The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 21, 1982-Pages EPA head admits lapse in enforcement NEW YORK (AP) - The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday that she has told regional administrators to press anti-pollution law cases vigorously after an admitted lapse in enforcement. Anne Gorsuch, who took office exactly one year ago, said in an interview that 1981 was "a period of hiatus" for her agency's enforcement unit. SHE SAID new management organization and a pep talk that she gave to regional EPA officials will end the interruption in enforcement. Environmentalists and some mem- bers of Congress have been sharply critical of EPA's'effort under Gorsuch to enforce gnti-pollution laws, with some questioning whether the agency can be effective under a reduced budget. The last budget under the Carter ad- ministration was $1.35 billion. The present budget is for $1.08 billion and the agency is asking $961 million for 1983. BUT GORSUCH said that by bringing all of EPA's enforcement sections un- der the direction of one person, results would be better even with a smaller staff. The enforcement units previously had been scattered among various EPA sections, such as the air and water pollution secitons, she said. Gorsuch said she met with regional EPA administrators in Washington on April 30, and told them that "I fully ex- pected them to get the enforcement work force busy and working or to find people that were able to do so." She said sbe told the administrators that she realized the reorganization she brought about last summer would "cause some miscommunications initially ...," but said she thought that by now "the lines of communication had been worked out." SENIOR CITIZENS display their poise in the "Sexy Sixties" calendar, created by Bill Baldwin, 60, of East Lansing. Senior citizens show their stuff in calendar ACCORDING to Rep. Toby Moffett, (D-Conn.), the number of enforcement cases EPA regions referred to the Washington headquarters dropped from 313 in 1980 to 66 last year. He also said the number of cases EPA sent to the Justice Department for prosecution dropped from 252 in 1980 to 79 in 1981. "I'll never count my success by how many lawsuits we file," Gorsuch said. "We're supposed to be doing a job as quickly and thoroughly as we can ... Litigation is seldom the most expedient route to a solution." Gorsuch, who appeared on the NBC "Today" show yesterday morning, said she has been seeking publicity recently because "the agency has been unduly maligned by the rumor mill." By GREG BRUSSTAR This one is not as explicit as a Playboy calendar, nor as ingenuous as one "from National Geographic, but it has a special way of telling which day of the month it is. The pin-up models are all over 60 years old. The cover of "Sexy Sixties" features a long and lean set of female legs, doub- tless belonging to some senior citizen, but it is hard to say. SIXTY-YEAR-OLD Betty Jean of Florida, with 35-25-36 measurements, appears beside a pool in a swimsuit as the January beauty. Irene Niksa's 65- year-old legs appear on the April page, with her age not at all apparent. Since its appearance six weeks ago, the calendar has sold over 4,000 copies, according to Bill Baldwin, who came up with the idea lastwinter. But Baldwin said it's not all hype; it's a calendar with a cause. "On TV the only people who buy cars, clothes, or go to fancy hotels are 25 years old," Bald- win said. As a result, he says, young people have the wrong impression about older people. "You never see old people on TV unless it's a constipation or false teeth commercial," he con- tinued. "TV doesn't portray the true image of old people-some of us aren't classified as senior citizens." BALDWIN, WHO is 60, found his models through advertisements he placed in newspapers across the coun- try. He received more than 225 photos frdm people all over the nation. The thirty people in the calendar show off their smiles or physiques; the calendar attempts, as the cover claims, to give "a new dimension to that tired phrase 'Senior Citizen.' " Baldwin also has other ideas which may boost the image of senior citizens such as "Sexy Senior Models," a beauty contest for those over 60,-and the Sexy Senior Nightclub-where the dancers will be over 60. "You know, someplace where we can raise hell without the young people," Baldwin said. He said he doesn't know when those ideas will become a reality. Irene Niksa, 65, model for April, said her friends urged her to send a picture to the calendar. She admits the calen- dar is "unusual, and our friends get a kick out of it." THERESA MADER, 62, of Royal Oak said, "It lets people know how the people over sixty feel." She advocates that older people stay active and she adds, "we still have a lot of living to do." Lucille Pearson, 60, of Troy, who is the October 1983 model, said the calen- dar "gives a new perspective to senior citizens." Niksa, Mader, and Pearson are members of a senior citizen dance troupe called the "Dazzler Dancers." They perform for various senior citizen See.CALENDAR,,ages10, : . - Ann Arbor rail line Shutdown protested LANSING (UPI)- Laid off railroad longest subsidized railroad and was workers, shippers, and others concer- viewed as crucial to the economy of ned about the fate of the moribund Ann many outstate communities. Arbor line descended on the Capitol The Michigan Interstate operated the yesterday amid signs a compromise line for 4% years, but shut down service may be worked out to restore the ser- north of Ann Arbor last month, vice. claiming it-was losing money under its Transportation Department officials current $451,000 per month subsidy. The and representatives of the Michigan In- state contends it can afford no more. terstate Railway Co. have been THE MOVE put more than 300 meeting to discuss emergency action railroad employees out of work and af- resuming crucial sand shipments as fected some 80 to 90 shippers who use well as a wider compromise to restore the line. service along the line, but not on car Officials are awaiting a ruling on the ferries across Lake Michigan, through controversy' from U.S. District Judge Sept. 30. Stewart Newblatt. THOSE TALKS were continuing Addressing more than 100 persons in yesterday as supporters of the embat- the House chambers, Michigan Inter- tied road-bearing orange buttons state President Vincent Malanaphy reading "Get Annie Off Her Fanny"- said the firm had "no alternative but to conducted a meeting in the House of shut down the line because of the losses Representatives chamber, a rally on it was sustaining and money which the the Capitol steps. state owed but would not pay." The Ann Arbor line, stretching nearly The firm, he said, is "desirous and 400 miles from Toledo, Ohio to willing" to run the road if subsidy Kewaunee, Wis., was Michigan's -payments are adequate.