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Ramps a rptirprf Jeffries. Myrtle Barnes, 72, said her husband went to the Jeffries on Jan. 5, as he usually did, to help friends by walking with them to the store or taking their checks to the bank. "They all liked him," she said. "He was one man they could trust.

He was there whenever they wanted him. They said they couldn't trust the other peoples." Police said Barnes was once a manager of the Jeffries' complex Building 402, the building he was shot outside of at about 4:50 p.m. that Sunday. Detectives said there were no known witnesses, but they are looking for a black man about 34 years old, 5 feet 10, about 190 pounds, with a smooth complexion. Mrs.

Barnes said her husband apparently refused to surrender his wallet to the robber. set in." Barnes, who was born in 1902, retired from Chrysler Corp. in 1968, she said. He had also worked for Briggs Corp. and other smaller manufacturing firms previously.

The couple moved to Detroit from Chattanooga, in 1943, said Mrs. Barnes. They have one daughter, Gloria Harris, three granddaughters, five great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. His grandnephew, Harold Johnson, is public safety director in Highland Park. "We had a good life together," Mrs.

Barnes said. "He's an enjoyable talker, he jokes and things like that. He loves his checkers." Police are asking anyone who knows something about the suspect call homicide detectives at 224-4280 anytime. The man shot Barnes twice in the abdomen, took the wallet and fled, she said. "I always told him he could always get more money, but you can't get you another life.

He was old. He couldn't fight," she said. "I didn't get to talk to him before they operated on him" at Receiving Hospital after the shooting, his wife said. "He knew. He regained consciousness, but he couldn't talk.

All the time he had the tube in him." He answered questions from his family and police by signals. "If we asked some questions did he know who we were? he squeezed the hand or bat his eyes twice. That's the way he communicated," she said. "We was praying and hoping he would make it but the way the doctors explained it to us, he might make it if he didn't have no complications publicans came here Friday and Saturday not to praise Jim Blanchard but to bury him and, oh, yes, to kick off their own campaign for governor. autoworker who lived Barnes more than half his life in Detroit, died Friday, 47 days after being shot twice by a gunman who robbed him outside an apartment building at the The former was a lot more fun.

Some of it especially the spectacularly banal remarks by state Sen. Jack Welborn, R-Kalamazoo was excessive. But most of it was the sort of windy stuff that binds together the fragile party fabric in times of great need, to wit, in the cold, lonely winter TTtj months of an elec- electorate begins giving a damn. The occasion (AS-1 "convention-rally" i p-i V.1. i Mt-" tT.

cooked up by state GOP Chairman Spencer Abraham ostensibly as a kickoff for the Republicans' 1986 scramble for governor. But it quickly (and predictably) got down to the business of shoveling dirt nn Rlan- Welborn Mo Free Press Photo by HUGH GRANNUM The Rev. Mangedwa Nyathi, executive director of Agape House, helps in the kitchen. The center provides free medical and legal clinics, hot lunches, food, clothing and utility assistance, job training and a crisis hot line. The Hartford Black church gains power as social and political center Dearborn offices targeted Arab Americans told to organize for power By BARBARA STANTON Free Press Staff Writer Arab Americans should organize to elect not only a council member in Dearborn in the next election but also the mayor, a leading Arab-American activist said Saturday.

"We ought to be a power in the area because of our numbers," James Zogby told a conference of local Arab-American leaders. "If we can't do that, we can't expect to influence foreign policy." Zogby, director of the Arab American Institute in Washington, said Arab Americans should organize and raise money for candidates in order to play "a decisive role in Michigan politics" this year, including the gubernatorial race and the Republican presidential caucuses that will begin in August. In the last election in Dearborn, successful mayoral candidate Mike Guido offended Arab Americans, who make up about 20 percent of Dearborn's population of 90,000, by talking about "the Arab problem" in that suburb and distributing a leaflet that said Arab-American leaders had a "gimme" attitude. Suzanne Sareini, a candidate for the Dearborn City Council, finished in 10th place, about 2,000 votes behind the last successful candidate. ZOGBY SAID in an interview that Sareini lost because many Arab Americans in Dearborn were recent immigrants, not yet citizens, and were at the bottom of the ladder politically and economically.

