page three ad filt~~ l adt BRIGHT High-82 Low-5i4 Sunny, fair News Phone: 764-0552 Thursday, May 18, 1972 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN . 9 Preserving a By DIANE LEVICK The battle to insure preservation of the city's Scarlet-Mitchell woods as a natural, open space has been going on for seven years-and still continues. The city's public school administration pur- The city's public school administration pur- chased the 40-acre tract for $124,000 after voters approved a bond issue in 1965. The ad- ministration stipulated at that time that the land would be kept as a site for a fourth senior high school. The site is bordered by Platt Rd., I-94, Route 23, and Lorraine Rd. Since 1965, Manfred Schmidt, resident of the Colonial Square neighborhood just north of the woods, has spearheaded a campaign to keep the woods as open space. About two thirds of his neighbors and various ecology-minded groups and citizens from all around the city are helping him. "We don't want another school in here," Schmidt says. We have 1,800 children already attending schools in this small area, and there are expressways on two sides." Schmidt also says that the Colonial Square development is so small that there is no open space for children there either. He cites the enormous educational value of the woods. "The woods are heavily used," he says, "by students and scence classes from Mitchell and Carpenter Elementary and Scar- let Junior High schools. "Almost any time of the day you can find someone doing a nature study, hiking, or bird- See SAVING, Page 7 natural' school, Voters reject tax increase, remove banon lotteries By ROBERT BARKIN Voters in the city--as well as other parts of the state- showed against yesterday their aversion to increased taxes while at the same time displaying an interest in a statewide lottery. The city proposal, rejected by a vote of 18,104 to 10,104, would have increased the property tax by 2.5 mills for a one- year period. Revenue from the plan would have -amounted to $1,312,000 for salary increases for city employes and im- provement of park facilities. When the expected wage increases are granted to the city employes, there will be a deficit in the budget. According to Guy Larcom, city administrator, some programs will have to be cut back to bring the budget in line. "The main effect of the rejec- tion of the millage increase," c vo ve 111 said Larcom, "will be on special programs." Larcom included police and fire protection, hu- b man resource projects, and park improvement projects in this category. Larcom said the millage in- creases would have put the city "on a sound basis which would have allowed us to expand ser- (continued from Page i vices." He added that the city Although Humphrey did con- now will have to endure "belt- siderably better in Maryland tightening, the degreedelsend- where he finished second behiss in, ass the final salary its- Wallace. hi' now trails botshMc- creases." Govern and Wallace in the tkle- But, there is sure to be some gate race. bebcue orreducedJrogryms wl At present McGovern controls be ct o reuce. JrryDe- 405 delegates to 322 for Walltace. Grieck (HRP-First Ward) warn- ed that the reductions must not 270 for Humphrey, 129 for Muskie come from "community pro- --with 305 uncommitted. grams (such as Ozone House or California will be the major Day Care Centers)," He added showdown for the Democrot'c that if the cuts do come from nomination. Wallace will not be these programs it would become on the ballot there, clearing the a "major issue in the next cam- way for a two man showdown paign." between McGovern and Hunt- In other areas of the state the phrey. tax issue received equally rude Another key state is New Yrk treatment. Despite warnings of where precinct delegates will be educational disaster and finan- chosen June 20. Humphrey has cial problems, voters of Detroit failed to file slates of delerotes rejected two school millage pro- in New York and is forced t o posals. depend on party regulass as- The Board of Education's re- ding on aste quest for an additional five mills ning uncommitted. in school property tax was de- McGovern delegates will be feated 180,000 to 110,000. The unopposed in 90 races and he is board's request to renew an ex- expected to win the lion'; share piriig five mill levy lost 150,000 of the state's 278-person delega- to 145,000. tion But, Detroiters did give the - city a slight financial boost by If McGovern can wit both authorizing admission charges California and New York, hi; for the zoo, historical museum, supporters claim, he will have a and art institute. A similar situation occurred in chance for a first ballot