qi r Sfri i u4 at l Vol LXXXI. No. 7-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, May 13, 1971 Ten Cents Twelve Pages SUnion workers s Wvote for local president VP Northeast merges with Delta. Documents were signed in Miami, Fla. yesterday to merge Northeast Airlines and Delta Airlines. George Storer (left) chairman of the board of Storer Broadcasting Company and Bill Michaels, presi- dent of the company, are shown after the signing. Storer owns 86 per cent of the stock of Northeastern Airlines. ~~~~- - -- ----- AWAITS SENATE ACTION: New biell to fundST narrowly passes House WASHINGTON (R') - The which will be incurred in re- off since then demanded t h at battle over developing an Amer- establishing and carrying o ut decision be reversed. ican supersonic transport plane the new program," the company But Rep. Sidney Yates (D- (SST) was revived yesterday said. Ill.), the SST's leading House when the House executed an Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla) opponent, said "The American about face and voted $85 million told the House it would be people do not want the SST." to restart the project. foolisi to kill the plane after The House vote turned an The Senate will take up the spending $1 billion on it. $85.3-million contract termina- renewed fight next and Demo- House Republican leader Ger- tion fund for the SST into that cratic Leader Mike Mansfield of ald Ford of Michigan said Con- much money to revive develop- Montana predicted the outcome gress "was acting in the dark" ment of two prototype planes. there will be close, when it killed the SST eight Secretary of Transportation With the leaders of both par- weeks ago - and said the SST John Volpe expressed pleasure ties in the House behind them, workers who have been laid See SST, Page 3 backers of a drive to breathe - new life into the 1,800 mile-an- hour passenger plane won an I .. ' initial test by 201-195 and nailed down by 201 to 197 on a second , ° vote. Eight weeks ago they lost 215 to 204. Mansfield said the resurrect- A : tion will meet "very extended :. debate" in the Senate where the SST was killed two months ago 51 to 46. "It might be nip and t A tuck" this time, Mansfield said. ....'.. In a statement, President Nix- , q on congratulated the House for , having very wisely reversed . their earlier position," and add- ed: "The Congress has today tak- en an important first step on behalf of thousands of workers across the country who have L been engaged in the SST pro- gram - and whose vital skills and experience might otherwise be lost to the nation." Nixon restates a pledge 't'hat the SST will not be committed to production until all environ- mental concerns have b e e n thoroughly satisfied." The Boeing Company, which has laid off more than 5,000 r workers since its contract to de- velop the aircraft was cancel- ed, said any attempt to recon- struct the program must be on I a the basis of an entirely new I Town' conrct.new contract must ful- John King, a resident of the small south-central South Dakota co ly recognize the rights of the stagnant pool of water near his home. A resident of this district parties under the terminated Town" has filed suit against the city alleging discrimination beca contract and the large costs the white neighborhoods. By SARA FITZGERALD Votes were still b e i n g tabulated late last night in the election of officers for Local 1583 of the American Federation of State, County, a n d Municipal Employes (AFSCME). The union rep- resents 2,700 University s e r v i c e and maintenance employes. Seeking re-election as presi- dent is Charles McCracken, who served as chief negotiator for the union during its contract dispute with the University last January. Opposing McCracken is Wal- ter McCloskey, recording secre- tary of the union and also a member of that negotiating team. Candidates for the first vice- president position are Clarence Massey and Harry Barnett, both stewards for the union. In addi- tion, Massey also served on the bargaining team and helped lead a wildcat walkout at University Hospital a year ago. McCloskey and Barnett, seek- ing greater exposure than their better-known opponents, have cir- culated leaflets to promote their campaigns. McCracken has dis- tributed campaign buttons which say "We're backin' McCracken," while Massey has done no cam- paigning. The Rank and File Caucus, a group of about a dozen militant AFSCME members have en- dorsed and campaigned for Mc- Cracken and Barnett. McCloskey has primarily at- tacked the financial arrange- ments of the union and has called for the establishment of a strike fund. Re-elected as second vice- president and secretary-treasur- er were Willie Collins and Neva Middleton. Collins and Middleton ran unopposed. Charles McCracken SMC leader to speak at junior high By MARK DILLEN In a reversal of a previous de- cision, permission has been given a group of local junior high stu- dents to hold a school assembly featuring a socialist anti-war ac- tivist. Peter Camejo, a prominent member of the Massachusetts Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), will be allowed to ad- dress a Scarlett Junior High As- sembly- Monday, all apparent ob- jections by school officials hav- ing been satisfied. Las week, Camejo was barred from speaking at Scarlett for what planners termed 'political" reasons. In a letter explaining his denial, principal Joseph Va- chon said his action was based on "information which came to (his) attention" and was effec- tive "system-wide." Later, however, Vachon said his decision was based solely on the lack of "adequate" informa- tion provided by the school's SMC chapter - sponsor of the anti-war program. He claimed that because he had never re- ceived a formal written request for an assembly, Camejo could not be allowed to speak. Students and SMC's faculty ad- visor, Gail Reed, contended such written requests had never been required before. Much of the charge that Va- chon had based his denial on political considerations stemmed from a letter distributed among Ann Arbor secondary school prin- cipals attacking Camejo and criticizing his book "How to Make a Revolution." Vachon says he borrowed the letter, printed in a small Massa- chusetts newspaper, from Ann Arbor Pitneer High School of- ficials and made copies to show to Scarlett faculty. He said the article "aroused his suspicions" about Camejo but later said it had no effect on his decision to bar him. Huron High School principal Paul Meyers, a member of the group in which the letter was cir- culated, said yesterday he had received no communications con- cerning Camejo and explained See SMC, Page 10 *mmunity of Winner, stands by a of the city known as "Indian use better services are offered in