Tuesday, July 26, 1977 THE AMCHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesday, July 26, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three President Carter chats with Vernon Jordan, director of the National Urban Lea CONTRACT EXPIRES SUNDAY: 'U trades counc I talk Carter: I'l help poor with 'flood' of programs WASIIINGTON ' 1-President Carter, in an aggressive defense of his domestic policies, prom- ised the National Urban League yesterday that a "flood of new programs" to help the nation's poor will emerge from his ad- " l, ministrati . IThe President ticked off a list of job-creating programs he has supported during his first six months in office and declared, We're committed to the pmr. the hungry, the t i m i d the wak, and the unemployed. HtE SAID AN additional mil- lion jobs will be created if his forthcoming welfare reform pro- posal is adopted. Administration officials hav said another as- pert of the pr'tposal will be to AP Photo set up a minimum federal wel- gue See CARTER, Page 10 HUD tells city to examine fund use By GREGG KRUPA Local Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officials have cautioned the city on its expenditure of $21-,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for the construction of a downtown sculpture park. In a letter from Louis Rampp of the Detroit HUD office, the city was told: "In undertaking this activity, it does not appear that the city is complying with its certification that the highest priority is being given to activities which pri- marily benefit low income persons or eliminate slums or blight." MAYOR ALBERT WHEELER vetoed City Council's ap- propriation of $20,000 for the park, but Council later over- rode his veto. In accepting HUD funds through CDBG, the city promises to give the highest priority, in spending the funds, to pro- grams that benefit thoes persons or purposes. If HUD finds that the city has not carried out its promise, the department may ask that the money be reimbursed. Rampp's letter also says, "If the activity is undertaken, r it will be within census tract number seven. While current information indicates that the percentage of lower income - persons residing in the tract is 54 per cent (compared to a city-wide lower income percentage of 30 per cent), the area is largely business and commercial, and we question who will actually be the principal beneficiaries of the proposed activity. "WE FURTHER question whether the activity actually eliminates or prevents slums and blight because we are not aware of the existence of determinable signs of blights or P4 deterioration in the area, and the activity does not appear to eliminate any particular blighting influence or deteriorated condition. See HUD, Page to aJMRM ME;MEMNWMMM aW By SUE WARNER Negotiators for the University and the Washtenaw C ount y Building Trades Council held an all-day bargaining session yes- terday in hopes of moving closer to a contract settlement betore the union's present contract ex- pires midnight Sunday. The Council represents some 300 trade workers - painters, electricians, a n d - carpenters among them. According to Russel Reister, University personnel director, the unresolved contract issues "boil down to economics and the overlap' issue." The overlap issue hinges on the union's objections to non- building trade council members performing work the council feels should be done by its mem- bers. Representatives f r o m both sides said yesterday they are hopeful of reaching a contract agreement before Sunday. "We're taking an optimistic stance," Reister said following yesterday's negotiations. "We certainly hope to settle by the time the contract expires." Union negotiator James Mur- phy was also hopeful: "We're bpen-minded and the University is optimistic. There's been no impasse on anything as of yet." According to Murphy, the bar- gaining teams are still present- ing proposals and counter pro- posals. "As for now it's back and forth," he said, "Ninety per cent of the non- economic issues have been set- tled,}, Murphy added. "We're now getting down to the serious economic issues." Reister said a total economic package is being discussed. The question of 'overlap,' he added, is the only major non-ecomamic issue which remains unresolved. The bargaining teams have been meeting for over two month salthough this will be the first week of five full-day ses- sions. Neither side was able to com- ment on specific economic pro- posals. However, in an earlier interview former Building Trades negotiator C h a r I e a Farnsworth c o m m e n t e d, "Wages will certainly be an is- sue." He also said the union would seek an increased cost of living allowance. The Building Trade Council's present contract was negotiated for three years. According to Murphy the length of the new contract has not been decided, although he is thought to favor a shorter contract. The University's Chief Nego- tiator William Neff replaced Felix Barthelemy as the Uni- versity's representative in the talks in mid-June. Wman raped n hme A 23-year-old woman was raped early yesterday morning by two men who broke into her home on the 400 block of Hoover St. The woman was awakened at approximately 2:40 a.m. by a noise in her bedroom and discovered two men had broken into her apartment. She said one of the men grabbed her and threat- ened to kill her if she did not remain quiet. THE TWO men then reportedly raped her and fled. Police said nothing was taken from the home. Whether the men originally intended to rape the victim or rob the apartment remains in question. No arrests have been made in the case, nor do police have any suspects. Happy 90th! Dr, Reuben Kahn, former U-M professor of sero- logy and developer of the Kahn syphilis test, will celebrate his 90th birthday today at his retirement home in Florida. Kahn developed the widely used test in 1923, joining the University faculty five years later. He became known as one of the lead- ing medical researchers in the world and was hon- ored by many medical schools, including the Na- tional Medical School of Athens, Greece. He left the University in 1968 to teach at Howard University. We wish Dr. Kahn a happy 90th! Happenings--- . . . there are times in life to make choices, but -TODAY- today is not one of them. Sheer circumstance has determined that the only thing happening today are two A/V Center films, Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite and Making of a Natural History Film. Jolly good fellows If you want a chance to hang around Jimmy's back door, find out about Amy's romance, listen in on those long evening talks with Leonid in Moscow, your chance has come. And you even get the pres- tige of being a "White House Fellow". The Presi- dent's Commission on White House Fellowships (surely an overworked bureau) has announced that applications for the 14-19 fellowships will be avail- able after August 1. The program is open to all U.S. citizens and offers a chance for "rising young lead- ers" to get "one year of firsthand high-level em- ployment in the Federal Government as well as a comprehensive educational seminar." Information is available from the Commission, Washington, D.C. 20415 or by calling (202) 653-6263. On the outside When it comes to fooling, Mother Nature can't take it but she can certainly dish it out. Just as you'd finished buying sunglasses, lemonade and used Sergio Mendes records and settled in for two months of the tropics, along comes two days of blissful weather. Today will be sunny and pleasant with a high of 80 and an overnight low of 58; to- morrow will be more of the same. ...._