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Today's Chuckle A committee of five of the mn who does the work, two to pat him on the bock and two to bring in a minority report. THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Thursday, August 14, 1975 Page 3, Section A in- iiftK- si in i IVj'i 'i'tTnrr Young, Milliken Open Drive for Transit "I'm not asking anyone to do something for love." BY DAVID JOHNSTON Frw PrtM umlnf Staff LANSING Gov. Milliken and Mayor Young announced Wednesday that they will join the Southeastern Michigan Transportation authority in a campaign for federal money to help finance a $4 billion rapid transit system for the Detroit metropolitan area. The men announced the agreement after a one-hour meeting in Milliken's office. Earlier, the governor signed a bill authorizing $150 million in revenue bonds and a $30 million loan from the state road fund to begin mass transit projects.

The men said SEMTA, Detroit and the state will have to unite if southeastern Michigan is to have any hope of getting $3.2 billion from an $8 billion urban mass transit fund in Washington. The effort, they indicated, will include a political push to get the money, which they indicated is vitally needed to solve the Detroit area's transit problems. At present, the area depends largely on autos for its transit needs. built with federal transit funds, but city transportation authorities said it may conform at least in part to a SEMTA plan, released last year. That plan called for six high-capacity systems, possibly subways.

Four major routes would radiate out from downtown Detroit along Woodward, Michigan, Gratiot and Grand River. The line out Gratiot would split, near Harper, into two routes; one north along Mound Road, the other east to Eastland shopping center. No one knows whether the routes would be above or below ground, or what sort of vehicles or guideways would be used. THE SEMTA PLAN also called for bus lines connecting city and suburban neighborhoods to subway stations. The plan is undergoing further study, according to transit officials, at the request of federal transit authorities.

They questioned whether enough people would use the system to warrant Please turn to Pago 7A, CoL 1 The bond money would provide the state's 10 percent of funds needed to apply for federal mass transit aid, which would pay 80 percent of the cost. Local areas would have to put up an additional 10 percent. MILLIKEN HAS proposed a $10 tax on private cars in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties to raise that area's local share. This plan has run into opposition from some suburban officials and Young indicated that while he could accept such a tax he is also looking at floating bonds to raise the local share. Final plans have not been made for the system that would be ADDING ON t)ollie Cole Also Suing Those Who Started Rumor DOLLIE COLE HAS ALREADY sued Los Angeles gos sip columnist Joyce Haber and the Detroit News for libel.

Mrs. Cole says they implied that she was romancing Hollywood actor James Gavin. Now the wife of former GM boss Edward Cole has sued the people who supposedly gave Miss Haber the information. Those sources aren't named in the Wayne County Circuit Court action because she doesn't know who they are. But Noel Gage, her attorney, says once that information surfaces, the names will be tagged to the latest suit.

Gage is also representing Gavin in a Similar libel suit filed last week against Miss Haber and the News, which printed the Haber column. Ironic Answer SEVERAL WEEKS BEFORE HE disappeared, James Hoffa spoke to some social studies students at Henry Ford High School in Detroit. Near the end of his talk, one student asked Hoffa if he was not afraid that anti-Hoffa forces in the union would be out to get him. Teachers present say the former Teamsters boss beat on his chest and said "Jimmy Hoffa can take care of himself." Crime-Free Detroit? MEANWHILE, MAYOR YOUNG was asked Wednesday if he knew anything about crimes in Bloomfield Township, specifically Hoffa's disappearance. "No, we've got peace in our town," said the Detroit mayor.

"We don't go around ripping people off street corners." The Ghoul Returns THE GHOUL IS BACK. The weird horror film television host will be back on WKBD-TV (Channsl 50) at 11:30 p.m. Sept. 6. The station says the Ghoul, whose real name is Ron Sweed, will be seen exclusively on the Detroit channel.

