The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 2, 1986 -Page 3 4.r t NN .. r tf 14 I v , s~ 'Up in the air Daily Photo by CHRIS wG In what has become a common sight in recent weeks, umbrellas filled the Diag yesterday, due to continuing rains. Rains, floods plaguue Midwest By The Asoiated Press Montana. and southern Missouri got 5 More rain fell yesterday h One man died yesterday when inches. Heavy rain also fell in gross the Midwest and Plains, his car was swept off a bridge in Indiana and Ohio. The National hiere flooding has left more than Oklahoma, and another was Weather Service reported three- 500 people homeless, and missing and presumed dead in day totals of up to 15 inches in klahoma's National Guard was Illinois. One person died last parts of northeastern Oklahoma, ked to help in one county where week in Montana. nearly half the usual annual sme people are cut off and One Kansas man spent the precipitation. "apped." might in a tree after his car was The earthern portion of a dam A partially ruptured dam in washed away. on Lawrence, Lake near Tisconsin remained standing Flood-ravaged northeastern Westfield, Wis., was washed' ut leaking, and hundreds were Illinois got gentle rain yesterday,, away Tuesday and 200 to 300 elieved still away from their but 2 to 3 inches fell during the people were evacuated from the tmes in flooded northeastern morning in hard-hit Oklahoma, town of about 1,000 people. Lucas outlines plans for reforming welfare L ucas: No more free Iunc lies .ti By STEPHEN GREGORY Republican gubernatorial candidate William Lucas yesterday outlined his plans for reforming the state's welfare system, saying that, if elected, he would give every welfare recipient either an education or job training to get them off welfare.I "There will be no more free lunches for the employable," he said. LUCAS also alleged Gov. James Blanchard is purposely doing nothing to get Michigan residents off welfare, a move which he feels is politically expedient for Blanchard. "When you keep people dependent on you, you maintain a significant amount of influence over them," Lucas said in a prepared statement. "Under Blanchard, welfare has become a permanent trap.. . Paternalistic policies have made it economically unwise to get off and stay off welfare. Recipients just can't afford to take an entry- level job." ACCORDING to Lucas, most welfare recipients should be working because they are able to hold down a job. "There is no excuse for allowing 14,000 people, most of them who are single, able-bodied adults, to receive this payment. Under my administration, they will go to school or they will go to work, and in two years they will be off welfare," Lucas said. A spokesman for Blanchard, however, said Michigan currently has the lowest number of people on welfare in six years. Steve Weiss said that from March 1983 to August 1986, over 230,000 people have gotten off welfare. LUCAS said if he is elected, "welfare will become a temporary way-station on the road to something better." lie said that he would fund a mandatory education and job training program. Lucas attacked the Blanchard administration's "Project Self- Reliance" because he says job training and education are not requirements for welfare recipients, and it "has a terrible record of placing individuals in real jobs, and it costs the taxpayers of Michigan $4,480 per placement." Weiss said, however, that there are provisions in Project Self- Reliance that require welfare recipients to sign up for training. He said Lucas must be misinformed. LUCAS also challenged the Youth Corps, a program that creates public service jobs for 18- to 20-year-old welfare recipients, saying it creates too many "dead- end, non-challenging government 'make work' jobs." Weiss also disputed this. He said that more than two-thirds of the Youth Corps members have either found full-time jobs or attended vocational school after their public service jobs had ended. The Blanchard administration is offering state businesses six months of financial assistance if they agree to hire welfare recipients and train them, Weiss added. a acl iv] I Fords blast U.S. auto industry E Q udBy LAURA BISCILOF" :University officials are keeping quiet about a criminal case against a former East Quad employee that was dismissed last Wmonth. East Quad Building Director Deba Patnaik, Ruth Addis and ;John Heidke of Housing, and Armnando Lopez of personnel all declined to comment on the case. DISTRICT court records indicate that Rina Nydahl, who,, worked at the East Quad: front f i cials quif desk, was arrested in July on charges of embezzlement (through falsifying time cards) and false pretenses, but the case was dismissed at the preliminary hearing on Sept. 3. Assistant prosecuting attorney David Lady said, "The University of Michigan agreed to accept restitution in lieu of prosecution." Nydahl, who reported'ly left the state, agreed to pay back the estimated $4,600, according to Lady. on case Lady said he thought Nydahl had paid most of it back already. NEWS of the case came as a shock to East Quad staff members. "I didn't believe it when I first heard about it," said one resident fellow who did not want to be identified. "I was shocked to hear this because I always felt that Rina was a very honest and trustworthy person," she said., She added that she heard about the case through the grapevine,, DETROIT (AP)-Former Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II says U.S. automakers contributed to their recent financial problems by taking their success for granted. But Edsel Ford II, Ford's son, predicted that Detroit would remain the center of the world's auto industry in the long run. The Fords made their com- ments in a rare joint public appearance yesterday during the 75th anniversary dinner of the Detroit section of the Society of Automotive Engineers. "Our industry's foot-dragging on safety and emissions concerns swung open the door for government regulation of our industry," the elder Ford said. "But we can't blame government for all of our problems. We really had lost our way through much of that period. We were so