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DETROIT FREE PRESSWEDNESDAY, SfcPT. 1. 1982 1 1 A Economy shows new signs of life ECONOMY, from Page 1A "encouraging evidence that economic recovery is about to get under way." Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, expressed a similar view. "I am confident that the economic picture will continue to brighten during the next I "PH VV A I i 'v couple ox months, although slowly, he said. Clouds remain on the economic horizon, however.

Unemployment, which usually lags behind a recovery, is stil rising. Henry Kaufman, the New York investment adviser, said he expects that the August unemployment rate, to be released Friday by the Labor Department, will be an extraordinarily high 10 percent." The jobless rate was 9.8 percent in July, the highest since World War II. Auto sales and housing starts are running far below last summer. Bankruptcies are at a record high. Business suffers from a shortage of cash to finance new orders.

Unprecedented federal deficits, estimated at $140 billion to $160 billion for each of the next three years, could choke a recovery. NEVERTHELESS, the immediate outlook is encouraging, as shown by Tuesday's report from the Commerce Department. AP Photo Seven of the 10 leading indicators went up, including business permits, average hours worked in a week, manufacturers orders for consumer goods, orders for new plants and equipment, Fire fighters work to put out the smoldering wreckage of a Syrian MiG25 that was shot down near Beirut by an Israeli jet. It was first reported air battle between the two Middle East nations since June 9. Israelis shoot down Syrian MiG Dems say proposed budget cuts won't pass BUDGET, from Page 3A options that are open to us.

Hopefully, we'll have something within a week. "One (option) that is not open," Crim said, "is a $150 million executive order that takes $110 million out of education." Crim and Faust said they supported the continuation of an accounting practice that would allow the state to credit Medicaid revenues this year, while delaying the payment of claims under the program until the next fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The Medicaid program provides health care for the poor. The Legislature has used the budget device over the past four years, with Milliken's support.

Maintaining the procedure this year would allow the governor to reduce the latest spending cuts by $92 million. But in a message to lawmakers earlier this week, the governor said continuing the practice would represent an unacceptable "manipulation of the state's financial books" that could jeopardize the state's already low credit rating. Crim argued that the state's creditworthiness is no longer an immediate issue, since five Japanese banks have agreed to back the state's efforts to borrow $500 million during the next fiscal year. In exchange for a $5,625 million fee, the banks will allow their high credit ratings to be substituted for the state's. Appropriations Committee members could adopt Milliken's executive order today without submitting it to the full Legislature, or could reject it and instruct the governor to submit a new one within 10 days.

Lawmakers have approved three other budget-cutting executive orders of $630 million during the fiscal year. They have also enacted a six-month, 22-percent increase in the state income tax and a permanent boost in the state cigaret tax from 11 cents to 21 cents a pack. Bull gets best of car in crash BUCHANAN, Va. (UPI) A compact car and a bull, each weighing more than a ton, collided on U.S. 1 1 near here Monday night.

The car was demolished, the driver was hospitalized but the bull is OK. The black bull wandered out of his pasture, and onto the highway just after dark. State police said James Paucher had the misfortune to run into the bull at 55 m.p.h. wholesale prices and the money supply. Claims for state unemployment insurance declined.

One of the indicators that went down, stock prices, will definitely show improvement in August because of the recent surge in the stock market. Two other indexes one giving statistics that parallel trends in the economy and the other showing indicators that lag several months behind continued to drop slowly in July. The index of coincident indicators and the index of lagging indicators both fell 0.3 percent, which is normal at the start of an upturn. The indexes have an excellent record in the murky world of economic forecasting. The index of leading indicators, for example, turned upward in July 1970, four months before the end of the 1969-70 recession.

It started to rise in March 1975, one month before the recovery from the recession of 1974-75. And it rose again in June 1980, two months before the end of that year's recession. non's presidential palace in suburban Baabda, did not specify where the destruction sites were. HABIB, MEANWHILE, will return to the United States in about a week to report to President Reagan and receive the nation's highest civilian award. The president is giving Habib the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his weeks of negotiations that resulted in the PLO pullout.

The award is made for exceptional contributions to the security or national interest of the United States, to world peace, or for cultural or other significant endeavors. In addition, Habib has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Sen. Charles Percy, acting in his capacity as chairman the Foreign Relations Committee. Utilities bill gains anese Army and demanded that 1,500 fighters of the pro-PLO Muslim Mourabitoun militia be evacuated from west Beirut. THE BEIRUT independent newspaper An Nahar said Israel has set the weekend as a deadline for the turnover of the PLO heavy weapons to the Lebanese Army or "Israel will resort to its own means for collection of these weapons." There was no independent confirmation or reaction from Israel.

