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Crime Rates as Top School Problem Dflroil ifrcc rcss The Feature Page h-J SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1974 15-A I JUST HOPE THIS community wakes up soon to the emotional time bomb ticking in our public schools. Quit worrying about crime in the streets and worry about the crime in the schools, the protection racket, the extortion, the cruel beating of 'students by other students, and the 15-year- old pimps dealing their 13-year-old prosti-l tutes. Dope? Sure, but the school scene is getting meaner by the moment. Will it take some major murders right during a class to open up our leaders' eyes? Just talk to any Detroit schoolteacher. Any of them.

You'll find I'm not exaggerating the seriousness of this problem. And in such an environment, do you think anyone can learn or teach? RATHER THAN impeach Richard Nixon, i why not just exorcise him? NEWSPAPERS AND magazines have editorialized about impeachment and resig-'t nation of the president, but I've yet to hear the first television station do so. That ought to tell you something about too much gov-' ernment influence on our lives. I'M SURE I'LL hear from the Nixon de- fenders, whom I've found have only two lines. One, he didn't do it.

Two, what if he did? REXANNE FRANCIS, a kindergarten teacher in Hopkins, came across a picture of Nixon and Vice-President Gerald Ford in the "Weekly Reader." She few short years, Grandelius practically single-handedly doubled the business of Sargent Industries. I think his administrative and organizational abilities are unsurpassed in this community. Ask anyone connected wi'th the Gordie Howe Invitational Golf event at Plum Hollow how Grandelius can run things. I realize a golf tourney and a pro football franchise are different ball games, but the style and finesse Grandelius brings to any thing he does is thoroughbred and thorough. The Wheels' hiring Grandelius was a great big plus for Detroit.

Speaking of good jobs, I understand Attorney John (The Bear) Noonan really did a job for Grandelius on his contract. And artist Sid Sachs did a big league job in designing the Wheels' emblem. THAT NEW type of Asiatic virus that seems to be paralyzing lots of people could well be called "Kung Flu." AND SPEAKING of names, my son Jason came up with a good nickname for the Detroit Renaissance river-front development. Looking over the model in Cobo Hall's lobby, Jason asked what it was. I told him and then he called it the "Riversance." Isn't that neat? ALLAN COHEN is a big smiler anyway.

But you should see him now. Cohen runs The Stock Exchange Lounge, 27554 West Warren, just west of Inkster Road in West-land. The new group he has playing there, Circle, is an eight-piece (four horns) group that's packing 'em in. This big rock band is the loudest, most driving group I've heard outside of Deep Purple, and the Guinness Book of Records calls Deep Purple the loudest in the world. Circle's manager, Bob Harris, has the group featured on a pilot TV project for Channel 9.

You can catch their act on the tube late Wednesday night, Feb. 13. Another thing that's put a smile on Cohen's face is 'the Monday night business Circle has generated. Mondays at the Stock Exchange have become sort of a try-out night for local talent who have gotten the word that many of the area's bar and lounge owners are dropping by to catch the new acts. There should be more of this type of thing going on.

Maybe some east side bar will pick up the cue and do the same for that area. NEXT TUESDAY night at the Kramer Theater, on Michigan east of Livernois, the Detroit Latinos will gather for a special musical concert which will be recorded live, producer Ben Mercado tells me. "The country's 'two finest Latin bands will be playing," he says. "Johnny Torres is the No. 1 Latin band in the Midwest and Tony Torres, no relation, is the top Latin band on the West Coast.

It should make a dynamite album, and there are 20 million Latinos in this country quite a market, wouldn't you. say?" Si, senor, si. pPg li I ii ill iimu in i.i..a.Mn.M..i then started a discussion with her class of what a vice-president does. You're gonna love their replies: "He can be boss if Nixon says he can He can spend a lot of money and not have 'to pay He can answer the phone and clean off the president's He can go to a meeting if the president wants to take a If Nixon gets a headache he can bring him cold wash rags for his head." And wouldn't it be a treat for those kids if Ford actually wrote them a note as to what he really does? And while he's at it, send me a carbon so I can find out, too. JUST WHEN I thought our fledgling foot-bailers were spinning their Wheels, the new World Football League club did a big league thing hiring Sonny Grandelius as general manager.

