Join the Daily-meeting tonight Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom L tE 43UU ~IaiI MUNDANE Partially clearing today, with a high in the mid-20s. Low in the teens. Vol. XCI, No. 102 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan; Thursday, January 29, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages MMMMMMMM" ReagaE cofltrol1 WASHINGTON (AP)-Pres'fdent Reagan abolished the last federal controls on oil prices yesterday in the hope that bigger costs for con- sumers will force more conservation in homes and spur increased production by the industry. As a result, motorists may pay 3 to 5 cents more per gallon for gasoline in the days ahead, said Energy Secretary James Edwards. Consumer groups said the increase could be as much as 12 cents a gallon. EDWARDS SAID the impact on home heating oil prices would be minimal, if there was any at all. Energy Action, a consumer group, said heating oil prices could jump by more than 10 cen- ts a gallon in February. Edwards, a dentist by profession, readily admit- ted he did not know the full impact of Ieagan's or- der and, at one point, said he was "a little con- fused" about some of the details. "We did it because the president promised it in + the campaign," Edwards said. "We think it's good for America, and we have certainly studied it to 1 axes federal on oil some extent. I'm the new guy on the block and I must admit I don't have all the statistical data at my fingertips that you may desire." HE SAID, FOR example, he did not know how much the industry might reap in additional profits, or how many additional barrels of oil might be produced as a result. U.S. oil companies cheered Reagan's move. Paul Premo, manager of petroleum regulations for Standard Oil of California, said company executives were "ecstatic." Conoco Inc. sait it "applauds this major unshackling of the oil business." Several industry analysts agreed with a statement by Standard Oil Col. Ohio that "the near-term impact on the consumer could be an in- crease of 7 to 10 cents per gallon" of gasoline. INDUSTRY SOURCES SAID CitiesService Co. yesterday lifted wholesale gasoline prices by 1.5 cents a gallon in selected areas, Marathon Oil by a penny a gallon,. Standard Oil Co. by 1.5 cents a gallon, Triangle Oil by 2 cents a gallon, and prices Ashland Oil by 1 to 2 cents a gallon depending on region. These wholesale price rises should begin ap- pOaring almost immediately at pumps where competitive factors will allow dealers to charge motorists higher prices. REAGAN, IN.A statement, said, "Ending price controls is a positive first step towards a balanced energy program-a program free of arbitrary and counterproductive constraints-one designed to pronote prudent conservation and vigorous domestic production." The president said controls had held U.S. production "below its potential, artificially boosted energy consumption, aggravated our balance of payments problems and stifled technological breakthroughs. "Price controls have also made us more energy dependent on the OPEC nations-a development that has jeopardized our economic security Hostage homecoming AP Photo Elizabeth Swift, a former Iranian hostage, is welcomed by friends and neighbors at her home in Washington yesterday. Swift is holding her dog Cinder in her arms. Most of the hostages arrived home yesterday. See story, pU' in running ,r .mu -= -w U.S. will not send military arms, to Iran for I'V movie By RON POLLACK In the House of the Rose Bowl-winning Wolverines, the story sounds familiar: A number of individual athletes sweat together for long hours in the process of becoming a team. ,It is also the plot of The Winning Team, a made-for-television movie that is a football version of the Broadway musical A Chorus Line. AND ANN ARBOR is one of three university towns being considered as the filming site for the proposed movie by Lorimar Inc. Bob Scott, director of the state's film and television commission, said yesterday the California-based television producer contacted him in mid-December about the possibility of filming here. Scott contacted Univer- sity Vice President for State Relations Richard Kennedy, who gave Lorimar a positive response to the project pending further communications. Other sites under consideration for The Winning Team' are Austin, Texas and Columbus, Ohio where the Univer- sity of Texas and Ohio State University are located, respectively, Scott said. UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC Director Don Canham has also been contacted about the move and is awaiting further information, according to Assistant Athletic Director Will Perry. The movie's plot centers on the process of molding the individual ..See ANN ARBOR, Page 10 WASHINGTON (AP)-Secretary of State Alexander Haig said yesterday the United States will refuse to sell military supplies to Iran and will not turn over equipment the Tehran gover- nment already has purchased. Making clear the Reagan ad- ministration will continue to view Iran with great suspicion, Haig also said American businesses should use the "most careful caution" in future trade with Iran. HAIG INDICATED the United States will abide by the terms of the agreements that freed the 52 American hostages, although he said U.S. officials will want to be sure the Iranians are living up to their obligations under the agreement as well. "The United States government will fulfill its obligations in accordance with both international law and the accepted norms of domestic legal practice," Haig said at his first news conference as secretary of state. He cleared up one loose end not specifically covered in the agreements: the disposition of nearly $500 million in military equipment purchased but not shipped by the time the hostages were seized on Nov. 4, 1979. Then-President Jimmy Carter halted further shipments of the equipment in retaliation for the, hostage seizure. "LET ME STATE categorically today there will be no military equip- ment provided to the government of Iran, either under earlier obligations and contractual arrangements, or as yet unstated requests," Haig said. The Defense Department reported that Iran has paid for about $457 million worth of U.S. military equipment that was not delivered. Most of the gear is spare parts for U.S.