Thursday, August 5, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .age Five Cob, flood victims rebuild Viking's scoop jams for a second time LOVELAND, Cola. (SP-Hun- dreds of Big Thompson Canyon residents who survived flash flooding that killed at least 100 others began the slow, painful process of rebuilding their lives yesterday. There were 74 bodies in an old red brick hospital transform- ed into a morgue and in re- frigeration trucks on the hos- pital grounds. Two dozen other bodies were reported found but not recovered. AS THE death toll climbed, bulldozers and graders scooped muck from along the twisting Big Thompson River. The once peaceful stream had finally dropped back into its banks, strewn with wreckage of homes and trailers. A 100-member security force patrolled the wasted canyon for looters. Sheriff Robert Watson dis- counted suggestion of wide- spread thievery but said there had been several unconfirmed reports of youths entering the wrecked area with empty knap- sacks and leaving with them full. AT FEDERAL relief centers in Loveland and nearby Fort Galrwarns of Soviet threat, in South Pacific Collins andEstes Park, flood victims lined up to meet with housing, insurance, unemploy- ment and legal aid officials. Victor Klein, 56, worried about what would happen to his Fort Medina grocery store. Its silver- lettered sign glittered under sunny skies, but shelves inside were caked with up to two feet of mud. About 2 per cent of his trade was tourists. "We'll have the curious out here to see what damage there was," he said, "but once they're gone . . ." His voice faded. KLEIN'S business faces U.S. 34 just before it enters the can- yon. Damage estimates from fed- eral and state officials ranged from $5 million to $100 million, but none of them appeared to include all categories of losses. Capt.. John Englebert, opera- tions chief for the sheriff's de- partment, said he hoped to dis- patch 11 helicopters to carry body-hunting teams of deputies, state patrolmen and county search squads. They would also watch for looters. Capt. W. E. Thomas of the state patrol said dogs were be- ing used to search for corpses in the rubble. One man walking his dog near the fairground seven miles southeast of the canyon reported finding a wom- an's body. The computer-processed list of those feared dead was revised almost hourly at Loveland High School. The sprawling brick complex was the center for both refugees and volunteers keeping up with reports of missing per- sons. PASADENA, Calif. (P)-Vik- ing's stuck dirt-scooping samp- ling arm may be jammed for good, officials said yesterday. But if one crucial experiment can be carried out later this week, the over-all impact may not be too serious. Assuming the organic analysis experiment can be done tomor- row, Mission Director Tom Young said: "We would have carried out studies of Mars soil with three analytical instru- ments." HOWEVER, he said that the failure to fix the dirt-scooping sample arm would mean Viking 1 would have been able to ana- lyze soil obtained from only one spot in the lander's neighbor- hood. Officials planned to try and carry out tomorrow the organic analysis-a search for basic building blocks of life-for which the arm was scooping dirt when it jammed Tuesday. IHowever, they suspect that enough dirt for the test was obtained by the telescoping arm during its first digging mission a week ago. The test is considered crucial because o fits potential contri- bution to the search for life, which thus far has yielded am- biguous results. Scientists say they are leaning toward the view that results from the mini- laboratorv thus far are not caus- ed by life processes. YOUNG SAID the robot land- er's two camera "eyes" would he ordered to scrutinize the stuck arm tomorrow to help determine what is wrong. The arm, which is made of two thin metal ribbons that reel usp like a tape measure when it is retracted, jammed as it was being pulled back into its hous- ing yesterday after scooping a handful of soil. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Adm. Noel Gayler, retiring chief of U. S. Pacific forces, said yesterday the Soviet Union is trying to establish port fa- cilities for its fishing fleet in the South Pacific and warned that it could lead to a Soviet military presence. Defense officials of the Unit- ed States, Australia and New Zealand, completing a two-day meeting here as the ANZUS de- fense alliance, decided to ex- tend more economic aid to South Pacific islands in hopes of heading off such Russian penetration. THE SOVIET news agency Tass, reporting on the session here, said it could be summed up as "the return to the times of cold war" and said the "hackneyed allegations about the 'Soviet menace' were re- hashed." Gayler said the Soviet Union, which has no discernible pres- ence in the South Pacific now, has offered to build airports in Tonga and Western Samoa in return for facilities for their fishing fleets, "We don't want to see an ar- rangement where an interna- tional airport constructed os- tensibly to support movements to or from the fishing fleet .. . could be converted to a mili- tary aircraft operating base," he said in an interview during the session. T 0 N G A, A former Brit- ish protectorate, and Western Samoa, a former New Zealand trust territory, are independent nations made up of a number of islands. "We don't want to see these island countries and island peoples exploited and there's some potential for that," Gay- ler said. "We think anything like this could be highly desta- bilizing. "The major point is that in the Russian state the fishing intelligence operations, the mer- -chant fleet and naval operations are all an integral part of the Soviet state." THE RUSSIAN fishing fleet paves the way in Soviet policy, he said. Maryland adopted the first workmen's compensation law in 1902. 