Ford From AP and UPI DETROIT - Ford Motor yesterday it is asking the U Workers 'union to make s sacrifices in fringe benefits for job protection and profit s its members. The proposal made no men plan already approved by Motors Corp. under whichu cessions would be passed o sumers through lower pricedc Peter Pestillo, Ford's vice for labor relations, told repo the No. 2 automaker wan workers to give up some paid they receive under the cur tract, which expires Sept. 14. The Ford plan "seriouslyf the two major issues that the asked us to solve - profit-sh. job protection," Pestill sai two-hour bargaining session. proposes Ford's proposal would replace the r Co. said remaining eight months of the current nited Auto contract and extend it two additional ubstantial years through Sept. 14, 1984, said in return Pestillo. sharing for Donald Ephlin, a UAW vice president and head of the union's Ford Depar- ition of the tment called the offer a "murky and General confusing document." union con- "IT WAS MARKEDLY diferent from on to con- our proposal...We want to take it apart cars. so we understand it fully," he said. president Ephlin said the No. 2 automaker did rters that not address a UAW proposal of passing ts hourly along to consumers any labor-cost' d time off savings that result from the negotiations rent con- Ppstillo did not comment on the suggestion. The union said the prin- addresses ciple to which General Motors Corp. union has agreed Tuesday, is vital to any set- aring and tlement. id after a PESTILLO SAID the Ford plan "permits us to begin to address the cost The Michigan Daily-Saturday, January 16, 1982-Page 3 uts in benefits problems facing the company while at the same time not cutting wages. We will be asking for reductions in paid time off and for restraints in labor costs." He refused to elaborate. Industry estimates place Ford's hourly labor casts at $21.17 in wages and fringe benefits. In the 1979 round of bargaining, auto industry workers won a total of 26 paid personal holidays over the life of the three-year contract. At General Motors headquarters in Detroit, union leaders and company executives caucused separately and it was not immediately known whether they planned to bargain. UAW President Douglas Fraser remained at GM. THE CONCESSION-, talks began Monday, six months before the traditional mid-summer negotiations. The auto companies are asking unions to make concessions because of the car industry's worst slump in half a cen- tury. As further evidence of the hard times, the five major U.S. automakers repor- ted Thursday that indefinite layoffs will soar this week to 227,950 workers from last week's 214,700. And those figures do not include the more than 50,000 blue-collar jobs lost for good through attrition sice the big slump began in the spring of 1979. In the last industry sales report, Ford lost ground to GM and Chrysler Corp. in the share of the U.S. car market, and Thursday Ford announced it would not pay a divident to stockholders during the January-March quarter of 1982. That will mark the first time Ford has omitted a quarterly divident since the company changed from family ownership to public stock sales in 1956. Ford lost more than $700 million in the first nine months of 1981. False reports hinder search for Dozier AP Photo Frosted turret This lighthouse on Lake Michigan at St. Joseph, Mich., stands covered with ice and snow following the severe winter storms which blew across the state earlier this week. For Nancy Reagan, the clot are free From AP and UPI WASHINGTON- Nancy Reagan is saving thousands of dollars by accep- ting clothing, from sportswear to gowns, as loans and gifts from American designers. Sheila Tate, Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, said yesterday that the style- conscious first lady is accepting the clothes only to benefit the American fashion industry, and has not gained personally from the variety of expen- sive outfits obtained without cost. Mrs. Tate refused to say how many items of clothing Mrs. Reagan has received as gifts or loans, or how much. they are worth. Designer ensembles range in price from $100 to more than $10,000. f'THIS HAS done nothing but benefit the industry," Mrs. Tate insisted. "She has derived no personal benefit." Many of the couture creations will be passed on to American museums after Mrs Reagan has finished wearing them, so that students of design may study them. Tate said the first lady is sorting through her wardrobe to select a representative group of clothes. from her favorite designers-Bill Blass, James Galanos and Adolfo. TATE SAID the first lady sent a wire to Ann Keagy, head of the Parsons School of Design's fashion design department and head of the project, that was read at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards dinner Thursday night in New York. "I'm happy to announce that a representative group of clothing worn by me since becoming first lady will be distributed regularly to the costume collectors of a number of museums," the wire read. I -HAPPENINGS- HIGHLIGHT Some of folk music's finest will perform today at the Ark in Ann Arbor's Fifth Annual Folk Festival. David Bromberg will headline both the 2 p.m. show and the 8 p.m. show, but the two programs will be otherwise com- pletely different, featuring such artists as Tom Paxton, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Owen