Record-Eagle (Newspaper) - September 4, 1976, Traverse City, Michigan Traverse City Traverse City 7.9 percent jobless rate bothers Ford WASHINGTON UPI As a result of a discouraging government report on unemployment the Ford ad- ministration no longer is predicting that the Jobless rate will fall below 7 per by the end of the year Ford said he was disappointed in a Labor Department report Friday ing unemployment in August climbed to 7.9 per cent a high for the year but he expressed confidence that a strong economic recovery will resume In mid-July the administration con- predicted the nation's jobless rate would drop below 7 per cent by Despite two months of steep increases in the rate in June and July the White House stood by that forecast But Ford's chief economic Alan Greenspan retreated slightly on thai forecast as a result of the August jump Greenspan said the ment rale may not drop below 7 per cent until the early part of 1977 Jimmy Carter the Democratic presidential nominee told reporters in Plains ia the jobless rate was the worst since the Hoover depression and said Ford plans for reducing iho unemployment figures concern is there is wo i he future no strong no programs concerned with how to cut down on the Carter said George Meany president of the CIO said the new unemployment report understates the nation's jobless rate An honest which includes those too discouraged to seek work and those forced into part-time jobs because Jobs are not available is Meany said By that count unemployment today is 10.5 per cent or 10.1 million jobless Ford said through spokesmen that he still believed his policies will sharply reduce unemployment and increase employment in the year ahead Greenspan insisted that the trend is a very temporary phenomena and that unemployment should be dropping shortly ile said however that this f alloff m joblessness will not occur until the November presidential tion Department said the jobless rate which now has increased lor three consecutive months rose by less than per cent in August com- 10 0.2 per cent rn June and 0.3 per cent in July But August's overall rate of 7.8 per cent is the highest since December when the jobless rate stood at 8.3 per com The report said the total number of Americans out of work last month 7.5 million up slightly from July's figure of 7.4 million It said most of the increase resulted fi om a large rise in the number of agers without jobs The jobless rate for jumped from 18.1 per cent to HI per cent in August 2 lands on M ONLY THE BRAVE football fans withstand driving ratal and high winds to watch the Traverse City Trojans compete in play Friday Bight While precariously to the tane of winds and the rain fell It to dampen the enthusiasm of those sports fans who took refuge under blankets coats or sheets of plastic to watch iClr favorite team in action photo by Dana Forest pictures of the Martian plains of Utopia were transmitted back to early today from a tilted Viking lander showing a very rocky surface stretching to the horizon The photos were delayed for more than nine hours by com- problems They indicated the lander was sitting on a slope or had put down with a footpad on a large rock mission control said The black and white scanned across the dust in front of the lander to prove the Viking robot's eras were in good working order An hour earlier the lander had started beaming back engineering data This is just as much fun as it was the first Dr Tim Mutch head of he Jander imaging team said The second photo the panorama showed the meteorology boom jutting out from the lander in the right position further proof robot's health The pictures taken shortly after 9 on Mars with the sun still low in the ing sky built up circuit screens at Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Plains of Utopia where the lander put down was believed one of sand dunes and rocks covered with dust The rocks were very evident m the first photos however ranging from pebbles to rocks that appeared to be large enough to damage the lander if it had struck them It looks like a forest of rocks out there Mutch said The first photo scanned from left to right to show one of the lander's pads positioned on the edge of a ing of rocks several inches wide Flat rocks were described as mentary Engineers had worked around the clock to restore the communications capability of its orbiting radio relay satellite which went out immediately after the lander separated from the while over the planet The nation's second spacecraft on Mars made a harrowing but fabulously exciting touchdown late Friday in an area where fogs and frosts suggest there enough moisture to support Martian life if it exists The communications problem with its orbiting mother craft blacked out details of the landing and delayed transmission of its first pictures to earth Seconds after separation of the lander from the orbiter something caused the mother craft to twist seven from its proper attitude and turned its main antenna away The biler stopped relaying the lander to earth 229 million miles away The only indication the second Viking robot was on the surface of Mars came in a quick data feed showing the lander's radio had switched from a slow to a higher rate ot transmission That confirmed the in good shape Even though link with earth was lost the landing sequence continued It's fabulously exciting The greatest thing Dr Carl Sagan an astronomer and member of the Viking No Paper Monday Due to the Labor bay holiday the will not publish an edition Monday Normal publication will resume Tuesday flight team toid UPI when landing was confirmed Whether we find life or not the landing is fantastically significant biologically he said The landing area was 1.500 miles farther north and halfway around the planet from the Chryse desert where Viking 1 earlier found in Martian gave strange results in the lander's experiments Viking 2 landed on orders stored in its computers The landing was termed nominal despite the communications blackout The landing apparently was at p.m EOT as planned It sure worked like a charm ject manager James Martin said It's very