Ninety-On Of Editorial F e Years - . E Litrigan IEIUIIQ DAMNED COLD Sunny, clear, and cold today. Partly cloudy tonight. High in the low teens. Low -5 to 10-. reedom 0 Vol. XCI, No. 114 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, February 12, 1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Grid fans .may shell out more for tickets By KENT WALLEY and RON POLLACK Michigan football may be big business, but even the University athletic department is not immune to rising costs. And to keep the books balanced next fall, football ticket pricesmay increase while budgets for travel and minor spor- ts undergo significant reductions, Athletic Director Don Canham said yesterday. FOOTBALL TICKET prices will probably be raised from the current $10 per ticket level to $11 or $12, Canham said. Student ticket prices will be increased proportionally, he ad- ded, 'since football regulations require that students pay one half the regular price. But the increase in revenue from the higher-priced football tickets will probably not counter the department's current financial crunch. Reductions in the travel budgets and budgets of minor sports teams will also be necessary, Canham said. According to Associate Athletic Director Will Perry, Canham has already taken steps to cut travel expenses by transfering the Wolverine hockey team out of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and into the Central Collegiate Hockey Association-a move that will mean the icers will be playing teams closer to home. CANHAM PLANS to encourage more regionally-based See GRID, Page 10 Busboy in custody for Vegas Hilton hotel fire LAS VEGAS, Nev (AP) - A busboy at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel was arrested and booked on eight counts of homicide last night in connection with the arson fire that burst out an eighth floor window and roared up the side of the 30-story hotel. Eight people died in the fire and 198 were in- jured. Homicide detectives said they had arrested and charged Phillip Bruce Cline, 23, who they said was the first person to report the blaze to the: fire department. "WE DETERMINED THAT probable cause exists to charge him with first-degree arson and eight counts of murder," said Deputy Chief Erik Cooper. Cooper said Cline was questioned for two hours, that he was taken to the Metropolitan Police station yesterday afternoon, and that he was in the hotel at the time the fire started. Some 4,000 people were rescued or evacuated from the building, including 118 plucked from the roof by helicopter. HILTON HOTELS CORP. vice president Henri Lewin has offered a $100,000 reward for infor- mation leading to the apprehension of the ar- sonists. "This is a homicide investigation. This is a criminal investigation," Gov. Bob List said as hundreds of fire refugees listened outside the Convention Center meeting room where a news conference was held. "This state has a tough law," List said. "The penalty for arson that kills someone is capital punishment." The survivors from the fire erup- ted in applause. LAS VEGAS FIRE Chief Roy Parrish said the, blaze in the east wing was "definitely arson." "It had four points of origin," he said. "The fire spread from the eighth to the 29thiloors by leaping outside. It took just 10 to 15 minutes" to reach the uppermost floors. "As the fire progressed up, it broke windows and, lapped in. See EIGHT, Page 6 AP Photo A HELICOPTER SEARCHES for survivors at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel where four fires, set by arsonists, proved fatal for eight people. One of the fires started on the eighth floor and created this funnel effect in the 30-story hotel. -u -Libraries won't escape impending budget cuts By NANCY BILYEAU With panic over the outright elimination of several entire University units sweeping the campus, it's easy to overlook the mere reductions scheduled for many other University programs. Administrators in the University Library system are not overlooking possible reductions. And for the more than 30 libraries on campus, the cut- backs are likely to be far from mere. THE BUREAU OF Government Library and the Social Work Library could well fall victim to the Univer- sity's budget axe as the University Library system prepares to cut corners and save money. Elimination of those two libraries, as well as service reductions at Many of the others, are part of a contingency plan drawn up by library ad- ministrators last December. It was a plan they hoped would never have to be put into effect. But, according to one assistant ,to Vice President Bill Fryer the con- tingency plans "are almost sure to be going into effect for the new fiscal year." THOSE PLANS call for a six percent budget reduction in most University units. And for the library system, the six percent cutback could mean drastic reductions. "There's not a lot of fat in that budget," said Robert Suave, another assistant to Frye. "The library is one of those units that's going to-have great difficulty making the six percent cut." Despite projections of reduced hours, elimination of $190,000 in career library positions, and $120,000 in hourly staff positions-in addition to the outright closing of several libraries and the elimination of extension sup- port-library officials are optimistic. "I HAVE