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nSl haw ycu csn call us City News Desk 222-6600 Classified Gold Ads 222-5000 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 All Other Calls 222-6400 Foi Delivery 222-6500 fee letter extra Monday's number, 947, has been selected four times before: on 5-12-79, 3-25-80, 5-5-81 and 9-7-81. Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Tuesday, March 8, 1983 rl Lucas orders $60 million in '84 budget cuts Hugh uf ncDiaimid politics Jt- fx formal hearing before the final budget is sent to the Board of Commissioners. Johnson called the memo "the strongest yet on the budget, but to department heads, budget woes are an all-too-familiar tune! Edward Douglas, the county's acting corporation counsel, typified the reaction of most department heads. "What Lucas said is general knowledge to all of us," he said Monday.

"We'll be looking for ways to cut." 1 Lucas will try to offset some of the cuts by demanding wage concessions from county employes, by "increasing fees and othe non-tax revenues at the local level" and by seeking changes in state laws to state-mandated spending by the county for health and social services. Lucas also will seek more federal aid. He is scheduled to begin a three-day visit to Washington today to meet with Reagan administration officials and congressmen from Wayne County. BUDGET OVERRUNS and revenue shortfalls in this year's $285 million budget have required Lucas' staff to make continual, revisions in estimates of the current operating deficit. In January, it was pegged at $38 million.

However, press secretary Bill Johnson said Monday it will be $43 million by November, for a cumulative deficit of about $130 million. Lucas' latest declaration to department heads does not indicate specifically where or how the $60 million shortfall will be made up. "He doesn't know yet where the cuts are going to be made," said Johnson. "It's premature now to say exactly how those things are going to come about because it's not fully in his control." According to the memo, Lucas' representatives will meet with each department head and outline the budget cut that will be required. Department heads will then have an opportunity for a By TOM HUNDLEY Free Press Staff Writer Wayne County Executive William Lucas has told department heads they must cut spending by $60 million nearly 20 percent for the fiscal year beginning in December.

"As a matter of budget policy, the (fiscal year) 1983-84 budget will add no more to the operating deficit," was the message of a memo drafted by Lucas' staff last Friday. "We will be faced with severe cuts for the next fiscal year but there should be no misunderstanding; there will be no operating deficit for next year. No effort to fund the prior years' deficit will be successful if we continue to pile new debt onto old," it said. "The total estimated revenues for 1983-84 will be $250,310,330. If we continue current programs, a total of $310,334,555 in expenditures will be required," the memo said.

Riverfront Near. I v-f, 7m iwinii mi, mi mrr i iwi iimiiii wrim nnimiiiiTirii Says Young UPI Photo VAV'' WTV VVvV il jv 4 v- KC? A- yri I Brennan-bust debate was no contest i More than portrait will haunt top court By KEN FIREMAN City-County Bureau Chief Detroit's civilian employes pension board is on the verge of approving a multimillion-dollar loan for a major riverfront redevelopment project sponsored by Stroh Brewery according to Mayor Young. Young said a key factor in persuading the pension trustees to make the loan was the willingness of Stroh's Chairman Peter Stroh to invest millions of his family's money in the project. Free Press Photos bv JOHN COLLIER Nadine Richter, Detroit Zoo veterinarian, and Terry Myers, a Walled Lake dentist, work on the cavities of Peanuts, a 13-year-old chimpanzee Monday. Above, a mirror pinpoints the cavity in the chimp's mouth.

"It a show of faith that leled," Young said of the Stroh investment. "It's the kind of commitment that causes a gleam to come into the avaricious eyes of the guys on the Detroit pension board. They're actually going to put some money into Detroit." The mayor said a favorable vote on the loan by pension trustees could come as early as this week. Stroh Is committing "$30 million of Beastly day for Peanuts the chimp On July 11, 1980, amid pomp and speeches, a large oil portrait of former Chief Justice Tom Brennan was unveiled on the west wall of the Michigan Supreme Court chamber. Presiding at the ceremony was Mary Coleman, then chief justice, who described Brennan in these words: "My former, energetic, stimulating, brilliant colleague." Brennan responded by characterizing the occasion as "a veritable orgy of nostalgia." I It was all very warm and wonderful.

