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15 2 a.m. 12 METRO 74 Market Opens With Small Gain See Page 10, Section 15c 6-Day Home Delivery 75c ON GUARD FOR 142 YEARS Vol. 143 No. 244 Thursday, January 3, 1974 MAYOR'S INAUGURAL SPEECH Co minais; Hit the Road Promises Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich.

48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. In March 1972, I underwent major surgery.

I checked with Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Ohio before I entered the hospital to make sure my four-month-old policy covered the operation. 1 was told there was no problem since I was covered. Well there is a problem. Blue Cross-Blue Shield has decided not to pay for the operation and now I'm stuck with a bill for over $1,000. J.M.; Ida.

No, you're not. Blue Cross-Blue Shield reconsidered earlier decision not- to pay bill after Action Line asked Ohio Department of Insurance to intervene. Claims director originally denied your claim based on information supplied by insurance company's doctor who said condition existed before you took out policy. Your doctors insisted this wasn't so and Blue Cross-Blue Shield decided to give you benefit of doubt, authorized check for $1,327.45. We just spoted a robin at our bird feeder It came as quite a surprise since everyone I talked to thought robins always headed south for the winter.

What should we feed these birds that think enough of Michigan rn saw if i7: I I V' M'4 if'1 Tough Stand BY PETER BENJAMINSON City-County Bureau Chief Coleman Alexander Young was inaugurated as mayor of Detroit in a Ford Auditorium ceremony Wednesday evening. He became the first black mayor in the city's history. The new mayor denounced crime in his inaugural speech, which he delivered to a wildly cheering crowd of about 2,000 in front of live television cameras. "I issue a warning now to all dope pushers, rip-off artists, and muggers," Young said.1 "It's time to leave Detroit hit the road." LATER Wednesday evening Young attended an inaugural concert featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Motown recording star Diana Ross at the Masonic Temple. Inaugural officials were frantically attempting as late as Wednesday morning to encourage concert ticket sales and a surge of last-minute ticket buyers filled the auditorium to more than two-thirds capacity.

Young entered the concert auditorium to the strains of "Fan-, fare for the Common Man." The other selections played by the symphony "Lincoln Portrait" and "Medea's Dance of Vengeance" may have, reflected the ambiguous feelings of a new black mayor in a city traditionally ruled by white politicians. Young's warning to criminals followed a speech calling for action against crime delivered by Federal District Judge Damon Keith at a Wednesday morning prayer breakfast held in Young's honor. Speaking before an audience of some 3,000 persons gathered in Cobo Hall, Keith urged Young to "lead a revolt of the people of this community for justice and against crime." A stern critic of the police, not only during his campaign for the city's highest office but also at his inaugural day prayer breakfast, Young nevertheless utilized the Detroit Police De: partment Band to play anthems and fanfares at his ceremonial oath-taking. Although Young took the official oath of office Friday, and according to the City Charter has been Detroit's chief executive since midnight New Year's Eve, his Wednesay evening swear; ing-in marked his public installation as mayor. YOUNG WAS administered the oath by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John B.

Swainson and by Keith. He swore to support the U.S. and state constitutions and to faithfully discharge the duties of the mayor's office. Detroit's new common council members, city clerk, and city treasurer were sworn in along with Young. Council president Carl Levin called for all the people to work together for Detroit and outgoing Mayor Gribbs called on the citizens to support in-coming Mayor Young.

Young said in his inaugural address that "I don't give a damn whether (criminals) wear super-fly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges hit the road!" The new mayor said that the city's police "must have the Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 5 Fre Press Photo by Chief Photographer TONY SPINA Councilwoman Erma Henderson leads Mayor his inaugural speech. At left are outgoing Mayor Young to a Ford Auditorium podium to deliver Gribbs and George Edwards, former city clerk. to stay and freeze like the rest of us? S.G., Farmington Fill feeder with grain, suet, berries and moth larvae. Don't give feathered friend bird seed it's tough on robin's digestive system.

