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34 1 m. 33 2 m. Vol. 142 No. 263 Friday, January 26, 1973 LBJ Hill Folks Miss 'The Man 7 VmiHrflBl a I 4 a CLOUDY Continued Mild High 50-55 Low 35-40 Map and Dttallt en Paaa.

110 HOURLY Tf MPCKATURII Tiiey Hunker to the Wind to Bury a Friend Action Line lolveg problems, get answers, cms red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 88 Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday. At the Stonewall Cafe, just west of the ranch on U.S.-90, the chili had grown cold and the doors were closed' to strangers, as F.va, the waitress, and the owners, Kermit and Til-lie Huhne, sipped on Schlitz and talked. Eva, a newcomer to the Hill Country from Arkansas, was complaining that she didn't get to see "The Man" when he drove up last Sat urday, as he often did, to pass the time of the day with Kermit and Tillie. BV SAUL FRIFDMAN Fret Crau Waihinglon Stall I.BJ RANCH It was, Lyndon Baines Johnson might have said, a time for hunkenn' down against God and his elements. For during the night, while I.BJ was lying there in Washington, a bone-chilling gray norther had blown down from the Texas Panhandle, battering the rocky wintergreen landscape of the Ldwards Plateau with sleet and rain.

And the beads or folks In the Hill Country were lowered all the more as they prepared for Thursday, when they would bury their tall neighbor, one they will always call "The Man" or "The President." IN THE RAINY blackness of the long night, traffic moved along Ranch Road 1. Planes and helicopters set down on the landing strip with important visitors and soldiers to direct he's gone for good. I wanted to see him so bad." Tom and Betty Weinheimer, the closest neighbors to the Johnsons, sat in their living room with their daughter, Nan, as the weather beat down on their gray frame housa p.nd the Herefords stood in the fields, their haunches to the wind. And the Weinheimers allowed as how though the Hill country was sad, the grief wasn't deep. They watched Lady Bird on the television and feared the nation might misunderstand the stoic smile an her face.

"She knew it was coming, after his first Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 1 the crowds. And a grave was opened for Lyndon Johnson in the little family cemetery, under the dripping branches of a live oak, a few hundred yards from the place he was born. Cactus Pryor, an old friend and family em-pfoye, remembers: "Whenever he'd show a visitor around the ranch, even President Kennedy, he'd take them to that spot under the oak and say 'that's where I'm going to be burrk-d "In a way, you see, he didn't go very far from home. And when you know where you've been born and where you're going to go when it's over, It's a secret source of strength." "Tillie tojd me to go out by the Ice house so could get a look at him in the car," Eva I said, gone.

Man "But by the time I got there he was Tillie said she's introduce me to The on my birthday, Friday week. And now Last month my son drove the family car Into a hole a font deep on East Grand River in Brighton. 1 drove back there later that afternoon, and found a Michigan Bell employe filling the hole. I called their Lansing office with my $300 claim, but was turned down. They denied the hole was theirs and told me Michigan Bell repaired the pavement as "community good will." Who are they trying to kid? W.B., Brighton.

Get your car fixed, Bell's okayed repairs. Company is building new main switching station at Grand River and George in Brighton, but there's other construction in area. Michigan Roll had your sun point out hole location to company representative, was satisfied hazard might've been its fault. Bell will pick up tab on your car, fight it out with other construction companies at the site to see who'll get stuck with final bill. I watch The Ghoul every Saturday night and really dig his sweat shirt.

Can you find out where I can get one to watch his crummy horror movies In true I lOl ecS St mxoii pint Johnson Buried on Banks of Of ietcon act i ay "scratch glass and turn blue" style? T.J., Troy. If your allow it in the house, we'll tell you where to buv one. Send $3 to Box 6100, Cleveland, Ohio 44101 for small, medium and large shirts with life-like picture of your hero. The Ghoul presents some of the worst movies ever filmed Saturday nights on Kai- K''XqihH ff 1 ser Broadcasting's WKBD-TV. yif He dresses like a Halloween 1 party reject, and for some WW Cambodia Decides on Cease-Fire unexplainable reason has huge followings in Detroit and Cleveland, where show originates.

Kaiser affiliates in San Francisco and Boston report His River BY SAUL FRIEDMAN AND IOYE MILLER JR. Fraa Prasi Washington Stall LBJ RANCH Lyndoji Baines Johnson was laid to rest Thursday on the banks of the Pedernales River. The Rev. Billy Graham, whom Johnson asked to preach at his funeral, said of the 36th president: "He was a mountain of a man with a whirlwind for a heart. History will not ignore him, for he was" history in motion." Former Texas Gov.

John Connally, who owes his wealth and political life to Lyndon Johnson, said in the eulogy: "Along this stream and under these trees he loved he will now rest. He first saw light here. He has felt life here. May he now find peace here." The rain of Wednesday night had stopped but the ground was sodden as thousands of his neighbors, friends and fellow Texans gathered around him at the family cemetery not far from the house in which he was born. smaller audiences for the "Creature Feature" flicks.

