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Free Press Telephones etroit Jfw Jte Todays Chuckle Husband to wife as they struggled over the budget: "We should have saved during the recession so we could live through this prosperity." To Place Want Ads For Home Delivery City News Desk Insurance Dept. AUOther Calls 222-6S00 222-6500 222-6600 222-6470 222-6400 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Thursday, September 20, 1973 Page 3. Section A DEAL MATCHES BLUE-COLLAR PLATS UA ins Chrysler Office Pac T'he Past Retains fifixed Respect yjN EUROPE, they treasure buildings of beauty and historical significance, no matter Ratification Expected concept was not eliminated, but the spread between the last progression rate and the merit rate was narrowed in each classification. On the anniversary date of his employment, each salaried worker will be entitled to review his status with management. If it is determined that he is entitled to a merit raise, he must be told when he is going to receive it.

Most importantly, If he receives it, he is guaranteed a three percent increase. In the past, employes have received merit raises as low as 1 1-2 If it is determined that the worker is not entitled to a merit increase, the employe must be told what is wrong with his work and what can be done to correct it. fourth grade which encom- 't passes 78 of the white-collar employes" will get a pension plan improvement equivalent to that won by skilled tradesmen. For the 30-year salaried employe, this boosts his basic benefit by $7 a month. A worker who leaves the.

bargaining unit to become a supervisor and later returns to the bargaining unit, must main a. member of the bar-1 gaining unit for at least a year; to retain the seniority he accu-' mulated while in supervision. As to mandatory overtime, which is not as serious a prob- lem among salaried workers, it can be negotiated at the. local level, "using production and maintenance rules as a guideline. Office workers of Local 889 Please turn to Page 12A, Col.

2 SALARIED workers in the Free Press Photo by RICHARD LEE Pontiac Mayor Robert F. Jackson, Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford and Harold A. Cousins of the Pontiac Stadium Authority (left to right) break ground for the new Pontiac Memorial Radium, which will be the home of the Lions starting in 1975. Ground Is Broken For Pontiac Stadium BY BILLY BOWLES Free Press Staff Writer Olfkials of Pontiac and the Detroit Lions football team broke ground Wednesday for the new stadium that will house the National Football League team starting in 1975. The project had been repeatedly delayed by court suits seeking to block construction of the $40.95 million stadium.

Lions owner William Clay Ford, joined Pontiac mayor Robert F. Jackson and Harold A. Cousins of the city's stadium authority in turning the first spadeful of dirt after Ford pledged to work to bring a Super Bowl to Pontiac. Ford also denounced Congress recent ban on television blackouts of home games that are sold out three days in advance, but said he does not expect it to affect the city's income from its new stadium. Ford predicted the new law will be repealed before the Pontiac stadium is completed two years from now.

ABOUT 600 persons attended the groundbreaking ceremonies on Featherstone Road, near Opdyke. During the ceremonies, a helicopter wheeled overhead, trailing a streamer which read: "Pontiac Welcomes the Lions." Mayor Jackson said the stadium will bring to Pontiac merchants "dollars they would never have seen" otherwise. Cousins, chairman of the stadium authority, said the facility represents "the start of a new era" for Pontiac, which outbid Detroit for the right to build a stadium for the Lions. Later, he said he does not expect a strike by excavation workers to delay the stadium project. Settlement of the strike is imminent, he said.

I how pompous that sounds. In America, we enjoy nothing more than tearing them down and turning them into parking lots. I Jtot all ancient structures are worth saving. I wasn't unhappy to see the demolition of Old City Hall, though the process drew anguished protests from a host of folk including former councilwoman Mary Beck and even drove one con- cerned person to a heart attack. I ut there are various groups who keep fighting to preserve the" souvenirs of the past.

One campaign still being hotly contested is to save the old stove now at the Michigan State Fair Grounds. Solan Weeks of the Detroit Historical Society is involved in that one, along with Don Thurber, and a group of dedicated citizens. Progress is being made here 1 and there, and the latest example is upcoming Saturday when the home of former Gov-i ernor Fred Green in Ionia will be officially recognized as a State Historic Site by the erection of a State Historical Commission marker. Featured speaker will be Congressman Gerald Ford, minority leader of the House of Representatives, who'll be introduced by State Senate Majority leader Robert Van-derLaan. Presiding will be Republican State Chairman Wil--.

liam McLaughlin, and Hudson I Mead, president of the Michi-gan Historical Commission, will dedicate the marker. Former "Judge Dave Vokes mourns the sale of the down-I town Detroit Edison building at State and Washington Bou-1 Ievard and its probable demo- lishment. He notes: Nobody I has mentioned that this will jnark the disappearance from the Detroit scene of another historical building. "In 1886 it was built to house the plant of Detroit Edison. It was known as the Washington Avenue Powerhouse.

The building went up in the record construction time of 60 days. Its initial capacity was Power for running electric motors was also sold at a flat rate of about $10 per horsepower per month. "It was in this building that Henry Ford worked as an engineer when he lived on Bag-ley and was doing his primary work on the invention of his first automobile. "When Edison built its new plant, the tall smokestack was removed and a second was added to the old building. The dynamos were taken out and the site was converted into what later generations came to know as the downtown commercial office of the Edison." There was this guy whose wife was hollering because she wanted some new drapes for their picture window.

