Sign ordiA By ZACHARY SCHILLER and TAMMY JACOBS A sign ordinance passed by Ann Arbor City Council Monday night seems fated to become a key factor in a legal struggle between com- panies using billboard advertisements and oppo- nents of such billboards. Thelegal struggle has been going on since 1966, when the city passed an ordinance pro- hibiting certain types of billboards entirely and placing strict limitations on others. Signs with moving or flashing parts, traffic hazards and signs obstructing windows or doors were prohibited by the ordinance. Sizes of re- maining commercials and areas of the city in which they can be displayed, were also limited. When the original ordinance was effected, several local companies took the law to circuit nance faces court battle court, where it was declared unconstitutional. In a decision delivered January 12, 1971, Judge Paul Mahinske declared the law to be unconstitutional giving five reasons. The judge said that the ordinance interfered with the companies' rights of speech, press and religion, finding the law to be "a transparent attempt to exclude billboards, and other forms of signs, from the entire city, in time, and not to exclude such merely from residential areas." Further, Mahinske found the ordinance too broad and general. He saw no "reasonable re- lationship" between the law and public health, morals and welfare, and said that the city is not empowered to take down signs on display not conforming to the law at the time of the ordinance's passage. See COURT, Page 6 Anti-billboard demonstrators picket city council Monday with placardless picket-signs. ,A Arbr ii g uns 4Ct Vol. LXXXI, No. 60-S Ann Arbor, Michigan--Wednesday, August 4, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages 'U' staff pay raise levels still vague By ALAN LENHOFF In spite of recent action taken by the State Senate on the University's budget request for fiscal 1971-72, Uni- versity faculty and staff pay raise levels have not yet been set. Last week, the Senate approved a mea- sure that would provide the University with $77.74 million - up from Governor Milliken's suggested $76.3 million and last year's $73.5 million. Milliken had recommended a 6.5 per cent pay hike for University staff. Al- though the Senate added some $1.43 mil- lion to his request for the University, no additional funds were earmarked for sal- ary increases. Due to the uncertainty about the final level of the state appropriation, early in June University officials put a "freeze" on staff salary increases - meaning that most staff members are still receiving paychecks for the amount they earned in June, in spite of promotions or antici- pated raises. According to Fedele Fauri, University vice-president for state relations and planning, this month's paychecks will - also be at the June level, University officials last fall planned a 10 per cent pay hike and asked the Governor to recommend sufficient funds for that purpose. At that time, a report from the Amer- ican Association of University Profes- sors (AAUP) indicated that University pay raise levels had not, been as high as at many of the nation's universities. See STAFF, Page 6 paeemen eall erater after 'U' HOUSTON (Ai) - Moon explorers David R. Scott and James B. Irwin came across some features that weren't on their maps. One they encountered Mon- day was a crater some 200 feet deep, "Very large depression," noted Irwin. "I'm going to call that big crater 'Wol- verine.'" "Good name," said Scott. The third Apollo 15 astronaut, Alfred M. Warden, hails from Jackson, Mich., the Wolverine State. All three at one time attended the University: Rainbow person arrested By CHRIS PARKS Genie Plamondon, "minister of com- munications" of the Rainbow People's Party was arrested outside party head- quarters on Hill St. yesterday morning on charges that she conspired to smuggle marijuana and hashish to her husband Pun Plamondon in the Kent County Jail. According to police reports, officers of the Kent and Washtenaw County Sheriff's Departments came to the Hill Street house at 8:30 in the morning, ar- rested Plamondon and took her to Grand Rapids to be arraigned on charges of conspiracy to possess marijuana. She was arraigned in Grand Rapids district court at 2 p.m. yesterday after- noon. District Court Judge Lewis S i m- houser set bond at $5,000. Also arrested in connection with the case was her husband Pun Plamondon who was charged with the same of- fense. Bond for Pun Plamondon was set at $25,000. He is presently being held in the Kent County Jail on charges of possessing a phony draft card. Plamondon is also charged, with con- spiracy in the 1968 bombing of the offices of the Central Intelligence Agency in Ann Arbor. Residents of the party headquarters ex- pressed surprise at the swift arrest, ex- plaining that most of them were asleep when the police came. According to a party spokesman, Pla- mondon went to the door when the po- lice knocked, and went out to talk to them. After some conversation, he said, she was arrested. See PLAMONI)ON, Page 2 C 1ie ortnguese uggr-cswt Guinea's ambassador to the United Nations, El Hadj Abdoulaye Toure, accuses Portugal of planning an invasion of his country before a session of the U.N. Secur- ity Council yesterday. 8 D.C. protesters freed; alleases may be dropped By ZACHARY SCHILLER Eight of about 800 demonstrators awaiting trial on charges stemming from mass arrests on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during the Mayday anti- war protest- have been accquitted by a Washington, D.C. Superior Court. Defense attorney Monroe Freedman said yesterday that the government will probably drop the cases against the re- maining defendants. He added that if the government does press charges, there is "every likelihood that the judge will throw the case out of court." However ,the U.S. Attorney's office said that there has been "no disposition made as yet" as to whether charges will be pressed against the other 800 de- fendants. If the other 800 cases are dropped, Washington courts Will have disposed of almost all the cases resulting from the mass arrests of more than 12,000 per- sons during the Mayday protests. Though official court records are not available, prosecutors estimate that only about 200 of the 12,000 persons arrested have been found guilty after trials, Thousands of charges have been dis- missed by judges or prosecutors due to lack of evidence. The jury deliberated for just over four hours on the case, in which the defend- ants were charged with disorderly parad- ing and unlawful*entry at the Capitol. Freedman termed the jury's reaction to the case as "very strong," citing the original ballot of the jurors on the case in which acquittal was favored by a vote of ten to two. The attorney also said that several jurors decided for acquittal before the defense presented its case to the court. The arrests on the Capitol steps were the last round of several days of mass arrests of antiwar demonstrators in early May. Two days preceding the Capitol rally, police rounded up over 7,000 peo- ple. The police were criticized, and most cases were subsequently dropped, b e - cause field arrest forms with proper identification and criminal charges were not made out during mass arrests ear- lier that week. See 8, Page 2