McBride, Gemini, and (possibly) a few surprise perfor- mers. FILMS Alternative Acion-From Russia with Love, 7 p.m., MLB 3; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 9:15p.m., MLB 3. AAFC-The Cars That Eat People, 7, 10:20 p.m., MLB 4; Picnic at Hanging Rock, 8:30 p.m., MLB 4. Cinema Guild-A Clockwork Orange, 7, 9p.m., Lorch. Cinema II-Lenny, 7, 9p.m., Angell Aud. A. Mediatrics-Rock 'n Roll High School, 7,9 p.m., Nat. Sci. PERFORMANCES Musical Society-The Joffrey II Dancers, 8 p.m., Power Center. School of Music-Dances for Two, 8 p.m., Trueblood Theater; Piano Recital, Deanne Vanden Berg, 4 p.m., Recital Hall; Bassoon Recital, Beth Wilkinson, 8 p.m., Stearns. SPEAKERS Ann Arbor Chinese Bible Class-Pastor S. Y. Kou, 7:30 p.m.,, University Reformed Church. MEETINGS Ann Arbor Go-Club-2 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. Graduate Christian Fellowship-Worship, 7 p.m., League Rm. C. MISCELLANEOUS Hillel-Conservative - Egalitarian Service, 10 a.m., 1429 Hill. Jewish Grad Students-Party, 9:30 p.m., 1054 Ferdon. Women's Gymnastics vs. Illinois (co-ed), 1:30 p.m., Crisler Arena. Women's Synchronized Swimming-Figure Invitational, 1 p.m., Bell Pool. Women's Swimming vs. Ohio State, 2 p.m., Matt Mann. Panhellenic Assoc.-3rd Annual All-Campus Leadership Conf., noon, Union. The Theosophical Society-"A Dfiferent Way of Death," video presen- tation, 3 p.m., The Carriage House. University Planetarium-"Winter's Gems," 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 2, 3, 4 p.m., University Exhibit Museum Planetarium. ROME (AP) - Terrorist hoaxes to mislead authorities and spurious tips from' well-meaning people have spawned a series of conflicting and of- ten false reports about the search for kidnapped U.S. Army Brig. Gen. James Dozier. They also have given rise to speculation that the Red Brigades kid- nappers are deliberately trying to make Italian and U.S. security forces look ridiculous. ONE ANONYMOUS caller told police yesterday that Dozier had been killed and dumped in a lake north of Venice. But a police search turned up nothing and police said the caller was probably a compulsive liar. "Investigators are back to square one," headlined one Milan daily after authorities brushed aside reports of a major break in the -Dozier probe following a weekend sweep of Red Brigades hideouts in Rome. Authorities also deny Italian news media reports that investigators were following "ia precise trail" in their search for the gang's "people's prison" where Dozier is said to be held. ANOTHER FACTOR has been the lack of a centralized authority to provide official information, and the result is sometimes contradictory statements. Deadly radioactive cylinder returned OIL CITY, Pa. (AP) - A cylinder containing a radioactive material that could produce a fatal dose of radiatin with only one hour's exposure was returned intact yesterday by a plumber who picked up up after it fell from a truck, police said. "From all indications, it was not opened. It looks like everything is OK," said Gary Sanborn, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in King of Prussia, Pa. LT. GARY Dauberger said Oil City police were called at 5:45 p.m. after plumber Clifford Woodworth and his boss, Leroy Collins, heard news reports about the potential danger. Police said Woodworth, of nearby Seneca, picked up the cannister at an intersection in Oil City while on his way to work. He then put the cylinder in his boss' van, where it stayed untouched until police were called. "My men isolated the area in minutes...checked it out and found it was not open," Dauberger said. THE NRC SAID the 10-inch-long, blue steel cylinder contained iridium 192, an isotope so radioactive it could kill someone exposed to it for an hour. If the cylinder were opened, "one would expect severe injury to the hands in seconds, radiation burns, and possibly fatal exposure in less than an hour," said NRC spokesman Karl Abraham. The radioactive material was used by Consolidated X-ray, of New Jersey, to X-ray pipeline welds. "IT'S BACK IN their hands," Dauberger said. Collins said Woodworth thought the cylinder was a tool because it was wrapped with a steel cable. "He thought it was a plumber's snake. He put it in his car and when we got to the job, he put it in my truck. Nobody touched it. It never moved. We r ,> d e e ne rP Unidentified "friends" of the general were reported to have put up a $1.7 million reward for information leading to his release. At first, both the Interior Ministry and the U.S. Embassy denied the existence of the fund, but the fund's existence was later confirmed by NATO officials and Verona authorities. It is still not clear who the general's "friends" are. Italian news agencies speculated that the CIA might be in- volved, a report denied by the U.S. Em- bassy. Among those providing bits and pieces of official information in Verona are the NATO command, anti- terrorism police known as Digos, para- military police, or Carabinieri, and the office of the prefect, the national government representative. In Rome, there are the Interior Ministry, Digos, Carabinieri, the prosecutor's office, and the U.S. Embassy. Nearly a month after the 51-year-old general was abducted by the guerrilla group from his Verona apartment, no arrests have been made or warrants issued in the case. 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