Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, September 15, 1984 Shockley wins libel case; 1 award granted IN BRIEF ATLANTA (AP) - A federal jury returned a verdict yesterday in favor of physicist William Shockley in a libel suit against The Atlanta Constitution, and a former newspaper writer, but awarded him only $1 in actual damages and no money in punitive damages. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist had been seeking $1.25 million in damages for a 1980 article that he said libeled him. SHOCKLEY, who shared a Nobel prize in physics in 1956 for his role in the invention of the transistor, was seeking $1.25 million in damages against Cox Enterprises Inc. and former newspaper writer Roger Witherspoon for a 1980 ar- ticle which he complained libeled him by comparing his controversial proposal for voluntary sterilizattion of the "genetically disadvantaged" with Nazi genetic experiments in World War II. Shockley said he would talk to his lawyers about whether to appeal the decision. Al Norman, an attorney for the newspaper and for Witherspoon, declared, "To the extent of paying 50 cents apiece, we came out close to win- ning. Total victory would have been zero." THE SIX-member jury 'deliberated for a total of about three and one-half hours, after hearing the judge tell them that only the alleged libel - not Shockley's controversial genetic theory - was on trial. The article was published in the Atlanta Constitution, one of the newspapers in the Cox group. Wither- spoon no longer works for the newspaper.- Shockley contends that blacks as a group are intellectually inferior to whites for genetic reasons. He has proposed a bonus program of financial rewards for the "disadvantaged" who voluntarily undergo sterilization. WITHERSPOON said in the article that "the Shockly program was tried out in Germany during World War II" and that Shockley's proposals were "reworked Hitlerian experiments." Shockley said those statements were libelous. Ozone House 's services extended to black youths (Continued from Page 1) number of blacks (from 15.7 to 18.7 percent). Barbara Rachelson of the Michigan Network of Runaway and Youth Ser- vices emphasized that a large percen- tage of runaways are still white. She cited a 1979 New York survey which found that 52 percent of the 3,057 runaways found at New York's main bus station in one week were white. Thirty-eight percent were black, and 15 Daily Photo by DAVID FRANKEL Tennis anyone?. A dog named Samson stands guard yesterday at an abandoned gas station at the corner of South Ashley and West Washington Streets. Home ess return to salvage propert (Continued from Page 1) percent were Hispanic. Ways said runaways are still seen as a "white issue." He said the new cam- paign to recruit black volunteers is designed to help the center work with black runaways and dispel its image as a "white agency." 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Property damage was massive - an estimated $20 million in the com- munities of Oak Island, Vaupon Beach and Long Beach alone. Gov. Jim Hunt has asked for federal disaster aid and state and federal officials toured the coast estimating damage. Almost 8,000 homes were still without without power and many towns urged residents to use water only for emergencies. Grocery stores and gasoline stations reopened but canned goods were in short supply and long lines formed. Fire stations handed out canned peaches and Bibles. Hardware stores sold out of roofing materials in a matter of hours and put in emergency orders for more. There were no reports of casualties or serious injuries when Diana turned its 115 mph fury on the mainland after a stall just off the coast. State authorities counted one storm-related death, that of a man whose car struck a washed-out stretch of road and plunged into a culvert Thursday night. Two other deaths were indirectly related to the storm. One may died of a heart attack while securing his beach home and another was killed in a traffic accident while fleeing the hurricane. POLICE NOTES Investigation continues Ann Arbor police are continuing to investigate the killing of a Yellow Cab driver, Police Sargeant Jan Suomala said yesterday. Torsten Kutsche was shot in the chest near the 2700 block of Braeburn Circle early Thursday. He was responding to a false call for a cab. Confidential tips regarding the killing can be called into the city police at 996- 3199, Suomala said. Suspect caught City police arrested a suspect late Wednesday night in the robbery of Great Lakes Federal Bank at Briar- wood, Police Sgt. Jan Suomala said yesterday. Sunny Wilson, a 41-year-old Detroit man, was arrested in his Ann Arbor apartment and arraigned on charges of bank robbery and possession of a firearm. Wilson is in the county jail. Bond has been set at $50,000. - Rachel Gottlieb Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Economy slows as prices drop WASHINGTON - Wholesale prices slipped 0.1 percent in