vsictory, Ypsilanti where voters defeated which requires 1,509 delegare two separate millage proposals votes. See VOTERS, Page 7 TheWallaceet-c Sixth U.S. carrier joins war in Indochina, seventh ei route SAIGON (P) -- The Atlantic Fleet carrier Saratoga joined the Indochina war for the first time today ,and immediately sent its planes into action around besieged An Loc. 60 miles north of Saigon, the 7th Fleet announced. The Saratoga's arrival in the South China Sea boosted car- rier strength in the area to an all-time high of six. A seventh carrier, the Ticonderoga, is on its way from San Diego. The dispatch of the Ticon- deroga, an anti-submarine war- fare carrier, apparently reflects some concern within the Navy over the need to provide the 7th fleet with greater protection against undersea attack. Meanwhile, Radio H a n o i claimed U.S. planes raided two North Vietnamese provinces yesterday and said three were shot down. Two other American warplanes were shot down over the north on Tuesday, the broadcast said. There was no U.S. announce- ment of any raids or losses yes- terday. The U.S. Command re- ported 200 strikes over North Vietnam on Tuesday. The report by the official Vietnam News Agency - VNA -- said the American planes hit sections of Quang Binh and Ninh Binh provinces. It said the two jets it claimed destroy- ed on Tuesday went down over Nghe An and Ha Tinh -pro- vinces, Vice President Spiro Agnew made a 2%-hour visit to Sai- gon, flying in from Bangkok, Thailand. He conferred on the war situation with President Nguyen Van Thieu, U.S. Am- bassador Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. Creighton Abrams. Field reports said South Viet- namese 1st Division troops made helicopter assaults yes- terday into two former fire ba- ses 10 to 15 milts west of Hue in an attempt to extend the city's defenses. tank. YUM-YUm Co-op provides low-cost produce By NANCY ROSENBAUM dozen. tor the following day. City residents, disconcerted by Co-op people do admit they Frome Detroit, the fruit and the high prices of fresh fruit and have been unable to provide dis- vegetables are delive-ed to a vegetables locally, may be able counts on some items. Rarely, central distribution point where to buy produce at reduced rates however, do prices exceed those they are divided up and sent to this summer by joining the Ann of local retailers, the various regions. Arbor Itemized Fruit and Vege- Orders are accepted on a Members may pick ip their table Co-op. weekly basis and workers so to orders at .their regional distribsi- The cooperative, started in Detroit's Eastern Market every tion centers on Satur ay after-- January, currently provides pro- Saturday morning to pick up the noon. duce and activity and approxi- food. Each household participating in mately 200 local households. The cooperative publishes a the co-op is expected to help The co-op also supplies grade A new order list every two weeks out twice a month. Organizess eggs, apple cider and bread, in from which members sake their make a weekly sign-tsp sheet. addition to a wide selection of choices. No minimum amuout of with work assignments which it- fresh fruits and vegetables -- purchase is required. clude collecting orders, dividing if you bring your own cartons The cooperative is presently and distributing the prod ce, and and bags, divided into eight neighborhood transporting the food. . Members say their prices have regions. Members must p 1 a c e A refundable $2.50 memsbersh'p generally been lower than those their orders for the week witl fee is required of new members- in local stores. In the past, the their designated regional com- and a 5 per cent charge is plac- co-op has been able to offer municator by Wednesday eve- ed on all orders to cover the lettuce for as little as 15c a ning. The orders are then trans- cost of truck rental and gas for head and eggs as low as 35c per ferred to a central order collec- transportation. .iii v U12ur C1U , l OUgn considerably strengthened by his victories in Michigan and Mary- land is cloaked in uncertainty by his shooting Monday in Laurel, Md. While lie is now second to McGovern in accumulation of delegate stiength, it seems un- likely that his health will perit campaigning in any of the re- siaining primaries. His supporters are hoping that stand-in campaigners will be able to gather a few hundred more delegates for convention flior battles in Miami. The next primaries are it Ore- gon (34 delegates) and Rhe Island (22 delegates) next Tues- day. Humphrey has virtuistly sur- rendered Oregon to MgG-sveenTs and political observers give the South Dakota senator a srong chance of winning Rhode Island as well.