And today, when Brennan returns to court well, it should certainly be warm. The occasion is the first public meeting of the high court since Feb. 15, when the justices, on a 4-2 vote, ordered their Colleague, Justice Dorothy Riley, ousted from office. And Brennan, who is now president of Cooley Law School in Lansing, is rushing as her friend, not her lawyer to ex-Justice Riley's defense. The Riley 'injustice' He calls the ouster "a gross and public IT f.

his own family fortune" to the project, Young said. Stroh's Vice-President David Van Howe confirmed Monday I that Stroh had made "a substantial il il rnmmitment hut said the S30 million Peanuts' cavities may have been caused partly by an antibiotic drug she was given for gastrointestinal problems, a drug known to pit tooth enamel, as well as by past dietary indulgences, said Graham. "There was a time when chimps here were given soda and candy bars," he said. "The staff did it for the same reason Peter Stroh fioMrflrlteHlwVminouactnrihioh Hp declined to state the exact amount. "I don't know where the mayor ever got that number," he said.

YOUNG MADE the comments during a two-hour interview with the Free Press editorial board Friday. A transcript of the By RICK RATLIFF Free Press Staff Writer Mr. Tooth Decay, the beast who can't be caged, had paid his dubious respects to Peanuts, a Detroit Zoo chimpanzee, by boring two cavities in her rearmost molars. So Monday morning Peanuts, 13, found her routine altered a tad. Instead of her usual session of armpit scratching and upper lip elasticity tests, she was anesthetized and tied to a table with her mouth clamped open.

Terry Myers, a Walled Lake dentist, stood over her with a buzzing drill. What did Peanuts get? Fillings. Nothing more than fillings. But zoo director Steve Graham said the Peanuts case illus trates the zoo's new commitment to oral hygiene and regular professional care. "In the past, we never did anything about chimps' teeth," he said.

"Now we give them regular checkups." OTHER ANIMALS are getting checkups too. And it's a good thing, Graham said, because Myers and Nadine Richer, zoo veterinarian, have found some ugly sights in the mouths of beasts. "We have seen teeth so coated in tartar that there was no tooth visible," he said. "We had to chop it (the tartar) off." Gum problems are common among meat-eating animals, said Graham, "particularly lions and tigers and bears." (Oh my.) second part of the interview appears on today's editorial page. The first part appeared Monday.

The pension system real estate consultant, James Foran, people give those things to kids; they like the animals. But no animal is capable of dealing with the complex sugars we give them." The zoo's bears also eat junk foods tossed to them by visitors who disregard the "Don't feed the bears" signs and are seduced instead by animals waving their paws like politicians in a Labor Day parade. Injustice" and an "obvious, indefensible confirmed that the system has been asked to make a loan "in excess of $10 million" for the first phase of the Stroh's development, which he said would consist of 174 units of condominium See RIVERFRONT, Page 8A disregard of the (state) Constitution, and says he will ask the court to reconsider and reverse the order. Awkwardly, the Riley case is not on the docket, but Brennan, citing "residual collegiality" (for an ex-justice), says he expects to be heard. PAY SERVICE PULLING PLUG Brennan's quarrel is not with the two ON-TV will switch off on March 31 justices who supported Riley, but with the four who didn't, and with Attorney 1 1 ww'M 'I iiiibuhiiiii UMPNMI nwiwuaai 1 A Vv II III Ill I 1 'General Frank Kelley, who brought the "ouster action.

By MIKE DUFFY Free Pres TV Writer ON-TV, the pay TV service carried in the 4 Last week, in a series of law school lectures, Brennan engaged a small bust -(which he said represented Kelley) in evenings by scrambled signal on WXON, Channel 20, said Monday it will end its Detroit operations March 31. "animated debate. Brennan accused it, deposit) will be returned," an ON-TV official said last week. ON-TV is expected to announce plans today for turning in the converter boxes in exchange for the deposit. Officials of Channel 20, which reportedly thought it was being underpaid by ON for the leased air-time, indicated Monday they are See ON, Page 4A Officials of ON-TV and its parent company, Chartwell Communications, met in Los Angeles over the weekend and decided to pull the plug on the service, which started here in 1979.

