Group meets to
discuss cuts in
human services

By LINDA ROSS
Daily staff writer
The mood was sober yesterday as a
sprinkling of public officials and many
social service professionals met in the
Michigan Union Ballroom to discuss the
impact of federal cuts to human ser-
vices.
The crowd of more than 125 listened
to a 6 hour seminar on "The Future of
Human Services," provided as part of a
nationwide series of "emergency in-
formation" seminars sponsored by
Human Services Information Consor-
tium, a coalition of social service
professionals and handicapped and
minority advocacy groups.
ORGANIZED HASTILY in the wake
of congressional approval of the
Reagan administration's budget cuts,
several speakers reminded the crowd
of the immediacy of the cuts, en-
couraging them to become active in the
state division of funds for programs
elimination from the federal budget.

Attitudes ranged from anger to pleas
to social service officials not to argue
among themselves in the fight to obtain
limited funds. Wilbur Cohen, chairman
of the Coalition to Save Social Security,
former Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, and former Dean of the
University School of Education, lamen-
ted the immediate cuts of "$25 to $30
billion" in social security and $81.9
billion cuts in the next five years."
Cohen specifically criticized the
proposed changes in social security for
the handicapped and disabled. "Not a
single change that Reagan has made is
desirable," Cohen said.
JULE SUGARMAN, keynote speaker
from the Human Services Consortium,
explained that President Reagan
repealed 94 human services laws, in-
cluding the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, the Maternal and Child
Health Act, the Community Health Cen-
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JULE SUGARMAN, keynote speaker at yesterday's human services forum,
warned that President Reagan's abolition of several federal acts and their
replacement with block grants would adversely affect such services.

Thunderstorm
should ease
Midwest heat

From staff and wire reports
Ann Arborites can expect a little relief today from
the sweltering heat wave that has kept much of the
Midwest simmering over the past few days, accor-
ding to weather officials.
Thunderstorms rolling eastward across the Plains
drenched Ann Arbor early yesterday evening and
helped quench a heat spell that hung over the city for
most of the week, keeping temperatures in the 90s for
much of the day.
WEATHER OFFICIALS said the thunderstorms,
which killed one Wisconsin man, should ease the high
temperatures in the Midwest but warned that the
Eastern seaboard, also suffering from a heat wave,
would continue to swelter.

Midwest temperatures that had been in the 90s and
100s before the storms moved through,quickly drop-
ped to more bearable levels.
TEMPERATURES soared to the 90s and eyed the
100-degree mark in much of the populous Eastern
Corridor. Muggy weather made life miserable in
Washington and New York.
Construction workers in New York City smashed
windows for ventilation, city officials braced for a
run on the water supply, and beaches and city pools
put lifeguards on overtime and extended their hours.
Although Consolidated Edison anticipated no
problems in New York City providing electricity, it
asked customers to cut back on the amount used
because of the heavy drain by air conditioners.

Bars cited for sales to minors
By ANN MARIE FAZIO
Daily police reporter
Employees of five popular campus
bars and stores were included in
arraignments held yesterday for 10
cases of selling intoxicants to minors.
Employees of The Blind Pig, 201 5.
First St., The Beer Vault, 303 N. Fifth,
Cottage Inn Carry-Out, 546 Packard, AX
The Second Chance, 516 E. Liberty, and
Ralph's Market, 709 Packard, were
among those in court, police said. About
one half of the 10 arraigned pled guilty
to the charges, according to Police Staff
Sergeant Harold Tinsey.
SOME OF these establishments,
however, were upset about the way in
which the police conducted their in-
vestigations.
A sergeant in the detective division,
who asked not to be. named, described
f 'x the method used by police to "audit"
local bars, restaurants, and beer
atores.
The police force, hessaid, conducts
x. these investigations using teenagers,
usually members of the Police Ex-
plorer Scout Troop, a Boy Scout type
group, who make "controlled buys" of
N alcoholic beverages. If they are served
or sold the liquor, the clerk or
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