Page4-Fiday; May 6;198-T-he'MichiganDaily FCC rulings. may in crease tele p o e osts 4 LANSING (UPI)-Two recent Federal Communications Commission deregulation rulings may mean big in- creases in the installation charges levied on telephone customers, state of- ficials say. Mainly affected will be new telephone customers. Persons whose service is already connected will continue to come under current regulations. ANN SCHNEIDEWIND of the state Public Service Commission said it is too soon to tell how much bills will go up. "But we definitely think that deregulation will cause local service rates to go up," Mrs. Schneidewind said. The first of the federal rulings deregulates all new telephone equip- ment, including phones, switchboards, and exchange systems used by many big businesses. Under the ruling, set to take effect March 1, new customers will have to purchase or lease their equip- ment from the utilities or independent firms. "THE STATE commissions will have nothing to say about how much they can charge," said Mrs. Schneidewind. "They can charge what they wish for it." The second ruling covers wiring in- stalled in a home or apartment building. Currently, the telephone com- pany charges a portion of monthly bills for wiring. But in October, companies will have to recover all the money spent on wiring in the first year that it is in- stalled. Mrs. Schneidewind said it has not yet been determined whether this will be a flat one-time fee or spread out over 12 months. ANOTHER FCC change says that telephone companies can now ac- celerate writing off plant depreciation expenses, which will mean higher costs in the first years a plant is open. These costs can be passed along to telephone customers. Scheidewind said the PSC expects the federal agency to extend the dates that the rulings will take effect. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Presss International reports Milliken goes door-to-door amid objections to Proposal A DEARBORN - Gov. William Milliken took to the pavement yesterday to personally promote the Proposal A tax plan in a rare door-to-door campaign of Dearborn and Southgate neighborhoods. Milliken, followed by aides and reporters, visited about six homes in mid- dle class Dearborn touting the proposal that would halve local property taxes and income levies but would increase the state sales tax by 1.5 percen- tage points. In Lansing, the Michigan Association of Counties announced its opposition to Proposal A Wednesday, saying the measure would hurt local government and businesses in border areas. Comunism gais importance in French presidential race PARIS - As President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Socialist Francois Mitterand headed into the final two days of a tight presidential race yester- day, the major issue revolved around a man no longer in the contest - Communist Party leader Georges Marchais. Marchais and his Communists have thrown their support behind Mit- terand in pursuit of their ultimate goal - the defeat of Giscard d'Estaing. But that support is with reservations. Marchais has made it clear that he is unhappy with Mitterand's vagueness on the Communist issue and the Communist leader repeatedly has said he would not support a Socialist government in which Communists do not par- ticipate. Mitterand has said he would dissolve the parliament and call new parliamentary elections in hopes of gaining a leftist majority. Giscard d'Estaing questioned him sharply on how he proposed to act if he did not receive the majority he sought, intimating the government would be thrown into chaos. Priest criticizes U.S. military aid to El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - The Defense Ministry yesterday reported heavy fighting, with both sides suffering many dead and wounded, in and around two rebel-held communities in northeastern El Salvador. The reports came as American Maryknoll priest Roy Bourgeios, 42, who walked into the U.S. Embassy Wednesday ending 10 days of fears that he had been kidnapped and perhaps murdered, left for the United States. Bourgeois criticized the Reagan administration for sending military aid to the ruling Salvadoran junta. UMW negotiations resume WASHINGTON - Negotiations between the United Mine Workers and the soft-coal industry resumed yesterday after a three-week break, but there was no indication the talks would bring a quick end to the 42-day-old nation- wide strike. UMW President Sam Church said just prior to the bargaining session that the union is not ready to compromise on its demands and union spokesman Eldon Callen said a quick settlement is not likely. Probably the major issue tying up the talks is a provision that would require coal companies covered under the contract to pay royalties to UMW pension funds for non-union coal they buy. That provision, in the prior contract, was dropped from the March 23 proposal turned down by miners and Church wants it put back in. Union district elections upcoming next week also could interfere with a quick settlement of the strike. One UMW negotiator was defeated in a similar election last Tuesday and another faces two challengers next week. Newspapers, union reach tentative contract agreement NEW YORK - The Newspaper Guild reached a tentative contract agreement yesterday with the New York Times and Daily News, less than seven hours after the union struck the Times. The tentative settlement is subject to a full rank-and-file vote scheduled for early next week. The new contract would raise reporters' top scale of $616 at the Times and $578 at the News by $124 a week over three years, plus an additional $6 in fringe benefits. Guild members walked out at the Times at 6:30 a.m. EDT after rejecting a last-minute management proposal.