A firm belief that the University administration and faculty are supportive of the library," Library Director Richard Dougherty said yesterday. "We'll emerge from these cuts without irreparable damage. The proposals contained in the con- tingency plans submitted to Frye are not definite, according to Dougherty. Currently he, like directors of other units across the campus, is revising and refining plans to achieve the six percent cut that Frye could require for the 1981- 82 fiscal year. The cutbacks could be necessary to offset shortfalls in this year's budget and predicted state appropriations reductions in the budget for the next fiscal year. THE DECLINING quality of library services has already resulted this year from curtailed hours and the necessity of filling established career positions with student assistants, Dougherty said. See BUDGET, Page 2 My .Way Frank Sinatra, center, arrives at a gaming control board hearing concerning his request for a Nevada gaming license. Sinatra, who denied mob ties, and cited President Reagan as a reference, was granted a six-month license yesterday. He awaits final approval Feb.19. att seeks Pacific ol leases WASHINGTON (UPI) -More than a million acres of en- vironmentally sensitive California coastal waters were ten- tatively tagged yesterday by Interior Secretary James Watt to be included in a May oil and gas lease sale. The move drew sharp criticism from environmentalists and politicians who had persuaded former Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus to drop the areas from leasing consideration. "THE PRESIDENT has instructed me to take the necessary steps to increase the production of oil and gas and I firmly intend to take those steps," Watt wrote California Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. "I want to be sure in my own mind that we have made every effort to meet the president's request, obviously within the bounds of necessary and proper environmental protec- tion." Watt told Brown the decision was not final and asked him "to submit recommendations on behalf of the state of California on the sale's size, timing and location within 60 days." Watt said the areas have an estimated potential of 982 million barrels of oil and 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas worth $42 billion in today's market. WATT ALSO KILLED a Carter administration order to require labeling of hazardous chemicals yesterday and delayed implementation of more than 20 regulations. He withdrew a proposal of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to require labeling of hazardous chemicals; postponed indefinitely a regulation raising the salary level for exemptions from overtime wage laws, and delayed a requirement that a prevailing wage rate be paid See WATT, Page 5 Daily Photo by JOHN HAGEN STUDENTS MAKE USE of the Social Work Library, one o targeted for possible elimination due to the University's budge TODAY f the libraries t crunch. cancellations will be checked out through University i Where its at THE UNIVERSITY doesn't need a geography department, say some administrators, because Harvard, Yale, and Stanford don't have geography departments. At least that'shone excuse. Well, we might all do well to take a geography lesson or two. William Clark, President Reagan's under- secretary of state designate-a Stanford graduate-doesn't know that Belgium and the Netherlands are two different F~r,,an ,ti Andl n imhnof .rf inum Dailstaff I sounding voice. At least one area radio station-WC- BN-was tricked late Tuesday night into announcing over the air that classes would not be held in the law school yesterday. WCBN started announcing the cancellation of law classes after a woman who ,identified herself as the "assistant dean of student affairs" called the station and said law classes were called off for Wednesday, according to Ken Freedman, WCBN programming director. Freed- man said the person who took the call thought the woman "sounded official." The CBN staff started getting very suspicious when someone who sounded very much like the woman with the official voice called back and asked cancellations will pe checked out through University security before being placed on the air. Q It takes a thief At least one thief can't complain of police brutality. Police in Anchorage, Alaska say they are worried that "Shorty," a grocery store shoplifter, will be hit by a car while making a getaway from one of his heists. Shorty, it seems, is only four years old, and has already ripped off an Anchorage grocery store three times. Police and grocery store officials fear that harm could come to the tot during I ,neof hiq ,,m,a--n .mirens i-, arit,.arkt "Thena who put Shorty in a foster home Saturday for the remainder of the weekend, say the boy just doesn't seem to be afraid Qf cars on the busy highway by the market. Well, they say criminals always re-visit the scene of their crimes... . l Disneyland frolics Bob Hope has plenty to say about his pal Ronald Reagan. In his Valentine's Day special, titled "Funny Valentine", and televised last night on NBC, the veteran comedian of- fered his share of inaugural jokes about his show biz pal. "President Reagan is trying to make the Californians feel at home in the White House," Hope said. "He has it divided I I i i