The bearded freak was dropped by the Kaiser network, which includes WKBD, earlier this year after his ratings fell. The show will have some new characters in what the station called "juiced-up production." BILL WILL TAKE EFFECT IN '76 i 1 1 i mm i nn House. OKs Political Reform Milliken To Sign 17 Losses Don't Deter Tiger Fans BY BILL MICHELMORE Fi-m Press staff Writer It takes more than defeat to bring a Tiger BY DAVID JOHNSTON Free Piesi LmMnf staff LANSING The Michigan House voted 59 to 43 Wednesday to pass a comprehensive, political reform bill, but delayed its effective date until April 1976. fan down. Although their team is at the bottom of the standings and has lost 17 consecutive Supporters of the bull had hoped to put the law into immediate effect so that it would govern the entire 1976 election year.

games more than any club in the American The Senate has already passed tho bin, tfee Hons action sends it to Gov. Milli League for 16 years attendance is up there. It will top one million by season's end, officials predict, no matter how many more games they lose. ken who is expected to sien it Into law. However, Milliken was scheduled to detail "That's good for any team and for the Tigers right now it's incredible," said a Tiger spokesman.

There were 14,000 fans on hand for Monday's 7-0 rout and almost that many on Tuesday night when the Tigers lost, 4-3. MATT DAVISON, 49, of Fraser, better known as the "Section 23 Regular," ex what an aide described as a number of serious reservations about the measure. LAST-MINUTE EFFORTS by House Republican leaders to eliminate what they said were pro-Democratic amendments added in the Senate were voted down. So were efforts to correct such clerical errors as a refer ence to Michigan's 1963 Constitution that was misprinted as 1973 in the official copy of the bill. A vote to give the bill immediate effect when signed by Milliken failed by a vote of 68 to 32.

It would have taken 74 votes in the House to give the bill immediate effect. State Rep. William Bryant of Gross Pointe, the GOP House floor leader, bad his plained why he was there: "Twenty-five years standing right here," he said from his vantage point at the top row of the grandstand Tuesday, "and I never felt so good." He was still holding out Free Press Photo by CRAIG PORTER Tiger fan Ronald Brown leads a cheer for the home team Only a Bald Dog Could Solve the Problem VINCE KOSTER of Dearborn Heights has a problem. So have though not as bad as his. It might reach that point, though, which would be too bad because, essentially, the problem really isn't ours in the first place.

Except in a way we are suffering because of it. Thoroughly confused? I'm not surprised. Let me explain. Koster's situation is that he has owned a mutt named Brutus for four years. Vince has been married to Shirley for 25 years.

Shirley does not shed, but Brutus does in gobs and chunks and handfuls, especially in these dog days. In the Koster household, Shirley, who says she is sick to death of picking up afterBrutus, has issued an ultimatum. Brutus is an "outside dog," she claims, and either she goes or he goes. That poses a terrible problem for Koster, who is extremely fond of Shirley. But he does not have a fenced yard.

The alternatives are frightening. In our household, the situation has not yet become so critical. Bleu is a large dog. She has a great deal of hair, and gobs of it do seem to be scattered everywhere, sort of like tumblewecd. I keep telling Bev, who has been around the house going on 28 years, that actually the hair is not so obnoxious since it matches the carpeting.

Her answer is that only a color blind idiot would think that brown matches green. We haven't reached the ultimatum stage yet, as the Knsters apparently have. I am sure we would all be ex tremcly grateful for any suggestions hope that his team would beat the Texas Rangers Tuesday. OME FANS are even getting caught up They did not. "They keep losing and we keep coming.

in a fever of losing. The fatal attraction name removed from the bill as a co-sponsor. Maybe it's out fault. If we stopped showing up, and paying our money they might play ne saia senate Democrats had "put loopholes In it you could drive a truck through" and that the bill in its present form was better," mused Davison. With another game against the Rangers Wednesday night the Tigers only have three "Because when they win, and they've got to win sometime, it will be beautiful, just beautiful." And then he added with a look almost drunken with anticipation: "When they win the fans are going to blow the roof off this stadium." But it's people like Jeff Palmer, 17, of Battle Creek, who come closest to understanding the heart of a Tiger fan.

