PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1953 OWNER OPPOSITION: Huron-Clinton Project Hits Property Obstacle By LARRY SUKENIC Stiff opposition to the Huron- Clinton Metropolitan Authority has been encountered from arous- ed owners of land along the Huron River in Webster and Dexter Township. The owners are protesting the acquisition of some 300 acres of, land for a proposed parkway site and the squabble appears headed' for an all-out circuit court fight.] NEW FILM: 3-D Showing Set for April Ann Arbor will receive its first. taste of three dimensional films April 9, local theater manager Gerry Hoag announced yesterday. "Bwana Devil" will be shown; through April 15 to enable stu-, dents returning from spring va- cation todview thebjungle movie, Hoag said. It will be followed la-; ter this spring by another 3-D film, "House of Wax." Hoag added that the cost of equipment and extra operators for the two projectors would raise the evening admission price to 98 cents. He previously declined to re- lease the date of "Bwana Devil's" opening in case orders for costly projection equipment were delay- ed. The theater manager said, however, that the special metallic screen arrived and delivery of 25,- 000 polarized viewing glasses is assured. THE 3-D process is known as; "Natural Vision," a new twist to the old family and vaudeville stereoscope techniques. Two projectors are used to throw separate images on the screen. The light from each im- age is polarized (filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane at right angles to the other im- age.) The viewer sees a different pic- ture with each eye by wearing glasses fitted with polarizing len- ses. His brain then combines the images into a three-dimensional picture. Three-D is no kin to Cinerama which has been intriguing New Yorkers for several months by achieving the depth illusion with a wide curved screen and three projectors. Youths Face PoliceCharge A 17-year-old boy arrested by Ypsilanti police Friday has been named by police as the seventh member of a teen-age gang which comitted at least 18 burglaries in the area during the past four months. Menwhile, a 19-year-old Ann Arbor youth, who was arraigned in municipal court Friday and waived examination at that time, will face a circuit court hearing Tuesday. He was involved in only one burglary, according to Det. Marvin 0. Krans of the State Police. In another circuit court case set Tuesday two Manchester area farmers will be examined on charges of defrauding the Bureau of Social Aid to secure more than $1,000 in aid payments since 1949. Eastman To Open Civil Rights Series Prof. Arthur Eastman of the English department will speak on the parental role of the University at 8 p.m. Tuesday, in the Union. Prof. Eastman's talk will be the first in a "For your Information" series dealing with civil rights and academic freedom. The series is sponsored by the Students for Democratic Action and the Civil Liberties Committee. The two groups have also sched- uled a talk by Prof. Henry D. Ai- ken, visiting professor of philoso- phy, for April 16. The series will close May 12 with a panel of lo- cal clergymen. Sawyer To Speak On AtomicEnergy Dean Ralph A. Sawyer of the School of Graduate Studies will speak on "Atomic Energy: Its In- They have refused appraised of- fers for their land from the au- thority and have banned together in the "Committee of Huron-Clin- ton Property Owners" to fight con- demnation proceedings. . * * * THE PROPOSED parkway, run- ning along the Huron River from Dexter northward to Bass Lake, will be known as the "Hudson Mills Metropolitan Forest" and is part of a proposed 160-mile de- velopment which will eventually extend from St. Clair Metropoli- tan Beech to Flat Rock. University Vice-president Wil- bur K. Pierpont said neither the authority nor the owners have approached the University con- cerning its property south of Bass Lake where the parkway will run eastward for a short distance. The authority now owns 400 acres of the 730 acres it needs for the Hudson Mills parkway, but spokesmen for the authority claim work cannot begin on the project until it owns all 730 acres. AFTER THE property owners refused to sell their land, attor- neys began condemnation proceed-' ings in February against the sixty holdouts in northwest Washtenaw County. At the condemnation hearings the owners asked that the pro- ceedings be dismissed. They claimed that "there was no ne- cessity for the petitioner taking the lands" and argued that the authority already has "ample land in Washtenaw and adjoin- ing counties for recreational fa- cilities." The issue will be tried in court before a jury of property owners which will be impanelled May 12. Judge James R. Breakey, jr., sign- ed the order calling for a jury panel and indicated that a lengthy trial is anticipated. Judge Breakey said that the jury will have to determine whe- ther the authority needs the land for public use and the value of the land if they rule in favor of the authority. * * * FOLLOWING A property own- ers meeting, several objections were raised to the parkway. One landowner said that the authorityI was, offering "farm" prices for land which is now selling for "re- sort" prices. Events of the Week MONDAY- The Boston "Pops" Tour Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler will pre- sent the final concert in the Extra Concert Series at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. A lecture under the auspices of the student branch of the Ameri- can Institute of Architects with a sound filmstrip on acoustical ma- terials will be held at 4 p.m. in the Architecture Auditorium. . * * * TUESDAY- The Annual Clinic on Savings and Loan Association Problems will be held beginning at 10 a.