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vs. SUNNY METRO Dow Average Loses 8 More Points See Page 9, Section 6-Day Home Delivery 90c Cooler High 66-69 Low 37-40 and Details P9 IS ON GUARD FOR 145 YEARS Wednesday, October 13, 1976 Vol. 146 No. 162 3 6fV Ota? TRADES MARGIN IS RAZOR-THIN Ford Employes Ratify Pact Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Writ Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich.

48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. by stiff opposition from Ford's 25,000 tradesmen.

The union leadership had promised them veto power over any agreement. Company and union officials, who had been concerned about the outcome of the voting, said they now would turn their attention to local-contract bargaining. Only 72 of the 99 Ford-UAW bargaining units had come to terms Tuesday on their all-important local agreements. Many key plants were among those not yet in the fold. Still without in-plant agreements Tuesday were such crucial installations as the Cleveland engine, Fairfax and Sharon-ville transmission, Green Island radiator, Michigan casting and Indianapolis steering gear plants.

Reporters learned, the voting results shortly before 10 p.m. at UAW international headquarters, where they were handed a statement. BY RALPH ORR, SUSAN BROWN AND GREGORY SKWIRA Fi-m Press Staff Writers UAW skilled tradesmen and production workers have ratified a pattern-setting contract with Ford Motor Co. that clears the way for an end to the strike that has choked off Ford production for 28 days. Approval of the three-year agreement covering 170,000 hourly U.S.

Ford, employes was announced by the union Tuesday night after four days of local union balloting. A company spokesman said some workers would be recalled as early as the afternoon shift Wednesday. Production workers at the 56 Ford locals ratified the agree, ment by a vote of 35,192 to 22,026. Skilled tradesmen accepted the contract by a razor-thin margin of 489 votes 8,957 to 8,468. The tentative agreement reached Oct.

5 had been threatened A UAW spokesman said the bargaining schedule for the rest of the industry remains uncertain. It was not known whether the pattern agreement reached at Ford would be taken to Chrysler Corp. next, or to General. Motors Corp. The UAW must also conclude negotiations with Ford of Canada, where bargaining is complicated by government wage and price controls.

But a UAW spokesman said Tuesday night that the union's first priority will be settling the unresolved local contract issues. "Workers at bargaining units that have reached agreement with Ford on local bargaining issues will be returning to work as soon as they are called back by the company," said the statement issued by UAW President Leonard Woodcock and Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 3 Flint Consumers Power is hassling my 86-year-old grandmother who lives in Morrice. The comnanv savs she must either read the meter in her basement or pay what I know will be inflated estimates. She can't negotiate the basement steps very well at her age nor can she afford to pay the high estimates.

She's asked the company to install an outside meter so they can read it themselves but was told it would cost her $100 to get it out of the basement. Can you please help her? P.T., Byron. Grandmother's meter will go outside at no cost to her. Tom Pierce, eastern region general superintendent for company's customer service, told Action Line that she had been asked to read own meter recently due to revamped reading route. Normally, Consumers Power rep would do reading, but meter reader shortage made it necessary for customers to handle chore in some cases.

Pierce thinks reading routes should just about be back to normal next month, but Consumers okayed outside meter for kin anyway, figuring in long run it would be easier on her. Outdoor meter should be installed in time for hots tales Suspend Flu After 3 Deaths in Pittsbur A ffpd Vio timR next reading. Now that red dye No 2 is banned, does that mean I should throw out all my red lipsticks? H.B., Madison Heights. You can hang on to lip lacquer. Consumer adviser for FDA in Detroit told Action Line that colors or dyes used in lipsticks must be approved as food colors.

If lipstick colorings proved dangerous, they would've been recalled. Since your lipsticks contain only miniscule amount of red dye No. 2, word is that it's safe to use them up. Baltimore bac-teriologisf once did study of germs roaming human lips, concluded it was safer for man if woman wore coating of lipstick. He also reported that two-second kiss was less dan y4s Ik GNBVi Nf CEJEWW8 I Hearts Failed From AP and UPI Less than two weeks after it began, the nationwide swine flu vaccination program was suspended in eight states Tuesday after three elderly persons died within hours of taking the flu shots in Pennsylvania.