"I've got to keep coming even though they lose, because, let's face it, they're all we got." of the underdog. John Badaczewski, a field sweeper for 10 years, notes: "Lookit, they're going to win something, even if it's a record for losing." Don Ferrier of Detroit was buying a Tiger hat Tuesday. "We're making history here, man. I hate to see them lose, but I come anyway." Why? he was asked. And with his reply you get to the core.

games left to avoid the ultimate humiliation: Tying the all-time record of 20 consecutive losses, a disgrace currently shared by probably unconstitutional. The bill requires extensive disclosure of campaign contributions by candidates for state and local offices, puts limits on the amount any individual or family can contribute to an individual campaign, provides partial public funding in campaigns for gov. the Boston Red Sox of 1908 and the Phila delphia Athletics of 1916 and 1943. Auto Club Sees emor, regulates lobbyists and requires partial disclosure of money they spend on lawmakers, and requires partial disclosure of money they spend on lawmakers, and requires state and local officials to disclose investments but not the amount of investments. Stadium Tie- on how to keep our dogs' hair on their backs and the marriages reasonably intact.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Of all the remedies that won't cure a cold, whisky is the most popular. FRIEND OF MINE named Walter up BY THIMOTHY J. McNULTY Free Press Staff Writer Graham does not resort to pills to help hira sleep. Instead, he creates little bits of poesy that start him chuckling, reduce the tensions, and A flint LEGEND c- I Parkin3 ip a EES Shuttle bus A to stadium Jl v2J Lmmmm KATHEHSTONE TONTIAC'V' J'tr STADIUM yi SlHmTI 'J' SHERATON Vl -MOTOR A- MIRACLE MILEj SHOPPING MART WUK TX ToD.lroit ultimately lower the eyelids. Many Tips, But Still No Hoffa As the disappearance of former Teamster President James R.

Hoffa entered its third week Wednesday, the FBI reported business as usual with its investigation: Scores of leads, but virtually all of them blind alleys. Hoffa's family, keeping their vigil at Hoffa's cottage in Lake Orion, discontinued what had been their daily practice of walking out to a high chain-link fence to talk with reporters. IN BOSTON, Frank E. Fitr simmons, who took over the leadership of the international union when Hoffa was jailed in 1967, solidified his position of power at a convention of the union's warehouse division, the first such national meeting since Hoffa's disap The Automobile Club of Michigan warned Wednesday that tie-ups are anticipated for the opening Detroit Lions game Aug. 23 at the new Pontiac Stadium.

The club advised football fans to arrive at least two hours before the 1 p.m. kickoff to avoid jams on all roads surrounding the 80,000 seat stadium. "The roads leading to the stadium are not equipped to handle the heavy volume of traffic expected for the game," said the AAA. "Motorists attempting to reach the stadium area just before kickoff could find themselves part of a massive traffic jam." Local traffic officials, however, scoffed at the AAA warning, betting that a mass media campaign next week to show alternate routes and parking spaces will evenly filter thick streams of cars and buses throughout the area. THE HEAVIEST traffic is expected on the 1-75 and M59 freeways and on Opdyke and Featherstone, the closest surface roads to the stadium.

