. . Ice cream cone gets the cold shoulder By MAUREEN MCLAUGHLIN Miller's didn't know. Jason's didn't know. Lovin' Spoonful didn't know; even Baskin Robbins didn't know. These four highly respected Ann Ar- bor ice cream institutions didn't know that September 22 is the anniversary of the ice cream cone. EIGHTY-ONE years ago today an Italian merchant Italo Marchiony filed a .patent for a walk-while-you-eat pastry cope to hold the lemon ices he sold from a push cart. ',I didn't know about it," said Laura Moore, a first year pharmacy student working at Stroh's Ice Cream Parlor in the Union, adding that she doesn't have any big plans for a celebration. "I might tell people that it was the anniversary and to have a nice day." JEFF BOUDIN, owner of Miller's Ice Cream Parlor on S. University, pointed out that September 22 is only the official birthday of the ice cream cone's patent. "Miller's has been serving ice cream in cones since 1896," he said, "and others were doing it before then." Ice cream's history goes back even further than the late nineteenth cen- tury. According to Famous First Facts, George Washington made an expense ledger purchase record of "a cream machine for ice," on May 17, 1784. In 1786, Mr. Hall of New York City com- mercialized ice cream by advertising his homemade product. NO ONE really knows when ice cream was first made. Recipes for water ices may have been brought to Europe by the Italian trader Marco Polo when he returned from China in 1295. Today, the United States produces over 775 million gallons of ice cream annually. Another claim to creation of the first ice cream cone, originated at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Mo. A young ice cream salesman, Charles Menches, gave an ice cream sandwich and flowers to the lady he was escorting. She took one of the layers of the sandwich and rolled it in a cone form to act as a vase - inven- ting the ice cream cone. IRONICALLY, September 22 is not widely known as the ice cream cone's birthday, but rather as the first official day of autumn. Many calendars men- tion only this seasonal fact. In a random sample conducted at Border's Book Shop and Follet's, The Michael Jackson Caldendar, The Hunk-A-Month Calen- dar, The Christy Brinkley Calendar and the University of Michigan Football Calendar all failed to mention the ice cream information. Special-interest calendars which should have drawn attention to this famous fact, also overlooked their op- portunity. The Food Caldendar opted for the autumnal announcement, and The Boynton Calendar of Self- Indulgence instead chose to list Sep- tember 22 as National White Chocolate Day. When she learned of this red-letter day, Debi Matzo, an LSA junior said, "We're having a big party at our house." "EVERYBODY gets a big gallon of ice cream," added engineering senior Amy Wall. Not everyone on campus was so thrilled about the holiday, however. "If I celebrated everything that .. .. . /'- t +. 1 - " ' .. ." ... .. .._ ,, / i L . a j fI .. 'y 1 i / * . / / r L : "r . " The Michigan Daily - Saturday, September 22, 1984 - Page 3 Embassy blast ignites security questions again trivial, I'd never get anything done," said a classical studies teaching assistant who preferred to remain anonymous. "It's a way for the ice cream stores to increase capitalistic sales." A UNIVERSITY professor sitting outside of Jason's who asked to remain anonymous, said he'll be staying away from ice cream shops today. "I don't even eat ice cream.I'm here for a cup of coffee and because it's sun- ny. It's the last nice day before winter starts." After being alerted to this special oc- casion, the ice cream parlors surveyed, did decide to proclaim a holiday. "We will be doing something special, but it will be a surprise," said Joan~ French, owner of Jason's. "After we know what all the rest are doing," said Boudin of Miller's, "we'll have a great surprise!" r i J eg ents. pump By CHARLES SEWELL The University's Board of Regents Thursday ap- roved the establishment of a cardiovascular fitness tnd sports medicine program in Thomas Monaghan's hew Domino Farms complex. (he program will allow University medical resear- hers to expand their studies in sports medicine. At the same time, the facility will provide the public with fitness training and rehabilitation for heart and lung disease and sports-related injuries. HOSPITAL officials say the program will also ser- ve area high school and college athletes. But Huron High School Trainer Rod Sorger said he Doesn't know if the school's athletes will use the facility. Y- up sports medicine program From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - American of- ficials launched an investigation yesterday into the breakdown of security at the U.S. Embassy that made it possible for Islamic suicide com- mandos to bomb the building and kill at least 23 people. Thursday's attack was carried out by two pro-Iranian terrorists in a TNT- packed truck bearing diplomatic licen- se plates who drove through machine gun fire into the U.S. compound and ex- ploded its 330-pound cargo about 20 feet from the embassy building. THE EXPLOSION dug a trench nine feet deept, wrecked the facade of the six-story building and sent chunks of steel and stone flying to a crowd of Lebanese gathered at the embassy vis office. The administration Friday praised Lebanese guards at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, saying they prevented a wor- se disaster and that security at the facility was adequate. At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said "The president is satisfied with the facts as he knows them." A STATE Department spokesman said the death toll could have beenmfar higher had it not been for the valor of Lebanese guards and the security measures already in place. "It's the Embassy's preliminary assessment that the firing of the guard force did prevent the driver of the suicide vehicle from maneuvering into the garage under the annex," State Department spokesman John Hughes said. "Had the driver of that car, loaded with dynamite, done so, it is the assessment of the ambassador and the embassy there that the disaster