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Free Press telephones City News Desk 222-6600 To Place Want Ads 222-6800 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 For Home Delivery 222-6500 All Other Calls 222-6400 today's chuckle The old watchmaker died and left 500 clocks. His lawyer is busy winding up the estate. Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Tuesday, July 1, 1980 i iifi Doubts and hopes GM's plans bring mixed emotions to Hamtramck By GREGORY SKWIRA Free Press Staff Writer Lue Belle Perry, passing the evening on the porch of her near north side home, couldn't muster much enthusiasm Monday about the wave of prosperity that may soon wash over her neighborhood. "I can't stay in no Cadillac," she snorted when a visitor broke the news that General Motors Corp.

may put a car plant in her front yard. "Where am I supposed to go?" THERE WERE NO ANSWERS Monday. Just the news that 1,500 homes and 150 business in Detroit and Hamtramck face "purchase and relocation" from authorities in both cities who hope to keep GM's Cadillac Division from leaving town. Those homes and business would be in an area bounded by Dodge Main on the north, the Ford Freeway on the south, St. Aubin on the west and Conrail tracks on the east.

But what if the city offers less than the $15,000 he wants? "Just get the money, we'll work something out," he said. "I'm ready to go to Warren." NO BUSINESSES OR HOMES north of the now-abandoned Dodge Main plant are affected by the relocation threat. So, needless to say, the businesses uptown in Hamtramck are thrilled by the news that their area may be revitalized by GM money. "Let's hope it's true," said Walter Tysh, owner of the Yemans restaurant, who said his business has dropped about 20 percent since Dodge Main closed. His wife, Helen, added that area businessmen are optimistic but cautious about the news, knowing that a lot of things must happen before 500 urban acres can become an auto assembly plant.

"Sonje people are saying, 'Well, it's a lot of talk, we've heard it she said. "We're just hoping that it's true." Pat Sanford, Mrs. Perry's neighbor, said she will fight whomever she has to in order to stay in her rented home at 2239 Finley. "They're not going to make me move," she said. "I've got rights just like they've got.

I can go to court to fight, too." BUT A FEW BLOCKS away, Chester Dujinski was excited at the prospect of moving. "You just get your bag of green stuff," said the 57-year-old machine operator. "You give me 15 grand, you can have it today." Dujinski, 57, said he bought his home for $12,000 in 1964 and has been thinking for some time about moving closer to his machine-operator job in Center Line. But he said he didn't put his two-story frame house on the market because he didn't know how much he could get for it, and because the $12 a week he gets for renting the upstairs helped meet expenses. IfcMKjnaVi niirim I in uni.l.l i II mini mil Free Press Photo bv HUGH GRANNUM Chester Dujinski is eager to sell his home to the city.

"You just get your bag of green stuff. You give me 1 5 grand, you, can have it today." The law catches up with our lawmaker U.S. Sen. Carl Levin was subjected to the hardships of an ordinary citizen last Friday. His blue Plymouth was towed away while parked on a street in Washington.

The Michigan Democrat, who has a stellar Senate attendance record, had to rush out to the car pound between roll calls. Before he could retrieve his wheels, however, Levin had to pay about $60 for outstanding parking tickets as well as a $50 towing penalty. Hospital realism isn't quite chic enough No detail is too small when it comes to making films. Jane Wyatt, otherwise known as the mother in the old TV series "Father Knows Best," was at Henry Ford Hospital recently making a fund-raising film for the March of Dimes. Some scenes were about to be shot in the special newborn nursery, which cares for two- to four-pound babies.

But the loose-hanging scrub gown Ms. Wyatt was supposed to wear didn't conform to filmdom chic. So a seamstress was called in, the gown was altered and carefully pressed, and then the drama got under way. Moscow Misha waves the red, white and blue It comes as no surprise that the cuddly teddy bear Misha the official mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics has been selling poorly in the good ol' U.S. of A.

And there has been some talk of outfitting the little fellow in U.S. Olympic Hockey Team T-shirts. But the folks at the Shapero Drug Store on Griswold in downtown Detroit did their own fashion redesigning. They have Misha decked out with little American flags tucked into his five-ringed Olympic logo belt. Bleachers back GM Jr layed9 but beer is small But a Bl ML I lrf-'T7f 'Ail Gains Cut through the bleachers, there were no major disturbances.

Detroit police officer Larry Walker said one man was arrested for being drunk in a public place, and was led from the bleachers in handcuffs. The bleachers, which hold about 10,500 fans at $2 a head, were about half-full Monday night. Although they had been closed since June 16, that amounted to just a one-game affair, since the Tigers went on a long road trip right after the closing. To keep things quiet Monday night, Tiger management took precautions. The number of private security guards assigned to the bleachers was increased from 10 to 18.

