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1 'N Detroit AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER JOHNS. KNIGHT Editorial Chairman KURT LUEDTKE Executive Editor LEE HILLS Publisher FRANK ANGELO Associate Executive Editor LEE J. GUITTAR President General Manager JOE H. STROUD v' Editor FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1975 As We See It Legislature Should Give 1 6 Land Use "f)SB VNT TO HEM? A TUNNY RUMOT? AOTT THAT PLACE OVER ON THE HILL, SPOT? Jik rj I THEY SAY IT BELONGS TO THE CIA ANt? A TWATTHEEE'S ALL KINDS Of SECRET. mmi(r stuff" ikthete that can wipe: -JJr High Priority ip As Wc See It i it i 1 ONE OF THE MOST important things the Michigan Legislature could do yet this session is pass an effective land-use planning bill; After years of debate and delay, a worka- ble bill is at last within reach.

The Legislature should grasp the opportunity. Michigan has, in fact, had land-use plan-niqg for several years. The Inland Lakes and Streams Act, the Great Lakes Submerged Lands Act, the Wilderness and Natural Areas Act, the Subdivision Control Act, the minium Control Act and others are land-use planning laws, pure and simple. 1 'This session the Wetlands Protection Act (Rep. Warren Goemaere's HB 4618) and the Sand Dune Protection Act (Rep.

Dennis Cawthorne's HB 4038) may join them. What's needed now, and what Rep. Philip Jjfttastin't HB 4234 would provide, is a basic raniework within whic'K land-use planning lSpuld be conducted. A comprehensive act A Moral Ubiection to rroiect beat arer not to amend the Mastin bill to the point of meaninglessness. While it's important to get the widest spectrum of support possible for whatever bill finally emerges, it's even more critical that the special interests aren't placated to a degree that the bill's purposes are undercut.

Fortunately Gov. Milliken is making land-use legislation one of his priorities in the remaining 90 days of this session. House and Senate leaders, too, have indicated a willingness to secure a realistic, effective bill this year. Many thousands of acres of Michigan open space have disappeared since Gov. Milliken's Special Message on Land Use and the Environment in early 1972.

Areas best suited for timber harvesting were developed as home sites; tracts that should have remained inC agricultural use' were gobbled up by industry; land ideal for htmebuilding was ruined, by road constructiori; vi And the list grows longer daily. The governor's 1972 message bears repeat-'; ing today. "We are coming, to accept the said, "that the land resource is riot unlimited, that the 36 million acres of land we have in Michigan-is all that we will ever have and that it must take care of all our require- ments economic social, recreational and aesthetic now arid forever." .7 -v- --''v -v It's up to the Legislature to make certain those requirements are met, and enact a land-use pjanning law without undue delay. creating the machinery for a statewide plan is necessary to make sure activities not covered bjl specific laws aren't allowed to slip through th cracks. Vr- l- r- Mastin bill is a means, not the end to.

Ian3-use planning. It has been amended, re- vised, compromised and rewritten until it hardly is the strong measure that was envisioned. But it is a step. And, like the jafirney of a thousand miles, land-use planning starts with one "The legislators must be careful, obviously, Letters to the editor must he signed and address given. Names will he withheld only lor good reasons.

sounding board for a worldwide, extremely low frequency (ELF) communications center at half the cost of construction and maintenance to the country's taxpayers as the proposed alternate western sites. Your writers must have misquoted Dr. Tanner he stated the area in which Seafarer would be installed is roadless. -If he is truly the director Hof the DNR for all of Michigan, tell him to come j'up and we will show him where the roads are. The area needed for an ELF system does not 2,500 square miles.

Neither are there en-' tailed 1,000 miles of trenches. The, communication grid power lines are simply ploughed in as are thousands of miles of similar cables such as telephone and electric power lines. Eight or nine months after such cables are laid, it is difficult to notice that cable has been installed, even when standing directly on top of it. KEN DORMAN Houghton IN A recent letter to the editor, Neil T. Addiss wrote decrying Project Seafarer saying the people up there should be screaming no, no, no.

Well, I would like to assure Mr. Addiss that we are screaming no, but our voices are being drowned out by Navy PR, self-serving construction unions who are scrambling for the few jobs this project would create, and short-sighted legislators who smell pork-barrel as election year approaches. Over 4,000 residents of the UP have signed petitions opposing this project, and every affected county has either taken a stand against it or called for a vote of the people as to whether it should be built here. I would like to suggest to our Republican gover-, nor that he is going to have enough trouble getting re-elected next time without an albatross like Seafarer around his neck. JOHNR.CALO, Kingsford A Significant Trip for Hirohito would be a tragic gift to the Upper Peninsula.

Keep Seafarer J(. JULIA. SANFORD Naubinway I WAS appalled to read in the, Free Press that Gov. Milliken has invited the-Navy to initiate an environmental impact study regarding the construction of Project Seafarer, in the Upper Peninsula. am aware there is widespread opposition to Seafarer across the peninsula.