Ghoul's really Ron Sweed, 24-year-old former Bowling Green University student, who got his start in show biz at the age of 13 when he portrayed a gorilla. The Ghoul's critics say he's a poor imitation of the science fiction movie hosts he once worked for. He answered his critics for Action Line with typical Ghoulish wit, "They have chrome balls in their heads." I'm an 82-year-old widow with a problem. I've lived In the same house in Madison Heights for 27 years. Consumers Power billed me 123 for gas used in a different home on 11 Mile Road.

The name at that address is the same as mine. Now the company turned my name over to a credit agency that threatened me with a ruined credit rating. I won't let them scare me into a payment that's not my responsibility. Please help me straighten this'out. Mrs.

M.M., Madison Heights. Consumer Power admits its mistake, collection agenev's off your back. Thomas Green, assistant division manager for Consumers Power, said there's a long overdue hill at I Mile Road address. Records show company gave up trying to collect bill in April, 1172, turned debt over to its collectors. Collection agency mailed threats to house on 11 Mile.

Green said building at 11 Mile address was demolished, Madison Heights Post Office employe recognized your name on bills, thought he'd be helpful From UPI and AP With a Vietnam cease-fire two days away, the Vietcont? foreign minister complained Tuesday that President Nixon had already violated its spirit. South Vietnam warned that the war would start again if the communists broke the agreement. But the complaints from the opposing parties in the South scarcely ruffled the rush toward peace. The prime minister of neighboring Cambodia said that this government will halt offensive actions against the communists when the ceai.e-fire begins in Vietnam this weekend. And sources outside Indochina said that a cease-fire will take effect in Laos Feb.

11. North Vietnam urged a 1 1 parties to live up to the accord that will be signed in Paris Saturday. Generally, the communists continued to hail the cease-fire as their victory. Radio Hanoi continued broadcasting the terms of the peace agreement to its people, as did the North Vietnamese news agency and the clandestine Vietcong radio. They have not made any propaganda statements Pj ft jki fer FOR THE hill country people the funeral was an event as big as the man who had lived in their midst.

Clouds hung low over the hills and the temperature was r. -i fc and forward mail to you. Good deed turned into good amount of confusion. A letter of apology is on the way to you from Consumers Power. 'itl.

Action Line ('. UPI Photo family the Johnson Former Tresidcnt Lyndon B. Johnson Is laid to rest Thursday afternoon, next to his mother and father, beneath a giant oak tree In cemetery on the LBJ Ranch. against the i Officer Shot in Bar dropping sharply toward freezing as the funeral cortege made its way on the Texas Hill Counry Trail the rond from Austin through the LBJ State Park, toward tljo cemetery. Bells pealed slowly at the little Trinity Church across the Pedernales as Mrs.

Lady Bird Johnson, her daughters, Luci and Linda, their husbands and children, were escorted into the little cemetery in a grove of live oak trees. The military band played a hymn as Johnson's bare steel casket covered only with the flag was brought slowly to the grave. There was not a flower In sight. After Dr. Graham and Connally spoke, six 105-mm howitzers fired a 21-round salute, the booms echoed in the darkening hills.

Somewhere a frightened child cried for a moment. But the former president's grandson, Patrick Lyndon, 5, stood manfully and saluted. As "Taps" pierced the quiet, Mrs. Nellie Connally cried and bit her lips. But Mrs.

Johnson held her head higher and United States since the a emcnt was announced. In Paris, however, Mrs. Nguyen i i the Victc'ong for After Killing Patron I bought a 1972 Plymouth Duster from Triangle Chrysler-Plymouth in Lansing last October. It was less than perfect. The hood insignia was broken, the dashboard cut, the side door and trunk top were loo.se, the windshield was scratched and the jack bent in half.

Triangle went out of business, and I was referred to Capitol Dodge In East Lansing for service. Capitol said they'd take care of the hood and dashboard under warranty, but I'd have to pay for the other repairs. This hardly seems fair. Can Action Line Haslett. Your Duster has an appointment at the beauty shop.

Plymouth told Capitol to go ahead with repairs, company would pick up tab. Items covered under warranty could've been repaired by any Plymouth dealer. The other defects were Triangle's responsibility under dealer preparation agreement with Plymouth. Plymouth agreed to help after Action Line explained triangle left you high and dry. New dealer doesn't assume guarantees or responsibilities of referrals from car dealers that go out of business.

Plymouth spokesman said company handles these repairs as a "matter of courtesy." I'm presently serving time at the Michigan Training Unit in Ionia. While I'm here, I'd like to continue my education. What I'd really like to he Is a real estate salesman, but Ionia doesn't offer one real estate course. Why? R.M. Ionia.

Chances are slim you'd get t6 use the knowledge. Real Estate Licensing Board spokesman Richard Gricsinger said, "The board generally doesn't license parolees." State law permits board to deny licensing to persons convicted of a felony within five years of application. Board can also require prior business experience. Your cause is championed by State Senator Harry A. DeMaso (R), Battle Creek.

