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mm mm li'i' mmw 1 4 Today's Chuckle Only in America will a man jog five miles for exercise and then take an escalator to the mezzanine. 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 etwtt Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Tuesday. May 9. 1978 Crippled Scout goes after his Eagle tiiiff inside the news with the people who make it SPLITSVILLE N.Y., the badge after he made the 1 0-mile hike necessary for an Eagle on his hand and knees and in a wheelchair.

He was 23. Humble, of Flint Troop 33, completed his 10 miles of hiking in two five-mile walks. "It wasn't very easy," he said. "WHEN HE COULDN'T walk, he leaned on his granddad a little bit," said Johnson, a 57-year-old General Motors retiree. Johnson, who had one son die in a motorcycle accident and another killed in Vietnam, has raised Humble since he was born.

His parents are divorced. Humble, who will be 20on July 18, has been a Scout since he was 13. He is blind in one eye and has only 20 percent vision in the other. To earn many of his 34 merit badges 24 are required Please turn to Page 10A Scrappy Flint youlh heals palsy, blindness and rules materials today," Flint Boy Scout Executive Tom Voute said Monday. Humble, a former Genesee County Easter Seal poster child, was one of at least nine handicapped Boy Scouts from across the country affected by a new age regulation issued Friday.

The new rule drops the age requirement for handicapped Scouts. The Boy Scouts acted after its New Brunswick, N.J., headquarters received hundreds of protests over its denial of the Eagle award to another cerebral palsy victim. The Scouts had refused to give Gregory Wittine of Baldwin, By JIM CRUTCHFIELD Free Press Staff Writer Robert T. Humble, a cerebral palsy victim since birth, is on crutches most of the time and nearly blind. But he wanted an Eagle Scout badge so bad that he walked 10 miles to get it.

However, for almost two years, the Boy Scouts of America wouldn't give it to him. By the time the young Flint resident qualified to be an Eagle, he was 18. And you had to be under 18 to receive the top scouting award. A very disappointed Humble talked about taking a club to the hard-headed Scout officials, his grandfather, Cassius Johnson, said. "He said he worked hard for that and 'I should have said Johnson.

HE WILL, FINALLY. "We got his Eagle presentation commend closi anel re eg Modified tandems are safe, study says all or part of SCilOOlS ill city Farber wan Is New York more than show on Ch. 50 BARRY FARBER and Field Communications have parted over the question of where his show will be taped. Field wanted it taped at WKBD-TV, Channel 50, as it has been since November. Farber, a New York radio talk show host, wanted it moved to the Big Apple.

Result: No more Barry Farber after June 4. Channel 50 general manager George Williams says no replacement has been picked. Troopers stuck with forklift STATE POLICE at the Romeo post are stuck with a tractor equipped with a heavy-duty forklift. The machine, worth about $2,500, is part of burglary booty. Troopers cracked a ring of thieves and hooked up other stolen goods with their owners, but no one will step forward to claim the tractor.

Cops figure it might have been hot to begin with. If you can describe it, the four-wheeled vehicle is yours. It's a GPP Irish movie MOVIE CAMERAS might roll in a Grosse Pointe Park home around May 23. An American representative for a Paramount-Europe film now being shot in Ireland plans to meet with local unions next week to work out production details. The movie, "Michael," is an original screenplay about the grandson of an Irish Republican Army turncoat who fled to Detroit.

John Huston had been scheduled to play the turncoat, but the famous actor-director's poor health has forced Paramount to look for another star. Will Stroh's he light? THE BIG TURN-ON decision will soon be made at the Stroh Brewery Co. At issue is whether to relight the beer firm's two sets of massive red letters atop its Gratiot Avenue plant that spells out "Stroh." The landmarks were snuffed out during last winter's energy scare. A third set of letters started crumbling several months ago and had to be hauled down. They'll be repaired or replaced.

Jerry wants Jerry to he Don A HAZEL PARK MAN named Jerry Wayne Byars has filed suit in Oakland County Circuit Court against a man he claims stole his good name. That man is Jerry Wayne Byars' stepbrother, Jerry Byars, whose name used to be Donald Fred Byars. Donald Fred had his name legally changed to Jerry to obtain loans and credit cards, the suit alleges. Jerry Wayne is asking the court to change his stepbrother's name back to Donald Fred. Other cutbacks also to come before the board By WILLIAM GRANT Free Press Education Writer The housing committee of the Detroit Board of Education voted Monday by a slim 4-3 margin to recommend the closing of six city schools.

