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Blanchard
soon to fill
'U' regent
vacancy
By EDWARD KLEINE
Special to the Daily
LANSING - Govenor James
Blanchard has narrowed his list of
candidates to replace former Univer-
sity Regent Sarah Power and could
make his decision as early as today,
according to Blanchard's Personnel
Director Greg Morris.
Morris said Blanchard is "shoot -
ing for the end of May" to make his
appoinment, but added that it could
come at any time. "There could be
one at the end of this week," he
said.
Although Morris declined to dis -
cuss the names on Blanchard's list,
sources at the capitol have indicated
that former regents Jerry Dunn and
Robert Nederlander, former Govern -
ors William Milliken and Mennen
Williams, Ypsilanti resident Marge
Lansing, state official Robert Naft -
aly, and Power's husband Philip are
being considered for the post.
Milliken and Williams are not
likely candidates according to one
source because Milliken is aRe-
according to an anonymous source.
Williams, 75, retired this year as
the state's chief justice.
All the candidates except Milli -
ken are Democrats, and capitol in -
siders are confident that Blanchard
will appointa Democrat.
Naftaly denied he is a candidate
and speaking with Blanchard about
the possible appointment. Naftaly
will leave his post as director of the
State Office Management and Bud -
get in July to become Vice Presi -
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Edison power company.
"I think Phil Power can have it
if he wants it, butI haven't heard
any facts," one source said.
But even though some capitol
watchers see Power as Blanchard's'W
prime choice, they speculate that he
may already have turned down the
offer, since he has not announced
any desire for the position.
"All of them would make excel -
lent regents. I think that's a very
strong list," said State Senator Lana
Pollack (D-Ann Arbor).
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Neighbors Against the Gun Store (NAGS) plan to protest the opening of
the Ann Arbor Rod and Gun Store today, which is located on Packard
Street. The group plans an economic boycott of the next-door Big Ten
Party Store, whose owner leased space to the gun store. NAGS will also
picket and distribute leaflets to encourage the boycott.
Residents protest
gun store opening
By ELIZABETH ATKINS Mayor Gerald Jernigan said he sym -
Some Ann Arbor residents are pathizes with the neighbors' con -
outraged at the city's first gun store cerns.
in their neighborhood and have or - "It's a very difficult situation,"
ganized to prevent the store's open - Jernigan said. He added that special
ing. zoning restrictions may be created
The Ann Arbor Rod and Gun for gun stores opening in the fu -
Company will open today on Pack- ture.
ard Street near Stadium Boulevard. Chambers said NAGS will begin
But residents of the neighborhood a - an economic boycott of the-the Big
ound the store have banded together Ten Party Store - located next to
.nd created an organization, the gun shop - because the store's
leighbors Against the Gun Store owner, Curtis Estes, leased the
(NAGS), to protest its opening. building in which the gun store
Henry Street resident Brian will open.
Chambers, speaking for the group Estes was unavailable for
at the city council meeting last comment.
Monday night, said about 50 Shirley McRae, a resident of the
residents met last week to discuss a neighborhood and member of
strategy. nihoho n ebro
"The sooner they close this oper- NAGS, said a gun store seems in -
ation on Packard, the sooner we'll congruous among the neighborhood
stop nagging," Chambers said. and family oriented stores along
"This is very much a family issue." Packard.
David DeVarti (D-Fourth Ward) She also said the gun shop
- who is against the store - said would appear like "the underworld
the store is in a commerically zoned coming into the neighborhood" to
area and the opening of a gun store children and little league baseball
complies with those zoning laws. teams who frequent the nearby
At the meeting, Ann Arbor Dairy Queen.
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