Thursday, June 9, 1977 ITHE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Wheelr testifies for Pos till By LANI JORDAN In a surprise move yesterday, Mayor Albert Wheeler took the stand as a character witness in former sheriff Frederick Postill's trial on charges of felonious assault. Wheeler, who said he has known Postill for four years, testified 'postill has a reputation for truth and veracity." THE FORMER sheriff is accused of choking Sheriff's Deputy tastl Baysinger with a pair of handcuffs during a brawl at a wed- ding reception in Chelsea last July. "He has a reputation in terms of his position as sheriff," Wheeler continued, "of being fair, just and truthful." Defense attorney Neal Bush attempted to link some earlier disciplinary action against Baysinger by Postill and former jail administrator Frank Donley, and Baysinger's dislike of several postill programs instituted after the former sheriff's 1973 election to the incident and Baysinger's subsequent legal action. WHEN INVESTIGATIONS following the brawl did not turn up sufficient. evidence to issue a felonious assault charge, Baysinger had a civil warrant issued against Postill, and hired attorney Jack GTrris. Garris also represented Postill's former political opponent t)utiglas Harvey. Harvey served ts Washtenaw County sheriff from 167 to 1973. Postill, elected in 1973, was defeated for re-election last Novem- 5er by Thomas Minick. Yesterday, the second day of testimony before Circuit Court Judge Patrick Conlin, included conflicting accounts of the events which led to and occurred during the incident. Baysinger testified Postill had invited him to the parking lot of the Chelsea Fairgrounds where the reception was held, to discuss some problems at the jail, when the two got involved in a heated debate ACCORDING TO Baysinger, Postill and Donley initiated the See TESTIMONY, Page 7 Group lays groundwork to reunionize U clericals By SUE WARNER The clericals union at the University may rise from the dead this summer. When former United Auto Workers Local 2001, which repre- sented University clericals, voted to decertify last summer, Mich- igan law precluded the formation of any new union organization for a full year. The clericals will he able to re-organize after August 11. LAST NIGHT, University clericals laid the groundwork for the c-turrection of establishing bylaws for the Organizing Committee t r Clericals (OCC). The committee's job is self-explanatory: to organize a labor utnion for clerical workers at the University. "There's an excellent chance that we'll have a union by fall," stited OCC spokesperson Patty Schwartzman. "People are hot to o: ytinize and OCC is moving ahead very rapidly." According to Schwartzman, last summer's decertification was iccomplished through the efforts of various groups of clericals wht, "predicted that they'd do better without a union." SCHWARTZMAN contended this opinion was proven false. The current organizing drive includes former members of both the Clericals for a Democratic Union (CDU) and Unity Caucus factions, which were rivals for control in the now decertified local 2001. Schwartzman also denied the split between the two groups was responsible for the decertification vote. "You can't pin the de- See DISBANDED, Page 7 ..h Cinderella SFrom the looks of this photograph, good fortune in the form of a fairy godmother hasn't come the way of the title character in "Cinderella", currently appearing at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. No, at this stage of yesterday's dress rehearsal, it iooked more like Cindy's evil stepmother would win out. Council OK's controversial Parkway Meadows project By GREGG KRUPA City Council last night passed two resolutions that will permit the construction of the contro- versial Parkway Meadow-s housing development. The 350 unit complex, 210 for elderly citizens and 140 for families, will be constructed on a 38.3 acre parcel of land on Nixon Road north of Ply- mouth Road. THE PROPOSED development drew hostile re- sponses from people presently residing in the area. They felt the development would cause a decline in property values, a rise in crime, crowd- ecl conditions in area shopping centers and traffic problems along Nixon Road. At last night's meeting several Council mem- bers assured the numerous residents who attended the meeting that similar projects in the city had not spurred increased critne problems or dechniutgt property values. "The Mill Creek hiusing development s seen as a prototype for houising of this vuriety," said Lou Senunas (R-Third Ward). "that development affected neither a rise in crime nor a drop in property values." THE DEVELOPERS and the city reached agree- ment Tuesday on several critical issues that had stalled final approval on the Parkway Meadows. Developers agreed to accept the cost of broaden- ing Nixon Road, to include extensive recreational facilities in the project, as well as several land- scaping provisions: Acting City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw commented that Council had spent more time on this issue than any other since his appointment. -TODAY Dope reprieve Ann Arbor pot smokers needn't throw away any of their precious weed, not yet any way. Accord- ing to Mayor Al Wheeler, it will be a waek before the city decides whether to prosecute marijuana related arrests with the local $5 dollar ordinance or the much more severe state penalties. The de- cision has been forced upon local officials by a State Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday, declaring portions of Ypsilanti's $5 marijuana ordinance un- constitutional. "I'm in favor of leniency for those possessing small amounts of marijuana, and I think our present law is a good one," said Wheeler. "But we'll have to get an interpretation from our legal' staff, check our options, and then come to a de- cision through City Council or the City Administra- tor regarding the Courts ruling." Happenings ... start bright and early today with a workshop for parents entitled Helping Special Children Grow. It begins at 9 a.m. at 130 S. State ... al day long you can sign up volunteer time for Drug Help coun- seling service by calling 994-HELP ... at 7:15 p.m., the Christian Science Organization will meet in Rm. 4304 of the Union ... and at 7:30 p.m. in the Multi- purpose Rm. of the UGLI, the Friends of Green- peace will show the film Whales, Dolphins and Men. A hole in the rules Homeowners can't seem to resist asking state highway crews to repair their driveway entrances while they're working on an adjacent road. As a result, New York state employes have strict in- structions to refuse all such requests - politely, but firmly. However when it comes to granting favors to a 5-year-old girl, the rules get circum- vented. A woman driving out of her driveway in Niskayuna, N.Y. noticed that a large hole had been filled in by a crew working near her home. When she stopped to thank the workers and ask why only her driveway had been repaired, they told her they couldn't say no to "the kid," The woman asked her little daughter if it was she who had asked the men to fix the driveway, and the girl replied, "Sure." On the outside The unseasonably cold weather will continue to- day, but at least the skies will be sunny. Today's high will be 64, with temperatures dropping to near 40 tonight.