That's class and should let the public know the Wheels mean business. In a Books-Who Needs 'Em? These Dolls Inquire A READER has sent me a clipping from the Miami Herald, which runs a column called "Life Begins at 40," by two men who shall be mercifully nameless. The headline reads: "Don't By Jack O'Brian Ann Landers Gleason Daughter Laments Down With Ex-Wife's Picture! Feel Guilty If Books Bore You," and the snapper went like this: "The original purpose of reading books was to inform, give one a broader understanding of life, and to impart intellectual pleasure. In the old days there was scarcely any other way to achieve these ends. But today one derives all this and more from modern communications-media." Can you believe it, friends? In the "old days" people had to wade their way through such tedious and time-consuming tracts as Shakespeare, Swift, Donne, Milton, Cervantes, Balzac, Keats, Moliere, Goethe, Heine, Pope, Byron, Montaigne, Dante, and that whole bunch, because they didn't have radios, movies, magazines, and television.

NOW, OF COURSE, the modern reader "can derive all this and more" from modern communications media. Have you looked at what's going on at the downtown movies lately? Have you tried turning the dial on the television set any given afternoon or evening? Have you searched for a radio station that emits the slightest civilized sound? Have you flipped through a popular magazine seeking a Proustian paragraph? It's hard to believe these clowns are really serious, but I'm afraid they are. And their level of taste and judgment is exactly that of the "modern communications media" they applaud. As Joubert so presciently observed (in book) nearly 200 years ago: "To the mediocre, mediocrity is excellence." Don't feel guilty if books bore you? Feel guilty as hell. Yout can't get anywhere else what you get in a book depth, scope reflection, leisurely communion or communication, the stored-up intellectual wealth of centuries, a dialog of great minds echoing down the corridors of history, and the infinite expanse of one's own imagination working out material provided by Their advice would be shocking enough even if the moderrj media of communication were what they ought to be if they supplied us wth mental and spiritual and emotional nourishment, instead of the cheap commercial pap that is their stock-in-trade.

But, given the meretricious and mind-deadening dope that is 90 percent of the popular "entertainment" today, where can one retreat but to books in order to keep in touch with taste, style, values, and goals that, have animated civilization from Pericles down to Picasso. If indeed "Life Begins at 40," its proper habitat is more the library than the TV room. I -NEW YORK Jason Milter, who won all the critical and ayvard marbles with his fine play "That Championship Season," and his wife, Jackie Gleason's 32-year-old daughter, split. She doesn't want and can't understand" it. She stuck by through 10 very lean years while she worked; spent months furnishing their new New Jersey home while he was 'wood-filming (The Exorcist they have three children (10, 7 and 6) It parallel her parents' splits: Genevieve Gleason, the ex-Mrs.

Jackie, reminded us she'd stuck by the Fat One in his many lean seasons and "Jackie always left me whenever he was successful." "Status: Basketball hot-shot Cazzie Russell bought a mink golf bag with club-socks to match. Cost $2,000. 4" Martin and Cyd Charisse exited their Puerto Rico engagement three weeks early. Bad business there Famed Vocal coach CarloMenotti's latest discovery certainly nominally sounds rich: Tiffany Cartier's her no doubt real name. oil heiress Becky Jones gave Vic Damone an energy crisis: broke off the engage-' Dear Ann Landers: My brother and his wife were divorced recently.

-When we redecorated our home (seven years ago) we planned the living room around a beautiful photographic portrait of his bride and hung it up on the most important wall. It is a very large picture and we bought a fantastically expensive frame for it. My brother will undoubtedly marry again. When he does we will, of course, take down the portrait of his former wife. But what should we do about it in the meantime? If we take the picture down we will have to redecorate again.

There's a hole behind it the size of a grapefruit. BAFFLED IN BALLARD. Dear Baff: Your ex-sister-in-law's bridal picture has got to go. NOW. Have aijother photographic portrait made of your husband or your children.

Or buy a replica of a painting by one of the old masters and place it in that frame. Dear Ann lenders: We ran all use little bits and pieces of philosophy to get us through a bad day. A few years ago I clipped something out of the paper and carried it with me to read when I got to feeling blue. I don't know where it came from and it is so badly worn I can just barely read it. Will you print it in your column so I will have a fresh copy? I'll bet many others will profit from it as well.

On this day Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss a suspicion and replace it faith. Encourage someone who has lost faith. Keep a promise.

