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wit akw Todays Chuckle Mama Bear to Papa Bear: "This is positively my last year as den mother!" tr THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Thursday, May 30, 1974 i i rr in i i rr f. Consu Drag Bill OH oiers a Senate Sends Plan to House (.. A 'lLimZ i1' i If "WH.A'. 4 I A i Miti BY ROGER LANE Fra Prtu Ltrulng Stiff LANSING A bill allowing pharmacists to dispense generic drugs instead of the frequently more expensive brand-name drugs prescribed by most doctors was approved by the Michigan Senate Wednesday, 31 to 4. The bill will be sulbmitted for Gov.

Milliken's signature as soon as the House, which already passed the bill, agrees to minor changes made in the Senate. Although toned down somewhat from its original form, ttie bill still was considered a victory for consumers. UNDER THE Senate bill, a pharmacist could dispense any drug containing the same ingredients as a prescribed brand-name drug, unless the prescribing physician wrote on the prescription "DAW" dispense as written. The bill left undisturbed an existing prohibition against price JUSTICE DELAYED Attorney Bailey Has Troubles of His Own PAUL NORTON VAN HEE is the Grosse Point man waiting trial in federal court on charges of selling armored car blueprints to the Portuguese army. His attorney is F.

Lee Bailey (former clients included Ernest Medina, Dr. Sam Sheppard, Albert DeSalvo, Glenn Turner.) Bailey got the trial delayed this week, from June 11 to Aug. 20. He did that because of Glenn Turner, the Koscot king. Turner is waiting for a verdict in his Florida fraud trial.

Bailey goes on trial next. He's charged with mail fraud in the Koscot scheme, an allegedly illegal pyramid organization, and has to take care of himself before he can be advocate for Van Hee. House Guests Settled WEDNESDAY MORNING on the state House floor: A heavy debate. Should House members be allowed to introduce their gallery friends from the House floor? Debate time, 40 minutes. Resolved: The speaker will do the intra honors.

If anyone violates the rule, the speaker may wind up embarrassing the legislator and his guests. Job Opening BOB GRIFFIN is looking for an attorney to add to his staff. The senator needs one, insiders say, for special legal advice if and when the Senate should try Presi. dent Nixon. No Rush to Judgment NICK SACORAFAS was arrested last month on charges of taking a bribe and that launched an investigation of the city's pension funds.

Sacorafas was legal advisor for the police-fire pension fund. The investigation's dragging because, says prober Howard Gladue: "There's no urgency. Wliatever's there is there, and it's going to stay there." Gladue's in charge of the probe being conducted by the attorney general's organized crime division. An appropriations bill in the state Legislature would kill the organized crime division and transfer investigations to the state police. Says Gladue, who insists the timing of the arrest and probe had nothing to do with funding for the division: "Nobody tells me how to run a case." Ifs a Boy BORN: To Kelly nee Harmon onceDeLorean now Voyne and her husband of 13 months, Dr.

Don Voyne, a boy, 7 pounds. She's living in California now. When Kelly and John Z. DeLorean split he kept their adopted son, Zack. advertising of prescription drugs.

It no longer contains a provi sion for state monitoring of y' frt Preis Photos by ALAN KAMI) DA Blanche Smith had the sundeck of the Stella Maris (below) all to herself Wednesday 3 Charged In Plot To Kill Detroiter BY KATHY WARBELOW Fro Pro Stiff Wrlttr Three persons were ordered Wednesday to stand trial for conspiring to kill a man who learned of the alleged plot after hearing a phone conversation in which his wife and another woman discussed what they would wear to his funeral. In late March, Detroit police received a call from William Morgan, who told them he believed that his wife, Charlotte, was involved in a plot to kill BPS 1 A'' JJ 1 price differentials. But backers of the measure were pleased and predicted a substantial lowering of drug costs to comparative shoppers. Rep. Joseph Forbes, D-Oak Park, said Michigan was on the point of becoming the first of the 44 states with an anti-substitution law to abandon it.

The proposal has been vigorously, pushed by consumer groups and labor unions. Until watered down, it was opposed by medical organizations and many pharmacists. Drug manufacturers, fought it to the end. CRITICS CALLED the measure a "lawyer's bill" that will provoke litigation and interference with normal medical practice. "This bill places economics ahead of health, and it will decrease the quality of health care," said Sen.

John E. Mc-Cauley, D-Grosse He. "Chemical equivalents do not always yield equal results." A major provision of the bill requires the pharmacist to post the name and prices of die 100 most frequently prescribed drugs. Another requires a pharmacist who makes a substitution to show that he has done so on the prescription label. The House dropped a feature calling on the state Board of Pharmacy to periodically gather price data irom postings individual pharmacies, publish survey results and disseminate the data through a wide variety of channels and to individuals, on request JUJll.