According to the UP newspapers, a substantial number of UP cities, townships andv civic organizations have taken public stands in opposition to the project. If there is any grass-roots support for the project, it has not been publicized. The only groups appearing to support Seafarer are some construction union locals and VFW and Legion groups. In spite of the lure, of new jobs, the Ontonagon-Gogebic County AFL-CIO Labor Council has adopted a resolution opposing the project. I believe thegovernor's invitation Is in rect conflict with the expressed wishes of the people of the Upper Peninsula.

If an environmental study were warranted, an impartial board of qualified individuals should conduct the investigation and not the Navy itself. M.ROBERTS THE BELIEF by some that folks in the Upper Peninsula are not calling out "no, no" to the Naval project SanguineSeafarer needs to be chal- longed. On the contrary, many are disturbed and Congressman Ruppe helps to mislead the facts when he published inaccurate polling results. Of over 12,000 replies he received, he chose some 992 to serve as his statistics. Too many elected representatives react to constituent feeling in about like manner until time for the next LUCY SHAMPO iron Mountain do can only be done day in and day out, the wealthy, the middle income people, on fixed incomes, and even the.

poor share their finances and resources with us so that we can pass them on to others. If anyone asks, "what's right with Detroit?" I could cite case after case of human sharing and compassion. If we Capuchins give love, it is only because we have received it in abundance from God and the people we strive to serve. BROTHER CHARLES MUELLER Capuchin Director Tra ffic Stoppers I TRAVEL Hamilton Avenue in Highland Park several times each day and for the past several weeks traffic lights are set so it is necessary to stop at each one. .1 Further, there are stop sign's at almost every intersection on Second and Third Avenues in Highland Park.

This is a nuisance and a waste of gas and time. With it all, Hamilton Avenue is a 'speedway because there is no traffic enforcement. Further, most everyone must stop to avoid deep holes in railroad crossings, which have resulted in several damaged wheels and tires and are otherwise dangerous. All bad railroad crossings hould have stop signs all over the city. P.W.BURNS 1 3 three? Is a Dehumanizing Disgrace YOUR editorial concerning the Navy's Project Seafarer is appreciated, but it did not raise a basic moral issue of this weapon system.

the ecological damage of building an across 2,00 miles of the Upper Peninsula is. less significant than the impact this weapon's system will have upon the minds of people. The antenna is a doomsday machine because its only use could be to send a one-way' message to U.S. Polaris submarines stationed deep within the- ndean to launch a final retaliatory attack against the Soviet Union. All other communications systems would have, t'beejv'destroed Before this system would be used.

The antenna which the Navy proposes to bury in Michigan soil could not receive messages or confirm the final doomsday moral question then is more than 'one of is a question of whether our state will become a party to an'instrument of death which is designed solely for such a final doomsday Our state rejected the plan a year I urge your Continued support in, opposing the plan now. DAVID T. STRQNG I V' YOUR EDITORIAL of Sept. 11, "Prpject Sea-farer Is Just as Objectionable as Project Sanguine" is editorialising at its lowest ebb" It is ho wonder man of us in the; Upper Peninsula long for state when a prominent downstate newspaper always editorializes against everything and anything that.might be beneficial or helpful to the Upper Peninsula be it, legislation to help the mining, thcwood industpy, or how to manage our affairs. Now you attack a vital national defense project which is essential to all Americans and could he of benefit to the UP.

The UP could again, be of benefit to all Americans'. I say this because it has supplied, from its geological conditions, the iron and the copper that have made the nation great. This same Laurentwn shield can provide the Prison System THE PRESENT prison system serves as an issue Jot every politician, while. the taxpayers are befng weaseled out of their money. Society is burdened with an age-old, decaying penal system.

People have to realize if a thing isn't growing, then it's obviously decaying. The present system is, not working, therefore it's One must understand that mismanagement, incompetence, politics and bureaucracy don't help sustain lives. One can only view this realistically when noticing the increase in crime; recidivism rate and unrest in penal institutions. This has been the personal beef of prisoners not that of seeking to rebel for the mere sake of rebellion. We prisoners realize how we're being That's why.pWe seek to make the truth revealed to the public.

It is time that some meaningful progression toward meaningful rehabilitative reforms be adopted. The old supposition that you lock a human being in a cage, beat him, kick him. then let him out and he'll be normal or rehabilitated is just like saying we were all born to be super-beings. Prisoners are human beings and all we desire is to be treated as such. As long as the rich and politically able escape punishment and go off to reside in San Clemente, while the poor and uneducated have to go to will always be injustice.

LEROY ETHERIDGE State House of Correction and Branch Prison -Marquette Apathy at Work EMIL MAZEY was recently quoted as saying: "Let's begin to raise the political understanding among the members. I know over 95 percent of the members never attend a meeting durihg a year and that half the members don't know the difference between unionism and This is a self-serving statement often made by Emil. Mazey. like other UAW officials are nice guvs trying to be all things to all people. The UAW- membership pays their.

salaries, but they often wonder which side their leaders are on. A leadership so often praised by management." doesn't inspire activity on the part of the work- ers. Many of us have learned from bitter experience '7 not to be critical of the UAW political Such cricism might cost the worker his job. If a worker takes his grievance to a membership meeting, his boss may (ell him about it the next day. Those of us who have been to the UAW Educa--tional Center at Black Lake know that workers receive rrtore indoctrination than education from their teachers.