"That will change," he said. "You're talking power in Dearborn in 1 5 years." The conference at the Michigan Inn in Southfield was sponsored by the Arab American Democratic and Republican Federations and the Arab American Institute. The theme" was how to increase the political clout of Americans of Arab descent and to develop a strategy for winning appointments, jobs and government contracts for Arab Americans. Speakers told the audience voter registration, money for political campaigns and visibility were the keys to influencing the political process from the local level up to the White House. Zogby said that when Arab Americans went to Gov.

Blanchard a year ago to ask for more appointments to state posts, nothing happened. "And he was right to say, 'Where were you three years ago when I was There are about 200,000 Americans of Arab descent in the Detroit area and between 750,000 and 2.5 million Arab Americans in the nation. Zogby, a leading critic of U.S. support for Israel, said that recent events in the Middle East have helped to make Arab Americans more visible and respected, as the press turned to them for information and explanations of what was going on. See DEARBORN, Page 15A MH.

J' ii.rni immm nue north of Mifford, near Tireman and W. Grand and recorded the license plate numbers of those attending. Mr. Hill led housing demonstrations, ran for Detroit Common Council with Coleman Young as his campaign manager, and opened his church for ostracized union organizers from the Ford Rouge plant. So was he a subversive? The committee did not receive a reply.

Lifting a Bible before his interrogators, the pastor cited Jesus' silence before Pontius Pilate and chose the Fifth Amendment, Crockett said. TODAY, as yesterday, the church renamed Hartford Memorial Baptist Church when it moved to a building on James Couzens south of Seven Mile Road in 1977 is a highly visible symbol of the social and political influence of the black church. See CHURCH, Page 9A 1962 Photo By RUTH SEYMOUR Free Press Religion Writer In late February 1952, a 60-year-old black Detroit minister and his attorney faced a grilling by the House Un-American Activities Committee in a downtown federal courtroom. Hundreds of gawkers milled in the hallway hoping for seats at the public proceedings; a last-minute decision had barred television cameras. Reporters noted a tension in the crowd.

Would the Rev. Charles Hill, pastor of Hartford Avenue Baptist Church, respond to the oft-repeated charge that he was a member of the Communist Party? "That was the $64 question," recalls U.S. Rep. George Crockett now 76, who was Mr. Hill's counsel at the committee hearing.

"That was what everyone was concerned about the committee, the press and the reactionary elements in the Detroit community who had taken exception to the liberal The Rev. Hill The Rev. Adams position Hartford's congregation and pastor had continually taken." INDEED, in the 1940s and 1950s, Mr. Hill's church stayed close to controversy. It frequently hosted the politically persecuted singer Paul Robeson, even as federal agents blanketed the neighborhood on Hartford Ave Abraham chard Abraham set the stage Friday night by reciting to the dinner audience the GOP's familiar litany about how Blanchard is big on taxes, spending and style but soft on welfare, crime, economic development and substance.

Straining a bit, Abraham offered this summary of sorts: "Jim Blanchard is to a no-growth budget what a pep-peroni pizza is to a no-growth diet." There were groans, but the partisans, who plainly delight in their young chairman, still gave him a standing ovation. Then others took over, getting in their anti-Blanchard licks either on Friday night at the Hilton Hotel dinner or at the formal doings Saturday morning at Western Michigan University. Here's a sampling: L. Brooks Patterson: "Blanchard has the same attitude about crime that our parents had about acne: Leave it alone, and it'll go away." Peter Secchia: "He's the wimp factor." Paul Gadola: "Our ineffective boy governor." And Welborn: "Gov. 'Two-faced' Blanchard." Welborn, in fact, named Blanchard as one of a seamy group opposed to a Republican majority in the state Senate and including "welfare cheats," "union bosses," "baby butchers," "socialists and the pinkos," "queers and perverts" and even "professional criminals who want our prisons to be infested with dope pushers and drug addicts." Oof! It was sleazy stuff all right.

And, because it came near the end of the long morning session, it may have taken some of the oomph out of the finales 15-minute presentations by the principal GOP candidates for governor, Dick Chrysler, Dan Murphy and Bill Lucas, designed to open their formal campaigns. Frankly, none of themTiad much to say. Chrysler led with a souped-up version of his "vision and courage" film clip, featuring cars instead of gubernatorial concepts. Murphy came in with a short, showy but not very substantive film about his executive command in Oakland County. And Lucas, who used no film, spoke of "a leadership of turning problems into opportunities." Each also took some parting shots at Blanchard, but their stuff, which was repetitious, served mostly as a reminder of Patterson's earlier, light-hearted remark about how the GOP's 1986 gubernatorial candidates may be "the Republican Party's answer to Sominex." Oh, well.