Mrs. Morgan testified in Recorder's Court Wednesday that she had wanted to kill her husband because he physically A Luxury Liner Plies the Lakes Once More BY BILL MICHELMORE rr frtH Staff Wrlttr For people on both sides of the border, accustomed to seeing little more than grimy freighters and Bob-Lo boats docked in the Detroit River, the sight of Stella Maris II was something of an event Wednesday. People flocked to the Dieppe Park pier in Windsor to gaze at the Greek luxury liner with the same awe one reserves for a visiting dignitary. FOR MANY IT was a remembrance of things past It's been a long time since passenger liners glided along the Detroit River on their way through the Great Lakes. The Stella Maris II with its 93 air-conditioned staterooms, lounges, cocktail bars, library, sundeck pool and other pleasures is bringing the Great Lakes back to people who like to goby ship.

The $5-million vessel is owned by the Sun Line, which spent an additional $100,000 just to outfit it for the lakes. From now until Oct 21, Sun Line is running seven-day cruises between Chicago and Montreal, the first Great Lakes passenger cruise between those two cities since 1938. The last cruise ship in Detroit was the South America which was taken off the lakes in were 95 passengers aboard the Stella Maris II (it means Star of the Sea) when it docked at 1 abused her, and had discussed 1 i Jt ner intentions wiui a inena, Mrs. Ossie Wade, 60. hi iinr MRS.

WADE, of 2824 Oak-man, allegedly contacted Mrs. Willie Mae Stanley who purportedly said she had "two sons in Chicago" who would do the job for $3,000. Mrs. Morgan testified that Please turn to Page 16A, Col. I Windsor Wednesday for short excursions in that city and Detroit.

About 80 percent of the passengers are from the states, many of them from California, with the rest from various parts of Canada, noted cruise spokesman Glenn L. Hickerson. Their agert range from 20 to 80, he said. "One passenger flew from Tokyo to take the cruise," Hickerson added. WHILE MOST of the passengers Wednesday were touring Detroit's Greenfield Village and Ford's River Rouge plant, elderly Mrs.

Blanche Smith from Vermont was taking it easy on Please turn to Page 1IA, Col. 1 State Probes Tainted Food Drug Jury Rejected A 2d Time Mideast-Style Gratitude Heaped on Soo Native Highly unlikely that a native of the Soo in the Upper Peninsula of Our State should earn the right to be addressed as Excellency in Jordan, or, for that matter, anywhere else he cares to present the credentials that came to him by way of King Hussein. After serving as director of CARE for two years in Jordan, Michael Rellis is now on his way to a similar post in Vietnam. He is entitled to wear the Independence of Jordan Grade II decoration presented to him by Dr. Younif Dlhnl, minister of social affairs.

The decoration is fine, but Rellis treasures even more this wonderfully warm note in Arabic from Sheik Nimer Oudeh, "a notable of Al Taamreh in Bethlehem District." Translated, it reads: "I would like here to thank you very much for your deeds while you are the Director of the Organization in Jordan. "I thank you for the humanity that you offered all the refugees and all those who need help in Jordan, and here I admit that you are one of the best benevolent persons, because you suffered much during your work in our country, in doing the best you can and in offering your benevolence and kindness to everybody. "I would like here to thank you and congratulate all the people in the United States because you are one of them, and you were known during your work here as an active, honourable and charitable person, so we will miss you when you leave us. "We are thankful for everything you offered us with our children, end we are trustful that you will never forget us and try to help us even if you are far away of us. "Our best regards and I wish you all the happiness, and ask God to keep you always in good health, and give you whatever you need." SEEMS AS IF THE PRESIDENT has opened a whole new vista in the art of sounding off and getting away with it.

As an example, Harvey Snell swears he was in a downtown eatery the other day when a customer suddenly rose from his stool, whirled on the man next to him, and shouted: "You can't talk to me that way, you son-of-an-exple-tive!" And think of all the possibilities in the field of tentative love-making for the guy who wants a lot without committing himself. I can just hear him whispering to some unsuspecting gal: "I'm (expletive deleted) about you. Will you (inaudible) me?" She may be dreaming of marriage Player Piano Sells for $400 Through FP "We thought the ad was just great," said Mrs. Jack McArtor, Utica. She placed an exclusive Free Press fast-ACTION Want Ad offering a player piano for sale and found her buyer the one day her ad appeared.

The ad cost was $4.68 and the player piano sold for $400. If you want to reach the sales-responsiye Free Press audience, contact an Ad Specialist now. Call 222.6800 orTollFr (800)572-3070 IN OTHER developments Tons of cheese and butter are being buried this week after FDA tests found the products contained five to seven parts a milion of the bromine compound. In one processing plant alone, 6,000 pounds of cheese were seized by the state Agriculture Department. So far no tests have been made of cheese and other dairy products on store shelves.

Three poultry flocks and one herd of swine were quarantined after tests showed they had been fed Michigan Farm Bureau Services feeds contaminated with the flame retardant. Nine Ohio dairy herds were reported to have consumed the contaminated feeds. So far 27 Michigan dairy herds, including one sold for slaughter last January, and three beef herds in the state have been quarantined. THE BROMINE compound, Dr. Humphrey said, belongs to a family of chemicals that includes polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly known as PCBs.