According to MSU department of zoology, it's not that uncommon to find a few hearty robins that stick it out through winter months rather than wing their way south. Most of these are birds that live in Canada during summer and resort in Michigan during winter. Robin you saw can cope with Michigan temperatures but appreciates help gathering food. Robins seem to migrate without rhyme or reason. For example, species inhabiting Michigan this winter can also Gas Stations Boost Prices; 7-Cent Increase Hits State "Somebody got to pay for it, and it looks like it's aoinz to be be found along West Coast and all the way down to southern tip of Mexico.

the poor consumer." Action Line By the Associated Press Price increases ranging up to nine cents a gallon within a week were predicted Wednesday as gasoline stations in some areas of the country began a new round of price hikes. Standard Oil stations in Michigan will raise their pump prices 7.1 cents Thursday, of which 5.8 cents is the company's price boost, one cent is being allowed to dealers to raise their profit margin and three-tenths of accent is sales tax, said Charles. Shipley, executive director of the Michigan Service Station Dealers Association. Shipley said Shell raised its wholesale price one cent which would increase the pump price 2.1 cents, including the dealer's profit boost and sales tax. He also said the Sun Oil Co.

raised its price two cents which allows dealers to set pump prices three cents higher. THE WHOLESALE PRICE increases came as tankers began delivering January allocations to stations which ran dry before or during the holiday driving crush. Other stations, however, were closed and out of gas; some said their January alloca monthly "pass-through" increases to offset higher costs and a one time increase granted them last week by the government. In addition, some gasoline association officials said federal energy officials are expected to allow retail gasoline dealers hurt by decreased supplies to raise their prices again later this week. James W.

Heizer, executive secretary of the Virginia Gasoline Retailers Association, predicted prices would increase in his state from seven to nine cents a gallon in a week. Charles Binsted, president of the National Congress of Pe- Please turn to Page 2A, Col. 1 Young plans to retain many appointees from Gribbi administration. Page 3A. "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the mayor," sayt Diana Ross of inaugural concert.

Page 1C. More picture's on Page 3A and Back Page I'm turning to you after being frustrated by the Veterans' Administration for months. My VA checks for June and July and September through December haven't arrived. I owe Jackson Community College for my summer tuition and they've turned my account over to a collection agency. Every time I call the VA about the missing checks I get the runaround.

Can you straighten this mess out? R.D., Wyoming. You've got your money and a clean credit rating. Mixup with Jackson Community College capie when school comptroller no ticed you'd transferred to another school, thought you were skipping out without paying summer tuition and turned account over to a collection agency. School notified agency whole thing was a mistake and information was wiped from your record before any other credit bureau found out about unpaid bill. Money from VA for your new college tuition has already arrived.

Humble Skylab Crewman Gives Up Being 'Machine' Action Lino tions would not last the entire month. An Associated Press check showed increases ranging from a penny to a nickel a gallon were posted at gasoline pumps Wednesday in a number of states, including Illinois, Vermont, California, Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. And higher costs were expected to show up later this week at virtually every station in the country as dealers begin to post Nixon Gives OK To Law SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) Presdent Nixon, in another move to conserve fuel, signed legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing states impose a 55 mile-an-hour speed limit. States failing to comply within 60 days will face a cutoff of federal aid for highway construction.

Some states already have lowered their speed limit. "Estimates indicate that we can save nearly 200,000 barrels of fuel a day by observing a national limit of 55 miles per hour," Nixon said in a statement issued as he signed the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act. Before congress passes the legislation, Nixon proposed speed limits of 50 for automobiles and 55 for trucks. The president signed the bill despite widespread protests by independent truckers. AT THE SAME TIME, Nixon signed legislation providing for eventual consolidation of seven bankrupt railroads in the Northeast and Midwest under direction of a new government corporation operating with about $2 billion in federal grants and guar The physical therapy class I teach at Eagle Elementary School in West Bloomfield sets up a motivational program each year around a different theme.

For 1974 we're using the slogan of New York Met pitcher Tug McGraw, "You've got to believe." We're making a big sign with the slogan on it and would like a picture of Tug to go with it. I think it would be an inspiration to the students. H.M., West Bloomfield. Tug's picture will take its place next to his now famous slogan. New York Mets also-sent autographed photos to your class along with souvenir World Series program, team pictures and window stickers.

Mets spokesman said he hopes slogan helps inspire your students as much as it did the New York team that went from last place to a spot in the World Series. Tug, whose real name is Frank Edwin McGraw got his nickname from his parents because he tugged on tablecloths, lamps and things as a toddler. If 1 fit i IRS Opens Tax Probe Of Nixon WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it is reviewing President Nixon's income tax returns again to determine the legality of certain deductions he has taken during his White House tenure. Such an announcement concerning an individual's returns is unusual, but the IRS said it "has been authorized by the president's representatives to disclose that it is re-examining the president's tax returns." Nixon made public on Dec. 8 his tax returns for 1969-72, and asked Congress' Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation to investigate two controversial deductions which reduced his taxes for the period by about $300,000.

