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Froo 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 Why is it that a crowd has to be very quiet while a golfer addresses a stationary ball, but is allowed to yell like crazy at a batter who is having one thrown at him at 90 miles per hour? PAGE Saturday, September 13, 1980 Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT All systems are go for riverfront project By PATRICIA CHARGOT Free Press Staff Writer Eroded shore to be filled in The way has been cleared for construction of a landfill in the Detroit River that will alter the downtown shoreline and provide sites for a public park, a $100 million hotel and 1,000 luxury apart ments and townhouses, Mayor Young said Friday. The landfill, a crucial element in the Riverfront West project being planned by financier Max Fisher and developer A. Alfred Taubman, will begin at the foot of Third Street, on the west side of the Joe Louis difficult project that was started seven years ago," Fisher said, calling Riverfront West "a catalyst for the whole riverfront." Young called the landfill, which will replace seven acres of eroded shoreline, a "historic restoration" and said he would eventually seek federal funds to build a permanent seawall like one in Cleveland. THE NEW landfill will include a 130-slip marina.

In a development involving other downtown projects, Young said Friday chances are "pretty good" that the city will receive federal grants for the $80 million multiuse Robert Millender Center ($10 million grant) and the' $74.5 million Renaissance Center Phase III residential development ($4.9 million grant) when the grants are announced in October. "I think that we'll get approval," said Young during dedication ceremonies for three downtown public works projects. Arena, and stretch four blocks to Cabacier Street. Most of the new land mass, except for the 60-foot- Gov. Milliken, who attended the press conference, called the landfill "a major development for Detroit and the whole state of Michigan," dubbing the Riverfront West project "the most dramatic enhancement of Michigan's shoreline since construction of the Mackinac Bridge more than two decades ago." Riverfront Associates, Riverfront West's developers, will contribute $500,000 toward the $1 million filling and development of the 200-foot-long easement and park.

They will also provide the city with strips of land for a bicycle path that will run around the eastern, northern (Jefferson) and western sides of their development. The city will seek matching funds from the state and the federal government, the mayor's office said. "This is just another step forward in a very developers will give the city a 200-foot-long strip of landfill next to the 60-foot-long park to pave, landscape and light for public use. The total length of the landfill is about 600 feet. The 60-foot park will be located west of the dock used by Bob-Lo boats.

The 200-foot strip next to it would front the hotel. AT A LATE morning press conference in the mayor's office, Tom Washington, the conservation group's executive director, called the landfill "a unique opportunity to develop the riverfront" and said his organization fully approves the project. "This is a great day for the city," Mayor Young said. "There have been snags, impediments here and there, but we're ready to move forward on the project." long park, will front the new apartments and the hotel. Fisher and Taubman hope to break ground for the project next year.

Michigan United Conservation Clubs, which re present some 200,000 sportsmen, had threatened to block the project because the landfill fronting it was to be restricted, cutting off recreational access to the river by fishermen and other citizens. See LANDFILL, Page 9A Young: "A great day." Under the new agreement, however, the project NO MONEY FOR 2,400 Tisch plan County Workers returned to ballot Miss Paychecks By HUGH McDIARMID Lansing Bureau Chief LANSING The state Supreme Court late Friday night reversed a lower court decision and ordered the Tisch tax-cutting amendment returned to the Michigan Nvember general election ballot. The action was unanimous. Earlier Friday night, an attorney for Rob I p- -fi i i Ic'A 1a -v 4 Ml riTAiiiiiiiiiiiMMiiiii imin i i I ert Tisch had told the court: "Your honors, we followed the rules." And he said denying the Tisch amendment a place on November's ballot would be denying the people their rights to amend their constitution. Tisch's opponent, attorney Zolton Fer- ency, argued otherwise.

He said the state Constitution is a serious document and that if Tisch wants the people to amend it, he ought to follow the law. THE OCCASION was an unusual 8 p.m. By CAREY ENGLISH Free Press Staff Writer Some 2,400 employes of strapped-for-cash Wayne County were not paid Friday. Officials continued to try to devise a cost-cutting plan that would avoid layoffs and bring in the $20 million the county needs to make It through the end of its budget year Nov. 30.

Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz said nearly $2 million in paychecks are due primarily for employes assigned to Wayne County General Hospital and the county sheriff. "We're angry and frustrated and demoralized," said Steven Krzeminski, president of Local 25 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, representing about 900 hospital employes. "Like everyone else, we have obligations to meet. Now we're faced with the uncertainty of no paychecks and, more important, no promise about when this situation is going to end." But Bob Updike, chief negotiator for 3,700 county general fund and court employes represented by AFSCME, said Friday, "We've asked people to co-operate temporarily and report for work." Krzeminski said the union was told Thursday that the county wouldn't be able to meet the Friday payroll the smaller of the county's two payrolls. Different groups of employes are paid in alternate weeks.

