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1 Free Press Telephones Sports (after 2 p.m.) 222-6660 To Place Want Ads 222-6800 For Home Delivery 222-6500 City News Desk 222-6600 All Other Calls 222-6400 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 tttM Todays Chuckle The life of a bill collector isn't all had. Almost everyone asks him to call again. Thursday, June 17, 1965 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A 9 Mttt i A Plot to Burgle Leads to a Lot of Bungle Roseville police were, meanwhile, busy arresting suspects. David Bailey, 18, of 19031 Minnesota, and Clarence E.

Trzaska, 19, of 28833 Bohm. both of Roseville, and John R. Case, 17, of 4070 Tappan, Detroit, were charged with burglary. JONATHAN E. Dziurgalski.

17, of 25875 Koontz, and Douglas L. Swan, 18, of 18379 Hazelwood, both of Roseville, were charged with receiving stolen property. Swan stood mute when arraigned Wednesday before Justice of the Peace Edmund A. Schmidt Jr. and was released under $500 bond for examination June 25.

The others stood mute Tuesday and were released under $1,000 bonds for examinations June 24 and June 25. returning from the hospital where they were told their son was not a patient, at the front door. Bates was shoved aside by three youths who were trying to make the quick getaway that was part of the plot. HE GOT A good look at the youths and gave Roseville police a description of them. Meanwhile, the plotters were carrying out the rest of their plan stashing the loot.

They had picked what seemed like a good place a vacant field in Sterling Township. Unfortunately for them, they were watched by three little boys who waited until the youths left, then picked up the loot and took it home. Their parents called Macomb County Sheriff's deputies. The plan to purloin Gene Bates' $3,000 coin collection started out like one of those melodramatic movies a telephone call, careful timing, swift getaway, a place to stash the loot. But in execution, it wound up like a comedy.

BATES AND HIS wife were in their home at 27861 Kaufman, Roseville, when they got a phone call Monday afternoon, advising them that their son, Robert, had been injured and was in a Mt. Clemens hospital. They rushed to the hospital. While they were gone, the plotters moved in and snatched Bates' coin collection plus jewelry and other items worth about $1,000. But, the plotters dawdled and met the Bateses, A MR 3-Year Battle at Checker City Warns Boat Clubs On Bias Hits 'Private Clubs On Public Lands' Tax: trike Threatens in City Walkout Likely Within a Weel BY ROBERT HOY'T Fre Press Labor Writer Checker Cab drivers in Detroit will strike within the next BY HARRY GOLDEN JR.

Fret Prwt Staff Writer The Parks and Recreation Commission Wednesday pushed the Detroit Boat Club and the Detroit Yacht Club toward a showdown on racial discrimination. The commission adopted a resolution saying' it "does not approve the rental or leasing of public lands or public facilities" to any organization that discriminates on the basis of race or religion. BOTH CLUBS have leased land for generations on Belle Isle, a public park owned by the City of Detroit. The Parks Commission indi week, probably Tuesday, informed sources said Wednesday. Local 10 of the Seafarers International Union (SIU) was certified as bargaining agent for the drivers in March by the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board.

I About 70 percent of the city's' 1,300 cabs are Checker. Saks Store rectly served notice on the clubs to open their membership, as the panel approved two minor THE COMPANY is appealing IJ' NLRB decision, and the fjC Olllll i I 4 3f liVt-tt II If fl It 11 mm I A 0 i issue is expected io oe iinauy resolved in the courts. Meantime, Checker has refused to bargain. In Troy The union apparently has de expansions of the clubs. The Yacht Club long has pressed for permission to build 14 more boatwells.

The Boat Club has pressed for 22 more boatwells. Both expansions were approved Wednesday afternoon with the racial resolution attached. Park Commissioner Olga Mi cided it can wait no longer in A $2 million Saks Fifth Avenue store, the fourth in its three year battle withi liar, a United Auto Workers of ficial, arranged the showdown, but was not present at Wednes Checker. Peter Drewes, SIU Interna-1 1 a 1 representative, confirmed that the drivers have voted to authorize a strike. He said a strike would come "when and if the local thinks It is necessary." Drewes said the drivers "regretted the decision" because of Michigan, will be built as the central unit of a 40-shop quality retail center at Coolidge and Big Beaver, in Troy, it was announced Wednesday.

