The Michigan Daily-Thursday, August 3, 1978-Page 3 The Author of a pl tation The phasin servic was in summ staff m changE the Bos BOA firm saying AATA ponders route changes By SUE WARNER following further discussion among the citizen and handicapped Dial-A-Ride changes include: Ann Arbor Transportation board itself and more community input. service, which would be implemented if * Pauline and Liberty lin rity (AATA) Board heard details AATA Executive Director Karl Guen- the current Dial-A-Ride system is routed through Maple Village; an which could change transpor- ther, however, urged the Board to come abolished. * Sequoia/Bruce line to be service routes this fall. to a decision on the proposal soon, so his TENTATIVELY, the AATA plan to add coverage in the Gard plan, which calls for eventual - staff can begin implementation and suggests elimination of the Burns Park, area, routed through with th g out of weekday Dial-A-Ride driver training for the new routes Devonshire and North Main routes. line service; e and increased line bus service before the authority's new fiscal year Originally the board had suggested that * Packard line, originally itiated by the Board earlier this begins Oct. 1. service to the Newport Road area also to run directly down Packard, er. At last night's meeting AATA Board member Joel Samoff pointed be cut, but AATA staff members found to retain current routing along rembers presented specific route out that the new plans constitute a "big- this would not result in greater efficien- th to provide no transfer s es and timetables which would fit scale kind of change" and a final cy. Washtenaw Community Col ard's general recommendations, decision by the board would be All routes are being designed to run Meijer's; !RD MEMBERS did not make a "premature at this point." The board within one quarter mile of any point in * State/Ellsworth will b decision on the new route plan, did, however, direct Guenther to begin the city at half-hour intervals. through Stoneybrook and ext such an action should come formulating plans for increased senior In addition, other possible route See AATA, Page 6 e service extended en Homes e Liberty proposed modified Ellswor- ervice to lege and e routed tended to ACTION awards grant to fight domestic violence By MITCH CANTOR Ann Arbor's Domestic Violence Project yesterday received a $300,000 grant from the governmental group ACTION to consolidate regional organizations dealing with the problem of domestic violence. The local project will serve as national headquarters for Volunteers Against Violence, a group designed to pool efforst of organizations scattered across the country to grapple with issues such as shelter and counseling for wife-beating victims. Grant money will also be used to set up ten regional centers of Volunteers Against Violence which will be created from existing in- dependent groups. JAN PETERSON, director of women's projects for ACTION's Office of Policy Planning, said more than 1,000 domestic violence organizations throughout the United States will be in- formed of the grant. Interested organizations will be screened and rated, according to Katpleen Fojtik, the grant's project director. "We have a 100-point criteria including, for example, experience io family ... and demonstration of com- munity support," she said. The ten projects selected will be allot- - toda) ted $25,000 each, with the Ann Arbor- based headquarters receiving $50,000. The offices will use the money to upgrade their programs and help find ways to best deal with wife-beating vic- tims. "THE GRANT WE hope will help us help themselves," Peterson said. "We really want to find out what's working and what's not working." Fojtik said the money may be used to fund a police training course in han- dling domestic disputes. Peterson poin- ted out that 20 per cent of all police murders take place when officers in- tervene in domestic quarrels. ACTION officials said organizations around the country dealing with family disputes vary greatly in their modes of operations. "THEY ARE very diverse ethnically, culturally. There are going to be many different types of models (applying for the grant)," Peterson said. Names of groups which will be awar- ded the grants will be announced November 1. Peterson said an additional $150,000 may be added to the grant later this year. The extra money would be used to sponsor a regional conference of See ACTION, Page 6 Talking about ERA Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee subcom- mittee on the Constitution, chats with Sen. Muriel Humphrey (D-Minn.) prior to Humphrey's testimony before the panel on the proposed ratification deadline extension for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Ride on Observant University student Andrew Sindall, who hails from merry old Cheam, Surrey, England, noticed that one of our very own double decker buses possesses an Isle of Wight registration num- ber. That little whitelabel enables its passengers to take it from South Hampton to Cowes for free in the aforementioned Isle. So, as you take your free ride between State St. and Liberty, picture yourself zooming along some quaint English roads. Too bad the bus can't really go that far. Happenings.. . ... are few and far between today. You can lounge around all day and then scoot over to the Music School for a quick concert from the Summer Session Band at 7 p.m. Then hotfoot it over to the Wesley Foundation at 602 E. Huron at 7:30 p.m. for a meeting of the Advocation for SafeAlternatives in Childbirth (ASAC). Guest speaker will be Michelle Leno, who will discuss the Bradley method of child- birth. . .or if you think you know it all, skip to the -Laughton and Gable epic "Mutiny on the Bounty", at 7:30 in he Ann Arbor Public Library instead ... or zip over to the Pendleton Room at the Michigan Union for the 8:30 p.m. Moliere Players' presen- tation of his classiero0fa edy "The Ledrned Ladies." That's it. In a jam The Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it is recalling 180,000 individual ser- vings of McDonald's grape jelly that could have been the hottest new taste sensation. The.half-ounce cups were accidentally made with a "hot pepper- like substance used in taco sauce," the agency said. The spicy condiment was distributed to the ham- burger chain's outlets in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas and New Mexico. They were made by Han-Dee Pak West of Dallas, which also makes taco sauce. A local McDonald's employee said his chain wouldn't have been affected anyway because they only use strawberry. Citation with a smile Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny may want to take a tip from his colleagues in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Those coppers are trying to improve their popularity by giving tickets with a smile. Oklahoma Police Chief David Hudiburgh said the program started earlier this week and is designed "to find out how well we're relating to the public un- der generally adverse conditions." All officers have to give out a questionnaire, in addition to the extra grin, with every ticket, warning or accident. The malltilvquestionnaire asks about the officer's ap- for the citation or warning was. It would seem to make receiving a ticket a little easier to handle, if that's possible. Aphrodisiac Legend has it way down in Paire Island National Seashore, Texas, that eating Ridley turtle eggs can enhance sexual prowess. As a result, the species is near extinction. But this year, those resourceful people of the National Park Service, in cooperation with the Mexican government, started a crash program to reverse the rapid decline in the sea tur- tle population in the Gulf of Mexico. During the past two weeks, park service employees have released several-batches of Ridley hatchlings, carefully nur- tured in temperature controlled styrofoam boxes. Chief naturalist at Padre Island Bob Whistler said the problem all started because the Mexican people apparently believe the turtle eggs give them added sexual powers. Better start relying on turtle soup instead. On the outside ... Bleak weather continues with no let-up in cloudiness expected. There is a chance of showers with a high of 75. Lows tonight will be in the 60s. I _ s 4 k ,.. a f i i11 a' i114 is f s, iv 1vw j tole a t iii .c Y¢uu ia j wai... ud ] 1 1 .w u clnw lu UU magca r w4yr ....