Forget an old grudge. Examine your demands on others and vow to reduce them. Fight for a principle. Express your gratitude. Overcome an old fear.

Take two minutes to appreciate the beauty of nature. Tell someone you love him. Tell him again. And again. And again.

A READER in Scottsbluff, Neb. Dear Reader: Here it is. Again. You clipped it from my column and I am delighted you asked for a rerun. Dear Ann Landers: I'm writing about my 4fi-year-old mother who looks 35 and acs like 17.

Dad died wo years ago of liver trouble (booze) and she put up with plenty. Now she is making up for lost time. At present she has a 30-year-old unemployed poet living with her. Our children, 6 and 8, adore "Gram." My husband says I can't take the girls to her home because of the immoral set-up." Last night he announced she isn't welcome here, even if she comes alone. Is he justified? TORN UP.

Dear It's awfully hard to raise a 4fi-year-old mother, so tell your husband to keep the lachstring out and his opinions to himself. It's perfectly O.K. for a widow to have friends, even unemployed poets." Drugs? How much is too much? Is pot O.K.? Is L.S.D. too much? If you're on dope or considering it, get Ann Landers's new booklet, "Straight Dope on Drugs." For each booklet or-dered, send a dollar bill plus a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope (lfic postage) to Ann Landers, Box 828, Detroit 48231. Damone lost 25 pounds at the prospect of losing all that, ah, love Rocky Graziano's done more than 5,000 commercials; besides, he's just back from a private-jet national tour of ghetto-kids for Olin-Matheson; the Rock sure speaks the lan-g a Gloria Steinem doesn't do much pub-crawling applauded Tad Bruce's piano playing at Alfie's which is owned by a woman.

Dallas merchandising genius Stanley Marcus added a metric coversion table to all his Mike Royko iv Dr. Steincrohn 't Jason Miller's Marriage Follows Sad Pattern Hustle and Bustle Add to Tension Speak Owf5 Voters, and See What Results You Get CHICAGO During their recent hreak, most congressmen went home and asked their local voters what they want done about President Nixon. It's important for congressmen to know how their constituents feel about any big issue. That way they can vote according to their constituents' hatreds, suspicions or prejudices, rather than rely on their own consciences. Acting on the basis of conscience can be dangerous for any congressman or any politician because it can bring about the worst possible tragedy: not being re-elected.

And when that happens, what good is a conscience anyway? So the congressmen were eager to know whether they should return to Washington to grasp the president's hand or his throat. SURPRISINGLY, many congressmen said they couldn't get a clear idea about public sentiment on impeachment. So now they are fretting that they might accidentally do 'the right thing morally, but the wrong thing politically, which is far worse than the reverse. "I'm surprised they can't gauge public opinion because I've talked to few people who don't feel strongly one way or another. Right now, you can walk into any bar and announce: I think Nixon ought to be thrown out of office," and somebody will hit you.

You $an also walk into any bar and announce: "I think Nixon ought to stay in office," and somebody else will hit you. So all you have to do is try it often enough and figure out how many punches you get from each side, A SAFER METHOD is to go in a bar and ask: "How does everyone here feel about President Nixon?" That way, they will soon be punching each other. By counting the fists on each side, and dividing by two, a reliable survey has been made. In some cases, though, it may not matter how voters feel. At least that is what Edward Garrity, an attorney in Sycamore, 111., believes.

Mr. Garrity recently wrote to his congressman, Rep. Leslie Arends, the Republican minority whip. Garrity felt tha't it is his duty as a citizen to let Arends know how he feels. In his letter order blanks, convinced we'll inch up to meters any legislation Bob Alda, who quit N.Y.

for Italy twice is back to dunk back into the showbiz swim he'll star starting March 25 in Fort Lauderdale in "Come Blow Your Horn," Neil Simon's first Bdwy hit; might even give top billing to his "M-A-S-H" TV star son Alan; whose brother Anthony also wijl tag along in the kid-brother role. 'Burt Reynolds gave Dinah Shore a snazzy $19,000 Maserati arid to Watergate with the oil crisis Sinatra gave Barbara Mdrx a simple white Jaguar Charles Aznavour's two '74 projects: a two-star special with Liza Minnelli A to and a splashy new Paris restaurant Now that "Calucci's Department" has been cancelled, its calorie-inflated star James Coco's wanted again for the Fatty Arbuckle biofilm. Married disc stars (novelty?) James Taylor and Carly Simon named their first born Sarah Maria While sneezing at 3 a.m., we happened to read that Enrico Caruso's cold-cure was a belt of cognac. So we drank to that President Nixon ordered Secret Service guards away from his Exec Office Bldg. steps to fool the media from knowing he's there Calif.

