A rt Fair 184 ^Inside:Aguidetothe summer's main event rtb torzu ILIUdIQ Ninety -four years of editorial/freedom Tuesday, July 24, 1984 Fifteen Cents Sixteen Pages Williams forfeits crown over nude photos CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA/Daily The Graceful Arch on East University was almost vacant yesterday, but it will soon be overtaken by swarms of people visiting Ann Arbor's 25th annual art fair. Preparations for art fair hit fever pitch By ANDREW ERIKSEN The familiar assemblage of art booths, music stages, knockwurst stands, and bargain sales are begin- ning to take shape in the city today as preparations continue for tomorrow's opening of the art fair. Local merchants and workers stacked the sections that make up the art booths last night along South University, and construction of the booths should start this morning. The construction and the installation of the white plastic roofs and elec- trical lines will take most of the day, and the artists should be able to move into the booths later tonight. MOST OF the hotels in the down- town area are booked solid for the fair. Many people make reser- vations a year in advance for the an- nual ritual, according to Deanna Dean, who works at the Ann Arbor Inn. Visitors trying to get into town may find it a little more difficult this year because of the road constr- uction along Plymouth Road and State Street during the fair. Patrons may want to use the Ann Arbor- Saline road exit off I-94 or the Washtenaw Ave. exit off U.S. 23, ac- cording to Ann Arbor police. People who come to Ann Arbor to look at artwork during the fair will be treated to a spruced-up Univer- sity campus. Robert Hanselmann, a general service foreman, said the University has constructed ramps on some side streets to help artists and vendors load and unload their goods. In addition to adding wood chips underneath some bushes along South University, cutting the grass inside the Law Quad, and trimming. the bushes near Helen Newberry residence hall, the grounds depar- tment plans to shut off the sprinkler system during the art fair. "WE DON'T want to give any of the displays a bath at 11 o'clock at night," said Hanselman. The University will have to put in an ex- tra effort during the fair to control the trash problem, he added. People setting up the booths aren't the only ones working late - many artists in the fair are also busy. Many need to "replace" work that was sold at other fairs around the country. "We're working like mad," said artist Neal Wright, who will be displaying his work in the Ann Arbor Street Fair. Wright added that most visitors don't show up before the fair. People are more particular and just looking the first day and coming back and buying the second, said See MERCHANTS, Page 7 By DAVID VANKER with wire reports Vanessa Williams reluctantly gave up her Miss America title yesterday, saying Penthouse magazine's publication of sexually explicit photos of her and another woman made it im- possible for her to finish her reign. The 21-year-old beauty, the first black woman to hold the title and the first of 57 Miss Americas to lose the crown, told a packed Manhattan news conference she never agreed to have the pictures published and did not realize how explicit they were until she saw them in the magazine. "IT IS apparent to me that because of all that has happened during the past week, it would be difficult for me to make an appearance as Miss America," Williams said in a calm voice. She said her mistake was "almost totally devastating to have to share with the American public and the world at large." The 10-page layout in the September Penthouse, rushed to newsstands a week early yesterday and selling for $4 instead of the usual $3, showed Williams posing nude in several sexually suggestive scenes with an unidentified woman. IN ANN ARBOR, Community Newscenters held a monopoly over sales of the issue yesterday while other local retailers anxiously awaited their mid-week shipments. "I think we'll get a special order on Wednesday - probably more copies than normal," said a spokesperson for Marshall's. A clerk at Tice's reported that the store did not receive its copies of the September issue yesterday, but said "we were kind of hoping we would. We had about 50 people ask for it." CAROL DAVIS of the Community Newscenter on South University con- firmed that sales of the magazine were brisk. "We're not sold out yet, but I imagine we will be soon," she said last night. "It's been selling very fast. I've been, here for two or three hours and we've sold 20 or 30 copies." But not everyone who came in was in- terested in owning the magazine, Davis added. "PEOPLE are obviously looking for that issue," she said. "Some are looking through it and deciding not to buy it. . On the opposite corner of campus, the East Liberty Community Newscenter was enjoying a comparable sales boom. "It's incredible," remarked Kim Hanafee, a Newscenter clerk. "We probably overstocked, but they're selling like hotcakes. People are buying two or three." Hanafee.said most of the customers sympathized with Williams but could not contain their curiosity. "Everybody's on (Williams') side," Hanafee said. "They seem to think (Penthouse publisher) Bob Guccione is Williams ... relinquishes title cruel and sadistic, and they hope (Williams) will make a lot of money af- ter it's over. "Nevertheless, they are buying it," she said. "They want to see her, but they don't agree with it." In Atlantic City, N.J., pageant of- ficials said Suzette Charles, Miss New Jersey, would serve the remainingtwo months as Miss America. Charles is also black. Inside: * Israel held key elections yesterday. See Page3. " Opera comes to Ann Arbor. See Arts, Page 10. " The Olympics are political - even without the Soviets. See Sports, Page 16. Outside : Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms and a high in the Low to mid-80s.