-built jet fighters, tanks, helicopters and other weapons sold to Iran before the overthrow of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The revolutionary regime now in con- trol in Iran has not requested shipment of the equipment, and the subject was not raised in the long negotiations leading to the hostage release See HAIG, Page 10 AP Photo SECRETARY OF STATE Alexander Haig cocks an ear to a reporter's question during a press conference yesterday. Haig ruled out any shipment of U.S. arms to Iran although he said the U.S. would fulfill its obligations under the agreement that freed the American hostages. Halfway house owner plans to close faci11ty By DEBI DAVIS Saying that "the state gave me a rot- ten deal," the owner of one of Ann Ar- bor's three remaining halfway houses said yesterday he will close down the state-supervised facility by March 1. The Rev. Esque Wells, who owned and operated the 506 W. William half- way house, said he "had a nice, smooth running house" until prisoners from three recently closed halfway houses were placed in his house by the state last month. "THEY (THE STATE) dumped those men in my house and spoiled the image of my house," Wells said. "Those men from East Ann were nothing but gangbusters," he said, referring to the prisoners transferred from houses at 1122 and 1124 E. Ann and 1125 E. Huron, owned by Louis Rome. Both of the men charged with the ar- med robbery of China Gardens restaurant Saturday night are former residents of Rome's halfway houses. Tyrone Reid, one of the robbery suspec- ts, had been transferred from there to Wells' William St. house in late Decem- ber. The Rome houses were closed Dec. 31, after the staff, unhappy with working conditions, walked out. This occurred shortly after Timothy Hughes, a resident of Rome's 1124 E. Ann St. house, was charged with the murder of an Ann Arbor cab driver. MEANWHILE, Mayor Belcher, and See LANDLORD, Page 2 Loanprogram proposed for parents of students By PAM KRAMER Low and middle income parents of college students may be able to receive extensive finan- cial aid this summer for their children under a recent addition to the federal Guaranteed Student Loan program. State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) in- troduced legislation Tuesday that would authorize the state student loan office to grant loan requests. This will be the state's first local or federal loan program offering aid exclusively to parents of college students. The program grants parents up to $3,000 per student per year at 9 percent interest, according to Dan Sharp, an administrative assistant to Bullard. BULLARD SAID he expects easy passage of the bill and hopes the program will be operating soon enough to make loans available for summer and fall terms. Sharp said the government will announce the program's formal guidelines before July, possibly as early as next month. He added that the income level at which parents are no longer eligible for the loan remains to be worked out. The federal plan, established by former President Carter late last year, requires each state to create a loan authority to participate. Sharp said he. did not know why it has taken so long for the program to become better-knows to states. He said Massachusetts was the only state ready to implement the plan Jan. 1. "WE KNEW ABOUT it because Perry reads the Washington Post," Sharp said. "He picked up on a story about it in the paper." State officials have temporarily stopped accep- ting applications for Michigan Direct Student Loans because of an increased number of ap- plications and the tight money market. Bullard said he expects these problems to be cleared up by ' June. "We'll be looking at what other measures we may need to take to make more loans available," he said. In the meantime, he said Guaranteed Student Loans are still available. TODAY- Dean who? IF THE Michigan Student Assembly expects University administrators to listen to its suggestions, it better learn who those administrators are. The Daily yesterday received a copy of a letter sent to the LSA dean asking for student participation in the review of the slated-for- elimination geography department. The letter, written by MSA member Shawn Goodman, was addressed to LSA nfl n n Ri w rve Sarrv fnkre vou'rea little late. Although b9t STUDENT M AASSEMB The lone range cover-up Clayton Moore may look like just any other joe without his outfit-a plain black eye mask. But when he dons the item, he magically transforms into the one and only Lone Ranger. Actually, Wrather Corp., which owns the legal rights to the Lone Ranger character, is disputing Moore's right to pose as the Western marvel. Moore, who played the ranger on TV for many years, had been making appearan- ces as Tonto's best buddy, but Wrather has obtained a court order barring him from making any more such appearan- ces Sn who is enming to the rese Raltimore Demnerat was answered by Mechanicville police, who activated Clif- ton Park's fire siren. When volunteer firefighters learned the fire was several miles away, they called the Saratoga County Sheriff's Department in nearby Ballston Spa. Since the Sheriff's Department operates the fire control office for the county, they called the nearest station to the fire: the Janesville Fire Department. Jonesville and Clifton Park firefighters met each other at the scene. They were too late. The fire was ,out when they arrived. A quick-thinking supermarket employee put out the fire. Better late than never? 0 S I 1 . I , :I