The Saks store will have about 70,000 square feet and will carry a complete: line of apparel and other items, said Allan R. Johnson, vice president and general manaerer of the day's session. At' UAW Headquarters, Miss Madar said she did not regard her resolution as a victory. She said she was happy "to hear the "inconvenience to the pub' that the motion passed." lie. But, he said, "these men New York-headquartered firm.

nave Deen ngntmg inis case Free Press Photo by BUD JOHNSON through the NLRB and the BEHIND THE scenes. Miss Madar had told fellow commissioners that she would block any Jackson Made the 'Major' Signs Before He Was Promoted, But Lt. Col. McDivitt Didn't Mind courts for three years and GROUND WDLL be broken in the fall and completion is scheduled for the fall of 1967. impro --ment of either club until they keep winning each round, but the company still won't they had been served notice that JACKSON'S WILD FOR JIM The other 40 stores, with about 330,000 square feet of Suit Hits they must open their organizations to people of all races and EVIDENCE OF A coming; an enclosed mall.

The center is strike has been mounting for What It's Like to Be a Hero BY WILLIAM V. SUDO.MIER Free Press Staff Writer JACKSON What's it like to come home a hero? religions. She meant, has said, that the clubs should be open to all in membership and in employment. The racial resolution was advanced by Parks Commission Vice President Bernard B. Lasky.

He said the commission was merely "letting: them (the clubs) know that the majority of the commission opposes the use of public lands for private clubs." Lasky said, "Every private Library's Cleaning The Main Library's efforts to come clean were threatened anew Wednesday by a Wayne County Circuit Court suit filed by former Civic Center Commissioner Andrew R. Maglia. weeks. The Wayne County Council of the AFL-CIO earlier this month endorsed the drivers' cause and promised all-out support. The company maintains, as it has since the organizing attempt began in 1962, that it will not bargain with a union because it is "an association of individual owners." The NLRB previously ruled against the company on this point, but Checker is appealing the issue and it is expected to go to Federal Court for decision.

being designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Levine, Alpern Ajssociates. Saks operates a Detroit store in the New Center area, a University Shop In Ann Arbor and a Resort Shop in Petoskey. The new shopping center will be in the heart of the Somerset Park residential development an 800-acre complex of luxurji apartments developed by Ph: lip tollman and Samull Frankel. t- Edward T. Bedford is general manager of Detroit operations for Saks.

lub has alright to pick its Maglia, who has been waging Hembership." ja one-man war against the use 13 cents. He's selling them for 50 cents. He says: "I come from New York. That means I got a thousand miles invested already. This should have been a big three days Chicago and Jackson.

Ann Arbor, I should have made. That was good, I bet." He turns to the crowd: "It's now or never." IT'S A SIGN that says: "PROBATE COURT WELCOMES MAJ. McDIVITT." It's Sheryl Guss, 21, the Rose Queen, in white, smiling; it's the guys waving from the top of Howard's Feed Store truck; it's Carol Wagner, 12, tossing rose petals she saved up from the garden and brought in a plastic bag. It's the kids sitting on the He saia race relations was c( fence, waving flags and shouting hurrah. It's George Clem, 13, in an Air Force jet pilot uniform complete with crash helmet standing next to a model Jupiter rocket.

It's Small City, U.S.A.. screaming for you. It's rural America, come to town for your parade. It's a sign that says: "THEY COULDN'T HAVE DID IT WITHOUT McDIVITT." It's you, Jim, perched on the back of the Imperial convertible with Pat. It's you, Jim, quieting the huffing-puffing television guy who sliced through the NASA men alongside your car and saying: "I'm so proud of Jackson I.

And the cheers drowning out the rest. a garnet- iiWflli nt the issue. He saia he naa been informed by both clubs that "no Negro has ever James A. McDivitt Jr. found out Wednesday.

It's your birthday, Flag Day, your anniversary and the Fourth of July rolled into one. ITS DENNIS Glover, 8, a third grader at Jackson's Wilson School. He's wearing three tall green feathers in a cheesecloth headdress, colored popcorn beads, a burlap sack and has lipstick all over his face. It's warpaint. He's an Indian and he sits on the Cub Scout Pack 408 float and says "He went into outer space and walked in space." And his fellow Cubs, correcting "No he didn't.

That was White. Jim drove the spacecraft." It's a sign that says: "BY GEMINI, YOU DID IT." CHECKER MAINTAINS it is a non profit, service corporation for cab owners. The SIU maintains this is a ruse to avoid a union. The company's determination on this point indicates a long strike is likely. The international union has and-silica abrasive blasting to, clean the library's marble art work, asked the court to halt the cleaning and order the library to use a method or detergent with a more delicate touch.