The bill also creates a bipartisan political ethics commission to enforce the law and provides criminal penalties for violations. MICHIGAN COMMON Cause, a citizens lobbying group that pushed for the law, praised the bill as "the most far-reaching political reform bill ever enacted into law in the United States." Susan Rennels, Common Cause chairperson, said, "The measure is tough, but reasonable. It will produce some drain a i and fundamental changes in the way politics is conducted in Michigan." REPUBLICANS objected to these Senate amendments: A provision allowing the transfer of political funds by organizations which Republi a iew or nis gems: "tfith Indira Ghandi "Keep erasers handy. "You don't ever, I think, "Write laws in India ink." And: "The world's worst aristocracy "Is a phase of democracy "Known as 'bureaucracy." Finally: "Now, don't get hysteria "But the cleanest cafeteria "Is rank with bacteria." 200 GOLFERS turned out at Bay Pointe Country Club to pay tribute to a boy who died too soon and to help raise funds to fight the disease that killed him. Georgie Ginopolis was only four when a rare blood disorder, hemolytic anemia, claimed him.

His father, John, and a group of friends that included Mike Souchak, who came up from Florida, took part in the event that raised some $12,000 for Children's Hospital, in Georgie's name. TODAY'S WORST JOKE: A doubleheader, the first involving a lady who went to a shoe store and asked for a pair of alligator shoes. "Certainly," said the clerk. "What size does your alligator wear?" And then there was the kangaroo who went to a psychiatrist, complained: "I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't feel jumpy today." But the upcoming advertising campaign, said Joseph Map locates stadium and points where spectators can board buses for trip to seats.

Please turn to Page 16A, Col. Pair to Wed on Ball Field 35 FP Readers Respond to Ad For Boat cans say will allow labor unions to escape ceilings on campaign contributions. Regulation of non-partisan groups such as Civic Searchlight in the Detroit area and the League of Women Voters that rate candidates or provide information on election issues. An exemption that alteram pearance. It was well that Hoffa already had begun a campaign to challenge his former protege, at next year's international convention.

Some authorties close to the investigation believe the schism between Hoffa and Fitzsimmons spawned a plot to remove Hoffa. The 600 delegates to the convention Wednesday endorsed Fitzsimmons as their candi- Please turn to Page 8A, Col. 1 THE STATE OF Pitch Softball Tournament scheduled this weekend for Petoskey. "Then the other girls on the softball team started kidding me and saying that I should get married in centerfield," Miss Mellendorf said Wednesday. "I started taking it seriously about two weeks ago." WITH THE HELP of tournament director Lynda Christensen.

Donna was able to get Petoskey Mayor Barb Waters to agree to perform the civil ceremony. Umpires will be present, for close decisions. "I guess I just like the excitment of doing something different," says the bride. "A church wedding can really get to your pocket book really bad. This is not going to cost as much." "It sounded a little strange at first," says the groom, "but now its more exciting than it is anything else.

Something you can BY RONE TEMPEST Free Press Staff Writer The bride, Donna Mellendorf of Port Huron, will wear a white V-neck nylon with red pinstripes and shorts. Her trousseau will include an aluminum bat and one leather glove. The bridesmaids the Port Huron L-and-M Rascals, will wear duckbilled caps. The ceremony will be in center field of a Petos-key softball field. The reception will be held in the dugout after the game.

THE OCCASION IS the marriage Saturday of Miss Mellendorf, 21, an outfielder for the Rascals, and David Tacie, 27, a boiler-maker apprentice also from Port Huron. The couple had planned to be married Saturday in a Port Huron Baptist Church. But Donna's slow-pitch softball team, the Rascals, upset the wedding plans by qualifying for the state Class Women's Slow Aug. 13 (Gold) 043 Aug. 12 (Gold) 519 Aug.

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Call 222-6800 or Toll Pre (800)872-3670 lobbyists to give state lawmakers free tickets to horse racing tracks, football games, and any other "state-regulated industries, facilities, or events." House Democrats were so anxious to pass the measure that Acting Speaker James O'Neill, D-Saginaw, who was presiding, was declaring defeat of Republican amendments before most House members had a chance to push their electronic voting buttons. Lodge Detour The northbound Lodge Freeway (U.S.-10) between the Ford Freeway (1-94) and Eight Mile in Detroit will be closed from 8 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday for pavement repairs. The posted detour is via the Ford and Chrysler (I-75) freeways and Eight Mile.

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