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Free Press Telephones Toilav's Chuckle To Place Want Ads For Home Delivery City News Desk Insurance Dept. All Other Calls 222-6800 222-6500 222-66O0 222-6470 222-6400 rather, watching his daughter select the must expensive wedding gitwn in the store: "I don't mind giving you away, but must I gift-wrap you?" WSM. fit" THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Friday, January 25, 1974 Page 3, Section A 50,000 ARE IN MICHIGAN 1 A i 1 r. I 14 GM ie 7 at 5,000 MAX SUA YE gave an illustrated art lecture, "Every-thing You Wanted to Know About Art but Were Afraid to Ask." to the students at llillel Day School. Afterwards, received from one David Annls a letter outlining an interesting BY TOM Ki LM fret Press Automotive Writer General Motors Corp.

announced Thursday that about 75,000 hourly workers including almost 50,000 in Michigan will be laid off at 14 of its 22 car assembly plants for varying periods between next week and the end of March. The Michigan employes are at the "hometown" assembly and Fisher Body plants of Cadillac in Detroit, Pontiac in Pontiac, Buick in Flint and Oldsmobile in Lansing, all of whom will be idle for one or two of the next three weeks. It was the third major layoff announcement from GM in as many months resulting from gasoline-conscious buyers who have virtually turned their backs on the 6tandard-sized models and many intermediate-sized autos. GM CHAIRMAN Richard C. Gerstenberg said that production for the 1974 model year through March could be off by as much as 16 percent from the record 4.2 million cars and trucks produced in the comparable period of a year ago.

The 10 out-of-state assembly plants that will be affected include Fairfax, Fremont and South Gate, Janesvilp, ft Lukewnud, I utden. St. Louis, 'larrytown. N.Y., and Wilmington, Del. All of these plants produce either standard or intermediate-sized cars.

THE ONLY PLANTS immune to layoffs between now and the end of March are those producing Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick compacts, the Chevrolet subcompact, sporty compact and Corvette and the Pontiac sporty compact. Truck plant assembly line workers will also continue normal operations. There were no further indefinite layoffs announced, but a spokesman did not rule out the possibility that there will be some in the corporation's supplier plants before the end of March. Gerstenberg said that these plants will adjust their operations in line with assembly plant requirements. The company was unable to estimate the extent of the layoffs among employes in its supplier plants, IN LARLIER layoffs, GM has idled approximately SS.UOO hourly workers at.

various assembly plants for indefinite periods. With the exception of the next three weeks, the downtime through the end of March has not been definitely scneduied. Through the week beginning Feb. 11, Michigan plants affected are: Week beginning Jan. 28: Pontiac, 11.200; week beginning Feb.

4: Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, 12,500. Week beginning Feb. 11: Olds, 13,000, and Buick, 11,800. Gerstenberg said that uncertainty concerning the availability of gasoline continues to have an adverse effect on the automobile business. Seeking to improve the image of the standard-size car in relation to fuel economy, be eaid that acceptable fuel economy can be achieved with big cars.

"We have had repeated demonstrations that, driven and maintained properly, full-size cars can provide good gasoline mileage as well as the space, safety and convenience the typical American family requires," he said. In Michigan and other states with similar legislation, eligible employes on a full week of layoff receive up to 95 percent of their regular take-home pay, less $7.50 lor work-related expenses not incurred during periods of idleness. A. rMyr fit V-A 't UPI Phott A Ijr-m VA Racket Slips, Nips TAp Usually straight talking Michigan Lt. Gov.

James Brickley was speaking out of the side of his mouth Thursday after bashing himself with his tennis racket when he missed a ball during a doubles match Wednesday night at the Bloomfield Hills Hunt Club. The one-inch cut on his upper lip required about 25 stitches at Royal Oak's William Beaumont Hospital, where a receptionist remembered him vaguely. "Brickley, Brickley," she said, "aren't you a councilman?" Brickley did serve as a Detroit councilman from 1961-65. Brickley said Thursday: "It feels like I've got a tennis ball in my mouth." method for acrylic painting. Shaye phoned him and talked with him for some time.

David indicated he'd en-Joyed the lecture and expressed some valid comments about Shaye's paintings. Shaye asked him how long he'd been interested in art. "Ever since I was four," said David. When Shaye Inquired how old he Is now, David responded: "Eight." Indicating that even the critics are getting younger these days. Shaye wrote him: "Thank you for sharing your secret with me.

That's the nice thing about painting. You're always making new discoveries and learning new tilings. 1 also appreciate your comments about the hanging of my paintings at Hillel. "Keep up the good work. I wish I had started painting when I was four." Automotive people chuckling over a current full page ad in Newsweek for the 1974 Thun-derbird featuring a lovely blond model who bears a remarkable resemblance Dollie Cole, wife of General Motors President Ed Cole.

