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Free Press Telephones To Place Want Ads 222-6800 For Home Delivery 222-6500 City News Desk 222-6600 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 All Other Calls 222-6400 it Jftee Today's Chuckle Where does the automobile industry find ell those empty roads to film commercials on? THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Wednesday, April 4, 1973 mtw Slain and Employe prfra Police Applaud Stale Champs NOBODY IS prouder of Detroit Southwestern High's Class A basketball state champs than their neighbors across the street, the men in blue from the Fort-Green precinct. "They won it themselves," says Sgt. Edward Thebo, "but we'd like tn think wp hnrl a lif. Homicide Detective Sgt.

Henry Bone said both victims bad been shot in the back of the head. Their hands had been tied behind their backs. Bone speculated that robbery was the motive for the-slayings. A family friend, who asked not to be identified, said Theisen had been in the luggage business at various downtown locations for at least 30 years. He said Theisen, married and with several children, had never expressed fears about his safety in downtown Detroit.

The friend said Theisen, a devout Catholic, was the "world's most generous guy." The small Theisen Luggage Shop, lined on both sides with rows of high-quality luggage and other BY MICHAEL GRAHAM Free Press Staff Writer The owner of a downtown luggage store and a woman employe were found shot to death in gangland execution style in the rear of the store Tuesday afternoon. The bodies of Edwin C. Theisen, 66, and Mrs. Theresa McKeon, 50, were found about 4:10 p.m. by Theisen's son Edwin 25, who works in a downtown bank and checked periodically on his father's well-being.

The store, at 1243 Griswold, is normally open at 4:10, but the younger Theisen found the front door locked. He went to the back door, which was unlocked, and found the bodies face down side by side in a back office. He called police. leather goods, is in the Farwell Building directly across the street from the Capitol Park DSR terminal in the heart of downtown Detroit. THE TWO LAYINGS WERE the fourth and fifth in the immediate downtown area within the past month.

On March 7, the body of 16-year-old Lena Elizabeth Pari was found in a Cobo Hall Stairwell. Last Sunday, a man and woman were shot to death in a car parked in a lot atop the Greyhound Terminal, 130 E. Congress. They were identified as Beryl Erving, 40, and James Williams, 30, both of Detroit. Police declined to speculate whether any of the slayings were related.

3amtramck is Tol to mid Awl! Homes for Renewal Victims tie part in it." The part was a huge poster prepared by Patrolman Bill Saxby and presented to the team on behalf of the precinct in the week preceding the final game. It showed a towering forward stuffing a basket as a scooter patrolman drives in with a banner reading: "To Detroit's Best from Detroit's Finest. You're No. 1 in Detroit. Let's Make It No.

1 in State." Says Sgt. Thebo: "We've never had such fine response to anything we've tried to do around here. The kids really appreciated the poster, we enjoyed giving it to them, and rapport has never been better." George Kelber, the Royal Oak gas dealer who originated the Losers Lottery, has come up with another catchy idea. His latest is a bingo game based on the player's Social Security number. He planned five games with the major prizes being 50 lottery tickets or $25 worth of beef.

"My lawyer tells me it is perfectly legal," says Kelber, the man whose Losers Lottery, established a few weeks ago, now attracts over one million tickets every week for his regular drawing. Change of signals for No-reen Green's Town Hall series at the Fisher Theatre Wednesday morning. hAO Ci kJnm -A WzSih I -Sim Free Press Photo by STEVE THOMPSON Fre Prttl Pholo by RICHARD EE Hands tied behind their backs, the two victirris of the luggage store murder lie on the floor. 1 1 If acnooi ivmiage Willson upstages busing foes Larry Antterson (center) and Richard Marshall Bus Foes Bounced From Rally at Zoo City Plans To Appeal Decision BY WILLIAM MITCHELL Free Press Staff Writer Hamtramck and the federal government have been ordered by a federal court to build 530 new housing units for the mostly black and elderly residents displaced renewal, highway construction and industrial development in the city since 1962. U.S.

