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Today's Chuckle To Place Want Ad For Home Delivery City News Desk Iruurance Dept. All Other Call 222-6800 222-6500 222-6600 222-6470 222-6400 uife mm Bit, Sign outside a weight-reducing salon: "Come in and shoo the fat" THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Tuesday, November 27, 1973 Page 3. Section A DECORATORS SKIP LIGHTS Free Press Telephones I 1 ftfe Fuel Crisis gCJr ugs Christmas Unpl with a tuba, blowing bubbles to the accompaniment of Christmas carols, is turning off his lights. ACCORDING TO his housekeeper, the 86-year-old retiree "feels pretty bad about it, but he has to go along with it because of the energy crisis. The displays were mostly floodlights." Besides the giant Santa, some of Johnson's other exhibitions were Santa's rocket to the moon, a ski lodge, Christmas around the world, and a North Pole village with Eskimos, igloos and polar bears.

The displays always caused a traffic jam in the area, according to Grosse Point Park police. The Hamtramck Homeowners Association says it will discourage Christmas lighting, too, but the North Rosedale Park Civic Asso-cition is promising the ultimate turnabout. Members say they are considering presenting a prize to the "most unlighted" house in the neighborhood. something," she lamented. "You still wouldn't see it at night." MRS.

ROS1E SMITH, who also lives on the west side, will extinguish her gas lights, and decorate a tree in her backyard with colored balls, bows, tinsel and foil. "If it's a crunch on, it's just on," she says, philosophically. "I still have the Christmas spirit. Next week I'm going to start putting up my decorations so people can see that you can survive without lights." However, Detroiter Lois Sims admits that she is a bit depressed about having an un-lighted Christmas. "I'll just put up a season's greetings sign," she says.

"Last year I had a big Santa Claus and everything, but I don't feel up to par this year, hearing those commercials and everything." Christmas won't seem the same in Grosse Point Park, either, for neighbors of George P. Johnson. Johnson, whose displays over the years have included a 30-foot-high Santa BY BETTY DE RAMUS Free Press Staff Writer This time last year the 300 block of Melbourne on Detroit's east side was bathed in the hot glow of holiday lights, and houses joined by strings of bulbs seemed to be holding hands. But that block, complying with governmental requests to conserve energy, is bare-faced and plain now and is likely to stay that way. "I'm advising them to decorate as best they can without lights," says I.B.

Holly, block club president, "but now everybody's waiting for the last minute. "I can say yes, this (energy crisis) has dampened the Christmas spirit." AND WHAT HAS happened to the Melbourne block is typical of the Detroit area reaction to the fuel shortage. The downtown J.L. Hudson's traditional tree of lights is blacked out this year, and the Northland shopping center has only three tiny treos with twinkle lights in an enclosed court instead of the 2,500 strings of lights it had planned to put up. But it is in the neighborhoods where traditional rivalries, exist between blocks and houses which struggle to outshine each other that the energy crisis really hurts.

Detroit Edison's 12-year-old outdoor lighting contest, co-sponsored by the Michigan Chronicle, has been canceled this year, and people who participated in the past are sadly packing away their bulbs. "I'm not going to put up anything at all," said Mrs. Henry Calvert, a west side winner in last year's contest. "I have no Christmas tree, and if I can't use the things I have accumulated through the years, I'm not going to try to make Ski esorts Ji 7 Glum NotS UPI Photo Wayne Jaynes of Battle Creek has found an answer to the gasoline shortage and the heating crunch. His motorized rickshaw gets more than 160 miles per gallon, and his two-year-old son stays warm in his plastic cab.

Energy Crisis: Air Conditioners Blow a Fuse breathe. We turned pn the air conditionine then. We had to. Would you want us to die?" THE ELECTRICIAN said he was called to the second floor main office Monday after an electrical circuit with four air conditioning units hooked to it blew a fuse. "My thermostat is set to fiS degrees," Weber's secretary said.

"I'll tell you hnw crisis conscientious we are," she added emphatically. "Today Mr. Weber had most of the lights turned off in his office. It was so dim that when you took in reports for him to sign, you tripped oer chairs." "While we were up there nursemaiding the big boys, there was nobody on the station in the plant." Plant manager Charles J. Weber was unavailable for comment Monday afternoon, according to his secretary.

"Why, that just isn't true," she said when told of the 94-degree report. "We're all very, very crisis conscientious here." Two weeks ago, however, she said there was "one day when it was very, very hot, one day after Nixon made his first announcement on TV that we should turn thermostats down to fiR. "Well, it was so hot in here we couldn't BY JUDITH FRUTIG Free Press Staff Writer In some areas of the Dodge Main assembly plant in Hamtrack Monday, the thermostats had been obediently set back to a chilly 68 degrees. But in the second floor main office, where group executives and their secretaries work, thermostats registered a tropical 94 degrees and air conditioning was turned on, a plant electrician told the Free Press. "They had four units on one fuse and it blew," said the electrician, who preferred to remain anonymous.

