The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVII, No. 9-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, May 14, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages By SUE WARNER I wanted from the food co-op, and it's my father's birthday," said Rosenberg who was seated outside For those superstitious souls, yesterday was the the Union waiting for his mother's bus to arrive. He ew f UStereday to keep fingers crossed, and avoid walking under expressed confidence she would arrive safely in spite ladders or crossing the path of black cats. of yesterday's date. In Ann Arbor, however, sanity prevailed as most Kay Bailey and Mary Wander also offered their citizens went about business-as-usual without con- observations on the bewitching day. O n this fiend ish siderable trauma surrounding Friday the Thirteenth. "I PUT IN a job application today; that might be a bad sign," remarked Bailey. ROBERT ROSENBERG confessed the most ter- Wander, who had been stood up for a second time rible thing to happen to him yesterday. "I started in an effort to recruit University students as tutors; Fy esinging a Neil Diamond sang this morning,"he said. also reported buying a bike lock which didn't fit her "In fact it's been a goodtday. My mother is com- chain. "I don't think I should even be talking to ing from California, I finally got the peanut butter See 13th, Page 9 President jobs bills; sigi har Wet work U.S. high jumper Dwight Stones applies his "on-the-back approach" in a swimming pool before participating last night in a track meet in Jamaica. UWis investment queried by St e MADISON, Wis. .')--Atty. Gen. Bronson La Follette is investi gating whether the University of Wisconsin's investments in firm doing business with apartheid South Afri-ca are illegal tnder stat taw. . The inquiry comes at a time when some students here and o campuses elsewhere are protesting such investments by univer sities, claiming they constitute complicity in policies of racia segregation. LA FOLLETTE said he began collecting data on the holding after The Daily Cardinal, a UW-Madison student newspaper, sai it had documents indicating the university held $14 million wort] of investments in companies which do business in South Africa. Deputy Atty. Gen. David- Manson said Thursday the sratt Justice Department would determine whether these holding violate a law prohibiting investment of donations to the universit in any "company, corporation, affiliate or subsidiary which prat tices or condones through its actions discrimination on the basi of race, religion, color, creed or sex." "I haven't looked at the material yet," Hanson said. "I knos the statute prohibits the investing of university trust funds i corporations with discriminatory policies." HANSON SAID he didn' know how long the investigation wou take. On Thursday, a dozen students briefly took over the offic of UW-Madison Chancellor Edwin Young to protest the universit holdings. They were ejected by university police with no arrests Students on the campus voted in a referendum last month b See U-WIS, Page 10 young people WASHINGTON (A') - Presi- created directly by the new bill dent Carter signed two bills yes- was arrived at by doubling the .erday that officials say would number of jobs created by the create more than 1.1 million earlier bill, which cost half as lobs, mainly among construc- much as the new program. iion workers and young people. The public-service jobs bill is Carter called the legislation designed to add 415,000 new jobs "a major move in the right di- by the end of the year to a ection." program that now pays for 310,- ISIX jobs. ONE BL. authorizes spend- ing $4 billion on public works THE PRESIDENT signed the projects, such as repairs and two bills at a small desk in the construction of schools, water thite House Rose Garden, while works, and other public facili- riayors of major cities and a ties. group of congressmen and sen- The other bill, part of Carter's. economic stimulus program, is a $20-billion appropriation bill, including $4 billion for the pub- lic works projects; $1 billion for ?00,000 youth jobs, $8. billion for public service jobs over the next 18 monthe for people who have had problems finding work, and $631 million in gen- crl aid for state and local gov- ernments. T'e $4 - billion public works bill, Iarter said, 'outld create 300,000 jobs in construction 'rades and another 300,000 jobs elated to them. The $20-billion innropriation bill included $4 uillion to fend the program. .i- s THE PUBLIC works bill ex- a tends and expands a $2-billion public works bill signed late Inst year by then-President Ger- n ld Ford, which created op- a- roximately 141,000 jobs direct- l ly in the construction trades.~ ' A spokesperson for the Com- merce Department's Economic s Development Administration, d which oversees use of the mon- h ey, said the estimate of 300,000 construction jobs that would be 7s two d-hats, to gain otors looked on. AFL - CIO President George Meany, who had, criticized the public works bill as insufficient, was in the crowd but did not take part in the ceremony. Carter said the public works jobs would be in the private sector. "It is not a make-work *ype job opportunity," he said. IE ADDED approval of the tirogram demonstrates "in a -ivid way the close cooperation that has evolved between the See CARTER, Page 9 ns y C- d in Id e y S. y Mda Bell, energy and~hope?" Daily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER Obh ,those vibes... page 3 Vibraphonist Gary Burton wooas an audience last night at the m-wnwayPower Center.