"Do you realize," she demanded, "that if I happened to be running around the house stark naked the neighbors could look right in the window and see me?" "Don't was his reply. "If the neighbors saw you stark naked, THEY'D buy drapes." Or is it draperies? Thought for the Day It's really not difficult to guess a woman's age, but it's really not a bright thing to do. Today's Worst Joke There was this customer who came into a small restaurant and demanded lamb chops au gratin. The waiter called out to the cook: "Cheese it, the chops." To insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error which may occur in our news columns. An article about the arrest of James L.

Jackson, 35, of 12346 Stoepel, Detroit, in last Saturday's edition incorrectly stated, he was charged by Highland Park police with carrying a concealed weapon, a felony. The actual charge was carrying an uncased through city streets, "a misdemeanor. Jackson pleaded guilty and paid a $100 fine. BY RALPH ORR AND JO THOMAS Free Prss Staff Writer The UAW's 210-m ember Chrysler Council overwhelmingly approved a tentative new contract with Chrysler Corp. Wednesday, six hours after UAW represented salaried workers had come to terms with the firm.

There were only seven dissenting votes as the council approved the settlement reached Monday with Chrysler. The vote followed a six-hour meeting during which top UAW officials explained the Chrysler offer in detail. SETTLEMENT with the 10,500 office, clerical and engineering employes brings all 127,500 UAW members at Chrysler under tentative agreements. Ratification, expected this weekend, would end the national strike called at midnight last Friday when negotiations on a new three-year contract were broken off. Council approval of the proposal had been expected.

Rank-and-file ratification votes for production workers will begin Thursday and conclude Sunday, the UAW said. The UAW has said It hopes to have all workers back at their jobs and production resumed at Chrysler by Monday. Most of the white-collar workers have remained on the job at Chrysler with union approval the strike was called. William M. O'Brien, Chrysler vice-president for personnel, said the agreement "represents substantial economic gain for the company's Salaried employes and is comparable with the production and maintenance agreement reached with the UAW Monday.

"Chrysler Corp. should now be able to conduct its operations without interruptions and its employes are in a position to enjoy a higher standard of living and participate more fully in the better things of life," O'Brien said. THE BREAKTHROUGH in the salaried workers talks came when Chrysler agreed to review its system for merit pay increases. A chief issue in the.salaried talks was the UAW demand that merit pay increases, which are negotiated, be paid automatically on a pre-arranged time scale. Currently, such raises are paid on an automatic progression only up to a certain point.

After that, the company has full discretion over whether it will increase the worker's pay up to the maximum allowed under the contract. The salaried workers had sought full automatic progression. The salaried workers, who also get the annual increases negotiated under the main Chrysler contract with blue-collar workers, have complained that the company generally fails to initiate those merit raises which are left to its discretion on the grounds of "budget problems." Similar salaried complaints led to a one-day strike against Chrysler in the last round of auto bargaining in 1970 and a seven-day walkout that closed Chrysler plants in 1958. In the compromise worked out Wednesday the merit-pay Cost of Living Council delays Chrysler's bid to boost 1974 prices. Page 11D.

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To get the ad action you want when you have a vehicle for sale, contact a Free Press Ad Taker now. Call 2220800 The Law Gallops To the Rescue BY MICHAEL GRAHAM Free Press Staff Writer The lawman, gun drawn and riding high on his dappled- grey horse, came galloping down main street, just in time to capture the bandit as he slowly backed out of the saloon door, the money from the' till crumpled in his hand. The Wild West of the 1800s? Nope. Downtown Detroit? Yup. Minutes after high noon Wednesday, Officer Stanley Ma- thewson, 27, of the Detroit Police Mounted Division, was patrolling Woodward Ave.

when a passerby yelled that the -United Bar at 3142 Woodward was being held up, Mathewson turned his 12-year-old horse, Knobby, arid galloped down the street. The horse pranced and whinnied on the sidewalk just as the robber, shirt pulled up over his mouth and nose as a mask, backed out of the door. THE MAN had walked in with the impromptu mask and held his hand in a paper bag, pretending he had a gun. Robert Parker, owner of the bar, told police he turned over the $96 in-the cash register to the bandit. Outside the bar, the man turned around to see the police- man and his horse staring at him.

The robber ducked back into the doorway. Mathewson yelled: "Come out with your hands in the air." 1 The thief meekly obeyed. Mathewson handed the rein I over to another passerby as he searched the man. A scout car came and arrested Neal Whitlock, 40, ot 11259 Linwood. He was being held for suspicion of armedl robbery.

The money was recovered. No shots were fired. Officer Mathewson saddled up and trotted slowly back! -down main street, the afternoon sun glinting off his badge. Family of Last Viet Fatality Outstate Brow Arraigned, Remains in Hospital BY SUSAN WATSON Fret Presi Staff Writer BY SUSAN WATSON Free Press Staff Writer Hayward Brown, acquitted three times on charges of shooting at police officers, was arraigned Wednesday on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and possession of narcotics. At the time of bis arraignment in Detroit Recorder's Court, Brown, 19, was hospitalized at Detroit General Hospital where he remained in temporarily serious condition Wednesday night.

