i Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 29, 1984 Union's General Store to close By THOMAS HRACH The Michigan Union's late-night staple, The General Store, will close Tuesday as the Union phases out its retail operations under an agreement which gives a privately owned bookstore exclusive rights to sell Michigan insignia merchandise and cer- tain other items. Currently the Union runs three different retail operatons which include The General Store, the Can- dy Counter, and The Emblem Shop. The latter two will pick up the slack of The General Store until the Bar- nes and Noble bookstore opens up shop late this year in the new ground floor shopping mall. "THE MOVE should be better financially for both the University and the students," said Gary Treer, manager of the Union's retail department. "The bookstore can do a better job of selling the items because that's their business. The success of Barnes and Noble is good for the University and the com- munity." According to Treer the been in operation just at were not closing becaus profitable. He claimed i Union renovation plans ha merchants to do all the se building. But Bruce Weinberg of mer tenant at the Union decided to move out of the reasons was the restrictioi merchandise sold. The Un the exclusive rights to sel but the rights will be given "IT SEEMS the Union rf the restrictions had to be get a bookstore tenant," s the U-Cellar. "If they wo tions for us then we probab The original plans for the Union renovations were three stores had always designed with the U-Cellar in mind, and Union of the break-even point and ficials wanted to raise the rent as well as force the se they had become un- non-profit bookstore to pay for some of the nstead, that the original renovations. d included allowing private The Union guaranteed the New York company ex- Iling of merchandise in the clusive rights to sell Michigan insignia merchandise in the building when the lease was signed several the University Cellar, for- weeks ago, according to Bill Maloney of Barnes and , claimed that when they Noble. Less than two weeks ago the bookstore e building one of the major secured the exclusive rights to sell merchandise ns placed upon the types of similar to that of The General Store and the Candy ion would not give U-Cellar Counter. 1 Michigan insignia items, THE EMBLEM Shop and the Candy Counter, both to Barnes and Noble. now on the ground floor will close some time in ealized after two years that December when the bookstore begins its operation. lifted it they were going to The area that the General Store now occupies will be aid Weinberg, manager at transformed into office space for the Union, which uld have lifted the restric- will remove its offices from the ground floor to ac- ly would not have moved." commodate Barnes and Noble. Welfare job program gets positive response By KARI MANNS will continue to receive food stamps A new state program allowing and medical benefits. A recipient with a welfare recipients to exchange their young child may receive a partial grant checks for minimum-wage jobs has .for child care expenses. received overwhelming response, ac- The second phase of the program cording to program officials. consists of the recipients using the ex- "Approximately 17,500 current perience and references from the tem- Michigan welfare recipients volun- porary job to find a permanent position tarily came forward to trade their with the help of the program staff. "The benefits for 7,000 jobs," said Project challenge then becomes keeping our Self-Reliance director Doug Ross. The end of the bargain and helping these high number of applicants for this and former welfare recipients find per- other job programs indicates that many manent jobs in the private sector so welfare recipients would rather be they can support themselves and their working than drawing welfare checks, families," Ross said. he said. PROJECT SELF-Reliance is a recen- RUSHER ADDED that the Michigan tly enacted statewide experiment Employment Security Commission will initiated by Gov. James Blanchard. try to place at least 25 percent of the The two-phase program, funded by the employees in permanent jobs. - state, offers temporary minimum-wage To be eligible for Project Self- positions and the possibility of a per- Reliance, recipients must be on either manent job in place of welfare benefits. General Assistance or Aid to Dependent In Washtenaw County, more than 250 Children with a monthly grant that ex- welfare recipients applied for the 93 ceeds $275. Potential applicants must available jobs. The applications are be referred to WALTEC by their being studied by the Washtenaw, Ann caseworker. Arbor, Livingston Training and Em- All positions will be filled by the end ployment Center (WALTEC), which of August. Approximately one half of administers the program locally. the positions statewide have yet to be In phase one of the project the filled. recipients work in a community Because the program is voluntary, organization. "Recipients will work 30 officials said a recipient who does not hours per week for up to 26 weeks in a work out at a particular job can return public or non-profit private agency," to the welfare roles. said Trenda Rusher of WALTEC. People involved with the program "There are entry-level positions with say it proves that many welfare many custodial and clerical positions," recipients would prefer to have a she continued. paying job. "The belief that folks on "THE RECIPIENT'S skills will be welfare are lazy and would prefer the matched as closely as possible with the dole to a job is not consistent with what jobs." Rusher said 46 agencies ten- we're finding across the state," Ross tatively plan to hire the workers, in- said. cluding the Ann Arbor Parks and Ross cautioned that the encouraging Recreation Department, Willow Run response does not make the experiment Schools, Perry Nursery School, the a success. The test will be whether the American Red Cross, and Cleary welfare recipients perform well in their College. temporary positions and compete for During the program the employee and keep permanent jobs. I I 4 Scuba Betsy Pillsbury, a paraplegic from Milton, Mass., swims with her scuba gear at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology pool. Pillsbury is the head of Moray Wheels, a group of 40 disabled scuba divers. L.A. driver injures 54 (Continued from Page 1) Among the injured was a college student who was to play in a band for the opening ceremonies. Young, a resident of the Inglewood suburb of Los Angeles, had been placed on probation April 22, 1983, after a burglary conviction, Officer Scot Gilliam said. "HE'S JUST mad at policemen in general," the officer said. "Everybody's kind of shocked," his brother Larry Young said at the family home in a modest Inglewood neigh- borhood, a Los Angeles suburb eight miles southwest of downtown. Young's parents, brother, and sisters avoided the reporters gathered yesterday out- side the house. Earlier, Larry Young told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner: "I think lately he's been really kind of depressed, and my understanding is nobody had any idea he had taken off, but when I got here, the car was gone. I'm really not sure what happened." NEIGHBORS described Young as a quiet loner who would play his car radio loud or sit in front of his house listening to the radio. "He was all right. He kept to him- self," said Donell Thomas, who atten- ded Morningside High School with Young. "He was quiet. He liked to listen to music." "He didn't try and make himself friendly. Whenever I came home from work, I'd just see him sitting on the porch listening to the radio," said LaVeldo Weaver, another neighbor. Afterward, the sidewalk was littered with shoes, a baby carriage was over- turned and a puddle of blood blocked a shoe store entrance. The dead girl was identified by cor- oner's spokesman Bill Gold as Eileen Deutsch, 15, of the New York City borough of Queens. 4 6 6 4 HAPPENINGS Saturday Artists-Arts Festival, 9 a.m., State & Main p.m., 408W. Washington. Go Club-meeting, 2 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. CFT-The Paper Chase, 7:30 & 11:20 p.m.; The Performance Network-American Buffalo, 8 Graduate, 9:30 p.m., Michigan. CFT - Cousin, Cousine, 7:45 p.m.; The Tall p.m., 408W. Washington. Sunday Blonde Man with One Black Shoe, 9:30 p.m., African-meeting, 6:30 p.m., 1634 McIntyr.r ma n ka r Michigan. Performance Network-American Buffalo, 8 Send announcements to Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.