By accident or design? Harold Arnow of Ann Arbor says a certain street intersection there is attracting attention. One street is named Nixon and the other, Blewett Energy crisis much on peoples minds these days. Such as Nick Ker-bawy spotting Coleman Young's Lounge and Barbecue on Livernois with all outside lights blazing at 10:55 a.m. the other morning, about the same time the street lights were on along Kercheval i Grosse Pointe Park. And Ron Gamble was in a legislator's office in Lansing where the temperature was so high the legislator said: "To hell with it," and turned on the air conditioner since he had no control over the heat Whole flock of people from Our Town are gathered at the Palm Bay Club in Miami to watch the Charlton Heston 1974 Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic running through Sunday.

Alan King is MC, and a few of the participating names you'll recognize are Burt Bacharach, Ricardo Montalban, Clint Eastwood, Pancho Gonzales, James Franciscus, George Peppard, James Garner, Pancho e-gura, Merv Griffin, Lloyd Bridges, Dinah Shore, Robert Stack, Bobby Riggs and Dan Rowan. How come no Billie Jean King? The Passing Parade Man About Town I know is disturbed by the number of neonle who go into a restaur Oakland Buildings Marred By Flaws BY MARYANNE CONHE1M Free Press Stell Writer First, it was the gleaming marble facade slipping and sliding down the front of the practically new Oakland County courthouse. Then, the sidewalks around the county complex began to heave and buckle. Next, it took $1.4 million to make the newly acquired Social Services Building, which only cost the county $200,000, habitable. BUT MAYBE the last straw was when employes who work in the newly completed foot addition to the county health building complained that they didn't have a single toilet facility or drinking fountain.

"I want to know what's wrong over there. I'm not charging anybody with anything, but I'm certain something's wrong," Oakland County Commissioner LewL. Coy of Wlxom declared Thursday. Coy asked tfie Oakland Board of Commissioners to authorize a $20,000 outside management study of its own Divi Earl in Jam With Police BY JANE BRIGGS Fret Press Stall Writer Lord Snowdon's fascination with Detroit street crime as photo fodder got him into a spate of trouble with plice late Wednesday, it was revealed Thursday. Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snow-don and husband of Princess Margaret of Great Britain, is in Detroit to do the pictures for a London Sunday Times article about the city, to be written by Times staffer Stephens Aris, who's also here.

LATE WEDNESDAY the earl was tooling about in the center city when he saw two officers making an arrest. As he had done earlier in the day in a similar situation on W. Congress, Lord Snowdon began taking pictures. Patrolmen George Aubrey and Hozie Reese from the irst Precinct were arresting a man suspected of vending goods in the loop area without a permit. The officers didn't like being photographed and asked the Please turn to Page 9A, Col.

1 31 "MM i 'M Free Press Photo JOHN COLLIER A Different Kind of Teacher sion of Facilities and Operations. The board referred Coy's Ishangi Razak has some negative things to say about Tarzan's Africa, and he does it with a powerful show of acrobatics and tlance. The performer and his family took their message to a Detroit elementary school Thursday. Story and more pic-lures on the Back Page. Please turn to Page I0A, Col.

Rights Unit Blasts Developer Liltle Credit Given DST in Power Cu ts FP Ad Locates Barber First Day "I always use the Free Press because it brings me the results needed," said Norman Macika, Detroit. He placed an exclusive fast-ACTION Help Wanted Ad requesting the services of a barber-stylist and got the help he needed. He found his new employe the first day his ad appeared. To reach the responsive readers in the Free Press audience, contact an Ad Taker today. Call 222-6800 ant, are served lousy food, and are reluctant to complain about it.

"I'm not talking about the showoffs who feel they must make a scene to attract attention to themselves. I'm referring to ordinary people who maybe don't go out too often, and who are genuinely afraid they'll offend somebody if they call attention to overcooked, undercooked or just plain bad food. "It's my experience that if the owner or manager is on his toes at all, he wants to know about such things. He's mart enough to realize he could be losing a potential long-time customer, and he certainly wants to be sure that others don't get the same kind of treatment. "So, speak up.

You need to be heard if you have a legitimate beef." BY BILL MIOII.LMORL Free Prs Staff Writer Joe Trever, the Sterling Heights developer who sparked a public uproar with his "threat" to build a biracial village in the virtually all-white suburban city if he doesn't get the zoning for a shopping plaza, has been charged by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights with unfair housing practices. "Such blatant racism demands drastic action" civil rights director James Blair said in Lansing Thursday. "It is an affront to every fair-minded person, regardless of race. "The use of minority families as a threat to realize personal financial gain," Blain said, "not only is illegal, it is outrageous." THE COMPLAINT against Trever alleges he engaged in unlawful housing practices by inciting racism to put through his development plans, a violation of S. 203 of the state's Fair Housing Act, according to Blair.