In addition, parts of four other schools would be closed. Regular school students would be transferred out of five other buildings so the buildings can be used for other purposes. Portable classroom units would be closed at 10 schools. The recommendations, which have been expected for several months, will be presented to the full Board of Education when it meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

What action the full school board will take is uncertain in light of the narrow margin with which the housing committee acted on the recommendations which originated with school Superintendent Arthur Jefferson. Of the eight board members present at Monday's housing committee meeting, the four who supported the Jefferson proposals were Rose Mary Osborne, who is chairman of the housing committee, Herman L. Davis, Please turn to Page 4A DclroiCs big sale coming up Everywhere you look junk, er, Interesting memorabilia. The plaster cigar store Indian and friend Mayor Young showed up Monday afternoon In time to scout out early arrivals of throwaways for the World's Largest Garage Sale set for Wednesday and Thursday at Cobo Kail. This treasure trove of the city's castoffs will Include the Indian, doorkobs, desks, traffic lights that blink yellow, red and green, bags of manure from the city's mounted division, an aluminum canoe, a Har-per-Whlttler street sign and even two 16-foot-hlgh red double decker buses Just the thing for your 20-foot-hlgh garage since city law won't allow you to park It In your driveway.

Ad" mission for adults Is 50 cents, children under 12 admitted free. Free Press Photo by IRA ROSENBERG By TED CAREY Free Press Staff Writer Tandem tankers in Michigan should undergo two basic changes and then be returned to the highways as the safest available way to transport gasoline and other hazardous substances, a University of Michigan study, released Monday, says. Until the changes are made, existing tandem tankers should be kept off the roads because they have "exceptionally low" stability, the state-sponsored report said. In January, Gov. Milliken banned those trucks from Detroit area streets and from other municipalities except during late night hours.

The two proposed modifications would cost about $3,000 a vehicle and would reduce the tandems' likelihood of tipping over to a level "comparable" to that of single tankers operating in Michigan and in other states, according to the report. But because each modified tandem would carry more than a single tanker, fewer trucks would be on the highways and total exposure to accidents would be less, it said. THE REPORT also said that the tandem tankers are less stable when they are partially loaded than when they are full. Partial loads, now common on Michigan roads. fnii" Ieltaif LjHfCyj thatctfn crier I GUESS THIS 15 MA55 TRmVCmWN.

I GOT CDUttULftW i A WHLf rfcu.cY; 3 should be discouraged, the re Groom leaps out window port said. Prepared by the U-M Highway Safety Research Institute under contract to the State Police, the $98,000 report ran 75 pages with a 150-page appendix. It took six months to prepare. Robert D. Ervin, the U-M project director, described the findings Please turn to Page 7A Stained glass flics as he flees church getting it straight Calling Binsfield's Boys for a special reunion IT ISN'T AS IF Lucien Binsf ield hasn't been remembered over the years since his death in 1942.

He certainly has, with a fondness and respect that would have amazed the small, quiet man who repaired watches in a tiny store on Maryland in Grosse Pointe Park, expanding it into a confectionery that became a meeting place for the kids from St. Ambrose. Not an ordinary hangout. Despite his small stature and his quiet voice, Binsfield became a force for good. He even advised the youngsters not to spend their money on candy if they could save for something better.

He listened to their problems, held their money for them until they had enough to buy a pair of skates or whatever. Joe Griffin, now labor relations director for the Birmingham public schools, was one of Binsfield's Boys. He still lives in the neighborhood, got to thinking about Binsfield as he waited in similar store while his 13-year-old son, Jeff, picked up papers for his route. "I realized how often many of us still spoke about him and the idea of a memorial mass came to me," he says. "I called a few guys, starting with Tom Krass, and they were all enthusiastic.

Every one of them had strong, good memories of Lucien." The mass will be celebrated at noon Saturday at St. Ambrose, lunch following. Father Edwin Schroeder, assistant pastor of St. Ambrose in 1942 and now at St. Angela's in Roseville, will say the mass.

Binsfield's nephew, Father Edmund Binsfield of the Precious Blood Seminary in Liberty, hopes to be there. "They didn't call us jocks in those days," says Griffin, "but we were mostly athletes and we all worshipped Lucien You wouldn't even think of a cuss word in the store. On weekends the place was always jammed "HE HAD AS A PET a little one-legged sparrow named Peg. Lucien was the only one who could feed it. You'd never believe to look at him that Binsfield had so much au To insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error which may occur in our news columns Thomas denied the car was stolen.

Police released them, but noting that the identification numbers appeared to have been tampered with, kept the car for further investigation. Miss Smith was the intended bride-to-be. But she said Monday that the wedding was postponed indefinitely. AS INFORMED, police found the Cadillac and towed it to 15th Precinct headquarters and discovered that it had been stolen from a Grand Blanc man. Then, after checking the identification number on the Chevrolet, police determined that it was the property of Peter LeForest, of Flint, stolen from the parking lot at the General Motors truck assembly plant April 26.

By now they felt they had cause to question Bowie further. And that's when they received another anonymous call this time to say that Bowie, Kassandra andThomas Please turn to Page 7A By JACK KRESNAK Free Press Start Writer Matrimonial nerves being what they are, it's the last thing that should happen to a prospective bridegroom. But happen it did. Marvin Bowie, 23, was apprehended by Detroit police for car theft just moments before he was to take his vows. Scene: Saturday afternoon, Anderson Memorial Church, 17860 Jos.