The IRS did not disclose the years to be covered in the new audit, and a spokesman would not discuss particulars. But the joint committee, (headed by Rep. Wilbur Mills, decided Dec. 12 to ex-Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 3 One of the two working controlling gyroscopes faltered again Wednesday and the trouble lasted nearly a full orbit of the earth.

Mission controllers said they did not think it was any worse than several other short-lived problems with the gyro and the device would last until the planned Feb. 8 splashdown. Carr discussed his emotional changes caused by the space flight and said it had made him more aware of the people around him. "People in our line of work, very technical type of work, are inclined to move along with your blinders on," Carr said. "I think 'that this mission is going to do me a lot of good in that it's going to increase my awareness my awareness of what else is going on besides what I'm doing." I Gibson, 37, the mission scientist, said the flight was very fulfilling because he was actual 1 doing the work trained for so long, and he was contributing 'to science.

HOUSTON -(UPI)- Skylab 3 astronaut William R. Pogue said Wednesday 'that his space flight has humbled him and made him realize he can no longer operate like a machine but must work as a human being "within the limitations I possess." Pogue, a 43-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel, said he was an embarrassment to fellow crewmen Gerald P. Carr and Edward G. Gibson at the beginning of the 84-day flight, because he thought he could work mechanically as he has done in the pas't. "I've tried to operate like a machine and I was a gross failure," Pogue said during a televised news conference from Skylab.

"Now I'm trying to operate as a human being within the limitations 1 possess." He said that his attitude toward life and his family is also going to change. THE CREWMEN expressed confidence 'that thojp; spaceship is in good shape and their flight, on its 48th day, will last THE QUESTION In the past 10 years the number of U.S. citizens moving to Canada has doubled to over yearly. Would you consider living in another country? ASTRONAUT Pogue (in October photo "Now I'm trying to operate as a human being the planned three months. Carr, 41-year-old Marine lieutenant colonel and mission commander, said: "I think that the problems we're having with them (spacecraft systems) are so few and far between they kind of give us a little feeling of confidence." anteed loans.

As he wound up the first week of his stay at San Clemente, Nixon also continued to review some of the II remaining bills which Congress passed before adjourning last month and which still await his signature to become law. Aides indicated that Nixon would sign them all, including measures to boost Social Security by 11 percent in two stages this year and to spend $73.7 billion for national defense plus $5.8 billion for foreign aid. New speed limits will keep you longer on the road. Page 3 A. Michigan is ready for lower speed limits.

Page 4A. HOW YOU VOTED YES, 62.3 percent. COMMENTS: "We have the laws but other countries have the order" "If you've been to Toronto, you know Detroit can't compare at all" "If Nixon doesn't, I will" "With the way things are, living in Russia would be better than here" "If I knew there'd be a job, I'd be gone in a minute." NO, 37.7 percent. COMMENTS: "Even with all our problems, America is still the greatest" "Only losers leave their country" "Never! I'm proud to be an American" "I'm not giving up my U.S. citizenship just to get away from Nixon" "Americans don't really know the value of their country." Mideast Talks in Key Stage TOMORROW'S QUESTION Ohio State won the Rose Bowl by defeating the University of Southern California 42-21.

Do you think the score justifies the Rig Ten's decision not to send the University of Michigan? From UPI and AP Egyptian and Israeli negotiators in Geneva Wednesday said they have reached "an important stage" in negotiations on separating their military forces along the Suez Canal front. No details were disclosed. The report of progress in the military talks which resumed Wednesday after a four-day recess came shortly after Israel and the United States announced that Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan would meet Friday in Washington with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The announcement said Dayan and Kissinger would discuss the Middle East crisis, with particular emphasis on the disengagement of the Egyptian and Israeli troops.

At the same time, Cairo dispatches said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi would visit Moscow in mid-January for talks on the Middle East, including the troop disengagement issue and Egyptian-Soviet relations. Previous efforts to work out an agreement on separating the Egyptian and Israeli forces ended in deadlock and the issue was given top priority at the Middle East peace conference in Geneva. The Arabs said there could be no real peace talks until a settlement was reached. "An important stage has been reached in the discussions with both sides continuing their exchange of views," a brief statement said after the Egyptian-Israeli military delegations met for nearly three hours. The next meeting will be Friday, the Please turn to Page 4A, Col.

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