page three Z Sfr Iiyn at ARTLESS High-R3 Low-60 Partly cloudy Saturday, July 24, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan News Phone: 764-0552 / Council will consider dli third party proposal Fire sweejis miol A fire yesterday took the lives of 7 persons stayin a Johnson's Motor Lodge in New Orleans. Firemen inv blaze have no idea of how the fire started. LAJRI: G;ovt. may draft]i w li ost deferm WASHINGTON ( - Secretary of Defense T told reporters yesterday that "I do not believe delay much longer than September" before calls with men who have lost deferments unl( passes draft legislation by that time. These are the only men Selective Servic now since a key sentence in the draft law exi wiping out authority to draft others. Draft Director Curtis Tarr has declined By TAMMY JACOBS and CHRIS PARKS Local radicals may come a step closer to ballot recognition Monday when the city council begins consideration of a pro- posed City Charter amendment to allow third parties on the ballot. The amendment was proposed by the Citizen's Committee on Third Parties and Related Mat- ters. The seven-man committee was appointed by Mayor Robert Harris to investigate Ann Ar- bor's electoral processes follow- ing complaints by the Radical Independent Party 'RIP) that locally based third parties are restricted from getting on the ballot. RIP ran write-in candidates for mayor and city council in -As.ated 'ress April's city elections, after the party failed to gain a place on the ballot. t the Howard Monday's work session will 'estigating- the allow opportunity for councili members to discuss the commit- tee's proposal. Working sessions are special council meetings held once a month to enable m e is b e r s to discuss specific issues on which extended debate is deemed necessary. These meetings d if f e r from general sessions in that only councilmen and specifically in- [ Jjt cited guests are allowed to speak ents kandofficial action cannot be taken. Melvin Laird Harris noted that the work- that we can ing session would give a good filling draft indication of council's ideas on ess Congress the committee report, but added that "I would gather that, given the amount of consensus on the e may draft committee, it stands a good Aired July 1, chance of passing." Once through the work ses- sion, it should only be a few to use his weeks b e f o r e the resolution men who have comes up formally before Coun- fill the Penta- cil. call for July At present, to appear on the made it clear city ballot, a political party nt to dip into would have to have statewide ision to do so recognition, proven by having 'esident Nixon. petitions signed by people num- use, a spokes- bering one per cent of the votes men whose de- cast for the successful candidate tired would be in the most recent election for However, he Secretary of State. This would ion has to be amount to approximately 15,000 s m p signatures. tmanpower The committee's p r o p o s e d -airy-Ord Vilyat RIP tlelubert conifer oth iirdt patrty proposal 3 'U alumni begin lunar shot Monday When Apollo 15 thunders off for the moon Monday it will carry three University of Michigan alumni: Col. David Scott. Maj. Alfred Worden and Lt. Col. James Irwin. They, in turn, will be carrying three mementos of their alma mater: the charter of the first extraterrestrial alumni club, a miniature of the University flag and a miniature of the seal of 4 the U-M department of aero- space engineering. The U-M Club of the Moon was recently certified as a "duly con- stituted unit of the U-M Alumni Association." The charter and other mementos will be stowed on moon-bound Apollo 15 by the first all-Michigan crew in the Apollo series. U-M President Robben W. Fleming is making a trip to Cape Cape Kennedy to watch the dra- matic sight. A chartered jet load- ed with about 100 U-M students, faculty and staff will take off foiP Cape Kennedy on Saturday morn- tog. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) au- thorized special VIP viewing passes for the U-M group in honor of the first space mission in the Apollo series in which the entire crew is made up of alumni of the same university. Several deans and department heads will be among the U-M spectator group, which will be treated to a tour of the NASA facilities at Cape Kennedy on Sunday,. authority to call r lost deferments to gon's 16,000-man and August. Laird he also is relucta that pool. The dec would be up to Pr At the White Ho man said draftingj ferments have exp inherently unfair. added, if this situa balanced a g a i n amendment would enable a party to gain a place on the ballot by filing a petition with the city including names num- bering ohe per cent of the vote cast for the successful candi- date in the most recent mayoral election.- However, a minority report filed by committee member Doss Guthrie recommends a require- cment for petitions with signa- tures numbering 10 per cent of the "previous vote for each mu- nicipal office" for party identi- fication for the candidate for that office. Guthrie's minority report also highly favors non-partisan elec- tions, saying the Ann Arbor elections should be open to both "independent candidates and to local parties which demonstrate meaningful voter support." One councilman who strongly agrees with Guthrie's report is Robert Weaver (R-2nd ward), who says that "I think Guthrie's point is well taken that if a party is to be an important en- tity, to swing weight, then it must have a certain amount of credibility." Besides agreeing with Guth- rie's 10 per cent figure, Weaver expressed his feeling that it is important for independent can- didates to have a chance to run. Weaver predicts that the reso- lution will eventually pass, but will be amended to include a higher, number of petition sig- natures. Councilman Robert Faber (D- 2nd ward) agrees that the num- ber should be higher, and sug- gests a figure of five per cent See COUNCIL, Page 10 needts in future months, there might have to be a different de- cision. The bill to extend the draft authority two more years is trapped in a Senate-House con- ference committee deadlock over a Senate amendment which calls for total U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam nine months after the bill is enacted. Aside from the draft authority. other provisions of the draft las' remain in effect and Tarr wrote his 4,100 draft boards yesterday urging them to "make a maxi- mum effort to spread tthe word on this. Tarr said many young men er- roneously think that the Selec- tive Service Act has expired and that the system has died. The boards, he said, should tell the men that they may be uninten- tionally breaking the law by fail- ing to register at age 18, by fail- ing to , notify their boards of changes of status or by failing to report, if ordered, for their pre- induction physical examination. Except for drafting men, Tarr, said, Selective Service is "con- tinuing on a 'business as usual' basis." Tarr said draft-age men should be told "there is a high probabil- ity that the induction authority for those who have never had a deferment will be reinstituted in the near future." -Associated Press You've come a long way, Baby Manned flight has come a long way since Wilbur and Orville Wright started it all with a 112-foot flight in 1903 ... and the there Apollo 15 astronauts will continue the journey when they blast off Mtnday for America's fourth moon landing.