There will be other opportunities. Blanchard is sure to dig himself out from under this weekend's load, and and he'll no doubt shovel some back. And the process will be repeated next month, and the month after, and the month after that until the voters refine it the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Kids on the run are more than statistics LsXa Peter Gaviilovich I city life unsavory motives. But because of those laws, we seldom hear about the children in the state's care.

Without some knowledge of the Deloreses, we might become ambivalent. Or, if we knew more, we might become involved, perhaps as foster parents. DELORES WAS TAKEN from her parents two years ago by authorities in the southern state where she grew up because the parents physically abused her. She was sent north to live with an uncle and aunt. The uncle and aunt have four kids of their own.

For six months, beginning in September 1984, Delores lived with her uncle and aunt and cousins in Detroit. See FOSTER, Page 8A For 45 days she lived free of the social system charged with her care, of relatives worried about her whereabouts, and, perhaps in her troubled mind, of the world that has given her little love and lots of abuse. The girl we'll call Delores told her uncle and aunt she lived for 45 days in abandoned cars and then in a hotel on Cass near downtown Detroit. She is 15. For 45 days, until she returned last week to the foster care facility from which she walked away, Delores was carried as a statistic by the state Department of Social Services.

She was one of 131 children missing from DSS care as of the end of last month. Before that, she was one of 7,264 children in Wayne County in some form of foster care, getting it stiaight children who are the responsibility of the DSS by probate court order. Delores and those other children are the responsibility of the people of the state of Michigan. Delores has become our daughter. Delores' story is protected by privacy laws that prohibit authorities from talking about her problems, her treatment, her future.

That's to protect the child from people with A report Saturday about a coalition of religious and other civic leaders seeking a handgun freeze in Detroit should have identified the Rev. Walter Skerritt as associate pastor of New Light Baptist Church. Ohio police officer tries to take mystery out of occult Leading expert on Satanism By JOE SWICKARD Free Press Staff Writer TIFFIN, Ohio Capt. Dale Griff is described himself as just a second-generation Irish cop who "goes to St. Joe's down the has been found to support the stories in Lucas County.

Yet, the reports must be investigated. "The sheriff in Toledo took a lot of heat and so did he said. "A lot of digging was done and no bodies were found. But to just ignore the information a reliable informant telling you about murders would have been worse. Maybe I wouldn't have gone about it in the same way, but I have seen the investigative files and he had to check out the information." Marcello Truzzi, an Eastern Michigan University sociology professor who has studied cults, has reservations about the alleged satanic nature of the Monroe County killing.

But he said he and other scholarly researchers have had their initial skepticism about Griffis allayed after meeting with the officer. "I don't go around seeing the devil under every rock, but occultic and cultic activities do present problems and the law enforcement community should know about these things," Griffis said. "Police agencies should have the facts and know See SATANISM, Pae 12A street and who cringes at the notion he is a one-man Satan squad. Yet to many police agencies Grif fis is the one to call when crime comes cloaked with the occult. Most recently, Griffis was consulted by the Monroe County Sheriff's Department when it was faced with the Feb.

2 shotgun slaying of an Ash Township teenager and its investigation turned up evidence that the being held by juvenile authorities. Officials who displayed a black-hooded robe, a dagger, a machete and satanic literature reported seized in their investigation said they will try to have the youth stand trial as an adult for first-degree murder. Monroe County investigators traveled to Ohio to meet with Griffis, who reviewed their findings. GRIFFIS was the consultant to the Lucas County (Ohio) Sheriff Department's fruitless search for graves last summer. The search, in response to reports that dozens of ritual-killing victims were buried outside Toledo, thrust him into the national spotlight and led to his appearance in June on the ABC news program "2020." Rumors and reports of human sacrifices by Satanists are common, Griffis said, quickly adding that no reliable evidence killing was "the acting out of a satanic Griffis sacrifice" by the victim younger brother.

Monroe County authorities have released few details of the killing of Lloyd Gamble, 17, while the -year-old suspect is.