interesting that the lander doesn't seem to need us The suspense of landing the second spacecraft was greater than the landing of Viking 1 July 20 on the other side of the planet The relief was explosive When the word was shouted in mission control champagne corks were popped cups handed around and engineers and scientists were seea on closed circuit cameras with arms raised in a victory salute Martin in a news conference shortly afterward with NASA officials said I'm most most happy to be here wide this distinguished company There was some chance I might be here myself Martin said the radio relay problem apparently began when the orbiter lost its bearings on the star Vega used navigational target When the large antenna moved from its position facing earth a smaller antenna took over but it could transmit data back only at the speed of 8 of information a second compared the normal per second new era This is about the came to town fur his first dental appointment i tilling drilled a while ami took the little hose that goes and used it in the feel that air asked the list And the farmer That air By MARILYN staff writer FIFE LAKE When school bells ring here next Tuesday they will signal a new era for the Forest Area Com- munity School district first time It's located oa Ti acres SUppy City Editor's Thlt the last of a five-part OB government and how it to what It It today By JIM HERMAN writer TRAVERSE CITY City manager Larry Savage arrives at his office at city hall at about 9 almost every work day As chief administrator of Traverse City the consistent work day is about the only routine part of his job The remainder of his days and often nights is spent sifting through business ranging from pay raises to bond issues to budget conferences Since his telephone is always open to the public he mixes in conversations with city residents each day like neighborhood squabbles property taxes And always he is available I with any one or more of the city The commission after Savage's employer him and set his benefits commission sets city policy and I carry it out the city manager The bells will toll from three schools Fife Lake Elementary South Boardman Elementary and Forest Area High School the result of a two-year fort bv residents of the tiny rural com- of Fife Lake South Boardman and Lund The battle for consolidation began after the Kalkaska and Manton school boards voted not to Area students for the school year cording to Helen J Hansen secretary to superintendent Lee Sandy A move she said which area residents felt was designed to force them into con- with the Kalkaska and Manton districts We didn't want she said we wanted our own schools The petition to consolidate was granted by the state in January Following the merger the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District board appointed the first Forest Area school board composed of Gertrude A Gonyer ai Fife Lake Gordon Hall a heavy equipment operator from South man? Marilyn L a South Boardman housewife Harry Voice a Fife Lake auto dealer and Birgy a Fife Lake housewife Sandy former superintendent and principal of Fife Lake Schools was named district superintendent In spring of that year area voters overwhelmingly approved a million bond issue for construction of the new schools Residents also ed a operational levy The new facilities are located on 70 acres on Shippy Road just east of 131 The old Fife Lake elementary school was demolished this summer and the Boardman school was sold to a school to make way for the new tary facilities The high school was designed with the open classroom concept and passes a multi-purpose cafeteria gymnasium library biology lab machine shop home economics lab and a band room in addition to regular classrooms The Warriors will not field a football team Hansen said but will compete in soccer basketball baseball and trade as members of the Conference Formal dedication ceremonies for the new facilities will be held Sept 18 from 2 to 5 p.m Jt will be a red letter day for area residents who have worked so and hard to see their dream realized day that will only be June when the Class of 77 the first graduating seniors since 1959 will march the to the tune of Pomp and Circumstances The Savage is the city's fifth city manager since the municipality adopted commission form of government in 1940 A He was preceded by Al Miller Oscar Anderson Howard Kramer and Anse DaMoose r Savage who is currently paid about per vear was hired by Traverse City to As a young man he had earned an un- degree from Northwestern University in economics and political science and has a Masters degree in public administration from the sity of Michigan He worked for the cities of Milwaukee and Saginaw before taking over as dty manager at Cheboygan and then Pointe From Grosse Pointe he moved to Traverse City where he has remained for 12 vears In Traverse City Savage's are diverse In general be has control over all departments of the city There are more regular employes he said But a large share of the day-to-day operations has been turned over department heads to whom Savage delegates authority Gerald Buck ex- ample is Savage's right hand HMO his unofficial assistant dry manager Williams beads the of Public Works tht city's garbage collection removal system and a number of other Fred Hoisington as city planner is responsible both to Savage and to the planning and zoning board City engineer Duane Brege is also answerable to Savage So are dty assessor Jim Franklin city treasurer Harold Truelove city clerk Jim Tompkins light and power department director William Strom and fire chief Duane Mehl The city commission sets policy and Savage implements it through use of his staff H has proved to be a workable reliable w growing fast and as a result today Savage said In many cases city government has responded to those needs Since I have-been here we have seen an expansion of service we form the dty manager said We have a new water system ed secondary treatment to the sewage plant doubling the capacity of the power plant also been construction of a terminal building and runway at airport Upper Bra