And guards searched incoming bleacher patrons. Beachball throwing had become a side attraction in recent weeks, disturbing fans and occasionally disrupting games when the balls were thrown out onto the field. Guards at concession stands enforced the long-standing but widely ignored rule prohibiting patrons from buying more than two beers at a time. By BILLY BOWLES Free Press Staff Writer The Detroit Tigers reopened their trouble-plagued centerfield bleachers Monday night with a 9-4 win over Cleveland, and only one significant problem: The new, smaller beer cups to combat alcohol-related rowdiness failed to win the hearts of the crowd. "Unbelieveable," said Dan Kurz-mann, 21, of Southfield, looking with disdain at the nine-ounce cup of beer he had -just purchased for 75 cents.

"You could snuff that (much) up your nose," snorted Richard Bearre, 23, of Detroit, equally unimpressed. Until Tiger management closed the bleachers after a June 1 6 game at which six persons were arrested and 14 others were ticketed for bleacher unrest, 14 ounces of beer sold for $1.15. The new shrunken vessels made their debut in the bleachers only Monday night. ASIDE FROM the complaints about the smaller beers, hoever, there were few problems. Although the acrid smell of marijuana smoke wafted, as usual, By HUGH McDIARMID Lansing Bureau Chief LANSING Members of a state Senate committee accused General Motors Corp.

of using "appalling" tactics and playing "a confidence game" with the public Mondav, but they still approved legislation calling for a 50 percent sales tax break on new passenger vehicles sold in July. But representatives of Michigan's two largest auto dealer associations denounced the bill and said they would try to have it amended or killed when it reaches the Senate floor on Tuesday. The action came at a meeting of the Senate Finance Committeer Compiled by DONNA URSCHEL which was rushing to position House-passed legislation for final approval so that it would take effect on the first of the month. ALL WAS GOING smoothly until GM's director of state-local governmental relations, John J. Flaharty, told committee members that his company was raising prices across the country about 1.5 percent Tuesday but would rescind them for a month in Michigan if watch Fa Free Press Photo bv AL KAMUDA Look no beer, no beach ball: A bleacher fan shows he's clean.

Phone line set up to aid convention time parking Worried about downtown parking during the Republican National Convention? Try calling "Parking Hotline" at 963- Police press hunt for boy's killers the Legislature approved its tax break. He said the price hike, if delayed by enactment of a tax break, would be an additional "incentive" for car sales in July. Committee Chairman Gary Corbin, D-Clio, appeared stunned by Flaharty's remarks. "I'm not sure of what I heard," he said. "Are you telling me that if we do not approve this (tax break) bill, you're raising your prices in this state?" Flaharty said that was correct.

Later, Corbin, who is an ordained Church of God minister and one of the Senate's less emotional members, said he was shocked by GM's announcement. "It's appalling to me that a company would come in here on the eve of legislation like this and announce a price hike," he said. 4390, a service of the Municipal Parking Department, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., July 7 to 20. Also, a good bet might be to try the Park 'N' Ride service at the lot at Michigan Avenue and Third Street.

Park for $1.75 a day and then take the 15-cent shuttle bus. Gerald Volgenau Sen. Corbin youngsters were approached by two boys. One pulled a pistol and demanded that Hendry and Brown give up their bicycles. "Brown pedaled off, and, as he did, he was shot at and hit in the leg," Suchyta said.

"As he was going down, he looked back and saw the Hendry youngster wrestling with the other two guys." After reaching safety at a nearby pizzeria, Brown was taken to Wayne County General Hospital, where he was questioned by Dearborn Heights police and state troopers, who then began searching for Hendry. Brown was treated and later released. POLICE FOUND HENDRY'S body about 12:30 a.m. Saturday in a field near Beech-Daly and Kitch. The youngster, who had been shot once in the head, had died in the field, according to investigators.

Hendry's bike was found 18 hours later in a residential area near Middlebelt and Van roads, about two miles from the shooting scene, Suchyta said. "We've talked to the Brown youngster, arid neither victim knew the other two who approached them," he said. Hendry's funeral is scheduled for 1 1 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Church of God, 5467 Beech-Daly, Dearborn Heights. Burial will be at Oakridge Cemetery in Flat Rock.

By BRIAN FLANIGAN Free Press Staff Writer While preparations were being made for the funeral of Mason Hendry II Tuesday, Dearborn Heights police continued seeking leads into the fatal shooting of the 15-year-old Inkster youth. "We've been putting in an enormous amount of man hours checking out leads, and this is one case we want to break soon," Lt. Richard Suchyta said Monday. Hendry was found dead early Saturday, a few hours after two other teenagers shot him while stealing his bicycle. Another Inkster youth, Hendry's companion, was wounded.

The stolen bicycle, recovered Saturday, is being examined at the State Police crime lab in Northville, Suchyta said. "At this point we're also hoping that we'll get something fingerprints or the like off the bike," he said. THE SHOOTING OCCURRED late Friday when Hendry, riding a bicycle borrowed from his brother, and Bobby Brown, 15, were pedaling along Beech-Daly to a nearby pinball arcade, police said. Near Kitch Street, according to homicide investigators, the two Committee Vice-Chairman Doug Ross, D-Oak Park, joined in the criticism. "It's a real confidence move they (GM) are putting on us," soeiiad off jP he said.

