Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 53

12-D Friday, Aug. 1, 75 DETROIT FREE PRESS Family Keeps Vigil ynniwuwu'ii i "rr Detroit ifree Stress The Back Page X- .1,1 i While police were searching Thursday for clues to the whereabouts of former Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa, his family waited anxiously at their lakeside summer home in Lake Orion, about 40 miles north of Detroit Hoffa's son, James P. Hoffa, told report QnQOtaffioo Glimmers of Hope In a Tarnished City AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE in the aftermath of a civi ('i ers and photographers waiting outside the carefully tended grounds: "We're waiting, hoping." At one point, the former Teamster official's daughter, Mrs. Barbara Ann Crancer, came out of the house to embrace a television newsman who Is an old friend of the family.

A short time later, she came out of the house again and left in a car, alone, explaining that she didn't want to use the telephone in the bouse. James said his mother, Mrs. Josephine Hoffa, was inside the house, also waiting for any news. ''I would suggest that you just go," the younger Hoffa told newsmen across a picket fence. "There's not going to be any midnight press conference." Meanwhile, in Bloomfield Township, where Hoffa's car was found, Police Chief Robert L.

Snell fielded newsmenf questions as he emerged with a handful of tape casettes after a conference with his officers. Outside in the police garage, officers broke the lock to the trunk of Hoffa's 1974 Pontiac to search for clues. Free Press Photos By Ira Rosenberg And Tony Spina tragedy, one searches the debris in the hope of uncoverins reasons for optimism. That is where we are in Detroit after two Iiiiilppiiliiliipll vy nights of rioting largely confined to one area on the immediate northwest side. llllllifll You have to admit that the uproar is not going to help city's national image.

But, then, little has this year and we are not yet out of the woods. Before this month is finished we may have a court-mandated school busing decision which will be i come known as "The Detroit or something like that, and we will be back in the spotlight again. What witn unemploy ment, slumping car sales, a direct appeal to the White House for additional financial assistance and the failure of our profes sional athletic teams to attain respectability well, 1975 we 1 could have done without. Still, life must go on, so these of us still committed to the city nick through the rubble of a riot in the hunt for hope. Not the Son James P.

outside the Hoffa home: "We're just waiting, hoping." Hope Diamond, mind you, but just a grain or two of plain, old fashioned inspiration. Lord, now little we asK in tnese parlous times! THERE IS MORE than a ray of sunshine, one believes, In the fact that Mayor Coleman Yourg finally got around to earning his keep in the manner to which he is ideally and uniquely suited out in the streets among the people. Some of us voted for him in 1973 in the belief that he would become sort of an official super-salesman, likely to show up in any part of the city at any Hip '-n hour of the day or night, A At right is the is the Hoffa summer home at 1614 Ray Court, Lake Orion. To the left of the house is the patio and gazebos the tennis court extetuis along the picket fence. On the far side of the house is Square Lake.

spreading his own particular brand of razzle-dazzle and thereby helping to weld the community together. By na M'-' Jit ar ture, background and gift of gab this is a very attractive man, to whites who come to know him as well as to blacks, and it is difficult not toJike him even if you are aware i I. that he is the politician's poll tician, with graduate degrees in the arts of wiliness and ver story on Pliiilf If 5 8 I 1 i bal agility. But for reasons not always clear, alrhough a spate of poor health may have been one of Young has not been the ambassador-to-the-common man we anticipated. He has ducked numerous functions of consequence, he has sent underlings to others how many neighborhoods have had the unexpected pleasure of his sudden company? Should he have strolled in my neck of the woods; for example, I am sure the most avid of Republicans would have chained their dogs out of respect for his office and And who knows? He might have converted a few of them to the cause of a better Detroit.

Yet, when Coleman Young took to the streets during the nights of the riots, he was effective. The people listened and joined in his pleas to turn off the violence. It is still possible for him to give us leadership above and beyond the rigamarole of his official duties, if only he will do it. Perhaps this incident will tell him how much we need him in that respect IT IS A PLUS, too, that this uproar seenu to have had an established cast of characters during its entire run. This'means that young citizens in particular Were not pouring into the area from all fiver the city, adding to the confusion and chaos.

How different, again, from 3367, when for what seemed endless nights the "in thing" was the burning and looting of a stricken section of a paralyzed city. Parents and civic leaders undoubtedly had much to do with this restraint; and surely many of the young people decided on their own to stand clear. In any event, the trouble was contained. Perhaps best of all, the police were pillars of strength and patience, with few exceptions. A reporter for a national publication came close to calling them "heroes" the day after the fury had subsided, a term he has not used since the Battle of the Bulge.

Obviously there were hours of standing firm under trying circumstances, a tribute to discipline and judgment, high and low. These, then, are some of the small nuggets of solace and hope raked from the debris. The tragedy has shaken many of our citizens, no doubt of that, and one wishes he had more comfort to offer. But there are times when even newspaper columnists must stand bemused, wondering what in heaven's, name will happen next' Chief Robert L'i Sqell (abover)' fields reporter's questions after the trunk of Hoffa's Pontiac right) was pried open in the Bloomfield Township Police garage. ''yVr 1 names faces 7 Estate Sold for $1 6 Million Harold Lloyd ion.

No explanation was available from the law firm representing Mrs. Meir on why the suit was dropped. "it- i SUSAN LLOYD GUASTI, granddaughter of silent screen star Harold Lloyd, somberly announced that the trustees of the Lloyd estate have sold it'for $1.6 million, "This is one of the largest crimes in the motion picture indastry, to let this house go," Miss Guasti, 23, said near tears and with her voice breaking. Minutes earlier the trustees had voted unanimously to accept the offer of re- 9 i tired Iranian importer Nasrollah I Afshani. Miss Guasti, who was xik I raised on the estate, Warned the palsy or a special kind of dress.

