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In retrospect, it was all a joke. The first con was at a March 30 press conference when, after a propaganda buildup that attracted TV crews from as far away as Chicago, they announced jointly an immediate crackdown cm dioxin contamination in Michigan and a special investigation perhaps extending a year or more designed to deal with long-range dioxin problems. The second was a hastily called June 23 meeting of the Senate Natural Resources Committee in which, having done nothing since March 30 (a lapse reported in this column June 21), they promised to get cracking and begin investigative hearings during the summer recess. Jones Beach? Mack, of course, is the chairman of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, but on June 23, he turned things over to Brown, of Highland Park, who was to Free Press Pholo bv WILLIAM ARCHIE Gerald Joyce, left, and Walter Kerwick with a model of the USS Charrette. Heroes recall touchy mission 1963 Pnolo Alden Dow: He designed 60 homes, 10 churches, 13 schools and 67 other buildings in his hometown of By W.

KIM HERON and CHIP VISCI Free Press Staff Writers Fred Cummings, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, "made a major error in judgment" in becoming professionally involved with two personal friends, according to Dr. Irving Burton, a trustee of the Detroit Founders Society, the museum's private fundraising arm. Cummings' actions as DIA director, which Burton said have been a concern among several Founders trustees and DIA employes for more than a year, are thought to be the key issue in a surprise audit of the DIA launched Friday by city officials. (The city funds part of the museum's operating budget.) ALTHOUGH MUSEUM employes and trustees have been complaining privately for several months about some of Cummings' acquisitions and hiring decisions, Burton, in an interview Sunday with the Free Press, was the first DIA official to state publicly his concerns about cronyism and excessive expenses. "This was bound to explode sooner or later," he said.

Among other issues is Cummings' professional involvement with two close friends, Los Angeles art dealer Ron Winokur and filmmaker Dennis Bogorad, also of Los Angeles. The three are friends. Winokur, a former assistant to Cummings, was a central figure in the museum's recent purchase of a $130,000 Paul Manship sculpture. Bogorad was hired at a salary of $1,200 a week to produce educational films for the museum. CUMMINGS, WHO returned Sunday from a weekend visit with Winokur, said, "There was absolutely no impropriety whatsoever" in the Manship deal.

Winokur, a former assistant to Cummings, also denied any impropriety. Winokur, appointed by Cummings, serves on a committee that is to acquire various art objects in connection with the museum's 100th anniversary celebration next year. Winokur said the cronyism charges were being blown out of proportion. "It seems to me, from what I have heard, that there is a concerted effort to impugn Fred Cummings' integrity," he said, referring to the audit and a copyrighted story that appeared in Sunday's Detroit News. See DIA, Page 15A By RODDY RAY Free Pres Staff Writer The hotel room in Dearborn was 38 years and many miles away from what took place in Indonesia's choppy Banda Sea near the end of World War II.

But the tale told was as gripping as if it had happened yesterday. August 3, 1945. The huge, illuminated red cross on the side of the Japanese ship Tachibana Maru meant those on board were medical personnel and patients, immune to enemy attack under international law. But U.S. Navy Intelligence had reason to believe Japan was tiying a few final punches to win the war.

The USS Charrette, was sent to see just what was aboard the Tachibana Maru. In the early morning hours of Aug. 3, the Charrette, with a crew of some 300, cruised at 10 knots through the Japanese-controlled waters, staying just out of radar range of the enemy ship. Lt. Cmdr.

Gerald Joyce, the ship's 30-year-old captain, stood on the bridge, keeping contact with the communications room directly below him. In that small, darkened room was Radarman 3C Walter Kerwick, 24, from Dearborn, who'd left college in his freshman year to join the Navy. On his radar screen was a small blip ostensibly, the Tachibana Maru. Around 5:30 a.m.the Charrette pulled within range of the radar blip. The Charrette signaled the Tachibana Maru: Stop and be searched.

The Japanese ship stopped. FOURTEEN CHARRETTE crew members hopped aboard a small boat, went over, and boarded the hospital ship. Twelve minutes later, Lt. Commander Joyce heard the news from the search party via walkie-talkie: The 950 "patients" aboard the hospital ship were all quite healthy. They were Japanese soldiers in transport.

Although the Japanese troops outnumbered the young U.S. sailors and had enough arms to win a small war, they surrendered peacefully. Because other news of the war's end was plentiful, the story of the mission didn't make big headlines. To some, though, the memory is vivid. Almost 50 of the sailors from all over the country who were on that mission gathered at the Fairlane Inn in Dearborn to talk about old times.