Wayne County has piled up steadily larger budget deficits since 1974-1975 and last year experienced cash shortages resulting in employes being paid late on two occasions. OFFICIALS SAID THEY expect to have enough cash to pay the 2,400 employes Tuesday. But Board of Auditors Chairman Richard Kelly pointed out the county still needed $700,000 to meeUhe Friday payroll. It was the first time this year that the county failed to make the payroll, although officials said they came close to missing a $2.6 million payroll covering 3,700 employes Aug. 22.

Officials predict the county will miss three or four more paydays. County leaders met Friday in an effort to devise a cost-cutting plan they hope will persuade the state Municipal Finance Commission to let the county borrow $20 million and repay the debt out of future property tax revenues. The officials have been trying to come up with a plan that will session of the state's high court which had agreed Thursday to hear an emergency appeal of last week's Ingham County Circuit Court decision banning the so-called Tisch amendment from the November ballot. The decision, by Judge James R. Gidding, held that initiative petitions circulated by Tisch in order to get his proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot were flawed because they failed to specify all the sections Free Press Photo by DAVID TURNLEY of the state constitution that would be altered or abrogated by it.

The proposed amendment is named for Mrs. Josephine Hoffa Hoffa's wife dies at age 62 By JACK KRESNAK and RALPH ORR Free Press Staff Writers Mrs. Josephine Hoffa, wife of missing Teamsters President James R. Hoffa, died Friday evening at Grace Hospital in Detroit. She was A spokesman for the hospital said Mrs.

Hoffa, who entered the hospital Sunday, died in the cor-ronary care unit at 7:12 p.m. of "small stroke syndrome," a disease defined as a number of small Tisch, the flamboyant Shiawassee County drain commissioner. It would, if approved by voters, cut local property taxes by more than A bit of ivork, a bit of play Commissioners William Sullivan (above) and ClareTice Young were on the grounds of the Grosse He Golf and Country Club Friday afternoon while most Wayne County commissioners were trying to solve the problem of payless paydays for workers. After a morning meeting on wastewater problems, Sullivan and Young went golfing instead of joining other members of the commission's Ways and Means Committee, who met until 3 p.m. 50 per cent, require the state to make up lost revenue to local governments and schools, See TISCH, Page 9A ound off Ma 270 more city teachers win favor with the commission, which is responsible for protecting the credit of the state and its political subdivisions.

But the effort so far has been unsuccessful. FRIDAY, WAYNE COUNTY Board of Commissioners Chairman Samuel Turner proposed that the county impose a hiring freeze for the rest of the county's budget year and renew it for the next budget See PAYROLL, Page 9A get rNov. layott notices blockages that stop the flow of would require the schools not only to rescind all the layoff notices, but also to hire teachers to replace those who have left voluntarily. The state appeals court is expected to rule soon on the Swum in i MmumtsA i By MARIANNE RZEPKA Free Press Education Writer Detroit school officials this week sent out layoff notices to 270 more teachers. These layoffs, effective Nov.

10, come on top of 717 in August, which will take effect Nov. 5. "It's necessary (to send notices now), because I can't just wait until a week before to do it," said Fred Martin, deputy superintendent in charge of personnel. The teachers' contract requires a 60-day layoff notice. If all the layoffs go into effect, there will be about 1 ,400 fewer teachers in the school district by mid-November than there were last year.

More than 400 teachers have left the district through retirement or resignation this year. The layoffs now affect all first- and second-year non-tenured teachers. The district has filed an emergency appeal of a judge's order that would force it to restore the school day to what it was last June. The move Open hearing in scout's killing By JOHN CASTINE Free Press Staff Writer A Royal Oak District Court Friday refused a request to close to the press and public the preliminary examination of a 35-year-old Explorer Scout leader charged with the shooting death of a 1 4-year-old troop member. 44th District Judge John R.

Mann denied the motion brought by attorney Jon Kingsepp, who argued the testimony of a 16-year-old boy will prejudice the case against his client, Richard Lynn Fernald. Fernald is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of Joseph Lemke, son of Ferndale policeman Ted Lemke. Police said the boy died shortly after being shot inside Fernald's home in Royal Oak at 4 a.m. Aug. 29.