"They were so upset they pulled me off my station to fix it. Mom Guilty of Gas Killing GM and the IUE come to terms on a new contract for 32,000 workers. Story on Page 10-B. UAW negotiations with Ford of Canada resume in Toronto, with strike by 14,000 workers in its fourth day. The 3,700 workers at Ford's Atlanta assembly plant return to work, ending 17-day strike over local issues.

UAW Local 653 in Pontiac announced ratification by nearly a 3-to-l vote of a new three-year seniority agreement covering 17,000 workers at General Motors' Pontiac Motors Division, Pontiac warehouse and GM Parts Division. Crisis BY MARCO TRBOVICH Free Press Staff Writer Despite the possibility that a prohibition on Sunday gasoline tales may create the worst ski season in Michigan history, resort owners refused Monday to acknowledge that their profit future was all downhill. Searching to brighten the dark prospects of a prolonged energy crisis, owners are extending weekend vacation packages through Mondays, promoting midweek ski jaunts, and encouraging vacationers to use mass transportation. "This possibly might be a boon to the resort business," said Everett Kirclier. prei-dent of tne Boyne Mountain resort.

Many skiers who have flown to Colorado in rt'eent years may be forced by cutbacks in airline schedules to return to Michigan slopes, he said. "The big cloud hanging over us is the potential blow to auto production and thus to the state economy," Kirchcr said. HE SAID THAT gas rationing "would have been disastrous," but that a one-day-awe ek moratorium on sales was not so bad as resort o.vn-e had anticipated before President Nixon's speech Sunday night. "1 have an underlying feeling that people take a vacation, no ma'ter what," said James Ganter, owner of Sugar Loaf Village near Traverse City. But Ganter conceded that any cutback in weekend business could be damaging, because weekend skiers account fcr 70 percent of the ski dollar at his resort.

Sugar Loaf and Boyne Mountain both arc in northern lower Michigan, which may not be hit so severely as Upper Peninsula resorts. SKIERS returning from northern Michigan resorts by Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 5 From Shoeshine To Flatfoot? FROM SHOESHINE gal to security officer is the route taken by Maureen Barrett who has been buffing 'em up at the Klip Joint in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. Maureen has been taken on as a security officer at Winkel-man's, a spot more fitting for her talents, since she's working on a degree in police administration at Wayne State University. New gal on the stand just outside the Klip Joint is Barbara Schlotter who was promoted from cocktail waitress.

She's already received some interesting tips: A packet of flower seeds, a handful of Jap-anese yen and a healthy flock of silver from a pair of middle-eastern gentlemen who couldn't speak English and vied for a way to outdo each other. Come Dec. 3 at the Raleigh House the Men of Michigan can really drown their sorrow over the great Rose Bowl rip-off as well as honoring the players who didn't make it to what would have been the biggest game of all for 30 seniors. The affair will be the 53rd annual Michigan Football Bust, always an emotional bit for the alumni, especially bittersweet this year, with the hall sure to be awash in tears and recriminations. The master of ceremonies will be Wallie Tenlnga, who is one of the youngest letter winners of football, getting his first of four when he was 17.

He was also a member of the 194R Rose Eovvl team that whipped U.S.C. 49-0. Commenting on the evergrowing tendency to hold speakers at various affairs to a matter of minutes, former State Senator Roger Craig says: "Hell, it takes me that long to clear my throat." Retired Maj. Gen. Richard I superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, due in Our Town Thursday to address Michigan alumni at a dinner meeting in the University Club at 6 p.m.

Roger Stanton's first Christmas football card arrived few days ago from the University of Hawaii. He figures the folks out there really took seriously the postal department's advice to mail early Sign of Our Times on a gas station: Fill up here ad be thankful Hugh Allen says there's a fellow down the block who declares his family is in balance again. His wife had her face lifted, and his fell when he saw the bill Jack Brokensha to be featured Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Lamphere High School in Madison Heights in a Jazz Brilliance concert benefitting the Gateway Crisis Center. It's a non-profit agency providing rap lines, drug and alcohol counseling, legal aid, referral service and awareness groups for the community at large.

Thought for the Day Best thing to do with party leftovers is never invite them again. The Passing Parade Some practical jokes are funnier than others, but most aren't really very practical. Take the young couple that stopped in a gas station a while back. As the attendant filled the tank he noticed a miniscule scrawl on the rear license plate: "I'm being kidnapped." While later after the attendant excitedly phoned the information to police the car was stopped at a roadblock. The newly-married couple inside was mad and embarrassed, and the groom promised to knock somebody's head off right after the honeymoon.

When Senator Howard Baker was a freshman in the Senate, New Hampshire's crusty Norris Cotton asked: "Can you smell the sweet scent of white marble?" Baker said he couldn't, and Cotton told him: "When you're here long enough you will, and you'll like it. From that moment on, you won't be worth a damn." i 1 tL The mother ''herself was an abused and neglected child Perhaps therein lies the Some Tips For Stale's Stymied Motorists BY BILLY BOWLES Free Press Start Writer Here are answers to some of the questions motorists are asking in light of fuel shortages and the Sunday ban on gasoline sales announced by President Nixon: What happens to the motorist who runs out of gasoline on the highway on weekends during the hours that gasoline sales are forbidden? A He can still get help to reach overnight lodging other safe haven for his automobile, but he will not be able to fill the tank on his automobile until stations open again. State Police cars have special pumpers, and patrolmen will continue to give the stranded motorist enough gasoline to get to a station or motel. The Automobile Club of Michigan (AAA) likewise will provide enough gasoline to get the car to a station or motel but cannot fill the tank. What happens if the car breaks down and service stations that normally prov ide garage services are closed? A Again, AAA will provide its usual service to subscribers, which is to tow the car to the nearest garage within five miles.