ON-TV, which leases air-time from Channel 20, delivers'movies, sports and entertainment specials to subscribers for $22.50 a month. Subscribers also paid an initial $50 deposit for a signal converter box. "Obviously that (the thus, Kelley) of unethical behavior. "It is no longer economically prudent to Faust Mansour having failed to apprise the justices of a constitutional provision denying the Supreme Court "the power to remove a continue operations," said a statement released by the company. The statement confirmed recent reports of severe financial trouble.

judge." He said that language should have decided tne Kiiey case, aitnough Storms lower the boom inany other lawyers, including the attorney general, say otherwise. At one point last week, Brennan was a sked by a law student why he was being on record temperatures By DON LENHAUSEN Free Staff Writer A series of storms swept across the Lower Peninsula on so public and strident about the Riley Case. "They (the justices) are going to sweep it under the rug unless the people of this state insist (on reversal)," he said. ft-. 'Pressure' on the court Another student asked if it were Monday, cooling record high temperatures set earlier in the day in Detroit and several other cities.

For the second time in three days, Detroit set a record with 68 degrees, five above the 63 set In 1973. Ten-year highs also were set in Jackson, with 69; Marquette, 46; Alpena, 60, and Lansing, 67. to try to pressure justices. Detroit high of 68 degrees was 28 degrees higher than the normal for March 7. "They respond to pressure of an enlightened public opinion," said Brennan, Senate panel to quiz nun on DSS post By TIM JONES Free Press Lanslnj Staff LANSING The chairman of the Senate committee that today will consider the appointment of Sister Agnes Mary Mansour as director of the Department of Social Services says he "personally has no thought that she'll be turned down.

"But," said William Faust, D-Westland, chairman of the Senate Administration and Rules Committee, "it all depends on how she responds to questions." The committee will question Sister Mansour and hear testimony from her, but is not required to take action. If the full Senate does not reject her by Sunday, Sister Mansour will be automatically confirmed. APPOINTED IN DECEMBER by Gov. Blan-chard to administer the state's largest department, Sister Mansour is under pressure from the Most Rev. Edmund Szoka to resign her state post.

The Catholic archbishop of Detroit de-; manded her resignation Feb. 23, saying she had not publicly taken a stand against the department's payments for Medicaid abortions. The confirmation hearing comes three days See MArjSOUR, Page 8A The National Weather Service said the storms began about 4:30 noting that he was campaigning in law schools, not oil street corners. "They're human beines. Thev read newspaper p.m.

and continued into the night. Some were accompanied by lightning, hail and high winds. Tornadoes and funnel clouds were reported, but, little damage and ho injuries were reported. In Branch County, the Sheriff's Department said a tornado Editorials. They don't want to be the Subject of jokes at bar association meet damaged a barn roof and flipped a storage shed onto a pickup truck near Cold water at 7:10 p.m.

ings The Weather Service said a tornado also touched down south of Finally, there was this dialogue about today's court procedure: Lansing, but the Ingham' County Sheriff's Department said high winds, not a tornado, damaged a barn. How will you go about it? A Before the first case is heard, I'm The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department said three funnel Free Press Photo by MARY SCHROEDER clouds were sighted but none touched down. going to stand up and ask (the justices) There was thunder and lightning in the Detroit area, but the Wether Service said there was little rain and winds of no more than 25 m.p.h. for leave to be recognized. And if they don't? A I'll take a seat underneath my Caught in fire on road During the storm, the Coast Guard searched Lake St.

Clair for a small plane that reportedly had gone down but found no traces of a picture (portrait) and stay there until crash. Jamal Rizk nurses a burned arm as Detroit fire fighters extinguish a blaze in the van he was driving Monday. Rizk said he was southbound on 1-75 in his brother's van when it "just started on fire" about 1 1:30 a.m. He flopped the van beneath the Fourteenth Street overpass. they do." 2 Brennan did not say If he was bringing pajamaat; Highs are expected to be in the 50s today in Detroit.

Staff Writer Bill Laitner contrived to this story..