Florida officials also reported that a 63-year-okl man suffered a fatal heart attack Tuesday about 90 minutes after receiving a swine flu inoculation. However, state health officials said they doubted the attack was caused by the vaccine. Dr. Robert Bowers, director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, said he had received two reports of elderly persons in Oklahoma dying about one hour after receiving swine flu shots. He said that physicians handling the cases said both died of chronic pulmonary disease and not from the inoculations.

gerous (germwise) than "the lingering kind." American Medical Association journal backed findings, wrote chances persons take 'by kissing are really only part of daily living and that there's calculated risk in almost anything. AMA ended by saying only alternative to kiss risk is to become hermit or bore. Action I Erred, Ford Tells Ethnic Leaders BY ROBERT S. BOYD Chief of Our Washington Bureau NEW YORK Battling for support from key voting blocs, President Ford confessed to leaders of Eastern European ethnic groups Tuesday that he made a "mistake" in his remarks about their homelands last week. Later, in a bid for Jewish votes, the president promised that he might go to Israel next year if he wins the election.

"The countries of. Eastern Europe are, of course, dominated by the Soviet Union," Ford told 18 "nationality'1 leaders at the White House before taking off for two days of campaigning in heavily ethnic areas of. New York and New Jersey. "I want to set the record straight," he said. "The original mistake was mine.

I did not express myself clearly; I admit it." This was the frankest admission of error to come from the president's lips since he asserted, in his TV debate with Jimmy Carter last Wednesday, that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." The remark touched off anger among many voters of Please turn to Page 16A, Col. 2 Carter says he'll stop attacking Ford's Europe blunder. Page 16 A. I'm thinking of enrolling in the Police Science program at Oakland Community College. Before I spend all that money, however, I'd like to know if there are good career possibilities for women with this degree.

K.B., Redford. Word is that jobs are waiting for women like never before. According to Bill Rose, dean of career education at Oakland Community College, there are immediate occupational opportunities for women with Associate's sheepskin in number of fields, including policework. Related jobs for women in security agencies are readily available, too. Oakland's class rosters reflect increasing interest of women in crime courses.

OCC's two-year cop curriculum started in 1965, has grown into sophisticated type training. Along with teaching basics like fingerprinting, firearms, homicide investigation and narcotics, students round out class schedules with study of science-oriented subjects. Costs about $900 to nail down Associate's Degree in Applied Science. UPI Photo Action Inoculations were halted entirely in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Vermont, Maine, New Mexico and Alaska. In addition, officials in New York, Michigan and Utah ordered the withholding of more than 200,000 doses of vaccine that came from the same lot of vaccine used in Pennsylvania.

Florida officials said they would, withhold 40,000 doses of the vaccine shipped to that but said thev were not going to stop the inoculation program. The flu shots continued in at least 14 other states, with officials in Massachusetts, California and elsewhere1 saying they had no intention of stopping their programs. Florida health officials said the vaccine injected into Saul Gelman came from the same batch used in Pittsburgh, where three elderly persons died after getting swine flu vaccinations. Dr. Paul Hughes, director nf the Broward County Health Department, said he doubted there was any connection between Gelman's death and the inoculation.

IN NEW YORK City, the largest municipal swine flu program in the nation began on schedule Tuesday. And officials of the federal Center for Disease Control said there were no plans for a nationwide halt in the swine flu program because of the Pennsylvania deaths. "We have no evidence to suggest that these deaths were caused by vaccine or the vaccination programs," sard Dr. David Sencer, director of the Please turn to Pag 1IA, Col. I Line Line THE QUESTION A recent study by a management consulting firm in, Chicago showed that when industries shorten the work week, many employes take on part-time jobs rather than using the extra time for leisure.

If your work week a shortened, would you moonlight at a second job? Watching the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon made me determined to work as a volunteer at a summer camp for handicapped children next year. Can you tell me how I can offer my services? P.N., Union Lake. You're on list of potential volunteers. According to John O'Rourke, director of Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, interviewing will begin in earnest next April when number of people attending annual summer camp is known. O'Rourke said fact that you're 22 years old is in your favor since younger helpers have tough time maneuvering wheelchairs.

Association service told Action Line thst service volunteers are always needed for year-nound activities, if you'd like to help, write Muscular Dystrophy Association, 400 W. Marshall, Ferndale, Mich. 48220. Robert Netto (right) gets a million-dollar hug from Telly Savalas $60-a-Week Pump Jockey Wins $1 Million-at Least Michigan Cautious, But Shots Will Go On BY KEN FIREMAN Free Press Staff Writer Michigan health officials said Tuesday that the state's swine flu inoculation program will continue, but all vaccine from a lot being investigated in three deaths in Pittsburgh will be withheld from distribution. Three elderly persons died Monday in Pittsburgh shortly-after being inoculated against swine flu-Some of the vaccine beins investigated came into Michigan but has Ivyn distributed to only two Michigan countif Ingham and St.