August for the first decline in nine months, the government said yesterday, in a series of economic reports analysts said signaled the economy was still sliding - maybe just a bit too much - from its frenzied pace early in the year. The White House could find nothing wrong in the three reports. Spokesman Larry Speakes said they meant the nation is entering "the fall season with a° stabilizing economy poised for long-term growth with low inflation." But some analysts said the figures, including a 0.8 percent drop in retail sales and a slight 0.2 percent increase in industrial production, raised the question of whether the recovery is starting to run out of steam. Even so, all the economists agreed the fresh figures should only give the Federal Reserve Board reason to ease, if ever so slightly, its tight grip on the money supply and let interest rates drift downward. One of the very bright spots this year has been inflation and the fresh Labor Department report only polished that still more. The department reported that last month's decline in its Producer Price Index for finished goods was spurred by a 0.1 percent drop in food prices, the fourth decline in five months. Embargo bans diseased fruit TAMPA, Fla. - With the orange harvest two weeks away, state of- ficials said yesterday they hoped a federal ban on fresh fruit shipments caused by a citrus disease could be lifted within a few daya. Sen. Paula Hawkins, meanwhile, appealed for an embargo on citrus im- ports from Mexico, where the citrus disease apparently originated. The quarantine, effective yesterday, was ordered to stop the potential spread of the incurable citrus canker, which can kill fruit trees, to other producing states, including parts of California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and Hawaii. Florida produces 60 percent of the nation's citrus fruits. The outbreak, the first in more than 50 years, was traced to Mexico, said Hawkins. Pope calls for workers' rights TORONTO - Pope John Paul II asked leaders of other faiths yesterday to join him in a crusade to keep technology and the profit motive from tram- pling the rights of workers and the poor.' "The needs of the poor must take priority over the desires of the rich; the rights of workers over the maximization of profits," the pontiff declared at: an ecumenical service in Canada's industrial heartland. Tens of thousands of Canadian and American tourists packed the sidewalks, cheering, waving yellow-and-white papal flags, running or bicycling down the streets to keep abreast of the glass-encased "popemobile." The pope, who in talks Wednesday and Thursday in Canada's Atlantic provinces had denounced the "race for profit" and the injustice of unem- ployment, turned again in Toronto to a defense of workers. He told the ecumenical gathering that although rapidly expanding technology benefits humanity,."it has also ushered in a technological men- tality which challenges Gospel values." Earthquake shakes Japan TOKYO - A powerful earthquake shook central Japan yesterday, rattling buildings and triggering landslides that devastated Mountain Hamlet. One person was killed and at least 22 others were missing and feared buried alive. Yesterday morning's quake, measuring 6.9 on the open-ended Richter scale, cut power, water, and telephone service to thousands in central Japan and shook buildings for 30 to 40 seconds from Tokyo to Hiroshima, 450 miles. west of the capital. It was the strongest earthquake to hit the island nation since a magnitude 7.7 tremor struck northern Japan inMay 1983, killing 104 people. The most severely affected area was around Mt. Ontake, a 10,400-foot active volcano about ten miles west of Tokyo. P ippne volcano erupts, kills 9 MAYON VOLCANO, Philippines - Heavy rains yesterday pounded the blackened slopes of the erupting Mayon Volcano, landslides and prompting thousands of villagers to flee to evacuation centers. Nine people have repor- tedly been killed by lava andsteam. Mayon, 200 miles south of Manila, erupted for the fifth straight day, shooting ash and hot steam five miles into the sky as red-hot volcanic material cascaded down the volcano's upper slopes. With the eruptions came explosions sounding like thunder. The latest eruptions of the 8,124-foot volcano forced about 30,000 people to flee to evacuation centers, with thousands leaving their homes behind, of- ficials said. 14 4 A 14 14 4 I 4 Vol. XCV - No. 9 The Michigan Daily (ISSS(N 0745-967X) is published through Sunday during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the spring and summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April-$16.50 in Ann Arbor, $29.00 outside the city; May through August-$450 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside thecity. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor. Michigan. Post- master: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann arbor, Michigan 48109. 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