District Judge Damon J. Keith, in a precedent-setting order officially released Tuesday by his court in Detroit, directed Hamtramck to build 430 units in the Wyandotte Street Project area and to purchase seven acres off Alpena Ave. for construction of another 100 units. He also ordered the city to toughen its open housing ordinance "in order to break down the pervasive pattern of private discrimination within the tightly closed Hamtramck housing market." Hamtramck Mayor Raymond Wojtowicz said Tuesday the city will appeal the order, which he characterized as "an earth-shattering decision which affects every community in the continental United States." He said compliance would cost Hamtramck "its life-blood it would tear the fabric cf this community to shreds." Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Mester charged that Judge Keith was "far in excess of his discretionary powers" in ordering the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assist the city financially in building the new housing units. He said he would urge HUD and the Justice Department to appeal the case, but said the final decision would be made by the Justice Department. Michael J. Barnhart, an attorney who represents the displaced residents in a class action suit begun in late 1968 that led to the judge's ruling, hailed the order as establishing the precedent "that cities and the federal government must now correct their abuses rather than merely abandoning the slums that are created by urban renewal." BARNHART, who is director of the Center for Urban Law and Housing of Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services, said the order provides his clients with "the broadest relief ever given in any case other than (one involving) school desegregation." Keith issued an injunction in January, 1969, prohibiting Hamtramck from displacing Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 5 Vote Delayed BY WILLIAM GRANT Free Press Education Writer The Detroit Board of Education voted Tuesday to have a school millage election Sept.

11 at the time of the Detroit city primary. The amount millnge the board will seek will be set after the state passes its school aid bill. The move, which came on a 10-2 voice vote at a special board meeting, was another sign of the growing friction between the school board and the blue-ribbon Education Task Force it named to study the school system's financial and administrative problems. THE TASK FORCE had asked the board to adopt a balanced budget for the coming school year by July 1 and the co-chairman of the group, Alfred M. Pelham, had forcefully argued that a millage election should be held this spring in order to do that.

Top school officials advised waiting until fall, however, so the school system will know how much it will get from the state Legislature. The state school aid bill is not expected to clear the Legislature before late spring or early summer. PELHAM WAS angered by the election and now he and some other members of the Task Force want the school board to use its power to impose a one percent 'City' income tax. They say the tax would be repealed if voters approve the millage in September. But school board president C.

L. Golightly made it clear Tuesday that the board does not intend to do that either. The income tax, he said, would be used only as "a last resort" and will not be voted by the board unless the millage fails. Golightly and several other board members have made blunt statements in recent days saying it is the board, and not the appointed Task Force, which governs the schools. BY WILLIAM GRANT Free Press Education Writer A group of anti-busing suburban school board members were booted out of the Detroit Zoo Tuesday by zoo Director Robert F.

Willson who said curtly: "The zoo takes no position on busing." That unlikely event began as an idea in the mind of Richard E. Marshall, president of the Warren consolidated school 's board. Marshall thought it would be a good idea to hold a press conference to protest busing in front of the camel pen at the zoo. "Busing is the straw that broke the camel's back," would be a catchy slogan, Marshall and his colleagues decided. "Everybody needs a gimmick, a symbol," explained Larry Autterson, a member of the Clawson school board.

AT THE APPOINTED hour Tuesday morning, Marshall, Autterson and a score of newsmen gathered in front of the camel pen at the zoo for Marshall to announce that his group would go to the National Association of School Boards meeting next week at Disneyland to try to get a national anti-busing movement going. That is what he planned to say. He never got a chance, however, because just as the cameras began to roll Willson walked up and snapped: "What the hell is going on here?" From there on it was Willson's show. Marshall and Autterson stood slack-jawed as Willson denounced them for trying to use the zoo for "propaganda" and said that he "had been led down the garden path" because he had been told this was to be a school group that wanted to drive through the zoo on a day it was closed. "I thought this was for children, for fun," Willson said.

"Now that I see what's going on they can just get out." Willson, a master of public relations, managed to repeat his complaints often enough for even the late television crews to capture the whole thing. He tried some fancy footwork to sidestep one persistent TV reporter who kept asking Willson his sonal position "on busing small schoolchildren across district lines." "Well," Willson drawled when the reporter finally blocked his escape, "the zoo takes no position on busing." For Marshall and Autterson it was yet another false start for their anti-busing campaign. MORE THAN 40 school boards have contributed about $7,000 for this campaign to warn people about the way local control of schools "is threatened by forced reassignment of children to schools outside the district of their residence." They took their resolution to the meeting of the Michigan Association of School Administrators in January where it was almost totally ignored and never came up for discussion on the floor. They plan now to travel to Disneyland next week for the national school boards meeting in another effort to get the resolution adopted. They will have a booth on the convention floor and will have a reception (cash bar available) for William Saxton, the attorney for 40 surburban school systems in the Detroit integration case.