The contaminant in the Farm Pleaset urn to Page 11 Col. 1 BY DAVID JOHNSTON pro Prm Ltmhif Stiff LANSING The toxic bromine compound that contaminated milk and dairy products distributed across Michigan earlier this, year could cause cancer among persons who consumed undiluted quantities of the foods, a state public Health Department official warned Wednesday. Dr. Harold Humphrey, a disease control specialist, said that members of the general public had no reason to fear the effects of consuming contaminated products sold commercially, because they were diluted with pure milk. But he said a long-term study was being launched to observe farm families that consumed undiluted contaminated milk.

No one knows at what level the substance, a flame retardant accidentally applied to substantial quantities of Farm Bureau Services livestock feed last year, Is dangerous to humans. Temporarily the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has set the safe upper level for content of the chemical, hexabromobi-phenyl, at one part in a million. BY KATHY WARBELOW AND JUDY DIEBOLT pre pra Stiff Wrlttr For the second time, Detroit's 19 Recorder's Court judges rejected Wednesday a proposal for a one-man grand jury to investigate the city's flourishing narcotics underworld. The judges defeated the proposal in a 14-3 show-of-hands vote at the private monthly judges' meeting.

Those present said defeat came because Presiding Judge George W. Crockett the leading advocate of the one-man grand jury, refused to serve as the grand juror. The defeat of the grand jury proposal came despite mounting public pressure from such groups as the NAACP, Operation Push, New Detroit Inc. and the United Black Coalition. Passage of the proposal had Pleaset urn to Page ISA, Col.

2 and kids, but can she pin him down with a flock of deleteds and inaudi-bles? THOUGHT FOR THE DAYS Every little bit helps, but it only helps a little bit. IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO that the Book-Cadilac Hotel opened in Out faMtyAW ft Illness an Asset, i Cavanagh Told BY REMER TYSON Fret Press Politic Writer ANN ARBOR Washington political consultant Joseph Napol-itan has told former Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh that his operation for cancer may be a "blessing in disguise" for Cavanagh in this year's race for governor. There's nothing like "beating cancer or an assassination" to improve a politician's public image, Napolitan quipped in a letter to Cavanagh. And seriously, Napolitan wrote, Cavanagh's operation for removal of a cancerous Wdney In early April might generate a sympathy vote that would overcome the negative effect of Cavanagh's divorce In 1968.

When a reporter raised the question of whether Cavanagh's health would be a liability or asset if he re-enters the governor's race, Cavanagh whipped out the Napolitan le'tter and read it His secend wife, Kathy, 30, pointed out that the popularity of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace had increased substantially since an attempted assassination in 1972 had left him paralyzed from the waist down. CAVANAGH HAD HIRED Napolitan at a fee of to advise him on the governor's race in the Aug. 6 Democratic primary when Cavanagh stopped campaigning in April to undergo surgery for cancer.

At that time, Cavanagh thought the operation would end his chance to challenge former State Sen. Sander M. Levin for the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Gov. Milliken in November. But he appears to have recovered well from the surgery and If he can get the campaign financing, he'll almost certainly re-enter the race.

He plans to announce his intentions about running for governor June 10, he said. $80,000 Taken in Bank Holdup Three men escaped Wednesday with an estimated $80,000 after robbing a Redford Town-ship bank. Police said the holdup was a professional job. Township police said the three men, all armed, entered the back door of a Bank of the Commonwealth branch office at Inkster and Joy. Police said one of the gunmen stood guard while another demanded money from a teller and the third took the keys to the assistant manager's private car.

Police said the men, described as white and between 40 and 50 years of age, then fled in the car. Town with a tremendous amount of fanfare. Bewigged waiters wearing knee breeches, silk stockings and buckled shoes a la M. Cadillac practically outnumbered the diners who sat on delicate period chairs. He wasn't there at the start, but Bell Captain John Kalu-zynskl signed on four years later and is still a fixture.

Bellman Mitchell Tenerowicz joined the hotel staff 40 years ago, beverage manager Michael Ochoa began as a room service waiter in 1949 and head bartender Fred Smith is a 20-year veteran. They were among 55 employes with a total of 865 years of service who were honored with a reception and dinner awards from vice-president and general manager of the now Sheraton-Cadillac, Stewart Maurer. The dinner had two meanings for Thelma Crawford of the housekeeping staff 30 years on the job and retirement. And for Lula Dickens, it marked 25 years as waitress in the Town Room. TODAY'S WORST JOKE: Then there was the fed-up chef who put a stick of dynamite under a pile of pancakes.

He was determined to blow his stack. Fre Press Photo by IRA ROSENBERG Kathy Cavanagh straightens out her husband Jerry's tie so he'll look good In picture..