Campau. The minister was in his robes, the guests were assembling. And just about the time it all should have come together, Bowie was bursting through a stained glass window, acquiring cuts enough for 40 stitches in the process of fleeing from the law. THE THING started when 15th Precinct police received a call Friday from an informant that Bowie also known as Leroy Phillips and Frank Nitty had stolen a car in Flint and changed the vehicle identification number. The car, said the informant, was parked in front of Bowie's house at 12584 Wade.

And while they were looking, he added, police might also find a stolen Cadillac Coupe deVille in back of the house. Police sent a surveillance team to the address at 2 p.m. A short time later. Bowie and Jeffrey Thomas, 22, left the house and climbed into a front-parked Chevrolet Caprice. Police followed, pulled them over, and just as the informant predicted, Bowie produced an Oklahoma driver's license and vehicle registration.

The registration listed the altered identification numbers and showed the car to be property of one Kassandra Smith, 22, also living at 12584 Wade. Bowie and Rickshaw wails for the council By CAREY ENGLISH Free Press Start Writer A 27-year-old elementary school teacher may learn Thursday whether he'll be allowed to haul secretaries, businessmen and tourists around downtown Detroit this summer in a rickshaw taxi. The Detroit City Council expects to know by then just how Bernie Falahee, a Lincoln Park teacher, intends to protect his passengers from errant motorists. The council Monday put off a decision on Please turn to Page 5A A Free Press caption for a photograph of Melvin (Mac) Simpson, executive director of the North American Black Historical Museum in Am-herstburg, Ontario, reported incorrectly Sunday that Simpson's father helped to build a fugitive slave settlement at Amherstburg. Simpson's father was not a slave; he was born in 1883.

ife-styles Legislative I acy to dull thority." When "The Friends of Lucien Binsfield" assemble Saturday, they'll include Dick Kelly, '38, quarterback of the St. Ambrose team, and Steve Si-mowski, '41, who still lives in the parish. Dick Van Goethem, '42, will be reunited with Carl (Dutchy) Froelich, who was the opposite guard on Recent events involving Michigan legislators driving arrests, an embezzlement conviction, apparent cheating on expense accounts, and questionable loans from lobbyists plus a noisy, continuing debate over reform rules, ethics codes and lobbyist regulation have caused the Legislature no end of embarrassment. They have also led the House and Senate to at least a few a few halting attempts at self-examination. In this article, the second in a two-part series, Lansing Bureau Chief Hugh McDiarmid and reporter Louis M.

Heldman offer a look at the Legislature during its off-hours in Lansing. or apartments that are shared with staffers or legislative colleagues. One of the more incongruous arrangements was the apartment shared by House Minority Leader Dennis O. Cawthorne, R-Muskegon, and former Senate Majority Leader William B. Fitzgerald, D-Detroit.

The partnership dissolved not over political differences but because Cawthorne, a bachelor, got married and brought his wife to Lansing. Another incongruous arrangement is the apartment shared by these disparate state representatives Gary Owens, a self-described hillbilly from Ypsilanti; Paul Rosen-bau. a Bronx-born Jew from Battle Creek.and Morris Hood, a black from Detroit. They are, at least, all Democrats. PREDICTABLY, most legislators make full use right down to the last penny of their $4,600 living expense allotments.

In Please turn to Page 7A The suitcase existence of the Michigan Legislature virtually guarantees an unusual and, in some cases, outrageous life-style in Lansing. This is most apparent in the off-duty hours before and after the commitee meetings and floor sessions that make up the formal legislative work week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The most obvious aberration is the lack of a home. For three days and three nights each week, there are no home-cooked meals, no kids waiting or dogs barking at the door, no garbage to empty and no wife (or husband) warning the bed. INSTEAD, THERE ARE substitutes a motel room or apartment for lodging, restaurant or clubs for meals and for the most part, colleagues or lobbyists for companionship.

There are also a number of temptations. the football team. Also on hand will be AI Thielmans, '42, baseball and basketball star, and the VVolski brothers, Eddie, '43, and Chet, '44. Plus Jim Griffin and Charlie Paye, who made All City in basketball in '46. Jimmy Curran, a teammate of Kelly's; Bruce Fausone, '43; Hank Popelier, '45; Tom and Bob DeYonker; attorney Phil Mabarak; Jim Mitchell; Dr.

Charles Ebner and Joe Higgins. And possibly Dr. Larry Kroha, the team doctor in the '30s and '40s, and Frank Connelly, retired athletic director of the CYO. If he's overlooked any of Binsfield's Boys, Griffin would like to hear from them at VA 1-2499. near Lansing, commute to work like Sen.

Kerry Kammer. D-Pontiac, who drives the 140 miles round trip so he can see his wife and two children every legislative day of his life. MOST TEND TO LIVE in reasonable creature comfort in their homes away from home, some in downtown hotel rooms or suites, some in outlying motels, and others, like Speaker Bobby D. Crim, D-Davison, in houses Not all legislators share the monk-like enthusiasms of Rep. William A.

Ryan, D-Detroit, and live in an austere, document-cluttered bedroom above a law office with a bathroom shared by three other roomers Not all will accept, like Rep. Stephen Monsma, D-Grand Rapids, only about half of their constitutionally authorized living allotment of $4,600 annually. And few save for the handful who live.