Thursday, Jug 30, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Roge free Court nixes death for rape a .555.tggt g ggctytss 5:~~' TONY MILLER, Lenny Dale, and Reuben Che tune with the FreewheelExpress bicycle deli Freewheel E packages fron By LORI CARRUTHERS Over a year ago Reuben Chapman fantac- sized what Ann Arbor would be like without cars. From this mental meandering grew a small enterprising . bicycle delivery service known as the Freewheel Express. "Our main motivation is to show that all shopping can be done by bicycle," Chapman said. The service operates within the central Ann arbor city boundaries of Maple, Stadium, Huron Parkway, Eisenhower and Plymouth Road, at a small fee of $1.50 for delivery of rackages up to 15 pounds. Special deliveries outside of these areas and weight limits are possible at a slightly higher expense with a weight limitation of 100 pounds. "PRICE OF delivery is very low compared to other similar ventures," Chapman said. Chapman is proud that this business is self- (anaged and has no stockholders. "Just a simple living and an honest wage," le said, and "all of us like to ride bikes," Freewheel Express consists of a core of six workers with friends and relatives occasion- ally offering moral and monetary support. The business operates out of Chapman's liv- tog room. Reuben Chapman, Tony Miller, Len- ap ive K1 r ,rt i Dnolv Photo be CHRISTINA SCHN1101ER kman hupe to pedal ther way Intame and for- ery service. press pedals SDale, Larry Kaatz, Debby Greenspan, Sue Budin and Andy Ring are both the employes and owners of the Service, a novel business concept. K FREEWIJEEL EXPRESS went into oper- ation on May 2, after a few experimental de- liveries in April by Chapman. The smog-spewing motor transports have posed the only hazards the Frewheel Express has faced on the road. "You can really taste the pollution when a boo passes,", high school student Miller said - EMP>LOYE DALE agreed with an accom- ' panying 'yeech'. For Dale, the dangers are four way stop signs. "Tney (ctr drivers) don't notice you a whole lot at a stop sign," Dale noted hiding behind his green sunglasses. Drivers will al~ ternate at c stop sign, ignoring the bicyclist Freewhe Express has distributed over 100 coupons entitling a free sample delivery to senior citieas, handicappers and Diag strut- lers. "I would rather use iy energy passing out coupons tha spendin' doll'rs on newspaper ads " Chapman said. See BICYCLE, Pate 7 " Freewhel Exress as dstributed over 1001 WASHINGTON (/t' 'The SUpreie ourtI banned use of the death punishment may be an invalid penalty for any crime but mirder. The court toted 7-2 to strike down the death penalty imposed on condemned Georgia rapist Fohrlich iAonthony ('oker. A majority of six justices raled that rape may never be punished by deat'h. A T.lOUGtll ThIE decision affects )nit six of the .150 prisoners on death rows, it may have a profound inpact on thy history of capital punisheiit in the United Stotts. Had the court decided that states iiiav imptose the death penalty for crimes in which the life of the victim is not taken, its reasoning could have opened the door for future rulings that capitad punishment is an appropriate penaty for such crimes as treason, espionage, hijacking, terrorism or kidnaping. Reaction bo the rape ruling was nixed but sotmtet womiten's groups that have been crusading for rape crisis centers and a crackdown on rapists said that severe penalties tave hampered attempts to convict rapists. ELEANOR SMEAL, presideit of the National t(rgaization for Women, said "rape is a serioum and heios crime and sol uld be severely punished. But the fact is that judges and juries aren't convicting." With less severe penalties, site said, 'NOW hopes that more rapists will be nonvicted. A Chicago-based group, Women Against Rape, said "We never advocated more severe penalties. Judges are reluctatit tot put rap- ists away for what judges think are relatively minor acts. In Ihi- nois, rape carries a 4 to 20-year sentence and this is hard to convict on. The American Civil Libe'ties Union, which oppioses the death penalty under any circumstances, noted that 405 of the 455 people See SUPREME, Page 7 City planners give OK to traffic circulation scheme By SUE WARNER City Planning Commission members voted 7-1 last night to adopt - and pass on to City Council for approval - a traf- fic circulation