Sen. John Turjney, was noticed in "21, like musical comic Robert Morse; with the sense of humor extracted. And a Kennedy haircut; and Down East twang added. Imitation is the flattest form of, sincerity, Senator. Dempsey refereed a Kung Fu match at Irene Kuo's Chinese New Year's bash: NYU grad Bob Pai and lovely Linda Man pretended they were Kung Fused and fighting Ten-year-old Princess Astrid of Luxembourg is finishing her three-year course to be a nurse at the Clinique de Sacre Coeur; reminds us of $100 million heiress Dina Merrill, whose late mbther sent Dina off to business school in her late teens to learn typing and shorthand: "You may live to see the day when rripney means nothing, and you'll have a trade," said Mama dear, who didn't anticipate then that Dina would become one of the.

most beautiful acting talents nor that she'd have the business kupf to head and front a thriving cosmetics conglomerate. Italy's population-analyst Adriano Traverso promises the Italian ban on driving and earlier restaurant-nightclub closings will result in a late-1974 Baby Boom. BY PETER J. STEINCROHN, M.D. Dear Dr.

Steincrohn: My trouble is that I am always tense. I simply do not know how' to relax. I have tried smoking a pipe, but that does not help. Neither does taking a drink a few times a day. So now I am a nonsmoker and rondrinker.

I hate the idea of taking tranquilizers. So what's the answer? Mr. J. COMMENT: If I could follow you around for 24-48 hours I might find a few clues that would help me solve your problem. Thousands of men and women suffer unnecessarily from the big (Tension).

Careful examination of their daily ''game plan" might reveal the source. Of all the ways to handle tension, I think the nioft important is to try to be the mas-tor of your time. Too many of us try to force a 2 i-bour day onto the confines of 24 hours. The result1 We sre always rushing to catch up. One way is to master the clock.

Like Blondie's husband, we get up late, rush out of the door for work with coat half on and chewing on a piece of dry toast. The cure for this is to set the alarm a half hour to one hour earlier each morning. This will give you time to enjoy a leisurely breakfast and walk out cf the door rather than sprint to get to work on time. Lessen the rope of tension by taking your time and it is less likely the noose of tension will tighten around your neck. Another tip for the business or professional man or woman: Don't fill your appointment book.

Leave some time for unexpected visitors. Few things are so disruptive as trying to add milk to an already full gla.ss without having it spill over on the carpet. Likewise, the busy homemaker can re; lieve tension by carefully planning her 24 hcurs. For Mrs. I suggest you ask your family uoctor for consultation with a chest specialist.

I do not agree there is nothing to be done for emphysema except take some cough mixture to loosen vp ihe ough. Although it is that many patients who have emphysema cannot expect complete cure, they can hope for improvement in their breathing difficulties. For example, your husband may benefit by special aerosol medicines which help open up the bronchial tubes. In addition, so do limited walking exercises with the aid of i xygen inhalations. The use of positive pressure breathing machines also helps.

I do not believe that orce a person has emphysema he should accept it as a malady that cannot be helped. I am sure your doctor will welcome consultation. For a fuller discussion, you nay want to read my booklet, 'Emphysema: How To Live With It." A copy may secured by writing r.ie at Box 2022, Detroit 48231, enclosing 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope. For Mrs. I have not heard thai lectrolysis causes cancer.

Having hairs removed by an electrologist woiking ir conjunction with your oerma- seems to make good sense. For Mr. It doesn't matter what your position is when you go to sleep. Lying your left side will not weaken vour heart. And the fact that" you wake up on your left side does not mean that you btt been lying in this position all rght.

Normally, most of us toss and turn at least a dozen times during a nights sleep. Dear Dr. Steincrohn: Is it true what the ads promise about hemorrhoid cures? I've used all kinds of salves and haven't been helped yet. I've just read another ad which promises cure. If unsuccessful, you get your money back.

Mrs. B. COMMENT: In uncomplicated hemorrhoids, such ointments may relieve itching and pain and bring temporary improvement. However, I doubt that they 'cure" the piles. Dr.

