Ninety- Two Years I Of Editorial Freedom £AIIIIE IgUU 1i aiI WARM It should be mild again today with a high in the mid-60s and increasing cloudiness with a chance of showers. Ten Cents Eight Pages Vol. XCII.I No. 45 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 31, 1981 Ten Cents Eight Pages A Tisch and hs - Tisch and his tax cuts return -again By BARRY WITT Robert Tisch, and all that is associated with his name, has returned. The Shiawassee County Drain Commissioner said yesterday in a telephone interview that he will submit his third property tax relief proposal to the voters in 1982. He already has placed himself in contention for the 1982 Democratic gubernatorial nomination. CANDIDATE AND tax-cut advocate Tisch will bring his solutions for the state's economic ills to campus Wednesday during a Viewpoint Lecture Series engagement. The mere mention of Tisch's name conjurs up night- mares for some University administrators, faculty mem- bers, and students, who fear that a Tisch tax cut would mean a devastating cutback in state support of higher education. Administrators and student government leaders had helped lead a fight to defeat Tisch's earlier ballot proposals. Now Tisch says he may be ready to try to win support for a third cut plan. "I seriously thought I wouldn't have to (propose a tax cut) again," Tisch said. "I can't believe the political body has not gotten the message."n TISCH, WHOSE first two attempts at slashing state property tax rates lost in 1978 and 1980, said his third try will have the same objectives. But, Tisch said, "We've got a different ball game this year." Along with Tisch for governor and the Tisch III tax-cut proposal for November 1982, the candidate said he hopes state residents will vote to reinstate legislators as part-time officials. All three parts of the package are necessary to achieve reforms, said Tisch. "No one person alone is going to turn this state around as governor." BUT THE ELECTION is still a year off. In the meantime, the controversial tax-cutter must gain the Democratic nomination for governor. And legislators, concerned about taxpayer demand for reform, are attempting to appease the public with less drastic tax changes between now and the election. Tisch said he decided to run as a Democrat because "the party has always represented everything that was people- oriented." Hesaid President John Kennedy was a great Democratic economic reformer. "If Kennedy had lived, we would not be near the collapse we are facing now," Tisch said. "KENNEDY CUT taxes like I never even dreamed of, and the country boomed just like California is booming now (in the aftermath of property tax-slashing Proposition 13)," Tisch added. Although he sees hope for the party, Tisch said Democrats in recent years have been "guilty of feathering their own nests and not paying attention to the people." He said his tax cuts are aimed more at reforming gover- nment than just reducing taxes. Citing the state Depar- tment of Natural Resources as one government agency wasting taxpayer dollars, Tisch said, "You'd be sick (with it), unless you planned a career in public service and didn't give a damn." "People can't eat fish out of the Shiawassee River now for one simple reason: DNR (state Department of Natural Resources) people knew (it was being polluted) for years and didn't do anything about it," the drain commissioner said. THROUGH PROPERTY tax cuts, the legislature would be forced to trim its own bureaucracy, he said. Previous Tisch tax-cut measures would have required that the state make up any revenues lost by local gover- See TISCH, Page 2 Robert Tisch U II Polish leader .warns union, WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski threatened yester- day to use 'extraordinary means of ac- tion" against Solidarity if the union failed to heed a parliamentary call for an. immediate end to the strikes that are keeping Poland in turmoil. Jaruzelski, in his nationally televised address to Parliament, attacked Solidarity for creating an "atmosphere of strikes ...according to all rules of psychological war. Let the response of the government be clear and frank. We warn against the language of threats., From such threats, there is only one step to crime. History knows such examples." ' He said Solidarity extremists were trying to form a "countergovernment," but that Poland's leaders were trying to acti.on avoid "catastrophe," by all means, and that he felt the nation's wisdom could "bar by a joint effort the road to tragedy." JARUZELSKI also named a non- communist and a Catholic to his gover- nment and reshuffled five Cabinet posts in an apparent effort to gain broader support. "In connection with the dangerous situation in the country, I conveyed to the Sejm Parliament a government draft proposal for a law on extraor- dinary means of action to protect citizens and state," said Jaruzelski, who is also Poland's Communist Party chief and defense minister. "If this resolution of the Sejm is not respected, I shall propose in an urgent See POLISH, Page 2 City cost of living still above average, study finds By ROSEMARY LARK Ann Arbor's cost of living is falling relative to the rest of the nation, but it is still 7 percent higher than the national average. The figures come from a quarterly report issued by the American Cham- ber of Commerce Researchers Association, in which more than 230 cities participated. The Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce contributed' local price listings. THE DECLINE for the third quarter was the result of a drop in the average cost of housing and transportation in the Ann Arbor area, said Jean Jackman of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commer- ce. The All-Items Index used by the Chamber of Commerce measures nationwide variations in the costs of 