day care center seeks home By P.E. BAUER In the beginning. things did not look quite "Many of the women felt that by only After being ousted from three homes in so hopeful for parents trying to get a par- providing us with space in which to put the the last 14 months, the University day cae ent-controlled 24-hour University-sponsored center, the University wasn't making center is looking for a fourth. day care center enough of a commitment to day care," says Currently located in Mosher - Jordan halt "We just kept having meetings and meet- Erlich. "Those women saw it as a political the day care center will soon have to niike ings with the administration," explains Sue issue. and thought that staff salaries, main way for incoming students. University of- Erlich, one of the original organizers. "But tenance, and other costs should be paid fiials have not yet been able to find an- we never actually got anything done. We by the University. other place suitable for the care of pre- were convinced that Pres. Robben Fleming "There were enough mothers who were school children. wouldn't give us anything at all, so there eager for any kind of day care, however, The day care center. formed early last were plans being made to establish a day that we were able to organize the center summer after considerable agitation by care center in a tent in the middle of the and keep it going until now," she said. women's groups, has been surprisingly suc- Diag." The University day care center has had cessful, according to its leaders. When Markley Hall was at last desig- two other homes since then, at University "We're even in the black now, " laughs nated as the location of the yet-to-be-or- Terrace and Mosher - Jordan, as the Uni- director of the center Nancy Ross. "The ganized day care center. the women work- versity shuffled it back and forth to fill administrators probably never thought we'd ing for its establishment were reportedly available space. be able to do it." split into two groups. See 'U', Page 6 At the center LIBERATED! ,+r High--88 page three " ThrsdaJAgut+ 9,I9U U ArfrKMcign ewP n 74-5airwarm. ~ ~ ~perhaps showers Thursday, August 19, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan News Phone: 764-0552 Nixon plea fails to halt all strikes WASHINGTON P-As part of a rising labor protest against President Nixon's wage-price freeze and no-strike plea, thousands of striking workers refused yesterday to go back to work and the United Auto Workers (UAW) threat- ened to cancel contracts. President Harry Bridges of the International Long- shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union said 15,000 West Coast dock workers will continue their walkout in full force. And spokesmen for 35,000 New York telephone strikers also refused to order their mem- bers back on the job. T The Arb: Ecologically ahused ? Local conseravtionst crit iczes conditons in Arb; ciles erosion By P.E. BAUER Many yes's of over-use and inadequate mainte- nance are causing the Arb to suffer serious erosion and soil damage, says one local conservationist. In light of this comment the director of the Arb has urged all students to take special care in their dealings with the University park, in an effort to stop such damage. According to the Washtenaw County Environ- meptal Council spokesman Jerry Fulton, the pres- ence of large numbers of people in the Arb has caused the development of gullies in heavily used areas. In addition, he has reported widesepread erosion, the collapsing of the bank of the Huron River in places, and the destruction of vegetation. The University does not keep records of the number of people using the Arb. "It's all caused by too much use; and inade- quate management and control by the University allow it to continue." Fulton said yesterday. "The Univeresity should spend a lot more money to make sure that damage doesn't occur. because of the way people tend to misuse the Arb." According to Fulton, motorcyclists are the big- gest offenders. After gaining entrance to the Arb illegally, he said, motorcyclists destroy much of the natural plant life of the area. It is usually difficult to oust such intruders be- cause the Ann Arbor Police Dept. enters the park only when specific complaints are made. He cited some other instances of conscious mis- use of the land, including picking flowers and dig- ging holes. However, even an act as simple as walking down a path could eventually cause harm he said. When a path is well worn, infrequent rains cause ruts to form, and eventually the ruts widen into gullies. Fulton's opinions, however, are not shared by the University officials involved. According to Charles Cares, chairman of the dept. of Land Ar- chitecture and director of the Arb. "The sandy soil of the Arb is eroding, but it is at a rate which is normal for this time of year. We'd do better if we had a little rain." Cares denied reports that the bank of the river was "crumbling away", saying that "the prob- lem is only a minor one which our maintenance men are currently working on." The biggest problem in maintaining the Arb, confided Cares, was the small budget allocated to the project by the University. "We only have 3 men to take care of 100-odd acres. he said. "There are many repairs that we would like to see done," he said, "but we will just have to get to it when we get the funds. I don't think, however, that irreparable damage is being done." According to an Ann Arbor Ecology Center spokesman, erosion is a "common problem this time of year. In fact, there isn't even as much erosion in the Arb as we had expected." "The real problem out there," she said, "is all the broken glass you find all over." - They were joined by other striking teamsters, machinists. construction workers and others in many areas of the nation in refusing Nixon's back-to-work request that was accompanied by hints of court action and fines if they refused. "We do not know of any law that lets the government of the United States say that a cor- poration shall not pay money to its workers but instead to put it in its own coffers," said UAW President Leonard Woodcock in a Boston news conference. "We will consider the contracts terminated and we will act ac- cordingly" if somse 600,000 wort- ers at major auto firms don't get wage hikes due them from set- tlements earlier this year, he said. B r i d g e s' and Woodcock's unions are independent, but most affiliates of the huge AFL- CIO with 13.6 million members in 120 unions echoed their views. A spokesman for the striking New York ,telephone workers, members of the AFL-CIO Com- munications Workers who re- fused to go along with an earlier nationwide settlement, agreed to another round of negotiations at the request of chief federal me- diator J. Curtis Counts. But they refused Counts' re- quest. directed at all striking unions, to go back to work dur- ing the 90-day wage-price freeze. Counts, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serv- ice, said yesterday the govern- ment would consider tougher ac- tion, including $5,000 fines, for striking unions that refuse. Other unions asked the White House for special exemptions from the wage - price freeze, in, cluding President Jerry Wurf of the AFL-CIO State, County and Municipal Workers Union. tio raises for govt. emplocs WASHINGTON (A) - The President's Cost of Living Coun- cil yeesterday ruled that state and local governmental em- ployes can not receive pay raises or even cost of living in- creases, during the 90-day wage- price freeze. The council also ruled that teachers may receive raises dur- ing the freeze only if their con- tract period began before last Sunday, the day President Nixon announced the new economic policy. Members of the armed forces, however, were declared exempt from ,the freeze. The Pentagon said servicemen will continue to get pay raises, benefits and pro- motions even though their civil- ian counterparts in the Defense Department will be subject to the freeze. Clearing up some frequently asked questions, the Council said persons will be able to receive promotions for bona fide pro- motions, state and local tax rates will be permitted to rise during the freeze and that in- creased sales or excise taxes may be passed on to the con- sumer in the form of higher prices. Earlier in the day, the Jus- tice Department announced a special unit has been created to carry outenforcement of the freeze in cases where voluntary action has failed to fulfill the President's guidelines. A department s p o k e s m a n hinted at drastic penalties for violators.