PLO sources admit the guerilla organization distributed its heavy arms among its leftist allies, particularly the Mourabitoun and the Partisans of the Revolution faction. Wazzan said the PLO did hand over some weapons to the Lebanese Army "but has destroyed most of the heavy arms before departure. The destroyed weapons still are at the site of destruction." The Muslim prime minister, of schedule. Arafat was expected to remain in Athens 24 hours or less, then continue on to Tunisia, which will become his new home in exile. ISRAEL SAYS by the end of the evacuation operation that about 15,000 PLO guerillas, Syrians and Palestine Liberation Army members will have left west Beirut, ringed since the first week of the Israeli invasion that started June 6.

The PLO and the Lebanese government have about the same figures. Prime Minister Shaf ik Waz-zan said the Lebanese government asked U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib to ascertain that Israel would now honor its side of the evacuation agreement by pulling out of the Beirut seaport, airport and positions on the mid-city entrances to west Beirut. But Israel has accused the PLO of violating the evacuation accord by giving its heavy arms to its leftist Lebanese LEBANON, from Page 1A Syrian jets over eastern Leba-non's Bekaa Valley and knocked out Syrian surface-to-air missile sites. IN TEL AVIV, the Israeli military command said its troops traded fire with Syrian or Palestinian guerillas Tuesday In Syrian-held areas about eight miles southeast of Lake Qaraaoun.

The Israelis said the other side violated the ceasefire, but reported no casualties. The Syrian Army completed a two-day withdrawal of its 85th Brigade from the Israeli-encircled Muslim half of Beirut Tuesday. Two Greek ships, the Paros and the Santorini, sailed for North Yemen, meanwhile, with 480 Palestine Liberation Organization guerillas on each, PLO officers said. PLO chief Yasser Arafat, who left by sea Monday, was due in Athens, Greece, today, and the last PLO contingent of about 700 men is to sail for Syria today, three days ahead Many PLO fighters go underground in Beirut. Page 14C.

who spoke after a one-hour meeting with Habib at Leba militia allies instead of the Leb liquefied natural gas from Algeria a total increase of nearly $6 billion. Because of a series of delays, the first shipment of gas is not scheduled to be imported until this month. But the PSC wants to halt the deal, arguing that Algerian officials violated the original contract by demanding a new, higher price for the gas. PSC members also claim Consumers Power no longer needs the foreign natural gas. The bill approved in committee Tuesday would require utilities to file annual plans with the PSC for recovering increased costs, along with five-year forecasts of gas, other fuel and power supplies.

The PSC could approve only "reasonable and prudent" rate hike requests based on those filings. The bill would also require utilities to pay $600,000 a year for two years for consumer participation in cost-recovery cases, and $500,000 for the UTILITIES, from Page 3A man of the House panel, said legislative approval of the utility bill would make both ballot proposals unnecessary. Legislative negotiations to replace utilities' rate hike clauses have foundered over the last three years because of differences between utility and consumer lobbyists. BUT EFFORTS to reach a compromise speeded up last year, after a particularly controversial use of a proposed "pass-through" rate hike spurred increasing public and legislative demand to eliminate all such clauses. Utilities were warned to co-operate in those negotiations to replace automatic adjustment clauses or risk being shut out of them.

Last year, Consumers Power Co. announced that monthly bills of its residential gas customers would rise by an average of 50 percent because of the utility's contract to buy Mich, has 5th teachers strike By GLEN MACNOW Free Press Staff Writer Teachers in a fifth Michigan school district went on strike Tuesday, and the possibility of walkouts loomed in nearly half the state's school districts, where teacher contracts remained unratified. About 48,000 students were kept out of classrooms third year. Poker, lottery style To play Michigan's new daily lottery game, which started Saturday, the player has to know something about the ranking of poker hands. The new game, called simply the Card Game, is based on poker and offers players a chance to win as much as $50,000.

