The Michigan Daily - Thursday, August 11, 1983-- Page 3 Mich. Bell moves up deadlinet By MICHAEL WESTON A recent decision by Michigan Bell to publish phonebooks one month early this year will exclude many University students from the directories. Moving- the deadline for phone listings from mid-September to August 22, will bring Michigan Bell more Yellow Pages advertising, said David Smith, a district manager for Bell. But students who don't have phones in- stalled until September will miss the cutoff date, he added. LOCAL BUSINESSES which target students at the University and Eastern Michigan University complained that NYC, blackout disrupts retail business NEW YORK (AP) - A subterranean fire ignited by flooding from a broken water main blacked out 20 blocks in midtown Manhattan yesterday, closing stores such as Macy's and Gimbels and disrupting business in the teeming garment district. Officials at Consolidated Edison warned it may be next week before electricity is restored to all of the Herald Square area, which is one of the city's busiest centers of retail trade. TRAFFIC LIGHTS were knocked out and traffic was snarled. Police, fearing looting and other crimes after dark, assigned 500 to 600 extra officers'to the area. Emergency generators were set up to light the neighborhood all night. Subways have their own power source and were not affected. Neither was nearby Penn Station. The blackout hit the garment district in the middle of market week, when out- of-town buyers come to the garment district to purchase new fashions. Thousands of people stood in the af- ternoon sun outside Macy's and Gim- bels department stores, some pounding angrily on the locked doors. "THEY SAID they might have lights in three hours - or it might be three days," said Robert Wright, a guest at the powerless New York Statler Hotel. "What are we thinking? We're thinking about going back to Detroit." The disruption began shortly after 1:30 a.m., when a 12-inch main - 68 years old, and weakened by stress and vibration - brok'e underneath the street. Water flooded a Con Ed power sub- station 40 feet underneath the streets, setting off electrical short fires in a. transformer vault and knocking out power for the area bordered by 30th and 42th streets and Sixth and Seventh avenues. Officials said 50,000 gallons of mineral oil used as a coolant, along with wiring and insulation, caught fire. Fire Commissioner Joseph Spinnato said the blaze was so intense that it went up an airshaft and ignited a fire on the roof of a 25-store building. Locaiphone books will cut many off-campus students "the life of the directory was too short," months into the school year, Smith said. to reach the maximum number of Although Smith wouldn't estimate the students, Smith said . number of students who would be shut In past years, many businesses were out of the book by the change, he said hesitant to advertise in the Yellow the loss wouldn't be significant. Pages because phonebooks didn't come out until early December which is three Most students don't use the C ST P phonebook, Smith said, because student listings are often inaccurate. He said students rarely stay at the same address for more than a few months, and it is impossible to update the phonebook during the year. Students will still be able to use direc- tory assistance, the University's student directory, or student locator, Smith added. But after 20 calls to direc- tory assistance each month, users must pay 22 cents a call for the service. Students living in dormitories won't be affected by the deadline change because their phones are on the Univer- sity's Centrex system and not listed through Bell, Smith said. Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Progressive Student Network members Tom'Marx, far left, and David Miklethun, far right, join two other demon- strators in a Diag peace vigil ending yesterday morning. The 24-hour vigil marked the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Protesters end Diag peace vigil By GEORGEA KOVANIS WITH WIRE REPORTS A handful of protesters ended a 24-hour peace vigil on the Diag yesterday morning, which marked the 38th anniver- sary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Members of the Progressive Student Network (PSN) began their demonstration against the nuclear arms race and military research on campus at 8 a.m. Tuesday, and took turns manning their post on the Diag's "M" until 8 a.m. yesterday. FEW demonstrators turned out for the event - the protesters never numbered more than a dozen at any given time - but vigil participants said they were pleased. with the response to their small rally. "This is not a numbers event, this is a message," said Tom Marx, a PSN member and co-organizer of the vigil. Marx estimated that as of late Tuesday, demonstrators had passed out 650 leaflets to passersby and said he thought students moving through the Diag seemed in- terested in the quiet band of protesters. "A LOT OF people who weren't entirely sympathetic to us and to our cause seemed to be showing a lot of respect to us," said David Miklethun, another organizer of the protest. Members of the group said they plan to fight against controversial research projects on campus this fall with shorter daily vigils, until the University tightens its guidelines on military research. In June, University Regents failed to approve a set of guidelines for non-classified research by a vote of 7-1. WE'RE NOT just going to let (the issue) die," said PSN member Mike O'Neil, who was on the Diag in the late af- ternoon. The PSN members were not alone in their observance of the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Other groups around the state and throughout the country marked the event with protests resulting in more than 60 arrests nationwide. In the Detroit suburb of Walled Lake, four people were arrested Tuesday during a protest at Williams Inter- national, a company that makes engines for the cruise missile program. OAKLAND County sheriff's deputies refused to identify the four pending arraignment on trespassing charges. Authorities said the four - despite warnings from deputies - scaled the fence in front of the building, tossed red dye in a nearby pool and knelt in prayer before they were taken into custody. IN THE UPPER Peninsula, four protesters were arrested after trespassing on government property at K.I., Sawyer Air Base near Marquette. Base officials said Jim Smit, Gary Miron, and Mariah Offer of Marquette, and Mary Girard of Lansing crossed a barbed wire fence carrying pictures of atomic bomb vic- tims and plants symbolizing life. The four went to a nuclear weapons storage facility and knelt to pray before being apprehended by base security officers. Nine demonstrators were arrested in the nation's capitol yesterday for pouring a red liquid on the steps of the Pentagon, where about 35 people were demonstrating, officials said. Seventeen were booked after staging protests in the Pittsburgh area, 14 were arrested by military police at Seneca Army Depot in NeW York state and several others were taken into custody at demon- strations in California.