Page 2-Thursday, March 31, 1983-The Michigan I Committee LANSING (UPI) - Lawmakers yesterday ap- proved Gov. James Blanchard's proposed $225 million budget-cutting executive order, charac- terized as the last step in getting the state's finances in order. Treasury Department officials, meanwhile, said release of some of the more than $500 million in dpferred aid to colleges, community colleges, schools and local governments should begin within two 7eeks. A school aid payment due tomorrow, htowever, will be held up in the meantime.; THE HOUSE Appropriations Committee approved , the budget slash on a 13-0 vote, with all six Republican members absent. Several hours later, ; their Senate counterparts followed suit, approving ; the reduction on a 7-4 vote. House GOP committee members later fumed they had been shut out of the voting, even though their ; senior member acknowledged they were late to the imeeting. et The action came just one day after Blanchard signed a 38 percent income tax increase which will ; s approve raise an estimated $675 million this fiscal year. Still pending is action on a supplemental budget ap- propriation which could amount to $250 million. CUTS TO colleges, including aid to private in- stitutions, total more than $27 million. Plans call for restoring in the next fiscal year about half of the amount cut from individual college grants. No breakdown was available on the amount to be restored. Proposed cuts are as follows; Central Michigan University, $1.2 million; Eastern Michigan Univer- sity, $1.4 million; Ferris State College, $882,000; Grand Valley State Colleges, $525,000; Lake Superior State College, $233,000; Michigan State University, $5.8 million (including agriculture experiment station and cooperative extension); Michigan Technological University, $854,000; Northern Michigan University, $851,000; Oakland University, $790,000; Saginaw Valley State College, $278,000; University of Michigan, $5.8 million; U-M Flint, $338,000; 'U-M' Dearborn, $375,000; Wayne State University, $1.7 million; Western Michigan Univer- sity, $1.8 million. budget cuts EXCEPT FOR Wayne State, the cuts average about 3.7 percent. Wayne State was docked less than that amount, a Budget Department spokesman said, because its fiscal year runs on a different calendar and its restoration has already been deducted from the reduction. The executive order takes its largest bite out of the Department of Social Services - $69.5 million. Budget Director Phillip Jourdan explained that most of that amount will be accounted for through deferred Medicaid payments to hospitals and recognizing additional federal funds. THE ORDER also contains a provision that both legislative appropriations committees will be able to approve specific areas of cuts in state departments, although the total amount of reductions will remain unchanged. "I think this should be characterized as the last step in getting the state's financial house in order," Jourdan said. The administration hopes another such order will not have to be issued. S AT ~~*S comparison ~ unnecessary (Continued from Page 1) educational statement," Erickson says. Because the University does not use quotas for admitting students from various states, Erickson says there is no reason for admissions to use infor- mation on state comparisons. But the University does seek geographical balance: "We might give an edge to a student from Arizona over a student from Illinois," says Erickson. Both Erickson and Womer endorse the use of SAT scores in the college ad- missions process, however. "It's a good second criterion," says Womer, "the first being high school grades." In addition to the student's grade point average and SAT scores, ad- IL emissions officers also consider class AP Photo rank, improvement in grades, level of difficulty of coursework, and the diver- ildren ages sity of the student's academic program. But, Erickson said, "test scores do predict academic success in college." All together now Three-thousand young Japanese violinists performed in yesterday's Suzuki three and above from all over the country joined in the mass concert. Method contest in Tokyo. Chi IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports State job training panel name LANSING - Gov. James Blanchard named a special job training council yesterday, saying this economically ravaged state will provide a crucial test for a new federally funded program. Ann Arbor publisher Philip Power was named to chair the 50-member Michigan Job Training Coordinating Council, which is described as the focal point for implementing the new Job Training and Partnership Act expected to bring approximately $200 million in federal funds to the state beginning Oct. 1. The first task of the council - composed of representatives from business, industry, labor, government and education - will be to advise Blanchard on the designation of service delivery areas, the regions in which training will be conducted. Blanchard said appointing the council is the third step in his economic program and called job training and retraining "the cornerstone of our ef- fort to put people back to work." Shots to curb meningitis begun CHICAGO - Mass immunizations began yesterday in one of the city's largest public housing projects to prevent an outbreak of meningitis from spreading, public health officials said. Six people in Chicago have died from the disease this year. Deputy Health Commissioner Bernard Turnock said the innoculations will be given over a two-day period to residents over age 2 at the West Side ALBA homes, which house 12,000 people in 3,700 apartments. The Chicago Health Department recommended the inoculations at the ALBA homes after three.cases of meningitis were confirmed there this year - one resulting in the death of a 16-year-old youth Feb. 22. "We are concentrating on this one because they've had three cases among a major portion of that complex," Turnock said. Britain proposes additional 50 cent-a-barrel oil price cut Britain proposed an additional 50 cent-a-barrel cut in its North Sea Crude oil prices yesterday in a move analysts said should stabilize world oil prices and prevent a new showdown with OPEC. The restrained British response to the Organization of Petroleum Expor- ting Countries' decision earlier this month to slash its base oil price by $5 to $29 a barrel means a global oil price war probably will be averted. British National Oil Corp. offered to further lower its North Sea bench- mark crude to $30 a barrel from February's proposed $30.50 price. Britain's other less desirable North Sea oil would be reduced by 75 cents a barrel. In Norway, a spokesman for the Norwegian National Oil Co. said it was likely to follow the British lead and reduce its North Sea Oil as early as Tuesday. "The British action indicates that both BNOC and the British government would very much like to see OPEC's new price agreement hold and not get into a pricing struggle with OPEC," said Alvin Silber, analyst at Dean Wit- ter Reynolds Inc. in New York. Space shuttle countdown begins CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The 93-hour countdown began yesterday for the maiden launch Monday of the space shuttle Challenger, grounded for more than two months by engine and equipment problems. NASA Test Director Frank Merlino signaled the start of the long-awaited final series of preparations by issuing a 2 p.m. EST "call to stations" for launch control center personnel. The four astronauts who will fly the Challenger on its five-day, $266-million mission are to arrive at the space center Friday from their homes in Houston. Spaceport officials said Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald Peterson and Story Musgrave will be given weekend briefings, and then will board the ship about two hours before launch. Highlights of the flight include the launching of a giant tracking satellite during the first day and the first shuttle spacewalk by Musgrave and Peter- son during the fourth day. Israelis kill Palestinian youth Israeli Troops shot dead a Palestinian youth during protests on the oc- cupied West Bank yesterday and thousands of Israeli Arabs chanting "PLO, PLO" marched in the Galilee region to protest the seizure of Arab-owned land. The violence came as Syria and the Soviet Union both accused Israel of threatening war against Damascus. Israel has 30,000 troops in Lebanon facing an estimated 40,000 Syrian forces. Eleven people were injured by rocks thrown by Palestinian demonstrators in the occupied territory, Israel Radio said, despite Israeli deployment of 5,000 riot police for Land Day - the 7th annual protest of Israel's seizure of Arab-owned land. "We are demanding our own government, our own state, just like every other people in the world," one marcher said. 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