But if none is open, the motorist will have to stay in a motel or pay extra for a tow to a more distant garage that is open to do the repairs. Is it legal to carry extra gasoline in the cart and if so, Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 2 Free Press Photos by JOHN COLLIER lire Child's orrhage. Doctors also said that Andrea's body bore 30 to 40 bruises as well as scars which seemed to have been made with a hot iron. "No condition or acts of any 2'2-year-old child would justify the assaults perpetrated on Andrea Barnwell," 1-ombo said.

"Although there was much that was circumstantial, the web of evidence indicated that this child was in fact assaulted and beaten and tortured." Colombo also noted that the mother "herself was an abused and neglected child in her youth. Perhaps there lies the explanation of her problem." Miss Barnwell testified in court that her mother had Torture beaten her with high-heeled shoes and other objects. ANDREA, WHO was born in Connecticut, had lived with foster parents there from the time of her birth until May 25 when her natural mother, Miss Barnwell, gained custody. Emmet Tracy Miss Barnwell's attorney, said he would appeal the guilty verdict and was confident that it would be overturned. Tracy argued that there was no positive evidence that the mother actually caused the child's death.

Tracy also argued that the prosecution, headed by Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Ronald Schigur, did not prove voluntary manslaughter. Judge Colombo allowed the prosecution to submit an amended charge at the end of testimony, changing one charge from manslaughter which had elements of both voluntary and involuntary action, to a more direct involuntary manslaughter charge. been a co-defendant on the child cruelty charge. Walker, the father of Miss Barnwell's five-month-old son, who is still living with the mother, was not charged in the death. A hearing will be held Thursday in Juvenile Court to begin determining the future of the baby boy, ANDREA DIED Ai.g.

12 in Children's Hospital after unsuccessful emergency surgnry to stop a hemorrhage on the brain. She previously had been hospitalized at Children from mid-July through Aug. 7, allegedly suffering from effects of a fall. Medical witnesses at the trial said the child died from a combination of physical injuries which damaged her brain and contributed to the hem BY SUSAN WATSON Free Press Staff Writer A Detroit Recorder's Court judge found Cynthia Barnwell guilty Monday of child cruelty and involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 2'2-year-old daughter, Andrea. Judge Robert Colombo said that testimony during the four-day trial indicated that the child's death resulted from repeated beatings, torture, and burning with an iron by the mother.

Colombo, who heard the case without a jury at the mother's request, said the only satisfactory explanation for the death was that "it was Andrea's mother who inflicted these injuries." The 20-year-old mother was ordered to undergo extensive psychiatric examination e-fore her sentencing on Dec. 20. Colombo allowed her to remain free on bond pending the sentencing. Involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and child cruelty carries a maximum of four years. Colombo also said that Frontis Walker, the mother's boyfriend, who admitted In court that he beat Andrea 25 times with a belt several days before her death, should have Free Press Editions Cut By a Dispute The Detroit Free Press lost about 15 percent of its normal press run early Monday when 80 pressmen walked off their jobs to protest the suspension of a fellow worker.

Lee Guittar, Free Press business manager, said members of the Detroit Newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union No. 13 returned to work three hours later after agreeing to file a grievance with the company regarding the employe's suspension. Guittar said the man had been suspended Saturday night for repeated unauthorized absenteeism. The walkout began around midnight Sunday. Guittar said the work stoppage delayed newspaper delivery by about three hours and forced the newspaper to cut about 100,000 papers from its normal run of approximately 600,000 on Monday morning.

Cafe ir 'tH 'Imu' A Fortune for a Nod BY BILL MICHELMORE Free Press Staff Writer An antique dealer from New York City, sitting quietly in the back of the room in his Pierre Cardin suit, nodded his head ever so slightly at a precise moment in the bidding. That subtle gesture cost him $1,050. What he got was a George IV English silver tea tray, floral engraved with armorials and gadrnon borders. He didn't want his name used. That was a secret between him and H.

O. McNierney, Stalker Boos appraisers, antiquarians and a Is she interested? Buyer Barbara Lanni (left) gives a cool glance to auctioneer Frank Boos' heated pitching. THERE IS A lot of secrecy and sub-! tie hand and head movement at a ritzy auction like the one held Monday at the Troy Hilton. "Sometimes you have to be careful not to scratch your nose," said James M. Babcock, director of books and manuscripts.

Dealers and collectors eschew blatant hand waving in favor of subtle signs so that their competitors don't notice their bid, he explained. They may bid on a $5,000 painting by slyly" Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 1.