"It's outrageous." Nevertheless, the committee approved a modified bill that would; cut in half the four percent sales tax break approved by the House and stipulate that it would take effect only if manufacturers promise to match the tax break with an equal customer rebate. And, in language that angered auto dealer lobbyists and took them See AUTO TAX, Page 10A SANGER STREET Congress has little time to restore TRA benefits Police called lax in racial violence Drop Rouge Plant tours? In a cost-cutting move the Ford Motor Co. is dropping its public tours of the Rouge Plant, a popular tourist attraction that has drawn nearly eight million people in the last 52 years. Do you think this is a wise move on Ford's part? How you voted NO, 91 percent. COMMENTS: "Tours were one of the best customer relations things they had" "It was a great tourist attraction for Detroit" "Just in time for the Republicans to miss learning about the auto industry" "I took that tour years ago and I'll always remember it." YES, 9 percent.

COMMENTS: "That's better than laying off more workers" "People don't realize how expensive public relations things can be" "Who ever went on factory tours? We are all too sick of working in them." if-Nt I'; other automotive states hurt by layoffs have been pushing for passage before the recess. IF THE COMMITTEE meets Tuesday and ap: kv proves the more than 200 items in the appropriations measure, it could go to the House Wednesday for action. It then would go to the Senate. But it first would be necessary to waive the "three-day rule," which gives lawmakers three days to study legislation or line up their artillery rf they oppose it. If the waivers and appropriations; are approved, the bill then could go to President Carter Thursday for his signature.

The benefit cutoff stemmed from the failure of By RALPH ORR Free Press Labor, Writer If a congressional conference committee weighing budget appropriations completes its deliberations in time, payment of import-related unemployment benefits to Michigan auto workers could resume next week, a Michigan Employment Security Commission spokesman said Monday. But the timetable is tight, and the Senate's plan to take an election-year recess from Thursday to July 21 is a cloud hanging over the proceedings. The outlook was uncertain late Monday. A Senate spokesman said the conferees will meet Tuesday. But a House spokesman said the committee "might meet" Tuesday, an aide to Sen.

Donald Riegle said. Trade Readjustment Assistance (TRA) benefits for laid-off auto workers were cut off June 1 1 when TRA funds were exhausted. Resumption of payments is awaiting congressional approval $16 billion supplemental budget appropriation, which includes $1.5 billion in TRA money. If the Senate recesses and the appropriations measure has not been approved, 86,000 Michigan auto workers who have lost income because of competition from imports would have to wait until late July or early August for their checks. Senators from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and 4 ing driven out of their homes," said Councilman Kenneth Cock-rel.

"If anything can incite a riot it's black people being driven from their homes. It's outrageous." Cockrel was also critical of the way police handled the incident, in which Cheryl Nobles and her friend, Maurice Clifton, both 22, were forced to vacate the house on Sanger Street when a crowd of 20 neighbors began stoning it. Police escorted the couple out of the neighborhood and arrested one man for disorderly conduct. "It's just ridiculous that they arrested one person for being disorderly while 20 people were there," Cockrel said. COCKREL'S COMPLAINTS were echoed Monday by Philip G.

Smith, supervisor of the Human Rights Department's complaints division. By KEN FIREMAN City-County Bureau Chief Officials in the city's Human Rights Department charged Monday that Detroit police failed to give adequate protection to a young black woman who was driven from her rented Sanger Street home on the west side last Friday by violent neighbors. But officers at the 6th (MqGraw) Precinct insisted that they had responded to every complaint filed by the woman and were not aware until Friday that the conflict was racial in nature. And other police officials said officers are searching for witnesses in hopes of obtaining warrants against those responsible for the violence. The City Council ordered both departments to present reports on the incident at the council's Thursday session.

"Here are people literally be Sound off is a non-scientific, reader opinion feature. Today's percentages are based on approximately 450 calls. Tomorrow's question Councilman Cockrel: "It's just ridiculous Smith said Ms. Noble called him Friday, the day after neighbors spray-painted racial slurs and Ku Klux Klan insignia on her house, to complain that police had not responded to her call for help. He said the woman told him she had called police three hours earlier.

Smith said he called the office of Joseph Areeda, deputy chief for western operations, to complain about the lack of police response. "They were very casual about it," he said. "They said See ATTACK, Page 10A 77 White House budget planners to allow for the surge in TRA petitions at a time when imports were capturing 25 percent of U.S. auto sales. UNDER THE TRA PROGRAM, those who have lost work because of increased import sales can receive a maximum of $269 a week, including unemployment compensation, for up to 52 weeks.

provided by the 1 974 Trade Act, TRA benefits are intended to protect workers who suffer be Seven out of 10 Americans support increased trade barriers to protect Ameri can jobs from imported goods, according to a New York TimesCBS News Poll. Do you support increased barriers on im ports? (See story on Page 3B.) cause liberal trade policies lead to more imports. No state has been hit harder by soaring import; sales than Michigan. Benefit payments to 40,000 To vote YES To vote NO auto workers were halted when the fund ran Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422 i 'rl.