lifted out by government helicopters, the re- ports added. Elsewhere in the war, U.S. jets hammered again at Communist forces that struck in eastern Cambodia in a new tank-led offensive, A m e r i c a n military sources reported. Cambodian t r o o p s, fighting against armor for the first time in the war, were reported to have been driven from a large section of Kompong Trabek. The devas- tated town on the main road be- tween Saigon and Phnom Penh is 50 miles southeast of the Cam- bodian capital. A major Communist command victory in the region would open the way for an assault on the northern part of South Vietnam's Mekong Delta and threaten to cut off Saigon from its main rice supply. In an attempt to head off this threat, over 2;000 South Vietna- mese rangers have been sent in- to Cambodia. Thus far only brief clashes have been reported be- tween them and North Vietna- mese units. On the northern front, Com- munist gunners poured over 300 rounds into the positions of the stalled South Vietnamese forces around Quang Tri. U.S. B52 bombers, F4 Phan- toms and carrier-based aircraft flew scores of missions in sup- port of the embattled South Viet- namese troops destroying four See N. VIETS, Page 10 It will be partly cloudy and cool, with a high in the upper 60's and a low in the lower 50's. There is a 20 per cent chance of rain this morning. AP Phot ANOTHER VICTIM, 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, wheels a friend around a plastic surgery hospital in Saigon. Both were victims of a U.S. napalm strike about two months ago. The strike was termed "accidental."