Claii People have been given' shuts from the suspect lot only in Ingham County state Health Director Maurice Reizen said Tuesday. Reizen said the inoculation program in the two affectpd counties would continue, because health officials there had adequate supplies of vaccine available from other lots. He said he was. not ordering a halt to the state's vaccination program, aseveral other states did Tuesday in the wake of the Pittsburgh deaths, because there was no evidence that the flu vaccine had any- Please turn to Page 15A, Col. 5 ANTAL DORATI "an incredible reputation as an orchestra builder." Si Wes 4 to San 4 Frpm UPI and AP NEW YORK Last week Robert J.

Netto was just a 19-year-old high school dropout, pumping gas for $60 a week. Today he's a millionaire at least once and more than three times over if he lives to be 79. He is the first winner in New York State's revamped lottery. (The old one was shut by a scandal involving unsold tickets drawn as winners.) Netto out of his seat with a whoop when his name was announced Monday night by actor Telly Savalas as the "The bread is over here, kid," Savalas, star of television's "Kojak" series, yelled at Netto as he wended his way through a mob of reporters and photographers toward the Hunter College stage. Cheering Netto on was his wife, 18-year-old Judy.

But she indicated that sudden wealth wouldn't change their life. "I was content with him just as he was, a gas station attendant," she said as she helped her husband onto the stage to accept the first Please turn to Page 15A, Col. 4 i 1 1 till I -OJ A. A it ji Anted Dorati' Job: Make A First-Class Orchestra Purge Widens In China From AP and UPI TOKYO Amid reports of a spreading purge, China confirmed Tuesday the apppint-ment of Hua Kuo-feng as the new chairman of China's Communist Party. He thus becomes the successor to the late Mao Tse-tung as leader of 800 million Chinese.

More than 30 top radical leaders have been arrested or detained in the purge of those who opposed Premier Hua's elevation to party chairman, Japanese news reports from Peking said. THE NEWSPAPER Asahi said the radicals had been plotting to name 62-year-old Chiang Ching, Mao's widow, to the party leadership post held by her husband until his death on Sept. 9. She was among those reported arrested. Kyodonews service, in a Peking dispatch, said a government spokesman announced Tuesday night that Hua had been named party leader.

Wall posters had appeared in Peking last week indicating his succession, but there had been no official announcement, apparently because of the then unresolved power Please turn to Page I0A, Col. 1 HOW YOU VOTED NO, 50.1 percent. COMMENTS: "I'd love'to spend the extra time with my family" "Are you kidding?" "I've got plenty of chores to do around the house, without getting a part-time job" "You'll find me at the golf course or race track" "I know I'd rather find something, besides more work, to do with the time." YES, 49.9 percent. COMMENTS: "I can't get along on what I make now. I need an extra job" "I'm used to working long hours.

I wouldn't know what to do with free time" "You need all the money you can get nowadays" "I'd get a second job, then retire when I turned 40." Ann Landers 5C Billy Graham ItiD Bridge 13D Business News 9-12D Classified 12-17C Comics 13-15D Crossword Puzzle 13D Death Notices 12C Earl Wilson 17A Editorials 6 Entertainment 9-1 IC Feature Page 17A Food Guide MOB Horoscope 13D Movie Guide IMSD Obituaries 16B Opinion 7A Sports 1-7D Stock Markets 10-12D Television 8D Women's Pages 1-8C HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6500 orchestra that made it possible to attract Dorati. "The next step in the artistic development of the Detroit Symphony is totally consistent with his own ambitions," Turkin said. "He has an incredible reputation as an orchestra builder. This orchestra was built many years ago but needs the finishing touches that a distinguished talent such as Dorati can provide." Both Turkin and symphony Chairman Robert B. Semple Jr.

emphasized that Dorati has not yet signed a contract. "I can't say he's here until he signs," Semple said, adding: "The idea of someone like Dorati coming here is a wonderful thing for this orchestra. It's really a very exciting Please turn to Page 15A, Col. 1 BY JOHN GUINN AND KATHY WARBELOW Free Press Stafl Writers Internationally known conductor Antal Dorati is expected to weild the baton for the Detroit Symphony next year. Symphony Executive Director Marshall Turkin sajd Tuesday that the 70-year-old Dorati "hopefully" will sign a contract sometime in November, ending nearly a year of negotiations that included meetings on two continents.

Dorati, currently the conductor of the National Symphony in Washington, is a highly regarded, talent known especially for his ability to turn less-than-great orchestras into first-class ones. Turkin said it was the challenge of turning the Detroit Symphony into a world-famous TOMORROW'S QUESTION The state energy administrator has proposed that license plate fees be based on a combination of vehicle value and gas efficiency, rather than simply on weight. Do you favor the proposal? To vote YES To vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422.