Steincrohn welcomes reader mail and incorporates answers in columns when possible, but regrets he cannot reply personally because of volume received. Andy Griffith Buys Crosby Home 1 he said: "Mr. Nixon must be impeached and removed from office by our representatives the only constitutional method that we have for removing a most unworthy sprvant. "You must act promptly to do this it is not a partisan matter. Centuries after the Republican and Democratic parties have disappeared, your failure to do your duty now may do untold harm." WHETHER YOU agree with him or not, Mr.

Garrity has made his position perfectly clear, as the great tape jockey would put it. And Rep. Arends promptly relied to his constituent. Within a week, Garrity received a letter saying: "I was pleased to receive your letter which you sent to my office proclaiming your continued support of President Nixon." Garrity immediately looked at the envelope to make sure he hadn't opened somebody else's mail. But it was addressed to him all right.

Arends went on to say: "In my judgment, only Mr. Nixon has the experience and fortitude to keep the lid on this highly explosive situation and I expect to continue to support him in every way possible. MR. GARRITY ISN'T sure what to make of it. nor am I.

Could it be that someone in Rep. Arends' office has erased parts of Mr. Garrity's letter? I wouldn't suggest that the devil did it, because he is busy erasing elsewhere, but possibly a spare demon? Or maybe Rep. Arends thinks impeachment, compared to other proposed solutions, amounts to "continued support" for Mr. Nixon.

At least when you are impeached, you don't have to visit a parole officer. Whatever is behind Arends' reply, it is clear that he thinks he knows the public's pulse. But it's a good thing he's not a doctor, or he'd take it by sticking his finger in your eye. HOLLYWOOD: Andy Griffith bought Bing Crosby's North Hollywood estate, which Bing doesn't need anymore because for years he has lived in a San Francisco suburb. The only time he comes to L.A.

is to work and he only works when he wants to. And Dick Llnke, Andy's longtime manager bought Andy's North Hollywood home. He and his wife Bettina Brenna (former Las Vegas showgirl) are expecting their second baby in August and need a larger home. Frank Sinatra not only promised Sid Galh-rid to add more shows to his next Caesars Palace engagement in March to make up for those he missed because of his "Vegas Throat," he will also play Caesar's on future dates. This discounts rumors that he'll perform elsewhere in Sin City.

SHIRLEBRITIES: Henry Fonda. is doing sellout business in Chicago with his one man tour de force, "Clarence Darrow," a two-hour play starring one actor and what an actor! Fonda is expected to bring the play into the Detroit Music Hall for a week in May Most of the Jai Alai players now competing at the Grand in Las Vegas were imported by the hotel from Spain. They are housed in a -special building turned into apartments, on the hotel grounds. What a money making idea someone had in bringing Jai Alai to a part of the country where it has never been played before. The arena is sold out every session.

Ginger Rogers went to the new "in" restaurant called Gatsby's and caused quite a stir, in a restaurant frequented by stars. This is the first time I've seen such excitement in the place. Even the chef came out of the kitchen to get Ginger's autograph. Although Ginger has a permanent home in Palm Springs, she is seldom in Hollywood, these days. Her creative post with J.D.

Penney takes her a'round the United States, and Canada most of the year. QUOTABLES: Mae West recently was seated next to Alice Cooper at a private dinner party in Beverly Hills. Cooper said he'd love to do a motion picture with Mae. Said Mae to Alice: "Say, honey, that's a great idea. Maybe they'd revive the old Je-a 1 1 MacDonald-Nelson Eddy 'Rose-marie' for us to do." Cooper agreed that it would he campy to do that old chestnut.

"The only problem," continued Mae, "is which one of us would be Jeanette Mac-Donald?" DIDYA KNOW That Rodney Allen Rippy, my favorite young peddler of hamburgers is cutting a record called "Cutting Loose With Mother Goose." It's described as a funky nursery rhyme. Bill Preston will sing along with him. Rodney is that darling child who does the Jack In The Box commercials. That Barry White, new hot writer, composer and record company owner, will take his 42-piece orchestra to Holland where they will perform at the Grand Gala de Disc, an important Eurovision TV Special. Barry's had three albums in the top 15 in just a few months; "Love Unlimited," "Stone Gone" and "Rhapsody in White.

Andy Griffith.