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136 No. 145 On Guard for 135 Years Tuesday, September 27, 1966 Ten Cents ord Trims Price Mike by $41 Action Line Dial 262-6464 Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cats ted tape, stands up for jour Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 aJB. and 4:30 pjn.

Monday through Friday. Clerg ymerai Defy Mayor New Figure Is Closer To GM's 66 of Original Boost Remains To Open Vacant Home BY DAVID C. SMITH Frea Press Business Editor Ford Motor Co. gave in Tuesday to competitive pres sure from General Motors Corp. and sliced $41 from its A rash of cases of planters' warts have broken out at Hazel Park Junior High.

My son came home with a bad case last week. What can we do to get some action? Mrs. C. Action's on the way. School board will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday with parents and local doctors at the Board of Education Building, John and Nine Mile. Thirty cases of the foot virus have been reported so far. Dr. Frank J. Condon, Oakland County health director, says it's common in your son's age group, turns up heaviest in September.

To combat it, school has increased its use of disinfectants. Oakland County health department is investigating, too. My son graduated from Naval recruit training at Great Lakes last Saturday. His company was promised a trip to Washington if they won the training competition award. Well, they won, but no trip.

How come? G.C., Warren. Trip was strictly scuttlebutt, says the Navy like the rumor going around the company that the U.S. was at war with Red China. Your son, previously announced aver No Arrests Are Made age increase of $107 per car for its 1967 models. Ford announced its price in creases last Tuesday.

Chrysler Corp. followed Wednesday with an average of per car. But General Motors, last of the Big Three to release prices, in creased its 1967 models by only an average $56 per car on By Police House to Get New Occupants BY GARY BLONSTON" Free Press Staff Writer The West Central Organi Thursday. American Motors is expected to announce its 1967 model prices Oct. 1.

Chrysler is expected to revise its increases downward in line with Ford's move. Ford came under heavy criti cism from UW President Wal ter Reuther when it announced its first price list. Reuther termed the increases scandalous and made it clear they would be considered when the UAW Seaman Recruit Bruce D. Campbell, WILL, get a plaque with his' name on it, name of the company and the fact that they're in the Navy Hall of Fame. Award's quite an honor; only one in 1,000 units makes it.

Your son's outfit the Detroit Tigers Recruit Team took it with 40 flags won in competition, 11 more than the previous winner. All-Michigan company was sponsored by the Detroit Tigers 110 recruits were sworn in at Tiger Stadium. A representative of the team attended graduation ceremonies at Great Lakes Saturday. opens wage talks toward a new contract next year. President Johnson also expressed concern over the original increase and referred the matter to his Council of Economic Advisers for study.

If 0 GM's lower list, however, Free Press Photo by ED HAUN cooled things off and immedi The crowd of clergymen and supporters defied arrest in front of 5778 Hobart ately produced speculation that a Ford rollback was in the offing. Some Chevrolet models, for example, turned up at from $40 to $100 less than comparable Ford models, indicating Ford either would have to come down to meet the competition or face loss of sales to its arch Airplane Explodes Aloft; Sportman Jim Robbins Dies Sportsman-industrialist James M. (Jim) Robbins, 50, and four other persons were killed Monday when the jet plane Robbins was piloting exploded in mid-air near Piatt, S.D. rival. Ford made it clear that the base price reduction on its 76 models was across the board without the confusion of comparing "similarly equipped models." zation (WCO) and more than 100 Detroit clergymen defied Mayor Cavanagh and invited arrest Monday by taking over a vacant house claimed by the city for urban renewal.

While two plainclothes policemen watched, priests and ministers recruited by the WCO from throughout the metropolitan area pried open the doors of two near-northwest houses, knocked plywood boards off the windows and moved in with cleanup crews. A WCO spokesman said the group would move a displaced family into one of the houses. The second house was boarded up again because there was no family ready to move into it. Following orders from Police Commissioner Ray Cfirardin, the officers watched but did not interfere. No -arrests were LATE MONDAY, the WCO and the clergymen decided to wait until Tuesday before trying to move in a family.

They said that one man would stand guard at the house around the clock. At a protest meeting in Redeemer Presbyterian Church, the ministers considered the possibility of arranging a meeting with Robert Weaver, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to discuss loosening of federal regulations on urban renewal. Among the ministers supporting the protest were the Rt. Rev. C.