The complaint will be investigated further by investigator John Obee of the Detroit civil rights office and a public hearing is expected to be held in a few weeks. BY DAVID ANDERSON Free Press SlaH Writer While Michigan's major power companies 't yet know exactly how much fuel is being saved by year round Daylight Saving Time, they suspect it's minimal. As the clocks were being set ahead one hour on Jan. 6, Detroit Edison engineers esti-mated a future savings of one-tenth of one percent or about 2-million gallons of fuel oil and 9,000 tons of coal a greater drop than that in electrical usage, utility spokesman suspect that most of the savings has come about through plant closings and production cutbacks, a change of the clock. For the week ending Jan.

12, Edison generated 4.9 percent less electricity than it did for the same period in 1973. For the week ending Jan. 19, the savings was 3.4 percent. IN ADDITION TO the current downturn in the local au- If the civil rights charge is substantiated, Trever could be fined $2,000 and lose his builder's and developer's licenses. Trever, 55, responded to the charge by disclaiming all guilt.

Trever said he has been fighting the Sterling Heights vcouncil several years to get his 25-acre parcel at the corner of Eighteen Mile Rd. and Utica Road in central Macomb County rezoned for commercial use to allow development of a SI3 million shopping plaza. The property is zoned residential. City officials said Trever's property is worth $200,000 under its current zoning but would be worth close to $1 million if it were rezoned TREVER, FACING a losing battle with city hall, erected a large sign advertising his counter-plan to build a 100-family biracial village on the site. Each time he has put up the sign on his unoccupied acreage it has been vandalized.

The last time, a week ago, it was firebombed. Every time the sign appears Sterling Heights City Hall is flooded with calls by residents in surrounding subdivisions who are bitterly opposed to the biracial village, according to city spokesmen. Blair said Trever's plan was aimed at forcing the rezoning by threatening the city with "changing the racial composition of the area and lowering property values." year. Their meters show a much Please turn to Page 5A, Col. I COliUS SWAMPED Marriage Gag Backfires To Insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error which may occur in our news columns.

Art Institute Open Later on Tuesdays The Detroit Institute of Arts will extend museum hours to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays only, beginning Jan. 29 through Feb. 26 so visitors may see the new Caravaggio acquisition and the special Egyptian exhibition. Dr.

Frederick J. Cummings, institute director, said Thursday the Founders Society has approved extra money to pay overtime for security guards so that three baroque galleries in the Main Building and the special exhibition Akhenaton and Nefertiti" in the South Wing may be kept open. The museum's Krcsge Cafe will also operate on Tuesday evenings until 8 p.m. Normally the Institute is open six days weekly, except Monday, from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

The Caravaggio painting, "The Conversion of the Magdalene," is a recent $1,100,000 gift from the Kresge 'Foundation and Mrs. Edscl B. Ford. The Eg exhibition will stay hr five mre wjeks. BY JIM SCHUTZE Free Press Stiff Writer Four coeds, who say now they were only joking when they advertised for husbands in the Central Michigan University student paper, found out fast there are still some men on campus who take matrimony and promises thereof very, very seriously.

"A couple of them got really mad at us when we said it wasn't serious," said Laura Rupert, 20, of Lake Orion. "They acted like we were turning them down. "I guess we hurt their male egos or something." Miss Rupert said one caller, a foreign student, simply didn't understand her efforts to explain that the ad in Wednesday's paper had been a joke. "I tried to tell him that it wasn't real, but he just asked me if I believe in miracles." EARLIER, THE four women who placed the ad Miss Rupert, Pam Whitlock, Peggy Taylor, and Kathy Hauxwell, all seniors from Lake Orion had sounded more serious about their search. That was before they found out how many men wanted to be found.

"We came to college to find a husband, and we have only IS weeks left to hook one," Miss Rupert had said shortly after the ad appeared. "We are setting up appointments and we are going to question all the applicants and then go on from there." But by Thursday afternoon, after closing the appointment list at 50, Miss Rupert sounded nervous. "We're really getting tired. I mean we hang up one call, and the phone rings again right away. "I guess everybody is looking for someone," she said soberly, "someone compatible, someone to spend a life with." Luckily, in an experience that could easily have turned gloomy and bleak, there was at least a ray of light.

"We did set up two appointments for this afternoon," Miss Ruprt said. "If they show up and really want to keep the appointments, we'll oblige them. "Who knows?" she asked with a laugh. "It could be we could find a husband out of all this." The snow depths listing in Thursday's Free Press, as reported by the U.S. Weather Service, incorrectly stated Houghton Lake has no snow on the ground.

Actually, there re six inches of snow at Houghton Lake, the Weather Service said Thursday. In early editions of Thursday's Free Press a story about the harassment of a Sterling Heights builder, Tracy A. Miller, reported that his $3-million-a-year firm builds custom homes priced from $8,000 up. The figure should have read $80,000..