BROWN HAD been taken to Detroit General by police about two hours after he was arrested Tuesay night on Woodward near Parkhurst. Three plainclothes STRESS policemen said they saw a package containing suspected narcotics tossed from a car in which Brown was a passenger. During the court proceed-ings, Kenneth V. Cockrel, Brown's attorney, said that Brown stood mute. An innocent plea was entered by Presiding Recorder's Judge John Murphy and examination was set for Oct.

1. Murphy continued the $1,000 personal bond which had been set for Brown during a court session held by Judge Justin Ravitz around midnight Tuesday. After the arraignment Wednesday morning, Cockrel charged that the arresting officers "tried to kill Hayward Brown when they stopped him and they messed it up. I suspect they never dreamed 'd have to turn him (Brown) in." Cockrel also charged that Brown was beaten by the police before Brown was taken to Detroit General's emergency room at 10:27 p.m. The police report on Brown's arrest "is so transparent it's almost beyond belief," Cockrel charged.

JAMES BANNON, co-commander of the STRESS unit, denied that the officers had tried to kill Brown. Bannon said that policemen "hadn't been that inefficient in the past," and added that if the police had really wanted to kill Brown they could have done so. 1 Bannon said that Brown was restrained by the arresting police during die ride to the 12th (Palmer Park) Precinct. Bannon said that Brown was handcuffed in the back seat of the police car and kicked both feet above the seat, striking a Please turn to Page 18A, Col. 1 Gribbs Advises Nichols to Resiffti i BY JOHN HEAD Pre Press start Writ-- Mayor Gribbs told a press conference Wednesday, that "as a friend" he suggested to Police Commissioner John F.

Nicuols that he resign as commissioner because he may not be able io handle the job while conducting a mayoral campaign. Gribbs said Nichols reply to the suggestion made at a meeting between the two last Friday was that he was "going to think about it." Nichols has said he will make a decision soon as to whether he will step down as commissioner while campaigning mayor against State Sen. Coleman Young. Nichols did not have any immediate re- Builds ti EI I i-'y JOYCE NOLDE: "It's philosophy that you don't you don't get with it." to if i mi1 It 4 New Life IS" i AP Photo our family's get ahead if ONAWAY, the widow of before the Jan. building a new Lt.

Col. a Vietcong at An Loc began. "I moved start a new this and had a can't stop or Mrs. Nolde, income from Veterans SHE LEFT Pleasant last on Black Peninsula. Chilly squalls the birch, the cottage town, 10 miles She put hammer pine her hands on "It's our don't get ahead Sons Byron, their' mother.

was 17-year-old Pleasant, and a 40-acre farm "I felt the and need in the around," said "If we're the grocery. Please Mich. (AP) Joyce Nolde, America's last combat fatality 28 Vietnamese cease-fire, is life in northern Michigan. William Nolde, 43, was killed when rocket smashed into his bunker 11 hours before the cease-fire away because I felt I needed to life," Mrs. Nolde said in an interview week.

"We were a close family wonderful life with Bill, but you go back." 43, said she receives a modest her husband's pension and the Administration. Insurance paid off a ranch-style home in Mt. summer to move into a two-story, "comfortable but inconvenient" cottage Lake in the northern Lower from the lake veer through maple and oak forests that wall off from Onaway, the nearest away. down the tools she was using to siding on the cottage, brushed her white slacks and said: family's philosophy that you if you don't get with it." 14, and Bart, 13, live with A 16-year-old daughter, Kim-berle, married Aug. 25.

Another son, Brent, is in high school in Mount the oldest son, Blair, 20, owns near Mount Pleasant. move would give us the closeness self-confidence the younger boys next few years without a father Mrs. Nolde. snowed in, we can't run off to We'll have to eat what's here." turn to Page 10A, Col. 1 sponce Wednesday to Gribbs' announcement.

Nichols, ASKED ABOUT the commissioner's situation at a press cg); ference on the proposed new city charter, Gribbs said he ljat urged Nichols to give "serious consideration, to resigning" fj the commissioner's own good and the good of the city. The mayor acknowledged that he has the power to demand Nichols' resignation but said his suggestion to Nichols that the; commissioner resign does not necessarily mean that such actiot is being considered. "'I "I talked to him as a friend Gribbs said. "That doesn mean I'm going to force his resignation if he refused to do It's a judgment that I think he should first make. "He did very well as commissioner while campaigning jn thV.

primary, but things are going to be a little different general election. There will be a lot more people to meet and itj will require more time." 1 During the primary, the commissioner resisted strong pr'en sure especially from Common Council President Mel who finished third among the mayoral candidates in the priC; mary to resign his Police Department post because ofia possible conflict of interest. Although he refused to leave the department Nichols! did say he would re'-valuate his position if he survived the; Please turn to Page 18A, Col. 1.