Outstate Notes On Page 6B AFL Union Rejected by Teachers Maglia authorized the strike and has said it will support the local. Mt. Evergreen Cemetery A hearing is set for 9:30 Lincoln Park a sia.m. Friday before Circuit uuuy IIL 1111J1U Wednesday chose the Lincoln; judge James N. Montante, It's Joe Wolfe, 17, a senior Park Education Association as their sole bargaining agent.

The Lincoln Park Federation of MAGLIA criticized the li- Teachers (AFL-CIO) lost by 10 brary for the "immediate and votes. 260 to 250. irreparable" damage he claims Bill to Add Judges Gets JUU A jubilant Education As-their fine garnet grit is doing to itociation spokesman saw the marble ornamentation stat- ia r. 5c ffrnTTw- YZtiM" STVfWM victory as the reversal of a uary tronH in th Detroit arpa. The! Federation had nreviouslv won! Meanwhile, the library blasted VJ contests in Taylor Township, lts marble.

New Chance Free Prett Lniln Staff LANSING Prospects for crea Shutterbugs' big day at Jackson's St. Mary's High School. He's sitting in a big white convertible, ready to give Jim's parents a slow ride through the crowd and proud of it. He says:" "I guess I got to drive because I'm the lot boy for the dealer I pick up cars and deliver them. I'm not going to drive fast.

I've never had a ticket, nor an accident, or even been pulled over." IT'S A SIGN that says: "THANKS, KERNEL," It's Margie Wasilewski, 21, who models at Irene's Bridal Shop. She's sitting on the Fred Lynley Photo Shop float, which has a balloon filled broadcloth dummy of an astronaut, moving around a green cardboard Gemini 4. Margie is getting ready to peel. Underneath her dress is a bathing suit and beside her are flippers and a mask. She's on the astronaut rescue team.

Fred Lynley says: "1 tried to think of something different." It's a sign that savs: "GEMINI CRICKETS. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU, LT. COL. MCDIVITT." It's Michael Levine, 32, of New York City. He's a thinning-on-top guy in be-bop glasses, an open collar and a gray suit.

He's wandering through the crowd, selling McDivitt-White-Gemini 4 badges that he bought wholesale for Hamtramck and jjetrou. "We think its terrific," said I Associate Director Charles M. tion of seven new Circuit judge THE ti.uLiuiiu.1 saia Mohrhardt. "We're more than would not challenge the result. through.

We'll be done in ships In Wayne County and six outstate were reviving Wednes ine scnooi Doara naa agreeu two weeks, recoenize the winner as sol bar day. gaining agent. Mayor Cavanagh stayed out- majority leaders in the Senate and House said "We are of course delighted side the line of fire. with the results," said Associa- tion President William Kersul. Vernor traffic will be re-routed along new one-way streets for three years 3 -Year Detour on Vernor "See my marble man," he said, referring to Executive Secretary Fred J.

Romanoff, a geologist who recommended in vain last week that the 11- "We promise all Lincoln Park staff members our best professional efforts to negotiate fairly and thoroughly and to improve school conditions." i brary commission switch to bubble bath. in the area will not bo North and south traffic permanently affected. the 13 Judgeships, part of a pay increase-pension ball that died last Friday, probably will be written into anotheit measure pending in the House. ONLY IN WAYNE County would very large sums be involved, since Wayne supplements the State-provided salary of $15,000 a year with an additional 514,000. Senator Raymond D.

Dzend-zeJ, of Detroit, Senate majority leader, said he seea no major "I lost my marbles 15 minutes ago," said Romanoff, who promptly departed on a five-day Board of Commerce cruise of Federation Vice President Iee Slazinskl pledged co-operation with the association "so that they will have a chance to prove they are equipped with the school hoard in matters affecting teachers." Both groups had agreed not to call another representation A 1.6-mile stretch of Vernor between the Lodge and Chrysler Freeways will be closed to through traffic June 24 to permit the start of construction on the new Fisher Freeway. Eastbound Vernor traffic will be shifted to a new one-way route south of Vernor, following Plum and Montcalm. Westbound traffic will be shifted north to a new one-way route along Winder and Henry. the Great Lakes. The new one-way system will be in use for at least three years, the State Highway Department said.

Signs will start going up on the new route Thursday, but Vernor traffic will not be shifted for a week to permit the 20,000 motorists who use the street each day to become familiar with the change. The City has no control over the Library Commission, which election before the first week of.is appointed by the Board ofj obstacles in the Senate. October, 1366. "Education..

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