Or it might have been inward assurance to Cain himself that he would not be destroyed. But whatever it was, it was not a sign of Cain's forgiveness, only a pledge of God's protection. Cain was a wandering fugitive, spared from immediate judgment, but perhaps a fitting emblem of the doom of the ungodly far from God and miserable in his disobedience. The message of the Bible, however, doesn't focus on the disobedient, but on the rewards of faith in Christ QUESTION What was the mark that God placed on Cain after bis murder of Abel? D.P. ANSWER The crime of fratricide carried such a pen-' alty that Cain knew he would be put to death.

In the 130 years that had elapsed, Adam's descendants were obviously not limited to the two brothers and their wives, and many could have been out to get Cain. Commentators are divided in theinterpretation of this mark. Some say it was a visible sign to repress avengers. Maybe something like a city of Beverly Hills for failing to preserve the estate as a museum which Lloyd had requested in his will despite the efforts of such I I i i Hope, Debbie Reynolds and Liza liiijiBlllsf 111 si if iii SALLY SULLIVAN, a New Jersey oil and newspaper heiress, has been ordered, to use part of her wealth to support her estranged husband and five children instead of spending the money on a' Buddhist sect. A court in Flemington, N.

has ordered Mrs. Sullivan to pay $2,250 a month to Dan Sullivan, a psychologist, so that he may support their children in the style "to which they had become accustomed." Mrs. Sullivan had inherited $160,000 a year from the estates of Henry Welling, owner of a Trenton oil company, and from Judge James Ker-ney, former publisher of the Trenton Times. Mrs. Sullivan had wanted to give the money to the Africa Institute, a Buddhist sect she had joined in Boston.

PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU, Canadian prime minister, is disputing what he claims was an overpayment of $8 in taxes on his lakeside lot. In a letter on his official stationery, Trudeau tried to 'explain to the secretary-treasurer of St. Adolphe d'Howard, Quebec, that taxes on his lot should not exceed the minimum rate of one percent. "Nonetheless, for several years past the tax rate imposed on me has been well in excess of one percent," Tnideau pointed out, adding that it had reached two percent this year. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, poor thing, complains that being so beautiful has its drawbacks.

"Some people don't take ycr seriously because they think you're a model who is just playing at having a career," she said. "A reviewer once said I couldn't sing but would make a swell model or stewardess. That hurt It was frustrating. But I'm pretty sure new I've been a success because I can sing, not because of the way I look." HUGH HEFNER has sent word to his Chicago headquarters to cool it his 74-room Chicago mansion is not for sale. The order contradicted a previous announcement by Victor Lownes, a Playboy senior vice-president.

"I've got egg on my face and I Minneiu. hor ms money, Mr. Afshani will receive the 44-room mansion on 15.7 acres in exclusive Coldwater Canyon, with stables, tennis courts, a nine-hole golf course, three Olympic size swimming pools and a waterfall. He also gets a $675,000 bill for back taxes and an annual property tax Harold Lloyd 00 QsdiCiSjQB iffi'iiiir'iHriiilirTiiTiiifiiirriiwwiiiw AP Phot Dili 01 J47.U0O. MORRIS UDALL, a Democratic presidential hopeful, has been released from a Phoenix, hospital after five days of treatment for pneumonia.

Udall attributed his pneumonia to a heavy schedule which he said included work days of 22 and 18 hours. Meanwhile, another Democratic presidential hopeful, Alabama Gov. George Wallace, has been fitted with a lighter, removable cast on his fractured leg, which was reported healing faster than expected. Wallace's physicians said they believed the leg was broken recently during the governor's physical therapy exercises, but the Iracture was not immediately discovered because he has no feeling in his paralyzed legs. GOLDA MEIR, former Israeli prime minister, has withdrawn a $3 million libel action in Manhattan Federal Court, but kept alive the same suit in the state court.

Mrs. Meir filed the suit against Lev Navrozov who wrote an article in a magazine of Jewish affairs, Commentary, accusing Mrs. Meir of unwittingly giving Joseph Stalin information on young Soviet Jews in 1948-49 leading to their deaths in concentration camps. At the time, Mrs. Meir was the Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Un- Russian novelist Alexander Sohhenitsyn takes time out from writing an article on the Russian Orothodox Church for a game of tennis at Norwich University.

The exiled author spent four secluded days at the Ver-mpnt campus, requesting that no one be told of his visi4 while he worked in privacy on the article. skimpy two-piece suits and string bikinis are prohibited, and that the traditional one-piece suits would still be required for the pageant's swim wear competition. ELTON JOHN was just out of diapers when he began listening to records. His first memories: Kay Starr, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Les Paul and Mary Ford. "I began playing the piano about 4, By ear," says Elton.

It was the rock sound of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis that really got him. "They changed my life. I couldn't believe it. I heard them and that was it I didn't ever want to be anything else." guess I was moving faster and farther than Her wanted me to." said Lownes. Hefner, international bunny czar, now spends most of his time at his sprawling Los Angeles mansion, and his jet-set parties in Chicago are less frequent.

ALBERT MARKS executive director for this year's Miss America pageant, is baring the details. He has announced that contestants in the pageant, beginning Sept. 3, will be permitted to pose for photos in two-piece swim suits. This will be the first time in the pageant's 54-year history that two-piece bathing suits will be allowed. Marks said the two-piece suits "look more realistic in today's society." But he emphasized that "VOJ KNOW WPLL I PfcNK BEFORE WE HOW CO VOO THINK I CAME TO PROPOSE.