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. Registra- tion will be at 9 a.m. in the Rackham Bldg. lobby. "The Late Sonatas of Beethoven," will be discussed by Prof. Jo- seph Brinkman of the music school at 4:15.p.m. in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. * * * * WEDNESDAY- Prof. Ernest Greenwood of the School of Social Work at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh will talk on "Sociology, Social Science, and So- cial Work," at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. "Some Recent Research in the Structure of English," will be the subject of a University lecture by Henry Lee Smith, Jr., of the.De- partment of State at 4:15 p.m. in Auditorium B, Angell Hall. The Speech department play "Right You Are If You Think You Are," by Pirandello will'be presented at 8 p.m. today through Saturday in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., will address an open meeting of the Linguistics Club on "Some Aspects of Metalinguistics," at 8 p.m. in the East Conference Rm. of the Rackham Bldg. THURSDAY- Prof. Wayne Dunlap will conduct the University Symphony Or- chestra in a concert at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. FRIDAY- The Wolverun Derby will be held in the afternoon on E. Washing- ton St., behind the Health Service. The Social Work Progress Institute will hold meetings beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. The SL Cinema Guild presents "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Architecture Auditorium. * * * * SATURDAY- The Union Skit Night will take to the stage at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium with skits presented by Kappa Alpha Theta-Theta Xi, Victor Vaughn-Delta Upsilon, Helen Newberry-Taylor House, and Martha Cook-Zeta Beta Tau. Others participating will be Henderson House-Delta Sigma Phi and Gamma Phi Beta-Sigma Phi Epsilon. Campus Organizations Show Varying Membership Trends I I FM BROADCASTING: WU OM oasts Increasing Audience, New Facilities It all goes back to 1923. That's when the electrical engineering department, convinced that amplitude modulation wasn't here to stay, took their radio sta- tion WCBC off the ether and tos'sed away their "AM" license. University radio experts have been regretting it ever since. For by the time the school opened its superbly-equipped, spanking- modern WUOM in 1948, there was no more room for another AM station on the southern Michigan dial-and WUOM has had to stick with frequency modulation radio, "FM" to you, since then. * *~ * * ** ACTUALLY, as WUOM officials emphasize, FM is much simpler, better-sounding, and more static-free than AM techniques of broad- casting. But somehow because AM was developed first, amplitude modulation has continued to be the method used by the major net- works. Consequently most listeners own AM radio receivers, while relatively few own FM sets. -Thus,, WUOM director Waldo Abbott estimates the direct listening audience of his station as approximately 25,000. But this doesn't begin to tell the real story. * * * For WUOM has developed in I many directions which serve to extend the station's audience far beyond its FM-imposed limits. Its high-quality programs are heard . regularly on 30 commercial sta- tions throughout the state, by transcription from WUOM's Ad- ministration Bldg. And its pro- ductions intermittently pop up on - frequencies all over the United States, through a distribution ar- r rangement with the National As- 4 sociation of Radio Broadcasters. BUT WUOM doesn't stop there, for occasionally its programs are g picked up by the Voice of America for overseas broadcast. * ~ ~Turning back to the local scene, WUOM has also developed a size- able listening audience in the Resi- dence Halls, where quad radio net- s works carry many of the Univer- sity's programs as part of their own broadcasting schedule. The h:quad networks have been built up by interested students with the close cooperation and aid of WUOM. Such efforts have not gone without recognition. The Uni- versity station is currently rated among the top six college sta- tions in the United States and has won two awards for excel- lence from the Institute for Education by Radio. But WUOM is not resting or past laurels. Currently it is ex- panding its recording facilities. tc meet the ever-increasing demand from many stations for tapes. And only last year the direct listening audience ofaWUOM got a boost ecessary, with home-made sound of 30,000 hearers with the acquisi- tion of WFUM, Others said arise because traffic to the a problem would of the increased area. (Continued from Page 1) Lack of personnel in the Inter- Arts Union has forced the burden of work upon executive members. Both the IAU and Generation magazine complain of a dearth of creative writing efforts. But for every organization that shows a drop in member- ship, another, if not several, or- ganizations seem to be picking u p . - Residence hall and fraternity groups, religious clubs, dramatic and musical organizations and recreational activities are on the upgrade or at least holding their own. President of the Interfraternity Council Pete Thorpe, '53. reported that IFC has more petitioners than it can use. Student Players drew 200 try~- outs for its first 1952-53 season production, and men students - gave Union Opera "quite a re- sponse" compared to last year. University choirs director Prof. Maynard Klein of the music school claimed that choral groups are at a "peak of activity" with 500 par- ticipants. G p * GENERALLY, it appears debat- able whether the present campus- wide situation represents any great sociological change from past years, although trends away from particular groups may be signifi- cant. Scarcity of men students, while it has not hit the Union hard, has drastically changed the personnel picture at The Daily, the 'Ensian, and to some extent the Student Players, and the threat of a fu- ture matriarchy hangs over sev- eral co-ed groups. FOR SOUND EFFECTS-At the signal all bedlam can break loose if n effects taking the feature spot. In objecting to a proposed high- way along the river, property own- ers pointed out that there are al- ready two roads roughly parallel- ing the strip in question which were not being kept up and anoth- er would be unnecessary. Another objection raised was that the proposed parkway would take valuable property off the tax rolls at a time when state and county government are scraping the barrel for all the revenue they can get. MAlLI ICANDIES® , _ PROF. WALDO ABBOT . . . WUOM Director Everything points to... DAILY PICTURE PAGE Story by Freddi Loewenberg f LOWERING THE BOOM-Station engineer .Dean W. 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