suc- cessful for a long time following World War II that we took our home market for granted. "We began to believe our own propaganda that we had all the answers .. .that all we had to do to win was show up for the game," he said. "We forgot how much any challenger wants to knock off the champ." Edsel Ford II, often referring to his father as "Daddy," said U.S. automakers would continue to be the industry's world leaders. Although he said high tech- nology was changing the U.S. auto industry, it primarily was being revived by a renewed commitment to quality and a fresh approach to leadership that emphasizes teamwork rather than hierarchy and authority, said the younger Ford, an executive with Ford's Lincoln Mercury division. GO LUE rom All Of Us At ASOLA STYLISTS OPPOSITE .JACOBSONS 668-9329 MAAPLE VILLAGE 761-2733 WEEKEND, MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily 763-0379 I Taco Bob's leaves, replaced by chain Campus Cinema 'McCabe And Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), CG, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Aud A. Warren Beatty is a second-rate gambler and Julie Christie is an opium-tokin' prostitute in this gritty look at the Old West. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936), MTF, 7:45 p.m., Mich. See Charlie Chaplin get wired on coke and go absolutely hog-wild in his last silent film! Performances 1705 - Soundstage, 9:30 p.m., U-Club. The U-Club will rock when this pop-rock band hits the stage. -Arts at Midday - Michigan -Union Arts Program, 12:15 p.m., Pendleton -Room, Michigan Union. Ted Wyman will play Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" on the piano. Peter '?vadcat" Ruth Concert- Iyladcat, The Ark, (761-1451). Guitarist/singer Spencer Bohren will accompany. Meetings Hebrew Speaking Club - 4 pam, 3050 Frieze Bldg. Study Abroad 101, Part 4: Credit Transfer for Non U-M Study Abroad Programs - International Center, noon, Lecture Rm. 1, MLB. Women's Okinawan Karate &'Self-Defense Club - 7:15 p~m., Martial Arts Rm., IM Sports Bldg. University Alchoholics Anon- ymj~ous - noon, 3200 Union. United Farm Workers Support Group Mass Meeting - 6:30 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackh am. Roger M inear - "The Role of Humic Substances in Aquatic Chemisty," Chemistry Depart- ment, 4 p.m., Room 1200, Chemistry Bldg. T. Leith-'"Wall Street - The Real World," Investment Club, 4:15 p.m., Michigan Room, Assembly Hall Bldg, Business Administration. R. Kozma -"Preparing and Using Microcomputer-Based Tutorials," 7 p.m., Room 3001, School of Education Bldg. H. Cooper - "Moving Beyond Meta-Analysis: Knowledge and Synthesis Activities in Education & Psychology," Program in Education & Psychology, 4 p.m., Tribute Room, School of Education. M. Osawa - "Occupational Transformation: Japan & the United States," Japanese Studies, noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. P. Berry - "Lipstick on the Rim: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Japanese Ceramics," School of Art, 7 p.m., Art & Architecture Auditorium. L. Valdes - "Isolation of Biologically Active Diterpenes from Salvia Divinorum," Interdepartment Program in Medical Chemistry, 4 p.m., Room 3354, C.C. Little. Dean Baker- Michigan Econ - omic Society Meeting, 5 p.m., Lorch Auditorium. "The Job Search" - Career Planning & Placement Lecture, 4:10 p.m., 429 Mason Hall. Furthermore By DOV COHEN Taco Bob's is dead. The epitaph was written on a cardboard pizza platter that stood in' its window yesterday morning. It read: "Sorry, but that's all folks! Taco Bob's is no more. Thanx for your patronage, ya' all." IT WAS two years old. Taco Bob's opened in October 1984, according to Bob Cranson, owner of Pizza Bob's and, until last December, part owner of Taco Bob's. One mourner lamented: "That's a drag. I loved their chocalate shakes. Bob makes the best shakes ...Taco Bob' s is an institution." Taco Bob's owner, Garth Jackson, said, "There really isn't any comment. The place fell on bad times" THE BUILDING at 8105S. State Street, home of the Taco Bob's, was also the former dwelling of Pizza Bob's Uptown and Tijuana Bob's. Taco Bob's - belqved deliverer of late-night tacos, nachos, and tostadas - will be replaced by Mr. Spot's. The new store will specialize in Philadelphia steak sandwiches, buffalo-style chicken wings, and hoagies, say its new owners. MR. SPOT'S is owned by three twenty-three-year-old Bowling Green State University graduates. Friends of theirs opened the first Mr. Spot's in Bowling Green and have been very successful. "The future is so bright, we have to wear shades," said Steve Strobel, manager of the new store. Spot's hopes to be open for business in two to three weeks, said owner Keith McKendry. ................. .... *................ .. ............... The English Composition " ~ ACADEMIC WRITING SERIESX% "OVERCOMING WRITER' S 2...BLOCK" ~' z Do you have trouble sitting ,., ~ down to begin an essay? When:. you finally do begin, do you '" -N have, nothing to write? Are XXX Mp you unable to fill a page? :: ."; ;. Francelia Clark and Emily Jessup ":.:"of the English Composition Board examine the anxieties of the blank page and offer """ techniques for overcoming writer's block. - -THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 :;:" 4:00 -5:15 229 Angell Hall .: ................. ...~**... . ...................... LONDON I NTERNSHIPS " Art/Architecture " Business/Economics " Engineering " Human/Health Services " Journalism/Communications " Performing Arts * Politics All programmes include: 16 semester hour credits, 10-eek internship, apartment; British faculty. Offered fall. sprlig and Kresge recieved (Continued from Page 1) funds for theater according to Dr. Harold Moss. program officer at the foundation. EACH year the Troy-based Kresge Foundation grants money worldwide. The money is a "challenge grant," in which the foundation pledges money to a group if it can reach a certain funding goal. "We are very pleased with all the community support. We urge the community to come take a look, and maybe they will wish to contribute to the project," Hewett said. i "- ( i