Joyce, who put in 34 years with the Navy and now lives in Virginia, was there. He's 68 now, still looking rather like a Navy captain. So was Radarman Kerwick. He left the Navy after the war to go back to school. He lives in Lathrup Village.

Things have changed, they say, except for frienship and remembering old times. "When this ship went into commission, 210 of its 300 men hadn't even seen the ocean before," Joyce said. "Ninety percent of 'em were volunteers. When you go through something like we did, under those situations, it kind of builds a camaraderie that lasts, I guess." Midland. Midland architect Alden Dow dies at 79 By RETHA HILL Free Press Special Writer When Alden B.

Dow set out to design a building, he incorporated his own special philosophy honesty, enthusiasm Mack head the special investigation. At that meeting Brown (who incidentally is the senior member of the state Senate in terms of length of service) allowed as how "I don't think we've scratched the surface on this problem (dioxins) in this country" and volunteered that he'd been told privately of one site in Michigan where dioxin contamination was "ten to 15 times worse than Jones Beach." Jones Beach? Brown later corrected himself, sav- 1 1:59 P.M. DEADLINE WEDNESDAY and humility. His emphasis on fact and feeling, his love of nature, and his passion for individuality have produced in the last 52 years some 300 buildings of beauty, warmth and highly personal originality. Mr.

Dow, Michigan's own grand master of architecture, died Saturday at his home in Midland. He was 79. Mr. Dow, who once said he knew he would be an architect at age seven, designed more than 60 homes, 10 churches, 13 schools and 67 other buildings in his hometown of Midland. Other Dow-designed build Optimism prevails on Mich.

Bell settlement By JUDY PASTERNAK Free Press Labor Writer With a tentative national agreement reached be Major issues in the local bargaining include eliminating "average work time," a statistic that Michigan Bell monitors as a way to judge operators' performance; establishing uniform pay for the same job statewide, and employment security for workers whose jobs change as a result of the reorganization. tween leaders of 675,000 striking telephone workers and American Telephone Telegraph negotiators in Michigan are optimistic that local issues can be resolved before an 11:59 p.m. Wednesday deadline. If a local agreement is reached, the 17,400 striking Michigan Bell workers represented by the Communications Workers of America would return to work Thursday, ending a two-week walkout that caused delays in directory assistance, repairs and phone installation. immediate $21 a week raise, with earnings of $402 a week by the end of the contract.

A systems technician making $537.50 weekly would get $626 a week with contract raises. A $30-million-a-year, company-financed retraining program. Local companies would run the program, starting next year, under the supervision of three phone company representatives and three union representatives. Fifteen- to 30-year, below-market rate mortgages up to 95 percent of a home's market value, offered with a brokerage firm, for phone company employes. Four-day work weeks for some employes, who would then have 10-hour shifts.

For workers who remain with after the company's divestiture in January, health coverage for cosmetic surgery and chiropractors' treatment. Just a few thousand of the Michigan Bell workers mostly long-distance operators will remain with after the phone company reorganizes, Hughes said. Most will remain with Michigan Bell, which will merge with Bell system companies in Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin to form Ameritech. CWA leaders, who represent 525,000 of the tele ings include the student center at Wayne State University, the Dearborn Presbyterian Church, the Ann Arbor City Hall, the theater at Interlochen, and the campuses of Muskegon Community College and Midland's Northwood Institute. Mr.

Dow, son of Dow Chemical Co. founder Herbert Dow, studied under Frank Lloyd Wright. He is survived by his wife, Vada; a son, and two daughters. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Dow Gardens, at Eastman and St.

Andrew's in Midland. phone workers across the country, said they were pleased with the national proposal for a three-year Cancer rate to be studied LANSING (AP) A proposed two-year study to see if high rates of a rare cancer in the Midland area were related to dioxin or some other common source won approval Monday from a state advisory board. The plan to study 80-100 victims of soft tissue sarcoma from eight mid-Michigan counties was drafted by the state Department of Public Health and won unanimous approval from the Michigan Environmental Review Board. Department officials said they hope to notify Dow Chemical Co. this week that the state will accept a company offer of $250,000 to help finance the project.

They said the study could be under way by October. It was proposed after unusually high death rates from the cancer were detected in the Midland area. contract. MARTIN HUGHES, a CWA international vice- president whose jurisdiction includes Michigan and Ohio, said the pact includes provisions for: Wage hikes in the 16 to 17 percent range, including projected cost-of-living increases. In Detroit, Hughes said, an operator making $381 a week would get an Brown jng he meant Times Beach, the Missouri town that was ordered evacuated after abnormally high concentrations of dioxins were discov-sred in November 1982.