For $1, the player gets a randomly selected, computer-generated ticket with three playing card symbols printed on it Six nights a week (except Sunday), two other cards "communi ty cards" will be drawn and shown on WDIV (Channel 4) between 1 1:06 and 1 1:1 1 p.m. These two cards, together with the three on each ticket, combine for the player five-card hand. (The "community card" numbers are listed in the Free Press index on Page 1A.) For the uninitiated, here's a short primer on poker hands, as well as their lottery payoffs: Two pair two pairs of cards of like value (such as two sixes Tuesday as about 2,400 teachers failed to report to work in Flint, Highland Park, Novi and Bullock Creek. Some 135 teachers refused to show up for orientation day in the Genesee County district of Fenton, where classes were to begin today. WITH MOST of the state's 529 school districts planning to begin classes next week, teachers remained without tentative or ratified contract agreements in 249 districts including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Pontiac and Taylor.

The threat of a strike grew larger in many of those districts. "The closer we get to opening date, the more likely it is there will be a strike," said John Elliott, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. "But we're willing to continue talking right up until the opening date (Sept. 8)." In Flint, classes were called off Tuesday for 31,000 students after 1,800 teachers voted Monday night not to report for work. Teachers were reportedly asking for raises of about 24 percent over the next three years, while the school board is offering 11 percent.

Highland Park Schools Superintendent Thomas Lloyd said there would be no school there until further notice and he was not sure the dispute would be settled soon. Highland Park has about 6,800 students and 400 teachers. Classes were also canceled Tuesday in Novi, which has nearly 3,200 students and 185 teachers, and Bullock Creek, with just under 2,000 students and 84 teachers. PHILLIP RUNKEL, state school superintendent, said he was surprised. "Given the current economic conditions," Runkel said, "we thought there would be fewer strikes.

Last year we had four before Labor Day and 13 overall. This year, we've already got five strikes going." Runkel also announced that successful school tax elections Monday knocked four small school districts Addison and Onsted in Lenawee County, Eastern in Mason County and Kaleva Norman-Dickson in Manistee County from the state's "critical list." and two jacks) win a free ticket. Three of a kind three like cards win $3. A straight five cards in sequence (such as eight, nine, 10, jack, queen of any suit) wins $10. A full house three of a kind plus a pair (such as three jacks and two queens) wins $20.

Four of a kind four like cards wins $50. A straight flush five consecutive cards of the same suit (such as three, four, five, six, seven and eight of hearts) wins $4,000. Five of a kind five like cards win $5,000. A royal flush ace, king, queen, jack and 10 of the same suit wins $50,000. The game, which began Saturday, is being test-marketed at 500 outlets for four months.

None of the outlets is within the Detroit city limits. All outlets will be open by Sept. 7, and advertisements detailing the game will appear in the Detroit News and Free Press Sept. 7. For information on where to buy Card Game tickets, call the regional lottery office in Oak Park at (313) 968-6990 or the main lottery office in Lansing at (517) 373-6350 between 9 a.m.

and 4:30 p.m. They're her favorites when it's time to go back-to-school. Moms like them too. for their good fit. fine leather.

Shown from our collection: tassel loafer, in sizes 12Vi-3. $36; 5-7. $40. And kiltie tie pump, 12V2-3, $34; $36. Both in burgundy.

In Hudson's Children's Shoes, all metro Detroit stores plus Pontiac and Flint. Isabella has her day at ZOO, from Page 1A "This is something we just hadn't thought about in years," Mrs. Watchowski said. "I'm glad we came." GEORGE MICHEL, who asked that his age not be printed don't want the neighbors to get the idea that I'm old and about to die," he said), made a special point of thanking Graham for the zoo's hospitality. Admission is always free to anyone over 62, but the special day included tourmobiles that picked up groups of seniors right at the front gate, provided a narrated tour and returned to the front gate.

Suburban Ambulance provided a vehicle and crew that turned out to be unnecessary except for treating one bee sting. The patient was a child. In fact, some oliyie proffered helping hands and step-stools were politely declined. "I can do this myself," Fiesselmann told Darcy Shafer, activities director at Franklin Terrace. "I can handle it." GRAHAM SAID the estimated 300 to 400 seniors astounded zoo staff and volunteers with their enthusiasm and energy.

"I had a great day, but I really feel like I've been through the wringer," said Graham, 37. "We thought they'd be worn out, but they all kept saying they didn't want to go home. I think they would have stayed all day." Fiesselmann said she'd be back for next year's special day. Graham said it will become an annual event, and added, "I think she'll be back for years to come." "If she'd been the only one that came, it would have been worth it," he said. "I'm sure glad we did sons hud 1 the ORDER IY PHONE: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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