He sponsored bill which would've prohibited state licensing agencies ffom denying ex-convicts license in realty, dentistry, medicine, etc. Bill died last year in legislature, but DeMaso is hopeful of reintroducing it this year. II. Gary Wells, supervisor of treatment for State Department of Corrections, said Department supports DeMaso's proposed bill. eign minister, Mrs.

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1 McManus, 24, assigned to the Mack police station. WITNESSES said McManus was drinking In the Bedford Inn, E. Warren, Thursday night. THERE ERE about a doz. en patrons in the bar when the shooting occurred.

Thomas J. Ferris, 55, of 5934 Audubon, one- of the patrons, said he witnessed the shooting. He said he" was standing next to McManus at the bar BY ROBERT DeWOLFE Fraa Pratt Stall Wrilar An off-duty Detroit policeman shot and killed a man he was drinking with Thursday night in an east side Detroit bar, police reported. The policeman, in turn, was shot and wounded by other officers who thought he was trying to hold up the bar. The dead man was identified as Emil Salamino, 47, of 14219 Wilfred.

The wounded officer was identified as Patrolman James Rocket attack kills American, who may be the last U.S. fatality in the war. rage IB. Vietnam chronology: Peace talks got off to shaky start. Page 4C.

smiled. Yoichi Okamolo, the Japanese-American White House photographer who had followed Johnson throughout his presidency- and after that, knelt in the cemetery taking his last pictures. As Anita Bryant sang "The Battle Hym.ii of the the flag on the coffin was folded and preserved to Mrs. Johnson. She kissed it and Please turn to Page 2A, Col.

The Lottery Scores New Supergoof THE QUESTION Do you think parking meters should be junked? mMtMrfttMh utinmfti Mmtft iWirl yr Winning Numbers If you have 266 or 696, you win ano quaiuy ior a Yv)yW-J million dollar drawing, lf ''fS'' you nave or Jbti, HOW YOU VOTED YES, 70.5 percent. COMMENTS: "Free parking structures should be built so the downtown area can compete with the suburbs" "Lower the parking fines too" "I'll take one and make it a coin bank" "The only ticket in my life was for an expired meter" "The city has no right to charge people to park." NO, 29.5 percent. COMMENTS: "It would be nice for the earlycomcrs but rctten for the rest of us" "It's the only fair way to give every driver a chance to park his car" "What would all those meter maids do?" mini j(D THE ENVELOPE containing the winning number was ripped open, and Gardner stepped up to the microphone. "And the winner is No. 8, Mr.

Taylor." The enthusiastic crowd of mostly college students broke into cheers and applause. Confetti snowed out of the bleachers. "Wonderful. Wonderful," enthused Taylor, raising his arms and gesturing like victorious boxer. THEN STARTLED spectators shouted to Gardner through the din that Taylor No.

7. Polaski was No. 8. Gardner's head jerked. "Wait a minute," he shouted.

"I've made a mistake. The winner is Mr. Polaski. He's No. 8." Polaski turned gray for a moment and stood frozen.

Then he tucked the check into his wallet. He had bought 16 tickets last week, at 16 different bars. "I'm going to have to find the bar where I bought this," he said shakily, "and see if it's for sale. How many bars are there from Woodward to Wyoming? There must be 100." This was the second time the Super Lottery Please turn to Page 2A, Col. 3 BY JUDITH FRUTIG Fraa Pratt Stall Wrltar YPSILANTI For the second time in five weeks, Thursday the Michigan Lottery for- tune machine, the glittering gateway to the chance of a lifetime, broke down.

This time the number was right, but for a few embarrassing moments emcee Greg Gardner tried to give the $200,000 supcrprize to the wrong contestant. In the Eastern Michigan University field-house, the razzmatazz had ended. The moment of truth was at hand. The two contestants vying for a prize of either $200,000 or $50,000 were waiting at center stage. They were No.

7, Wardell Taylor, 57, a Detroit bank custodian, and No. 8, Andrew E. Polaski, 49, a bachelor who works as'a foreman with the Wayne County Road Commission and lives with his 91-year-old father. "What are you going to do with the money?" Gardner a.sked the two drawn, tense men. "Buy the bar where I bought the ticket," said Polaski.

"I think I'd scout around a little bit," answered Taylor. Vi'. 'l" tV A t': you quality for a super drawing at which you will win at least $10,000 and perhaps as much as $200,000. All winners should contact one of the 7,000 lottery agents for the location of the nearest claim center. Take your winning ticket to the claim center for verification.

The next week'y drawing will be nt 9:15 a.m. Thursday In the Eagles Marina, 119 E. Spring Street, Port Austin, nt the too of the Thumb. Tickets for that drawing are on sale until Tuesday morning. LOTTERY NOS.

Oil oSiD II TOMORROW'S QUESTION Common Council President Mel Ravitz says, "We don't need anymore freeways." Do you agree? (See "State of the City" story on Page 3A.) To Vote YES To Vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 981-4422 iv Mrs. Johnson reacts to eulogy delivered by Billy Graham during services Thursday at the LBJ Ranch..