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Day
15
Month
November
Year
1974
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Thanksgiving 1974. Milk at $1.55 a gallon and climbing. Famine threatening most of the world's peoples due to plundered and misappropriated resources. Food is becoming a foremost topic of discussion, and so the SUN presents herein a Special Food Issue with features on Vegetarianism, How to Get Food Stamps, the Economics of the World Food Crisis, You Are What You Eat, Community Thanksgiving Recipes, Say Nuts to Skonk Snacks and other hopefully useful items. We also take a look at the sport of hang-gliding, an Ann Arbor adaptation of a play from People's China, and recent reflections of Taj Mahal. Is this what you want to see in a community newspaper? Please let us know.

Carol Jones, Democratic City Councilwoman from the 2nd (read youth) ward, has announced she will seek another term in office this April. Carol has been a decently effective, basically radical (she used to vote HRP) and non-rhetorical representative. She's also quite popular, so her decision to run means HRP will have a hard time winning its second ward potential stronghold once again this year. The "Humans", as they were once fondly known, have a long way to go to regain their 1972 position of strength.

PAY TOILETS IN BARS may soon be outlawed by the Michigan State Liquor Control Commission. Originally part of the late 1960's Yippie Platform and Program, the pay toilet ban is coming about due to charges of sex-discrimination, in that men get urinals free, but women have to put up coins to take a leak.

On a lighter note, Richard Nixon may testify after all in the so-called Watergate Cover-up trial-on a television screen. This very fitting medium for Nixon, whom some people claim is really a media-mythologized non-entity, was suggested by Judge John Sirica, after Nixon's doctors continued to hedge on when the ex-prez could tell his story to the mostly black jury. Now Sirica is considering flying the entire courtroom to California.

The American Civil Liberties Union helped thousands of men avoid the draft before the anti-war movement forced the creation of the all-volunteer army. Now the ACLU is offering to take resisters through court to avoid two years of servitude amnesty. ACLU ads appearing recently claim that many deserters can have their original induction notices declared illegal, due to technicalities and the present political climate. If induction was illegal, then you never deserted, and get off scot free. Deserters can contact the ACLU in confidence.

Back in Ann Arbor, the Pilot Program at U-M is compiling a "People's Yellow Pages" of the area, listing "educational and social services, cooperatively and collectively owned businesses, non-profit organizations, political groups and anyone else working for social change." If you want to be included in the project as a volunteer or listing, contact Mary or Dick at 764-7521.

Members of the SUN staff will be interviewed on Community Dialogue on Cable 3, Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7:15pm . . . WCBN-FM and WCRN radio are holding a completely Open House on Nov. 21 from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m., in the basement of the Student Activities Building, Thompson and Jefferson streets.

MUSIC NEWS: is slim, but greatly enlivened by the appearance of Freddy King at Chances Are this Monday and Tuesday. This town could support a lot more music if only there were more places for musicians to play. Possibly something can be done to alleviate the situation if when the Democrats take over Council in April they give back the money originally earmarked for a People's Ballroom . . . Bimbo's in Ypsi has a new manager, and is seeking ideas for acts and a wholly new name. Wednesday and Thursday will be soul nights... A fight at Chances Are last week caused an arrest to take place and one man to be busted for possession of acid. The local band Lightnin' apparently walked out out on the bar over a dispute as well. The place is doing better booking-wise, but apparently has some other problems to straighten out.

Radio King and His Court of Rhythm and the Mojo Boogie Band appear at a benefit for the SUN December 14 in the good old Union Ballroom... Would you believe that the title of Grand Funk's next album will be "All The Girls In The World Beware." That was once a good and even socially conscious rock and roll band... Those first in line for the Ypsi appearance of Seals and Crofts were shocked last week to find the first 25 rows were unavailable. Haven't we seen this movie before, Dylan