0) !ED 03 EDO' SO OEM) So) 04 0. SEM, 0-0"1,TANTRUM oK50c Discount on Admission With Student .D. Hours: Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Weekly Hours: 9 p4m.-2 am. ~516 E. Liberty 994-5350 L'~I U' U' U' U' U' U' U' U' U' U' U' U' k:W-1CF; cc IWA Qj SCID OFSEMS G.09026SOM UAW Local 2001-U of M CLERICALS WOULD YOU GIVE UP 21-22% OF YOUR WAGES? That's the amount unionized clericals in the East North Central States make over non-unionized clericals (Source: U.S. Labor Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor Review)..-. Those working for decertification in the August 5-11 vote want us tn trust University management to do as they please with our working lives. What is the University's past record? " The median wage paid to U of M clericals is still only about $3.75 per hour. This is less than Z/3 what the leading sectors of organized clericals make and nowhere enough to live- on decently. Without a strong, membership-controlled Union to demand higher wages, management will not even pay us enough to cover inflation, let alone enough to bring us up to other organized clericals. * Of institutions in Michigan employing as many workers as the University, approximately 75% have better health benefits-at least outpatient care, prescription drugs and some dental or optical coverage. What ever happened to the myth of the "great" Uni- versity fringe benefits package? University maongement has not respected our work as individuals-it's time we used our collective strength through our Union to force recognition! ECONOMIC DEMANDS OF UAW LOCAL 2001 Membership of UAW Local 2001 approved the following economic demands for the contract negotiations which will begin as soon as the decertification election is over-provided we still have a Union. Such demands can only be won by organized workers, although they obviously cannot be won all at once. Most of the demands already have been won by the leading sectors of organ- ized labor. Can you imagine University management ever giving them to us as individual clericals? " WAGES A new maximum wage rate $50 per week above the.. present maximum. Bring all clericals to the maximum within one year. Combine the C-2 and C-3 pay grades at the C-3 rate. " SHORTER WORK WEEK 35 hours work for 40 hours pay. " COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE Unlimited cost-of-living allow- ance with a formula that would have provided an $18 per week increase over the last year. * LONGEVITY PAY $1 per week increase for each year of seniority (e.g., an extra $10 per week for 10 years seniority). * SICK/PERSONAL DAYS Two days per month for sickness or per- sonal business with no limit on accrual. " VACATION Two days per month. * HOLIDAYS Add Martin Luther King's Birthday, Good Friday, Easter and the two week Christmas break as paid holidays. Clericals may substitute holidays for any five of the above. * BENEFITS Life Insurance Three times the C-6 base annual wage rate plus extra accident insurance for every clerical. Health, Dental and Optical Benefits The best available Blue Cross/ Blue Shield (including outpatient care and prescription drugs), Dental and Optical Insurance Plans; physical exams, "well baby" care, allergy tests and birth control paid directly. Disability and Extended Disability Benefits 100% pay for 26 weeks, then 75 % of pay for 52 weeks, then 50 % of pay for the duration a fthe disability, with a built-in escalator. Retirement The University would pay a full 15% of the C-6 base annual wage rate into the TIAA/CREF Retirement Plan for every clerical. * EDUCATION Tuition waiver (refund for other schools) and paid release time for up to 5 credit hours per term. $50 per term for books and materials. All courses accepted. * DAY CARE Free, quality day care run by the Union and parents. * FREE PARKING Near where we work. The decertification drive is a serious threat to all of us. With contract nego- tiations and a chance to make real gains in our working conditions and standard of living just weeks away, decertification would take away our right to bargain collectively at all for what we want and need. Now is the time to organize ourselves together, not dissolve our Union. As individuals, we could never compel the University management to treat us fairly or pay us decent wages and benefits. UAW Local 2001 is us, organized to win a better life for ourselves and our children. The Local 2001*membership determines contract demands, priori- ties and strategy, including whether to strike for our demands. The strength of the Union is the membership, and the direction of the Union is determined by the membership. We must not throw away what is at present our only tool for gaining control of our working lives. VOTE "YES" FOR UAW LOCAL. 2001 IN THE AUGUST 5-11 DECERTIFICATION ELECTION! OUR UNION WITH EACH OTHER IS OUR ONLY STRENGTH! UAW LOCAL 2001 EDUCATION COMMITTEE HELEN KELLY, LISA NORTH, PAM O'CONNOR, DOC WHITING, JO WILSMANN.