The Michigan Daily-Saturday, July 12, 1980-Page 13
Remember when?
The fun of youth and a merry-go-round combine to make a swirling pattern of trees and kids at Bridwell Park in
Wichita Falls, Texas.
1938 Pan Am airi er
Bus strike
continues
By ELAINE RIDEOUT
After 11 days without bus service,
Ann Arbor Transportation Authority
management and Transportation Em-
ployees Union officials came out of a
three-hour bargaining session yester-
day expressing optimism that talks
were finally progressing.
"I'd say that we accomplished more
today than during all of our previous
negotiations put together," AATA
director Richard Simonetta said
yesterday.
"FOR THE first time, AATA made
encouraging movement on several non-
economic issues," said TEU Vice-
President Shelly Ettinger.
According to Ettinger, AATA presen-
ted the union with a set of informal
counter proposals in response to a union
offer submitted Thursday.
Simonetta said the union package in-
cluded a list of 35 items deemed
"critical" by the union. "We responded
to those terms today," he said.
ACCORDING TO Simonetta,
management officials have agreed to
allow strikers to return to work while
negotiations continue if they agree to
work under only six of the conditions of
the old contract.
He explained that under those con-
ditions, drivers would receive a base
wage of $6.89 per hour, including a 35t
cost of living allowance. All sick days,
vacation days, overtime conditions and
medical coverage would continue under
the terms of the expired contract. In
addition, AATA would continue to pay
all incentive categories, all pension
contributions, and any work shift would
conform to all conditions of the old con-
tract.
According to Ettinger, both parties
will continue to exchange informal
proposals over the weekend as
negotiations continue.
Man knows where he's going
by where he's been.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Joe Ger-
vais was trying to solve the greatest
mystery in aviation history, the disap-
pearance of Amelia Earhart when he
stumbled across what he now believes
is the answer to an equally mystifying
airplane puzzle.
In July 1938, Pan American World
Airways' Hawaii Clipper vanished
while flying from Guam to the Philip-
pines. No trace was ever found of the
plane or the 15 people on board.
GERVAIS, WHO spent a decade
trying to prove that Earhart is still
alive, says that during his search for
evidence more than 15 years ago he was
shown aircraft wreckage on the Pacific
atoll of Truk, wreckage-he now thinks
could be that of the Hawaii Clipper.
And, he said in an interview, infor-
mation indicates the disappearance
may have been the world's first
hijacking. A local islander told him the
15 crew members and passengers were
killed by the Japanese and buried
beneath a hospital on the island.
Gervais said he thought an in-
vestigation by Pan Am was warranted
to determine if the wreckage is in fact
that of the Hawaii Clipper.
"I WOULD think that to look further
in this ... Pan Am would have to
become interested," he said. "After all,
it was a Pan Am airplane, their
passengers, their responsibility. If
there is evidence that those people are
there on that island, I would think that
Pan Am ought to make a reque~t to
Trust Territory officials ... to conduct
a local investigation. That is, go where
the remnants of the hospital are and
determine if those 15 people are there."
James Arey, director of corporate
public relations at Pan Am headquar-
ters in New York, said the airline would
"welcome the opportunity to examine
the evidence that Mr. Gervais has."
Gervais said he realized what he may
have found only this year, after reading
a new book, "China Clipper" by Ronald
Jackson. The book is a history of Pan
Am's flying boat service in the Pacific
and discusses the disappearance of the
Hawaii Clipper.
GERVAIS, A retired Air Force pilot
and now a Las Vegas truant officer,
said he had flown to Truk - a for-
midable Japanese naval base during
the war - in November 1964 to in-
vestigate the wreckage of a plane he
thought could have been Earhart's.
Gervais based his search for Earhart
on the belief the famous flyer and
navigator Fred Noonan were shot down
and captured by the Japanese while on
a spy mission in 1937.
Gervais said the wreckage a Trukese
native showed him was obviously not
the Earhart plane.
Marwi trial witness
cites no bad. faith
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"You would agree that you're not Mr.
Milktoast and express strong feelings
about things?" Vercruysse asked Mar-
wil Thursday. Marwil agreed.
IN AN APRIL, 1979 re-appointment
review of Marwil - requested by then-
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Harold Shapiro after Marwil appealed
to him - Hughes was the only dissen-
ting vote in the reaffirmed decision to
let Marwil's contract terminate without
a tenure review.
The 1979 review was conducted by the
administrative committee, as had been
a 1978 non-reappointment review that
Marwil contends was unorthodox and
improper. Hughes, who had replaced
Stevenson as a member of the commit-
tee, opposed Mathes and Loomis in the
decision.
In later testimony yesterday,
Engineering Prof. Arch Naylor took the
stand as a witness for Marwil. Naylor is
a former chairman-of the'College rules
committee and current chairman of the
faculty Senate Advisory Committee on
University Affairs.
NAYLOR SAID he "felt what hap-
pened to Marwil was in conflict with
customs" of the humanities depar-
tmentand the College. He added he had
always understood that assistant
professors in their sixth year were
given formal, uniform tenure reviews
by their departments.
Naylor said custom, in addition to
written rules, was important at the
University because "there are lots of
practices at the University that don't
get written down."
Marwil is seeking from the court
either reinstatement to the faculty pen-
ding a tenure review or damages from
the three department members that
could total $1.1 million.
The trial will resume July 21 after a
week's recess when Vercruysse will.
cross 'examine -aylor:-.'' -