Emil Mazey knows that so long as the UAW is wedded to the Democratic Party, the political Japanese1 emperor Hirohito's visit to'the United States is a poignant reminder of a changing world. Thirty years" ago this mfiBth Hirohito was standing before Gen. Douglas MacArthur to accept full responsibility for Japan's conduct during Worid War II. His execution as a war criminal was seri-. busly considered.

I But Gen. MacArthur and the Allied leaders A dmnging world U.S. Dilemma tHE SEPTEMBER attack on a U.S. com-' 1, Tnuirications base in northern Ethiopia that resulted in two American "personnel being captured poses a particularly troubling di-)t lemma for this country. The Eritrean Libera-; tion' Front (ELF), which earlier had kidnapped two other Americans, is demand-'l ing independence for the former Italian co-J Jony that was annexed by Ethiopia in 1962.

The rebels also are demanding an end to U.S. military aid to Adis Ababa, and the mantling of the Kagnew base where the re-J cent attack occurred. The uneasy question the United States must face is whether its Ethi- pian aid program and military presence are -U really in this country's best interests. ji Though there reportedly are only about 50 Hirohito fortunately realized the Emperor's unique' role in Japan's life, and that the famous picture of Hirohito astride a white horse was staged by the war leaders for its propaganda The was required only to renounce the "divinity" that had been claimed for him, and he was allowed to continue his reign as.the symbol of a reconstructed Japan. Hirohito's current visit closes a chapter in U.S.-Japanese relations even as it opens a new one: The old Hirohito jokes and wartime cartoons; should, remain only as unpleasant rhembries after President Ford's greeting of the Emperor with full ceremonial honors at the White House.

The fact that this is only the second time in the history of Japan that an Em-1 perof hasleft his homeland gives the visit an But, the Emperor's shy and scholarly personality makes him seem anything but awesome. A highlight of his visit will he stops at oceanographic laboratories and research stations, where his interest in marine biology can be fulfilled. Both the United States have come a long way, in the past 30 years. Hirohito's presence, in the midst of his former ene-: mies is a heartening sign that peace can achieve what-'the bitterest wars never could. in Ethiopia American military personnel in Ethiopia, their security is threatened by the ELF rebels, who vow to continue their attacks on U.S.

bases. While Kagnew formerly was staffed by U.S.n personnel, since February only a skeleton staff has been on duty. If this is any indication of the bases continuing ance to the United States, there would seem to be little justification for holding onto it. The decision, in fact, may already have been made by the, Ethiopians. Apparently with-' out prior notification of U.S.

diplomats in' Addis Ababa, the provisional military regime announced recently that Kagnew will be closed before the end of the year. The Ethiopian government; dedicated to the erasure of decades of what it calls "feu-. dalism" under the former Haile Selassie monarchy, is burdened with monstrous problems. Whether military aid and U.S.-built bases detract from or add to these problems should be decided before more American personnel become pawns in a dispute not of our making. Inim-cpta! I.cllvr SCOOP JACKSON-FRANK KELLEY Washington Lansing Dear lloffa Seekers: AYBE you ought to find the tipster first.

understanding of the members will, not be raised. Let Emil tell the membership where he got his political education. To revive the interest of the UAW members in their union will be a difficult task. The present 'apathy and ignorance of the auto workers the interests of the UAW JOHN W. ANDERSON Dearborn erring Others I ENJOYED reading the article about the'friars at the Capuchin Monastery on Mt.

Elliott. What a beautiful life giving service to others. 1 DOROTHY HAFELI FOR the kind article by Peter Gavri-iovich on the life and work of the friars here at the Capuchin Monastery. Although we only received a total of eight new novices during'the years of. 1 973 and we have 10 new men in training this year.

There are some tough young men around who are willing to devote themselves to our style and work. Our pay isn't good, but the work is steady and God has a great retirement plan. In an age when so many young people find life meaningless, we can attest that there are bushels of meaningful experiences, if we only open our hearts to them. St. Francis, our founder, wanted us to be channels of love and peace and joy.

The good that we OUY.KJP...WNWE OH TWO. i TV First in Detroit 'THE DElBUT of a new television station in town, especially one that provides a different emphasis and an alternative viewpoint, s' is cause for cheer. For Detroit's newest station, WGPR-TVf lhitnel 62, that almost seems to go "As the nation's first black-owned and black operated television station, it will add a new dimension and added stature to the area's entire communications industry. It was a project conceived and brought '1 forth by blacks, and while it will naturally reflect its origins, it is expected to draw white viewers, too. The potential community good to be de- rived from the new station is great.

It is a welcome addition to the local world of fine I tuning. imWAr i i.