would have been much greater." U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bar- tholomew, injured in the attack, said yesterday that the bomber shot a Lebanese guard, was fired at and slumped over the wheel before his ex- plosive-laden van blew up. British Ambassador David Miers, who was in a meeting with Bar- tholomew when the explosion occurred, said "God knows, this was bad enough, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse." Asked about the reports that steel gates were to have been installed at the entrance to the annex in the next several days, he said: "You know, any gate would not have stopped him." BUT HOUSE Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D-Mass.) insisted, "Somebody's responsible in the ad- ministraton and they ought to bear the responsibility instead of making them- selves heroes." In an interview with news agency reporters, a clearly angry O'Neill said that after reviewing his notes from an administration briefing he received on the incident,' "I think it's an absolute disgrace." He said that what was most upsetting was that diagrams of the area shown to him during the briefing indicated only a guard house and four barriers im- mediately behind it and then a virtually clear road to the embassy annex area. "THE MAPS they showed us Thur- sday and the maps that I saw on TV don't appear to be the same maps,"~ O'Neill said, referring to his impression that maps used on television news programs seemed to show more security barriers. O'Neill, saying "somebody has to take the responsibility," dismissed assertions by administration officials that it is impossible to make embassies invulnerable to terrorst attack because they are public buildings. U.S. facilities in Beirut have been the targets of deadly attacks three times. "The truth is, this is something you can protect against," O'Neill said of the suicide car-bomb attack Thursday that left two Americans dead among the dozen people killed in the blast. Although Walter Mondale, cam- paigning in Birmingham, Ala. did not blame Reagan for the lapses, he said the president is responsible for the "central agencies of his administration in the area. Mondale said there was clear warning an attack might be made on a U.S. facility and blamed the ad- ministration for a "lax response" to a "perceived threat." "If they have an- swers we need to hear them," he said. Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Mich.), called for an emergency meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee to deter- mine "why - precautions were not adequate" to prevent the attack. He said the embassy had a "toothless defense." "It will entirely depend on the relationship we are able to establish with the people out there," he said. A TRAINER from Pioneer High School said the school has been "very pleased by past experiences with University facilities. We will certainly refer our students to the University facility." Jeptha. Dalston, executive director of University Hospitals, said the new program would combine similar research efforts in the hospital's internal medicine and surgery departments. Moving the program to the Domino Farms comples in Ann Arbor Township, would expand its current size ten-fold, Dalston said. "Another advantage of the Domino's facility would be the availability of 10,000 square feet of gym space for patients coming to the center for rehabilitation and participants in the cardiovascular fitness program," Dalston said, adding that the facility would also house basketball courts and an indoor track. The program is expected to cost the University $400,000 in start-up costs and $650,000 in operating ex- penses each year. The Domino's complex is to be completed in October 1985 and the University would move in within three months, Dalston said. The new proval. program is now waiting for state ap- T r Regentso a From staff reports Uliversity regents yesterday con- firmed a court decision ordering them to return the Master's degree which they rescinded from Wilson Crook in 1980. Crook, who completed his Master's thesis here in 1977, was accused of falsifying data in his Geology and Minerology thesis. Crook received the tgree to return degree to Crook degree in 1977, but it was revoked in 1980 after an investigation by a Univer- sity committee. CROOK THEN sued the University to get his degree back, and in November, 1981, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of Detroit ruled that, although the University had the right to take away the degree, a separate question existed as to whether Crook received due process from the Univer- sity. The judge ruled earlier this year that Crook had not received due process and ordered the degree be reinstated. The University then appealed the decision and received a temporary order from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati allowing them to withhold the degree until the case was settled. But last month a three-judge panel in the same court ordered the University to return the degree immediately, and yesterday University Counsel Roderick Daane asked the regents to confirm that decision. Reached at his home in Colorado, Crook refused to discuss the case. His lawyer George Bushnell of Detroit could not be reached for comment. Tax rollback could Vaise students'/ (Continued from Page 1) Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) abstained from voting because he said taking a stand on the highly political issue "may or may not be the proper role of the University." "I AM TROUBLED by the fact that we take the people's money and use it to lobby against them,' he added. sonally doesn't support the proposal, he doesn't "think the University would stop being a university if it passed." Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson, a sponsor of Voter's,. Choice, defended the proposal as "a reaction to the abuses of our so-called representative form of government." He added that the "absolute arrogance on the part of the legislature" makes it necessary for the voters to take matters into their own hands. PATTERSON SAID Proposal C might even help the University because its leaders can plea directly to voters for more aid. He pointed to dwindling state appropriations as a sign that the state hasn't made higher education a top priority. Patterson said he believes the regen- ts resolved to fight the proposal because "they're probably reacting to pressure from the legislature...I think the educators are intimidated by the legislature." Several members of the legislature and Gov. James Blanchard have spoken out against the proposal, saying it would hurt Michigan's economy and the representative form of government. IN OTHER ACTION yesterday, the regents approved necessary bylaw changes to set up as an independent academic unit the physical education department. The new unit will be divided into two departments: the Department of Kinesiology and the Department of Sports Management and Communications. The new unit will report directly to the vice president for academic affairs. The regents also approved contracts for the $4.5 million renovation of Lorch Hall, which will house the economics department. The department has been housed just north of central campus in the North Ingalls Building since the Economics Building was destroyed by a fire in 1981. Plans for the renovation include new heating and air conditioning systems. People have a right to say how much u tion at they'll be taxed." Baker said that although he per- nid-year -HAPPENINGS- Highlight Raymond Leppard conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Hill Auditorium tonight at 8:30 p.m. fFilms AAFC-Terms of Endearment, 7 & 9:30 p.m., MLN 3; Berlin Alexander- platz, 2 & 7:30 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. Alt. Act. -Adam's Rib, 7:30 p.m.; Pat & Mike, 9:15 p.m., MLB 4. Mediatrics-Damn Yankees, 7 p.m.; Diner, 9 p.m., Nat. Sci. Performances U-Club-Figures On A Beach and DJ Tom Simonian, 8:30 p.m. Performance Network-North Country Opera.8 p.m., 408 W. Washington. Ark-Peter "Madcat" Ruth, 8 p.m., 637 S. Main. The Brecht Company-The Titanic Cabaret, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m., Halfway 4m, East Quad. Ann Arbor Civic Theater-Key Exchange, 8 p.m., AACT Building, Main end William. The Rorantists-a capella men's choir, St. Andrew's Church, Division at Catherine, 8p.m. Meetings "Ann Arbor Go Club, 2p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. Social Work Alumni Society-8:15 a.m., Alumni Center. miscellaneous AAUW-Book sale, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Arborland Mall. Michigan League-League buffet, cafeteria. _ /.fi,.Q~nf..-- a .nrf m T2jnn mrr- ' nr"+ W....- 1-n - on A n h GM plants reopen under three-year settlement DETROIT (AP) - Picket lines began coming down at General Motors Corp. plants yesterday after the company and the United Auto Workers tentatively agreed on a three-year contract that sources said gives money and retraining for displaced workers and a pay raise of more than seven percent. The agreement was announced at 2:10 a.m. Thursday following six days of crippling spot strikes against the nation's largest carmaker, which had prompted layoffs both at GM and in related industries. UAW PRESIDENT Owen Bieber, emerging tired from a 16 -hour bargaining session, said the pact was historic because of its novel job security guarantees. Chief GM bargainer Alfred Warren called it a "win-win situation" for both sides that will make GM more com- petitive. The union and GM said they would keep the accord secret until the union convenes its 300-member GM Council Wednesday in St. Louis. SOURCES WHO spoke on condition that they not be identified said the pact, which covers 350,000 hourly employees, provides money and retraining for workers displaced if GM farms out work overseas or to non-union shops, THE NATIONAL agreement does not enrich the profit-sharing formula established in 1982, the sources said. However, GM is expected to earn more than $5 billion this year, with payouts of more than $1,000 to the average hourly worker. The strikes cost GM more than million, according to estimates by Wall Street analysts. Following council review, the rank and file will vote on the contract. That is expected to take about a week. THE UNION and Ford Motor Co. ex- tended their expired contract while the UAW bargained at GM. Bieber said the union now will go across town to match the pact at Ford. However, some local UAW leaders said they were reserving judgment un- til they see the agreement. "I'm assuming they did a good job on job security," said Pat Hilla, president of UAW Local 167 in Grand Rapids, Mich., which represents 2,511 workers making diesel engines and engine par- ts. "Our people are kind of relieved." HILLA SAID the job security provisions "would affect us rather heavily" because GM has wanted to cut costs by farming out more of its com- ponents work. The UAW authorized local strikes at 13 plants at midnight Sept. 14 when negotiations failed to produce a national agreement, and four more sets of plants were struck this week. Fifteen of those plants were carefully chosen final-assembly operations, and the tactic caused a backlog of parts in GM's highly integrated system. MORE THAN 19,000 non-striking workers were laid off as a result. The agreement came just in time to avoid thousands more layoffs, including the first ones in Canadian parts plants. Bieber said the pact "meets our No. 1 objective - it provides an unpreceden- ted measure of job security to our GM members and gains commitments from the company to maintain production and jobs in the United States for the future." However, it apparently would allow the company to retain broad rights to subcontract work, while providing financial safety nets for those who lose their jobs in the process. The union's demands at the start of bargaining called for stricter controls on subcontracting. One source said GM, in a series of letters attached to the proposed contract, made pledges to do what it can to keep jobs in the United States. The accord also would not directly af- fect GM's plans to import hundreds of thousands of small Japanese cars into the United States. /A/// Mass Tuesday COMEDY 7:30 P F ,90thANNI _ r- A . .. FpU Meeting Sept. 25 M .mdleton rm. nion