"Jones Beach was another beach, another time," he acknowledged. Anyway, Brown referred to dioxins very complicated problem" and pledged to schedule hearings this sum-Tier that would include "serious testimony" from experts in the busi-less and scientific communities. And Mack, nodding approval, said he ivas "very happy to know that Sen. Brown wants the facts" and challenged press to get behind "the kind of Tioney Sen. Brown will need to get the witness and testimony to do the ob." And the meeting was adjourned.

What's happened since? Nothing. No thing. i dollar saved, i dollar spent Michigan's Department of Correc-ions will balance its budget by an en-orced three-day, unpaid furlough for ome 500 parole and probation officers Aug. 29, 30 and 31. The dates were hosen to coincide with empty court-ooms due to the annual judicial confer-nce for recorders, circuit and appellate udges at the Mackinac Island's Grand lotel tax-paid at $115 per person per lay.

Ueadlee vs. Milliken, in ending of sorts This column was host last week to a iasty little exchange between Dick feadlee and Bill Milliken. Headlee it by doing an anti-ERA, anti-feminist lumber on Helen Milliken, and Milliken esponded by referring to Headlee as "an iss," etc. Now comes Headlee, suggest-ng in a letter to this column that "if Gov. Jill insists on name-calling, I wish he wouldn't use the mascot of the Party as his standard" and de-louncing Milliken's "failing liberal dog-na." Milliken chooses not to respond to teadlee's response, so that ends it for iow.

Prize-winning pasty avoids shortening shortcuts ESCANABA Use lard in the crust and suet in the filling. Crust 1 pound lard 6V3 cups flour 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon baking soda That the secret to a good pasty, according to Renelle Ottensman of Escanaba. She should know. The 23-year-old was crowned the top pasty maker in the amateur division at the World's Greatest Pasty Competition held at the UP State Fairgrounds here last month. The pasty is the Upper Peninsula adopted favorite food a portable meat pie brought to the UP by miners from Cornwall, who came to work in the iron and copper mines.

It offered at roadside stands, restaurants and groceries all "Lots of people are diet-conscious today and put in some substitute shortening in the crust," she explains. Some pasty recipes call for a combination of pork and beef to accomplish the same thing. OTTENSMAN AND her father usually make 15 to 20 pasties at a time, then freeze them and reheat them as needed. Her father even made a jig, a wooden bowl mold, to help shape the pasties in consistent one-pound sizes. One is a meal in itself, and they're perfect for such times as when her husband Michael, who works a split shift as a computer operator with the Air Force at K.I.

Sawyer Air Base near here, comes home at 1 or 2 a.m. and needs supper. Here's the recipe she won with: Filling 5 cups chopped potatoes 4 cups chopped carrots Vi cup chopped onions 2Vi pounds fresh ground chuck 1 tablespoon salt Vh teaspoons pepper 2 rounded tablespoons sugar Vt pound suet (or to taste) 1 tablespoon butter Divide crust into 15-20 portions and roll out flat, put in filling topped with butter, then fold over and crimp sides. Bake for a half-hour at 425 degrees, then another half-hour at 350 degrees. You can serve them hot or cold, but they are best still warm, with butter and catsup.

RUNNERS-UP in the homemade (amateur) division of the competition were Faye Collins of Negaunee, second; and Lou Hemes of Escanaba, third. In the commercial category the top prize was won by Mr. T's of Kingsford, with Tony's Country Kitchen of Laurium second and Finlan-dia of Marquette third. Ottensman still regards herself as an amateur in cooking, even though she's learned a lot in the five years she's been married. In case pasties don't appeal to you, she's got a great recipe for spaghetti sauce.

She got that from her dad, too. across the peninsula, and rates as a culinary treat for everything from family picnics to political fundraisers. (And it's pronounced pass-tee, not paste-tee.) Sponsored by an Escanaba radio station and Stroh's, the competition was designed not only to find the best pasty maker in the UP, but to help spread the word of the delicious and nutritious delicacy. Ottensman got the recipe for her prizewinner from her father, Bill Meiers of Escanaba. It's a family formula, not even written down until the contest came along.

She made the pasties from memory, then fortunately wrote down the recipe in case anyone should ask. Free Press Photo bv DAVE ROOD Renelle Ottensman at work: The queen of pasty makers offers a few tips..