Kilmer Myers, Episcopal suffragan bishop of Michigan; the Rev. Jerry O'Grady of Christ Church, Cranbrook: the Rev. Robert Willoughby of Mt. Olivet Methodist; Msgr. Clement Kern of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, and Dr.

Frank Madson, an executive of the Lutheran church in Michigan. The carefully planned action was designed by the WCO as a protest against federal urban renewal regulations, which prohibit families from living in houses taken by the city for demolition. WEIGHTED according to sales volume (meaning big sellers Thousands of birds congregate every evening in a vacant lot across the street. The next day we find them all over the grass, dead. We can't figure out what's killing them.

J.G., Dearborn Heights. Neither can the Conservation Department, but they're trying. Inspectors went out the day after Action Line called, found 100 dead birds. Initial suspect was DDT, but tests conducted on 12 samples didn't show enough insecticide to cause death. Theory now is they may have died "from poisoned grain meant for Wayne County's pigeons.

More tests are due. If they show poison was cause of death, inspectors will try to trace flight of the birds, find out where it's coming from. Same thing happened in Ecorse a month ago. I put my 4-year-old niece on a plane Sunday, then watched them close all the doors inside the plane except one. I was worried sick she might get sucked out of the plane.

Mrs. D. M. Ferndale. Door leads to the plane's fresh water tanks, not into the wild blue yonder.

Designers put 'em between outer skin of the plane and cabin ceiling to avoid using pressure pumps; gravity does the job. You don't have to fret about people being sucked out of planes: Air Force says it only happens in movies. have a greater effect on the figure than specialty models), On board besides the Royal Oak businessman were his the average increase under the revised list would be $66 per Ford said. Changes in stand wife, Frances, 45; their son, Leslie, 17; and two of Robbins' executive managers, Clair W. Curry of Southfield ard equipment are not included in the average.

and Geoffrey Scarratt of Walled Lake. Most of the reductions were attributable to changing back to optional some equipment that Witnesses said Robbins' jet Aero Commander had just taken off from a private runway on Robbins' cattle ranch and land company 11 miles north of Piatt when the plane had been made standard. Color keyed deluxe seat belts and re- Turn to Page 2A, Column apparently exploded. Wreckage landed in a field two miles from the runway. Fragments of the plane were scattered ober a area.

A CAR-RACING enthusiast, LB Going Line Action KoDDms entered cars every To 7-Nation Indianapolis 500 race since 1950, although he never had a winner. In 1965 he entered three cars. Last May he built and sponsored two cars, one of which was involved in a crash in the opening Viet Parley HONOLULU (UPI) Pres Free Press Photo by ED HAUN minutes of the race. Robbins was president of a million-dollar network of firms in southwestern Michigan, headquartered at Jim Bobbins Stephenson Highway and 14 Mile Road, in Royal Oak. ident Lyndon B.

Johnson will attend a seven-nation meeting in the Philippines next month to discuss the war and prospects for peace in Vietnam, an Amer Clergy get help restoring front steps ican diplomatic source said Monday. Does Ford really-make transmissions for GM? D.A. Ford makes a few standard, three-speed manual transmissions for Buick, Olds and Pontiac. They're for souped-up engines, can go into first gear at 20 miles an hour. Auto firms do a steady, limited trade with each other; no manufacturer makes every part on all its cars.

GM sells its new collapsible steering column to American Motors. I called the city about a vacant house on Williams, but got no action. The garage is full of trash and the yard's overgrown with weeds. Can you do something? M. H.

Owner's been ordered to clean it up in two weeks or tell his story to a Traffic Court judge. Litter and Weed Control division of the Health Department sent out an investigator, who issued a violation. House has been vacant for eight years, will be torn down when Jeffries Expressway goes through. Any more trouble, call Litter and Weed Control, TR 1-1922. His firms Included the larg Mr.

Johnson Housing Director Finds a Defender agreed to attend est independent plastics, molding, fabricating and resins plant in operation. the meeting, the source said, Others were involved in auto The WCO contends that a housing shortage, caused in part by the demolition, makes it nee essary to use the houses until demolished. THE CITY Housing Commission has countered by saying that there are 19,000 vacant houses available in Detroit, but the WCO says only 8 percent of that number are actually vacant and free of housing and health violations. One of the houses that the Turn to Page 4A, Column 1 (Cm Marcos in talks last week in Wash safety belts, precision machine products, sporting goods, hydraulic systems and aircraft. i with He owned a sporting goods and BY BARBARA STANTON Free Press Staff Writer Councilman Nicholas Hood, himself a clergyman, President Fer dinand E.