44 consumer goods and services, including food, housing, utilities, transportation See COST, Page 2 IA Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM. Believe it or not Jango Edwards, leader of the 1981 Ozone Parade, rumbles down a sidewalk outside the Ann Arbor Bank and Trust on Liberty St. in an exhibition of alternative culture. "Part of Ann Arbor's alternative culture is still alive and well," said Larry Behnke, a coordinator of this year's parade. The annual parade, started as an alternative to the more traditional Homecoming parade in 1972, was held on city sidewalks because police charge $1200 to arrange security for a street parade, Edwards said. 4 Laboratory care facility monitors animal research By JOYCE FRIEDEN On any given day, students and faculty members are experimenting with animals. The pharmacology depar- tment is using dogs to simulate human heart conditions in research, the toxicology department is testing hallucinogens on rats, and the psychology department is studying brain organization in monkeys. The care and feeding of these resear- ch animals is the responsibility of the unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine located in the basement of the Medical Sciences Building. In addition to making periodic visits of research sites in 23 buildings on campus, ULAM em- ployees also house and care for ap- proximately 60 percent of the research animals in their own facilities, said ULAM Director Bennett Cohen. PROFESSORS WHO plan to use animals in research projects must first fill out a Notice of Intent supplied by ULAM, answering questions about facilities, surgical procedures, drugs to be administered and forms of euthaniasia to be given. Animals used in research are ob- tained in several ways, said Cohen. Dogs, for example, often are bought from a licensed dealer who has ob- tained them from a public pound. Rab- bits, on the other hand, are bought from breeders. Cohen said ULAM is very careful about where it obtains research animals. The lab, for example, would never buy a dog that might turn out to be a lost pet. "IF SOMEONE came here tomorrow and said, 'I've got two dogs to sell. you,' there is no way we would take them," said Cohen. "We don't want to be a mechanism for selling stolen animals." The question of whether animals should be used in experiments is a philosophical debate among members of the humane movement, said Eileen Liska-Stevens, Community Relations Director of the Huron Valley Humae Society. The Huron Valley society has had a policy of not selling animals for research purposes ever since it was founded in the 1890s, Liska-Stevens said, adding that other humane societies may not have such policies. "I do not dispute the idea that there are legitimate needs for animals in research," she said, "but not all in- stitutions have the high-quality program that Michigan has. "NOT ALL OF the animals are used for research in higher education," she continued. "Some are used by private industries, such as the cleaning, cosmetics, and soap industries." Some- of the tests performed on animals by industry researchers have involved'a great deal of pain for the animals, Liska-Stevens said. An example of this is the Draize Test, required until recently by the FDA for testing the eye-irritability level of soaps. According to Humane Society See CARE, Page 3 Daily Photo by KIM HILL JIM ALFORD, ASSISTANT director of the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, inspects a dog enclosure at the care facility for animals used in University research. TODAY Turn Of events HINGS HAVE GONE topsy-turvy on the Great Falls, Montana, crime scene. Charles Follick, a member of a local anti-crime organization, has been charged with shop-lifting. District Judge H William Coder is being hauled into court by his neighbors for letting his dogs bark. And Andrea Hemstad, a promoter of another crime-prevention organization, has been ripped off by burglars. Follick is a long-time member of the borhood Watch Program in cooperation with Great Falls police. No one was watching her home, however, when burglars stole a $225 bicycle from her garage last week. Police say the garage was unlocked. E It's fine to kiss As newlyweds will, they kissed as they waited at a stoplight-until they heard the sirens and saw the lights. And that's when William Brook, a motorcycle policeman, started writing tickets for Dr. Ron Cherry and his wife, Dr. Melissa Cherry, both residents at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. Tenn. "It's ridiculous to get a ticket for kissing car's Kentucky license plates and asked to see the registration. And he just kept on writing tickets. "The first ticket was for careless driving because we were kissing at an intersection," Cherry said. "Then, there was another one for not having a Tennessee license plate and the last one was for not having a Metro sticker. The whole thing came out to $40 worth of'fines." Cherry said he is unrepentant. "Even if we have to pay a fine, I can tell you it's not going to keep us from kissing in the car in the future," he said. Q Wear these What's big in Halloween costumes this year? Anything samurais, a holdover from last year's Shogun mania. Gyp- sies, genies, nuns, and futuristic space costumes of all kin- ds, he said. Jack Kirkby, president of Costumes Unlimited, noted Wednesday that all of his Scarlett O'Hara outfits have been rented. "I still have 1890's bathing suits and Arabs," he said. "Arabs are not a big item this year. But it's a desperate time. If the costume fits, the customer will wear it." Christine Dreznes, owner of the Beverly Costume Shop, said, "Gorillas are not too popular this year. It's the real flashy things that are big. Fast movers include the harem girls and the musketeers - they like the big hats." 0 flfn the in ido .I i I,