Two other boys in the house, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, were awakened by a single gunshot, police said. Fernald's preliminary examination had been scheduled for Sept. 5 but was adjourned by Mann until Sept. 19 after Kingsepp asked for See FERNALD, Page 9A blood to certain parts of the brain. Several family members, including her two children, James P.

Hoffa and Barbara Crancer, were at her bedside when Mrs. Hoffa died. "She had lost weight and she had been ill, and we were very cbncerned about her," her son said. "We're stunned and saddened." LAW ENFORCEMENT officials have said that Mrs. Hoffa's memory of phone calls and other comments made by her husband were invaluable in helping them to reconstruct the days prior to Hoffa's disappearance on July 30, 1975.

Despite a large-scale Investigation headed by the FBI, Hoffa has never been found and is presumed dead. The missing former Teamsters president wrote in an autobiography he was working on emergency appeal. Fred Martin "If we don't win a stay of the order," said Martin, "we're in for massive cuts." The judge's order was for a temporary injunction to change the school day schedule and postpone the 717 teacher layoffs until Nov. 5, or 60 days after the beginning of the school year. The injunction would be in effect until a ruling by the Michigan Employe Relations Commission.

If the district loses in the commission hearing or fails to get a 3.5 millage increase approved by voters Nov. 4, "we'll be in big trouble," Martin said. "It'll be back to the drawing board." Artificial Insemination? Under pressure of a lawsuit, Wayne State University has decided that single women who want children may undergo artificial insemination. Do you think unmarried women should be allowed to start pregnancies artificially? How you voted NO, 83 percent. COMMENTS: "And do you take this test tube to be your lawfully wedded husband?" "We are letting science tear the family apart" "We've got enough population now" "Who will pay for the care and education of these automatic orphans?" YES, 17 percent.

COMMENTS: "I may want a baby and not want a husband to go with It" "Any woman who wants a child should be allowed to do this" "Women's bodies belong to them. Let them do what they want" "Marriage is going to be Just one more option in the future." Sound off is a non-scientific, reader opinion feature. Today's percentages are based on approximately 750 calls. Tomorrow's question In a message to Moslem pilgrims, Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini says the American hostages will be freed as soon as "the deposed shah's wealth is returned, all U.S. claims against Iran are canceled and there is a guarantee of no U.S.

military or political intervention in Iran, and all our funds are freed." Should the U.S. go along with Khomeini? To vote YES To vote NO Cell 961-3211 Call 961-4422 Judge bars bishop from closing parish before he vanished that when he first met the former Josephine Poszywak, "I felt like I'd been hit on the chest with a black jack." Hoffa wrote that he met his future wife in 1936 while she walked the picket line outside her place of employment: a laun By HARRY COOK Free Press Religion Writer A Huron County circuit judge Issued an injunction Friday against Saginaw's Roman Catholic bishop, prohibiting him from closing a rural parish In Michigan's Thumb area and removing Polish Catholic artifacts from the church building. Circuit Judge M. Richard Knoblock of Bad Axe ruled that members of St. Mary's of Czestochowa near Kinde, have civil and property rights and the closing of their 77-year-old parish could potentially violate those rights.

Asked whether his ruling might not vio dry that was paying her and the other workers 17 cents an hour. tlon of church and state, Judge Knoblock said he was "well aware of that principle." "I'm not trying to interfere in ecclesiastical affairs. But the law empowers and, in fact, requires the court to protect the civil and property rights of persons who come before It. That's what was at issue today," he said. Knoblock, himself a Catholic of Polish and German descent, said there is a recorded deed showing that the land on which St.

Mary's Church was built in 1903 was given "for the express purpose of a Polish Catholic Church." The Most Rev. Francis F. Reh, bishop of the Saginaw diocese, says he wants to merge St. Mary's of Czestochowa with nearby St. Edward's Church but under a new name and to de-emphasize the Polish heritage of the St.

Mary's group. "The bishop sees one community there. St. Edward's is small and could be sold. St.

Mary's is a large, well-appointed church, and since the two are only three miles apart, there should be one parish and it shouldn't be so Polish-oriented that non-Poles feel out of place," a diocesan spokesman said. ST. MARY'S parishioners disagree with the bishop's plan and began legal action See CHURCH, Page 9A The picket line consisted of two circles moving in different directions, and Hoffa said he was trying to give each of the laundry 52 jj workers walking the inner line a See HOFFA, Page 9A Bishop Reh: no appeal late the constitutional principle of separa-.