plan designed to define city traffic problems and offer possible solutions. Joe Monroe, Assistant Plan- ning Director, called the plan a "problem solving process." "ITS PURPOSE is to identify a problem, if there is a prob- lem, and a procedure for resolv- ing it," Monroe explained. The plan, as discussed in February called for the widen- ing of Geddes, Depot and Main Streets to four lanes and Hill St. to four lanes between Wash- tenaw and Main.. The t105-page document was rewritten, and although it camne to the same conclusions about where city traffic snarls exist, it met with strong opposition from citizens' groups and com- missioners who were against some of the specific construc- tion recommendations. THE PLAN as passed last night recommends only moni- toring of city traffic and trans- portation patterns on a yearly basis, with individual studies to be aimed at problem areas. Last night's meeting was a continuation of a Tuesday night session which was postponed when it became apparent to the six commissioners in attend- ance (the number of affirmative votes necessary for adoption) that commissioner Nancy White would not agree to the propos- al. However, the full eight-ment- ber committee was on hand for last night's roll call vote which decided the issue within ten minutes of the meeting's start. "IT IS EVASIVE, it hedges and it rambles, but it doesn't propose or recommend when and where I feel it should," White said of the plan. "This document has beconse "''i onnn a eoia try - tit - please - everyone dtcument, an appeaser, and in so doing has lost its strength as a circulation plan," she add- ed. Last night's action is the cdl- inination of a circtilation study process which began in 1971 when city council appropriated $100,000 for the traffic and transportation study, with the intention of discovering strong solutions to circuiation prob- lems. Peanut pant And in other march-of-progress news, C.G. More- head has provided art connoiseurs with a very tasteful new creation - paint which uses peanut butter as its base. Morehead, a Kentucky arist has asked President Carter to sign his first peanut but- ter painting so that it can be auctioned off for charity. Fish food place doesn't flounder Viscount Newport, who last year met inflation head on by opening a posh caviar restaurant, has sold a quarter of a ton of the costly fish eggs in the first 12 months his London Caviar Bar has been open. "There are always people about with money for something special," says the 29-year old enter- preneur. "The best time is in a big economic slump." Newport opened his place, actually a fish -TODAY- restaurant with caviar as its specialty, as Britain lurched toward a $20 billion deficit and staggered under runaway inflation. Many of his friends said he would lose on the venture. They couldn't have been more wrong. Caviar Bar waiters said, for ex- ample, that one customer the other day lunched on a half-pound of caviar, a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne and assorted other victuals. The bill was $139.40. New bean gleaned A Brazilian m crobiologist in Columbus, Ohio be- lieves he has discovered a better coffee plant. But he's not quite sure yet. "We don't know what we will get, except a different plant," said Maro Son- dahl, who has been doing research on ways to grow coffee plants with beans that can withstand Brazil- ian frosts. Sondahl and Ohio State Associate Pro- fessor William Sharp succeeded in changing the genetic information on a leaf of one coffee plant and "grew" a plant without a seed. Everything worked out in the laboratory - the plant seemed to stand up to cold conditions. The real test, however comes next with the transplanting of the coffee plants to soil in Brazil. If it works, Sondahl hopes it will lead to a cheaper cup of coffee. Happenings . . . don't begin today until the fashionably late hour of 7:15 p.o., when the Christian Science Or- ganization holds its weekly meeting in room 43104 of the Union . . . the audio/visual center presents a free showing of Braverman's Condensed Cream of Beatles and Yellow Submarine in MLB 3 at 7:30 p.m... . and organist Jacqueline Livesay will pound the pipes of Hill Auditorium in an 1:00 recital. On the outside Today will be partly sunny, warming up to a high ' of 84. Tomorrow will be hot and humid with a chance of thunderstorms, a high of 86, and a low near 60.