Mar marine retail and wholesale store in Ferndale. came to the defense Monday of Housing Director Robert He owned Sylvan Glen Golf D. Knox as 132 clergymen demonstrated to demand Knox's Club near Rochester. 15 to 20 cos of the Philippines. In Saigon, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky announced Tuesday that his government will attend the meeting.

sod farms in Utica and Troy, and a driving range in Troy. Several years ago Robbins resignation. Hood, pastor of the Plymouth United Church of Christ and de estimated his operations manu James Bobbins The Philippine leader an factured 600 items, covering a veloper of the Plymouth Hous nounced plans for the conference earlier Monday in Hono lulu. bewildering variety of indus trial and consumer goods. ing Corp.

for Invited to the conference, CURRY, 60, of 22400 Rouge low cost housing in the medical center on It's Easy to Read "Everybody talks about' the weather To get in on the conversation, you'll want to mont, Southfield, was mainte scheduled to begin in the Philippines Oct. 18, were South Vietnam, the United States, South the near East Side, said that nance manager of the Royal Oak plastics plant. He was married and had two daughters. the project Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. The announcement said: "The could not have Even though the Christmas season is fast approaching, it's about time certain people took down the outside Christmas lights that they put up last year.

They don't leave their Christmas tree up all year, do they? If they had any pride in their house, the lights would come down. B.C.D., Birmingham. Of all the the things that' re hard to find, Within man's mind and means, The hardest is the piece of pork That comes with pork and beans. GJHui. COOL succeeded with- proposed conference would pre Hood oul MOX neip.

Scarrat, the father of four, lived in Walled Lake and managed Robbins' Jebbco Co. Robbins and his wife have two other children, Kathie, 22, make the new, enlarged Free Press weather summary and map a daily reading habit. You'U find all Michigan forecasts, informa sumably include a review of the military situation, but would "Let me say unequivocally stress the nonmilitary, econom that without the help of Robert and James Marshall, 24, who were in Detroit at the time of Home Furnishings Sell Easily with Fast-Action Want Ad Mr. J.G. of Madison Heights said, "It's too bad I didn't have more living room sets to sell." He was talking about the fast sales action he received on his exclusive Free Press fast-ACTION Want Ad.

If you want extra cash for items you no longer need, place your Want Ad where it reaches people with buy-ability. Dial 222-6800 Knox it would not have been possible to solve many of our Amusements 5C Ann Landers SC Astrology 7D Billy Graham 10D Bridge 7D Business News 5-9B Comics 7-9D Crossword Puzzle 7D Death Notices 6C Drew Pearson HA Earl Wilson 11A Editorials 6A Feature Page 11A Heloise 2C Movie Guide 8-9D Names and Faces 10D Obituaries 2B Sports 1-5D Stock Markets 7-9B TV-Radio 6D Want Ads 6-11C Women's Pages 1-4C HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 232-6500 ic, and political situation and programs being carried forward by the South Vietnamese government, together with a review of the accident. The family lived problems," said Hood, who sent in Royal Oak. tion on lake conditions, climatic data and weather information from around the world. a letter of support to Knox.

"No group could have had the prospects for a peaceful settlement of the conflict." The party left Detroit Thursday night, a company spokesman said, and was returning home at the time of the more problems than the people of the medical center. But un der the leadership of the Negro clergy we listed our problems and set about to solve them," Hood said. Ironically, Robbins died in one To Our Readers Action Line's phones are busy when you call, re-member that we like mail, too. Our address is: Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, 48231. We wish we could answer or even acknowledge each of your questions.

While that isn't possible, we will check every one and print the most interesting answers every day. Of the aircraft his firm repre Easy to Find You'll find the weather summary and map on the next-to-last page of the paper the final comic page every day Monday through Saturday. Turn to Page 9D. sented. He owned Robbins Ex US.

hopes fade on peace plea. Page 4B. US. jets batter North Vietnamese air defenses. Page 12C.

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