In California, Marshall and his followers will be giving out blue and gold badges with a camel in an effort to make their "straw that broke the camel's back" slogan nationally known. Tuesday at the zoo, only two real camels were on the scene for the anti-busing show. One was asleep and the other yawned. Vidal Sassoon who was the scheduled speaker did himself in over the weekend. A health faddist, he lost his grip on the bar while chinning himself, fell the wrong way and is now in a body cast.

His agent, fearing cardiac arrest on the part of Mrs. Green, waited until Monday to tell her his client was out of action. She survived long enough to book, hastily, Kenneth Lane, a top notch jewelry designer who will discuss the psychology of choosing the proper accessories. Thought for the Day Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. The Passing Parade "Phone phreaks" may be put out of business if a new system being field tested in California is adopted by phone companies.

If you're not with it, a "phone phreak" is an illegal caller who has learned a fancy way to bypass toll-ticketing equipment. He starts out by dialing a toll-free number, then reaches the number he actually wants by whistling the tones for the new number (that takes talent), or using a tone oscillator to simulate dial tones. The system now being tested will transmit the proper tone over a channel that is separate from the voice channels, thus frustrating thousands of college students and teenagers who have been free-loading on phone companies all over the land. Tip of the Topper to Henry (Hi) Martin, president of Universal Pictures, who will be honored by the motion picture industry during a Celebrity Luncheon April 12 in the Troy Hilton Inn as part of the 54th Annual Convention of Michigan Theatre Owners. His first job was as a poster clerk for the Universal branch in Oklahoma City in 1935, and Universal is the only company Martin has ever worked for.

Charlton Heston is due in Our Town during the convention, and Carol Channing, now in "Lorelei" at the Fisher Theatre, will also be a Council Pokes A Little Fun 3 LINKED TO DRUGS 7 Indicted for Tax Evasion Three Laundry Appliances Sell With One FP Ad "I sold the washer and dryer to the first woman, who called and an hour later sold my wringer-type washer to another woman," said Mrs. Doris Eller, Detroit. She offered all the items in an exclusive Free Press fast-ACTION Want Ad and sold everything the first day her ad appeared. To get the AC-TION-packed response you want, contact a Free Press Ad Taker now. Call 222-6800 A Common Council resolution thanking an auxiliary fireman for saving Councilman David Eberhard from drowning in a canal seemed headed for certain defeat Tuesday, but it was all in fun.

Eberhard voted for the resolution commending Frank Kilcoyne, a Chrysler Corp. worker, for snatching the councilman from icy waters near Harbor Island afterhe slipped March 19 during an inspection tour of flooding. And Erma Henderson voted a "reluctant" yes. But Nichols Hood said he was abstaining because of a possible conflict of interest, which he did not explain. Anthony Wierzbicki and William Rogell followed by saying they had conflicts of judgement, which they did not explain.

And Council President Mel Ravitz said he was speechless for the first time in his life. Deputy City Clerk James Jackson Jr. somehow interpret the remarks to mean the council unanimously supported the resolution. He pronounced the measure approved by a 6-0 vote. A federal grand jury in Detroit indicted seven Detroit area people for criminal income tax violations.

Three of the seven are reported by police to be major narcotic wholesalers. Earl C. Simms, 46, of 20440 Carol, charged with failing to file income tax returns in 1968, 1969 and 1970. The indictment alleges that in those years Simms, with his wife, Hazel, 36, who faces the same charges, had a gross income of $57,419.38. Maurice A.

Downs, 42, of 1300 E. Lafayette, Apt. 1308, charged with attempted income tax evasion for the years 1969, 1970 and 1971. The indictment charges that Downs reported taxable income of $21,968.61 when he should have reported taxable income of $66,986.33. Richard Wakefield, 27, of 19219 Warrington, charged with attempted income tax evasion for 1969, 1970 and 1971.

The indictment charges that Wakefield, reported by police to be one of the "biggest distributors of heroin in the city," failed to file returns for those years when he had income of approximately $82,577. The others indicted were: Frank L. Bantle, 31, of 34351 Jefferson Mt. Clemens, who is charged with attempted income tax evasion for the years 1970 and 1971. The indictment alleges that Bantle reported an income of $1,864.72 for those years when he should have reported James H.

Gribbs, 28, of 2489 Atkinson, charged with attempted income tax evasion for 1970 and 1971. Gribbs reportedly failed to file returns when he had a taxable income of about $84,648. Wallace Garvin, 29, formerly of Pontiac, charged with attempted income tax evasion for 1970 and 1971. The indictment charges that Garvin failed to file returns when he had a taxable income of $28,717..